Damn those screenshots are sexy. Those nice looking screens remind me of why I still love my Color NeXTstation slab so much... Can't wait until it's stable and a little more polished!
I decided to splurge a few months ago and sprung for the logitech cordless keyboard and the cordless trackman wheel. outpost.com items# 79397 and 52739, ran about $125 total.
Anyways, they don't really leave the desk much, but it's nice to not have those cables to worry about. They both work fine in linux, and don't need USB or any "crap" like that. So far, it's been about 3 months, and the batteries are still going strong. They seem to have quite a range too -- about 3 meters +, without needing a direct line of sight for FM transmission.
I don't really see why this is news, cordless mice and keyboards as well as other input devices have been around for years!
Not surprising that NSA has a fab, especially for me since I used to work there.
The fab (known as the SPL, or special projects laboratory) is, quite understandably, actually used mostly for manufacturing in-house designed chips designed explicitly for cracking encryption via brute-force. It's quite decked out, with a single pour stable foundation, and clean room specifications similar to.25 micron industry standards last time I was there (last year). Costs major $$$, but one of these special purpose devices sure beats a bunch of general purpose devices, even parallelized. p.s. They also have their own supercomputer facility for just this purpose, but now this is going way OT
Being quite *familiar* with porn and having been at MIT for the past few years, I can definately say that no porn is blocked there. The usenet feed is complete -- alt.sex.stories, alt.binaries.erotica.watersports, etc... And web traffic is definately not stopped.
I even had the pleasure of being involved in the operation of a porn repository at one point on campus, with free access and the domain name porn.mit.edu. That story, however is a bit more complicated, since the site was forced to shut down, not because of school policy, but because the distribution of copyrighted material was reported and verified by the copyright holders, so while the school was not threatened with legal action, it was in the best interest of the site operator(s) to cease.
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Damn those screenshots are sexy. Those nice looking screens remind me of why I still love my Color NeXTstation slab so much... Can't wait until it's stable and a little more polished!
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I decided to splurge a few months ago and sprung for the logitech cordless keyboard and the cordless trackman wheel. outpost.com items# 79397 and 52739, ran about $125 total.
Anyways, they don't really leave the desk much, but it's nice to not have those cables to worry about. They both work fine in linux, and don't need USB or any "crap" like that. So far, it's been about 3 months, and the batteries are still going strong. They seem to have quite a range too -- about 3 meters +, without needing a direct line of sight for FM transmission.
I don't really see why this is news, cordless mice and keyboards as well as other input devices have been around for years!
Not surprising that NSA has a fab, especially for me since I used to work there. The fab (known as the SPL, or special projects laboratory) is, quite understandably, actually used mostly for manufacturing in-house designed chips designed explicitly for cracking encryption via brute-force. It's quite decked out, with a single pour stable foundation, and clean room specifications similar to .25 micron industry standards last time I was there (last year). Costs major $$$, but one of these special purpose devices sure beats a bunch of general purpose devices, even parallelized. p.s. They also have their own supercomputer facility for just this purpose, but now this is going way OT
Being quite *familiar* with porn and having been at MIT for the past few years, I can definately say that no porn is blocked there. The usenet feed is complete -- alt.sex.stories, alt.binaries.erotica.watersports, etc... And web traffic is definately not stopped. I even had the pleasure of being involved in the operation of a porn repository at one point on campus, with free access and the domain name porn.mit.edu. That story, however is a bit more complicated, since the site was forced to shut down, not because of school policy, but because the distribution of copyrighted material was reported and verified by the copyright holders, so while the school was not threatened with legal action, it was in the best interest of the site operator(s) to cease.