In my left eye I'm slightly nearsighted, but the main prob is that I have some scar tissue smack in the middle of the retina--right in that portion that handles the central vision. If I close my "good" eye (that being a relative term, trust me), I cannot read a thing with my left eye, but as parent states, I can detect motion and such. In fact, it's weird and hard to describe--I can _see_ everything, there's just obviously not enough for my brain to put the fine points together to discern the fine details. For example, I can tell that I am typing in a box and it has lots of black things in it. Can't read a bit of it though, no matter the distance. Here's a test--can you read a piece of paper if you place it a foot from your ear? That's how I see at any angle with that eye.
Then there's my good eye, the right one. I'm like -7 or something, I forget the number. Suffice to say I have a fixed focal length eye. If something ain't at 2" from my face, it's blurry. Mostly correctable tho (20/40, e.g. half as good as normal).
Anyway, back on topic, I wish I could entertain the thoughts you guys are having, but I'm not even eligible to have any of the current techniques for laser vision correction. I ask my retina specialist every time I go if there are any advancements in his field that can fix me up. I'm holding out for eye transplants.:)
"Whining". If there will be a whining autonomous robot, I would like to officially announce my intention to protest. I get enough of this at home from my children.
I have a 4150 as well and I love it. But more on topic I'd like to suggest the ipaq 1910. They go for about $150-160 on Ebay.
Same size as the 4150, similar features, but no Wifi. If most of your work with a PDA is gonna be reading books I don't know why you would spend $400 on the big brother.
Yes, Acrobat is avail for the Pocket PC. I've never used it.
However, I do use MS Reader daily to read books and I think it kicks much a$$. Beats the hell out of my old Palm M100 and Palmreader or Plucker. Perhaps a newer color Palm model would work as well, don't know.
"Only a ruthless, boneheaded and ignorant idiot would let genetically modified crops loose on the world at present, when we don't know nearly enough about the consequences. Unfortunately this is the kind of people that are in power."
Well, duh, you put it in a huge greenhouse with negative airflow, like they did in The X-Files.:)
eBay, duh! I'm serious. Those non-/. readers (aka "cow-orkers", or "in-duh-viduals") will buy ANYTHING on ebay. During my own clean up project, I came up with at least 5 or 10 lbs of old cables. Sold the mess on eBay for $25.
No clue what the buyer did with things I formally considered handy to have around, like that 20-ft 9-pin null modem cable...
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Freecache? I've never used it, but I've also not seen it used widely yet and I wonder why. Please check it out. It's perfect for this type of situation. Unlike bittorrent, there is no seeding, no extra steps.
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An example:
Say an up-and-coming rock band, the RockLobsters, has a website that has a large file, say
the user downloads the file from a nearby machine on their ISP's network, and
the user is happy because it was fast.
The RockLobsters are happy because they distributed their file to another user but did not have to send the file from their ISP.
The RockLobsters' website's weblog registers that a download happened so they can ratchet up their expectation of breaking into the big leagues.
The user's ISP is happy because they only downloaded it to their network once and served it to many users thereby saving on their Internet connectivity bill.
If you think bittorrent is too adhoc, you've never been to 3dgamers. For every game demo or movie they provide information about, they provide a bittorrent seed. In addition, they do provide direct download mirrors, but I don't even bother anymore.
Another tip: The official bittorrent client isn't that great. You should try Azureus. It's written in Java, which sucks (flame me, I bite back), but even so I love it. In fact it might be the only java program that I like now that I think about it.
I wouldn't mind so much if the links I got were some nice free pr0n with movies and stuff. But inevitably the links are to some _pay_ site. What's up with that?
I have a 10gig latest gen ipod and I LOVE it. But--I won it in a radio station contest. I never would have plunked so much money down on something like this, but it is my favorite gadget I have ever owned in my life, easily. It's that good.
I just got a phone call three days ago from a scammer pretending to be my credit card company. He said we were 6 days late on our bill, "just give me your checking account number and I'll take care of things".
What kind of retard do you think I am? But I bet people fall for it...
Problem is that you still have to touch, or at least remotely command every machine if you do not want the machines rebooted automatically. Not sure about you guys, but some of us have production servers that can't be rebooted on a schedule, every reboot must be planned in advance. So, if I use SUS (which we do), I have to set it to auto-download, but never install. Then login to box to manually install, then reboot. Which sucks ass.
What I did for the RPC patch was run a script against my 90 boxes that installed the patch manually with the no reboot switch. Then once I get a reboot window, come back and do the reboot.
SUS needs a feature to install but not reboot, then I can have every box set to auto-install and I keep my reboot process separate.
right on the mozilla.org pages. This works VERY well on one of my favorite gaming sites, 3dgamers.com. Go to any demo download page, and the very first link on each one is an automatically-seeded torrent link, provided by 3dgamers' own tracker.
I am a sysadmin, but sometimes web-designer at Microsoft's #1 worldwide partner (you can guess the two-letter company acronym). I had taken a long vacation from web-design from back in the HTML 3.0x days, and a few months ago picked that back up with a few projects on the side. I saw the wisdom, simplicity, and beauty of CSS and learned it quickly.
Then I found all the holes and incompatibilities and hacks and workarounds. Ugh. I liked Mozilla before (actually I hated moz but love phoe--er firebird), so I began the old song and dance from the HTML 3.0 days of coding for multiple browsers. What a load of crap!
Oh, I almost forgot the whole point of my post. As a designer working for **, I spoke to my Microsoft Technical Account Manager (TAM) and asked him WTF? (That's paraphrasing.) I went into GREAT detail actually, including links to the WSP and many other sites explaining the problems with IE's lack of compliance to the standards. Initially I would get an update every couple of days saying that the TAM was trying to find the right group, waiting on a response from soneone on vacation, etc. I would go a couple of weeks, then ping him again for a response. This was oh...maybe three months ago now. Haven't heard from him in long time.
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In my left eye I'm slightly nearsighted, but the main prob is that I have some scar tissue smack in the middle of the retina--right in that portion that handles the central vision. If I close my "good" eye (that being a relative term, trust me), I cannot read a thing with my left eye, but as parent states, I can detect motion and such. In fact, it's weird and hard to describe--I can _see_ everything, there's just obviously not enough for my brain to put the fine points together to discern the fine details. For example, I can tell that I am typing in a box and it has lots of black things in it. Can't read a bit of it though, no matter the distance. Here's a test--can you read a piece of paper if you place it a foot from your ear? That's how I see at any angle with that eye.
:)
Then there's my good eye, the right one. I'm like -7 or something, I forget the number. Suffice to say I have a fixed focal length eye. If something ain't at 2" from my face, it's blurry. Mostly correctable tho (20/40, e.g. half as good as normal).
Anyway, back on topic, I wish I could entertain the thoughts you guys are having, but I'm not even eligible to have any of the current techniques for laser vision correction. I ask my retina specialist every time I go if there are any advancements in his field that can fix me up. I'm holding out for eye transplants.
CAUTION! Do not look into railgun with remaining eye!
Kick ass. You have female friends? What's that like?
I took one of those cheap helicopters that you start by pulling on a cord, and modded it to use a Dremel tool instead. :)
Pictures and video here: halr9000.com
"Whining". If there will be a whining autonomous robot, I would like to officially announce my intention to protest. I get enough of this at home from my children.
I have a 4150 as well and I love it. But more on topic I'd like to suggest the ipaq 1910. They go for about $150-160 on Ebay.
Same size as the 4150, similar features, but no Wifi. If most of your work with a PDA is gonna be reading books I don't know why you would spend $400 on the big brother.
Yes, Acrobat is avail for the Pocket PC. I've never used it.
However, I do use MS Reader daily to read books and I think it kicks much a$$. Beats the hell out of my old Palm M100 and Palmreader or Plucker. Perhaps a newer color Palm model would work as well, don't know.
"Only a ruthless, boneheaded and ignorant idiot would let genetically modified crops loose on the world at present, when we don't know nearly enough about the consequences. Unfortunately this is the kind of people that are in power."
:)
Well, duh, you put it in a huge greenhouse with negative airflow, like they did in The X-Files.
1) Where do you buy your computer games? Lord & Taylor?
2) Unreal Tournament 2004 cost me $30.
3) Troll, and I feel for it.
4) umm...Profit!
Actually they won't. MS has a competing standard called SIMPLE.
Yup, it's still happening. I sent a Visio 2003 doc to a co-worker the other day and they could not open it using Visio 2002. I had to re-save it.
GET /droids/ HTTP/1.0
307 Temporary RedirectLocation:
:)
The Matrix was an advertising campaign created specifically for us. I'm not sure, but I think the product being sold here is DVD players. :)
eBay, duh! I'm serious. Those non-/. readers (aka "cow-orkers", or "in-duh-viduals") will buy ANYTHING on ebay. During my own clean up project, I came up with at least 5 or 10 lbs of old cables. Sold the mess on eBay for $25.
No clue what the buyer did with things I formally considered handy to have around, like that 20-ft 9-pin null modem cable...
If you think bittorrent is too adhoc, you've never been to 3dgamers. For every game demo or movie they provide information about, they provide a bittorrent seed. In addition, they do provide direct download mirrors, but I don't even bother anymore.
Another tip: The official bittorrent client isn't that great. You should try Azureus. It's written in Java, which sucks (flame me, I bite back), but even so I love it. In fact it might be the only java program that I like now that I think about it.
I wouldn't mind so much if the links I got were some nice free pr0n with movies and stuff. But inevitably the links are to some _pay_ site. What's up with that?
When did that happen? :) I live in metro ATL and I didn't know that!
hahaha, thanks for that, very funny. :)
I have a 10gig latest gen ipod and I LOVE it. But--I won it in a radio station contest. I never would have plunked so much money down on something like this, but it is my favorite gadget I have ever owned in my life, easily. It's that good.
I just got a phone call three days ago from a scammer pretending to be my credit card company. He said we were 6 days late on our bill, "just give me your checking account number and I'll take care of things".
What kind of retard do you think I am? But I bet people fall for it...
Sh*t! Me too! God, I am so bummed out now.
Problem is that you still have to touch, or at least remotely command every machine if you do not want the machines rebooted automatically. Not sure about you guys, but some of us have production servers that can't be rebooted on a schedule, every reboot must be planned in advance. So, if I use SUS (which we do), I have to set it to auto-download, but never install. Then login to box to manually install, then reboot. Which sucks ass.
What I did for the RPC patch was run a script against my 90 boxes that installed the patch manually with the no reboot switch. Then once I get a reboot window, come back and do the reboot.
SUS needs a feature to install but not reboot, then I can have every box set to auto-install and I keep my reboot process separate.
right on the mozilla.org pages. This works VERY well on one of my favorite gaming sites, 3dgamers.com. Go to any demo download page, and the very first link on each one is an automatically-seeded torrent link, provided by 3dgamers' own tracker.
Jesus Christ! I'd say it's time to change your username, pal!
I am a sysadmin, but sometimes web-designer at Microsoft's #1 worldwide partner (you can guess the two-letter company acronym). I had taken a long vacation from web-design from back in the HTML 3.0x days, and a few months ago picked that back up with a few projects on the side. I saw the wisdom, simplicity, and beauty of CSS and learned it quickly.
Then I found all the holes and incompatibilities and hacks and workarounds. Ugh. I liked Mozilla before (actually I hated moz but love phoe--er firebird), so I began the old song and dance from the HTML 3.0 days of coding for multiple browsers. What a load of crap!
Oh, I almost forgot the whole point of my post. As a designer working for **, I spoke to my Microsoft Technical Account Manager (TAM) and asked him WTF? (That's paraphrasing.) I went into GREAT detail actually, including links to the WSP and many other sites explaining the problems with IE's lack of compliance to the standards. Initially I would get an update every couple of days saying that the TAM was trying to find the right group, waiting on a response from soneone on vacation, etc. I would go a couple of weeks, then ping him again for a response. This was oh...maybe three months ago now. Haven't heard from him in long time.
They don't care and it pisses me off.
When I dialed *67, then Thomas Rocca's #, this is what I hear...
:)
"This number has Privacy Director and does not accept caller ID blocked calls."
I wonder why.