Six years may not sound like a lot of time, but in "Internet time" that's almost half a lifetime. Internet time is sometimes likened to dog years - the first year is like 14, and every subsequent year is roughly equivalent to seven virtual years. By that reckoning, microsoft.com is pushing 50.
Apparently we can all look forward to microsoft.com being a corpse in about 5-6 years..
I'd have to agree that I've noticed the same thing pretty much. Although classic cars aren't my hobby (I very much appreciate their beauty and all, I just don't find them effective rock crawling or getting through a bog), I do spend more time tinkering with my Jeep than could be considered healthy. There is also a very large Jeep community on the net, and I've noticed the same for other makes of vehicles. It's nice to see that I'm not the only geek that spends a lot of time outside in the sunshine.:)
If you're running Linux (dunno if it works on other unices), use Esound. It's used in gnome and is a daemon that mixes multiple audio streams before it hits the sound card. It even works with most programs that aren't esd aware with a wrapper script.
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Six years may not sound like a lot of time, but in "Internet time" that's almost half a lifetime. Internet time is sometimes likened to dog years - the first year is like 14, and every subsequent year is roughly equivalent to seven virtual years. By that reckoning, microsoft.com is pushing 50.
Apparently we can all look forward to microsoft.com being a corpse in about 5-6 years..
I'd have to agree that I've noticed the same thing pretty much. Although classic cars aren't my hobby (I very much appreciate their beauty and all, I just don't find them effective rock crawling or getting through a bog), I do spend more time tinkering with my Jeep than could be considered healthy. There is also a very large Jeep community on the net, and I've noticed the same for other makes of vehicles. It's nice to see that I'm not the only geek that spends a lot of time outside in the sunshine. :)
My Jeep (and other trucks): http://red.muddy.tj/
The 4x4 club I belong to: http://www.mudnuts.org/
I don't suppose NASA painted a picture of a Dove on the side of it, did they?
If you're running Linux (dunno if it works on other unices), use Esound. It's used in gnome and is a daemon that mixes multiple audio streams before it hits the sound card. It even works with most programs that aren't esd aware with a wrapper script.