Something I personally would like to see is all the ports on the back of the board turned into headers, with ribbon cables to mount the ports anywhere you want. You could put them in a row on the back, and only use the ones you need or want.
Good point. I have an EPIA MII and it has plenty of headers onboard, such as parallel, extra USB, extra 1394, LVDS. I find most of the back-panel ports useful so I don't mind the current setup. The problem is getting those extra dongles for the actual ports; in the end the headers are just non-standard variants, and who wants non-standard? For example, if I want a parallel port on my MII, I'll either have to buy one made by VIA or roll my own, neither of which is the most convenient option.
I work as a highschool teacher, and my family name means 'willow'. A couple of my students gave me a card from a series of Druidic tree horoscopes, this one featuring the willow.
In the evening I had a date with a wonderful geek girl.:)
I keep my browser window relatively narrow, usually slightly less than 800 pixels. Reading text is much easier that way, that's why it's often divided into columns.
I started to wonder how this could be possible for us geeks, and no, CRT tan does not count. However, you can accomplish this quite easily: just divide your sins by your causes.
Yes, Sharpies are solvent-based. Look for water-based inks.
I thought water is also a solvent? The article should make it clear which solvents are bad; though it is hinted that alcohol is better than aromatic solvents (which usually means xylene or toluene).
Even though they look identical the system has two separate ports for keyboard and mouse. Why? There is no logical reason (except bad engineering) for this, and definitely does not help usability
They use a different pin for data. Laptops have a single PS/2 connector which works for both mice and keyboards, and with a splitter cable they can be plugged in at the same time.
The question is, why don't all PS/2 ports have both data pins? I guess you could confuse your system with, say, two keyboards, because the system can't handle them separately. Thus I agree that USB would be a lot better.
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I cringe at that use of 'physically'. Are you saying that burning DVDs is not a physical process? If so, is it something supernatural?
What's a normal ITX? I've never seen one. (Posting from a Mini-ITX.)
Good point. I have an EPIA MII and it has plenty of headers onboard, such as parallel, extra USB, extra 1394, LVDS. I find most of the back-panel ports useful so I don't mind the current setup. The problem is getting those extra dongles for the actual ports; in the end the headers are just non-standard variants, and who wants non-standard? For example, if I want a parallel port on my MII, I'll either have to buy one made by VIA or roll my own, neither of which is the most convenient option.
*ducks*
Nope, we should use it to see our future, using the light rays that go around the curved universe...
In the evening I had a date with a wonderful geek girl. :)
and its acid fields. Now that would be a trip!
high on aciiiiid
Alternatively, the German origin of Knoppix might suggest 'Knoppixen'.
Am I the only one here who thought about it this way?
I keep my browser window relatively narrow, usually slightly less than 800 pixels. Reading text is much easier that way, that's why it's often divided into columns.
But most importantly, that is the Pi day.
Canadian broadband: also known as eh-thernet.
What else would the X in 'Xbox' stand for? Besides X11, of course ;-)
Possibly, but it's better known as a collection of religious texts. That said, I'm not sure if Programming Perl would count as a tech manual ;-)
Didn't Linus also say: "Linux is great, it does infinite loops in five seconds."
"In quantum mechanics, 1+1 can equal 1." -- My supervisor on combining spin angular momenta
Yeah, like everyone else who runs XP.
I started to wonder how this could be possible for us geeks, and no, CRT tan does not count. However, you can accomplish this quite easily: just divide your sins by your causes.
I thought water is also a solvent? The article should make it clear which solvents are bad; though it is hinted that alcohol is better than aromatic solvents (which usually means xylene or toluene).
In which language does cut begin with x? (Answer: In a sign language, where it resembles scissors and has the association with breaking something.)
I've posted this before so here's just the link.
They use a different pin for data. Laptops have a single PS/2 connector which works for both mice and keyboards, and with a splitter cable they can be plugged in at the same time.
The question is, why don't all PS/2 ports have both data pins? I guess you could confuse your system with, say, two keyboards, because the system can't handle them separately. Thus I agree that USB would be a lot better.
African or European?
Sounds like a file sharing organization! How could they be against any kind of broadband! ;-)