"First up is we'll take out Michael Johnson's server, second is Jason Porritt's server, and third is a design from Peter Lada, whose server will also be exploding shortly.
The Winner? Whichever one can standup to the Slashdotting.
Rogers and Bell both operate HotSpot services in Canada.. Look for HotSpot stickers on the doors of your local Starbucks or Second Cup - as well as other places. They'll even charge it to your Bell or Rogers mobile phone bill...I think all the big Canadian mobile phone providers are in on the action.. even Telus.
Nope, once mine are set, I can hit snooze all i want, as well as turn it off and everything's back to the same the next day. There's a cancel button on mine that you use to disable the alarms, so that they don't come on, but to use that you have to press Cancel, then choose the alarm you want to cancel. Unless you do that, the alarms will go off day after day.
- Has two different alarms that can be set, and will then go off at those times every day without having to be reset. (Music and what I like to call Insane-O-Wake)
- The "tone" (Insane-O-Wake) alarm starts quietly and gets progressively louder, and this thing is VERY LOUD, it wakes up both my roomates who are a few feet down the hall and on occasion think the alarm is in their room, if i'm i'm not there to turn it off (a downside to having it not need to be reset).
- It has the option of a 9v battery to keep time if the power goes off
- Large easy to hit snooze button, if you hold down the snooze button, the snooze duration increases..
It's great, I'd highly reccommend it. Although my roomates might not.
and indeed i do, i wasn't saying NAT was any sort of respectable replacement for a firewall - just that it makes DDoSing your toaster overly difficult.:D
NAT makes hacking into your buddy's networked refrigerator overly difficult. You do want to be able to DDOS other people's icecube makers, and remotely change the their toaster settings to burnt... don't you?
They don't have any right now, but about every other week, I've seen a couple HP Laserjet 4050's (or 4500) Colour Laser Printers at AuctionDepot starting bidding at around $200. You could probably get one for ~$500 as you said.
They also often have old rack cabinets (great for geek-class bookshelves - if not a little expensive.. but definitely cool.:D
You can usually get imports from places like Video Game Depot and the like. I know they import lots of japanese games into the US, not sure about those sticks though.
*I"m not affiliated with VGD in any way, I just read about them on Penny Arcade..
Is there any software that would do this for just any computer program, not Flight Simulator in Particular? I can think of some mildy cool applications of this, like networked multi-monitor stuff?
I know there must be a ton of law school students, that probably have a lot better understanding of stuff like this, than lawyers that don't want to take cases like this. Is there no way that a bunch of them couldn't get together with, maybe a professor, or the support from a big firm or something, and maybe donate some lawyer services to the good of society, whilst learning at the same time? I mean, sure your law school's reputation is probably on the line, but if you're that confident in the type of students you churn out, that shouldn't be a problem.
Would there be some good way to have people identify dupes? Maybe a link on every article [Report Dupe], and then maybe based on some sort of calculation of their karma + quality of their past moderation + the number of those who click on 'Report Dupe', that the story gets a 'Dupe Rating' and can then be filtered automatically for those who have 'ignore dupes past this threshold' selected in what stories they see?
How difficult might that be to implement? Any discussion on something like that? I dunno, just a thought..
I've had pretty good experience with http://www.linuxquestions.org/. Turn on reply notification and you'll get an email as soon as someone replies to your topic. I was amazed on several occasions where someone would post an answer, or at least suggestions within a couple minutes.. works great for anything i've asked about.
*i have no affiliation with linuxquestions.org, i just find them very useful for questions when i'm at my wits end looking through man pages and a hefty googling.
Same deal in Canada, teenagers have some of the highest levels of disposable income. No rent to pay, no food to buy, no bills to pay, and a part-time job = lets spend my money on videogames, and other stuff they don't really need... until they have to pay their tuition, of course.
Have they taken into consideration that they might run out of letters at some point?..especially if we skip from g to n.. there's some cool letters in there...
The requirements seem kind of vague, but if you don't want to go all the way, you could always just export the data to PostgreSQL or mySQL, and use the the existing access interface for a frontend, connecting over ODBC to the Open Source alternative - at least until you've transitioned it to something else.
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I think the post should have read:
"First up is we'll take out Michael Johnson's server, second is Jason Porritt's server, and third is a design from Peter Lada, whose server will also be exploding shortly.
The Winner? Whichever one can standup to the Slashdotting.
Rogers and Bell both operate HotSpot services in Canada.. Look for HotSpot stickers on the doors of your local Starbucks or Second Cup - as well as other places. They'll even charge it to your Bell or Rogers mobile phone bill...I think all the big Canadian mobile phone providers are in on the action.. even Telus.
_ services/hotspot.asp
. Solutions.Hotspots.page
s /hotspot.shtml
http://www.shoprogers.com/business/wireless/plans
http://www.bell.ca/shop/en_CA_BC/Sme.Sol.Wireless
http://www.telusmobility.com/on/business_solution
Nothing beats a great "Launch Linup".
Go Spellcheck!
but March Networks seems to be getting a lot of attention, I'm sure they're a little pricey, but check them out http://www.marchnetworks.com/
What's that awful sound?
The collective squeal of thousands of nerds in excitement of a Google/Risk mashup.
I was looking for a similar solution a few years ago and 4Team seemed to work well enough.
http://outlook.4team.biz/
just Guile!? Don't forget Ryu, Chun Li, and Dhalsim! ;)
Nope, once mine are set, I can hit snooze all i want, as well as turn it off and everything's back to the same the next day. There's a cancel button on mine that you use to disable the alarms, so that they don't come on, but to use that you have to press Cancel, then choose the alarm you want to cancel. Unless you do that, the alarms will go off day after day.
I've got an RCA RP3715A, that i think was no more than $20-$30cdn, but does most of what you're looking for. http://www.rca.com/product/viewdetail/0,2588,PI459 18,00.html.
- Has two different alarms that can be set, and will then go off at those times every day without having to be reset. (Music and what I like to call Insane-O-Wake)
- The "tone" (Insane-O-Wake) alarm starts quietly and gets progressively louder, and this thing is VERY LOUD, it wakes up both my roomates who are a few feet down the hall and on occasion think the alarm is in their room, if i'm i'm not there to turn it off (a downside to having it not need to be reset).
- It has the option of a 9v battery to keep time if the power goes off
- Large easy to hit snooze button, if you hold down the snooze button, the snooze duration increases..
It's great, I'd highly reccommend it. Although my roomates might not.
Cheers,
I got Mod Points for Christmas! Thanks Santa!
"mom got me a bag of coffee beans per month for the rest of the year, which should be cool"
...Just *one* bag then, huh? ;)
I think Antitrust was one of the first 'hollywood movies' that I saw that had some form of Linux on some of the workstaions.
Claire Forlanni, and Rachel Leigh Cook..
What a great movie.
Poor Teddy.. he just wanted to Open Source his code...is that such a crime!?!
Moving to an Open Office environment, eh? I'd start here! http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-questions.html Ohhh, open office.... :P
and indeed i do, i wasn't saying NAT was any sort of respectable replacement for a firewall - just that it makes DDoSing your toaster overly difficult. :D
NAT makes hacking into your buddy's networked refrigerator overly difficult. You do want to be able to DDOS other people's icecube makers, and remotely change the their toaster settings to burnt... don't you?
They don't have any right now, but about every other week, I've seen a couple HP Laserjet 4050's (or 4500) Colour Laser Printers at AuctionDepot starting bidding at around $200. You could probably get one for ~$500 as you said. They also often have old rack cabinets (great for geek-class bookshelves - if not a little expensive.. but definitely cool. :D
You can usually get imports from places like Video Game Depot and the like. I know they import lots of japanese games into the US, not sure about those sticks though.
*I"m not affiliated with VGD in any way, I just read about them on Penny Arcade..
Is there any software that would do this for just any computer program, not Flight Simulator in Particular? I can think of some mildy cool applications of this, like networked multi-monitor stuff?
Anyone?
I know there must be a ton of law school students, that probably have a lot better understanding of stuff like this, than lawyers that don't want to take cases like this. Is there no way that a bunch of them couldn't get together with, maybe a professor, or the support from a big firm or something, and maybe donate some lawyer services to the good of society, whilst learning at the same time? I mean, sure your law school's reputation is probably on the line, but if you're that confident in the type of students you churn out, that shouldn't be a problem.
Yeah, i agree its a pretty complex way to solve a minorly annoying problem.. and probably not worth the time and effort..
Would there be some good way to have people identify dupes? Maybe a link on every article [Report Dupe], and then maybe based on some sort of calculation of their karma + quality of their past moderation + the number of those who click on 'Report Dupe', that the story gets a 'Dupe Rating' and can then be filtered automatically for those who have 'ignore dupes past this threshold' selected in what stories they see?
How difficult might that be to implement?
Any discussion on something like that?
I dunno, just a thought..
I've had pretty good experience with http://www.linuxquestions.org/. Turn on reply notification and you'll get an email as soon as someone replies to your topic. I was amazed on several occasions where someone would post an answer, or at least suggestions within a couple minutes.. works great for anything i've asked about.
*i have no affiliation with linuxquestions.org, i just find them very useful for questions when i'm at my wits end looking through man pages and a hefty googling.
Same deal in Canada, teenagers have some of the highest levels of disposable income. No rent to pay, no food to buy, no bills to pay, and a part-time job = lets spend my money on videogames, and other stuff they don't really need... until they have to pay their tuition, of course.
Have they taken into consideration that they might run out of letters at some point? ..especially if we skip from g to n.. there's some cool letters in there...
The requirements seem kind of vague, but if you don't want to go all the way, you could always just export the data to PostgreSQL or mySQL, and use the the existing access interface for a frontend, connecting over ODBC to the Open Source alternative - at least until you've transitioned it to something else.