Using whatever X11 fink (for 10.2, of course... clean install) installs by default on unstable branch (no X11 for 10.2 on stable). OroborusX downloaded from homepage two days ago. Did you just follow the standard OroborusX drag-and-drop install?
Can you recommend a good window manager for Jaguar? I used OroborusX under 10.1, and absolutely loved it. It doesn't expect a root window, and doesn't get weird when there isn't one. The aqua-style windows are gorgeous... if nothing else, they blend in. And interleaving just works. Unfortunately, I can't get OroborusX to work at all under 10.2. It installs fine, but at startup, I get a slew of odd messages that basically say "This version of X11 is newer than me, help!" Is there any other window manager that blends into Aqua this well?
As a side note, I question the 'heat' comment. I've had many laptops in my day, and none have gotten hotter than a Sony Picturebook... using OS X 10.1, the iBook (600MHz) got hardly warm at all. However, on upgrading to 10.2, I noticed my laptop getting much, much warmer. Still not nearly as hot as that sony... but warm. It turns out that it's the graphics chip (ATI, 16MB) which is generating the heat; disabling Quartz Extreme cools the machine right down. Clearly, this needs a bit more optimization, in terms of engineering... just like to point out that it's not the poor struggling CPU that's getting hot.
I'm a member of national ski patrol, and I've met my share of folks like this, who curse at the people who are trying to help them. Unfortunately, we're supposed to be nice, so I can't tell them that I'll just leave 'em there and save there jacket... However, when someone actually is reasonable, and realize that their health is more important than their clothes, I let them in on a little secret. For any of the major gear companies (Descente, North Face, Rossignol, whoever), if you write them a letter saying exactly what happpened (I fell going down this run and cracked my arm, and the patrollers had to cut the sleeve of your wonderful jacket off) and toss it in a package with the jacket, they'll send you a replacement within a few weeks. Every single time, assuming it's one of the good companies. Good to know.;-)
Maybe this is obvious, but I've looked for a bit and not been able to figure it out. I have a current fink install on 10.1. I want to switch to 10.2, and I'm going to do a clean install to do that... so all my fink software will be wiped. I don't mind redownloading everything at all... but is there any way to grab my current fink list of installed programs, and have fink reinstall those automatically? I managed to get the installed list through `fink list` and a bit of grepping... but that includes all the dependencies, and dependencies might have changed, so some of those installed items may not be needed any more. Also, if I pass that list to `fink install`, the first item that's unreachable will cause fink to terminate after a few retries (with the --yes) option, meaning I'll have to rerun the whole script, no? Any workarounds/ideas/people calling me dumb?
A lot of people have said that jpeg and gif will be readable in 25 years, and given various justification based on popularity. While I don't actually doubt this, if you're really concerned about long-term storage, I'd say use a bitmap. In particular, use a 24-bit RGB format, entirely uncompressed, with every image on a given storage medium (cd, probably) the same width. Separate different images by, say, three horizontal lines of dead black; so you basically have a CD without a file system, just a single raw bitmap image n pixels wide by a heck of a lot of pixels high. For absurd levels of longevity, write/etch on the top of the cd a pictorial representation of the wavelengths of the R/G/B channels you use... say, have a picture of a water molecule, then three sine waves next to it, each with the appropriate period. With this data, anyone can restore the image, assuming there eyes are at least somewhat like ours... trying multiple widths until the image 'snaps' into the correct vertical alignment is trivial. The problem of keeping the CD dye from fading is left as an excersize for the reader... but keep in mind that your ancestors can do a binary copy of the data on that disk without even bothering to decode it.
I've always felt uncomfortable with the phrase "under God." It's not that I don't believe in God - I'm a firm monotheist - it's just that I feel that I'm at least as good as, if not better than, God. "With God" or "above God" would fit better, doncha think?
On another note, any chance of this opening the road for us suing for damages? As someone who works in an industry where creativity and the ability to think is valued, I believe that all these people who have been brainwashed, with the now proven encouragement of the state, are a significant drag on our economy. Class action against the government? If bugs in code are worth $60G, Jesus has got to be work $600G.
(Now we see the karma vanish, as those without a sense of humor get mod points.)
I bought an iBook about a month ago, have been using it extensively. I recommend it highly. Let me throw out two points which I haven't seen mentioned yet. First off, the battery not only lasts longer, it's just great. I used to have a sony picturebook. The small included battery lasted about 90 minutes; the double sized batteries lasted 180 or so. Since I often need rather long battery life, I would carry one small battery and two large ones with me. I can't count the number of times that I would realize my small battery was running out, reach into my bag for a large one, and realize... I have no idea which of the two identical batteries in there is charged, and which is flat. Apple fixed this; they just put a little button on the bottom of the battery. If you press it (when the computer is on, when the computer is off, when the battery is out of the computer... it doesn't matter), from zero to four green LED's light up, telling you the battery percentage. I now carry three batteries with me, which I have found is truly enough for 18 hours straight use, or almost a week at the level I use it... and telling how charged each of them is just works. Secondly, suspend works on the ibooks. Now, my picturebook of course had suspend, both to disk and to memory. But suspend to memory took noticeable time, and sometimes never revived properly (I think it had something to do with the phase of the moon). The iBook just works. As soon as the case is closed, it goes into memory suspend. You can tell immediately, if you're nervous, because the screen backlight (which you can see through the glowing apple) goes off. And the heartbeat white led starts blinking. When you wake it up, you do need to give it a signal... it doesn't detect case opening. But simply brushing the surface of the touchpad works. Also, if you hook up a usb keyboard or mouse, touching the mouse or using the keyboard will wake up the ibook while it's still closed, without turning on the backlight, so switching to an external monitor when you get home doesn't even require you to open the thing up. All that said, I do have two points of concern to point out. First off, the screen. It's beautiful. It's bright, colors are sharp, etc. Viewing angle is somewhat limitted, but no more than any other laptop I've seen. On the two iBooks I've bought in the past month (my mother got one, too), there has been exactly one bad pixel; a dead (black) pixel towards the bottom center of the screen. Clearly not a statistical sample, and of course single bad pixels are always possible, and there's no promise otherwise. But if this is something which tends to drive you mad ("No! It's not perfect!"), I highly recommend trying out any laptop in a store before you buy it. Try out the exact one you'll end up with. If the kind salesfolk won't let you open a box that you're almost certainly going to pay $1300 for, go somewhere else... As a side note, of the two iBooks I bought, the one from compUSA had the bad pixel, the one direct from apple was perfect. No idea if they give inferior ones to distributors and keep the best for themselves, but it's certainly not impossible. Again, insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Lastly, the iBook isn't fast. I got the lowest end model, 600MHz/128MB. 128MB isn't enough. Don't kid yourself. I upgraded to 640MB, and memory is no longer an issue, but it's still not a speedy machine. Some things are fast; scrolling, switching applications, rendering images. Some things are slow; menu access, opening applications, de-minimizing windows. And OSX is still not 100% flawless, either. I've had to relaunch the finder (equivalent to restarting the X server) twice now, and reboot the whole machine once. Keep in mind that I never restart the machine otherwise, since I just use suspend... but still, it clearly needs a bit more work. Will OS X 10.2 be it? I don't doubt it will help, but there's no denying that this is a young OS, especially compared to MacOS 9. Overall, then, I really think this is a great machine, especially at the price. It's not perfect, but all laptops have quirks. I find the quirks on this machine more pleasant than those on any other laptop I've ever owned.
This is a basic outline of where I would start looking. Obviously, your solution will vary based on little details like budget, size of what you can sneak in, etc.
1) You need some kind of computer. Smaller is better. PC/104 is small enough to keep in a jacket pocket, if you clip off unused pins, and can be powered off of a power supply the size of a zippo... although if you're really going to go for wireless relaying, think of a camcorder battery as a more realistic size. For a more 'accessible' computer, look at http://www.embsd.org/order/sbc.html.
2) Memory. PC/104 often has disk on chip (http://www.m-sys.com) slots. The emBSD board has a compact flash slot. If you base of a more typical board, or even just a very small laptop, you may want to look at something like http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail. asp?sku=228422 I'm assuming here that solid state is a must, since when you're sneaking around, things get hit hard. But maybe it isn't.
3) Wireless / storage. If you're in the US, you can't beat CDPD. Well, you can. In fact, you can beat it with anything. It's slow, it's cranky, it's traceable, and more. On the other hand, it's ubiquitous. See http://www.novatelwireless.com/pcproducts/merlin.h tml for a PC card. Of course, if you're not in the US, you get to come up with something else. Satellite can work (http://www.iridium.com/), but you'll be conspicuous. The best option, of course, is to just sneak out a physical disk. A CD would be great, along with a portable CD burner. A mini-cd would be better. And if you're allowed some 'legal' electronics, like walkmans, a mini-cd-burner would be best (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/electronics/5960.s html). Are they going to be looking for stuff like this? There's always the 'baffle 'em with bullshit' path; I swear by http://www.usbkeydrive.com.
4) A camera. There are wireless cameras. I know nothing about them, so I won't say any more. I figure you're going to be doing hip-style shots anyway; if the camera's mostly up your sleeve, a little wire doesn't matter. And of course, almost all cameras have some internal storage, so it doesn't need to be a continuous connection. Is low resolution okay? Get http://www.dynamism.com/eyeplate/index.shtml or http://www.dynamism.com/cubik/index.shtml and, at that price, if you get scared, just drop it and stomp on it. They may find computer stuff on you, but you have no camera.
5) Software. You really really want to be streaming those pictures as fast as you can, so they don't stick on your storage device. You probably want a little beep in your ear -- or your beeper? -- when your disk is clear, so you can relax, and no it's time to shoot another shot or too. You may want a panic switch to fry your storage, and hell with streaming; it depends on the device, of course, but put 48V over your signal lines in the usbkey (while it still has 5V bus power!) and you can be pretty damn sure they won't be reading that data. (Note: If you're going up against a superpower, don't be quite so sure. But there are ways to destroy devices. You don't need to destroy the computer, you just need a good local lawyer or equivalent to say "yes, he had a computer. he's a suspicious SOB./But there was nothing incriminating on it/." And then you just need to be sure that's true.
Those are just my first thoughts. Obviously, you want to play around. I think that if I were going into a place with industrial-level security (say a tech company, since I've seen the equivalent of 'high security' at several of those, and while significant, it's not insurmountable), with correct authorization to be there (I'm allowed, it's the photos that aren't), in whether that would make a light jacket permittable, I'd feel 90% confident that I could get away with this. In other words, I wouldn't risk my life, but if the consequence of failure was just a fine or a firing, the carrot may be worth it. Also, I would seriously lean towards having a nice, physical device to sneak off with me, rather than praying that wireless works, unless you're going to be body searched. Remember: a mini-CD won't set off a metal detector, and fits in a standard pocket organizer. A usb keychain is cheap, and even staring right at it they may not know enough to be suspicious; heck, build a bottle opener onto the thing. And a single DIP disk-on-chip chip is suspicious as all hell, but (with a little bit of conductive padding for the pins, don't do something stupid) would fit nicely inside your cheek, for the true super-espionage-(ignoring-metal-detectors) type scheme. This is doable, of course, and I'd be glad to give more advice off the top of my head, but as we don't know what you're trying 90% of what any of us suggest will sound like a joke in your particular situation.
(Note: My comment has now ended. Please stop reading. I don't normally karma whore, but I really would like to brag that every single link on here was off my bookmarks... and I only have 18 links in my bookmarks.)
Actually you can. You can clock on rising and falling edge, and both 'flat points' of the clock. I've seen this used in some circumstances, and it basically does give you quad pumped... no idea if that's what they're actually using here, though.
And the reason that the age was raised again... and the reason that no one expects to ever see it lowered again... that has nothing to do with a law on the books that says that any state that decides to lower the drinking age (since drinking age is, in theory, decided by the state, not the national government) immediately loses all federal highway funding... right?
Consider looking at http://www.spinserver.com. These are rackmount cases that are designed to bring the expansion slots to where they're accessible; the front. However, they also make perfectly reasonable desktop-style (flat, not tower) cases; several of my friends use them that way (I recommend the 3U for this purpose). What you would want to do is use the whole thing backwards... have both drives and slots away from you. The only wire blocking your desk would be a power wire... I don't know of any case that comes closer to your demands, although admittedly this isn't perfect. Also, if you have other musical gear, the 19" rack formfactor may be a selling point. If not, take off the ears and just put it on the table.
My gosh, how many years has it been since I read a column in PC Magazine, probably in 1985, urging an emphasis on "numeracy" as a special focus along with "literacy" ??
As a public service, and in the interest of promoting math literacy, I shall provide the answer: 17.
Sorry, just thought that was ironic. Mod me down now.
That's actually rather interesting. I accidentally plugged in everything backwards a few days ago (also a rack environment), and everything started up fine. When I noticed, several days later, the reversal, I went and checked the documentation... apparently the HP BIOS detects which port is being used for the mouse, and assigns the other to the keyboard, so you can do it either way. I can't imagine that the hardware to do this is too expensive, so I'm surprised more companies don't do it.
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I agree with you, Michael is a bit strange. But just to be contrary, they do use buttonless trackballs quite often in kiosks, for example in museum displays, because they're simply much harder for us damn customers to break. Normally, they use 'dwell' instead of a click; that is, if you hover over a button for a moment or so, it reacts as if a click occured. There are software packages to allow you to do this with a mouse/trackball on a PC; they're nice if you really can't click a button (they're usually part of a disability suite), but you'll go crazy with irritation, waiting around for a click to magically occur, if you have the ability to click normally.
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Using whatever X11 fink (for 10.2, of course... clean install) installs by default on unstable branch (no X11 for 10.2 on stable). OroborusX downloaded from homepage two days ago. Did you just follow the standard OroborusX drag-and-drop install?
I don't think so... the thing is, Oroborus2 is dynamically linked against the gcc 2.x libraries... so the switch to 3.x kills it...
Can you recommend a good window manager for Jaguar? I used OroborusX under 10.1, and absolutely loved it. It doesn't expect a root window, and doesn't get weird when there isn't one. The aqua-style windows are gorgeous... if nothing else, they blend in. And interleaving just works. Unfortunately, I can't get OroborusX to work at all under 10.2. It installs fine, but at startup, I get a slew of odd messages that basically say "This version of X11 is newer than me, help!" Is there any other window manager that blends into Aqua this well?
As a side note, I question the 'heat' comment. I've had many laptops in my day, and none have gotten hotter than a Sony Picturebook... using OS X 10.1, the iBook (600MHz) got hardly warm at all. However, on upgrading to 10.2, I noticed my laptop getting much, much warmer. Still not nearly as hot as that sony... but warm. It turns out that it's the graphics chip (ATI, 16MB) which is generating the heat; disabling Quartz Extreme cools the machine right down. Clearly, this needs a bit more optimization, in terms of engineering... just like to point out that it's not the poor struggling CPU that's getting hot.
I'm a member of national ski patrol, and I've met my share of folks like this, who curse at the people who are trying to help them. Unfortunately, we're supposed to be nice, so I can't tell them that I'll just leave 'em there and save there jacket... However, when someone actually is reasonable, and realize that their health is more important than their clothes, I let them in on a little secret. For any of the major gear companies (Descente, North Face, Rossignol, whoever), if you write them a letter saying exactly what happpened (I fell going down this run and cracked my arm, and the patrollers had to cut the sleeve of your wonderful jacket off) and toss it in a package with the jacket, they'll send you a replacement within a few weeks. Every single time, assuming it's one of the good companies. Good to know. ;-)
Maybe this is obvious, but I've looked for a bit and not been able to figure it out. I have a current fink install on 10.1. I want to switch to 10.2, and I'm going to do a clean install to do that... so all my fink software will be wiped. I don't mind redownloading everything at all... but is there any way to grab my current fink list of installed programs, and have fink reinstall those automatically? I managed to get the installed list through `fink list` and a bit of grepping... but that includes all the dependencies, and dependencies might have changed, so some of those installed items may not be needed any more. Also, if I pass that list to `fink install`, the first item that's unreachable will cause fink to terminate after a few retries (with the --yes) option, meaning I'll have to rerun the whole script, no? Any workarounds/ideas/people calling me dumb?
64GB. 36 bit. Talking pentium here, not itanium.
Pentium architecture's limit is 64GB.
A lot of people have said that jpeg and gif will be readable in 25 years, and given various justification based on popularity. While I don't actually doubt this, if you're really concerned about long-term storage, I'd say use a bitmap. In particular, use a 24-bit RGB format, entirely uncompressed, with every image on a given storage medium (cd, probably) the same width. Separate different images by, say, three horizontal lines of dead black; so you basically have a CD without a file system, just a single raw bitmap image n pixels wide by a heck of a lot of pixels high. For absurd levels of longevity, write/etch on the top of the cd a pictorial representation of the wavelengths of the R/G/B channels you use... say, have a picture of a water molecule, then three sine waves next to it, each with the appropriate period. With this data, anyone can restore the image, assuming there eyes are at least somewhat like ours... trying multiple widths until the image 'snaps' into the correct vertical alignment is trivial. The problem of keeping the CD dye from fading is left as an excersize for the reader... but keep in mind that your ancestors can do a binary copy of the data on that disk without even bothering to decode it.
I've always felt uncomfortable with the phrase "under God." It's not that I don't believe in God - I'm a firm monotheist - it's just that I feel that I'm at least as good as, if not better than, God. "With God" or "above God" would fit better, doncha think?
On another note, any chance of this opening the road for us suing for damages? As someone who works in an industry where creativity and the ability to think is valued, I believe that all these people who have been brainwashed, with the now proven encouragement of the state, are a significant drag on our economy. Class action against the government? If bugs in code are worth $60G, Jesus has got to be work $600G.
(Now we see the karma vanish, as those without a sense of humor get mod points.)
I bought an iBook about a month ago, have been using it extensively. I recommend it highly. Let me throw out two points which I haven't seen mentioned yet. First off, the battery not only lasts longer, it's just great. I used to have a sony picturebook. The small included battery lasted about 90 minutes; the double sized batteries lasted 180 or so. Since I often need rather long battery life, I would carry one small battery and two large ones with me. I can't count the number of times that I would realize my small battery was running out, reach into my bag for a large one, and realize... I have no idea which of the two identical batteries in there is charged, and which is flat. Apple fixed this; they just put a little button on the bottom of the battery. If you press it (when the computer is on, when the computer is off, when the battery is out of the computer... it doesn't matter), from zero to four green LED's light up, telling you the battery percentage. I now carry three batteries with me, which I have found is truly enough for 18 hours straight use, or almost a week at the level I use it... and telling how charged each of them is just works. Secondly, suspend works on the ibooks. Now, my picturebook of course had suspend, both to disk and to memory. But suspend to memory took noticeable time, and sometimes never revived properly (I think it had something to do with the phase of the moon). The iBook just works. As soon as the case is closed, it goes into memory suspend. You can tell immediately, if you're nervous, because the screen backlight (which you can see through the glowing apple) goes off. And the heartbeat white led starts blinking. When you wake it up, you do need to give it a signal... it doesn't detect case opening. But simply brushing the surface of the touchpad works. Also, if you hook up a usb keyboard or mouse, touching the mouse or using the keyboard will wake up the ibook while it's still closed, without turning on the backlight, so switching to an external monitor when you get home doesn't even require you to open the thing up. All that said, I do have two points of concern to point out. First off, the screen. It's beautiful. It's bright, colors are sharp, etc. Viewing angle is somewhat limitted, but no more than any other laptop I've seen. On the two iBooks I've bought in the past month (my mother got one, too), there has been exactly one bad pixel; a dead (black) pixel towards the bottom center of the screen. Clearly not a statistical sample, and of course single bad pixels are always possible, and there's no promise otherwise. But if this is something which tends to drive you mad ("No! It's not perfect!"), I highly recommend trying out any laptop in a store before you buy it. Try out the exact one you'll end up with. If the kind salesfolk won't let you open a box that you're almost certainly going to pay $1300 for, go somewhere else... As a side note, of the two iBooks I bought, the one from compUSA had the bad pixel, the one direct from apple was perfect. No idea if they give inferior ones to distributors and keep the best for themselves, but it's certainly not impossible. Again, insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Lastly, the iBook isn't fast. I got the lowest end model, 600MHz/128MB. 128MB isn't enough. Don't kid yourself. I upgraded to 640MB, and memory is no longer an issue, but it's still not a speedy machine. Some things are fast; scrolling, switching applications, rendering images. Some things are slow; menu access, opening applications, de-minimizing windows. And OSX is still not 100% flawless, either. I've had to relaunch the finder (equivalent to restarting the X server) twice now, and reboot the whole machine once. Keep in mind that I never restart the machine otherwise, since I just use suspend... but still, it clearly needs a bit more work. Will OS X 10.2 be it? I don't doubt it will help, but there's no denying that this is a young OS, especially compared to MacOS 9. Overall, then, I really think this is a great machine, especially at the price. It's not perfect, but all laptops have quirks. I find the quirks on this machine more pleasant than those on any other laptop I've ever owned.
What are the essential advantages of this technique over Remote AWT? AWT has the advantage of being the Java standard, and all most programs use it...
special machines that had a 36 bit segmented adressing scheme to get past the 4 gig limit on RAM
Ah yes, I've heard of such special machines... where I'm from, we call them 'intel's.
This is a basic outline of where I would start looking. Obviously, your solution will vary based on little details like budget, size of what you can sneak in, etc.
. asp?sku=228422 I'm assuming here that solid state is a must, since when you're sneaking around, things get hit hard. But maybe it isn't.
h tml for a PC card. Of course, if you're not in the US, you get to come up with something else. Satellite can work (http://www.iridium.com/), but you'll be conspicuous. The best option, of course, is to just sneak out a physical disk. A CD would be great, along with a portable CD burner. A mini-cd would be better. And if you're allowed some 'legal' electronics, like walkmans, a mini-cd-burner would be best (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/electronics/5960.s html). Are they going to be looking for stuff like this? There's always the 'baffle 'em with bullshit' path; I swear by http://www.usbkeydrive.com.
/But there was nothing incriminating on it/." And then you just need to be sure that's true.
1) You need some kind of computer. Smaller is better. PC/104 is small enough to keep in a jacket pocket, if you clip off unused pins, and can be powered off of a power supply the size of a zippo... although if you're really going to go for wireless relaying, think of a camcorder battery as a more realistic size. For a more 'accessible' computer, look at http://www.embsd.org/order/sbc.html.
2) Memory. PC/104 often has disk on chip (http://www.m-sys.com) slots. The emBSD board has a compact flash slot. If you base of a more typical board, or even just a very small laptop, you may want to look at something like http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail
3) Wireless / storage. If you're in the US, you can't beat CDPD. Well, you can. In fact, you can beat it with anything. It's slow, it's cranky, it's traceable, and more. On the other hand, it's ubiquitous. See http://www.novatelwireless.com/pcproducts/merlin.
4) A camera. There are wireless cameras. I know nothing about them, so I won't say any more. I figure you're going to be doing hip-style shots anyway; if the camera's mostly up your sleeve, a little wire doesn't matter. And of course, almost all cameras have some internal storage, so it doesn't need to be a continuous connection. Is low resolution okay? Get http://www.dynamism.com/eyeplate/index.shtml or http://www.dynamism.com/cubik/index.shtml and, at that price, if you get scared, just drop it and stomp on it. They may find computer stuff on you, but you have no camera.
5) Software. You really really want to be streaming those pictures as fast as you can, so they don't stick on your storage device. You probably want a little beep in your ear -- or your beeper? -- when your disk is clear, so you can relax, and no it's time to shoot another shot or too. You may want a panic switch to fry your storage, and hell with streaming; it depends on the device, of course, but put 48V over your signal lines in the usbkey (while it still has 5V bus power!) and you can be pretty damn sure they won't be reading that data. (Note: If you're going up against a superpower, don't be quite so sure. But there are ways to destroy devices. You don't need to destroy the computer, you just need a good local lawyer or equivalent to say "yes, he had a computer. he's a suspicious SOB.
Those are just my first thoughts. Obviously, you want to play around. I think that if I were going into a place with industrial-level security (say a tech company, since I've seen the equivalent of 'high security' at several of those, and while significant, it's not insurmountable), with correct authorization to be there (I'm allowed, it's the photos that aren't), in whether that would make a light jacket permittable, I'd feel 90% confident that I could get away with this. In other words, I wouldn't risk my life, but if the consequence of failure was just a fine or a firing, the carrot may be worth it. Also, I would seriously lean towards having a nice, physical device to sneak off with me, rather than praying that wireless works, unless you're going to be body searched. Remember: a mini-CD won't set off a metal detector, and fits in a standard pocket organizer. A usb keychain is cheap, and even staring right at it they may not know enough to be suspicious; heck, build a bottle opener onto the thing. And a single DIP disk-on-chip chip is suspicious as all hell, but (with a little bit of conductive padding for the pins, don't do something stupid) would fit nicely inside your cheek, for the true super-espionage-(ignoring-metal-detectors) type scheme. This is doable, of course, and I'd be glad to give more advice off the top of my head, but as we don't know what you're trying 90% of what any of us suggest will sound like a joke in your particular situation.
(Note: My comment has now ended. Please stop reading. I don't normally karma whore, but I really would like to brag that every single link on here was off my bookmarks... and I only have 18 links in my bookmarks.)
Actually you can. You can clock on rising and falling edge, and both 'flat points' of the clock. I've seen this used in some circumstances, and it basically does give you quad pumped... no idea if that's what they're actually using here, though.
And the reason that the age was raised again... and the reason that no one expects to ever see it lowered again... that has nothing to do with a law on the books that says that any state that decides to lower the drinking age (since drinking age is, in theory, decided by the state, not the national government) immediately loses all federal highway funding... right?
Consider looking at http://www.spinserver.com. These are rackmount cases that are designed to bring the expansion slots to where they're accessible; the front. However, they also make perfectly reasonable desktop-style (flat, not tower) cases; several of my friends use them that way (I recommend the 3U for this purpose). What you would want to do is use the whole thing backwards... have both drives and slots away from you. The only wire blocking your desk would be a power wire... I don't know of any case that comes closer to your demands, although admittedly this isn't perfect. Also, if you have other musical gear, the 19" rack formfactor may be a selling point. If not, take off the ears and just put it on the table.
And the Itanium line, of course...
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My gosh, how many years has it been since I read a column in PC Magazine, probably in 1985, urging an emphasis on "numeracy" as a special focus along with "literacy" ??
As a public service, and in the interest of promoting math literacy, I shall provide the answer: 17.
Sorry, just thought that was ironic. Mod me down now.
Do you have a reference for this? Not exactly doubting, just surprised.
That's actually rather interesting. I accidentally plugged in everything backwards a few days ago (also a rack environment), and everything started up fine. When I noticed, several days later, the reversal, I went and checked the documentation... apparently the HP BIOS detects which port is being used for the mouse, and assigns the other to the keyboard, so you can do it either way. I can't imagine that the hardware to do this is too expensive, so I'm surprised more companies don't do it.
I have yet to see a trackball that doesn't use "mouse buttons."
I agree with you, Michael is a bit strange. But just to be contrary, they do use buttonless trackballs quite often in kiosks, for example in museum displays, because they're simply much harder for us damn customers to break. Normally, they use 'dwell' instead of a click; that is, if you hover over a button for a moment or so, it reacts as if a click occured. There are software packages to allow you to do this with a mouse/trackball on a PC; they're nice if you really can't click a button (they're usually part of a disability suite), but you'll go crazy with irritation, waiting around for a click to magically occur, if you have the ability to click normally.
You mentioned both Perl and VB in one sentence with computer science. You lose.
If I understand the rules correctly... so do you!
The 64 bit are made. IBM uses them in the iSeries (AS/400) and pSeries machine. Nothing special, but they exist, they work, and they're nice.