What Are You Doing Right Now
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Another really bad day of forest fires have obscured the sky. Send rain please. I live in the bottom right of the big cloud of smoke.
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Sorry to hear about the fires.. but lucky duck, must be a nice view of the ocean!
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@MattSpeller Would a fire extinguisher be of any service? If not, may I suggest travelling south for several hours to obtain cleaner air?
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@dafyre lots and lots and lots of fire extinguishers please.
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That should get you started.
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@dafyre heh... we start with helicopters and then move up to DC-3's, then move up to these babies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_JRM_Mars
Water/foam load: Mars waterbomber - 60,000 lb (27,000 kg)
Length: 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m)
Wingspan: 200 ft 0 in (60.96 m)
Width: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) Hull beamThe scoops allowed 30 tons of water to be taken on board in 22 seconds.
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Can you put out a fire with salt water? You just need some really long hoses and a big pump and you have plenty of water!
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@Minion-Queen yup, but I pity the guy who has to mop out the tanks after haha
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@Minion-Queen said:
Can you put out a fire with salt water? You just need some really long hoses and a big pump and you have plenty of water!
I believe is just burns the salt out of the water and then you just have water. Also causes corrosion in tanks etc. though.
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Got a meeting here in about 1 hr.
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Umm at this point having to clean the tanks might be worth it don't ya think?
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Those planes that pickup water and drop it on forest fires... can't they use salt water? sure it will have to be fixed afterwords.. but still.
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@Dashrender said:
Those planes that pickup water and drop it on forest fires... can't they use salt water? sure it will have to be fixed afterwords.. but still.
My point exactly!
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Why not drop 10,000 pounds of baking soda per trip? It weighs less than water, and would help put the fire out....
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@Dashrender said:
Those planes that pickup water and drop it on forest fires... can't they use salt water? sure it will have to be fixed afterwords.. but still.
Actually there might be a very good reason not to do this.
It might blight the land making it inhospitable to growing things.
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@Dashrender yup, and while it's not a huge deal in the middle of nowhere, it's really the cost to fix the tanks after the corrosion that stops anyone from doing it.
Edit: tanks, pumps, hoses, cross contamination (sea life -> fresh water = bad), etc.
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Figured out where a lot of our space went. 3.0TB Windows C Drive. Never expanded past 30GB in windows but, increased in Vcenter. Now, how to fix it. I don't think you can decrease the size of thick provisioned disks.
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@thecreativeone91 good grief, did it log ALL of the things?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Figured out where a lot of our space went. 3.0TB Windows C Drive. Never expanded past 30GB in windows but, increased in Vcenter. Now, how to fix it. I don't think you can decrease the size of thick provisioned disks.
Image it to another machine, then delete it and restore the image.
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@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Figured out where a lot of our space went. 3.0TB Windows C Drive. Never expanded past 30GB in windows but, increased in Vcenter. Now, how to fix it. I don't think you can decrease the size of thick provisioned disks.
Image it to another machine, then delete it and restore the image.
Not worth the trouble for a Windows 2k8 r2 Server. I'll just plan on replacing it with a 2k12 r2 server soon.
