I'm a Mac tech and I'm amazed at how many people out there have over 1000 messages in their in box (mostly unread) and have never set up the most basic filter. I go and show them how to set up a couple of filters and they think I'm some kind of email Odin, smiting spam with my spear and magic helmet. There's a reason I can charge $75.00/hour for basic setup.
As for my own email, I have over 100 filters that sort out email lists, friends, humor, spam, etc. Even after being on vacation for 10 days, I was able to go through all my email (around 500 real messages-spam goes to trash) in about 30 minutes. My daily stuff only takes about 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.
With the humor email, I doubt if I read even one in ten. Usually, if my friends start talking about a piece, I'll go back and read it, but that's about all.
I make my own beer. On my last batch, tossed the yeast about 15 minutes before CNN broke the news on Columbia, so it's my Columbia Memorial Ale. Will be making a lighter amber ale in a few weeks (need to drink more beer to free up bottles). I also work on my own cars, am in the planning stages for building my own house (will take time off from work and get paid from home loan, like all the rest of the workers), do metal work, wood work, sew, paint, draw, play numerous musical instruments, etc. I'm about average in my skills in all of these things but am very interested in learning everything.
My wife is the same way. She's always trying something new in world cuisine, spins wool, dyes it, weaves it, sews it, etc. She also studies/teaches several styles of world dance, pottery, music, and small engine repair and rebuilding, including her Triumph Bonny.
Of course, we want to teach all this stuff to our daughter, or at least instill in her a love of learning and experimenting.
ps: We met in the SCA but do most of our stuff away from it. The SCA makes for some good parties, though.
I tried to drill through an old '486 chip. I got through the brown ceramic coating and then hit some hard metal surface that just got shiny from the various bits I tried. I then used a.45 on the chip and it turned inside out...and then it exploded.
For taking care of pesky hard drives, I think my friend's Boyes Anti-tank rifle (necked down to.50 BMG) would do the trick. I have a couple of rounds right here. They're just under 6" long. I wonder if they'll just punch through a drive or cause it to shatter?
Apple's quarterly profits are usually between $20 and $60 million. This could be like an extra quarter's profits a year. Not to mention the spurred hardware sales.
The actual music files can be backed up, just like any other data file. If your equipment goes blooey, it's up to you to have regular and frequent backups. I imagine that Apple would work with you about de-certifying your dead Mac so you could recert a new one.
Still the best game I've played that could drop me into another world. I remember my roommate or cat making some random noise as I was playing and nearly jumping out of my skin. The music, the mystery of it all, the weird electronic ghosts floating through the ship, and of course, the storyline. Wish Bungie had done a remake of Marathon 1, before they sold their souls. With a decent 3d engine and modern rendering, it'd be great.
A small, private school I support is still running Apple ][e's with some reading software on them. Luckly, my boss is an Apple packrat and has greedily collected any old Apple (Mac or what-not) that the local public school system has gotten rid of.
Personally, I have a Mac Plus (1 MB RAM) running Minix, booting off of an old 20MB drive. I fire it up from time to time for fun.
My Quadra 650 (64MB RAM) is still fired up to scan things. This machine has been rock solid, running my orginal copy of Photoshop 2.5, Quark 3.11, Illustrator 5.5. I have a customer that runs an identical system to put out a 50 page monthly newsletter. He doesn't see any need to change things.
In the closet is my Ti 99/4A with 16k of RAM. The cassette player still works with it and I've loaded up a vector drawing program I wrote in basic (enter x,y screen coordinates for line end points). I used this to draw ships for Traveller. I also had the obligatory character generator for both D&D and Traveller. It's been about 4 years since I last ran this stuff. Hope it still works.
Current Mac is a 5 year old beige G3 that's been upgraded to a 450MHz G4, dual video (20" Colorsync's) running the latest OSX. Nice that the old hardware holds up so well. Have started looking for a G4 AGP board for my next machine, though. Quartz extreme only works on AGP cards:(.
Got the 4 disk set for $26.00 at Sam's club back before TTT came out. Last I saw, they still had it at the same price. Barnes and Noble had the same set for $48.00.
The Ruling Class has Peter O'Toole as the insane heir to a large estate and title in England. He thinks he is Jesus Christ, the god of love. You can imagine where it goes from there. Good luck finding it at the local Blockbuster.
How come Space War is the only game to impliment gravity in relation to shots fired? It was a great game. Have to get around to building my MAME console one day.
Apple is going to be bought by Sun and then use Itanium chips (with nacho cheese sauce for cooling!). This will happen just after Apple and Disney merge. Soon after, Dis-Ap-Su will release it's handheld with a flexible, roll-up 21" screen that uses 802.11z to communicate with the alien satellites that circle the Earth and make us think we live in an expanding universe of stars and such when it's really just crystal spheres that quarantine us from the sane universe.
My wife and I are planning on building a 200+ year house in the near future. We've settled on a mix of wood frame and rammed earth.
The oldest church in South Carolina is made of rammed earth as well as the oldest church in the San Francisco area (towers that Hanibal built in Spain are also still standing). The new techniques of using rebar to tie the pad and rehinforcing top beam together is great. Here's a good book on it.
We're planning on having a rammed earth ground floor with a timber framed second story. The ground floor is going to be designed for additions to be added on as needed (large doorways in exterior walls).
For interior use, we're going to use a manifold system that will pipe water to where ever it's to be used. You can think of it as two hubs, one hot, one cold and flexible pcv/vinal lines that run, in the ceiling, from the hub to the faucet. This gives you flexibility in placing sinks and such or even repurposing rooms. For sewage, that'll run under the floor. This'll be accessable from the basement. We're looking into grey water recovery as we'll be doing this in New Mexico (not that any place can't stand some water conservation).
For networking, am going to be running hamster tunnels (smurf tunnels?) along the base of the walls as well as along the top of the walls, between ceiling and upper floor. Don't know about adding wireless access points/antennas to the system.
The layout of the house will also make use of berming along the north walls and a porch along the south walls that will block most of the summer sun but allow winter sun to heat the place. Some of this design will come from earthships being built in New Mexico. We'd like to be totally off the net, but our love of tech makes this a distant dream (unless low power laptops take over for just about everything).
I worked at a theater that did Rocky Horror at midnight. She played Magenta. Trust me, she's all woman. This was backed in the late 80's as Married with Children came out. I'd look at Peg on tv and then at ****** (she's a respectiple wife, mother, church lady now. Wouldn't do for her sordid past to come out) and the resemblance was amazing.
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Set it out in the Pacific on the equater and start the carbon tube fabricators!
I'm a Mac tech and I'm amazed at how many people out there have over 1000 messages in their in box (mostly unread) and have never set up the most basic filter. I go and show them how to set up a couple of filters and they think I'm some kind of email Odin, smiting spam with my spear and magic helmet. There's a reason I can charge $75.00/hour for basic setup.
As for my own email, I have over 100 filters that sort out email lists, friends, humor, spam, etc. Even after being on vacation for 10 days, I was able to go through all my email (around 500 real messages-spam goes to trash) in about 30 minutes. My daily stuff only takes about 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.
With the humor email, I doubt if I read even one in ten. Usually, if my friends start talking about a piece, I'll go back and read it, but that's about all.
I'd stay out of the 'how to make a still' chapter unless you want very urban ATF breaking up your mash bucket and stoving in your cooker.
You're not making booze, you're working on an experimental fuel proto-type.
There are so many other useful skills that you could learn with your precious time.
Such as?
I make my own beer. On my last batch, tossed the yeast about 15 minutes before CNN broke the news on Columbia, so it's my Columbia Memorial Ale. Will be making a lighter amber ale in a few weeks (need to drink more beer to free up bottles). I also work on my own cars, am in the planning stages for building my own house (will take time off from work and get paid from home loan, like all the rest of the workers), do metal work, wood work, sew, paint, draw, play numerous musical instruments, etc. I'm about average in my skills in all of these things but am very interested in learning everything.
My wife is the same way. She's always trying something new in world cuisine, spins wool, dyes it, weaves it, sews it, etc. She also studies/teaches several styles of world dance, pottery, music, and small engine repair and rebuilding, including her Triumph Bonny.
Of course, we want to teach all this stuff to our daughter, or at least instill in her a love of learning and experimenting.
ps: We met in the SCA but do most of our stuff away from it. The SCA makes for some good parties, though.
I tried to drill through an old '486 chip. I got through the brown ceramic coating and then hit some hard metal surface that just got shiny from the various bits I tried. I then used a .45 on the chip and it turned inside out...and then it exploded.
.50 BMG) would do the trick. I have a couple of rounds right here. They're just under 6" long. I wonder if they'll just punch through a drive or cause it to shatter?
For taking care of pesky hard drives, I think my friend's Boyes Anti-tank rifle (necked down to
Apple's quarterly profits are usually between $20 and $60 million. This could be like an extra quarter's profits a year. Not to mention the spurred hardware sales.
The actual music files can be backed up, just like any other data file. If your equipment goes blooey, it's up to you to have regular and frequent backups. I imagine that Apple would work with you about de-certifying your dead Mac so you could recert a new one.
Tex-Edit!
Still the best game I've played that could drop me into another world. I remember my roommate or cat making some random noise as I was playing and nearly jumping out of my skin. The music, the mystery of it all, the weird electronic ghosts floating through the ship, and of course, the storyline. Wish Bungie had done a remake of Marathon 1, before they sold their souls. With a decent 3d engine and modern rendering, it'd be great.
A small, private school I support is still running Apple ][e's with some reading software on them. Luckly, my boss is an Apple packrat and has greedily collected any old Apple (Mac or what-not) that the local public school system has gotten rid of.
:(.
Personally, I have a Mac Plus (1 MB RAM) running Minix, booting off of an old 20MB drive. I fire it up from time to time for fun.
My Quadra 650 (64MB RAM) is still fired up to scan things. This machine has been rock solid, running my orginal copy of Photoshop 2.5, Quark 3.11, Illustrator 5.5. I have a customer that runs an identical system to put out a 50 page monthly newsletter. He doesn't see any need to change things.
In the closet is my Ti 99/4A with 16k of RAM. The cassette player still works with it and I've loaded up a vector drawing program I wrote in basic (enter x,y screen coordinates for line end points). I used this to draw ships for Traveller. I also had the obligatory character generator for both D&D and Traveller. It's been about 4 years since I last ran this stuff. Hope it still works.
Current Mac is a 5 year old beige G3 that's been upgraded to a 450MHz G4, dual video (20" Colorsync's) running the latest OSX. Nice that the old hardware holds up so well. Have started looking for a G4 AGP board for my next machine, though. Quartz extreme only works on AGP cards
...And have a kid!
Got the 4 disk set for $26.00 at Sam's club back before TTT came out. Last I saw, they still had it at the same price. Barnes and Noble had the same set for $48.00.
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I'm reading /. on vapour?
Remember when Apple bought Next, and Next's crew came in and took over Apple?
And this would be a bad thing?
There is GRASS for OSX.
Oh man, totally forgot about Fandango. Caught it at a friend's house back in the mid '80's. Great flick.
For that movie (Bachelor Party), Monique Gabrielle was the most beautiful woman on the planet.
Amazon has it for sale. Just doesn't have the cool '60's cover.
The Conqueror-John Wayne as Temujin Kahn.
Rhinoceros-Town is plagued with rhinos.
Subway-Thief robs girl, escapes to subway.
Diva-Diva is recorded. Long motorcycle chase ensues.
Ishtar-How come everyone on Amazon likes it?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-All the world's a stage...
Tampopo-Japanese Noodle Western.
After Hours-Rough night in New York.
Into the Night-Rough night in L.A.
The Ruling Class has Peter O'Toole as the insane heir to a large estate and title in England. He thinks he is Jesus Christ, the god of love. You can imagine where it goes from there. Good luck finding it at the local Blockbuster.
How come Space War is the only game to impliment gravity in relation to shots fired? It was a great game. Have to get around to building my MAME console one day.
Apple is going to be bought by Sun and then use Itanium chips (with nacho cheese sauce for cooling!). This will happen just after Apple and Disney merge. Soon after, Dis-Ap-Su will release it's handheld with a flexible, roll-up 21" screen that uses 802.11z to communicate with the alien satellites that circle the Earth and make us think we live in an expanding universe of stars and such when it's really just crystal spheres that quarantine us from the sane universe.
The oldest church in South Carolina is made of rammed earth as well as the oldest church in the San Francisco area (towers that Hanibal built in Spain are also still standing). The new techniques of using rebar to tie the pad and rehinforcing top beam together is great. Here's a good book on it.
We're planning on having a rammed earth ground floor with a timber framed second story. The ground floor is going to be designed for additions to be added on as needed (large doorways in exterior walls).
For interior use, we're going to use a manifold system that will pipe water to where ever it's to be used. You can think of it as two hubs, one hot, one cold and flexible pcv/vinal lines that run, in the ceiling, from the hub to the faucet. This gives you flexibility in placing sinks and such or even repurposing rooms. For sewage, that'll run under the floor. This'll be accessable from the basement. We're looking into grey water recovery as we'll be doing this in New Mexico (not that any place can't stand some water conservation).
For networking, am going to be running hamster tunnels (smurf tunnels?) along the base of the walls as well as along the top of the walls, between ceiling and upper floor. Don't know about adding wireless access points/antennas to the system.
The layout of the house will also make use of berming along the north walls and a porch along the south walls that will block most of the summer sun but allow winter sun to heat the place. Some of this design will come from earthships being built in New Mexico. We'd like to be totally off the net, but our love of tech makes this a distant dream (unless low power laptops take over for just about everything).
I worked at a theater that did Rocky Horror at midnight. She played Magenta. Trust me, she's all woman. This was backed in the late 80's as Married with Children came out. I'd look at Peg on tv and then at ****** (she's a respectiple wife, mother, church lady now. Wouldn't do for her sordid past to come out) and the resemblance was amazing.