Actually, last weekend I put a computer in my kitchen that is just a Neoware thin client I bought used from a nearby University for $20. The unit is actually between two studs in the wall, below the monitor. The monitor is set into the wall, such that it is flush with the drywall. And since it's just RDP'ed into my main desktop (using that old hack to allow multiple concurrent sessions), I have all my programs, and more importantly, my settings and data, so it's much more useful for me and my wife than having a second whole computer.
C:\Documents and Settings\Adam>cat/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
No one's saying that there aren't ANY women into Linux
Actually, that's exactly what the gp is saying.
Is there a reason you don't want to use gmail?
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Besides buying a domain and using Google Apps on it...
Besides using the cheapest ($0), quickest (a few minutes), most reliable (uptime for Google, anyone?), easiest way to do this, what is the cheapest, quickest, most reliable, easiest way to do this?
Spray-paint it gold, mount it on a small post, and then throw a LAN party with the Big Cup as the award for whoever gets the most frags in your game of choice.
Of course, you won't want to TELL anybody about the award beforehand, lest they cheat by killing themselves.
Alternately, go ahead and tell them. Then really it'll be a contest to see how LOW anybody's score could get.
Trying to fire somebody frequently consists of a supervisor or other managerial-type person does not actually have the authority to fire them, but starts the ball rolling (however that happens.) Then, the actual decision-maker does not allow the firing to take place. Voila -- the boss tried to fire the employee.
Yes, of course damaged textbooks need to be replaced. But I'd guess that, if you were to examine the discarded textbooks from most any public school, you would find that the vast majority of them are still serviceable. So why not just replace the damaged ones with a new copy of the same textbook? Because they're now publishing the "23rd Edition" which has had four paragraphs added since the 22nd edition, and has been completely repaginated so it doesn't quite match up with the 22nd edition.
Schools are a large enough consumer of books (enormous amounts of resources are spent by the publishers to make sure they meet schools' demands) that they could easily pressure their publishers to supply copies of their already-being-used edition, if they were so inclined.
"...Textbooks are often obsolete before they are even printed." But that's not true: fundamental fields change slowly...
The problem is that your response displays reason, which has little place in the bureaucracy and money sink that is the modern public school system. After all, why use a crummy old textbook when you can get a new one for only $35-50 (times the number of kids, times how many books each needs).
I remember reading a truly mind-boggling article about the textbook development and selection process, but I can't find it now. If somebody else knows about this, please post a link.
As to the "bureaucracy and money sink" stuff, I highly recommend that any parent read the free online book: The Underground History of American Education. It gives a very interesting perspective on the whole public school system, and raises some compelling and disturbing issues about it.
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Actually, last weekend I put a computer in my kitchen that is just a Neoware thin client I bought used from a nearby University for $20. The unit is actually between two studs in the wall, below the monitor. The monitor is set into the wall, such that it is flush with the drywall. And since it's just RDP'ed into my main desktop (using that old hack to allow multiple concurrent sessions), I have all my programs, and more importantly, my settings and data, so it's much more useful for me and my wife than having a second whole computer.
Next time I'll use a cheap touch screen instead of a mouse, I think.
Total cost for this one was $200 (most of that was the monitor) plus about 4 hours of tinkering and installing.
And yes, it will soon be running a recipe database.
Because Canada is not in America.
Oh no, me too!!
C:\Documents and Settings\Adam>cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Actually, that's exactly what the gp is saying.
Besides using the cheapest ($0), quickest (a few minutes), most reliable (uptime for Google, anyone?), easiest way to do this, what is the cheapest, quickest, most reliable, easiest way to do this?
Oh, and Webmail is a plus.
Right. Good luck, anony^H^H^H^H^H Ray.
It's okay to show -5000 degrees; they're just not using any scale we use today. Maybe.
They're not managing CODE, they're managing PEOPLE and PROJECTS.
Why don't I have mod points right now? That was funny.
Hahahahahaha, crazy Adam, crazy... parity?
Off topic here, but you're so popular here that I bet you could post a comment just saying "Oh" and you'd get modded +5.
10 in binary is 2 in decimal and is also 2 in hex.
Funny, I didn't realize the ABA utilized slashcode.
you realise all the stuff on there is only made because they rely on honest people buying copies right?
Actually, I would say it would have to be dishonest people buying it, because the honest people would not crack/rip it and post it on the Pirate Bay.
Yeah, I would've called it Troff.
Sorry, can you tell me what a metric buttload is in imperial units? I don't know the conversion ratio.
Spray-paint it gold, mount it on a small post, and then throw a LAN party with the Big Cup as the award for whoever gets the most frags in your game of choice.
Of course, you won't want to TELL anybody about the award beforehand, lest they cheat by killing themselves.
Alternately, go ahead and tell them. Then really it'll be a contest to see how LOW anybody's score could get.
And yes, the fact that I remember the character's name after so many years surprises even myself.
Trying to fire somebody frequently consists of a supervisor or other managerial-type person does not actually have the authority to fire them, but starts the ball rolling (however that happens.) Then, the actual decision-maker does not allow the firing to take place. Voila -- the boss tried to fire the employee.
Word probably autocorrected "million million" to just "million".
five meters on 238 litres of petrol
Where in the world did you come up with that conversion?
40 (rods per hogshead) = 0.843539102 meters per liter
So you could go slightly over 200 meters with 238 liters of gasoline. Sheesh, you were off by a factor of 40!
Ah, I guess you calculated 1 rod per hogshead.
He's one of my favorite authors, and the recently-finished Dragonback series is written for that age group.
Schools are a large enough consumer of books (enormous amounts of resources are spent by the publishers to make sure they meet schools' demands) that they could easily pressure their publishers to supply copies of their already-being-used edition, if they were so inclined.
The problem is that your response displays reason, which has little place in the bureaucracy and money sink that is the modern public school system. After all, why use a crummy old textbook when you can get a new one for only $35-50 (times the number of kids, times how many books each needs).
I remember reading a truly mind-boggling article about the textbook development and selection process, but I can't find it now. If somebody else knows about this, please post a link.
As to the "bureaucracy and money sink" stuff, I highly recommend that any parent read the free online book: The Underground History of American Education. It gives a very interesting perspective on the whole public school system, and raises some compelling and disturbing issues about it.