You could work up some even better conspiracy theory about how the US and Soviet governments were in cahoots about the whole Cold War, and are nothing but puppets of [pick your favorite supervillan, big corporation, oil conglomerate, or alien civilization]. Hey, it's just as likely as most of the other theories... --
Yes - it can... it is also quite tough on the lower back. Real low temps/windchills and asthma are also not the best of bedfellows, but for those who don't worry about frostbite or keeling over, have fun:-) --
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ESD worked just fine for me... just scuffed my shoes on the carpet, pointed my finger, and *ZAP*. Perfect.
True - I get out and play sports in the summer (heck, even softball is good exercise)... but winter in Minnesota doesn't leave a lot of good days for rollerblading/running/etc...
A couple more suggestions...
I'd substitute an eliptical running machine for the treadmill - easier on the knees and back, and you can run backwards as well as forwards - add a little spice to an otherwise mundane workout.
I can't find the link to them at the moment, but studies have also shown that it is better for your sleep (and therefore your whole body, physical and mental/emotional) if you don't eat a large meal too soon before drifting off for a full night's sleep. So, no huge meal at 9, then drop out at 11/12 (adjust these times forward or backward depending on your own schedule).
Just to corroborate, I've been running an NT4.0 system with the pagefile on a separate partition for ~3-1/2 yrs now. I had an install of W2K with the pagefile on a separate device, but that install has since been obliterated 8^)
Diskeeper is better than nothing, but the full version is quite pricey for a home user... --
[sigh] From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: red tape
Function: noun
Etymology: from the red tape formerly used to bind legal documents in England
Date: 1736
: official routine or procedure marked by excessive complexity which results in delay or inaction --
From the article:
"Suppose that you want to publish a Phd thesis on how to wash clothes using your brand of washing machine. You'd write a sequence of steps starting from:
1) Insert the power cord into the wall socket and switch on the power"
Now, if you happened to be writing a PhD thesis, wouldn't you make 'insert the power cord into the wall socket' and 'switch on the power' two separate methods, possibly expounding for at least half a page as to the meaning of 'switch on the power', which is rather vague - is that the circuit breaker, or is there some power switch on the washer that I haven't seen yet? (hint: there isn't). Granted, a graduate thesis doesn't need to state the obvious as often as undergrad work, but it sure doesn't hurt. Of course, why someone would write a PhD thesis about the operation (rather than the design) of a new washing machine is beyond me... that might be better covered in the patent;-)
>any web browser (with the exception of a few really weird ones, whose names I can't remember) can show html.
That would have to be '>wget | less';-)
I agree that pdf can be overkill for a small (in this case, 8-page) text document, especially when you don't make any use of real typesetting. HTML is well appropriate for these sort of things (though copy and paste from a text-based pdf still works better than from a web browser, due to the copy inserting unnatural carriage returns when grabbed from a web browser). For any real document (papers, not just trite commentary) that has any type of formulas, graphics or real format to it, pdf is superior to html, since you design it to be WYSIWEG (what everyone gets), and HTML isn't well suited for publishing complex things (tables, frames, etc aren't nearly as nice as the ouput from Pagemaker or [insert your favorite desktop publishing program here]). Printing a given document is likewise simplified...
Plus, you can easily take a pdf with you, and not have to worry about grabbing all of the associated graphics and/or having a good connection every time you want to look at it (laptops, corporate firewalls)... an html-based document isn't as easy to pull down for complex docs. Plus, the indexing (bookmarks, thumbnails) and other navigation for pdfs far surpasses a side frame on a website, especially with responsiveness. resizing, zooming in... those are nice features, too.
For short, text-only documentation, html is fine, but complex material (even longer, sectioned text-only material) pdf can provide a lot of nice add-ons.
The original complaints seemed to stem from ps vs pdf, rather than pdf/ps vs html... which is what I was responding to... --
Back in undergrad, when we had a course that made use of LISP, we came up with quite a few backronyms... the file is at home, I'll have to grab that later, but one of my favorites was:
Lots of Insidious, Superfluous Parentheses.
Llamas from India, Syria, and Pakistan didn't seem quite right... wrong continent and all... --
Well, PDF is a lot more useful than ps in a few different ways. Acroread is a lot easier to get functioning properly on some platforms than ghostview is (not to mention the possible size redux and clarity). If I can have Acrobat Reader on AIX, with bookmarks, the ability to copy text out of a document, and know that anyone on just about every platform will have a reader for it... well, it just makes sense. #(WinPCs with Acroread) >> #(WinPCs with ps viewers). Add that to the fact that Acrobat Reader easily nests in Netscrape/Mozilla and IE, and it comes in pretty handy for most people. I avoid.ps on AIX, Linux and Windows as much as possible.
And, as the other posters already mentioned, Google caching those pdfs is really handy... --
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My old Connor 212MB IDE can't... it still works though... half height, doesn't hold data, works great on a 386...
though any EIDE drive since ~1997 should be able to keep up with a 100Mb channel...
You know, if they had services similar to PayPal back in those days (or the earlier Windows days), some little appreciation payments might have sent more often... I gotta find the printouts of the ML for the GeOS apps I wrote for my C-64... the disks have been bad for a few years now...
You can get the domino server at notes.net, but there is no current Linux client for Notes. You can run the Win version in Wine (or VMWare, which defeats the purpose)... but it's not quite the same thing as a native client.
I use a Logitech Trackman Marble (pre-scroll-wheel annoyance), and I've found it to be far more comfortable than the Marble FX over long usage... better for twitch games than a mouse, too, though I haven't had time for those in a year or two.
In general, I agree that a trackball saves a lot of wear and tear on an arm/wrist. --
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In regards to 4) and 5)...
You could work up some even better conspiracy theory about how the US and Soviet governments were in cahoots about the whole Cold War, and are nothing but puppets of [pick your favorite supervillan, big corporation, oil conglomerate, or alien civilization]. Hey, it's just as likely as most of the other theories...
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As George Carlin says - it isn't a near miss, it's a near HIT! [WHOCK!] Look... it nearly missed.
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"What's all this asteroid jibba-jabba?!"
"I pity the foo who tried to set up us the asteroid!"
"1-800, then Colle.." oh, never mind...
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Yes - it can... it is also quite tough on the lower back. Real low temps/windchills and asthma are also not the best of bedfellows, but for those who don't worry about frostbite or keeling over, have fun :-)
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ESD worked just fine for me... just scuffed my shoes on the carpet, pointed my finger, and *ZAP*. Perfect.
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"100% Pure Bob" scares the heck out of me...
Something about M$ Bob left big, nasty, gaping emotional scars that "Faces of Death" never could.
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Good practice for their own legal problems...
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actually, 10mb would be milli-bit.. even worse.
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True - I get out and play sports in the summer (heck, even softball is good exercise)... but winter in Minnesota doesn't leave a lot of good days for rollerblading/running/etc...
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>but rather get a frame grilled burger
Would that be an Ethernet or an ATM frame?
(OT: hey, when did we go to 2 minutes between submissions?)
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A couple more suggestions...
I'd substitute an eliptical running machine for the treadmill - easier on the knees and back, and you can run backwards as well as forwards - add a little spice to an otherwise mundane workout.
I can't find the link to them at the moment, but studies have also shown that it is better for your sleep (and therefore your whole body, physical and mental/emotional) if you don't eat a large meal too soon before drifting off for a full night's sleep. So, no huge meal at 9, then drop out at 11/12 (adjust these times forward or backward depending on your own schedule).
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Just to corroborate, I've been running an NT4.0 system with the pagefile on a separate partition for ~3-1/2 yrs now. I had an install of W2K with the pagefile on a separate device, but that install has since been obliterated 8^)
Diskeeper is better than nothing, but the full version is quite pricey for a home user...
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Wouldn't be too bad - a carrot isn't shaped too much different from an Indy car, really... imagine the big green downforce wing :)
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[sigh] From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: red tape
Function: noun
Etymology: from the red tape formerly used to bind legal documents in England
Date: 1736
: official routine or procedure marked by excessive complexity which results in delay or inaction
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Well, you could use one of the many ad blocking proxys (Junkbuster springs to mind), or filter out a lot of them manually in you hosts file...
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>Acrobat 4.05, the latest version, put random characters in the text and a space before every comma.
Hmmm, didn't have that problem... on windows or AIX...
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From the article:
;-)
"Suppose that you want to publish a Phd thesis on how to wash clothes using your brand of washing machine. You'd write a sequence of steps starting from:
1) Insert the power cord into the wall socket and switch on the power"
Now, if you happened to be writing a PhD thesis, wouldn't you make 'insert the power cord into the wall socket' and 'switch on the power' two separate methods, possibly expounding for at least half a page as to the meaning of 'switch on the power', which is rather vague - is that the circuit breaker, or is there some power switch on the washer that I haven't seen yet? (hint: there isn't). Granted, a graduate thesis doesn't need to state the obvious as often as undergrad work, but it sure doesn't hurt. Of course, why someone would write a PhD thesis about the operation (rather than the design) of a new washing machine is beyond me... that might be better covered in the patent
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>any web browser (with the exception of a few really weird ones, whose names I can't remember) can show html.
;-)
That would have to be '>wget | less'
I agree that pdf can be overkill for a small (in this case, 8-page) text document, especially when you don't make any use of real typesetting. HTML is well appropriate for these sort of things (though copy and paste from a text-based pdf still works better than from a web browser, due to the copy inserting unnatural carriage returns when grabbed from a web browser). For any real document (papers, not just trite commentary) that has any type of formulas, graphics or real format to it, pdf is superior to html, since you design it to be WYSIWEG (what everyone gets), and HTML isn't well suited for publishing complex things (tables, frames, etc aren't nearly as nice as the ouput from Pagemaker or [insert your favorite desktop publishing program here]). Printing a given document is likewise simplified...
Plus, you can easily take a pdf with you, and not have to worry about grabbing all of the associated graphics and/or having a good connection every time you want to look at it (laptops, corporate firewalls)... an html-based document isn't as easy to pull down for complex docs. Plus, the indexing (bookmarks, thumbnails) and other navigation for pdfs far surpasses a side frame on a website, especially with responsiveness. resizing, zooming in... those are nice features, too.
For short, text-only documentation, html is fine, but complex material (even longer, sectioned text-only material) pdf can provide a lot of nice add-ons.
The original complaints seemed to stem from ps vs pdf, rather than pdf/ps vs html... which is what I was responding to...
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>He could have written it in Sanscrit if he wanted to,
... Here's Latin, that's the best I can do."
"You're majoring in a 4000 year old dead language?
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Back in undergrad, when we had a course that made use of LISP, we came up with quite a few backronyms... the file is at home, I'll have to grab that later, but one of my favorites was:
Lots of Insidious, Superfluous Parentheses.
Llamas from India, Syria, and Pakistan didn't seem quite right... wrong continent and all...
--
Well, PDF is a lot more useful than ps in a few different ways. Acroread is a lot easier to get functioning properly on some platforms than ghostview is (not to mention the possible size redux and clarity). If I can have Acrobat Reader on AIX, with bookmarks, the ability to copy text out of a document, and know that anyone on just about every platform will have a reader for it... well, it just makes sense. #(WinPCs with Acroread) >> #(WinPCs with ps viewers). Add that to the fact that Acrobat Reader easily nests in Netscrape/Mozilla and IE, and it comes in pretty handy for most people. I avoid .ps on AIX, Linux and Windows as much as possible.
And, as the other posters already mentioned, Google caching those pdfs is really handy...
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My old Connor 212MB IDE can't... it still works though... half height, doesn't hold data, works great on a 386...
though any EIDE drive since ~1997 should be able to keep up with a 100Mb channel...
--
You know, if they had services similar to PayPal back in those days (or the earlier Windows days), some little appreciation payments might have sent more often... I gotta find the printouts of the ML for the GeOS apps I wrote for my C-64... the disks have been bad for a few years now...
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You can get the domino server at notes.net, but there is no current Linux client for Notes. You can run the Win version in Wine (or VMWare, which defeats the purpose)... but it's not quite the same thing as a native client.
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I use a Logitech Trackman Marble (pre-scroll-wheel annoyance), and I've found it to be far more comfortable than the Marble FX over long usage... better for twitch games than a mouse, too, though I haven't had time for those in a year or two. In general, I agree that a trackball saves a lot of wear and tear on an arm/wrist.
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