Regarding clock cycles, the largest bit of software I wrote (in BASIC) on the Coco3 was to calculate and draw a mandelbrot set. This took between 12 hours and a full day. I found many tricks during programming to speed this up. For example, assigning a value of "." as in "a =." was faster than using "a = 0". I've forgotten the rest of the speed tweaks. Well, except POKE 65496,0 and Poke 65497,0.
I did this as well. I took it out when the USB ports started letting out some rather smelly black smoke...that's how I knew it was 'ready'. It was successful as well.
My favorite so far. Getting around the requirement of having a paid monitoring service for my alarm panel to get notifications of simple events such as arm / disarm.
Get alarm panel. Wire to Linksys voip adapter. Give it extension on asterisk voip server. Configure asterisk with AlarmReceiver so it will understand the Ademco codes via the voip adapter. Configure that to write to a tmp; and another script found online to parse that to decode events and send appropriate email.
I just found all the portions online, so not my hack at all; but just amusing steps to get an alarm panel I actually own to send email events.
except you can't simply expand a ZFS system by adding more disks or swapping in larger HDDs into an existing array.
You can increase the size of a zpool. Just replace the drives one at a time, wait for the rebuild to complete between each swap, then export / import your pool and it will now reflect the larger size. I understand there may be an autoexpand property on newer versions, but I have not used that personally.
Thank you, this is one of those posts that cement what I like about the 'ask slashdot' replies. You hit it right on the head with your comment about people not getting it, or so mired in doing it 100% correctly at the start. No startup would ever start if they had to be 100% correct. And a lot of the posts that seem to be deterring for various reasons seem to indicate by their content that they have never actually looked at some of the offerings and how they work.
These are the responses I look forward to reading in the 'Ask Slashdot' threads. Not the banal accusations of 'OP just wants/. to do my job for me'. This is thoughtful, informative and should provide some sort of direction for getting to a reasonable starting point.
In a word: pfSense. There are other options; but this 'appliance' installation is a solid, free, powerful product. I suggest you take a look. Just turn off dhcp on your linksys and use it as a wireless access point. I also suggest using a mini-itx board and case to keep power and size low. Possibly using the new Intel Atom; but you'd have to verify it will work on that hardware; I expect that it would.
It's what I get in my extra large Tim's. I don't get those sports analogies (being a True Geek); so let me try it my way: I like my IDS's like I like my coffee; sugary sweet and really hot.
If I can add something that might help one person reading this thread with Eclipse issues - tell your virus scanner to *not* scan your Eclipse directory and see if that helps. I know McAfee turns Eclipse into a cold lifeless turd on at least one workstation. Once I excluded that directory everything got a whole lot better.
That's a shortsighted statement. If you have more users of (u)(ku)buntu; you increase your user community and knowledge base. Kubuntu has what; almost doubled the amount of people viewing, using, troubleshooting the (u)(ku)buntu base?
I think the question here is how do we know that they aren't filtering outgoing news? And what sort of discombobulating filters does this internet thing go through before I get to read it?...sorry, I'm just off night shift and I tend to get tin-foilie after a 12 hour shift.
Check out this picture at HardOCP that I actually uploaded awhile back (they spelt my name wrong damnit!)
For a paltry $8499 in 1989 at RadioShack (Canadian dollars in 1989?) you got: 20 Mhz 80386 VGA graphics 2 MB RAM (up to 16MB capacity) Cache memory. Monitor and mouse not included.
I may actually still have that piece of paper somewhere. Not sure what that says about me.
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The 'lobby' page of ICQ Universe doesn't seem to load properly; at least with the build of Mozilla I am using. Loads fine in IE. They have already limited their Universe; some sort of crazy club. Accident or on purpose? Conspiracy, anyone?
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Regarding clock cycles, the largest bit of software I wrote (in BASIC) on the Coco3 was to calculate and draw a mandelbrot set. This took between 12 hours and a full day. I found many tricks during programming to speed this up. For example, assigning a value of "." as in "a = ." was faster than using "a = 0". I've forgotten the rest of the speed tweaks. Well, except POKE 65496,0 and Poke 65497,0.
Genius post. This comment made my day. Thanks!
I did this as well. I took it out when the USB ports started letting out some rather smelly black smoke. ..that's how I knew it was 'ready'. It was successful as well.
My favorite so far. Getting around the requirement of having a paid monitoring service for my alarm panel to get notifications of simple events such as arm / disarm.
Get alarm panel. Wire to Linksys voip adapter. Give it extension on asterisk voip server. Configure asterisk with AlarmReceiver so it will understand the Ademco codes via the voip adapter. Configure that to write to a tmp; and another script found online to parse that to decode events and send appropriate email.
I just found all the portions online, so not my hack at all; but just amusing steps to get an alarm panel I actually own to send email events.
except you can't simply expand a ZFS system by adding more disks or swapping in larger HDDs into an existing array.
You can increase the size of a zpool. Just replace the drives one at a time, wait for the rebuild to complete between each swap, then export / import your pool and it will now reflect the larger size. I understand there may be an autoexpand property on newer versions, but I have not used that personally.
This search seems to tell a different story: http://www.google.com/?q=site%3Amicrosoft.com+metro
793,000 results.
Will take them a few days to clean that up.
Also, don't forget other sources into the house - cable, POTS, others.
10-12 hours from comments in TFA
... it's just passing gas.
Those are all amazing videos though.
Thank you, this is one of those posts that cement what I like about the 'ask slashdot' replies. You hit it right on the head with your comment about people not getting it, or so mired in doing it 100% correctly at the start. No startup would ever start if they had to be 100% correct. And a lot of the posts that seem to be deterring for various reasons seem to indicate by their content that they have never actually looked at some of the offerings and how they work.
Great post.
These are the responses I look forward to reading in the 'Ask Slashdot' threads. Not the banal accusations of 'OP just wants /. to do my job for me'. This is thoughtful, informative and should provide some sort of direction for getting to a reasonable starting point.
Thank you.
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Different pricing models (Day Pass, per month), free on weekends.
I'm sure they just do exactly what I do when I'm at work and have a problem: they google for an answer to the problem at hand.
Oh, wait.
The above sort of leads into explaining my fear of asking google "is google alive" and the ensuing apocalypse.
Ah, but if you try that you'll find this very post is the very first hit for "Is there any possible way I could be more lazy?" Infinite loop.
You think that's bad -- I was skimming the page and read Crispin Glover. I bet he'd make great ads for Vista.
I like the VM option as well. If that is an option; maybe cloud computing via Amazon's EC2 or similar would be an option.
In a word: pfSense. There are other options; but this 'appliance' installation is a solid, free, powerful product. I suggest you take a look. Just turn off dhcp on your linksys and use it as a wireless access point. I also suggest using a mini-itx board and case to keep power and size low. Possibly using the new Intel Atom; but you'd have to verify it will work on that hardware; I expect that it would.
I also saw Disney. And dismayland.com and dismayworld.com are already registered. Nicely done.
Does it run under linux? I couldn't 'apt-cache search' it.
It's what I get in my extra large Tim's. I don't get those sports analogies (being a True Geek); so let me try it my way: I like my IDS's like I like my coffee; sugary sweet and really hot.
Nope; still don't get it.
If I can add something that might help one person reading this thread with Eclipse issues - tell your virus scanner to *not* scan your Eclipse directory and see if that helps. I know McAfee turns Eclipse into a cold lifeless turd on at least one workstation. Once I excluded that directory everything got a whole lot better.
That's a shortsighted statement. If you have more users of (u)(ku)buntu; you increase your user community and knowledge base. Kubuntu has what; almost doubled the amount of people viewing, using, troubleshooting the (u)(ku)buntu base?
I think the question here is how do we know that they aren't filtering outgoing news? And what sort of discombobulating filters does this internet thing go through before I get to read it? ...sorry, I'm just off night shift and I tend to get tin-foilie after a 12 hour shift.
Check out this picture at HardOCP that I actually uploaded awhile back (they spelt my name wrong damnit!)
For a paltry $8499 in 1989 at RadioShack (Canadian dollars in 1989?) you got:
20 Mhz 80386
VGA graphics
2 MB RAM (up to 16MB capacity)
Cache memory.
Monitor and mouse not included.
I may actually still have that piece of paper somewhere. Not sure what that says about me.
The 'lobby' page of ICQ Universe doesn't seem to load properly; at least with the build of Mozilla I am using. Loads fine in IE. They have already limited their Universe; some sort of crazy club. Accident or on purpose? Conspiracy, anyone?