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

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:49:00 -0500,
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most of the larger wildfires are that bad.

Which brings us back to the point that humand did their best to let them
grow large.


These places are frequently built as vacation/get-away places, which
means they are meant to be rustic looking and not detract from the
woodsy look. But this also means they aren't occupied year-round, and
that means grounds maintenance is spotty.

All right. Another idea. How feasible is it to come up with a concept
of a ``foldable'' building? I'm not talking tent or trailer home, but
some construct that looks and works like a real building when setup, but
when the occupants are elsewhere for extended periods of time, can be
``folded'' into something that is easier to make fire resistant?


It has to be well insulated (the "safe" where some of the valuables
are stored has a one hour fire rating a 3000F) and waterproof. But
that assumes you have your valuables in there, and that 'fire rating'
only means paper won't char - doesn't say anything about plastic stuff
melting..

Paper starts to burn at (from memory) 200 C or so, and plenty plastics
melt before water starts to boil. Good point, that is a problem for data
media. Whoops, gone are the backups.


I know of several places here with three way splits (2-3-2 for the
most part).

There aren't many roads that wide in Europe, at least not that I know
of (which doesn't say much). 2-2, 2-3, 3-3 maybe (so 2-2-2 might be a
possibility).


Single-lane split-off on the left, uhm, no. This may work
somewhat better in places that allow overtaking on the right.

Legal under specific conditions that would/do include the left exit.

I was thinking more of acceptability to the drivers. Here, if you find
someone going 60km/u in the left lane, you're not allowed to pass even
if you and it are the only vehicles around. Of course, one ``should''
move to the rightmost usable lane reasonably quickly, but plenty people
don't and thus are a dangerous nuisance to the rest of the road users.


The freeway is invariably jammed at a couple of places, but that HOV
lane is rarely effected and the car pools (minimum 2 people in the car,
but 3 in some states) and busses are whipping along at 80-100 KM/H -
while I'm sitting on the bus sucking on a jug of coffee and reading.

Some public transport is pretty enjoyable; the closest thing mere
mortals get to being chauffeured around. (Altough I can't read for any
length of time in cars or busses, trains are no problem.)


Of course, sometimes it just isn't. Cue the (turkish?) family of four
with the oldest kid, an utterly spoiled girl of six or so, making a
racket repeatedly. The father clearly wanted her to shut the hell up
but was being singularly ineffective at trying, as apparently it was
the mother's domain. She didn't care much. She figured the rest of the
people in the compartment (50-ish people?) could just suck up the racket
like she had to at home, or something. Being in Germany[1], nobody said
anything. While an interesting show of cultural differences, sitting
next to it I found somewhat painful on ears and nerves. Luckily there
were plenty free seats elsewhere in the train.


To bad this service only runs mainly on the freeways. It goes no where
near my or my wife's commute.

What, doesn't everybody live next to the freeways? ;-)


[1] ``IC'', regular long haul trains and usually quite enjoyable.

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