Polyphasic sleep is used by Solo Circumnavigating sailors. It's the only way to survive. Taking 20 minute catnaps is a lot safer than trying to sleep for hours at a time. Or, for that matter, doing something as dangerous as sailing around the world by yourself while chronicly sleep deprived.
I think there was a Nova that talked about this sort of thing a while back.
I recently purchased an IBM T21 800 MHz with Windows 98. The first thing I did with the machine was remove Windows and installed a linux distro (that I'm sure some of you hate so I won't mention it). I purchased the machine with Windows 98 rather than Linux because I wanted a better model than was available at the time with Linux preinstalled. I wanted that 1400x1050 screen dammit!
My resoning was that as long as all the hardware was supported by Linux I'd be able to get it to work. I wasn't worried about the DVD player working or not, I've got enough DVD players already. I also thought, perhaps too optomistically, that I'd be able to get someone at IBM to send me a copy of thier Linux distro so that at least I could see how they did it.
As it was I had a hard time getting everything working properly. Video wasn't too hard to setup, I ended up using XFree86 3.3.6 because I found a copy of someone's configuration file on the web after a search and I'm lazy. I wasn't able to get sound working on it because none of the sound tools I looked at which supported the sound chip would work with the 2.4 kernel. I believe that has changed by now. I didn't bother fooling with the modem since I already had a PC Card modem that works like a charm. The NIC was supported by the kernel. No one I talked with at IBM was helpful. Ever. I was a bit suprised by that, but I'm young and idealistic and I believe that hardware vendors should help out the people who have problems with the hardware they purchased.
All in all though, I decided that I loved my Thinkpad anyway. It was fast, rugged, relatively light even though I had two batteries installed and that screen looks great.
I recommend the Thinkpad T series, I've had a number of Compaq, Sony, Dell and Toshiba laptops that sucked in comparison.
I hope that the Linux Preinstalled laptops from IBM and other vendors sell well so that eventually the linux community has a greater voice with Hardware makers. After that perhaps all of the valid concerns expressed in other posts will be dealt with. Of course, I'm young, idealistic and I don't have my laptop anymore since the.com that bought it for me went broke and I lost my job.
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Brad's statements also struck home for me. I also feel like I can relate to the young men who committed this horrendous act. There was a time in my life where I felt like the entire world was a sham and that I no longer wanted to play the sadistic games that the world was making me play. I often entertained similar fantasies of striking back against the people who I blamed for my internal agony. When I first heard detailed accounts of the events in Littleton my first thoughts were "How close did I come to that?" Thankfully, I had enough constructive interests, love for my family and a close-knit online community to rely on.
I doubt that many people see the other side of this story. It's hard to have sympathy for brutal killers who have done all they can to destroy their own community. But let's not forget that something drove them to this point. Some combination of pain and hopelessness stewed within them for years. What would it take to drive you to that point?
Check out the BAT Chording Keyboard. http://www.callamer.com/infogrip/bat.html I got one and I love it. I'm a righty, and I BAT with one hand and mouse with the other. I actually type faster with my left hand on a BAT than I do with both hands on a qwerty Keyboard.
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Polyphasic sleep is used by Solo Circumnavigating sailors. It's the only way to survive. Taking 20 minute catnaps is a lot safer than trying to sleep for hours at a time. Or, for that matter, doing something as dangerous as sailing around the world by yourself while chronicly sleep deprived. I think there was a Nova that talked about this sort of thing a while back.
The very idea that there is a 'correct' way to write or speak our language is silly.
This decade's mispronunciation is next century's dialect.
Give up. Get over your 'correctness.' Languages are living things, the minute a language stops being misused is the minute it stops being used at all.
There was also Al Gore on Letterman's Top 10 reasons why you should vote for Al Gore, read by, Al Gore.
"#2 I created the internet and I can take it away!"
Disc Golf Rocks :)
I play at the world's first course in Pasadena California.
Come out to Oak Grove sometime, it's a blast.
I recently purchased an IBM T21 800 MHz with Windows 98. The first thing I did with the machine was remove Windows and installed a linux distro (that I'm sure some of you hate so I won't mention it). I purchased the machine with Windows 98 rather than Linux because I wanted a better model than was available at the time with Linux preinstalled. I wanted that 1400x1050 screen dammit!
.com that bought it for me went broke and I lost my job.
My resoning was that as long as all the hardware was supported by Linux I'd be able to get it to work. I wasn't worried about the DVD player working or not, I've got enough DVD players already. I also thought, perhaps too optomistically, that I'd be able to get someone at IBM to send me a copy of thier Linux distro so that at least I could see how they did it.
As it was I had a hard time getting everything working properly. Video wasn't too hard to setup, I ended up using XFree86 3.3.6 because I found a copy of someone's configuration file on the web after a search and I'm lazy. I wasn't able to get sound working on it because none of the sound tools I looked at which supported the sound chip would work with the 2.4 kernel. I believe that has changed by now. I didn't bother fooling with the modem since I already had a PC Card modem that works like a charm. The NIC was supported by the kernel. No one I talked with at IBM was helpful. Ever. I was a bit suprised by that, but I'm young and idealistic and I believe that hardware vendors should help out the people who have problems with the hardware they purchased.
All in all though, I decided that I loved my Thinkpad anyway. It was fast, rugged, relatively light even though I had two batteries installed and that screen looks great.
I recommend the Thinkpad T series, I've had a number of Compaq, Sony, Dell and Toshiba laptops that sucked in comparison.
I hope that the Linux Preinstalled laptops from IBM and other vendors sell well so that eventually the linux community has a greater voice with Hardware makers. After that perhaps all of the valid concerns expressed in other posts will be dealt with. Of course, I'm young, idealistic and I don't have my laptop anymore since the
Brad's statements also struck home for me. I also feel like I can relate to the young men who committed this horrendous act. There was a time in my life where I felt like the entire world was a sham and that I no longer wanted to play the sadistic games that the world was making me play. I often entertained similar fantasies of striking back against the people who I blamed for my internal agony. When I first heard detailed accounts of the events in Littleton my first thoughts were "How close did I come to that?" Thankfully, I had enough constructive interests, love for my family and a close-knit online community to rely on.
I doubt that many people see the other side of this story. It's hard to have sympathy for brutal killers who have done all they can to destroy their own community. But let's not forget that something drove them to this point. Some combination of pain and hopelessness stewed within them for years. What would it take to drive you to that point?
Check out the BAT Chording Keyboard. http://www.callamer.com/infogrip/bat.html
I got one and I love it. I'm a righty, and I BAT with one hand and mouse with the other. I actually type faster with my left hand on a BAT than I do with both hands on a qwerty Keyboard.