I've got a Dell with that same pointer stick. Apparently this "cursor drift" is part of the auto-calibration system. If you put a bit of pressure to one side of the stick, and hold it there still for about 10 seconds, it will then use that new value as "center". You release it to real center, and your mouse starts to move across the screen. If you let it sit there for another 10 seconds, it will re-calibrate.
One thing you can do is go the SAN solution, using iSCSI. Basically, you set up an iSCSI "target" on your server, and start up the iSCSI "initiator" on each of your clients. Now, you can allocate a chunk of disk space to any of your client boxes on-the-fly, and they see each chunk as if you added a new external drive. Do this with gig ethernet, and you have a relatively cheap EMC style solution for home. There's free iSCSI initiators for both Linux and Windows.
C puts 0 and 100 at the freezing and boiling points of water. Might be useful for cooking. F puts 0 and 100 at the edges of the extreme temperature ranges experienced in my country. In January, it can get to around 0 (some years not quiet, others a bit below), and summer heat tops out at 100. So, it seems to be a better fit for describing the weather.
One way to get out of it is to go to your employer and tell them that you want to increase your skillset by doing some work for a non-profit organization, and that you want to make sure the non-profit isn't exposed to any additinal legal problems. Use that as an excuse to modify the contract, you can even sweeten it by telling your employer that you are willing to assign them non-exclusive rights to your code upon request. Not many employers will give you a hastle about doing community volunteer work. That way, you have a couple of outs: 1) As long as they don't request it, you don't have to assign them anything (and even if they do make the request, the rights are "non-exclusive"). 2) If the contract is worded to allow you to do volunteer your time to non-profits, then keep in mind that the FSF is a registered non-profit.
An added percaution is to look at the time/date stamp on the individual binaries, if any of them are newer than system installation time you have a better chance than not that it doesn't belong. Also, run cwshredder in report mode, it will tell you every IE toolbar/helper app/search assistant that is installed, many of them you can get rid of after inspecting the binaries.
But the extra pay for the Linux guy can come from the cost savings on software license fees. Also a business that size would be better of contracting their IT support to a consultant, that would potentially only bill out a few hours a week.
Better yet, try what I did. Find a small company (maybe 50 - 200 employees or so) that uses a few computers in the office, but doesn't have an internal IT support staff. Take a job doing anything (office work, pushing papers, purchasing department), but use your computer skills to be the "computer guy". Eventually, the company will become less dependant on outside consultants. Then, set up a small unix / bsd / linux station, use it for email/firewall/webspace, etc. Take a look at some business software, see how it works. Learn database admin, data layouts, etc. If they use an off-the-shelf business accounting app, try to duplicate the data tables in either flat files or PostgreSQL. Them make a few frontend programs to import/export data, manipulate it into custom reports. Find out what they are lacking in the current software, and as long as you can export the data you can fill in missing functionality. Eventually after a few years and with a bit of growth in that company, you will find yourself having IT as your primary responsibility. Now you've got good resume material -- unix admin, development...
Isn't that what ProjectUDI was for? Of coures, the various open source leaders rejected the idea because they were afraid, among other things, that it would allow people would use superior, free linux drivers to replace buggy or non-existant windows drivers, and that might upset the driver developers. Other complaints is that it would encourage binary-only drivers by removing the public demand for open source drivers.
All they had to do was change the name from Sony to Sonny, or something like that. Just different enough to not get sued, and they can claim they are doing a parady which is protected speach.
Shared libraries also save ram -- multiple programs using the same shared library all point to the same copy that is in memory. Which also ends up giving a speed boost (more memory free).
Actually, it does exist, sortof. If you look at how a Sharp Zaurus sl-5500 is set up, you have 64 meg of ram which is split by the kernel, part of which is used as ram and part is mapped as a block device. This second part survives system reboots and resets (but goes away once the internal battery dies).
Oops... I thought it was epilogue, but the book I had opened in front of me had a "prologue" at the end. But I realize now that I was holding the book upside down.
Too add to this, what about having a prologue section at the end of your books? This way, the story can end the way you want, and the prologue can go about in a different style to wrap up any loose ends. Similar to the paragraph or two that appears at the end of a true-life film, to show how things turn out in the long run. What do you think?
Every time I see someone bring up the topic of object this or object that, I wonder what you can do with objects that you cant do with regular functions? You can make the data types used in a function generic so that it has some of the same benefits of "objects" -- for a good example see the qsort() standard library function.
Actually, I think the only way to get things to change is for a "dying ip only company" to sue Hollywood companies for billions for patent infringement. Pixar MUST be violating a patent somewhere. Imagine Disney being sued for the total profit from their latest computer-animated films.
Just run your web browser in a seperate security context, and not give it access to your sound device (using SElinux, or linux-vserver, or even user mode linux).
2 reasons 1) I am extreamly used to hitting the inside button out of habit. Not likely to break it. 2) How do you lock the passenger side door from the driver side, unless you hit the automatic door lock button, or reach across? And if you have many doors? I've analised the reasons I've locked my keys in the car, usually it's when I park and take a few minutes getting out (i.e., gathering books, going through notes, etc). In those cases, I've turned off the vehicle and left the keys hanging in the ignition. Then I forget to grab them a couple minutes later when I get out. So, now if I'm in a situation where I won't be exiting the car immediately after parking, I put the keys in my pocket right away.
Must be in a major city, where the theator doesn't have it's own parking lot (due to high property cost, which also accounts for the high ticket price). Thinks NYC or Downtown Chicago.
Only reason I was thinking of the 1.8 gig units is that it is almos big enough (at least for road trips) and it could also be used instead of an ipod (or similar unit) for personal use. Not sure if a mini unit would be less obtrusive carrying than a regular sized cd though.
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I've got a Dell with that same pointer stick. Apparently this "cursor drift" is part of the auto-calibration system. If you put a bit of pressure to one side of the stick, and hold it there still for about 10 seconds, it will then use that new value as "center". You release it to real center, and your mouse starts to move across the screen. If you let it sit there for another 10 seconds, it will re-calibrate.
One thing you can do is go the SAN solution, using iSCSI. Basically, you set up an iSCSI "target" on your server, and start up the iSCSI "initiator" on each of your clients. Now, you can allocate a chunk of disk space to any of your client boxes on-the-fly, and they see each chunk as if you added a new external drive.
Do this with gig ethernet, and you have a relatively cheap EMC style solution for home. There's free iSCSI initiators for both Linux and Windows.
C puts 0 and 100 at the freezing and boiling points of water. Might be useful for cooking.
F puts 0 and 100 at the edges of the extreme temperature ranges experienced in my country. In January, it can get to around 0 (some years not quiet, others a bit below), and summer heat tops out at 100. So, it seems to be a better fit for describing the weather.
One way to get out of it is to go to your employer and tell them that you want to increase your skillset by doing some work for a non-profit organization, and that you want to make sure the non-profit isn't exposed to any additinal legal problems. Use that as an excuse to modify the contract, you can even sweeten it by telling your employer that you are willing to assign them non-exclusive rights to your code upon request. Not many employers will give you a hastle about doing community volunteer work. That way, you have a couple of outs:
1) As long as they don't request it, you don't have to assign them anything (and even if they do make the request, the rights are "non-exclusive").
2) If the contract is worded to allow you to do volunteer your time to non-profits, then keep in mind that the FSF is a registered non-profit.
An added percaution is to look at the time/date stamp on the individual binaries, if any of them are newer than system installation time you have a better chance than not that it doesn't belong. Also, run cwshredder in report mode, it will tell you every IE toolbar/helper app/search assistant that is installed, many of them you can get rid of after inspecting the binaries.
But the extra pay for the Linux guy can come from the cost savings on software license fees. Also a business that size would be better of contracting their IT support to a consultant, that would potentially only bill out a few hours a week.
Really? Where'd you find those stats? Because where I'm at is more like 50 to 1, and they (management) claim the industry average is 100 to 1.
Better yet, try what I did. Find a small company (maybe 50 - 200 employees or so) that uses a few computers in the office, but doesn't have an internal IT support staff. Take a job doing anything (office work, pushing papers, purchasing department), but use your computer skills to be the "computer guy". Eventually, the company will become less dependant on outside consultants.
Then, set up a small unix / bsd / linux station, use it for email/firewall/webspace, etc.
Take a look at some business software, see how it works. Learn database admin, data layouts, etc. If they use an off-the-shelf business accounting app, try to duplicate the data tables in either flat files or PostgreSQL. Them make a few frontend programs to import/export data, manipulate it into custom reports. Find out what they are lacking in the current software, and as long as you can export the data you can fill in missing functionality. Eventually after a few years and with a bit of growth in that company, you will find yourself having IT as your primary responsibility. Now you've got good resume material -- unix admin, development...
Isn't that what ProjectUDI was for? Of coures, the various open source leaders rejected the idea because they were afraid, among other things, that it would allow people would use superior, free linux drivers to replace buggy or non-existant windows drivers, and that might upset the driver developers. Other complaints is that it would encourage binary-only drivers by removing the public demand for open source drivers.
All they had to do was change the name from Sony to Sonny, or something like that. Just different enough to not get sued, and they can claim they are doing a parady which is protected speach.
Two that you may be interested in is the Yopi, and the Archos AV500.
Shared libraries also save ram -- multiple programs using the same shared library all point to the same copy that is in memory. Which also ends up giving a speed boost (more memory free).
Actually, it does exist, sortof. If you look at how a Sharp Zaurus sl-5500 is set up, you have 64 meg of ram which is split by the kernel, part of which is used as ram and part is mapped as a block device. This second part survives system reboots and resets (but goes away once the internal battery dies).
Oops... I thought it was epilogue, but the book I had opened in front of me had a "prologue" at the end. But I realize now that I was holding the book upside down.
Too add to this, what about having a prologue section at the end of your books? This way, the story can end the way you want, and the prologue can go about in a different style to wrap up any loose ends. Similar to the paragraph or two that appears at the end of a true-life film, to show how things turn out in the long run. What do you think?
It's the clause in the constitution that allows the government to regulate interstate commerce.
Every time I see someone bring up the topic of object this or object that, I wonder what you can do with objects that you cant do with regular functions? You can make the data types used in a function generic so that it has some of the same benefits of "objects" -- for a good example see the qsort() standard library function.
Probably to match up with the "creat" system call
Actually, I think the only way to get things to change is for a "dying ip only company" to sue Hollywood companies for billions for patent infringement. Pixar MUST be violating a patent somewhere. Imagine Disney being sued for the total profit from their latest computer-animated films.
Is that like it being alright to steal towels from a hotel room since the your room rate is marked up to cover towel theft anyways?
Just run your web browser in a seperate security context, and not give it access to your sound device (using SElinux, or linux-vserver, or even user mode linux).
2 reasons
1) I am extreamly used to hitting the inside button out of habit. Not likely to break it.
2) How do you lock the passenger side door from the driver side, unless you hit the automatic door lock button, or reach across? And if you have many doors?
I've analised the reasons I've locked my keys in the car, usually it's when I park and take a few minutes getting out (i.e., gathering books, going through notes, etc). In those cases, I've turned off the vehicle and left the keys hanging in the ignition. Then I forget to grab them a couple minutes later when I get out. So, now if I'm in a situation where I won't be exiting the car immediately after parking, I put the keys in my pocket right away.
Must be in a major city, where the theator doesn't have it's own parking lot (due to high property cost, which also accounts for the high ticket price). Thinks NYC or Downtown Chicago.
I did some googling, and came up with:3 .htm, and0 923021241.htm.
http://www.mp3playerstore.com/buy_it_now__/mp-200
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Sep/con2003
They are both portable cd/mp3/dvd units, but I can't tell from the descriptions weather they only play mp3's from burned cd's or if they will also take a dvd full of mp3's.
Only reason I was thinking of the 1.8 gig units is that it is almos big enough (at least for road trips) and it could also be used instead of an ipod (or similar unit) for personal use. Not sure if a mini unit would be less obtrusive carrying than a regular sized cd though.