Look, you seem to equate "being checked up upon" as "being treated like shit".
They're not one in the same.
Youths need to be raised. They need guidance. You can't very well do that, and do it well, without constantly checking up on what your kids are doing, where they're doing it, and whom they're doing it with.
I didn't fully understand this (and thought it was all BS) until I had kids, btw.
It's just sad that the delicate economic balances formed in rural communities over the past 100 years
While I agree with just about everything you've said, and in some ways seen some of it happen locally... I feel I have to point out that the consumer rules the roost. If they don't agree with Walmart's policies and don't shop there, the stores will close, one by one.
However, Walmart seems to attract people in droves. If those people aren't willing to pay a little more to support the local stores, the local stores are unfortunately damned to failure.:(
look into what slashdot does for high performance, I forget the name of the software but it's a distributed caching type system, linux journal had an article about it and it looked very interesting.
That's just it - a desktop system can mount a drive/share that's 200GB, 500GB, 1TB.
So the question is - after you've mounted the drive, does the indexer wait till a low-useage-cpu-state and start indexing?
Does it drop the index in a.dot file at the top of the mounted drive/share's directory tree that is world read/writeable?
Assume the directory tree is such that it's/Volumes/bigfileshare../johns stuff../don's stuff
if if both subdirs are chmod 700, if don does a spolight search, will John's stuff show up? (I assume that the file system would prevent an indexer process, when John's logged in, from indexing Don's data).
However, if the metadata index is shared (ie the.dot file dropping) - does it still adhere to the file system's privleges when showing results?
And what if I'm logged in as root on the machine and do a spotlight search - will that turn up hits to either user's data when root can't really read the FS of either user's directories?
Exactly! I did the same thing. Messed with setting up myth on an older machine.
Ended up buying the $100 replaytv refurb. After 20 days my family was/is addicted. We bought the liftime schedule package.
We use it all the time. So far it "just works". The commercial skip is one of the most useful things about it, especially around this election-time after you've seen the same commercial 20 times you can just skip it. And I love the fact that in the morning I can grab the shows off it via ethernet and watch them on my powerbook. Or archive them if they're classics.
In the future I'd love to pickup another refurb just like this one for the kid's tv. But shelling out for another lifetime subscription for it has prevented me from doing so for the time being (ie lack of cash).
If your camera has, minimally, usb 1.1 on it, why couldn't you plug the camera directly into the firewire/usb 2.0 port on the iPod and import the photos into it that way?
If you could do that, it'd be great in the field if you were snapping lots of pictures. Unless, of course, you're shooing with a 6++ megapixel camera in raw - then usb 1.1 speeds would take way too long.
Yeah, I bought the 12" 1GHz $949 refurb 4.5 weeks ago. Sigh. I don't feel the love nearly as much as you seem to. $150 is quite a bit difference in just a little over a month.
I use the Astaro firewall on an old pentium machine as a firewall.
I use a linksys WRT54G (un-mod'd at this point) for wireless.
90% of the machines in the house are macs now. Any intel/athlon that's left is running some flavor of linux.
The last ibook purchase became the 'general' family computer. It replaced the last windows machine I had.
If you've never tried Astaro, I highly recommend it. It's free for home use. And it's based on Linux. A nice http management interface, and it's easy to VPN into so your family can connect remotely.
I installed a sprinkler system in my house when it was built ~2 years ago.
First thing, have a plumber come in and install a deduct-meter (if your house isn't new you can probably do it yourself. I couldn't, I'd lose my plumbing warranty for the first few years).
Then shop around for controllers. I bought one that had plenty of extra space for valve control, as well as weather control, master water valve controller etc etc.
Then get your trusty plot plan out and figure out where things are going to go. Try to imagine the future too - because you can always trench extra lines while you have your yard torn up. But going back and trenching in add'l lines (like I was digging this evening till the mosquito's came out) just sucks.
So plan plan plan!
As far as being geeky with it - some of the controllers have serial ports. For me, this wasn't a priority. The controllers (atleast mine) has a good interface, and it's easy to set and configure. Even though I have a few linux boxes sitting in the basement next to it, I've not had the urge to try and wire it into the LAN and play. I don't know that I ever will.
Hope that helps.
Oh - be sure to investigate micro-irrigation. I just found out about this stuff on Saturday. The heads are tiny and come in various (even bendable) formats. No trenching involved. It'll even do hanging plants. Once we put the beds into the backyard and the plants in the spring I'll be running the mico-stuff everywhere that I can. I wish I'd have known about it when I setup my front yard with Pro-sprays.
You can get "micro-irrigation" systems just for that. Infact, I'm going to do my backyard with the stuff. It'll even water hanging plants and what not. Very cool, and pretty cheap.
The benefit of the chakra and naga are that they take the pressure off the area of the spine that most people keep constant pressure on (which is not good).
When you're doing the above, you put the pressure on the bones of the spine, relieving the disks. This is the opposite of how most people's posture holds them. Especially when sitting infront of a computer all day.
I couldn't find "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt" in the iTunes Music store. I even tried searching on just 'Entrails' but that only turned up some tune by Skitzo;)
I've found it becomes easier to say 'no' the older you become.
When I was single, and childless, I could pull a 60 or 80 hour week. No biggie. I thrived off a lot of the 'challenge' of it all.
But then I got older, got married, got kids, got a house (we just sold #1 and bought #2) and... I'm tired of being their bitch.
Every time some clever idea is thought up in the place, it _always_ involves us, though we're not involved till the middle of it when we are told about it and "have it ready in 2 months". Yet any common monkey could see the flaws in what they've been planning. It's the same thing "We'll need hardware, we'll need resources. This is what it'll cost to get it all that".
You end up with 1-30% of the resources (h/w), no additional staffing, and pulling an extra 30-40 hours per week for the last month of it to make sure it's completed on time.
No. Not anymore. I'm tired of being understaffed, and overly-used so that the place can keep other departments staff smaller because we end up having to do their work.
They say "IT" in general has saved entities a lot of money the past 10-15 years. If it's true, I know why that is. They're able to understaff departments big-time because more and more is moving to be done electronically. The problem, atleast with places I've worked over the past 13 years, is that they're not increasing the IT staff as much as they need to do so.
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And that's ok with you?
Yep. Sure is.
Look, you seem to equate "being checked up upon" as "being treated like shit".
They're not one in the same.
Youths need to be raised. They need guidance. You can't very well do that, and do it well, without constantly checking up on what your kids are doing, where they're doing it, and whom they're doing it with.
I didn't fully understand this (and thought it was all BS) until I had kids, btw.
adults can't stop using their children to cover up their insecurities and shortcomings.
Those are people who should never have children.
It's just sad that the delicate economic balances formed in rural communities over the past 100 years
:(
While I agree with just about everything you've said, and in some ways seen some of it happen locally... I feel I have to point out that the consumer rules the roost. If they don't agree with Walmart's policies and don't shop there, the stores will close, one by one.
However, Walmart seems to attract people in droves. If those people aren't willing to pay a little more to support the local stores, the local stores are unfortunately damned to failure.
look into what slashdot does for high performance, I forget the name of the software but it's a distributed caching type system, linux journal had an article about it and it looked very interesting.
I think you are referring to memcached.
That's just it - a desktop system can mount a drive/share that's 200GB, 500GB, 1TB.
.dot file at the top of the mounted drive/share's directory tree that is world read/writeable?
/Volumes/bigfileshare ../johns stuff ../don's stuff
.dot file dropping) - does it still adhere to the file system's privleges when showing results?
So the question is - after you've mounted the drive, does the indexer wait till a low-useage-cpu-state and start indexing?
Does it drop the index in a
Assume the directory tree is such that it's
if if both subdirs are chmod 700, if don does a spolight search, will John's stuff show up? (I assume that the file system would prevent an indexer process, when John's logged in, from indexing Don's data).
However, if the metadata index is shared (ie the
And what if I'm logged in as root on the machine and do a spotlight search - will that turn up hits to either user's data when root can't really read the FS of either user's directories?
dunno. my 7800 works just fine... for the past few years infact :)
I had two drives go bad in my RAID 5 and I was screwed
I take it you didn't have a drive sitting waiting as a hot-spare?
I got bit by this once. Never again.... now I always have a hotspare waiting to jump into place for an instant rebuild.
Exactly! I did the same thing. Messed with setting up myth on an older machine.
Ended up buying the $100 replaytv refurb. After 20 days my family was/is addicted. We bought the liftime schedule package.
We use it all the time. So far it "just works". The commercial skip is one of the most useful things about it, especially around this election-time after you've seen the same commercial 20 times you can just skip it. And I love the fact that in the morning I can grab the shows off it via ethernet and watch them on my powerbook. Or archive them if they're classics.
In the future I'd love to pickup another refurb just like this one for the kid's tv. But shelling out for another lifetime subscription for it has prevented me from doing so for the time being (ie lack of cash).
not for long... :)
If your camera has, minimally, usb 1.1 on it, why couldn't you plug the camera directly into the firewire/usb 2.0 port on the iPod and import the photos into it that way?
If you could do that, it'd be great in the field if you were snapping lots of pictures. Unless, of course, you're shooing with a 6++ megapixel camera in raw - then usb 1.1 speeds would take way too long.
What's the screen size of this new iPod versus photos that people carry in their wallets? Or in their purses?
:(
Yes, the iPod would be smaller. But it'd be more convenient, and easier to show *many* photos to someone.
Personally, I like it. I think it's a good idea. Even with the color screen it's battery will last longer then my 3G.
If only the price weren't so damned steep for the color 60GB....
The thing is, many places won't let you bring in a device that will record audio. (ie workplaces)
So you couldn't carry your iPod around as easily.
I do wish they'd put an AM/FM into it. It'd make it easier to listen to Stern in the morning on the treadmill.
The digital rebel's port is only 1.1 USB :(
If anything, I wish my 300d had a firewire port built in.
Slashcode
Yeah, I bought the 12" 1GHz $949 refurb 4.5 weeks ago. Sigh. I don't feel the love nearly as much as you seem to. $150 is quite a bit difference in just a little over a month.
Actually it looks like this feature may be coming back soon. See Section and Topic Exclusion Working Again on use.perl.org.
:)
It seems they've been busy coding
I use the Astaro firewall on an old pentium machine as a firewall.
I use a linksys WRT54G (un-mod'd at this point) for wireless.
90% of the machines in the house are macs now. Any intel/athlon that's left is running some flavor of linux.
The last ibook purchase became the 'general' family computer. It replaced the last windows machine I had.
If you've never tried Astaro, I highly recommend it. It's free for home use. And it's based on Linux. A nice http management interface, and it's easy to VPN into so your family can connect remotely.
That feature's turned off (for the time being?)
There have been a number of bug reports about it.
I installed a sprinkler system in my house when it was built ~2 years ago.
First thing, have a plumber come in and install a deduct-meter (if your house isn't new you can probably do it yourself. I couldn't, I'd lose my plumbing warranty for the first few years).
Then shop around for controllers. I bought one that had plenty of extra space for valve control, as well as weather control, master water valve controller etc etc.
Then get your trusty plot plan out and figure out where things are going to go. Try to imagine the future too - because you can always trench extra lines while you have your yard torn up. But going back and trenching in add'l lines (like I was digging this evening till the mosquito's came out) just sucks.
So plan plan plan!
As far as being geeky with it - some of the controllers have serial ports. For me, this wasn't a priority. The controllers (atleast mine) has a good interface, and it's easy to set and configure. Even though I have a few linux boxes sitting in the basement next to it, I've not had the urge to try and wire it into the LAN and play. I don't know that I ever will.
Hope that helps.
Oh - be sure to investigate micro-irrigation. I just found out about this stuff on Saturday. The heads are tiny and come in various (even bendable) formats. No trenching involved. It'll even do hanging plants. Once we put the beds into the backyard and the plants in the spring I'll be running the mico-stuff everywhere that I can. I wish I'd have known about it when I setup my front yard with Pro-sprays.
You can get "micro-irrigation" systems just for that. Infact, I'm going to do my backyard with the stuff. It'll even water hanging plants and what not. Very cool, and pretty cheap.
The benefit of the chakra and naga are that they take the pressure off the area of the spine that most people keep constant pressure on (which is not good).
When you're doing the above, you put the pressure on the bones of the spine, relieving the disks. This is the opposite of how most people's posture holds them. Especially when sitting infront of a computer all day.
I was going to post about Highlander III, but you beat me to it :)
Highlander III was the worst movie I have ever seen. Infact, I walked out of it 3/4 of the way through.
It was the first movie that I've ever walked out of.
The Highlander concept was so ingenious... but HIII was a total disappointment.
I couldn't find "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt" in the iTunes Music store. I even tried searching on just 'Entrails' but that only turned up some tune by Skitzo ;)
I've found it becomes easier to say 'no' the older you become.
When I was single, and childless, I could pull a 60 or 80 hour week. No biggie. I thrived off a lot of the 'challenge' of it all.
But then I got older, got married, got kids, got a house (we just sold #1 and bought #2) and... I'm tired of being their bitch.
Every time some clever idea is thought up in the place, it _always_ involves us, though we're not involved till the middle of it when we are told about it and "have it ready in 2 months". Yet any common monkey could see the flaws in what they've been planning. It's the same thing "We'll need hardware, we'll need resources. This is what it'll cost to get it all that".
You end up with 1-30% of the resources (h/w), no additional staffing, and pulling an extra 30-40 hours per week for the last month of it to make sure it's completed on time.
No. Not anymore. I'm tired of being understaffed, and overly-used so that the place can keep other departments staff smaller because we end up having to do their work.
They say "IT" in general has saved entities a lot of money the past 10-15 years. If it's true, I know why that is. They're able to understaff departments big-time because more and more is moving to be done electronically. The problem, atleast with places I've worked over the past 13 years, is that they're not increasing the IT staff as much as they need to do so.
The columns, when viewed by a myriad of browsers, can become a real PITA!!
And most of that, imho, now-a-days is because of ie5/6 quirks.