Thank you. I just submitted my first two patches to a project (not yours (at least I don't think so)) and was a little worried about getting rejected for some simple reason. They were only documentation fixes, not actual code, but I was still worried I wouldn't live up to the standards of the project or whim of the developer or something like that. People like you make it easier for those of us who are just learning to actually contribute.
By the way, both my patches were accepted, although I did run the diff backwards for one of them -- but the dev accepted it and left me a note telling me I did it backwards -- very politely and very open to accepting my patches. Because he didn't get rude with me or even ask me to resubmit, I'm going to keep contributing where I can. (yeah, I know about patch -R but it's the principal of the thing;-).
So anyway, as a relative newbie to contributing, I thank you for your patience with us!
You're right - it *is* annoying to be stuck in that situation. We use CEP (well, we recently went for Audition[1]) for exactly the same thing -- editing speaking recordings at church (and some editing of individual music tracks, too; but most of that is handled from inside our multitrack application).
They also seem to have gotten rid of a lot of the "extras" that CEP used to have...like free downloadable clips and free plugins (or am I just remembering wrong?)
Cheers!
[1] - don't bother, Audition is pretty much CEP with the Adobe splash screen at startup. I have yet to notice any worthwhile feature enhancements.
Good point -- When I get calls from the office it (1) doesn't show an area code (*all* other calls do) and (2) has the wrong first 3 digits (that's called the exchange, I think). They use a VOIP system of some sort, but I'm not sure of any details.
People need to learn, senstive data is only protected in ONE place, inside our minds.
Keep it there and no one can snoop it.
At first I agreed with you...but after some thought, I think a completely automated system where one has limited knowledge of the sensative data would be better. If you memorized it, "they" can always rubber-hose it out of you, as several others have commented. But if you have a system where, say, after a single bad password the system blows itself up, all you have to do is give the appearance of giving up the password once, and your worries are over. You can then be forced to tell them everything you know (which would amount to the real password and maybe what the sensative data is about, but likely not the data itself, because we're not memorizing the data; that's what the computer's for), but it won't be enough.
Stop fighting your customers.
Let them do whatever they want, and have a nightly process replace the hard drive with a ghost image of a fresh install.
New computer every day.
Here Here!!
Deepfreeze is your friend. I haven't personally used it but have seen it at work. You probably could achieve the same thing with half a dozen other methods (ghost, for instance) but Deepfreeze has been highly recommended to me
Oh, by the way, I'm not knocking what he did in any way; it was cool and pretty smart and yes, renting still does cost money...this way he has one forever. My point was simply that renting is probably more of an option than most people would think. I'm in the middle of nowhere, the closest rental house is about an hour away, but I can think of two or three studios or commercial production houses that might rent out their prompters under the right circumstances.
Shipping wasn't an option?
Yes, I realize that the mirror and LCD panel would need to be carefully packed but it's more than possible. If you can ship a few hundred thousands of dollars worth of (one) camera lens (they just did where I work) I'm sure a telepompter is nothing.
I thinkthis is the relevant link. Outlook Quote Fix is a add-on program someone wrote to un-mangle the way Outlook handles quotes...the web site has an example of how it fixes things up. I tried it maybe 6 or 12 months ago and liked it but I don't use Outlook anymore so I can't comment on the current state of the code.
The other reply explains it pretty well except for the cultural thing...you're correct that it's not an American thing (except in a few professions, I think doctorate-type people and scientists, but I'm not sure)...most of where I've heard of it comes from the British and hopefully other posters will comment on their local preference.
A CV is generally much longer and more detailed than a resume. Resumes are generally kept to a page or two whereas a CV will be many more pages, sometimes 70 and list publications and speeches and every relevant moment of a person's life (at least the American version of a CV, remember I said they have a nitch use; and this comes from a medical editor friend of mine who has to occasionally read through a CV looking for relevant information about a doctor).
Hm...my desktop currently contains 15 gigs in 7,315 files across 663 folders, several of which are labeled "Stuff", "junk", "more junk", "much more junk" folders, and (for some reason) "archive"
Time to clean house!!!:-O
Flashlights are beggining to carry LED diodes, for one.
I, as a consumer, totally agree. How cool would it be to have a flashlight bulb that draws less power, is brighter, and never burns out.
Now think about the flashlight people's perspective. I don't know the breakdown of how much of their (say Maglite's) revenue comes from new flashlight sales versus replacement bulbs, but I bet the bulbs are a prety big moneymaker. LEDs threaten that business model. Like razor blades, right? Why are they still making flashlights with incandescent bulbs? $$$
I used to do a lot of work on the older style all-in-one Power Macintosh computers (5500s and the like, all in that same style case) and the first troubleshooting technique we tried for a dead machine was a good swift smack to the back corner.
It seems there were problems with the hard drives sticking after sitting around off for a while, I'm not sure if the power supply didn't have enough umph to un-stick drives or if it was a problem with the line of drives we had.
Nothing beats beating on a dead machine that won't start:-)
Interesting..it must vary by region because here in Pennsylvania we have port 80 blocked...I think 25 is also but haven't checked recently. Pretty much everything else is wide open, though. Maybe I should move to CA;-)
Hey, don't go making fun of the potholes in Lebanon county, we're proud of them (joking!!!!)
I can commiserate about the bad state of highways around central PA. The corridor between Harrisburg and the Maryland border is horrible, as are numerous other locations...way too many cars for the size and design of the roads. And I love 78 east (between Lebanon and Allentown) where the road has degenerated in to an endless series of potholes and bumps.
People in Berks county are just as bad...around Reading there are two places the highway merges with little room for an onramp and no one seems to know how to merge properly. I've seen some nutcases in Harrisburg (nearly got pummeled there just a week or two ago) but the stop-at-the-bottom-of-the-ramp and don't-look-before-merging Berks county drivers are worse.
Now I live an hour east and have to deal with people who drive 15 miles an hour under the speed limit on long straight back roads...
No, you're correct and the problem hasn't gone away -- it's part of dealing with the NTSC standard, with PAL basically the phase information is encoded into the signal but with NTSC you need to adjust it manually with the hue knob and since most people don't know how to calibrate their TV to color bars, you end up seeing green or purple people on impromperly calibrated sets.
It's not a limitation of technology, it's the standard. We still say "Never The Same Color."
Others have commented about poor quality control and un-educated operators -- which are valid reasons for bad signal, but the AC (my parent post) is talking about phase shifting...with PAL you don't have the "hue" control that we have on NTSC TV sets because the color phase is referenced in the signal itself -- a signal will always be the same color. With NTSC (Never Twice the Same Color) every display device needs to be properly calibrated (to color bars, usually) to display the correct hue or else the skin tones look off, which is what the parent poster was talking about.
As long as you don't reboot, you're not getting a new IP
Alternatively you could run a small cheap hardware router (my DSL modem has one built in), keep it on a UPS, and hope your IP never changes. A friend of mine did that for a year or two with minimal disruption, but if it changes (as another poster noted, it could change arbitrarily when the cable company feels like resetting things) when you're away, you're dead in the water...
This is the best advice I've seen posted. Kids either aren't going to get anything out of a discussion of electronics and how things work or know that stuff already, what's going to impress a 10 year old is exactly what the parent said...mega-long distance phone calls -- how cool would it be, as a 10 year old, to have talked to someone in, say, Russia or Australia. If you don't know anyone there, I'm sure there are plenty of slashdotters around the globe;-)
And I love the solar system idea. I got hooked on astronomy when I was in elementary school so I may be biased a bit, but looking and flying around the solar system (with a big ol' projector...yeah, I'm thinking *I* need to do this around a projector tonight).
These are the sorts of demonstrations needed -- not a discussion on why open source is better, not a discussion on jobs, but a demonostration of things they wouldn't normally see their computer do. All of them have probably played games on the computer (anyone else remember when Number Munchers was introduced on the Apple II?) but the parent poster's advice is absolutely brilliant.
My experience is the same as the GP, but here someone points out that two different XP installs act differently, so maybe W2kProf is the same and for some reason your install waits at the blue screen...but anyway, FWIW, my install reboots automatically by default.
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Thank you. I just submitted my first two patches to a project (not yours (at least I don't think so)) and was a little worried about getting rejected for some simple reason. They were only documentation fixes, not actual code, but I was still worried I wouldn't live up to the standards of the project or whim of the developer or something like that. People like you make it easier for those of us who are just learning to actually contribute.
;-).
By the way, both my patches were accepted, although I did run the diff backwards for one of them -- but the dev accepted it and left me a note telling me I did it backwards -- very politely and very open to accepting my patches. Because he didn't get rude with me or even ask me to resubmit, I'm going to keep contributing where I can. (yeah, I know about patch -R but it's the principal of the thing
So anyway, as a relative newbie to contributing, I thank you for your patience with us!
You're right - it *is* annoying to be stuck in that situation. We use CEP (well, we recently went for Audition[1]) for exactly the same thing -- editing speaking recordings at church (and some editing of individual music tracks, too; but most of that is handled from inside our multitrack application).
They also seem to have gotten rid of a lot of the "extras" that CEP used to have...like free downloadable clips and free plugins (or am I just remembering wrong?)
Cheers!
[1] - don't bother, Audition is pretty much CEP with the Adobe splash screen at startup. I have yet to notice any worthwhile feature enhancements.
Good point -- When I get calls from the office it (1) doesn't show an area code (*all* other calls do) and (2) has the wrong first 3 digits (that's called the exchange, I think). They use a VOIP system of some sort, but I'm not sure of any details.
http://users.telenet.be/neral/scifi_printsttng.htm l
check out 3.24
I'm such a geek...having most of the TNG titles (and storylines and so on) committed to memory...sigh
Deepfreeze is your friend. I haven't personally used it but have seen it at work. You probably could achieve the same thing with half a dozen other methods (ghost, for instance) but Deepfreeze has been highly recommended to me
Oh, by the way, I'm not knocking what he did in any way; it was cool and pretty smart and yes, renting still does cost money...this way he has one forever. My point was simply that renting is probably more of an option than most people would think. I'm in the middle of nowhere, the closest rental house is about an hour away, but I can think of two or three studios or commercial production houses that might rent out their prompters under the right circumstances.
Shipping wasn't an option? Yes, I realize that the mirror and LCD panel would need to be carefully packed but it's more than possible. If you can ship a few hundred thousands of dollars worth of (one) camera lens (they just did where I work) I'm sure a telepompter is nothing.
The other reply explains it pretty well except for the cultural thing...you're correct that it's not an American thing (except in a few professions, I think doctorate-type people and scientists, but I'm not sure)...most of where I've heard of it comes from the British and hopefully other posters will comment on their local preference.
A CV is generally much longer and more detailed than a resume. Resumes are generally kept to a page or two whereas a CV will be many more pages, sometimes 70 and list publications and speeches and every relevant moment of a person's life (at least the American version of a CV, remember I said they have a nitch use; and this comes from a medical editor friend of mine who has to occasionally read through a CV looking for relevant information about a doctor).
Hope that helps a bit...
Hm...my desktop currently contains 15 gigs in 7,315 files across 663 folders, several of which are labeled "Stuff", "junk", "more junk", "much more junk" folders, and (for some reason) "archive" Time to clean house!!! :-O
How is this a troll?? OT or maybe even funny, but how does it get labelled a troll?? Someone please explain, I'm a little confused.
Now think about the flashlight people's perspective. I don't know the breakdown of how much of their (say Maglite's) revenue comes from new flashlight sales versus replacement bulbs, but I bet the bulbs are a prety big moneymaker. LEDs threaten that business model. Like razor blades, right? Why are they still making flashlights with incandescent bulbs? $$$
Just tried it and nothing happened, guess I'll have to pop the CD out and boot back in to Windows.
hehe
I used to do a lot of work on the older style all-in-one Power Macintosh computers (5500s and the like, all in that same style case) and the first troubleshooting technique we tried for a dead machine was a good swift smack to the back corner.
It seems there were problems with the hard drives sticking after sitting around off for a while, I'm not sure if the power supply didn't have enough umph to un-stick drives or if it was a problem with the line of drives we had.
Nothing beats beating on a dead machine that won't start :-)
Interesting..it must vary by region because here in Pennsylvania we have port 80 blocked...I think 25 is also but haven't checked recently. Pretty much everything else is wide open, though. Maybe I should move to CA ;-)
Hey, don't go making fun of the potholes in Lebanon county, we're proud of them (joking!!!!)
I can commiserate about the bad state of highways around central PA. The corridor between Harrisburg and the Maryland border is horrible, as are numerous other locations...way too many cars for the size and design of the roads. And I love 78 east (between Lebanon and Allentown) where the road has degenerated in to an endless series of potholes and bumps.
People in Berks county are just as bad...around Reading there are two places the highway merges with little room for an onramp and no one seems to know how to merge properly. I've seen some nutcases in Harrisburg (nearly got pummeled there just a week or two ago) but the stop-at-the-bottom-of-the-ramp and don't-look-before-merging Berks county drivers are worse.
Now I live an hour east and have to deal with people who drive 15 miles an hour under the speed limit on long straight back roads...
Don't worry, I went in and ran the updates for you...things are nice and secure now.
Oh, and you really should think about changing that wallpaper...it's not really work-friendly.
No, you're correct and the problem hasn't gone away -- it's part of dealing with the NTSC standard, with PAL basically the phase information is encoded into the signal but with NTSC you need to adjust it manually with the hue knob and since most people don't know how to calibrate their TV to color bars, you end up seeing green or purple people on impromperly calibrated sets.
It's not a limitation of technology, it's the standard. We still say "Never The Same Color."
Thanks for the post - I know very little of SECAM and found what you said interesting...even more amazing about the hi-def b&w standard.
Others have commented about poor quality control and un-educated operators -- which are valid reasons for bad signal, but the AC (my parent post) is talking about phase shifting...with PAL you don't have the "hue" control that we have on NTSC TV sets because the color phase is referenced in the signal itself -- a signal will always be the same color. With NTSC (Never Twice the Same Color) every display device needs to be properly calibrated (to color bars, usually) to display the correct hue or else the skin tones look off, which is what the parent poster was talking about.
This is the best advice I've seen posted. Kids either aren't going to get anything out of a discussion of electronics and how things work or know that stuff already, what's going to impress a 10 year old is exactly what the parent said...mega-long distance phone calls -- how cool would it be, as a 10 year old, to have talked to someone in, say, Russia or Australia. If you don't know anyone there, I'm sure there are plenty of slashdotters around the globe ;-)
And I love the solar system idea. I got hooked on astronomy when I was in elementary school so I may be biased a bit, but looking and flying around the solar system (with a big ol' projector...yeah, I'm thinking *I* need to do this around a projector tonight).
These are the sorts of demonstrations needed -- not a discussion on why open source is better, not a discussion on jobs, but a demonostration of things they wouldn't normally see their computer do. All of them have probably played games on the computer (anyone else remember when Number Munchers was introduced on the Apple II?) but the parent poster's advice is absolutely brilliant.
My experience is the same as the GP, but here someone points out that two different XP installs act differently, so maybe W2kProf is the same and for some reason your install waits at the blue screen...but anyway, FWIW, my install reboots automatically by default.