My experience is in data centres that I've seen and visited, not in power supplies. Show us a significant data centre that promises to run the whole thing from diesel generators.
Rich.
From my experience, I've seen data centres that have two supposedly redundant power supplies (usually this just means two paths into the data centre from the same supplier).
It seems unlikely/improbable to me that a data centre could be supplied from local diesel generators. The power consumption is just far too great. So your answer is "not safe at all".
Rich.
You can change the underlying disks - we do this for virt-v2v.
Fixing
RAID/md is not used much by virtual machines (it's done on the host instead) so I can't comment on what problem you had.
Rich.
Please don't use
You cannot change the underlying disks (eg. to do migration or V2V) without the guest becoming unbootable.
Use filesystem UUIDs instead. These survive all sorts of migrations and conversions intact, and are even useful in the non-virtual case -- eg. if you swap SATA disks around.
Rich.
Actually had a friend who worked in sales selling one of these services.
The way it works is this:
The company hires a room in Tokyo and fills it top to bottom with (legally purchased) decoder boxes. The output from these is sent over the internet to paying customers in foreign countries -- in the UK in the case of my friend. They get access to these "proxied" services, the idea being that they can watch Japanese TV programs from the UK without needing all the special satellite equipment.
The (stupid) copyright issue is down to regional licensing of TV programs and films, which is why the established broadcasters hate these services and try to portray them as criminal / pirates when of course they are no such thing.
Anyway, hope this explains a bit more what's going on here. I see it's
business as usual for openness and transparency in Japanese politics/law
Rich.
Possibly a stupid idea, but why don't they make the SRB casing by wrapping layers of some rolled metal instead? You can roll out some metals basically indefinitely, and then you roll these up around the fuel to the thickness required.
Rich.
Sorry, my mistake, I meant the St Petersburg Declaration.
"The Great Powers agreed to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the use of any explosive projectile of less weight than 400 grams (14 ounces avoirdupois) or one charged with fulminating or inflammable substances."
It's possible that these projectiles are over 400g in weight though.
Rich.
I wrote this script to relink a dynamically-linked program with as many equivalent static libraries as possible, with any unavailable static libraries left dynamic. I use it to ship a static version of libguestfs
Whether static binaries are a good idea, I'll leave that discussion up to others. I would say that dynamic linking should be preferred, but static linking and this script is quite useful in some circumstances.
Rich.
Not quite sure why you've chosen to troll about F# here, but OCaml simply does not have the serious technical issues you say, and does have hundreds of libraries. It's used a lot by some very large companies, and in important areas like financial trading, aircraft code verification and virtualization.
Rich.
OCaml is used for all sorts of things in many companies and is very much ready for primetime.
F# is fine if you're using
Rich.
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