The bit that you're whinging and complaining and not leaping in to solve the problems you're bitching about bothers me. Free software works like this: if it's broken, you fix it. If you can't fix it, you wait patiently for someone who can to fix it and find some other way to contribute in the meantime[1].
You don't get to whine and complain and have anyone take any notice of you.
[1] whining on slashdot does not constitute 'contribution'
I don't see what all the fuss is about? What can he do with this thousand dollar bit of kit that he can't do with a hollow bit of bamboo and a torch? Sheesh, some people always do it the hard way, don't they?!
I'm curious how big the webcam in question is, since the article didn't really say unless I missed it on two read-throughs.
Boy, wouldn't Freud have a field day with you lot! I'm of the perception that the webcam stays 'high and dry' on top of the PC (or somewhere else close by) and doesn't go anywhere near your moth^H^H^H^Hbutt. Else why would he be tinkering with optics and buying an $800 probe?
I'm thinking the endo probe does the dirty work so to speak, and the system of optics that he's come up with makes the other end of the probe play nicely with a common-or-garden webcam.
Not withstanding that 'endoscopes' can be used on both 'ends', I wanna know why in the picture accompanying TFA, he appears to be shoving the endoscope down the back of the vict^H^H^H^Hpatient's kneck?!
This stuff is all standard when the Five Ringed Circus comes to town. Back when Sydney, Australia had its turn in 2000, all the same stuff went on.
When you consider that Australia (the city of Melbourne, Australia strictly speaking), has the highest population of Greek folks of any city in the world outside of Greece (and Sydney isn't too far behind) then you can bet your bottom dollar that there's going to be a fair swag of small "Mom-and-Pop" businesses, corner stores, etc with some form of 'Olypic' in the name.
Our newspapers regularly carried stories of small businesses being steamrollered by IOC Corporation and its hired thugs (by hired thugs, I mean the government of the host country).
Another common story was the officials and security being briefed to look out for spectators and general public wearing promotional gear (hats, t-shirts, etc) from companies that competed with official sponsors. A coca cola t-shirt for example would leave you being offered the choice of handing it over, covering up, or going home.
Despite all the talk of leaving town for the duration, etc, etc, I did end up sticking around (but I didn't get involved in any of the events organised by IOC Corporation). Strangely, Sydney was a really really nice place to be for those two weeks. Many people dreaded the five ringed circus coming to town, but by the time they packed up their tents and their wagons and rolled out of town again, many of the same were sad to see them go.
That ain't no excuse for steam rollering thousands of little people in the name of corporate greed though. IOC Corporation has NOTHING to do with sport, excellence, peace, tradition or ANY of that nice stuff - it's about corporations and hired governments pumping the people for money.
Me, I make careful note of the companies that sponsor IOC Corporation, and put them on my personal do not buy list for life.
No no, you don't understand. It's OK for Apple to behave this way because OSX is BSD, and (despite that its dying!) BSD is free and open source and full of wholesome goodness.
... please bear in mind that news.com.au is the online arm of a bunch of low grade tabloid newspapers including Sydneys "The Daily Telegraph".
Here in Sydney, Australia, we have a saying. It goes like this:
"Is that the truth, or did you read it in The Daily Telegraph."
My take on this story is that reading it on slashdot is probably the first the the head of ANSTO has heard of it all (ie: he said nothing of the sort!!!).
This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going
Oh, don't get me started on unemployment benefits! I went down that path for a brief period here in Australia a few years ago. The system here, with all the paperwork and justifications is just painful. They want to know about all your bank accounts and stuff too, so if you have a cent to your name, you're not eligible. Save up enough money to pay for registration on a car so you can improve your chances of getting a job by saying "I have a car and I can use it to get to work" and they'll withold your benefits until you've spent that money on surviving.
The Australian unemployment benefits system is designed to kick you down and keep you down - once you're at rock bottom, they do eveything they can to prevent you from getting back up.
It was easier to not eat and live on the street for a while than it was to satisfy those bastards!
Are we gonna start calling every computer glitch a virus now, too?
Why not? All the dumb bunnies have been blaming their mistakes on virii for years (as in "I can't find the document I wrote yesterday, it must be a virus").
... is that academics will stoop at nothing in the quest for avoidance of actual work. I work with them day in, day out, and believe you me, I've never seen any group of people work so hard at doing nothing.
They obtain large government grants on the strength of elaborate proposals that, when passed through a suitably calibrated crap filter, say nothing, then spend the money buying iPods for their kids, and laptops and broadband for their favourite researcher's kid sister. Once the money is gone, they come up with a paper that says "When two houseflies crawl up a wall, it makes no difference to the average vertical speed of either housefly whether his counterpart is standing on his left or his right.", get published in a journal, get a free trip to speak at a conference somewhere, then they go back to square one and start writing up an application for another grant.
[sarcasm] I can't wait until I've finished my doctorate so I can hop on this gravy train [/sarcasm]
#disclaimer.not: All examples of corruption in this post are real.
At least you don't have some punk trying to find a weak username/password combo through SSH. (Silly script kiddie, you can't login to root through SSH on my box.)
One way of dealing with that problem is to block China and Korea altogether. All the l33+ h4x0r5 who try to password guess on my ssh daemons come from educational institutions in Korea. Block them at the border router, problem goes away!
We here in Australia has a USB cordless (and chordless!) phone that sounds similar to what you describe. From the link: "This is not a SIP phone - it is a USB audio device with keyboard & custom drivers for Skype"
No, it doesn't. Out of the box, everthing on the 'main' area of the keyboard works except F13 (which, AFAIK, PC keyboards don't have). The Apple keys (one either side of the space bar) map to the Windows keys, control == control, alt/option == alt. There is no 'Windows menu' key (my windoze keyboards have a menu key on the right of the space bar).
The Alt and Apple keys are transposed: On a PC keyboard, the bottom row goes Control|Alt|Win|Space|Alt|Win|Winmenu|Control. On this Apple keyboard, I've got Control|Alt|Apple|Space|Apple|Alt|Control. Takes a few hours of banging the wrong key at the wrong time to get used to it:-)
In the middle set of keys, it's mostly the same. Arrow keys are the same. Delete, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down are all in the same positions. The apple keyboard has a "Help" key in place of the PC "Insert" key and doesn't seem to have any function with windows out of the box.
Print Screen|Scroll Lock|Pause/Break do not exist on the Apple keyboard, but there are F14|F15|F16 in the same locations. They don't seem to have any function out of the box, but I presume they can be remapped.
The numeric keypad is pretty much the same as a PC keyboard, exept that there is a "Clear" key in place of "Num Lock". It functions as "Num Lock" though, so no problems there.
There is an additional row of keys above the numeric keypad, marked with icons for "Volume Down", "Volume Up", "Mute" and "Eject". All but the eject one work out of the box.
Apple keyboards r0x0r! I just bought a pair of Apple M9034LL/A keyboards, and I love 'em.
Went into an apple reseller yesterday and picked up a keyboard. Asked a salesdroid "What are my chances of getting this to work on a PC?" (I already knew the answer to that, was just trolling!). Salesdroid said "Zero - there's no drivers for it". (Clearly doesn't know about USB HIDs!). I said "Mind if I try it?".
Whipped out Dell laptop and fired it up. Windows XP detected an "Apple Extended Keyboard" and a "Generic USB Hub", realised that the keyboard was a regular Human Interface Device (HID) and just worked. Apple key == Windows Key. Everything else works. F13-F16 has no function (need to remap some of them to Print Screen and Pause/Break at some point), and even the volume up/down/mute keys work out of the box.
Fired up Gentoo Linux with a 2.6 kernel, it detected it as a "Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard" and again, just worked.
So yeah... I really really like the slimline minimalist style of this keyboard. Sure, it isn't an IBM/PCKeyboard.com style buckling spring [pckeyboard.com] keyboard, but its a very nice alternative. I think I'll be trying more Apple hardware as the mood strikes.
Apple keyboards r0x0r! I just bought a pair of Apple M9034LL/A keyboards, and I love 'em.
Went into an apple reseller yesterday and picked up a keyboard. Asked a salesdroid "What are my chances of getting this to work on a PC?" (I already knew the answer to that, was just trolling!). Salesdroid said "Zero - there's no drivers for it". (Clearly doesn't know about USB HIDs!). I said "Mind if I try it?".
Whipped out Dell laptop and fired it up. Windows XP detected an "Apple Extended Keyboard" and a "Generic USB Hub", realised that the keyboard was a regular Human Interface Device (HID) and just worked. Apple key == Windows Key. Everything else works. F13-F16 has no function (need to remap some of them to Print Screen and Pause/Break at some point), and even the volume up/down/mute keys work out of the box.
Fired up Gentoo Linux with a 2.6 kernel, it detected it as a "Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard" and again, just worked.
So yeah... I really really like the slimline minimalist style of this keyboard. Sure, it isn't an IBM/PCKeyboard.com style buckling spring keyboard, but its a very nice alternative. I think I'll be trying more Apple hardware as the mood strikes.
A quick look at one online store here in Oz delivers about a dozen different AGP cards with this chipset. Does it work on all of 'em, or do I need to be picky?
He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer
If this is an every-weekend thing, he really needs to consider a change of tactics: Spend an hour a weekend beating some sense into his stupid stupid daughter! (and/or himself)
Even the *really* dumb punters that come to me with computers loaded to the gills with spyware crap don't come back with repeat problems after the first time. Clean the computers, put a couple of blocking whassnames, remove MSIE, MS Lookout Express, MSN Messenger, MS Media Player, replace with Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM or Miranda IM and Media Player Classic/Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative. Beat a bit of sense into the punter (not much, just an inkling of a clue is usually enough) and they go away... usually never to be re-infected.
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...not even a very good troll.
The bit that you're whinging and complaining and not leaping in to solve the problems you're bitching about bothers me. Free software works like this: if it's broken, you fix it. If you can't fix it, you wait patiently for someone who can to fix it and find some other way to contribute in the meantime[1].
You don't get to whine and complain and have anyone take any notice of you.
[1] whining on slashdot does not constitute 'contribution'
I don't see what all the fuss is about? What can he do with this thousand dollar bit of kit that he can't do with a hollow bit of bamboo and a torch? Sheesh, some people always do it the hard way, don't they?!
Uhm, you're joking right? Choice between Vietam and the US?
As an Australian, I'd just like to say BHWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
(This is one of those trick questions, right? I pick Vietnam... why would *anyone* live in the US voluntarily?)
Boy, wouldn't Freud have a field day with you lot! I'm of the perception that the webcam stays 'high and dry' on top of the PC (or somewhere else close by) and doesn't go anywhere near your moth^H^H^H^Hbutt. Else why would he be tinkering with optics and buying an $800 probe?
I'm thinking the endo probe does the dirty work so to speak, and the system of optics that he's come up with makes the other end of the probe play nicely with a common-or-garden webcam.
Not withstanding that 'endoscopes' can be used on both 'ends', I wanna know why in the picture accompanying TFA, he appears to be shoving the endoscope down the back of the vict^H^H^H^Hpatient's kneck?!
I think he's confusing wattage with amperage.
When you consider that Australia (the city of Melbourne, Australia strictly speaking), has the highest population of Greek folks of any city in the world outside of Greece (and Sydney isn't too far behind) then you can bet your bottom dollar that there's going to be a fair swag of small "Mom-and-Pop" businesses, corner stores, etc with some form of 'Olypic' in the name.
Our newspapers regularly carried stories of small businesses being steamrollered by IOC Corporation and its hired thugs (by hired thugs, I mean the government of the host country).
Another common story was the officials and security being briefed to look out for spectators and general public wearing promotional gear (hats, t-shirts, etc) from companies that competed with official sponsors. A coca cola t-shirt for example would leave you being offered the choice of handing it over, covering up, or going home.
Despite all the talk of leaving town for the duration, etc, etc, I did end up sticking around (but I didn't get involved in any of the events organised by IOC Corporation). Strangely, Sydney was a really really nice place to be for those two weeks. Many people dreaded the five ringed circus coming to town, but by the time they packed up their tents and their wagons and rolled out of town again, many of the same were sad to see them go.
That ain't no excuse for steam rollering thousands of little people in the name of corporate greed though. IOC Corporation has NOTHING to do with sport, excellence, peace, tradition or ANY of that nice stuff - it's about corporations and hired governments pumping the people for money.
Me, I make careful note of the companies that sponsor IOC Corporation, and put them on my personal do not buy list for life.
No no, you don't understand. It's OK for Apple to behave this way because OSX is BSD, and (despite that its dying!) BSD is free and open source and full of wholesome goodness.
(It's only evil if Micro$oft does it!)
Here in Sydney, Australia, we have a saying. It goes like this:
"Is that the truth, or did you read it in The Daily Telegraph."
My take on this story is that reading it on slashdot is probably the first the the head of ANSTO has heard of it all (ie: he said nothing of the sort!!!).
Nokia, a company that used to make great hardware that has now completely lost the plot insofar as hardware goes.
A merger seems like the natural thing to do at this point.
I believe, Sir, that you've just been trolled.
Which part of Gizmo for Apple OS/X doesn't work for you? Sounds a lot like BSD to me.
Oh, don't get me started on unemployment benefits! I went down that path for a brief period here in Australia a few years ago. The system here, with all the paperwork and justifications is just painful. They want to know about all your bank accounts and stuff too, so if you have a cent to your name, you're not eligible. Save up enough money to pay for registration on a car so you can improve your chances of getting a job by saying "I have a car and I can use it to get to work" and they'll withold your benefits until you've spent that money on surviving.
The Australian unemployment benefits system is designed to kick you down and keep you down - once you're at rock bottom, they do eveything they can to prevent you from getting back up.
It was easier to not eat and live on the street for a while than it was to satisfy those bastards!
Why not? All the dumb bunnies have been blaming their mistakes on virii for years (as in "I can't find the document I wrote yesterday, it must be a virus").
They obtain large government grants on the strength of elaborate proposals that, when passed through a suitably calibrated crap filter, say nothing, then spend the money buying iPods for their kids, and laptops and broadband for their favourite researcher's kid sister. Once the money is gone, they come up with a paper that says "When two houseflies crawl up a wall, it makes no difference to the average vertical speed of either housefly whether his counterpart is standing on his left or his right.", get published in a journal, get a free trip to speak at a conference somewhere, then they go back to square one and start writing up an application for another grant.
[sarcasm] I can't wait until I've finished my doctorate so I can hop on this gravy train [/sarcasm]
#disclaimer.not: All examples of corruption in this post are real.
What is the deal with people who can't spell 'lego' - it is like they missed a stage of their education or something.
One way of dealing with that problem is to block China and Korea altogether. All the l33+ h4x0r5 who try to password guess on my ssh daemons come from educational institutions in Korea. Block them at the border router, problem goes away!
Am I the only one who is really very dissapointed by that? I was really looking forward to some pics of some very flat cows.
Actually, I got that wrong. The 'Help' key on the Apple keyboard isfunctioning as an 'Insert' key when plugged into a PC. It's working fine.
It's not DECT, its not SIP, but hey, if it works.
No, it doesn't. Out of the box, everthing on the 'main' area of the keyboard works except F13 (which, AFAIK, PC keyboards don't have). The Apple keys (one either side of the space bar) map to the Windows keys, control == control, alt/option == alt. There is no 'Windows menu' key (my windoze keyboards have a menu key on the right of the space bar).
The Alt and Apple keys are transposed: On a PC keyboard, the bottom row goes Control|Alt|Win|Space|Alt|Win|Winmenu|Control. On this Apple keyboard, I've got Control|Alt|Apple|Space|Apple|Alt|Control. Takes a few hours of banging the wrong key at the wrong time to get used to it :-)
In the middle set of keys, it's mostly the same. Arrow keys are the same. Delete, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down are all in the same positions. The apple keyboard has a "Help" key in place of the PC "Insert" key and doesn't seem to have any function with windows out of the box.
Print Screen|Scroll Lock|Pause/Break do not exist on the Apple keyboard, but there are F14|F15|F16 in the same locations. They don't seem to have any function out of the box, but I presume they can be remapped.
The numeric keypad is pretty much the same as a PC keyboard, exept that there is a "Clear" key in place of "Num Lock". It functions as "Num Lock" though, so no problems there.
There is an additional row of keys above the numeric keypad, marked with icons for "Volume Down", "Volume Up", "Mute" and "Eject". All but the eject one work out of the box.
HTH
Went into an apple reseller yesterday and picked up a keyboard. Asked a salesdroid "What are my chances of getting this to work on a PC?" (I already knew the answer to that, was just trolling!). Salesdroid said "Zero - there's no drivers for it". (Clearly doesn't know about USB HIDs!). I said "Mind if I try it?".
Whipped out Dell laptop and fired it up. Windows XP detected an "Apple Extended Keyboard" and a "Generic USB Hub", realised that the keyboard was a regular Human Interface Device (HID) and just worked. Apple key == Windows Key. Everything else works. F13-F16 has no function (need to remap some of them to Print Screen and Pause/Break at some point), and even the volume up/down/mute keys work out of the box.
Fired up Gentoo Linux with a 2.6 kernel, it detected it as a "Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard" and again, just worked.
So yeah... I really really like the slimline minimalist style of this keyboard. Sure, it isn't an IBM/PCKeyboard.com style buckling spring [pckeyboard.com] keyboard, but its a very nice alternative. I think I'll be trying more Apple hardware as the mood strikes.
Went into an apple reseller yesterday and picked up a keyboard. Asked a salesdroid "What are my chances of getting this to work on a PC?" (I already knew the answer to that, was just trolling!). Salesdroid said "Zero - there's no drivers for it". (Clearly doesn't know about USB HIDs!). I said "Mind if I try it?".
Whipped out Dell laptop and fired it up. Windows XP detected an "Apple Extended Keyboard" and a "Generic USB Hub", realised that the keyboard was a regular Human Interface Device (HID) and just worked. Apple key == Windows Key. Everything else works. F13-F16 has no function (need to remap some of them to Print Screen and Pause/Break at some point), and even the volume up/down/mute keys work out of the box.
Fired up Gentoo Linux with a 2.6 kernel, it detected it as a "Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard" and again, just worked.
So yeah... I really really like the slimline minimalist style of this keyboard. Sure, it isn't an IBM/PCKeyboard.com style buckling spring keyboard, but its a very nice alternative. I think I'll be trying more Apple hardware as the mood strikes.
If this is an every-weekend thing, he really needs to consider a change of tactics: Spend an hour a weekend beating some sense into his stupid stupid daughter! (and/or himself)
Even the *really* dumb punters that come to me with computers loaded to the gills with spyware crap don't come back with repeat problems after the first time. Clean the computers, put a couple of blocking whassnames, remove MSIE, MS Lookout Express, MSN Messenger, MS Media Player, replace with Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM or Miranda IM and Media Player Classic/Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative. Beat a bit of sense into the punter (not much, just an inkling of a clue is usually enough) and they go away... usually never to be re-infected.
This isn't rocket science.