>The one genuine, foolproof cure for stress, is nicotine.
Evidence? Studies? That's the first I've heard of that... the only stress I was aware that it cured was the stress of addiction waiting for that next one...
>Then he's using old technology (or the cell phones are still this primitive in the States). New cell phones pick up your voice very well and, by the way, have reduced radiation levels.
Usually it's just that people talking on the phone zone out everything around them... cellphone users do this to a greater extreme, since they assume there is more background noise, they need to talk even louder... it's not the phone's fault.
That one is fun, but boy does it have a bad tendency to suck up the system... a PII-450 with a G200 should be able to handle any telnet program... Mostly the problems are when it is connecting... some sort of evil loop in there.
X-Win32 has the same multiple window mode, where you don't overlay an entire desktop, just specific clients (that being said, Exceed is a little more full-featured, but takes up more resources). I've been using CRT and then SecureCRT for a while now, and I'm pretty happy with it. It lets you easily set up all of the necessary port-forwarding, X-tunnel, etc. Along with an X server, quite a nice set of tools to keep the mixed Windows/Unix enviornments.
I drove a 97 Metro... Had a lot of trouble getting up a hill or two in my hometown (NJ, not even San Fran). Speed limit in MN for limited access highways is 70mph, which translates to ~80mph for you non-Americans;-) While the vehicle *can* get to those speeds, it sure takes it's sweet time...
Of course it is! It's also one heck of a car... I'm saving for an S4 right now (of course, I'll probably want something else by the time I have that extra cash...).
The A8 is one serious vehicle, though. After driving one (though I do prefer smaller vehicles), the only big sedan I've liked better is the 750il ($120k). Either one beats the pants off off of the Lincoln LS or any other vehicle...
Of course, I'd have to get the S8... which you have a little trouble obtaining in the U.S....
"I need an S8 with a nitrous kit" - DiNiro, in Ronin... I drooled so much I had to find the mop.
I've heard a lot of great things about the Saturns in crashes, including a former team lead of mine who got in a severe accident in his little Saturn (SC-1?). He walked away from it, and the car did a great job of absorbing the damage. It was totalled, but the semi that hit him had a fair bit of damage, too...
Actually, lots of cars do... [from the Audi S8 info]
The Audi Space Frame
With the remarkable and revolutionary Audi Space Frame (ASF(R)), the A8 is the world's first premium luxury sedan with an all-aluminum construction. Working with Alcoa, Audi developed seven new aircraft grade alloys to make the dream of a performance luxury car a reality.
The results are extraordinary. The A8 drives with precision and grace. Where larger cars meander through quick-change maneuvers, this car attacks. With gusto.
Additionally, aluminum's ability to better absorb impact energy allows for a bigger safety shell. The lighter characteristics of aluminum also ensure better driver feedback. Improved acceleration. And, faster braking.
Translation: The A8 is lighter, stronger and safer. [/Audi Plug]
There are other maufacturers doing similar things, but it sure makes sense in a energy conserving vehicle like the Insight.
Kias have some of the worst crash ratings in the industry... no surprise - I could build a better car for less using only duct tape and bailing wire, with corrugated cardboard for the chassis.
Really, though - the government (most state and the fed) give tax breaks or rebates for energy saving vehicles like these, and a $20k car isn't really all that bad (though when that's a year's wages, it *is* high).
Heck, get a used Geo Metro (gosh I hate those) for a couple grand a get 50mpg. Just don't try to push the three cylinders to highway speeds...
Pub trans, especially when the busses have been converted to CNG, is a Good Thing(TM). I can only hope more cities change over.
Diesel engines are very clean burning when they are warm and get enough air. One truck with a blown air charger pollutes more than any number of cars, and the regulations aren't as stiff (ok, in MN there is no emissions testing at all, but the smarter states - CA, NY, NJ - all all raising the bar). If trucks were held to *any* standards, we'd all be better off. [/rant]
Actually, the airborne emissions increase opposed to the fuel economy - same miles, twice as much fuel burned ~= twice as many emmissions. Assuming, of course, both engines rate the same combustion effeciency...
And there are many cars that perform better than SUVs in crashes... they are held to different standards.
Huh? Shows up for me (Mandrake/KDE), before and after I crash it (there's a few java pages I visit that are sure to crash the Scraper on any platform... and IE, too). I've been rather pleased with KDE (after a few years of FVWM, experiments with blackbox, windowmaker (?!), icewm (nice), Gnome, CDE, Afterstep (nice but dog-slow), along with some others), and I certainly haven't seen anything like what you've described.
Yeah, parts of some of the custom kernels (Red Hat, Mandrake) can cause little problems... I usually just replace the kernel (or just the specific area) with the newest 'stable' version anyway. You end up losing some of the fun features (supermount, etc), but you can always add these back in...
One of the VPN Masq sites has a patch specifically to counteract the Redhat customization, so that you can apply the normal patch for that level kernel. Nice, but you certainly can't count on that all of the time.
Again we have a good example of the (Read More) not being used... everything after the first paragraph could have been hidden in the story, so one post doesn't eat close to a page in Netscraper.
[/OT] Nortel has a decent VPN solution, but hasn't provided us with a whole lot of Linux support (read: none)... I haven't seen a lot of good multiplatform VPN clients. Sorry...
My personal fav was (Voyager?) where Tuvac (sp?) lost his memory, but managed to use frosting to draw the frequency of [somthing dumb like the shield/cloaking device] on a cake. From a sine wave on a cake they were able to defeat the [insert new random race of dicount costumes] and restore his memory... from a sine wave on a cake. Sensors are useless, but a (poorly drawn) sine wave with no reference for amplitude or frequency saves the day... "Bah!"
Yeah, most hard disks have a reserved area and remap small amounts of defects. Not a big deal, except when you are streaming sequential data and all of a sudden the head ends up doing two extra seeks... but hey, if you lose a couple of clusters, chances are the whole drive is about to go south, anyway...
It's crappy, but useful to get oak started - a few small/medium sized poplar logs (properly dried) are rather useful to get a large Chunk-O-Oak(TM) burning...
You can also use pine sap to paint little figures on the sides of logs and then have fire people. Keeps the kids amused...
Note that the reel-to-reel tapes are analog audio, which can stand quite a bit of degradation and still be recognizable... a file table entry or an opcode is blasted away by a bit or two getting flipped/destroyed. Digital is great, until you lose any part of the signal. Analog dies more gracefully... I've lost a bunch of CD-Rs myself... nothing real useful, though.
Too bad - my PMMX 200 wasn't locked, and it would run at 100MHz bus speed. Stable at 250, 266, and almost at 300 (for a few hours anyway). Those were the days... the 300a @ 450 isn't too much of a slouch, either...
There's been talks of two types of tinting for windshields that I've heard of so far. The first is the same as those automagic shading eyeglasses - dark in the sun light inside. The new materials do change rather quickly, the only problem can occur with the short runs of tunnels or other dark areas, where the material doesn't have time to clear up again. For eyeglasses, at least, this has improved miles from a few years ago. Quicker changing, less yellow color when it should be clear. The second method is an electronic shading system, similar to those crystal windows that are clear or opaque depending on whether or not a current is applied to them. This one gets expensive fast, and the durability and safety concerns are fairly high.
IIRC, in Arizona it is legal to have the tinted front windshield. A friend moved to NJ from there, and they had to get the windshield replaced before they could register the car. Pain in the @$$, that's for sure.
If you get registered ECC, there's a neat buffering system that makes up for that speed loss. There was a long discussion a while back about the different boards that do/don't support registered mode...
(running 512MB reg. ECC on a BH-6 - C300a@450. Rock solid in NT with this memory)
Yeah - this isn't the quickest spot to get answers for that [insert whining about how it used to be better].
I've written (and patched) a few device drivers before, but never needed to do what he described in the question... I'm intrigued into what the device is, and who cobbled it together.
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>The one genuine, foolproof cure for stress, is nicotine.
Evidence? Studies? That's the first I've heard of that... the only stress I was aware that it cured was the stress of addiction waiting for that next one...
>Then he's using old technology (or the cell phones are still this primitive in the States). New cell phones pick up your voice very well and, by the way, have reduced radiation levels.
Usually it's just that people talking on the phone zone out everything around them... cellphone users do this to a greater extreme, since they assume there is more background noise, they need to talk even louder... it's not the phone's fault.
That one is fun, but boy does it have a bad tendency to suck up the system... a PII-450 with a G200 should be able to handle any telnet program... Mostly the problems are when it is connecting... some sort of evil loop in there.
X-Win32 has the same multiple window mode, where you don't overlay an entire desktop, just specific clients (that being said, Exceed is a little more full-featured, but takes up more resources). I've been using CRT and then SecureCRT for a while now, and I'm pretty happy with it. It lets you easily set up all of the necessary port-forwarding, X-tunnel, etc. Along with an X server, quite a nice set of tools to keep the mixed Windows/Unix enviornments.
I drove a 97 Metro... Had a lot of trouble getting up a hill or two in my hometown (NJ, not even San Fran). Speed limit in MN for limited access highways is 70mph, which translates to ~80mph for you non-Americans ;-) While the vehicle *can* get to those speeds, it sure takes it's sweet time...
Of course it is! It's also one heck of a car... I'm saving for an S4 right now (of course, I'll probably want something else by the time I have that extra cash...).
The A8 is one serious vehicle, though. After driving one (though I do prefer smaller vehicles), the only big sedan I've liked better is the 750il ($120k). Either one beats the pants off off of the Lincoln LS or any other vehicle...
Of course, I'd have to get the S8... which you have a little trouble obtaining in the U.S....
"I need an S8 with a nitrous kit" - DiNiro, in Ronin... I drooled so much I had to find the mop.
I've heard a lot of great things about the Saturns in crashes, including a former team lead of mine who got in a severe accident in his little Saturn (SC-1?). He walked away from it, and the car did a great job of absorbing the damage. It was totalled, but the semi that hit him had a fair bit of damage, too...
Actually, lots of cars do...
[from the Audi S8 info]
The Audi Space Frame
With the remarkable and revolutionary Audi Space Frame (ASF(R)), the A8 is the world's first premium luxury sedan with an all-aluminum construction. Working with Alcoa, Audi developed seven new aircraft grade alloys to make the dream of a performance luxury car a reality.
The results are extraordinary. The A8 drives with precision and grace. Where larger cars meander through quick-change maneuvers, this car attacks. With gusto.
Additionally, aluminum's ability to better absorb impact energy allows for a bigger safety shell. The lighter characteristics of aluminum also ensure better driver feedback. Improved acceleration. And, faster braking.
Translation: The A8 is lighter, stronger and safer.
[/Audi Plug]
There are other maufacturers doing similar things, but it sure makes sense in a energy conserving vehicle like the Insight.
Kias have some of the worst crash ratings in the industry... no surprise - I could build a better car for less using only duct tape and bailing wire, with corrugated cardboard for the chassis.
Really, though - the government (most state and the fed) give tax breaks or rebates for energy saving vehicles like these, and a $20k car isn't really all that bad (though when that's a year's wages, it *is* high).
Heck, get a used Geo Metro (gosh I hate those) for a couple grand a get 50mpg. Just don't try to push the three cylinders to highway speeds...
Pub trans, especially when the busses have been converted to CNG, is a Good Thing(TM). I can only hope more cities change over.
Diesel engines are very clean burning when they are warm and get enough air. One truck with a blown air charger pollutes more than any number of cars, and the regulations aren't as stiff (ok, in MN there is no emissions testing at all, but the smarter states - CA, NY, NJ - all all raising the bar). If trucks were held to *any* standards, we'd all be better off. [/rant]
Actually, the airborne emissions increase opposed to the fuel economy - same miles, twice as much fuel burned ~= twice as many emmissions. Assuming, of course, both engines rate the same combustion effeciency...
And there are many cars that perform better than SUVs in crashes... they are held to different standards.
Huh? Shows up for me (Mandrake/KDE), before and after I crash it (there's a few java pages I visit that are sure to crash the Scraper on any platform... and IE, too). I've been rather pleased with KDE (after a few years of FVWM, experiments with blackbox, windowmaker (?!), icewm (nice), Gnome, CDE, Afterstep (nice but dog-slow), along with some others), and I certainly haven't seen anything like what you've described.
Follow-up on my own useless post...
They (Cliff?) have gotten rid of several carriage returns and a bunch of other whitespace... much nicer to the other stories on the front page now.
Yeah, parts of some of the custom kernels (Red Hat, Mandrake) can cause little problems... I usually just replace the kernel (or just the specific area) with the newest 'stable' version anyway. You end up losing some of the fun features (supermount, etc), but you can always add these back in...
One of the VPN Masq sites has a patch specifically to counteract the Redhat customization, so that you can apply the normal patch for that level kernel. Nice, but you certainly can't count on that all of the time.
Again we have a good example of the (Read More) not being used... everything after the first paragraph could have been hidden in the story, so one post doesn't eat close to a page in Netscraper.
[/OT]
Nortel has a decent VPN solution, but hasn't provided us with a whole lot of Linux support (read: none)... I haven't seen a lot of good multiplatform VPN clients. Sorry...
My personal fav was (Voyager?) where Tuvac (sp?) lost his memory, but managed to use frosting to draw the frequency of [somthing dumb like the shield/cloaking device] on a cake. From a sine wave on a cake they were able to defeat the [insert new random race of dicount costumes] and restore his memory... from a sine wave on a cake. Sensors are useless, but a (poorly drawn) sine wave with no reference for amplitude or frequency saves the day...
"Bah!"
Yeah, most hard disks have a reserved area and remap small amounts of defects. Not a big deal, except when you are streaming sequential data and all of a sudden the head ends up doing two extra seeks... but hey, if you lose a couple of clusters, chances are the whole drive is about to go south, anyway...
Ya, u becha! Only Canada and the U.P. are up from Michigan,eh?
It's crappy, but useful to get oak started - a few small/medium sized poplar logs (properly dried) are rather useful to get a large Chunk-O-Oak(TM) burning...
You can also use pine sap to paint little figures on the sides of logs and then have fire people. Keeps the kids amused...
Note that the reel-to-reel tapes are analog audio, which can stand quite a bit of degradation and still be recognizable... a file table entry or an opcode is blasted away by a bit or two getting flipped/destroyed. Digital is great, until you lose any part of the signal. Analog dies more gracefully... I've lost a bunch of CD-Rs myself... nothing real useful, though.
Too bad - my PMMX 200 wasn't locked, and it would run at 100MHz bus speed. Stable at 250, 266, and almost at 300 (for a few hours anyway). Those were the days... the 300a @ 450 isn't too much of a slouch, either...
dude@dude.dude or this@is.fake
There's been talks of two types of tinting for windshields that I've heard of so far. The first is the same as those automagic shading eyeglasses - dark in the sun light inside. The new materials do change rather quickly, the only problem can occur with the short runs of tunnels or other dark areas, where the material doesn't have time to clear up again. For eyeglasses, at least, this has improved miles from a few years ago. Quicker changing, less yellow color when it should be clear. The second method is an electronic shading system, similar to those crystal windows that are clear or opaque depending on whether or not a current is applied to them. This one gets expensive fast, and the durability and safety concerns are fairly high.
IIRC, in Arizona it is legal to have the tinted front windshield. A friend moved to NJ from there, and they had to get the windshield replaced before they could register the car. Pain in the @$$, that's for sure.
If you get registered ECC, there's a neat buffering system that makes up for that speed loss. There was a long discussion a while back about the different boards that do/don't support registered mode...
(running 512MB reg. ECC on a BH-6 - C300a@450. Rock solid in NT with this memory)
Yeah - this isn't the quickest spot to get answers for that [insert whining about how it used to be better].
I've written (and patched) a few device drivers before, but never needed to do what he described in the question... I'm intrigued into what the device is, and who cobbled it together.