Yeah my basement has 4 ft wide x 8 ft long x 10 ft high field stone pillars upporting the wooden frame. It was very necessary to get the AP out of the basement.
Yeah when I thought I might want to have access in the yard I considered putting an AP in a window on the 3rd floor with the signal plane at about 45 degrees downward elevation.
Turns out I was too busy going to the pool and drinking scotch this summer to care if I had wi-fi in the yard. Go figure.
My house is old, real old. We have wires running inside old gas light tubes for conduit and lots of knob and tube to mess with signals. The radiators don't seem to be much trouble, unless you're tx/rx ing right in front of one, course they are by the windows so it's never a problem. And yes, we have the old old plaster - very think stuff. Can't even nail in it.
Still I managed to find a central location for my little netgear mr814v2 with a stock antenna to do its thing, after some trying.
My perfect spot was at the VERY top (9ft up from 1st floor level - we have high ceilings) of the basement steps - attached to the ceiling.
From this location it was:
a) in the center of the house (very little signal leakage to outside world)
b) in between the first and second floors
c) hidden away where I could forget it was there and just use it.
My advice is - mount it up a wall in the center of your home. Higher the better. For me... this was enough. I still have dead spots where the oversized central 19th century chimney simply refuses to pass a signal. That just means you have to sit on the OTHER sofa to check your email.
Perhaps you are looking for information about optimum swap file size. The article makes mention of memory. In a normal context a link on the word memory would take you to additional information about the problem in question, but on this site when you click on memory it goes to a cheesy ad. On top of that it makes the text hard to read.
Complete non-sequitor and counter-intuitive. I personally avoid linking to pages with ad-words on them and stop browing on pages that have them. It feels like a trick - and it IS a trick.
Marketing does it again! Opening a new frontier that no-one wants to visit.
News Flash: 100 meter dash ends before 1st Meter
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· Score: 4, Funny
..shotput event canceled due to fears for viewer's safety
The science of using computers with the goal of educating people. The computer side isn't nearly as hard as dealing with the people.
I took the masters program offered by the Bloomsburg University IIT. The program covered the use of modern multimedia tools and techniques (and some light programming) in conjuction with instructional design and task analysis.
There are quite a few other similar programs out there - be mindful that there is a whole track at other colleges focused simply on instructional design - thats not not as technical and tends to focus on academic issues regarding computers in education and CBT.
One of the most interesting things you can with this degree is get an Instructional Technology Specialist certificate. Then you are certified to direct technology operations for an entire school district. Now you're working with people!
I mean the hardware involved isn't specialized to finding changes in the CCD output each frame or outlining the human body.
If thats the case, then why don't I see games with camera input for my PC? I have a camera, have for years. I suspect many PC owners do. Yet no games take advantage of it.
The mental leap made here is to create the software (the game) to use the camera. I'm pretty impressed that this came from Sony. Usually its Nintendo that makes the big usability/accesability advances.
And now, once again I look longingly at the consoles latest fashion item and wonder if the PC platform will catch up.
have you seen their product line lately? Congratualtions to the board on finally figuring out they have lousy execs who were driving the line away from what people wanted.
You can hardly buy a decent set (lego builder sets are the exclusion) that doesn't have half of its pieces as special components, non-lego coloring or exclusive stickering. The result is a bunch of pieces you can only use if you are building a particular set - counter intuitive to the whole lego concept.
The whole Jack Stone thing - the guys are twice the size of the old 'mini-fig' guys. What, is Jack Stone a giant? Are the old mini-figs halflings? Are old my old mini-figs obsolete now? How is jack stone suppoed to drive the car with the tiny steering wheel - from the old set.
Its most irritating because, if you are like me you already have a good sized pile of these and its like Lego moved the ball on you.
It will be sad if they quit mindstorms - hopefully it will be picked up by an educational company on licence. What I really miss is the set that had all the gears and socketed I-beams. That was a great mechanical engineering kit.
This will not destroy Lego - they will endure. As any 5 year old (mine included) what his favorite thing to do at school.
The major industry for Pennsylvania is Education - we literally have dozens of public and private colleges.
Consequent to this, the major item of export for Pennsylvania is knowledge - trained and educated students leave here in droves.
I'm using a p100 with 32MB ram and a 3GB ide as my firewall host.
Works great - compiles fast. Of course it's running OpenBSD which is somewhat less resource intensive than linux.
Runs the NAT/PF - lets me ssh in. Not a problem.
Previous firewall box was a 486/66 with 16mb - pulled off the PS fan and the case fan. Ran with no hardrive, booting from a floppy. Totally silent. Worked great.
Well one can hardly contest his assertion that there would be a whole subgenre of 'eating games'
I'm about to launch my own MMOEG (Massively Multiplayer Online Eating Game) call Diner-Quest.
Don't people even end up 'eating' in the Sim's. Have you ever watched a good player in UT2003 - looks like he's busy 'eating' all those powerups isn't it.
Boy, talking about videogames makes me hungry!
This isn't very useful - except maybe as a backup
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Your essence is trapped within the electrical/chemical field of your brain. Simply compying what a brain knows wouldn't do. You have to copy how it reacts. Even then, your brain's copy may or may not be imbued with its own intentionality.
Metaphysically this is about as practical as putting your soul in a brass pot for storage until you get your new body ready.
Maybe as a backup - then in the case of brain damage, memories could be reinstated.
But for my money - I think I'd prefer to be a brain in a tank mounted on a giant robot.:-)
Seems to me the mirroring is for the "in the desk" applications. Like the teleprompter type thing. You don't look at the screen you see the mirror./shrug maybe thats why its not RRandM.
I'm a high school computer science teacher teaching PASCAL, C++ and Java - using Linux of course. I'd *like* to switch (or at least DEMO) for the kids to see that Unix is now underlying a retail desktop OS. But I've got a room full of Intel PC's.
And every Mac you can buy now comes with Jaguar on it already. So I guess I'm wondering, "Whats the Point, Apple?"
In taking a brief look around for any relevant standards, that was the one key item I found.
So this is all about ALT image tags. Hell, Lynx users have been bitching about that for YEARS.
Seriously though, can you sue over a non-standardized standard? We can all agree on whether or not somone can get a wheelchair up stairs. I suppose now we'll trust ~software compatability~ to be our guide on this issue.
Nail down what a blind reader wants and needs in terms of accessability on a site and its likely not very tough to meet.
Raise your hand if the first thing you did was disable the AC97 trash on your motherboard. This is a sad thing to have to do, disable well intentioned chipsets. Perhaps, in some distant future of the motherboard this will be helpful. Now if I can just figure out how to get UT2003 to run on my machine with a i870 and NO AGP slot (DOH!)
Hey - is that the right usuage of shunned? Just checking.
Changing back the Happy Mac Face...
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I wonder if this is in response to the recent tweaks to change the put back the Smiley Mac at boot?
In reply to your post - I'm a High School Comp Sci teacher - its a great job (except for the classes teaching obnoxious Windows tools). By point my responses are below:
1 - i like that too - the feeling that your main goal is fostering the growth of knowledge - its a nice warm feeling
2 - there is a sense of encouragement from the institution to continue to grow, wherever that takes you
3 - you forgot stability, getting fired from education in hard to do!
also the bad point for working in education, the politics. worse than anything I ever saw in corporate, where at least everyone had a similar motivation - to make a buck. education is filled with legacies, empire builders and stonewallers.
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Turns out I was too busy going to the pool and drinking scotch this summer to care if I had wi-fi in the yard. Go figure.
My house is old, real old. We have wires running inside old gas light tubes for conduit and lots of knob and tube to mess with signals. The radiators don't seem to be much trouble, unless you're tx/rx ing right in front of one, course they are by the windows so it's never a problem. And yes, we have the old old plaster - very think stuff. Can't even nail in it. Still I managed to find a central location for my little netgear mr814v2 with a stock antenna to do its thing, after some trying. My perfect spot was at the VERY top (9ft up from 1st floor level - we have high ceilings) of the basement steps - attached to the ceiling. From this location it was: a) in the center of the house (very little signal leakage to outside world) b) in between the first and second floors c) hidden away where I could forget it was there and just use it. My advice is - mount it up a wall in the center of your home. Higher the better. For me... this was enough. I still have dead spots where the oversized central 19th century chimney simply refuses to pass a signal. That just means you have to sit on the OTHER sofa to check your email.
IF you pull out the floppy and drag in a second battery any of the dell inspiron line can go 6-8 hours.
Does start to get heavy though.
Wait - the false report was about Linksys - NOT about NETGEAR.
SO now the Linksys is ok and the Netgear is not. Someone buy me a program so I can tell the players apart.
Perhaps you are looking for information about optimum swap file size. The article makes mention of memory. In a normal context a link on the word memory would take you to additional information about the problem in question, but on this site when you click on memory it goes to a cheesy ad. On top of that it makes the text hard to read.
Complete non-sequitor and counter-intuitive. I personally avoid linking to pages with ad-words on them and stop browing on pages that have them. It feels like a trick - and it IS a trick.
Marketing does it again! Opening a new frontier that no-one wants to visit.
..shotput event canceled due to fears for viewer's safety
A lot of toys, big comfy sofas, and audio gear.
It looks like a great nightclub - when does it open?
I took the masters program offered by the Bloomsburg University IIT. The program covered the use of modern multimedia tools and techniques (and some light programming) in conjuction with instructional design and task analysis.
There are quite a few other similar programs out there - be mindful that there is a whole track at other colleges focused simply on instructional design - thats not not as technical and tends to focus on academic issues regarding computers in education and CBT.
One of the most interesting things you can with this degree is get an Instructional Technology Specialist certificate. Then you are certified to direct technology operations for an entire school district. Now you're working with people!
I mean the hardware involved isn't specialized to finding changes in the CCD output each frame or outlining the human body. If thats the case, then why don't I see games with camera input for my PC? I have a camera, have for years. I suspect many PC owners do. Yet no games take advantage of it. The mental leap made here is to create the software (the game) to use the camera. I'm pretty impressed that this came from Sony. Usually its Nintendo that makes the big usability/accesability advances. And now, once again I look longingly at the consoles latest fashion item and wonder if the PC platform will catch up.
have you seen their product line lately? Congratualtions to the board on finally figuring out they have lousy execs who were driving the line away from what people wanted. You can hardly buy a decent set (lego builder sets are the exclusion) that doesn't have half of its pieces as special components, non-lego coloring or exclusive stickering. The result is a bunch of pieces you can only use if you are building a particular set - counter intuitive to the whole lego concept. The whole Jack Stone thing - the guys are twice the size of the old 'mini-fig' guys. What, is Jack Stone a giant? Are the old mini-figs halflings? Are old my old mini-figs obsolete now? How is jack stone suppoed to drive the car with the tiny steering wheel - from the old set. Its most irritating because, if you are like me you already have a good sized pile of these and its like Lego moved the ball on you. It will be sad if they quit mindstorms - hopefully it will be picked up by an educational company on licence. What I really miss is the set that had all the gears and socketed I-beams. That was a great mechanical engineering kit. This will not destroy Lego - they will endure. As any 5 year old (mine included) what his favorite thing to do at school.
Well -you could use the Mp3's from the Negativeland site. I'm sure they'd LOVE this kind of re-exposure.
Dude, you need to get out of the car and stop driving so much.
Some 80% of driving can be done with subconscious effort. If you must drive, at least try to think less while you are doing it.
The major industry for Pennsylvania is Education - we literally have dozens of public and private colleges. Consequent to this, the major item of export for Pennsylvania is knowledge - trained and educated students leave here in droves.
I'm using a p100 with 32MB ram and a 3GB ide as my firewall host. Works great - compiles fast. Of course it's running OpenBSD which is somewhat less resource intensive than linux. Runs the NAT/PF - lets me ssh in. Not a problem. Previous firewall box was a 486/66 with 16mb - pulled off the PS fan and the case fan. Ran with no hardrive, booting from a floppy. Totally silent. Worked great.
Well one can hardly contest his assertion that there would be a whole subgenre of 'eating games'
I'm about to launch my own MMOEG (Massively Multiplayer Online Eating Game) call Diner-Quest.
Don't people even end up 'eating' in the Sim's. Have you ever watched a good player in UT2003 - looks like he's busy 'eating' all those powerups isn't it.
Boy, talking about videogames makes me hungry!
Your essence is trapped within the electrical/chemical field of your brain. Simply compying what a brain knows wouldn't do. You have to copy how it reacts. Even then, your brain's copy may or may not be imbued with its own intentionality.
:-)
Metaphysically this is about as practical as putting your soul in a brass pot for storage until you get your new body ready.
Maybe as a backup - then in the case of brain damage, memories could be reinstated.
But for my money - I think I'd prefer to be a brain in a tank mounted on a giant robot.
Seems to me the mirroring is for the "in the desk" applications. Like the teleprompter type thing. You don't look at the screen you see the mirror. /shrug maybe thats why its not RRandM.
I'm a high school computer science teacher teaching PASCAL, C++ and Java - using Linux of course. I'd *like* to switch (or at least DEMO) for the kids to see that Unix is now underlying a retail desktop OS. But I've got a room full of Intel PC's. And every Mac you can buy now comes with Jaguar on it already. So I guess I'm wondering, "Whats the Point, Apple?"
In taking a brief look around for any relevant standards, that was the one key item I found.
So this is all about ALT image tags. Hell, Lynx users have been bitching about that for YEARS.
Seriously though, can you sue over a non-standardized standard? We can all agree on whether or not somone can get a wheelchair up stairs. I suppose now we'll trust ~software compatability~ to be our guide on this issue.
Nail down what a blind reader wants and needs in terms of accessability on a site and its likely not very tough to meet.
Raise your hand if the first thing you did was disable the AC97 trash on your motherboard. This is a sad thing to have to do, disable well intentioned chipsets. Perhaps, in some distant future of the motherboard this will be helpful. Now if I can just figure out how to get UT2003 to run on my machine with a i870 and NO AGP slot (DOH!)
Hey - is that the right usuage of shunned? Just checking.
I wonder if this is in response to the recent tweaks to change the put back the Smiley Mac at boot?
In reply to your post - I'm a High School Comp Sci teacher - its a great job (except for the classes teaching obnoxious Windows tools). By point my responses are below: 1 - i like that too - the feeling that your main goal is fostering the growth of knowledge - its a nice warm feeling 2 - there is a sense of encouragement from the institution to continue to grow, wherever that takes you 3 - you forgot stability, getting fired from education in hard to do! also the bad point for working in education, the politics. worse than anything I ever saw in corporate, where at least everyone had a similar motivation - to make a buck. education is filled with legacies, empire builders and stonewallers.
Heck yes I like my job.