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

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:43:14 -0500,
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You'll want to read that National Geographic article if you can find
it. Fires are beneficial, and there is plenty of documentation to this.

Will do. As noted, doesn't surprise me they are. :-)

I was thinking of such an article but couldn't recall, given that the
last NGM I read was... oh only a couple years ago, though the last time
I regularly received them was a little while longer ago.


Again - the article. Some people are starting to believe that the
decision of the US Forest Service director in ~1910 to "banish" all
wild-fires (this after the fires of 1910 burned "millions of acres"
and killed dozens of firefighters with smoke drifting over New England)
set up this problem. A study of two patches of Arizona forest estimated
they contained about 50 trees per hectare in the late 1800s and after
nearly 100 years without fires, there were 1700 trees in the same area.

At the very least landscaping influence. Doesn't surprise me that much
of our problems we cause ourselves, either.


You don't want to be here. A few minutes ago, they reported the met
numbers, and the relative humidity was 18%. During the spring and
early summer, we _normally_ see single digit relative humidity numbers.
You know it's bad when it's 40C, but the dew point is below 0C.

Though if it's hot enough I usually manage to keep on drinking. If it's
cool the dehydration sneaks up on me.

Apropos working in the heat, what about doing the garden at night? :-)


Underground might be OK, but you'd better hope the waterproofing was
done perfectly lest you be flooded out during a rate thunderstorm.

Or rather, sufficiently deep draining. If it's been very hot for very
long the problem becomes that the ground just won't accept the water
until soaked, rather than high water table.


We've got a lot of interesting.cn airfields - my favorite was a 760
meter runway at Santa Cruz. There are hills all over the place, and the
procedure was to fly the downwind about a half mile to the side at 330
meters above the runway. Passing the numbers, you pulled power to idle
dump full flaps, and made a medium steep turn, rolling out of the turn
over the numbers. That's about a 1:8 decent or about 7 degrees. There
was a hill about 150 meters above the runway about 800 meters out on
final which is why you pulled this stunt. Great confidence builder
for learning landings to a spot.

Uhm. Yeah. Though with gliders you generally don't have to pull power
to idle in the first place. ;-)

The most interesting landing I've been in to date was flying in very
intermittent showery weather. The vario had gotten moist so it'd only
show anything at +3 or -3m/s or more. So just for training value the
instructor decided to show a landing through the middle of a shower,
with visibility reduced to less than 50m or so. It was pouring down
right until half a minute after rolling to a stop.


Due to various circumstances I haven't managed to get enough experience
and all the papers and they've screwed up the licence system royally in
the meantime. Maybe someday again.


[4] Towing a glider in a not-entirely-suited trailer, so max 70km/h.

70 km/h... 43 mph - you'd better be on the side streets, or you'll get
run over by the herd.

Not that bad if it's relatively quiet or the motorway has lanes enough. The
limit for heavy vehicles is 80km/h anyway, with the light traffic allowed
100 or 120km/h. Not half as annoying as truckers overtaking each other with
1km/h difference. Don't want to muck about too much in rural routes and
such as there might be (much) less maneuvre room (.nl is flat but also very
full and nowadays sports lots of roundabouts[1]). Going faster and having a
10m+ trailer become unstable *is* a problem, however.


[1] Some of which have special lanes through the middle that can be
opened for special transports. Otherwise those'll get stuck like
a low-hauler on a slightly bumpy railroad crossing. Only without
the regular trains.

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