Sorry, no. The chip in the doll was pretty much unusable, so we bypassed it (I prefer the word upgrade) to be able to do the new sounds. The bonus was having it so we retained the original Bob personality for when the PHB wanted it, and making it turn Evil when the rest of us had him.
What I want is a (very) low powered heater to waft warm air through the keyboard. Me thinks, it wouldn't have to be that powerful, don't want to burn my fingers or melt the keyboard.
Don't know about you geeks, but my hands turn to ice blocks when I spent more than two hours on the PC when I'm at home.
Okay, lets throw some random figures in the air. I'm 34... and I was using Telix for ages until I finally moved across to Telemate. I was a little older than the usual suspects in my BBS crowd, so lets take a random stab at 30.
I have to agree here, My first had reflux so bad she could projectile vomit across the room (no, not with green pea soup). Double evil, as she's in pain and she's now hungry again.
Endure. That's all you can do. It will pass, and the road will be hard and long.
I have two girls from my first marriage (aged 6 and 7), my (now) partner has two girls from her previous marriage (aged 13 and 15), and we just had our own, another girl. Yes, pity me. My geek back room IS my 'man's place'.
Our attitude is 'if its her idea, fine.. if it's yours, it'll be the last one you have'.
You will become public property. Expect grannies and others to approach you and say "oooh, what a lovely baby" and expect a conversation.
Sleep like a soldier.. whenever you can.
Spend as much time as you can make with your family, even if it impacts on your geek time. Nobody was ever on their deathbed and said "I should have spent mroe time at work".
Babies are people. Really! You can't make them eat, or sleep, or whatever.. they'll do what they think is right also. This may include inserting random objects into disk drives and VCRs. Been there, done that..
Sex after babies CAN still happen... I recommend being as spontanous as (legally) possible:)
Baby crying? Check the diaper first. Oh and remember that babies tend to cry just to communicate.
You are amazing and magical masters of the universe to your kids. They're hungry, you fix it. They're dirty, you can clean it. They're bored, you can amuse them. BUT.. there will be some things that you can't magically fix - and those are the hard times. If they're tired, they have to sleep - even if they think you can just wave a magical parent finger and make 'it' go away.
Read to them. They don't understand the words, but they love the sound of your voice, and your attention. I recommend reccording a few videos of YOU reading books, and play them for their amusement when you're not there. Trust me, these will become the treasures of their childhood.
Everything you read just may be wrong... kids are individuals, sometimes annoyingly so.
Don't expect life with a baby (hell, life overall really) to reflect a script. It happens they way it wants to.
You're allowed to feel depressed. Write a diary about it.
Our baby loves her mobile.. we grabbed a bunch of toy butterflies, and made a wonderful mobile that sits above her change table. She giggles everytime she sees it, and it makes changing her MUCH easier.
Lastly, this will be the hardest thing you ever do. It is also the best. Enjoy every moment, even the bad ones, because it's all worth it.
Have to agree here. Once you cut your teeth, you need answers rather than explanations. It's a great book for a beginner to PHP/MySQL or to web programming in general, but that's it.
It's short and sharp, but it's effectivly a bunch of reformatted and better explained how-tos you can get for free from sitepoint (duh), devshed, and the rest.
EG: I was hoping the section on user administration and cookies actually explained how they worked, strategies on different techniques, etc. Nope. It tells you how to write a basic system and that's it. Expansion on a concept... go elsewhere.
It's a cheap (as in price and as in production.. it's not a well crafted manual and will fall apart with decent usage), but it's an excellent starter manual. Otherwise, move on, grab the PHP Cookbook, and chat chatting in #php over in freenode.
How do I recommend it really.. well, If anyone wants to buy mine, contact me.
Set your filter to -1, grab the rules and a SHITLOAD of booze and start reading!
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Australia..
remember us, we're one of the Willing Countries apparently..
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MARK UP!
Slashdot is fast becoming THE point of our community internation, and this is shown how important it can be during SEP11.
Many of us geeks will be reloading often, even us poor modem users. Allow us non moderators to set the viewing level to +3 or so, and rely on MODs to mark up those worth reading.
Trolls are a matter of perspective and culture. What we need now is Informative and Funny.
TIA
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Oh please. As an Australian, I know that every poll here is showing arround 22% support for the war. The level of resistence that the people are showing is increadable.
I've found running TikiWiki to be fantastic. Running under the usual LAMP system, it does much more than the atypical wiki; forums, trackers, faq's, dynamic content, image and file galleries, etc etc etc.
I've been using it for building a knowledge base, and all the extras have just been the icing on the cake. Two thumbs up.
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The extent of restrictions that the authorities had placed on your actions were increadibly over the top. Given their fears, and your understanding, what measures do you think they *should* have taken to address their concerns AND sound like they're NOT writing a bad science fiction script?
sigh.. You ask Microsoft and they'll say yes. Meanwhile in the real world, no they don't.
It can handle gif-like transparency (single colour transparency) normally. But to support 8 bit alpha level transparency, you have to use a script to 'make it' do it. Here's some example links:
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, no. The chip in the doll was pretty much unusable, so we bypassed it (I prefer the word upgrade) to be able to do the new sounds. The bonus was having it so we retained the original Bob personality for when the PHB wanted it, and making it turn Evil when the rest of us had him.
Well, that was the hope :P
What I want is a (very) low powered heater to waft warm air through the keyboard. Me thinks, it wouldn't have to be that powerful, don't want to burn my fingers or melt the keyboard.
Don't know about you geeks, but my hands turn to ice blocks when I spent more than two hours on the PC when I'm at home.
M
I'm sorry .. this is so lame .. but your sig is just fantastic.
.. a sig fanboy ..
Oh ghod, what have I become
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Not in Australia - we have a very poor beer here called XXXX ..
shrug ...!
... and I was using Telix for ages until I finally moved across to Telemate. I was a little older than the usual suspects in my BBS crowd, so lets take a random stab at 30.
Okay, lets throw some random figures in the air. I'm 34
You're so right. I mean, everyone knows Telemate is the best option.
This article is DAYS old! Where's the instant gratification I'm so used to from Slashdot? Come to think of it, where are the dupes of this story?!?!
Geez, Chrisd leaves the staff, and the whole place goes to hell in a handbasket!
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I have to agree here, My first had reflux so bad she could projectile vomit across the room (no, not with green pea soup). Double evil, as she's in pain and she's now hungry again.
Endure. That's all you can do. It will pass, and the road will be hard and long.
ROFL
.. if it's yours, it'll be the last one you have'.
I have two girls from my first marriage (aged 6 and 7), my (now) partner has two girls from her previous marriage (aged 13 and 15), and we just had our own, another girl. Yes, pity me. My geek back room IS my 'man's place'.
Our attitude is 'if its her idea, fine
You will become public property. Expect grannies and others to approach you and say "oooh, what a lovely baby" and expect a conversation.
.. whenever you can.
.. they'll do what they think is right also. This may include inserting random objects into disk drives and VCRs. Been there, done that ..
... I recommend being as spontanous as (legally) possible :)
.. there will be some things that you can't magically fix - and those are the hard times. If they're tired, they have to sleep - even if they think you can just wave a magical parent finger and make 'it' go away.
... kids are individuals, sometimes annoyingly so.
.. we grabbed a bunch of toy butterflies, and made a wonderful mobile that sits above her change table. She giggles everytime she sees it, and it makes changing her MUCH easier.
Sleep like a soldier
Spend as much time as you can make with your family, even if it impacts on your geek time. Nobody was ever on their deathbed and said "I should have spent mroe time at work".
Babies are people. Really! You can't make them eat, or sleep, or whatever
Sex after babies CAN still happen
Baby crying? Check the diaper first. Oh and remember that babies tend to cry just to communicate.
You are amazing and magical masters of the universe to your kids. They're hungry, you fix it. They're dirty, you can clean it. They're bored, you can amuse them. BUT
Read to them. They don't understand the words, but they love the sound of your voice, and your attention. I recommend reccording a few videos of YOU reading books, and play them for their amusement when you're not there. Trust me, these will become the treasures of their childhood.
Everything you read just may be wrong
Don't expect life with a baby (hell, life overall really) to reflect a script. It happens they way it wants to.
You're allowed to feel depressed. Write a diary about it.
Our baby loves her mobile
Lastly, this will be the hardest thing you ever do. It is also the best. Enjoy every moment, even the bad ones, because it's all worth it.
Have to agree here. Once you cut your teeth, you need answers rather than explanations. It's a great book for a beginner to PHP/MySQL or to web programming in general, but that's it.
... go elsewhere.
.. it's not a well crafted manual and will fall apart with decent usage), but it's an excellent starter manual. Otherwise, move on, grab the PHP Cookbook, and chat chatting in #php over in freenode.
.. well, If anyone wants to buy mine, contact me.
It's short and sharp, but it's effectivly a bunch of reformatted and better explained how-tos you can get for free from sitepoint (duh), devshed, and the rest.
EG: I was hoping the section on user administration and cookies actually explained how they worked, strategies on different techniques, etc. Nope. It tells you how to write a basic system and that's it. Expansion on a concept
It's a cheap (as in price and as in production
How do I recommend it really
Can be applied to slashdot also.
Set your filter to -1, grab the rules and a SHITLOAD of booze and start reading!
Yeah, the infamous Saddam's Anti-Slashdot Republican Luddites are well documented ...
Australia ..
..
remember us, we're one of the Willing Countries apparently
MARK UP!
Slashdot is fast becoming THE point of our community internation, and this is shown how important it can be during SEP11.
Many of us geeks will be reloading often, even us poor modem users. Allow us non moderators to set the viewing level to +3 or so, and rely on MODs to mark up those worth reading.
Trolls are a matter of perspective and culture. What we need now is Informative and Funny.
TIA
God Bless America!
Sigh. Shame about the rest of us non-Americans.
God Bless Us All.
PsyOps Operation #31: Drop Microsoft EULA's on the Enemy.
Absolutly. I am against this war *at this point in time* but my beef is with those who decided on this action, not those ordered into action.
Interestingly, EVERYONE that I've spoken to also think this.
May the Godhead of your choice watch over us all.
And I'm sure you have evidence for this.
Oh please. As an Australian, I know that every poll here is showing arround 22% support for the war. The level of resistence that the people are showing is increadable.
I've found running TikiWiki to be fantastic. Running under the usual LAMP system, it does much more than the atypical wiki; forums, trackers, faq's, dynamic content, image and file galleries, etc etc etc.
I've been using it for building a knowledge base, and all the extras have just been the icing on the cake. Two thumbs up.
The extent of restrictions that the authorities had placed on your actions were increadibly over the top. Given their fears, and your understanding, what measures do you think they *should* have taken to address their concerns AND sound like they're NOT writing a bad science fiction script?
sigh .. You ask Microsoft and they'll say yes. Meanwhile in the real world, no they don't.
.. grumble
It can handle gif-like transparency (single colour transparency) normally. But to support 8 bit alpha level transparency, you have to use a script to 'make it' do it. Here's some example links:
Discussion and howto from evolt.org
WebFX's script
Petition to Make IE support PNG properly (as if MS would ever listen
True ... and depends ...
I'd call Arson on this level Terrorism.
Currently, tikiwiki could be a good option. Wiki, CMS, blogs, and more. Quite a nice user/group security layer also.