I graduated in 1982, that was the year they replaced the time share terminals with Commodore Pets. The year prior we spent learning FORTRAN, we were now able to move into the brave new world of BASIC. One fun thing about the time share terminals, they used acoustic couplers and dial up, if you stood in the corner of the room and whistled the correct note, you could disconnect all the terminals in the room simultaneously. Of course, you then had to run for your life...
Actually, not even that's true. It's perfectly possible, and not even terribly difficult, to put non-DRM content onto a Kindle. Fictionwise will tell you how to do it, as will Baen books. Basically, losing his Amazon account just made it difficult (but not impossible) to put DRM'ed books on the Kindle. I'm not sure that's a minus..
I just noticed a handy Akismet stats link in the latest version. I've been running Akismet since October 2006, in that time there have been 26,575 comments on my blog, of which 26,302 were spam(!). It missed 25 spam comments that had to be manually moderated and passed 273 legit comments. There have been no false positives. Personally, I think that's a pretty darn good record.
Storage shouldn't be a problem. It has a microSD slot and you can pick up a 16Gb card for about $20 US if you shop around a bit. Just because it comes with a 1Gb card doesn't mean you're limited to that size...
Peril sensitive sunglasses (cut out of black construction paper). I still have them, the microscopic space fleet and the original box. I just don't have the original disk anymore...
I was this close to buying a top of the line Clie a year ago, but I held off when I learned that Sony had intentionally crippled the mini-PCMCIA socket on the device so that it couldn't be used for compact flash cards, which would have been an obvious application for it.
Just so you know, there's a 3rd party driver out there that lets you use the clie CF slot with memory cards and modems now. It works pretty well, although some of the Sony software doesn't like to work off of CF (go figure..)
Actually, the problem is you have to upgrade to LVM2. Once you do that, LVM works just fine. Be sure to include device mapper in your kernel config and you should be ok. LVM 2 is back compatible with LVM 1, so that's not an issue.
DU is also almost non-radioactive. Your skin is enough to stop most (if not all) of the radiation emitted by DU and a sheet of paper will stop the rest. That's why it's called 'depleted'. Yes, it has a long half-life, but that's because it's barely radioactive (in general, the half-life of an element is inversely proportional to it's radioactivity). The biggest threat from DU (other than being hit by it) is from heavy metals poisoning, the same as, oh, I don't know, lead?
If you're talking about a trumobile wireless nic, you're probably out of luck if it's broadcom based. Unless things have changed recently, there is no linux support for broadcom based wireless nics (Broadcom won't release the info needed).
Does anybody actually buy MagicGate memory sticks? My clie nx70 can use them, but I don't see any point to them. As implied in the article, they cost more and do less than a regular memory stick.
Depending on the type of hybrid, there are two ways it can improve efficiency. In a 'serial' hybrid, the IC (internal combustion) engine runs pretty much at constant speed and charges batteries. The actual motive power is provided by an electric motor (which is often used as a generator during braking, which also charges the battery. This is called regenerative braking). Because IC engines are most efficient at a constant RPM, you can tune the whole setup to run the IC engine at it's most efficient while charging the batteries. I believe the Honda Insight is this type of hybrid.
The other type of hybrid is called a 'parallel' hybrid. In this type of hybrid, the IC engine turns the wheel, but is relatively underpowered. It has enough oomph to keep the car moving at a fixed speed, but typically can't accelerate at more than a snails pace. It also charges a (smaller) set of batteries. The electric motor in this case is used to provide the extra horsepower need for acceleration and starting out from a stop. It could also be used for regenerative braking, but I don't believe this is typically the case. I think that the Toyota Prius is this type of hybrid.
I may have the Prius and Insight confused. I know that one is a serial hybrid and the other a parallel, but can't remember which is which (and don't feel like googling for it at the moment).
In the case of a pure electric car, it's a matter of scale. You can produce electric power more efficiently on a large scale than a small scale. Thus, a large power plant is considerably more efficient than the little generator in your garage for emergencies. It's also easier to control pollution for a large plant than for many small ones.
Why would you think that? At least with nuclear waste, you know where all the pollution is. With the waste from combustion, it's scattered to the four winds and spread over a vast area. Besides, it's likely that the 'waste' from a reactor will be useful for something in the future, especially since you know where it all is.
I finally got fed up and cancelled after they couldn't get a working linux download manager after 3 months. It was a nice service when all it required was a web browser, but the more they mucked about with it, the worse it got.
I actually have a 6 CD set from Yggdrasilof the 'Linux Internet Archives Winter 1996'. That's about the time when things were starting to become usable by mere mortals.
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I graduated in 1982, that was the year they replaced the time share terminals with Commodore Pets. The year prior we spent learning FORTRAN, we were now able to move into the brave new world of BASIC. One fun thing about the time share terminals, they used acoustic couplers and dial up, if you stood in the corner of the room and whistled the correct note, you could disconnect all the terminals in the room simultaneously. Of course, you then had to run for your life...
I like i3 for much the same reasons. It's fast,efficient and doesn't chew up a bunch of screen real estate, which is important on a netbook.
Or just pick up a 900 MHz baby monitor, that's what we did. They are a bit difficult to find though.
Actually, not even that's true. It's perfectly possible, and not even terribly difficult, to put non-DRM content onto a Kindle. Fictionwise will tell you how to do it, as will Baen books. Basically, losing his Amazon account just made it difficult (but not impossible) to put DRM'ed books on the Kindle. I'm not sure that's a minus..
Tweets would be limited to 80 characters or less instead of 140...
I just noticed a handy Akismet stats link in the latest version. I've been running Akismet since October 2006, in that time there have been 26,575 comments on my blog, of which 26,302 were spam(!). It missed 25 spam comments that had to be manually moderated and passed 273 legit comments. There have been no false positives. Personally, I think that's a pretty darn good record.
Hmm.. I've run akismet for a couple of years now and have never had a false positive. It's missed a few spams, but never marked a legit post as spam.
Storage shouldn't be a problem. It has a microSD slot and you can pick up a 16Gb card for about $20 US if you shop around a bit. Just because it comes with a 1Gb card doesn't mean you're limited to that size...
That one's easy. Use adblock to block everything from fastclick.net. I don't get any popups or ads when I go there...
Given that it's my birthday, I rather think it's a fine day...
Peril sensitive sunglasses (cut out of black construction paper). I still have them, the microscopic space fleet and the original box. I just don't have the original disk anymore...
I was this close to buying a top of the line Clie a year ago, but I held off when I learned that Sony had intentionally crippled the mini-PCMCIA socket on the device so that it couldn't be used for compact flash cards, which would have been an obvious application for it.
Just so you know, there's a 3rd party driver out there that lets you use the clie CF slot with memory cards and modems now. It works pretty well, although some of the Sony software doesn't like to work off of CF (go figure..)
If we can't clean this stuff up in a couple hundred years, we deserve to have it falling on our heads...
Actually, the problem is you have to upgrade to LVM2. Once you do that, LVM works just fine. Be sure to include device mapper in your kernel config and you should be ok. LVM 2 is back compatible with LVM 1, so that's not an issue.
DU is also almost non-radioactive. Your skin is enough to stop most (if not all) of the radiation emitted by DU and a sheet of paper will stop the rest. That's why it's called 'depleted'. Yes, it has a long half-life, but that's because it's barely radioactive (in general, the half-life of an element is inversely proportional to it's radioactivity). The biggest threat from DU (other than being hit by it) is from heavy metals poisoning, the same as, oh, I don't know, lead?
Better yet, use Dillo... no frames, no javascript, no java, no flash. Really fast and does a reasonable job of rendering almost every page i visit.
I mean really, does it?
If you're talking about a trumobile wireless nic, you're probably out of luck if it's broadcom based. Unless things have changed recently, there is no linux support for broadcom based wireless nics (Broadcom won't release the info needed).
San Francisco is only about 49 square miles (roughly 7 miles by 7 miles)
Does anybody actually buy MagicGate memory sticks? My clie nx70 can use them, but I don't see any point to them. As implied in the article, they cost more and do less than a regular memory stick.
Depending on the type of hybrid, there are two ways it can improve efficiency. In a 'serial' hybrid, the IC (internal combustion) engine runs pretty much at constant speed and charges batteries. The actual motive power is provided by an electric motor (which is often used as a generator during braking, which also charges the battery. This is called regenerative braking). Because IC engines are most efficient at a constant RPM, you can tune the whole setup to run the IC engine at it's most efficient while charging the batteries. I believe the Honda Insight is this type of hybrid.
The other type of hybrid is called a 'parallel' hybrid. In this type of hybrid, the IC engine turns the wheel, but is relatively underpowered. It has enough oomph to keep the car moving at a fixed speed, but typically can't accelerate at more than a snails pace. It also charges a (smaller) set of batteries. The electric motor in this case is used to provide the extra horsepower need for acceleration and starting out from a stop. It could also be used for regenerative braking, but I don't believe this is typically the case. I think that the Toyota Prius is this type of hybrid.
I may have the Prius and Insight confused. I know that one is a serial hybrid and the other a parallel, but can't remember which is which (and don't feel like googling for it at the moment).
In the case of a pure electric car, it's a matter of scale. You can produce electric power more efficiently on a large scale than a small scale. Thus, a large power plant is considerably more efficient than the little generator in your garage for emergencies. It's also easier to control pollution for a large plant than for many small ones.
Why would you think that? At least with nuclear waste, you know where all the pollution is. With the waste from combustion, it's scattered to the four winds and spread over a vast area. Besides, it's likely that the 'waste' from a reactor will be useful for something in the future, especially since you know where it all is.
I finally got fed up and cancelled after they couldn't get a working linux download manager after 3 months. It was a nice service when all it required was a web browser, but the more they mucked about with it, the worse it got.
You can't redownload it, but the files you've already downloaded don't expire or anything.
I actually have a 6 CD set from Yggdrasilof the 'Linux Internet Archives Winter 1996'. That's about the time when things were starting to become usable by mere mortals.