I had a friend who asked Apple if they would take a custom TrueTypeFont to engrave. Namely, a TTF for Quenya, and have it engraved in the language of Mordor: Ash iPod durbatulúk, ash iPod gimbatul, ash iPod thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Apple said no; a pity. I would have liked to have seen The One iPod
The new Star Treks needed a DoomsDay machine to contend with! Imagine a Voyager episode where a DoomsDay machine is running amuck in the Delta Quadrent and a borg cube or tactical battle cube happens to get gobbled along the way. Neat idea.:)
Yes, it is a neat idea, and a wonderful author of TNG books named Peter David wrote a hardback called Vendetta which continues the story of the old TOS Doomsday Machine episode. It comes back bigger and badder and yes, it takes on more than one Borg ship, usually by eating it. Go to B&N or somewhere and get it, it's great!
I'm surprised that Red Hat hasn't gone through everything and fixed the font situation.
Have you seen the new RedHat Beta (supposedly for 8.0)? Since RedHat uses GNOME and GTK for everything, and since they're using gtk2, everything is anti-aliased with really nice TT fonts. Even the GDM greeter. I think they're going to get it right in the next release.:-)
Just a quick show of hands, how many of us keep personal information on our home computers? (me). Okay, how about how many of us have a linux router/firewall or some other conifgurable port filter? Good, now all you have to do is not allow the port/domain/IP combination that M$ uses to phone home to leave your network. One of the reasons that I got into firewalling w/ linux is to keep those damn programs (real player, windows media, piggy back softare du jour) to report that they've got yet another sucker. Now all we have to do is track down where Windows will want to report to and filter it out. If you're worried about your computer at work, you shouldn't be keeping sensitive personal info on it. Sensitive work info, however, is your boss's fault for using the new M$.:-)
Admittedly, something would have to be done for math equations...I know of no quick and easy way to take Calculus notes, for example.
Scary: My friend used to bring his linux laptop to our AI class and code his notes *real-time* in LaTeX with vi to handle all the equations and greek lettering. Said it was faster than writing on paper.
I just got it last month in 7.2, I'm glad I won't have to learn a completely new version (8.0?) just yet. That way I can leverage my 7.2 knowledge for another 6 months, effectively.
I eventually gave up and said that I wasn't ordering if I couldn't have Linux or no OS at all. Neither the salesman nor his immediate supervisor could complete the sale, and I spent my $3500 elsewhere.
Just shows that the people who run the CompUSA have *no* clue about what they put up for the customer's to play around with. I don't know what the "out of the box" security is for OSX is, but I know that the Terminal app is there with all the tools just waiting to be used.
Hell, last week, I went to the closest CompUSA (about 45 mi) just to browse, but I knew that I wouldn't be home to check email for several hours. Well, there's a TiBook with ssh just sitting there...:-)
Hmmm, how about finding out if telnetd or rlogind is turned on and grabbing the IP address...
Getting your own Xray scans?
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Quick google image search netted me zero occurances of my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000) xrayed.
Anyone know how to get one outside of going to the airport running my laptop through the conveyor belt and asking "Can I get a snapshot of that?" at the security desk and getting myself thrown in jail?
...can we have 14" Laptop LCD's that can have up to 1600x1200 resolution (via the Dell Inspiron 4100), yet the best these 15" Desktop LCD's (where power is not an issue) can reach is 1024x768.
is to pass my classes and to pay the bills. That's it, and the former can't be helped but by myself and my professors. I'm all hardware'd out. Oh yeah, and being able to have nothing to do for 4 solid weeks.
Here are the myriad ways my iPaq beats snot out of my Palm:
1) MP3 player
Clie
2) Decent resolution & color - reading lots of text no longer hurts my eyes.
The new Handera 330 has the same resolution as an iPaq (QVGA), Clie has a little more (320x320)
3) Free book reading software
iSilo, TealDoc
4) Free drawing program
Palms new Notepad, Diddlebug, any number of others
5) Free spreadsheet
Documents to Go (Excel and Word reader)
6) Free browser (with offline browsing)
AvantGo, Palm's PQA
7) Much more understandable file structure
No file structure, don't need it, out of sight, out of mind...
8) Much better character recognition.
9) On screen character drawing (i.e. I can see what I write rather than guessing whether I'm forming my grafitti correctly)
Jot, this very program, is available for Palm and it can regress to Grafitti while still giving you the onscreen 'inking'
Yes, a lot of this isn't 'out of the box' but if you do *anything* with building or setting up computers, you'd see that to get anything useful done, a little tweaking and adding of software is in order
I am interning at IBM for the summer and I wouldn't say that the $1 billion is clearly evident interally, but they do have a clue. I wanted to intern at IBM because of the infusion of money that it was making, and I thought I might get lucky in the infrastructure dept. supporting or developing Linux for their site. They do have some people who have Linux on their desktop, but only as a supplement, most likely because there is no Notes client for Linux. I'm not doing as much Linux work as I'd like, but playing w/ iptables for their new firewalls that are going to run Linux is a whole lot better than debugging some moron's bad C code.
The most theory based school in the south (I think) for CS is probably University of Oklahoma in Norman. Never have I thought that I would be programming so much crap (mostly toys with no great skill required of it)... I'm a junior and we haven't even SEEN C yet! It's all been OOP; C++ and Java. My OS class last semester switched from C to Java (like half the cirriculum did about two years ago). Our projects included multithreading! Oh Boy!!. And round-robin scheduling (for the whole sememster) with almost no mm and paltry deadlock prevention. I'm crying in envy of not being able to get a grade for hacking the Linux kernel (or anything else that's real)... Of course we learned everything in the book about memory management and filesystems, but actual coding? I think there are about 3 professors here who have programmed in the last 7 years. Threre REALLY needs to be a Software Engineering degree here.
Orpheus
to my days in junior high / high school with my ThrustMaster Throttle (a human heart shaped apparatus that had 6 buttons, 3 shift modes and of course, the whole thing rocked forward and backward as a throttle) playing the whole of the Wing Commander series and its derivatives. I think Thrustmaster has a new version of that old thing.
What the reviewer did not mention is that all the contributors and reviewers came from a consulting company in Austin, TX called Collective Technologies. My brother was one of the reviewers:-) You can visit their site at www.colltech.com.
I have rarely seen anyone outside of geekdom and academia that had so much obvious bias against Microsoft than Judge Jackson. What I am (and many are) going to be disappointed about is the extremely slow process that will take place before any action is taken. It might be years before we see something along the lines of open sourced Windows or corporate breakup. Also the floodgates of civil suits will likely slow down MS, so don't expect that bug fix anytime soon.
So let's not go about the streets singing "Ding Dong the Witch it Dead" because vigilance from the Justice Dept. (when dealing witht the appeals) and from the companies MS has disenfranchised will be the key to victory.
Of course, it's a sad day for those brave souls who support the open source movement but actually work at MS for whatever reason. I can see the memo now... "The payroll buget is under review..."
Orpheus2000 - To Hell and Back, again!
What's happened to the original Legos?
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Is it me (living in the void of America's Bible Belt) or can anyone else find the original Legos that were cheap, simple, and didn't have more 'special' parts then the classic bricks? My supply is dwindling and I can't find any decent ones. All I see at the toy stores is the Insect theme and some other weird theme. How the hell am I supposed to make a model of the Enterprise-E from that crap?!:-)
But really, I'm tired of seeing the spinoff themes becoming prevalent in the toystores. Maybe it's where I live or maybe Lego needs to go back to school and put out the stuff of our collective childhood. I don't think they realize the market for bored 20 and 30 somethings....
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I had a friend who asked Apple if they would take a custom TrueTypeFont to engrave. Namely, a TTF for Quenya, and have it engraved in the language of Mordor:
Ash iPod durbatulúk, ash iPod gimbatul,
ash iPod thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Apple said no; a pity. I would have liked to have seen The One iPod
I love his subtle modesty at the end:
:)
"My name is Yo-Yo Ma, and I play the cello"
That's like Bobby Fisher saying
"My name is Bobby Fisher, and I play chess"
(yes, I do play the cello
The new Star Treks needed a DoomsDay machine to contend with! Imagine a Voyager episode where a DoomsDay machine is running amuck in the Delta Quadrent and a borg cube or tactical battle cube happens to get gobbled along the way. Neat idea. :)
Yes, it is a neat idea, and a wonderful author of TNG books named Peter David wrote a hardback called Vendetta which continues the story of the old TOS Doomsday Machine episode. It comes back bigger and badder and yes, it takes on more than one Borg ship, usually by eating it. Go to B&N or somewhere and get it, it's great!
I'm surprised that Red Hat hasn't gone through everything and fixed the font situation.
:-)
Have you seen the new RedHat Beta (supposedly for 8.0)? Since RedHat uses GNOME and GTK for everything, and since they're using gtk2, everything is anti-aliased with really nice TT fonts. Even the GDM greeter. I think they're going to get it right in the next release.
Just a quick show of hands, how many of us keep personal information on our home computers? (me). Okay, how about how many of us have a linux router/firewall or some other conifgurable port filter? Good, now all you have to do is not allow the port/domain/IP combination that M$ uses to phone home to leave your network. One of the reasons that I got into firewalling w/ linux is to keep those damn programs (real player, windows media, piggy back softare du jour) to report that they've got yet another sucker. Now all we have to do is track down where Windows will want to report to and filter it out. If you're worried about your computer at work, you shouldn't be keeping sensitive personal info on it. Sensitive work info, however, is your boss's fault for using the new M$. :-)
Admittedly, something would have to be done for math equations...I know of no quick and easy way to take Calculus notes, for example.
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Scary: My friend used to bring his linux laptop to our AI class and code his notes *real-time* in LaTeX with vi to handle all the equations and greek lettering. Said it was faster than writing on paper.
I get to keep my RHCE current for six more months! :-)
'Matrices', followed by 'Inverted Matrices',
ending with the epic movie 'Eigen Matrix - the Final Inversion'
Noooooooo! Please god, I've got a Linear final in 3 min... sh*t, gotta go!
Hey, yeah! I didn't think of that :-)
I just got it last month in 7.2, I'm glad I won't have to learn a completely new version (8.0?) just yet. That way I can leverage my 7.2 knowledge for another 6 months, effectively.
If the click of death happens in a data center and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
...I can hear the screams now!
No, but just wait til the admin comes back from lunch...
Heh, except RHCE and CCIE. I've seen *competent* people walk into an RHCE exam and come out wondering why they're even alive...
I eventually gave up and said that I wasn't ordering if I couldn't have Linux or no OS at all. Neither the salesman nor his immediate supervisor could complete the sale, and I spent my $3500 elsewhere.
Where would "elsewhere" be, exactly?
Just shows that the people who run the CompUSA have *no* clue about what they put up for the customer's to play around with. I don't know what the "out of the box" security is for OSX is, but I know that the Terminal app is there with all the tools just waiting to be used.
:-)
Hell, last week, I went to the closest CompUSA (about 45 mi) just to browse, but I knew that I wouldn't be home to check email for several hours. Well, there's a TiBook with ssh just sitting there...
Hmmm, how about finding out if telnetd or rlogind is turned on and grabbing the IP address...
Quick google image search netted me zero occurances of my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000) xrayed.
Anyone know how to get one outside of going to the airport running my laptop through the conveyor belt and asking "Can I get a snapshot of that?" at the security desk and getting myself thrown in jail?
Any idea why I get this error?
/boot/xray-blue.boot is too big (> 65535 bytes)
Fatal:
Is the SUsE version of lilo really *that* necessary to get this to work or will the stock 22.1 source do?
...can we have 14" Laptop LCD's that can have up to 1600x1200 resolution (via the Dell Inspiron 4100), yet the best these 15" Desktop LCD's (where power is not an issue) can reach is 1024x768.
IMHO, that's f*cked.
is to pass my classes and to pay the bills. That's it, and the former can't be helped but by myself and my professors. I'm all hardware'd out. Oh yeah, and being able to have nothing to do for 4 solid weeks.
Cheers
Geez, have you actually used a WinCE 3.0 device?
Yes
Here are the myriad ways my iPaq beats snot out of my Palm:
1) MP3 player
Clie
2) Decent resolution & color - reading lots of text no longer hurts my eyes.
The new Handera 330 has the same resolution as an iPaq (QVGA), Clie has a little more (320x320)
3) Free book reading software
iSilo, TealDoc
4) Free drawing program
Palms new Notepad, Diddlebug, any number of others
5) Free spreadsheet
Documents to Go (Excel and Word reader)
6) Free browser (with offline browsing)
AvantGo, Palm's PQA
7) Much more understandable file structure
No file structure, don't need it, out of sight, out of mind...
8) Much better character recognition.
9) On screen character drawing (i.e. I can see what I write rather than guessing whether I'm forming my grafitti correctly)
Jot, this very program, is available for Palm and it can regress to Grafitti while still giving you the onscreen 'inking'
Yes, a lot of this isn't 'out of the box' but if you do *anything* with building or setting up computers, you'd see that to get anything useful done, a little tweaking and adding of software is in order
Cheers
I am interning at IBM for the summer and I wouldn't say that the $1 billion is clearly evident interally, but they do have a clue. I wanted to intern at IBM because of the infusion of money that it was making, and I thought I might get lucky in the infrastructure dept. supporting or developing Linux for their site. They do have some people who have Linux on their desktop, but only as a supplement, most likely because there is no Notes client for Linux. I'm not doing as much Linux work as I'd like, but playing w/ iptables for their new firewalls that are going to run Linux is a whole lot better than debugging some moron's bad C code.
Cheers,
The most theory based school in the south (I think) for CS is probably University of Oklahoma in Norman. Never have I thought that I would be programming so much crap (mostly toys with no great skill required of it)... I'm a junior and we haven't even SEEN C yet! It's all been OOP; C++ and Java. My OS class last semester switched from C to Java (like half the cirriculum did about two years ago). Our projects included multithreading! Oh Boy!!. And round-robin scheduling (for the whole sememster) with almost no mm and paltry deadlock prevention. I'm crying in envy of not being able to get a grade for hacking the Linux kernel (or anything else that's real)... Of course we learned everything in the book about memory management and filesystems, but actual coding? I think there are about 3 professors here who have programmed in the last 7 years. Threre REALLY needs to be a Software Engineering degree here.
Orpheus
to my days in junior high / high school with my ThrustMaster Throttle (a human heart shaped apparatus that had 6 buttons, 3 shift modes and of course, the whole thing rocked forward and backward as a throttle) playing the whole of the Wing Commander series and its derivatives. I think Thrustmaster has a new version of that old thing.
What the reviewer did not mention is that all the contributors and reviewers came from a consulting company in Austin, TX called Collective Technologies. My brother was one of the reviewers :-) You can visit their site at www.colltech.com.
Orpheus2000 - Hell and Back, Again!I have rarely seen anyone outside of geekdom and academia that had so much obvious bias against Microsoft than Judge Jackson. What I am (and many are) going to be disappointed about is the extremely slow process that will take place before any action is taken. It might be years before we see something along the lines of open sourced Windows or corporate breakup. Also the floodgates of civil suits will likely slow down MS, so don't expect that bug fix anytime soon.
So let's not go about the streets singing "Ding Dong the Witch it Dead" because vigilance from the Justice Dept. (when dealing witht the appeals) and from the companies MS has disenfranchised will be the key to victory.
Of course, it's a sad day for those brave souls who support the open source movement but actually work at MS for whatever reason. I can see the memo now... "The payroll buget is under review..."
Orpheus2000 - To Hell and Back, again!
Is it me (living in the void of America's Bible Belt) or can anyone else find the original Legos that were cheap, simple, and didn't have more 'special' parts then the classic bricks? My supply is dwindling and I can't find any decent ones. All I see at the toy stores is the Insect theme and some other weird theme. How the hell am I supposed to make a model of the Enterprise-E from that crap?! :-)
But really, I'm tired of seeing the spinoff themes becoming prevalent in the toystores. Maybe it's where I live or maybe Lego needs to go back to school and put out the stuff of our collective childhood. I don't think they realize the market for bored 20 and 30 somethings....
Just my opinion...