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I believe my first flight was in a 727.
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so modern! my first was in a Fokker Friendship.
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Really showing my age now. My first was a DC3 
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A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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RossMW wrote: My first was a DC3
Mine was a DC-10...right after that spate of engines falling off. 
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You got me there, you old fart! 
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My mentor at my first job out of school had worked at Boeing and was involved in the development of the autopilot system for the 747. He told me a story about one of the early tests of the autopilot when they flew out of Boeing's airport in Tacoma which is/was right on Puget Sound. When they took off they set their altitude as 0 feet since they were right by the ocean. They flew around a little bit and then came back to land. Of course, they let the autopilot land the plane and when it came in for its approach it did everything right except for one little detail. Their target altitude was zero but the runway was actually built about ten feet above the water so when the plane came into land it was too low and it sheared all of its landing gear off and slid down the runway on its belly. My boss wasn't on the plane but his boss was and he said it was quite a ride.
The interesting thing is planes have had autopilots capable of landing themselves for over fifty years but they are never used. Ever. Somehow, even with RADAR and all of the other navigational equipment, planes are never allowed to land themselves. Flights can still be "fogged out" of airports.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I am surprised at that information.
I have read somewhere that pilots won't use autopilot during takeoff but would allow autopilot to land the plane.
Landing in a fog requires lot of guidance equipment on the ground. Not all airports are equipped with them and that may be the reason why fog causes planes to miss their destination and look for alternate destinations.
New Delhi airport, notoriously fog-bound during winter, has not been affected as much now as it has been historically. I had to sit out 6 hours in Karachi in 1974 (inside the plane; the Pakistanis wouldn't allow the passengers to stretch their legs inside the airport) but nowadays most flights land in New Delhi during fog (up to certain levels of visibility). Take-offs are no problem.
A doctoral dissertation at Stanford several years ago showed that it is perfectly feasible to land a plane using GPS signals as the satellites provide latitude, longitude and altitude information. I believe the researcher programmed the autopilot of a commercial plane to utilize the information from an on-board GPS device (military grade, accurate to within a foot) and use it to land the plane.
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Its just about a year since the last US operator ceased 747 operations  According to This, there's only a dozen airlines still using them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Want to feel old?
No thanks. Don't need any help there. 
OriginalGriff wrote: the plane you flit around the world in is an older design than you are
The design pre-dates me by almost an octade. But my "design"[^] pre-dates aeroplanes by roughly 350,000 years. 
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- Homer
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I fear that many have veered far, far outside the original design tolerances.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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27. Soft debts can be devout (5)
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27 - PIOUS: Soft (P, from "Piano" meaning "play softly or quietly") debts (IOUS) can be devout
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pious? I can't figure out the P though.
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Thanks Griff - now I know. I won't ever remember that but at least I know right now... 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Gentlemen, we shall call this a tie.
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I hate ties.
And cravats.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Tim Deveaux wrote: a tie.
Answer BDSM just once and you never hear the end of it... Jeez! 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I use a Pace 5268AC router at home. It has 3 devices connected via Ethernet, and a host of other devices connected via Wi-Fi. I want to be able to see the upload/download usage of each device (I suspect the latest device to join the network is hogging more than its share). I've gone through most of the router's obvious settings but have come up completely empty. Does what I seek even exist, whether in the (specific) router itself or some other software solution?
Thanks.
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I asked my ISP about the router specifics and they pointed me to a "traffic" page but it showed: 1) measurements in packets, and 2) all Wi-Fi traffic combined rather than per IP address.
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- DC
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Have a look at Wireshark promiscuous mode. You should be able to get a handle on the wifi traffic at least.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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mmm... i'm thinkin you still need a hub...
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Oboy.
Required Software Packages
Install the software in the following order:
1. Web server
2. PHP
3. MySQL
4. RRDTool
5. Net-SNMP
6. Cacti
7. Cacti Patches
8. Configure system securityYou just know when you see "Configure system security" listed as a software package that you're going to have so much fun with the documentation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They did not name it "Cacti" for nothing 
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RickZeeland wrote: They did not name it "Cacti" for nothing
Yea, and that name's annoying, too -- I can't off-hand think of another product with an inappropriate plural name.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And when you have completed all that your machine is going to be Cactus! (don't know whether it applies over there but being cactus implies a dead machine).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Always happy to add a new idiomatic usage to my vocab!
It's only used adjectively, right?
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