Actually, check if local schools or other non-profit organisations take old hardware donations.
My mother is the computer teacher at a local gradeschool. She HATES when people say they have a computer to give her. Invariably, it's some 7-year-old PC that runs Win95 or some old Mac that just doesn't fit in with her network.
Students and teachers in schools want crappy computers as much as you do. (This being Slashdot, probably less than you do.)
If you can find someone that genuinely wants the machine because they collect them or because they're a budding nerd, fine. But don't dump these pieces of junk on some organization that will then have a huge collection of PCs that are all unalike. If you're lucky, you live near a place like SWACO that has periodic computer recycling drives. Drop the machines off and they go someplace to be disposed of properly (we hope).
Bill Nye is/was supposed to be coming back and there was a thread about it on the SA forums (sorry I don't know where the thread is anymore). Users asked and mods approved torrenting of the episodes when they came out.
Nothing was ever shared AFAIK:-(.
The "original" episodes were better, anyway.
Also, I'm 24 and I think I was too old for Bill Nye when it was on TV. Is the Slashdot crowd that young these days? I think I was in highschool. While I forget most of 3-2-1 Contact, it's more a part of my childhood than Bill.
I understand what you're saying, but it sure would be reassuring to users if they were told "There are updates for your browser. You can update now and Firefox will install in the background and restore your current session when you're finished, or you can choose to update later."
Making it easier and less intrusive for the user would make it more likely that they would perform the updates. Isn't this what we want?
Would that much energy be lost in converting energy from human muscle to electricity that it would be impractical?
If someone just lost their hand, they still have arm muscles. Surely these muscles could be used to produce energy to power an electric hand. With enough use, I'd think the arm muscles would get strong enough that the strength of the artificial hand could match or even surpass that of the person's original hand.
The biggest problem I can see with the old way that Firefox was updated was that you'd have to completely reinstall. So you were hardly updating.
You'd also have to stop and restart the browser, thus losing whatever page you were on when you decided to update. Here's hoping that the final versions will restore your browsing session after updating (similar to recent versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader). (Yes, I know about and use sessionsaver.)
FWIW, I was reading the manual for my dad's 3-4 year old Dodge Caravan and there are instructions on making extra keys if you have a working and a "blank" key. You can only make 4-5, though (Good Thing).
Check your manual to see if there's a way to do that with your car, too.
The kernel runs great on 64-128 MB of RAM, and the more minimalistic GUIs are pretty fast as well. It's when you get to some of the more advanced GUIs (KDE/GNOME) that 256-1024 MB really counts.
this is THE chance for linux to explode into the market.
No, it won't. People have said this everytime someone suggests that Microsoft might introduce something that seems bad to opensource fans. Either "Linux" (and all the other software running with it) has had tons of chances and blew them all or it hasn't ever had a chance.
It's like the Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote. The neverending race where Wile E. Coyote always loses.
If you've ever tried to get anything out of IA's Wayback Machine, you'll find that most of the time, what you're looking for isn't there, or the system just can't find it. 85% of the time, the pages I get are error pages, then it's hard to actually get the version of the page that you wanted.
I love the Archive for everything else they've done, but the Wayback Machine could use some work.
Refresh enough times or visit enough, and you'll see the strange overlapping on the left side of the window. Refresh the window when this happens and the overlapping goes away.
When your server gets rooted and has warez uploaded to it, that's a mistake on your part.
When your apache installation comes with a proxy turned on by default and people discover this and use your proxy without you knowing, that's also a mistake on your part.
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haha
ur dum
Actually, check if local schools or other non-profit organisations take old hardware donations.
My mother is the computer teacher at a local gradeschool. She HATES when people say they have a computer to give her. Invariably, it's some 7-year-old PC that runs Win95 or some old Mac that just doesn't fit in with her network.
Students and teachers in schools want crappy computers as much as you do. (This being Slashdot, probably less than you do.)
If you can find someone that genuinely wants the machine because they collect them or because they're a budding nerd, fine. But don't dump these pieces of junk on some organization that will then have a huge collection of PCs that are all unalike. If you're lucky, you live near a place like SWACO that has periodic computer recycling drives. Drop the machines off and they go someplace to be disposed of properly (we hope).
Bill Nye is/was supposed to be coming back and there was a thread about it on the SA forums (sorry I don't know where the thread is anymore). Users asked and mods approved torrenting of the episodes when they came out.
:-(.
Nothing was ever shared AFAIK
The "original" episodes were better, anyway.
Also, I'm 24 and I think I was too old for Bill Nye when it was on TV. Is the Slashdot crowd that young these days? I think I was in highschool. While I forget most of 3-2-1 Contact, it's more a part of my childhood than Bill.
Right after I'm done pouring Hot Grits down my pants.
Thanks for the memories and the chuckle!
I understand what you're saying, but it sure would be reassuring to users if they were told "There are updates for your browser. You can update now and Firefox will install in the background and restore your current session when you're finished, or you can choose to update later."
Making it easier and less intrusive for the user would make it more likely that they would perform the updates. Isn't this what we want?
Would that much energy be lost in converting energy from human muscle to electricity that it would be impractical?
If someone just lost their hand, they still have arm muscles. Surely these muscles could be used to produce energy to power an electric hand. With enough use, I'd think the arm muscles would get strong enough that the strength of the artificial hand could match or even surpass that of the person's original hand.
(Disclaimer: I have not read the article.)
The biggest problem I can see with the old way that Firefox was updated was that you'd have to completely reinstall. So you were hardly updating.
You'd also have to stop and restart the browser, thus losing whatever page you were on when you decided to update. Here's hoping that the final versions will restore your browsing session after updating (similar to recent versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader). (Yes, I know about and use sessionsaver.)
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots /
I've implemented a system like this where I work and it's quite nice. However, a nicer option exists in Dirvish which does all the rotating for you.
FWIW, I was reading the manual for my dad's 3-4 year old Dodge Caravan and there are instructions on making extra keys if you have a working and a "blank" key. You can only make 4-5, though (Good Thing).
Check your manual to see if there's a way to do that with your car, too.
What you and Mr. Jobs do behind closed doors is of no interest to us. Thanks.
Now, what I really hate is those people that send an e-mail, and follow up 30 seconds later with a phone call...
:-/
"I sent you an email..."
Yeah, thanks...
I'm amused that you've been here as long as you have and yet you still don't know how to read the stories.
The part in quotes and italics was from Proudrooster. Then CmdrTaco added his bit.
And yikes, the "-1, Redundant" moderation will get a workout because of that TiVo comment.
The kernel runs great on 64-128 MB of RAM, and the more minimalistic GUIs are pretty fast as well. It's when you get to some of the more advanced GUIs (KDE/GNOME) that 256-1024 MB really counts.
Fixed for correctness in 2005.
Hint: Next time, change the filename to be less obvious that it's a fake link. (Harry Potter fans, don't click! Or hover!)
this is THE chance for linux to explode into the market.
No, it won't. People have said this everytime someone suggests that Microsoft might introduce something that seems bad to opensource fans. Either "Linux" (and all the other software running with it) has had tons of chances and blew them all or it hasn't ever had a chance.
It's like the Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote. The neverending race where Wile E. Coyote always loses.
Google told isnoop to take it down so he did.
:(
Now we all have 50 stagnating invites and no friends.
Haven't you played Nanaka Crash?
Also, I'm as ticked off by overuse of Flash as the next person, but there are some clever things out there done in Flash.
On Windows, I'd suggest installing the latest IE Flash plugin and use Media Player Classic (apparently the Firefox plugin doesn't work).
WTF? The Politics of Fear?
The Power of Nightmares.
FWIW, The Politics of Fear is still lingering on alluvion.org and is public so check it out. Quite a nice little feature.
:( .
There was also an update to the series torrented there, but it's for SomethingAwful members only, sorry
Be sure to write backBeat at salcan@gmail.com about how you, too, were hooked as soon as you read the blurb for Sal Cangeloso's article.
Hint Sal: Don't use an identifiable email address when posting links to your own articles on Slashdot.
Why does this crap get posted, anyway?
I thought of this, too...for about 3 seconds.
If you've ever tried to get anything out of IA's Wayback Machine, you'll find that most of the time, what you're looking for isn't there, or the system just can't find it. 85% of the time, the pages I get are error pages, then it's hard to actually get the version of the page that you wanted.
I love the Archive for everything else they've done, but the Wayback Machine could use some work.
Right...
<judge> i hereby sentence you to six months of socialization and verbal communication with people. good luck.
<geek> *cries*
Ask...
and ye shall receive.
Here.
Refresh enough times or visit enough, and you'll see the strange overlapping on the left side of the window. Refresh the window when this happens and the overlapping goes away.
When your server gets rooted and has warez uploaded to it, that's a mistake on your part.
When your apache installation comes with a proxy turned on by default and people discover this and use your proxy without you knowing, that's also a mistake on your part.