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OM corrects a major personal oversight...
....This evening, I unretired an old pizzabox system to serve one
purpose and one purpose alone: a home game server. A system set aside and dedicated to hosting Unreal Tournament maps, skins and other distractions for yours truly when I actually have time to be amused by such things. As with most of my systems, I tend to give them Astronaut names that fit their personalities: Glenn - The Living Room Media Center - AKA, the TV Shepard - My Bedside Box. Provides news and entertainment, but also happens to be where I have to deal with spam. Grissom - Identical to Shepard, but the second system built. Has a missing side panel. Carpenter - Has a flaky video card that refuses to switch video modes on occasion Schirra - My business notebook. Purely business. Slayton - Has a video capture card that refuses to work if more than 99MB of RAM is loaded. Also has a faulty MB thermostat that shuts the entire system down even if it's turned off in BIOS, *unless* the video capture card is working. Fibrulations, natch. Cooper - My overloaded music server, more drives than the P/S knows what to do with, but still keeps on running. ....However, after looking at systems one thru seven, I realized I'd used up the Original Seven astros for system names. The three main servers - KSC, JSC and Gagarin - as well as the dual monitor box - Conrad - and the DVD burner box - Bean - also took up good names. So, while puzzling out which of the Next Nine to honor, I thought about how flaky this old box was, and how, while it could run fine as a UT server, it could never actually play the game worth a ****. And then it hit me. So, about five minutes ago, the Original 7 were joined by the unofficial 8th Astronaut. Yup. I just named a game server after Jose Jimenez. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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OM wrote:
...This evening, I unretired an old pizzabox system to serve one purpose and one purpose alone: a home game server. A system set aside and dedicated to hosting Unreal Tournament maps, skins and other distractions for yours truly when I actually have time to be amused by such things. As with most of my systems, I tend to give them Astronaut names that fit their personalities: Glenn - The Living Room Media Center - AKA, the TV Shepard - My Bedside Box. Provides news and entertainment, but also happens to be where I have to deal with spam. Grissom - Identical to Shepard, but the second system built. Has a missing side panel. Carpenter - Has a flaky video card that refuses to switch video modes on occasion In a book about the space program to land on the Moon, (I think it was) Chris Kraft wrote, it seems that 6 of the 7 astronauts did their work pretty well. But he essentially rips Carpenter a new a-hole. Did Carpenter really do that bad a job as astronaut? Or maybe Chris and Carpenter didn't get along?... |
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"Robert Casey" wrote in message link.net... In a book about the space program to land on the Moon, (I think it was) Chris Kraft wrote, it seems that 6 of the 7 astronauts did their work pretty well. But he essentially rips Carpenter a new a-hole. Did Carpenter really do that bad a job as astronaut? Or maybe Chris and Carpenter didn't get along?... Kraft and Carpenter didn't seem to get along. Part of the problem seems to be that Kraft was ****ed at Carpenter about an earlier incident that not only Carpenter wasn't at fault for, but he wasn't even involved in. (IIRC, whoever was backing someone up on something didn't do a good job, and Kraft thought it was Carpenter, even though it was another astro. Don't remember the details to well.) I've done the same myself. Kraft, and ground control in general, didn't realize how packed the the mission was with things to do. They overlooked Carpenter's comments about difficulties in maintaining attitude, and only became aware of the fuel shortage on the third orbit. In addition, the human factors engineering of the Mercury control system made it quite easy to accidentally set up the controls with dual authority, which is what led to the fuel problems. My personal reading (having read both their books) is that Kraft didn't understand what was going on as well as he thought he did, and no one, at the time, realized how difficult working in space was, even within a capsule. Carpenter's flight was by no means a carbon copy of Glenn's, even though it was the same duration. You should try Carpenter's book -- For Spacious Skys, it is quite good. |
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"Ami Silberman" wrote:
Kraft, and ground control in general, didn't realize how packed the the mission was with things to do. They overlooked Carpenter's comments about difficulties in maintaining attitude That seems to be an ongoing problem, a fundamental disconnect between the ground and astronauts. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... That seems to be an ongoing problem, a fundamental disconnect between the ground and astronauts. Ground control to Major Tom... |
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You should try Carpenter's book -- For Spacious Skys, it is quite good. Suprizingly my local town library has a copy (they usually toss anything not borrowed in 5 years) and placed an order to borrow it. |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:12:30 -0500, "Ami Silberman"
wrote: My personal reading (having read both their books) is that Kraft didn't understand what was going on as well as he thought he did, and no one, at the time, realized how difficult working in space was, even within a capsule. Carpenter's flight was by no means a carbon copy of Glenn's, even though it was the same duration. ....There is my own personal theory as to another contribution to Carpenter's problems. Having listened to the downlink audio and Carpenter's tone of voice during some of his "confusion" episodes, I for one wonder if it's possible that what was perceived as a loss of coherency was more a loss of communications uplink from Houston. Some of the "distracted" nature of Carpenter's dialog was very much the same sort of tone that McDivitt and White had during White's space walk; CapCom's orders to terminate the EVA getting "ignored" because the uplink wasn't getting through, period. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Am Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:39:29 -0600 schrieb "OM":
...This evening, I unretired an old pizzabox system to serve one [...] Yup. I just named a game server after Jose Jimenez. If you had asked us for a name, and hadn't already decided yourself nominating Dana, I probably would have mentioned the same choice for you to take :-) cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker) -- "Abusus non tollit usum" - Latin: Abuse is no argument against proper use. mailto: http://zili.de |
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Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker (zili@home) wrote: If you had asked us for a name, and hadn't already decided yourself nominating Dana, I probably would have mentioned the same choice for you to take :-) Next two: Schmidlap and Hoffman. "I said 'good morning, Schmidlap' and he knocked all my teeth out. Do you have any idea how you _smell_, Schmidlap?" -from "Way,Way,Out" :-) |
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:14:20 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: Next two: Schmidlap and Hoffman. ....The former is more famous for being the Commodore who invented the dehydrator device that Joker, Penguin, Riddler and Catwoman used to kidnap the United World Security Council members in 1966. The latter used to ride bicycles while doped up on protoLSD. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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