I've been the "hero of the day" at Starbucks a few times when I'm on the road because I carry a power strip in my laptop bag. I'll plug in my power strip, and then invite anybody nearby who wants to plug in.
I have a picture on my web site of one night in a hotel room where between my wife and I we had plugged in two laptops, two PDAs, two cell phones, two digital camera battery chargers, a video camera, and an iPod.
I have a G4 server, and besides the looks, the design is unbelievably good. You open the side panel (with no tools, I might add), and the motherboard is sitting there horizontally on the table, the drives are in position vertically on the case, and the cables are all routed down along the hinge line out of the way. Compare and contrast to the forest of power cables, IDE cables and other stuff (like the sound cable that goes between the sound card and the CD-ROM) cluttering up the inside of a PC case. It's a thing of beauty. Adding RAM or hard drives or taking out a zip drive to put in a DVD burner is a positive pleasure in a Mac G4 compared to the swearing and knuckle bashing I endure with a PC case.
I always thought that making your hard drives the masters and your CDs the slaves was the preferred arrangement? At least, that's what it said in one of the readmes in the kernel source last time I checked.
I upgrade over the weekend, and now I can't access anything on the secondary IDE controller without major problems - my load average when I woke up this morning was over 230. This hardware has been perfectly stable for 2 years.
hdc: dma timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: DMA timeout error hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 {Busy} ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: DMA disabled ide1: reset: success hdc: irq timeout: status-0x80 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown ide: reset: success ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 19789 does not match to the expected one 1
We had nuclear missiles hidden in trucks rolling all over the country on our highways for most of the Cold War.
We did? Not that anybody has admitted in public. When they proposed such a basing system for the MX, it was shouted down for security and safety reasons.
because they seemed to think that it anything which makes nuclear storage safer will only encourage its use
Hey, that's right out of the Karl Rove playbook: Never attribute your enemy's motives to the rational reason they give when you can make up a totally irrational reason instead.
Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats in Minnesota don't particularly want trucks full of nuclear waste driving down the Interstates, where it could be hijacked by terrorists or spread all over the country side by an accident?
You're lucky. Around here the car mechanics use the same tool for everything. "Me bash car computer with hammer, it not fix. Me order replacement part. It not cover by warranty."
The first generation of the firmware on the Pro14N basically sucked under artificial light (but was good to excellent under natural light), but the image scientists at work say that the latest version is much, much better. As good as the 8Mpxl Canons, anyway. I can't wait until they get this new camera to compare against - maybe they'll let me borrow it for next year's Oshkosh.
Maybe if you looked past the marketing hype, Kodak has had a 14 megapixel professional camera with a full 35mm CCD for a couple of years now. I used it to take pictures at AirVenture 2003. (Unfortunately I got the CCD dirty before I took it out there, and didn't notice until it was too late.)
Two reasons, actually. You guessed the "more ads" reason already. A book I read about web design some years ago said that user studies proved that many users either don't like to or don't know how to use scroll bars, and won't scroll down to read more, but will click a "next page" link. That's why MS-NBC (I think it's them) has an opening paragraph and then an advertising graphic but a link at the bottom of the opening paragraph to the rest of the article that just jumps down to the rest of the page below the advertisement.
I don't know if this reluctance/inability to use scroll bars still true - I suspect it's not, and that web users have gotten a tiny bit more sophisticated, but these big companies have web design guidelines that haven't kept up.
Your elitism wouldn't sound so stupid and hypocritical if you knew how to spell "biased".
The fact remains that she had a task to do, and IE made it easy and Firefox made it harder, so she decided to stick with IE. That doesn't make her dumb, just focused.
I wish somebody would port mozex to Mac OS X. (And no, I don't think I could manage it myself)
I introduced my step-daughter's girl friend to Firefox when she was complaining about all the pop-ups in IE, but after about 5 minutes she switched back to IE. The only reason: In IE you can copy an image to the clip buffer and paste it into Photoshop or some other graphic program (she was grabbing pictures to make her Livejournal icons), but in Firefox (and Mozilla) you have to save the image and then open it in Photoshop as an extra step. Evidently managing all those little files was more effort to her than dismissing all the popups.
One of the factors that Bucky put a lot of weight on was air-portability. He thought that if the house was self-sufficient enough to not need to be on the grid, then it should be light enough that you could drop if off in the wilderness somewhere without roads.
Bucky was a bit of a loon, but I happen to agree with him in a some ways. I don't care what my suburban home weighs as long as the utility bills are low, but if I were building a cottage, building with native materials (rock, wood, etc) or light weight materials would be a higher priority, especially since some of the sites I have in mind are only accessible by boat.
It looks so much like a Buckminister Fuller Dymaxion House that it's scary. Not the one that's in the Henry Ford Museum, but a different design that suspended the whole structure from a central pole. It was also designed to be as self-sufficient as possible, and designed from light-weight materials so it could be air-lifted into place.
Yeah, batteries do that. Over the course of two years of heavy daily use, my Powerbook's useful life went from 5 hours to about 45 minutes. I bought a new battery and it's back up to 5 hours again.
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I've been the "hero of the day" at Starbucks a few times when I'm on the road because I carry a power strip in my laptop bag. I'll plug in my power strip, and then invite anybody nearby who wants to plug in.
I have a picture on my web site of one night in a hotel room where between my wife and I we had plugged in two laptops, two PDAs, two cell phones, two digital camera battery chargers, a video camera, and an iPod.
...that they're going to have the Internet over phone lines next year.
I have a G4 server, and besides the looks, the design is unbelievably good. You open the side panel (with no tools, I might add), and the motherboard is sitting there horizontally on the table, the drives are in position vertically on the case, and the cables are all routed down along the hinge line out of the way. Compare and contrast to the forest of power cables, IDE cables and other stuff (like the sound cable that goes between the sound card and the CD-ROM) cluttering up the inside of a PC case. It's a thing of beauty. Adding RAM or hard drives or taking out a zip drive to put in a DVD burner is a positive pleasure in a Mac G4 compared to the swearing and knuckle bashing I endure with a PC case.
How long have you been reading Slashdot again?
"Gimpse.cx" ISAGN.
Oh, yuk. Can I turn that off?
There is a CD-ROM on there.
I always thought that making your hard drives the masters and your CDs the slaves was the preferred arrangement? At least, that's what it said in one of the readmes in the kernel source last time I checked.
Yeah, that's my plan for tonight. I'm hoping that one of the Knoppix CDs I have kicking around here is usign a 2.4 kernel.
See my blog at http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
The drive was fine 15 minutes before I upgraded, and dying 15 minutes after? Strange coincidence.
I upgrade over the weekend, and now I can't access anything on the secondary IDE controller without major problems - my load average when I woke up this morning was over 230. This hardware has been perfectly stable for 2 years.
hdc: dma timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 {Busy}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: DMA disabled
ide1: reset: success
hdc: irq timeout: status-0x80 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ide: reset: success
ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 19789 does not match to
the expected one 1
We had nuclear missiles hidden in trucks rolling all over the country on our highways for most of the Cold War.
We did? Not that anybody has admitted in public. When they proposed such a basing system for the MX, it was shouted down for security and safety reasons.
because they seemed to think that it anything which makes nuclear storage safer will only encourage its use
Hey, that's right out of the Karl Rove playbook:
Never attribute your enemy's motives to the rational reason they give when you can make up a totally irrational reason instead.
Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats in Minnesota don't particularly want trucks full of nuclear waste driving down the Interstates, where it could be hijacked by terrorists or spread all over the country side by an accident?
You're lucky. Around here the car mechanics use the same tool for everything. "Me bash car computer with hammer, it not fix. Me order replacement part. It not cover by warranty."
The first generation of the firmware on the Pro14N basically sucked under artificial light (but was good to excellent under natural light), but the image scientists at work say that the latest version is much, much better. As good as the 8Mpxl Canons, anyway. I can't wait until they get this new camera to compare against - maybe they'll let me borrow it for next year's Oshkosh.
Maybe if you looked past the marketing hype, Kodak has had a 14 megapixel professional camera with a full 35mm CCD for a couple of years now. I used it to take pictures at AirVenture 2003. (Unfortunately I got the CCD dirty before I took it out there, and didn't notice until it was too late.)
Two reasons, actually. You guessed the "more ads" reason already. A book I read about web design some years ago said that user studies proved that many users either don't like to or don't know how to use scroll bars, and won't scroll down to read more, but will click a "next page" link. That's why MS-NBC (I think it's them) has an opening paragraph and then an advertising graphic but a link at the bottom of the opening paragraph to the rest of the article that just jumps down to the rest of the page below the advertisement.
I don't know if this reluctance/inability to use scroll bars still true - I suspect it's not, and that web users have gotten a tiny bit more sophisticated, but these big companies have web design guidelines that haven't kept up.
Your elitism wouldn't sound so stupid and hypocritical if you knew how to spell "biased".
The fact remains that she had a task to do, and IE made it easy and Firefox made it harder, so she decided to stick with IE. That doesn't make her dumb, just focused.
Shouldn't you be getting to your "Nazis for Bush" meeting?
I wish somebody would port mozex to Mac OS X. (And no, I don't think I could manage it myself)
I introduced my step-daughter's girl friend to Firefox when she was complaining about all the pop-ups in IE, but after about 5 minutes she switched back to IE. The only reason: In IE you can copy an image to the clip buffer and paste it into Photoshop or some other graphic program (she was grabbing pictures to make her Livejournal icons), but in Firefox (and Mozilla) you have to save the image and then open it in Photoshop as an extra step. Evidently managing all those little files was more effort to her than dismissing all the popups.
The first death throe of Slashdot is idiots who don't know how to spell throe.
Hey look everybody, it's Wes Borg. Or at least his joke.
One of the factors that Bucky put a lot of weight on was air-portability. He thought that if the house was self-sufficient enough to not need to be on the grid, then it should be light enough that you could drop if off in the wilderness somewhere without roads.
Bucky was a bit of a loon, but I happen to agree with him in a some ways. I don't care what my suburban home weighs as long as the utility bills are low, but if I were building a cottage, building with native materials (rock, wood, etc) or light weight materials would be a higher priority, especially since some of the sites I have in mind are only accessible by boat.
It looks so much like a Buckminister Fuller Dymaxion House that it's scary. Not the one that's in the Henry Ford Museum, but a different design that suspended the whole structure from a central pole. It was also designed to be as self-sufficient as possible, and designed from light-weight materials so it could be air-lifted into place.
But you Unix types wouldn't bat an eye if the text read "...replacing Windows 95 with emacs!"
As long as it came with vmlinux.el.
Yeah, batteries do that. Over the course of two years of heavy daily use, my Powerbook's useful life went from 5 hours to about 45 minutes. I bought a new battery and it's back up to 5 hours again.