The United Cerebral Palsy runs a program in Illinois called the Adaptive Technology Exchange Network (ATEN) which takes most any old tech, refurbishes and donates to schools while training kids and adults on useful, real-world technology skills.
I've given them close to a 100 various old computers, dozens of CRTs, and misc audio/video gear (you'd think a perfectly working Sony uMatic 3/4" deck would have some value, but no).
United Cerebral Palsy's Adaptive Technology Exchange Network.
I just used them last week (hi guys!) to clean out a server room and 50 old G3 Macs, beige-box PCs and various CRT monitors.
Not only that but they took old a/v gear, 3/4" Sony u-Matic decks, cables, the works.
What they can't refurbish, they recycle - support a good local cause, help provide job training and skills to students and disabled adults, and donate old equipment to needy schools throughout IL.
I obviously can't speak directly for the OP's needs but resource scheduling out in real IS/IT world - you know, where we can't just magically make all those MSFT installations disappear, no matter how much we'd like to - usually means booking conference rooms. Exchange 03's implementation isn't that great; most ppl just set their rooms to auto-accept any invite, then some lucky soul gets to go digging through all those when something goes bonkers (on Exchange 03, something always does).
I'm moving us to CalDAV as soon as I kill my Exchange admin and hide his body.
Entourage has a decent interface but its got some old crusty code under the hood. If your entire Ent database gets too large, prepare to start restoring from backups. If you rely upon Exchange (in your case, unlikely) prepare to never actually use the meeting/scheduling system with other people and having them actually get the notice.
Useful for a single user and a small number of POP or IMAP accounts, sure. Outlook clone? Not so much. Apple's Mail.app in 10.4 has a better interface but a few outstanding bugs; watch for serious improvement in Mail with 10.5 "Leopard."
I'm a semi-fanboy, and I used to work for Apple, but I also have had to support Entourage users for the past 7 years in a wide variety of settings, and I've seen it make grown men cry.
I was playing Battlefield 2 on my MacBook Pro quite happily, booting into XP for games. I have read that plenty of people have played PC games without rebooting, using Crossover or Parallels or the like...
No -- I was making a comparison to another gigantic state transpoprtation bureaucracy, to highlight the differences between inefficient highway transportation systems with a high degree of automation, and a low-tech/no-tech system that carries 3 million people a day.
That line was up and running again in weeks, not months, mostly because a) big political bureaucracies like the NYC MTA always overstate the time/budget needed (aka the 'Scotty effect'), and b) the system wasn't so overly complicated that replacing the gear, recreating the settings, etc, didn't take as long or cost as much as it would've if the system was using modern electronics.
Some of the equipment destroyed was actually from the 1930s; the MTA took advantage of the unplanned downtime to patch the system to more recent vinntage gear and bring it more in line with the whole of the system.
Is it slick, no, but it runs, and most days it runs pretty damn well. Better than what CALTRANS can do with a few billion dollars and a private ATM switched network -- and the NYC subway carries more people further every day.
This headline is not entirely accurate. The S shuttle from Times Square/42nd Street to Grand Central was at one point in the 1960s 'automated,' though probably not necessarily computerized.
IIRC there was a fire involved in endinng the project after a very brief trial run.
I ride the subway at least twice a day on workdays and as much as I am comforted knowing a conductor, with a radio, is somewhere on the train, most days I never even see one. Add in an iPod and their existence is practically negligible. I'd sacrifice their presence if it could demonstrably improve wait times and decrease overall congestion throughout the system.
B/Q from 7th Ave in 718 to either Canal or B'way/Lafayette. 29 minutes door to door, spent listening to music, reading, etc.
Supporting mass transit = non-supporting the oil regimes and all the related corrupt political systems, including our own. (Biking is still better, of course.)
A stable, terrestrial (lunestrial?) location still poses several advantages over orbital facilities:
- Ability to build a much more stable, accurate instrument platform for telescopes operating in the shorter wavelengths (ie not just radio). Spacecraft docking, astronauts on EVA, and minute disturbances in gravitational fields from other celestial bodies all cause motion which would ultimately diminish the instrument's sensitivity.
- Ability to utilize the lunar surface for minerals and materials. Iron ores, etc. Orbital platforms have to be built with materials shipped at a very high energy cost (payloads).
- Protection from solar radiation. Tunnel down and get some decent mass to stop those pesky particles from randomizing your DNA in unhelpful ways.
And when it comes down to it, after a few vehicle ascents and descents around the settled area, the force of the vehicle's exhaust will both clear away large portions of dust as well as create an artifical eroding force.
The dust remains a problem? Orbit a relecting parabolic mirror and reheat the surface to a nice, creamy, smooth finish.
Check this out:
http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/
from the site:
GLterm is a replacement for the Terminal application which ships with MacOS X. It's made to be faster, and to support more common terminal features. It supports full ANSI colors, all vt102 protocol, all DEC function keys, and a selection of useful xterm sequences.
The Big Thing is that GLterm uses X11.bdf fonts and renders them using..OpenGL. So it's very fast... as long as you have a working 3D accelerator. It should work as intended on B&W G3 and up for desktops and on White iBook and up for laptops: ie a machine whose 3D accelerator is handled properly in OSX. To this date (April 2002) Rage II, II+, Pro are not accelerated.
Sushi, beer, dog walking services, beer, sex, logo design from a professional graphic designer, beer. Etc.
The barter rate for Mac support is usually a much better investment on the time spent compared to supporting Windows issues... "Format it and forget about it"
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The United Cerebral Palsy runs a program in Illinois called the Adaptive Technology Exchange Network (ATEN) which takes most any old tech, refurbishes and donates to schools while training kids and adults on useful, real-world technology skills.
I've given them close to a 100 various old computers, dozens of CRTs, and misc audio/video gear (you'd think a perfectly working Sony uMatic 3/4" deck would have some value, but no).
http://www.ucpnet.org/aten.html
United Cerebral Palsy's Adaptive Technology Exchange Network.
I just used them last week (hi guys!) to clean out a server room and 50 old G3 Macs, beige-box PCs and various CRT monitors.
Not only that but they took old a/v gear, 3/4" Sony u-Matic decks, cables, the works.
What they can't refurbish, they recycle - support a good local cause, help provide job training and skills to students and disabled adults, and donate old equipment to needy schools throughout IL.
Everything this guy says is totally wrong. He is the world's biggest fanboy. And he drives a pink jetta.
I obviously can't speak directly for the OP's needs but resource scheduling out in real IS/IT world - you know, where we can't just magically make all those MSFT installations disappear, no matter how much we'd like to - usually means booking conference rooms. Exchange 03's implementation isn't that great; most ppl just set their rooms to auto-accept any invite, then some lucky soul gets to go digging through all those when something goes bonkers (on Exchange 03, something always does).
I'm moving us to CalDAV as soon as I kill my Exchange admin and hide his body.
Entourage has a decent interface but its got some old crusty code under the hood. If your entire Ent database gets too large, prepare to start restoring from backups. If you rely upon Exchange (in your case, unlikely) prepare to never actually use the meeting/scheduling system with other people and having them actually get the notice.
Useful for a single user and a small number of POP or IMAP accounts, sure. Outlook clone? Not so much. Apple's Mail.app in 10.4 has a better interface but a few outstanding bugs; watch for serious improvement in Mail with 10.5 "Leopard."
I'm a semi-fanboy, and I used to work for Apple, but I also have had to support Entourage users for the past 7 years in a wide variety of settings, and I've seen it make grown men cry.
Hey, they promised me a flying car too!
Wake me up when you find an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_M_planet/M-clas s planet.
And with the Big Electric Cat you could click on his nose for a nice "buuuurrrp!" sound.
Quark 4 had a key combo that would march a small alien out to zap your selected item to delete it, also with sound effect..
Maybe if you tried blocking computers on your own network that run software that's vulnerable to something like a VBS script..
I allow all those websites; I don't allow Windows.
in soviet russia, asteroid finds YOU!
oh, wait.
I was playing Battlefield 2 on my MacBook Pro quite happily, booting into XP for games. I have read that plenty of people have played PC games without rebooting, using Crossover or Parallels or the like...
So this means my curry and vindaloo will arrive faster?
Man, hate to see how much I'll have to tip *that* guy.
"That's no moon."
-mj
still no cure for cancer
the hex to my dog's ID chip.
my wife would say the same thing.
-mj
Just came home from it, and loved it, as did the wife.
But: its only going to be loved by people who knew and loved the TV show, which begs the question: where are the good ideas right now?
Batman Begins was good too, but its also a dervivative of an older idea. A good spin on it, sure, but not exactly original.
That said, I am kind of geekily excited for DOOM. Not that I plan to pay anything to see it.
-mj
Microsoft on an IBM-powered game console, Apple on Intel CPUs, Dvorak was right (for once), and now musical theater discussions on /.?
Indeed a cold day in hell...
-mj
I had the good fortune to see it with my wife and a group of friends this past Saturday night.
t s/carpet.slide.9.jpg Sara Ramirez at my show. Rawwwr.
Sadly, no http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/05/ar
Beg, borrow, steal or kill for tickets if you're a Python fan.
No -- I was making a comparison to another gigantic state transpoprtation bureaucracy, to highlight the differences between inefficient highway transportation systems with a high degree of automation, and a low-tech/no-tech system that carries 3 million people a day.
That line was up and running again in weeks, not months, mostly because a) big political bureaucracies like the NYC MTA always overstate the time/budget needed (aka the 'Scotty effect'), and b) the system wasn't so overly complicated that replacing the gear, recreating the settings, etc, didn't take as long or cost as much as it would've if the system was using modern electronics.
Some of the equipment destroyed was actually from the 1930s; the MTA took advantage of the unplanned downtime to patch the system to more recent vinntage gear and bring it more in line with the whole of the system.
Is it slick, no, but it runs, and most days it runs pretty damn well. Better than what CALTRANS can do with a few billion dollars and a private ATM switched network -- and the NYC subway carries more people further every day.
This headline is not entirely accurate. The S shuttle from Times Square/42nd Street to Grand Central was at one point in the 1960s 'automated,' though probably not necessarily computerized.
IIRC there was a fire involved in endinng the project after a very brief trial run.
I ride the subway at least twice a day on workdays and as much as I am comforted knowing a conductor, with a radio, is somewhere on the train, most days I never even see one. Add in an iPod and their existence is practically negligible. I'd sacrifice their presence if it could demonstrably improve wait times and decrease overall congestion throughout the system.
B/Q from 7th Ave in 718 to either Canal or B'way/Lafayette. 29 minutes door to door, spent listening to music, reading, etc.
Supporting mass transit = non-supporting the oil regimes and all the related corrupt political systems, including our own. (Biking is still better, of course.)
-mj
A stable, terrestrial (lunestrial?) location still poses several advantages over orbital facilities:
- Ability to build a much more stable, accurate instrument platform for telescopes operating in the shorter wavelengths (ie not just radio). Spacecraft docking, astronauts on EVA, and minute disturbances in gravitational fields from other celestial bodies all cause motion which would ultimately diminish the instrument's sensitivity.
- Ability to utilize the lunar surface for minerals and materials. Iron ores, etc. Orbital platforms have to be built with materials shipped at a very high energy cost (payloads).
- Protection from solar radiation. Tunnel down and get some decent mass to stop those pesky particles from randomizing your DNA in unhelpful ways.
And when it comes down to it, after a few vehicle ascents and descents around the settled area, the force of the vehicle's exhaust will both clear away large portions of dust as well as create an artifical eroding force.
The dust remains a problem? Orbit a relecting parabolic mirror and reheat the surface to a nice, creamy, smooth finish.
-mj
four words:
amatuer orbital server farms.
cut down on those pesky armed intrusions and silly warrant nonsense.
Mr Rutan, could you loft my rack? thanks.
Check this out: http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/ from the site: GLterm is a replacement for the Terminal application which ships with MacOS X. It's made to be faster, and to support more common terminal features. It supports full ANSI colors, all vt102 protocol, all DEC function keys, and a selection of useful xterm sequences. The Big Thing is that GLterm uses X11 .bdf fonts and renders them using..OpenGL. So it's very fast... as long as you have a working 3D accelerator. It should work as intended on B&W G3 and up for desktops and on White iBook and up for laptops: ie a machine whose 3D accelerator is handled properly in OSX. To this date (April 2002) Rage II, II+, Pro are not accelerated.
Sushi, beer, dog walking services, beer, sex, logo design from a professional graphic designer, beer. Etc.
The barter rate for Mac support is usually a much better investment on the time spent compared to supporting Windows issues... "Format it and forget about it"
-mj