NT In The Navy

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Speaking of the Navy, the Swedish Navy is testing out a new stealth ship that will be all but invisible to radar. An interesting thing is that the “state of the art” computers on this new ship are running Windows NT. Asked about the all of the recent security flaws in Windows, spokesman Mr Nilsson said: “I am not an expert in computer security but we have… a lot of firewalls and clever ways of avoiding [being hacked].” — right.

  • Swedish Stealth Ship

    Perhaps the Swedish government should be a little more cautious when selecting their operatoring systems. Especially after USS Yorktown was paralyzed for several hours due to Windows NT.

  • Yorktown Sunk By NT

    • Guest Writer Matt: Konichiwa Or Something Like That

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    This is from a friend of mine in Navy Intelligence. For security reasons, I have edited out a few details.

    Hello all,

    For those of you that don’t know, I’m now stationed on the USS XXXXXXX which is currently docked in Yokosuka, Japan. It’s 6:36 p.m. on Tuesday, here in Japan. For all of you in the eastern time zone it is 5:36a.m. on Tuesday. If you sleep on anything larger than a cot, you should fall to your knees in praise right now. My bed is roughly 6 ft long and 2 ft wide. If I make a 90 degree angle with my arm and put my tricep on my bed, my fingers touch the bed above me.

    Steve Young doesn’t know anything about getting concussions until he spends one day on a ship. I hit my head on a variety of bars and pipes, which I believe are there for no other purpose than bodily harm, at least five times a day. You must be thinking, how hard can it be to dodge an object that doesn’t move. However, when you duck to avoid object A, object B cracks into the other side of you head. If you ever want to get me a gift, a helmet would be a wonderful idea. The weather is basically the same as it is in TN/MD right now. On a clear day I can see Mt. Fuji from the ship even though it’s three hours away. Traffic in Japan makes D.C. or Atlanta look like an open road. I’ve only been here since Satuday so I’ll spend my next few months doing qualifications and learning how to be a “real sailor”. I hope this email finds you in good health and good spirits. If any of you want to start a black market electronics underground railroad, just let me know. On a more serious note if there is anything Japanese under 100 bucks just say the word, and I’ll see what I can do. I’ve met a few people that are pretty cool, but most people aren’t exactly my “peers”.

    I’d love to hear from you guys, at XXXXXX@hotmail.com. May God richly bless you all.

    Tri Update

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    As I’m sure many are wondering where I am at in my training thus far… I am currently training at half distances for the biking and running portions so as to be able to keep the pace needed for my time goal. As I progress, I will increase the distance to full and then 150% (since I won’t be doing only one event during the race). I have not been able to get a swim time yet as my pool access is limited.

    1 Mile Run Time – 8:24
    4.5 Mile Bike Time – 19:21
    .25 Mile Swim Time – NA

    Robotic Lawn Mower

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    If you enjoy your robotic vacuum, why not extend it to the yard? Sharper Image has a robotic lawn mower sure to scare the crap out of your neighbors with kids — I mean save you the time of mowing your yard. I don’t know, the idea of a robot armed with sharp spinning blades scares me. Not in a Terminator sort of way but in the lawsuit-waiting-to-happen kinda way.

    Besides why not just pay a person to cut your grass for you? Then you get your grass cut (probably better job too) and remove any personal liablity you might run into. AND at $500 thats probably 2 summers of cutting from the neighborhood kid.

    Robotic Lawn Mower

    Thanks Sarah

    Sprint Triathlons

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    As some of you may be aware, I am currently training for a Sprint Triathlon. A Sprint Triathlon, in general, is half the distance of Triathlon which in turn is half the distance of a Sprint/Half Iron Man which is also half the distance of an Iron Man. Let that boggle your mind a bit: Iron Men are CRAZY! At least crazy in shape. An Iron Man event is a 2.4 mile swim followed by an 112 mile bike ride followed by a full marathon of 26.2 miles. These are rounder numbers in KM, but who really has any idea how long a KM is? — I mean in THIS country.

    Anyway, I digress. An iron man is too Olympian for me. The meer mortals like myself will stick with the Triathlons, sprint or otherwise. My first forray into this event will be a short .25 mile swim followed by a 9 mile bike ride and a 2 mile run. While these are much smaller distances, I will be competing against veteran Triathaletes that will be setting a speedy pace. My goal is to complete the race in under 1 hour. This is both a nice round number and should give me a respectable finish “with the pack”. Below are the times from last year’s Sprint.

    285 people out of 289 finished the race

    285th place was 1:35:24
    280th place was 1:18:59
    270th place was 1:12:35
    250th place was 1:07:30
    200th place was 1:01:41
    150th place was 57:34
    100th place was 54:40
    50th place was 50:57

    1st place male was 42:04
    1st place female was 48:21