Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:50:02 -0500,
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<slrng6u9mf.11hj.read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jpd wrote:
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For perspective, 15000 square miles or 38833 square kilometers burned
in 2006, two thirds of that in the Western part of the country. There
are several hundred wild fires today in California and most of those
are believed to have been caused by lightning strikes.

I'm told that ``the great plains'' and several other biotopes actually
need or at least benefit and/or derive part of their character from
occasional fire.

Not to endorse random idiots causing fires, of course, far from it. And
now that us humans live just about everywhere... *we* certainly object
to having our homes burnt down.


I learned to fly years ago in California, and one unofficial task that
was stressed was that if you see a fire and don't see indications that
the fire services are working it, you WILL report it via radio and the
FAA will forward the information to the state fire officials.

At a certain ex-WWII spitfire field[1] where I spent one or two summers
flying gliders the (movable) field shack contained a fire service radio
for exactly that purpose.


Well, the cave I live in lags quite a few degrees behind the outside
(without AC or anything, just five floors above me to absorb all the
warmth) so I only notice that when I'm shopping for groceries.

This house has 7 Tons (84000 BTU/H = 24.6 KW) of central air conditioning.

I recognise one really wants that when it's habitually that hot. I
personally would rather do without if at all possible. Aircos cause me
dehydration which in turn causes nasty headaches that take days to dispel
even when I notice and then make sure I stay over-hydrated. The last time
I ran into that headlong was when I forgot to turn the airco back off
after the cleaning crew had turned it on (*again*) in the appartment we
were staying for a vataction in Greece. Apparently during a heatwave. I
still preferred the heat, despite being ill-suited for it otherwise.

If you're constructing in a habitually hot area, wouldn't it make more
sense to, oh, use really thick stone walls or construct underground or
something, instead of spending 20+ years of energy on an airco?


You learn to avoid touching metal that has been parked in the sun.

:-)


And only a really dumb tourist drives a car without air conditioning.

Quite a different situation from getting slightly undercooled during a
long trip sitting still in a slow car[4] with the airco set at 18C or so
(with 25C or so ambient. geez).


[1] 1200 metre and 800 metre grass strips, cross-wise, lots of woods
around[2]. Quite interesting landing when windy. Fantastic winch, though.
[2] In everything's-a-park-anyway-.nl it was pretty ``nature-ish'' with
special protection for critters and all that, and everlasting bitching
by the local treehuggers[3] that the fumes from the two golf carts
used to fetch gliders from the field and of course the diesel winch
were baaaaaaad for all the widdle bunnies. Nevermind that keeping
the field in use as a glider field kept the evironment ideal for the
perticular critters that the protection status was there for.
[3] I swear it's a religion to them. Thinking is blasphemy. Stupid fundies.
[4] Towing a glider in a not-entirely-suited trailer, so max 70km/h.

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