Vista and global warming.

[Ban]

There's a difference between something "working" and a bunch of IT
guys being able to get it to "work." Sometimes the IT guys are
borderline competent and don't know what they're doing, sometimes the
WoL implementation is flaky, whatever. But I once worked at a
company with thousands of employees (and computers), and the rule was
that you kept your PC on overnight so that automated backups could be
performed. When I asked why they didn't use WoL, the response was
that they could never get it to work *reliably.*

The question remains if this would happen with other OS as well, because the
hardware is not compliant?

 

[MassiveProng]

They do. Not very much though, it's expensive !

Now, did you play with mercury as a kid like me ? Did it damage you ?

Graham

Metallic form Mercury is not very dangerous at all.

Mercurous vapors (like found in CFLs) ARE VERY DANGEROUS!

Mercurous compounds are quite carcinogenic as well.

 

[Don Klipstein]

Metallic form Mercury is not very dangerous at all.

Mercurous vapors (like found in CFLs) ARE VERY DANGEROUS!

Keep in mind that a CFL has a small enough quantity of mercury (vapor
and otherwise) to have a hard time contaminating so much as a whole room
if broken!

Mercurous compounds are quite carcinogenic as well.

I heard some bigtime danger, but I don't hear much about mercury or its
compouinds causing cancer. The usual story of ill effects of mercury
compounds is brain damage, as in how we got "mad hatters" in the past.

- Don Klipstein ([email protected])

 

[MassiveProng]

I heard some bigtime danger, but I don't hear much about mercury or its
compouinds causing cancer. The usual story of ill effects of mercury
compounds is brain damage, as in how we got "mad hatters" in the past.

There was a famous doctor, female, in the '90s that had an accident
with a vial of a mercurous compound. She was gloved. ONE DROP
touched her glove, went through, and within three months she had
cancer, and was dead a couple months later. Very, very nasty stuff.

The event completely changed the way the chemical and pharmaceutical
industry operates.

She was a great scientist, and it was a great loss. Very famous
case, but I cannot recall her name.

 

[joseph2k]

...and because, for "enterprise" scenarios where there are thousands of
machines that are intended to be backed up/updated/whatever overnight, the
IT guys couldn't get "wake on LAN" to work.


Yeah, but at least they try to limit it to something like 5W. My parents
had one of those old color TVs with the "instant on" feature that worked
by keeping the tube filament running all the time... I'm sure that was far
worse.

Speaking of filaments... California might not let you use them for
lighting in the not-so-distant future:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_california_lightbulbs_dc . I'm all for
compact fluorescents, but I think it's too bad they oversell them a little
in that article (a 20W CF is more like a 60W incandescent, not 75W) and
don't mention the drawbacks (many take a significant time to achieve full
brightness
in cold weather, etc.). And of course it's just evil to try to outright
ban incandescents rather than, say, using the carrot approach of
subsidizing the price of CFs, if they're so convinced they're that much
better.

---Joel

I use better CF lamps wherever i can. I also have decorative fixtures where
using them is really ugly. They could make better progress by catering
more to the decorative fixture / lamp crowd who are already paying a huge
premium for their decorative lamps.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

There was a famous doctor, female, in the '90s that had an accident
with a vial of a mercurous compound. She was gloved. ONE DROP
touched her glove, went through, and within three months she had
cancer, and was dead a couple months later. Very, very nasty stuff.

The event completely changed the way the chemical and pharmaceutical
industry operates.

She was a great scientist, and it was a great loss. Very famous
case, but I cannot recall her name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

But that was a mercury compound, not the metal. Same with the
environmental disaster in Japan-- it was organic mercury compounds in
the fish.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[MassiveProng]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

But that was a mercury compound, not the metal.

READ the fucking posts, dipshit. THAT is what I said.

Same with the
environmental disaster in Japan-- it was organic mercury compounds in
the fish.

No shit. Learn to read, asshole. It was covered.