Part of use of 'bidness' is a play on the good ol' boy Sothren use of the word; rest is my personal context (which those who've followed its usage the past three decades or so might get) and stands for, among other things, the corruptive influence of the melding of bureaucracy, money, power. I guess I also talk oddly.
is that the guard who encountered the intruders was fired.
There will be a small flap, and exchange of letters, self-righteous speeches, and it will be back to bidness as usual, which is to say what comes out of this will be slip-shod, ineffective, pretty on paper, and a few highers will make more money.
In 'Greater Milwaukee Area' I'm paying $38.83 for their "up to" 10/1 standard plan Internet only. Speed tests show anywhere from 7-16m/768k-1.3m; in real life, it's ~1.5m/512k.
According to various tests from measurementlabs, there is occasionally some bittorrent throttling, along with more frequent but usually minor network congestion. No probs with Netflix or Hulu (free) so far, knock on wood.
I consider the service good and generally reliable, for what they actually deliver; customer/tech support great, prices suck.
You just got another backer; looked at your project and liked it. Can't do much, though; after paying bills out of social security check, I allot myself $20/mo. for 'mad money' - an ebook, a donation, a pint or two of Guinness.
Dumb suggestion: offer link to a few.flac files or such (along with strong caveats viz. users' current sound setup) comparing your rig to several representative units.
Good question. The answer might have something to do with pressure. If you're curious, you have some interesting reading in store. Another question: why would we want to explore there? That can get even more interesting.
All numbers from memory of what I gathered from ASHRAE and ASTM manuals, and from various researchers at several universities and government agencies circa '81, gathered when I was under contract to a corporation to set up a retro-fit unit for homes and small businesses. General "R-value" is, or was, a calculated one; it's the inverse of U which represents conduction and is arrived at through standardized lab tests; for a general discussion, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_(insulation) - but you may well know all this already.
Sure, I've done the hand-air thing. That's convection inside the structure, not between two panes of glass. To be sure, I'm not advocating a particular arrangement of panes. Had I druthers I'd go sealed (usually dry nitrogen, if memory serves). With non-sealed glazing condensation can be an issue; with multiple layers of sealed panes it still is. And you're right; in some situations a Euro style of triple window can be useful. From my reading of relevant posts I don't see we have any argument or particular disagreement, other than my pointing out that the air between two panes of glass would have an insulating value - unless that space is wide open to the breezes.
What about going to, say, 4" or so of polycarbonate (Lexan)? That oughta be dense enough for a goodly range of freq and intensity. [been decades since I looked at this stuff; have to hit the ASTM for starters]
Well, no. Air circulating 'tween panes still has its own R-value, moving or no. Second, to disturb the boundary layer (worth 0.1 R) air speed would need to exceed something like 5 or 6 mph. Single-weight glass is at best break-even (circa '82, 0.9 R); I don't see where air moving around between the panes is going to appreciably affect over-all R of the window. If you take a window and want to tot up conduction/convection, find and quantify warm spots/cold spots and do measurements, go for it.
In talking with a tier-2 tech yesterday on unrelated matter, he said so far as he knew TW had IPv6 (and DOCSIS 3) enabled or ready "pretty much everywhere" end-to-end, but it requires new equipment and higher service level at ~$30 more per month. I can't afford it so don't know if it's true or not (although he offered to switch me to customer service to place the order.)
Seems to me, a problem is defense on wireless modem/router is static, attack is not; upshot, all defense eventually overcome. So even if your wireless is 'secured', if it's used to do something 'bad' then you're on the hook unless and until somebody else looks better for it. From what I see, prosecutors and judges are more concerned with no-comeback conviction rate to tout in next election than with truth or reality. Existing law is far worse than b.s. ISP TOS.
Proving innocence is a losing proposition. Since by then all your computer stuff will be in the hands of the police, good luck with that.
Secured or no, you're screwed. For casual stuff, sure, use WPA2 and whatnot and play the odds; it'll give you a warm feeling of false security right up until the time the SWAT team comes through the door.
I think you're correct that OS X users are more likely to shell out cash.
However, Linux gamers have consistently paid more for Humble Bundles than those using other OSes; the total amount compared to Windows, anyway, is still relatively small. I'm curious to see how this plays out. As others have suggested, this may be a path to a non-Windows set-top box and store.
I've been a bit more lucky. I had Civ V working fine under Wine in early '10 until I decided I needed to 'fix' something and could never get it working again. So I got Crossover Games (now all combined as Crossover XI - shows up as.cxoffice) and it works fine but only with DirectX9. Ditto with Silent Hunter IV. The games I have from Frictional I got either from Humble Bundles or Steam and they play well, natively, or via Steam in Crossover.
Have had two video cards, an 8800GT, now a 460GTX, and two processors, 9350e and 1090T (same socket, BIOS upgrade). Using current_release nVidia drivers, Ubuntu 64-bit, now 12.04.
I've had three, maybe four crashes this year with Crossover, don't remember the error messages, but I think they were either memory or dll related. Only took down the game and locked up Steam; none froze the system. As I say, lucky. That, and I'm not much of a gamer (just shy of 900 hours this year in Civ, for example) - the games I play don't make much of a demand on the system or, apparently, on Wine.
As with you, I look forward to Steam on Linux. It'll be interesting to see how it works, and progresses.
First, likely not a random person, rather a person who already drinks beer, likes it well enough to want better, and has some spirit of adventure and perhaps the perspicacity to gather a bit of background and solid information on what he proposes to do. I recommend starting with Charlie Papazian's books.
Assuming a reputable bit of kit, one gets decent ingredients to follow a basic recipe. It's just not that difficult. Will your first batch be as clear as something from the store? Likely not. Would you consider selling it? Not if you're sane. Will you enjoy it? Unless you've really screwed up (mostly by not following simple directions), of course you will.
No, it likely will not be cheaper than Big Flats 1901 or Steel Reserve. It will, however, be good and it will be yours.
True enough but it's all beer: barley, hops, yeast, water, and often-as-not, adjuncts. Not only 'different strokes for different folks' but the wide availability of a huge variety of beers for every budget and occasion is, ahem, refreshing.
When I'm flush, five bucks for a pint of Smithwicks or Guinness, Sierra Nevada or New Glarus is fine. When I'm down to the dregs of the bank account, a sixer of Big Flats 1901 from Walgreen's at $3.53 with tax is alright. Most of the places I've lived, I mostly drank the prevailing local - Pabst, Hamm's, Stroh's, Old Style, Schaefer, Genesee Cream Ale, Busch - easy to get, affordable, and sufficiently enjoyable for the occasion, be it a couple of whistle-wetters after work or a pig roast. It's all good.
I made a real try at reading the doc in a dispassionate, scholarly fashion, but couldn't make it past page ten: I kept seeing in mind's eye the substitution of other words for "terrorist," leading to "anybody we don't like" and ending with "everyone except us." Knowing that this and the many similar plans would have been a Stasi wet-dream didn't help.
While the odds may seem low at the moment, the possibility of the rise of a Nehemiah Scudder scares me. (In a way, it's too bad Heinlein never wrote that story; then again, it leaves it as an interesting exercise for the reader.)
The U.S. is in trouble enough owing to that 46%. Does it increase another five or ten points, we're totally screwed. (Of course, it's still unknown if we'll survive the DHS. The combination of that with a theocracy would be beyond chilling.)
I'd not heard of this; it's a chilling read, caveats and all. For lack of another similar event around that time, we might not be here at all. Yet these days so many seem to take it as given that we were inevitable, that our presence is a matter of course, and that our future here is to be taken for granted. Odd critters, we are.
Not arguing that education isn't important, especially in the longer term, but are you seriously claiming that the 100 million CARE packages sent to Europe and elsewhere after WWII weren't useful? People have to be alive to be able to go to school, no?
I don't remember the name of the program, it may've been part of CARE or UNRRA effort, but I recall in grade school back in the Fifties where we contributed (well, most of us via our allowances and small jobs) along with our parents, teachers and local groups to send boxes of tools and seeds to Europe and other places - the idea being that people trying to recover from the ravages of the war would get some help re-building and eating. This by you was worthless?
I'd settle for any improvement that'd solve a problem I've had - once or twice a year a major x11 update makes it necessary for me to re-install Crossover, then Steam, then my games. (I've tried abbreviating that process with snapshots, archives, local copies of relevant stuff but that never works. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or I haven't found the right combination.)
For that matter, I'd be happy if my curiosity didn't drive me to try to understand things I either don't want to learn about - I just want them to work well enough to not get in my way, or that are intrinsically over my head anyway. If Wayland works, and eventually works well enough that it brings me less hassle I'll be pleased. The times I need to remote to a someone's desktop for support (usually Windows) I tend to mostly use Teamviewer - it's simple enough that both of us can use it and it works.
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"I've started at a small company...."
Part of use of 'bidness' is a play on the good ol' boy Sothren use of the word; rest is my personal context (which those who've followed its usage the past three decades or so might get) and stands for, among other things, the corruptive influence of the melding of bureaucracy, money, power. I guess I also talk oddly.
is that the guard who encountered the intruders was fired.
There will be a small flap, and exchange of letters, self-righteous speeches, and it will be back to bidness as usual, which is to say what comes out of this will be slip-shod, ineffective, pretty on paper, and a few highers will make more money.
Ditto, thanks Kaptain.
I'm surprised to see (unless I missed it) no reference to earlier attempts, Project Moho for example.
In 'Greater Milwaukee Area' I'm paying $38.83 for their "up to" 10/1 standard plan Internet only. Speed tests show anywhere from 7-16m/768k-1.3m; in real life, it's ~1.5m/512k.
According to various tests from measurementlabs, there is occasionally some bittorrent throttling, along with more frequent but usually minor network congestion. No probs with Netflix or Hulu (free) so far, knock on wood.
I consider the service good and generally reliable, for what they actually deliver; customer/tech support great, prices suck.
You just got another backer; looked at your project and liked it. Can't do much, though; after paying bills out of social security check, I allot myself $20/mo. for 'mad money' - an ebook, a donation, a pint or two of Guinness.
Dumb suggestion: offer link to a few .flac files or such (along with strong caveats viz. users' current sound setup) comparing your rig to several representative units.
Good question. The answer might have something to do with pressure. If you're curious, you have some interesting reading in store. Another question: why would we want to explore there? That can get even more interesting.
All numbers from memory of what I gathered from ASHRAE and ASTM manuals, and from various researchers at several universities and government agencies circa '81, gathered when I was under contract to a corporation to set up a retro-fit unit for homes and small businesses. General "R-value" is, or was, a calculated one; it's the inverse of U which represents conduction and is arrived at through standardized lab tests; for a general discussion, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_(insulation) - but you may well know all this already.
Sure, I've done the hand-air thing. That's convection inside the structure, not between two panes of glass. To be sure, I'm not advocating a particular arrangement of panes. Had I druthers I'd go sealed (usually dry nitrogen, if memory serves). With non-sealed glazing condensation can be an issue; with multiple layers of sealed panes it still is. And you're right; in some situations a Euro style of triple window can be useful. From my reading of relevant posts I don't see we have any argument or particular disagreement, other than my pointing out that the air between two panes of glass would have an insulating value - unless that space is wide open to the breezes.
What about going to, say, 4" or so of polycarbonate (Lexan)? That oughta be dense enough for a goodly range of freq and intensity. [been decades since I looked at this stuff; have to hit the ASTM for starters]
Well, no. Air circulating 'tween panes still has its own R-value, moving or no. Second, to disturb the boundary layer (worth 0.1 R) air speed would need to exceed something like 5 or 6 mph. Single-weight glass is at best break-even (circa '82, 0.9 R); I don't see where air moving around between the panes is going to appreciably affect over-all R of the window. If you take a window and want to tot up conduction/convection, find and quantify warm spots/cold spots and do measurements, go for it.
In talking with a tier-2 tech yesterday on unrelated matter, he said so far as he knew TW had IPv6 (and DOCSIS 3) enabled or ready "pretty much everywhere" end-to-end, but it requires new equipment and higher service level at ~$30 more per month. I can't afford it so don't know if it's true or not (although he offered to switch me to customer service to place the order.)
Seems to me, a problem is defense on wireless modem/router is static, attack is not; upshot, all defense eventually overcome. So even if your wireless is 'secured', if it's used to do something 'bad' then you're on the hook unless and until somebody else looks better for it. From what I see, prosecutors and judges are more concerned with no-comeback conviction rate to tout in next election than with truth or reality. Existing law is far worse than b.s. ISP TOS.
Proving innocence is a losing proposition. Since by then all your computer stuff will be in the hands of the police, good luck with that.
Secured or no, you're screwed. For casual stuff, sure, use WPA2 and whatnot and play the odds; it'll give you a warm feeling of false security right up until the time the SWAT team comes through the door.
I think you're correct that OS X users are more likely to shell out cash.
However, Linux gamers have consistently paid more for Humble Bundles than those using other OSes; the total amount compared to Windows, anyway, is still relatively small. I'm curious to see how this plays out. As others have suggested, this may be a path to a non-Windows set-top box and store.
I've been a bit more lucky. I had Civ V working fine under Wine in early '10 until I decided I needed to 'fix' something and could never get it working again. So I got Crossover Games (now all combined as Crossover XI - shows up as .cxoffice) and it works fine but only with DirectX9. Ditto with Silent Hunter IV. The games I have from Frictional I got either from Humble Bundles or Steam and they play well, natively, or via Steam in Crossover.
Have had two video cards, an 8800GT, now a 460GTX, and two processors, 9350e and 1090T (same socket, BIOS upgrade). Using current_release nVidia drivers, Ubuntu 64-bit, now 12.04.
I've had three, maybe four crashes this year with Crossover, don't remember the error messages, but I think they were either memory or dll related. Only took down the game and locked up Steam; none froze the system. As I say, lucky. That, and I'm not much of a gamer (just shy of 900 hours this year in Civ, for example) - the games I play don't make much of a demand on the system or, apparently, on Wine.
As with you, I look forward to Steam on Linux. It'll be interesting to see how it works, and progresses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)
Agreed.
"In a twist that will certainly raise some eyebrows...."
Why? Did the Stasi publish the results of its field tests?
Only raised brows will be from those somehow thinking otherwise.
Awesome.
First, likely not a random person, rather a person who already drinks beer, likes it well enough to want better, and has some spirit of adventure and perhaps the perspicacity to gather a bit of background and solid information on what he proposes to do. I recommend starting with Charlie Papazian's books.
Assuming a reputable bit of kit, one gets decent ingredients to follow a basic recipe. It's just not that difficult. Will your first batch be as clear as something from the store? Likely not. Would you consider selling it? Not if you're sane. Will you enjoy it? Unless you've really screwed up (mostly by not following simple directions), of course you will.
No, it likely will not be cheaper than Big Flats 1901 or Steel Reserve. It will, however, be good and it will be yours.
True enough but it's all beer: barley, hops, yeast, water, and often-as-not, adjuncts. Not only 'different strokes for different folks' but the wide availability of a huge variety of beers for every budget and occasion is, ahem, refreshing.
When I'm flush, five bucks for a pint of Smithwicks or Guinness, Sierra Nevada or New Glarus is fine. When I'm down to the dregs of the bank account, a sixer of Big Flats 1901 from Walgreen's at $3.53 with tax is alright. Most of the places I've lived, I mostly drank the prevailing local - Pabst, Hamm's, Stroh's, Old Style, Schaefer, Genesee Cream Ale, Busch - easy to get, affordable, and sufficiently enjoyable for the occasion, be it a couple of whistle-wetters after work or a pig roast. It's all good.
That said, good homebrew rules.
classicmenu-indicator
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:diesch/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator
solves a lot of "where did it go?" stuff; it's one of the first things I install along with synaptic
End users decry the command line, purists rail against sudo; I just want to have an easily-used desktop computer for my needs.
You may wish to check out Bodhi if you want to have a bunch of settings to play with; I've got it in a vm and it's interesting.
I made a real try at reading the doc in a dispassionate, scholarly fashion, but couldn't make it past page ten: I kept seeing in mind's eye the substitution of other words for "terrorist," leading to "anybody we don't like" and ending with "everyone except us." Knowing that this and the many similar plans would have been a Stasi wet-dream didn't help.
While the odds may seem low at the moment, the possibility of the rise of a Nehemiah Scudder scares me. (In a way, it's too bad Heinlein never wrote that story; then again, it leaves it as an interesting exercise for the reader.)
The U.S. is in trouble enough owing to that 46%. Does it increase another five or ten points, we're totally screwed. (Of course, it's still unknown if we'll survive the DHS. The combination of that with a theocracy would be beyond chilling.)
I'd not heard of this; it's a chilling read, caveats and all. For lack of another similar event around that time, we might not be here at all. Yet these days so many seem to take it as given that we were inevitable, that our presence is a matter of course, and that our future here is to be taken for granted. Odd critters, we are.
Not arguing that education isn't important, especially in the longer term, but are you seriously claiming that the 100 million CARE packages sent to Europe and elsewhere after WWII weren't useful? People have to be alive to be able to go to school, no?
I don't remember the name of the program, it may've been part of CARE or UNRRA effort, but I recall in grade school back in the Fifties where we contributed (well, most of us via our allowances and small jobs) along with our parents, teachers and local groups to send boxes of tools and seeds to Europe and other places - the idea being that people trying to recover from the ravages of the war would get some help re-building and eating. This by you was worthless?
Sounds like a good idea to me.
I'd settle for any improvement that'd solve a problem I've had - once or twice a year a major x11 update makes it necessary for me to re-install Crossover, then Steam, then my games. (I've tried abbreviating that process with snapshots, archives, local copies of relevant stuff but that never works. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or I haven't found the right combination.)
For that matter, I'd be happy if my curiosity didn't drive me to try to understand things I either don't want to learn about - I just want them to work well enough to not get in my way, or that are intrinsically over my head anyway. If Wayland works, and eventually works well enough that it brings me less hassle I'll be pleased. The times I need to remote to a someone's desktop for support (usually Windows) I tend to mostly use Teamviewer - it's simple enough that both of us can use it and it works.