Yes, this is most likely a remote car starter. My girlfriend has one in her car; the antenna is located at the top of the windshield. Unfortunately, I can't RTFA due to the slashdotting, but I could probably tell by looking at the pictures.
Here's an article on installing one. Maybe you can use this to figure out where the mystery wires go.
uses (or used, when I was a student there) a large number of Sun thin clients alongside their Mac and Wintel machines. My only complaint is that the window manager (OpenLook?) was totally obtuse if you'd never used a different WM than windows.
Apple did this awhile back with Sherlock... 1997, I think? On my computer, though, (200 MHz 603e) it was abyssimally slow. Apparently you can still do this and more with Apple's new Sherlock in OSX. It would be nice to integrate the Finder search with email search, but I'm pretty happy with Apple Mail's search capabilities as it is...
If I'm not mistaken, in the U.S., "venues" already pay royalties to ASCAP/BMI for this very "right to play music publicly", although I'm not so sure how consistently it is enforced. For example, owners of jukeboxes in bars must pay these "performance fees".
Here's an interesting link that turned up when I googled for "performance fees" and "jukebox".
Well, considering that the only important difference between Gentoo, and, say, Slackware, is the fact that Gentoo has the Portage package management system, I'd say no. Although I would have preferred something more along the lines of "Portage MacOS".
Learn it in detail. If you work with other people on the same machine, it will make your life a lot easier.
screen is pretty handy, too. Being able to detach sessions is also nice for when you've started sprouting icycles from your nostrils from the cold, cold server room.
Not using a search engine, I know, but it drives my nuts that when I'm forced to use IE I have to use the CTRL-F Find window.
Speaking of driving one's nuts, here's a little joke:
One day a pirate walks into a bar. He sits down at the counter, shitfing uncomfortably in his seat. The bartender notices this, and then comes to the realization that, in fact, the pirate has a steering wheel shoved down his pants. His curiosity piqued, the bartender asks the pirate, "Hey, why do you have a steering wheel down your pants? Isn't that uncomfortable?" to which the pirate replies, "Arr!!! It's driving me nuts!"
Subscribe to Secunia and you'll see why custom apps, though cool, usually aren't a good idea in a production system. I'm not discouraging you from whipping up your own web app, but designing these things while keeping factors like security, clean code, stability, etc. is a difficult thing to do alone.
Also, don't forget that the three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
This is the size of the business I sysadmin at, and this is basically the conversation we just had (yesterday) with our parent company overlords. We already had the foresight to install Firefox on all of our desktops, and we encouraged our employees to use it. We've had a very good adoption rate, and now we have some very zealous Firefox users.
A few people have refused to use Firefox. To bad. Next week we start filtering out traffic that gives IE identification strings. They will only be able to use IE for the few internal sites that were [stupidly] designed only for IE. Too much fo a risk.
I hate using a mouse. It's an extra bit of motion I can do without when I can just leave my hands on the keyboard. I especially hate using trackpads, so text-mode or console apps really shine there.
Make sure to code-in police avoidance for when your unattended lawnmower runs over your neighbor's feet while he sleeps in his lawn chair. On the bright side, you might end up with fewer cats hanging around the yard...
For someone that wants to remain on the technical side of things rather than the business side, where do you go?
Back to school, for ECE. It will kinda suck to be an undergrad all over again, but I'd like to think that I have a bit more focus this time around.
Being a systems administrator is neat with regard to some things; there's a lot of equipment I wouldn't have ordinarily gotten my hands on, a lot of problems I wouldn't have ordinarily confronted. But there's not much thinking to the job and I feel a little starved for a challenge...
Why use expensive, SLOW flash memory when you can run a fast ethernet connection into the room and save on a remote volume? Use SMB, NFS, AFS, whatever, and then you get as much space as you want, and it's quiet to boot.
2GB is a lot of data, but try working that in a professional studio- you can easy fill up 2GB with a half-hour of bad takes. If you're multitracking you can forget about it.
But I like the idea of lost-cost hardware. A VIA MII 12000 is more than adequate (CPU-power-wise) for even 8 simultaneous 16-bit ins and outs. What you're really going to want is a good audio card.
As I sit here fixing a Mac...
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... I come across this article.
Honestly, after supporting a group of about 20 graphics folks with Macs for the past six months (along with about 90 Wintel boxen), I'm just sick of seeing the same thing over and over again: 99% of all Mac problems have to do with FONTS. Corrupt fonts, missing fonts, bad font activation, etc. (That last 1% is reserved for Quark's profound suckedness.)
I can't tell you how many fcsking times I've told these people not to remove their system fonts. Invariably, someone will come to me complaing that Outlook doesn't work, and I end up solving the problem by reinstalling their system fonts. And repeating the lecture, again.
And please, before you make statements that OO.o is taking over and giving MS Office a challenge, make sure it's fact and not your opinion. Where's the data that OO.o is in use enough to make a challenge soon for MS Office share?
Well, this isn't exactly a study, but I sysadmin for a large book publishing company with an office in Boston. We are installing OOo on every one of our 100 desktops. And being a book publisher, this will hopefully have a ripple effect on all of the authors who work with us as well as our other offices. We are just plain sick and tired of incompatibility between versions of proprietary software, and it's got to go.
If it we're up to me, that Exchange 5.5 (NT4) server would have been gone a long time ago... instead we're waiting to see long long it will last.
Doesn't the fact that the OSNews folks are actually capable of using FreeBSD undermine their own argument that it's not ready for the desktop?;) Hell, I've had more trouble installing Windows on a machine!
Quite true. On the Appalachian Trail this year, I saw many a geek with GPS gear, Pocketmail devices, cellphones, PDAs, etc., PLUS all the other cool camping stuff like white-LED headlamps, a whole spectrum of campstoves, Tyvek everything, ultralightweight packs and fabrics. Long-distance hiking culture is truly a geek culture. The hacker ethos is essentially unchanged.
Of course, there are many who would deny this, and so often hikers keep their tech toys hidden. There's even a guy ("Rusty") who will put you up for free in Shenandoah (or was it North Carolina...? it all blends together after awhile) UNLESS you have something battery-operated.
Check this out. It's a denatured-alcohol burning camp stove made out of Pepsi cans. I hiked the first 800 or so miles with an MSR SuperFly (butane), but switched to this when fuel got too hard to find (and too expensive). It lasted me the rest of the trail, four months! Literally cost only several dollars in parts, and I could even burn isopropyl alcohol in a pinch.
I love hiking! I spent a great deal of time dreaming up better ways of sending email on the trail...:)
Yes, but will your love for Lego persist when you howl in pain after step on an overlooked block left on the floor by your Lego prodigy? My dad threatened, multiple times, to throw all my toys away if I didn't clean up, and he actually succeeded once. Being a kid sux.
I hiked the Appalachian Trail this year... After trying to choke down instant coffee or the really horrible tea they sell in the South for several months, I eventually gave up on it. It helped that I was exercising all the time (basically 12+ hours a day) so that negated the crankyness a bit and I didn't feel like I needed any caffeine at all after awhile.
Of course, now that I have a job and am back in the 'real world', I am back on my daily cup of tea in the morning...;)
I think I should just point out that Milloy is not a scientist himself. He is a lawyer, and he is also a member of the Cato Institute, a conservative think-tank known for spinning the "liberal media is out to scare you" line. Here is an excerpt from the Cato Institute's website:
Steven J. Milloy is the founder and publisher of junkscience.com , an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a columnist for FoxNews.com. Milloy earned a B.A. in natural sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, a master of health sciences in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, a juris doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a master of laws from the Georgetown University Law Center. Milloy has appeared on local and national television, including ABC's World News Tonight and Good Morning America, CNN's Talk Back Live, MSNBC's News with Brian Williams, and the Fox News Channel. Milloy has testified on risk assessment and Superfund before the U.S. Congress and has lectured before numerous organizations. Milloy's commentaries have been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Post, Investor's Business Daily, the Financial Times (UK), and the National Post (Canada). Milloy is also the author of several books, including Junk Science Judo, Science without Sense (Cato Institute, 1995) and Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Piece of the Superfund Puzzle (National Environmental Policy Institute, 1995). He co-wrote with Dr. Michael Gough Silencing Science (Cato Institute 1999).
It looks to me like junkscience.com is simply a portal for selling his anti-science books. The typical argument by these junk-science "activists" is that public health studies exaggerate the dangers, thus serving only to scare the general public. But they (the junk-science "activists") rarely talk about the checks that are built-in to the publication of scientific literature, mainly peer review. Sure, flawed studies are occasionally published, but the safeguards attempt to make sure that the obviously flawed studies aren't.
For excellent further reading on this subject, I refer you to John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton's Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future. And since I pointed out that Milloy is not a trained scientist, I'll also point out that neither are Stauber or Rampton.
OpenBSD is a lot of fun, but unless you really enjoy digging around in a BSD system, you might want to try an easier-to-use BSD. I find that OpenBSD's post-install is the most complex part of a setup. I say cut your teeth on FreeBSD, which is a snap to install, especially if you have a bootable CD drive, and come back to OpenBSD when you are comfortable with a BSD.
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Here's an article on installing one. Maybe you can use this to figure out where the mystery wires go.
Remote Car-Start System
uses (or used, when I was a student there) a large number of Sun thin clients alongside their Mac and Wintel machines. My only complaint is that the window manager (OpenLook?) was totally obtuse if you'd never used a different WM than windows.
Apple did this awhile back with Sherlock... 1997, I think? On my computer, though, (200 MHz 603e) it was abyssimally slow. Apparently you can still do this and more with Apple's new Sherlock in OSX. It would be nice to integrate the Finder search with email search, but I'm pretty happy with Apple Mail's search capabilities as it is...
Here's an interesting link that turned up when I googled for "performance fees" and "jukebox".
Well, considering that the only important difference between Gentoo, and, say, Slackware, is the fact that Gentoo has the Portage package management system, I'd say no. Although I would have preferred something more along the lines of "Portage MacOS".
I'm glad that we Mac users can still think of reasons why we're better than you lowly serfs.
sudo!
Learn it in detail. If you work with other people on the same machine, it will make your life a lot easier.
screen is pretty handy, too. Being able to detach sessions is also nice for when you've started sprouting icycles from your nostrils from the cold, cold server room.
Speaking of driving one's nuts, here's a little joke:
One day a pirate walks into a bar. He sits down at the counter, shitfing uncomfortably in his seat. The bartender notices this, and then comes to the realization that, in fact, the pirate has a steering wheel shoved down his pants. His curiosity piqued, the bartender asks the pirate, "Hey, why do you have a steering wheel down your pants? Isn't that uncomfortable?" to which the pirate replies, "Arr!!! It's driving me nuts!"
Snare, crash. Thank you.
Subscribe to Secunia and you'll see why custom apps, though cool, usually aren't a good idea in a production system. I'm not discouraging you from whipping up your own web app, but designing these things while keeping factors like security, clean code, stability, etc. is a difficult thing to do alone.
Also, don't forget that the three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
This is the size of the business I sysadmin at, and this is basically the conversation we just had (yesterday) with our parent company overlords. We already had the foresight to install Firefox on all of our desktops, and we encouraged our employees to use it. We've had a very good adoption rate, and now we have some very zealous Firefox users. A few people have refused to use Firefox. To bad. Next week we start filtering out traffic that gives IE identification strings. They will only be able to use IE for the few internal sites that were [stupidly] designed only for IE. Too much fo a risk.
I hate using a mouse. It's an extra bit of motion I can do without when I can just leave my hands on the keyboard. I especially hate using trackpads, so text-mode or console apps really shine there.
Make sure to code-in police avoidance for when your unattended lawnmower runs over your neighbor's feet while he sleeps in his lawn chair. On the bright side, you might end up with fewer cats hanging around the yard...
I recommend mushrooms.
Back to school, for ECE. It will kinda suck to be an undergrad all over again, but I'd like to think that I have a bit more focus this time around.
Being a systems administrator is neat with regard to some things; there's a lot of equipment I wouldn't have ordinarily gotten my hands on, a lot of problems I wouldn't have ordinarily confronted. But there's not much thinking to the job and I feel a little starved for a challenge...
2GB is a lot of data, but try working that in a professional studio- you can easy fill up 2GB with a half-hour of bad takes. If you're multitracking you can forget about it.
But I like the idea of lost-cost hardware. A VIA MII 12000 is more than adequate (CPU-power-wise) for even 8 simultaneous 16-bit ins and outs. What you're really going to want is a good audio card.
... I come across this article.
Honestly, after supporting a group of about 20 graphics folks with Macs for the past six months (along with about 90 Wintel boxen), I'm just sick of seeing the same thing over and over again: 99% of all Mac problems have to do with FONTS. Corrupt fonts, missing fonts, bad font activation, etc. (That last 1% is reserved for Quark's profound suckedness.)
I can't tell you how many fcsking times I've told these people not to remove their system fonts. Invariably, someone will come to me complaing that Outlook doesn't work, and I end up solving the problem by reinstalling their system fonts. And repeating the lecture, again.
Ever notice how, said backward (assuming "proper grammar"), this is:
"Bomb the US upset someone."
My brother pointed that out the other day. How apropos.
And please, before you make statements that OO.o is taking over and giving MS Office a challenge, make sure it's fact and not your opinion. Where's the data that OO.o is in use enough to make a challenge soon for MS Office share?
Well, this isn't exactly a study, but I sysadmin for a large book publishing company with an office in Boston. We are installing OOo on every one of our 100 desktops. And being a book publisher, this will hopefully have a ripple effect on all of the authors who work with us as well as our other offices. We are just plain sick and tired of incompatibility between versions of proprietary software, and it's got to go.
If it we're up to me, that Exchange 5.5 (NT4) server would have been gone a long time ago... instead we're waiting to see long long it will last.
Doesn't the fact that the OSNews folks are actually capable of using FreeBSD undermine their own argument that it's not ready for the desktop? ;) Hell, I've had more trouble installing Windows on a machine!
Quite true. On the Appalachian Trail this year, I saw many a geek with GPS gear, Pocketmail devices, cellphones, PDAs, etc., PLUS all the other cool camping stuff like white-LED headlamps, a whole spectrum of campstoves, Tyvek everything, ultralightweight packs and fabrics. Long-distance hiking culture is truly a geek culture. The hacker ethos is essentially unchanged.
Of course, there are many who would deny this, and so often hikers keep their tech toys hidden. There's even a guy ("Rusty") who will put you up for free in Shenandoah (or was it North Carolina...? it all blends together after awhile) UNLESS you have something battery-operated.
Check this out. It's a denatured-alcohol burning camp stove made out of Pepsi cans. I hiked the first 800 or so miles with an MSR SuperFly (butane), but switched to this when fuel got too hard to find (and too expensive). It lasted me the rest of the trail, four months! Literally cost only several dollars in parts, and I could even burn isopropyl alcohol in a pinch.
I love hiking! I spent a great deal of time dreaming up better ways of sending email on the trail... :)
Yes, but will your love for Lego persist when you howl in pain after step on an overlooked block left on the floor by your Lego prodigy? My dad threatened, multiple times, to throw all my toys away if I didn't clean up, and he actually succeeded once. Being a kid sux.
I hiked the Appalachian Trail this year... After trying to choke down instant coffee or the really horrible tea they sell in the South for several months, I eventually gave up on it. It helped that I was exercising all the time (basically 12+ hours a day) so that negated the crankyness a bit and I didn't feel like I needed any caffeine at all after awhile.
;)
Of course, now that I have a job and am back in the 'real world', I am back on my daily cup of tea in the morning...
I think I should just point out that Milloy is not a scientist himself. He is a lawyer, and he is also a member of the Cato Institute, a conservative think-tank known for spinning the "liberal media is out to scare you" line. Here is an excerpt from the Cato Institute's website:
It looks to me like junkscience.com is simply a portal for selling his anti-science books. The typical argument by these junk-science "activists" is that public health studies exaggerate the dangers, thus serving only to scare the general public. But they (the junk-science "activists") rarely talk about the checks that are built-in to the publication of scientific literature, mainly peer review. Sure, flawed studies are occasionally published, but the safeguards attempt to make sure that the obviously flawed studies aren't.
For excellent further reading on this subject, I refer you to John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton's Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future. And since I pointed out that Milloy is not a trained scientist, I'll also point out that neither are Stauber or Rampton.
Perhaps this would be a good time for Macromedia to get as many flash players on as many platforms as possible. They should open the source.
OpenBSD is a lot of fun, but unless you really enjoy digging around in a BSD system, you might want to try an easier-to-use BSD. I find that OpenBSD's post-install is the most complex part of a setup. I say cut your teeth on FreeBSD, which is a snap to install, especially if you have a bootable CD drive, and come back to OpenBSD when you are comfortable with a BSD.