Agreed. I have MiniMoog Voyager - a modern version of Bob Moog's classic analog synthesizer. When I needed to open it up to perform some maintenance I was blown away by the beauty of the PC boards. Not only is the Voyager a nice instrument, but its construction is a thing of beauty. It's probably not a coincidence that I own 4 Macintoshes.
I agree, it kills the range. I updated this morning and spent 30 minutes cycling through all 11 channel selections trying to regain my signal strength. My connection now vanishes 15 feet away on a number of channels where before it didn't. Not bars, but connection.
I wish I could say I should have read this first, but that was 8 hours ago. If my Airport signal weren't borderline in the first place, I wouldn't have applied the "fix". Live and learn.
I followed the link but it was all dried up. No slideshow. BTW, the only thing nice I ever saw on WPVI.com was Monica Malpas in a short skirt, but that was 10 years ago.
How many of you have been in restaurants and bars where is costs between fifty cents and a dollar to play a song on a jukebox? If everyone who wanted to hear "Freebird" whipped out a crowbar to (w)hack the machine, it would be insane. Parents would stop taking their little kids to Pizza Hut and shopkeepers would become outraged at the lawlessness.
For 99 cents a song, people need to grow up. For the price of a spin of a jukebox you get to take the music with you. What was it my dad used to say, if you want to dance, you have to pay the piper? Damn straight.
A fellow Rhode Island native, Love 22, had his name legally changed a number of decades ago. He has a web site at http://www.love22.com/, although I haven't visited it lately.
Love 22 is a colorful character and challenged the courts numerous times, going back to changing his name from Lawrence Wagner to Love 22 to printing his own series of 22 dollar bills. Put into perspective, he did this in RI during a time of freedom and change. In our hometown there was shopping center, Garden City, that had a large unused parking lot away from any stores. In their infinite wisdom, the city decided it would be a good thing to allow teenagers to congregate there in their cars. Needless to say, it turned into a large open air drug bazaar. Not that I ever went there myself looking for dope (all varieties, from panama red to "thai sticks" to acid to PCP to you name it). And not that I knew half of the people there. Urban legend, folks.
Anyway, Larry changed his name to Love 22 and lived in a red white and blue school bus and dressed like Uncle Sam. He also printed up those 22 dollar bills. Occassionaly the Providence Journal would run an article about how some judge in Maine or a foreign country accepted a 22 dollar bill for a fine. Love 22 also hung out regulary at the quadrangle at URI on Fridays at 12:00 for what was called High Noon. We would all light up in public. I mean everyone else would, urban legend, remember. Again, this was the late 70's at URI and everyone thought dope would become legalized, since we all knew everyone smoked it. How naieve we were.
Eventually Love 22 moved to Key West and became the official greeter. He still prints and sells 22 dollar bills. He doesn't rmeember me, since I was just one of a number of regulars who used to hang with him and get him stoned (u duh, no wonder he doesn't remember me!), but my memories of Love 22 are nothing but full of fondness. I do love him and consider him a old friend.
So yes, you can have any name you want as long as it isn't offensive. And yes, it's been done before - long before. Just like HTML in the 90's being touted in the press as the newest neatest thing until the old school mainframe-weaned folk looked at it and said "Sheit, it ain't new. It's SGML for cripes sake!" Hey, pass that bone this way...
Two weeks ago I made several calls to the automated Sears Appliance Repair system. I was trying desperately to cancel a service call I had requested. The first time I called I wandered through the maze of "Yes" and "Service Repair" and "Cancel" options only to be put on hold for 10 minutes and then be disconnected.
During the second call I lost my cool and started yelling at the damn thing. My wife came in and wondered what the hell I was doing. I was getting madder and madder. "YES!" "YES!" I SAID YES, DAMMIT!" When I finally got to the point of screaming "YES, BITCH!" the freaking thing said something to the effect of "You have selected 'Cancel' - Thank you" and hung up.
On the third call I was hotter than ever, but made sure I didn't call it a bitch.
FED-EX, on the other hand, immediately defaults to a live person on its system if it doesn't understand something. A much more gratifying experience.
I would be curious to know what kind of software, in general, is being developed there? Are the Linux users doing mostly in-house, commercial, hobby, or other development?
If there is a lot of commercial development, in what areas?
The Swedes are not alone, obviously. And this company is pretty cool. When they aren't training astronoauts and pilots, they also help build state of the art amusement park rides!
This is probably teetering off topic, but I am the proud owner of a new PowerBook 15". What's the big deal? Thanks to lots of recent posts on/. regarding the good, the bad, and the ugly, I made the decision to purchase the AppleCare package along with the PowerBook.
I read all about the white spots, the hot cases (obviously not lap cat owners), battteries, etc. But nowhere did I read anyone posting that AppleCare wasn't worth it.
Most of all, it's nice to be a/. reader and a long time Mac owner and no longer see the platform flame wars of old. Thanks for the world-class open forum that is entertaining, informative, and truly valuable.
This is probably totally off topic, but yes, you are right. That's how I've managed to get it to work through 10.2.8. As a matter of fact, right now I am tunnelling from work into a fresh 10.2.8 install.
I have sshd_config set with Port 23, and Apache running mod_proxy. On the client (Windows side) I use putty.exe to use ssh over 23 and then set up port forwarding to Apache. This enables me to do all my "bad" surfing - Slashdot, MacNN, Macintouch - etc., all encrypted and below the radar of our contet-filtering cops.
I've tried everything on Panther, rebooted, disabled the firewall, played with ipfw - all to no avail. So to keep my sanity, I launch 10.2.8 and go to work. And here I am! Panther is good, maybe too good.
Apple does not note, however, that Software Update will attempt to quit Terminal.app when installing the Security Update.
Panther seems stable and very solid, even though it did deep six my ProTools, wouldn't let me use my Geforce4MX card, etc . So I figured I'd give it a shot. Oh yeah, and reading bpbond's post forced me to give it a go.
Much to my surprise, that the security patch didn't require a restart. To the best of my knowledge, this is a first. And, like the new installer, at the end it went through a "disk optimization" stage. I am impressed! Now if Avid could update ProTools, and I can get ssh to listen over port 23 again (my place of employment has telnet open, but nothing else - I need to read slashdot!)...
Simon, I am surprised that your post was modded to Funny. As soon as I saw this topic I thought "Let me look at all the posts and do a Find for 'Verisign'."
If you want SPAM, as far as I am concerned, register a domain with Verisign. When I did a few years ago my spam went from 0 pieces a day to in the neighborhood of 30 a day now. And I am just a nobody. I don't post on newsgroups, or have only done so a few times. But within days of registering my domain the floodgates opened. It wasn't hard to see the correlation.
Maybe things have gotten better (with Network Solutions), but dotster gets my business now.
It looks like the file/System/Library/Colors/System.clr/System.clr contains an archived Dictionary of (NS)Colors. It contains the color values for UI items like controlColor, scrollBarColor, textBackgroundColor, etc.
I am sure there must be some utilities out there to load/change/store the colors contained in this file. If not, a slashdoter who is up to speed on Cocoa should be able to whip something together pretty quickly. Until then, the best place to search for handy utilities of this sort is http://www.versiontracker.com/. Good luck.
If Bob Dole and Bill Gates get their hands on this it'll give a whole new meaning to Pop-up Windows.
"Suffering from erectile dysfunction? Try Pops-Up Penile Exo-skeleton Controller Kit and Erection Rejuvinator. With the Pops-Up Pecker, Grandma won't be calling your member function micro-soft any more, Big Guy!"
Pops-Up Pecker, from Micro-Shaft. Who do you want to do tomorrow?
Jeesh, open up some space and everyone wants to fill it. Why not leave it empty? Isn't anyone curious to know what life would be like with LESS RF waves passing through our bodies?
Give it a rest. As it is, we are being bombarded by cell towers, 802.11a/b/g, etc. Our society is reduced to a pack of sea gulls ala Finding Nemo - "Mine, mine, mine...".
I'm sure we could take care of this using XML (or maybe not - I am ingorant in the area of XML). But if the W3C had included some "weights and measures" tags in the HTML standard then we could leave it up to the browser and/or client OS to apply localization rules and perform the proper conversions.
Just a thought, but does anyone know of this was ever suggested?
Just yesterday a few people suggested on apple.slashdot.org that the next release of OS X, code named 'Panther', may include 64-bit support. Apple may think we're ready.
But do we need it? Will the benefits outweigh the cost. I think Apple's offloading of CPU tasks to the graphics board for Quartz Extreme is an example of just one of the alternatives for speeding up machines. Offload more tasks to other intelligent subsystems.
I am ready, since when the 64-bit machines come out I can pick up a 32-bit on the cheap!
Crimey! My stupid dog loves to eat other people's trash and then poop in the snow.
Are you telling me that now my brandy new TORO snow-and-poop blower is a weapons delivery system? When the winds were gusting Sunday that deadly mix went clear over to Lark Dri...
Damn, someone's banging at the door. I'll be right back...
Sitting inches in front of my Apple's 15" LCD provided what I thought was the best DVD viewing experience. Alone. It's amazing how fast your family runs away after falling off the edge of the chair three or four times.
Since I went and bought an Apex DVD after reading slashdot a few months ago, my entire family can all watch DVDs on our TV in comfort. I have to say that the Apex (3102, I think), although inexpensive, doesn't seem cheap in any way whatsoever. The image quality is fantastic, and what I once attributed to the LCD display is actually the fidelity and dynamic range of the DVD itself. Watching "Toy Story 2" on a Sharp TV and the Apex delivers as vivid a gamut as on the Mac/LCD.
I think it's great there are solutions for OS X, especially for people who like to travel (and have laptops). But for home watching, buy an Apex at Sears, Wal-Mart, wherever. You will baby it and want to buy another just in case..
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Agreed. I have MiniMoog Voyager - a modern version of Bob Moog's classic analog synthesizer. When I needed to open it up to perform some maintenance I was blown away by the beauty of the PC boards. Not only is the Voyager a nice instrument, but its construction is a thing of beauty. It's probably not a coincidence that I own 4 Macintoshes.
I agree, it kills the range. I updated this morning and spent 30 minutes cycling through all 11 channel selections trying to regain my signal strength. My connection now vanishes 15 feet away on a number of channels where before it didn't. Not bars, but connection.
I wish I could say I should have read this first, but that was 8 hours ago. If my Airport signal weren't borderline in the first place, I wouldn't have applied the "fix". Live and learn.
I followed the link but it was all dried up. No slideshow. BTW, the only thing nice I ever saw on WPVI.com was Monica Malpas in a short skirt, but that was 10 years ago.
How many of you have been in restaurants and bars where is costs between fifty cents and a dollar to play a song on a jukebox? If everyone who wanted to hear "Freebird" whipped out a crowbar to (w)hack the machine, it would be insane. Parents would stop taking their little kids to Pizza Hut and shopkeepers would become outraged at the lawlessness.
For 99 cents a song, people need to grow up. For the price of a spin of a jukebox you get to take the music with you. What was it my dad used to say, if you want to dance, you have to pay the piper? Damn straight.
A fellow Rhode Island native, Love 22, had his name legally changed a number of decades ago. He has a web site at http://www.love22.com/, although I haven't visited it lately.
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Love 22 is a colorful character and challenged the courts numerous times, going back to changing his name from Lawrence Wagner to Love 22 to printing his own series of 22 dollar bills. Put into perspective, he did this in RI during a time of freedom and change. In our hometown there was shopping center, Garden City, that had a large unused parking lot away from any stores. In their infinite wisdom, the city decided it would be a good thing to allow teenagers to congregate there in their cars. Needless to say, it turned into a large open air drug bazaar. Not that I ever went there myself looking for dope (all varieties, from panama red to "thai sticks" to acid to PCP to you name it). And not that I knew half of the people there. Urban legend, folks.
Anyway, Larry changed his name to Love 22 and lived in a red white and blue school bus and dressed like Uncle Sam. He also printed up those 22 dollar bills. Occassionaly the Providence Journal would run an article about how some judge in Maine or a foreign country accepted a 22 dollar bill for a fine. Love 22 also hung out regulary at the quadrangle at URI on Fridays at 12:00 for what was called High Noon. We would all light up in public. I mean everyone else would, urban legend, remember. Again, this was the late 70's at URI and everyone thought dope would become legalized, since we all knew everyone smoked it. How naieve we were.
Eventually Love 22 moved to Key West and became the official greeter. He still prints and sells 22 dollar bills. He doesn't rmeember me, since I was just one of a number of regulars who used to hang with him and get him stoned (u duh, no wonder he doesn't remember me!), but my memories of Love 22 are nothing but full of fondness. I do love him and consider him a old friend.
So yes, you can have any name you want as long as it isn't offensive. And yes, it's been done before - long before. Just like HTML in the 90's being touted in the press as the newest neatest thing until the old school mainframe-weaned folk looked at it and said "Sheit, it ain't new. It's SGML for cripes sake!" Hey, pass that bone this way
Ed F
Two weeks ago I made several calls to the automated Sears Appliance Repair system. I was trying desperately to cancel a service call I had requested. The first time I called I wandered through the maze of "Yes" and "Service Repair" and "Cancel" options only to be put on hold for 10 minutes and then be disconnected.
During the second call I lost my cool and started yelling at the damn thing. My wife came in and wondered what the hell I was doing. I was getting madder and madder. "YES!" "YES!" I SAID YES, DAMMIT!" When I finally got to the point of screaming "YES, BITCH!" the freaking thing said something to the effect of "You have selected 'Cancel' - Thank you" and hung up.
On the third call I was hotter than ever, but made sure I didn't call it a bitch.
FED-EX, on the other hand, immediately defaults to a live person on its system if it doesn't understand something. A much more gratifying experience.
I would be curious to know what kind of software, in general, is being developed there? Are the Linux users doing mostly in-house, commercial, hobby, or other development?
If there is a lot of commercial development, in what areas?
A company not too far from my home in Southampton, PA, USA, Environmental Tectonics Corp builds a centrifuge-base flight training system. Here is a link to their press release back in October of last year.
The Swedes are not alone, obviously. And this company is pretty cool. When they aren't training astronoauts and pilots, they also help build state of the art amusement park rides!
This is probably teetering off topic, but I am the proud owner of a new PowerBook 15". What's the big deal? Thanks to lots of recent posts on /. regarding the good, the bad, and the ugly, I made the decision to purchase the AppleCare package along with the PowerBook.
/. reader and a long time Mac owner and no longer see the platform flame wars of old. Thanks for the world-class open forum that is entertaining, informative, and truly valuable.
I read all about the white spots, the hot cases (obviously not lap cat owners), battteries, etc. But nowhere did I read anyone posting that AppleCare wasn't worth it.
Most of all, it's nice to be a
This is probably totally off topic, but yes, you are right. That's how I've managed to get it to work through 10.2.8. As a matter of fact, right now I am tunnelling from work into a fresh 10.2.8 install.
I have sshd_config set with Port 23, and Apache running mod_proxy. On the client (Windows side) I use putty.exe to use ssh over 23 and then set up port forwarding to Apache. This enables me to do all my "bad" surfing - Slashdot, MacNN, Macintouch - etc., all encrypted and below the radar of our contet-filtering cops.
I've tried everything on Panther, rebooted, disabled the firewall, played with ipfw - all to no avail. So to keep my sanity, I launch 10.2.8 and go to work. And here I am! Panther is good, maybe too good.
Much to my surprise, that the security patch didn't require a restart. To the best of my knowledge, this is a first. And, like the new installer, at the end it went through a "disk optimization" stage. I am impressed! Now if Avid could update ProTools, and I can get ssh to listen over port 23 again (my place of employment has telnet open, but nothing else - I need to read slashdot!)
Simon, I am surprised that your post was modded to Funny. As soon as I saw this topic I thought "Let me look at all the posts and do a Find for 'Verisign'."
If you want SPAM, as far as I am concerned, register a domain with Verisign. When I did a few years ago my spam went from 0 pieces a day to in the neighborhood of 30 a day now. And I am just a nobody. I don't post on newsgroups, or have only done so a few times. But within days of registering my domain the floodgates opened. It wasn't hard to see the correlation.
Maybe things have gotten better (with Network Solutions), but dotster gets my business now.
It looks like the file /System/Library/Colors/System.clr/System.clr contains an archived Dictionary of (NS)Colors. It contains the color values for UI items like controlColor, scrollBarColor, textBackgroundColor, etc.
I am sure there must be some utilities out there to load/change/store the colors contained in this file. If not, a slashdoter who is up to speed on Cocoa should be able to whip something together pretty quickly. Until then, the best place to search for handy utilities of this sort is http://www.versiontracker.com/. Good luck.
If Bob Dole and Bill Gates get their hands on this it'll give a whole new meaning to Pop-up Windows.
"Suffering from erectile dysfunction? Try Pops-Up Penile Exo-skeleton Controller Kit and Erection Rejuvinator. With the Pops-Up Pecker, Grandma won't be calling your member function micro-soft any more, Big Guy!"
Pops-Up Pecker, from Micro-Shaft. Who do you want to do tomorrow?
This Is A Test. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
This is a test of the Emergency Double-post Detection System.
In the event of a Real Emergency, you will be directed to link to another site, such as The Mystery of Britney's Breasts or The Mystery of Britney's Breasts. This is only a test.
This Has Been A Test of the Emergency Double-post Detection System.
And to top it off, from Macnn... * Apple and IBM announce 3GHz G5 within next 12 months.
Jeesh, open up some space and everyone wants to fill it. Why not leave it empty? Isn't anyone curious to know what life would be like with LESS RF waves passing through our bodies?
...".
Give it a rest. As it is, we are being bombarded by cell towers, 802.11a/b/g, etc. Our society is reduced to a pack of sea gulls ala Finding Nemo - "Mine, mine, mine
I'm sure we could take care of this using XML (or maybe not - I am ingorant in the area of XML). But if the W3C had included some "weights and measures" tags in the HTML standard then we could leave it up to the browser and/or client OS to apply localization rules and perform the proper conversions.
Just a thought, but does anyone know of this was ever suggested?
But everyone knows April 17th is "Eastern Orthodox April Fools Day."
Just yesterday a few people suggested on apple.slashdot.org that the next release of OS X, code named 'Panther', may include 64-bit support. Apple may think we're ready.
But do we need it? Will the benefits outweigh the cost. I think Apple's offloading of CPU tasks to the graphics board for Quartz Extreme is an example of just one of the alternatives for speeding up machines. Offload more tasks to other intelligent subsystems.
I am ready, since when the 64-bit machines come out I can pick up a 32-bit on the cheap!
Crimey! My stupid dog loves to eat other people's trash and then poop in the snow.
Are you telling me that now my brandy new TORO snow-and-poop blower is a weapons delivery system? When the winds were gusting Sunday that deadly mix went clear over to Lark Dri...
Damn, someone's banging at the door. I'll be right back...
I haven't cracked a 15" PB open, but the reference to UT and a fan makes me think it might be the video card.
I have an older (Sawtooth) G4 that started making noise. When I opened it up I found that it was a fan on the video card's GPU making all the racket.
Either way, a fan is a fan, but it may not be the G4.
amen to that. I'll never forget reading / . around 9 o'clock on september 11th only to find the headline about the WTC attack.
Sitting inches in front of my Apple's 15" LCD provided what I thought was the best DVD viewing experience. Alone. It's amazing how fast your family runs away after falling off the edge of the chair three or four times.
Since I went and bought an Apex DVD after reading slashdot a few months ago, my entire family can all watch DVDs on our TV in comfort. I have to say that the Apex (3102, I think), although inexpensive, doesn't seem cheap in any way whatsoever. The image quality is fantastic, and what I once attributed to the LCD display is actually the fidelity and dynamic range of the DVD itself. Watching "Toy Story 2" on a Sharp TV and the Apex delivers as vivid a gamut as on the Mac/LCD. I think it's great there are solutions for OS X, especially for people who like to travel (and have laptops). But for home watching, buy an Apex at Sears, Wal-Mart, wherever. You will baby it and want to buy another just in case..