Lemme guess, you used to hang around on alt.hackers. I used to hang out there too, I was surprised to not see 31337 k-rad alt.2600 people there at first. The ObHack requirement was quite a nice touch. I remember when it got to food hacks:-)*
As for computers sold on television, I remember laughing at the shopping channel ones. There's now a commercial played way too often up here in Canada now by "denny computers."
It's hilarious/infuriating. A family of really bad actors pass by a number of good computers with ok speakers (Labtec). They get to the last computer, which is so obviously put together with the cheapest no-name parts possible. That includes those crappy 7W speakers that all the stores pass off as 80W. The family goes nuts over it, pointing, touching, oohing, aahing. It even looks plain uglier than the other ones, and the family only has looks to go on.
3.2GB HD, 40X CDROM, 64MB RAM, Win '98. No other specs like video card, sound card, or who made those parts (though they probably don't know either:-)* ).
"The only computer that comes with everything you need!"
Rrrright.
I keep resisting the urge to call them up:
"So, your computer is the only computer with everything I need, right?"
"Yes it is."
"Ok, well, I need 100MB ethernet, 3-piece speakers that actually have some bass response, an RDBMS, UNIX, a laser printer, 17-inch monitor (I can't stand anything smaller), Matrox G400... That is what I need, and you appear to be the only company that can provide these things. You also charge only CAN$999 for it all!"
"Um... we can't give you those things."
"But your computer is the only one that comes with everything I need."
"We only sell that one configuration."
"So, are you telling me that your advertisement is making false claims."
"Well we don't mean it like that."
"But you led me to believe so. That's false advertising, isn't it?"
...and so on. Until I hang up and open up my phone book to the number for reporting false advertising.
Then I realise that the whole thing would only be worth my time if I would get a free computer out of it. That's extremely unlikely, so I go off to read some more Slashdot, which, incidentally, is also unlikely to provide me with a free computer, but I feel much less insulted.
The worst is when that stuff becomes admissable evidence in court.
The court also believes those silly, carnival, "lie-detector" tests.
Here's something. Put on a lab coat (I have one right here, which I wear whilst making printed circuit boards), declare youself a "scientist" (I'm sure most of us has some physics/chemistry experience) and use that to destroy your enemies.
"Sure Bill Gates raped her. The defibyonerator says so."
They have a "just enough" attitude to their services. Just give your customers as little as possible and continue to overcharge them. Outages are one thing, how come they refuse to upgrade overloaded networks?
Putting blame on others is also quite common.
I get that impression from many American companies. An embedded company called TERN gave me similar BS at a previous job.
Their development tools were antiquated, the board was defective and they refused to replace it. Transferring new code kept giving CRC errors, and sometimes it would get through, but with errors. They gave me a similar runaround, claiming that all of our computers, including my Dell Dimension XPS 200, had "nonstandard" serial ports that couldn't keep up with 57.6k. Yeah right.
I finally got to the "CEO" (small company) who told me that GM had the very same problem with 100 different new computers, and that all of those computers were bad.
Yeah, right.
We hauled the boards out of both of the projects we were working on and replaced them with cool, reliable ZWorld boards.
Development time shrunk immensely, and reliability was great. Their tech support was also extremely good, they would email me code snippets and everything. They also encouraged messing around with their libraries, I thought that was excellent and found them well written and easy to hack.
Hmmm... Parallels the referenced article quite well. Goes to show, if you're not satisfied, walk. It makes all the difference.
I only use 3 of the buttons, all on the right side (which makes sense to me since that's where your scroll bar is, usually). I only have minimize, maximize, and close. For program menu, I simply right click on the titlebar, and the meu pops up wherever I click (IIRC, X is not running right now so I can't check it, and I rarely need that menu).
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Or if you have a two button mouse (like myself), simply click both buttons on the link.
I find it makes Slashdot reading much less annoying in Netscape. If you click a link regularly, it's really slow coming back, and it won't be displaying the right part of the document.
I think that's entirely possible. I tried it out from CVS.
It's pretty good, though somewhat buggy. Konqueror (which just might convert a old nc/mc guy like myself, quite a feat) looks great but is pretty unstable right now. It works though. Just needs some bugs fixed.
I'm confident it'll be very useable very soon. I'm currently doing a reinstall, and I'm going to try it out again.
I also tried out XFree86 3.9.15. Pretty damn slick. I only had to add *one line* to my XF86Config file: Driver "MGA". I also changed the X symlink to point to XFree86 rather than XF86_SVGA.
My only problem was that it "broke" kdm/xdm. Now it only goes into twm no matter what I select. I glanced through some documentation and went through a load of config files trying to find out what's running twm. I found some and changed twm to startkde and it's still doing it. Ho hum, I'll figure it out.
I started using Slackware in '93 (IIRC) and learned *all* about doing things by hand. I still prefer compiling new software than blindly installing downloaded RPMs. After an install my packages slowly get replaced with new versions compiled by me.
I know how to edit an XF86Config file. When I first started using X I kept forgetting how to install X and I hand wrote my file using the man page and the howto for references. It obviously took a while.
I know how it all works. I now use SaX. It does most everything doing it from scratch can do, but in less time. So now I generate one from SaX and make a couple of minimal changes. Changes most people don't care about.
YaST is a godsend. It does most things intelligently. If you hand edit a file, it'll detect that and save any changes in a file called filename.SuSEConfig so that you can compare the two and make changes yourself. Network setup is real easy. It took a while for me to generate config files for two NICs and masquerading on Slackware by hand, but I backed them up for subsequent installs. I thought about writing a program to automate all of this. Then I found SuSE. It turns out to be exactly what I wanted to do, but on a much larger scale.
Personally, I'd rather spend my time writing programs to do new stuff than fool around doing stuff I no longer need to do anymore.
I tried Debian twice. Why does it take so long to configure packages after install? And why do most of them fail? Most of the time it doesn't tell you why. If the packages aren't going to work, I might as well install Slackware again and compile everything from scratch. Fortunately, the SuSE packages have a very high success-rate.
Actually, if you're pushing Debian from a "hard-to-use, you'll-learn-a-lot" perspective, you should probably be pushing Slackware instead.
The other day my friend showed me a really nifty piece of software called podfuk. It basically (so far as I can tell) combines vfs libraries from Midnight Commander and the CODA filesystem... so you can cd into tar files or ftp sites
Windows Commander (www.ghisler.com) does all that. It's the only thing that allows me to keep my sanity in windows. It does all of the major archive formats (except bzip). PKZip, tar, and gzip/compress is implemented internally, and most other formats work provided you have the proper commandline software (rar, arj, uc2, ace, etc). It even performs "magic" (as in the file command) to determine archive types, so you can cd into a zip file even if it was accidentally named with any other extension. It does ftp vfs as well, and it does that quite well. It's improved on the MC way of doing it, too. Ctrl-F does it. MC's way kind of annoys me, especially if you mistype the site name and have to wait for it to figure out the site is down (though I've taken to just killing it nowadays).
I was thinking of making my own similar file manager for KDE, based more on Windows Commander with some MC things thrown in like file colourisation.
Sysadmins do. From what I can gather from their web page, the point is customised installs based on any distribution you like, using a predefined set of packages.
What sucks for them is that Slackware already has that facility. Caldera seems to have it as well. I think all distribs should have that feature.
Sorry to hear of your trouble. I've tried COL a while back and my impression was "definitely not finished." It felt very alpha to me. Not something I would install on a server *or* a desktop.
If you want easiest to install, with a similar set of software (minus office packages) as COL, Slackware is the one. It's also very solid and easy to install over NFS, just the slakware directory is needed.
I use SuSE myself, because of the large amount of actual working packages, and the incredibly easy YAST. SaX is very nice too, unless you have a Mach64.
I'm one of those that never have Linux install troubles but *ALWAYS* have trouble with MS stuff. The other day something messed up in my install I use monthly at most. A registry problem which required me to reinstall (why, oh why, is there no console regedit?!). It crashed during installation no less than 6 times. With each reboot it would get a little farther. Finally mostly installed, it would crash just as the "discover win98" screen came up. I suspected maybe the soundcard (TB Montego) so I got into safe mode and removed the driver (mostly. It, for some reason, does not allow you to remove all of the entries in control panel). Still crashed at the same place.
So I delete the windows directory and reinstall again! This time it didn't crash, but I had NIC trouble.
I have two NICs in this machine. An original Novell NE2000 and an Allied Telesyn AT1500t. It only detected the NE2000, and guessed the wrong base port and IRQ. Of course the NIC card I needed at the time was the AT1500t. So I removed the NE2000 driver (for some reason default TCP/IP (gateway) won't work on a card installed second) and installed the AT1500t driver, which windows only took default (wrong!) values and didn't allow me to force them until after I rebooted (I also got the correct values from dmesg in linux, as both of my cards settings were detected correctly). Ok, the card working, I had to set up the TCP/IP settings. Then, after reboot, no internet... Ok, try IE (which I have only ever used to download Netscape), it dumps me into the "internet connection wizard" which asks me redundant questions until it actually allows IE to run. Still, no internet.
By this time I forgot why I was trying to get windows to work in the first place. I booted back into Linux and haven't rebooted since.
So, neither is really "easier" than the other. It depends on the person, the hardware, and maybe the phase of the moon.
For me, Linux was always easier to install and maintain. I have friends who had more (or as much) trouble installing Linux than Windows.
My advice. Try everything at least twice. That's what I do. I tried Red Hat twice, Caldera twice, Debian twice, FreeBSD once (I'll try again, soon), and Mandrake once (I'm still using it for a print server). Everything else was Slackware and SuSE, which are my favourites.
Wow, a use for those old 286 boards I keep *just in case I need a certain part*.
How about: - Use an old VCR case. - Inside an old monitor/tv. Stick some plexiglass where the CRT used to be. - A desk drawer. I know a guy who did this for a voicemail server. He'd pull the drawer out to service it. - Three words: wall mounted motherboard. - An old microwave. Use the op interface for server functions ("clear" will properly reboot, the number keys will set a runlevel. Fun!) - Bend up the sheet metal from an old microwave, etc to make your own funky case. - Flying V case - Modify an old Compaq suitcase computer. I had discussions about this with a boss who was a cad guy, hated tiny notebooks, and had a couple that were wasting away in the storage room near my office. - Merge the motherboard with your monitor, Mac style... orrrr merge with you keyboard. - For those concerned about heat: stick it in your vacuum. Actually that's a very bad idea, RF-wise. - The knapsack PC! Everybody wears one and simply connects to the nearest monitor. - Surgically implant behind your breastplate. Even better, use nanotech to *build* it behind your breastplate.
Right on. Well said. Animal activists tend to go to far, including mass propoganda.
News flash, seals can't cry. They want you to think so though.
Actually, I find it arrogant that these activists somehow consider humans to be "above nature." We are animals like any other. A lion will eat an antelope. A dog and cat can be friendly and play with each other. Ditto for a hippo and a bird.
News flash 2, we are naturally occurring and it's quite arrogant to think otherwise. A lion will eat a human if it's hungry enough.
If I remember correctly, the guy had something to do with foreign affairs. That just takes the cake. I also enjoyed the following (true) responses to Rick Mercer's fiction:
"Congratulations, Canada, on getting electricity!"
"Congratulations, Canada, on getting a railroad!"
For you Americans, Rick Mercer's work on that show is very similar to Michael Moore's "TV Nation" which, interestingly enough, was cancelled by both FOX and NBC because they were scared of it. He ended up basing the show out of Canada under a different name, for the Bravo! channel. I keep forgetting the new name, but I saw the hilarious segment where he conducted a "witchhunt" through Washington DC, complete with puritans, asking random politicians whether they "fornicated."
I've never seen or heard of a Western Union around here.
I learned Western Union splices in school, but that's about the extent of it:-)*
When sending money around to immediate family members away, we just transfer into the account. And for free, too. We can now do it on the www.tdbank.ca site really quickly.
When the banks are different, you have to wire, though. That costs money.
Oh well, it's still going to be a money order anyway. Hohum.
I'm game. $7000 is nothing to bunch of people like us. He may even get more.
I don't even care that I'm in another country and will have to send a money order. Too bad you can't send absolutely anybody money with VISA easily, that would rock.
- Write a short design document, pass it around to everybody on the project (I was one of two software/electronics guys, the rest were machanical, marketing, and the president (small company)). Everybody adds their $0.02. President gets final word and says, "go with it."
- Design, build, and test first prototype (hardware and/or software).
- Update design document for any variations or additions.
- Show off prototype at trade show.
- Repeat for each prototype (we only did prototypes, it's up to our clients to do full production, etc).
- Tack on test results (they let me use GNUPlot, yay!), pictures of test apparatii, etc.
- Frequent trips to Radio Shack/Electronic Center/my house to get that part or tool we don't want to wait two days/weeks for.
- Finish workterm and go back to school:-)*
That was pretty much it. I hated the design documents because it was coding time/electronic design time wasted. However, clients don't like seeing nothing but the product. Design documents are necessary for a company's viability.
It also leaves a lot for nitpicky people to debate endlessly and pointlessly about.
Change "nitpicky" with "imaginative" and "debate endlessly and pointlessly" with "hypothesise" and you might understand that people view things differently.
Lemme guess, you hated Lost Highway. I loved it. I laughed once during "the Waterboy." And that was because of Rob Schneider (sp?), I found the rest pointless, inane and stupid. I hate intelligence-insulting laugh-tracks, except when used for actual wit (such as the "friends" episode of Duckman).
Am I right? Well, a lot of people loved the waterboy. Maybe they were seeing something in it I wasn't.
So I'm not exactly right. I'm not exactly wrong either. People are individuals, and I'd rather it stayed that way.
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How about:
- Was it really the Blair Witch, or some effective psycho loon?
- Was it really Josh yelling from the basement? Or was it a recording? Or was it the Blair Witch mimicing his voice?
- How did Mike end up in the corner? Physically forced? Possesed? Already dead and propped up?
- Did they really die? No bodies were found.
- What were those children's voices? What were the other sounds? What caused the tent to flap like that?
- How did they end up going in a circle? Maybe it's like those magic forests in Zelda.
- What was that slime?
ad infinitum....
No questions, huh? Maybe you were looking at it differently than I but I really enjoyed it and am waiting for the DVD.
I had no trouble. I just mke2fs'ed the new partition, copied everything over, and ran LILO on it.
To run LILO on it edit lilo.conf on the running filesystem to install on/dev/hdc, and pointing to/dev/hda[whatever]. This will install LILO on the new HD pointing to partitions on it's own disk drive (which will be/dev/hda*). Then shutdown and physically swap the drives.
It should work. If not use a LILO disk (I like Slackare's no-BS boot disk: "mount root=/dev/hda1"). After it has successfully booted, update the/etc/lilo.conf to install on/dev/hda, for the next time you "make [b]zlilo" your kernel. If you had to use a LILO disk to boot, run lilo after you have made sure your lilo.conf is correct.
My Turtle Beach Montego has 3 internal inputs (CD, modem, DVD/Aux) and two external inputs (mic, line in). Essentially you have 4 line ins and a mic in.
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Lemme guess, you used to hang around on alt.hackers. I used to hang out there too, I was surprised to not see 31337 k-rad alt.2600 people there at first. The ObHack requirement was quite a nice touch. I remember when it got to food hacks
As for computers sold on television, I remember laughing at the shopping channel ones. There's now a commercial played way too often up here in Canada now by "denny computers."
It's hilarious/infuriating. A family of really bad actors pass by a number of good computers with ok speakers (Labtec). They get to the last computer, which is so obviously put together with the cheapest no-name parts possible. That includes those crappy 7W speakers that all the stores pass off as 80W. The family goes nuts over it, pointing, touching, oohing, aahing. It even looks plain uglier than the other ones, and the family only has looks to go on.
3.2GB HD, 40X CDROM, 64MB RAM, Win '98. No other specs like video card, sound card, or who made those parts (though they probably don't know either
"The only computer that comes with everything you need!"
Rrrright.
I keep resisting the urge to call them up:
"So, your computer is the only computer with everything I need, right?"
"Yes it is."
"Ok, well, I need 100MB ethernet, 3-piece speakers that actually have some bass response, an RDBMS, UNIX, a laser printer, 17-inch monitor (I can't stand anything smaller), Matrox G400... That is what I need, and you appear to be the only company that can provide these things. You also charge only CAN$999 for it all!"
"Um... we can't give you those things."
"But your computer is the only one that comes with everything I need."
"We only sell that one configuration."
"So, are you telling me that your advertisement is making false claims."
"Well we don't mean it like that."
"But you led me to believe so. That's false advertising, isn't it?"
...and so on. Until I hang up and open up my phone book to the number for reporting false advertising.
Then I realise that the whole thing would only be worth my time if I would get a free computer out of it. That's extremely unlikely, so I go off to read some more Slashdot, which, incidentally, is also unlikely to provide me with a free computer, but I feel much less insulted.
The worst is when that stuff becomes admissable evidence in court.
The court also believes those silly, carnival, "lie-detector" tests.
Here's something. Put on a lab coat (I have one right here, which I wear whilst making printed circuit boards), declare youself a "scientist" (I'm sure most of us has some physics/chemistry experience) and use that to destroy your enemies.
"Sure Bill Gates raped her. The defibyonerator says so."
The US is chock full of dogs (eg. Bill Gates) and pigs (Tipper Gore) as well.
:-)*
Though that can be said of any country, it seems easier to apply it to the US than many other places.
I assume you're a Pink Floyd fan and understood that first sentence
Absolutely great album.
They have a "just enough" attitude to their services. Just give your customers as little as possible and continue to overcharge them. Outages are one thing, how come they refuse to upgrade overloaded networks?
Putting blame on others is also quite common.
I get that impression from many American companies. An embedded company called TERN gave me similar BS at a previous job.
Their development tools were antiquated, the board was defective and they refused to replace it. Transferring new code kept giving CRC errors, and sometimes it would get through, but with errors. They gave me a similar runaround, claiming that all of our computers, including my Dell Dimension XPS 200, had "nonstandard" serial ports that couldn't keep up with 57.6k. Yeah right.
I finally got to the "CEO" (small company) who told me that GM had the very same problem with 100 different new computers, and that all of those computers were bad.
Yeah, right.
We hauled the boards out of both of the projects we were working on and replaced them with cool, reliable ZWorld boards.
Development time shrunk immensely, and reliability was great. Their tech support was also extremely good, they would email me code snippets and everything. They also encouraged messing around with their libraries, I thought that was excellent and found them well written and easy to hack.
Hmmm... Parallels the referenced article quite well. Goes to show, if you're not satisfied, walk. It makes all the difference.
I only use 3 of the buttons, all on the right side (which makes sense to me since that's where your scroll bar is, usually). I only have minimize, maximize, and close. For program menu, I simply right click on the titlebar, and the meu pops up wherever I click (IIRC, X is not running right now so I can't check it, and I rarely need that menu).
Or if you have a two button mouse (like myself), simply click both buttons on the link.
I find it makes Slashdot reading much less annoying in Netscape. If you click a link regularly, it's really slow coming back, and it won't be displaying the right part of the document.
I think that's entirely possible. I tried it out from CVS.
It's pretty good, though somewhat buggy. Konqueror (which just might convert a old nc/mc guy like myself, quite a feat) looks great but is pretty unstable right now. It works though. Just needs some bugs fixed.
I'm confident it'll be very useable very soon. I'm currently doing a reinstall, and I'm going to try it out again.
I also tried out XFree86 3.9.15. Pretty damn slick. I only had to add *one line* to my XF86Config file: Driver "MGA". I also changed the X symlink to point to XFree86 rather than XF86_SVGA.
My only problem was that it "broke" kdm/xdm. Now it only goes into twm no matter what I select. I glanced through some documentation and went through a load of config files trying to find out what's running twm. I found some and changed twm to startkde and it's still doing it.
Ho hum, I'll figure it out.
I want it to be a breeze.
I started using Slackware in '93 (IIRC) and learned *all* about doing things by hand. I still prefer compiling new software than blindly installing downloaded RPMs. After an install my packages slowly get replaced with new versions compiled by me.
I know how to edit an XF86Config file. When I first started using X I kept forgetting how to install X and I hand wrote my file using the man page and the howto for references. It obviously took a while.
I know how it all works. I now use SaX. It does most everything doing it from scratch can do, but in less time. So now I generate one from SaX and make a couple of minimal changes. Changes most people don't care about.
YaST is a godsend. It does most things intelligently. If you hand edit a file, it'll detect that and save any changes in a file called filename.SuSEConfig so that you can compare the two and make changes yourself. Network setup is real easy. It took a while for me to generate config files for two NICs and masquerading on Slackware by hand, but I backed them up for subsequent installs. I thought about writing a program to automate all of this. Then I found SuSE. It turns out to be exactly what I wanted to do, but on a much larger scale.
Personally, I'd rather spend my time writing programs to do new stuff than fool around doing stuff I no longer need to do anymore.
I tried Debian twice. Why does it take so long to configure packages after install? And why do most of them fail? Most of the time it doesn't tell you why. If the packages aren't going to work, I might as well install Slackware again and compile everything from scratch. Fortunately, the SuSE packages have a very high success-rate.
Actually, if you're pushing Debian from a "hard-to-use, you'll-learn-a-lot" perspective, you should probably be pushing Slackware instead.
The other day my friend showed me a really nifty piece of software called podfuk. It basically (so far as I can tell) combines vfs libraries from Midnight Commander and the CODA filesystem... so you can cd into tar files or ftp sites
Windows Commander (www.ghisler.com) does all that. It's the only thing that allows me to keep my sanity in windows. It does all of the major archive formats (except bzip). PKZip, tar, and gzip/compress is implemented internally, and most other formats work provided you have the proper commandline software (rar, arj, uc2, ace, etc). It even performs "magic" (as in the file command) to determine archive types, so you can cd into a zip file even if it was accidentally named with any other extension. It does ftp vfs as well, and it does that quite well. It's improved on the MC way of doing it, too. Ctrl-F does it. MC's way kind of annoys me, especially if you mistype the site name and have to wait for it to figure out the site is down (though I've taken to just killing it nowadays).
I was thinking of making my own similar file manager for KDE, based more on Windows Commander with some MC things thrown in like file colourisation.
Sysadmins do. From what I can gather from their web page, the point is customised installs based on any distribution you like, using a predefined set of packages.
What sucks for them is that Slackware already has that facility. Caldera seems to have it as well. I think all distribs should have that feature.
Sorry to hear of your trouble. I've tried COL a while back and my impression was "definitely not finished." It felt very alpha to me. Not something I would install on a server *or* a desktop.
If you want easiest to install, with a similar set of software (minus office packages) as COL, Slackware is the one. It's also very solid and easy to install over NFS, just the slakware directory is needed.
I use SuSE myself, because of the large amount of actual working packages, and the incredibly easy YAST. SaX is very nice too, unless you have a Mach64.
I'm one of those that never have Linux install troubles but *ALWAYS* have trouble with MS stuff. The other day something messed up in my install I use monthly at most. A registry problem which required me to reinstall (why, oh why, is there no console regedit?!). It crashed during installation no less than 6 times. With each reboot it would get a little farther. Finally mostly installed, it would crash just as the "discover win98" screen came up. I suspected maybe the soundcard (TB Montego) so I got into safe mode and removed the driver (mostly. It, for some reason, does not allow you to remove all of the entries in control panel). Still crashed at the same place.
So I delete the windows directory and reinstall again! This time it didn't crash, but I had NIC trouble.
I have two NICs in this machine. An original Novell NE2000 and an Allied Telesyn AT1500t. It only detected the NE2000, and guessed the wrong base port and IRQ. Of course the NIC card I needed at the time was the AT1500t. So I removed the NE2000 driver (for some reason default TCP/IP (gateway) won't work on a card installed second) and installed the AT1500t driver, which windows only took default (wrong!) values and didn't allow me to force them until after I rebooted (I also got the correct values from dmesg in linux, as both of my cards settings were detected correctly). Ok, the card working, I had to set up the TCP/IP settings. Then, after reboot, no internet... Ok, try IE (which I have only ever used to download Netscape), it dumps me into the "internet connection wizard" which asks me redundant questions until it actually allows IE to run. Still, no internet.
By this time I forgot why I was trying to get windows to work in the first place. I booted back into Linux and haven't rebooted since.
So, neither is really "easier" than the other. It depends on the person, the hardware, and maybe the phase of the moon.
For me, Linux was always easier to install and maintain. I have friends who had more (or as much) trouble installing Linux than Windows.
My advice. Try everything at least twice. That's what I do. I tried Red Hat twice, Caldera twice, Debian twice, FreeBSD once (I'll try again, soon), and Mandrake once (I'm still using it for a print server). Everything else was Slackware and SuSE, which are my favourites.
Wow, a use for those old 286 boards I keep *just in case I need a certain part*.
How about:
- Use an old VCR case.
- Inside an old monitor/tv. Stick some plexiglass where the CRT used to be.
- A desk drawer. I know a guy who did this for a voicemail server. He'd pull the drawer out to service it.
- Three words: wall mounted motherboard.
- An old microwave. Use the op interface for server functions ("clear" will properly reboot, the number keys will set a runlevel. Fun!)
- Bend up the sheet metal from an old microwave, etc to make your own funky case.
- Flying V case
- Modify an old Compaq suitcase computer. I had discussions about this with a boss who was a cad guy, hated tiny notebooks, and had a couple that were wasting away in the storage room near my office.
- Merge the motherboard with your monitor, Mac style... orrrr merge with you keyboard.
- For those concerned about heat: stick it in your vacuum. Actually that's a very bad idea, RF-wise.
- The knapsack PC! Everybody wears one and simply connects to the nearest monitor.
- Surgically implant behind your breastplate. Even better, use nanotech to *build* it behind your breastplate.
Oh the possibilities are endless.
Right on. Well said. Animal activists tend to go to far, including mass propoganda.
News flash, seals can't cry. They want you to think so though.
Actually, I find it arrogant that these activists somehow consider humans to be "above nature." We are animals like any other. A lion will eat an antelope. A dog and cat can be friendly and play with each other. Ditto for a hippo and a bird.
News flash 2, we are naturally occurring and it's quite arrogant to think otherwise. A lion will eat a human if it's hungry enough.
If I remember correctly, the guy had something to do with foreign affairs. That just takes the cake. I also enjoyed the following (true) responses to Rick Mercer's fiction:
"Congratulations, Canada, on getting electricity!"
"Congratulations, Canada, on getting a railroad!"
For you Americans, Rick Mercer's work on that show is very similar to Michael Moore's "TV Nation" which, interestingly enough, was cancelled by both FOX and NBC because they were scared of it. He ended up basing the show out of Canada under a different name, for the Bravo! channel. I keep forgetting the new name, but I saw the hilarious segment where he conducted a "witchhunt" through Washington DC, complete with puritans, asking random politicians whether they "fornicated."
I've never seen or heard of a Western Union around here.
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I learned Western Union splices in school, but that's about the extent of it
When sending money around to immediate family members away, we just transfer into the account. And for free, too. We can now do it on the www.tdbank.ca site really quickly.
When the banks are different, you have to wire, though. That costs money.
Oh well, it's still going to be a money order anyway. Hohum.
All I need now is an address and some free time.
I'm game. $7000 is nothing to bunch of people like us. He may even get more.
I don't even care that I'm in another country and will have to send a money order. Too bad you can't send absolutely anybody money with VISA easily, that would rock.
Here's what we did at my last job:
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- Write a short design document, pass it around to everybody on the project (I was one of two software/electronics guys, the rest were machanical, marketing, and the president (small company)). Everybody adds their $0.02. President gets final word and says, "go with it."
- Design, build, and test first prototype (hardware and/or software).
- Update design document for any variations or additions.
- Show off prototype at trade show.
- Repeat for each prototype (we only did prototypes, it's up to our clients to do full production, etc).
- Tack on test results (they let me use GNUPlot, yay!), pictures of test apparatii, etc.
- Frequent trips to Radio Shack/Electronic Center/my house to get that part or tool we don't want to wait two days/weeks for.
- Finish workterm and go back to school
That was pretty much it. I hated the design documents because it was coding time/electronic design time wasted. However, clients don't like seeing nothing but the product. Design documents are necessary for a company's viability.
It also leaves a lot for nitpicky people to debate endlessly and pointlessly about.
Change "nitpicky" with "imaginative" and "debate endlessly and pointlessly" with "hypothesise" and you might understand that people view things differently.
Lemme guess, you hated Lost Highway. I loved it. I laughed once during "the Waterboy." And that was because of Rob Schneider (sp?), I found the rest pointless, inane and stupid. I hate intelligence-insulting laugh-tracks, except when used for actual wit (such as the "friends" episode of Duckman).
Am I right? Well, a lot of people loved the waterboy. Maybe they were seeing something in it I wasn't.
So I'm not exactly right. I'm not exactly wrong either. People are individuals, and I'd rather it stayed that way.
How about:
:-)
- Was it really the Blair Witch, or some effective psycho loon?
- Was it really Josh yelling from the basement? Or was it a recording? Or was it the Blair Witch mimicing his voice?
- How did Mike end up in the corner? Physically forced? Possesed? Already dead and propped up?
- Did they really die? No bodies were found.
- What were those children's voices? What were the other sounds? What caused the tent to flap like that?
- How did they end up going in a circle? Maybe it's like those magic forests in Zelda.
- What was that slime?
ad infinitum....
No questions, huh? Maybe you were looking at it differently than I but I really enjoyed it and am waiting for the DVD.
Maybe you should go rent Navy Seals
I had no trouble. I just mke2fs'ed the new partition, copied everything over, and ran LILO on it.
/dev/hdc, and pointing to /dev/hda[whatever]. This will install LILO on the new HD pointing to partitions on it's own disk drive (which will be /dev/hda*). Then shutdown and physically swap the drives.
/etc/lilo.conf to install on /dev/hda, for the next time you "make [b]zlilo" your kernel. If you had to use a LILO disk to boot, run lilo after you have made sure your lilo.conf is correct.
To run LILO on it edit lilo.conf on the running filesystem to install on
It should work. If not use a LILO disk (I like Slackare's no-BS boot disk: "mount root=/dev/hda1"). After it has successfully booted, update the
pls be patient, I only have a U.S. college education
I think you just answered your own question (joke!).
Basically, the US education system leaves much to be desired. This is simply a commentary on that sad state of affairs.
Interestingly enough, Linus told Loki that he wanted to see them make educational software for Linux.
I believe it's a joke/comment:
Education (or lack thereof)
I think the entire world is aware of the US education problem.
My Turtle Beach Montego has 3 internal inputs (CD, modem, DVD/Aux) and two external inputs (mic, line in). Essentially you have 4 line ins and a mic in.
Plus SPDIF if you need it.
Yup, I was thinking of trying to join IBM in Ottawa after I finish school but decided against it. It appears that there's nothing in my field there.
According to IBM, "Ottawa has the largest concentration of database talent outside of Silicon Valley."
I'm not IT, so screw it. Maybe Cisco will pick up someone like me... Oh well, that's another four years ahead, with three just finished.
Seven years... If I don't go insane first.