As a 12 year old in the early 80s I broke my right arm while playing "tag" on a large climbing frame made of logs. Our variation of tag saw that the ground was "out of bounds"; I fell off when attempting to tag a friend and smashed my arm on a log on the way down. I had a cool cast -- which wasn't my first -- and I healed. Accidents like this by high risk lads shouldn't ruin it for all of the other children. Bring back the 10 ft climbing frames!
What is the UK planning to do about nuclear waste? It cannot be kept in cooling ponds forever. I just watched the intriguing documentary Into Eternity the other day (99p rental on iTunes) about Onkalo, the massive network of tunnels the Finnish are digging in solid bedrock in which will become a giant subterranean depository for the country's nuclear waste. The documentary reminds us that nuclear waste remains harmful for something like 100,000 years, and shockingly they reveal that although Onkalo will be used only for Finnish nuclear waste, the country will need to dig many more Onkalos to handle all of it! What hope is there for countries that are not on a shield of bedrock? Why isn't Canada doing something similar? (Think Canadian Shield.) I recall the US was going to proceed with Yucca Mountain, but Obama slashed the budget that would have funded the work...
Where the hell are all of the robots Japan has been promoting over the years? Instead of designing robots that mimic facial expressions or perform synchronous dance routines, why didn't they build any that could assist with such an obvious catastrophe? FFS Japan: get with the program!
It has been said about 300 times here already: install an internal certificate authority and push the CA certificate out to all of your browsers.... The cheap option is to use an open-source SSL CA; a client of mine (one of the planet's most profitable law firms) was using Verisign to sign internal certs, partly out of laziness, for internally protected (https/SSL) apps. I recommended an internal cert auth and their security gurus deployed an open source CA. They pushed the CA cert out to the worldwide desktops via Windows Group Policy so that the browsers would recognize the signing authority. worked a charm: all internal certs signed for free. Lots of money saved... For another client (big company that manages railway infrastructure on a big island in the Atlantic), we deployed the Oracle "Certificate Authority" (Part of Oracle Identity Management) - don't laugh - and it worked as well. Needed to push the CA certificate out to the desktops via Windows Group Policy. Also worked a charm. Only fools use public cert auths such as Verisign to sign internal-facing certificates. Both clients had it on their "to do" lists to deploy the MS Certificate Authority, but is was deemed low priority, so another solution was needed...
Low brow, agreed. Very clever too. Cheers for the laugh! And no, I too do not require 200 fart apps, just one real good one. Counting on Microsoft to pull through for me!
Just checked out your site: Nice one mate! Very cool to see that you designed the Retro Gamer PCB to fit nicely into an existing adapter case.... Thanks for everyone's valuable input, including the existing boards, and AVR. I am biased towards PIC as I am heavily invested in it (MPLAB PM3, Real ICE, PICC18 Pro compiler, etc...); the project is intended to be part fun, and part get-my-head-around-USB-interfacing-a-PIC for some real work I am doing.... Microchip provide existing HID (Human Interface Device) PIC C code for the PIC18 family and I had a look at it. They even provide a Windows joystick testing tool (little GUI app). As interfacing 2 analog pots and 2 digital buttons (your typical Apple// joystick) to a PIC uCU, I thought it would be a peice-of-p**s to integrate it to USB using a PIC18 and the pre-written HID code. I would endevour to do a single sided PCB design with through-hole components as to make it easier for makers and hobbiests to run with.... No commerical interests whatsoever. Open hardware sounds like the way to go......
How timely, as I have been asking the same question... I used to have an Apple//c, and although I have indulged in retro Apple// gaming on various emulators over the years, it was never quite the same without using a traditional Apple analogue joystick. I have since decided to tackle this obvious problem with some electronics hackery. I recently (as in last week) purchased an original Apple// analogue joystick at auction on eBay, and I plan on building an Apple-joystick-port-to-USB-human-interface-device adapter circuit using a microcontroller such as the Microchip PIC. Should be straight forward, and if I am successful I will publish a how-to online, with schematics, parts list, microcontroller source code and Gerber data for the PCBs. Wish me luck!
I recall the CO-FF-EE voice synthesis interactive thingamajig why back in the ‘70s, and if I recall it was made of discrete though-hole components and possibly no ICs. I also remember taking my younger brothers to the Ontario Science Centre in the early ‘90s (91? Or 92?) and it was still there, but IT WAS BROKEN! I can recall this fact nearly 20 years later as I was both disappointed to see an OSC exhibit broken, and being in my early 20s at the time, somewhat CY-NIC-AL. In the ‘80s Radio Shack sold a voice synthesis chip from General Instruments with the part number SP0256-AL2 (See http://www.speechchips.com/downloads/sp0256-17%20datasheet.pdf ). I remember purchasing this chip, interfacing with a Commodore 64 and using the setup as part of a Science Fair project in ’87 or so... Good luck on your search...
I have been in IT for 20 years, and have always listened to music at various times while at the office. I got my first programming job in '89 and occasionally listened to music at work on a Walkman (huh? Go ask your dad...) At my second IT job in the mid-90s in a role as a full time systems developer in western Canada the music listening became more serious. I had a full size Denon CD player, a rack-mount QSC 1100 amplifier and a pair of Sennheiser HD580 headphones (still have 'em but the foam lining needs to be replaced). Listening to something like White Zombie's Super Sexy Swingin' Sounds was pure paradise for me. I was fortunate to have my own office with a door (huh? an IT guy with an office with a door? ya right...); a colleague named Dave used to joke that it would be easy to come in and shoot me in the back of the head as I wouldn't here him coming when he goes postal... That office was quite tolerant of me and my habbits. I moved into consulting in '97 and was often at different client sites, and it varied. I was shit on by one project manager who was critical of headphones, but over the years most people were OK with it. I now work in the UK and listen to music on my laptop with very small Sennheiser ear buds while on site at one of my clients. Nowhere as good as the HD580s, but more discrete. Recently an older generation manager voiced criticism of some staff listening to music at work. As recent as last year I was continually criticized by one colleague who only ever complained when I was listening to Guns and Roses' Live Era. Every bloody time. The office had put in higher density seating of 6 desk clusters, and when I was positioned looking at my screen, my right ear was in direct line with his left ear. Even though I was wearing ear buds, the guitars and Axel Rose's caterwauling manage to penetrate the seal and shot right through into his head. Only GnR, no other music bugged him. He was an temperamental drunken curmudgeon and I eventually moved away from him.
My experience is that I need silence when thinking, but after the thinking is done and it is time to tell the computer what to do, my brain goes into autopilot and the music helps pass the time as I punch the keyboard. This was most true when writing code. I thought in silence about the problem at hand, arrived at an approach or a solution, cranked up the tunes and then got down to work. Most "older generation" bosses don't understand this, but as they retire the habits of the younger generation will be more tolerated. I am 39 and have managed teams of people and can care less if staff listen to music while they work in IT. All I care about is the quality of work and their productivity.
Upgrading from NS60 to NS61 screwed itself up!
on
Netscape 6.1
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· Score: 1
I just sent this note to Netscape, as part of
the "[lack thereof] Quality Feedback" mechanism.
Dear Netscape,
I am completely disappointed with your latest version of
Communicator (6.1). I have been using Netscape 6.0 for
the past few months, and was somewhat let down as
the e-mail client sucked, and some of the fine features
from NS4.x were missing (e.g. filing bookmarks).
Nevertheless I persevered because I believed in you. In
fact, prior to Netscape distributing your browser for free,
I paid for your product (2 years in a row). That was
a long time ago...
I just downloaded and installed the "production" version
of NS6.1 from your website today to replace my current
installation of NS6.0. I used the "NS6Setup" program
and installed the "full" version and then rebooted my
laptop (Windows 2000, Compaq Armada).
Upon starting NS 6.1, the application starts, but the
screen layout is totally F**KED. Clicking the "N" logo
(which happens to be in the center of the window at
the far left) results in the application crashing.
How could you release this untested, bug ridden version
of crap? How the hell am I supposed to get my old
configuration of e-mail and bookmarks back? Do you
think I should revert back to NS6.0? Forget it.
Slashdot Mirror
It was fucking massive. Is that better?
These are not the online productivity tools you are looking for...
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly Roy...
As a 12 year old in the early 80s I broke my right arm while playing "tag" on a large climbing frame made of logs. Our variation of tag saw that the ground was "out of bounds"; I fell off when attempting to tag a friend and smashed my arm on a log on the way down. I had a cool cast -- which wasn't my first -- and I healed. Accidents like this by high risk lads shouldn't ruin it for all of the other children. Bring back the 10 ft climbing frames!
What is the UK planning to do about nuclear waste? It cannot be kept in cooling ponds forever. I just watched the intriguing documentary Into Eternity the other day (99p rental on iTunes) about Onkalo, the massive network of tunnels the Finnish are digging in solid bedrock in which will become a giant subterranean depository for the country's nuclear waste. The documentary reminds us that nuclear waste remains harmful for something like 100,000 years, and shockingly they reveal that although Onkalo will be used only for Finnish nuclear waste, the country will need to dig many more Onkalos to handle all of it! What hope is there for countries that are not on a shield of bedrock? Why isn't Canada doing something similar? (Think Canadian Shield.) I recall the US was going to proceed with Yucca Mountain, but Obama slashed the budget that would have funded the work...
It is a movie projector! You kids, I have to tell ya; why back in my days............
Hey, me too. I have Sunshine on DVD. Movie fucking freaked me out. Alex Garland knows that such missions are doomed! Don't do it!
Where the hell are all of the robots Japan has been promoting over the years? Instead of designing robots that mimic facial expressions or perform synchronous dance routines, why didn't they build any that could assist with such an obvious catastrophe? FFS Japan: get with the program!
What is this "CD" that you talk about???
Doh! I wanted to make this joke!!!!
It has been said about 300 times here already: install an internal certificate authority and push the CA certificate out to all of your browsers....
The cheap option is to use an open-source SSL CA; a client of mine (one of the planet's most profitable law firms) was using Verisign to sign internal certs, partly out of laziness, for internally protected (https/SSL) apps. I recommended an internal cert auth and their security gurus deployed an open source CA. They pushed the CA cert out to the worldwide desktops via Windows Group Policy so that the browsers would recognize the signing authority. worked a charm: all internal certs signed for free. Lots of money saved...
For another client (big company that manages railway infrastructure on a big island in the Atlantic), we deployed the Oracle "Certificate Authority" (Part of Oracle Identity Management) - don't laugh - and it worked as well. Needed to push the CA certificate out to the desktops via Windows Group Policy. Also worked a charm.
Only fools use public cert auths such as Verisign to sign internal-facing certificates.
Both clients had it on their "to do" lists to deploy the MS Certificate Authority, but is was deemed low priority, so another solution was needed...
Low brow, agreed. Very clever too. Cheers for the laugh! And no, I too do not require 200 fart apps, just one real good one. Counting on Microsoft to pull through for me!
Just checked out your site: Nice one mate! Very cool to see that you designed the Retro Gamer PCB to fit nicely into an existing adapter case. ... ... // joystick) to a PIC uCU, I thought it would be a peice-of-p**s to integrate it to USB using a PIC18 and the pre-written HID code. I would endevour to do a single sided PCB design with through-hole components as to make it easier for makers and hobbiests to run with. ... ...
Thanks for everyone's valuable input, including the existing boards, and AVR. I am biased towards PIC as I am heavily invested in it (MPLAB PM3, Real ICE, PICC18 Pro compiler, etc...); the project is intended to be part fun, and part get-my-head-around-USB-interfacing-a-PIC for some real work I am doing.
Microchip provide existing HID (Human Interface Device) PIC C code for the PIC18 family and I had a look at it. They even provide a Windows joystick testing tool (little GUI app). As interfacing 2 analog pots and 2 digital buttons (your typical Apple
No commerical interests whatsoever. Open hardware sounds like the way to go...
How timely, as I have been asking the same question... I used to have an Apple //c, and although I have indulged in retro Apple // gaming on various emulators over the years, it was never quite the same without using a traditional Apple analogue joystick. I have since decided to tackle this obvious problem with some electronics hackery. I recently (as in last week) purchased an original Apple // analogue joystick at auction on eBay, and I plan on building an Apple-joystick-port-to-USB-human-interface-device adapter circuit using a microcontroller such as the Microchip PIC. Should be straight forward, and if I am successful I will publish a how-to online, with schematics, parts list, microcontroller source code and Gerber data for the PCBs. Wish me luck!
I recall the CO-FF-EE voice synthesis interactive thingamajig why back in the ‘70s, and if I recall it was made of discrete though-hole components and possibly no ICs. I also remember taking my younger brothers to the Ontario Science Centre in the early ‘90s (91? Or 92?) and it was still there, but IT WAS BROKEN! I can recall this fact nearly 20 years later as I was both disappointed to see an OSC exhibit broken, and being in my early 20s at the time, somewhat CY-NIC-AL. In the ‘80s Radio Shack sold a voice synthesis chip from General Instruments with the part number SP0256-AL2 (See http://www.speechchips.com/downloads/sp0256-17%20datasheet.pdf ). I remember purchasing this chip, interfacing with a Commodore 64 and using the setup as part of a Science Fair project in ’87 or so... Good luck on your search...
I have been in IT for 20 years, and have always listened to music at various times while at the office. I got my first programming job in '89 and occasionally listened to music at work on a Walkman (huh? Go ask your dad...) At my second IT job in the mid-90s in a role as a full time systems developer in western Canada the music listening became more serious. I had a full size Denon CD player, a rack-mount QSC 1100 amplifier and a pair of Sennheiser HD580 headphones (still have 'em but the foam lining needs to be replaced). Listening to something like White Zombie's Super Sexy Swingin' Sounds was pure paradise for me. I was fortunate to have my own office with a door (huh? an IT guy with an office with a door? ya right...); a colleague named Dave used to joke that it would be easy to come in and shoot me in the back of the head as I wouldn't here him coming when he goes postal... That office was quite tolerant of me and my habbits.
I moved into consulting in '97 and was often at different client sites, and it varied. I was shit on by one project manager who was critical of headphones, but over the years most people were OK with it. I now work in the UK and listen to music on my laptop with very small Sennheiser ear buds while on site at one of my clients. Nowhere as good as the HD580s, but more discrete. Recently an older generation manager voiced criticism of some staff listening to music at work. As recent as last year I was continually criticized by one colleague who only ever complained when I was listening to Guns and Roses' Live Era. Every bloody time. The office had put in higher density seating of 6 desk clusters, and when I was positioned looking at my screen, my right ear was in direct line with his left ear. Even though I was wearing ear buds, the guitars and Axel Rose's caterwauling manage to penetrate the seal and shot right through into his head. Only GnR, no other music bugged him. He was an temperamental drunken curmudgeon and I eventually moved away from him.
My experience is that I need silence when thinking, but after the thinking is done and it is time to tell the computer what to do, my brain goes into autopilot and the music helps pass the time as I punch the keyboard. This was most true when writing code. I thought in silence about the problem at hand, arrived at an approach or a solution, cranked up the tunes and then got down to work. Most "older generation" bosses don't understand this, but as they retire the habits of the younger generation will be more tolerated. I am 39 and have managed teams of people and can care less if staff listen to music while they work in IT. All I care about is the quality of work and their productivity.
I just sent this note to Netscape, as part of
the "[lack thereof] Quality Feedback" mechanism.
Dear Netscape,
I am completely disappointed with your latest version of
Communicator (6.1). I have been using Netscape 6.0 for
the past few months, and was somewhat let down as
the e-mail client sucked, and some of the fine features
from NS4.x were missing (e.g. filing bookmarks).
Nevertheless I persevered because I believed in you. In
fact, prior to Netscape distributing your browser for free,
I paid for your product (2 years in a row). That was
a long time ago...
I just downloaded and installed the "production" version
of NS6.1 from your website today to replace my current
installation of NS6.0. I used the "NS6Setup" program
and installed the "full" version and then rebooted my
laptop (Windows 2000, Compaq Armada).
Upon starting NS 6.1, the application starts, but the
screen layout is totally F**KED. Clicking the "N" logo
(which happens to be in the center of the window at
the far left) results in the application crashing.
How could you release this untested, bug ridden version
of crap? How the hell am I supposed to get my old
configuration of e-mail and bookmarks back? Do you
think I should revert back to NS6.0? Forget it.
A fan no more,
cormandy