If you go to a big auto parts store, you should be able to find one of 2 products that will work perfectly for this:
1. A bottle of black dye with a sponge applicator on top. It's used for restoring faded black plastic on car bumpers and other crap. Make sure it's the dye, and not just the Armor All type stuff that makes it shine. This is harder to find than the next product, but you should be able to find it on carparts.com or something.
2. Go to the spray paint section. Near the paint section, you should be able to find what looks like cans of spray paint, but is for Vinyl tops on cars, plastic pieces, and possibly even carpet. Depending on the brand, some of it is actually dye, not paint. I don't have the brand name handy, but I used it to dye a beige plastic front of a computer case to charcoal gray, and it looks absolutely perfect. It doesn't scrape off unless you take a chunk of plastic with it.
Maybe he should have done some research before just going out and buying RIT dye.
Ipaq sucks for games as it will only register one button press at a time. Hopefully HP will fix this. It's not an OS issue either as it does it with both CE and Linux.
I assume you're asking this because of that little blurb the other day about it requiring around 60 different libs. That's actually misleading as that's the count of all the.so files it needs, and they are all available in about only 5 packages total. Sadly, the journalist that wrote that story was not very forthcoming about this fact, I assume he was mad because he was having trouble making it work.
The article is misleading. It requires around 60.so files, which are available in 5 different packages. The author of the article omitted this fact, and it's just plain poor journalism.
A friend of mine works for a company which designs and installs very high end audio and theatre systems. Almost everything they do is featured in magazines somewhere or another. The usually don't touch anything under 6 figures. Most of the people buying the stuff are idiots with too much money who manage to fuck up their programmable remote once a week and pay the company to come back out and reprogram it. Those are the people that spend $1 million or more on their system (he's worked on $3.5 million dollar home theaters).
The people whole spend relatively little on their systems know what they are doing for the most part, can manage their remotes, and actually USE their systems for just listening.
The best part about his job is that people buy new stuff and give him all of their old equipment for free. His house is filled with absolutely wonderful high-end equipment. Once you sit in front of a pair of speakers and close your eyes and it sounds like the music is live and the people playing and singing are in the room with you, you will know the attraction of high-end audio. It's not about "loud" like most people think, it's about quality. I can't get that sort of sound out of my computer sound card (although I'm trying), and the latest $300 bookshelf system won't give it to you either. A nice cd player with a digital out, a good DAC, a good amp, and some Martin Logan or other high-end speakers will give you what you need.
Take a trip down to your local audio shop and ask them to give you a demo of their best sounding system.
1. Locate a friend and an 8 pound sledge hammer
2. Place your wrist on an anvil (train tracks work nicely too).
3. Have your friend bring the sledge hammer up over his head, and swing downwards allowing your wrist to stop the motion of the hammer before it hits the anvil.
Over the next few days/months, you will experience the exact same feeling that people with carpal tunnel experience. Fun isn't it?
The plugins work well for content on disk, but for streaming, they are very sketchy. The XMMS plugins won't work at all, and the winamp plugin works sometimes. Too bad really, because it's very likely that Icecast will have 2.0 out before decent plugins are available. It's going to be hard to get users for it if it doesn't Just Work. Keep in mind that probably 90% or more of the people who listen to streams are windows users and don't have the first clue or the patience to dick around with something until it works.
Last I heard, CVS versions of the plugins were getting much better, but I haven't played with them for a month or so.
Matt: File sharing? Windows has built-in Internet connection sharing that's better than any version of Windows to date. Trust us, Windows can do it all.
What a dumbass! He doesn't even know his own OS. Internet connection sharing has nothing to with file sharing, connection sharing is so you can set up your windows box to be a masquerade box for other machines on your network. Sadly, CNet has just managed to illustrate the level of cluelessness of the average windows user.
That case sucks, it's 6 chunks of wood screwed together with a blue LED in it.
What would be really nice, is one made of red stained burled walnut, with about 6 layers of high gloss varnish. Make sure you have a door to cover the unsighly cdroms and floppy drive, and mount an old style VU-meter on the front with some sort of interface device that would make it read CPU usage or something.
Ever seen quality burled walnut? The good stuff will run you a couple hundred bucks per square foot, and a dark red stain makes it look absolutely beautiful, as if it wasn't already...
Actually, using this will most likely improve your Quake, and other FPS game. Now you have an actual reason to avoid being shot, it hurts.
When I used to play Laser Tag as a kid, I didn't care if I got shot. But when I switched to playing paintball, I became a much better player because it hurts like hell to get shot with a paintball (big red welts).
I have made a modification to Alex Chiu's device which will bring this mainstream. Everyone will feel like they are in heaven.
Basically, it consist of a small brass cylinder with a contact explosive at one end (we'll call it a "primer"), then the cylinder is filled with shredded nitrocellulose cord (we'll call this "smokeless powder"), and the magnetic device is then friction fit into the end of the cylinder sealing in the "smokeless powder". You then purchase my BFG-GLOCK17 Immortality Insertion device for around $450US (after the mandatory 2 week waiting period), and insert the brass cylinder into the chamber. To operate the device, you take the end of the BFG-GLOCK17, and insert the open end of it into your mouth, and point it upward towards the roof of your mouth. When you pull the trigger, the magnetic device is propelled upwards and implanted within your brain, it's very painless.
By implanting the magnetic device within your brain, it will better control the magnetic flux of your body, and it will seem like you are in heaven.
Why is he even bothering with the FAA and United States legal BS? If he launches from some other country, like one near the equator to decrease the amount of fuel needed to get into orbit, he should have to deal with the FAA and the US government at all.
Isn't there already a launchpad in some african country near the equator, or didn't russia just make some deal to put one there?
Why do you need to see someone to communicate with them? I understand the need to see presentations remotely, but for the most part, the video is so sucky that you can't see anything useful on the presentation if it's on a projector or a whiteboard.
I've been wasting time with it where I work because all of the executives want to be able to see each other when they talk with one another. No presentations, no reason to see each other except for novelty. How does watching a jerky, low-medium quality picture of someone help you communicate???
If you need to give a presentation remotely, use a Netmeeting type solution.
I was just thinking about this about 2 days ago when my wrists hurt from typing on my laptop for about 30 minutes.
It wouldn't be hard for manufacturers to mount the keys on a thin, but stiff metal surface, split it down the middle, and anchor each half under the 6 and 7 keys. That way, you could pull out the bottom corners to make your wrists sit at a more natural angle when typing.
I give anyone permission to use my above idea, so long as they don't patent it.:) And if they wanna give me some cash for it, I'll gladly take it.
I have 2 dual boot boxes running XP Beta 2 and Mandrake 8.0. It's using Mandrake's graphical LILO as a bootloader, and it's working just fine. Is this something that will be "implemented" for the final release of XP?
Always trying to be the superior race... First the cool pogo stick boots that let you run 45mph and jump 6 feet high, and now the ability to climb buildings. What's next? Heat vision, X-ray boobie sight, flight, invisibility?
Someone stop the flow of DC and Marvel publications into that country.:)
Sorta related... Anyone use PHPNuke? It's fast and pretty customizable, but the guy who codes it is clueless in the security department. Too bad, because it could be a really good product. It needs a serious security audit.
Why not just include the OS on the game CD? I'm not talking about installation of the OS on the actual machine, but I'm talking about booting linux from the CD, and run the games that way. So you're big-ass box acts just like a game console. Of course, when you booted it would have to figure out your hardware and adjust accordingly, but that shouldn't be that hard as long as you assume most people will have a 3dfx or Nvidia card, or Matrox.
That way, if the game needed special libs, or a certain custom kernel, it would boot the correct one everytime, and the libs would be there for it. No messing around downloading and compiling a bunch of stuff, which could potentially break other things. And the games could hopefully be playable without booting from the CD for those who already run linux.
The IMA and the Mathematics dept at the U of MN has been using linux very extensively since early '97. Most of the workstations in the labs, and even professor's personal machines are linux. It's very important that whatever they use run on linux.
I remember when I worked there and we got the first PPro 200. It kept up with our 2 main Sparc 20's, and it was a professor's personal machine. I used to log into it and render PovRAY scenes since the Sparce were usually being pounded on figuring out some crazy Mathematica problem that would take 3 months of computing.:)
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If you go to a big auto parts store, you should be able to find one of 2 products that will work perfectly for this:
1. A bottle of black dye with a sponge applicator on top. It's used for restoring faded black plastic on car bumpers and other crap. Make sure it's the dye, and not just the Armor All type stuff that makes it shine. This is harder to find than the next product, but you should be able to find it on carparts.com or something.
2. Go to the spray paint section. Near the paint section, you should be able to find what looks like cans of spray paint, but is for Vinyl tops on cars, plastic pieces, and possibly even carpet. Depending on the brand, some of it is actually dye, not paint. I don't have the brand name handy, but I used it to dye a beige plastic front of a computer case to charcoal gray, and it looks absolutely perfect. It doesn't scrape off unless you take a chunk of plastic with it.
Maybe he should have done some research before just going out and buying RIT dye.
Doesn't the Ipaq have a reflective screen also? How do they light that?
:)
If someone wants to remove the lighting device from their Ipaq, I'll take the useless hardware.
Ipaq sucks for games as it will only register one button press at a time. Hopefully HP will fix this. It's not an OS issue either as it does it with both CE and Linux.
His site is slow, maybe he should crank with the other arm.
I assume you're asking this because of that little blurb the other day about it requiring around 60 different libs. That's actually misleading as that's the count of all the .so files it needs, and they are all available in about only 5 packages total. Sadly, the journalist that wrote that story was not very forthcoming about this fact, I assume he was mad because he was having trouble making it work.
I thought it said "torturing the elderly". I need help.
The article is misleading. It requires around 60 .so files, which are available in 5 different packages. The author of the article omitted this fact, and it's just plain poor journalism.
A friend of mine works for a company which designs and installs very high end audio and theatre systems. Almost everything they do is featured in magazines somewhere or another. The usually don't touch anything under 6 figures. Most of the people buying the stuff are idiots with too much money who manage to fuck up their programmable remote once a week and pay the company to come back out and reprogram it. Those are the people that spend $1 million or more on their system (he's worked on $3.5 million dollar home theaters).
The people whole spend relatively little on their systems know what they are doing for the most part, can manage their remotes, and actually USE their systems for just listening.
The best part about his job is that people buy new stuff and give him all of their old equipment for free. His house is filled with absolutely wonderful high-end equipment. Once you sit in front of a pair of speakers and close your eyes and it sounds like the music is live and the people playing and singing are in the room with you, you will know the attraction of high-end audio. It's not about "loud" like most people think, it's about quality. I can't get that sort of sound out of my computer sound card (although I'm trying), and the latest $300 bookshelf system won't give it to you either. A nice cd player with a digital out, a good DAC, a good amp, and some Martin Logan or other high-end speakers will give you what you need.
Take a trip down to your local audio shop and ask them to give you a demo of their best sounding system.
Ever want to know what carpal tunnel feels like?
1. Locate a friend and an 8 pound sledge hammer
2. Place your wrist on an anvil (train tracks work nicely too).
3. Have your friend bring the sledge hammer up over his head, and swing downwards allowing your wrist to stop the motion of the hammer before it hits the anvil.
Over the next few days/months, you will experience the exact same feeling that people with carpal tunnel experience. Fun isn't it?
The plugins work well for content on disk, but for streaming, they are very sketchy. The XMMS plugins won't work at all, and the winamp plugin works sometimes. Too bad really, because it's very likely that Icecast will have 2.0 out before decent plugins are available. It's going to be hard to get users for it if it doesn't Just Work. Keep in mind that probably 90% or more of the people who listen to streams are windows users and don't have the first clue or the patience to dick around with something until it works. Last I heard, CVS versions of the plugins were getting much better, but I haven't played with them for a month or so.
Matt: File sharing? Windows has built-in Internet connection sharing that's better than any version of Windows to date. Trust us, Windows can do it all.
What a dumbass! He doesn't even know his own OS. Internet connection sharing has nothing to with file sharing, connection sharing is so you can set up your windows box to be a masquerade box for other machines on your network. Sadly, CNet has just managed to illustrate the level of cluelessness of the average windows user.
That case sucks, it's 6 chunks of wood screwed together with a blue LED in it.
What would be really nice, is one made of red stained burled walnut, with about 6 layers of high gloss varnish. Make sure you have a door to cover the unsighly cdroms and floppy drive, and mount an old style VU-meter on the front with some sort of interface device that would make it read CPU usage or something.
Ever seen quality burled walnut? The good stuff will run you a couple hundred bucks per square foot, and a dark red stain makes it look absolutely beautiful, as if it wasn't already...
Actually, using this will most likely improve your Quake, and other FPS game. Now you have an actual reason to avoid being shot, it hurts.
When I used to play Laser Tag as a kid, I didn't care if I got shot. But when I switched to playing paintball, I became a much better player because it hurts like hell to get shot with a paintball (big red welts).
The great big old 7000 series isn't worth more than a couple hundred bucks, if even that much.
I have made a modification to Alex Chiu's device which will bring this mainstream. Everyone will feel like they are in heaven.
Basically, it consist of a small brass cylinder with a contact explosive at one end (we'll call it a "primer"), then the cylinder is filled with shredded nitrocellulose cord (we'll call this "smokeless powder"), and the magnetic device is then friction fit into the end of the cylinder sealing in the "smokeless powder". You then purchase my BFG-GLOCK17 Immortality Insertion device for around $450US (after the mandatory 2 week waiting period), and insert the brass cylinder into the chamber. To operate the device, you take the end of the BFG-GLOCK17, and insert the open end of it into your mouth, and point it upward towards the roof of your mouth. When you pull the trigger, the magnetic device is propelled upwards and implanted within your brain, it's very painless.
By implanting the magnetic device within your brain, it will better control the magnetic flux of your body, and it will seem like you are in heaven.
Oops, I meant to type "shouldn't".
Why is he even bothering with the FAA and United States legal BS? If he launches from some other country, like one near the equator to decrease the amount of fuel needed to get into orbit, he should have to deal with the FAA and the US government at all.
Isn't there already a launchpad in some african country near the equator, or didn't russia just make some deal to put one there?
Why do you need to see someone to communicate with them? I understand the need to see presentations remotely, but for the most part, the video is so sucky that you can't see anything useful on the presentation if it's on a projector or a whiteboard.
I've been wasting time with it where I work because all of the executives want to be able to see each other when they talk with one another. No presentations, no reason to see each other except for novelty. How does watching a jerky, low-medium quality picture of someone help you communicate???
If you need to give a presentation remotely, use a Netmeeting type solution.
I was just thinking about this about 2 days ago when my wrists hurt from typing on my laptop for about 30 minutes. It wouldn't be hard for manufacturers to mount the keys on a thin, but stiff metal surface, split it down the middle, and anchor each half under the 6 and 7 keys. That way, you could pull out the bottom corners to make your wrists sit at a more natural angle when typing. I give anyone permission to use my above idea, so long as they don't patent it. :) And if they wanna give me some cash for it, I'll gladly take it.
I have 2 dual boot boxes running XP Beta 2 and Mandrake 8.0. It's using Mandrake's graphical LILO as a bootloader, and it's working just fine. Is this something that will be "implemented" for the final release of XP?
Always trying to be the superior race... First the cool pogo stick boots that let you run 45mph and jump 6 feet high, and now the ability to climb buildings. What's next? Heat vision, X-ray boobie sight, flight, invisibility?
:)
Someone stop the flow of DC and Marvel publications into that country.
Sorta related... Anyone use PHPNuke? It's fast and pretty customizable, but the guy who codes it is clueless in the security department. Too bad, because it could be a really good product. It needs a serious security audit.
Why not just include the OS on the game CD? I'm not talking about installation of the OS on the actual machine, but I'm talking about booting linux from the CD, and run the games that way. So you're big-ass box acts just like a game console. Of course, when you booted it would have to figure out your hardware and adjust accordingly, but that shouldn't be that hard as long as you assume most people will have a 3dfx or Nvidia card, or Matrox.
That way, if the game needed special libs, or a certain custom kernel, it would boot the correct one everytime, and the libs would be there for it. No messing around downloading and compiling a bunch of stuff, which could potentially break other things. And the games could hopefully be playable without booting from the CD for those who already run linux.
Maybe Slashdot should set up an interview so we can submit questions to him. It would be interesting to see what he has to say.
The IMA and the Mathematics dept at the U of MN has been using linux very extensively since early '97. Most of the workstations in the labs, and even professor's personal machines are linux. It's very important that whatever they use run on linux.
:)
I remember when I worked there and we got the first PPro 200. It kept up with our 2 main Sparc 20's, and it was a professor's personal machine. I used to log into it and render PovRAY scenes since the Sparce were usually being pounded on figuring out some crazy Mathematica problem that would take 3 months of computing.