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

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:24:36 -0500,
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
[snip]

The nearest library didn't have it so I bought me a copy for the occasion.

It sounds like the usual American pastime of making war on something.
Finding out it can't be ``won'' is just icing on the cake.

Amazingly the whole article spends about one sentence about that Native
Americans used to set fires themselves so they wouldn't be surprised by
``natural'' fires. I can't recall where but I did see that mentioned
previously.

It makes lots of sense to do that, but equally obviously doesn't fit
very well in the /American mindset/. Still, looks like all ya'all won't
have much choice to learn how to do it after all.

Also: Homes there apparently are essentially fancy stacks of tinder.
Here, they're usually brick with fired clay roof tiles too. Or brick
with reeds for roofing. I've seen several burn -- such a fire is very
hard to put out.


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

Can't see what you're doing.

Put up a couple of big lights on poles?


Besides, that's pool time!

Makes sense. :-)


One of the major problems with thunderstorms here is flash flooding.

There is that.


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

Sounds like a bit of an over-reaction. ISTR hearing that in Aosta (where
_a lot_ of mountain gliding takes place) they don't start to worry about
gliding accident deaths unless there's more than two a year. Except for
the usual learning from any accident routine, of course.


[landing in heavy rain]
Ow, violation of visibility minima for visual flight.

*shrug* In that case, all users of the field were aware of what we were
doing plus were mostly huddling in the field shed waiting for the rain
to stop. No single-seaters in the air and the other twin-seater had
managed to land right before the shower started (so we knew where it was
on the field as well). We just landed right through the shower. :-)

As for flying, the visibility outside the showers was sufficient.


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.

Yes, around 2000 for .nl. Some silly reshuffling by copying the FAA rules
verbatim, which doesn't make much sense for the Dutch small aviation
situation. Another sign our authorities hate small aviation. *sigh*


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.

Dutch motorways used to have a 60 (65?) km/h minimum but it was dropped
with some revision to the road rules perhaps a decade back. One still
sees the really big large _slow_ ``special transports'' signed as such
and with lots of orange blinky lights on occasion, though I'm not sure
what conditions trigger the blinky lights requirements now.


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.

It's taken ages for .nl to pick up on that. It's done per road with a road
sign that may or may not carry restrictions on when it is in effect (like,
8:00..10:00 and 15:00..18:00 or something -- I made up the numbers).


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.

40km/h or 25km/h, depending. And you can see 12 y/o kids driving the
heavy farm machinery -- there's an exception that allows that. Otherwise
the minimum is 18 for getting the licence (or 16 for a moped licence).

Which is another reason why I'd probably take the motorway anyway. There
was a bit of a spat where tractors with (multiple) trailers were taking
heavy loads accross the country on rural roads. Road trains otherwise
aren't allowed, and it probably had tax-evading properties as well. I
can't recall if they made a law expressly forbidding tricks like that,
but at least the police started going after the phenomenon.


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