jperegrino - Slashdot User

Slashdot's Disagree Mail 202

Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 10, 2008 @12:58PM from the well-here's-your-problem dept.

Slashdot has one of the best discussion systems there is. It's grown and adapted over the years to meet various challenges and suit the needs of our users. A lot of time and effort has gone into it and we are always open to user input to help make it better. Some of our best ideas start as user suggestions and we appreciate the feedback. Of course they can't all be gems and sometimes the suggestions we get are unworkable or just bizarre. Here are a few of my favorite unhelpful, helpful suggestions.

Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents 773

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 09, 2008 @09:55AM from the lotta-finger-pointing dept.

musther writes "An Australian airline Qantas Airbus A330-300, suffered 'a sudden change of altitude' on Tuesday. "The mid-air incident resulted in injuries to 74 people, with 51 of them treated by three hospitals in Perth for fractures, lacerations and suspected spinal injuries when the flight bound from Singapore to Perth had a dramatic drop in altitude that hurled passengers around the cabin." Now it seems Qantas is seeking to blame interference from passenger electronics, and it's not the first time; 'In July, a passenger clicking on a wireless mouse mid-flight was blamed for causing a Qantas jet to be thrown off course.' Is there any precedent for wireless electronics interfering with aircraft systems? Interfering with navigation instruments is one thing, but causing changes in the 'elevator control system' — I would be quite worried if I thought the aircraft could be flown with a bluetooth mouse."

Scheduling Large Scale Server Upgrades/Outages? 85

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 11, 2007 @05:41PM from the computations-best-left-to-computers dept.

thesandbender asks: "I've inherited my companies DST patching project and I have to schedule upgrades for 7000+ servers over the course of the next few weeks. Of course each group inside the company has different SLA's and outage windows. I need to somehow turn the pile of spreadsheets I have into a database and create a schedule that spreads the load over our pool of system administrators. There is no way I can reasonably accomplish this by hand, and even software for other industries/applications that could take a few steps out of the process would be appreciated. Does anyone know of a rule based scheduling system where I provide the available outage windows and a priority ranking for each system and the scheduler will recommend the order in which they should be upgraded?"

Comment Re:Instant Goodness (Score 2, Informative) 291

by jperegrino on Wednesday February 04, 2004 @09:38AM (#8179369) Attached to: Which Instant Coffee?

Wow, that confirms my suspicion about Nescafe: it's a different blend depending where it's made.

About 8 years ago I was enjoying an excellent cup of coffee in Chihuahua, made similarly to the Indian method above, and it turns out it was Nescafe. But the jar said "made in Mexico", while the stuff I get here in Boston says "made in Canada".

So instead I get Nescafe at the small 'Hispanic' stores around town and look for the "made in Mexico" variety.

I haven't done a side-by-side taste test, nor have I done the requisite Google research, but it's good to know someone else has the same idea.

But it could be the raw sugar...

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