My experience is that the examples are convoluted ways of making a simple command do complex things. There are no examples for the simple things that the command is usually used for.
If I recall correctly, try typing 'man find' for an example that would confuse a newbie.
Funny, Those are the same photos shown on snopes at a higher resolution, http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/atmcamera.asp along with a very good write-up -- and it was at a Brazilian Bank, not in Austin.
Truly an urban legend, even if it is true, it morphs and grows with every telling.
Smoke is a vital ingredient in all chips. You only have to lose a minute portion of it and your chip will no longer work. Duct tape is not sufficient to keep it in.
However, I have a magical formula of liquid smoke. If you carefully remove the smoked chip and soak it in the liquid smoke, you can make the chip work again, guaranteed! I can sell you a bottle for just $149, shipping included!
disclaimer -- removal of chips from a board is a sensitive process, and prone to cause unrepairable problems. The warranty for the liquid smoke does not cover damage cause by removal and reinsertion of the chip.
----------- Michael, who once let the smoke out of a fujitsu drive by using a non-keyed cable.
Um, I think you are being rather presumptive in your assertion that the US approach to business has been responsible for a "not as bad" recession.
Those of us to your north (or east, in my case) are somewhere between the european beurocracy and the american laissez-faire approach, but we haven't been hit with the recession in the same way. We do blame SARS and BSE with slowing the growth, but metric!?
And to state what a few dozen engineers have thought but not spelled out in the English vs. Imperial rants --- It isn't metric, it is SI.
I'm heading for Africa this Fall. One thing I'll end up doing is computer work.
I have a friend who is setting up some computer labs for elementary schools. I pleaded with him to go with Linux -- easier to lock down and maintain (by a qualified individual), but mainly because of the hook effect. Even if you got windows free, it will then be all that those students know, and will result in money flowing from countries that can't afford it into the coffers of Redmond.
You don't have to be a militant-anti-globalist-protestor to understand that it isn't a desirable situation.
It is in situations like this that the freedom of open-source makes the most sense.
BTW, tobacco companies are doing the same thing. Hook the 3rd world and send the profits to the US.
I actually had an earlier scientific calc watch than this one. You had to step through the scientific functions with a side button.
I wish I still had it. I'd be glad to part with it for $400! I only used it for a year. The battery connection wasn't great, and it would reset at the most inconvenient times.
8 years earlier I had my first LED watch. It Ate batteries but was the talk of the school.
My favourite watch had to be the one with a tritium capsule backlight. It glowed like an EL backlight, but was powered by radioactive tritium and always on. It was safe as long as you didn't break the capsule!
I've got one in front of me. TRS-80 PC3. Made by sharp, 2.7k internal memory, 4k expansion pack. Programmable in Basic. I did some machine code on it when I was in university.
I also had the 4-pen printer/plotter and casette interface. I used it to do some survey mapping back when I had too much time and too many smart people around who I wanted to upstage.
University was fun!
Oh, and I still use the PC3 for a basic calculator.
And I used a Tandy 102 as my text-entry laptop until a few months ago when I bought a "real" laptop. It is hard to beat that 16 hours of use on 4 AA batteries though...
All CCDs are particularly sensitive in the IR range.
Video Cameras and digital cameras have to filter out this sensitivity to get true colour.
Sony uses this IR sensitivity in their "Nightshot" feature on vidcams. Instead of filtering out the IR component, they use it. It throws off the colour rendition but uses ambient and generated IR to show stuff at night.
I was at a lodge in Kenya just after dusk, and was told that there was a leopard in at a baited tree across the river. It was too dark for me to make it out, so I set up my camera on a tripod, and quickly had a crowd around the LCD watching a very clear picture of the leopard!
And I discovered years ago that a CCD vidcam will show the light from a remote. I've used it quite a few times to verify that a remote is actually working.
My problem is that I sit down next to the lego bin with my 5yo son to have some "family time" and realize half an hour later that he took off five minutes after I sat down!
We got him a set to make bugs and critters for christmas. I can't decide if I'd call them special pieces or not. Many odd shaped pieces, but he uses them for all kinds of things. Hinges and swivels galore. I don't care for the themed sets, but this is evolutionary lego, changed, but as flexible as ever.
A bit of bodging should solve your problem. There are two solutions I can think of right off.
1) The shutter release on the digicam is just a switch. Tear the camera apart and connect wires to the switch contacts.
2) If you don't wan't to rip it apart, build a remotly operated finger. Find a solenoid somwhere with enough power to push the button. Build a holder for it out of wood/metal/hot glue/duct tape and run wires back to a battery in the cockpit. Push a button, energize the solenoid, press the shutter button.
Yes, but when will you get the Mechanic Settlement (WMX) Radar back on the net? The image says that it was taken down October 6th for 6 weeks maintenance. It still isn't up.
Just finished shovelling the drive here. More to come. Sigh. Looking forward to next year in Africa.
You might want to desalinate it first. Electrolysis of salt water results in hydrogen and clorine. Where does the Oxygen go? SO2? Nasty.
But I don't see why it has to be international waters. I'd just as soon not have a reactor in stormy waters -- a simple lake would do fine.
And Nuclear -- It is pitiful, but the best we have. There are so many safeguards built in that it isn't likely to cause another Chernobyl, but we are told repeatedly "The first sign of the possibility of it happening again is the belief that it can't happen."
I work in a nuke plant, I feel confident in the design and the operation, but it is burdened by safety concerns. 90% of the cost of construction and operation is all based on the premise that something major will go wrong.
And you might get hit by an asteroid in bed, so they should mandate asteroid shields above every bedroom.
The chances of a cell phone generating enough energy to cause an igniting spark is astronomically small -- but just to be safe....
But it is probably higher than that of a microwave oven causing a pacemaker to go haywire.
I really find it strange that people will drive 140 km/h on a wet road sitting over 50 litres of highly flammable fuel, but are terrified of what *might* happen because they use their cell phone while filling their vehicle.
And gasoline would be banned or as highly regulated as explosives if it weren't so commonly used before people started worrying so much about safety.
Risk management people have stopped talking about "actual risk" and tend to focus on "perceived risk" now. There is a pretty wide spread between the two.
They do a pretty good job here. Mind you, I have full web access, but they block outgoing requests for anything other than a few destination ports -- 80, 23, 8080 are the only ones I've been able to use.
But even with my ssh server listening on port 8080, which works for http, I can't make a connection! I'm not sure what type filtering they are using, but I would like to have access to my home server from work. Then again, perhaps I should be working instead.
I forgot about that! I was thinking of the 486/33 I used up to a year ago as my server, and the Tandy M100 that still gets used for text output -- but I have a trump.
My daily calculator at work is a Tandy TRS-80 PCII purchased used in 1983 for $300. It came with a printer/plotter and a casette interface. Now it just functions as a quick calculator, but I occasionally program a few lines of Basic for it.
It was great in University. 4k of memory could store lots of text......
Fantastic write-up that geeks need to read. Insight on history, human nature, science, and safety.
For every poster who wrote "I've heard this before!" read the article and you will see that the author compares the different versions of the origin.
p.s. congrats on slashdotting improb.com. They run the Ignoble prizes, and publish "The Annals of Improbable Research" A great blend of science and humo[u]r.
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If I recall correctly, try typing 'man find' for an example that would confuse a newbie.
> Worms and viruses and popups etc are THE main ways that windows manages to eat away at productivity.
Slashdot is THE main way that Linux manages to eat away at productivity. (even when I'm at a windows box)
Funny, Those are the same photos shown on snopes at a higher resolution, http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/atmcamera.asp along with a very good write-up -- and it was at a Brazilian Bank, not in Austin.
Truly an urban legend, even if it is true, it morphs and grows with every telling.
Smoke is a vital ingredient in all chips. You only have to lose a minute portion of it and your chip will no longer work. Duct tape is not sufficient to keep it in.
However, I have a magical formula of liquid smoke. If you carefully remove the smoked chip and soak it in the liquid smoke, you can make the chip work again, guaranteed! I can sell you a bottle for just $149, shipping included!
disclaimer -- removal of chips from a board is a sensitive process, and prone to cause unrepairable problems. The warranty for the liquid smoke does not cover damage cause by removal and reinsertion of the chip.
-----------
Michael, who once let the smoke out of a fujitsu drive by using a non-keyed cable.
Um, I think you are being rather presumptive in your assertion that the US approach to business has been responsible for a "not as bad" recession.
Those of us to your north (or east, in my case) are somewhere between the european beurocracy and the american laissez-faire approach, but we haven't been hit with the recession in the same way. We do blame SARS and BSE with slowing the growth, but metric!?
And to state what a few dozen engineers have thought but not spelled out in the English vs. Imperial rants --- It isn't metric, it is SI.
I work in a canadian nuke plant. I've been in places where one breath could get me the tritium dose in one of those capsules.
I wish they would start putting them in watches again.
And the calulator watch was a Casio CFX 200. I saw one for sale for a ridiculous price. Wish I had it to sell!
I'm heading for Africa this Fall. One thing I'll end up doing is computer work.
I have a friend who is setting up some computer labs for elementary schools. I pleaded with him to go with Linux -- easier to lock down and maintain (by a qualified individual), but mainly because of the hook effect. Even if you got windows free, it will then be all that those students know, and will result in money flowing from countries that can't afford it into the coffers of Redmond.
You don't have to be a militant-anti-globalist-protestor to understand that it isn't a desirable situation.
It is in situations like this that the freedom of open-source makes the most sense.
BTW, tobacco companies are doing the same thing. Hook the 3rd world and send the profits to the US.
I actually had an earlier scientific calc watch than this one. You had to step through the scientific functions with a side button.
I wish I still had it. I'd be glad to part with it for $400! I only used it for a year. The battery connection wasn't great, and it would reset at the most inconvenient times.
8 years earlier I had my first LED watch. It Ate batteries but was the talk of the school.
My favourite watch had to be the one with a tritium capsule backlight. It glowed like an EL backlight, but was powered by radioactive tritium and always on. It was safe as long as you didn't break the capsule!
I've got one in front of me. TRS-80 PC3. Made by sharp, 2.7k internal memory, 4k expansion pack. Programmable in Basic. I did some machine code on it when I was in university.
I also had the 4-pen printer/plotter and casette interface. I used it to do some survey mapping back when I had too much time and too many smart people around who I wanted to upstage.
University was fun!
Oh, and I still use the PC3 for a basic calculator.
And I used a Tandy 102 as my text-entry laptop until a few months ago when I bought a "real" laptop. It is hard to beat that 16 hours of use on 4 AA batteries though...
All CCDs are particularly sensitive in the IR range.
Video Cameras and digital cameras have to filter out this sensitivity to get true colour.
Sony uses this IR sensitivity in their "Nightshot" feature on vidcams. Instead of filtering out the IR component, they use it. It throws off the colour rendition but uses ambient and generated IR to show stuff at night.
I was at a lodge in Kenya just after dusk, and was told that there was a leopard in at a baited tree across the river. It was too dark for me to make it out, so I set up my camera on a tripod, and quickly had a crowd around the LCD watching a very clear picture of the leopard!
And I discovered years ago that a CCD vidcam will show the light from a remote. I've used it quite a few times to verify that a remote is actually working.
My problem is that I sit down next to the lego bin with my 5yo son to have some "family time" and realize half an hour later that he took off five minutes after I sat down!
We got him a set to make bugs and critters for christmas. I can't decide if I'd call them special pieces or not. Many odd shaped pieces, but he uses them for all kinds of things. Hinges and swivels galore. I don't care for the themed sets, but this is evolutionary lego, changed, but as flexible as ever.
That only works for B&W. Color copiers need white light (wide spectrum) to reflect off all the different colours.
I still think this whole thing stinks of an urban legend. Note that the parent was AC. Just how much faith do you put in one AC post?
Squirrelmail defaults to not showing linked images. If there are any, it has a link at the bottom "display unsafe images". I like it!
A bit of bodging should solve your problem. There are two solutions I can think of right off.
1) The shutter release on the digicam is just a switch. Tear the camera apart and connect wires to the switch contacts.
2) If you don't wan't to rip it apart, build a remotly operated finger. Find a solenoid somwhere with enough power to push the button. Build a holder for it out of wood/metal/hot glue/duct tape and run wires back to a battery in the cockpit. Push a button, energize the solenoid, press the shutter button.
How about: "Never fight a battle of wits with an unarmed man."
Yes, but when will you get the Mechanic Settlement (WMX) Radar back on the net? The image says that it was taken down October 6th for 6 weeks maintenance. It still isn't up.
Just finished shovelling the drive here. More to come. Sigh. Looking forward to next year in Africa.
No they just have a patent on the wheel. Issued in 2001.
More interestingly -- their patent search site, starts with "Don't reinvent the wheel."
When features for 10% of the users represent 90% of the bloat, you have a problem.
Same for OpenOffice, Mozilla, and other large, feature rich programs out there.
Microsoft is a little different in that they add in features to satisfy marketing people as much as for power users.
You might want to desalinate it first. Electrolysis of salt water results in hydrogen and clorine. Where does the Oxygen go? SO2? Nasty.
But I don't see why it has to be international waters. I'd just as soon not have a reactor in stormy waters -- a simple lake would do fine.
And Nuclear -- It is pitiful, but the best we have. There are so many safeguards built in that it isn't likely to cause another Chernobyl, but we are told repeatedly "The first sign of the possibility of it happening again is the belief that it can't happen."
I work in a nuke plant, I feel confident in the design and the operation, but it is burdened by safety concerns. 90% of the cost of construction and operation is all based on the premise that something major will go wrong.
And you might get hit by an asteroid in bed, so they should mandate asteroid shields above every bedroom.
The chances of a cell phone generating enough energy to cause an igniting spark is astronomically small -- but just to be safe....
But it is probably higher than that of a microwave oven causing a pacemaker to go haywire.
I really find it strange that people will drive 140 km/h on a wet road sitting over 50 litres of highly flammable fuel, but are terrified of what *might* happen because they use their cell phone while filling their vehicle.
And gasoline would be banned or as highly regulated as explosives if it weren't so commonly used before people started worrying so much about safety.
Risk management people have stopped talking about "actual risk" and tend to focus on "perceived risk" now. There is a pretty wide spread between the two.
I blew a fujitsu drive of my sister's that way. Had to replace her 2 Gig drive with a 20 Gig drive.
The new drive had a keyed cable with it. I used it.
Nairobi had a crackdown on city workers earlier this year and found over 4000 "Phantom workers" who were getting paid, but didn't exist.
They do a pretty good job here. Mind you, I have full web access, but they block outgoing requests for anything other than a few destination ports -- 80, 23, 8080 are the only ones I've been able to use.
But even with my ssh server listening on port 8080, which works for http, I can't make a connection! I'm not sure what type filtering they are using, but I would like to have access to my home server from work. Then again, perhaps I should be working instead.
I forgot about that! I was thinking of the 486/33 I used up to a year ago as my server, and the Tandy M100 that still gets used for text output -- but I have a trump.
My daily calculator at work is a Tandy TRS-80 PCII purchased used in 1983 for $300. It came with a printer/plotter and a casette interface. Now it just functions as a quick calculator, but I occasionally program a few lines of Basic for it.
It was great in University. 4k of memory could store lots of text......
Fantastic write-up that geeks need to read. Insight on history, human nature, science, and safety.
For every poster who wrote "I've heard this before!" read the article and you will see that the author compares the different versions of the origin.
p.s. congrats on slashdotting improb.com. They run the Ignoble prizes, and publish "The Annals of Improbable Research" A great blend of science and humo[u]r.
mks