Been there, done that. Unfortunately, at work I am stuck with Windoze, and installing such wonderful programs as split are strictly prohibited by our preventer of information services department. Named pipes are wonderful in *nix, but in Windoze, "It just doesn't work".
I will keep this in mind when the backups of my home PC go over 4G. Thanks.
I used to have a similar setup on my cabinet (Mame32 on Win XP). Then my hard drive died and I installed Lincade on the new one. The performance blew XP away, and it handles all of the video modes of my Wells/Gardner arcade monitor and ArcadeVGA card nicely.
Thats pretty much my experience with my Dell. After plugging it in, I set it to download my favorite packages that aren't on the base install while I picked up furniture for my wife. Took me about 1 hour to get everything set up just the way I wanted, including transferring all documents. Easiest computer I have ever set up, and I have owned a Mac (OS-9)
I had similar experiences. I have used both nVidia and ATI cards in my Linux boxes. While the nVidia cards were supported fine in all distros I used, the cards themselves kept frying and always had to be replaced. I replaced my fried BFG card with an ATI and it worked fine. On my arcade cabinet, I use an ATI based ArcadeVGA card to drive the Wells/Gardener arcade monitor, and it works fine with
Lincade.
4GB per file. If your backup job creates large tarballs, your hosed. At work, I was trying to backup a 20GB file to a USB external drive, and it told me the drive was out of space, even though it still had 700GB left. I had to format it NTFS for it to work.
I got the slikstik too. Expensive but sweet. The W/G 9200 arcade monitor and arcadevga card were also musts, as well as the tornado spinner for Tempest. While I could have built the cabinet (I made everything from raised panel kitchen cabinets to bedroom furniture), setting up the controls to work well would have been a major project. So I bought cabinet from SlikStik, the monitor from W/G, and the arcadevga card, then installed Lincade. Truly sweet!
Since when has it been 18 minutes? Our nice little Linux box otherwise known as Tivo allows us to watch an hour episode of "24" in about 35 minutes. Even less for American Idol, once you skip past the filler. Oh, how I miss AFN!
I had a dual boot system with Windows and Mandrake on it. One day, the keyboard stopped working in Windows, but worked fine in Mandrake. For weeks, I couldn't figure it out. One day, while pressing lots of keys, a few characters appeared if I pressed enough keys, but I still couldn't type anything.
I was ready to format and reinstall again when I remembered something that was a PITA at work:
The stupid "sticky key" feature.
I clicked into control panel (the mouse worked fine), and found the sticky key setting. Sure enough, it was set so you had to hold a key down for 5 seconds before a key would register, thus the random keys appearing. In Windows, if you hold down a key too long (like when playing a game), a dialog box appears asking if you want to enable this "feature". It is very easy to accidentally enable it without knowing about it, and Windows gives you no indication it is on.
If you have keyboard problems in Windows, check the sticky key settings.
I was reading Clive Cussler's
Polar Shift yesterday, which has a fictional discovery of a baby Mammoth in Siberia. Then, I click on my/. RSS feed today, and there it is as the first entry.
In the book, I think they were planning to clone it with an elephant.
I do. When gas prices went up, I thought it would be a great idea to get a motorcycle for my commute ("but honey, a Fat Boy gets 40 MPG"). Then I realized it was a waste, since I still have to pick up the kids. Short, cold-start trips are what actually uses the most gas. I learned this when I had a 44 mile one way commute with a V8 Camaro. After getting tired of the traffic and gas mileage, I switched to public transportation and only drove my Camaro a few miles to the mall, where the bus would pick me up. Surprisingly, I still had to fill up almost as often, even though I was driving a lot less. It seems most of the gas in an average commute is used in the first few miles.
I have seen this in other cars too. A Honda Civic I had dropped from the high 30's MPG to the low 20's when I started having a short commute
I have an S-10 which has the heavy duty towing package, big motor, etc, and I use all of its capabilities. The problem is it doesn't have enough space to pick up my kids, etc. I just need a bigger truck, both in bed size and cabin size. All of the small trucks only have a 5 1/2' bed with the crew cab option, so I need a bigger one. My next truck will be the Silverado Hybrid when it comes out.
Most rock groups suck if they are are still playing after 25 years. Iron Maiden is still good. If you use to like Iron Maiden in the 1980's, check out their new CD. They don't sell as many CDs anymore, but I guess they don't need to when they can sell 250,000 tickets to a single concert. Like Prince, they could tell the record companies to get bent and laugh all the way to the bank.
I remember seeing this "illusion" outside my office window on 9/11. Must have been pretty effective, since I was about 2 miles away at the time... Back then, we weren't invading anybodies countries. The biggest news stories were about shark attacks and what happened to some congressman's intern. We would have been happy to keep it that way (I remember Bush saying something to that effect), but someone else decided to come here instead...
I saw a Blackbird at 1972 at Palmdale when I was six. They also had something on it in the paper. Then again, they were designed in the late 1950s.
Remember throughout the 1980s, there was this big debate about the existence of the stealth fighter/bomber? With the Persian Gulf ware in 1991, all of a sudden they appeared. I remember the comments from the government then: "We have had squadrons of them active for the last 10 years".
Does anyone wonder why after 40 years, there is no [known] plane which exceeds the SR-71 speed and altitude?
The best way to hide something is to cover it with another "secret". If the Air Force is doing the "no comments" then the Navy probably has a new submarine technology. Or maybe they are trying to divert our attention from the ongoing negotiations with the Ferengi at Area-52. Nice looking bird though.
I bought a set of rear disk brakes from E-bay. Those rotors are HEAVY (something like 50 pounds per wheel). I'm sure the differential and axles aren't light either.
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Been there, done that. Unfortunately, at work I am stuck with Windoze, and installing such wonderful programs as split are strictly prohibited by our preventer of information services department. Named pipes are wonderful in *nix, but in Windoze, "It just doesn't work".
I will keep this in mind when the backups of my home PC go over 4G. Thanks.
The funny thing is wordpad can read/save MS-Office format files (Word 6.0) just fine.
I used to have a similar setup on my cabinet (Mame32 on Win XP). Then my hard drive died and I installed Lincade on the new one. The performance blew XP away, and it handles all of the video modes of my Wells/Gardner arcade monitor and ArcadeVGA card nicely.
Thats pretty much my experience with my Dell. After plugging it in, I set it to download my favorite packages that aren't on the base install while I picked up furniture for my wife. Took me about 1 hour to get everything set up just the way I wanted, including transferring all documents. Easiest computer I have ever set up, and I have owned a Mac (OS-9)
This describes the exact objective of every PHB I have ever had the displeasure of working for.
I always thought reading TFA was strictly forbidden on /. and could cause you to lose moderator access.
I had similar experiences. I have used both nVidia and ATI cards in my Linux boxes. While the nVidia cards were supported fine in all distros I used, the cards themselves kept frying and always had to be replaced. I replaced my fried BFG card with an ATI and it worked fine. On my arcade cabinet, I use an ATI based ArcadeVGA card to drive the Wells/Gardener arcade monitor, and it works fine with Lincade.
I just happen to be reading this post on a home Linux desktop from said PC vendor, using the shipped installation.
4GB per file. If your backup job creates large tarballs, your hosed. At work, I was trying to backup a 20GB file to a USB external drive, and it told me the drive was out of space, even though it still had 700GB left. I had to format it NTFS for it to work.
I got the slikstik too. Expensive but sweet. The W/G 9200 arcade monitor and arcadevga card were also musts, as well as the tornado spinner for Tempest. While I could have built the cabinet (I made everything from raised panel kitchen cabinets to bedroom furniture), setting up the controls to work well would have been a major project. So I bought cabinet from SlikStik, the monitor from W/G, and the arcadevga card, then installed Lincade. Truly sweet!
I wish I still had mod points. Oh well, I'm sure it will be +5 funny in a few minutes anyway...
My favorite was The Outer Limits
I wish I still had mod points...
Since when has it been 18 minutes? Our nice little Linux box otherwise known as Tivo allows us to watch an hour episode of "24" in about 35 minutes. Even less for American Idol, once you skip past the filler. Oh, how I miss AFN!
I had a dual boot system with Windows and Mandrake on it. One day, the keyboard stopped working in Windows, but worked fine in Mandrake. For weeks, I couldn't figure it out. One day, while pressing lots of keys, a few characters appeared if I pressed enough keys, but I still couldn't type anything.
I was ready to format and reinstall again when I remembered something that was a PITA at work:
The stupid "sticky key" feature.
I clicked into control panel (the mouse worked fine), and found the sticky key setting. Sure enough, it was set so you had to hold a key down for 5 seconds before a key would register, thus the random keys appearing. In Windows, if you hold down a key too long (like when playing a game), a dialog box appears asking if you want to enable this "feature". It is very easy to accidentally enable it without knowing about it, and Windows gives you no indication it is on.
If you have keyboard problems in Windows, check the sticky key settings.
I was reading Clive Cussler's Polar Shift yesterday, which has a fictional discovery of a baby Mammoth in Siberia. Then, I click on my /. RSS feed today, and there it is as the first entry.
In the book, I think they were planning to clone it with an elephant.
I do. When gas prices went up, I thought it would be a great idea to get a motorcycle for my commute ("but honey, a Fat Boy gets 40 MPG"). Then I realized it was a waste, since I still have to pick up the kids. Short, cold-start trips are what actually uses the most gas. I learned this when I had a 44 mile one way commute with a V8 Camaro. After getting tired of the traffic and gas mileage, I switched to public transportation and only drove my Camaro a few miles to the mall, where the bus would pick me up. Surprisingly, I still had to fill up almost as often, even though I was driving a lot less. It seems most of the gas in an average commute is used in the first few miles.
I have seen this in other cars too. A Honda Civic I had dropped from the high 30's MPG to the low 20's when I started having a short commute
I have an S-10 which has the heavy duty towing package, big motor, etc, and I use all of its capabilities. The problem is it doesn't have enough space to pick up my kids, etc. I just need a bigger truck, both in bed size and cabin size. All of the small trucks only have a 5 1/2' bed with the crew cab option, so I need a bigger one. My next truck will be the Silverado Hybrid when it comes out.
My resume is in .ODF. Though, I do export it to .DOC as required.
Most rock groups suck if they are are still playing after 25 years. Iron Maiden is still good. If you use to like Iron Maiden in the 1980's, check out their new CD. They don't sell as many CDs anymore, but I guess they don't need to when they can sell 250,000 tickets to a single concert. Like Prince, they could tell the record companies to get bent and laugh all the way to the bank.
I remember seeing this "illusion" outside my office window on 9/11. Must have been pretty effective, since I was about 2 miles away at the time... Back then, we weren't invading anybodies countries. The biggest news stories were about shark attacks and what happened to some congressman's intern. We would have been happy to keep it that way (I remember Bush saying something to that effect), but someone else decided to come here instead...
Stealing an election with paper ballots is a royal PITA. Fortunately, with E-voting, it is much easier.
I saw a Blackbird at 1972 at Palmdale when I was six. They also had something on it in the paper. Then again, they were designed in the late 1950s.
Remember throughout the 1980s, there was this big debate about the existence of the stealth fighter/bomber? With the Persian Gulf ware in 1991, all of a sudden they appeared. I remember the comments from the government then: "We have had squadrons of them active for the last 10 years".
Does anyone wonder why after 40 years, there is no [known] plane which exceeds the SR-71 speed and altitude?
The best way to hide something is to cover it with another "secret". If the Air Force is doing the "no comments" then the Navy probably has a new submarine technology. Or maybe they are trying to divert our attention from the ongoing negotiations with the Ferengi at Area-52. Nice looking bird though.
I bought a set of rear disk brakes from E-bay. Those rotors are HEAVY (something like 50 pounds per wheel). I'm sure the differential and axles aren't light either.
I am reading this on my Ubuntu Dell.