And from what I just read on the knoppmyth site, the XMLTV regexp problem is known and there's a documented solution for it on the site.:)
I guess r5 will include this fix among other things. Maybe something like this will be ready for me when it's time to upgrade and I'll have an extra box laying around for a pvr.
You forgot the sales tax there math whiz. That is, of course, unless he bought it online from another state. In that case there might be shipping involved.
Here in Texas sales tax is 8.25%, so a $250 Tivo comes out to $270.62. Throw in shipping and you're close to $300 already. Who knows, this guy's article was thin on details and thick on dumb.
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"(I really need a sound card with hardware mixer support)."
That would be an SBLive! Value card, clocks in at about $20-$25 USD these days. Eat ramen for one day and you can afford one.:)
If you put windows AND Snapstream on it, you must have paid alot more than $60. You don't get multi-seat licenses for free with Windows.
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The only thing that causes a rift in distinction of difficulty between windows and linux is lack of familiarity on the part of the individual deciding the difficulty level. Or, to put it a simpler way, people think linux is hard because they don't know it. Put anyone unfamiliar with Windows on a Windows PC and it's not any easier to linux. It's only easy because you or the neighborhood geek is familiar with it.
Also don't overestimate the ease of use Windows purports to have. It's still hard in spots, some things are impossible to achieve no matter what you try, and it doesn't always work like you expect it to. Ask your local windows user if they know what spyware is or why they have windows popping up advertisements even though no browser is open. They won't know. I'm not talking the/. crowd either, just the general run of the mill user (think: your parents).
Once Linux reaches truly critical mass on the desktop in around 5 years, things will balance out. In my opinion, a default windows xp install is much harder to use than a default Mandrake install. Lots of necessary software is missing, drivers are missing, defaults are set wrong and a gigantic wad of updates are necessary before your windows pc on that broadband connection gets owned by whatever worm keeps knocking at your door. I've seen Windows pcs get owned before the first huge update can even download.
Well I went off on a tangent there but my point is this: it all comes down to what you're familiar with. I challenge any of you to cook up a system like this on a mac.:)
First off orientated isn't a word, use oriented. Secondly Mandrake doesn't hide the fact that they've always been KDE-centric, neither does SuSE. To be fair they include the latest gnome with the latest broken window manager to go along with it. They also include a handful of other nice WM's like fluxbox, windowmaker, icewm and enlightenment.
Basically they provide the most well balanced, easy to use desktop by default and you can choose another one if you like.
And you can tamper with this filtration system by the use of different psychedelic chemicals. Under the influence of LSD, the filtration system gets thrown out of whack in part due to signal rerouting from the medulla oblongata. Hence people's explanations of 'seeing sound' or 'hearing light'. When your wires get crossed, you can indeed see sound in varying patterns, and they can be affected by aural stimulus.
Your hearing and senses also become much more acute. You never realize just how much you can hear (physically) because your brain's software is adjusted to tune so many things out. You can even hear blood rushing through your veins if you're in a silent, dark room. (Dark because visual stimulus can interfere). Add to this the central nervous system stimulation caused as a side effect of the drug (think: overclocking your whole nervous system), and you're capable of unusual things, mentally and physically. I've seen people scared of heights climb trees for fun.
While I'm not advocating the use of drugs for entertainment purposes, there are interesting things your body's hardware is capable of when the software in your brain is disrupted. I think most babies are born with this hyperacuity and your brain learns quickly what to filter and what to let through.
The question was "what should I say to my boss when he asks why I sleep half the morning away, drooling on the keyboard and mumbling about Natalie Portman?".
Not sure what the answer is but this article may hold some clues.
Yeah, PS2 sucks, I agree. Even the ADB port for Macintosh was a dozen times better.
Consider this. I worked at Glamour Shots headquarters a long time ago doing digital retouching. The SGI machines all had gigantic Wacom tablets that were great but the software was very limited (the imaging software used with them). The Mac machines were my favorite. Gobs of ram, scsi hard drives, and Wacom tablets connected via ADB. They had a passthrough port that intercepted the mouse connection from the keyboard. This was a powered port so the tablet got all the juice it needed.
Now flip to the PCs doing the same job. After I convinced my boss we needed tablets for them too, we installed them. Biggest, lamest hardware hack ever. They plugged into a serial port and required external power from one of those wall warts. Each tablet had a power switch, and damned if they didn't work if you didn't have the tablet switched on when you powered up the pc. Also if you accidentally switched the tablet off while you were using it, you'd never get it back without a reboot. Just ridiculous.
USB has changed crap like this so it's not an issue anymore. It still took PC manufacturers years to come up with something as versatile as the lowly ADB port. Love em or hate em, Apple knows what they're doing and what people need.
Just to add a little info to this one: usually the bios needs tweaking to support USB keyboards with no OS installed. Generally USB-equipped motherboards support USB keyboards at the bios level, but not all do right away. Hang on to your USB/PS2 convertor just in case.
At least the days of serial keyboards are nearly at an end.
I could see this working out nicely but you'd end up with skidmarks on the belly of the plane.
Plus someone in rural Iowa would end up with frozen turds bombing their barn and/or livestock. Not a pretty picture, and it'd be more fuel for redneck conspiracy theorists. An ideal system would be an evaporative one where you ended up with a solid giant pellet of waste that could be, literally, shitted out of the plane. Just have a big tunnel where it goes 'plunk' and hits a receiving tank or conveyor belt.
Don't be such a jerk to these poor fools. Try having some fun with them instead.
Get a girl telemarketer? I know you've all heard at least one Shaliqua, either from a bill collector or selling something. Shaliquas everywhere love some smooth talk, so try it next time. Example: "Hello this Shaliqua wit Crapco callin to offa you a deal on some stuff t-day". Right when she breaks for your input, start off with a nice, low, "Girl, you sound so gooood. Whachoo wearin' tday?" This will hopefully throw her off long enough for you to think of something else witty to say. Keep it up as long as you want, she will be persistant and put up with your crap for a long, long time.
If you get a man, turn the tables on him. He'll never expect a flaming gay Mr. Sparkles on the other end of the phone, much less one that thinks he sounds cute. One time I had a local newspaper guy calling to sell me a subscription. I turned on the lisp (listen to a few Jerky Boys' Jack Tors skits for practice) and was super wacky. I was so fruity with this guy by the end of the call I was asking for his phone number and telling him 'bye bye sweetbuns!'. He didn't say thanks, goodbye, he just said 'uh, uh...uh'. It was classic.
Those little interruptions in the day can turn into fun if you're creative. Make your friends/family/cat gather around and enjoy these comedy opportunities. Remember, they're calling YOU, so you can say anything you want.
Quake3 and it's ilk support multihead displays. I seem to remember some manufacturer hawking a triple-headed video card (probably Matrox) with quake3 running on 3 monitors. Looked cool as hell but we all know Matrox is not synonymous with any respectable 3d performance.
I guess if you could settle for pokey pci cards then it'd work fine.
This isn't even an issue until my favorite visited-daily sites implement it. I can do without MSN and the 11 other sites they mentioned...and what the hell is iVillage, the place the iIdiot lives?
Wow, it's still amazing to me how ignorant the musclecar crowd is these days. I guess in your little corner of the world a turbocharged 4wd car with over 300hp doesn't count as a car that needs a spoiler to keep the rear wheels planted.
You seriously need to see what's being built these days and stop living in the past. Sure, the old musclecars were (and still are) fast as hell, but only in a straight line. Drag racing and Nascar is boring. Rally racing, touring and drifting is exciting, and that's where these cars really shine.
Your mother isn't YOUR grandmother. I think that's an important distinction to make here as it determines her age and therefore her generation. I agree with AC here, if you dumb something down too much, it becomes useless to the average computer user. Just take a look at WebTV. My grandfather (no not my dad, my actual grandfather) does better with a pc than he ever did with WebTV. He isn't stupid, but he's technophobic to a certain extent.
I just wonder if making the computer more physical isn't better for older people. Everything is so virtual..I think if we gave them more buttons to push and meters, switches and gauges they'd like it better. You shouldn't have to click start > shut down > shut down to turn off your computer anyway, that's what the power switch is for. One press should shut it down on ANY pc.
The technological revolution took the physical and turned it all into the abstract. The world of computing is 75% software (and to the end user, much more). It's all theory and code and electrons, none of it is things you can touch and manipulate by hand. My grandfather's generation is one very much aligned with the physical; men who can fix cars and build homes or extensions to them. They're lost on a pc, just as most of us would be lost with a leaky pipe and a pipe wrench.
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And from what I just read on the knoppmyth site, the XMLTV regexp problem is known and there's a documented solution for it on the site. :)
I guess r5 will include this fix among other things. Maybe something like this will be ready for me when it's time to upgrade and I'll have an extra box laying around for a pvr.
You forgot the sales tax there math whiz. That is, of course, unless he bought it online from another state. In that case there might be shipping involved.
Here in Texas sales tax is 8.25%, so a $250 Tivo comes out to $270.62. Throw in shipping and you're close to $300 already. Who knows, this guy's article was thin on details and thick on dumb.
"(I really need a sound card with hardware mixer support)."
:)
That would be an SBLive! Value card, clocks in at about $20-$25 USD these days. Eat ramen for one day and you can afford one.
If you put windows AND Snapstream on it, you must have paid alot more than $60. You don't get multi-seat licenses for free with Windows.
The only thing that causes a rift in distinction of difficulty between windows and linux is lack of familiarity on the part of the individual deciding the difficulty level. Or, to put it a simpler way, people think linux is hard because they don't know it. Put anyone unfamiliar with Windows on a Windows PC and it's not any easier to linux. It's only easy because you or the neighborhood geek is familiar with it.
/. crowd either, just the general run of the mill user (think: your parents).
:)
Also don't overestimate the ease of use Windows purports to have. It's still hard in spots, some things are impossible to achieve no matter what you try, and it doesn't always work like you expect it to. Ask your local windows user if they know what spyware is or why they have windows popping up advertisements even though no browser is open. They won't know. I'm not talking the
Once Linux reaches truly critical mass on the desktop in around 5 years, things will balance out. In my opinion, a default windows xp install is much harder to use than a default Mandrake install. Lots of necessary software is missing, drivers are missing, defaults are set wrong and a gigantic wad of updates are necessary before your windows pc on that broadband connection gets owned by whatever worm keeps knocking at your door. I've seen Windows pcs get owned before the first huge update can even download.
Well I went off on a tangent there but my point is this: it all comes down to what you're familiar with. I challenge any of you to cook up a system like this on a mac.
The tarnishing is a result of oxidation, just like how steel rusts.
So yeah, silver oxidizes.
Don't forget to mention that this is in the free download edition of the iso's. I don't think non-invasive advertising made it into the boxed sets.
First off orientated isn't a word, use oriented. Secondly Mandrake doesn't hide the fact that they've always been KDE-centric, neither does SuSE. To be fair they include the latest gnome with the latest broken window manager to go along with it. They also include a handful of other nice WM's like fluxbox, windowmaker, icewm and enlightenment.
Basically they provide the most well balanced, easy to use desktop by default and you can choose another one if you like.
And you can tamper with this filtration system by the use of different psychedelic chemicals. Under the influence of LSD, the filtration system gets thrown out of whack in part due to signal rerouting from the medulla oblongata. Hence people's explanations of 'seeing sound' or 'hearing light'. When your wires get crossed, you can indeed see sound in varying patterns, and they can be affected by aural stimulus.
Your hearing and senses also become much more acute. You never realize just how much you can hear (physically) because your brain's software is adjusted to tune so many things out. You can even hear blood rushing through your veins if you're in a silent, dark room. (Dark because visual stimulus can interfere). Add to this the central nervous system stimulation caused as a side effect of the drug (think: overclocking your whole nervous system), and you're capable of unusual things, mentally and physically. I've seen people scared of heights climb trees for fun.
While I'm not advocating the use of drugs for entertainment purposes, there are interesting things your body's hardware is capable of when the software in your brain is disrupted. I think most babies are born with this hyperacuity and your brain learns quickly what to filter and what to let through.
The question was "what should I say to my boss when he asks why I sleep half the morning away, drooling on the keyboard and mumbling about Natalie Portman?".
Not sure what the answer is but this article may hold some clues.
From the mars rover log:
# PING marsrover.mars.nasa.gov (far.far.far.away) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from marsrover.mars.nasa.gov (far.far.far.away): icmp_seq=2 ttl=100000 time=138,000,000,000 ms
--- marsrover.mars.nasa.gov ping statistics ---
5000 packets transmitted, 1 received, 100% packet loss, time 400,000,000,000 ms
I think the rover is down.
I'm just wondering how many people will catch the Amiga reference. :) Nice one.
No, the write in is never a poll option, what you're looking for is CowboyNeal.
So it's got a keyboard with the caps lock, num lock and scroll lock led's blinking in sync.
Ahh the kernel panic. The last thing you want to see on a mars rover.
Yeah, PS2 sucks, I agree. Even the ADB port for Macintosh was a dozen times better.
Consider this. I worked at Glamour Shots headquarters a long time ago doing digital retouching. The SGI machines all had gigantic Wacom tablets that were great but the software was very limited (the imaging software used with them). The Mac machines were my favorite. Gobs of ram, scsi hard drives, and Wacom tablets connected via ADB. They had a passthrough port that intercepted the mouse connection from the keyboard. This was a powered port so the tablet got all the juice it needed.
Now flip to the PCs doing the same job. After I convinced my boss we needed tablets for them too, we installed them. Biggest, lamest hardware hack ever. They plugged into a serial port and required external power from one of those wall warts. Each tablet had a power switch, and damned if they didn't work if you didn't have the tablet switched on when you powered up the pc. Also if you accidentally switched the tablet off while you were using it, you'd never get it back without a reboot. Just ridiculous.
USB has changed crap like this so it's not an issue anymore. It still took PC manufacturers years to come up with something as versatile as the lowly ADB port. Love em or hate em, Apple knows what they're doing and what people need.
Just to add a little info to this one: usually the bios needs tweaking to support USB keyboards with no OS installed. Generally USB-equipped motherboards support USB keyboards at the bios level, but not all do right away. Hang on to your USB/PS2 convertor just in case.
At least the days of serial keyboards are nearly at an end.
You forgot to mention they supplied you with a display that word wraps at 40 characters. Now that's torture.
I could see this working out nicely but you'd end up with skidmarks on the belly of the plane.
Plus someone in rural Iowa would end up with frozen turds bombing their barn and/or livestock. Not a pretty picture, and it'd be more fuel for redneck conspiracy theorists. An ideal system would be an evaporative one where you ended up with a solid giant pellet of waste that could be, literally, shitted out of the plane. Just have a big tunnel where it goes 'plunk' and hits a receiving tank or conveyor belt.
Don't be such a jerk to these poor fools. Try having some fun with them instead.
Get a girl telemarketer? I know you've all heard at least one Shaliqua, either from a bill collector or selling something. Shaliquas everywhere love some smooth talk, so try it next time. Example: "Hello this Shaliqua wit Crapco callin to offa you a deal on some stuff t-day". Right when she breaks for your input, start off with a nice, low, "Girl, you sound so gooood. Whachoo wearin' tday?" This will hopefully throw her off long enough for you to think of something else witty to say. Keep it up as long as you want, she will be persistant and put up with your crap for a long, long time.
If you get a man, turn the tables on him. He'll never expect a flaming gay Mr. Sparkles on the other end of the phone, much less one that thinks he sounds cute. One time I had a local newspaper guy calling to sell me a subscription. I turned on the lisp (listen to a few Jerky Boys' Jack Tors skits for practice) and was super wacky. I was so fruity with this guy by the end of the call I was asking for his phone number and telling him 'bye bye sweetbuns!'. He didn't say thanks, goodbye, he just said 'uh, uh...uh'. It was classic.
Those little interruptions in the day can turn into fun if you're creative. Make your friends/family/cat gather around and enjoy these comedy opportunities. Remember, they're calling YOU, so you can say anything you want.
Quake3 and it's ilk support multihead displays. I seem to remember some manufacturer hawking a triple-headed video card (probably Matrox) with quake3 running on 3 monitors. Looked cool as hell but we all know Matrox is not synonymous with any respectable 3d performance.
I guess if you could settle for pokey pci cards then it'd work fine.
Probably, but he can only see one at a time, so the answer is no.
This isn't even an issue until my favorite visited-daily sites implement it. I can do without MSN and the 11 other sites they mentioned...and what the hell is iVillage, the place the iIdiot lives?
Wow, it's still amazing to me how ignorant the musclecar crowd is these days. I guess in your little corner of the world a turbocharged 4wd car with over 300hp doesn't count as a car that needs a spoiler to keep the rear wheels planted.
You seriously need to see what's being built these days and stop living in the past. Sure, the old musclecars were (and still are) fast as hell, but only in a straight line. Drag racing and Nascar is boring. Rally racing, touring and drifting is exciting, and that's where these cars really shine.
Don't forget the current Subaru WRX STi and the Mitsubishi Evolution 8. Both of these cars need their spoilers.
Your mother isn't YOUR grandmother. I think that's an important distinction to make here as it determines her age and therefore her generation. I agree with AC here, if you dumb something down too much, it becomes useless to the average computer user. Just take a look at WebTV. My grandfather (no not my dad, my actual grandfather) does better with a pc than he ever did with WebTV. He isn't stupid, but he's technophobic to a certain extent.
I just wonder if making the computer more physical isn't better for older people. Everything is so virtual..I think if we gave them more buttons to push and meters, switches and gauges they'd like it better. You shouldn't have to click start > shut down > shut down to turn off your computer anyway, that's what the power switch is for. One press should shut it down on ANY pc.
The technological revolution took the physical and turned it all into the abstract. The world of computing is 75% software (and to the end user, much more). It's all theory and code and electrons, none of it is things you can touch and manipulate by hand. My grandfather's generation is one very much aligned with the physical; men who can fix cars and build homes or extensions to them. They're lost on a pc, just as most of us would be lost with a leaky pipe and a pipe wrench.