ahem... I've heard many people comment about my computer as 'Having a lot of windows open', even though I'd been using X Windows System, KDE, Gnome, MacOS, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, etc.
At my university, our information servers get hammered on the day grades are released. EVERYBODY is checking out how they did throughout the term. What we do is set up a 'revolving dns', which basicly cycles through a small group of servers to prevent users from not being able to get through.
So what's this have to do with upgrading? We can upgrade machines without bringing down the whole webserver. Just unplug one, open it, swap in components, and add it back to the rack. Rinse and repeat, without losing web time.
I've never actually had an impulsive reaction to a real life situation based upon what I would do in a video game, but I'm constantly checking for snipers / scoping out good camping spots.
Try using a agp or pci riser card. These adapters fit between the card and the slot, and allow you to mount the card parallel to the board, as opposed to perpendicular to it.
I've been considering a mobile-platform for a while... essentially a full-powered back-pack pc.
Among several problem spots (goggles/headset displays are expensive, how to power the system for a significant amount of time, and static grounding), I was wondering how I was going to control it.
I'd been hell-bent on glove control. After much thought, I decided you could pull off the glove interface, and do it cheap. But how about lateral finger movment?
You dont use it. Restrict the movement to only three positions for each finger (ie, as if you were manning the keypad from mechwarrior 2) this gives you 16 per hand (4 fingers x three positions plus two thumb functions for one hand). Exactly 26. Tadaa! One Keyboard (well, letters only and no spacebar)
Now what to do about the remaining digit: the dominant thumb: I'd set the thumb on one to control a analog stick/trackball and four-five buttons (it is a mobile application, afterall) and not have it's motions picked up by the glove.
Button layout would be as follows: Click, Right Click, Spacebar, Shift (maybe) and "Function".
The Function key enables the numeric keypad for one hand (like these guys did for half of their keyboard), and punctuation&other keys for the other
It'd be akward until you got the hang of it, but it accomplishes what you're looking for and more.
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I thought this was NEWS for nerds... water's been transparent for YEARS. Sheesh.
Lousy complex password...
Anyway, check out Botfighters, produced by It's Alive!. It's out in Europe, coming to the US soon. God we need GSM phones.
I wonder how much bandwidth it would take to play this via a telnet interface.
-Senine
Time to pick up the remote and turn off the B-Movie "Maximum Overdrive".
ahem... I've heard many people comment about my computer as 'Having a lot of windows open', even though I'd been using X Windows System, KDE, Gnome, MacOS, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, etc.
-Senine
You know, If I were to rob a bank with a rented car, the people STILL wouldnt shut down the rental company.
-Senine
At my university, our information servers get hammered on the day grades are released. EVERYBODY is checking out how they did throughout the term. What we do is set up a 'revolving dns', which basicly cycles through a small group of servers to prevent users from not being able to get through.
So what's this have to do with upgrading? We can upgrade machines without bringing down the whole webserver. Just unplug one, open it, swap in components, and add it back to the rack. Rinse and repeat, without losing web time.
-Senine
I've never actually had an impulsive reaction to a real life situation based upon what I would do in a video game, but I'm constantly checking for snipers / scoping out good camping spots.
ahem...
first: AMD chips run hotter than intel.
second: what about certain milspec resistors? I'm not even going to mention high-power microlasers that are shipped with built-in peltiers...
I dont think I want the swiftech cooling my cpu to be waving around inside my case at the tips of some sissy waving fins.
Try using a agp or pci riser card. These adapters fit between the card and the slot, and allow you to mount the card parallel to the board, as opposed to perpendicular to it.
They make right angle and flexible ones.
-Senine
I've been considering a mobile-platform for a while... essentially a full-powered back-pack pc.
Among several problem spots (goggles/headset displays are expensive, how to power the system for a significant amount of time, and static grounding), I was wondering how I was going to control it.
I'd been hell-bent on glove control. After much thought, I decided you could pull off the glove interface, and do it cheap. But how about lateral finger movment?
You dont use it. Restrict the movement to only three positions for each finger (ie, as if you were manning the keypad from mechwarrior 2) this gives you 16 per hand (4 fingers x three positions plus two thumb functions for one hand). Exactly 26. Tadaa! One Keyboard (well, letters only and no spacebar)
Now what to do about the remaining digit: the dominant thumb: I'd set the thumb on one to control a analog stick/trackball and four-five buttons (it is a mobile application, afterall) and not have it's motions picked up by the glove.
Button layout would be as follows: Click, Right Click, Spacebar, Shift (maybe) and "Function".
The Function key enables the numeric keypad for one hand (like these guys did for half of their keyboard), and punctuation&other keys for the other
It'd be akward until you got the hang of it, but it accomplishes what you're looking for and more.
-Senine