Takes a couple days/weeks to really get used to it, but once you do it's difficult to go back to the 'standard' keyboard. I would like one in the chair that is IR run instead of wire run, that would eliminate all of the stopppage due to cable running out at other side of room stuff.
Now I'm going to have to try the Cpt Kirk chair with keyboard installed.
IBM has been into the open source idea for a while now, if only to annoy MS. DB2 is IBM's baby so why are they going after something they already have?
Wishful thinking maybe, but could an open source informix be in the works to put onto their S/390, now z/whatever servers and go after certain other players in the DB field that are not even vaguely threatened by the open source movement.
If I'm sitting at my computer, it doesn't work too well if the monitor and keyboard are 200' away. Have to get up everytime a compile fails and walk over there?
So the rest of the US can use that as a case law. If you did small claims court, each state has to have it's own version of it and while your case will be used as a 'see?' it does not hold weight. This was a California statute, though and the wording may and probably will be different between the states.
But it's worth a try to use it even if you are not in California.
Some of the batteries I've seen are about as wide/long as a laptop and about 1" thick and those last about 12 hours as well. They cost about 150% of a normal lithium battery so have a good cost/benifit ratio, especially for airplanes where the battery size doesn't matter all that much.
It's a good stereo wire set, it carries telephone with the best of them, it's shielded so everything is nice and clean signaled and it's not that expensive at all.
Embrace, extend, destroy. Corporations have saturated most of the ways they can make money, especially the largest ones that have utterly saturated their audience. Sales are flatening, profits flat or decreasing. What is the next logical thing to do?
Make people pay for EACH use of their product. The more dependant the person is upon the product, the better off this stratigy works. Instead of claiming 'fair use' which SHOULD be an exception to any copyright law, try explaining in terms of "you mean if a person in the hospital requires dialisys, not only do they have to pay for the use of the machine which must be maintained, the electricity, which is used each time, but also the SOFTWARE TO RUN IT, which is static and does not diminish with use. Plus, you are mandating that the software company can shut off the software at any time without prior warning, even if this is a life support machine. Is this fair?" and see how willing the legislator is to pass that particular law.
The cost is borne because it is truely advertising costs. If they didn't get those people to use the free services, they wouldn't have as many hits and could not command such a premium for advertising. I believe there will always be free services for as long as there is an internet.
I thought that was what IPv6 was supposed to do. If it's just websites you want, apache has this built into it with virtual hosts, proxy serving and other nifty things.
You can also have only one box with secure shell or something similar with two NICs and the other one is on a network with the other servers you want to get at.
Heat causes weird things to happen with computers. Radio shack and just about every computer store on Earth sell 3" fans that plug into drive power supplies that you can put anywhere in your case. Whenever I get a new computer that is the first thing I get to put in, blowing directly onto wherever the CPU is. If the case supports it, I get two or three of them for the front of the case to blow in and the rear of the case to blow out. Yes, CPUs get HOT and the more air you can move around/over them the better off you are.
As long as there are no strings attached, EVER, this is one area where I wouldn't mind our tax dollars stepping in to help something.
PBS puts out a good programming schedule. It also is not dictated by corporate sponsers.
I don't know how they could do it, so I think I'm going to pony up some more than my yearly contribution to PBS. May not be a whole lot, but if a million others did it as well, this would be a non-issue.
This is a known issue, however, as with all software ensure you trust the source of the rpm. If it's an rpm, you can probably find the rpm at http://rufus.w3.org/ or http://www.freshmeat.net/ and I would look at one or both of those before I went to joessoftware.com and downloaded anything.
As usual, get the source and look for yourself inside to see if there's anything you should be wary of before you build and install. Build as your user and run the program a couple times before you 'make install' as root.
Now with binary rpms, you can use midnight commander, type 'mc' at the command prompt, and you can look into rpms and find out what files are listed, where they are going and you can even get them out of the rpms into your home directory AS THE USER and use the binaries without root permissions. That would limit the damage should one be evil. After you assure yourself it's okay, THEN install as root.
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Takes a couple days/weeks to really get used to it, but once you do it's difficult to go back to the 'standard' keyboard. I would like one in the chair that is IR run instead of wire run, that would eliminate all of the stopppage due to cable running out at other side of room stuff.
Now I'm going to have to try the Cpt Kirk chair with keyboard installed.
DanH
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Now if we could get Estees to mass produce some of these ideas, we could get some newer models and ideas.
DanH
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I wonder which gives them the highest electric bill, the servers themselves or the airconditioner required to do it?
I'd just give up and get a handful of S/390s and do the same thing.
DanH
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I see all the negative moderators are out in force today...
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IBM has been into the open source idea for a while now, if only to annoy MS. DB2 is IBM's baby so why are they going after something they already have?
Wishful thinking maybe, but could an open source informix be in the works to put onto their S/390, now z/whatever servers and go after certain other players in the DB field that are not even vaguely threatened by the open source movement.
It's an idea.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
The Washington Post has what little there is to tell on this page
A killer whale looking thing flying at 65,000 feet. I cannot wait to hear what the UFO watchers have to say about this
DanH
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1 year ago we were breaking 1GHz for speed and today we're pushing 2GHz.
Does the name Moore ring a bell with you?
DanH
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My point exactly.
DanH
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If I'm sitting at my computer, it doesn't work too well if the monitor and keyboard are 200' away. Have to get up everytime a compile fails and walk over there?
DanH
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Is it Wednesday already?
And me without any soap.
DanH
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Does that mean that I can run benchmark tests and publish my data with full disclosure as an anonymous entity and not get sued?
DanH
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So the rest of the US can use that as a case law. If you did small claims court, each state has to have it's own version of it and while your case will be used as a 'see?' it does not hold weight. This was a California statute, though and the wording may and probably will be different between the states.
But it's worth a try to use it even if you are not in California.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
It wouldn't be "smalltalk" now would it?
DanH
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Some of the batteries I've seen are about as wide/long as a laptop and about 1" thick and those last about 12 hours as well. They cost about 150% of a normal lithium battery so have a good cost/benifit ratio, especially for airplanes where the battery size doesn't matter all that much.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
It's a good stereo wire set, it carries telephone with the best of them, it's shielded so everything is nice and clean signaled and it's not that expensive at all.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Embrace, extend, destroy. Corporations have saturated most of the ways they can make money, especially the largest ones that have utterly saturated their audience. Sales are flatening, profits flat or decreasing. What is the next logical thing to do?
Make people pay for EACH use of their product. The more dependant the person is upon the product, the better off this stratigy works. Instead of claiming 'fair use' which SHOULD be an exception to any copyright law, try explaining in terms of "you mean if a person in the hospital requires dialisys, not only do they have to pay for the use of the machine which must be maintained, the electricity, which is used each time, but also the SOFTWARE TO RUN IT, which is static and does not diminish with use. Plus, you are mandating that the software company can shut off the software at any time without prior warning, even if this is a life support machine. Is this fair?" and see how willing the legislator is to pass that particular law.
DanH
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However, it does become a tower of babble when there are more scripting interepters and compilers on your hard drive than there are programs.
Updating an OS is bad enough as it is without the need to update all the subordinate things associated with a language update.
DanH
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Are you talking about the same Washington Post that has demonized hackers for years?
I guess a blind squirrel DOES get an acorn every once in a while.
Now if the Post would just put the political commentary where it belongs, in the Op-Eds and leave it out of their reporting...
DanH
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The cost is borne because it is truely advertising costs. If they didn't get those people to use the free services, they wouldn't have as many hits and could not command such a premium for advertising. I believe there will always be free services for as long as there is an internet.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
I thought that was what IPv6 was supposed to do. If it's just websites you want, apache has this built into it with virtual hosts, proxy serving and other nifty things.
You can also have only one box with secure shell or something similar with two NICs and the other one is on a network with the other servers you want to get at.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
RoblimoSapiens?
DanH
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Heat causes weird things to happen with computers. Radio shack and just about every computer store on Earth sell 3" fans that plug into drive power supplies that you can put anywhere in your case. Whenever I get a new computer that is the first thing I get to put in, blowing directly onto wherever the CPU is. If the case supports it, I get two or three of them for the front of the case to blow in and the rear of the case to blow out. Yes, CPUs get HOT and the more air you can move around/over them the better off you are.
DanH
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Or is it copyrighted and you're not allowed to download it without payint RIAA a gizillion dollars of which the astronaut gets $1.98(CAN)
DanH
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As long as there are no strings attached, EVER, this is one area where I wouldn't mind our tax dollars stepping in to help something.
PBS puts out a good programming schedule. It also is not dictated by corporate sponsers.
I don't know how they could do it, so I think I'm going to pony up some more than my yearly contribution to PBS. May not be a whole lot, but if a million others did it as well, this would be a non-issue.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
This is a known issue, however, as with all software ensure you trust the source of the rpm. If it's an rpm, you can probably find the rpm at http://rufus.w3.org/ or http://www.freshmeat.net/ and I would look at one or both of those before I went to joessoftware.com and downloaded anything.
As usual, get the source and look for yourself inside to see if there's anything you should be wary of before you build and install. Build as your user and run the program a couple times before you 'make install' as root.
Now with binary rpms, you can use midnight commander, type 'mc' at the command prompt, and you can look into rpms and find out what files are listed, where they are going and you can even get them out of the rpms into your home directory AS THE USER and use the binaries without root permissions. That would limit the damage should one be evil. After you assure yourself it's okay, THEN install as root.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page