I have a 667-mhz tibook from november (not the newest one). I had an old airport basestation. The distance between them is maybe 30 feet, and it goes through one non-loadbearing wall (the base is on a shelf in a closet that backs up to my bedroom)
I could turn my tibook a few degrees and go from 2 to 0 bars. I could turn my head and lose reception.
I recently bought a new airport basestation (which supposedly has a better antenna) and got slightly better reception. I changed it to use channel 11 (instead of the default channel 1 or 3?) and that boosted my reception even more.. Maybe the higher frequency waves can get through one wall and travel that 30 feet better than the channel 3 waves.
Since it still drops out, I went out and bought a Linksys basestation. It performed similarly to the new apple station, but was much more complicated to configure, so i took it back.
Now I'm using the airport 2 station, and instead of a quality signal, I just curse a lot.
Let me guess. The fact that I don't know what a TSD is (or how to write one from an FSD, whatever that is) makes me a bad person?
Um, yeah. I worked at a Real Company, for several years doing programming on Real Programs.
I didn't always mix well with the management types. I didn't even know many of them, because knowing them didn't really make me any better at my job. But I think I was pretty good.
The thing is, not everyone is looking to make a zillion dollars (no, really! they're not!). Not everyone is trying to pad their resumes with lame crap in order to pull the wool over some manager's eyes and get a bigger salary.
Some people (get this!) actually LIKE programming. Some people actually LIKE developing cool projects (not products) and putting them out there and saying "hey. i think this is cool. what do you think?" Or "I made this because I needed it. Maybe someone else will find it useful."
Sure that attitude doesn't move you up the corporate ladder. That "well, it won't necessarily improve the bottom line this quarter, but people will think its really cool" frame of mine isn't always well-received in this economy.
Working on an Open Source project allows one the freedom to do what they want, while still building "marketable" programming skille.
Besides, if you're a manager, would you rather hire someone who is kissing your boss's ass and looking for a way to steal your job, or someone who will work hard and produce a quality, innovative product (so you'll look good in front of your boss)?
Yeah. Totally. My girlfriend's Dell laptop has a 14" screen with 1400x1050 resolution. Its totally sweet. My powerbook's 13whatever by 768 is so cramped in comparison.
I'm tempted to buy a new iMac to replace my 2-year-old iMac DV SE (400Mhz G3), but it's 15" screen is still only 1024x768, which is ridiculous for such a big screen.
iTunes does this, too. I'm in the middle of ripping my collection. I stick a CD in the slot of my iMac whenever I walk by. iTunes rips, encodes, ejects.
It's not the most efficient way, since i only do one or two a day, but its minimal effort on my part, and eventually it will all be ripped.
If you turn the trackball upside down, you can use it *just* like a regular mouse. It helps to have big hands, though, since you have to stretch your fingers around the edge to press the buttons.
Isn't that just a matter of *configuration*? Are the 3 versions of windows fundamentally different, or is it just that Server comes with different base packages, and perhaps different resource settings, than Pro?
*BSD (and Linux) can be configured/optimized for single or multi-user, or tweaked to best (as in perform at its best, not necessarily to do it better than anything else) handle whatever tasks you want to throw at it.
Also, I don't understand why you suggest that responsiveness should be a tradeoff for stability. My desktop FreeBSD machine is responsive AND consistently gives me months of uptime (I have servers that have been up and running without a reboot for over 2 years now!).
The only reasons I've had to reboot have been OS upgrades, kernel rebuild (try THAT on win2000:), and our fabulous rolling-blackouts (grumble... pg&e... grumble...).
My windows 98 box, on the other hand could go on the order of days (windows 2000 has been much more stable, only having to reboot every couple of weeks).
Why shouldn't someone want to run Redhat right out of the box?
When Apple put out the iMac it came with a 3 step setup manual and a claim of "online in 30 minutes". When I bought one (as a kitchen appliance:), I was happy to discover that it lived up to its claim. I plugged it in, it got its address from the DHCP server on my FreeBSD box and I was up and running in no time.
I was so happy with it that I bought one for my sister and an iBook for my parents. I even got them an Airport (so I could hook into it when I visit;). If OSX is just as easy, I'll probably upgrade them and administer their machines remotely. It might even make all of those "I can't figure out how to hook up my digital camera" calls a lots less painful.
I don't understand why you, apparently, think Linux should be reserved for the "technically elite". If a person is using the computer for WWW, email and games, why should they care what daemons are running? For that matter, why should they care what OS they are running?
Remember: every one of those "idiots" running RH out of the box means one less idiot running Windows out of the box. (And one more person wanting Linux drivers for their digital camera, or kickass video card, etc).
Tony Hawk Skater, or that snowboarding game on PS2. I play that for hours figuring out new tricks and combos and stuff. There's not really any competition, though as you get better you open up new levels.
And it teaches you important lessons, like "Skateboarding is not a crime" and "Everything was put on this earth so that you may grind on it."
The only reason to go to school is to learn. If you're going to school in order to get a job (or in order to get paid more) then you're there for the wrong reason. Don't waste your time (or the professor's, or the other student's) if you're not serious about being there.
You will learn a lot more about computers in CS (and way more in Comp Eng) than you will in CIS. And yes, it is harder because there is more material, but that's just how it goes.
that's two words, genius. Is George Bush
posting here now?
He said "pure European". I think its kind of funny how the Internet is this big Global thing, yet some of us still feel like they have to stick to arbitrary geographical boundaries.
Heh. That just gives proof that your eye or finger is with the GPS wherever it is located. A crafty kidnapper could cut off a finger and take it somewhere else with a GPS.
Digital cams are getting to be much less of a hassle. You take your pictures then plug the camera into USB or plug the media into a pccard slot. On Windows it just shows up as another drive, so drag and drop your pics.
A lot of web sites now do photo albums and make it easy to put your pics on the web. Yahoo! Photos even has an upload tool that lets you put titles and resize the images as you upload.
It is WAY easy now deal with digital pics, and I find I'm using my camera a lot more. I use the small Fuji one.. not sure the model number...
Yeah. Apple Airport is aimed at mainstream. I'm buying my one for my mom's iBook for her birthday. (she doesn't read slashdot (yet) so the secret is safe.
At home I have an Airport in my iMac, an Airport base in my office, and a lucent wavelan gold card in my laptop. They all work great together.
Slashdot Mirror
and is there a macosx client?
I haven't played in YEARS... ugh... I wonder if my old tcl bot code is still around somewhere...
I have a 667-mhz tibook from november (not the newest one). I had an old airport basestation. The distance between them is maybe 30 feet, and it goes through one non-loadbearing wall (the base is on a shelf in a closet that backs up to my bedroom)
I could turn my tibook a few degrees and go from 2 to 0 bars. I could turn my head and lose reception.
I recently bought a new airport basestation (which supposedly has a better antenna) and got slightly better reception. I changed it to use channel 11 (instead of the default channel 1 or 3?) and that boosted my reception even more.. Maybe the higher frequency waves can get through one wall and travel that 30 feet better than the channel 3 waves.
Since it still drops out, I went out and bought a Linksys basestation. It performed similarly to the new apple station, but was much more complicated to configure, so i took it back.
Now I'm using the airport 2 station, and instead of a quality signal, I just curse a lot.
- b
Let me guess. The fact that I don't know what a TSD is (or how to write one from an FSD, whatever that is) makes me a bad person?
Um, yeah. I worked at a Real Company, for several years doing programming on Real Programs.
I didn't always mix well with the management types. I didn't even know many of them, because knowing them didn't really make me any better at my job. But I think I was pretty good.
The thing is, not everyone is looking to make a zillion dollars (no, really! they're not!). Not everyone is trying to pad their resumes with lame crap in order to pull the wool over some manager's eyes and get a bigger salary.
Some people (get this!) actually LIKE programming. Some people actually LIKE developing cool projects (not products) and putting them out there and saying "hey. i think this is cool. what do you think?" Or "I made this because I needed it. Maybe someone else will find it useful."
Sure that attitude doesn't move you up the corporate ladder. That "well, it won't necessarily improve the bottom line this quarter, but people will think its really cool" frame of mine isn't always well-received in this economy.
Working on an Open Source project allows one the freedom to do what they want, while still building "marketable" programming skille.
Besides, if you're a manager, would you rather hire someone who is kissing your boss's ass and looking for a way to steal your job, or someone who will work hard and produce a quality, innovative product (so you'll look good in front of your boss)?
Some jobs don't need politics.
Several years ago, a friend of mine analyzed his keypresses, and came up with a keyboard layout optimized for his particular usage.
If he were to extend that, and have the daemon running all the time, it could optimize his keyboard layout in real time, to keep him most efficient.
Eventually, he would need only one key.
...michael always feel the need to point out that the story he is posting has already been run before?
Yeah. Totally. My girlfriend's Dell laptop has a 14" screen with 1400x1050 resolution. Its totally sweet. My powerbook's 13whatever by 768 is so cramped in comparison.
I'm tempted to buy a new iMac to replace my 2-year-old iMac DV SE (400Mhz G3), but it's 15" screen is still only 1024x768, which is ridiculous for such a big screen.
- b
iTunes does this, too. I'm in the middle of ripping my collection. I stick a CD in the slot of my iMac whenever I walk by. iTunes rips, encodes, ejects.
It's not the most efficient way, since i only do one or two a day, but its minimal effort on my part, and eventually it will all be ripped.
If you turn the trackball upside down, you can use it *just* like a regular mouse. It helps to have big hands, though, since you have to stretch your fingers around the edge to press the buttons.
Open Source projects are supposed to be buggy. It gives newbies an easy way to contribute :)
Isn't that just a matter of *configuration*? Are the 3 versions of windows fundamentally different, or is it just that Server comes with different base packages, and perhaps different resource settings, than Pro?
:), and our fabulous rolling-blackouts (grumble... pg&e... grumble...).
*BSD (and Linux) can be configured/optimized for single or multi-user, or tweaked to best (as in perform at its best, not necessarily to do it better than anything else) handle whatever tasks you want to throw at it.
Also, I don't understand why you suggest that responsiveness should be a tradeoff for stability. My desktop FreeBSD machine is responsive AND consistently gives me months of uptime (I have servers that have been up and running without a reboot for over 2 years now!).
The only reasons I've had to reboot have been OS upgrades, kernel rebuild (try THAT on win2000
My windows 98 box, on the other hand could go on the order of days (windows 2000 has been much more stable, only having to reboot every couple of weeks).
What's your point?
Why shouldn't someone want to run Redhat right out of the box?
:), I was happy to discover that it lived up to its claim. I plugged it in, it got its address from the DHCP server on my FreeBSD box and I was up and running in no time.
;). If OSX is just as easy, I'll probably upgrade them and administer their machines remotely. It might even make all of those "I can't figure out how to hook up my digital camera" calls a lots less painful.
When Apple put out the iMac it came with a 3 step setup manual and a claim of "online in 30 minutes". When I bought one (as a kitchen appliance
I was so happy with it that I bought one for my sister and an iBook for my parents. I even got them an Airport (so I could hook into it when I visit
I don't understand why you, apparently, think Linux should be reserved for the "technically elite". If a person is using the computer for WWW, email and games, why should they care what daemons are running? For that matter, why should they care what OS they are running?
Remember: every one of those "idiots" running RH out of the box means one less idiot running Windows out of the box. (And one more person wanting Linux drivers for their digital camera, or kickass video card, etc).
frrrrrrrrreaky!
(sorry, but "frrrrrrreaky" really isn't lame as the filter suggested)
I do.
Tony Hawk Skater, or that snowboarding game on PS2. I play that for hours figuring out new tricks and combos and stuff. There's not really any competition, though as you get better you open up new levels.
And it teaches you important lessons, like "Skateboarding is not a crime" and "Everything was put on this earth so that you may grind on it."
The only reason to go to school is to learn. If you're going to school in order to get a job (or in order to get paid more) then you're there for the wrong reason. Don't waste your time (or the professor's, or the other student's) if you're not serious about being there.
You will learn a lot more about computers in CS (and way more in Comp Eng) than you will in CIS. And yes, it is harder because there is more material, but that's just how it goes.
that's two words, genius. Is George Bush
posting here now?
He said "pure European". I think its kind of funny how the Internet is this big Global thing, yet some of us still feel like they have to stick to arbitrary geographical boundaries.
I guess this explains why there have been so many reposted articles lately.
Heh. That just gives proof that your eye or finger is with the GPS wherever it is located. A crafty kidnapper could cut off a finger and take it somewhere else with a GPS.
or something like that.
Try this, genius-boy...
/usr/local/bin
cd
ln -s quake2/quake2 quake2
cd ~iamatwink
quake2
woohoo!
Digital cams are getting to be much less of a hassle. You take your pictures then plug the camera into USB or plug the media into a pccard slot. On Windows it just shows up as another drive, so drag and drop your pics.
A lot of web sites now do photo albums and make it easy to put your pics on the web. Yahoo! Photos even has an upload tool that lets you put titles and resize the images as you upload.
It is WAY easy now deal with digital pics, and I find I'm using my camera a lot more. I use the small Fuji one.. not sure the model number...
Yeah. Apple Airport is aimed at mainstream. I'm buying my one for my mom's iBook for her birthday. (she doesn't read slashdot (yet) so the secret is safe.
At home I have an Airport in my iMac, an Airport base in my office, and a lucent wavelan gold card in my laptop. They all work great together.
Haven't tried it with Linux yet, though.
Kind of odd that they wouldn't have gone and found a link to DeCSS for this article...
just for the record, the US version has 3DES encryption, while the export version has XOR encryption (yes, hella-weak).
Being that ISS is a UK firm, they're brilliant minds were able to decrypt an XOR. Way to go!