The heater is too far away from where you are using the water. 60 ft of line that went cold hours ago gives you a lot of cold water. Redesign the hot water lines so the instant heater is in the bathroom.
Yea, tell that to my boss who gave me a disc with a crack from the spindle center out. I made a dd image of the disc forcing dd to ignore errors. Maybe some day I'll take some time and untangle some files from that mess.
I see limited use as a bad thing. Right now me and my friends are going back into storage bins and pulling out anchient NES games to play and laugh at. If the gaming industry were in a 'limited use' design mode 30 years ago, such reviews from the video game nerd and goofballs like us wouldn't be happening. We are also buying old games from little shops all over.
Look at antique malls, they completely sustain a business on selling ancient pieces, pieces of history that people have lost and want to find again but are out of production. Now if some china based manufacturer decided to just up and bring back the 50's era devices, lamps and tables, few would be interested in buying them as they wouldn't have the same nostalgic feel to them and definitely not the durability.
Publishers also miss out on the old game sales as retail outlets are unwilling to give space to a slow selling item. Every square inch of shelving and flooring in a retail outlet has to roll dollars to be of value to the retailer. The game trading stores have managed to do this by being set up specifically to handle this and the buyers of used games know they have a chance of finding an older game in one of these stores. Buyers of old games know they wont find 2 year old games at Walmart regularly.
I worked at a walmart once, and the only time you could find an old game was if it got lost in the security room for a year and got dragged out during inventory. Sadly if it fell off the inventory system and re-added, it would drag back the original price it was selling at nationally instead of the discounted price the store marked it down to locally, then it would never sell. I dont know how LP looked at it but that lost old game that was found probably would be better sent back to the vendor or just destroyed rather than placed on the shelf to take up display space. Most likely the former.
Sequels are a firm reason why I never played several games. When I have the dosh to buy a game, I usually wont have the money to get the sequels or won't have the new system they come out on. It annoys me that in order to understand some of the current games, you have to play their previous versions on 3 generations old systems that you never had a chance to own.
I wont pay full retail for another game unless it is under 20 bucks or really good gameplay. I have a serious problem with console lock in. My friend bought me a refurbished xbox and it worked for a month, I probably played games 3 times, he played games on it 12 times, played dvds on it 7 times and it died. Now I'm stuck with a handful of games I cant play till I replace the dumb box.
Well for that matter, they could just use Lorum Ipsum passages. Those that know Latin will try to translate it. Those who are paranoid someone is conspiring against them will get angry and be contemptuous with the doc. Those in depression will just look at it and ignore everything and complain.
Power referenced by the previous poster is philosophical.
Mainframes were powerful in their reach of the consequence of their existence. Like he says, the mainframe ran entire companies. The purchase and use of a mainframe for a company would create a splash of changes throughout the organization. The pc of today, certainly has more computing power, but it's reach of consequence for it's existence almost only changes things for one person or a small family, not 900 employees and thousands of customers.
The change in application in business getting a mainframe was monumentally great. Then change in application is minimal for you buying a pc. Business processes changed because of mainframes. For normal people, a pc just makes a few things easier like communication and writing/research but the pc doesn't make magic biscuits, it doesn't help you understand how to restructure your household's organization and predict future.
For business a mainframe was a number cruncher and money tracking/making machine.. For normal people a pc is simply an entertainment device.
I agree with needing more proc/ram than low end machines. I've been tinkering with truecrypt. I decided to create a 35 gb volume inside a 40 gb volume on a 2ghz sempteron laptop with 1.5 gig ram. I really got bored for the hour+ that it took to generate those files. Thank the tech gods I have a 3 ghz desktop I could do other stuff on at the same time.
The more stuff I tinker with the more I find I need more cpu, ram and network bandwidth.
DVR's are nice to have. I tend to watch a commercial only the first few times it's on. I mostly only view them for their theatrics as most likely the product being pitched is either 1 not of any interest to me or 2 way out of my price range. It's nice to skip commercials I've seen before or otherwise don't have a need for. Pool supply ad.. skip.. Advertizement for the latest BMW.. skip.. Ad for reptile expo in a nearby city.. replayed.. Ad for oxy-banana.. skip.. Ad for dell pc.. skipped, replay and skipped again...
If you have kids, you wont have to worry about incoming calls and finding the cellphone. The cellphone will be attached to the child if you dont get them their own and incoming calls will just get ignored or sent to voicemail.
I wasnt an early adopter but I received my invite last week to google voice. Got a pretty nifty phone number too, all the number series are local exchange numbers anyone could remember and the last 4 digits spell drac
Low pressure tires work best over speed bumps, you dont even have to slow down. My truck has high pressure tires 50psi. Hitting them or any other bump results in a hard jolt as my tires do not deform. I have to almost stop for speed bumps, or risk bouncing the entire truck.
Hum.. I'm surprised our fax machines at work even work then. We have a pbx with a dsl internet connection for phone lines and the faxes are on the pbx as I can just conference the fax extension when someone sends a fax call to a desk voice line using the pbx features.
I have only one contact that I know has problems faxing to us, someone with an HP all in one fax machine.
PBX's with IP uplink cards seem to be fun. In April a Comcast technician called me by cell because our phones were out and the secretary called him and gave him my number when they figured out our card was down. He gave me instructions on how to reset the uplink card. Since then I rebooted it 6 times.. 2 times were last week. There is now a permanent case of paper on the floor in the server room just so I can reach the button to reset the thing. I find it funny, it seems the uplink for the PBX is DSL not cable. Our cable can go down and we still have phones, and phones can go down and we can still have internet.
If you have a spare server, just point the domain to your server, add a start opening screen that states the person contracted you to set up the domains and you have covered the costs without being paid for the renewals. At the end, place your email address and then a link to their web page by IP address, displaying the ip address completely. That way they dont lose traffic but they get a big message. Also any updates they try to do to their site will be attempted against your servers which will fail password attempts. You will be called or emailed very quickly.
Same thing happened to me too using the Oz whatever im client that came with my ATT phone. It put all the im messages over SMS and I only had 250 texts both ways a month. Even pulling down the buddy list drank texts. I switched to web based clients then finally found fring where all my im clients work. Not perfectly stable, kind of falls asleep on the job sometimes if you ignore it for too long.
I've found that in place upgrade on Ubuntu using update manager to update from distro version to newer distro version works only once. The 2nd upgrade usually is so radically different and you carry enough cruft to make things difficult. So I basically just backup my home dir and etc dir each time a distro upgrade comes up. If it works out then I leave it alone, but it seems every other time I have things partially break and I mucked things up worse going from 8.10 to 9.04 when the drive UID's moved around and screwed with my mounts for my data drive partitions. I had to reinstall after that. Meh no big deal. I decided to take out my ide and just live off the 750 gig sata instead.
I've driven 15 miles on mainlanes where the gps thought I was in the feeder which is 40 mph where the main lanes are 65. It kept barking that I was over speed the whole way.
I hear you, and use mine even when no one is around. I see so many drivers in new cars that I swear they didnt pay for turn signals the way they drive. My favorite phrase, "Nice car, top of the line, xm raido and 5 cd, nice... did you pay to get turn signals?"
I've had to pour on the gas after stopping at a red light on a minor stop light when the moron behind me locked up his brakes on a wet road. The camry I cut off moved only 3 feet before realizing why I was taking off. I probably saved all 3 of us from getting hit that day--the moron slid one car length past the stop line, completely clear of the stop line before the car came to a rest. If I didnt take off the camry would have been in the intersection by the time the blue monster hit my car and catapulted it into the camry. Speed wasnt a factor, it was skill. The moron locked up hundreds of feet from me where as before we came to the light he was following at the speed limit 6 car lengths away.
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The heater is too far away from where you are using the water. 60 ft of line that went cold hours ago gives you a lot of cold water. Redesign the hot water lines so the instant heater is in the bathroom.
When I was a kid parents didnt bother hiding cables.
Yea, tell that to my boss who gave me a disc with a crack from the spindle center out. I made a dd image of the disc forcing dd to ignore errors. Maybe some day I'll take some time and untangle some files from that mess.
I see limited use as a bad thing. Right now me and my friends are going back into storage bins and pulling out anchient NES games to play and laugh at. If the gaming industry were in a 'limited use' design mode 30 years ago, such reviews from the video game nerd and goofballs like us wouldn't be happening. We are also buying old games from little shops all over.
Look at antique malls, they completely sustain a business on selling ancient pieces, pieces of history that people have lost and want to find again but are out of production. Now if some china based manufacturer decided to just up and bring back the 50's era devices, lamps and tables, few would be interested in buying them as they wouldn't have the same nostalgic feel to them and definitely not the durability.
Publishers also miss out on the old game sales as retail outlets are unwilling to give space to a slow selling item. Every square inch of shelving and flooring in a retail outlet has to roll dollars to be of value to the retailer. The game trading stores have managed to do this by being set up specifically to handle this and the buyers of used games know they have a chance of finding an older game in one of these stores. Buyers of old games know they wont find 2 year old games at Walmart regularly.
I worked at a walmart once, and the only time you could find an old game was if it got lost in the security room for a year and got dragged out during inventory. Sadly if it fell off the inventory system and re-added, it would drag back the original price it was selling at nationally instead of the discounted price the store marked it down to locally, then it would never sell. I dont know how LP looked at it but that lost old game that was found probably would be better sent back to the vendor or just destroyed rather than placed on the shelf to take up display space. Most likely the former.
Sequels are a firm reason why I never played several games. When I have the dosh to buy a game, I usually wont have the money to get the sequels or won't have the new system they come out on. It annoys me that in order to understand some of the current games, you have to play their previous versions on 3 generations old systems that you never had a chance to own.
I wont pay full retail for another game unless it is under 20 bucks or really good gameplay. I have a serious problem with console lock in. My friend bought me a refurbished xbox and it worked for a month, I probably played games 3 times, he played games on it 12 times, played dvds on it 7 times and it died. Now I'm stuck with a handful of games I cant play till I replace the dumb box.
Well for that matter, they could just use Lorum Ipsum passages. Those that know Latin will try to translate it. Those who are paranoid someone is conspiring against them will get angry and be contemptuous with the doc. Those in depression will just look at it and ignore everything and complain.
Power referenced by the previous poster is philosophical.
Mainframes were powerful in their reach of the consequence of their existence. Like he says, the mainframe ran entire companies. The purchase and use of a mainframe for a company would create a splash of changes throughout the organization. The pc of today, certainly has more computing power, but it's reach of consequence for it's existence almost only changes things for one person or a small family, not 900 employees and thousands of customers.
The change in application in business getting a mainframe was monumentally great. Then change in application is minimal for you buying a pc. Business processes changed because of mainframes. For normal people, a pc just makes a few things easier like communication and writing/research but the pc doesn't make magic biscuits, it doesn't help you understand how to restructure your household's organization and predict future.
For business a mainframe was a number cruncher and money tracking/making machine.. For normal people a pc is simply an entertainment device.
I agree with needing more proc/ram than low end machines.
I've been tinkering with truecrypt. I decided to create a 35 gb volume inside a 40 gb volume on a 2ghz sempteron laptop with 1.5 gig ram. I really got bored for the hour+ that it took to generate those files. Thank the tech gods I have a 3 ghz desktop I could do other stuff on at the same time.
The more stuff I tinker with the more I find I need more cpu, ram and network bandwidth.
DVR's are nice to have. I tend to watch a commercial only the first few times it's on. I mostly only view them for their theatrics as most likely the product being pitched is either 1 not of any interest to me or 2 way out of my price range. It's nice to skip commercials I've seen before or otherwise don't have a need for. Pool supply ad.. skip.. Advertizement for the latest BMW.. skip.. Ad for reptile expo in a nearby city.. replayed.. Ad for oxy-banana.. skip.. Ad for dell pc.. skipped, replay and skipped again...
If you have kids, you wont have to worry about incoming calls and finding the cellphone. The cellphone will be attached to the child if you dont get them their own and incoming calls will just get ignored or sent to voicemail.
I wasnt an early adopter but I received my invite last week to google voice. Got a pretty nifty phone number too, all the number series are local exchange numbers anyone could remember and the last 4 digits spell drac
Low pressure tires work best over speed bumps, you dont even have to slow down. My truck has high pressure tires 50psi. Hitting them or any other bump results in a hard jolt as my tires do not deform. I have to almost stop for speed bumps, or risk bouncing the entire truck.
Driving is therapy for me. 30 miles, 40-50 minutes isnt a great loss for me.
Hum.. I'm surprised our fax machines at work even work then. We have a pbx with a dsl internet connection for phone lines and the faxes are on the pbx as I can just conference the fax extension when someone sends a fax call to a desk voice line using the pbx features.
I have only one contact that I know has problems faxing to us, someone with an HP all in one fax machine.
PBX's with IP uplink cards seem to be fun. In April a Comcast technician called me by cell because our phones were out and the secretary called him and gave him my number when they figured out our card was down. He gave me instructions on how to reset the uplink card. Since then I rebooted it 6 times.. 2 times were last week. There is now a permanent case of paper on the floor in the server room just so I can reach the button to reset the thing. I find it funny, it seems the uplink for the PBX is DSL not cable. Our cable can go down and we still have phones, and phones can go down and we can still have internet.
If you have a spare server, just point the domain to your server, add a start opening screen that states the person contracted you to set up the domains and you have covered the costs without being paid for the renewals. At the end, place your email address and then a link to their web page by IP address, displaying the ip address completely. That way they dont lose traffic but they get a big message. Also any updates they try to do to their site will be attempted against your servers which will fail password attempts. You will be called or emailed very quickly.
Grendel? I thought you were gone.
Same thing happened to me too using the Oz whatever im client that came with my ATT phone. It put all the im messages over SMS and I only had 250 texts both ways a month. Even pulling down the buddy list drank texts. I switched to web based clients then finally found fring where all my im clients work. Not perfectly stable, kind of falls asleep on the job sometimes if you ignore it for too long.
Run before he explodes!
I've found that in place upgrade on Ubuntu using update manager to update from distro version to newer distro version works only once. The 2nd upgrade usually is so radically different and you carry enough cruft to make things difficult. So I basically just backup my home dir and etc dir each time a distro upgrade comes up. If it works out then I leave it alone, but it seems every other time I have things partially break and I mucked things up worse going from 8.10 to 9.04 when the drive UID's moved around and screwed with my mounts for my data drive partitions. I had to reinstall after that. Meh no big deal. I decided to take out my ide and just live off the 750 gig sata instead.
I've driven 15 miles on mainlanes where the gps thought I was in the feeder which is 40 mph where the main lanes are 65. It kept barking that I was over speed the whole way.
I hear you, and use mine even when no one is around. I see so many drivers in new cars that I swear they didnt pay for turn signals the way they drive. My favorite phrase, "Nice car, top of the line, xm raido and 5 cd, nice... did you pay to get turn signals?"
I've had to pour on the gas after stopping at a red light on a minor stop light when the moron behind me locked up his brakes on a wet road. The camry I cut off moved only 3 feet before realizing why I was taking off. I probably saved all 3 of us from getting hit that day--the moron slid one car length past the stop line, completely clear of the stop line before the car came to a rest. If I didnt take off the camry would have been in the intersection by the time the blue monster hit my car and catapulted it into the camry. Speed wasnt a factor, it was skill. The moron locked up hundreds of feet from me where as before we came to the light he was following at the speed limit 6 car lengths away.