This is hardly news compared to the 1999 real world event called The Leisure Luge, a race of skateboard-propelled arm chairs. Although the official coverage at Charged.com is gone, the raw story and photos are still available.
This is actually a lot more fun than racing plain old office chairs.
You may have noticed I said Richmond, Indiana. The "urban center" is only a few miles a way from the rural area. In fact I ride my bike past some corn fields on a way to a meeting. The river I walk over is also used for kayaking.
And I do enjoy getting out of town some frequency, and that usually involves a car.
Here's what my commute looks like after giving up my car in Richmond, Indiana over a year ago. I'm happier, healthier, saving money, and loving it.
I did have to make some lifestyle choices to make this happen: I choose to work downtown and chose to live close enough to walk, bike, skate or unicycle there.
I believe Konqueror has this feature. It can either run different windows in different processes or in different threads.
And in Konqueror, you can configure this behavior. Look under Settings: Configure Konqueror: Behavior.
This is what the "minimize memory usage" section" is about. If you set it to "Always", everything runs in a single process, so it's a bit faster, but you risk losing all windows if one crashes (which they seem to rarely do).
I used BBEdit for years and loved it. I was power user and a tinkerer. I found many hidden features and exploited them. I thought it might be the Best Text Editor Ever.
Then I started looking at unix text editors, especially XEmacs and vim. They were both harder to use initially, but I eventually felt more productive in either one than in BBEdit, both because of the feature sets, but also because of the keyboard short cuts and the ability to run in a terminal.
Now vim is my preferred editor on OS X, and I only fire up BBEdit when I have to. Details here.
There are still a whole lot of people, like myself, that already own Apple hardware,but are ready to make a switch to a maximally open source solution. This would be ideal for me. I have a G3 300hz PPC, and would like run primarily Linux or {Net,Free}BSD but would still need to use Dreamweaver for my work sometimes.
Doing the reverse-- running X11 inside of OS X feels like too much overhead and complexity. Typing in X11 applications is often slow this way. Plus, OS X isn't completely open source, so it's hard to tinker with and debug.
The latest versions of FreeBSD allow you to specify this option in the rc.conf file:
# Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.
fsck_y_enable="YES"
That, in combination with a good choice for your filesystem type, should ensure that even if it fsck does find something, it will make decision about what to do without bothering the user.
I think after I quit driving my car I noticed an improvement in my overall fitness. I walk or bike the 1.5 miles each way to work everyday. On the weekends I usually go skateboarding at the skatepark for a couple of hours.
I juggle a bit everyday (at work and at home) and Sunday mornings I like to go joggling. (Juggling while jogging). I use weighted juggling balls to make it more of a workout.
I think eating healthy is important, too. For me, that means a vegatarian diet, with an emphasis on maximizing fresh fruits and vegetables, and minimizing dairy.
There's also all the little things you do to put more exercise in your day-- park a little farther from work if it's not practical to walk all the way. Use a hand basket instead of a a push cart at the grocery.
In my case, I'm spending 40+ hours at my desk every week, doing things I already enjoy-- walking, skating and juggling, and eating food I like. Because all this is integrated to my daily routine, I don't feel much like I'm trying to get exercise, and age 26 I'm the same weight I was in high school-- and in better shape.
At home I run KDE 2.2 on FreeBSD 4.5 on 233 Mhz Machine with 128 Meg memory and a 3 gig drive. I'm very satisfied with the performance. Application launching is a tad slow, but 128 Meg memory is plenty for what I want to do with it, so leaving all the apps I wan to run open solves that problem.
I think it may actually be faster than running OS X on my 300 Mhz Mac at work.:)
There are several migration guides at techdocs.postgresql.org. There are none listed for Sybase, which makes me suspect there may not currently be one written. However, the other guides may have some good general tips for you.
I use FreeBSD as a home machine, and went through some pain to figure it wouldn't recognize my modem because it was a WinModem, and replaced it with a conventional modem.
I think the reason there isn't more happening here is that FreeBSD is focused more on the server market. If you are running a server, you probably aren't using modem, you probably wouldn't want a WinModem, or you wouldn't mind paying for another modem if you needed to.
I would like to see the project happen as well. However, I knew that Linux has going to have better support for the Desktop environment when I set up the machine, and could have used that and gotten WinModem support on the same hardware if that was a priority.
In my case, I use FreeBSD widely for projects at work, so I chose to keep things simple by keeping the environment consistent at home.
I graduated from Earlham, a Liberal Arts College, with a computer science major in 1998. I've been involved in managing a website development company since then. I've found the required broad liberal arts base
very useful in the real world. I came out equipped with writing skills and the ability work well with groups of people, not just computers. I can't say I felt everything was 100% relevent, but I know CS at liberal arts schools has produced some other notable web ventures: Slashdot and PerlMonks come to mind.
I go skateboarding. It's not about winning or losing or even competing, it's about improving and having a good time. In the meantime, there are some nice side effects: exercise, improved coordination and focus and learning to cooperate better with others as we share some resource (like a ramp). Many other activities are structured the same way: Juggling, Hackey Sack, Rock Climbing, and many outdoors activities. I think Yoga would even fit here, too.
You can check out my site skatepark.org which has more information on how to get a skatepark and skateboard culture, or I can also recommend a fun book about learning the flying trapeze.
I get my WebTV system and service for free. It's not because I'm allowing someone to track my viewing habits, though. It's because I agree to take a 5 minute survey once a week. In exchange, I got $10 cash just read the mail to consider the offer, the whole system including the (optional!) keyboard was free, as is the monthly service for at least 2 or 3 years, I think. In addition, for each survey I take, I have a chance to when a few different prices, valued in the $500-$1000 range.
So I think it's a reasonable deal.:) Lately I've been answering surveys about what I think about politics and some others have been about cars and new potential coffee brand.
I don't mind giving up what I think on these issues-- I like the idea that what I think effects some corporate decision making somewhere. The one t hing I don't like about the system is some the questions are skewed such that none of the answers represent what I think. For example, some of the political questions only let me choose between Democrats and Republicans-- no third parties were mentioned.
Yes, the program is easy to opt out off, and no you can't volunteer for it, they have to choose you to keep it random.
If you are interested in a distributed Unix-like operating environment, this already been developed (not surprisingly, but the same folks that helped spawn Unix the first time around). It's called "Plan 9" and is available from Bell Labs.
This is a great resource. However, I have to wonder about how old it is based on a quick test. The file does not include an entry for Frankfort, Kentucky, which is the capitol of the state and currently spans 9 zipcodes! It lists "Hatton, KY" for the 40601 zipcode, which I believe was Frankfort's first zipcode, but being the capitol of the state, Frankfort has probably been in the postal system since the beginning of the century. Does anyone know to what date this data is accurate? Thanks. -mark
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This is actually a lot more fun than racing plain old office chairs.
You may have noticed I said Richmond, Indiana. The "urban center" is only a few miles a way from the rural area. In fact I ride my bike past some corn fields on a way to a meeting. The river I walk over is also used for kayaking.
And I do enjoy getting out of town some frequency, and that usually involves a car.
I did have to make some lifestyle choices to make this happen: I choose to work downtown and chose to live close enough to walk, bike, skate or unicycle there.
I believe Konqueror has this feature. It can either run different windows in different processes or in different threads.
And in Konqueror, you can configure this behavior. Look under Settings: Configure Konqueror: Behavior.
This is what the "minimize memory usage" section" is about. If you set it to "Always", everything runs in a single process, so it's a bit faster, but you risk losing all windows if one crashes (which they seem to rarely do).
I used BBEdit for years and loved it. I was power user and a tinkerer. I found many hidden features and exploited them. I thought it might be the Best Text Editor Ever.
Then I started looking at unix text editors, especially XEmacs and vim. They were both harder to use initially, but I eventually felt more productive in either one than in BBEdit, both because of the feature sets, but also because of the keyboard short cuts and the ability to run in a terminal.
Now vim is my preferred editor on OS X, and I only fire up BBEdit when I have to. Details here.
There are still a whole lot of people, like myself, that already own Apple hardware,but are ready to make a switch to a maximally open source solution. This would be ideal for me. I have a G3 300hz PPC, and would like run primarily Linux or {Net,Free}BSD but would still need to use Dreamweaver for my work sometimes.
Doing the reverse-- running X11 inside of OS X feels like too much overhead and complexity. Typing in X11 applications is often slow this way. Plus, OS X isn't completely open source, so it's hard to tinker with and debug.
# Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.
That, in combination with a good choice for your filesystem type, should ensure that even if it fsck does find something, it will make decision about what to do without bothering the user.fsck_y_enable="YES"
I juggle a bit everyday (at work and at home) and Sunday mornings I like to go joggling. (Juggling while jogging). I use weighted juggling balls to make it more of a workout.
I think eating healthy is important, too. For me, that means a vegatarian diet, with an emphasis on maximizing fresh fruits and vegetables, and minimizing dairy.
There's also all the little things you do to put more exercise in your day-- park a little farther from work if it's not practical to walk all the way. Use a hand basket instead of a a push cart at the grocery.
In my case, I'm spending 40+ hours at my desk every week, doing things I already enjoy-- walking, skating and juggling, and eating food I like. Because all this is integrated to my daily routine, I don't feel much like I'm trying to get exercise, and age 26 I'm the same weight I was in high school-- and in better shape.
Peopleware
At home I run KDE 2.2 on FreeBSD 4.5 on 233 Mhz Machine with 128 Meg memory and a 3 gig drive. I'm very satisfied with the performance. Application launching is a tad slow, but 128 Meg memory is plenty for what I want to do with it, so leaving all the apps I wan to run open solves that problem.
:)
I think it may actually be faster than running OS X on my 300 Mhz Mac at work.
-mark
There is already a "White Day" and White Day is related to Valentine's Day.
There are several migration guides at techdocs.postgresql.org. There are none listed for Sybase, which makes me suspect there may not currently be one written. However, the other guides may have some good general tips for you.
I think the reason there isn't more happening here is that FreeBSD is focused more on the server market. If you are running a server, you probably aren't using modem, you probably wouldn't want a WinModem, or you wouldn't mind paying for another modem if you needed to.
I would like to see the project happen as well. However, I knew that Linux has going to have better support for the Desktop environment when I set up the machine, and could have used that and gotten WinModem support on the same hardware if that was a priority.
In my case, I use FreeBSD widely for projects at work, so I chose to keep things simple by keeping the environment consistent at home.
I graduated from Earlham, a Liberal Arts College, with a computer science major in 1998. I've been involved in managing a website development company since then. I've found the required broad liberal arts base
very useful in the real world. I came out equipped with writing skills and the ability work well with groups of people, not just computers. I can't say I felt everything was 100% relevent, but I know CS at liberal arts schools has produced some other notable web ventures: Slashdot and PerlMonks come to mind.
Here's more information on Fast Food Nation.
You can check out my site skatepark.org which has more information on how to get a skatepark and skateboard culture, or I can also recommend a fun book about learning the flying trapeze.
Can I send them movies that I rent from the video store too? :P
So I think it's a reasonable deal. :) Lately I've been answering surveys about what I think about politics and some others have been about cars and new potential coffee brand.
I don't mind giving up what I think on these issues-- I like the idea that what I think effects some corporate decision making somewhere. The one t hing I don't like about the system is some the questions are skewed such that none of the answers represent what I think. For example, some of the political questions only let me choose between Democrats and Republicans-- no third parties were mentioned.
Yes, the program is easy to opt out off, and no you can't volunteer for it, they have to choose you to keep it random.
More information about the sponsoring company is available through http://www.intersurvey.com/
The Uniform Driver Initiative has been working on this problem for a while. Their homepage is here:http://www.projectudi.org/
The homepage with all the details is here
This is a great resource. However, I have to wonder about how old it is based on a quick test. The file does not include an entry for Frankfort, Kentucky, which is the capitol of the state and currently spans 9 zipcodes! It lists "Hatton, KY" for the 40601 zipcode, which I believe was Frankfort's first zipcode, but being the capitol of the state, Frankfort has probably been in the postal system since the beginning of the century. Does anyone know to what date this data is accurate? Thanks.
-mark