At my old workplace, we had to keep welding rods at a reasonable temperature during Southern Ontario winters (cold!), so we put a lightbulb into an old fridge and used that.
I recently needed to find something similar for an old Thinkpad 365 I bought for my wife.
Imagine my surprise when a group of charitable and enterprising geeks have produced the very thing, in my own backyard (I live in Guelph, a few miles down the road from Kitchener.)
It's called the Working Center Linux Project, homepage, and in their words:
The Working Centre Linux Project is a Debian-based distribution geared towards low-powered computers (25mhz 486s w/16MB ram/400MB disk). The project exists to provide cheap, legal software, familiar software for refurbished computers - software usable for those who have never used computers, or those who have only used a Windows environment.
I'm truly curious - in what ways do you think the ancient Greeks were more civilized than our present day society? Highly civilized for the time, sure. Even culturally brilliant. But more civilized?
I have never seen or heard of an unpowered USB port.
Funny you should mention this.. I was testing a USB key I bought for my wife, when I plugged it into the USB port on the back of my Mac's keyboard, I got an error informing me that the device was on an unpowered port.
The amount of extra coding required to abstract data access away is relatively trivial, IMO. I certainly agree that your queries and database tables should be optimized for the database engine you support.
However, at least in my experience, application code can and should be entirely separate from database code - which should allow you to code for database independence without sacrificing the performance of your data access.
You don't have to sell me on the futility of database independence if the data access code is optimized for only one RDBMS anyway, there is a (nameless) small-scale ERP that I sometimes encounter which natively runs SQLBase, however it has been "ported" to MS SQL by basically shoehorning existing code into the new environment.
If you have different implementations supporting different back ends.. presumably these different implementations are driving revenue so having extra people on board to work on it should not be too much of a hardship:)
But, as Tom Kyte points out in his latest book, Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle Press), database dependence should be your real goal because you maximize your investment in that technology. If you make generic access to Oracle, whether through ODBC or Perl's DBI library, you'll miss out on features other databases don't have. What's more, optimizing queries is different in each database.
I've heard this same song from a few developers who work at Oracle shops - and I could not disagree more! Database independence in your code should absolutely be a goal! We can encapsulate our database-specific features into stored procedures or functions without having to pollute our application code with them.
In the late Roman Republic, private fire companies were run like extortion rings. Crassus of the first Triumvirate was one of these folks. He would come up with his fire crew while your house burned down, and make a ridiculously low offer to buy the property. If he was refused, the fire company went home.
I too had a lot of wrist pain due to mousing, until I got a Thinkpad and started to use the trackpoint. These keyboards are also available for desktop machines. What I wonder is, will it work with a Mac?
If you download your free copy of GTA 1 from the Rockstar web site ( here ) , you'll find that "Liberty City", "Vice City" and "San Andreas" are the names of the three playable cities from that game.
Agreed on Vick, my friends and I had to make a "No Falcons" rule to prevent Atlanta from winning every game. Whoever has Vick has a TREMENDOUS advantage, it's easy to rack up 300+ rushing yards per game with M. Vick.
The Roman empire did fall 200 years before it's final destruction in the west, actually. The combination of pressure from the barbarian hordes and internal political instability that led to basically non-stop civil war for the forty or so years leading up to Diocletian's accession destroyed the old way of life and brought in a new, authoritarian regime (think of the worst American rhetoric used to describe the Soviets - ppl weren't allowed to be socially mobile AT ALL, they had to take their father's jobs etc.) which only resembled the old one in name. To quote Gibbon, "if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honor."
.. and I like it a lot. I've used it pretty much only on IBM laptops, and the Radeon 3D support is quite lacking. Other than that, it's a dream to work with and use, especially for an experienced Debian user. Xandros has been my primary work desktop since 1.0 and I'm sold.
Besides, as far as I know it's my only option if I want a made-in-Canada distro.
OK, I get that the "can I upgrade video" question is dead, but I thought I'd ask another somewhat related question.
Just what is gaming like on either eMac (the GeForce 2 and Radeon versions) ? I have a CRT iMac (600 Mhz G3 with the ATI Rage Pro) and I wonder if the upgrade would be worthwhile.. On the iMac, you can play Ghost Recon, Quake 3, Myth 2, with reasonable frame rates but UT (the original) is brutal and UT2K3 is a slide show.
Anybody want to share their eMac gaming experiences?
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I was thinking of using a mini and a single firewire disk for a somewhat similar project.
But, OS X has RAID capability, so you could use something like this:
But you can't do this for desirable or popular movies, because you will miss out on a decent seat.
At my old workplace, we had to keep welding rods at a reasonable temperature during Southern Ontario winters (cold!), so we put a lightbulb into an old fridge and used that.
Unless of course you only search for music while you are being paid by your employer. Then it's free!
I recently needed to find something similar for an old Thinkpad 365 I bought for my wife.
Imagine my surprise when a group of charitable and enterprising geeks have produced the very thing, in my own backyard (I live in Guelph, a few miles down the road from Kitchener.)
It's called the Working Center Linux Project, homepage, and in their words:
I'm truly curious - in what ways do you think the ancient Greeks were more civilized than our present day society? Highly civilized for the time, sure. Even culturally brilliant. But more civilized?
Funny you should mention this .. I was testing a USB key I bought for my wife, when I plugged it into the USB port on the back of my Mac's keyboard, I got an error informing me that the device was on an unpowered port.
don't forget goatse.slashdot.org
The amount of extra coding required to abstract data access away is relatively trivial, IMO. I certainly agree that your queries and database tables should be optimized for the database engine you support.
However, at least in my experience, application code can and should be entirely separate from database code - which should allow you to code for database independence without sacrificing the performance of your data access.
You don't have to sell me on the futility of database independence if the data access code is optimized for only one RDBMS anyway, there is a (nameless) small-scale ERP that I sometimes encounter which natively runs SQLBase, however it has been "ported" to MS SQL by basically shoehorning existing code into the new environment.
If you have different implementations supporting different back ends .. presumably these different implementations are driving revenue so having extra people on board to work on it should not be too much of a hardship :)
From the article:
I've heard this same song from a few developers who work at Oracle shops - and I could not disagree more! Database independence in your code should absolutely be a goal! We can encapsulate our database-specific features into stored procedures or functions without having to pollute our application code with them.
If he's literate.. he has to be being sarcastic.
In the late Roman Republic, private fire companies were run like extortion rings. Crassus of the first Triumvirate was one of these folks. He would come up with his fire crew while your house burned down, and make a ridiculously low offer to buy the property. If he was refused, the fire company went home.
Still vapour, but in a month you can get one here.
OK .. Now price the Dell with a 64 bit chip.
I too had a lot of wrist pain due to mousing, until I got a Thinkpad and started to use the trackpoint. These keyboards are also available for desktop machines. What I wonder is, will it work with a Mac?
http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/documeIf you happen to have a Microsoft SQL Server lying around, try the Analysis Services tutorial. Takes about 4 hours to do all the tutorials...
Dude, if I hadn't permanently lost mod priveleges in the great bitchslap of 02, I would mod u funny.
If you download your free copy of GTA 1 from the Rockstar web site ( here ) , you'll find that "Liberty City", "Vice City" and "San Andreas" are the names of the three playable cities from that game.
Agreed on Vick, my friends and I had to make a "No Falcons" rule to prevent Atlanta from winning every game. Whoever has Vick has a TREMENDOUS advantage, it's easy to rack up 300+ rushing yards per game with M. Vick.
The Roman empire did fall 200 years before it's final destruction in the west, actually. The combination of pressure from the barbarian hordes and internal political instability that led to basically non-stop civil war for the forty or so years leading up to Diocletian's accession destroyed the old way of life and brought in a new, authoritarian regime (think of the worst American rhetoric used to describe the Soviets - ppl weren't allowed to be socially mobile AT ALL, they had to take their father's jobs etc.) which only resembled the old one in name. To quote Gibbon, "if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honor."
.. and I like it a lot. I've used it pretty much only on IBM laptops, and the Radeon 3D support is quite lacking. Other than that, it's a dream to work with and use, especially for an experienced Debian user. Xandros has been my primary work desktop since 1.0 and I'm sold.
Besides, as far as I know it's my only option if I want a made-in-Canada distro.
Excellent point! If you buy the "SoF Platinum Pack" for Windows you are not network compatible with Linux... found that out the hard way
What about games that are network compatible on Windows, Linux and OS X:
As far as Mac and Windows, don't forget about Ghost Recon..
My SMC7004AWBR needs to be rebooted almost daily .. less than a year old.
OK, I get that the "can I upgrade video" question is dead, but I thought I'd ask another somewhat related question.
Just what is gaming like on either eMac (the GeForce 2 and Radeon versions) ? I have a CRT iMac (600 Mhz G3 with the ATI Rage Pro) and I wonder if the upgrade would be worthwhile.. On the iMac, you can play Ghost Recon, Quake 3, Myth 2, with reasonable frame rates but UT (the original) is brutal and UT2K3 is a slide show.
Anybody want to share their eMac gaming experiences?