I had the idea for black boxes in cars about 11 years ago. I made a prototype that had hooks to the light switches, gearbox, steering wheel, accelerator, etc, and a joystick that had a weight on top of the handle for measuring G forces. I think I made it in AMOS - some basic package for the Amiga.
I would have tried to push it through, but what does an 18 year old know about how to get ideas off the ground.
My idea was that emergency vehicles would have it fitted, as well as hire cars (who doesn't cane a hire car when they borrow it). The hire companies then could charge you for every mile that you went at 7000 rpm, or for excessive tyre wear due to people throwing their cars round corners. Also, insurance companies could offer discounts to people that have them fitted, as it would make working out what happened after an accident simple - just unplug the removable hard drive, and play it back at the insurance office.
Although it's not a Postgres issue, I'd like to see better support for it in Webmin. I know phppgadmin exists, but I prefer doing the simple stuff in Webmin, and there are numerous times I've tutted, and clicked, because the Webmin module doesn't let you do it, whereas the MySQL module does.
(Can't think of any right now, but there are things...)
Nobody wants to spend 3 days compiling an operating system just to gain 20% of speed while a 20% faster processor maybe costs just 50 bucks more.
Erm, yes, I do. It's well worth it, when those OSes stay installed for 1, 2, 3+years. Also, don't forget devices that you can't replace the CPU in. Laptops for one. Or hardware that you don't own. Also, a lot of people have more spare time, than spare money, so it's a nice option for them.
Using the deep pockets of a publishing company to abuse the rights of an individual who lacks the wealth to fight off the corporate lawyers is nearly as bad as sexual abuse...
You'd be surprised how easy it is to go to the 'net cafe owner behind the counter and ask politely if you can plug into that wall socket there...
But that involves breaking the cardinal rule of geekdom - i.e. never speak to anyone if at all possible. Gruff barking/grunting should be about the tops for a general social encounter such as that.
Drinking isn't so much fun. Imagine if you took alcohol by smoking it.
Friend A: Here, try some of this. (Passes joint).
Friend B: What is it? What does it do?
Friend A: Well, it's alcohol. A few puffs on this, and you'll be loud and obnoxious, and think you're great. It has a depressant effect, and you'll have a headache in the morning, unless you're sick before you go to bed.
Friend b: Wow, it sounds really great. I'd love to try some.
It's only that we take it by drinking it, in a social situation that it's vaguely OK.
I can't just set up a Fedora system out of box, and check "use encryption"
So, write a few patches, or something. Or use another distro.
on NTFS, it's easy for a user to just say "I want the contents of this directory and below to be encrypted"
Which is silly. Why not just encrypt all partitions that store user data./var/spool,/home, and maybe/tmp ? Or set up gpg and a public key, and install kgpg.
I watched Equilibrium again this weekend. How long until governments want us all like little sheep, not feeling emotions, tracking our every movement, communication, meeting, just going to work, and enjoying the state proscribed and approved entertainment?
Download, I, er mean rent this film and watch it.
Which browsers accept the media type application/xhtml+xml?
Browsers known to us include all Mozilla-based browsers, such as Mozilla, Netscape 5 and higher, Galeon and Firefox, as well as Opera, Amaya, Camino, Chimera, DocZilla, iCab, Safari, and all browsers on mobile phones that accept WAP2. In fact, any modern browser. Most accept XHTML documents as application/xml as well. See the XHTML Media-type test for details.
Does Microsoft Internet Explorer accept the media type application/xhtml+xml?
No. However, there is a trick that allows you to serve XHTML1.0 documents to Internet Explorer as application/xml.
Include at the top of your document the line in bold here:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="copy.xsl"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transition al.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head>
where copy.xsl is a file that contains the following:
It was just yesterday I think, that someone on here was saying that it would take MS, Yahoo, or AOL to start using SPF to drag the rest of the world onto it. I have looked at it, but I haven't started using it. Once a few sites start rejecting me for not using it, I guess I'll have to add the records. There was a wizard somewhere for generating the SPF records you would need for your domain. Time to look it up, I think.
Yeah, I mean, if those processor trends continued, we'd be seeing crazy processing speeds now - 300, 400 Mhz. RAM and hard drives, just wouldn't be able to keep up.
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Eeek! It's some kind of infinite loop - slowly sucking in all around it...
I had the idea for black boxes in cars about 11 years ago. I made a prototype that had hooks to the light switches, gearbox, steering wheel, accelerator, etc, and a joystick that had a weight on top of the handle for measuring G forces. I think I made it in AMOS - some basic package for the Amiga.
I would have tried to push it through, but what does an 18 year old know about how to get ideas off the ground.
My idea was that emergency vehicles would have it fitted, as well as hire cars (who doesn't cane a hire car when they borrow it). The hire companies then could charge you for every mile that you went at 7000 rpm, or for excessive tyre wear due to people throwing their cars round corners. Also, insurance companies could offer discounts to people that have them fitted, as it would make working out what happened after an accident simple - just unplug the removable hard drive, and play it back at the insurance office.
Although it's not a Postgres issue, I'd like to see better support for it in Webmin. I know phppgadmin exists, but I prefer doing the simple stuff in Webmin, and there are numerous times I've tutted, and clicked, because the Webmin module doesn't let you do it, whereas the MySQL module does.
(Can't think of any right now, but there are things...)
Any shells going....? :)
No wife of mine will ever be allowed to run XP in my house. Why yes, I am single, how did you guess?
Only narrowly beating The Whitehouse. :)
I hereby patent a device for taking 1790 from 1836 and ending up with 43.
Yep. It doesn't look good on an LCD laptop screen here.
Erm, yes, I do. It's well worth it, when those OSes stay installed for 1, 2, 3+years. Also, don't forget devices that you can't replace the CPU in. Laptops for one. Or hardware that you don't own. Also, a lot of people have more spare time, than spare money, so it's a nice option for them.
That's a stupid comment. Every OS needs patching as bugs are discovered and fixed.
Doh. Is this what a "troll" is?
I'm sure she'll agree.
Running 2.6.7-gentoo-r10
But that involves breaking the cardinal rule of geekdom - i.e. never speak to anyone if at all possible. Gruff barking/grunting should be about the tops for a general social encounter such as that.
I used to use an old Dell Latitude. With it in console mode, running Kismet, in a rucksack, I could get 4 hours from it easily. :)
Yeah - I know what you mean. Sort of like: Kernel.org ditches 5 years Microsoft IIS platform in favour of Linux/Apache.
This obviously uses: Specialni Russki Teknology, Comrade. (c) CCCP 1985
Hmm - that is pretty cool, but not too useful.. :)
/etc/hosts about 4 miles long.
Unless you have a
Anyone else ever try: # ping goo
and get annoyed when it doesn't work?
Drinking isn't so much fun. Imagine if you took alcohol by smoking it.
Friend A: Here, try some of this. (Passes joint).
Friend B: What is it? What does it do?
Friend A: Well, it's alcohol. A few puffs on this, and you'll be loud and obnoxious, and think you're great. It has a depressant effect, and you'll have a headache in the morning, unless you're sick before you go to bed.
Friend b: Wow, it sounds really great. I'd love to try some.
It's only that we take it by drinking it, in a social situation that it's vaguely OK.
So, write a few patches, or something. Or use another distro.
on NTFS, it's easy for a user to just say "I want the contents of this directory and below to be encrypted"
Which is silly. Why not just encrypt all partitions that store user data. /var/spool, /home, and maybe /tmp ? Or set up gpg and a public key, and install kgpg.
I watched Equilibrium again this weekend. How long until governments want us all like little sheep, not feeling emotions, tracking our every movement, communication, meeting, just going to work, and enjoying the state proscribed and approved entertainment?
Download, I, er mean rent this film and watch it.
It was just yesterday I think, that someone on here was saying that it would take MS, Yahoo, or AOL to start using SPF to drag the rest of the world onto it. I have looked at it, but I haven't started using it. Once a few sites start rejecting me for not using it, I guess I'll have to add the records. There was a wizard somewhere for generating the SPF records you would need for your domain. Time to look it up, I think.
What's wrong with DEVfs? I use it, it works. I don't like the idea of a userspace tool for that.
Yeah, I mean, if those processor trends continued, we'd be seeing crazy processing speeds now - 300, 400 Mhz. RAM and hard drives, just wouldn't be able to keep up.