I toured google during summer 2006 while on vacation. An old high school friend is an employee, and my family got a private tour. I was able to examine one of these racks up close. I took this photo in the main lobby where we got our security badges. Here's some of the more interesting features:
1) The motherboards are insulated from the rack by a sheet of cork board. 2) The back of the rack is covered by an array of generic case fans all connected with zip-ties. 3) They all used slot-1 pentium2 processors.
I wasn't allowed to take pictures of the real stuff. Security is insanely paranoid. Even my children had to sign nda's to get their security passes.
My kids were more impressed with the foosball tables, and the free food and drinks located just about everywhere.
There are many dvd titles out now that DVD Decrypter will not handle. However, another free tool called DVDFab Decrypter does the trick.
I used to try DVD Decrypter first, and if it failed, then I'd use DVDFab Decrypter. I eventually stopped using DVD Decrypter entirely since so many discs were failing.
For them, the right hand is the boss. It has to do the mouse, type, write, but can never do all at the same time.
I beg to differ. I am right-handed. I am also a touch-typist (100+wpm). My left hand is the more dextrous of the two hands. It must hold down shift, control, alt, etc while handling the left side of the keyboard. However, my left thumb is useless. All it ever does is hover over the spacebar without ever pressing it -- that is the right thumb's job.
Even when I am using the number keys above the letters, my accuracy with my left hand exceeds that of my right. I hit 1-5 more accurately (without looking) than I do 6-0. Granted, the right hand must also contend with backspace, enter, and your brackets and backslashes, as well as hopping over to the cursor keys and page-navigation keys when needed. Nevertheless, this does not make my left hand useless, nor does it make my right hand the 'boss'
Rather than cutting off the LCD display, take a look at the Logitech G11 gaming keyboard instead. It is the same as the G15, without the LCD display. According to Logitech, it will be available in the US and Europe this July
I think you meant G15, rather that G16? Assuming so...
I have a Logitech G15 keyboard and it is pretty good for gaming. Its too bulky for normal use, and the cord is... well, a cord.
However, for the best typing experience I have found, give the Logitech DiNovo a try. I absolutely love the feel of the keys, as well as the way it sits comfortably in my lap.
As a bonus, the DiNovo is nice and small, and if you are a true touch typist and do not use the numeric keypad, you are in luck, because the numeric keypad is detached.
Regarding unlabeled keyboards, all I have to say is, Bah! If you want to learn touch typing, just don't look at the keyboard. It is really just as simple as that.
n the late 80's and early 90's it was all PC's -- Once Columbia PC beat the blue giant of IBM it was open season and they approached 2 inches in thickness.
Once there were clones, the software still had to catch up. There were many popular software titles that made calls to the Basic ROM that only the IBM PC's had, as this was a separately licensed ROM than the BIOS. Granted, it did not take long for the software manufacturers to release updated versions that were free of Basic ROM calls, but that was one lock that IBM maintained for a couple of years.
I've been party to it once in Texas. Saw it happen another time in Texas. Saw it happen in Missouri.
Granted, the time when I was involved, there was a large amount of tequilla, and little square pieces of paper that had been soaked in unspeakable chemicals. Nevertheless, the two other times I saw it, I was otherwise unimpaired.
1) We hate Eolas because we hate software patents. 2) We hate Microsoft because we hate proprietary software.
Concerning Congress, steroids, and fixing the system -- I am at a total loss. I've never read or heard of Congress successfully fixing anything. I do recall many events to the contrary.
A lot easier than getting an ISP to change the PTR record to your hostname.
My provider is Speakeasy. They have always been very quick at setting up PTR records for me. Unfortunately, they do not have a web front end for doing this, so I have to create a trouble ticket with the request rather than just do it myself. Nevertheless, they respond very quickly.
I run my own mail server as well and do not have troubles with being tagged as spam.
I just returned from taking the family on a 4,731 mile roadtrip vacation across part of the USA. We went on Highway 491 in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. I kept noticing signs that said "US 666" as well as "US 491". It turns out that the highway number is being changed from 666 to 491 for two reasons: 1) Bible thumpers were afraid of the number. 2) People were stealing the signs.
I wondered whether there were similar objections to US 616. I haven't found anything yet, but time will tell. Perhaps this post will serve as an alert to all of those integer fearing folks out there.
Imagine what it would be like to be afraid of arbitrary numbers. I can understand being afraid of zero or infinity. Zero is just plain creepy. And, infinity makes me feel so insignificant. But, normal integers? Get real. Now, where's that "liver donor" card I've been meaning to sign...
Ah, the youth of slashdot members is so easy to manipulate. I was certain that my post would be modded as a troll since the youth do not like to be corrected. I even crafted my message so that it contained something worthy of correction. I was not let down. Simple minds, so easily controlled.
What bothers me is that irregardless of the fact...
What is wrong with writing "regardless"! Sure, this is casual writing, but it is still one of those pet peaves pounded in to me by my grammar instructors in the 1960's.
from dictionary.com:
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
I bought it from CompuHQ and had it delivered to my door for $66.89.
I got this mouse as a backup / portable mouse. Most of my clients use laptops and it is damned handy to have this thing around.
However, I would not use it as my primary mouse. I guess it is an ok mouse, however it seems too small in my hand. Also, it is easy to accidently cause the scroll panel to activate.
I must admit, the ticking sound generated when sliding your finger over the scroll panel is disturbingly enjoyable.
Besides the indoor signal issue that others have mentioned, there remains the problem with not being able to determine elevation. There are many high-rise apartment buildings.
Even with a two-story 8 unit building, that 50 foot granularity is not good enough to determine from which apartment the call came.
Any self respecting geek would have at least one machine set up as an apache server running a lame blog that just talks about the geeky crap that nobody give a shit about. And, since I am a self respecting geek (the only kind of respect I can get), here's mine: http://www.foleyhome.com./
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Newegg to the rescue: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16878190063
Also, my local Walmart has the Wii Play/Remote combo as well, but it is cheaper at newegg.com
I toured google during summer 2006 while on vacation. An old high school friend is an employee, and my family got a private tour. I was able to examine one of these racks up close. I took this photo in the main lobby where we got our security badges. Here's some of the more interesting features:
1) The motherboards are insulated from the rack by a sheet of cork board.
2) The back of the rack is covered by an array of generic case fans all connected with zip-ties.
3) They all used slot-1 pentium2 processors.
I wasn't allowed to take pictures of the real stuff. Security is insanely paranoid. Even my children had to sign nda's to get their security passes.
My kids were more impressed with the foosball tables, and the free food and drinks located just about everywhere.
you can also read about it here!
There are many dvd titles out now that DVD Decrypter will not handle. However, another free tool called DVDFab Decrypter does the trick.
I used to try DVD Decrypter first, and if it failed, then I'd use DVDFab Decrypter. I eventually stopped using DVD Decrypter entirely since so many discs were failing.
Even when I am using the number keys above the letters, my accuracy with my left hand exceeds that of my right. I hit 1-5 more accurately (without looking) than I do 6-0. Granted, the right hand must also contend with backspace, enter, and your brackets and backslashes, as well as hopping over to the cursor keys and page-navigation keys when needed. Nevertheless, this does not make my left hand useless, nor does it make my right hand the 'boss'
Dam my drunken typing skills. Perl...
"Pearl and PHP DNA... just don't mix"
Rather than cutting off the LCD display, take a look at the Logitech G11 gaming keyboard instead. It is the same as the G15, without the LCD display. According to Logitech, it will be available in the US and Europe this July
I think you meant G15, rather that G16? Assuming so...
I have a Logitech G15 keyboard and it is pretty good for gaming. Its too bulky for normal use, and the cord is... well, a cord.
However, for the best typing experience I have found, give the Logitech DiNovo a try. I absolutely love the feel of the keys, as well as the way it sits comfortably in my lap.
As a bonus, the DiNovo is nice and small, and if you are a true touch typist and do not use the numeric keypad, you are in luck, because the numeric keypad is detached.
Regarding unlabeled keyboards, all I have to say is, Bah! If you want to learn touch typing, just don't look at the keyboard. It is really just as simple as that.
n the late 80's and early 90's it was all PC's -- Once Columbia PC beat the blue giant of IBM it was open season and they approached 2 inches in thickness.
Once there were clones, the software still had to catch up. There were many popular software titles that made calls to the Basic ROM that only the IBM PC's had, as this was a separately licensed ROM than the BIOS. Granted, it did not take long for the software manufacturers to release updated versions that were free of Basic ROM calls, but that was one lock that IBM maintained for a couple of years.
It will never happen, but... imagine if Microsoft released a version of the current Windows that ran on Mac hardware.
I've been party to it once in Texas. Saw it happen another time in Texas. Saw it happen in Missouri.
Granted, the time when I was involved, there was a large amount of tequilla, and little square pieces of paper that had been soaked in unspeakable chemicals. Nevertheless, the two other times I saw it, I was otherwise unimpaired.
1) We hate Eolas because we hate software patents.
2) We hate Microsoft because we hate proprietary software.
Concerning Congress, steroids, and fixing the system -- I am at a total loss. I've never read or heard of Congress successfully fixing anything. I do recall many events to the contrary.
Google is a free service paid for by well defined ads. Something that you already buy should not contain ads.
Magazine ads pissed me off so much that I now buy no magazine that contains ads. I don't buy many magazines.
If you remember, cable tv (around 1978) was originally completely ad-free. The reasoning was that the content was paid for by your subscription.
Sure, the remote controls had wires and an unfriendly slide switch, but hey -- we got cheesey pron.
And... then came along the concept of cable networks thanks to Ted Turner et. al.
Now, we PAY to get commercials on content that we already PAY for.
This is no new rant, however, it seemed appropriate to bring it up again in this context.
However, it sounds like EVIL, EVIL, EVIL.
You know what I mean -- stuff that google wouldn't touch.
A lot easier than getting an ISP to change the PTR record to your hostname.
My provider is Speakeasy. They have always been very quick at setting up PTR records for me. Unfortunately, they do not have a web front end for doing this, so I have to create a trouble ticket with the request rather than just do it myself. Nevertheless, they respond very quickly.
I run my own mail server as well and do not have troubles with being tagged as spam.
Speakeasy rocks.
Michigan Congressman Fred Upton is leading the congressional effort to investigate Rockstar Games.
Republican congressman from Indiana? No.
Silly me. Google is your friend
I just returned from taking the family on a 4,731 mile roadtrip vacation across part of the USA. We went on Highway 491 in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. I kept noticing signs that said "US 666" as well as "US 491". It turns out that the highway number is being changed from 666 to 491 for two reasons:
1) Bible thumpers were afraid of the number.
2) People were stealing the signs.
I wondered whether there were similar objections to US 616. I haven't found anything yet, but time will tell. Perhaps this post will serve as an alert to all of those integer fearing folks out there.
Imagine what it would be like to be afraid of arbitrary numbers. I can understand being afraid of zero or infinity. Zero is just plain creepy. And, infinity makes me feel so insignificant. But, normal integers? Get real. Now, where's that "liver donor" card I've been meaning to sign...
Ah, the youth of slashdot members is so easy to manipulate. I was certain that my post would be modded as a troll since the youth do not like to be corrected. I even crafted my message so that it contained something worthy of correction. I was not let down. Simple minds, so easily controlled.
By the way, what exactly is a Fartkno?
What bothers me is that irregardless of the fact...
What is wrong with writing "regardless"! Sure, this is casual writing, but it is still one of those pet peaves pounded in to me by my grammar instructors in the 1960's.
from dictionary.com:
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
I bought it from CompuHQ and had it delivered to my door for $66.89.
I got this mouse as a backup / portable mouse. Most of my clients use laptops and it is damned handy to have this thing around.
However, I would not use it as my primary mouse. I guess it is an ok mouse, however it seems too
small in my hand. Also, it is easy to accidently cause the scroll panel to activate.
I must admit, the ticking sound generated when sliding your finger over the scroll panel is disturbingly enjoyable.
Besides the indoor signal issue that others have mentioned, there remains the problem with not being able to determine elevation. There are many high-rise apartment buildings.
Even with a two-story 8 unit building, that 50 foot granularity is not good enough to determine from which apartment the call came.
Any self respecting geek would have at least one machine set up as an apache server running a lame blog that just talks about the geeky crap that nobody give a shit about. And, since I am a self respecting geek (the only kind of respect I can get), here's mine: http://www.foleyhome.com./
Sweet Zombie Jesus! I hate it when people make obscure references.
If anyone wants me, I'll be in the angry dome.