While riding a motorcycle, I once had an idiot work real hard to get in front of me, then immediately slam on the brakes to make a right turn...
The perfect commuting vehicle around here... a 1986 HD pickup truck with a big smelly diesel, plenty of dents and rust over a camouflage paint job, and perhaps the logos of some other makes of cars spray painted on the drivers side door just in case anyone misses the point. Oh, and wear a full face helmet while driving your truck. Gets a lot of right-of-way!
Ubuntu users are blessed with Back in time. All it is is a gui interface to rsync, but the gui is quite nice. Since the rsync keeps the same directory structure, you can always check your backups by simply viewing the files on the backup drive.
"I gave him an unlimited expense account and he exceeded it." Edward Bennett Williams, who used to own the Redskins--once said about George Allen, Sr., whom he had hired to be his coach.
A few months ago, I read an article on MAKE magazine that talked a lot about what we use our energy on. It specifically mentioned that a Mr. Coffee pot used about 850W as long as the pot is turned on. That same morning I broke the carafe. So I went to K-mart and bought one that uses a thermos type carafe and only runs the burner for 10 minutes when the coffee is brewing. The savings? At least 1.7KW/hr a day, every day. Just by getting a better coffee pot.
Hopping on a bike for all of those little < 1 mile trips to the store instead of driving can save shitloads of gas. When I started doing that, the time between fillups increased from 7 to 10 days.
My hardcore gaming rig runs Lincade. We are talking serious commercial grade stuff here, HAPPS controls, Tornado spinners, and a 30" Wells/Gardner monitor in a SlickStik cabinet. If you are setting an arcade cabinet, make sure you get Lincade. There is no better gaming experience!
Get the book. A Whopper has 200 more calories than a Big Mac. There is a whole lot of shit that is supposed to be healthy that isn't. That "lightly sweetened" "strong heart" Smart Start cereal? 10 different kinds of sugar and so many chemicals that it might explode if mixed improperly with other foods.
Lose the carbs. I agree 100% with the parent (I am diabetic). All of it is shit. How much sugar do you think is in a small 12 oz can of soda? 2 teaspoons, 4? Try 10, almost a 1/4 cup of sugar in one can of soda . For carbs, get whole grain bread, pasta, etc. The fiber will help prevent insulin spikes.
Get a bike. $100 will buy you a lot of bike at K-Mart and nothing says "don't steal me" like Huffy. Or got to a flea market at the end of the day when you might be able to pick up one for $5. Use it for all of those short trips that are a few miles or less. You can probably keep it at work too. You will also save a shitload of gas money in addition to getting the exercise.
Aerobic exercise is great, but you need anaerobic as well. And there is no better way to get that than free weights. You need nothing more than a barbell and weights, which you can get at the same K-Mart or swap meet that you got your bike at. All of the fancy, expensive computer controlled machines are shit.
And there is no better weightlifting exercise than parallel squats. They are are a royal PITA, and you have to make sure you do them right. Get Starting Strength and Super Squats. Combine Super Squats with your bike rides and you are golden.
The Golgafincas went on to live rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone. Clean your phones. Think of the children.
Been there, done that. One my old Camaro, removing the dash to replace the speakers was surprisingly easy. The problem is there is not much room to strip the wires for the new ones, and the wire strippers slipped, resulting in a nice big star crack in the windshield. $300 to replace. Doh! I wonder what the deductible is for the space shuttle?
Same thing in DC. I have no idea how people can commute from say, Prince William county to DC every day. I tried that once for 6 months, then got a new house inside the beltway. Little bit more expensive for slightly less house, but not as much as you would think. You can find surprisingly good deals close in in good neighborhoods. You just have to look and to make a few compromises .
Death to California? Have you ever lived there? Born and raised Los Angeles. And I survived many summers without any A/C. We used to use Swamp Coolers instead of A/C, and they worked quite well. I didn't have any A/C until I was about 13 and never had any in school. Try that in Ohio or anywhere on the east coast.
Los Angeles is also more pedestrian and bicycle friendly than anywhere else I have been. They have lots of side streets, sidewalks, wide shoulders and other places to ride away from traffic. If aren't going more than 5 miles, a bike will get you there fine. My mother never got a drivers license because it wasn't necessary, and I never drove, nor was driven to school
The problem with air filters is that most PC fans blow air out of the case, not in. So, if you put a filter near your fan, all of the dust will still be inside your case. Unless you did like the Ghost busters and reversed the flow. Not sure what it would do to the cooling of the components though...
As a student of the LA school system, we got new textbooks in the 9th grade. As our teacher pointed out, our new US history textbook made no mention of Paul Revere even though he was pretty important in US history. Our teachers all hated the new books, and even back then textbooks were very controversial.
I did the opposite. One of my Windows machines had a virus which associated itself with.EXE. I needed to edit the registry to clean it out, but the virus was intercepting all calls to.exe to protect itself. So I renamed regedit.exe to regedit.com and nuked it.
Same thing with C++ Builder. It absolutely kicked visual studios ass. The VCL which was from Delphi was based on the AnsiString class. No buffer overflows. Very clean. Tons of cool shit too, file management, string arrays, sorting, ini and registery settings, etc.
They also had Kylix which was Delphi/C++ Builder for Linux. I think they really missed the boat there. They should have made C++ Builder and Delphi completely cross-platform with versions for Linux and Macintosh available with the same license for Windows. Perhaps had a "target platform option" in the compiler to ensure cross platform applications would run in all environments.
It works with his video iPod and works with his digital camera which for some reason doesn't work on his girlfriend's windows laptop.
That has pretty much been my experience too. Both my iPod and Kodak camera work just fine with Ubuntu, but not with Windows XP. I am sure I could login to the Apple/Kodak forums and Google it, but why bother? I plug them into my Ubuntu machine It Just Works...
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While riding a motorcycle, I once had an idiot work real hard to get in front of me, then immediately slam on the brakes to make a right turn...
The perfect commuting vehicle around here... a 1986 HD pickup truck with a big smelly diesel, plenty of dents and rust over a camouflage paint job, and perhaps the logos of some other makes of cars spray painted on the drivers side door just in case anyone misses the point. Oh, and wear a full face helmet while driving your truck. Gets a lot of right-of-way!
Please. I will see you a drooling idiot and raise you one. We once had an idiot drive a truck under the wing of a C-141. Took the whole wing off.
Ubuntu users are blessed with Back in time. All it is is a gui interface to rsync, but the gui is quite nice. Since the rsync keeps the same directory structure, you can always check your backups by simply viewing the files on the backup drive.
"I gave him an unlimited expense account and he exceeded it." Edward Bennett Williams, who used to own the Redskins--once said about George Allen, Sr., whom he had hired to be his coach.
A few months ago, I read an article on MAKE magazine that talked a lot about what we use our energy on. It specifically mentioned that a Mr. Coffee pot used about 850W as long as the pot is turned on. That same morning I broke the carafe. So I went to K-mart and bought one that uses a thermos type carafe and only runs the burner for 10 minutes when the coffee is brewing. The savings? At least 1.7KW/hr a day, every day. Just by getting a better coffee pot.
Hopping on a bike for all of those little < 1 mile trips to the store instead of driving can save shitloads of gas. When I started doing that, the time between fillups increased from 7 to 10 days.
"I am altering our agreement. Pray I do not alter it further."
My hardcore gaming rig runs Lincade. We are talking serious commercial grade stuff here, HAPPS controls, Tornado spinners, and a 30" Wells/Gardner monitor in a SlickStik cabinet. If you are setting an arcade cabinet, make sure you get Lincade. There is no better gaming experience!
Get the book. A Whopper has 200 more calories than a Big Mac. There is a whole lot of shit that is supposed to be healthy that isn't. That "lightly sweetened" "strong heart" Smart Start cereal? 10 different kinds of sugar and so many chemicals that it might explode if mixed improperly with other foods.
Lose the carbs. I agree 100% with the parent (I am diabetic). All of it is shit. How much sugar do you think is in a small 12 oz can of soda? 2 teaspoons, 4? Try 10, almost a 1/4 cup of sugar in one can of soda . For carbs, get whole grain bread, pasta, etc. The fiber will help prevent insulin spikes.
Get a bike. $100 will buy you a lot of bike at K-Mart and nothing says "don't steal me" like Huffy. Or got to a flea market at the end of the day when you might be able to pick up one for $5. Use it for all of those short trips that are a few miles or less. You can probably keep it at work too. You will also save a shitload of gas money in addition to getting the exercise.
Aerobic exercise is great, but you need anaerobic as well. And there is no better way to get that than free weights. You need nothing more than a barbell and weights, which you can get at the same K-Mart or swap meet that you got your bike at. All of the fancy, expensive computer controlled machines are shit.
And there is no better weightlifting exercise than parallel squats. They are are a royal PITA, and you have to make sure you do them right. Get Starting Strength and Super Squats. Combine Super Squats with your bike rides and you are golden.
The Golgafincas went on to live rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone. Clean your phones. Think of the children.
Been there, done that. One my old Camaro, removing the dash to replace the speakers was surprisingly easy. The problem is there is not much room to strip the wires for the new ones, and the wire strippers slipped, resulting in a nice big star crack in the windshield. $300 to replace. Doh! I wonder what the deductible is for the space shuttle?
Same thing in DC. I have no idea how people can commute from say, Prince William county to DC every day. I tried that once for 6 months, then got a new house inside the beltway. Little bit more expensive for slightly less house, but not as much as you would think. You can find surprisingly good deals close in in good neighborhoods. You just have to look and to make a few compromises .
Death to California? Have you ever lived there? Born and raised Los Angeles. And I survived many summers without any A/C. We used to use Swamp Coolers instead of A/C, and they worked quite well. I didn't have any A/C until I was about 13 and never had any in school. Try that in Ohio or anywhere on the east coast.
Los Angeles is also more pedestrian and bicycle friendly than anywhere else I have been. They have lots of side streets, sidewalks, wide shoulders and other places to ride away from traffic. If aren't going more than 5 miles, a bike will get you there fine. My mother never got a drivers license because it wasn't necessary, and I never drove, nor was driven to school
The problem with air filters is that most PC fans blow air out of the case, not in. So, if you put a filter near your fan, all of the dust will still be inside your case. Unless you did like the Ghost busters and reversed the flow. Not sure what it would do to the cooling of the components though...
basically letting Microsoft get ahead with SQL Server in many respects
True. This only works in SQL Server, not Oracle.
Here is one based on an old hot-rodding maxim: Java, Oracle, Good. Pick 2.
Please. Rise of the Triad had the rocket jump back when Doom 2 was new.
As a student of the LA school system, we got new textbooks in the 9th grade. As our teacher pointed out, our new US history textbook made no mention of Paul Revere even though he was pretty important in US history. Our teachers all hated the new books, and even back then textbooks were very controversial.
Bose makes a set of noise canceling headphones which does this.
I did the opposite. One of my Windows machines had a virus which associated itself with .EXE. I needed to edit the registry to clean it out, but the virus was intercepting all calls to .exe to protect itself. So I renamed regedit.exe to regedit.com and nuked it.
Same thing with C++ Builder. It absolutely kicked visual studios ass. The VCL which was from Delphi was based on the AnsiString class. No buffer overflows. Very clean. Tons of cool shit too, file management, string arrays, sorting, ini and registery settings, etc.
They also had Kylix which was Delphi/C++ Builder for Linux. I think they really missed the boat there. They should have made C++ Builder and Delphi completely cross-platform with versions for Linux and Macintosh available with the same license for Windows. Perhaps had a "target platform option" in the compiler to ensure cross platform applications would run in all environments.
MS Office isn't done until Open Office won't run
That has pretty much been my experience too. Both my iPod and Kodak camera work just fine with Ubuntu, but not with Windows XP. I am sure I could login to the Apple/Kodak forums and Google it, but why bother? I plug them into my Ubuntu machine It Just Works...
My last 2 systems from Dell both came preloaded with Ubuntu.
I usually just do a pskill run32dll. Just make sure you save your work first.
Wait a second. I thought only slashdotters ignored readme files