jsaxton

Doesn't seem to work on my PDP11-20 running RSTS either

This will vary on each canopy, try it, up high.

it'll fuck up their performance, the way most if not all CDNs determine the locality of the endpoint (which they use to redirect your request to a cache server that is geographically near you (in internet terms of latency)) is by the IP address of the DNS server you are using. (http://blog.unixy.net/2010/07/how-to-build-your-own-cdn-using-bind-geoip-nginx-and-varnish/) No imagine that to circumvent SPOA that a couple million people start using DNS servers in Russia, South Africa, ...

huh? not sure I understand your meaning. How do you think SOPA would have much of an Akamai, Digital River, Apple, Amazon, etc?

could SOPA spell the end of DNS based CDNs? hmmm short Akamai?

using despoa or non-us dns servers is trivial however this will increase latency for any DNS based CDN, which rely on the ip address of the DNS server to determine locality of the endpoint.

what's wrong with Spain?

Be realistic, you may be lighting your house with Solar power but all the juice you use at work, all the juice used to manufacture the hybrid car you have, all the energy to manufacture the fabrics that are in your rig,... Probably coal power.

if you don't like it just buy another PC, they are only around $100US

I have had a loose fitting pair of sleeves invert and cover my hands while tracking. when pull time came I looked at my right hand, went WTF? and pulled the sleeve off with my other hand, not a big deal but you may want to use a snap as mentioned above or some other method of making sure that the upper (and potentially lower, because I've had sleeves "bunch up" on me) are securely fastened to your jumpsuit.

packing

I hope it doesn't end the same as the book but I get your point. :-Z

Hopefully by the time they make it to the "Bigs" they'll have had enough exposure to the "above all else, be consistent" methodology.

Now that I agree with. I've ridden the plane down a few times and once at the warm up jumps for the NV State record I refused to exit (even though everyone else did). However I have a plan for finding my chest strap being undone in freefall, and I have a plan for break off through clouds. I've tracked through clouds a couple of times on these things and my plan (I hope) maximizes my predictability and chances for survival. The plan is the plan, the plan is never executed perfectly but it's what everyone is expecting, Introducing a wild card response during a bad situation can only make things more chaotic. I seriously doubt that any of the folks who find themselves blindly tracking through 2500' of clouds are even close to maintaining their assigned radial or relative speed with the others ...I don't care how good they think they are. No one in the clouds will have to worry about where I am. I'm bugging out, straight down. I know where the cloud bases are because I always know where they are since that is part of my ritual during the climb and I always use cloud bases as "waypoints" during freefall. After I land and reprimand myself for being a lemming I will accept being booted from the dive. If I'm not kicked off I will insist on being replaced. And I will make a note for future reference to never jump with that idiot organizer again. I don't care how great this sport is, it is not worth dying for. (I'm pretty sure that "dying while doing something he loved" is not all that it's cracked up to be.) That's the point. An entire quadrant of dozens of jumpers tracking blindly through a cloud for a half mile is bad. Me leaving and diving straight down is bad. There is no "better" idea other than an organizer team that uses common sense and plans the entire dive safely. If that means aborting the attempt because of the possibility of clouds at critical points then so be it. Potentially an expensive decision but that's one of the difficulties in organizing these types of events.

So you have a better idea? Let's hear it. I seriously doubt that any of the folks who find themselves blindly tracking through 2500' of clouds are even close to maintaining their assigned radial or relative speed with the others ...I don't care how good they think they are. No one in the clouds will have to worry about where I am. I'm bugging out, straight down. I know where the cloud bases are because I always know where they are since that is part of my ritual during the climb and I always use cloud bases as "waypoints" during freefall. After I land and reprimand myself for being a lemming I will accept being booted from the dive. If I'm not kicked off I will insist on being replaced. And I will make a note for future reference to never jump with that idiot organizer again. I don't care how great this sport is, it is not worth dying for. (I'm pretty sure that "dying while doing something he loved" is not all that it's cracked up to be.)

Breakoff and tracking: Ignore the cloud, follow the plan, deploy at the assigned altitude. Under Canopy: fly away from the formation until you can see.

I think i got flamed by you.

Q friend of mine told me "everyone makes a last skydive, the lucky ones know it before they get on the plane"

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Were you deprived of O2? what altitude did you exit at? Hypoxia depends on may factors; altitude, time at altitude, smoking, personal tolerance, hydration, hangover,... Without an O2 meter on you there is now way to tell for sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)

I guy at our DZ started at 65 after he retured and rang up > 3000 jumps before he quit at 84.

ok, you do it and send me the pictures, I'll send you the $20

$20 says the pictures will be boring as hell

I quit 10 months ago after smoking 35 years, go for it

If your instructor agrees meby you could try slipping a couple of those padded seatbelt covers over the legstraps until you're jumping better gear