Donate to all of them. Every month or two I donate to Mozilla, Firefox/Tbird extension developers, KDE, wine, and some other projects. Don't make one big donation to one place, make lots of small donations to lots of places. Do it regularly. And like a previous poster said, take a day and triage some bugs. You can do 20 bugs in a good day.
Thanks, that first paperclip is going into my bag of tricks. The CD-ejector I unfortunately know about, and once had the pleasure of shoving a paperclip into the LED of a CD-ROM drive who's LED was round. No damage done other than the fact that the LED no longer worked. As for the IDE jumpers, I use tweezers.
I wonder how it got to the stage where he needs to have conversations with himself o_0 Maybe he was looking for people that _won't_ get upset at everything he says. I hope that he meets that criteria...
It's a glass cube in the middle of Manhattan. They probably have the guards to keep people from throwing Zunes through the damn store. The tech crowd prefers to throw chairs, from what I've heard.
So Steve knows how to look at history and learn from the best. Clearly a business book waiting to be written! Clearly a war book waiting to be rewritten!
It's been at least 15 years since anyone stood in line for a Microsoft product. That's because now they are holding on the line while Raj finishes his 20 questions, now reboot, now click the third tab, now click the second checkbox...
Oops, sorry, I didn't notice that the OP was gnutoo (twitter) referring to twitter. Mod me stupid for not reading who's posting what... (I only ever look at sigs)
Please, don't feed the twitter-sockpuppets. This guy just want attention (that, and he's probably a Markov tool). Reputed troll around here. So far I've kept out of the twitter-bashing, but now it's getting out of hand. When he has conversations with himself and mods himself up, fine, blow the whistle. But when he's actively contributing to the discussion, let it be.
I built a liquid cooled system a few years back. As part of the kit they included a little jumper cable to power up the PSU with the cooling system in place before you put in the mobo and other parts (such that you can test for leaks and whatnot). It's basically just a 2" piece of wire with a prong on each end to plug into the PSU connector. I've used that little wire for testing PSUs more times than I can remember.
Using that in addition to a multimeter (something you probably already have if you tiker) you can fully diagnose pretty much anything on a PSU. Post more details about that wire. Sounds like something useful to a good portion of this audience.
Then you are even better off than the poor schmuck using Windows -- just SSH to a computer outside the corporate network and tunnel e-mail through it. Windows can do that
Yes, that's true--for "essential services". At this point in time, however, Internet access is definitely not considered to be an essential service. The cable & phone/DSL companies are fighting tooth & nail to prevent Internet access from being considered as such. That's where the 'good laywer' bit comes in. Especially if the government posts critical information online. Weather, tax information, crisis information, etc.
Reeally? If you build a cabin in the woods, the gov't has to come dig you a well? Something tells me you haven't looked into this local legislation as deeply as you think you have. Yes, this is the case so far as I understand. I will ask about where to find English-language webpages that confirm and I'll post links. It won't be today, though.
Check local legislation. Where I live, the government must provide electricity, water, and telephone service to any legal building built, no matter how far into the boondocks it is built. I don't know if the law specifically applies to high-speed internet access, but I'm fairly confident that a good lawyer could make it seem that way.
For example if you need to test a metal door handle when exiting a burning building, do it with the back of your hand..:s That's also how you should test possibly live electrical wiring. The byproduct is that if there _is_ electricity, then you've just slapped yourself in the face for being stupid enough to touch it!
Why not just buy a similar sized fan, or even a completely different heatsink/fan arrangement of approximately the right size?:P Surely it would be better to bodge on some kind of cooling than just leave it.. Right, I have a fan from a P4 on the wife's Duron at the moment. It doesn't fit very well and I'm scared that if the box takes a kick the blade will contact the heatsink, stopping the fan. But it works in the meantime. I should note that the Duron under the heatsink was once run at 108 C (I posted in this thread about that, see above) and it still runs fine. I myself have a hard time believing it, until I read some of the other horror stories in this thread.
I forgot to connect the fan to my wife's AMD Duron machine after changing the grease to Arctic Silver, because it was running hot. I started smelling something, opened the BIOS because I was resetting anyway, and found the temp at 108 C! Celsius, not Fahrenheit! I've never seen anything else go over 85-90 C. I shut it down real fast, connected the fan, and it's still working to this day. God, I love AMD.
I should mention that I've got a Pentium 4 that I'm planning on running without a heatsink sometime soon. Maybe I should record it popping, it shouldn't last more than a minute or two.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7412417.stm Actually, Ballmer talked his way out of embarrassment pretty well. I'd say that he handled the situation pretty well. He found cover (that is not cowardly, he did not know if the next egg would be a grenade), got up when the situation was under control, and make fun of the situation without attacking the attacker either with chairs or words. It raises my opinion of his personality, even if I do not like his business tactics.
I don't think the implication is that a company cannot make their ODF 'browser' (read office app) particular. In fact what we want is competition among the ODF browser/editor vendors. What we don't want is one vendor crippling the market for all the others due to non-compliant features - such that an ODF document can no longer be edited by a different ODF browser/editor - brought in over time and on the back of a monopoly position.
Hope that clears things up:) Truth is, documents created in Kword look terrible in OOo Writer and vice versa. Although I prefer Kword I use OOo to be compatible with Windows folks who at least have OOo. Neither seems to support (write? read?) proper odf documents.
I'd like to see an odf file validator script. Because the office suits that supposedly support it are not compliant with each other.
I would also like to see odf-compatibility documents where one could open an odf file, and a png image, and if they looked the same than the office suit would be deemed odf compliant. Similar to the reference image for the CSS Acid tests.
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Donate to all of them. Every month or two I donate to Mozilla, Firefox/Tbird extension developers, KDE, wine, and some other projects. Don't make one big donation to one place, make lots of small donations to lots of places. Do it regularly. And like a previous poster said, take a day and triage some bugs. You can do 20 bugs in a good day.
Thanks, that first paperclip is going into my bag of tricks. The CD-ejector I unfortunately know about, and once had the pleasure of shoving a paperclip into the LED of a CD-ROM drive who's LED was round. No damage done other than the fact that the LED no longer worked. As for the IDE jumpers, I use tweezers.
Thanks.
There, fixed that for you.
Oops, sorry, I didn't notice that the OP was gnutoo (twitter) referring to twitter. Mod me stupid for not reading who's posting what... (I only ever look at sigs)
Yes, it must be tough to deal with such huge crowds.
60 people? NYC's entire Mac-using population has shown up!Using that in addition to a multimeter (something you probably already have if you tiker) you can fully diagnose pretty much anything on a PSU. Post more details about that wire. Sounds like something useful to a good portion of this audience.
In English I use "meter", not "metre", though I also use "colour" not "color". And I don't live in the US.
I am familiar with the site. These are my favorites:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
Check local legislation. Where I live, the government must provide electricity, water, and telephone service to any legal building built, no matter how far into the boondocks it is built. I don't know if the law specifically applies to high-speed internet access, but I'm fairly confident that a good lawyer could make it seem that way.
"Linux will set your computer on fire."
You have been warned. Have you never gotten the classic Unix message (also in Linux): "Printer on fire"?
I forgot to connect the fan to my wife's AMD Duron machine after changing the grease to Arctic Silver, because it was running hot. I started smelling something, opened the BIOS because I was resetting anyway, and found the temp at 108 C! Celsius, not Fahrenheit! I've never seen anything else go over 85-90 C. I shut it down real fast, connected the fan, and it's still working to this day. God, I love AMD.
I should mention that I've got a Pentium 4 that I'm planning on running without a heatsink sometime soon. Maybe I should record it popping, it shouldn't last more than a minute or two.
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html#rot13_selection No, that's an encoder, not a decoder.
(yes, I am kidding)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7412417.stm Actually, Ballmer talked his way out of embarrassment pretty well. I'd say that he handled the situation pretty well. He found cover (that is not cowardly, he did not know if the next egg would be a grenade), got up when the situation was under control, and make fun of the situation without attacking the attacker either with chairs or words. It raises my opinion of his personality, even if I do not like his business tactics.
Hope that clears things up
I'd like to see an odf file validator script. Because the office suits that supposedly support it are not compliant with each other.
I would also like to see odf-compatibility documents where one could open an odf file, and a png image, and if they looked the same than the office suit would be deemed odf compliant. Similar to the reference image for the CSS Acid tests.