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

On 7 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<slrng742d8.1djj.read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jpd wrote:

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. :-)

The issue is July 2008, and the cover is a picture of the face of a
mountain gorilla. Article starts on pg 116, with an extra item on pg
158 and 160.

You don't want to be here. A few minutes ago, they reported the met
numbers, and the relative humidity was 18%.

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

Minor distraction - when the humidity is so low, you don't appear to be
sweating. You are, but it's evaporating immediately, and that catches
those not used to it.

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

Can't see what you're doing. Normal thing is to do the outdoor tasks
as early in the day as possible. You also have to be careful on the
way to work in the morning, because there's thousands of people out
walking/jogging/biking up until about 9:30. The National Weather
Service is often issuing "Excessive Heat Warning" bulletins, that are
in effect from (usually) 10:00 to 21:00 on the warmer days. During
such periods, you are strongly recommended to not be outside unless
you have no choice. As sunset on the summer solstice is 19:42, it's
probably to hot to be out there. Besides, that's pool time!

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.

One of the major problems with thunderstorms here is flash flooding.
"Dry" washes/creeks/streams/rivers can be inundated _very_ rapidly.
We have the further problem in that we have few bridges. There is a
"river" in downtown (the "Salt River") and 23 roads cross it in the
20 mile stretch centered on Sky Harbor airport. There are a total of
nine bridges, 5 of them freeways, and two crossing an artificial
lake created by damming the river-bed. Hey, the river is dry, so who
needs a bridge? They just run the paved road across the river bottom.
Trouble is, when it rains, you may suddenly find as much as a meter (or
more) of water in this "dry" watercourse. Happens several times a year
such that we have a "Dumb Motorist" law - if you get stranded because
you drove into a flooded area, they can fine you (I think the fine is
$150) and charge you the full costs of rescue. And it _still_ happens
several times a year.

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. ;-)

Picky, picky. Actually, they closed that airport in 1992 after the
third fatal accident (downdrafts on short final), and the owner could
no longer get insurance.

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.

Ow, violation of visibility minima for visual flight. Rules are 3 miles,
and remaining 500 feet below clouds, 1000 feet above, and 2000 feet
horizontally. There are special cases where the visibility may be as
low as a mile and two cases where you need only remain "clear of clouds".

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.

How long ago? Here, things got royally screwed in the 1990s? They did
add a "Recreational" certificate, with lower requirements. The Ultra-
Light crowd also has different (much more relaxed) requirements.

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.

Depends on the roads and specific state. In Arizona, the drivers license
manual doesn't specifically mention a minimum speed requirement, although
they recommend avoiding driving to slowly (but don't define that). In
some states, there is a 55, 60, or 65 MPH maximum limit, AND ALSO a
minimum limit - 40 MPH would be typical. Obviously, that is weather and
traffic conditions permitting. On hills where this minimum would be a
problem, they usually add a designated climbing lane where you do the
best you can (usually at least 25 MPH with lots of black smoke).

The limit for heavy vehicles is 80km/h anyway, with the light traffic
allowed 100 or 120km/h.

Varies by state. On the Interstate Highways well outside of town here,
the limits are 60 MPH for trucks, 70 or 75 for everyone else. Close to
towns, it's 60/60, and may decrease to 50/50 down town where there are
a lot of exits/entries.

Not half as annoying as truckers overtaking each other with 1km/h
difference.

Two or more lanes in the same direction - trucks and buses are
prohibited from the left lane. Yes, we do have the same problem. In
_MOST_ (but certainly not all) cases, the truckers try to use common
sense, and the truck being passed _MAY_ slow it down slightly to help
the vehicle doing the passing. In theory, the police might cite the
truckers for obstructing traffic, but this is pretty rare.

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]).

Roundabouts are relatively rare - most of the one's I've seen are in
New Jersey, and a few in Massachusetts. Here in the West, I don't
recall seeing any. The one problem we _do_ have is slow moving
vehicles. On smaller roads, it's not unknown to see farm machinery
sporting an orange triangle with red border - which means they are only
doing 25 MPH _OR_LESS_ - and it's perfectly legal.

Old guy
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