Uh, re-read the article summary. The original article is a "new user's" list of handy tools, and the poster then asks what a seasoned sysadmin's top ten would be. Again, the original list is not intended to be a list of sysadmin tools.
There's a slot to drop mail in, but you need the key to open the box to get it out. Also, I believe there are standard keys that mail carriers have for these boxes, so they can put larger items inside.
I had similar symptoms, but in my case the issue was slouching, which was pinching the Ulnar nerve way up near my neck. Resting my right wrist on the desk while using the mouse wasn't helping either. I had pain in my right forearm, as well as numbness in my pinky and half of my ring finger (oddly, the Ulnar nerve ennervates the pinky and the pinky-side half of the ring finger).
The solution for me was to work at a standing-height desk, so that my back and neck posture are correct. I also trained myself to use a touchpad with my left hand, and no longer use a mouse with my right. It's made a big difference.
One little correction: the new Squeezebox 3 is an 802.11g device, not b. Even better wireless goodness! (The Squeezebox 1 was 802.11b). I picked up my Squeezebox 3 last week at the Slimdevices road show here in Seattle, and I've been loving it. I also have two of the first-generation Squeezeboxes.
My other favorite features in the new version: - native FLAC support! (It used to have to convert to WAV before streaming to the unit) - SqueezeNetwork, which lets the Squeezebox stream from the Internet without a local SlimServer running. - better DAC - new grayscale display with cool VU meters, etc.
It reminded me of the scene in one of the Indiana Jones movies, when after the bad guy finishes brandishing some nasty looking swords, and you're expecting a long drawn-out swordfight to begin, Jones just shoots the guy instead.
Supposedly they had rehearsed a long swordfight, but on the day of shooting Harrison Ford was suffering from a bad case of dysentery, so they changed the scene to the (much more memorable) version that ended up in the film.
I watched the segment about these prototype "personal air cars" on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. A few points kept popping into my head:
1. It will always be way more efficient to move hundreds of people per passenger jet than one person per "air car."
2. All this talk about NASA's "highway in the sky" sounds great until 5000 air cars want to land at the same time/place during rush hour.
3. Obvious safety problems...
4. Don't a lot of these things just look like glorified gyrocopters?
5. Elwood Norris talking about how if only 2000 people bought his $50,000 helicopter, it would be a Billion dollar business. Boy does that sound like wishful thinking...
I used to work for Aldus. The joke back when Adobe "merged" with Aldus was that the new company name was going to be formed by taking th "A" from "Aldus" and the "dobe" from "Adobe."
http://www.redfin.com/ provides satellite images of the Seattle area, for looking up houses for sale. It also features streets/parks/etc overlays, and real-time zooming. It's flash-based though, so different tech from the way Google's doing this...
Everyone seems to be missing one very important (and somewhat counter-intuitive) point here: death is absolutely necessary for the continuation of life. If it weren't for relatively short lifespans, the world would be covered in a sea of bacteria. Evolution doesn't work very well without short lifespans.
Uh, if you're hooking your cell phone up to the USB port of your PC, you're still "tied to your PC," right? I guess the poster meant "tied to your land line." Which, of course, the/. editor could have clarified... sigh.
Both this post and the one it comments on make the invalid assumption that PHP must run on a server, and only provides output via a browser. PHP can be run locally, using a PHP interpreter. That's how this OpenGL example works.
Flash intros to web pages have nothing to do with this (silly, yet interesting) coding example.
Uh, probably not much, because big companies like Boeing get tax exemptions from local governments in exchange for promising to build new plants/not leave. Witness the current efforts by Washington to get Boeing to build their new 7E7 plant here.
What I really want is to be able to buy a plain old (new) 4X CD-ROM drive. I don't *want* a 32x drive that sounds like a jet engine taking off. And I'm tired of waiting for these "fast" drives to spin up and down all the time. Aarrggh!
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Uh, re-read the article summary. The original article is a "new user's" list of handy tools, and the poster then asks what a seasoned sysadmin's top ten would be. Again, the original list is not intended to be a list of sysadmin tools.
There's a slot to drop mail in, but you need the key to open the box to get it out. Also, I believe there are standard keys that mail carriers have for these boxes, so they can put larger items inside.
I suppose you could wax a desert, but why would you?
I had similar symptoms, but in my case the issue was slouching, which was pinching the Ulnar nerve way up near my neck. Resting my right wrist on the desk while using the mouse wasn't helping either. I had pain in my right forearm, as well as numbness in my pinky and half of my ring finger (oddly, the Ulnar nerve ennervates the pinky and the pinky-side half of the ring finger).
The solution for me was to work at a standing-height desk, so that my back and neck posture are correct. I also trained myself to use a touchpad with my left hand, and no longer use a mouse with my right. It's made a big difference.
One little correction: the new Squeezebox 3 is an 802.11g device, not b. Even better wireless goodness! (The Squeezebox 1 was 802.11b). I picked up my Squeezebox 3 last week at the Slimdevices road show here in Seattle, and I've been loving it. I also have two of the first-generation Squeezeboxes.
My other favorite features in the new version:
- native FLAC support! (It used to have to convert to WAV before streaming to the unit)
- SqueezeNetwork, which lets the Squeezebox stream from the Internet without a local SlimServer running.
- better DAC
- new grayscale display with cool VU meters, etc.
Shouldn't that camera be pointed downward if you have mirrors on your shoes?
So, all your base (versions of XP) are belong to M$?
(ducks)
It reminded me of the scene in one of the Indiana Jones movies, when after the bad guy finishes brandishing some nasty looking swords, and you're expecting a long drawn-out swordfight to begin, Jones just shoots the guy instead.
Supposedly they had rehearsed a long swordfight, but on the day of shooting Harrison Ford was suffering from a bad case of dysentery, so they changed the scene to the (much more memorable) version that ended up in the film.
This concept stolen from... Mr. Show
And how do you spend your "spare" time?
Let me get this straight. You typed up all that in 1 minute from when the article was posted???
;)
See: the previous NTP story
1930? So you think he wrote this article when he was 15?
(consults Google...)
Vannevar Bush was born in 1890.
I especially liked them including Pierson's Puppeteer in the language menu...
I watched the segment about these prototype "personal air cars" on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. A few points kept popping into my head:
1. It will always be way more efficient to move hundreds of people per passenger jet than one person per "air car."
2. All this talk about NASA's "highway in the sky" sounds great until 5000 air cars want to land at the same time/place during rush hour.
3. Obvious safety problems...
4. Don't a lot of these things just look like glorified gyrocopters?
5. Elwood Norris talking about how if only 2000 people bought his $50,000 helicopter, it would be a Billion dollar business. Boy does that sound like wishful thinking...
I used to work for Aldus. The joke back when Adobe "merged" with Aldus was that the new company name was going to be formed by taking th "A" from "Aldus" and the "dobe" from "Adobe."
Ba-dump-bump.
http://www.redfin.com/ provides satellite images of the Seattle area, for looking up houses for sale. It also features streets/parks/etc overlays, and real-time zooming. It's flash-based though, so different tech from the way Google's doing this...
I so don't want to know what you're projecting on your bedroom ceiling...
Everyone seems to be missing one very important (and somewhat counter-intuitive) point here: death is absolutely necessary for the continuation of life. If it weren't for relatively short lifespans, the world would be covered in a sea of bacteria. Evolution doesn't work very well without short lifespans.
Uh, if you're hooking your cell phone up to the USB port of your PC, you're still "tied to your PC," right? I guess the poster meant "tied to your land line." Which, of course, the /. editor could have clarified... sigh.
Would it kill the moderators to fix the grammar on some of these posts? That second sentence is almost un-parsable...
*sigh*
Both this post and the one it comments on make the invalid assumption that PHP must run on a server, and only provides output via a browser. PHP can be run locally, using a PHP interpreter. That's how this OpenGL example works.
Flash intros to web pages have nothing to do with this (silly, yet interesting) coding example.
Space: 1999
UFO
'nuff said
> I wonder how much tax revenue that lost them.
Uh, probably not much, because big companies like Boeing get tax exemptions from local governments in exchange for promising to build new plants/not leave. Witness the current efforts by Washington to get Boeing to build their new 7E7 plant here.
...and he'd have even better luck if he was using PanoTools to do the stitching for him.
What I really want is to be able to buy a plain old (new) 4X CD-ROM drive. I don't *want* a 32x drive that sounds like a jet engine taking off. And I'm tired of waiting for these "fast" drives to spin up and down all the time. Aarrggh!