Interesting. Finland also produced the best and most accurate Mosin-Nagants (M28-30, M-39), and they're copies of a Russian rifle as well, or in some case reworked guns captured during the wars.
FTM, their current sniper rifle uses original M-N receivers.
My old box: Athlon 2600+, Palomino core. Running Folding@home for a few days (in Linux) and it rebooted. This was a repeatable behavior and stopped when I quit folding.
It was Debian, so not likely that an OS fault would crash the system.
Heeeyy... get one of those rudder-pedal or car-pedal sets and rig it up for Emacs. No! Even better -- jigger up an old pipe organ console for Emacs.
As to the amount of fun: I remember reading back in the old days of foot-powered sewing machines, a woman who positioned herself just so could be masturbating just from the movements of her leg. So yes, your idea with the pedal *could* be fun for geek girls.:-)
Sometimes I'll sit on the floor, back against the couch, legs sticking under the coffee table. Not often, but sometimes I want to eat and watch a movie.
Some coffee tables have a double-deck arrangement, with the table part on top and a floor on the bottom, and people will put board games or other things on the lower deck. Other coffee tables have small cubbyholes for storing random things.
MU-Columbia had (and may still have) a computer lab with Sun kit built into desks, so that you would look down into the CRT through a clear acrylic surface. This was in 1997 when I was visiting different universities.
Her school didn't exist ten years back -- it's an "alternative" school for those who, for whatever reason (not counting mental retardation), don't do well in regular high school.
I visited that school district ten years ago, though, and the computer I borrowed was a Mac running System 7.x and Clarisworks 2.0. So your point stands.
You should meet this other tech at my uni. He's just like how the ggp post described teachers -- complains about everything until nobody wants anything to do with him, but he's got the ear of his department's dean.
Wife's a high-school teacher. The mentality at her school is that the computer labs must have MS Office installed, because that's what is "out there", so the students need to be familiar. Never mind that something like MS Works or AbiWord/Gnumeric would be quite sufficient for anything they'd do, and even with educational licensing, it'd save at least a few thousand dollars.
As opposed to having a live beat-poet buried there?
Kansas's image suffers mainly because of the state school board's periodic endorsement of creationism[1], and to a lesser extent the continued existence of Fred Phelps' cult. Phil Kline's abuse of his former office to harass abortion clinics didn't help, but IIRC doesn't make the national news so much.
[1] As in, the creationists get elected more than once.
Heh. I can see some nerd a couple hundred years in the future with an interest in ancient software, trying to reimplement 1-2-3 using only antique howto books and other documentation.:-)
Torpedoes do not actually hit ships, but rather are designed to travel under them and explode, whereupon they will break a ship's back. This means that they need magnetically-triggered fuses.
Not entirely true. Older torpedoes were designed with just contact fuzes, which required a direct hit to go off. Magnetic fuzes weren't used in war until WW2, which was partly why the things sucked early on.
Mag torps also had contact fuzes[1]. The US Mark 14 torpedo, which had the bad magnetic fuzes early on, also had a mis-designed contact fuze that would jam and not detonate if they hit at certain angles. IIRC once the problem with the magnetic fuze had been discovered, the submariners were ordered to not use them until all were replaced.
[1] As a backup. Sometimes you didn't want to use magnetic fuzes in case your torpedoes would run too deeply, as the Mk 14 sometimes would[2], or if the target had a shallow draft or a wooden hull.
[2] Set 'em to run at or just below the surface and use the contact detonator.
Not true at all! Bruce roundhouse kicked it, but misjudged it so that it was going into the Sun.
Chuck Norris walked out to the Sun (without a spacesuit, of course) with plenty of time to spare, then roundhouse kicked the Solar System so that the algorithm made it back to where Bruce intended it.
Intel's softmodems work well in Linux. I have direct experience with the 536EP, and I expect the 537EP would be the same.
Proprietary driver, though. That's why I'd prefer an RS-232 modem if I was still stuck on dialup; then at most I'd just need to know the proper initialization string.
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And the policies his admin. would pursue? His presidential directives? Foreign policy? Law-enforcement priorities?
If you're that ignorant of how things work, you shouldn't vote.
Interesting. Finland also produced the best and most accurate Mosin-Nagants (M28-30, M-39), and they're copies of a Russian rifle as well, or in some case reworked guns captured during the wars.
FTM, their current sniper rifle uses original M-N receivers.
My old box: Athlon 2600+, Palomino core. Running Folding@home for a few days (in Linux) and it rebooted. This was a repeatable behavior and stopped when I quit folding.
It was Debian, so not likely that an OS fault would crash the system.
Heeeyy... get one of those rudder-pedal or car-pedal sets and rig it up for Emacs. No! Even better -- jigger up an old pipe organ console for Emacs.
:-)
As to the amount of fun: I remember reading back in the old days of foot-powered sewing machines, a woman who positioned herself just so could be masturbating just from the movements of her leg. So yes, your idea with the pedal *could* be fun for geek girls.
Yeah. Even though he thought he just had plain old treatable TB, I cannot understand why he'd proceed with his trip anyway.
The bastard in me wants him to be stuck in quarantine without treatment until he either dies or recovers on his own.
{raises hand}
Sometimes I'll sit on the floor, back against the couch, legs sticking under the coffee table. Not often, but sometimes I want to eat and watch a movie.
Some coffee tables have a double-deck arrangement, with the table part on top and a floor on the bottom, and people will put board games or other things on the lower deck. Other coffee tables have small cubbyholes for storing random things.
Libel. Slander is spoken, libel is written.
MU-Columbia had (and may still have) a computer lab with Sun kit built into desks, so that you would look down into the CRT through a clear acrylic surface. This was in 1997 when I was visiting different universities.
Her school didn't exist ten years back -- it's an "alternative" school for those who, for whatever reason (not counting mental retardation), don't do well in regular high school.
I visited that school district ten years ago, though, and the computer I borrowed was a Mac running System 7.x and Clarisworks 2.0. So your point stands.
You should meet this other tech at my uni. He's just like how the ggp post described teachers -- complains about everything until nobody wants anything to do with him, but he's got the ear of his department's dean.
Wife's a high-school teacher. The mentality at her school is that the computer labs must have MS Office installed, because that's what is "out there", so the students need to be familiar. Never mind that something like MS Works or AbiWord/Gnumeric would be quite sufficient for anything they'd do, and even with educational licensing, it'd save at least a few thousand dollars.
To the White House. Someone's got to introduce the occupant to the written word.
As opposed to having a live beat-poet buried there?
Kansas's image suffers mainly because of the state school board's periodic endorsement of creationism[1], and to a lesser extent the continued existence of Fred Phelps' cult. Phil Kline's abuse of his former office to harass abortion clinics didn't help, but IIRC doesn't make the national news so much.
[1] As in, the creationists get elected more than once.
By that "logic" burning gasoline and coal is carbon-neutral, because they're created from natural sources.
Here's your dunce cap. {toss}
Heh. I can see some nerd a couple hundred years in the future with an interest in ancient software, trying to reimplement 1-2-3 using only antique howto books and other documentation. :-)
Not entirely true. Older torpedoes were designed with just contact fuzes, which required a direct hit to go off. Magnetic fuzes weren't used in war until WW2, which was partly why the things sucked early on.
Mag torps also had contact fuzes[1]. The US Mark 14 torpedo, which had the bad magnetic fuzes early on, also had a mis-designed contact fuze that would jam and not detonate if they hit at certain angles. IIRC once the problem with the magnetic fuze had been discovered, the submariners were ordered to not use them until all were replaced.
[1] As a backup. Sometimes you didn't want to use magnetic fuzes in case your torpedoes would run too deeply, as the Mk 14 sometimes would[2], or if the target had a shallow draft or a wooden hull.
[2] Set 'em to run at or just below the surface and use the contact detonator.
My '05 Civic has something like that, yes. If the key's not in the ignition, the engine will refuse to start.
I can't say about recent US-designed cars, though.
Not true at all! Bruce roundhouse kicked it, but misjudged it so that it was going into the Sun.
Chuck Norris walked out to the Sun (without a spacesuit, of course) with plenty of time to spare, then roundhouse kicked the Solar System so that the algorithm made it back to where Bruce intended it.
Cite? You're right, I haven't heard that part of the story.
If you read tech websites for a while, you'll notice that lots of nerds cannot, in fact, spell properly to save their own lives.
Intel's softmodems work well in Linux. I have direct experience with the 536EP, and I expect the 537EP would be the same.
Proprietary driver, though. That's why I'd prefer an RS-232 modem if I was still stuck on dialup; then at most I'd just need to know the proper initialization string.
Dell should have a link to buy an external modem if you really need one /that/ badly.
Ideally an RS-232 one.
And now my original post is being modded troll (as I originally predicted) now that I've called attention to it.
I'm playing you mods just like Signal 11 did.
Ah, so predicting a negative mod *can* help me get positive mods!
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Did the workaround include "don't upgrade"?