I don't know of any tools for it, but I have some ideas on putting yourself one together.
There are numerous devices that can get you a tuner on your computer. Many Hauppauge TV-Tuner boards work quite well, and as they are the BT878 chip, run well under linux. D-Link sells a USB-based tuner.
With that and some perl and encoder software, you should be able to slap something together. Cron could be helpful.
In your car, it is critical that your car be fixed properly. If it is not, it may explode and kill you and your family.
As you mentioned for the salon also, there are safety implications. Chemicals used wrong could hurt you. Tanning beds could have severe consequences.
Now, your computer won't explode and kill you're family. You're keyboard won't start glowing and irradiate you and give you cancer, like a tanning bed can easily.
A mechanic must do his job right or else you may die. If I screw up your computer, you may lose information. You may not be able to forward chain letters. You may not be able to talk to Aunt Millie on AIM.
But you won't *DIE*. That's a massive difference that should be recognized.
I'd be not so sure. A lot of kids are fearless about personal injury, but I think there are more reckless young pyros than adolescents with no fear of authority. Sure, most thumb their nose at the Man often enough and give independance plenty of lip service, but anyone who gets caught fscking w/ traffic signals will be majorly fucked, and more kids will acknowledge that than their mortality, I think.
I've had great luck in the past ordering online specific models w/o frills. Also, many times local Mom & Pop shops can order specific boards from their vendors (PC King here in Chicago suburbs is working on hooking me up w/ that radeon 9700 non-pro that no retail store seems to carry).
And as for network cards and such dying on the board, well, as bad as that is, I've seen boards with many PCI slots AND integrated stuff, so you don't lose anything by going integrated. The sound may genuinely be an issue, I do not know, but for example the network card, well you just throw a PCI card in. Onboard video has a notoriously bad rep, but believe this has been improving, and it's great to run a second moniter. I wish I'd purchased a mobo w/ integrated video and AGP slot (they ARE out there!), because I'm running 3 moniters. 3 video cards, network, sound, and tv tuner fill up a system real quick!
Anyway, just remember, it may irk you to pay for things your not using, but at the same time, it's really annoying (and very very difficult to fix) when you run out of slots!
I have no clinical data to say whether or not it's actually unhealthy, but everyone I know that actually seriously uses a computer can notice the difference. Every single one of them.
Some people may not notice, but those are usually the non-serious users. The "Computers are cool, but Word scares me" crowd don't usually notice much of anything. I once sat a guy in front of my dvorak keyboard (IBM Model M, removable key caps!) and he didn't notice for quite a while (minutes even!)...
So they can access everything you put on their hardware. Well, you're only working on their hardware during the hours your billing for, and therefore you're only doing work that in the end belongs to them anyway.
I understand a request for privacy, but I don't understand what keystrokes you are concerned they'll catch.
Second, and if your laptop doesn't support external booting, just load up a minimal install and mount the drive as root, or pivot_root it or something. Should be easy nuff to set up.
There is one fundamental problem that you don't cover: I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
I write software on my own time to solve my own problems. When I got bug reports, I fixed them. I wrote a manual and released it.
But don't tell me that my UI isn't good enough: If you want it better, I'll help you port it to Qt. I don't feel like learning anything other than GNU readline, so I didn't.
You miss the point: My software (*MY* software) has a shitty UI, and I could give a rat's hairy feces covered mutated ass whether or not you find it intuitive. If you don't like it, fix it, because I think it's good enough, and I am not going to waste my time maintaining it, because it works just fine!
My next project is intended to be a good piece of software, to be the best at what it is. That one will have a great UI and amazing documentation. But never forget that most developers don't develope for you: they code for themselves, for their own problems. When those problems are solved, they share their solutions, but don't expect them to bolt a better UI on it, if they don't need one.
Like I said, I've written software for me, and I don't care about that. The software I write for other people too will have a good UI, but never forget that those are two entirely different classes, and don't tell me what I should write in my spare time!
I prefer to make a distinction between the three, because I think there can be great stories in all of them, however, if you block them together as tends to happen, you don't have good criteria with which to judge.
I think science fiction is fiction in which the science plays a major role. My example here is David Webber's Honor Harrington series: I think it's a good story, but obviously not fantasy: he takes too much care in making sure there are realistic scientific devices with known limitations, and builds his characters inside a world with that science.
Fantasy is simply where that doesn't happen: magic is the canonical example here: World XYZ has magic. We don't know *why* they have magic and we don't, but they have magic.
Speculative fiction, on the other hand, I characterize as the types of stories when the author says "what if this happened?" My classic example is the movie Pleasantville: "What if we were all in a black and white world and suddenly there was color?"
Speculative fiction can be either of the above catagories, but is unique in that it is usually a social commentary. As a book example, consider any of Ben Bova's novels. Especially his near-future ones, like "The Kinsman Saga". When it was written it was speculation about the future. What if the military took a real interest in space and we got missile defense to really work? And what if local problems like overcrowding and such were growing? Most good speculative fiction changes a few things, very few, and just paints a picture of what the world might be. Orwell's 1984 is just like that: "What if the government was always watching?".
In any case, there are many great novels in each category, but the distintions are so rarely made that trying to choose the best often leads to trying to pick one. I think it'd be much much easier (but still nontrivial) to pick a best in each catagory, rather than one overall. My picks:
Get a lawyer and have him write the license. You know what rights you want to allow, so give it to a lawyer to translate into legalese./. is not the place to get help writing an air-tight license. A lawyer is.
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Why old? That's a waste: I have an old 486DX50mhz running slack 8.1 beautifully.
Here's the problem as I see it: You want them to convert and you want to convert them over.
I think that, as you observed, since some things don't work as well as Windows, you'll have a problem if you try to get them converted.
My suggestion is to ensure that you can set up for them the majority of what they want, and then dual boot.
Make a point of never using XP yourself. Make sure you're seen in front of them running some really slick and attractive WM. With lots of shiney customizable things that can be tinkered with.
When they see you playing with it, they'll be interested. But if you put it in front of them and preach that "Its better! Its cheaper! Its magic sliced bread doohicky!" you won't get anywhere.
Let them have an account that'll let them do as much as possible that they could under XP, and let them tinker with it. They may tire of it, or they may be intrigued.
But either way, I bet you'll wind up with them learning less than if you tried to force them.
The difference between $45 and $300 is "monopoly rents"? Bull shit. A lot of businesses have that much markup. Computer cables, for example. Or compare them to the cost of North Face brand jackets: That's about the same margin.
I dislike MS because it is a monopoly, but these numbers are bullshit.
It should be a crime to *start* students on a protected environment like Java. Programmers who start on Java begin with less understanding of what's going on, because it sweeps too much complexity under the carpet.
I realize this argument was made for assembler when C was introduced. BUT! There was a massive shift between assembler and C, which is why that argument is not valid.
C and Java both have pointers/references. They both have functions, etc. But Java's references are hidden from the user, and most students don't have a clue about a reference.
Asm. vs. C was a big difference, but Java and C++ share so much, but Java sweeps all that complexity under the carpet. If a programmer who's only used Java gets into a C++ project, he'll fsck it up so fast it'll make your head spin.
It should be a crime to teach Java as a beginners language. It's not a bad language, but under no circumstances could it conceivably be considered a beginner's tool.
Aside from the fact that this is an affront to free speech (Which I'm sure everyone else here will cover just fine), did anyone notice that they allow you to promote hatred against people based on sexual orientation or gender?
The quote nicely omits these. Now, provisions for that may be elsewhere in the amendment, but it belongs in that sentance; seperating it is poor writing.
Is the EU is telling its citizens who they can hate?
But seriously, this is why it is worth doing! Nothing ever got done by taking the easy way out! While I'm all for the Mars trip, and it probably should be first, I think we must go to Venus, because there is much there to learn, and because it is hard. The moon was hard once, and we did it. We can do it again!
I know we won't get there soon, but I want to see us accomplish this by the time I die.
The thing with Mars is that we know how to do it: We make a big enough ship with enough fuel to get there and back (Which we can do, it'd just be a lot). You put some hydroponics on board. It's tech we have.
Venus would require the same, and a lot more to stay alive there. It's truly a new frontier; Mars is merely a barren one. There is something romantic about Mars, but Venus' environment will fight tooth and nail to keep us away from her.
I don't know about you guys, but that makes me wonder that much more what color her panties are.
I don't have masses of pentium 1's. But I do have a couple of DECstations. I have a PA-RISC box. I run triple-head.
And those keyboards, "just in case", you don't type like me. Two days, and I killed the enter key on a crap keyboard. Takes about a year for me to destroy the escape key on a regular ergo. That stockpile of IBM Model M's comes in handy.
A lot of people here criticize keeping stuff. Don't say just that "you don't need more than XYZ". I've seen systems like my working DECstation going for $1000 on ebay now. Its a collectable. A 386 won't ever be valuble or particularly useful, aside from maybe NAT. And a stack of SGI Indigo's is pretty cool, if only for the penis-enlargement factor. But I could give a damn about my roomate's system with 5 NICs.
Oh, and one of the original compaq portables. We'd have an Osbourne if my roomate's dad hadn't sold it.
Nothing wrong with being a packrat, as long as you're a packrat with taste.
The thing is this: Linus does not have the time to get every patch in there. No one seems to understand this, so now he's putting it out there pretty forcefully. People like you don't see the whining he puts up with; you just see it when he boils over in the form of letters like this, and then you criticize him.
All he wants is some assurance that the patch functions well. If you're some stranger and he's never heard of you nor your patch, how the hell is to be assured that your patch won't blow up a computer and embarass him? Do you think Linus can test every patch he gets himself?
If he requires that you can prove a large working installed base, so what? It is HIS. It has HIS name on it. He approves it, personally, every release. And when it screws up, it reflects on HIM. Not you. Well, you too, but the product isn't named after you; it's named after him, and most users won't see who is responsible for the code.
Linus wants a good kernel, and if he isn't discriminating about what he takes, it'll go to shit real quickly. So if you think its childish that he grows to trust people who continually write good code, or that he trusts patches that have been distributed in versien 45+1/2 of RedHat and with no known issues, maybe that is childish.
But there's nothing wrong with require well-tested patches for his code. It's his tree, his name, and his reputation on the line. Good for him, for doing it and saying this.
I'd like to know why they actually think its necessary to track my books.
I'd find it hard to argue against this if there was a clear, valid reason. It still violates free speech, but so do a lot of things and there are good reasons, legality notwithstanding.
But this is just flat out pointless. Are they going to see that I check out a book on bomb-making? Why not just watch my purchases? They already do that, after all.
I just don't understand why it is useful for them to moniter this. If a suspected terrorist checks out a book, so what? A book on bomb-making doesn't make a bomb, it makes knowledge. You still need the materials, which are even easier to trace.
Secondly, if I were a terrorist, I'd go to the library and copy pages out of books with a digital camera or a xerox machine.
Sure, the energy requirements may be a fraction, but consider the cost of installing a complete system in an urban environment that could actually use it? Here in Chicago, it would be extremely difficult to construct a good system without severely screwing up traffic even worse than it is already.
Incorrect: This was not a programming issue. Nor was it a software issue at all. The problem was the O-ring seals in the SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters). The manufacturer stated that they should not be operated under 53 degrees, and NASA overrode the recomendation and launched anyway. The expected happened.
NASA hasn't ever had a hardware problem. Or a software problem. Ever. Every problem can be directly tied to one specific person being a fscking moron. The closest you could come is that Mars probe that crashed because of mismatched units. And that was just poor communication among the software guys.
I can't offer input here, but I can suggest you ask in forum for the Joel on Software software management discussion/article site.
Good stuff there, good people.
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I don't know of any tools for it, but I have some ideas on putting yourself one together.
There are numerous devices that can get you a tuner on your computer. Many Hauppauge TV-Tuner boards work quite well, and as they are the BT878 chip, run well under linux. D-Link sells a USB-based tuner.
With that and some perl and encoder software, you should be able to slap something together. Cron could be helpful.
In your car, it is critical that your car be fixed properly. If it is not, it may explode and kill you and your family.
As you mentioned for the salon also, there are safety implications. Chemicals used wrong could hurt you. Tanning beds could have severe consequences.
Now, your computer won't explode and kill you're family. You're keyboard won't start glowing and irradiate you and give you cancer, like a tanning bed can easily.
A mechanic must do his job right or else you may die. If I screw up your computer, you may lose information. You may not be able to forward chain letters. You may not be able to talk to Aunt Millie on AIM.
But you won't *DIE*. That's a massive difference that should be recognized.
I don't get the "In Soviet Russia" references as it is :) I doubt they will!
Where the hell did that come from, anyway?
I'd be not so sure. A lot of kids are fearless about personal injury, but I think there are more reckless young pyros than adolescents with no fear of authority. Sure, most thumb their nose at the Man often enough and give independance plenty of lip service, but anyone who gets caught fscking w/ traffic signals will be majorly fucked, and more kids will acknowledge that than their mortality, I think.
Ahh, I was not aware of that.
:) I was just kind of hoping it'd work, because as I said, I have use for it.
And it still can be used to run another head, just not w/ an AGP board
Oh well, tnx.
I've had great luck in the past ordering online specific models w/o frills. Also, many times local Mom & Pop shops can order specific boards from their vendors (PC King here in Chicago suburbs is working on hooking me up w/ that radeon 9700 non-pro that no retail store seems to carry).
And as for network cards and such dying on the board, well, as bad as that is, I've seen boards with many PCI slots AND integrated stuff, so you don't lose anything by going integrated. The sound may genuinely be an issue, I do not know, but for example the network card, well you just throw a PCI card in. Onboard video has a notoriously bad rep, but believe this has been improving, and it's great to run a second moniter. I wish I'd purchased a mobo w/ integrated video and AGP slot (they ARE out there!), because I'm running 3 moniters. 3 video cards, network, sound, and tv tuner fill up a system real quick!
Anyway, just remember, it may irk you to pay for things your not using, but at the same time, it's really annoying (and very very difficult to fix) when you run out of slots!
I have no clinical data to say whether or not it's actually unhealthy, but everyone I know that actually seriously uses a computer can notice the difference. Every single one of them.
Some people may not notice, but those are usually the non-serious users. The "Computers are cool, but Word scares me" crowd don't usually notice much of anything. I once sat a guy in front of my dvorak keyboard (IBM Model M, removable key caps!) and he didn't notice for quite a while (minutes even!)...
So they can access everything you put on their hardware. Well, you're only working on their hardware during the hours your billing for, and therefore you're only doing work that in the end belongs to them anyway.
I understand a request for privacy, but I don't understand what keystrokes you are concerned they'll catch.
Second, and if your laptop doesn't support external booting, just load up a minimal install and mount the drive as root, or pivot_root it or something. Should be easy nuff to set up.
There is one fundamental problem that you don't cover: I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
I write software on my own time to solve my own problems. When I got bug reports, I fixed them. I wrote a manual and released it.
But don't tell me that my UI isn't good enough: If you want it better, I'll help you port it to Qt. I don't feel like learning anything other than GNU readline, so I didn't.
You miss the point: My software (*MY* software) has a shitty UI, and I could give a rat's hairy feces covered mutated ass whether or not you find it intuitive. If you don't like it, fix it, because I think it's good enough, and I am not going to waste my time maintaining it, because it works just fine!
My next project is intended to be a good piece of software, to be the best at what it is. That one will have a great UI and amazing documentation. But never forget that most developers don't develope for you: they code for themselves, for their own problems. When those problems are solved, they share their solutions, but don't expect them to bolt a better UI on it, if they don't need one.
Like I said, I've written software for me, and I don't care about that. The software I write for other people too will have a good UI, but never forget that those are two entirely different classes, and don't tell me what I should write in my spare time!
I prefer to make a distinction between the three, because I think there can be great stories in all of them, however, if you block them together as tends to happen, you don't have good criteria with which to judge.
I think science fiction is fiction in which the science plays a major role. My example here is David Webber's Honor Harrington series: I think it's a good story, but obviously not fantasy: he takes too much care in making sure there are realistic scientific devices with known limitations, and builds his characters inside a world with that science.
Fantasy is simply where that doesn't happen: magic is the canonical example here: World XYZ has magic. We don't know *why* they have magic and we don't, but they have magic.
Speculative fiction, on the other hand, I characterize as the types of stories when the author says "what if this happened?" My classic example is the movie Pleasantville: "What if we were all in a black and white world and suddenly there was color?"
Speculative fiction can be either of the above catagories, but is unique in that it is usually a social commentary. As a book example, consider any of Ben Bova's novels. Especially his near-future ones, like "The Kinsman Saga". When it was written it was speculation about the future. What if the military took a real interest in space and we got missile defense to really work? And what if local problems like overcrowding and such were growing? Most good speculative fiction changes a few things, very few, and just paints a picture of what the world might be. Orwell's 1984 is just like that: "What if the government was always watching?".
In any case, there are many great novels in each category, but the distintions are so rarely made that trying to choose the best often leads to trying to pick one. I think it'd be much much easier (but still nontrivial) to pick a best in each catagory, rather than one overall. My picks:
Fantasy: LotR (Tolkein)
Speculative Fiction: Colony (Bova)
Science Fiction: The Worthing Saga (OSC)
These are just a few, there are many just as good. But I think it's a few good picks.
Get a lawyer and have him write the license. You know what rights you want to allow, so give it to a lawyer to translate into legalese. /. is not the place to get help writing an air-tight license. A lawyer is.
Why old? That's a waste: I have an old 486DX50mhz running slack 8.1 beautifully.
Here's the problem as I see it: You want them to convert and you want to convert them over.
I think that, as you observed, since some things don't work as well as Windows, you'll have a problem if you try to get them converted.
My suggestion is to ensure that you can set up for them the majority of what they want, and then dual boot.
Make a point of never using XP yourself. Make sure you're seen in front of them running some really slick and attractive WM. With lots of shiney customizable things that can be tinkered with.
When they see you playing with it, they'll be interested. But if you put it in front of them and preach that "Its better! Its cheaper! Its magic sliced bread doohicky!" you won't get anywhere.
Let them have an account that'll let them do as much as possible that they could under XP, and let them tinker with it. They may tire of it, or they may be intrigued.
But either way, I bet you'll wind up with them learning less than if you tried to force them.
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/dev/dsp | nc hostname 5000
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Sending:
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You probably want something a bit more... robust than this, but hell, what do you want for 2 lines of bash?
The difference between $45 and $300 is "monopoly rents"? Bull shit. A lot of businesses have that much markup. Computer cables, for example. Or compare them to the cost of North Face brand jackets: That's about the same margin.
I dislike MS because it is a monopoly, but these numbers are bullshit.
Horsehockey.
Bull fucking shit.
It should be a crime to *start* students on a protected environment like Java. Programmers who start on Java begin with less understanding of what's going on, because it sweeps too much complexity under the carpet.
I realize this argument was made for assembler when C was introduced. BUT! There was a massive shift between assembler and C, which is why that argument is not valid.
C and Java both have pointers/references. They both have functions, etc. But Java's references are hidden from the user, and most students don't have a clue about a reference.
Asm. vs. C was a big difference, but Java and C++ share so much, but Java sweeps all that complexity under the carpet. If a programmer who's only used Java gets into a C++ project, he'll fsck it up so fast it'll make your head spin.
It should be a crime to teach Java as a beginners language. It's not a bad language, but under no circumstances could it conceivably be considered a beginner's tool.
Aside from the fact that this is an affront to free speech (Which I'm sure everyone else here will cover just fine), did anyone notice that they allow you to promote hatred against people based on sexual orientation or gender?
The quote nicely omits these. Now, provisions for that may be elsewhere in the amendment, but it belongs in that sentance; seperating it is poor writing.
Is the EU is telling its citizens who they can hate?
There's something very wrong here.
"she'll turn you into a cinder"
Sounds like someone I know.
But seriously, this is why it is worth doing! Nothing ever got done by taking the easy way out! While I'm all for the Mars trip, and it probably should be first, I think we must go to Venus, because there is much there to learn, and because it is hard. The moon was hard once, and we did it. We can do it again!
I know we won't get there soon, but I want to see us accomplish this by the time I die.
The thing with Mars is that we know how to do it: We make a big enough ship with enough fuel to get there and back (Which we can do, it'd just be a lot). You put some hydroponics on board. It's tech we have.
Venus would require the same, and a lot more to stay alive there. It's truly a new frontier; Mars is merely a barren one. There is something romantic about Mars, but Venus' environment will fight tooth and nail to keep us away from her.
I don't know about you guys, but that makes me wonder that much more what color her panties are.
There's a difference between crap and cool.
I don't have masses of pentium 1's. But I do have a couple of DECstations. I have a PA-RISC box. I run triple-head.
And those keyboards, "just in case", you don't type like me. Two days, and I killed the enter key on a crap keyboard. Takes about a year for me to destroy the escape key on a regular ergo. That stockpile of IBM Model M's comes in handy.
A lot of people here criticize keeping stuff. Don't say just that "you don't need more than XYZ". I've seen systems like my working DECstation going for $1000 on ebay now. Its a collectable. A 386 won't ever be valuble or particularly useful, aside from maybe NAT. And a stack of SGI Indigo's is pretty cool, if only for the penis-enlargement factor. But I could give a damn about my roomate's system with 5 NICs.
Oh, and one of the original compaq portables. We'd have an Osbourne if my roomate's dad hadn't sold it.
Nothing wrong with being a packrat, as long as you're a packrat with taste.
The thing is this: Linus does not have the time to get every patch in there. No one seems to understand this, so now he's putting it out there pretty forcefully. People like you don't see the whining he puts up with; you just see it when he boils over in the form of letters like this, and then you criticize him.
All he wants is some assurance that the patch functions well. If you're some stranger and he's never heard of you nor your patch, how the hell is to be assured that your patch won't blow up a computer and embarass him? Do you think Linus can test every patch he gets himself?
If he requires that you can prove a large working installed base, so what? It is HIS. It has HIS name on it. He approves it, personally, every release. And when it screws up, it reflects on HIM. Not you. Well, you too, but the product isn't named after you; it's named after him, and most users won't see who is responsible for the code.
Linus wants a good kernel, and if he isn't discriminating about what he takes, it'll go to shit real quickly. So if you think its childish that he grows to trust people who continually write good code, or that he trusts patches that have been distributed in versien 45+1/2 of RedHat and with no known issues, maybe that is childish.
But there's nothing wrong with require well-tested patches for his code. It's his tree, his name, and his reputation on the line. Good for him, for doing it and saying this.
I'd like to know why they actually think its necessary to track my books.
I'd find it hard to argue against this if there was a clear, valid reason. It still violates free speech, but so do a lot of things and there are good reasons, legality notwithstanding.
But this is just flat out pointless. Are they going to see that I check out a book on bomb-making? Why not just watch my purchases? They already do that, after all.
I just don't understand why it is useful for them to moniter this. If a suspected terrorist checks out a book, so what? A book on bomb-making doesn't make a bomb, it makes knowledge. You still need the materials, which are even easier to trace.
Secondly, if I were a terrorist, I'd go to the library and copy pages out of books with a digital camera or a xerox machine.
Sure, the energy requirements may be a fraction, but consider the cost of installing a complete system in an urban environment that could actually use it? Here in Chicago, it would be extremely difficult to construct a good system without severely screwing up traffic even worse than it is already.
Incorrect: This was not a programming issue. Nor was it a software issue at all. The problem was the O-ring seals in the SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters). The manufacturer stated that they should not be operated under 53 degrees, and NASA overrode the recomendation and launched anyway. The expected happened.
NASA hasn't ever had a hardware problem. Or a software problem. Ever. Every problem can be directly tied to one specific person being a fscking moron. The closest you could come is that Mars probe that crashed because of mismatched units. And that was just poor communication among the software guys.
I can't offer input here, but I can suggest you ask in forum for the Joel on Software software management discussion/article site. Good stuff there, good people.
What's your take on the ICANN events? The elections, the resolution protocols, etc.? Do you think they are an effective body?