This is what I like about Apple -- creating solutions that work for a wide range of users.
um no. more like dumbing it down so everyone has to operate like a moron.
I hate macs, I really really do, but even those who have them around me ususally admit that they are unintuitive, and simplified beyond reason.
Please dont claim that they are making things to work for everyone, because they obviously arent.
Also, how unintuitive is it to click with your middle finger? THIS IS THE REASON THE RIGHT CLICK IS ON THAT FINGER.
The context menu was coming up, and the selected action (default) was not the one needed then it sounds like the right click is exactly what you needed, thats the reason for the context menu, so you can do all the most common commands without having to hunt for them.
Go ahead mod me down, its not worth keeping karma if you have to agree with every stupid thing a mac zealot says.
Now their webserver seems awfully slow and unresponsive...
Sysadmins are reporting a MASSIVE distributed denial of service attack... then they head over to/. to see how the rest of the world is going.... aw shit!
right on the front page of the university of michigan credit union
Member Alert - Phishing Scam Some of our members have received a fraudulent email from a source pretending to be University of Michigan Credit Union. In this email you are asked to click on a link to provide personal information to "confirm your identity." THIS EMAIL IS NOT FROM YOUR CREDIT UNION. WE WOULD NEVER ASK YOU TO CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY IN THIS MANNER. Please delete the fraudulent email. If you did click on the link and have entered any personal information, please call us immediately.
So, your offering a service, to secure the operating system... that you built insecurely... that I paid for... and you want me to pay you MORE?!?!? for this!?!?
its like paying to have GM take care of your car when they built it without brakes!
In my organization, we have hylafax receiving incoming faxes, dropping them to a high end laser printer (to get away from the horrible reliability of even high end fax devices), and droping it in PDF form to a read only smb share. That part is incase something bad happens to the paper copy, and for our document archival system.
For outgoing, we have a simple VB app for windows systems, that will take a scanned document, or any pdf, tiff, ps or text file, prompt you for its destination (via a list stored on a shared drive) and you chose it. the vb app then changes the name of the file to the number that its going to and drops it to an smb share. Cron checks that share every minute, grabs whatever files are there and faxes them out to their destinations, then backups up the original to a read only share named the number it was sent to, with a time and date stamp.
not the only solution but one that works well for us.
Using an Avaya VOIP system at my office and remote sites (over vpn) i have to say its good to great quality. cant tell that the user is on an IP or a normal digital set.
having my parents and a sister on Vonage, I would say its at least as good as my cell.
I would give a comparison compared to a land line but i never use one. sorry.
as a father of an amazingly cute 6 month old little girl, I have to say.
"If you dont want to watch your kids, you shouldnt have had them". there its said, its out, and thats it.
Personally the highlight of my day is coming home and spending the 5 or so hours with my wife and daughter. I spend the entire time playing with the little girl, its amazing what they do when you watch them, you can see their little outlooks forming, I really do think I have a good idea what she will be like in 3-4 years, as well as in 10-20 years. I really cant wait, but am enjoying every minute I have.
Some may say that robots could make life easier when you want to do little things like cook dinner, or take a shower, stick the kid in a bouncy seat, or exersaucer and bring em with you. My daughter loves to watch me cook (from a safe splatter free distance).
my $.02
Why geek rap?
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I know this will probably be modded down, but why geek rap? If your going to work in the medium, why go after such a small sub sector? Wouldnt you be able to make it way richer as a "white boy rapper" (assuming here, not a follower personally) talking about your hard upbringing, or busting caps in folks ass?
where does it say, that an american corporation like google, has to promote all works by all nations?
or another american corporation site (like slashdot) has to some how not be american centric?
Me thinks the world has gotten a little too attached to our finger pointing. If you DONT like the way an established business is doing things, DO THEM YOURSELF!/rant
Sexybaby2592871 wasnt really the chick on that website she sent me to?
You mean i gave my email address, password and credit card to some stranger? What type of place is this Intra-web and what type of a mess have I gotten myself into.
A company out there, whos had their market influenced by competition and innovation, trying to improve their business by means other than litigation.
I'm not one who watches much TV, therefor a Tivo was never big on my shopping list, but I have to say its refreshing to see a company try to improve their product rather than sue the compition.
Being an avid GPS user myself I know that its easy for them to lose signal. How can they tell if you were just at an angle that the antenna didnt like? Or went into a building? or better yet wrapped it with a metal foil to deceive the antenna?
Tim Radford, science editor Monday February 7, 2005 The Guardian
US scientists have thought up a new way to create a second home - by warming up the atmosphere of Mars.
Mars - which used to be warm and wet - has an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide. But because the red planet's atmosphere is so thin, the planet is now freezing cold.
But Margarita Marinova, of Nasa Ames research centre in California, and colleagues report in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets that artificially created greenhouse gases could set the Martian climate simmering. "Bringing life to Mars and studying its growth would contribute to our understanding of evolution, and the ability of life to adapts and proliferate on other worlds," Dr Marinova said.
"Since warming Mars effectively reverts it to its past, more habitable state, this would give any possibly dormant life on Mars the chance to be revived."
She and her colleagues created a computer model of the Martian atmosphere, and tested it with a series of fluorine-based gases. They found that a gas called octafluoropropane could begin a process of global warming on Mars.
This would take hundreds or even thousands of years. But since the raw materials already exist there, some future space mission could start to turn up the heat in a world frozen for at least 2bn years.
since it was down the first 2 times i tried
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Atari 2600 Mac Mod
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MacMod - The Atari 2600 Macintosh
Building the iAtariMac
What the heck is this? Actually, it is the LONG overdue, been sitting in development hell purgatory, first MacMod.
What is MacMod? An idea and concept that sprung to life in the minds of Tim Robertson and Chad Perry way back in the summer of 2003. The idea? Wouldn't it be cool if there were a video show online that was like a combination of American Chopper and Junkyard Wars, but about Macs?
What? You don't think that is a cool idea? Obviously, we did, so we actually did it. We created a show, named it MacMod, and filmed the whole thing over a six-week period starting October 2003 and finishing December 2003.
The goal? Turning a vintage 1970's Atari 2600 game consol into a Macintosh computer, running the latest and greatest Mac OS X. The catch? Try and keep the Atari looking stock, up to a point.
The problem? Neither Chad nor Tim had ever done anything like this before. Not just "how to build it" but "how to film and present it" were questions they pretty much made up the answers to as they went along.
Firstly, they had to obtain both an Atari 2600 and a Macintosh. The first was easy, Tim already had two Atari 2600's, and they used one of those. The second was not as easy. Neither Tim nor Chad wanted to part with a perfectly good computer to use and, probably, destroy. Neither was confident that the build would be successful, and it was asking too much for either of them to give up a working Macintosh for this show.
The solution? A sponsor! Enter Tekserve! Who is Tekserve? Only one of the best Macintosh resellers in the world, located in New York City, but servicing clients worldwide. They started out as a Mac service company, but have grown well beyond those humble beginnings. Today, they sport over 125 employees!
Tekserve became the silent partner during filming MacMod. Without them, this project could not have happened. It was Tekserve who supplied us with the needed Macintosh to use for this project. Please visit their website today for more information, and be sure to tell them it was MyMac.com who sent you.
This project should have been online a year ago, but it was not meant to be. We ran into many more problems after filming wrapped than we want to go into here. Suffice it to say, we did finish the project, but not alone. Special thanks go to Jim Allard, who was present every day during filming. While you the viewer never see or hear Jim, he was the invisible third man of the show. This would not have happened without him. Tad Scheeler was the talent behind our animated opening, as well as helping film during day two. MacMod would not look the same, or have whatever polish is present, without Tad. Adam Karneboge lent his help in technical matters, as well as providing a part we sorely needed. And Chris Seibold stepped in at the last minute to provide the over-the-top narration the show needed. Without these people, MacMod would never have happened.
Now you can watch, in four parts, the entire build process. There is both a large and small version of each episode. If you are bandwidth challenged, view the smaller one. If you don't mind downloading a large file, enjoy the better detail in the larger ones. And if you would rather have a DVD copy of all four episodes, email us and we can give you more details. (Detail may be posted here in the future if there is enough interest.)
Warning! You will either think this is either really neat, or really stupid. If you think it is stupid, that is Tim and Chad's fault, not those who helped us.
Slashdot Mirror
This is what I like about Apple -- creating solutions that work for a wide range of users.
um no. more like dumbing it down so everyone has to operate like a moron.
I hate macs, I really really do, but even those who have them around me ususally admit that they are unintuitive, and simplified beyond reason.
Please dont claim that they are making things to work for everyone, because they obviously arent.
Also, how unintuitive is it to click with your middle finger? THIS IS THE REASON THE RIGHT CLICK IS ON THAT FINGER.
The context menu was coming up, and the selected action (default) was not the one needed
then it sounds like the right click is exactly what you needed, thats the reason for the context menu, so you can do all the most common commands without having to hunt for them.
Go ahead mod me down, its not worth keeping karma if you have to agree with every stupid thing a mac zealot says.
Nothing to see here people, move along move along...
mmmm, slashdot, news for what DIDNT happen.
It does say something about you when you relate checking your email to eating drinking and breathing....
I have this killer project going, its all opensource.
its called Duck Nuckem Tournement 2012. its multiplayer, will run on the phantom console, and is all opensource.
ofcourse the project itself is vaporware as of the time of this writing....
Now their webserver seems awfully slow and unresponsive...
/. to see how the rest of the world is going.... aw shit!
Sysadmins are reporting a MASSIVE distributed denial of service attack... then they head over to
Not trying to be a real hardass, but I just went and reread the constitution on this, and found nothing...
Can you help enlighten on where and how it says we have the right to travel freely?
I think this is one of those things where most folks think its specified, (a wall between church and state) but really its not.
http://www.umcu.org/
right on the front page of the university of michigan credit union
So, your offering a service, to secure the operating system... that you built insecurely... that I paid for... and you want me to pay you MORE?!?!? for this!?!?
its like paying to have GM take care of your car when they built it without brakes!
No sir, I am pretty sure you were the only one to ask what was a PBX
Thanks, leave your geek card on the receptionists desk on your way out.
The best thing about hylafax is its flexability.
In my organization, we have hylafax receiving incoming faxes, dropping them to a high end laser printer (to get away from the horrible reliability of even high end fax devices), and droping it in PDF form to a read only smb share. That part is incase something bad happens to the paper copy, and for our document archival system.
For outgoing, we have a simple VB app for windows systems, that will take a scanned document, or any pdf, tiff, ps or text file, prompt you for its destination (via a list stored on a shared drive) and you chose it. the vb app then changes the name of the file to the number that its going to and drops it to an smb share. Cron checks that share every minute, grabs whatever files are there and faxes them out to their destinations, then backups up the original to a read only share named the number it was sent to, with a time and date stamp.
not the only solution but one that works well for us.
Using an Avaya VOIP system at my office and remote sites (over vpn) i have to say its good to great quality. cant tell that the user is on an IP or a normal digital set.
having my parents and a sister on Vonage, I would say its at least as good as my cell.
I would give a comparison compared to a land line but i never use one. sorry.
as a father of an amazingly cute 6 month old little girl, I have to say.
"If you dont want to watch your kids, you shouldnt have had them". there its said, its out, and thats it.
Personally the highlight of my day is coming home and spending the 5 or so hours with my wife and daughter. I spend the entire time playing with the little girl, its amazing what they do when you watch them, you can see their little outlooks forming, I really do think I have a good idea what she will be like in 3-4 years, as well as in 10-20 years. I really cant wait, but am enjoying every minute I have.
Some may say that robots could make life easier when you want to do little things like cook dinner, or take a shower, stick the kid in a bouncy seat, or exersaucer and bring em with you. My daughter loves to watch me cook (from a safe splatter free distance).
my $.02
I know this will probably be modded down, but why geek rap? If your going to work in the medium, why go after such a small sub sector? Wouldnt you be able to make it way richer as a "white boy rapper" (assuming here, not a follower personally) talking about your hard upbringing, or busting caps in folks ass?
Do me a favor, tell him Thursday is all booked up, but maybe he could come back at a better time?
thanks
stupid TPS reports, and their cover pages
Linkage ask and ye shall receive compliments of google ofcourse :-D
where does it say, that an american corporation like google, has to promote all works by all nations?
/rant
or another american corporation site (like slashdot) has to some how not be american centric?
Me thinks the world has gotten a little too attached to our finger pointing. If you DONT like the way an established business is doing things, DO THEM YOURSELF!
Sexybaby2592871 wasnt really the chick on that website she sent me to?
You mean i gave my email address, password and credit card to some stranger? What type of place is this Intra-web and what type of a mess have I gotten myself into.
cause the site was already melting when i tried to click it
mirror
I love the placement of the Slide Rule...
oh wait
Considering how difficult it is right now to find a new copy of WoW this could be a major issue.
For those not in the know, at least for a time, Blizzard pulled from the shelves new copies of WoW and stopped shipping due to server load issues.
I know of more than one person who was unable to get a copy for several weeks because of this.
A company out there, whos had their market influenced by competition and innovation, trying to improve their business by means other than litigation.
I'm not one who watches much TV, therefor a Tivo was never big on my shopping list, but I have to say its refreshing to see a company try to improve their product rather than sue the compition.
Heres to you Tivo, and best of luck.
For some reason you go out of GPS reception?
Being an avid GPS user myself I know that its easy for them to lose signal. How can they tell if you were just at an angle that the antenna didnt like? Or went into a building? or better yet wrapped it with a metal foil to deceive the antenna?
How is this any better than existing tethers?
Global warming the key to life on Mars
Tim Radford, science editor
Monday February 7, 2005
The Guardian
US scientists have thought up a new way to create a second home - by warming up the atmosphere of Mars.
Mars - which used to be warm and wet - has an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide. But because the red planet's atmosphere is so thin, the planet is now freezing cold.
But Margarita Marinova, of Nasa Ames research centre in California, and colleagues report in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets that artificially created greenhouse gases could set the Martian climate simmering. "Bringing life to Mars and studying its growth would contribute to our understanding of evolution, and the ability of life to adapts and proliferate on other worlds," Dr Marinova said.
"Since warming Mars effectively reverts it to its past, more habitable state, this would give any possibly dormant life on Mars the chance to be revived."
She and her colleagues created a computer model of the Martian atmosphere, and tested it with a series of fluorine-based gases. They found that a gas called octafluoropropane could begin a process of global warming on Mars.
This would take hundreds or even thousands of years. But since the raw materials already exist there, some future space mission could start to turn up the heat in a world frozen for at least 2bn years.
MacMod - The Atari 2600 Macintosh
Building the iAtariMac
What the heck is this? Actually, it is the LONG overdue, been sitting in development hell purgatory, first MacMod.
What is MacMod? An idea and concept that sprung to life in the minds of Tim Robertson and Chad Perry way back in the summer of 2003. The idea? Wouldn't it be cool if there were a video show online that was like a combination of American Chopper and Junkyard Wars, but about Macs?
What? You don't think that is a cool idea? Obviously, we did, so we actually did it. We created a show, named it MacMod, and filmed the whole thing over a six-week period starting October 2003 and finishing December 2003.
The goal? Turning a vintage 1970's Atari 2600 game consol into a Macintosh computer, running the latest and greatest Mac OS X. The catch? Try and keep the Atari looking stock, up to a point.
The problem? Neither Chad nor Tim had ever done anything like this before. Not just "how to build it" but "how to film and present it" were questions they pretty much made up the answers to as they went along.
Firstly, they had to obtain both an Atari 2600 and a Macintosh. The first was easy, Tim already had two Atari 2600's, and they used one of those. The second was not as easy. Neither Tim nor Chad wanted to part with a perfectly good computer to use and, probably, destroy. Neither was confident that the build would be successful, and it was asking too much for either of them to give up a working Macintosh for this show.
The solution? A sponsor! Enter Tekserve! Who is Tekserve? Only one of the best Macintosh resellers in the world, located in New York City, but servicing clients worldwide. They started out as a Mac service company, but have grown well beyond those humble beginnings. Today, they sport over 125 employees!
Tekserve became the silent partner during filming MacMod. Without them, this project could not have happened. It was Tekserve who supplied us with the needed Macintosh to use for this project. Please visit their website today for more information, and be sure to tell them it was MyMac.com who sent you.
This project should have been online a year ago, but it was not meant to be. We ran into many more problems after filming wrapped than we want to go into here. Suffice it to say, we did finish the project, but not alone. Special thanks go to Jim Allard, who was present every day during filming. While you the viewer never see or hear Jim, he was the invisible third man of the show. This would not have happened without him. Tad Scheeler was the talent behind our animated opening, as well as helping film during day two. MacMod would not look the same, or have whatever polish is present, without Tad. Adam Karneboge lent his help in technical matters, as well as providing a part we sorely needed. And Chris Seibold stepped in at the last minute to provide the over-the-top narration the show needed. Without these people, MacMod would never have happened.
Now you can watch, in four parts, the entire build process. There is both a large and small version of each episode. If you are bandwidth challenged, view the smaller one. If you don't mind downloading a large file, enjoy the better detail in the larger ones. And if you would rather have a DVD copy of all four episodes, email us and we can give you more details. (Detail may be posted here in the future if there is enough interest.)
Warning! You will either think this is either really neat, or really stupid. If you think it is stupid, that is Tim and Chad's fault, not those who helped us.
QuickTime is required to view MacMod