I used to work as a Network Admin at a big university in Cape Town years back, and one of the urban legends at the time (late '90s) was that one of the long distance wireless (microwave? Line of sight required) network links were reported to drop every day at the exact same time for a a few minutes only. Lots of hours of troubleshooting hardware etc. later, and still no solution. Eventually a site-visit was done at both sides of the link, binoculars entow. The problem? The line of sight was going dangerously close to the top of a hill where a farmer had led his cattle every day at the same time. The cattle blocked the line of sight for 5 minutes every day.
No idea if this is true though.
Indeed, I had these as a kid in the 80s. Coins are simply inserted in the top right and roll down before falling into a stack. Hours of fascination!
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This happened to me one night late a few years back, with Oracle on a CentOS server. rm -rf /data/oradata/ on the wrong machine.
I managed to get the data back though, as Oracle was still running and had the files open. "lsof | grep '(deleted)'" and /proc/<ORACLEPIDHERE>/fd/* saved my life. I managed to stop all connections to the database, copy all the (deleted) files into a temp directory, stop Oracle, copy the files to their rightful place, and start up Oracle, with no data lost.
Agreed.
I recently switched jobs after an 8 year stint at my previous employer, and it took me many months and many recruiters and possible employers, and every single time I started from the position of "Let's not waste anybody's time, my total Cost-to-Company is xyz, benefits include zyx, if you can't beat that, then we have nothing to talk about."
Yes, brutally honest, but it also at least doesn't waste anybody's time with useless phone interviews and reference checks and and and.
This smells like a marketing gimmick... (See what I did there?)
Why not just make that button's functionality be the default, instead of an optional setting? I think some engineer had way too much fun putting that hazardous image into the UI...
If I had to guess - with air being forced through a full filter, you are going to take a serious hit to range as a lot of power is required to force the air through the filter at full "filtering" setting.
Wow, you think you're going to read some comments about a community update, and you end up reading a mass of comments delving into the human psyche.
Damnit I love HN.
Most of the (now ex-)employees of my (now very ex-)client are in a blind, terrified scramble right now because they made a critical career mistake: They put their loyalty in the company. They put so much loyalty into the company, in fact, that they stopped nurturing themselves and growing and building their careers as a separate entity apart from the company.
I have the same question. Surely older employees have more experience, more knowledge, more to offer than the younger ones? I'm 1 year (and 1 day) away from forty, and yes, this kind of story does hit home a bit, but I feel my contribution to the company I work for is more valuable than my age?
