Revolting Uniting

[siben]

I once saw a key to adjust the gasvalve on an SVT-40, so i asked the guy how much it was, he said 70 euro, i laughed and walked off, i am not going to haggle over some ridiculous price like that. The next day i bought it on Ebay for 40 with shipping included. Still found it pricy.

About the shell, i will offer 500, i bet it will end up being close to 600 or maybe more. A lot but its a rare shell.

[Roughbeak]

Hmmm. I will make this arangement: I will not create new topics or post in topics where I have not already posted.

You can freely post new topics, but doing it more than 3 times a day is frowned upon though.

[FHMax3]

Hmmm. I will make this arangement: I will not create new topics or post in topics where I have not already posted.

You can freely post new topics, but doing it more than 3 times a day is frowned upon though.

Thank you, but I hope I am not breaking the rule to thank you 

[VonMudra]

Great, first Renee, now Mary.

Mary Tyler Moore, one of the landmark actresses of the 1960s and 70s, passed away today at the age of 80.  Her show in the 70s, the Mary Tyler Moore show, was ground breaking in that it showed an unmarried, career woman who never marries, never has children, and explores topics of pre-marital sex, abortion, contraception, divorce, and other things that were completely absent from prior television and popular culture.  She was a model to women across the US that they didn't need to have a husband and children to be successful or happy in life.  The show also brought talent such as Ed Asner and Betty White to stardom.

[Zoologic]

One of the few shows that will pass the Bechdel test with flying colours.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

I'll best remember her for Ordinary People, with Donald Sutherland & Timothy Hutton, she is excellent in it playing against type.

[Zoologic]

Man, I was all in for DJT winning the contest. But this guy is really scary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions

Him and the Education Secretary will set US back to stone ages. That will be great for American giant tech firms, often harassed by jealous EU governments. They might as well move to EU countries now.

[MajorMajor]

Yikes, just got assigned the topic of my Bachelor's Thesis. Which, since my university assigns the topic randomly, is something I have no interest on but yet I'll have to spent the next 5 months working hard on. 

On the other hand, I don't have to start practical lab work straight away, which means I will be able to play some sweet FH2 rounds this week.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Yikes, just got assigned the topic of my Bachelor's Thesis. Which, since my university assigns the topic randomly, is something I have no interest on but yet I'll have to spent the next 5 months working hard on. 

What? That's such a bizarre system! What is the possible justification for that? What is the topic, by the way?

[MajorMajor]

Yikes, just got assigned the topic of my Bachelor's Thesis. Which, since my university assigns the topic randomly, is something I have no interest on but yet I'll have to spent the next 5 months working hard on. 

What? That's such a bizarre system! What is the possible justification for that? What is the topic, by the way?

I assume that my university doesn't have the resources to process the various choices of the 100 people that will be doing their Bachelor's Thesis this semester. To be fair, we are given some choice. We can choose between each of the faculty's department (Organic & Inorganic Chemistry, New Materials, etc.), but the problem is that within each department you have a vast variety of sub-departments that have little in common.

My topic is "Study of the racemization of a tripeptide during solid-phase synthesis". Sounds boring as sin to me, but at least it's organic chemistry, the branch of chemistry I plan to do my Master on, and it involves a fair bit of lab work, something that always looks nice on a CV.

[Dukat]

I considered this interesting when looking for a harddrive replacement and thus decided to share:

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016

[Born2Kill 007]

A short text someone else sent me today, he said he found it somewhere else. Thought I'd share it here as it's such a nice story story showing a different side of the war.

My grandfather was a little kid during the war and lived in Glasgow. In about 1943, a lot of American soldiers were bivouacked in a public park and were not allowed to leave (they were getting ready to ship out).

Across the road from the park was a fish-and-chip shop (fish and chips being the only food that was not rationed). All the American soldiers were giving their money to local kids and getting the kids to go across to buy them fish and chips. But there was one soldier who only had a £20 note - that was $100 in 1943 and probably about $500 today. He didn't want to give that to some kid who might steal it, so he watched the children and picked one who had been really reliable, always bringing back the food and the right change. That was my grandad.

The American soldier gave him the £20 and sent him across the street to get the order. My grandfather was very proud to be trusted like this and was determined to do it all exactly right. He waited in the queue, got the fish and chips, got the correct change, went back across the road.....and the park was empty. The Americans had climbed on their trucks and shipped out while he had been in the shop.

Apparently he cried his eyes out over this because he didn't want the soldier to think that he'd run off with the money. He never spent it. He kept it in a drawer until he died. I think my mother still has it somewhere.

[THeTA0123]

I considered this interesting when looking for a harddrive replacement and thus decided to share:

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016

As a continuation of this story.

my Drive going wacko wassent the problem, it was my powersupply that has now, fried my entire PC

http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=21430.0

Wich has lead me on a quest, to get a new PC.

Appearntly, ye ol' enemy called dust, might have been responsible aswel. And my PC internally, was...quite dusty. Wich makes me regret for not cleaning it

[Kelmola]

I considered this interesting when looking for a harddrive replacement and thus decided to share:

Seagates until recently had overly aggressive power saving built into the hardware. If there were no read-write operations for 20 seconds, the drive "parked" itself by snapping the read-write head to resting position... and unfortunately, the spring that did this was just a bit too strong, and the metal arm of the read-write head bumped into a plastic stopper that was just a little bit too weak. Individually, neither of the physical parts would have become a problem, and not necessarily even together, were it not for the power saving feature. Since the parking now happened hundreds of times a day instead of only a few times (normally parking happens only when you power down the drive or it goes to power save mode - which of course should not happen when the computer is still being actively used!) these three factors formed a "perfect storm" where the entire drive quickly became useless due to a 0,01€ plastic part failing due to repeated stress. Supposedly, they fixed this in their newer models (cf. failure rate dropping from 90% to 1% - 8TB drives are of course newer tech than 1,5TB ones).

Once this "feature" was known. some NAS/external drive manufacturers who had a Seagate drive inside have circumvented this with updating their firmware to read dummy data from the disk every 15 seconds unless the NAS itself was in power saving mode in order to prevent the drive not parking itself.

[Alubat]

I buy a new hdd with X2 space every ca. 3 years when its full. Clone the old hdd to the new one. Keep the old disc as extra backup. Started doing this around year 2000 

2000 60 GB
2002 120 GB
2004 320 GB
2007 500 GB
2010 1TB
2013 2TB
2016 4TB