you are most correct... i'll never forget the time i found myself with a box from Bell Atlantic containing a DSL modem, filters, and a CD... of course, i only ran Linux in the house... and of course, the CD only contained Software For Satan(TM)...
in fact, it readily became apparent that the only way to establish service (get a username and password) was through some sort of Windows extensions/js stuff for Internet Exploder...
so i called Bell Atlantic and social-engineered my way past the first tier folks, and then got a good tech... i explained that i was using Linux... he understood, got a customer service (billing) rep on the line at the same time, who then gave me a username and password right over the phone - no going through any software install or Windoze browser crapola!
i was pretty stoked when i got my first ping from an xterm on my new DSL connection...
so whoever you are and wherever you are, thank you tech rep from the now-defunct Bell Atlantic DSL support line!
interesting! will have to look more closely at iPhoto docs/RAW support... (admittedly, iPhoto isn't the greatest photo editor, but it's more than sufficient for my needs)... but alas, it did not work 'out-of-the-box' for the RAW images generated by my a570is...
i have a lot of fun with registration details... for example, and just for the Washington Post's information, i'm the paraplegic 88-year-old Afghani women in zip code 20593 (the a55-end of DC at the bottom of 2nd St. SW, fondly known as Buzzard's Point and home to the Department of Homeland Security's United States Coast Guard Hind^H^H^Headquarters)
only took about a minute or so and now i have a [new] Canon a570is! this project is wonderful and has added some neat features... i simply copied two file to the SD card and restarted the camera... plus, the 'upgrade' is completely reversible... (i'm using the 'persistent' boot mode)
i tested picture taking and import and there have been no ill effects (although as one might expect, iPhoto doesn't support import of RAW images - and neither does Aperture) - thankfully there's the dcraw command for OS X...
thanks for posting this snippet - definitely made my day...
suddenly i had visions of children huddled in mud huts, crouched around an XO watching YouTube videos of that lip-synching guy cavorting around in front of his webcam...
seriously though, it's also funny to see all the politics, open source or not, revolving around the OLPC project..
you get good reception... here are few things to keep in mind:
1. you'll [generally[ need a decent UHF antenna... some channels are in the VHF range, but unless you're in one of the oddball U.S. areas, a UHF antenna optimized for reception from 450MHz to 800MHz will do just fine...
2. buy a good antenna, *not* an amplified antenna, overpriced POS antenna from Rat Shack, Target, or Wally World... i'd recommend a DB2 or DB4 design (bow-tie omni w/grid)... you'll find 'em on-line from $25 to $50...
3. keep in mind that the signal is digital and you'll need to point the antenna towards the transmitters... UHF is line-of-sight, so building, towers, trees, walls, etc. can reduce signal... that said, i use a DB2 indoors at 8-foot height and get 20 channels more than 30 miles away from the transmitters... (am using a Hauppauge PVR-950 USB into a 20" AL iMac, but may hook up to my Wega in the near future)...
4. you'll will be *very* impressed with the on-the-air signal compared to the crappy fare touted by your current cable company... nice pictures...
5. you may get better reception at night
6. storms will affect your signal
7. you need good reception or you will lose the picture
8. use a quality RG-6 cable, but don't spring for the over-priced 'gold connector' junk flouted by mindless clerks in stores...
9. outdoor antenna will be better, but you can get surprisingly good reception using an indoor antenna... (amplified rabbit ears [mini-dipoles] aren't worth the money
- be careful! you're making too much sense here on/.
off_topic:
- start early, invest as much as you can, use low-cost, indexed mutual funds (don't know why everyone doesn't use Vanguard), diversify, don't engage in bad debt, do indulge in good debt (real estate)...
on_topic:
- i certainly hope most of the AMD folks hitting the streets were also prepared with the standard personal six months of living expenses fund! (everyone active in the workplace should have such an emergency fund); severance won't cut the mustard...
- i'm in a fringe area - a godforsaken cracker-infested peninsula, and i get 20 great HDTV channels using a $30 omni (DB2 design) at eight-foot elevation indoors pointed to the east (there's nothing to the west except groupers and big pink shrimp)....
1. be responsible 2. shed light on public interests 3. be independent 4. strive for truth and accuracy 5. be impartial 6. engage in fair play and respect
- as it is today, the media, print and broadcast, have not followed these principles... with the EXCEPTION, IMHO, of one print outlet:
The Christian Science Monitor
- what we are seeing is a loss of trust and respect on the part of readers and viewers...
- and i also agree with other posters lamenting the lack of good, solid local reporting...:-(
- tks for encapsulating this... you're my hero... otherwise having to dredge through the CNET web mess would have made my head explode and my mouse hand very tired...
- NetBSD, wifi, X11, text editing, spell checking, PCMCIA, Compact Flash... what more could you ask for in late 90s technology now available for less than $100?
(as for me (a sample of one), i'm definitely not going to invest in a whole new set of hardware/video formats - i think the future is in portable players and high-capacity flash drives, not optical media):-)
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you are most correct... i'll never forget the time i found myself with a box from Bell Atlantic containing a DSL modem, filters, and a CD... of course, i only ran Linux in the house... and of course, the CD only contained Software For Satan(TM)...
in fact, it readily became apparent that the only way to establish service (get a username and password) was through some sort of Windows extensions/js stuff for Internet Exploder...
so i called Bell Atlantic and social-engineered my way past the first tier folks, and then got a good tech... i explained that i was using Linux... he understood, got a customer service (billing) rep on the line at the same time, who then gave me a username and password right over the phone - no going through any software install or Windoze browser crapola!
i was pretty stoked when i got my first ping from an xterm on my new DSL connection...
so whoever you are and wherever you are, thank you tech rep from the now-defunct Bell Atlantic DSL support line!
Tor regular sends me free SciFi/Fantasy books for free (you have to register but Tor doesn't spam you)...
/. poster for cluing me in on this deal...
kudos to another
Kill all the lawyers!
signed,
Will Shakespeare
thanks for the link, but could you waste 40 minutes of your time, then post a summary? i'm making dinner right now... :-)
interesting! will have to look more closely at iPhoto docs/RAW support... (admittedly, iPhoto isn't the greatest photo editor, but it's more than sufficient for my needs)... but alas, it did not work 'out-of-the-box' for the RAW images generated by my a570is...
i have a lot of fun with registration details... for example, and just for the Washington Post's information, i'm the paraplegic 88-year-old Afghani women in zip code 20593 (the a55-end of DC at the bottom of 2nd St. SW, fondly known as Buzzard's Point and home to the Department of Homeland Security's United States Coast Guard Hind^H^H^Headquarters)
only took about a minute or so and now i have a [new] Canon a570is! this project is wonderful and has added some neat features... i simply copied two file to the SD card and restarted the camera... plus, the 'upgrade' is completely reversible... (i'm using the 'persistent' boot mode)
i tested picture taking and import and there have been no ill effects (although as one might expect, iPhoto doesn't support import of RAW images - and neither does Aperture) - thankfully there's the dcraw command for OS X...
hey, what do you expect? it's Infoweek, up to recently one of the biggest MSFT shills in the technical trade!
wifi is free at Panera and Apple stores...
besides, i wouldn't step inside a Starbucks even if they were offering free Wifi...
HAHAHAHA!
thanks for posting this snippet - definitely made my day...
suddenly i had visions of children huddled in mud huts, crouched around an XO watching YouTube videos of that lip-synching guy cavorting around in front of his webcam...
seriously though, it's also funny to see all the politics, open source or not, revolving around the OLPC project..
you're paying how much for your education?
they should be serving coffee and donuts!
if you use a cable run longer than 50-75 feet, do use a signal amplifier...
you get good reception... here are few things to keep in mind:
1. you'll [generally[ need a decent UHF antenna... some channels are in the VHF range, but unless you're in one of the oddball U.S. areas, a UHF antenna optimized for reception from 450MHz to 800MHz will do just fine...
2. buy a good antenna, *not* an amplified antenna, overpriced POS antenna from Rat Shack, Target, or Wally World... i'd recommend a DB2 or DB4 design (bow-tie omni w/grid)... you'll find 'em on-line from $25 to $50...
3. keep in mind that the signal is digital and you'll need to point the antenna towards the transmitters... UHF is line-of-sight, so building, towers, trees, walls, etc. can reduce signal... that said, i use a DB2 indoors at 8-foot height and get 20 channels more than 30 miles away from the transmitters... (am using a Hauppauge PVR-950 USB into a 20" AL iMac, but may hook up to my Wega in the near future)...
4. you'll will be *very* impressed with the on-the-air signal compared to the crappy fare touted by your current cable company... nice pictures...
5. you may get better reception at night
6. storms will affect your signal
7. you need good reception or you will lose the picture
8. use a quality RG-6 cable, but don't spring for the over-priced 'gold connector' junk flouted by mindless clerks in stores...
9. outdoor antenna will be better, but you can get surprisingly good reception using an indoor antenna... (amplified rabbit ears [mini-dipoles] aren't worth the money
10. again, antenna direction, placement is key...
hth!
- be careful! you're making too much sense here on /.
off_topic:
- start early, invest as much as you can, use low-cost, indexed mutual funds (don't know why everyone doesn't use Vanguard), diversify, don't engage in bad debt, do indulge in good debt (real estate)...
on_topic:
- i certainly hope most of the AMD folks hitting the streets were also prepared with the standard personal six months of living expenses fund! (everyone active in the workplace should have such an emergency fund); severance won't cut the mustard...
- which is why one shouldn't store this information under a single site/vendor or even at all?
i've already migrated most of my on-line accounts and 'reply-to' email address accounts to:
gmail.com
buh-bye, yahoo!
it was fun while it lasted!
ta-ta!
c'mon... we all know about that FUD is just about the same...
- i'm tired of resetting my system's date/time back to the Dot-Bomb era! :-)
- i'm in a fringe area - a godforsaken cracker-infested peninsula, and i get 20 great HDTV channels using a $30 omni (DB2 design) at eight-foot elevation indoors pointed to the east (there's nothing to the west except groupers and big pink shrimp)....
1. be responsible
:-(
2. shed light on public interests
3. be independent
4. strive for truth and accuracy
5. be impartial
6. engage in fair play and respect
- as it is today, the media, print and broadcast, have not followed these principles... with the EXCEPTION, IMHO, of one print outlet:
The Christian Science Monitor
- what we are seeing is a loss of trust and respect on the part of readers and viewers...
- and i also agree with other posters lamenting the lack of good, solid local reporting...
- talk about an old port!
- tks for encapsulating this... you're my hero... otherwise having to dredge through the CNET web mess would have made my head explode and my mouse hand very tired...
- have a happy!
- bush's ranch is more eco-friendly than gore's:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
- NetBSD, wifi, X11, text editing, spell checking, PCMCIA, Compact Flash... what more could you ask for in late 90s technology now available for less than $100?
:-)
- and, it runs off AA batteries if need be!
- anyone with a linky to some sales figures?
:-)
(as for me (a sample of one), i'm definitely not going to invest in a whole new set of hardware/video formats - i think the future is in portable players and high-capacity flash drives, not optical media)