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sadly, no. it supports a single PCIe device which is to say they hacked up a special controller for one device. http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk...

supporting a single PCIe device a PCIe root complex does not make.

Model rockets are in fact governed as aircraft in that one must also adhere to TFRs and other permanent airspace rules. The thing is that the typical Estes hobby rocket's incursion is so fleeting that it doesn't really matter, and the people engaged in this hobby are so comparatively few that they're pretty serious about it, along with handling things like tubes of packed black powder, that they generally don't cause trouble due to their innate sense of responsibility. The high-performance rocketeers even coordinate with the FAA to arrange NOTAMs and even TFRs for their activity so that other users of the airspace are notified and may plan accordingly.

But, I have to say this - your attitude, though, does fit 2 of the 5 Aviation Hazardous Attitudes[1]. Remember, these regulations are *not* about YOU.

Regulations cannot be tailor-made to everyone, and while you inspecting your roof with a drone 20 miles from the nearest airport is in reality a so-what deal, the FAA isn't going to spell out every possible exception to every FAR just to suit every drone-flying nerd in every possible situation. There are people (such as the one TFA is about) who completely flaunt the FARs and don't exercise even basic common sense on top of it. They don't understand that all drone pilots are now sharing airspace with actual aircraft, and thus all occupants of the airspace must play by the same rulebook. This matters most in the most congested airspace, and are largely the target audience of these rules.

We already have stories from around the world where dumbasses are flying their drones along major airport approach and departure paths, with near-misses now being a common report. These rules, as draconian to the non-pilot normies as they may seem, are an attempt to get people to act straight and not do this shit because no one wants to find out the hard way what happens when a drone collides with an aircraft that's on climb-out - an aircraft that might be experiencing a flame-out on one engine due to unrelated problems, only to have a drone get sucked into the one remaining operational one. No one thought USAir 1549 would happen - until it actually did. Same goes for a lot of other accidents, be they mechanical, environmental, or human-caused.

You have a drone, that's great. This also makes you a pilot. I highly suggest that you start thinking like one, and then follow that up with acting like one. Given your missive above, the below link would be a great place to start (and yes, these hazardous attitudes and their antidotes are questions indeed posed on the PPL written exam.)

[1] http://aviationknowledge.wikid...

Nope, he's describing the LDIR instruction, which was useful for block copying or filling memory.

See: http://z80-heaven.wikidot.com/... for more details

And Initially, programs storage was achieved via saving and loading to/from cassette tap.

I recall my first game was Zaxxon on one of those.

He's not thinking of djnz, he's talking about LDIR.

Nope, he's describing the LDIR instruction, which was useful for block copying or filling memory.

See: http://z80-heaven.wikidot.com/... for more details

And Initially, programs storage was achieved via saving and loading to/from cassette tap. The use of floppy disks was only enabled later via the Expansion Interface, which needed the Level 2 ROMs (which included a version of Microsoft Basic, not the Tiny BASIC that the Level 1 models had).

I think you're the one doing the babbling.

Had this already for years, with QTTabBar. Works great on Win 7, too.

These look pretty symmetrical to me?

http://playingcards.wikidot.co...

A sporting goods chain, Forzani's, was hit by a $1.7 million fine. In there also it mentions a clothing chain, Suzy Shier, being fined $1 million.
http://infofranpro.wikidot.com...

Sears was recently fined over tires.
http://www.autoserviceworld.co...

Here's one more from Micheal's, an arts and crafts store, for $3.5 million!
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

Sears has previously been fined over pricing on other products but I can't find a source. In fact, many retailers seem to have issues related to advertised and actual pricing, and the Competition Bureau, rightfully, takes them to task for it.

Retailers in Canada, Amazon among them, should know better. The history and fines have been set.

Also, in other interfaces (beyond Office), where Toolbars used to be customizable, you will instead now have non-configurable Ribbons instead (see Explorer). To make File Explorer remotely usable, you'll need something like QTTabbar, then you can almost entirely ignore the Ribbon for most intents and purposes.

Windows 8.1 - Laptop, Windows 7 Desktop, Debian Linux on the Servers.
L: 16GB, D: 24GB, S: and whatever is needed.
L: AMD, D: AMD, S: Virtualized.
L: Harddrive, D: Hardrives, S: SSD's

As far as needing Classic Shell, could care less.

I make sure and install BINS and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker on the Laptop and Desktop. Done and Done.
Plus Multi-Commander, Total Commander, and QTTabBar from the proper location. Done Done and Done.

Original AC, Torchlight had amazing maps, especially the non-random ones that you accessed by killing a Phase Beast. I'd love to run some in a PnP RPG setting.

I actually think there's pretty good commercial software out there for dungeon generation. And there's definitely lots better resources for learning about procedural generation.

http://pcg.wikidot.com/pcg-alg...
http://journal.stuffwithstuff....
http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/site...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Random google results. Because they're still better than TFA.

I hear you on the old-style DM thing, I just think that niche is better filled by Torchlight and WoW. I mean, Gygax is definitely on your side, but the general philosophy of the game has evolved a bit since then: more emphasis on the role-playing aspect, less on its wargame roots, less on strict adherence to the rules, less on the DM being the only one to generate content, and way less on the idea of "players vs DM". The driving idea is that player choices should be meaningful. They should have realistic consequences, and they should also be a determining factor in the world around them. Again, this is not to say that being a bunch of sociopaths wandering around kicking doors down, killing, and looting is not fun, because it is, but that you scratch more itches by, well, focusing on scratching those itches rather than forcing the players to go through your uber-challenging book of challenges. Situations vary, but an encounter that results in a TPK is most often one that only the DM enjoys. Gygax enjoyed the hell out of it, and it was definitely challenging for the players. Balancing toothpicks on your nose is also challenging, and I'm sure WoW is too.

Do your players a favor and start reading through posts on rpg.stackexchange.com. You'll start to see that there are a lot of good ideas on there, but there's a subtle background thread that connects them, which is the focus on player agency. It's a subtle thing; we're both playing the same game with the same rules, but having a better idea of why we're playing this game will make you a lot better at playing it.

Physical property is naturally constrained.

Distinction without difference. Falos attempted to ridicule all attempts to use "paper walls" as futile attempts against "the universe"...

If I make a copy of a work, I have taken nothing from the creator.

You have reduced the amount of control, the creator had over the creation. This is why it is commonly called "theft" — even if nothing tangible changes hand.

Yours is a common fallacy, unfortunately, but a fallacy it is.

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The fable that the continent has also remained on 220 V is only to pacify British feelings of guild, from 1990 onward the EU countries increased their mains voltage in small steps and were done in the year 2000, a little quicker than the original plan that called for 2004.

Just as much a fable is the story the UK would have incurred great or unacceptable cost for this change, technically and with good coordination it can be done in mere hours, it was and is simply a lack of will.

At the time this harmonisation was planned, mid to late eighties, the typical power supply for domestic apparatus was fairly crude and thus the change would have had economic benefits.
The introduction of better and switchable power supplies has largely done away with many of the original reasons for harmonisation and consequently we've seen a slight increase in the permissible range.

And by mazes I mean mazes that can make your Nethack/Rogue happy bits twitch. Out of boredom I started making a cave and dungeon generator like the one Nethack/Rogue has. Here's the resources I used to put together what I have so far in Java.

Topic in General
http://www.roguebasin.com/inde...

Caves
http://www.roguebasin.com/inde...

Dungeons
http://www.roguebasin.com/?tit...

Procedural Content Generation Wiki
http://pcg.wikidot.com/

BSP Dungeon Generation
http://doryen.eptalys.net/arti...

Use one of the examples those places provides or do like I did and strike out on your own method to solve the problem of cave and dungeon building. I got a cave screen shot of one test generation.

My Cave Generator Output
http://imgur.com/9O9Niae

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Maybe you just don't know how to breathe. Smoking is the primary method for continuing to dry out and tighten up from the inside.

Frontal lobes. The needs of the voting outweigh the needs of the runtling. Catch the plague if you don't know how to breathe.

That thing that spock is changing, that's the same as teh shower water font in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". That's the law of Tor and the brain canopy that you will never remove.

Maybe you just don't know how to breathe. Smoking is the primary method for continuing to dry out and tighten up from the inside.

Frontal lobes. The needs of the voting outweigh the needs of the runtling. Catch the plague if you don't know how to breathe.

That thing that spock is changing, that's the same as teh shower water font in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". That's the law of Tor and the brain canopy that you will never remove.

Take a human brain. Clog it up with boogers. See how the neural impulses get blocked, like in vivo bio-resistors? Notice how you kick out boogers, and sometimes they're dark little strands, and you think "the worms ate into his brain"? But you make the excuse: you smoked too much last night, you had that cigar, you spent the day working in the garden or hauling dirt and using the leaf blower, and the dust collected there, and that's what makes it dark. Maybe you see the little strings in it, but you press it on the kleenex and it smears, so obviously it wasn't ever any cohesive structure.

Nawww, that's a sea-p-honie (seahorse). The neural impulses help it electrify and loosen up.

More info on seaponies and other such neural retardations:

http://mapfortu.wikidot.com/

What makes a genius? Clear the boogers out. Until you drop your voice you do nothing but make up crazy excuses.

"Isn't that like saying a pilot is distracted by having his HUD turned on?"

NO, it obviously is not. WTF, over?

HUD are designed to make aircraft operation SAFER by maintaining pilot situational awareness. They put information relevant to operating the aircraft in his field of vision so he doesn't have to scan down/sideways as often to read MFDs and instruments.

Now what tech-illiterates modded that post up? That's a disgraceful display of cluelessness.

See the HUD example. Read what the display depicts:

http://falcon4.wikidot.com/avionics:hud

Watch the HUD video to see why this display is important especially when under G's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHx-OWdHqf8

Note the absence of Tweets, email, and office-related correspondence.

The nation of Norway does this for every citizen. It seems to work out for them.

http://spacemice.wikidot.com/spaceball

Oh, please. You don't remember nVIR and it's variants? Or MDEF?

Liberal Crime Squad?

I've been trying to download this "baseball" game all morning and all every website I visit just shows me a bunch of sweaty dudes in pajamas.

They're using wooden controllers (!) and even worse, they're outside. Is this a beta? wtf

http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/local--files/baseball-nes/NesBaseball.png you need a nintendo. the pitcher is the guy in the middle(it's not a bar! it's not a tapper clone!).

the shape of things to come Thymio II https://aseba.wikidot.com/en:thymio any of this page too http://store.irobot.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2501652&s=A-ProductAge

The world is a four hundred year carnival; the wheel of technology. 1820-1900, the dark ages and water plumbing, people kill each other for a can of beans and blanket in deserted urban slums or remote urban wildernesses while the supermanagers use them for ridiculous animalsex entertainment rituals. 1900-2020, wars and politics and the development of digital technology. 2020-2120, internet exploration into the neural synapses of sex, wearing them all out. 2120-2180, the unveiling and revelation of all of the needle and thread surgical technology of the sphinx, eunuchs, abominations, seven layers of human algae salad in denial (from the Nile), culminating in the final revelation that green eggs and ham has been a million dollars since the beginning, dog fellatio and ingestion of dog feces. 2180-2220, "WAH WAH WAH! I had to do it and now I want to see somebody else do it!", push-button performance review popularity contest, chicken glove carrot on a stick, everybody wears a backpack and signs into various kingdoms of push-button tallying and scheduled updates, medical dental prosthetic (an offer you can't refuse, conscientious objectors) is part of the package. Butcher chop finale pushes the remainder onto space ship furnaces (fired up to hell) trying to escape or through screening lines for limited space in hidden cellars. Two generations in the cellars and the lemmings are stupid as dirt and the carnval reopens with a subsegment of the population, using their secret wire communications technologies, as the supermanagers.

The global neural net has been in place in the sphinx since long before that stupid lawn troll was put out in front of the pyramid.

More information @ http://mapfortu.wikidot.com/

Reality calling the world:

Millionaire: green eggs and ham.
Mars: the sky has a dome.

Result? You are all going to hell.

http://mapfortu.wikidot.com/

There are lots of alternatives.

Start Menus:
Classic Shell
Pokki
Power8
RetroUI
Start8
StartMenu8
Start Menu X
ViStart
Win8StartButton

Launchers:
7stacks
8start Launcher
Appetizer
Blaze
Executor
Fences
Find and Run Robot
Key Launch
Launchy
ObjectDock
Rainmeter
RK Launcher
RocketDock
SliderDock
ViPad
Winstep Nexus
XWindows Dock

Take your pick. This is just a small list. I know there are many more out there.

This is extra text because Slashdot is lame and says my comment has too few characters per line:

A computer program (also software, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer.[1] A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor.[2] The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute the instructions. The same program in its human-readable source code form, from which executable programs are derived (e.g., compiled), enables a programmer to study and develop its algorithms.

Computer source code is often written by computer programmers. Source code is written in a programming language that usually follows one of two main paradigms: imperative or declarative programming. Source code may be converted into an executable file (sometimes called an executable program or a binary) by a compiler and later executed by a central processing unit. Alternatively, computer programs may be executed with the aid of an interpreter, or may be embedded directly into hardware.

Computer programs may be categorized along functional lines: system software and application software. Two or more computer programs may run simultaneously on one computer, a process known as multitasking.

To be honest, it was simply the first link I knew for a fact to be of Smith. I since found a much more readable pdf version, it also allows copy and paste which is always a plus: http://metalibri.wikidot.com/title:an-inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of

Thanks for, well, making me curious to finally dig to the bottom of this :P I often heard Noam Chomsky say what you said, but I never bothered to find out, I just (as it turns out, rightfully) trusted it's true.

If you're more of the DIY type, like myself, I'd suggest building your own from scratch. Remus is an excellent choice for a high-availability environment. Admittedly, it's still a relatively young project, but as of Xen 4.2 (currently the unstable branch), it's been largely stable and easy to work with. You can even use DRBD as the storage backend (currently it's using a modified DRBD with a new "protocol D" synchronization method, but prot D is going to be integrated into the main DRBD branch as of DRBD 9, hopefully later this year).

Basically, you set up a normal Xen virtualization environment, but you mirror the configuration across two (or more) Xen nodes. You have two storage nodes sharing out virtual block devices (AoE is good if you'll have all the nodes on a single switch, iSCSI is good if you'll need to route over an IP network), one Xen node connects to one or more storage nodes, then DRBD running on each Xen node joins the block devices into a DRBD volume (I like to share out the whole disk/array of each node as a single block device, then create an LVM2 logical volume on each block device, and join the LVs together with DRBD). Xen then uses the DRBD volumes as virtual disks for the VMs. Once that's set up, you just configure remus to start when the VM starts, and it will checkpoint the current machine state between the two Xen nodes at a rate you specify. If one node goes down, the other picks up running the VM, without dropping a packet.

I've currently converted all our internal systems at work over to running on this cluster, and it works great. Highly recommend you take a look.

Those nuclear wars have been occuring for a long time, too.

I could build several UVC-LED flashlights for that much and get the same effects with better lifetime, durability, and portability.

why is formatting ruined when posting? I would like to point out that some time ago i converted a USB ionizer which cost about £2 from ebay here:- http://www.ebay.co.uk/ [ebay.co.uk] This device generates a high voltage and a stream of ions.I opened it and by removing/adjusting the output resistor could make it produce a spark from 1 mm to 6 mm in length and by attaching electrodes to 2 parallel glass plates or parallel bits of plastic from a toys packaging generate a plasma between the two parallel plates. Also by holding one electrode and bringing the second electrode with a parallel plate near to the skin produced a similar plasma as above with a slight tingling depending on the distance from the skin. Also I could run this device from a battery down to 1.2 volts up to 12 volts.The strength of the plasma being in direct proportion to the voltage.I mean a 1.2 volts supply produced a 1mm continuous spark but 12 volts produced nearly 1.5 cm long spark.The plasma strength varied in a similar fashion.If anyone wants to do more experiments I suggest you purchase this very cheap device. I have used this device to stop pimples and boils from growing and to reduce swelling from same by zapping it with the device.Only takes a few seconds of use 2 or 3 times a day. Also you can use it to neutralize insect/snake bites as well.There is a website devoted to this subject from a practical view point. http://venomshock.wikidot.com/#toc1 [wikidot.com] As the device only costs £2 it would be very easy to mass produce this plasma device cheaply by the Chinese for everyday use to eliminate infections on or near the surface of the skin.

I agree with you the article is badly written.I would like to point out that some time ago i converted a USB ionizer which cost about £2 from ebay here:- http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A15%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A6&rt=nc&_nkw=usb+ionizer&_clu=2&_dmd=1&_dmpt=UK_Home_Garden_Hearing_Cooling_Air&_fcid=3&_localstpos=g77+6lj&_sc=1&_sop=15&_stpos=g77+6lj&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_vc=1&gbr=1 This device generates a high voltage and a stream of ions.I opened it and by removing/adjusting the output resistor could make it produce a spark from 1 mm to 6 mm in length and by attaching electrodes to 2 parallel glass plates or parallel bits of plastic from a toys packaging generate a plasma between the two parallel plates. Also by holding one electrode and bringing the second electrode with a parallel plate near to the skin produced a similar plasma as above with a slight tingling depending on the distance from the skin. Also I could run this device from a battery down to 1.2 volts up to 12 volts.The strength of the plasma being in direct proportion to the voltage.I mean a 1.2 volts supply produced a 1mm continuous spark but 12 volts produced nearly 1.5 cm long spark.The plasma strength varied in a similar fashion.If anyone wants to do more experiments I suggest you purchase this very cheap device. I have used this device to stop pimples and boils from growing and to reduce swelling from same by zapping it with the device.Only takes a few seconds of use 2 or 3 times a day.Also you can use it to neutralize insect/snake bites as well.There is a website devoted to this subject from a practical view point. http://venomshock.wikidot.com/#toc1 As the device only costs £2 it would be very easy to mass produce this plasma device cheaply by the Chinese for everyday use to eliminate infections on or near the surface of the skin.

https://aseba.wikidot.com/

Not from me, but from a good friend. Need to programme distributed behaviour in swarms of robots with an easy-to-use IDE coupled with a simulator? Need to transparently switch between reality and simulation as well as have access to pre-programmed sensors and robots? Free software ?

There you go.

So how much accounting, sales order processing, customer relations management, HR, payroll,stock control and other business related software is available on a Mac? Or Linux?

Glad you asked!

My personal favorite in the ERP world is xTuple (formerly Open Mfg). They even have a free QuickBooks-Like version. Speaking as an ERP software dev. myself, this package is strong enough that I have seriously considered becoming a VAR for it.

Then, there are the longstanding AccountEdge/MYOB, and AppGen/Custom Suite (AppGen Custom Suite is pretty cool, IMHO). I also see FlexWare Accounting, which has a Manufacturing add-on. Don't know much about FlexWare; but it looks pretty complete.

Then there are the interesting database/app-generation systems, such as Omnis (which had the whole idea of "web apps" NAILED more than a decade ago), and, last but certainly not least, 4D, also sporting a wonderful web-app solution. Both are big database-oriented Application-Creation packages that have marched along for years, never quite getting traction, but never quite falling over, either! In fact, 4D's web server was eventually spun-off into its own product (name escapes me, sorry!), and has the enviable reputation of not only being faster that snot, but also has never been hacked... Both Omnis and 4D embraced the concept of being able to "publish" applications directly on the web, such that the apps retained all, or nearly all, of the look-and-feel of the "desktop" versions. Quite cool, actually.

And the hidden advantage is that pretty much all, if not all, of the Mac business software is actually cross-platform; so you get platform-independence "for free". What's not to like about that?!?

As far as CAD/CAE tools go, there are several choices. My personal favorite is VectorWorks, which whips all-over AutoCAD (but maybe not so much on Inventor). I have a longstanding Mac consulting client, who has to live in a world of architects who use AutoCAD, and he has zero problems using VectorWorks with their files, import or export. The only "problem" is that VectorWorks actually supports many things that AutoCAD does not; so he has to be somewhat careful not to use features that AutoCAD (by all rights, should, but) does not support. In fact, when AutoCAD became available (again) for Macs, he wasn't the slightest bit interested in switching away from VectorWorks. And although not widely known in this country, the extremely high-end CAD/CAM/CAE system Siemens PLM NX/UG (Unigraphics) has been available on OS X since at least 2009, and is also available on Linux.

And let's not forget Qt. It's a royal pain to develop in; but you can certainly churn out some pretty complex cross-platform apps in the environment. Eagle PCB is a good example of how advanced a Qt-based app can get... As a (now former, I guess) embedded developer, I used to lament the lack of good (or really, ANY) development tools for Macs. But even that has been (slowly) changing. Microchip now supports both Macs and Linux with MPLab X (helped along considerably by the acquisition of Hi-Tech, and their cross-platform C Compilers). And BTW, Microchip even addresses the question of "Why not just

There is nothing in FRAND, that I can see, that prohibits open source software or other open IP. In fact, Standards committees -- given a choice -- would far rather build in open IP to closed IP (even FRAND) into a Standard. Can someone knowledgable explain how FRAND in any way harms open source?

Prohibits, no. However it does discriminate against those who cannot pay the license fees but would otherwise still be able to implement the standard - most of the open-source contributors are like this - e.g. VideoLAN (scroll down to "Patent threats").

Yes, I was basically slashdotted. Here's the text in full: http://acta.wikidot.com/acta-kprm-en

A few PC DVD drives are capable of reading the Wii discs, but odds are you don't have one that is.

You need a USB loader channel and either an external hard drive, or a SD card with enough free space to hold the image. Dump the image and physically move it to your PC.

Or you could just download it from someone else who's done the same.

A tutorial that covers all you need (and much more):
http://gwht.wikidot.com/

What's keeping you on Leopard?

Essentially, the red X's and Yellow triangles in this table.

Lion's 16% installed base is NOT bad after only 4 months.

No? $29.95 for all your machines? Sounds like a bloody bargain to me -- seriously, it does. Saving a measly $29.95 as compared to 250 new features for your Mac? Some of which, like resizing windows from every edge, and improved gestures, and better networking, to name just a few, are highly desirable. Also, you don't even need media -- you can just download the thing. Instant access, amazingly low price, extremely generous licensing, lots of new features. Sounds awesome. So why not upgrade?

How about because.... Lion breaks a whole lotta stuff (like, every PPC app and driver anyone ever owned) on top of what Snow Leopard broke ? Oh yeah. That would be why. :o)

Also, that's why there are nearly twice as many people still using Leopard (10.5.8), at about 30%. Because Lion is a lousy release on top of another lousy release: Snow Leopard. This is true even though if they upgraded today, they'd get those 250 Lion features plus the Snow Leopard features.

Look, both Snow Leopard and Lion are fine: if you're a new user and you will only buy new, compatible software. And that, no particular surprise, is the demographic that will make Apple the most money. But if you've been with them for a while, as I have, then you may have quite an investment in software. And that can change the picture quite a bit.

All the rest is just opinions and conjecture on your part, how about some figures ?

Not so. see above for figures for the Google-impaired.

Google Lion Adoption

Google Apple fora complaints

IOS5 feature not working

IOS app crashing

Why is it that Apple isn't doing sufficient testing prior to release?

[[citation needed]]

if apps are crashing and drivers don't work and features don't work and data is being lost and batteries are being consumed too fast at release time... they're not doing enough testing. Or is that too complex an idea for you to wrap your head around? Go read the apple support forums, for FSM's sake. Your profound ignorance is annoying.

Why is it that they are leaving so many existing, recent customers out in the cold?

[[citation needed]]

Seriously? Ok, starting with Snow Leopard, there's a huge list. With Lion, I'm just going to point at them dropping the PPC emulator and see if you get it (keeping mind that there are many additional issues similar to those at the above Snow Leopard incompatibility monitor. But, you know, Google it.)

They're aiming at the middle of the Gaussian now... and that isn't, historically speaking, their Mac customer base.

[[citation needed]]

Oh, Jeez, low-hanging fruit. I'm sorry (well, not very): [says nothing, points finger straight at you]

...and so on. Google. It's useful, if you learn how to use it. You just put the question you have in the little box, then press the little magnifying glass picture. You can do it.

PS: Nothing I said was in the least an exaggeration or hyperbole: I'm an active Mac and IOS user and an OS X developer, and in these matters, I am reasonably well informed.

Indeed, any OpenWRT device with a USB port and external hard drive will do this job. Or even better: the Western Digital My Book Live NAS ships with Debian and you can enable ssh from a hidden admin menu.

HO HO~~~~~

As a preteen in the late 70s I played a game that I remember as SPACWR on a friend's DEC PDP-11. My friend and I played for hours and thought it was great fun. It was really an ASCII Star Trek game originally written by Mike Mayfield in 1971 in BASIC and then translated into DEC BASIC by David Ahl who gave it the confusing name so similar to the game discussed here.

Here's another link for the curious.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/

GP was actually right.

So it looks, at least at the moment, as if pushing snow leopard is the intent. I can see why with only 30% (or so) adoption.

You've been pushing this notion that Snow Leopard adoption is poor in several stories about the Mac app store. It's complete BS. I just googled "snow leopard adoption rate" and many popular Mac websites found that over 30% of their Mac visitors were using 10.6 within less than a month after its release. Admit it, you pulled that number out of your ass.

Another data point:

http://adium.im/sparkle/?year=2011&week=01&graph=bar

[shrug] It's their own fault. They broke too many apps and drivers with 10.6. I'm not going to put it on my machine and destroy the usefulness of software I paid good money for. Even apps and drivers that have upgrades -- like Parallels -- are going to cost to upgrade, and in the end, not only do I have a lot of busted stuff, I have all this additional expense.

Reading between the lines, you got butthurt that Parallels broke and you'd have to pay for an update, and decided to blame Apple. And now you hold a grudge and keep trying to paint a negative picture about Snow Leopard wherever possible.

To anybody remotely conversant with the state of the art, it's not at all surprising that 10.6 broke Parallels (and VMWare Fusion too). High performance virtualization requires extremely close interaction with the kernel, including things which aren't official cross-version-compatibility-guaranteed kernel APIs (unlike device drivers, which should remain compatible for the most part). It is almost guaranteed that whenever Apple releases a major OS version, virtualization apps like Fusion and Parallels are going to need to update to match.

So grow up and realize that you aren't everyone and few people share your views about upgrading. SL adoption rate is fine. Apple doesn't need to "promote" SL by only offering the app store on it. The much more likely interpretation of the tea leaves is that it's business as usual for Apple when it comes to supporting old OS versions -- they barely do it at all. Just about the only exceptions to that rule are updates to iTunes and Safari, and security updates (which cut off when the old OS is 2 major revisions behind, ie they're not doing Security Updates for 10.4 right now).

And I'd wager that in a day or two there's be a 10.5.9 that adds it to Leopard.

Above each app, it says "You must have 10.6.6 to download this app" or some similar verbiage. So it looks, at least at the moment, as if pushing snow leopard is the intent. I can see why with only 30% (or so) adoption.

[shrug] It's their own fault. They broke too many apps and drivers with 10.6. I'm not going to put it on my machine and destroy the usefulness of software I paid good money for. Even apps and drivers that have upgrades -- like Parallels -- are going to cost to upgrade, and in the end, not only do I have a lot of busted stuff, I have all this additional expense.

Desktop set up so that the screen faces into the room. This is a far better screening technique than any technological method. If you are very concerned, get a logging firewall (I used smoothwall on a custom built 10th hand PC, and enabled traffic logging)

http://schoolsplay.wikidot.com/website:childsplay
Club Penguin (relatively cheap, and aimed at the age).
WoW (as was mentioned by others). It provides hours of fun. Fortuneatly I have taught him not to queue as a tank.
A word processor of some kind. He loves typing random pictures.
Links to various kid's websites. http://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/
Favourate videos.
Our older child played many many hours on age of mythology.

Be aware that your computer is newer, shinier and has different 'stuff' than his. Once our child got hooked, your PC becomes a target. I suggest passwords on screensavers.