I just forwarded this to my Dad, who is "not the most computer savy" guy. For him, these detailed instructions are exctly what he needs.
Side note: I received a paniced call from my mother: your father's computer is dead--when you come home to visit do you think you can look at it?
great. just what I want to deal with... ok mom, find me some windows install cd's--sounds like this sucker is toast.
ahhh... my dad. when I get home I turn the computer on and hear the familiar "click-click-click" of a floppy accessing! Once I ejected his "Calvin and Hobbes screen savers" disk the computer came back to life.
His computer was "dead" for a couple of weeks mind you:)
the skin was very well done and he didn't even use the latest skin shaders that give you slight light transmission through "shallow" objects (think the ET finger effect or light shining behind your ears)
things are going to get NUTS in the next year or so... exciting:D
I agree. I've imagined this for years as the solution to obnoxious cellphone users. This is great news and I hope in a few years we'll reach a realm of quiet that existed only before the introduction of the cellphone.
Let's hope this is opened up for wide commercial applications.
The only weird thing here is that while the phone would be able to "know" what you're trying to say, *you* wouldn't be saying it--so the phone itself would have to "speak" these things for you. At least this area seems to be within current technology's grasp. i could deal with having the phone speak my words in "pipe organ" or "bad news" as long as offers a chance at silent cellphone usage.
Maybe the best solution here would be to have a super-sensitive microphone that can detect these nearly sub-audible utterances and then amplify them ONLY for the person on the other end of the line.
Honestly, the population at large would welcome such a change.
I don't see why eveyone is complaining...
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Fault Tolerant Shell
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What do you lose by using something like this?
Well.. besides pipes of course;)
Variable redirection looks just like file redirection, except a dash is put in front of the redirector. For example, For example, suppose that we want to capture the output of grep and then run it through sort:
I poked around the Apple site, but the only link for the new iPhoto is to buy "iLife" from the Apple store. ehhhh?
Software update yields nothing new and going to the Apple Software Download page (http://www.apple.com/software/) lists only "iPhoto 2" as a "Free Download"
What gives? Is buying iLife the only way to get the new iPhoto? It used to be free...
eschasi asks: "eschasi recently got a new job, which includes a new PC on which to run UNIX and X.... he finally had to bring one from home. Shortly thereafter he was browsing... Frankly, they're too small for eschasi's big hands....
quakeslut, for one, hopes that the use of 3rd person is more dead the the 3 button mouse!
I tried this out last summer.
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Very cool. Only cost me $15 for LSD microdots. Monsters were very believable!
Good Proof-of-Concept... but not quite finished!
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First: you've done the hard part, and done it well.
But...You could really stand to clean the project up and take it to the "next-level."
Thoughts: * There are an awful lot of wires running around. See: (here and here) You could do away with the tape adapter by going with one of those short-range radio transmitters and hooking that into the audio-out of the laptop. This would clean up the cassette wire that pops out and then runs back inside the stereo housing.
It would also be nice if you could run the video wires in through the PVC tubing and then under the floor or inside of the paneling on the left-side of the passenger's foot. Wires are ugly, do whatever you can to hide them.
* The actual monitor housing unit needs to be polished. OK, you posted asking for feedback, so here's some: clean up the monitor display. The black duct-tape and white-PVC tubing just isn't going to cut it.
Thoughts: Instead of cheap, white, bulk PVC how about getting some brushed metal tubing? It will do the job just as well, but look more professional. I mean... it is a Mac, right? You gotta tie in the brushed metal.
Also, the duct-tape reeks of a DIY (do-it-yourself) hack. I'm not sure what options you have here, but you simply gotta clean this up.
All-in-all, good proof-of-concept job! Now get back out there and put the finishing touches on it!
quoted from page:
User-Mode Linux is a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup.
User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. Disk storage for the virtual machine is entirely contained inside a single file on your physical machine. You can assign your virtual machine only the hardware access you want it to have. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer, or its software.
No, I don't have any evidence, but what I'm advising is to be skeptical of "new scientific" proof that asks you to embrace consumerism and the "disposable economy."
If you look at what Exxon/Mobil has done to thwart emission reductions and confuse the public through "scientific press releases" about global warming you can see an obvious pattern. They are interested making people comfortable with their gas guzzling SUV's and driving up energy use.
In my opinion, the cost of recycling shouldn't be a major concern. Money is a man-made concept that we've invented for ourselves. It does not "exist" unlike the plastic soda bottle that will take hundreds of years to decay. I would rather pay 10x the cost to ensure proper disposal than to get a cheap one-use item that will outlast us all.
To think only in financial or economic terms over environmental matters is a grave mistake. For instance, just because the GDP went up when Exxon spilled gallons of crude in Alaska that doesn't make it a "good thing."
All I'm saying is to take it with a grain of salt and question this new "proof."
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actually, the only message displayed was incredibly cryptic--no "no os found" or "please eject non-system disk".
and furthermore, i don't like your tone. i'm the only one that is allowed to bust on my dad so go fuck yourself.
I just forwarded this to my Dad, who is "not the most computer savy" guy. For him, these detailed instructions are exctly what he needs.
:)
Side note:
I received a paniced call from my mother: your father's computer is dead--when you come home to visit do you think you can look at it?
great. just what I want to deal with... ok mom, find me some windows install cd's--sounds like this sucker is toast.
ahhh... my dad. when I get home I turn the computer on and hear the familiar "click-click-click" of a floppy accessing! Once I ejected his "Calvin and Hobbes screen savers" disk the computer came back to life.
His computer was "dead" for a couple of weeks mind you
These instructions will be perfect for him.
the skin was very well done and he didn't even use the latest skin shaders that give you slight light transmission through "shallow" objects (think the ET finger effect or light shining behind your ears)
:D
things are going to get NUTS in the next year or so... exciting
do it.
no really. do it.
I agree. I've imagined this for years as the solution to obnoxious cellphone users. This is great news and I hope in a few years we'll reach a realm of quiet that existed only before the introduction of the cellphone.
Let's hope this is opened up for wide commercial applications.
The only weird thing here is that while the phone would be able to "know" what you're trying to say, *you* wouldn't be saying it--so the phone itself would have to "speak" these things for you. At least this area seems to be within current technology's grasp. i could deal with having the phone speak my words in "pipe organ" or "bad news" as long as offers a chance at silent cellphone usage.
Maybe the best solution here would be to have a super-sensitive microphone that can detect these nearly sub-audible utterances and then amplify them ONLY for the person on the other end of the line.
Honestly, the population at large would welcome such a change.
Well.. besides pipes of course
yeah i hear you. i've managed [so far...] to escape unscathed from this ibook madness, but with SN# UV3061F6N4Q i'm keeping my fingers crossed.
i agree with you: it is comforting to know that if shit hits the fan, apple's got my back.
good-on-ya apple.
he said sperm.
After trying the legal route, Microsoft today took a teenagers website offline by taking their case to Slashdot.
The resulting traffic accomplished what their legal papers were previously unable to do...
I poked around the Apple site, but the only link for the new iPhoto is to buy "iLife" from the Apple store. ehhhh?
Software update yields nothing new and going to the Apple Software Download page (http://www.apple.com/software/) lists only "iPhoto 2" as a "Free Download"
What gives? Is buying iLife the only way to get the new iPhoto? It used to be free...
eschasi asks: "eschasi recently got a new job, which includes a new PC on which to run UNIX and X. ... he finally had to bring one from home. Shortly thereafter he was browsing ... Frankly, they're too small for eschasi's big hands. ...
quakeslut, for one, hopes that the use of 3rd person is more dead the the 3 button mouse!
Very cool. Only cost me $15 for LSD microdots. Monsters were very believable!
haha. best comment.
First: you've done the hard part, and done it well.
But...You could really stand to clean the project up and take it to the "next-level."
Thoughts:
* There are an awful lot of wires running around. See: (here and here)
You could do away with the tape adapter by going with one of those short-range radio transmitters and hooking that into the audio-out of the laptop. This would clean up the cassette wire that pops out and then runs back inside the stereo housing.
It would also be nice if you could run the video wires in through the PVC tubing and then under the floor or inside of the paneling on the left-side of the passenger's foot. Wires are ugly, do whatever you can to hide them.
* The actual monitor housing unit needs to be polished.
OK, you posted asking for feedback, so here's some: clean up the monitor display. The black duct-tape and white-PVC tubing just isn't going to cut it.
Thoughts: Instead of cheap, white, bulk PVC how about getting some brushed metal tubing? It will do the job just as well, but look more professional. I mean... it is a Mac, right? You gotta tie in the brushed metal.
Also, the duct-tape reeks of a DIY (do-it-yourself) hack. I'm not sure what options you have here, but you simply gotta clean this up.
All-in-all, good proof-of-concept job! Now get back out there and put the finishing touches on it!
Hey I totally agree with you and I'd mod you up if I had points.
I used Firebird/Phoenix on Linux since about 0.2, but the lack of Java 1.4.1 support in Firebird was a big part of why I now use Safari on my iBook.
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From the review of Donkey Kong:
EGM: Who's that chick Mario is rescuing up there?
Brian: It's Princess Peach.
Kirk: It's a hooker.
If you can find out THEIR fax number, fax them back a black sheet of paper--this will use up all THEIR toner and will make YOU feel better!
Is this what you're looking for?
quoted from page:
User-Mode Linux is a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup.
User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. Disk storage for the virtual machine is entirely contained inside a single file on your physical machine. You can assign your virtual machine only the hardware access you want it to have. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer, or its software.
yeah me too dude. you're not alone.
That is some good logic there 'unicorn'
I guess a North Korean preventative strike against the West Coast would make sense to you too right? (we've had a war with Korea before too you know)
In their eyes: axis of "evil" = iran, iraq and us -- time to get this ball rolling!
how's this for some karma whoring you fuck?
only bitches like you give a shit about karma--at least i'm man enough to attach my name.
Thank you to all the developers!
No, I don't have any evidence, but what I'm advising is to be skeptical of "new scientific" proof that asks you to embrace consumerism and the "disposable economy."
If you look at what Exxon/Mobil has done to thwart emission reductions and confuse the public through "scientific press releases" about global warming you can see an obvious pattern. They are interested making people comfortable with their gas guzzling SUV's and driving up energy use.
In my opinion, the cost of recycling shouldn't be a major concern. Money is a man-made concept that we've invented for ourselves. It does not "exist" unlike the plastic soda bottle that will take hundreds of years to decay. I would rather pay 10x the cost to ensure proper disposal than to get a cheap one-use item that will outlast us all.
To think only in financial or economic terms over environmental matters is a grave mistake. For instance, just because the GDP went up when Exxon spilled gallons of crude in Alaska that doesn't make it a "good thing."
All I'm saying is to take it with a grain of salt and question this new "proof."