He hasn't seemed to mind the changing light levels. Part of the reason I have the light only go up or down one level at a time is to give him time to adjust so he isn't startled. If he starts to look annoyed, then I'll disable the remote control on the light... It has been funny to watch how his behavior changes depending on the light level:
for what appears to be a totally unrelated reason (I hope) the server I had the static HTML of that page on crashed:-) If you want to see the Guinea Pig, try here...
I did something similar with my guinea pig cam page, only I have it set up to control the brightness of the lamp by his cage from the web page. I'd rig up something to let people give him treats via the web, but he'd probably explode. This X10 stuff is addictive - soon I'll probably have the whole house wired!
They do have modules that talk back (so you can check that they did what you wanted them to) But they cost quite a bit more. Personally, I haven't had any trouble yet with lost signals, and if I do, I'll just send every command twice...
I know the area where that happened very well (I've spent large parts of my summers there for years). The bend in the Rifle where the guy started his rant has amazing acoustics - you can hear for miles what someone is saying there. He clamed that he couldn't see any children, but just a little way away on the other side of a ridge is a beach which is always packed with little kids in the summer. Personally, I fully understand why he was arrested (and convicted) and I agree with the decision. I also think censorware is a very BAD IDEA. The difference? This man was forcing his offensive speech into the faces of children, censorware stops peopel from finding what they seek.
While some of the older X86 releases of CodeWarrior did have some problems, code generated by the latest release Flies! They really made a lot of drastic improvements. Take a look here for benchmark info. PC Week also has some benchmark info...
Hmm... I didn't know that there was a means for the kernel to forbid "chattr". But I'm sure this is far enough ; you can do everything you want if you are root, by peeking/poking in/dev/mem, or/dev/hda(or maybe even/proc/kcore).
But with a high enough securelevel, even root can't poke around in/dev/mem, or any of the raw disk devices....
I went to the same high school as Dave, and I was in his scout troop (troop 371). Dave (or Glow Boy as we called him, not Radioactive Boy like the Harper's article says:-) was obsessed with radioactive material, and didn't care about taking any safety precautions (he used to carry chunks of Americanicum around in his front pocket without any shielding)
I've heard several stories from him on how he got caught. One was that he got caught when he was pulled over by the local cops who thought he was stealing tires from cars. The looked in his trunk and freaked out when he warned them it was radioactive. Another was that a chemical spill sensor at a railoroad crossing kept going off at the same time every day (when he was heading to school).
Very strange guy... I got a letter from him a while ago - he's writing a book, and apparently a movie is in the works.
+Secondly, the death penalty doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work.
You think? The last I checked, the repeat offense level for people who are put to death is Zero.
The last time I checked, inherent in the execution of the penalty, is the creation of a new murderer (the executioner). If the state itself is a murderer, placing the stain of the blood of it's victims on the hands of all of it's citizens through our implicit approval, are we not all is some small way, guilty of murder? Even if you spread the blood around, it does not decrease the amount.
The corperation is a legal fiction, not a natural entity. In exchange for some special rights for the stockholders (limited liability, etc) they give up many of the rights associated with natural persons.
(note: I only had 1 law class, and I got a 3.0 in it)
I have a 386Sx-16 with 4 megs, and an old slackware distribution that I still use quite often for various things. (network analysis, backup nameserver (once), controler for various weird projects...) You can do a lot in 4 megs, you just can't do it all at once...
It seems valid to me - To my understanding (3 or 4 economics classes) pressure to drive costs down is one of the strongest forces in an economic model.
It let you point a domain name at a dynamic IP address. When my system dialed in, it used to update pathwalker.ml.org with it's current ip address, this made it easy for me to find my system when I wasn't home...
Hey - I've never had a Quantum fail on me - ever...
Come to think of it, I've never had any hard drive fail on me, ever. I've dropped them, duct taped them to the inside of cases, run them on bad power, run them continously with heavy use for long periods of time, left them on for years, powered them on and off all the time, I've never had any drive die on me. What do you people do to get drives to fail on you? Hammer them into place? Nail them to the motherboard?
Actually, I think most of the PCs listed on that page were running NT, even the old P90s. There are a few Linux machines around, but I don't think they are listen on any "Official" listings...
Lots of suns, and a lab of SGIs. There are a few NT machines, but they tend to be down a lot, and are mostly used for word processing by the students who can't figure out Framemaker on the suns.
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Part of the reason I have the light only go up or down one level at a time is to give him time to adjust so he isn't startled. If he starts to look annoyed, then I'll disable the remote control on the light...
It has been funny to watch how his behavior changes depending on the light level:
Bright - Stretches out and sleeps (basking?)
Dim - runs around and eats
Off - Curls up and sleeps
for what appears to be a totally unrelated reason (I hope) the server I had the static HTML of that page on crashed :-)
If you want to see the Guinea Pig, try here...
I did something similar with my guinea pig cam page, only I have it set up to control the brightness of the lamp by his cage from the web page.
I'd rig up something to let people give him treats via the web, but he'd probably explode.
This X10 stuff is addictive - soon I'll probably have the whole house wired!
They do have modules that talk back (so you can check that they did what you wanted them to) But they cost quite a bit more. Personally, I haven't had any trouble yet with lost signals, and if I do, I'll just send every command twice...
Check the latest version - Bottlerocket 0.04b6 has no problems that I can find with dimming or brightening only a single device.
I know the area where that happened very well (I've spent large parts of my summers there for years). The bend in the Rifle where the guy started his rant has amazing acoustics - you can hear for miles what someone is saying there.
He clamed that he couldn't see any children, but just a little way away on the other side of a ridge is a beach which is always packed with little kids in the summer.
Personally, I fully understand why he was arrested (and convicted) and I agree with the decision.
I also think censorware is a very BAD IDEA. The difference? This man was forcing his offensive speech into the faces of children, censorware stops peopel from finding what they seek.
While some of the older X86 releases of CodeWarrior did have some problems, code generated by the latest release Flies! They really made a lot of drastic improvements. Take a look here for benchmark info.
PC Week also has some benchmark info...
Or, try it yourself - get the demo version and some benchmarks and give it a shot...
Hmm... I didn't know that there was a means for the kernel to forbid "chattr". But I'm sure this is far enough ; you can do everything you want if you are root, by peeking/poking in /dev/mem, or /dev/hda(or maybe even /proc/kcore).
/dev/mem, or any of the raw disk devices....
But with a high enough securelevel, even root can't poke around in
I went to the same high school as Dave, and I was in his scout troop (troop 371). :-) was obsessed with radioactive material, and didn't care about taking any safety precautions (he used to carry chunks of Americanicum around in his front pocket without any shielding)
Dave (or Glow Boy as we called him, not Radioactive Boy like the Harper's article says
I've heard several stories from him on how he got caught. One was that he got caught when he was pulled over by the local cops who thought he was stealing tires from cars. The looked in his trunk and freaked out when he warned them it was radioactive. Another was that a chemical spill sensor at a railoroad crossing kept going off at the same time every day (when he was heading to school).
Very strange guy... I got a letter from him a while ago - he's writing a book, and apparently a movie is in the works.
+Secondly, the death penalty doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work.
You think? The last I checked, the repeat offense level for people who are put to death is Zero.
The last time I checked, inherent in the execution of the penalty, is the creation of a new murderer (the executioner).
If the state itself is a murderer, placing the stain of the blood of it's victims on the hands of all of it's citizens through our implicit approval, are we not all is some small way, guilty of murder?
Even if you spread the blood around, it does not decrease the amount.
Yeah, but does it run Blazemonger?
The corperation is a legal fiction, not a natural entity. In exchange for some special rights for the stockholders (limited liability, etc) they give up many of the rights associated with natural persons.
(note: I only had 1 law class, and I got a 3.0 in it)
Yep, that's the price of the limited liability achived by incorperating...
I have a 386Sx-16 with 4 megs, and an old slackware distribution that I still use quite often for various things. (network analysis, backup nameserver (once), controler for various weird projects...)
You can do a lot in 4 megs, you just can't do it all at once...
It seems valid to me - To my understanding (3 or 4 economics classes) pressure to drive costs down is one of the strongest forces in an economic model.
It let you point a domain name at a dynamic IP address.
When my system dialed in, it used to update pathwalker.ml.org with it's current ip address, this made it easy for me to find my system when I wasn't home...
Hey - I've never had a Quantum fail on me - ever...
Come to think of it, I've never had any hard drive fail on me, ever. I've dropped them, duct taped them to the inside of cases, run them on bad power, run them continously with heavy use for long periods of time, left them on for years, powered them on and off all the time, I've never had any drive die on me.
What do you people do to get drives to fail on you? Hammer them into place? Nail them to the motherboard?
Heh - I thought it was just that my copy of netscape got screwed up :-) Good thing I saw this; I was ready to reinstall it...
How do they expect people to read that page? The Layers hurt my brain %-/
Hmmm, hasn't been rebooted, never crashed...
:-)
Has it been off all this time?
Actually, I think most of the PCs listed on that page were running NT, even the old P90s. There are a few Linux machines around, but I don't think they are listen on any "Official" listings...
Let's see what they have in the Rest of the engineering department at Michigan State University.
They say 70+ UNIX systems, and 110+ PCs. NT is a little ahead.
Let's see what they have in the computer science department at Michigan State University.
Lots of suns, and a lab of SGIs. There are a few NT machines, but they tend to be down a lot, and are mostly used for word processing by the students who can't figure out Framemaker on the suns.
It was actually pretty funny :-)
They're all still there, just lower your threshold a notch or two (or click here to lower it to a rediculous level)