I'm pretty happy with my getup, even though it's quite ancient now in device years:
Viewsonic G-Tablet running Vegan-Tab (2.3 Gingerbread-based). It has a micro-SD slot in addition to 16GB of internal memory. It has a full-size USB port. I use it with one of these cheap USB keyboard cases to get physical buttons: http://www.amazon.com/Synthetic-Leather-Keyboard-Stylus-Black/dp/B004JQN670/ref=sr_1_2 I always win at SketchIt / Pictionary with this. Also, I can use it as an extended battery pack to charge my cell phone.
Yes, the TFT screen is crap, but it doesn't really bother me anymore, the keyboard case really helps keep it propped up at the right angle. I tried the TeamDRH (DirtyResetHole) 4.1 ROM at some point, and while it was awesome, the G-Tablet didn't really have enough RAM (512MB) to multitask well with Android 4.1. But all the apps work fine and fast under Vegan-Tab.
I think the front-facing camera has an LED that turns on when it's active. But there's always masking tape if you want a physical enable/disable button. For the other wireless functions, I'm happy enough with the PowerControl widget to enable / disable various wifi / phone radio features.
Stereo mics are overrated. Professional studios use one mic per audio source, and mix sources into multiple channels later. Get dedicated recording devices (several tablets recording a single channel each to mix later, if you must). If you're filming VR gonzo porn or something, then you minus while spring for some device that can record in binocular 3D vision with stereo audio to give you the full immersion. For anything less, just deal with having one camera and one mic:P
The ViewSonic G-Tablet has an HDMI-out converter dongle, but I haven't bought it. The 10" screen is big enough to enjoy Netflix while I'm sitting on the John.
Finally, I use the LED "flashlight" on my phone (an HTC myTouch 4G Slide running CyanogenMOD 9.1 / Android 4.1-based). I don't really see the need to have one on my Tablet as well. I also have one of these cheap keychain LEDs which actually works pretty nicely and doesn't die like the plastic variety: http://www.amazon.com/Streamlight-73001-Miniature-Keychain-Flashlight/dp/B0011UIPIW/ref=sr_1_1
I'm a bit pissed that both Vegan-Tab and CyanogenMOD 9.1 don't have the loopback module compiled in, so I could run the "Linux Installer" and chroot into a full Debian distro from Android. This would give me enough options to make me happy using a tablet for "real" work. It was great on my older myTouch 3G Slide running CyanogenMOD 7.1, which did have the loopback device in the kernel.
Finally, for mapping, the Google Maps caching is good enough. We just came back from a drive through the Western US, and we simply mapped from town to town., and did the "Download to SD" thing for a few of the national parks that we knew we'd be spending a lot of time wandering around in. Not perfect (particularly since you can't really swap between map types while disconnected... hopefully Google will fix this sometime). But it was good enough. I remember driving across the country 10 years ago with a full US Garmin Street Maps on a laptop. It was cool, but not that cool compared to the awesome array of data that's available now. Back in the PalmOS days, I also would load tons of street vectors from the Mapopolis service, but that was a pain since you had to download county by county. I think at this point, the easiest thing to do would be to just pester Google to add a few more offline features and call it a day... or just spend 5 minutes preloading the details of your trip.
So call me a luddite, maybe... but I'm pretty happy with my "old" tech;)
Ooh, ooh, I just got through basic Scrum / Agile training, so I know the answer to this!
Get everyone committed to using Scrum methodology for your project before they really know what it means.
Then assign yourself as Product Owner and your boss as Scrum Master for the duration of the project.
Then send all the other chickens to Scrum training, so they can find out that they're chickens. They'll spend all the rest of their time rooting out all of the other chickens in your organization to keep them from clucking up your very important work.
After your project gets delivered on time without interference, and everyone can give themselves a pat on the back from running interference. Everyone gets a promotion! (which is all they really wanted in the first place)
I think Enlightenment is one of the nicest "alternative" desktops. Too bad it always seems to be one of the "alternative" ones instead of a default. It works very well with GNOME. Unfortunately I spent a bit too much time getting my "Enlightenome" environment set up, but it would make a slick default if more distros provided it.
Give the http://www.bodhilinux.com/ LiveCD a spin to see what it can do... I love the aesthetic (esp. the zenlike Japanese theme... hard to get any more ricer than that!). Unfortunately, like KNOPPIX LiveCD is a great showcase of KDE , it's not so smooth getting it running on a standard Debian- or Fedora- based distro without some finagling.
Unfortunately my computing time these days is too centered on playing games under Windows. Hopefully this will change once Steam for Linux goes live... the irony was that Left4Dead was pretty much the game that got me to dual boot Windows again. But I look forward to setting up a nice Enlightenment desktop again.
Someone on Fark pointed out that the WBC aren't really haters, or even Christians, just a bunch of lawyers trying to make extortion money from the threat of (very carefully and legally) exercising their 1st Amendment rights: http://www.fark.com/comments/7488418/81313473#c81313473
Well, if you keep up with the news, turns out the guy was an Honors Student and a nerd who ran LAN parties with his friends.
So be glad that they're still in the "ban guns / ban psychos" phase before they inevitably move on to the "ban nerds & nerd activities" phase. We're certainly going to be hearing more of this here.
I sort of took the same track back in the 90s (can't believe all the ancient advice in this Ask Slashdot is still valid)
When I graduated High School and went to an Engineering College, I ditched my TI-84 and got me a nice graduation present of an HP-48GX calculator (which felt like a legacy calculator at the time, and incidentally, is also still top-of-the-line:P )
The pokey HP-48GX made my TI-84 feel FAST! But eventually once I got the hang of RPN I realized that the human input was largely the limiting factor, and RPN made grinding equations ever so slightly faster. Maybe.
My Android phone has a great HP-48GX emulator called Droid48
I've never found any math software or app or emulator that I enjoyed using more than an actual calculator.
But math is different on a computer. In an engineering college, you'll end up doing lots of Spreadsheets (Excel / OpenOffice) and mathematical scripting software (Matlab / Octave). Those are the two types of things you really need. Stop looking for anything fancier.
Aw, who am I kidding? Go download python and install the SciPy / SimPy modules (which includes numpy and all sorts of other goodies). Play with VTK and Mayavi for 3D visualization. Solve some big optimization problems with LINDO / lp_solve . Crunch some FEA with San Le's FEA packages. Export exotic mathematical functions and raytrace them in POVRay on a Beowulf cluster. Go have fun!
But if you just need a simple calculator... I dunno, just enter it into the Google search box. Or Wolfram Alpha if you're feeling chitzy.
They also have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of lots of Make / Models of PSUs so you can look up your own and find out all the ways in which it sucks. These articles should probably be up there with Anand's SSD Anthology or something.
Yeah, I used to get the cheapest PSU I could. But after I somehow inexplicably fried some of my expensive components, like my GPU, I decided to drop in something a bit better.
When I dropped another $250 on a replacement GPU, I also decided to shell out real money for a nicer PSU and put my old PSU out to the pasture... in my kids' cobbled-together box.
Ended up going with a SeaSonic, since that's one of the brands that tend to be recommended by the Ars Technica Budget / Hot Rod box guide.
I wish I could find it, but there was some PSU snob site that went into all of the power benchmarking and provided pagefulls of data and charts like the other sites that benchmark CPUs and RAM. They managed to point out all the ways my old PSU was deficient and sorta almost turned me into a PSU snob as well.
I think it's really that they're always compared to the last thing they put out.
ME released: Ick! Stability sucks! XP - Sucks, but at least it's not as bad as ME! Vista - Ick! WTF did they do to the user interface! 7 - Sucks, but at least it only bugs the user half as much as Vista! 8 - Ick! WTF did they do to the Start Menu? 9 - Sucks, but at least they put the Start Menu back....Meanwhile, no one has really seen many stability problems since Vista or so.
I jumped from XP to 7 without ever running Vista until my Wif'e got a PC that ran Vista. I was pretty annoyed with 7, but remember thinking Vista wasn't as bad as people made it out to be... well, except for the folder deletion taking forever.
OTOH, I just updated my wife's PC from Vista to 8. Yeah, she's pretty pissed at me:-P But I also put it on a new SSD, so ostensibly we can stick her old HDD back in if she really wants.
I second Linux Mint... they even make it relatively easy to install proprietary hardware drivers. The only thing that annoys me is that they try a bit too hard to get money via search engine referrals (they default to various other search engines in your browser, and even in Chrome they overwrite your profile to use the Linux Mint Google portal which I find pretty annoying). But once you clean all that up it's nice.
But even in Ubuntu, I'd spend some time replacing the default desktop with compiz-fusion or enlightenment or something. It's not that difficult to switch desktop environments in any Debian-based distro (compared to, say, Redhat / CentOS).
I want to like KDE, but I've never been happy with it anywhere outside of a KNOPPIX LiveCD. Too many background services and other bloat. But it's been a while since I've tried it.
I run with OSMonitor, and I can pretty much see the CPU spike up whenever I'm scrolling (which is a lot on a small screen). I'd assume with Jetpack it would be using the GPU to scroll more than the CPU, but this doesn't appear to be the case.
It used to be possible to set the volume keys as page-up / page-down, which would likely save a lot of CPU cycles... Unfortunately they've been moving or removing a lot of this functionality over the past few months.
Dolphin moves their UI stuff around too much... it took me way too long to figure out that the replaced the "Find on Page" menu item with a long-press menu item, and then even longer to figure out that they replaced the long-press menu item with a gesture. Grrr....
It is a nice browser, esp. wrt speed and its handling of tabs, but... I'm ready to try something else.
Careful with the CamelCase, but http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ is a fun real-time connection visualizer. We used that for a lot of network demonstrations.
The command-line based "iftop" is also really nice to get a quick realtime overview of what's using bandwidth.
I think she'll have lots of fun with any of the Wardriving software, which would also give you maps.
For Android, there are a few pretty interesting real-time displays. "Wifi Analyzer" will have her running all over the place exploring wifi signal attenuation. "OpenSignal" is also a cool app I just started playing with that will let you do the same with cell towers, which also shows their location on a map. Also look at "GPS Status" to visualize where all of the GPS satellites are, and what kind of attenuation you'd get from each one's signal with trees / buildings / mountains in the way.
Yep, agreed... agonizing over the FS choice isn't going to provide many gains compared to spending time optimizing the physical disk configuration and partitioning.
FS performance is only going to really matter if you're going to have directories with thousands of nodes in them. But then hopefully you have better ways to prevent that from happening.
But you do want to spend a good deal of time benchmarking different RAID and partitioning setups, where you can see some gains in the 100-200% range rather than 5-10%, especially under concurrent loads. Spend some quality time with bonnie++ and making some pretty comparison graphs. Configure jmeter to run some load tests on different parts of your system, and then all together to see how well it deals with concurrent accesses. Figure out which processes you want to dedicate resources to, and which can be well-behaved and share with other processes. Set everything up in a way to make it easier to scale out to other servers when you're ready to grow.
The FS choice is probably the least interesting aspect of the system (until you start looking at clustered FSs, like OCFS2 or Lustre)
The best games nowadays are multiplayer. With three kids, you might get better mileage out of, say, another PS3 or two and networking them all together. You can have some more interesting multiplayer experiences than you can get from a split screen, or maybe some of your car racing games can use multi-monitor mode for a single player.
Probably better to go the PC route, though. My two kids (10 and 7) both play minecraft together, run their own server for their friends, etc. They also do some of the free games such as Tremulous and Altitude and sometimes Alien Swarm under Windows/Steam . When we had just one computer, the older kid was always playing, or pushing the younger kid out of the way.
drat... and all this time, I thought I had high metabolism or something, but it was really just my skinny glasses:/
Well, actually, I'm myopic, so it should probably work in reverse.
I don't actually believe in dieting, I think it just triggers your body to go into anti-starvation mass-storage mode. Just eat well and exercise well and let your gut sort it out.
* This is a good thing, since (hopefully) it will encourage people to encrypt all of their correspondence. Go use http://www.hushmail.com/ if your people are too lazy to have a key exchange party with you. Hopefully more services will crop up to make strong encryption use transparent to the average user.
* This is a concession to the Republicans, since if you haven't noticed, they're filibustering every little budget item to get basic budget bills passed. And that makes sense, because basically that's all the power they have at the moment, so they're using it to great effect to get sweet, sweet concessions that go unnoticed by liberals since they think their party is "in charge". But bills are compromises. The democrats will continue to compromise their core values as concessions just to get government to function.
Ha ha, I didn't run into one of those teachers until relatively late in High School... and to think that I gave my MIT application recommendation to her:P
It wasn't until later that I found out that all of the smart guys had immediately transferred out of her class. (She was OK with genius girls, reportedly.)
* didn't get into MIT * did get into another ivy-league engineering school that didn't require a recommendation from an English teacher at the time. * didn't get an approved absence to visit said engineering school because I had a D in her English class. * went anyway:P
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I'm pretty happy with my getup, even though it's quite ancient now in device years:
Viewsonic G-Tablet running Vegan-Tab (2.3 Gingerbread-based). It has a micro-SD slot in addition to 16GB of internal memory. It has a full-size USB port. I use it with one of these cheap USB keyboard cases to get physical buttons:
http://www.amazon.com/Synthetic-Leather-Keyboard-Stylus-Black/dp/B004JQN670/ref=sr_1_2
I always win at SketchIt / Pictionary with this. Also, I can use it as an extended battery pack to charge my cell phone.
Yes, the TFT screen is crap, but it doesn't really bother me anymore, the keyboard case really helps keep it propped up at the right angle.
I tried the TeamDRH (DirtyResetHole) 4.1 ROM at some point, and while it was awesome, the G-Tablet didn't really have enough RAM (512MB) to multitask well with Android 4.1. But all the apps work fine and fast under Vegan-Tab.
I think the front-facing camera has an LED that turns on when it's active. But there's always masking tape if you want a physical enable/disable button. For the other wireless functions, I'm happy enough with the PowerControl widget to enable / disable various wifi / phone radio features.
Stereo mics are overrated. Professional studios use one mic per audio source, and mix sources into multiple channels later. Get dedicated recording devices (several tablets recording a single channel each to mix later, if you must). If you're filming VR gonzo porn or something, then you minus while spring for some device that can record in binocular 3D vision with stereo audio to give you the full immersion. For anything less, just deal with having one camera and one mic :P
The ViewSonic G-Tablet has an HDMI-out converter dongle, but I haven't bought it. The 10" screen is big enough to enjoy Netflix while I'm sitting on the John.
Finally, I use the LED "flashlight" on my phone (an HTC myTouch 4G Slide running CyanogenMOD 9.1 / Android 4.1-based). I don't really see the need to have one on my Tablet as well. I also have one of these cheap keychain LEDs which actually works pretty nicely and doesn't die like the plastic variety:
http://www.amazon.com/Streamlight-73001-Miniature-Keychain-Flashlight/dp/B0011UIPIW/ref=sr_1_1
I'm a bit pissed that both Vegan-Tab and CyanogenMOD 9.1 don't have the loopback module compiled in, so I could run the "Linux Installer" and chroot into a full Debian distro from Android. This would give me enough options to make me happy using a tablet for "real" work. It was great on my older myTouch 3G Slide running CyanogenMOD 7.1, which did have the loopback device in the kernel.
Finally, for mapping, the Google Maps caching is good enough. We just came back from a drive through the Western US, and we simply mapped from town to town., and did the "Download to SD" thing for a few of the national parks that we knew we'd be spending a lot of time wandering around in. Not perfect (particularly since you can't really swap between map types while disconnected... hopefully Google will fix this sometime). But it was good enough. I remember driving across the country 10 years ago with a full US Garmin Street Maps on a laptop. It was cool, but not that cool compared to the awesome array of data that's available now. Back in the PalmOS days, I also would load tons of street vectors from the Mapopolis service, but that was a pain since you had to download county by county. I think at this point, the easiest thing to do would be to just pester Google to add a few more offline features and call it a day... or just spend 5 minutes preloading the details of your trip.
So call me a luddite, maybe... but I'm pretty happy with my "old" tech ;)
Install the "Hacker's Keyboard" from the Android Market / Play thing.
Ooh, ooh, I just got through basic Scrum / Agile training, so I know the answer to this!
Get everyone committed to using Scrum methodology for your project before they really know what it means.
Then assign yourself as Product Owner and your boss as Scrum Master for the duration of the project.
Then send all the other chickens to Scrum training, so they can find out that they're chickens. They'll spend all the rest of their time rooting out all of the other chickens in your organization to keep them from clucking up your very important work.
After your project gets delivered on time without interference, and everyone can give themselves a pat on the back from running interference. Everyone gets a promotion! (which is all they really wanted in the first place)
I think Enlightenment is one of the nicest "alternative" desktops. Too bad it always seems to be one of the "alternative" ones instead of a default. It works very well with GNOME. Unfortunately I spent a bit too much time getting my "Enlightenome" environment set up, but it would make a slick default if more distros provided it.
Give the http://www.bodhilinux.com/ LiveCD a spin to see what it can do... I love the aesthetic (esp. the zenlike Japanese theme ... hard to get any more ricer than that!). Unfortunately, like KNOPPIX LiveCD is a great showcase of KDE , it's not so smooth getting it running on a standard Debian- or Fedora- based distro without some finagling.
Unfortunately my computing time these days is too centered on playing games under Windows. Hopefully this will change once Steam for Linux goes live... the irony was that Left4Dead was pretty much the game that got me to dual boot Windows again. But I look forward to setting up a nice Enlightenment desktop again.
Someone on Fark pointed out that the WBC aren't really haters, or even Christians, just a bunch of lawyers trying to make extortion money from the threat of (very carefully and legally) exercising their 1st Amendment rights:
http://www.fark.com/comments/7488418/81313473#c81313473
The appropriate response is actually to just organize counter-protests that block or drown out their feeble message, until hopefully they run out of money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030406330.html
But anytime someone actually blocks them illegally, they get to sue and collect some settlement and they get their payday.
I suppose the DDoS helps them bleed money as well, But probably not enough, esp. if they manage to catch and sue the perpetrators.
s/TI-84/TI-85/g
(oops, please don't take my nerd card)
Well, if you keep up with the news, turns out the guy was an Honors Student and a nerd who ran LAN parties with his friends.
So be glad that they're still in the "ban guns / ban psychos" phase before they inevitably move on to the "ban nerds & nerd activities" phase. We're certainly going to be hearing more of this here.
Slide rules are interesting...
[salivating noisily] slide roools! mmmmm...........
I sort of took the same track back in the 90s (can't believe all the ancient advice in this Ask Slashdot is still valid)
When I graduated High School and went to an Engineering College, I ditched my TI-84 and got me a nice graduation present of an HP-48GX calculator (which felt like a legacy calculator at the time, and incidentally, is also still top-of-the-line :P )
But math is different on a computer. In an engineering college, you'll end up doing lots of Spreadsheets (Excel / OpenOffice) and mathematical scripting software (Matlab / Octave). Those are the two types of things you really need. Stop looking for anything fancier.
Aw, who am I kidding? Go download python and install the SciPy / SimPy modules (which includes numpy and all sorts of other goodies). Play with VTK and Mayavi for 3D visualization. Solve some big optimization problems with LINDO / lp_solve . Crunch some FEA with San Le's FEA packages. Export exotic mathematical functions and raytrace them in POVRay on a Beowulf cluster. Go have fun!
But if you just need a simple calculator... I dunno, just enter it into the Google search box. Or Wolfram Alpha if you're feeling chitzy.
How does OCZ stack up as far as component quality? This one is about 20% cheaper than SeaSonic.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/OCZ-ZX-Series-850-W-Power-Supply-Review/1204/10
Sounds like it would be fine as long as you don't overload it.
And maybe you can get the Sparkle SCC for even less if they ever release a 1250W version,
Yes, that is indeed the site! Recommended readings:
"Everything You Need to Know About Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/181
"Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies" ...should be enough to make you care about your PSU.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Anatomy-of-Switching-Power-Supplies/327
They also have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of lots of Make / Models of PSUs so you can look up your own and find out all the ways in which it sucks. These articles should probably be up there with Anand's SSD Anthology or something.
Yes, it's pretty EE-heavy, but Gabriel does an excellent job explaining everything. And there are even quizzes on the site when you're ready to get on your nerd challenge:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/25
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/45
Yeah, I used to get the cheapest PSU I could. But after I somehow inexplicably fried some of my expensive components, like my GPU, I decided to drop in something a bit better.
When I dropped another $250 on a replacement GPU, I also decided to shell out real money for a nicer PSU and put my old PSU out to the pasture... in my kids' cobbled-together box.
Ended up going with a SeaSonic, since that's one of the brands that tend to be recommended by the Ars Technica Budget / Hot Rod box guide.
I wish I could find it, but there was some PSU snob site that went into all of the power benchmarking and provided pagefulls of data and charts like the other sites that benchmark CPUs and RAM. They managed to point out all the ways my old PSU was deficient and sorta almost turned me into a PSU snob as well.
I think it's really that they're always compared to the last thing they put out.
ME released: Ick! Stability sucks! .Meanwhile, no one has really seen many stability problems since Vista or so.
XP - Sucks, but at least it's not as bad as ME!
Vista - Ick! WTF did they do to the user interface!
7 - Sucks, but at least it only bugs the user half as much as Vista!
8 - Ick! WTF did they do to the Start Menu?
9 - Sucks, but at least they put the Start Menu back...
I jumped from XP to 7 without ever running Vista until my Wif'e got a PC that ran Vista. I was pretty annoyed with 7, but remember thinking Vista wasn't as bad as people made it out to be... well, except for the folder deletion taking forever.
OTOH, I just updated my wife's PC from Vista to 8. Yeah, she's pretty pissed at me :-P But I also put it on a new SSD, so ostensibly we can stick her old HDD back in if she really wants.
I second Linux Mint... they even make it relatively easy to install proprietary hardware drivers. The only thing that annoys me is that they try a bit too hard to get money via search engine referrals (they default to various other search engines in your browser, and even in Chrome they overwrite your profile to use the Linux Mint Google portal which I find pretty annoying). But once you clean all that up it's nice.
But even in Ubuntu, I'd spend some time replacing the default desktop with compiz-fusion or enlightenment or something. It's not that difficult to switch desktop environments in any Debian-based distro (compared to, say, Redhat / CentOS).
I want to like KDE, but I've never been happy with it anywhere outside of a KNOPPIX LiveCD. Too many background services and other bloat. But it's been a while since I've tried it.
I run with OSMonitor, and I can pretty much see the CPU spike up whenever I'm scrolling (which is a lot on a small screen). I'd assume with Jetpack it would be using the GPU to scroll more than the CPU, but this doesn't appear to be the case.
It used to be possible to set the volume keys as page-up / page-down, which would likely save a lot of CPU cycles... Unfortunately they've been moving or removing a lot of this functionality over the past few months.
Dolphin moves their UI stuff around too much... it took me way too long to figure out that the replaced the "Find on Page" menu item with a long-press menu item, and then even longer to figure out that they replaced the long-press menu item with a gesture. Grrr....
It is a nice browser, esp. wrt speed and its handling of tabs, but... I'm ready to try something else.
Careful with the CamelCase, but http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ is a fun real-time connection visualizer. We used that for a lot of network demonstrations.
The command-line based "iftop" is also really nice to get a quick realtime overview of what's using bandwidth.
I think she'll have lots of fun with any of the Wardriving software, which would also give you maps.
For Android, there are a few pretty interesting real-time displays. "Wifi Analyzer" will have her running all over the place exploring wifi signal attenuation. "OpenSignal" is also a cool app I just started playing with that will let you do the same with cell towers, which also shows their location on a map. Also look at "GPS Status" to visualize where all of the GPS satellites are, and what kind of attenuation you'd get from each one's signal with trees / buildings / mountains in the way.
Have fun!
Yep, agreed... agonizing over the FS choice isn't going to provide many gains compared to spending time optimizing the physical disk configuration and partitioning.
FS performance is only going to really matter if you're going to have directories with thousands of nodes in them. But then hopefully you have better ways to prevent that from happening.
But you do want to spend a good deal of time benchmarking different RAID and partitioning setups, where you can see some gains in the 100-200% range rather than 5-10%, especially under concurrent loads. Spend some quality time with bonnie++ and making some pretty comparison graphs. Configure jmeter to run some load tests on different parts of your system, and then all together to see how well it deals with concurrent accesses. Figure out which processes you want to dedicate resources to, and which can be well-behaved and share with other processes. Set everything up in a way to make it easier to scale out to other servers when you're ready to grow.
The FS choice is probably the least interesting aspect of the system (until you start looking at clustered FSs, like OCFS2 or Lustre)
I hear reiserfs is killer.
(too soon?)
Whatever... I really did love reiser3 back in the day, if only because rm -rf on large dirs was blazingly swift compared to ext2
So for us it'll be local either way. Badumching.
Well, speaking of echo...
The best games nowadays are multiplayer. With three kids, you might get better mileage out of, say, another PS3 or two and networking them all together. You can have some more interesting multiplayer experiences than you can get from a split screen, or maybe some of your car racing games can use multi-monitor mode for a single player.
Probably better to go the PC route, though. My two kids (10 and 7) both play minecraft together, run their own server for their friends, etc. They also do some of the free games such as Tremulous and Altitude and sometimes Alien Swarm under Windows/Steam . When we had just one computer, the older kid was always playing, or pushing the younger kid out of the way.
aw... and we were that | | close to convincing everyone to finally encrypt their emails...
Oh well.
drat... and all this time, I thought I had high metabolism or something, but it was really just my skinny glasses :/
Well, actually, I'm myopic, so it should probably work in reverse.
I don't actually believe in dieting, I think it just triggers your body to go into anti-starvation mass-storage mode. Just eat well and exercise well and let your gut sort it out.
oh wine wine wine
Well, in defence of the Democrats....
* This is a good thing, since (hopefully) it will encourage people to encrypt all of their correspondence. Go use http://www.hushmail.com/ if your people are too lazy to have a key exchange party with you. Hopefully more services will crop up to make strong encryption use transparent to the average user.
* This is a concession to the Republicans, since if you haven't noticed, they're filibustering every little budget item to get basic budget bills passed. And that makes sense, because basically that's all the power they have at the moment, so they're using it to great effect to get sweet, sweet concessions that go unnoticed by liberals since they think their party is "in charge". But bills are compromises. The democrats will continue to compromise their core values as concessions just to get government to function.
* Eh, why am I defending the Democrats, they're right of Reagan anyway. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/who-is-more-conservative_b_638947.html
(voted third-party, FWIW)
Ha ha, I didn't run into one of those teachers until relatively late in High School... and to think that I gave my MIT application recommendation to her :P
It wasn't until later that I found out that all of the smart guys had immediately transferred out of her class. (She was OK with genius girls, reportedly.)
* didn't get into MIT :P
* did get into another ivy-league engineering school that didn't require a recommendation from an English teacher at the time.
* didn't get an approved absence to visit said engineering school because I had a D in her English class.
* went anyway
My solution: get the popcorn and watch this asshole vs. asshole action... from a safe distance.
Maybe via yet another UAV drone.
I'm sure glad I have a degree in aerospace engineering... this is gonna be BANK