kinda sad to see IBM leaving the hard drive business, seeing as they invented the technology... ibm came out with winchester drives way the heck ago (dates anyone?), and nary a drive today doesn't use this technology... i've got two IBM deskstars in my system right now, a 13Gig and a 60 Gig... the 60 started the "click of death" thing at one point, but after dealing with overheating / underpowering problems and marking those sectors as bad (there were only 2, adjacent, sectors affected), i haven't had any problems with it since...
first PCs, now harddrives... this is akin to ford no longer selling cars, or something...
sad to see it go, but hopefully the new company can put out drives of the quality of the IBM of a few years ago...
have you *played* Super Smash Bros. Melee?? i'd definitely consider that a killer app for the cube, since that's what convinced me (and helped me convince my fiance) into buying one... seriously, for our christmas presents to each other we split the cost of the cube, 2 controllers, a memory card, and melee... excellent purchase, i might add... so, go find 3 friends and beat the living snott out of each other as lovable nintendo characters!:)
it's pretty cool nonethe less, though... reminds me off the jezzball and pong clones i saw written in zcode, the language used for the original zork series and other text-adventure games...
just installed it... thanks for the tip... seems to be pretty nice, though MathType is a good deal faster... if nothing else, it's a step in the right direction, so thank you (and no i don't want to learn TeX or LaTeX)
at least, that's how i got my laptop... it's a p2/300 compaq armada 7400 that i payed $150 for... my landlord evicted one of his other tenants for not paying rent for 4 months... this tenant promptly left the country with no forwarding information, and left a bunch of stuff in the apartment... clothes, some dirty old dishes, and a perfectly good (albeit a little old) computer... the landlord held the stuff for whatever time they're supposed to, and got no claim on it... not wanting to throw out a computer, he came to us (i live with 3 other CS geeks), and i picked it up and gave her a home... i've easily spent the original price again over in new parts (cdrom drive, keyboard), but little Lola's been good to me... runs debian linux great, and can get close to 3 hours battery life if i'm careful... that is, in console mode running xemacs (which i use to take notes in class) w/o cdrom and nic plugged in... and by the way, does anyone know a good graphical equation editor in linux? it would've made taking notes in probability and physics much easier and more useful...
so if adobe implements an alpha-blending algorithm in photoshop (i know... very far-fetched idea, right?), are they infringing on apple's patent on alpha-blended computer graphics?
if so, why is apple so excited to have someone breaking their patent?
Take with 2 grains salt and call me in the morning.
i've got to say, just go ahead and ask her out. don't lunge at her drooling "wuh-man!", but in the very least sign your flower/card... if it's too late to sign the anonymous ones, send her another!! i persoanally went through high school without dating much (read: maybe two weeks total?)... once i got to college i just went for it a few times, got rejected a few times, got a few girlfriends, got dumped a lot... honestly, it hurt, but i got over it... and then i just stopped worrying about all that stuff, and watched an amazing romance begin to grow between myself and this very shy friend of mine, whom i'd known for the past year... it was ten months ago tonight that we met in an au bon pain and decided that we were just going to go for it... and, well, we're getting married this september:)
so basically i'm saying, i know what it's like to be the shy guy looking towards that cute girl you've always wanted to talk to... in retrospect, you only regret what you don't do...
I currently run Mad Ink, which is currently home to two online comic strips: Podunk and Chico and Better Living Through Mind Control. PnC updates three times a week, and BLTMC updates in random spurts whenever Zac gets time to draw/write more stuff. The site started off as simply a place to put BLTMC, Zac's comic, with me doing webmastering / programming. Last summer though, a friend of mine (namely the Podunk in Podunk and Chico) started to get really sick of the free hosting (and consequently lousy service) of KeenSpace. I already had a decent archival system, and BLTMC was on a particularly long break anyway. So, he decided to jump on board with Mad Ink. This changed the focus of the site from just promoting Zac's stuff, to being a publication banner under which we could give the public comicy goodness. We don't sell ads, and currently pay for things out of pocket. But since there's a group of us and we're not very popular, the costs aren't all that bad. So that's where we stand today.
I, however, would like to see this expand further. My idea is a community of comic artists / writers publishing under Mad Ink. Instead of a free-and-crappy service like KeenSpace, I envision Mad Ink's members paying a small amount of money just to help keep the site going, much the same way that PnC help pay our hosting costs. With enough interest, a decent co-located server could support a fairly large community. One other thing that I've thought of is making an archive for the ever-increasing number of dead webcomic backlogs out there.
Any thoughts on this? Also if you're a comic-writer and would like to join Mad Ink, please contact me. I'd like to know.
I've said it before, but i still don't think this bodes well for sourceforge... with the 'open edition' still very much vaporware, the company's new philosophy doesn't reflect opensource ideals at all... and i know that when (if) SFOE gets released, it's going to have major holes poked in it where the non-free code was taken out... unless of course you want to pay VA lots and lots of money for a service/software contract...
if you want to help the free sourceforge effort, lend a hand with Debian-SF... let's really get this codebase cranking! 2.5 installs great on woody, 2.6 (the last ever public snapshot) on its way...
this makes sense in a disturbing way considering what they've done with sourceforge... i'm currently working to get an internal SF system running at my company and VA hasn't been too much help (btw, if anyone here has had luck with it please email me or reply here)... what they basically did when they closed SF was to go and completely rewrite a lot of the backend scripts and relicense them as commercial... now they charge insane amounts of money (at least insane in my opinion) for companies to have them come set up a system for them... since their pricing scheme really didn't click well with what we wanted to set up (they charge per log-in account, and we were going to need a few hundred of those, though not nearly as many concurrent users) we're installing it on our own (using the sf-genericinst package, available on sourceforge.net)... the so-called "SourceForge OpenEdition" is still vapor, and when it does get released it will be missing huge chunks of code... namely things like the database tie-ins, and such...
so basically this all makes sense with the name change... VA (s/Linux/Software/) is no longer the open-source-focused company it once was... it's sad to see things go this way...
i've got a pile of:cue:cats floating around my apartment, most of them with the encryption bypassed with a little solder (thanks to directions from some Flying Butt Monkeys)...
my question is, is anyone really doing something *USEFUL* with these little buggers?... after the initial thoughts of "hey it's cool that i've got a bar-code wedge on my pc now!", i basically didn't use it for anything... i've heard lots of interesting ideas for uses, but what real-world applications have been implemented with them?
at least, as far as my linear algebra class was concerned... you see, the professor happened to have one of those toasty Dell laptops... well one day the computer actually did catch fire, and happened to take out a good bit of the bookshelf , along with a stack of linear quizzes for that week... didn't really affect me personally, since this was fairly early in the quarter and the quiz wasn't all that difficult... it did end up delaying the next quiz though;)
"Finatical" ?... my current theory is that it's a cross between "fanatical" and "financial"... so, perhaps a valid description of rabid MBA candidates...
speakeasy seems to be doing it a little differently, though... AFAIK (and this is largely inferred from their letter yesterday) that they want to help their customers get up-to-date... in the email, they even included links to the various portions of MS's labrynthine website with patch information... but after a certain date (9/23) they're going to shut down the circuits of infected and un-patched systems... i, for one, appreciate the warning and found the links helpful (yes, i use IE under windows for my daily browsing)... i think this is a really good approach, and the few days of warning before getting your circuit pulled is a nice move
I work as a co-op for the Mitre Corporation [www.mitre.org] and last week it was announced on a company email list that about a dozen MITREites are down in NYC helping find people with this cell phone technology. Details have been a little sketchy as to precisely what was being used and such, so it's nice to get that information. I'm really proud to be part of a company doing what we can to help.
for those who are interested, a while ago I also got an interesting little screen seemingly advertising MSN AntiTRUST. this was back in january while MS was still tangled in litigation, and the antitrust movie was just coming out...
Slashdot Mirror
i used IE too, so i suppose that means i have cosined ...
marketing and sales experience makes good bands?
...
funny, i thought it was musical talent
totally ... super smash bros melee is the best reason to have at least 3 friends!
kinda sad to see IBM leaving the hard drive business, seeing as they invented the technology ... ibm came out with winchester drives way the heck ago (dates anyone?), and nary a drive today doesn't use this technology ... i've got two IBM deskstars in my system right now, a 13Gig and a 60 Gig ... the 60 started the "click of death" thing at one point, but after dealing with overheating / underpowering problems and marking those sectors as bad (there were only 2, adjacent, sectors affected), i haven't had any problems with it since ...
... this is akin to ford no longer selling cars, or something ...
...
first PCs, now harddrives
sad to see it go, but hopefully the new company can put out drives of the quality of the IBM of a few years ago
have you *played* Super Smash Bros. Melee?? i'd definitely consider that a killer app for the cube, since that's what convinced me (and helped me convince my fiance) into buying one ... seriously, for our christmas presents to each other we split the cost of the cube, 2 controllers, a memory card, and melee ... excellent purchase, i might add... so, go find 3 friends and beat the living snott out of each other as lovable nintendo characters! :)
garland ... we tied a few hundred old 30-pin simms together (with red and green wire ties) to make some nice garland for our christmas tree ...
it's pretty cool nonethe less, though ... reminds me off the jezzball and pong clones i saw written in zcode, the language used for the original zork series and other text-adventure games ...
just installed it ... thanks for the tip ... seems to be pretty nice, though MathType is a good deal faster ... if nothing else, it's a step in the right direction, so thank you (and no i don't want to learn TeX or LaTeX)
at least, that's how i got my laptop ... it's a p2/300 compaq armada 7400 that i payed $150 for ... my landlord evicted one of his other tenants for not paying rent for 4 months... this tenant promptly left the country with no forwarding information, and left a bunch of stuff in the apartment ... clothes, some dirty old dishes, and a perfectly good (albeit a little old) computer ... the landlord held the stuff for whatever time they're supposed to, and got no claim on it ... not wanting to throw out a computer, he came to us (i live with 3 other CS geeks), and i picked it up and gave her a home ... i've easily spent the original price again over in new parts (cdrom drive, keyboard), but little Lola's been good to me ... runs debian linux great, and can get close to 3 hours battery life if i'm careful... that is, in console mode running xemacs (which i use to take notes in class) w/o cdrom and nic plugged in... and by the way, does anyone know a good graphical equation editor in linux? it would've made taking notes in probability and physics much easier and more useful ...
so if adobe implements an alpha-blending algorithm in photoshop (i know ... very far-fetched idea, right?), are they infringing on apple's patent on alpha-blended computer graphics?
if so, why is apple so excited to have someone breaking their patent?
Take with 2 grains salt and call me in the morning.
i've got to say, just go ahead and ask her out. don't lunge at her drooling "wuh-man!", but in the very least sign your flower/card ... if it's too late to sign the anonymous ones, send her another!! i persoanally went through high school without dating much (read: maybe two weeks total?) ... once i got to college i just went for it a few times, got rejected a few times, got a few girlfriends, got dumped a lot... honestly, it hurt, but i got over it ... and then i just stopped worrying about all that stuff, and watched an amazing romance begin to grow between myself and this very shy friend of mine, whom i'd known for the past year ... it was ten months ago tonight that we met in an au bon pain and decided that we were just going to go for it ... and, well, we're getting married this september :)
... in retrospect, you only regret what you don't do ...
so basically i'm saying, i know what it's like to be the shy guy looking towards that cute girl you've always wanted to talk to
go for it, dude!
really? my armada 7400 claims to only support 128 (which is what it has now) ... cool
I, however, would like to see this expand further. My idea is a community of comic artists / writers publishing under Mad Ink. Instead of a free-and-crappy service like KeenSpace, I envision Mad Ink's members paying a small amount of money just to help keep the site going, much the same way that PnC help pay our hosting costs. With enough interest, a decent co-located server could support a fairly large community. One other thing that I've thought of is making an archive for the ever-increasing number of dead webcomic backlogs out there.
Any thoughts on this? Also if you're a comic-writer and would like to join Mad Ink, please contact me. I'd like to know.
good point ... might be more accurate to suggest that you have two more shirts once the first one solidifies into an amorphous mass?
then again, there's always the "if it's on the *bottom* of the laundry pile, then it must be clean by now!" school of thought
i'd just like to see this work on a console-only system... perhaps a return of ansi art? :)
if you want to help the free sourceforge effort, lend a hand with Debian-SF... let's really get this codebase cranking! 2.5 installs great on woody, 2.6 (the last ever public snapshot) on its way...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with DLT's. The latency is horrible though...
this makes sense in a disturbing way considering what they've done with sourceforge... i'm currently working to get an internal SF system running at my company and VA hasn't been too much help (btw, if anyone here has had luck with it please email me or reply here)... what they basically did when they closed SF was to go and completely rewrite a lot of the backend scripts and relicense them as commercial... now they charge insane amounts of money (at least insane in my opinion) for companies to have them come set up a system for them... since their pricing scheme really didn't click well with what we wanted to set up (they charge per log-in account, and we were going to need a few hundred of those, though not nearly as many concurrent users) we're installing it on our own (using the sf-genericinst package, available on sourceforge.net)... the so-called "SourceForge OpenEdition" is still vapor, and when it does get released it will be missing huge chunks of code... namely things like the database tie-ins, and such...
so basically this all makes sense with the name change... VA (s/Linux/Software/) is no longer the open-source-focused company it once was... it's sad to see things go this way...
i've got a pile of :cue:cats floating around my apartment, most of them with the encryption bypassed with a little solder (thanks to directions from some Flying Butt Monkeys)...
my question is, is anyone really doing something *USEFUL* with these little buggers?... after the initial thoughts of "hey it's cool that i've got a bar-code wedge on my pc now!", i basically didn't use it for anything... i've heard lots of interesting ideas for uses, but what real-world applications have been implemented with them?
at least, as far as my linear algebra class was concerned... you see, the professor happened to have one of those toasty Dell laptops... well one day the computer actually did catch fire, and happened to take out a good bit of the bookshelf , along with a stack of linear quizzes for that week... didn't really affect me personally, since this was fairly early in the quarter and the quiz wasn't all that difficult... it did end up delaying the next quiz though ;)
so would the SMP edition for this be called MultiGrain?
... yum :)
besides, you forgot a very prominent one, and i can hardly believe it!
you forgot honey nut... i basically grew up on honey-nut cheerios and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
it's a honey of an oh-oh-oh-*thunk* ok, i'll stop now...
"Finatical" ? ... my current theory is that it's a cross between "fanatical" and "financial"... so, perhaps a valid description of rabid MBA candidates...
speakeasy seems to be doing it a little differently, though... AFAIK (and this is largely inferred from their letter yesterday) that they want to help their customers get up-to-date... in the email, they even included links to the various portions of MS's labrynthine website with patch information... but after a certain date (9/23) they're going to shut down the circuits of infected and un-patched systems... i, for one, appreciate the warning and found the links helpful (yes, i use IE under windows for my daily browsing) ... i think this is a really good approach, and the few days of warning before getting your circuit pulled is a nice move
I work as a co-op for the Mitre Corporation [www.mitre.org] and last week it was announced on a company email list that about a dozen MITREites are down in NYC helping find people with this cell phone technology. Details have been a little sketchy as to precisely what was being used and such, so it's nice to get that information. I'm really proud to be part of a company doing what we can to help.
maybe i just attract weid banner ads?
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