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March 3, 2009

Hungary, Denmark & Egypt Temperature and Climate for your reference

The Hungary temperatures in the January winter month fall in the region of a minimum of -4.0 and a maximum of 1.2 degrees on average. After winter comes spring and the Hungary climate warms with mean temperatures in April in the range of 6.3 to 16.3 degrees celcius. In July the summertime Hungary temperature range is from an average low of 15.4 degrees to an average high of 26.5 degrees celcius. Average temperatures beging to fall in the autumn so that in October the Hungary climate has records of mean temperatures of between 6.7 and 16.1 degrees low and high respectably.

The winter Denmark temperature in January ranges between -2 and 2 degrees celcius on average. In the spring time temperatures in Denmark, (Copenhagen) show average values of between 2 and 10 degrees of celcius in the month of April. In July the summer mean values increase to between 13 and 20 degrees celcius. By the autumn the climate in Denmark has average temperatures that fall to between 7 and 12 degrees in the month of October.

The climate in Egypt in the winter is cool with mean temperatures in the night falling to 10.4 degrees in December. In the day time temperatures reach a maximum of 20.3 degrees. Later in the year temperatures in Egypt in March reach 23.5 degrees by day falling over night to 11.6 degrees celcius. In June the Egypt temperature is in the range of 20.1 and 33.9 degrees before the Egypt climate begins to cool in September when the mean maximum temp is just 32.6 degrees. At this time of the year the mean low temp is in the region of 20.5 degrees.

Filed under Beyond Random Ramblings by Arjuna

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Discovering Airsoft Hopup Systems and its Advantages

For serious airsoft players and trainers, the use of an airsoft hopup system will provide great benefit. At the end of the day, an airsoft hopup system provides the ability for the airsoft weapon to shoot straighter, and increase its accuracy and range.

Here’s how the airsoft hopup system works. It is contained within the barrel of the airsoft gun, and it puts a backspin to the BB as it is propelled through the barrel. What this does is counteracts the “knuckle ball” type action that you see on an airsoft gun that does not utilize a hop-up. A real gun puts a clockwise or counterclockwise spin on the bullet, which makes it to shoot very true. But because an airsoft BB is completely round, a backspin will give it a much better trajectory, and will counteract the falling of the BB, thus increasing the range.

Hop-ups can be tweaked. In this case you would want to install your new hop-up, and use the gun fairly rigorously to break in the lubricated pieces of the hop-up system. Once you have completed this, you can proceed to making your tweaks. Like sighting in an actual gun, you’ll tweak your hop-up system to put the correct amount of spin on the BB, until you are content with its accuracy and range.

To summarize, using a hop-up system can greatly improve the range and accuracy of your airsoft guns. So when you are in play, you will have a step over your opponents, and will be able to defeat them.

Filed under Beyond Random Ramblings by Arjuna

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Planning for Regulation in the Data Centre - How Far will Environmental Regulation Go?

Since the publication of the Stern report, climate change and measures to reduce the carbon emissions of business have been placed firmly on the agenda of regulators and legislators around the world.

In the UK at a local level organisations such as the London Energy Partnership are looking at ways to coordinate the Capital’s resources to cut carbon emissions; nationally the government is planning legislation for a low-carbon economy; and in Europe directives, such as RoHS, WEEE and the more recent EuP in the electronics industry, are aligning whole industry sectors with the EU’s climate change goals.

Environmental regulation is a reality and it will certainly increase over the next 20 years. With a power requirement of anything up to fifty times those of equivalent office work space, data centre operators and owners should be well aware that this wave of regulation and legislation is likely to have a disproportionate impact on them and their businesses. The question we have to ask ourselves is how do we manage this regulation and work with it, rather than find ourselves standing against it. For more information refer to information security

First of all I do not believe that data centres are going to become pariahs for the regulators - like the next ‘tobacco’.

There is a widespread and acute understanding that a reduction in carbon emissions needs to be achieved without inflicting a terminal blow to the economy, and in the age where the economy is driven by global internet computing, data centres are indispensable.

In fact, the move to lower emissions is very much in line with data centre owners’ interests - given the current cost of electricity, anything to reduce power consumption would be welcomed.

I believe, however, that the challenge for the data centre industry is to keep ahead of the ‘regulatory curve’ by making significant and steady improvements in reducing carbon emissions in order to avoid being mandated to do so. For more information visit information security consultancy

If we fail, the risk is that we find ourselves saddled with impractical regulations that are not responsive to our business needs and may even be unworkable in our shared goal of reducing carbon emissions and power consumption.

Actually aligning the business processes by which we manage data centres to the principles of a low carbon economy is not as daunting as it sounds. According to the government’s environment department, Defra, the principles of a low carbon economy are sourcing energy largely or wholly from low-carbon resources and renewable such as wind, wave and tidal; using products that are more energy efficient; and taking a proactive policy on recycling.

In the data centre industry we have the ability to start sourcing and increasing the use of energy from ‘green’ suppliers. Wind, wave or solar power does not need to be generated on-site, it can be fed into the grid anywhere - a company policy to seek out renewables from your energy supplier is an achievable first step in reducing the carbon impact of your data centre.

Similarly, the introduction of purchasing policies that favour easily recyclable products, packaging and redundant kit is easy to introduce and will immediately decrease the overall environmental impact of the data centre.

When it comes to overall power consumption and efficiency, immediate reductions can be achieved by the introduction of policies, for example, to manage lighting by using low energy bulbs and zoning in order to only light aisles in the data centre where staff are working, and by switching off test/dev servers when they are not in use.

Whatever environmental legalisation is introduced in the future, the basic principles are likely to remain the same - encouraging an increased use of renewables, more energy efficiency, and product recycling. As a business facility the data centre needs to build-in these principles through it business processes in order to demonstrate a road-map towards lower and lower carbon emissions.

As high energy users, data centre operators should audit their current usage and carbon emissions in order to measure the improvements achieved by taking the actions outlined in this article and future initiatives too so that progress can be easily shown. Visit data centre review for more information.

Environmental regulation will go as far as it needs to in order to safeguard our environment - our responsibility in the data centre industry is to build in processes to our every day operations that support the principles of a low carbon economy while allowing us to fulfil the requirements of our businesses.

Filed under Computers by Joshua

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