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I'm with Ben. I can think of a whole lot of situations where I'd just suck up and deal with it. But there is a limit to what risks you accept as your own part of skydiving. As a purely hypothetical, far-fetched example: Your jump plane pilot flies the first load of the day still drunk and crashes the plane. You were aboard and are left a quadripelegic. An extreme example, but is that one where someone should be forced to take some responsibility? I think so. In general, I agree that we accept a certain amount of risk of accidents by skydiving. There isn't any sense in trying to punish a fellow jumper or pilot for something that happened when they tried to do their honest best. But for avoidable, careless crap that hurts people, I think they ought to be held responsible, if nothing else, for letting their fellow skydivers down so badly. Justin My Homepage

Seeing as I'm an addict now, what is the deal with the submissions to the Pub? Is there a general guideline on submission length? Content? Format for pictures, or should we use URLs to our images? Any other ideas? Maybe I need a sponsor like Chuck (Atair) or Clay (Hooked on Phonics).

My mental image has nothing to do with a keyboard or computer. Justin My Homepage

Sis, If you give out a 1-900 number instead of Yahoo Messenger, you'd make a killing.

They both have to do with impacting the ground, which gave you some difficulty. Justin My Homepage

Who has a broken collarbone? Justin My Homepage

Some people pay good money for drugs that make you feel like that. I hope all ends up well Viking. You are right to get checked out though. It may be something simple. Justin My Homepage

Here is a newbie-ish canopy control topic I'm currently dealing with... I'm continuing to learn about my canopy and its flight characteristics. I'm a novice (58 jumps) flying a Sabre 190 at 1.1:1. I'm trying to explore the speed range of my canopy. From full flight, I very gradually pulled the toggles down. I noticed the loss of windspeed and increasing "mushiness" of the canopy. I continued pulling the toggles down until my arms were extended all the way down at my sides. I was expecting a stall, but it didn't happen. When I landed, I was talking to an instructor, who suggested I take the toggles and loop them around my hands once then try the stall again. I was wondering if having to do this is an indication of a line trim problem. Also, since I haven't been successful at it yet, could someone describe what exactly occurs when you do stall the canopy? I know to let up very gently, but I don't know quite what to expect during the stall. Will the canopy fold in the middle, or collapse some other way, or what? If you continue holding the toggles down, will the canopy progress into something looking like a streamer? To reassure those wondering about it, I've been doing all of my intentional drastic canopy maneuvers (incl. stalls) between about 7000 and 14000 feet. So far, I've done three 3-second delays from altitude. They are a lot of fun and I feel safe getting crazy with my canopy at that altitude. Thoughts? Suggestions? Justin My Homepage

Skreamer, Maybe this was said in comparison to Software RAID, which would be true. I don't think it is stating that Hardware RAID 5 has better performance than RAID 0 disk striping. That is clearly not true. Believe it or not, I actually learned some of this stuff at work in between posts on DZ.com. Justin My Homepage

I don't know which would be worse, Remi, taking grips on her rats or being the doctor taking grips on the poodle to remove it. I think I'll pass on both.

Welcome to the land of the paranoid.

Brian, I finally got sick of maintaining two separate websites, just so a few people with old or crappy browsers could view it. The logs were way (80%+) IE. The folks with decent alternatives (recent Mozilla, etc.) can see most of the site, but it just doesn't completely work. It won't look like it should, but oh well. When it comes to cross-platform compatibility on my personal page, I'm just a lazy bastard.

I don't think so. He just got really, really fast at making paper airplanes.

Nice Clay imitation. Justin My Homepage

*I* didn't say it Skreamer, but I'll try to ignore the whole concept for now. Did you check your server for furballs?

We weren't talking about your urological remedies, Clay. Justin My Homepage

Skreamer, I'd have doubts about the consults deal also. RAID 5 definitely degrades the performance of a database. What some mid-sized places do is run the db on a non-redundant stripe set. Say.. 5 drives. You have a lot more speed in IO, because different drive heads can be working simultaneously. The down side is that one single drive failure hoses the entire database. So running two complete striped servers gives some redundancy. Instead of mirrored drives, you have mirrored servers. But you have to buy twice the hardware, so many people go with a RAID 5 solution instead, and deal with the performance loss. Damn, I'm having an intelligent e-mail dialogue with Skreamer. What is the world coming to? Justin My Homepage

Skreamer, did you forget to feed the gerbils inside your computer? You know that when they die, you start losing data. In general, I would tend to agree with you. It would be awfully suspicious, considering the delay between the HDD failure and the database failure. A few questions: Hardware RAID card or software-based RAID? NT4 with what service pack? What database package? As a side note, I'll share a really annoying hdd/database issue I had at work. Maybe it will give you some ideas. A SCSI hard drive in a mirror set went bad. I replaced it, and everything seemed fine for like 2 days. Then the other drive in the mirror went bad. I had doubts, but replaced it too. (Both under warranty.) The replacement drives they shipped me BOTH failed, so I contacted the manufacturer. They shipped out a fresh pair. At this point, the system is totally out of comission. Then I took a look at the SCSI cable, and noticed some discoloration in part of it. It hooked to the drives then looped up to the top of the case and then back down. At the very top was a yellowish area on an otherwise grey cable. Heat buildup in the very top of the case had caused slow degredation of the cable. Before I noticed that, I had a hell of a time diagnosing the problem. The cable caused sporadic problems that generally went unnoticed with the error-checking. But when I was reduced to a single drive and had the drive-intensive procedure of re-establishing the mirror, the problems seemed to burst out and hose everything. Thankfully, throughout this mess, I had BACKUPS, BACKUPS, BACKUPS.

Hmm. Maybe you're onto something..... Justin My Homepage

I was about to say, "No, as long as Skreamer is stil in England", but than I saw who wrote the post. Justin My Homepage

Part of it is also probably caused by being the child of a DZO. His first rig was probably made by Pampers. Of course, his being so damned old doesn't hurt either. He's had decades and decades to meet everyone. Justin My Homepage

Umm. Picture?

How many colors does duct tape come in? Justin My Homepage

One more vote for Pink. That is awesome! Justin My Homepage

I started a thread about online logbooks earlier, but there really wasn't much interest. Here is the thread: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forums/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forumtalkback&Number=52522&page=54&view=collapsed&sb=4&o=0&part= Here is a link to my web jumplog, which I could make multi-user if there was sufficient interest: http://www.jennandjustin.com/skydive-jumplog.asp Justin My Homepage