I recall reading about passive vs active safety in cars.
Folks who drive larger heavier cars are trading active safety, i.e. the ability to avoid an accident by stopping or moving around whatever you were going to crash into, with passive safety, i.e. having lots of car between you and whatever you're crashing into.
Personally, I mostly ride a push-bike so _really_ rely on active safety:)
A friend of mine almost did the same thing too, only he was _really_ lucky and just drilled a little into the plastic around the wire.
As other people have mentioned, without conduit, home networking and the like can be a little tricky...this 'friend' of mine was trying to piggy back onto the RF cable running from lounge room to roof (only partial crawlspace available), and the electrician in his (or her) infinite wisdom had placed the RF jack on the inside wall instead of the outside wall, and just drilled a small hole in the timber wall to feed the cable through...needless to say this made piggy backing my..errr my friends Cat6 a nightmare, and required cutting a hole in the dry-wall (hence the narrow miss with the power line) to hand-feed the cable through the drill-hole.
Even after all that hassle my friend is still happy he went with cable over wireless, even on his shitty xbox NIC he gets around 6.5->7MB/s.
I'm pretty sure there is plenty of carbon released in the digging up, processing and transportation of uranium, and also in the long-term storage of spent uranium.
A link for dimmable CFL's. Like you I have also been changing all the lights in my house, with the majority now using CFL.
As for the delay in reaching maximum brightness, I find it a blessing when going to bathroom, gives your eyes a little chance to adjust first thing in the morning:)
Fantastic! Thanks for the info, I should have googled of course, but every compact fluoro I saw had "not dimmable" on the box, and didn't work when I tried them anyway:)
Cheers, i'll be on the lookout for them now, sorry I don't have any mod points to give you.
Actually, having just moved into our new home...let me answer those questions, since "no one will do this" seems excessive rhetoric:
1. Thanks to my electricity/gas provider (Origin Energy) - I was given 6 compact florescent bulbs and a water saving shower head for choosing their green plan (costs a few bucks extra a week, big deal), add that to the 6 more I bought soon after we moved in, I only have lights which are dimable left to be replaced...unfortunately floro's won't dim.
2. I now live less than 5 minutes from work...which I ride to on my bike. Our house is larger than the unit we used to live in, driven by the fact we have a son (kai.sshnug.com) and we were literally running out of space to live in. Part of the reason we choose the house was that it uses evaporative air-con instead of refrigeration, is well positioned - faces almost directly solar north (now just have to save up for http://www.solarshop.com.au/grid%20connect%20solar %20page.htm) - with the living areas on the northern side and sleeping areas on the southern side, and has a good site for housing a large rainwater and/or grey water system...now I just have to save up for the tank and plumbing:)
3. As a code monkey I use my computer all day, but a simple script that runs each night around 7pm alternates between de-fragmenting my hard-drive and performing a virus scanning before shutting the system down.
Excellent to hear, and thanks for sharing, i'm 34 and have a young (nearly 18 months old) son, and I know this will come up within the next 10 years, possibly sooner. Your parents approach is very similar to the one I believe we will adopt, so it's good to know it can work.
We're just about to start celebrate our son's first birthday (kai.sshnug.com) and I find your comments pretty lame.
> You - dear parent - are the one who decided to squeeze out a kid.
We didn't decide, well ok, we decided not to have an abortion (as we are in a stable relationship and environment, both financial and social), but the getting pregnant part was purely accidental.
> THE WHOLE $%&*!@# WORLD IS NOT CHILDPROOFED. Nor should it be.
No shit.
> Look at what you are buying for your kid.
No shit.
> Take some and read about it on the internet or sit down and play through it yourself before you blindly hand it over to little Timmy. Just because he asks for it doesn't mean he ought to have it.
No shit.
> The PS2 , XBox, etc. is not a substitute for interacting with your child.
No shit.
You seem to like to label parents' stupid, but you're not exactly setting the bar very high yourself!
I grew up playing video games from a very young age (vic 20, c64, c128, Amiga) and my parents had almost zero impact on my choice of gaming. Oddly enough, i've managed to stay out of jail/goal, hold down good jobs and have just paid off our house. Believe it or not, even from the age of 8 I could differentiate between a computer game and real life. My parents did however, impact on many other parts of my life.
> you - stupid parent - need to be paying attention to what little Timmy is doing.
That's the only part of your rant that i'd agree with, but that applies for anything a child is doing. And there are far more dangerous issues I worry about for my son. Ensuring that he understands the dangers around roads and traffic, chemicals around the house, knifes, electricity etc. As he grows up and we can't control his environment as much as we do now, I think that is what will count the most. That and giving him as much love and support as possible.
> Pull that head out of that double-wide behind and start looking around.
Nice way to round off your argument, label all parents as fat. I'd be more than happy to compare the fat content in your arse to mine, shall we exchange pictures?:)
Well that's just great, we have heaps of oil and coal left. The two resources which are acknowledged as causing most of the environmental problems. CO2 from coal-fired power plants and pollution from hundreds of millions of cars, trucks, trains, buses burning oil.
This is a good thing?
The only good thing about having expensive oil is that it will drive research and development into alternatives, hopefully not production of oil from coal:)
Whenever people bitch about the price of fuel (it has risen quite a lot here in Australia, ~AU$1.30/L) I tell them I can't wait for it to reach $2.00 by the end of next year, then $4.00 by the end of the decade. Environmental issues aside, I see more folks riding bikes to work these days (I have been for last 10 years) and anything to increase that number by decreasing the number of cars (mostly single occupants, and a lot of large sedan or 4wd/SUVs) is a good thing. Australia has far too many fat lazy people, just like the US and UK.
Calling it a failure seems a bit harsh. I use Google Calendar on a near daily basis, and it works for me. Coupled with Firefox's calendar notifier it covers most of my needs.
I'm sure you have legitimate grieviences, at work I use Thunderbird's Lightning extension (nightly build) as a one-way (read-only) link, as the rest of the company (sans us 2 code monkeys:) uses Outlook, and we need a way of recording meetings. Lightning displays the meetings ok, but currently I have to manually enter meeting events (tried auto-forwarding with/without the no attachment option in config but GMail doesn't like it). If they (Lightning or GMail) could get that licked then i'd be pretty much sorted. Of course your needs may differ.
Yeah it's not perfect but it's still very cool! I was lamenting the fading of bookmark synchronizer when google browser sync appeared on the scene...
If I had mod points I'd give them to you, gmail (bye bye thunderbird), google calendar (with the firefox notifier extension) are great and I use them every day.
And yes there seem to be few companies using Mono at the moment, but for me, as a developer who gets paid to write proprietary software, but who would rather get paid to develop open source software (run on open source operating systems) it's gives me the option of using a completely open source environment, and a mechanism to make the transition.
As an example, I have already been able to successfully use Mono to run a project I built to handle Subversion administration using NAnt.
At work we're a Windows shop (so.net CLR) so Subnant runs on that, at home, and for anyone else who wants to run it, the Mono version (on Windows or Linux) runs all the tests run and performs nearly on par with the.net CLR (Mono performance has increased significantly in recent iterations)
I'm currently in the planning phase for a more ambitious open source healthcare-related project, and plan to develop that so it can use either a completely free open source software stack (Linux->Mono->MonoRail->ActiveRecord->Firebird) or a more traditional proprietary stack (Windows->.NET CLR->MonoRail->ActiveRecord->SQL Server).
Sure this means i've got more work setting up my build process and more testing on multiple operating sytems and database environments, but at least it gives me (and hopefully anyone who wants to use the software) choice, and choice is good!
> Unfortunately, "society" has too many idiots and greedy businessmen for this to change anytime soon.
You left out politicians and their political parties who are only focused on the short term (staying in power).
> We seem to try to live as far apart as possible, as far from work, school, etc as possible... Just imagine how much time we could save doing more useful stuff
Hmmm...I live 12K's (around 7.4miles) from work and am happy to ride my bike (aside from avoiding idiots driving around SMS'ing each other), but doesn't leave me any more time to do useful stuff, and anyway, here I am with some time on my hand...reading slashdot:)
I agree that it seems odd to ditch KDE for Gnome when SuSE was mostly KDE to start with (maybe they like the success Ubuntu has?), but it's a pure troll who says no-one except Miguel loves Mono.
Slashdot Mirror
> the ability to find capuccino foam by itself :)
l ia_2003-Pages/Image22.html
You mean a babycino?
e.g. http://www.vsamp.com/photos/Australia_2003/Austra
> If you are smart you will figure out a way to omit ocropus/data-test-pages from your checkout.
Aside from data-test-pages, there are 12 other directories under trunk.
You can svn co -N to grab trunk, then you will need to individually checkout each of those 12 under trunk.
I understand your grievance, but personally I wouldn't worry about it unless you're on dial-up, as it's only ~11MB.
I recall reading about passive vs active safety in cars.
:)
Folks who drive larger heavier cars are trading active safety, i.e. the ability to avoid an accident by stopping or moving around whatever you were going to crash into, with passive safety, i.e. having lots of car between you and whatever you're crashing into.
Personally, I mostly ride a push-bike so _really_ rely on active safety
A friend of mine almost did the same thing too, only he was _really_ lucky and just drilled a little into the plastic around the wire.
As other people have mentioned, without conduit, home networking and the like can be a little tricky...this 'friend' of mine was trying to piggy back onto the RF cable running from lounge room to roof (only partial crawlspace available), and the electrician in his (or her) infinite wisdom had placed the RF jack on the inside wall instead of the outside wall, and just drilled a small hole in the timber wall to feed the cable through...needless to say this made piggy backing my..errr my friends Cat6 a nightmare, and required cutting a hole in the dry-wall (hence the narrow miss with the power line) to hand-feed the cable through the drill-hole.
Even after all that hassle my friend is still happy he went with cable over wireless, even on his shitty xbox NIC he gets around 6.5->7MB/s.
I'm pretty sure there is plenty of carbon released in the digging up, processing and transportation of uranium, and also in the long-term storage of spent uranium.
I ride a bike to work, and I'm pretty sure that if there weren't any showers available my immediate co-workers would be the ones that suffer!
We have some near us - http://www.starfishhill.com.au/
Some people think they ruin the vista, and are too noisy and kill wildlife, so tourists will be less like to visit.
Personally I think they look fine, and are, if anything, an attraction to the area.
That law certainly isn't being enforced...unless it's legal for cars to jump over and park on rooftops of buildings.
A link for dimmable CFL's. Like you I have also been changing all the lights in my house, with the majority now using CFL. As for the delay in reaching maximum brightness, I find it a blessing when going to bathroom, gives your eyes a little chance to adjust first thing in the morning :)
Fantastic! Thanks for the info, I should have googled of course, but every compact fluoro I saw had "not dimmable" on the box, and didn't work when I tried them anyway :)
Cheers, i'll be on the lookout for them now, sorry I don't have any mod points to give you.
Actually, having just moved into our new home...let me answer those questions, since "no one will do this" seems excessive rhetoric:
r %20page.htm) - with the living areas on the northern side and sleeping areas on the southern side, and has a good site for housing a large rainwater and/or grey water system...now I just have to save up for the tank and plumbing :)
1. Thanks to my electricity/gas provider (Origin Energy) - I was given 6 compact florescent bulbs and a water saving shower head for choosing their green plan (costs a few bucks extra a week, big deal), add that to the 6 more I bought soon after we moved in, I only have lights which are dimable left to be replaced...unfortunately floro's won't dim.
2. I now live less than 5 minutes from work...which I ride to on my bike. Our house is larger than the unit we used to live in, driven by the fact we have a son (kai.sshnug.com) and we were literally running out of space to live in. Part of the reason we choose the house was that it uses evaporative air-con instead of refrigeration, is well positioned - faces almost directly solar north (now just have to save up for http://www.solarshop.com.au/grid%20connect%20sola
3. As a code monkey I use my computer all day, but a simple script that runs each night around 7pm alternates between de-fragmenting my hard-drive and performing a virus scanning before shutting the system down.
And i'm sure i'm not alone either.
Excellent to hear, and thanks for sharing, i'm 34 and have a young (nearly 18 months old) son, and I know this will come up within the next 10 years, possibly sooner. Your parents approach is very similar to the one I believe we will adopt, so it's good to know it can work.
Excellent to hear, I love Alien Hominid, a good challenge to complete and a fun game to boot!
We're just about to start celebrate our son's first birthday (kai.sshnug.com) and I find your comments pretty lame.
> You - dear parent - are the one who decided to squeeze out a kid.
We didn't decide, well ok, we decided not to have an abortion (as we are in a stable relationship and environment, both financial and social), but the getting pregnant part was purely accidental.
> THE WHOLE $%&*!@# WORLD IS NOT CHILDPROOFED. Nor should it be.
No shit.
> Look at what you are buying for your kid.
No shit.
> Take some and read about it on the internet or sit down and play through it yourself before you blindly hand it over to little Timmy. Just because he asks for it doesn't mean he ought to have it.
No shit.
> The PS2 , XBox, etc. is not a substitute for interacting with your child.
No shit.
You seem to like to label parents' stupid, but you're not exactly setting the bar very high yourself!
I grew up playing video games from a very young age (vic 20, c64, c128, Amiga) and my parents had almost zero impact on my choice of gaming. Oddly enough, i've managed to stay out of jail/goal, hold down good jobs and have just paid off our house. Believe it or not, even from the age of 8 I could differentiate between a computer game and real life. My parents did however, impact on many other parts of my life.
> you - stupid parent - need to be paying attention to what little Timmy is doing.
That's the only part of your rant that i'd agree with, but that applies for anything a child is doing. And there are far more dangerous issues I worry about for my son. Ensuring that he understands the dangers around roads and traffic, chemicals around the house, knifes, electricity etc. As he grows up and we can't control his environment as much as we do now, I think that is what will count the most. That and giving him as much love and support as possible.
> Pull that head out of that double-wide behind and start looking around.
Nice way to round off your argument, label all parents as fat. I'd be more than happy to compare the fat content in your arse to mine, shall we exchange pictures?
Well that's just great, we have heaps of oil and coal left. The two resources which are acknowledged as causing most of the environmental problems. CO2 from coal-fired power plants and pollution from hundreds of millions of cars, trucks, trains, buses burning oil.
:)
This is a good thing?
The only good thing about having expensive oil is that it will drive research and development into alternatives, hopefully not production of oil from coal
Whenever people bitch about the price of fuel (it has risen quite a lot here in Australia, ~AU$1.30/L) I tell them I can't wait for it to reach $2.00 by the end of next year, then $4.00 by the end of the decade. Environmental issues aside, I see more folks riding bikes to work these days (I have been for last 10 years) and anything to increase that number by decreasing the number of cars (mostly single occupants, and a lot of large sedan or 4wd/SUVs) is a good thing. Australia has far too many fat lazy people, just like the US and UK.
Calling it a failure seems a bit harsh. I use Google Calendar on a near daily basis, and it works for me. Coupled with Firefox's calendar notifier it covers most of my needs.
I'm sure you have legitimate grieviences, at work I use Thunderbird's Lightning extension (nightly build) as a one-way (read-only) link, as the rest of the company (sans us 2 code monkeys:) uses Outlook, and we need a way of recording meetings. Lightning displays the meetings ok, but currently I have to manually enter meeting events (tried auto-forwarding with/without the no attachment option in config but GMail doesn't like it). If they (Lightning or GMail) could get that licked then i'd be pretty much sorted. Of course your needs may differ.
So go support (buy) GP2X if you want hackable portable hardware that's open. Do you really think Sony is the company for that?
Am I alone in being reminded of the C64 game developer Thalamus?
Stavros Fasoulas coding cool games, Rob Hubbard crankin out the music...such cool memories of the late 80's! Glad I can still remember some of them...
> ** affect? effect? I can never keep this one straight either.
The rule I go by is you affect the effect.
To remember the order, a before e.
> Oh and fix google browser sync too!
Yeah it's not perfect but it's still very cool! I was lamenting the fading of bookmark synchronizer when google browser sync appeared on the scene...
If I had mod points I'd give them to you, gmail (bye bye thunderbird), google calendar (with the firefox notifier extension) are great and I use them every day.
Perhaps you mean HIPAA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPAA
...? Remote consults and ops?
The medical usage for encrypted VOIP we be for
> I know of no one using it seriously.
h tml
:)
http://www.mfconsulting.com/blog/archives/000126.
So now you do
For sure Miguel is a Mono evangelist, and yes i've also read articles like:
d otgnu_whats/
E .txt?view=markup
.net CLR) so Subnant runs on that, at home, and for anyone else who wants to run it, the Mono version (on Windows or Linux) runs all the tests run and performs nearly on par with the .net CLR (Mono performance has increased significantly in recent iterations)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/11/mono_and_
And yes there seem to be few companies using Mono at the moment, but for me, as a developer who gets paid to write proprietary software, but who would rather get paid to develop open source software (run on open source operating systems) it's gives me the option of using a completely open source environment, and a mechanism to make the transition.
As an example, I have already been able to successfully use Mono to run a project I built to handle Subversion administration using NAnt.
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/subnant/trunk/READM
At work we're a Windows shop (so
I'm currently in the planning phase for a more ambitious open source healthcare-related project, and plan to develop that so it can use either a completely free open source software stack (Linux->Mono->MonoRail->ActiveRecord->Firebird) or a more traditional proprietary stack (Windows->.NET CLR->MonoRail->ActiveRecord->SQL Server).
Sure this means i've got more work setting up my build process and more testing on multiple operating sytems and database environments, but at least it gives me (and hopefully anyone who wants to use the software) choice, and choice is good!
> Unfortunately, "society" has too many idiots and greedy businessmen for this to change anytime soon.
:)
You left out politicians and their political parties who are only focused on the short term (staying in power).
> We seem to try to live as far apart as possible, as far from work, school, etc as possible... Just imagine how much time we could save doing more useful stuff
Hmmm...I live 12K's (around 7.4miles) from work and am happy to ride my bike (aside from avoiding idiots driving around SMS'ing each other), but doesn't leave me any more time to do useful stuff, and anyway, here I am with some time on my hand...reading slashdot
I agree that it seems odd to ditch KDE for Gnome when SuSE was mostly KDE to start with (maybe they like the success Ubuntu has?), but it's a pure troll who says no-one except Miguel loves Mono.