I still have my old Pentax K1000 “auto nothing” film camera
"Auto nothing?" The light meter switches on automatically when you remove the lens cap. The Spotmatics that came before the K1000 didn't even do that...you had to flip a switch.
:-) x 100
(Still have my K1000 that I got for Christmas when I was 13. I shot a roll through it maybe a year ago, and was disappointed that I didn't get my film back with the prints...they put 3-megapixel scans on a CD-R and included that. The zoom lens I used with it still sees some occasional use on an EOS Rebel T5 (with an adapter, of course).)
AquaMail doesn't do LDAP or CardDAV, wanting instead to use my address-book for everything, which is not what I want.
Sounds like you need DAVdroid. It makes your CardDAV directory available to any app that needs to work with addresses: your address book (into which it syncs your directory), email apps, etc.
I'm not in the phone book, and have never paid any money for that choice. You must be looking back a very long time if you had to pay to be removed.
Last time I had a landline was ~12 years ago, and I'm fairly sure you got listed in the white pages by default. I don't recall if they charged extra for unlisted numbers, as I never had one.
(Wait a sec...the second line on which I used to run my BBS and that I then used for demand-dialed Internet access before I switched to cable-modem service was unlisted, and I wasn't charged extra for that. I had that line from 1992 to 2000, IIRC.)
That listing went away when I replaced the landline with VoIP, even though it was on the same number.
Nowadays, I don't think the local phone company is even publishing yellow pages, let alone white pages. Back when they were still dropping them off on doorsteps, I usually chucked them straight into the dumpster as I had no use for them.
It was a minor shock when I visited an aunt and uncle a couple of weeks ago and they pulled out a phonebook to look up an address for something, not knowing that I could punch the name into Google Maps and get directions before they could even get their book off the shelf.
That was already their practice before they started shipping phones that take SIMs. Their CDMA-only models wouldn't work with Sprint (the only other carrier using CDMA) and they definitely wouldn't work with other carriers that don't do CDMA.
SIM-locked phones have long been unlockable after some period of time (usually when your contract is up, or close to it). I had AT&T unlock two phones, and other than the iPhone 4 needing a whole different firmware image to be installed to unlock it, the process was straightforward.
Can't comment as to Win10 on a Core 2 Duo, but it runs well enough at work on a 10-year-old Core 2 Quad Q6600. I suspect some of the faster Core 2 Duos (like the E8400) would work well enough with sufficient RAM and an SSD.
A fair bit of my YouTube watching is through Kodi's YouTube plugin. It doesn't bother to show ads. I tried switching one of my TVs from a Raspberry Pi with LibreELEC (a Kodi distribution) to a Roku stick, but no matter what kind of adblocking I tried implementing on my network, the Roku would still run ads. The Roku is pretty much just for Amazon Prime Video now
On the desktop, I had run across HookTube a while back. I already have uBlock installed, but with a URL-rewriting plugin (just ran across Requestly a little bit ago...stupid adverbed name, but it does what it says it does), you change the "you" in a YouTube URL to "hook" and get redirected to HookTube.
I've also set it up to redirect Wikipedia links (desktop or mobile) to Infogalactic, which means Requestly gets to replace the InfoSextant extension as well. That's two sources of SJW convergence knocked out.
The Lightroom 6 perpetual license is only perpetual as long as you can find a computer to run it. I am already screwed by the fact that they don't natively support Olympus ORF files for the E-M1 Mark II and have to go through an annoying conversion process.
Install it in a VM and you can run it as long as you can find a computer to run the VM. That should get a few more years out of it, at a minimum.
(In the not-too-distant future, I get to migrate an old version of Cisco CallManager (spread across three servers, two of which run Linux and one of which runs Win2K (!)...it's that old, and the servers running it have been here longer than the nearly 10 years I've been here) onto a new VMware box. I hope that imaging the existing servers and making sure the VMs have access to our voice VLAN will be sufficient. It'd also be nice if Win2K didn't bitch too much about having its hardware swapped out from underneath it.)
Unless it's already been done, I'm really surprised that the Console market hasn't been poached for mining yet.
They're probably not powerful enough to be worthwhile for mining, just powerful enough to handle their intended task. On top of that, they're locked down so that you can't throw your own software onto them.
Why would I buy your used GPU that you have significantly shortened the life of by running it like a wagon pulling slave dog?
I don't run mine flat-out like that. I limit my 1070s to 115W or less, and the factory-overclocked cards are underclocked to something closer to stock speed; they're more efficient (hashes per watt) when they're not being pushed like that. I also keep them at or under 60C. If the bottom were to fall out of the cryptocurrency market tomorrow, they'd still have a long life ahead of them with gamers.
(By comparison, reference-design 1070s can handle up to 150W, and the MSI Gaming X 1070s (of which I have three) will allow up to 230W.)
Actually decoding mpeg layer3 was rather difficult.
The audio files he was playing weren't even MP3s, but plain old WAV files. He even took the opportunity to rickroll the audience, but it started stuttering when he ssh'd in.
I've seen British Airways 747s flying into Las Vegas fairly recently. Virgin Atlantic used to fly into here as well, though I'm not sure if that service is still running. I'm sure there are others, though those are the ones I've seen flying when I've been somewhere near the airport.
Meanwhile, the city continues to force the hotels to build massive parking garages so nobody has trouble finding free parking, and then they wonder why nobody takes mass transit. It's nuts!
1) Most of the Strip is outside the Las Vegas city limits. Everything south of Sahara Avenue is in an unincorporated area of Clark County. City officials have nothing to do with the Strip.
2) Most of the Strip is now charging for parking. It started with MGM, then spread to Caesars, and now it's damn near universal.:-P
Maybe I shouldn't post this here where the snowflakes can see it, but you can get free accounts here. Point your newsreader to their servers and you're in business. No binaries, but if you want those, there are lots of paid services offering them.
I even have an ebuild for trn in my Portage overlay, if you're using Gentoo. Builds and runs like a champ on x86 and AMD64, at a minimum.
Functionality? Buzzwords. VLC does all that for me, Media Player does too. What does Kodi actually do that makes vlc irrelevant?
It fits on a Raspberry Pi that you can tuck away behind the living-room TV where no one will see it, which can then be controlled with a Playstation 3 Blu-ray remote (which connects over Bluetooth, so line-of-sight isn't needed) that has familiar media controls on it like "play," "pause," and "fast-forward", and a directional pad for selecting things. It's much more like a piece of A/V gear and its remote than a desktop PC and its keyboard and mouse. Its WAF (wife acceptance factor) is correspondingly higher than a beige box under the TV.
That you can outfit a TV like this for under $100 doesn't hurt either. Not quite as cheap as a Chromecast or a Roku stick, but cheaper than an Apple TV, and more flexible than any of them.
The transcode is more about the various embedded devices not having this or that codec available in hardware, and a puny cpu that can't use pure software codec..
Everything on my server is H.264, which is playable by everything, given enough bandwidth. Transcoding, OTOH, for me is all about watching my stuff over a random hotel's WiFi, which involves sending a stream out your home upstream connection and hoping that the connection on the hotel end isn't throttled into uselessness. At home, it all travels over Gigabit Ethernet and even the 1st-generation Raspberry Pi supports H.264.
Where the *hell* did you get that idea? Exit numbers are sequence numbers that don't indicate any distances.
On what planet? They very much are tied to distance. Compare exit-number signs to the nearest mile markers next time you're out and about. It's why you see letters used when there's more than one exit within a mile...consider this example along I-15 in Las Vegas, about 42 miles north of the state line.
There are plenty of 68k emulators. On a modern computer, even an emulator would be way faster than the original hardware.
Even on not-so-modern hardware, an emulator could be faster than the original hardware. Palm OS jumped from 68K to ARM 15 years ago, and even on handheld CPUs running at 150-200 MHz, legacy code ran as fast as it ever did, if not more.
The desert car repair shop might take a $50 gold coin but it's worth might be somewhat uncertain and so the change offered the customer would be uncertain even if the car technician looked up the current price for gold.
It used to be you could buy a gallon of gasoline for about a quarter. Until 1964, quarters (and dimes, half-dollars, and dollar coins) were 90% silver.
Right now, the silver in one of those old quarters is worth $3.21. The last time I bought gas, I paid $2.39 per gallon. That silver quarter can still buy a gallon of gas, and then some. The cupronickel slugs in your pocket? Not so much.
The value of silver (and, most likely, of gold as well) doesn't change nearly as much as you might think, compared to the things you need that you might buy with it. It only appears to go up and down (mostly up) on account of our increasingly worthless "currency."
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"Auto nothing?" The light meter switches on automatically when you remove the lens cap. The Spotmatics that came before the K1000 didn't even do that...you had to flip a switch.
:-) x 100
(Still have my K1000 that I got for Christmas when I was 13. I shot a roll through it maybe a year ago, and was disappointed that I didn't get my film back with the prints...they put 3-megapixel scans on a CD-R and included that. The zoom lens I used with it still sees some occasional use on an EOS Rebel T5 (with an adapter, of course).)
Sounds like you need DAVdroid. It makes your CardDAV directory available to any app that needs to work with addresses: your address book (into which it syncs your directory), email apps, etc.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/
(It's also available through Google Play, if you prefer that source.)
Someone from accounting brings a check over, or hands it to my boss (who then hands it to me).
That's for payroll. Reimbursements are handled by accounts payable.
Last time I had a landline was ~12 years ago, and I'm fairly sure you got listed in the white pages by default. I don't recall if they charged extra for unlisted numbers, as I never had one.
(Wait a sec...the second line on which I used to run my BBS and that I then used for demand-dialed Internet access before I switched to cable-modem service was unlisted, and I wasn't charged extra for that. I had that line from 1992 to 2000, IIRC.)
That listing went away when I replaced the landline with VoIP, even though it was on the same number.
Nowadays, I don't think the local phone company is even publishing yellow pages, let alone white pages. Back when they were still dropping them off on doorsteps, I usually chucked them straight into the dumpster as I had no use for them.
It was a minor shock when I visited an aunt and uncle a couple of weeks ago and they pulled out a phonebook to look up an address for something, not knowing that I could punch the name into Google Maps and get directions before they could even get their book off the shelf.
(((You))) have to go back.
...or you can run an ad blocker, use HookTube, or use the Kodi YouTube add-on.
That was already their practice before they started shipping phones that take SIMs. Their CDMA-only models wouldn't work with Sprint (the only other carrier using CDMA) and they definitely wouldn't work with other carriers that don't do CDMA.
SIM-locked phones have long been unlockable after some period of time (usually when your contract is up, or close to it). I had AT&T unlock two phones, and other than the iPhone 4 needing a whole different firmware image to be installed to unlock it, the process was straightforward.
Can't comment as to Win10 on a Core 2 Duo, but it runs well enough at work on a 10-year-old Core 2 Quad Q6600. I suspect some of the faster Core 2 Duos (like the E8400) would work well enough with sufficient RAM and an SSD.
A fair bit of my YouTube watching is through Kodi's YouTube plugin. It doesn't bother to show ads. I tried switching one of my TVs from a Raspberry Pi with LibreELEC (a Kodi distribution) to a Roku stick, but no matter what kind of adblocking I tried implementing on my network, the Roku would still run ads. The Roku is pretty much just for Amazon Prime Video now
On the desktop, I had run across HookTube a while back. I already have uBlock installed, but with a URL-rewriting plugin (just ran across Requestly a little bit ago...stupid adverbed name, but it does what it says it does), you change the "you" in a YouTube URL to "hook" and get redirected to HookTube.
I've also set it up to redirect Wikipedia links (desktop or mobile) to Infogalactic, which means Requestly gets to replace the InfoSextant extension as well. That's two sources of SJW convergence knocked out.
Install it in a VM and you can run it as long as you can find a computer to run the VM. That should get a few more years out of it, at a minimum.
(In the not-too-distant future, I get to migrate an old version of Cisco CallManager (spread across three servers, two of which run Linux and one of which runs Win2K (!)...it's that old, and the servers running it have been here longer than the nearly 10 years I've been here) onto a new VMware box. I hope that imaging the existing servers and making sure the VMs have access to our voice VLAN will be sufficient. It'd also be nice if Win2K didn't bitch too much about having its hardware swapped out from underneath it.)
They're probably not powerful enough to be worthwhile for mining, just powerful enough to handle their intended task. On top of that, they're locked down so that you can't throw your own software onto them.
I don't run mine flat-out like that. I limit my 1070s to 115W or less, and the factory-overclocked cards are underclocked to something closer to stock speed; they're more efficient (hashes per watt) when they're not being pushed like that. I also keep them at or under 60C. If the bottom were to fall out of the cryptocurrency market tomorrow, they'd still have a long life ahead of them with gamers.
(By comparison, reference-design 1070s can handle up to 150W, and the MSI Gaming X 1070s (of which I have three) will allow up to 230W.)
The audio files he was playing weren't even MP3s, but plain old WAV files. He even took the opportunity to rickroll the audience, but it started stuttering when he ssh'd in.
I've seen British Airways 747s flying into Las Vegas fairly recently. Virgin Atlantic used to fly into here as well, though I'm not sure if that service is still running. I'm sure there are others, though those are the ones I've seen flying when I've been somewhere near the airport.
Just make sure you stay away from the designated shitting streets, which are apparently a thing. :-P
1) Most of the Strip is outside the Las Vegas city limits. Everything south of Sahara Avenue is in an unincorporated area of Clark County. City officials have nothing to do with the Strip.
2) Most of the Strip is now charging for parking. It started with MGM, then spread to Caesars, and now it's damn near universal. :-P
s/Christmas/winter/
That's how they'd want it, after all. :-P
Maybe I shouldn't post this here where the snowflakes can see it, but you can get free accounts here. Point your newsreader to their servers and you're in business. No binaries, but if you want those, there are lots of paid services offering them.
I even have an ebuild for trn in my Portage overlay, if you're using Gentoo. Builds and runs like a champ on x86 and AMD64, at a minimum.
It fits on a Raspberry Pi that you can tuck away behind the living-room TV where no one will see it, which can then be controlled with a Playstation 3 Blu-ray remote (which connects over Bluetooth, so line-of-sight isn't needed) that has familiar media controls on it like "play," "pause," and "fast-forward", and a directional pad for selecting things. It's much more like a piece of A/V gear and its remote than a desktop PC and its keyboard and mouse. Its WAF (wife acceptance factor) is correspondingly higher than a beige box under the TV.
That you can outfit a TV like this for under $100 doesn't hurt either. Not quite as cheap as a Chromecast or a Roku stick, but cheaper than an Apple TV, and more flexible than any of them.
Everything on my server is H.264, which is playable by everything, given enough bandwidth. Transcoding, OTOH, for me is all about watching my stuff over a random hotel's WiFi, which involves sending a stream out your home upstream connection and hoping that the connection on the hotel end isn't throttled into uselessness. At home, it all travels over Gigabit Ethernet and even the 1st-generation Raspberry Pi supports H.264.
You use thirds quite a bit in the kitchen. Third-cup liquid and dry measures are common, and a tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons.
On what planet? They very much are tied to distance. Compare exit-number signs to the nearest mile markers next time you're out and about. It's why you see letters used when there's more than one exit within a mile...consider this example along I-15 in Las Vegas, about 42 miles north of the state line.
Even on not-so-modern hardware, an emulator could be faster than the original hardware. Palm OS jumped from 68K to ARM 15 years ago, and even on handheld CPUs running at 150-200 MHz, legacy code ran as fast as it ever did, if not more.
It used to be you could buy a gallon of gasoline for about a quarter. Until 1964, quarters (and dimes, half-dollars, and dollar coins) were 90% silver.
Right now, the silver in one of those old quarters is worth $3.21. The last time I bought gas, I paid $2.39 per gallon. That silver quarter can still buy a gallon of gas, and then some. The cupronickel slugs in your pocket? Not so much.
The value of silver (and, most likely, of gold as well) doesn't change nearly as much as you might think, compared to the things you need that you might buy with it. It only appears to go up and down (mostly up) on account of our increasingly worthless "currency."
...until she doesn't.