Here's the recipe to simplify your life with computer case screws (no I'm not kidding):
- Go to your local computer hardware shop and beg them for a bag of screws. I say beg them, because they usually hold on to them like Ted Kennedy on a bottle of bourbon.
- Whenever you screw something in your case, use the biggest screw that'll fit. In the case of hard-disks, you'll have to use the right fit, with the flush head probably. With the cases' sheet-metal holes, and with most CDROM and diskette drives, if the screw is too big, just force it in real hard until it gives way.
- After a little while, and especially if you tinker in your case often, you'll notice that all the screws you need are the big ones. No need to remember what goes where. Voila!
Its only people from the UK who will know what I'm talking about but every time I hear 'prescott', an overweight, drink-laden scruffy politician with a McDonalds voucher in his pocket springs to mind.
Intel markets it as the TedKennedy core in the US.
So why is BSD at version 5.2.1 already, and LINUX is still stuck at 2.6?
Pff, FreeBSD is still stuck at version numbers, while some Linux distros have cool movie characters names. I'm still waiting for FreeBSD Potato or FreeBSD Woody. But then again, FreeBSD doesn't exactly gives woodies to anyone does it?
I understand how major releases of software is what is termed "news for nerds", but do we need to submit every single update to every single piece of software that is of slight interest? Can I remind everyone this isn't even a release, but a Release Candidate?
It is News for Nerds : who else would care about a Release Candidates of FreeBSD?
Indeed. A partial solution to that problem is to stop sending school teachers in this sort of high-risk mission. They used to send seasoned high-ranking military officers who volunteered to do that sort of thing before, When one crashed, sure it was a human disaster, but at the same time people understood the guy made the choice of living dangerously as a career.
Since NASA invented the astronauts, as a group of flyers somewhat distinct from USAF personel, and especially since they started sending civilians up, each time they have a catastrophe, the press and public opinion turns against them 10 times more.
I don't know for you, but I find manned high speed flights (X1, X15) much more exciting to witness from a human perspective than those remote-controlled ones. I realize the objective is to test an engine and that there's no need to put a human being in danger to achieve that anymore, but it doesn't produce heroic stories and certainly doesn't make children dream like it used to.
I find the old crappy 1969 b/w pictures of the first man on the moon much more appealing than the Spirit panoramas, yet the probe went much further than Armstrong, and probably did a lot more science. But still, it's not the same thing, and NASA should send actually people up-diddly-up instead of drones, just because (1) there would be volunteers and (2) they would strike the public's imagination and generate sympathy for that kind of research, which in turn would turn into funding...
And it will take up to 2014 before landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- with the help of a harpoon.
What makes them think they'll be able to land an unmanned probe on a small rock in deep space that way when here on earth, countless bigger, manned ships have tried the same feat on whales for decades and failed?
They're just gonna kill that poor little comet. For nothing. Just like that. Somebody calls green-piss ferchrissake!
Use your camera to take a photo of a good screen projection of your altered image. Professional photographers know how to set things up to take accurate photos of projections.
I've been wrestling with the idea of writing an image modification detector
Forget it. Only amateurs copy/paste regions and leave them like that. Those who alter images to produce really credible results may copy/paste bits of images at first, but then will blur/sharpen/solarize/burn/lighten/brush slightly part of them, drop some noise in them to match the pizelization of an original jpeg for example, merge several together and modify gradiants to make the final patch blend in just right in the bit of background you want to mask or change. The final resulting altered regions usually doesn't have much to do with the original bits you copied.
When the appropriate function (Personal Function 31) on the EOS-1D Mark II or EOS-1Ds is activated, a code based on the image contents is generated and appended to the image. When the image is viewed, the data verification software determines the code for the image and compares it with the attached code. If the image contents have been manipulated in any way, the codes will not match and the image cannot be verified as the original.
Note to self: run the signing software *after* altering the image. If the image was alrady signed, display it, take screenshot, alter the image, and re-run the signing software.
No wonder, they have a rather large population with a very coherent DNA to study there:-)
(Yes, I'm half-joking, and no I'm not flaming. Utah folks are nice overall, but it's true that polygamy was practiced there up to 100 years ago mainly to populate Utah as quickly as possible from the small band of initial settlers. Those who've been to Utah know the proportion of white blond-haired blue-eyed people bearing the same last name there is quite staggering. Sweden looks cosmopolitan compared to Utah).
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
Makes sense, Unixware and FreeBSD have much in common, according to Netcraft. Can you guess what they have in common?
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Just because it has its own jargon doesn't make it intellectual. Car salesmen and McDonald's burger-flippers too have their own jargon you'd be hard-pressed to understand if you're not in the know.
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For those who don't know, American football is a sissy version of rugby (rugby players don't wear helmets and armored plates). European football, on the other hand, is played mostly with the feet, and sometime the head, but in most player's case, there isn't any difference, which is why it's called "foot"ball.
There are 2*11 players in a football game. It's called "team spirit" : 11 players, only one spirit, so they learn to share.
motorbikes act as routers for a store-and-forward email system
I know a very similar store-and-forward messaging system that has the same kind of throughput and latency, has been working very well indeed for the longest time, and doesn't require people on the non-internet-connected dinky village side to have a computer : it's called the mail. The store-and-forward delivery system is called a postman...
I know it's supposed to be the future of music players and all, but I keep wondering : apparently that new Dell mp3 player (similarly to its iPod rival I believe), use a special high capacity battery to power its 15G hard disk for 15 hours and costs $250.
In contrast, my old Rio CD mp3 player uses a pair of AA batteries that don't require a special charger (if I'm on the road, I'm glad to be able to "recharge" my mp3 player anywhere AA batts can be found), the batteries last several hours too, and I probably carry more than 15G worth of data on my CDs (and more importantly, I can burn as many more as I want). Finally, there's no risk to trash the hard disk heads with shocks. All of that for the $110 I paid for it new 3 or 4 years ago.
So I'm wondering : sure CD mp3 players don't have a particularly exciting form factor, and I have to swap CDs, which isn't sexy, but they're cheaper, they (seem to) fare better with shocks, consume less power, don't use special batteries and have virtually unlimited "storage" capacity. It seems to me those are much better no-nonsense devices compared to those hdd mp3 players. Hip tech fashion victims aside, do these iPod things really make sense for the average Joe Blow like me who just wants music on the go without headaches and wallet-aches?
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Here's the recipe to simplify your life with computer case screws (no I'm not kidding):
- Go to your local computer hardware shop and beg them for a bag of screws. I say beg them, because they usually hold on to them like Ted Kennedy on a bottle of bourbon.
- Whenever you screw something in your case, use the biggest screw that'll fit. In the case of hard-disks, you'll have to use the right fit, with the flush head probably. With the cases' sheet-metal holes, and with most CDROM and diskette drives, if the screw is too big, just force it in real hard until it gives way.
- After a little while, and especially if you tinker in your case often, you'll notice that all the screws you need are the big ones. No need to remember what goes where. Voila!
Its only people from the UK who will know what I'm talking about but every time I hear 'prescott', an overweight, drink-laden scruffy politician with a McDonalds voucher in his pocket springs to mind.
Intel markets it as the TedKennedy core in the US.
Basically, looks like it's faster, but still not the fastest in all areas
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Hemos, damn you, I was about to read the articles and you spoiled the end
I've seen numerous comments of how Linux users are just "childish clueless newbies who hate Windows"
This comment coming from someone who calls himself "yer_momma". Amusing...
So why is BSD at version 5.2.1 already, and LINUX is still stuck at 2.6?
Pff, FreeBSD is still stuck at version numbers, while some Linux distros have cool movie characters names. I'm still waiting for FreeBSD Potato or FreeBSD Woody. But then again, FreeBSD doesn't exactly gives woodies to anyone does it?
I understand how major releases of software is what is termed "news for nerds", but do we need to submit every single update to every single piece of software that is of slight interest? Can I remind everyone this isn't even a release, but a Release Candidate?
It is News for Nerds : who else would care about a Release Candidates of FreeBSD?
FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC is now available
Necrophiles rejoice.
Indeed. A partial solution to that problem is to stop sending school teachers in this sort of high-risk mission. They used to send seasoned high-ranking military officers who volunteered to do that sort of thing before, When one crashed, sure it was a human disaster, but at the same time people understood the guy made the choice of living dangerously as a career.
Since NASA invented the astronauts, as a group of flyers somewhat distinct from USAF personel, and especially since they started sending civilians up, each time they have a catastrophe, the press and public opinion turns against them 10 times more.
I very much doubt you have any friends, fuckstick
Clickey-clickey
I don't know for you, but I find manned high speed flights (X1, X15) much more exciting to witness from a human perspective than those remote-controlled ones. I realize the objective is to test an engine and that there's no need to put a human being in danger to achieve that anymore, but it doesn't produce heroic stories and certainly doesn't make children dream like it used to.
I find the old crappy 1969 b/w pictures of the first man on the moon much more appealing than the Spirit panoramas, yet the probe went much further than Armstrong, and probably did a lot more science. But still, it's not the same thing, and NASA should send actually people up-diddly-up instead of drones, just because (1) there would be volunteers and (2) they would strike the public's imagination and generate sympathy for that kind of research, which in turn would turn into funding...
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything
Oh come on you guys, I'm sure Portland must be ground zero for more than a few nuclear missiles in the USS... er, nevermind that either...
Okay, who's been feeding 2.6 speed?
IBM, according to SCO.
May I suggest that Slashdot share the list of IPs used to post idiocies the likes of the parent post with the feds?
And it will take up to 2014 before landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- with the help of a harpoon.
What makes them think they'll be able to land an unmanned probe on a small rock in deep space that way when here on earth, countless bigger, manned ships have tried the same feat on whales for decades and failed?
They're just gonna kill that poor little comet. For nothing. Just like that. Somebody calls green-piss ferchrissake!
Use your camera to take a photo of a good screen projection of your altered image. Professional photographers know how to set things up to take accurate photos of projections.
I've been wrestling with the idea of writing an image modification detector
Forget it. Only amateurs copy/paste regions and leave them like that. Those who alter images to produce really credible results may copy/paste bits of images at first, but then will blur/sharpen/solarize/burn/lighten/brush slightly part of them, drop some noise in them to match the pizelization of an original jpeg for example, merge several together and modify gradiants to make the final patch blend in just right in the bit of background you want to mask or change. The final resulting altered regions usually doesn't have much to do with the original bits you copied.
When the appropriate function (Personal Function 31) on the EOS-1D Mark II or EOS-1Ds is activated, a code based on the image contents is generated and appended to the image. When the image is viewed, the data verification software determines the code for the image and compares it with the attached code. If the image contents have been manipulated in any way, the codes will not match and the image cannot be verified as the original.
Note to self: run the signing software *after* altering the image. If the image was alrady signed, display it, take screenshot, alter the image, and re-run the signing software.
some kickin' genetics research [utah.edu]
:-)
No wonder, they have a rather large population with a very coherent DNA to study there
(Yes, I'm half-joking, and no I'm not flaming. Utah folks are nice overall, but it's true that polygamy was practiced there up to 100 years ago mainly to populate Utah as quickly as possible from the small band of initial settlers. Those who've been to Utah know the proportion of white blond-haired blue-eyed people bearing the same last name there is quite staggering. Sweden looks cosmopolitan compared to Utah).
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
Makes sense, Unixware and FreeBSD have much in common, according to Netcraft. Can you guess what they have in common?
Just because it has its own jargon doesn't make it intellectual. Car salesmen and McDonald's burger-flippers too have their own jargon you'd be hard-pressed to understand if you're not in the know.
For those who don't know, American football is a sissy version of rugby (rugby players don't wear helmets and armored plates). European football, on the other hand, is played mostly with the feet, and sometime the head, but in most player's case, there isn't any difference, which is why it's called "foot"ball.
There are 2*11 players in a football game. It's called "team spirit" : 11 players, only one spirit, so they learn to share.
intellectual property rights to words like 'Super Bowl' and 'NFL'.
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Funny, I never thought I'd see "intellectual", "SuperBowl" and "NFL" in the same sentence
motorbikes act as routers for a store-and-forward email system
...
I know a very similar store-and-forward messaging system that has the same kind of throughput and latency, has been working very well indeed for the longest time, and doesn't require people on the non-internet-connected dinky village side to have a computer : it's called the mail. The store-and-forward delivery system is called a postman
I know it's supposed to be the future of music players and all, but I keep wondering : apparently that new Dell mp3 player (similarly to its iPod rival I believe), use a special high capacity battery to power its 15G hard disk for 15 hours and costs $250.
In contrast, my old Rio CD mp3 player uses a pair of AA batteries that don't require a special charger (if I'm on the road, I'm glad to be able to "recharge" my mp3 player anywhere AA batts can be found), the batteries last several hours too, and I probably carry more than 15G worth of data on my CDs (and more importantly, I can burn as many more as I want). Finally, there's no risk to trash the hard disk heads with shocks. All of that for the $110 I paid for it new 3 or 4 years ago.
So I'm wondering : sure CD mp3 players don't have a particularly exciting form factor, and I have to swap CDs, which isn't sexy, but they're cheaper, they (seem to) fare better with shocks, consume less power, don't use special batteries and have virtually unlimited "storage" capacity. It seems to me those are much better no-nonsense devices compared to those hdd mp3 players. Hip tech fashion victims aside, do these iPod things really make sense for the average Joe Blow like me who just wants music on the go without headaches and wallet-aches?