Got a ticket for doing 47 in a 45 zone. The Judge dismissed it, told me to have a nice day & dismissed me, then "had a talk" with the ticketing officer about "wasting [his] time". If it's in 5MPH of the posted limit, chances are it's in the "margin for error" realm of the machine the cop is using to measure your speed. Judges don't like it when ANYONE wastes their time, but ESPECIALLY when it's a cop who's supposed to know better.
Ubuntu + Firefox + NoScript, and both the other sniffer site AND the site you've mentioned come up with a big fat *nada*. Ten minutes later & the first site tells me there's nothing found; scan completed on the second site & it reports squat. I wonder what I'm doing that thwarts them both? (This is NOT an attempt at flaming, this is an honest question to a serious issue.)
Great, JUST what we need - a sentient, insane, NUCLEAR POWERED, suicidal monorail with homicidal tendencies! "Solve my riddle or I'll kill us all! MUH HA HA HA HAAAAaaaaaa" *cough*
Bought direct from HP.com, OEM copy of XP Pro, and six months later MS claims it's pirated. Archived everything, wiped the drive, and am happily on Ubunutu ever since. I still have to support the various Windows boxes of my customers, but I'll only run it (at home) in a VM if absolutely need-be. Otherwise, MS can kiss this customer good-bye.
I've got a rather nice collection of material starting back from the very beginning, and they are *wonderful* to hold, leaf through, look at the artwork, etc. But I do *NOT* enjoy having to lug a ton of books with me to a Session. I've already got my dice box, mini's box, paper/pencil/clipboard, and laptop, so adding a few boxes of books is a real PITA...
With PDF's, I can access any set of rules, stats, or other associated data rather quickly. With a stack of books, I've got to waste LOTS of time finding anything (unless I already know where it's at). "What were the stats on an Ancient Green Dragon? Ok, that's in Monster Manual I? II? III? 3.5? Savage Species? Dragonomicron? Crap, hold on while I try to find it..." -Versus- "Green Dragons? [ALT]+F 'Green Dragon' [ENTER]... Young? (Scroll) Adult (scroll), Ancient."
I love my books, I'm a book worm by nature, but you can't beat a properly created, *official* PDF of the material for getting answers fast. Just raw text, tables, and searchable - I can store everything on a USB stick that fits in my pocket, instead of lugging around an entire library of physical books that requires the entire back seat of the car to transport...
WotC didn't just shoot themselves in the foot, they emptied the clip. Players love having the physical Book for their collection, and the Official PDF for ease-of-use. Telling us we can't have the PDF just means we'll find it from UN-Official channels, and that *guarantees* WotC won't make a damned penny from that potential revenue channel.
I *just* bought an HP HDX-18.
* Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad Processor Q9100 (2.26 GHz)
* 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 130M
* 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
* 18.4" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
* Blu-Ray +/-R/RW with SuperMulti
The Vista experience meter gives it a *THREE POINT EIGHT* on the usability scale.
If this less-than-a-year-old, Quad-core 2.26GHz, 4Gb System RAM, 1Gb VRAM, 5400RPM SATA HD system can't rate better than that, then why bother with Vista at all?
I sure as hell didn't.
I swapped the original drive for another 500Gb 5400 RPM SATA drive, installed Ubuntu, and haven't looked back.
YES I tweaked Vista to run better, I spent two days doing exactly that, and it really, honestly didn't make enough of a difference.
I shouldn't have to turn off half the OS in order to make a machine (especially one with specs like this) run like it's supposed to.
I'll print out your missive on small cards, laminate them, & give them to as many people as possible. This is Truth, and it should be spread. Thank you.
Banks notoriously like to post your transactions NOT in the order in which you make them, but in the order the merchant reports them. So if you've got a balance of $1,000 on close-of-business Friday, make $900 worth of purchases over the weekend, you should have a balance of $100. First thing Monday, you know you've got a large bill coming due on Wednesday, so you make a $500 deposit, thus bringing your balance to $600. You make the payment Wednesday, taking your balance down to $50, and your Cheque Register (& spreadsheet) show your balance as $50. Except the Bank posted them in some twisted order that leaves you with $200 worth of NSF fees because you supposedly left your account overdrawn. And there isn't a damned thing you can do about it because they say "We can't control when the Merchants post your transactions." Yeah, except my Cheque Register & spreadsheet show all my transactions AND the balances, and MY numbers don't match YOUR numbers. Guess who loses - it sure as hell isn't the bank because YOU get to pony-up the NSF fees. Changing banks won't help, they all do it. So, please, honestly, explain to me how the spreadsheet is supposed to help? It hasn't so far, and I'm so anal-retentive when it comes to my money, it pisses me off that I can double-check my math with a calculator & come up with the same answers every time, but the bank seems to be pulling numbers out of its ass... =(
Ubuntu 8.10, current as of 23:59Hrs PST last night & Firefox 3.0.6 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6]. I tried right-clicking various elements of the page & the pop-open menu stays open until I click an entry in it, or click away elsewhere on the screen. I couldn't MAKE it close prematurely, or pick the wrong entry. I feel so deprived... =} *errrrr*
Who is actually surprised that a MS-centric software company quote-unquote-couldn't release a non-MS-centric product that was worth a damn? "Oh, we tried to make a Mac/Linux client, but no one wanted it." No one wanted it because you made it *SUCK*. If you'd given it even HALF the attention you'd given your MS client, then the Mac/Linux community would've used the native Linux client. Instead, if they wanted even halfway-decent results, you forced them to run your MS client under a Cider/WINE environment, thus defeating any benefits a native client might have given. You certainly didn't get a realistic data-set of who preferred which client, because you made everything BUT the MS client, suck utter llama testicle sweat. Since you starved it for resources & caused the Mac/Linux clients to be utter crap, no one wanted to use them, and you're using the "massive Windows client use" numbers to justify shutting down the development of what you didn't want to do in the first place. This isn't surprising, it's sad. Sad that you're obviously refusing to cater to a ever-increasing market, because you want to suckle at the perceived-to-be-inexhaustible-fount-of-profits MS teat. Karma will have a lovely swift kick in the pants waiting for you if the Mac/Linux market share puts a serious crimp in the MS coffers, causing your fountain of wealth to turn into a trickle of poverty. You should have put equal resources to each of the clients, so they ALL kicked ass. That way, no matter if your customer was on a Windows, Mac, or Linux system, they could find a reason to send you their money. Instead, you decided to piss off two-thirds of your customer base. Nice one, dip shits.
Take a stack of 3x5 cards & write in the upper left area of the card: DATE: TIME: LOCATION: SUBJECT: NOTES: Then take a piece of standard cello-tape, fold it into a loop (so there's a "sticky side" on both sides), and tape a single memory card to the card *label side up*. That is your clue that the card is empty & ready to be used. Repeat this with as many memory cards as you have. Put them all in the hard-plastic "recipe box" 3x5 card container & close the lid. Toss it into your camera bag.
When you get to a 'Shoot Location, set the box on the table, flip open the lid, & lay a few (3x5 Cards + Memory Card) on the table. When you use a card, stick it back on the 3x5 card *label side down* so you know that one's already been used. When you're done with the Shoot, fill out each card, stick them in the front of the box, & when you get home, deal with them as normal.
Make new blank 3x5 Cards for each of the Memory Cards you've used. Put the freshly-emptied Memory Card label-side-up on the blank card, & put it back in the box. Put the box in your camera bag.
Repeat this cycle for each shoot, and you'll always have a list of what's on each Memory Card. Once you've emptied the Memory Card to your computer for processing, write the photo file names on the associated 3x5 card. This way you have a perm record of each shoot: When, Where, & What.
Then you can label the top of the 3x5 Card with a general idea of what the shoot was about (ex: "Soccer Game", "Vanessa on the Beach", etc), & use the 3x5 Cards as a literal "Card Catalog". Organize them by similar topics (sports, people, etc), & then you should be able to easily find the names of the photos associated with that topic. Finding the photo files themselves is variable as to how/where you store them, but the 3x5 Card "Catalog" will be a complete record of what you've taken.
My father did this for nearly twenty years. Shoot a roll of film, put the film in its canister, tape the canister to a 3x5 card with the Date/Time/Notes bits, & grab a new roll from the next card. Get home, process the film in the dark room, & then save the physical photos behind the matching 3x5 card.
Put a new box of (canisters + 3x5 cards) in his camera bag, & never worry about remembering where or what any particular roll of film was about. He kept the notes as he took the shots, and now nearly thirty years later, the family doesn't wonder who is in any particular shot. We can flip through the photo album, read the 3x5 card before each group of pictures, and know *exactly* where each picture was taken, when, & of whom.
Now that you do the storage digitally, you can have an even larger collection of photos at your disposal. Which means a LOT more 3x5 Cards, but the principle still holds. You'll have kept a record. Your family will thank you. =)
Because you've earned +10 Insightful / Informative / Enlightening... My local area used to have two main newspapers, but then one got absorbed by the other, & we've had utter crap ever since. Less news, more ads, less content, more crap. I've come to rely on online news sources (AP, Reuters, etc) over print media for the simple fact that, by the time it IS in print, it's been online for upwards of a day, sometimes as much as a MONTH beforehand.
I'm not sure what keeps the newspapers in business given the only thing they have to offer over their online counter-parts is the added "value" of having to dig the paper out of the bushes, off the roof, or wring it out from the puddle the moron threw it into. If I want a clean, professional, properly assembled (meaning *I* don't have to put it in its proper order) paper, I have to buy it from a vending machine. The one I've paid to have delivered ends up arriving mangled (either by where it's landed, because of the rubber band used to hold it together, or both), wet (because they rarely use a plastic bag to cover them anymore), & unassembled. Couple that with the fact that it's all old news I could (& have) read about online a day or two before, there's increasingly less reason to subscribe to it at all.
Which is why they keep giving it to me at half price when they call to ask me to renew & I tell them it's not worth the full price. "It's old news regurgitated from online sources, stuffed full of ads like a Thanksgiving Turkey, & delivered in a completely unprofessional manner. I'm not paying $30 a month for the 'convenience' of delivery when it's only two blocks to the nearest store that sells them, costs less per paper, & I end up getting a professionally prepared product. You might want to think about that when it comes to renewing the delivery idiot's contract, because he's losing you a customer." That's when they offer it at half price, promise to "reprimand" the delivery agent (they never do), & the cycle continues.
I think, next time it comes up, I'll cancel all-together. There really is NO reason to get the thing anymore given the (lack of) quality & (un)professional delivery. I'm already paying for internet where I can get my news for free. The newspaper is worthless at that point.
My grandmother lives JUST outside the city limits (on the other side of the "little stone bridge" past Noyo) and not only can she NOT get city water/sewage, but her phone service is spotty at best (non-existent if the weather's crappy). There's very little cell signal coverage, she's not close enough to ANY form of DSLAM to qualify for DSL, and with all the trees (that she can't cut down due to county regs) she can't get satellite service of ANY kind. You'd think that, in this day & age, in a location less than a mile outside the city limits, a person could rely on proper water/sewage/phone service, but not in Fort Bragg. Granted, Gram doesn't mind her WebTV via dial-up connection, because ALL she ever does is email, but even SHE complains that AT&T "sucks rancid bilge water" as far as service is concerned. Because the phone company(ies) have been telling her "it's not economically viable to extend service into your area at this time" since the early 1950's. =/
I just got finished installing Ubuntu 8.10 to a customer's laptop (Dell Latitude D600) today. Took the HD out, slipped it into an external case, plugged it into my laptop (Compaq), made a dd.ISO image of the drive, then put it back in his system. Popped in the Ubuntu dvd, & told him to hit the power switch. "If you feel you need any help, I'll be sitting right here." The ONLY question he had was about the partition manager, and that was "If we've already backed up all my stuff, then I can just let it have the whole drive, right?" After that, he was able to answer all the questions himself, & effectively set up his own system withOUT my help. Once it had ejected the DVD & rebooted to the HD, he spent a few moments looking at his desktop. Without asking, he clicked "Applications", browsed what had already been installed, noticed the "Add/Remove Programs" option, & was browsing the Synaptic repositories shortly there-after.
He figured out that clicking the little box beside the program's name meant "I'd like this", and "Apply" meant, well, to do what he'd asked. The system grabbed the files he'd checked, and finished without a hitch. He sat there looking at me funny & asked "Doesn't it need to, like, reboot, or something?" "Nope. You can close out that screen, and your program will be listed in the appropriate section of the Application menu." He closes Synaptic, checks the App menu, and is suitably impressed that, sure-enough, his programs are right there.
[Him] "Wait a minute... Don't I have to PAY for those?" [Me] Nope, they're free. Unless you take them from the "Non Free" sections, which are clearly marked and require you to activate them before you can use them, you don't HAVE to pay for any of it. If you WANT to give them money in thanks, and it's highly recommended you do, there are usually links to the program author's website in the Help section of the program's menu bar. [Him] What kinds of things are in the 'Non Free' sections? [Me] Let's authorize them & I'll show you. Mostly it's things like the Adobe Flash & PDF programs, & the bits needed to play DVD's, but it's rare that a Linux program REQUIRES you to pay for it first. It's nice to give them a few bucks, though, because these are normal people, writing programs as a hobby, that people like us find useful. Like that tax software? Enjoy that game? Think that paint program is the bee's knees? Then send the Author a letter & a cheque thanking them for their efforts. You'll probably get a letter back thanking YOU for helping keep them going doing what they love. [Him] So, what about Office docs? Can I do them? I showed him OOo, imported a MS Doc off a USB key (my resume), & double-clicked it in the file manager. It opened in OOo, scanned it for spelling errors, & then gave him a cursor. He sat there smiling & said "That's good enough for me."
He found Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin all on his own, and the only questions he had were how to import his email & bookmarks from his old system. Since I had copied them to my USB key, it was a snap to move them back to the HD & show him the Import functions.
His HP PSC1315 (Printer/Scanner/Copier) worked out of the box. Totem downloaded the needed codecs & then played the DVD he'd popped in. And except for the video "maxing out" at 1024x768 (which he was fine with, but I would've fixed had it been my system) on the generic drivers, his system was ready-to-go without me having to DO much of anything.
Yes I realize many people have issues with hardware on the multitude of systems out there, but if it installs properly (which is a problem with ANY operating system), Linux not only CAN outshine Windows on the same hardware, it makes Windows look like a diseased pile of feces compared to a 100 carat diamond.
Oh, and the customer? He turns 87 tomorrow & is a self described "computer idjit". So if an "idjit" can install Ubuntu,
The model from Dell you mention is a Discontinued Product that sold 2+ years ago. HP can't find any reference to MXM in their inventory & insist I meant MMX... Alienware (now Dell) has one, but it's $2,300 for an "Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz 4MB Cache". That's the same speed as my current notebook, & I was looking for an upgrade. (Shrugs, smiles) Oh well, it was a nice thought. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. (Gives Kudo's and a cookie.)
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Now pay up, you infringing bastard... =)P
(Wiping the soda-spit from his monitor...)
=)P Hehehehehehehe
Got a ticket for doing 47 in a 45 zone.
The Judge dismissed it, told me to have a nice day & dismissed me, then "had a talk" with the ticketing officer about "wasting [his] time".
If it's in 5MPH of the posted limit, chances are it's in the "margin for error" realm of the machine the cop is using to measure your speed.
Judges don't like it when ANYONE wastes their time, but ESPECIALLY when it's a cop who's supposed to know better.
...while I slip Ubuntu Live CD's into all the machines inside!
(Do I get bonus points for wearing Ubuntu-themed clothes while I'm doing it?)
=)P
What, like it doesn't FEEL like an eternity?
=)P
Damn it, you owe me a new keyboard!
XD XD XD Hehehehehehehehehee...
If you (a producer of entertainment) aren't entertaining , then you won't be making any money.
Ubuntu + Firefox + NoScript, and both the other sniffer site AND the site you've mentioned come up with a big fat *nada*.
Ten minutes later & the first site tells me there's nothing found; scan completed on the second site & it reports squat.
I wonder what I'm doing that thwarts them both?
(This is NOT an attempt at flaming, this is an honest question to a serious issue.)
Great, JUST what we need - a sentient, insane, NUCLEAR POWERED, suicidal monorail with homicidal tendencies!
"Solve my riddle or I'll kill us all! MUH HA HA HA HAAAAaaaaaa"
*cough*
No thanks, I think I'll walk...
=)P
Bought direct from HP.com, OEM copy of XP Pro, and six months later MS claims it's pirated.
Archived everything, wiped the drive, and am happily on Ubunutu ever since.
I still have to support the various Windows boxes of my customers, but I'll only run it (at home) in a VM if absolutely need-be.
Otherwise, MS can kiss this customer good-bye.
I've got a rather nice collection of material starting back from the very beginning, and they are *wonderful* to hold, leaf through, look at the artwork, etc.
But I do *NOT* enjoy having to lug a ton of books with me to a Session.
I've already got my dice box, mini's box, paper/pencil/clipboard, and laptop, so adding a few boxes of books is a real PITA...
With PDF's, I can access any set of rules, stats, or other associated data rather quickly. ... Young? (Scroll) Adult (scroll), Ancient."
With a stack of books, I've got to waste LOTS of time finding anything (unless I already know where it's at).
"What were the stats on an Ancient Green Dragon? Ok, that's in Monster Manual I? II? III? 3.5? Savage Species? Dragonomicron? Crap, hold on while I try to find it..."
-Versus-
"Green Dragons? [ALT]+F 'Green Dragon' [ENTER]
I love my books, I'm a book worm by nature, but you can't beat a properly created, *official* PDF of the material for getting answers fast.
Just raw text, tables, and searchable - I can store everything on a USB stick that fits in my pocket, instead of lugging around an entire library of physical books that requires the entire back seat of the car to transport...
WotC didn't just shoot themselves in the foot, they emptied the clip.
Players love having the physical Book for their collection, and the Official PDF for ease-of-use.
Telling us we can't have the PDF just means we'll find it from UN-Official channels, and that *guarantees* WotC won't make a damned penny from that potential revenue channel.
I *just* bought an HP HDX-18.
* Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad Processor Q9100 (2.26 GHz)
* 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 130M
* 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
* 18.4" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
* Blu-Ray +/-R/RW with SuperMulti
The Vista experience meter gives it a *THREE POINT EIGHT* on the usability scale.
If this less-than-a-year-old, Quad-core 2.26GHz, 4Gb System RAM, 1Gb VRAM, 5400RPM SATA HD system can't rate better than that, then why bother with Vista at all?
I sure as hell didn't.
I swapped the original drive for another 500Gb 5400 RPM SATA drive, installed Ubuntu, and haven't looked back.
YES I tweaked Vista to run better, I spent two days doing exactly that, and it really, honestly didn't make enough of a difference.
I shouldn't have to turn off half the OS in order to make a machine (especially one with specs like this) run like it's supposed to.
Damn you, that *hurt*...
XD BAH HAHAhahahahahahaaa...
Oh dear lord, that was beautiful...
Of course, now I need to clean off my monitor & dry out my keyboard...
But, damn it, that was funny .
=)P
I'll print out your missive on small cards, laminate them, & give them to as many people as possible.
This is Truth, and it should be spread.
Thank you.
Banks notoriously like to post your transactions NOT in the order in which you make them, but in the order the merchant reports them. ...
So if you've got a balance of $1,000 on close-of-business Friday, make $900 worth of purchases over the weekend, you should have a balance of $100.
First thing Monday, you know you've got a large bill coming due on Wednesday, so you make a $500 deposit, thus bringing your balance to $600.
You make the payment Wednesday, taking your balance down to $50, and your Cheque Register (& spreadsheet) show your balance as $50.
Except the Bank posted them in some twisted order that leaves you with $200 worth of NSF fees because you supposedly left your account overdrawn.
And there isn't a damned thing you can do about it because they say "We can't control when the Merchants post your transactions."
Yeah, except my Cheque Register & spreadsheet show all my transactions AND the balances, and MY numbers don't match YOUR numbers.
Guess who loses - it sure as hell isn't the bank because YOU get to pony-up the NSF fees.
Changing banks won't help, they all do it.
So, please, honestly, explain to me how the spreadsheet is supposed to help?
It hasn't so far, and I'm so anal-retentive when it comes to my money, it pisses me off that I can double-check my math with a calculator & come up with the same answers every time, but the bank seems to be pulling numbers out of its ass
=(
Ubuntu 8.10, current as of 23:59Hrs PST last night & Firefox 3.0.6 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6].
I tried right-clicking various elements of the page & the pop-open menu stays open until I click an entry in it, or click away elsewhere on the screen.
I couldn't MAKE it close prematurely, or pick the wrong entry.
I feel so deprived...
=} *errrrr*
Who is actually surprised that a MS-centric software company quote-unquote-couldn't release a non-MS-centric product that was worth a damn?
"Oh, we tried to make a Mac/Linux client, but no one wanted it."
No one wanted it because you made it *SUCK*.
If you'd given it even HALF the attention you'd given your MS client, then the Mac/Linux community would've used the native Linux client.
Instead, if they wanted even halfway-decent results, you forced them to run your MS client under a Cider/WINE environment, thus defeating any benefits a native client might have given.
You certainly didn't get a realistic data-set of who preferred which client, because you made everything BUT the MS client, suck utter llama testicle sweat.
Since you starved it for resources & caused the Mac/Linux clients to be utter crap, no one wanted to use them, and you're using the "massive Windows client use" numbers to justify shutting down the development of what you didn't want to do in the first place.
This isn't surprising, it's sad.
Sad that you're obviously refusing to cater to a ever-increasing market, because you want to suckle at the perceived-to-be-inexhaustible-fount-of-profits MS teat.
Karma will have a lovely swift kick in the pants waiting for you if the Mac/Linux market share puts a serious crimp in the MS coffers, causing your fountain of wealth to turn into a trickle of poverty.
You should have put equal resources to each of the clients, so they ALL kicked ass.
That way, no matter if your customer was on a Windows, Mac, or Linux system, they could find a reason to send you their money.
Instead, you decided to piss off two-thirds of your customer base.
Nice one, dip shits.
Take a stack of 3x5 cards & write in the upper left area of the card:
DATE:
TIME:
LOCATION:
SUBJECT:
NOTES:
Then take a piece of standard cello-tape, fold it into a loop (so there's a "sticky side" on both sides), and tape a single memory card to the card *label side up*.
That is your clue that the card is empty & ready to be used.
Repeat this with as many memory cards as you have.
Put them all in the hard-plastic "recipe box" 3x5 card container & close the lid.
Toss it into your camera bag.
When you get to a 'Shoot Location, set the box on the table, flip open the lid, & lay a few (3x5 Cards + Memory Card) on the table.
When you use a card, stick it back on the 3x5 card *label side down* so you know that one's already been used.
When you're done with the Shoot, fill out each card, stick them in the front of the box, & when you get home, deal with them as normal.
Make new blank 3x5 Cards for each of the Memory Cards you've used.
Put the freshly-emptied Memory Card label-side-up on the blank card, & put it back in the box.
Put the box in your camera bag.
Repeat this cycle for each shoot, and you'll always have a list of what's on each Memory Card.
Once you've emptied the Memory Card to your computer for processing, write the photo file names on the associated 3x5 card.
This way you have a perm record of each shoot: When, Where, & What.
Then you can label the top of the 3x5 Card with a general idea of what the shoot was about (ex: "Soccer Game", "Vanessa on the Beach", etc), & use the 3x5 Cards as a literal "Card Catalog".
Organize them by similar topics (sports, people, etc), & then you should be able to easily find the names of the photos associated with that topic.
Finding the photo files themselves is variable as to how/where you store them, but the 3x5 Card "Catalog" will be a complete record of what you've taken.
My father did this for nearly twenty years.
Shoot a roll of film, put the film in its canister, tape the canister to a 3x5 card with the Date/Time/Notes bits, & grab a new roll from the next card.
Get home, process the film in the dark room, & then save the physical photos behind the matching 3x5 card.
Put a new box of (canisters + 3x5 cards) in his camera bag, & never worry about remembering where or what any particular roll of film was about.
He kept the notes as he took the shots, and now nearly thirty years later, the family doesn't wonder who is in any particular shot.
We can flip through the photo album, read the 3x5 card before each group of pictures, and know *exactly* where each picture was taken, when, & of whom.
Now that you do the storage digitally, you can have an even larger collection of photos at your disposal.
Which means a LOT more 3x5 Cards, but the principle still holds.
You'll have kept a record.
Your family will thank you.
=)
Because you've earned +10 Insightful / Informative / Enlightening ...
My local area used to have two main newspapers, but then one got absorbed by the other, & we've had utter crap ever since.
Less news, more ads, less content, more crap.
I've come to rely on online news sources (AP, Reuters, etc) over print media for the simple fact that, by the time it IS in print, it's been online for upwards of a day, sometimes as much as a MONTH beforehand.
I'm not sure what keeps the newspapers in business given the only thing they have to offer over their online counter-parts is the added "value" of having to dig the paper out of the bushes, off the roof, or wring it out from the puddle the moron threw it into.
If I want a clean, professional, properly assembled (meaning *I* don't have to put it in its proper order) paper, I have to buy it from a vending machine.
The one I've paid to have delivered ends up arriving mangled (either by where it's landed, because of the rubber band used to hold it together, or both), wet (because they rarely use a plastic bag to cover them anymore), & unassembled.
Couple that with the fact that it's all old news I could (& have) read about online a day or two before, there's increasingly less reason to subscribe to it at all.
Which is why they keep giving it to me at half price when they call to ask me to renew & I tell them it's not worth the full price.
"It's old news regurgitated from online sources, stuffed full of ads like a Thanksgiving Turkey, & delivered in a completely unprofessional manner.
I'm not paying $30 a month for the 'convenience' of delivery when it's only two blocks to the nearest store that sells them, costs less per paper, & I end up getting a professionally prepared product.
You might want to think about that when it comes to renewing the delivery idiot's contract, because he's losing you a customer."
That's when they offer it at half price, promise to "reprimand" the delivery agent (they never do), & the cycle continues.
I think, next time it comes up, I'll cancel all-together.
There really is NO reason to get the thing anymore given the (lack of) quality & (un)professional delivery.
I'm already paying for internet where I can get my news for free.
The newspaper is worthless at that point.
My grandmother lives JUST outside the city limits (on the other side of the "little stone bridge" past Noyo) and not only can she NOT get city water/sewage, but her phone service is spotty at best (non-existent if the weather's crappy).
There's very little cell signal coverage, she's not close enough to ANY form of DSLAM to qualify for DSL, and with all the trees (that she can't cut down due to county regs) she can't get satellite service of ANY kind.
You'd think that, in this day & age, in a location less than a mile outside the city limits, a person could rely on proper water/sewage/phone service, but not in Fort Bragg.
Granted, Gram doesn't mind her WebTV via dial-up connection, because ALL she ever does is email, but even SHE complains that AT&T "sucks rancid bilge water" as far as service is concerned.
Because the phone company(ies) have been telling her "it's not economically viable to extend service into your area at this time" since the early 1950's.
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I just got finished installing Ubuntu 8.10 to a customer's laptop (Dell Latitude D600) today. .ISO image of the drive, then put it back in his system.
Took the HD out, slipped it into an external case, plugged it into my laptop (Compaq), made a dd
Popped in the Ubuntu dvd, & told him to hit the power switch.
"If you feel you need any help, I'll be sitting right here."
The ONLY question he had was about the partition manager, and that was "If we've already backed up all my stuff, then I can just let it have the whole drive, right?"
After that, he was able to answer all the questions himself, & effectively set up his own system withOUT my help.
Once it had ejected the DVD & rebooted to the HD, he spent a few moments looking at his desktop.
Without asking, he clicked "Applications", browsed what had already been installed, noticed the "Add/Remove Programs" option, & was browsing the Synaptic repositories shortly there-after.
He figured out that clicking the little box beside the program's name meant "I'd like this", and "Apply" meant, well, to do what he'd asked.
The system grabbed the files he'd checked, and finished without a hitch.
He sat there looking at me funny & asked "Doesn't it need to, like, reboot, or something?"
"Nope. You can close out that screen, and your program will be listed in the appropriate section of the Application menu."
He closes Synaptic, checks the App menu, and is suitably impressed that, sure-enough, his programs are right there.
[Him] "Wait a minute... Don't I have to PAY for those?"
[Me] Nope, they're free. Unless you take them from the "Non Free" sections, which are clearly marked and require you to activate them before you can use them, you don't HAVE to pay for any of it. If you WANT to give them money in thanks, and it's highly recommended you do, there are usually links to the program author's website in the Help section of the program's menu bar.
[Him] What kinds of things are in the 'Non Free' sections?
[Me] Let's authorize them & I'll show you. Mostly it's things like the Adobe Flash & PDF programs, & the bits needed to play DVD's, but it's rare that a Linux program REQUIRES you to pay for it first. It's nice to give them a few bucks, though, because these are normal people, writing programs as a hobby, that people like us find useful. Like that tax software? Enjoy that game? Think that paint program is the bee's knees? Then send the Author a letter & a cheque thanking them for their efforts. You'll probably get a letter back thanking YOU for helping keep them going doing what they love.
[Him] So, what about Office docs? Can I do them?
I showed him OOo, imported a MS Doc off a USB key (my resume), & double-clicked it in the file manager.
It opened in OOo, scanned it for spelling errors, & then gave him a cursor.
He sat there smiling & said "That's good enough for me."
He found Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin all on his own, and the only questions he had were how to import his email & bookmarks from his old system.
Since I had copied them to my USB key, it was a snap to move them back to the HD & show him the Import functions.
His HP PSC1315 (Printer/Scanner/Copier) worked out of the box.
Totem downloaded the needed codecs & then played the DVD he'd popped in.
And except for the video "maxing out" at 1024x768 (which he was fine with, but I would've fixed had it been my system) on the generic drivers, his system was ready-to-go without me having to DO much of anything.
Yes I realize many people have issues with hardware on the multitude of systems out there, but if it installs properly (which is a problem with ANY operating system), Linux not only CAN outshine Windows on the same hardware, it makes Windows look like a diseased pile of feces compared to a 100 carat diamond.
Oh, and the customer?
He turns 87 tomorrow & is a self described "computer idjit".
So if an "idjit" can install Ubuntu,
(Grumbling) Damned monkeys...
=)P
You should have flushed that joke before it ever saw the light of...
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot...
NOTHING ever sees the light of DAY around here.
=)P
The model from Dell you mention is a Discontinued Product that sold 2+ years ago.
HP can't find any reference to MXM in their inventory & insist I meant MMX...
Alienware (now Dell) has one, but it's $2,300 for an "Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz 4MB Cache".
That's the same speed as my current notebook, & I was looking for an upgrade.
(Shrugs, smiles)
Oh well, it was a nice thought.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
(Gives Kudo's and a cookie.)