You can ask at the Post Office, and get yourself opted out of most of the bulk rate ads, the stuff that doesn't directly have your address printed on it. My mom used to work there, and she showed me the case they sort mail into, and there was one color thing they'd stick into the box when you were on a vacation stop, and a different color one if you didn't want the junk mail.
Actually, here Ameritech offers an extra feature, Privacy Manager, that costs a few bucks on top of the few bucks for caller ID with name. Basically if the call would show Anonymous or Unavailable on caller ID, it routes it to their system, and asks the caller to record their name, and then calls you, plays their name, and asks you if you want to talk to them, or not, or play them a nasty "I don't talk to telemarketers" speil.
It's nice being able to tell who's calling before answering, either by caller id, or the preannounce. It also apparently makes predictive dialers think they hit an answering machine, so the big telemarketing places don't even make it to the point of ringing my phone.
My saturday mornings have gotten alot quieter. Instead of 1-3 calls/saturday morning trying to sell me crap, I get to sleep.
My only problem with my Omniview Pro 8 that I use to control the 6 machines under my desk, is that after switching around, when I get back to the one win95 machine, I have to redetect the mouse to get the scroll wheel on my logitech cordless to work again. Other than that, it's alot nicer than the old 6 port AT keyboard/serial mouse only box I used before.
Although, the PROM on the SGI Visual Workstations lets you use a serial console to change settings and such. X flys on the 320's too, even though the server isn't accelerated yet. At the last MDLUG meeting, they had one up and running Linux, with GNOME and all the eyecandy turned on, like transparency and such. Even dragging windows around didn't slow it down...
Here's a place I've found that has various devices for making computers quieter. Everything from vibration absorbing HD mounts, to quiet fans and power supplies.
http://www.silentsystems.com/
I've also been happy with how quiet IBM harddrives are. Even the 7200rpm ones are very hard to hear.
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Some cases are designed for good airflow... Like this one for example: http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/sc450n x/index.htm
It's got around 15 fans in it...
I tend to keep the case on, but not the screws... Keeps the RFI down so my radio has a chance of working...
You need APM support in the kernel, and you need to run apmd. It'll reset the clock automatically after it resumes. Works well on my laptop. One of the options under APM support, is the autopower off the computer on halt feature. I setup control-alt-delete to run shutdown -h, instead of shutdown -r, so I can turn it off just by hitting control-alt-delete.
Most of my friends at college (a few years back) used to make small null modem cables to transfer stuff between their HP48's, as the serial connection was faster than the IR... One friend used a serial cable to a tiny TNC (radio modem) and handheld radio in his backpack, so he could play with packet radio during class.
I still use my HP28S at work all the time... It's also good for doing taxes... just set a variable for each line, and you can then do: LINE1+LINE4 type stuff.
Althought, at times a different Star Trek snipit comes to mind:
GNDN Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing (As seen on the pipes in TOS)
(like trying to find something on the MSDN page today, and 1/2 the search results linked to a "this page has moved, try using search to find it" page.)
The more I think about it, part of it is probably that I type much faster than I can print... So I'm probably thinking too far ahead, and getting buffer overruns. Part of it might also be the fact that there's no backspace key on the paper. I'll definately have to do some tests at work tommorow and see if I can see the pattern.
It's gonna be a royal pain to have to use paper for the exam when I finally get up to 13wpm with morse code... Wonder if I can convince them I have to use a keyboard/typewriter to copy code.
printf("The way I see it, source code isn't just for the computer to follow... It's for other people to follow as well...\n \n My reasoning: If it was just for the computer to understand, why can it have comments in it, that are for the people to read, and the computer ignores?\n");
/* (yes, I know the "'s should be less/greater signs, but HTML likes to eat those.) */
As far back as I can remember, my handwriting has been terrible - both cursive and printing. My cursive has always been much slower than my printing. Now if I have to write cursive for anything besides my illegible signature, I have to really really concentrate on it. My printing has suffered alot since I've switched to typing most everything. When I write things now, I have to watch as I write things, otherwise I don't get useful stuff on the paper. The really weird part is, sometimes I skip letters, and I havn't really thought about it much, but I think there's a correlation to which letters I miss... I think most of the letters I miss are ones that I would type with the other (left) hand... Now I'm gonna have to pay attention tommorow when I write something at work, and see if that theory holds up...
Well, here around Detroit, we can hear the unbeeped versions on the Canadian stations... (Some of which have studios on the Detroit side of the river, and transmitters on the Canada side...)
Speech Rec with a microphone and sound card is a lot easier than speech rec over a phone line. The narrow bandwidth and (relatively) low sampling rate make it much much harder to get high accuracy over a phone. Standard phone lines run at 64kb/s 8 bit, 8khz sampling. And the high/low filters, that limit the range to 300hz to 3400hz or so...
Well, the first mud I played on, Nemesis, it was much shorter to type the IP address than the machine name, and easier to remember too. Ok, it might have been easy to remember if you knew German... Lessee... 131.159.8.67 I think it was... It's only been gone what... 4 years now?
Now maybe it won't take a WEEK to get a nameserver IP address change done...
Interlocking, which allows theaters to use one print to present a film on two screens, is prohibited; What is interlocking? Why would he want only 1 film shown per 1 reel? Are there quality issues he doesn't want to mar his masterpiece? From what I understand, this means you daisy chain the film from one projector to a another, so you use one copy of the film to show it on multiple screens at nearly the same time. (offset by a few minutes) The projection rooms at the big theaters have all kinds of complicated feeds to send the film around the projection room to do this.
Lesse... cpu, monitor, printer, monitor... Makes me think of the old canon notebook with an inkjet printer built in...:)
Truthfully, I wouldn't buy a box that did copy/fax/scanner/answering machine, as it makes it much more expensive to upgrade, or replace when it breaks...
Then again, I'm strange enough to have a 12 port thick ethernet repeater.
Hmmm.... Just imagine... Set it up so it'll transfer $0.10 every month to a bank account someplace... Have it label it "MS Tax". Lesse... if there's 1 million people out there using Quicken...
Interesting ideas... Wonder if someone is already doing it:)
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You can ask at the Post Office, and get yourself opted out of most of the bulk rate ads, the stuff that doesn't directly have your address printed on it. My mom used to work there, and she showed me the case they sort mail into, and there was one color thing they'd stick into the box when you were on a vacation stop, and a different color one if you didn't want the junk mail.
Actually, here Ameritech offers an extra feature, Privacy Manager, that costs a few bucks on top of the few bucks for caller ID with name.
Basically if the call would show Anonymous or Unavailable on caller ID, it routes it to their system, and asks the caller to record their name, and then calls you, plays their name, and asks you if you want to talk to them, or not, or play them a nasty "I don't talk to telemarketers" speil.
It's nice being able to tell who's calling before answering, either by caller id, or the preannounce. It also apparently makes predictive dialers think they hit an answering machine, so the big telemarketing places don't even make it to the point of ringing my phone.
My saturday mornings have gotten alot quieter. Instead of 1-3 calls/saturday morning trying to sell me crap, I get to sleep.
My only problem with my Omniview Pro 8 that I use to control the 6 machines under my desk, is that after switching around, when I get back to the one win95 machine, I have to redetect the mouse to get the scroll wheel on my logitech cordless to work again. Other than that, it's alot nicer than the old 6 port AT keyboard/serial mouse only box I used before.
Although, the PROM on the SGI Visual Workstations lets you use a serial console to change settings and such. X flys on the 320's too, even though the server isn't accelerated yet. At the last MDLUG meeting, they had one up and running Linux, with GNOME and all the eyecandy turned on, like transparency and such. Even dragging windows around didn't slow it down...
So when they become Vice President, they'll be famous.
No Disassemble! Windows 98 is alive!
... Uhm... nevermind.
A remote xpilot? oh... nevermind...
Here's a place I've found that has various devices for making computers quieter. Everything from vibration absorbing HD mounts, to quiet fans and power supplies.
http://www.silentsystems.com/
I've also been happy with how quiet IBM harddrives are. Even the 7200rpm ones are very hard to hear.
Some cases are designed for good airflow...n x/index.htm
Like this one for example:
http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/sc450
It's got around 15 fans in it...
I tend to keep the case on, but not the screws... Keeps the RFI down so my radio has a chance of working...
You need APM support in the kernel, and you need to run apmd. It'll reset the clock automatically after it resumes. Works well on my laptop. One of the options under APM support, is the autopower off the computer on halt feature.
I setup control-alt-delete to run shutdown -h, instead of shutdown -r, so I can turn it off just by hitting control-alt-delete.
Most of my friends at college (a few years back) used to make small null modem cables to transfer stuff between their HP48's, as the serial connection was faster than the IR...
One friend used a serial cable to a tiny TNC (radio modem) and handheld radio in his backpack, so he could play with packet radio during class.
I still use my HP28S at work all the time... It's also good for doing taxes... just set a variable for each line, and you can then do: LINE1+LINE4 type stuff.
Or buy vmware, and set it up to boot your NT partition in a linux window, so you can run Office without rebooting...
Althought, at times a different Star Trek snipit comes to mind:
GNDN
Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing (As seen on the pipes in TOS)
(like trying to find something on the MSDN page today, and 1/2 the search results linked to a "this page has moved, try using search to find it" page.)
The more I think about it, part of it is probably that I type much faster than I can print... So I'm probably thinking too far ahead, and getting buffer overruns. Part of it might also be the fact that there's no backspace key on the paper.
I'll definately have to do some tests at work tommorow and see if I can see the pattern.
It's gonna be a royal pain to have to use paper for the exam when I finally get up to 13wpm with morse code... Wonder if I can convince them I have to use a keyboard/typewriter to copy code.
#include "stdio.h"
printf("The way I see it, source code isn't just for the computer to follow... It's for other people to follow as well...\n
\n
My reasoning: If it was just for the computer to understand, why can it have comments in it, that are for the people to read, and the computer ignores?\n");
/* (yes, I know the "'s should be less/greater signs, but HTML likes to eat those.) */
As far back as I can remember, my handwriting has been terrible - both cursive and printing. My cursive has always been much slower than my printing. Now if I have to write cursive for anything besides my illegible signature, I have to really really concentrate on it. My printing has suffered alot since I've switched to typing most everything. When I write things now, I have to watch as I write things, otherwise I don't get useful stuff on the paper. The really weird part is, sometimes I skip letters, and I havn't really thought about it much, but I think there's a correlation to which letters I miss... I think most of the letters I miss are ones that I would type with the other (left) hand... Now I'm gonna have to pay attention tommorow when I write something at work, and see if that theory holds up...
Well, here around Detroit, we can hear the unbeeped versions on the Canadian stations...
(Some of which have studios on the Detroit side of the river, and transmitters on the Canada side...)
Bah... not until it has a flight sim like Falcon 4 will the Linux game world be complete... xpilot is fun, but I miss my laser guided bombs.
Chris
Speech Rec with a microphone and sound card is a lot easier than speech rec over a phone line. The narrow bandwidth and (relatively) low sampling rate make it much much harder to get high accuracy over a phone. Standard phone lines run at 64kb/s 8 bit, 8khz sampling. And the high/low filters, that limit the range to 300hz to 3400hz or so...
Chris
Well, the first mud I played on, Nemesis, it was much shorter to type the IP address than the machine name, and easier to remember too. Ok, it might have been easy to remember if you knew German... Lessee... 131.159.8.67 I think it was... It's only been gone what... 4 years now?
Now maybe it won't take a WEEK to get a nameserver IP address change done...
Rand is a little redundant on this page. :)
Interlocking, which allows theaters to use one print to present a film on two screens, is prohibited; What is interlocking? Why would he want only 1 film shown per 1 reel? Are there quality issues he doesn't want to mar his masterpiece? From what I understand, this means you daisy chain the film from one projector to a another, so you use one copy of the film to show it on multiple screens at nearly the same time. (offset by a few minutes) The projection rooms at the big theaters have all kinds of complicated feeds to send the film around the projection room to do this.
Lesse... cpu, monitor, printer, monitor... :)
Makes me think of the old canon notebook with an inkjet printer built in...
Truthfully, I wouldn't buy a box that did copy/fax/scanner/answering machine, as it makes it much more expensive to upgrade, or replace when it breaks...
Then again, I'm strange enough to have a 12 port thick ethernet repeater.
Hmmm.... Just imagine...
:)
Set it up so it'll transfer $0.10 every month
to a bank account someplace... Have it label
it "MS Tax". Lesse... if there's 1 million people
out there using Quicken...
Interesting ideas... Wonder if someone is already doing it