Perhaps I'm piggy backing the original poster here, and if it works well I'd be more then happy to carry his laptop and play backpack for him.
I too recently have found my self on a bag hunt. Though I've got a slightly different request. I have two specific items I'd like to pack into a backpack and have it fit to a tee.
One, a Laptop (15" Sager) the second, a Digital SLR (Digital Rebel) and a lens or two. So far every bag I've found for an SLR has been built for higher end photographers in mind, carrying 4-5+ lenses and multiple bodies. I my self, am not that fortunate.
Are there any other readers on Slashdot in a similar situation with laptop and higher level photography equipment? I expect this bag to be upwards of 80 to 100 dollars, but if it fits properly like I hope, it will be well worth the comfort of knowing $3000+ is riding safe and sound in the backpack made for it.
Some time ago there was either an article posted on it. Or perhaps a blurb in my Blues news slashbox about it.
But there was a team of people porting Quake 1 style pyshics into the Quake 3 engine. Does any one remember where this was at? What it was called?
I imagine one of you quake fans would remember it. There where video's of it in action, And I'd like to find it again to see how it's doing these days.
I found a rather nice solution to the cost of cartridges and "refil" kits. 3rd Party CIS systems. My mother works for Head Start, and does a hideous ammount of printing. This of course adds up when you have to buy cartridges all the time, as we all know.
One day I heard about Continuous Ink Systems. We decided to give it a shot, 99$ for an Epson Photo 820 printer, and 180$ for the CIS kit, and we haven't looked back since. It is a bit of a kludge to make the system work, but with a little care it will work, and work hard. As opposed to a contained cartridge, it's a tube fed 6 bottle setup. 4 oz. bottles of Ink provide hundreds and hundreds of prints. Full color.
We've certainly saved on cartridges this way, at the cost of some mild frustration from the kit. But in the end it does work.
I find it quite disturbing the trend they're taking in their updates. More and more, each update, there site becomes more "user friendly" helpful articles hold your hand as it guides you through the new and exciting world of Firefox *ooh, aah* Now admittedly I could see why this is a needed change as it begins to encroach on the user base of IE, it will need to cater more and more to the lowest comment denominator. I just wish they would still leave the essentials out there. Mainly in this case the change log. For years now a project of this sort I would look immediately for a change log, and not the "release notes" as they currently stand. I want to know that Bug #X is dead, not a select key updates in bold titles, and the hint of much much more! I want the browser to behave like a 1.0 version, not there website. Give me back my geekdom!
Am I the only one who thought that Aria Giovanni was suing the internet for piracy of her pictures? I sure hope I wasn't... Or maybe I do hope that I am the only one.
I noticed this article a few days before slashdots posting of it. And for the most part the author is a troll, and I'm ashamed to share the "Owl" part of his nickname with him. I've played There for several months in the beta, and continue to to this day. All of his points are valid, the land scape does not have copious ammounts of variation. People tend to all be beautiful. But if you are an obnoxious troll who seeks only to berate the game and other people, you will be ignored and shunned in There. Just as you would in real life. I suspect that the author of this article didn't find any friends, and rather then tempting to right that in some way he got pissy and left the game.
Also, his credability-for my self-was lost when he called it an "MMORPG"
There are many things out there that can be considered an MMORPG, this is *not* one of them. There is no role playing here. I'm not castic a magic spell to slay a rat. I'm not using my space pistol to shoot a rat. I'm not swinging my sword to kill a rat. I'm conversing with a wide array of people in a digital world, that just happens to have buggies, bikes, boards, and so forth.
This makes my thoughts return to Dr. Hyatt and his amateur program, Crafty. Under his personal operation he runs a copy on a Quad Xeon box, and apperently has been developing a Beo-Crafty rendition to play chess on a Beowulf cluster. It would be particularly interesting if this Beo-Crafty could be taylored to operate on a set of these cards. One nice hefty machine at the top level, and a slew of these PCI cards to do the real crunchy work.
Thanks for your kind words. It saddens me to see some of the negative replies around here when this topic comes up as it is an issue I'm forcefully involved in.
I go to a camp, funded by MDA, once a year for a week. And have been doign so since I was 5 years old. It's one of the greatest things in my life, I get to make friends with people who are no different from me and the only reason I am weird or different is because of my personality. This was my last year however as the age limit is 21. In my later years when I wasn't being more of a kid, I'd come to realize how fragile life is. Fellow campers who I had known for years, suddenly weren't there. Bright faces and wonderful people who's lives where cut short due to there diseases.
Along with that knowledge that some of these campers will die all to soon, it hurts to see the young kids in wheelchairs and to know that they too might not escape that burdon.
I was diagnosed at 3 months of age, The doctors announced I wouldn't live beyond 3 years, at 21 I'm going strong. So I am grateful that I have what I have, and like any one I certainly do yearn for more, but you can only live life one day at a time.
Wow, this is one of the lowest posts I've ever seen on slashdot. It's a new record for me.
Tell me, how exactly am I supposed to save money for one of these things if I can't work a normal job? I can't flip burgers for McD's, I can't sweep floors at Safeway. And without a chair I couldn't get into some office building to type, being that I'm computer savvy. Do you realize that the price of a manual chair is also not cheap? So the price of one of those is something I'd have to save up for as well.
Not to mention the fact that without an electric chair I have *NO* method of getting any where in my house let alone life. Oh and sure, Mom and Dad can help you save up money, Easy right? Except for the whole aspect of daily living, and what about low income families? Families living from paycheck to paycheck, who are strugling to live in America? Disabilities have no money prerequisits, they'll cripple any one from the rich kid to the poor kid, to the homeless kid.
And it's not as if you're the one who's fronting the bill entirely, it's not a large some of money from your paycheck going to one crippled kid who has a hard time with the basic functions of life, like breathing. There are far fewer disabled people then there are able people, every one pays taxes. A majority of your money isn't even reaching the disabled people, so trust me, you're not helping us one bit.
Yeah, I'm thankfull for my wheelchair, I'm glad there's a system out there that helps provide funding to cover these things. Because with out it I would be forced to live my life in a bed with only my mother to bring me food and help me live my life. With out my chair I wouldn't know the things I do, I wouldn't have gone to school, I wouldn't have learned what I know about computers. I wouldn't be here for you to be a blind fool towards.
Yes this is a heated reply, but every time slashdot posts something about disabilites, cost will always come up, and there's always some asshole who thinks he shouldn't have to pay taxes and support his countries people. A country which provides him freedom and safety, and the right to post on slashdot like a jerk. If you don't want to support your country, and your countries people, get the fuck out.
You didn't say you were sitting around like a sucker, so it's all good. I'm rather open about my disability, It's the only existance I know. So I can deny the obvious truth that I'm in a chair, or run with it. I'm a bit of a comedian too, It was a handy tool to poke fun of your disability during highschool, thus disarming any one who would think they where the first in teasing you about it.
--
Any way, moving on...
Yes, they do get repaired, The most recent repair I had was to replace the motors on my chair. But there's more then just the mechanical and electrical aspect to maintain. Chair's in general go through wear and tear. Arm rests begin to break down, seat backs begin to loose covering, the frame begins to woble. Even a car comes to a point where you can continue to repair it at a larger hassle and expense, or just buy a new one. And speaking of cars, I get my tires done at Les Schwab. Grey medical tires run ~60$ I can get black "wheelbarrow" tires for 12$ a piece, not to mention they're cooler.
I have neither the strength nor the know how to repair my own chair, there are plenty of places that do the work. But even then someone still has to pay, be it medical coverage of some sorts, or the person sitting in the chair.
That doesn't limit someone who does have the ability to do the work from doing it. But tell me, do you know where to aquire a wheelchair motor? Sure you can probably buy one from your favorite wheelchair supply company, but you're covering the bill your self then, and without their specific expertise.
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If any one has any questions, feel free to ask, I'll do my best to reply.
The thing is with electric wheelchairs they're a sort of double edged sword.
Yes a number of disabled individuals in an electric wheelchair could push them selves around in a manual chair. In my own circumstance I could indeed push my self around. But due to my disability, Anterior spinal muscular atrophy, type 2, pushing my self around is very slow, tedious, and tiring work. Not to mention a simple low grade hill will bring me to a stop. Even if I did excersize extensively, the disease works harder then I do. Even others with more severe disabilities could push them selves in a manual chair, but the effort to do so or the lack of muscular control makes it too dificult. So the electric aspect of wheelchairs allows us to travel with speed, thus being more normal. In a vague way once you begin using a manual wheelchair it's all down hill from there. Walking is indeed a baseline form of exercize, sitting and pushing your self around is less, and electric more so. That is more taylored to those with progressive diseases. I was a seemingly normal kid, just with a particular walk, up until I was 8. I'd fall down fairly often, more so the closer to 8 I got. Around 8 I got my first manual chair, I'd push my self any where I needed to go or my mother/friends would push me, how ever I could stand on my own for limited ammounts of time. I don't remember exactly when I got my electric chair, it wasn't too long after my first manual.
Electric wheelchairs are more often then not a neccessaity, for those in them.
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As a note to any one who mentions the cost of this thing, it isn't just the iBot. Wheelchairs, and medical equipment in general, are expensive. I use a rather plain/normal electric wheelchair, which when newly aquired was 15,000$ Which is well beyond the means of my family. Thankfully how ever, the government (yes, I know, taxpayers) has picked up the tab on that one. But they don't do it swiftly, the process of aquiring a new chair is a long and tedious one. I my self am in need of a new chair, as mine is several years old (5+) and it's simply meeting the end of it's life. So we will consult with my numerous doctors, a medical equipment distributer, and start the process soon. Justification letters have to be written, any denials have to be resubbmitted, it can often take a year or more for it to come to an end. This is true for all things medical that you aren't paying for out of pocket. It all needs justification, a prescription, and time. Some less then others of course.
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If I some how manage to wind up in one of these, I'll be sure to submit something to slashdot about it;p
and to the trolls bickering at my previous post, can't you handle a counter-joke with a bit of insult tossed in? Don't you think it was more flame bait then funny to joke about mobility as a "sucker"?
Which only works out of the box with Outlook 2000/Express. Woopy doo.
Are there any recommendations for those of us who aren't forced to use outlook? I use Eudora my self, have been for years, thus I'm not looking for a new email client recommendation.;)
Perhaps your new to Slashdot and don't know about many of the exciting features we have to offer you! Like the lameness filter for commenting, Anonymouse posting for when you're violating your NDA, or TURNING OFF PARTICULAR SUBJECTS.
You may have noticed these are all listed under Caldera.
You may be sick and tired of it, but I for one am curious to see how this works out in the end. Sure it's a bit over dramatized, but it relates to me.
I'd just like to mention I can do all of what you've said without a fancy keyboard or magic software, save one plugin for winamp.
For my SSH / Command / Calculator I use any of the following,
Win, R, Enter, Then one of the following putty -ssh calc command
I can even start up winamp using a shortcut placed in the windows dir pointing to the exe, named winamp. Also for putty, I just copied the exe to the win dir as well.
For mousing I use the built in Mouse key's, converting the num-pad to mouse directions. 2k and XP have this naturally.
For volume I use Winamp Shortcutter. It adds functionality to use Ctrl-Shift for the standard winamp functions. I don't use WMP, or Winamp v3.
Now, admittedly my keyboard is fancy, it has three buttons between the numbad and the other keys. Below the del/ins/etc buttons, above the arrow keys. One for browser, One for email client, and one for searchign (i.e. F3, useless)
So, one doesn't really need a mystical creature of a keyboard for added functionality.
Oye, I never imagined such negative results to a simple "thank god"
Yes, The taxpayers, thank them, excuse me fore not getting *that* one right.
when my one miracle of god comes along and he let's me walk, I'll be sure to walk to your houses first to shake your hands personally. Two down, several million more taxpayers to go.
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There are far to many people to thank individually. But since you came to mention it first, and so far the biggest. Thanks Renehollan.
Thanks to you, I now can move about my house just fine. I can play around in the front yard with my golden retriever. I can drive around really fast in malls making old people cranky. I can pick up chicks and give them a ride.
As opposed to being stuck in some home made DIY chair with wheels, or stuck in my bed having to deal with being immobile for long periods of time leading to skin problems. And having to rely on someone else to bring me food and water. I'll leave the waste materials to your own demise.
Let's not forget hoping to find doctors specialized in a particular disease who would be willing to make a house call to bum fuck egypt on a regular basis. As well as local nurses and doctors for the more common cold.
Oh and it's not just me either, there are a whole lot more disabled people then my self out there. Be sure to let them know that it was your tax dollar that paid for that scooter, wheelchair, and time on a life support system.
Some of these people are lucky to be alive, thanks to tax payers like you and donations to NPR--no wait, that's not right.
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I think we're a little to occupied trying to live a basic life. While we have troubles dressing our selves, moving from point A to B, reaching things 2 feet away, or my favorite, building new computers.
So while we're trying to live, you're living life, worrying about tax dollars. Don't forget how you got those dollars, through a job, which you drive to. And before you drive there you wake up and walk to the bathroom, stand infront of the toilette and take a piss, moving onto the shower. Scrubbing your self down with mountain breeze soap, comb your hair, shave your chin.
I wake up, and wait for someone else to arrive.
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Sorry, that was way out there rant wise. I do apologies.
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Perhaps I'm piggy backing the original poster here, and if it works well I'd be more then happy to carry his laptop and play backpack for him.
I too recently have found my self on a bag hunt. Though I've got a slightly different request. I have two specific items I'd like to pack into a backpack and have it fit to a tee.
One, a Laptop (15" Sager) the second, a Digital SLR (Digital Rebel) and a lens or two. So far every bag I've found for an SLR has been built for higher end photographers in mind, carrying 4-5+ lenses and multiple bodies. I my self, am not that fortunate.
Are there any other readers on Slashdot in a similar situation with laptop and higher level photography equipment? I expect this bag to be upwards of 80 to 100 dollars, but if it fits properly like I hope, it will be well worth the comfort of knowing $3000+ is riding safe and sound in the backpack made for it.
Lord knows nerds don't vote.. :-\
It's a discussion thread, if you're offended by it, ignore it. With enough time it will move down the front page and out of mind.
I don't suppose you posted a thread like this during 9/11 did you?
I used to, until I picked up the habit of opening all the bookmarks in a particular folder in tabs.
Slashdot is the homepage, and all my daily/frequent reads are in one folder that I open in tabs when ever I need them.
I go so far as to move every thing to one bar.
:)
Pull down menus, navigation buttons, address bar, go button (optional) and nothing else.
My computer room may not be minimalist with 6 Machines. But my browser is.
Some time ago there was either an article posted on it. Or perhaps a blurb in my Blues news slashbox about it.
But there was a team of people porting Quake 1 style pyshics into the Quake 3 engine. Does any one remember where this was at? What it was called?
I imagine one of you quake fans would remember it. There where video's of it in action, And I'd like to find it again to see how it's doing these days.
I suppose you could call it that, to an extent. It's a standard cartridge with tube feeds.
:)
And no, I never said it was portable. Deffinitely not portable.
the particular system I've used was just a modification of the retainment clip for the cartridge, and a few support struts for the tubing.
I found a rather nice solution to the cost of cartridges and "refil" kits. 3rd Party CIS systems.
My mother works for Head Start, and does a hideous ammount of printing. This of course adds up when you have to buy cartridges all the time, as we all know.
One day I heard about Continuous Ink Systems. We decided to give it a shot, 99$ for an Epson Photo 820 printer, and 180$ for the CIS kit, and we haven't looked back since.
It is a bit of a kludge to make the system work, but with a little care it will work, and work hard. As opposed to a contained cartridge, it's a tube fed 6 bottle setup. 4 oz. bottles of Ink provide hundreds and hundreds of prints. Full color.
We've certainly saved on cartridges this way, at the cost of some mild frustration from the kit. But in the end it does work.
I find it quite disturbing the trend they're taking in their updates. More and more, each update, there site becomes more "user friendly" helpful articles hold your hand as it guides you through the new and exciting world of Firefox *ooh, aah*
Now admittedly I could see why this is a needed change as it begins to encroach on the user base of IE, it will need to cater more and more to the lowest comment denominator.
I just wish they would still leave the essentials out there. Mainly in this case the change log. For years now a project of this sort I would look immediately for a change log, and not the "release notes" as they currently stand. I want to know that Bug #X is dead, not a select key updates in bold titles, and the hint of much much more! I want the browser to behave like a 1.0 version, not there website. Give me back my geekdom!
Am I the only one who thought that Aria Giovanni was suing the internet for piracy of her pictures? I sure hope I wasn't... Or maybe I do hope that I am the only one.
I noticed this article a few days before slashdots posting of it. And for the most part the author is a troll, and I'm ashamed to share the "Owl" part of his nickname with him.
I've played There for several months in the beta, and continue to to this day. All of his points are valid, the land scape does not have copious ammounts of variation. People tend to all be beautiful.
But if you are an obnoxious troll who seeks only to berate the game and other people, you will be ignored and shunned in There. Just as you would in real life. I suspect that the author of this article didn't find any friends, and rather then tempting to right that in some way he got pissy and left the game.
Also, his credability-for my self-was lost when he called it an "MMORPG"
There are many things out there that can be considered an MMORPG, this is *not* one of them. There is no role playing here. I'm not castic a magic spell to slay a rat. I'm not using my space pistol to shoot a rat. I'm not swinging my sword to kill a rat. I'm conversing with a wide array of people in a digital world, that just happens to have buggies, bikes, boards, and so forth.
This makes my thoughts return to Dr. Hyatt and his amateur program, Crafty. Under his personal operation he runs a copy on a Quad Xeon box, and apperently has been developing a Beo-Crafty rendition to play chess on a Beowulf cluster.
It would be particularly interesting if this Beo-Crafty could be taylored to operate on a set of these cards. One nice hefty machine at the top level, and a slew of these PCI cards to do the real crunchy work.
Nope, I didn't. ...
But now I know, And knowing is half the battle!
G.I. Joe any one?
21. :)
Thanks for your kind words. It saddens me to see some of the negative replies around here when this topic comes up as it is an issue I'm forcefully involved in.
I go to a camp, funded by MDA, once a year for a week. And have been doign so since I was 5 years old. It's one of the greatest things in my life, I get to make friends with people who are no different from me and the only reason I am weird or different is because of my personality.
This was my last year however as the age limit is 21. In my later years when I wasn't being more of a kid, I'd come to realize how fragile life is. Fellow campers who I had known for years, suddenly weren't there. Bright faces and wonderful people who's lives where cut short due to there diseases.
Along with that knowledge that some of these campers will die all to soon, it hurts to see the young kids in wheelchairs and to know that they too might not escape that burdon.
I was diagnosed at 3 months of age, The doctors announced I wouldn't live beyond 3 years, at 21 I'm going strong. So I am grateful that I have what I have, and like any one I certainly do yearn for more, but you can only live life one day at a time.
Wow, this is one of the lowest posts I've ever seen on slashdot. It's a new record for me.
Tell me, how exactly am I supposed to save money for one of these things if I can't work a normal job? I can't flip burgers for McD's, I can't sweep floors at Safeway. And without a chair I couldn't get into some office building to type, being that I'm computer savvy.
Do you realize that the price of a manual chair is also not cheap? So the price of one of those is something I'd have to save up for as well.
Not to mention the fact that without an electric chair I have *NO* method of getting any where in my house let alone life.
Oh and sure, Mom and Dad can help you save up money, Easy right? Except for the whole aspect of daily living, and what about low income families? Families living from paycheck to paycheck, who are strugling to live in America? Disabilities have no money prerequisits, they'll cripple any one from the rich kid to the poor kid, to the homeless kid.
And it's not as if you're the one who's fronting the bill entirely, it's not a large some of money from your paycheck going to one crippled kid who has a hard time with the basic functions of life, like breathing.
There are far fewer disabled people then there are able people, every one pays taxes. A majority of your money isn't even reaching the disabled people, so trust me, you're not helping us one bit.
Yeah, I'm thankfull for my wheelchair, I'm glad there's a system out there that helps provide funding to cover these things. Because with out it I would be forced to live my life in a bed with only my mother to bring me food and help me live my life.
With out my chair I wouldn't know the things I do, I wouldn't have gone to school, I wouldn't have learned what I know about computers. I wouldn't be here for you to be a blind fool towards.
Yes this is a heated reply, but every time slashdot posts something about disabilites, cost will always come up, and there's always some asshole who thinks he shouldn't have to pay taxes and support his countries people.
A country which provides him freedom and safety, and the right to post on slashdot like a jerk. If you don't want to support your country, and your countries people, get the fuck out.
You didn't say you were sitting around like a sucker, so it's all good. I'm rather open about my disability, It's the only existance I know. So I can deny the obvious truth that I'm in a chair, or run with it.
I'm a bit of a comedian too, It was a handy tool to poke fun of your disability during highschool, thus disarming any one who would think they where the first in teasing you about it.
--
Any way, moving on...
Yes, they do get repaired, The most recent repair I had was to replace the motors on my chair. But there's more then just the mechanical and electrical aspect to maintain.
Chair's in general go through wear and tear. Arm rests begin to break down, seat backs begin to loose covering, the frame begins to woble.
Even a car comes to a point where you can continue to repair it at a larger hassle and expense, or just buy a new one.
And speaking of cars, I get my tires done at Les Schwab. Grey medical tires run ~60$ I can get black "wheelbarrow" tires for 12$ a piece, not to mention they're cooler.
I have neither the strength nor the know how to repair my own chair, there are plenty of places that do the work. But even then someone still has to pay, be it medical coverage of some sorts, or the person sitting in the chair.
That doesn't limit someone who does have the ability to do the work from doing it. But tell me, do you know where to aquire a wheelchair motor? Sure you can probably buy one from your favorite wheelchair supply company, but you're covering the bill your self then, and without their specific expertise.
--
If any one has any questions, feel free to ask, I'll do my best to reply.
The thing is with electric wheelchairs they're a sort of double edged sword.
;p
Yes a number of disabled individuals in an electric wheelchair could push them selves around in a manual chair. In my own circumstance I could indeed push my self around. But due to my disability, Anterior spinal muscular atrophy, type 2, pushing my self around is very slow, tedious, and tiring work. Not to mention a simple low grade hill will bring me to a stop. Even if I did excersize extensively, the disease works harder then I do. Even others with more severe disabilities could push them selves in a manual chair, but the effort to do so or the lack of muscular control makes it too dificult. So the electric aspect of wheelchairs allows us to travel with speed, thus being more normal.
In a vague way once you begin using a manual wheelchair it's all down hill from there. Walking is indeed a baseline form of exercize, sitting and pushing your self around is less, and electric more so. That is more taylored to those with progressive diseases. I was a seemingly normal kid, just with a particular walk, up until I was 8. I'd fall down fairly often, more so the closer to 8 I got. Around 8 I got my first manual chair, I'd push my self any where I needed to go or my mother/friends would push me, how ever I could stand on my own for limited ammounts of time.
I don't remember exactly when I got my electric chair, it wasn't too long after my first manual.
Electric wheelchairs are more often then not a neccessaity, for those in them.
--
As a note to any one who mentions the cost of this thing, it isn't just the iBot. Wheelchairs, and medical equipment in general, are expensive. I use a rather plain/normal electric wheelchair, which when newly aquired was 15,000$
Which is well beyond the means of my family. Thankfully how ever, the government (yes, I know, taxpayers) has picked up the tab on that one. But they don't do it swiftly, the process of aquiring a new chair is a long and tedious one.
I my self am in need of a new chair, as mine is several years old (5+) and it's simply meeting the end of it's life. So we will consult with my numerous doctors, a medical equipment distributer, and start the process soon. Justification letters have to be written, any denials have to be resubbmitted, it can often take a year or more for it to come to an end.
This is true for all things medical that you aren't paying for out of pocket. It all needs justification, a prescription, and time. Some less then others of course.
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If I some how manage to wind up in one of these, I'll be sure to submit something to slashdot about it
and to the trolls bickering at my previous post, can't you handle a counter-joke with a bit of insult tossed in?
Don't you think it was more flame bait then funny to joke about mobility as a "sucker"?
And as someone who has been sitting in a wheelchair for 13 years of his life...
I'll be sitting here flipping you off, like an asshole.
By this article, SpamBayes.
;)
Which only works out of the box with Outlook 2000/Express. Woopy doo.
Are there any recommendations for those of us who aren't forced to use outlook? I use Eudora my self, have been for years, thus I'm not looking for a new email client recommendation.
Perhaps your new to Slashdot and don't know about many of the exciting features we have to offer you!
Like the lameness filter for commenting, Anonymouse posting for when you're violating your NDA, or TURNING OFF PARTICULAR SUBJECTS.
You may have noticed these are all listed under Caldera.
You may be sick and tired of it, but I for one am curious to see how this works out in the end. Sure it's a bit over dramatized, but it relates to me.
Hey, did you hear about the Four door model of the Yugo they're making? They're calling it a Wego
I'd just like to mention I can do all of what you've said without a fancy keyboard or magic software, save one plugin for winamp.
For my SSH / Command / Calculator I use any of the following,
Win, R, Enter, Then one of the following
putty -ssh
calc
command
I can even start up winamp using a shortcut placed in the windows dir pointing to the exe, named winamp. Also for putty, I just copied the exe to the win dir as well.
For mousing I use the built in Mouse key's, converting the num-pad to mouse directions. 2k and XP have this naturally.
For volume I use Winamp Shortcutter. It adds functionality to use Ctrl-Shift for the standard winamp functions. I don't use WMP, or Winamp v3.
Now, admittedly my keyboard is fancy, it has three buttons between the numbad and the other keys. Below the del/ins/etc buttons, above the arrow keys. One for browser, One for email client, and one for searchign (i.e. F3, useless)
So, one doesn't really need a mystical creature of a keyboard for added functionality.
It's only misleading if you don't know what GNU Chess is.
GNU Chess is a GNU Chess Program. Fancy that eh?
oooh, So *thats* what Microsoft means when they're "Innovators" by ignoring the W3...
I never knew.
I seriously doubt that any of them actually know how to make the rings. They know how to put them together quickly.
I take it you don't qualify 16-22 guage steel wire, a drill, a metal rod of appropriate diameter, and a pair of snips?
Oye, I never imagined such negative results to a simple "thank god"
Yes, The taxpayers, thank them, excuse me fore not getting *that* one right.
when my one miracle of god comes along and he let's me walk, I'll be sure to walk to your houses first to shake your hands personally. Two down, several million more taxpayers to go.
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There are far to many people to thank individually. But since you came to mention it first, and so far the biggest.
Thanks Renehollan.
Thanks to you, I now can move about my house just fine. I can play around in the front yard with my golden retriever. I can drive around really fast in malls making old people cranky. I can pick up chicks and give them a ride.
As opposed to being stuck in some home made DIY chair with wheels, or stuck in my bed having to deal with being immobile for long periods of time leading to skin problems. And having to rely on someone else to bring me food and water. I'll leave the waste materials to your own demise.
Let's not forget hoping to find doctors specialized in a particular disease who would be willing to make a house call to bum fuck egypt on a regular basis. As well as local nurses and doctors for the more common cold.
Oh and it's not just me either, there are a whole lot more disabled people then my self out there. Be sure to let them know that it was your tax dollar that paid for that scooter, wheelchair, and time on a life support system.
Some of these people are lucky to be alive, thanks to tax payers like you and donations to NPR--no wait, that's not right.
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I think we're a little to occupied trying to live a basic life. While we have troubles dressing our selves, moving from point A to B, reaching things 2 feet away, or my favorite, building new computers.
So while we're trying to live, you're living life, worrying about tax dollars. Don't forget how you got those dollars, through a job, which you drive to. And before you drive there you wake up and walk to the bathroom, stand infront of the toilette and take a piss, moving onto the shower. Scrubbing your self down with mountain breeze soap, comb your hair, shave your chin.
I wake up, and wait for someone else to arrive.
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Sorry, that was way out there rant wise. I do apologies.