I too use NiMH batteries, and I highly recommend them. But when I first started using them I skimped on a cheap 'dumb' charger which can overcharge/overheat batteries and it takes 8 hours for a charge.
I recommend a smart charger like the Maha C204F from Thomas Distributing. They have all sorts of batteries at great prices (not affiliated just a happy customer).
This charger also has a conditioner feature that will help bring those older batteries back to life (the ones that you were using the dumb charger on before!).
Batteries that I've charged with this charger last 3x as long in high drain applications like in my GPS unit.
Description: SuperKaramba, based on Karamba, is a tool that allows anyone to create and run simple interactive applets on the KDE desktop. The applets, which are defined in a simple text file, can optionally be augmented with Python code to make them interactive. Current widgets vary from simple news headline displays to complete custom replacements for the KDE panel (Kicker).
Maybe you missed the several times
this story was posted about the city of Largo Florida using Linux on 800 desktops saving them MILLIONS of dollars.
I know how many posts I've read about people bashing the intelegence level of Floridians, so I'm figuring that if they can do it, New Yorkers should be able to figure it out too!
But the average user never gets to the learning curve part because they simply cannot figure out how to get it on their machines
Nono, you don't understand it's not broken, it is the way it is because it is extremely powerful. Thats like saying you've got a 1000 horsepower dragster, but YOU wanna drive it, so you want to have it only run on one cylinder.
The key is to have proper front end to all the intricacies that lie within... ie: MacOSX.
No I'm not your average end user, but I think the default desktop on RedHat is pretty well layed out. I even have my Mother running it at home.
Hey I think he's actually on to something. Most people in the Windows world download pirated copies of software. There is some amount of illicit temptation about it. Like it makes you cool to have Office XP trial.
What we need are 'Leet' versions of GNOME and KDE, where you have to enter in a license key or get a crack for it, that way they can tell their friends what an uberhacker they are.
UNIX is the way it is because it was well thought out and was designed the way it is. The learning curve is quite steep compared to the trivial days of DOS.
If you are not up to the challenge of downloading a set of RedHat/whathaveyou CD's then just buy a computer with it preinstalled. If you want that whole click next to install thing, check out a Walmart PC with Lindows preinstalled for $199.
Most home users I know, still have never installed Windows themselves.
MS is really doing less and less right. They are increasingly getting more greedy with their licenses. There security is to be laughed at. And every three years they release a rehash of the same old product.
Eventually, (and soon), Linux will have the usability that 51% of the population will find acceptable, and it will landslide from there. There will be no reason to pay for Windows XY or Office YX. Software companies will start producing the little annoying things that exWindows users like for Linux, and everyone will be happy.
Just wait until MS starts writing software for Linux. That will be a funny day.
You keep telling yourself that. Sun has already said that it will look at AMD's Opteron 64bit processor, and for good reason. It's a smart move if they plan on being competitive pricewise. But this effectively puts them into the same market with dell, ibm, hp, etc, to which they can all undercut eachother all day long.
Sun is not doomed, but it will be a shadow of the company it used to be.
#17: The Left-Handed Whopper In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
I'm not affliated with DebtMinder. But I think it's an interesting solution to debt management that I'm not sure if the other 'checkbook' software have covered or not.
From Freshmeat:
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
It's Java based, and so runs on anything under the Sun;)
Apparently prostate cancer in men is about as likely to kill as breast cancer in women. Yet it only receives one quarter of US Federal funding for research.
I don't want to think about the difference in private sector donations.
I would have used this service, but for some unknown reason my application was denied ?? There must have been something wrong with their website at that time... Maybe sometime in the far far future, I'll think about trying them again.
Check out Kismet over here. It can run on Linux PDA's like the Zaurus and iPaq as well as your laptop. It also has GPS support and speach output (through festival).
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Here is some more information with pictures of the Optocom sensors (mounted to the signals) and of EMS and Fire transmission units.
Yes thats what it seems. If you tack an '=' at the end of the string it puts in in calc mode though :)
I recommend a smart charger like the Maha C204F from Thomas Distributing. They have all sorts of batteries at great prices (not affiliated just a happy customer).
This charger also has a conditioner feature that will help bring those older batteries back to life (the ones that you were using the dumb charger on before!).
Batteries that I've charged with this charger last 3x as long in high drain applications like in my GPS unit.
Yes they work as long as you have the V4L compatible tv tuner/capture card.
Compact Flash == CF
Like the cards used in a lot of digital cameras or portable MP3 players etc...
They actually bought Windows in the first place!!
Check out SuperKaramba
Description: SuperKaramba, based on Karamba, is a tool that allows anyone to create and run simple interactive applets on the KDE desktop. The applets, which are defined in a simple text file, can optionally be augmented with Python code to make them interactive. Current widgets vary from simple news headline displays to complete custom replacements for the KDE panel (Kicker).
I know how many posts I've read about people bashing the intelegence level of Floridians, so I'm figuring that if they can do it, New Yorkers should be able to figure it out too!
It will defeat Windows if for nothing other than that it's free, as is it's office applications. That's really what it all comes down to.
Companies all over the world are starting to switch right now, and in turn so will there employees...
You'll soon see tv commercials from that guy hocking his video learning CD's, showing just how easy it is to switch.
Nono, you don't understand it's not broken, it is the way it is because it is extremely powerful. Thats like saying you've got a 1000 horsepower dragster, but YOU wanna drive it, so you want to have it only run on one cylinder.
The key is to have proper front end to all the intricacies that lie within... ie: MacOSX
No I'm not your average end user, but I think the default desktop on RedHat is pretty well layed out. I even have my Mother running it at home.
Hey I think he's actually on to something. Most people in the Windows world download pirated copies of software. There is some amount of illicit temptation about it. Like it makes you cool to have Office XP trial.
What we need are 'Leet' versions of GNOME and KDE, where you have to enter in a license key or get a crack for it, that way they can tell their friends what an uberhacker they are.
UNIX is the way it is because it was well thought out and was designed the way it is. The learning curve is quite steep compared to the trivial days of DOS.
If you are not up to the challenge of downloading a set of RedHat/whathaveyou CD's then just buy a computer with it preinstalled. If you want that whole click next to install thing, check out a Walmart PC with Lindows preinstalled for $199.
Most home users I know, still have never installed Windows themselves.
MS is really doing less and less right. They are increasingly getting more greedy with their licenses. There security is to be laughed at. And every three years they release a rehash of the same old product.
Eventually, (and soon), Linux will have the usability that 51% of the population will find acceptable, and it will landslide from there. There will be no reason to pay for Windows XY or Office YX. Software companies will start producing the little annoying things that exWindows users like for Linux, and everyone will be happy.
Just wait until MS starts writing software for Linux. That will be a funny day.
You keep telling yourself that. Sun has already said that it will look at AMD's Opteron 64bit processor, and for good reason. It's a smart move if they plan on being competitive pricewise. But this effectively puts them into the same market with dell, ibm, hp, etc, to which they can all undercut eachother all day long.
Sun is not doomed, but it will be a shadow of the company it used to be.
#17: The Left-Handed Whopper
In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
I'm not affliated with DebtMinder. But I think it's an interesting solution to debt management that I'm not sure if the other 'checkbook' software have covered or not.
From Freshmeat:
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
It's Java based, and so runs on anything under the Sun ;)
why? because its going to happen. no matter what. whatever you do. people will blindly give their rights away in the name of 'safety'.
I think your thinking testicular cancer. Your prostate is well... umm... up your ass.
Apparently prostate cancer in men is about as likely to kill as breast cancer in women. Yet it only receives one quarter of US Federal funding for research.
I don't want to think about the difference in private sector donations.
I would have used this service, but for some unknown reason my application was denied ?? There must have been something wrong with their website at that time... Maybe sometime in the far far future, I'll think about trying them again.
Nothing. He was hoping that there is a printer that does what it claims, and as a BONUS that it would work in Linux.
CPU: P3 733MHz with SSE
Graphics Processor: 250Mhz nVIDIA X-Chip
Total Memory: 64MB
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4Gb/sec
Polygon Performance: 125million/sec
Audio: 3D Audio Processor
Network: 10/100Mbps Ethernet
Media: 2-5x DVD
Hard disk: 10GB
Check out Kismet over here. It can run on Linux PDA's like the Zaurus and iPaq as well as your laptop. It also has GPS support and speach output (through festival).
For you Linux users out there, who can't run NetStumbler, check out Kismet.
I've never ran NetStumbler, but it finds access points, has GPS support, makes maps, and will run on Linux PDA's (iPAQ, Zaurus).
Anyone know what the current status of crypted filesystems is?
Or the ability to mount a crypted file via the loopback device and use as a filesystem?