2 weeks ago this same source reported on research at the PNWNL that uses a Nickel catalyst for a 1000x improvement over the platinum catalyst process now used, for example, on the ISS.
If you still use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.x, you will not get to use DirectCD for UDF Packet writing to save directly to CD after SP2 is installed. This program comes with every new Dell Optiplex we bought this year. These Computers are supposed to be Supported with SP2. But 2 calls into Dell T.S. resulted in a "Sorry, too bad" response. They recommend Windows native CD burning, but that ain't UDF. (We have a need to make saving to CD as simple as a floppy for some elderly folks.) This one isn't listed on Microsoft's list of SP2 incompatibleprograms. Nor is anything mentioned on Roxio's site except people complaining. Roxio is up to version 7 now so you know they say to upgrade, but Dell still ships old v.5 out with new PCs. Go figure
The mainstream Netscape 4.x users I support have had a hard time accepting, trusting Mozilla and it usually takes a long time before they really believe that Yes, this really is the new Netscape they know and love. It's even better.
First they had to click on the little blue lizard, now they have to adjust to the obnoxious orange lizard with a big icon that looks like a scab. Harsh colors and a look and feel that has all the clunkyness of old Netscape with just enough differences to confuse. So anytime Mozilla (or Windows running it) crashes they react in horror.
Maybe they aren't the most tech savvy, some do better than others, but I think many are just put off by the goofy changing face of it. Actually I've had one tell me they hate the name Mozilla too. Not that I care, but it is the state of mind of my end-users.
I've had to ween users over to new platforms before so I know it takes time and hand-holding, but you would think it needn't be such a hard-sell for Netscape 4.x users of all people.
I love Mozilla and now that Mozilla is giving the end-user some attention I really hope to see some tools or at least some docs for deploying, customizing, locking down, maintaining and using Netscape in the mainstream non-geek enterprise world.
Please post if something already exists, I haven't found much for us techs who actually support Mozilla.
IBM Research's Metapad is similar in form factor.
I really like this size for the power and the screen resolution (800x480) is just right to be useful and scalable.
While cannibalizing some old P-133's and combining parts into some newer machines, I noticed that the motherboards each had 2 SRAM video chips soldered to the board and 2 empty sockets the same size to "upgrade".
Since they were goners anyway and I didn't fell like messing around too much I took a chip puller and YANKED the chips out cold. Ripped 'em out of the motherboards with much ugliness.
Straightened the legs out, cleaned them up a bit, popped 'em into the boards that were staying around and 4 out of five chips worked fine. I got high res on these old clunkers!
Well OK, a 6th chip broke in half before I learned the "technique".
Or risk another Sputnik. The European Space Agency Has it's sites on Mars for 2025. Some Russian scientists want to be there by 2015 - And good luck to them! Here's some links: The BBC Space Daily Deutsche Welle
Editorial Comment. I've concluded the recent sabre rattling is a ploy to raise $675B to get the nation on course to Mars. After everyone realizes we don't need to war with Iraq or North Korea. Divert that war chest! GO USA!
I used to work a part-time job as a sound reinforcement/monitor tech for a small (me and the owner) outfit. We specialized in acoustic performances and smaller festivals so there wasn't a lot of show-biz phlegm.
I only worked once a month or so and though it was intermittently hard work, it always seemed like a vacation from my day job because it was a totally different, fun and layed back atmosphere. Plus I learned a bunch, met some great people and got to indulge my geeky and artsy aspects as well.
How I lucked into this job? I volunteered as a stage hand at a festival ONCE (to stalk^H^H^H^H^H see Mary Chapin-Carpenter) and my future employer liked my work ethic and started calling me with offers. Neat how that works sometimes.
Anyways, don't restrict yourself to mainstream jobs that suck. Look between the cracks. Follow your bliss, etc. etc. etc.
Another thing to consider is how much stress this second job will cause especially now with a very needy addition to your family. Think about working smarter rather than harder.
A year ago I sold almost everything I owned to move back to my hometown where I now work for the library at about half my former pay. At first I took the job as a stepping stone until something better came along. Like you I found that I really love the job and to my surprise I don't really miss the pay or the stress.
My life is more stripped down than it was but (now that I'm used to it) I don't feel the least bit deprived. In fact I am actually saving a bit of dough where I used to live nearly check to check before. I still travel and indulge in the arts and geeky hobbies and spend time and have fun. Mostly I just drive a payed for car and don't pay full price for stuff or eat out as much. Oh, and I won't be too extravagant about the Holidays although I never really was.
Think not about what you can do without, but what you could be free of. The quality time with the wife and kid are worth a lot more than any part-time job will pay.
The wrist should be where the PalmOS goes to. Shrink the screen to 1/4 of what it is now keeping the same resolution with Icons etc. scaled up maybe 4x.
Who needs a PocketPC when all the palm apps run on your wrist?
160x160 square LCD would make a nice analog watch screen saver.
Cartercopter! Good Lord I never seen it!
This is why keep reading slashdot. I have little resources for it, but this stuff is in my blood.
Along with NASA's programs http://sats.nasa.gov , the Cirrus http://www.cirrusdesign.com and Eclipse http://www.eclipseaviation.com projects etc. It feels like a long sought renaissance in General Aviation!
Potential Aviation Geeks: Know that as we speak, the great pilgimage to Mecca is happening.
OSHKOSH!!!:
http://www.airventure.org
I wish I was there. When I lived in the midwestern US I went every year. Even if you are not into aircraft its truly a hackfest of another color that anyone here would goosepimple at. (If 50 WWII warbirds roaring overhead at once doesn't do it - Lots of workshops, commercial exhibits, NASA, tons of aircraft; homebuilts, experimentals, ultralights, rotorcraft that you can actually examine up close.) It's truly a wonderful event.
And if you can't make Oshkosh, there are smaller Airshows hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association. http://www.eaa.org/ I just went to the one up here in Arlington WA US and it was great. The EAA is a great organization. These guys are the DIY set of GA and they've kept the open source spirit of grassroots technology sharing since the ENIAC days.
Oshkosh! I'm just assuming all active Flying Geeks already know about it or are there.
Slashdot Mirror
Solutions:
- Experimental-Amateur-Built
- Sport-Pilot
- EAA.org
(and your favorite search engine)
2 weeks ago this same source reported on research at the PNWNL that uses a Nickel catalyst for a 1000x improvement over the platinum catalyst process now used, for example, on the ISS.
Besides this EAA Electric Airplane prize, there's 3 more that I know of:
- The biggest purse is the CAFE foundation Green Flight Challenge $1.6M Presented at Airventure in Oshkosh this July
- The Lindberg Electric Aircraft prize is an annual prize that started last year at Oshkosh
- The Berblinger prize 3 weeks from now in Germany
Not just for cool RC model airplanes any more. E-flight is on the rise - the first killer app will be UAV's and motorgliders.
Create a win-win for you and a student.
If you still use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.x, you will not get to use DirectCD for UDF Packet writing to save directly to CD after SP2 is installed. This program comes with every new Dell Optiplex we bought this year. These Computers are supposed to be Supported with SP2. But 2 calls into Dell T.S. resulted in a "Sorry, too bad" response. They recommend Windows native CD burning, but that ain't UDF.
(We have a need to make saving to CD as simple as a floppy for some elderly folks.)
This one isn't listed on Microsoft's list of SP2 incompatible programs.
Nor is anything mentioned on Roxio's site except people complaining. Roxio is up to version 7 now so you know they say to upgrade, but Dell still ships old v.5 out with new PCs. Go figure
Release the Hounds!
The mainstream Netscape 4.x users I support have had a hard time accepting, trusting Mozilla and it usually takes a long time before they really believe that Yes, this really is the new Netscape they know and love. It's even better.
First they had to click on the little blue lizard, now they have to adjust to the obnoxious orange lizard with a big icon that looks like a scab. Harsh colors and a look and feel that has all the clunkyness of old Netscape with just enough differences to confuse. So anytime Mozilla (or Windows running it) crashes they react in horror.
Maybe they aren't the most tech savvy, some do better than others, but I think many are just put off by the goofy changing face of it. Actually I've had one tell me they hate the name Mozilla too. Not that I care, but it is the state of mind of my end-users.
I've had to ween users over to new platforms before so I know it takes time and hand-holding, but you would think it needn't be such a hard-sell for Netscape 4.x users of all people.
I love Mozilla and now that Mozilla is giving the end-user some attention I really hope to see some tools or at least some docs for deploying, customizing, locking down, maintaining and using Netscape in the mainstream non-geek enterprise world.
Please post if something already exists, I haven't found much for us techs who actually support Mozilla.
IBM Research's Metapad is similar in form factor. I really like this size for the power and the screen resolution (800x480) is just right to be useful and scalable.
While cannibalizing some old P-133's and combining parts into some newer machines, I noticed that the motherboards each had 2 SRAM video chips soldered to the board and 2 empty sockets the same size to "upgrade".
Since they were goners anyway and I didn't fell like messing around too much I took a chip puller and YANKED the chips out cold. Ripped 'em out of the motherboards with much ugliness.
Straightened the legs out, cleaned them up a bit, popped 'em into the boards that were staying around and 4 out of five chips worked fine. I got high res on these old clunkers!
Well OK, a 6th chip broke in half before I learned the "technique".
Or risk another Sputnik. The European Space Agency Has it's sites on Mars for 2025. Some Russian scientists want to be there by 2015 - And good luck to them!
Here's some links:
The BBC
Space Daily
Deutsche Welle
Editorial Comment.
I've concluded the recent sabre rattling is a ploy to raise $675B to get the nation on course to Mars. After everyone realizes we don't need to war with Iraq or North Korea.
Divert that war chest! GO USA!
I used to work a part-time job as a sound reinforcement/monitor tech for a small (me and the owner) outfit. We specialized in acoustic performances and smaller festivals so there wasn't a lot of show-biz phlegm.
I only worked once a month or so and though it was intermittently hard work, it always seemed like a vacation from my day job because it was a totally different, fun and layed back atmosphere. Plus I learned a bunch, met some great people and got to indulge my geeky and artsy aspects as well.
How I lucked into this job? I volunteered as a stage hand at a festival ONCE (to stalk^H^H^H^H^H see Mary Chapin-Carpenter) and my future employer liked my work ethic and started calling me with offers. Neat how that works sometimes.
Anyways, don't restrict yourself to mainstream jobs that suck. Look between the cracks. Follow your bliss, etc. etc. etc.
Another thing to consider is how much stress this second job will cause especially now with a very needy addition to your family.
Think about working smarter rather than harder.
A year ago I sold almost everything I owned to move back to my hometown where I now work for the library at about half my former pay. At first I took the job as a stepping stone until something better came along. Like you I found that I really love the job and to my surprise I don't really miss the pay or the stress.
My life is more stripped down than it was but (now that I'm used to it) I don't feel the least bit deprived. In fact I am actually saving a bit of dough where I used to live nearly check to check before. I still travel and indulge in the arts and geeky hobbies and spend time and have fun. Mostly I just drive a payed for car and don't pay full price for stuff or eat out as much. Oh, and I won't be too extravagant about the Holidays although I never really was.
Think not about what you can do without, but what you could be free of. The quality time with the wife and kid are worth a lot more than any part-time job will pay.
The wrist should be where the PalmOS goes to. Shrink the screen to 1/4 of what it is now keeping the same resolution with Icons etc. scaled up maybe 4x.
Who needs a PocketPC when all the palm apps run on your wrist?
160x160 square LCD would make a nice analog watch screen saver.
Cartercopter! Good Lord I never seen it! This is why keep reading slashdot. I have little resources for it, but this stuff is in my blood. Along with NASA's programs http://sats.nasa.gov , the Cirrus http://www.cirrusdesign.com and Eclipse http://www.eclipseaviation.com projects etc. It feels like a long sought renaissance in General Aviation! Potential Aviation Geeks: Know that as we speak, the great pilgimage to Mecca is happening. OSHKOSH!!!: http://www.airventure.org I wish I was there. When I lived in the midwestern US I went every year. Even if you are not into aircraft its truly a hackfest of another color that anyone here would goosepimple at. (If 50 WWII warbirds roaring overhead at once doesn't do it - Lots of workshops, commercial exhibits, NASA, tons of aircraft; homebuilts, experimentals, ultralights, rotorcraft that you can actually examine up close.) It's truly a wonderful event. And if you can't make Oshkosh, there are smaller Airshows hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association. http://www.eaa.org/ I just went to the one up here in Arlington WA US and it was great. The EAA is a great organization. These guys are the DIY set of GA and they've kept the open source spirit of grassroots technology sharing since the ENIAC days. Oshkosh! I'm just assuming all active Flying Geeks already know about it or are there.