| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 205.1 | more dead flies | ULTRA::KARGER | Paul A. Karger | Wed Oct 22 1986 15:59 | 1 |
| There are lots of flies like that in LTN-2 right now.
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| 205.2 | Winter is in the air! | NUHAVN::MCKINLEY | | Wed Oct 22 1986 16:07 | 4 |
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>Is there something in the air? Is it normal to have flies "dropping like
>flies"?
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| 205.3 | | ULTRA::PRIBORSKY | Tony Priborsky | Wed Oct 22 1986 16:26 | 1 |
| "They" sprayed.
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| 205.4 | So good you should be looking after 800 years, yes? | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Wed Oct 22 1986 16:27 | 4 |
| Unlike many other insects, houseflies do not hibernate in the winter.
They only live for approximately one season. So this time of year,
they look for warm places, and literally die of old age. The few
wobbly ones left are incredibly old, by fly standards.
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| 205.5 | | RDGENG::LESLIE | Andy `{o}^{o}' Leslie, Euro.CSSE, OSI | Wed Oct 22 1986 16:27 | 2 |
| Ensure facilities are aware of your problems and that cleaners should
be dealing with your piles of flies.
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| 205.6 | I think I'll stay home Friday | COVERT::COVERT | John Covert | Wed Oct 22 1986 17:44 | 11 |
| How timely: The following memo, from Frank Clark in LKG Facilities, was just
put into my hand by the facilities runner:
SUBJECT: SPRAYING
Due to a problem with flies in the building, we will be fogging the building
Thursday night Oct. 23rd.
Please leave the building by 10:00 p.m. before extermination begins.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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| 205.7 | must be some garbage around | BANZAI::FISHER | | Fri Oct 24 1986 14:03 | 8 |
| A flies life spans from a couple of hours to a few weeks at the most. They
never survive an entire season.
There must have been something in the facility that allowed them to multiply,
some rancid food source, or an unemptied trash can, or perhaps they used a
computer (sorry).
ed
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| 205.8 | "hole in the screen" | NAC::DENSMORE | get to the verbs | Tue Oct 28 1986 11:15 | 10 |
| I was talking to one of the maintenance guys here at LKG who used
to work at VRO when I was there for awhile. They have the same
problem there. He said it has something to do with the way the
flashing is put on in the building. It allows the flies to get
in I suppose and when the weather gets cold, they want in.
One item of interest...I never noticed flies around the cafeteria.
Hmmmm.
Mike
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| 205.9 | 'tis the season | NIEMAN::STEWART | | Tue Oct 28 1986 13:38 | 5 |
| I think this is a seasonal problem, not a building maintainence
problem. I've noticed every fall when the weather starts getting
cold more flies appear inside. I've killed a half dozen in my
house in the past week after a whole summer with nary a fly.
Dee
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| 205.10 | the suituation at ZKO | STAR::ABBASI | Nobel price winner, expected 2035 | Sat Nov 14 1992 18:43 | 18 |
| ref .0
>I've at LKG for awhile now and have noticed LOTS of dead flies around.
>At first I ignored it. One day I found one 1/2 dead to the point where
>I could actually scoop him/her up and carry it around like a pet! In
>the last couple of days I have found several on my desk.
>
>Is there something in the air? Is it normal to have flies "dropping like
>flies"?
>How about other facilities?
I've been at ZKO for more than a year, and I've seen no more than 2 so far,
both were very dizzy when I saw them, I think they get in through the
ventilation ducts, I dont think there is a 100% sure ways to stop them
comming into the buildings though.
/nasser
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| 205.11 | A note that's 6 years old, and NO ONE's hypothesized yet that... | RDVAX::KALIKOW | the Nattering Nabob of Noterism | Sat Nov 14 1992 19:34 | 14 |
| ... all those "Dead Flies" might be simply the reincarnations of the
many dead bugs that all you bright folks in LKG, LTN, and ZKO find and
swat?
Am I the only one old enuf to remember a debugger called DDT (Dynamic
Debugging Technique, if memory serves)??
Or all that wonderful assembly language humor, like the fatal HCF
instruction ("Halt, Catch Fire")???
/Dan
PS -- Thanks, /Nasser, for uncovering this beauty... :-)
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| 205.12 | | DSSDEV::TPMARY::TAMIR | DECforms Roadie | Mon Nov 16 1992 19:53 | 3 |
| DDT? Sure, but do you remember the disclaimer in the PDP-10 doc set about DDT??
Mary, who still JFCLs from time to time.....
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| 205.13 | | LEZAH::QUIRIY | Love is a verb. | Wed Nov 18 1992 21:56 | 22 |
|
I was the last writer to touch the DDT manual and I made sure the
disclaimer stayed in. :-)
Is this the one you remembered?
HISTORICAL NOTE
DDT was developed at MIT for the PDP-1 computer in 1961. At that
time, DDT stood for "DEC Debugging Tape." Since then, the idea of an
on-line debugging program has propagated throughout the computer
industry. DDT programs are now available for all DEC computers.
Since media other than tape are now frequently used, the more
descriptive name "Dynamic Debugging Technique" has been adopted,
retaining the DDT acronym. Confusion between DDT-10 and another well
known pesticide, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (C(14)H(9)CL(5)),
should be minimal since they attack different, and apparently mutually
exclusive, classes of bugs.
Waxing nostalgic even though I came in at the end,
Cq
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| 205.14 | Yep, that's the one! :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | the Nattering Nabob of Noterism | Thu Nov 19 1992 00:13 | 8 |
| ... the organic-chem reference was so cute...
Speak, memory!!
Thanks...
Better to wax nostalgic than wroth...
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| 205.15 | | TUNER::ROBERTS | | Thu Nov 19 1992 14:52 | 3 |
| Seems to me DDT was dynamic debugging tape??
John
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| 205.16 | Oh, ya, that Type 555 DECtape.... | DSSDEV::DSSDEV::TAMIR | DECforms Roadie | Fri Nov 27 1992 21:55 | 6 |
| I don't remember DEC Debugging Tape....I remember DECtape Debugging
Technique during the Project MAC days at MIT.
I'm glad it lives on....
Mary
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