Sometimes it is age. My 4+ year old APEX (yes, the first APEX DVD player, secret menu and all) does NOT pause at all during layer switch.
The only reasons I replaced the APEX is it's not progressive scan and it has some problems with DVD-A (somewhere along the line these stopped being pute dts streams). My $350 (well, $350 retail MSRP) JVC does pause on layer switch (albeit only for a fraction of a second), as does my $150 Philips DVD/SACD player.
Well, my idea was the guy's down there with his laptop hacking perl/java/whatever, not needing internet access. Just looking for a nice environemnt to work in.
I have a job which allows me to telecommute 85% of the time, if not more.
When I lived in an appartment (and was married) I used to go into the office two or three times a week, only stay home if there was a lot of Phone Work, because if I'm going to be on the phone for 8 hours I'd rather be able to walk around, get a drink, play with the cats, etc.
When I moved into a house (almost 2 years ago), I set up an office in the basement. I barely go into the 'real' office now. I think I've only been in 20 times this year, and that was mostly to drop off expense reports (they need originals, yes I could mail them but what the hell).
Also, because of 'reorganizations', my work schedule became way more busy and erratic - quite often I have two hours in the morning and two in after-hours, so I may as well just stay home.
I get my human interaction because I have a dog, and I take her on a nice 2+ hour run every day. We go to the same park every day (scorching heat or sub-freezing). You get to meet quite a few people that way who for the most part have some common interests. I've made some good friends.
So, here's my advice.
If you _can_ seperate worksapce and living space, do it.
Go out for lunch, or for coffee, or something. Take breaks.
You probably have a laptop. You can head down to a coffeeshop or a Barnes and Noble or something and do some work there, in a different environment. Change the scenery.
I like to have music going when I work (at home). Maybe that'll help you too.
Get some outside activities! Go hang out at B&N. Have movie nights with friends. Get a dog (:
I've used tcsh forever (well, I used sh and csh first, but...)
I like tcsh as my interactive shell. Honestly, I can get bash to ack exactly the same as tcsh, except that I don't know how to do reverse-video in the prompt. But I still like tcsh. I'm used to it.
If I need to do actual scripting, I use perl. Or ksh, because all the Solaris boxes at work have ksh, but not all of them have bash and/or tcsh (new ones do, but you can't rely on that).
It did suck. I spent many a birthday in an oxygen tent.
I was told that it's supposed to pass by the time you're 6. I had it till I was 13. Doctors said it was because my parents smoked. Told them not to smoke near me, but they never listened!
I fon't care if Corporate decided to use Exchange. I'm not in charge of keeping it up, it's not my ass if it gets hacked, and I don't get paged at 4am when it goes down again.
What I want is not to have to use Outlook.
I _hate_ Outlook. I actually don't use it on a regular basis - I use fetchmail to grab Email and then read it with Pine.
The problem is calendars.
I figured out that Outlooks/Exchange have a nice little signature on Calendar items. They looks like regular Emails except they have a *~*~*~*~*~ pattern in them. So I can get Pine (or procmail or whatever) to grab them and stick them in whatever the hell I decided I want to use for calendaring.
But I can't actually send out an "Accept" or "Reject", not can I maintain my calendar on the server. I need to run Outlook for those.
I've found no software that'll let me do that. And no, Ximian and Bynari software don't work as they all require Outlook Web Services to be enabled.
DLed it last night, and built it. Looked fine - I like that the make xconfig is no longer really REALLY ugly, but xinerama seemed to confuse it (;
Anyway, I couldn't get the nvidia viddeo drivers to build for it, and it WAS 4am, so I'm back to 2.4.20, and maybe I'll play with it later. Hoping someone already did it and feels like posting. (:
Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems (the tales, mostly; I'm not big on poetry)
I'm not too big on poetry either, but Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few exceptions.
I'm not just talking about poems like The Raven, which despite being a bit too well-known is still amazing. Here's a short one:
To Sciense ----------
Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art,
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why prayest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, who's wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in wandering To seek treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the manadryad from the wood To seek shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind-tree?
"Space Western" works for almost any SciFi show. It was the original description for Star Trek.
While Firefly did have a lot of semi-low-tech frontier-town-like adventures, they balanced it off fairly well showing the high-tech rich worlds.
It's a real shame the pilot didn't air first. The pilot clearly showed that there are bery highly advanced worlds, full of high-tech. Unfortunately, many people don't like the opressive governemnt running these worlds and have relocated to distant frontier worlds, where they aren't as supressed by the government, but also don't have access to much of the advanced tech.
Firefly was a very well-made show. Fox chose to push the Space Western aspect, airing the more space-westerny episodes first. I guess they thought that'd be the show's gimmik, rather than really good writing and character development.
Anyway, yes, Firefly was a "space western", but not "just a space western". I think a better description would be "Really well written space western".
Another good description would be "The Anti Startrek". The ship actually has a bathroom, for goodnessake.
I dunno, I've always enjoyed going to Home Depot. The people there are actually really nice and friendly and really helpful. I've never had to carry heavy things to the register - if it's too big I get them to help me. Never had a problem with that.
Occasionally, when I'd got smallish items that they couldn't find the SKU for, they just gave 'em to me for free.
They're also closer by a large margin than any other hardware store. Well, big ones, anyway, there's a small Ace a bit closer.
Do what I did - tell them it's a picture of your wife.
Course with me it actually is a picture of my wife, and it's a nice big printout I made at home, but relative to the size of my cubicle it looked like a poster...
I used to work for a modem manufacturor once. We had a data/fax/voice modem - and this is the old pre-Windows days, so we had our own proprietary software for the voice part.
It did the usual Replace-The-Answering-Machine stuff, with optional voice mail boxes, etc. Neat stuff.
One day they sent me a version of the software that was translated to English and asked me to test it. One of the things I did was replace the standard messages (like "You have reached an automated answering device") with... well... interesting messages. Such as me singing the Vampire version of "Heartbreak Hotel" ("Bloodbank Hotel") complete with fake Hungarian accent.
They shipped the floppy (yes, floppy) I was testing on to the customer.
When I got my DirecTV system, the installer came over and said that there was no way it'll work, because of the trees. He didn't even bother checking. I have the dish up now (self-install... well... I got my boss to come over and install it for me). It's pointing RIGHT INTO a huge maple, and I get excellent signal.
Which is all a moot point for you right now, really...
Anyway. Are you sure you can't do a lifetime subscription with DirecTiVo? I recall being offered that when I signed up.
Also, while it's true proces can go up, they've recently gone way down - the TiVo part of DirecTiVo is now like $5/month.
(A) TiVo has commercial-skip, but it's disabled by default. It's not really a hack since it's built-in. You hit Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select on your remote, and one of the buttons is transformed into 30-second skip. Works wonderfully.
(B) You can fit an ethernet card in TiVo. With software version 3 and a Series 2 TiVo it's not even a hack - builtin USB port and builtin ethernet support means you can plug a USB Ethernet adapter into your TiVo.
Either way, TiVo has a lot more, uh, aftermarket products available. You _can_ do the whole adding-harddrives thing to ReplayTV too, but it's a lot more accessible with TiVo.
Also, you've got the TiVo+DirecTV combination, which is what put it over the top for me. Capture the MPEG stream rather than recompress, and dual tuners.
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Sometimes it is age. My 4+ year old APEX (yes, the first APEX DVD player, secret menu and all) does NOT pause at all during layer switch.
The only reasons I replaced the APEX is it's not progressive scan and it has some problems with DVD-A (somewhere along the line these stopped being pute dts streams). My $350 (well, $350 retail MSRP) JVC does pause on layer switch (albeit only for a fraction of a second), as does my $150 Philips DVD/SACD player.
Well, my idea was the guy's down there with his laptop hacking perl/java/whatever, not needing internet access. Just looking for a nice environemnt to work in.
*grins*
Dogs are, indeed, awesome.
I've been known to sit outside, under a tree, with the dog running around and a laptop on my lap, and get some work done.
However, since I live in Minnesota, I won't be doing that for the next 4-5 months.
You can go to a Starbucks, pay the $2-$4 they charge for a drink and nurse it for hours and hours. It's not really that big a deal.
Or you can go to a library. Libraries are also awesome. Being surrounded by books... well, maybe that's just me (:
I had a wife for five years, and for now I'm /perfectly/ happy with the dog! Oh, and a succession of non-commital relationships.
I'm going to assume your wife respects boundries, and doesn't come into your work area constantly and just sit there and STARE at you.
I've ver happy that the whole marriage/kids thing is working out for you, but it's not for everyone. (:
I have a job which allows me to telecommute 85% of the time, if not more.
When I lived in an appartment (and was married) I used to go into the office two or three times a week, only stay home if there was a lot of Phone Work, because if I'm going to be on the phone for 8 hours I'd rather be able to walk around, get a drink, play with the cats, etc.
When I moved into a house (almost 2 years ago), I set up an office in the basement. I barely go into the 'real' office now. I think I've only been in 20 times this year, and that was mostly to drop off expense reports (they need originals, yes I could mail them but what the hell).
Also, because of 'reorganizations', my work schedule became way more busy and erratic - quite often I have two hours in the morning and two in after-hours, so I may as well just stay home.
I get my human interaction because I have a dog, and I take her on a nice 2+ hour run every day. We go to the same park every day (scorching heat or sub-freezing). You get to meet quite a few people that way who for the most part have some common interests. I've made some good friends.
So, here's my advice.
If you _can_ seperate worksapce and living space, do it.
Go out for lunch, or for coffee, or something. Take breaks.
You probably have a laptop. You can head down to a coffeeshop or a Barnes and Noble or something and do some work there, in a different environment. Change the scenery.
I like to have music going when I work (at home). Maybe that'll help you too.
Get some outside activities! Go hang out at B&N. Have movie nights with friends. Get a dog (:
Good Luck!
Hey, neat. Thanks!
*waits for lameness filter to time out... doot dee doot...*
That's what I'll be doing.
I've used tcsh forever (well, I used sh and csh first, but...)
I like tcsh as my interactive shell. Honestly, I can get bash to ack exactly the same as tcsh, except that I don't know how to do reverse-video in the prompt. But I still like tcsh. I'm used to it.
If I need to do actual scripting, I use perl. Or ksh, because all the Solaris boxes at work have ksh, but not all of them have bash and/or tcsh (new ones do, but you can't rely on that).
I've got two copies, want one?
It did suck. I spent many a birthday in an oxygen tent.
I was told that it's supposed to pass by the time you're 6. I had it till I was 13. Doctors said it was because my parents smoked. Told them not to smoke near me, but they never listened!
I fon't care if Corporate decided to use Exchange. I'm not in charge of keeping it up, it's not my ass if it gets hacked, and I don't get paged at 4am when it goes down again.
What I want is not to have to use Outlook.
I _hate_ Outlook. I actually don't use it on a regular basis - I use fetchmail to grab Email and then read it with Pine.
The problem is calendars.
I figured out that Outlooks/Exchange have a nice little signature on Calendar items. They looks like regular Emails except they have a *~*~*~*~*~ pattern in them. So I can get Pine (or procmail or whatever) to grab them and stick them in whatever the hell I decided I want to use for calendaring.
But I can't actually send out an "Accept" or "Reject", not can I maintain my calendar on the server. I need to run Outlook for those.
I've found no software that'll let me do that. And no, Ximian and Bynari software don't work as they all require Outlook Web Services to be enabled.
Anyone know of software that can do that?
I had the same disease, and throught the same thing.
by the way, how old were you when it finally went away?
DLed it last night, and built it. Looked fine - I like that the make xconfig is no longer really REALLY ugly, but xinerama seemed to confuse it (;
Anyway, I couldn't get the nvidia viddeo drivers to build for it, and it WAS 4am, so I'm back to 2.4.20, and maybe I'll play with it later. Hoping someone already did it and feels like posting. (:
You said:
Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems (the tales, mostly; I'm not big on poetry)
I'm not too big on poetry either, but Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few exceptions.
I'm not just talking about poems like The Raven, which despite being a bit too well-known is still amazing. Here's a short one:
To Sciense
----------
Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art,
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why prayest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, who's wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in wandering
To seek treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the manadryad from the wood
To seek shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind-tree?
I dunno, I remember seeing mirrors next to Kirk's bed, but never an actual bathroom.
"Space Western" works for almost any SciFi show. It was the original description for Star Trek.
While Firefly did have a lot of semi-low-tech frontier-town-like adventures, they balanced it off fairly well showing the high-tech rich worlds.
It's a real shame the pilot didn't air first. The pilot clearly showed that there are bery highly advanced worlds, full of high-tech. Unfortunately, many people don't like the opressive governemnt running these worlds and have relocated to distant frontier worlds, where they aren't as supressed by the government, but also don't have access to much of the advanced tech.
Firefly was a very well-made show. Fox chose to push the Space Western aspect, airing the more space-westerny episodes first. I guess they thought that'd be the show's gimmik, rather than really good writing and character development.
Anyway, yes, Firefly was a "space western", but not "just a space western". I think a better description would be "Really well written space western".
Another good description would be "The Anti Startrek". The ship actually has a bathroom, for goodnessake.
I dunno, I've always enjoyed going to Home Depot. The people there are actually really nice and friendly and really helpful. I've never had to carry heavy things to the register - if it's too big I get them to help me. Never had a problem with that.
Occasionally, when I'd got smallish items that they couldn't find the SKU for, they just gave 'em to me for free.
They're also closer by a large margin than any other hardware store. Well, big ones, anyway, there's a small Ace a bit closer.
Must... escape... $4.95... monthly... fee!!!!
Do what I did - tell them it's a picture of your wife.
Course with me it actually is a picture of my wife, and it's a nice big printout I made at home, but relative to the size of my cubicle it looked like a poster...
Um, dude... 'bits' don't look realistic in _real_ porn right now.
I used to work for a modem manufacturor once. We had a data/fax/voice modem - and this is the old pre-Windows days, so we had our own proprietary software for the voice part.
It did the usual Replace-The-Answering-Machine stuff, with optional voice mail boxes, etc. Neat stuff.
One day they sent me a version of the software that was translated to English and asked me to test it. One of the things I did was replace the standard messages (like "You have reached an automated answering device") with... well... interesting messages. Such as me singing the Vampire version of "Heartbreak Hotel" ("Bloodbank Hotel") complete with fake Hungarian accent.
They shipped the floppy (yes, floppy) I was testing on to the customer.
I hear they actually liked it, though...
Oh man, sorry to hear about your house.
When I got my DirecTV system, the installer came over and said that there was no way it'll work, because of the trees. He didn't even bother checking. I have the dish up now (self-install... well... I got my boss to come over and install it for me). It's pointing RIGHT INTO a huge maple, and I get excellent signal.
Which is all a moot point for you right now, really...
Anyway. Are you sure you can't do a lifetime subscription with DirecTiVo? I recall being offered that when I signed up.
Also, while it's true proces can go up, they've recently gone way down - the TiVo part of DirecTiVo is now like $5/month.
(A) TiVo has commercial-skip, but it's disabled by default. It's not really a hack since it's built-in. You hit Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select on your remote, and one of the buttons is transformed into 30-second skip. Works wonderfully.
(B) You can fit an ethernet card in TiVo. With software version 3 and a Series 2 TiVo it's not even a hack - builtin USB port and builtin ethernet support means you can plug a USB Ethernet adapter into your TiVo.
Either way, TiVo has a lot more, uh, aftermarket products available. You _can_ do the whole adding-harddrives thing to ReplayTV too, but it's a lot more accessible with TiVo.
Also, you've got the TiVo+DirecTV combination, which is what put it over the top for me. Capture the MPEG stream rather than recompress, and dual tuners.
I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to recall from my TiVo-Research days that there is no TiVo that will record HDTV.
Then again that might just be in the DirecTV world.