Cats are definately low maintenance, tend to be independant and have interesting personalities.
Fish could be interesting. I rescued a goldfish from a wedding reception and the thing lived for 3 years with my minimal care (let the tank go a little too long before cleaning it, sometimes forgot to feed him)
A year ago we inherited an african grey parrot. They're considered the smartest of birds and probably the smartest of animals that are relatively easy to keep in the house (read about Alex to see what they are capable of with training). They aren't a low maintenance pet though, they require personal interaction and they are loud, messy and destructive. However, they are a very rewarding pet to own and can be very entertaining. If you consider owning one (or another type of parrot) I'd reccomend reading up on them and talking to a few owners to get a better sense of what owning one is like.
One thing to keep in mind with many lubricants is the fact that they keep dust and small particles. So after a generous application of something like WD40 the stuff that doesn't evaporate will soon have a generous cake of fuzz. You may be better off with one of the other lubricants mentioned by others. You may also take the time to clean any excess off the extra surfaces.
Also, depending on what failed with the fan, you might well be better off replacing it if at all possible. Just because it spins again doesn't mean it is going to continue spinning for another few years, it might very well fail within the month.
Actually the fact that the power supply was still running might be testament to the quality, I've seen too many newer power supplies fail way too soon, some taking most of the rest of the computer with them.
Thats at least as funny as the actual post. Too bad we can't metamoderate +1 teh funny. Or should that be -1 funny as hell but obviously smoking crack.
The TCPA also provides for the same ammount for each spam fax you get. Unfortunately, tracking down and nailing spamfaxers can be difficult, although not impossible.
I'd expect the average telemarketer is a little less savvy about the subtle nuances of the TCPA and might be a decent target, especially in the case of cell phone spam.
Speaking of, Kali is still around and somewhat alive and for the time being, completely free(as in beer). Doesn't support everything but for what it does it works very well.
I've used Marginal Hack's Album before, at the time it seemed to be the easiest and best solution. It is a Perl script that generates static html pages with the images you supply. It has template support so you can customize the way the gallery looks and it is popular enough that there are several decent templates already created. One feature I liked was the optional ability to create a thumbnail, a web sized pic and retain the link to the original full sized image.
Gallery seems to do all this and more. One question I couldn't find in the docs, does Gallery dynamically resize images as the users request them or does it resize them as they are uploaded? Album brought my old linux box to its knees resizing the photos I fed it, I'd rather do that once than every time someone visited the page.
Cool, maybe I'll get around to getting some more photos online, my family will thank you:)
Hey I've got a buddy thats looking to get a All-In-Wonder card to turn his PC into a kind of media hub, I wonder if this would work better for him?
From what I can see, it does everything but VGA out to TV? If his current card has a S-Video out (even the junk on lots of nvidia cards) he could overcome that issue. He's got a firewire connector built into his box (some Sony Vaio), that should handle digital IO. Anything I'm missing?
As explained to me by our attorneys when we were confronted with issues of how and where to protect ourselves with trademarks and copyrights, a copyright holder is required to make a reasonable effort to prevent infringement. Failure to do so weakens the copyright and may set a precedent that will be damaging in a different case. Hence, if the company perceives infringement, they essentially must pursue it even if they don't actually mind that it is going on.
You're confusing the principles (as codified into law) of copyright and trademark, in fact, the example you go on to give is of trademarks and not copyrights.
Copyrights are automatic and do not need to be protected, Trademarks have to be applied for and do need to be protected.
The one in the theatre has been playing since about April, I even pulled an ugly copy (like this one, but with more flash from an improper pulldown) off Kazaa about a week after I started hearing about (maybe check/. archives, might be in there).
This one is about 2 miniutes and is mostly composed of some of the same footage that is in the other TT trailer/teaser. There did appear to be a few new shots, the shot of Legolas(?) sliding down steps, extra words from Gandalf, Gandalf charging into battle all seemed new to my admittedly faulty memory.
You know how they say that marijuana is a gateway drug, that it supposedly leads to using other drugs? I think Moby is gateway techno, you listen to him for a while and then you start listening to Aphex or Board of Canada (sp?) or something else and you sit around and dis Moby for making weenie techno.
Actually I'm just kidding, I still kinda like Moby. I do miss my monkyradio and somafm due to the stupidness of CARP.
Dude thanks, I hadn't installed any of the visualisation goodness on my new computer and what a treat:)
I'd also suggest trying Andy O'Meara's WhiteCap and G-Force. GForce is similar to Geiss but definatly not the same and Whitecap is more like the oldschool specrtum visualisations but with some 3D goodness and mindblowing transitions.
I bet there is very little common code between the Flash authoring environment and the Freehand and Director environments. There might be a little more in the players but even that would just be the common plugin and OS code. If there was more common code, don't you think they would have integrated they players by now?
Take a look at this history of Flash. Also consider that the Flash interface and featureset hasn't changed much between versions (Adobe's Livemotion and Swish both show how additional features could benefit a SWF authoring environment).
As regards the open source license, Macromedia has been hinting that they are bringing some of their new 'MX' server features that are already available in Cold Fusion MX to server environments like PHP and JSP. Perhaps some of this will be released under an open source license? Don't think for a miniute they are releasing the Flash Authoring environment as an Open Source app, that has to be one of their best selling products.
IE6 is a significant upgrade, it is the first IE/Win browser to come significantly closer to implementing W3C standards correctly. Unfortunately it's 'standards mode' is only on when the correct doctype is declared, leaving it acting like the old IE browsers for most of the pages out there. But at least now pages can be standards compliant and get closer to looking the same across standards compliant browsers.
And yes, IE6 is WinXP, IE5 is Win98 SE, IE4 is Win98. I think Win2k shipped with IE5 and WinME shipped with 5.5 but I could be mistaken.
Heh, I just finished that one, came across it at a library while I was looking for something new to read. Vinge had entered my consciousness from/. or somewhere on the internet but I'd never read any of his stuff(for an avid reader and a sci-fi fan I've missed quite a bit of good stuff). Now I've gotta hunt down more, that was an amazing book.
a group was started on Yahoo!. Not only was it a fast-growing newsgroup
A Yahoo Group is not a newsgroup. It is a mailing list burdened with Yahoo cruft for people who don't have the time or knowledge to set up a proper mailing list. Newsgroups are read with a NNTP agent, something that doesn't seem possible with Yahoo groups.
The cms-list might be a great place to do some further research. The mailing list archives are online and provide a decent resource of questions, observations and general flamage regarding CMS.
I've found the mailing list and #Zope on the Openprojects.net irc servers invaluable for solving problems with Zope. Remember the Zope Corporation and other have used Zope for high profile projects such as CBS New York.
As far as the article topic, Zope has the CMF project which might give a good headstart on what they are after.
Aha, I see other threads are pimping Zope and the CMF so I'll leave it at this...
Do you have references for this? I'm sorry, I just can't believe this without corroborating material. There are too many GPL projects that compile under Visual Studio for this to have never been mentioned on/. before.
But I'll bite anyway, to keep some basic facts straight.
Opera had a MDI interface well before version 4.
Lets compare the functionality of the 'Window Bar' and the 'Tabbed Browsing'. The window bar is a row of buttons labeled with the title of each open page. When clicked they bring that page to the foreground of the MDI interface. The Mozilla tabs are a row of buttons (they respond to a mouse click) with rounded corners and shading to make them look like a folder tab. They carry the page title and when clicked bring the document to the foreground. Functionally identical.
Now, for the version numbers you are so sure about. Run Windows or X86 Linux? Go to evolt's browser archive and download some old versions of their browser and turn on the window bar.
Now I've finally figured out why all of you think that Opera introduced this in version 6. With version 6, Opera works in SDI mode. Now I'll admit they copied other browser in this, the first version of Netscape I downloaded worked in SDI mode. And, like Mozilla, Opera allows a hybrid of SDI and MDI modes within each SDI interface with a page bar (sound familiar? a row of buttons that allows you to choose the foreground web page?). However, you can't say that Opera copied Mozilla with this feature, people have been complaining about Opera's MDI mode for as long as they've had that feature.
Hmm, you could be right, I didn't start using Opera a great deal until v5 came out, although I did use it some previously. When I originally wrote this up I used the evolt browser archive to check my claims, unfortunately they don't have the 32 bit installer for 3.6. v3.51 didn't seem to have it but I wasn't feeling all that great when I was playing with the old versions so I could have missed it. A check of Google Groups seems to indicate spring of 2000 for the first mention of a Window Bar. Of course, it's first incarnation could have been named something else and have been overlooked in my search.
I am glad Mozilla has adopted the tabs, there are a few other Opera features that would be well appreciated in Mozilla as well (remembering open windows, gestures, whole page magnification to name the most obvious ones), at least some of these are in the works at mozdev.org. And proper DOM support would go a long ways toward making Opera the ultimate browser.
Oh, and even though this is buried in the thread, that article had one glaring mistake, the Opera download includes the JRE 1.3, not 1.1. Big difference, Java has come quite a ways since 1.1 and it is useful that they have a relatively modern JRE included in the download.
I'm sorry, but Mr Hyatt is incorrect in asserting that Mozilla had tabbed browsing before Opera.
He claims that "Opera only added tabs in its newest version after Mozilla had them already in its trunk builds."
Opera introduced its 'Window Bar' (buttons for each open within the MDI) with Opera 4, wich came out in spring of 2000. Around that time Mozilla was at M14 and the first Netscape 6 Preview was being released. Neither of those had the equivalent to Opera's Window Bar. The first mention of Mozilla 'tabbed browsing' I can find is a year later, contained in this post to the Mozilla newsgroups. Implementation didn't happen until late summer or fall of 2001, possibly being beat to it by the Multizilla project.
Of course NetCaptor (A shell for the MSIE HTML rendering component) had them back in '99, maybe even earlier.
I don't think he's talking about using the 3D chip for a render farm but the CPUs. 25 733 MHz Pentium IIIs with some fast memory.
I think your biggest limitations would be the memory available on these. 64MB doesn't hold much of a scene and texture information and swapping out to hard drive completely destroys the fast memory advantage. Still, they might be useful. How about a video encoding farm? 64 MB of frames to each XBox with a few frames of mpeg or divx or whatever coming back?
Maybe someone that knows a bit more about clustering can contribute, after all, this is basically a "Hey, we can make a Beowulf cluster of these after all" kind of post.
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Fish could be interesting. I rescued a goldfish from a wedding reception and the thing lived for 3 years with my minimal care (let the tank go a little too long before cleaning it, sometimes forgot to feed him)
A year ago we inherited an african grey parrot. They're considered the smartest of birds and probably the smartest of animals that are relatively easy to keep in the house (read about Alex to see what they are capable of with training). They aren't a low maintenance pet though, they require personal interaction and they are loud, messy and destructive. However, they are a very rewarding pet to own and can be very entertaining. If you consider owning one (or another type of parrot) I'd reccomend reading up on them and talking to a few owners to get a better sense of what owning one is like.
Also, depending on what failed with the fan, you might well be better off replacing it if at all possible. Just because it spins again doesn't mean it is going to continue spinning for another few years, it might very well fail within the month.
Actually the fact that the power supply was still running might be testament to the quality, I've seen too many newer power supplies fail way too soon, some taking most of the rest of the computer with them.
Thats at least as funny as the actual post. Too bad we can't metamoderate +1 teh funny. Or should that be -1 funny as hell but obviously smoking crack.
With the voltage conversions transformers so cheap you just have to watch out for the possible 50Hz gear.
I'd expect the average telemarketer is a little less savvy about the subtle nuances of the TCPA and might be a decent target, especially in the case of cell phone spam.
Speaking of, Kali is still around and somewhat alive and for the time being, completely free(as in beer). Doesn't support everything but for what it does it works very well.
I've used Marginal Hack's Album before, at the time it seemed to be the easiest and best solution. It is a Perl script that generates static html pages with the images you supply. It has template support so you can customize the way the gallery looks and it is popular enough that there are several decent templates already created. One feature I liked was the optional ability to create a thumbnail, a web sized pic and retain the link to the original full sized image.
Gallery seems to do all this and more. One question I couldn't find in the docs, does Gallery dynamically resize images as the users request them or does it resize them as they are uploaded? Album brought my old linux box to its knees resizing the photos I fed it, I'd rather do that once than every time someone visited the page.
Cool, maybe I'll get around to getting some more photos online, my family will thank you :)
From what I can see, it does everything but VGA out to TV? If his current card has a S-Video out (even the junk on lots of nvidia cards) he could overcome that issue. He's got a firewire connector built into his box (some Sony Vaio), that should handle digital IO. Anything I'm missing?
Copyrights are automatic and do not need to be protected, Trademarks have to be applied for and do need to be protected.
This one is about 2 miniutes and is mostly composed of some of the same footage that is in the other TT trailer/teaser. There did appear to be a few new shots, the shot of Legolas(?) sliding down steps, extra words from Gandalf, Gandalf charging into battle all seemed new to my admittedly faulty memory.
Actually I'm just kidding, I still kinda like Moby. I do miss my monkyradio and somafm due to the stupidness of CARP.
I'd also suggest trying Andy O'Meara's WhiteCap and G-Force. GForce is similar to Geiss but definatly not the same and Whitecap is more like the oldschool specrtum visualisations but with some 3D goodness and mindblowing transitions.
Take a look at this history of Flash. Also consider that the Flash interface and featureset hasn't changed much between versions (Adobe's Livemotion and Swish both show how additional features could benefit a SWF authoring environment).
As regards the open source license, Macromedia has been hinting that they are bringing some of their new 'MX' server features that are already available in Cold Fusion MX to server environments like PHP and JSP. Perhaps some of this will be released under an open source license? Don't think for a miniute they are releasing the Flash Authoring environment as an Open Source app, that has to be one of their best selling products.
And yes, IE6 is WinXP, IE5 is Win98 SE, IE4 is Win98. I think Win2k shipped with IE5 and WinME shipped with 5.5 but I could be mistaken.
Heh, I just finished that one, came across it at a library while I was looking for something new to read. Vinge had entered my consciousness from /. or somewhere on the internet but I'd never read any of his stuff(for an avid reader and a sci-fi fan I've missed quite a bit of good stuff). Now I've gotta hunt down more, that was an amazing book.
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
The cms-list might be a great place to do some further research. The mailing list archives are online and provide a decent resource of questions, observations and general flamage regarding CMS.
I've found the mailing list and #Zope on the Openprojects.net irc servers invaluable for solving problems with Zope. Remember the Zope Corporation and other have used Zope for high profile projects such as CBS New York.
As far as the article topic, Zope has the CMF project which might give a good headstart on what they are after.
Aha, I see other threads are pimping Zope and the CMF so I'll leave it at this...
OK, I missed your earlier reply that linked to some discussion regarding this. The best comments are this and which seem to leave quite a bit of abiguity regarding the whole issue. I don't think that you can make the blanket statement that they prohibit the GPL, I believe that rather the license raises some issues WRT the GPL and the issue needs further clarification, unfortunately, given Microsoft's attitude toward the GPL, clarification may have to be at the end of a court battle.
Do you have references for this? I'm sorry, I just can't believe this without corroborating material. There are too many GPL projects that compile under Visual Studio for this to have never been mentioned on /. before.
The blind linux install looks no more complicated than some of the cheat codes for PS2 games.
Opera had a MDI interface well before version 4.
Lets compare the functionality of the 'Window Bar' and the 'Tabbed Browsing'. The window bar is a row of buttons labeled with the title of each open page. When clicked they bring that page to the foreground of the MDI interface. The Mozilla tabs are a row of buttons (they respond to a mouse click) with rounded corners and shading to make them look like a folder tab. They carry the page title and when clicked bring the document to the foreground. Functionally identical.
Now, for the version numbers you are so sure about. Run Windows or X86 Linux? Go to evolt's browser archive and download some old versions of their browser and turn on the window bar.
Now I've finally figured out why all of you think that Opera introduced this in version 6. With version 6, Opera works in SDI mode. Now I'll admit they copied other browser in this, the first version of Netscape I downloaded worked in SDI mode. And, like Mozilla, Opera allows a hybrid of SDI and MDI modes within each SDI interface with a page bar (sound familiar? a row of buttons that allows you to choose the foreground web page?). However, you can't say that Opera copied Mozilla with this feature, people have been complaining about Opera's MDI mode for as long as they've had that feature.
I am glad Mozilla has adopted the tabs, there are a few other Opera features that would be well appreciated in Mozilla as well (remembering open windows, gestures, whole page magnification to name the most obvious ones), at least some of these are in the works at mozdev.org. And proper DOM support would go a long ways toward making Opera the ultimate browser.
Oh, and even though this is buried in the thread, that article had one glaring mistake, the Opera download includes the JRE 1.3, not 1.1. Big difference, Java has come quite a ways since 1.1 and it is useful that they have a relatively modern JRE included in the download.
He claims that "Opera only added tabs in its newest version after Mozilla had them already in its trunk builds."
Opera introduced its 'Window Bar' (buttons for each open within the MDI) with Opera 4, wich came out in spring of 2000. Around that time Mozilla was at M14 and the first Netscape 6 Preview was being released. Neither of those had the equivalent to Opera's Window Bar. The first mention of Mozilla 'tabbed browsing' I can find is a year later, contained in this post to the Mozilla newsgroups. Implementation didn't happen until late summer or fall of 2001, possibly being beat to it by the Multizilla project.
Of course NetCaptor (A shell for the MSIE HTML rendering component) had them back in '99, maybe even earlier.
I think your biggest limitations would be the memory available on these. 64MB doesn't hold much of a scene and texture information and swapping out to hard drive completely destroys the fast memory advantage. Still, they might be useful. How about a video encoding farm? 64 MB of frames to each XBox with a few frames of mpeg or divx or whatever coming back?
Maybe someone that knows a bit more about clustering can contribute, after all, this is basically a "Hey, we can make a Beowulf cluster of these after all" kind of post.