Perhaps you didn't realize you were actually watching PBS? Remember them, plain old antenna, no cable box, no monthly bill? (except for the pledge drives)
Err, I wasn't expecting that to be an actual camera, I was expecting a link about the camera. But it looks like someone is having fun moving it around. Oh, and your Christmas lights are still on that tree.
The idea is that if anything happens the CCTV operator will record that camera, not that everything records all the time.
"Anything happens", like when four lads suddenly walk up with a drum kit and guitars and start singing at your camera?
As for "not real", you can tell which cuts they filmed themselves because they don't have text on them (aside from the band's watermark in the lower-right corner), and usually they have colour too. Also, a raster effect was added to the handheld shots. The taxi shot, the close-ups, and much of the escalator sequence are clearly done with a handheld camera.
I think it's too bad that they had to add in non-CCTV sequences, but the video would have been a lot blander without them.
One update, I think it was 10.2.9, broke Classic. After re-installing and re-updating the OS, I somehow guessed correctly that it was a problem with the combo updater. So I downloaded the previous version's combo update, and the current non-combo update. Another system re-install and the two updates later, and Classic was working again.
It appears that there is some kind of toilet on the Soyuz module, though I would guess that it probably doesn't have as much capacity or functionality.
The good news is that we're about to send another shuttle up, maybe they can throw some parts in.
But they only have one toilet up there? I mean, sure it's not a "Criticality One" component, but you'd think that would be a good candidate for redundancy.
You want to know a good reason to get a Linux preload? Trying to get Ubuntu to work with a Latitude D830 a few months ago was no fun.
Most of this is from memory, as I won't work there any more, and I'm mostly an OS X user, because I hate wasting my time with things that are broken out of the box.
First was even getting Ubuntu to boot. The current Ubuntu at the time needed to have "all_generic_ide" manually added to the boot parameters to get the Live Install CD to boot at all, or it would drop to a shell prompt with a cryptic error message, because it couldn't see anything on the IDE bus, and it couldn't read anything from the CD that wasn't part of the kernel/ramdisk image.
Next was getting the wireless drivers to work. It uses a Broadcom chipset which doesn't have Linux drivers (or at least not without a lot of work googling and downloading and compiling and configuring unfinished drivers), and when using ndiswrapper with the drivers from the Dell CD, I wasn't able (IIRC) to get it to stick to a particular SSID or enter a WEP key using the Ubuntu GUI setup, and I don't remember having much more success with the command line. Also, changing the network configuration sometimes didn't always change the network address, and while that may have been an Ubuntu bug,laptop didn't ship with Linux, so there was no support beyond pin-the-tail-on-the-user-support-board.
And then there was the trackpad. Goddamn piece of crap trackpad. I'm sure it worked wonderfully under Windows, but Ubuntu's default install set it up in a hyper-sensitive mode, where the cursor whizzed across the screen, and more than the lightest touch was taken as a mouse click. Try to click on something on the menu bar at the top of the screen, and you're likely to launch Firefox as you pass by its tiny little icon. It took me days to come up with an xorg.conf that moved at a decent speed, and turned touch-click completely OFF. (And the way that USB devices get set up for X-Windows under Linux, sequentially numbered in the order they were found, makes configuring trackpads potentially unreliable anyhow. Oops, this time I had a mouse plugged in during boot, so now my trackpad has a different event source number!)
And that's why you should want Linux pre-loaded. Drivers and configuration.
Umm so like you just woke up from a coma and heard about Nolan Bushnell? He hasn't been with Atari since the early '80s. Actually, even Atari hasn't been Atari since the mid '90s or so.
Those weren't even bad sectors. The floppy chips of that era allowed you to write different address marks for a sector (I think four in single density and two in double density), and their drives (which had the controller chip hooked up to the drive's own CPU) would let you read a sector with an alternate address mark, but not write one.
Most people used a drive with different firmware, such as the "Happy" drive. But theoretically all you had to do was run a bit copier on a TRS-80, which had the disk controller on the bus, without the ability to say "no". (I say theoretically because there were a few other wierdnesses such as running the motor slower than normal to get a little extra data on the disc.)
(FWIW, the TRS-80 used the address marks to identify the directory sectors. That way if you changed disks to one with a different number of tracks, or if the head somehow got out of position, it would know immediately that it wasn't reading the directory and then go find it.)
If a game or program requires a downloaded compnent it is pretty easy to make it impossible to play without a network connection. Too bad if you don't have one ready at a moment's notice.
On PowerPC it's possible to set a CD boot password in Open Firmware. (use command-option-O-F at startup to get the Open Firmware command prompt) However, Open Firmware's settings can be reset by changing the amount of RAM in the system (adding/removing a DIMM), so physical access is a problem even there.
I don't even know if there's an equivalent to the Open Firmware command prompt in EFI.
Wow. I have all four versions of the Treasures boxes complete (I and II, floppy and CD), and it looks like Masterpieces has the few missing games like LGoP that weren't on either of those.
Indeed, there is a decent demand for boxes to cartridge games. Maybe it's because people were younger when they played those, as compared to computer games (PC, C64, etc.), maybe it's because it was just so much easier to make a PC game, so there are more of them and it's harder to conceive getting a "complete" collection, or maybe it's just because they were much more likely to get thrown away.
Also, Nintendo's production controls made a big difference. By preventing any serious overstocks, most NES games actually got opened, so shrinkwrapped games are a lot rarer than with pre-crash systems, and the prices collectors are willing to pay for a little bit of crinkly plastic show it.
Looks like geekdom has gone mainstream now. Great. Now I gotta find something else to be. I guess otaku still has a couple of years left, though the folks over in Akihabara are probably going to end up making that mainstream too before long.
And as for 1997, I had a Fidonet BBS back in 1993, then fixed IP DSL since early 2000.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin quickly corrected that and promised continued full funding for both rovers as long as they continue to operate.
That's good to know (I hadn't heard that anywhere), though Spirit is essentially out of commission for a few more months due to winter weather, unless it gets its solar panels cleaned off by wind. Right now it's having a hard enough time just keeping warm.
That wooshing sound is the point going over your head. It would have been a dead server with Windows because Linux has much better thermal performance, due to the way it idles with the halt instruction. Or at least that's the common wisdom and what GP was referring to.
I lost a 1GHz T-bird one day because the heat sink fell off. I was sitting there watching an MPEG-2 with a friend (I had just installed the codec and was trying it out), then CLUNK THUNK, followed by a BSOD, followed by the PC powering down. It turned out that one of the heat sink mounting studs on the socket had broken. And since this was a tower case, the heat sink fell down, off of the CPU.
It was sufficiently old by then that the lowest-end chip I could find to replace it was a 1.3GHz Duron, which I still use. However I replaced the tower with an Antec quiet case, since it is the living room video PC.
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Perhaps you didn't realize you were actually watching PBS? Remember them, plain old antenna, no cable box, no monthly bill? (except for the pledge drives)
NOVA: Magnetic Storm
I guess they're not going to let you make a music video using the footage from this, then?
Err, I wasn't expecting that to be an actual camera, I was expecting a link about the camera. But it looks like someone is having fun moving it around. Oh, and your Christmas lights are still on that tree.
"Anything happens", like when four lads suddenly walk up with a drum kit and guitars and start singing at your camera?
As for "not real", you can tell which cuts they filmed themselves because they don't have text on them (aside from the band's watermark in the lower-right corner), and usually they have colour too. Also, a raster effect was added to the handheld shots. The taxi shot, the close-ups, and much of the escalator sequence are clearly done with a handheld camera.
I think it's too bad that they had to add in non-CCTV sequences, but the video would have been a lot blander without them.
This one seems to be the one posted by the band themselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iuZMEEs_A
One update, I think it was 10.2.9, broke Classic. After re-installing and re-updating the OS, I somehow guessed correctly that it was a problem with the combo updater. So I downloaded the previous version's combo update, and the current non-combo update. Another system re-install and the two updates later, and Classic was working again.
It appears that there is some kind of toilet on the Soyuz module, though I would guess that it probably doesn't have as much capacity or functionality.
The good news is that we're about to send another shuttle up, maybe they can throw some parts in.
But they only have one toilet up there? I mean, sure it's not a "Criticality One" component, but you'd think that would be a good candidate for redundancy.
You want to know a good reason to get a Linux preload? Trying to get Ubuntu to work with a Latitude D830 a few months ago was no fun.
Most of this is from memory, as I won't work there any more, and I'm mostly an OS X user, because I hate wasting my time with things that are broken out of the box.
First was even getting Ubuntu to boot. The current Ubuntu at the time needed to have "all_generic_ide" manually added to the boot parameters to get the Live Install CD to boot at all, or it would drop to a shell prompt with a cryptic error message, because it couldn't see anything on the IDE bus, and it couldn't read anything from the CD that wasn't part of the kernel/ramdisk image.
Next was getting the wireless drivers to work. It uses a Broadcom chipset which doesn't have Linux drivers (or at least not without a lot of work googling and downloading and compiling and configuring unfinished drivers), and when using ndiswrapper with the drivers from the Dell CD, I wasn't able (IIRC) to get it to stick to a particular SSID or enter a WEP key using the Ubuntu GUI setup, and I don't remember having much more success with the command line. Also, changing the network configuration sometimes didn't always change the network address, and while that may have been an Ubuntu bug,laptop didn't ship with Linux, so there was no support beyond pin-the-tail-on-the-user-support-board.
And then there was the trackpad. Goddamn piece of crap trackpad. I'm sure it worked wonderfully under Windows, but Ubuntu's default install set it up in a hyper-sensitive mode, where the cursor whizzed across the screen, and more than the lightest touch was taken as a mouse click. Try to click on something on the menu bar at the top of the screen, and you're likely to launch Firefox as you pass by its tiny little icon. It took me days to come up with an xorg.conf that moved at a decent speed, and turned touch-click completely OFF. (And the way that USB devices get set up for X-Windows under Linux, sequentially numbered in the order they were found, makes configuring trackpads potentially unreliable anyhow. Oops, this time I had a mouse plugged in during boot, so now my trackpad has a different event source number!)
And that's why you should want Linux pre-loaded. Drivers and configuration.
Umm so like you just woke up from a coma and heard about Nolan Bushnell? He hasn't been with Atari since the early '80s. Actually, even Atari hasn't been Atari since the mid '90s or so.
Those weren't even bad sectors. The floppy chips of that era allowed you to write different address marks for a sector (I think four in single density and two in double density), and their drives (which had the controller chip hooked up to the drive's own CPU) would let you read a sector with an alternate address mark, but not write one.
Most people used a drive with different firmware, such as the "Happy" drive. But theoretically all you had to do was run a bit copier on a TRS-80, which had the disk controller on the bus, without the ability to say "no". (I say theoretically because there were a few other wierdnesses such as running the motor slower than normal to get a little extra data on the disc.)
(FWIW, the TRS-80 used the address marks to identify the directory sectors. That way if you changed disks to one with a different number of tracks, or if the head somehow got out of position, it would know immediately that it wasn't reading the directory and then go find it.)
If a game or program requires a downloaded compnent it is pretty easy to make it impossible to play without a network connection. Too bad if you don't have one ready at a moment's notice.
On PowerPC it's possible to set a CD boot password in Open Firmware. (use command-option-O-F at startup to get the Open Firmware command prompt) However, Open Firmware's settings can be reset by changing the amount of RAM in the system (adding/removing a DIMM), so physical access is a problem even there.
I don't even know if there's an equivalent to the Open Firmware command prompt in EFI.
Phoenix Mars Lander Touched Me Liberally
Oh wait, that's kuro5hin.org. Never mind.
Wow. I have all four versions of the Treasures boxes complete (I and II, floppy and CD), and it looks like Masterpieces has the few missing games like LGoP that weren't on either of those.
Indeed, there is a decent demand for boxes to cartridge games. Maybe it's because people were younger when they played those, as compared to computer games (PC, C64, etc.), maybe it's because it was just so much easier to make a PC game, so there are more of them and it's harder to conceive getting a "complete" collection, or maybe it's just because they were much more likely to get thrown away.
Also, Nintendo's production controls made a big difference. By preventing any serious overstocks, most NES games actually got opened, so shrinkwrapped games are a lot rarer than with pre-crash systems, and the prices collectors are willing to pay for a little bit of crinkly plastic show it.
I would, but City of Heroes doesn't have a Mac version.
Looks like geekdom has gone mainstream now. Great. Now I gotta find something else to be. I guess otaku still has a couple of years left, though the folks over in Akihabara are probably going to end up making that mainstream too before long.
And as for 1997, I had a Fidonet BBS back in 1993, then fixed IP DSL since early 2000.
That's why Slashdot has editors to clean up the submissions, and discard the dupes.
Oh, wait...
That's good to know (I hadn't heard that anywhere), though Spirit is essentially out of commission for a few more months due to winter weather, unless it gets its solar panels cleaned off by wind. Right now it's having a hard enough time just keeping warm.
But does it have a helicopter cab which can detach and fly away?
That wooshing sound is the point going over your head. It would have been a dead server with Windows because Linux has much better thermal performance, due to the way it idles with the halt instruction. Or at least that's the common wisdom and what GP was referring to.
I lost a 1GHz T-bird one day because the heat sink fell off. I was sitting there watching an MPEG-2 with a friend (I had just installed the codec and was trying it out), then CLUNK THUNK, followed by a BSOD, followed by the PC powering down. It turned out that one of the heat sink mounting studs on the socket had broken. And since this was a tower case, the heat sink fell down, off of the CPU.
It was sufficiently old by then that the lowest-end chip I could find to replace it was a 1.3GHz Duron, which I still use. However I replaced the tower with an Antec quiet case, since it is the living room video PC.
Great! Once we get the science of neutrinics going, we can make chronoscopes!
Actually the 8086 was first manufactured in 1978. (which is still earlier than I thought)
1972 was when the 8008 was released. (see same link)