Actually, "hunt and peck" is OK! When one use hunt and peck, they're probably typing without their palms resting on armrests which is good. Your nerves are very close to your palms and if you type while your palms are resting against something, they will cause problems in the long run. Touchtyping also allows one to overreach towards the intended keys and that's bad. Worse is typing while slouching, wrists and arms not in a neutral position, head not resting properly, and inadequate lighting conditions.
Speaking as someone who has developed RSI from working on computers, I would suggest those of you who have kids that use computers at an early age that you both limit their time spent on the machines and have them sit, use the keyboard and mouse/track ball properly.
If not, they will develop habits that will be difficult to break once they get into their early-to-mid 20s--then they'll be in trouble. Have them develop good habits to start with.
Redstone says that OSXvnc 1.11 supports zRLE encoding which the realvnc folks says is comparable to tight encoding. So does this mean tightvnc is obsolete?
Looks like you need to use Windows Server Enterprise 2003 or DataCenter edition based server for use as a proxy to get the equivalent functionality within Windows. Just throw more money in hardware and MS licenses.
I am impressed with Windows Remote Desktop's speed. It beats TightVNC by a "mile" in terms of responsivness. I use it to connect to my work Windows XP desktop via VPN and response is very good. I also have access to network resources at corporate LAN speeds without a lot of the problems with, say, using Outlook via DSL. But using Microsoft VSS is another issue altogether--it's painfully slow even at work even though it is via a WAN.
Does anyone know how the response is for Apple Remote Desktop?
Found it at www.ipc.org: Institute for Printed Circuits. Changed to Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits, then changed back to IPC.
I've seen a professional at Cisco install SMD CPUs that consisted of several hundreds of pins in around 30 seconds.
There is some prep work, among which are cleaning the board/pads with some sort of solution (I was told alcohol) and the use of what appears to be a microprocessor-controlled iron with a flat tip (looks like an L, the long end of it is used like a spatula). Cannot recall the type of solder, but it's in the form of a paste that's easily applied.
She started by soldering two pins on opposite corners to tie the component down, then applied the solder along one set of pins/pads, and finally ran the iron across. The solder sizzled and then wicked into its designated spots (kinda like a group of privates in the army hearing "attention!"). She might do this another time if required. Repeat for the other pins/pads.
Not impractical, just requires some standards. IEEE or whomever can say a new type of drive bay should be designed so that drives connect to power recepticles when you insert them all the way into the bays. You would then connect one set of wires from the power supply to your case's drive cage and be done. Standardize on serial ATA/SCSI, and you can eliminate data wires (or minimize them), providing hot-swappable devices.
When I first used UNIX, it was ksh. I had gotten used to ESC-ESC for name completion. Then I got my NeXT and liked TAB for completion under csh. Much better. When I found out that bash had the same thing but TAB-TAB prints all possible matches, I was hooked from then on. Plus, much of the settings are the same as ksh and scripting is about the same.
I tried zsh but its man page is like Perl's, referencing a bunch of other man pages, making navigation/reference cumbersome. tcsh's configuration is different enough from [bk]sh's that I stopped using it in short order.
So it's bash for me. It's a good thing bash is available under OS X. Early versions had only sh, csh, and tcsh and things were painful. Recent versions have all those, including bash and zsh.
I don't think Verbatim makes manufacturers their own media so quality is a crap-shoot, just like Memorex, Sony, and even TDK (who manufacturers their own media but also OEM from other sources). Fuji, I feel, is better since they OEM from Taiyo-Yuden often for their CD-Rs.
It's better to go with companies who have more control of their products. Taiyo-Yuden, Pioneer, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Ritek (beware of the fake ones that was dumped onto the market several months back) come to mind.
The forums on cdfreaks.com and cdrlabs talk about deals as well as manufacturer of the media. Why save money on media if you don't know how long they will last?
A graphics professional charges, what, at least US$100+/hour for services? When you buy a PC, you need to know what kinds of products you want. This process takes at least an hour worth of research on motherboards alone with all the varieties that exist. You then have to wait for the parts to arrive and assemble them.
You're not done yet since next you'd need to install Windows. After wards, you need to update all your drivers to their current levels along with Windows Update. Then installation of your applications can commence. I would not expect any productivity for at least 2 days--if everything goes according to plan. Expect a longer delay if one has dialup.
God help you if you run into trouble. Then it's either call Microsoft, call the hardware/software vendor, search via Google, or all of the above and you could be down for another day or more.
Building PCs can be a lot of fun, but it should not be a path taken lightly by those who normally make a lot of money charging for their time.
Yes, I understood what the original poster meant. Until the JavaScript standard is extended to include tabs, open in new window should not have dual meanings in my opinion.
I hope not. Open in New Window should do as it says rather than doing something else.
You're right. Tabbed browsing should be integrated properly and what you've suggested is not what I would consider "done right"; in fact, it would baffle new users even more.
According to http://home.att.net/~garyheadlee/faqs.htm (linked from elsewhere within this dupe) it states:
Does overclocking cause the capacitor to fail?
NO, absolutely not!!!
Overclocking will make the CPU core run hotter than normal, the on-board regulator controls a lot more than the CPU core and should have plenty of overhead because future CPU's may need higher current. Overclocking may cause instability and aliens from other planets may be offended by the RFI generated but it won't cause capacitor failure!
I do this on systems without a floppy to flash firmware/BIOS:
1. Use/Create/Copy a boot CD that's basically the Windows 98 boot process. This gives you a choice of booting with CD-ROM support. 2. Place driver/package on a CD-RW.
Boot from the boot CD and select CD-ROM support. Take out your boot CD (all required commands should now reside in the virtual drive A; drive C/D is now your CD-ROM). Insert CD-RW with the driver and flash away. I had to modify the BIOS flash for a laptop but it just involved finding what the actual flash command was so I didn't need to use the base "update.bat" from "A:\."
The El-Torito CD boot image is just a floppy. The only added component is a CD-ROM driver. Most flash utilities just hardcode the drive letter to A: but that can be easily bypassed.
I can see from the point of view that it's more cost-effective to use CDs instead of floppies since they're cheaper, but if they aren't CD-RWs, they are basically wasted. So what if it's cheaper to do something that's more wasteful of resources? I would rather pay a little more and be environmentally friendly instead.
I use CD-RWs as much as possible in situations where a floppy is not available. While motherboard vendors may have a Windows-based BIOS flasher, your component manufacturers may not and it would necessitate the use of either a floppy or boot CD + data CD. Your non-geeky user would be lost trying to create the CD with appropriate drivers for their CD drive.
There's stuff like what font is your default and what directory is your home. So that's why the sizes are different. There are other metadata kept like your name, initials, and probably your IP address.
I don't have a USB2 card but those in Macintouch said that Jaguar does not contain USB2 drivers (EHCI) and that you'd need to rely on the third party's drivers to enable USB2 speeds (they mentioned Orange Micro's product).
With a title like that, I wonder who is taking this subthread more personally.
My point is COBOL is alive and kicking today and many businesses still use it. Your 242 hits reaffirms that COBOL is not deal. If it were, you'd see 0 hits. To reiterate, if one can apply the concepts learned in the beginning computer science courses, they should be able to learn something and apply that to other languages, with OO being an exception. Of course, I am not advocating that one can stick with just one language either--I did not say that at all. That's where the "Computer Languages" course comes in. This course was a prerequisite when I went to university and I would be surprised if this is not the case today. If employers cannot see that one's grades in school only gives an indication of how trainable that student is, they are missing the whole point.
You have any facts to back up your claim? COBOL is probably not needed in Fantasyland, but I can assure you COBOL is being used by many companies today. When I was coding COBOL over 10 years ago, we had used 4 digits for the year thus our suite of general ledger programs did not require any fixup during Y2K. Programs are still running in production.
A good program is spending time on developing a firm foundation for software engineering, regardless of what language is used. You know, modularity, code reusability, supportability--stuff that's taught in Computer Programming 101/102. With a firm foundation, a student can pick up a new language with relative ease. Without a firm foundation, all is lost.
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Actually, "hunt and peck" is OK! When one use hunt and peck, they're probably typing without their palms resting on armrests which is good. Your nerves are very close to your palms and if you type while your palms are resting against something, they will cause problems in the long run. Touchtyping also allows one to overreach towards the intended keys and that's bad. Worse is typing while slouching, wrists and arms not in a neutral position, head not resting properly, and inadequate lighting conditions.
Speaking as someone who has developed RSI from working on computers, I would suggest those of you who have kids that use computers at an early age that you both limit their time spent on the machines and have them sit, use the keyboard and mouse/track ball properly.
If not, they will develop habits that will be difficult to break once they get into their early-to-mid 20s--then they'll be in trouble. Have them develop good habits to start with.
Redstone says that OSXvnc 1.11 supports zRLE encoding which the realvnc folks says is comparable to tight encoding. So does this mean tightvnc is obsolete?
Looks like you need to use Windows Server Enterprise 2003 or DataCenter edition based server for use as a proxy to get the equivalent functionality within Windows. Just throw more money in hardware and MS licenses.
I am impressed with Windows Remote Desktop's speed. It beats TightVNC by a "mile" in terms of responsivness. I use it to connect to my work Windows XP desktop via VPN and response is very good. I also have access to network resources at corporate LAN speeds without a lot of the problems with, say, using Outlook via DSL. But using Microsoft VSS is another issue altogether--it's painfully slow even at work even though it is via a WAN.
Does anyone know how the response is for Apple Remote Desktop?
Found it at www.ipc.org: Institute for Printed Circuits. Changed to Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits, then changed back to IPC.
I've seen a professional at Cisco install SMD CPUs that consisted of several hundreds of pins in around 30 seconds.
There is some prep work, among which are cleaning the board/pads with some sort of solution (I was told alcohol) and the use of what appears to be a microprocessor-controlled iron with a flat tip (looks like an L, the long end of it is used like a spatula). Cannot recall the type of solder, but it's in the form of a paste that's easily applied.
She started by soldering two pins on opposite corners to tie the component down, then applied the solder along one set of pins/pads, and finally ran the iron across. The solder sizzled and then wicked into its designated spots (kinda like a group of privates in the army hearing "attention!"). She might do this another time if required. Repeat for the other pins/pads.
Not impractical, just requires some standards. IEEE or whomever can say a new type of drive bay should be designed so that drives connect to power recepticles when you insert them all the way into the bays. You would then connect one set of wires from the power supply to your case's drive cage and be done. Standardize on serial ATA/SCSI, and you can eliminate data wires (or minimize them), providing hot-swappable devices.
Article says he became a U.S. Citizen.
What if that traffic disturbance prevents an ambulance from picking up someone who's having a heartattack in time for treatment?
When I first used UNIX, it was ksh. I had gotten used to ESC-ESC for name completion. Then I got my NeXT and liked TAB for completion under csh. Much better. When I found out that bash had the same thing but TAB-TAB prints all possible matches, I was hooked from then on. Plus, much of the settings are the same as ksh and scripting is about the same.
I tried zsh but its man page is like Perl's, referencing a bunch of other man pages, making navigation/reference cumbersome. tcsh's configuration is different enough from [bk]sh's that I stopped using it in short order.
So it's bash for me. It's a good thing bash is available under OS X. Early versions had only sh, csh, and tcsh and things were painful. Recent versions have all those, including bash and zsh.
This laptop has XP on it and I just installed the DivX codec.
Depends on the size of the image. My 400MHz PII-M runs MPEG4 from CD like a slide show unless I have a tiny little window.
I don't think Verbatim makes manufacturers their own media so quality is a crap-shoot, just like Memorex, Sony, and even TDK (who manufacturers their own media but also OEM from other sources). Fuji, I feel, is better since they OEM from Taiyo-Yuden often for their CD-Rs.
It's better to go with companies who have more control of their products. Taiyo-Yuden, Pioneer, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Ritek (beware of the fake ones that was dumped onto the market several months back) come to mind.
The forums on cdfreaks.com and cdrlabs talk about deals as well as manufacturer of the media. Why save money on media if you don't know how long they will last?
You're not done yet since next you'd need to install Windows. After wards, you need to update all your drivers to their current levels along with Windows Update. Then installation of your applications can commence. I would not expect any productivity for at least 2 days--if everything goes according to plan. Expect a longer delay if one has dialup.
God help you if you run into trouble. Then it's either call Microsoft, call the hardware/software vendor, search via Google, or all of the above and you could be down for another day or more.
Building PCs can be a lot of fun, but it should not be a path taken lightly by those who normally make a lot of money charging for their time.
Yes, I understood what the original poster meant. Until the JavaScript standard is extended to include tabs, open in new window should not have dual meanings in my opinion.
I hope not. Open in New Window should do as it says rather than doing something else.
You're right. Tabbed browsing should be integrated properly and what you've suggested is not what I would consider "done right"; in fact, it would baffle new users even more.
Does overclocking cause the capacitor to fail?
NO, absolutely not!!! Overclocking will make the CPU core run hotter than normal, the on-board regulator controls a lot more than the CPU core and should have plenty of overhead because future CPU's may need higher current. Overclocking may cause instability and aliens from other planets may be offended by the RFI generated but it won't cause capacitor failure!
And wouldn't it be cool if their grammar is as good as their spelling? "Its" is used properly rather than "it's"; "there" vs. "their"; ....
I do this on systems without a floppy to flash firmware/BIOS:
1. Use/Create/Copy a boot CD that's basically the Windows 98 boot process. This gives you a choice of booting with CD-ROM support.
2. Place driver/package on a CD-RW.
Boot from the boot CD and select CD-ROM support. Take out your boot CD (all required commands should now reside in the virtual drive A; drive C/D is now your CD-ROM). Insert CD-RW with the driver and flash away. I had to modify the BIOS flash for a laptop but it just involved finding what the actual flash command was so I didn't need to use the base "update.bat" from "A:\."
The El-Torito CD boot image is just a floppy. The only added component is a CD-ROM driver. Most flash utilities just hardcode the drive letter to A: but that can be easily bypassed.
I can see from the point of view that it's more cost-effective to use CDs instead of floppies since they're cheaper, but if they aren't CD-RWs, they are basically wasted. So what if it's cheaper to do something that's more wasteful of resources? I would rather pay a little more and be environmentally friendly instead.
I use CD-RWs as much as possible in situations where a floppy is not available. While motherboard vendors may have a Windows-based BIOS flasher, your component manufacturers may not and it would necessitate the use of either a floppy or boot CD + data CD. Your non-geeky user would be lost trying to create the CD with appropriate drivers for their CD drive.
There's stuff like what font is your default and what directory is your home. So that's why the sizes are different. There are other metadata kept like your name, initials, and probably your IP address.
I don't have a USB2 card but those in Macintouch said that Jaguar does not contain USB2 drivers (EHCI) and that you'd need to rely on the third party's drivers to enable USB2 speeds (they mentioned Orange Micro's product).
With a title like that, I wonder who is taking this subthread more personally.
My point is COBOL is alive and kicking today and many businesses still use it. Your 242 hits reaffirms that COBOL is not deal. If it were, you'd see 0 hits. To reiterate, if one can apply the concepts learned in the beginning computer science courses, they should be able to learn something and apply that to other languages, with OO being an exception. Of course, I am not advocating that one can stick with just one language either--I did not say that at all. That's where the "Computer Languages" course comes in. This course was a prerequisite when I went to university and I would be surprised if this is not the case today. If employers cannot see that one's grades in school only gives an indication of how trainable that student is, they are missing the whole point.
So that's what McCoy put on his head when he replaced Spock's brain--TMS v357 SP3. Amazing.
You have any facts to back up your claim? COBOL is probably not needed in Fantasyland, but I can assure you COBOL is being used by many companies today. When I was coding COBOL over 10 years ago, we had used 4 digits for the year thus our suite of general ledger programs did not require any fixup during Y2K. Programs are still running in production.
A good program is spending time on developing a firm foundation for software engineering, regardless of what language is used. You know, modularity, code reusability, supportability--stuff that's taught in Computer Programming 101/102. With a firm foundation, a student can pick up a new language with relative ease. Without a firm foundation, all is lost.