I often scan in music from bulky books. I find Scan Tailor (http://scantailor.org/) works pretty well. It lets you crop, unbend, despeckle etc. in a wizard like way. The drawback is that it wierdly insists on TIFF format input and output. So you have to be handy with tools like pdf2pnm, pnmtotiff, tiffcp and tiff2pdf, etc.
It wasn't that long ago that Iceland's only internet access line went via a Scottish high-street that was getting dug up repeatedly, with the inevitable consequences:
I've had one of these for nearly two months now. It runs Ubuntu Gutsy just fine, with all your favourite apps. I'm typing this comment on it, in fact.
It has everything a laptop should (except a CDROM), and plays music, browses the web, runs OpenOffice, etc. It's not helpful to think of it as a "cut-down" or "toy" machine. It's really a pretty standard PC. It generally feels very fast and responsive, perhaps because all the storage is solid state.
It even runs Compiz-fusion flawlessly.
I've been using it over the last couple off weeks as my main machine. My only complaint is that the screen res is low and up-arrow key and right-shift key are too close together, and they have a similar symbol on them.
The main sewage plants for London (Crossness and Beckton), has been burning most of the capital's sewage to make power for several years. According to the link below, they make a little more power than it takes to run the treatment plant. The Crossness station has a really pretty sinusoidal roof.
Well, There is no Cabal. In the novel, there is a Cabal called the Interesting Times Gang, who step in to coordinate the reponse to unusual circumstances.
There is a large portion of Iain M. Bank's "Excession" that is told as a series of communications between distant and powerful AIs. The joy of these pages is that they read pretty much like a cross between IRC logs and usenet digests. The same petty cliques and tendancies are on display. Even a sort of "TINC" concept is there.
Each message is topped and tailed by a fictional, futuristic header and footer with an addressing mechism, timestamp, location and the like.
I think the white headphones look a bit... Medical. They look functional rather than stylish, are highly visible, clean and attached to the person. Like a medical appliance, hearing aid or something.
When I see a pair in use I look out for a white stick or a dog. Know what I mean?
The real fire hazard is due to the insulation on the cables burning or melting and emitting all sorts of poisonous fumes. Older cables are very bad for this. I shudder at the thought of a serious fire in some of the buildings described by posters- if the whole floor void (and presumably the risers) are chock full of all that plastic.
*Some* modern cables are rated LSZH or LS0H- meaning "Low Smoke Zero Halogen" which shows that cable firms are considering this issue.
"Africa" is not a state- it's a continent containing many many independent, sovereign nations - about 50, I think. In this case, the state in question is called "South Africa". They have the state-owned company with this new proposal.
It gives two tables- one for all "sites" and one for just "active sites". The "active sites" table shows Apache pulling ahead by about 1% rather than about 2%. The reason for the difference is the parked domains you mention.
I remember one password for all websites- BUT- I add a few characters from the website name to the password. So I've generated a unique password for each site, but only have to remember one.
e.g. for SlasDot.org the password might be "Sdogn4meD" and for mybank.com it might be "Mdogn4meB", etc etc.
It might be difficult to establish trust for these technologies. If I want to know the temperature in some distant city, how can I be sure that the sensor I address is correctly calibrated, or not resting near a air-con outlet? In fact, there would be no way to tell if the damn thing even exists- it could be a textfile sat on the sever or the local tourist office...
"The Manchester Guardian" changed its name to "The Guardian" in 1959, and moved its offices to London in 1961. It still has that name and location, and has the best weekly TV guide in the business.
So, your elected officials are getting flooded by emails. You find electronic messages a good way to get in touch. Sounds like what the US public need is something like stand.org's system for the UK.
You enter your postcode (eg. SW6 1SJ) and it tells you who your member of parliament is.
You can then enter some text and your address and the damn thing formats and sends your MP a fax. This neatly by-passes his/her email system and results in a hard-to-ignore piece of paper at their end.
The population of the USA is what? 250 million? Canada ain't much more than 30 million.
The population of the European Union is about 350 million. Europe itself is much bigger than the EU. So even if the EU is "behind" in percentage terms it can still be way ahead in total numbers.
I'm a veteran of the Amiga BBS scene. Back in those days, many boards had a download ratio system in place, so that you started off without the ability to download anything, and then for every upload, you got the right to 5 or however many downloads.
Sounds to me like some variant of this could be useful in P2P file-sharing rigs.
Slashdot Mirror
I often scan in music from bulky books. I find Scan Tailor (http://scantailor.org/) works pretty well. It lets you crop, unbend, despeckle etc. in a wizard like way. The drawback is that it wierdly insists on TIFF format input and output. So you have to be handy with tools like pdf2pnm, pnmtotiff, tiffcp and tiff2pdf, etc.
Works really well apart from that.
You could attach it to an email and send to kilf@graffiti.net - cheers!
I'd love to see your script, if you want to make it available.
It wasn't that long ago that Iceland's only internet access line went via a Scottish high-street that was getting dug up repeatedly, with the inevitable consequences:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/iceland_without_broadband/
RFC 2616 is the one to read. It specifies a "410 Gone" for resources that are gone for good.
I've had one of these for nearly two months now. It runs Ubuntu Gutsy just fine, with all your favourite apps. I'm typing this comment on it, in fact.
It has everything a laptop should (except a CDROM), and plays music, browses the web, runs OpenOffice, etc. It's not helpful to think of it as a "cut-down" or "toy" machine. It's really a pretty standard PC. It generally feels very fast and responsive, perhaps because all the storage is solid state.
It even runs Compiz-fusion flawlessly.
I've been using it over the last couple off weeks as my main machine. My only complaint is that the screen res is low and up-arrow key and right-shift key are too close together, and they have a similar symbol on them.
Apple products don't suck, and Microsoft ones do.
The main sewage plants for London (Crossness and Beckton), has been burning most of the capital's sewage to make power for several years. According to the link below, they make a little more power than it takes to run the treatment plant. The Crossness station has a really pretty sinusoidal roof.
o nNarrative.153/chapterId/3192/Bazalgette-and-Londo ns-sewage.html
http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/C
... it's just you.
Video of the hardware panel at NotCon '04, showing a demonstration of the current speccy DemoScene, and playback of a music video off an HD.
o ne.com/notcon04/NotCon-Hardware-hig h.mov
http://quernstone.com/notcon04/
http://quernst
Well, There is no Cabal. In the novel, there is a Cabal called the Interesting Times Gang, who step in to coordinate the reponse to unusual circumstances.
There is a large portion of Iain M. Bank's "Excession" that is told as a series of communications between distant and powerful AIs. The joy of these pages is that they read pretty much like a cross between IRC logs and usenet digests. The same petty cliques and tendancies are on display. Even a sort of "TINC" concept is there.
Each message is topped and tailed by a fictional, futuristic header and footer with an addressing mechism, timestamp, location and the like.
I recommend it to all.
I think the white headphones look a bit... Medical. They look functional rather than stylish, are highly visible, clean and attached to the person. Like a medical appliance, hearing aid or something.
When I see a pair in use I look out for a white stick or a dog. Know what I mean?
The real fire hazard is due to the insulation on the cables burning or melting and emitting all sorts of poisonous fumes. Older cables are very bad for this. I shudder at the thought of a serious fire in some of the buildings described by posters- if the whole floor void (and presumably the risers) are chock full of all that plastic.
*Some* modern cables are rated LSZH or LS0H- meaning "Low Smoke Zero Halogen" which shows that cable firms are considering this issue.
"Africa" is not a state- it's a continent containing many many independent, sovereign nations - about 50, I think. In this case, the state in question is called "South Africa". They have the state-owned company with this new proposal.
Read The Article.
It gives two tables- one for all "sites" and one for just "active sites". The "active sites" table shows Apache pulling ahead by about 1% rather than about 2%. The reason for the difference is the parked domains you mention.
Read The Article.
I remember one password for all websites- BUT- I add a few characters from the website name to the password. So I've generated a unique password for each site, but only have to remember one.
e.g. for SlasDot.org the password might be "Sdogn4meD" and for mybank.com it might be "Mdogn4meB", etc etc.
It might be difficult to establish trust for these technologies. If I want to know the temperature in some distant city, how can I be sure that the sensor I address is correctly calibrated, or not resting near a air-con outlet? In fact, there would be no way to tell if the damn thing even exists- it could be a textfile sat on the sever or the local tourist office...
Read the Register (www.theregister.co.uk).
Somedays slashdot looks like a Register mirror site. This new feature will even establish the familiar Register red colour-scheme.
Worth every penny!
"The Manchester Guardian" changed its name to "The Guardian" in 1959, and moved its offices to London in 1961. It still has that name and location, and has the best weekly TV guide in the business.
You enter your postcode (eg. SW6 1SJ) and it tells you who your member of parliament is.
You can then enter some text and your address and the damn thing formats and sends your MP a fax. This neatly by-passes his/her email system and results in a hard-to-ignore piece of paper at their end.
The population of the USA is what? 250 million? Canada ain't much more than 30 million.
The population of the European Union is about 350 million. Europe itself is much bigger than the EU. So even if the EU is "behind" in percentage terms it can still be way ahead in total numbers.
What are the media companies waiting for? It's
You guys would say that though.
:o)
Anyone who doesn't read the comments isn't going to post here and disagree with you!
Sounds to me like some variant of this could be useful in P2P file-sharing rigs.