I love cookbooks, I have dozens, and like to read them, cook from them. I ALWAYS follow the recipe, exactly, the first time. After that, when I know what it's 'supposed' to be like, I can modify it the way I think it should be (or not).
Forget using it as a laptop, I'm going to use it as the house server. Get it set up, make the system card read-only and stick it in a closet with 1+ USB drives, it's quiet and low heat. If you need to see the 'console' pop the lid and there it is.
I like that idea a lot! Use a sessionID-named folder for any URLs that have bank logos...
The only problem with this is that the phisher drags and drops all the appropriate images to his local harddrive, builds his pages and publishes them to his site. You're going to his site, anyway, so, just a minor inconvenience for him.
This idea, that while nobody knows the answer, but, everybody knows the answer, was one of the plot devices in the book 'The Shockwave Rider' by John Brunner in 1975. One of my top ten favorite scifi books.
Something that has not been mentioned, because, evidently, no one has actually worked with it, is that it is seriously annoying to work in the proximity of someone USING speech recognition. I worked with a fellow that had speech recognition on his machine who used it for programming. YOU try working on YOUR own code when someone is droning in the background: "for left paren int i equals zero semi-colon i less than mumble mumble delete word delete word..." ALL DAY LONG! Even with head phones on it sometimes seemed like he was asking a question and I'd remove the head phones and say "What was that?" "Nothing delete word". ARGGHHH. Leave me the heck away from people with speech recognition.
GP post was correct so far as I can tell. Every succesful (where succesful means it actually made it into significant use in the real world) OS was a refinement of a previous attempt, and every new, innovative, designed from scratch OS project has ended in dismal failure, usually bankrupting the designers (or at least the corporation they formed) in the process.
Sooooo.... Where is the bad in this if Microsoft does it?
I've been considering building a wood cased computer , for some time, to use in the living room as a media center computer. Not terribly powerful, just CPU, memory, dvd, sound card, video/tuner card(s) and network card. Boot it off the network and remote mount the file server. I've been thinking dovetailed walnut, with walnut burl front panel. Because it wouldn't have any metal in the construction, I've thought of using copper sheathing/mesh to create a faraday cage to minimize emissions. How does this sound?
I listen to a lot of music... I have over 800 CDs. I just bought 8 CDs, and the first thing I did was bring them to work and rip them in the background. I rip in OGG and MP3 formats, MP3 for my players, and OGG for home stereo. There is NO way I'm going to pay a buck a song. When I buy a CD I can rip the song in any format/bitrate I want, and as many times as I want. $0.25USD is about the point that I would give up that flexibility to buy in a fixed (MP3) format. And there is NO way that I would buy a DRMed song. I've got too many places (car, home, work, several portables) that I want to play music for it to be limited to one location.
One of the great things about the IntelliJ IDE is that there is a plugin for vim available. It's not FULL blown vim, but, a lot of it is there. This means you get the benefit of your muscle memory editing with the power of the IntelliJ IDE.
I liked IntelliJ so much that I bought a personal copy for home.
Actually, Sun1's had 68000 CPUs in them, don't recall if they had any MMU capabilities. The Sun2 (my first sun exposure: Sun2/150) had 68010's and a custom Sun MMU. The 68020's did not enter the Sun product line until the Sun3's.
I have my own domain, and run my own mail server for personal email. The ONE thing that I have done to reduce incoming spam drastically(i.e. I only get 5% as much now), is to refuse incoming connections to the mail server from any machine that does not have a valid rDNS value. I may miss email from someone, but, they'll have gotten a(n) (somewhat) informative message telling them why their email did not succeed. They can either complain to their ISP and get their rDNS fixed (like I did:-) or call me/send me a letter.
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I wish I had mod points! I'd surely mod you... I don't know WHAT I'd mod you, but, I'd surely mod you!
Tom.
I love cookbooks, I have dozens, and like to read them, cook from them. I ALWAYS follow the recipe, exactly, the first time. After that, when I know what it's 'supposed' to be like, I can modify it the way I think it should be (or not).
Tom.
Forget using it as a laptop, I'm going to use it as the house server. Get it set up, make the system card read-only and stick it in a closet with 1+ USB drives, it's quiet and low heat. If you need to see the 'console' pop the lid and there it is.
Tom.
You know you're old when you thought DDR meant "Difficult Data Retrieval".
Tom.
I've heard of people complaining about dying, but, never a complaint about being dead.
Another thing they might try is to look at average loudness. It seems like commercials are pumped up a bit from regular shows.
Tom.
The only problem with this is that the phisher drags and drops all the appropriate images to his local harddrive, builds his pages and publishes them to his site. You're going to his site, anyway, so, just a minor inconvenience for him.
Tom.
This idea, that while nobody knows the answer, but, everybody knows the answer, was one of the plot devices in the book 'The Shockwave Rider' by John Brunner in 1975. One of my top ten favorite scifi books.
Phew! At least I've got THIS covered.
Something that has not been mentioned, because, evidently, no one has actually worked with it, is that it is seriously annoying to work in the proximity of someone USING speech recognition. I worked with a fellow that had speech recognition on his machine who used it for programming. YOU try working on YOUR own code when someone is droning in the background: "for left paren int i equals zero semi-colon i less than mumble mumble delete word delete word ..." ALL DAY LONG! Even with head phones on it sometimes seemed like he was asking a question and I'd remove the head phones and say "What was that?" "Nothing delete word". ARGGHHH. Leave me the heck away from people with speech recognition.
Tom.
GP post was correct so far as I can tell. Every succesful (where succesful means it actually made it into significant use in the real world) OS was a refinement of a previous attempt, and every new, innovative, designed from scratch OS project has ended in dismal failure, usually bankrupting the designers (or at least the corporation they formed) in the process.
Sooooo.... Where is the bad in this if Microsoft does it?
Tom.
I've been considering building a wood cased computer , for some time, to use in the living room as a media center computer. Not terribly powerful, just CPU, memory, dvd, sound card, video/tuner card(s) and network card. Boot it off the network and remote mount the file server. I've been thinking dovetailed walnut, with walnut burl front panel. Because it wouldn't have any metal in the construction, I've thought of using copper sheathing/mesh to create a faraday cage to minimize emissions. How does this sound?
Tom.
I listen to a lot of music... I have over 800 CDs. I just bought 8 CDs, and the first thing I did was bring them to work and rip them in the background. I rip in OGG and MP3 formats, MP3 for my players, and OGG for home stereo. There is NO way I'm going to pay a buck a song. When I buy a CD I can rip the song in any format/bitrate I want, and as many times as I want. $0.25USD is about the point that I would give up that flexibility to buy in a fixed (MP3) format. And there is NO way that I would buy a DRMed song. I've got too many places (car, home, work, several portables) that I want to play music for it to be limited to one location.
Tom.
One of the great things about the IntelliJ IDE is that there is a plugin for vim available. It's not FULL blown vim, but, a lot of it is there. This means you get the benefit of your muscle memory editing with the power of the IntelliJ IDE.
I liked IntelliJ so much that I bought a personal copy for home.
Tom.
Actually, Sun1's had 68000 CPUs in them, don't recall if they had any MMU capabilities. The Sun2 (my first sun exposure: Sun2/150) had 68010's and a custom Sun MMU. The 68020's did not enter the Sun product line until the Sun3's.
Tom.
I have my own domain, and run my own mail server for personal email. The ONE thing that I have done to reduce incoming spam drastically(i.e. I only get 5% as much now), is to refuse incoming connections to the mail server from any machine that does not have a valid rDNS value. I may miss email from someone, but, they'll have gotten a(n) (somewhat) informative message telling them why their email did not succeed. They can either complain to their ISP and get their rDNS fixed (like I did :-) or call me/send me a letter.
Tom.