First of all this is based on the knowledge I obtained while selling luggage about 7-8 years ago, so as per usual YMMV. Back in those days Brenthaven made the best bags to offer drop protection to your laptop. The owner or president or whatever Harvey Stone would come into our shop and demonstrate by dropping his bag with his laptop in it and then pulling it out and booting it up to show there was no damage. If the cases are too expensive, then check out the laptop sleeves, they have decent 20 dollar jobbys that will really work. I got a hundred dollar http://www.brenthaven.com/catalog-glove.htmllaptop glove for my bro in the army back in 2000 and he still has it. They're made with great materials up in Bellingham Washington and their warranty is phenomenal. They used to be fanatical about customer service, I bet they still are.
Also I have an older Halliburton 5" case and by itself that thing weighs a pretty good amount. If I throw in my latitude c800 with a 15" screen with both batteries and charger it's ridiculously heavy. The Halliburtons look cool but if you have to do any walking further than from your car to the client then forget it. They're damned impressive in interviews, that first impression with that bad boy and you'll be sure they won't forget you.
stevyn makes a great point, since I work in a computer repair shop and make sure that I download it and make it default every time I work on a machine. This way it's counted by spreadfirefox.com, but lately, a co-worker cached it locally. It's probably better this way since we don't stress the servers. The song remains the same, some installs are counted but a lot are not.
Then again, even though it's installed and set as default AND the customer is told this is a good way to avoid coming back for more spyware anti-virus cleanings; who knows if they keep it on their machine. Download metrics are only one angle of the big picture.
I had a dynamic ip on a cable modem but for some reason my freebsd box that firewalled my lan never changed ip's. I was never brave enough to run apache, postfix and bind 9 on it so I let zoneedit do the dns for me. If your ip stays the same over a long period of time, that might be an option for you. Of course your mileage may vary your head my explode or the feds may bust down your door for breaking the acceptable use policy. Then again you probably already breaking the aup by running apache.
Openoffice has had great support for database entry since 1.0, check out the trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 part 1 and part 2. The major problem the writer of that article had was all the dependency problems with the various programs. I set it up on a freebsd server no problem, thank god for the ports system.
I would spend hours perfecting my game of myth: the fallen lords. The demo had me hooked and I bought it on my 17th birthday, it was massively addicting. If you could line up a few dwarves you could end up shooting molotov cocktails across the whole map. I'd have to say the guiltiest pleasure all was trying to beat every level without a casualty. I miss that game.
Email the folks @ umich.edu
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They have a great website that creates dynamically generated pdfs at http://papercdcase.com/
I bet if you donate some cash they might hook you up with some source code.
has great music, i really liked the stuff from i, cactus. That micromusic.net site had no way (not that i could find in 3 seconds) to turn off that annoying music, so I couldn't listen to that. Overall it's fun to listen to what people can do with something considered so woefully antiquated.
You don't gain much by using a dedicated computer, just more complexity and knowledge. While you do get to customize and tweak a computer far more than the little firewall/nat routers you also run the risk of misconfiguring it and making it worse than no firewall at all.
It all boils down to this, what you rather spend more of? Time or money? I use freebsd with natd/ipfw it's great for me, but I did it for the learning experience.
If they did remake it they should make it a little bit harder. Not only was the end easy but most of the game after you get the bomb de-activated is too easy. Shadowrun had the best blend of real time action with turn based leveling. It was also the best rpg , next to secret of mana, on the snes and it's still fun to play now.
Are you a developer? I can't think of a reason why you need to cvsup nightly. Also you can have one machine do the cvsup then export/usr/ports via nfs to the other machines.
I wouldn't edit the/etc/defaults/make.conf, in fact I wouldn't edit anything in the/etc/defaults folder. Copy that file to/etc/make.conf it will override the default without altering it.
I found a small homeless youth advocate non-profit that needed a lot of computer help. Since they were small I spoke directly to the Executive Director and convinced her to let me solicit donations for old computers and fix em up. She even gave me a budget for a new computer when I explained I could use 1 server to power the desktop of all these old computers she had. Now they have 3 computers (soon to be six) running FreeBSD with no licensing costs that she can give access to these homeless kids. I networked up the whole place and setup their dsl and firewalled it with some other old computer. She couldn't be happier, but since I was a volunteer and I couldn't find work I had to move back to California to save money. I can do most administration tasks from here (thank god for ssh) but sometimes the dsl modem gets disconnected and I have to walk a kid there through ifconfig down, ifconfig up routine, bleh.
The great thing about this is now that I'm moving back they can help me find work and an apartment since I'll be a homeless youth, YAY!
OO, or a seperate project also needs a replacement for 'Access'.
There is one it's called mysql, check out the trail of tears article at linuxworld. I find it funny that all his problems are attributable to RedHat's piss-poor package management system (or any Linux distro for that matter). I did it using FreeBSD as the server with no hassles, on a mixed FreeBSD and windows network.
Ok you want multiple streams, a handy web based interface? How about otto? You can use multiple sound cards that connect to the localhost and play via mpg123 or you can stream them to other clients around the house, or they can listen to their own stream.
Usually people dont bother downloading sources of open source software.
99% of FreeBSD users do, it's called the port system all the software that has been ported to it is compiled from source. NetBSD has pkgsrc and OpenBSD has the ports like FreeBSD.
cd/usr/ports/games/freecraft;make install clean
Where'd you think Gentoo got the idea:p
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I met a girl who gave me some ritalin one time at a party for fun, it was great like speed but w/o all the nasty gritty feeling. The next day we had to go to school and popped a couple before class, cleared up my hangover and allowed me to concentrate despite it being a sucky class. I recommend it if you need to pull an all nighter.
You could time shift your NPR fix with streamripper plus an internet connected computer ala Tivo. Then it's a snap to download it to any portable device.
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First of all this is based on the knowledge I obtained while selling luggage about 7-8 years ago, so as per usual YMMV. Back in those days Brenthaven made the best bags to offer drop protection to your laptop. The owner or president or whatever Harvey Stone would come into our shop and demonstrate by dropping his bag with his laptop in it and then pulling it out and booting it up to show there was no damage. If the cases are too expensive, then check out the laptop sleeves, they have decent 20 dollar jobbys that will really work. I got a hundred dollar http://www.brenthaven.com/catalog-glove.htmllaptop glove for my bro in the army back in 2000 and he still has it. They're made with great materials up in Bellingham Washington and their warranty is phenomenal. They used to be fanatical about customer service, I bet they still are.
Also I have an older Halliburton 5" case and by itself that thing weighs a pretty good amount. If I throw in my latitude c800 with a 15" screen with both batteries and charger it's ridiculously heavy. The Halliburtons look cool but if you have to do any walking further than from your car to the client then forget it. They're damned impressive in interviews, that first impression with that bad boy and you'll be sure they won't forget you.
stevyn makes a great point, since I work in a computer repair shop and make sure that I download it and make it default every time I work on a machine. This way it's counted by spreadfirefox.com, but lately, a co-worker cached it locally. It's probably better this way since we don't stress the servers. The song remains the same, some installs are counted but a lot are not. Then again, even though it's installed and set as default AND the customer is told this is a good way to avoid coming back for more spyware anti-virus cleanings; who knows if they keep it on their machine. Download metrics are only one angle of the big picture.
I use it, it rocks
http://zoneedit.com/
I had a dynamic ip on a cable modem but for some reason my freebsd box that firewalled my lan never changed ip's. I was never brave enough to run apache, postfix and bind 9 on it so I let zoneedit do the dns for me. If your ip stays the same over a long period of time, that might be an option for you. Of course your mileage may vary your head my explode or the feds may bust down your door for breaking the acceptable use policy. Then again you probably already breaking the aup by running apache.
Will this work on 5.2.1 release or will I have to wait til 5 stablizes?
Openoffice has had great support for database entry since 1.0, check out the trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 part 1 and part 2. The major problem the writer of that article had was all the dependency problems with the various programs. I set it up on a freebsd server no problem, thank god for the ports system.
I would spend hours perfecting my game of myth: the fallen lords. The demo had me hooked and I bought it on my 17th birthday, it was massively addicting. If you could line up a few dwarves you could end up shooting molotov cocktails across the whole map. I'd have to say the guiltiest pleasure all was trying to beat every level without a casualty. I miss that game.
They have a great website that creates dynamically generated pdfs at http://papercdcase.com/ I bet if you donate some cash they might hook you up with some source code.
has great music, i really liked the stuff from i, cactus. That micromusic.net site had no way (not that i could find in 3 seconds) to turn off that annoying music, so I couldn't listen to that. Overall it's fun to listen to what people can do with something considered so woefully antiquated.
Ok so I'm nitpicky, it's tebibyte not tibibyte.
It all boils down to this, what you rather spend more of? Time or money? I use freebsd with natd/ipfw it's great for me, but I did it for the learning experience.
How about gotmail?
If they did remake it they should make it a little bit harder. Not only was the end easy but most of the game after you get the bomb de-activated is too easy. Shadowrun had the best blend of real time action with turn based leveling. It was also the best rpg , next to secret of mana, on the snes and it's still fun to play now.
Are you a developer? I can't think of a reason why you need to cvsup nightly. Also you can have one machine do the cvsup then export /usr/ports via nfs to the other machines.
I wouldn't edit the /etc/defaults/make.conf, in fact I wouldn't edit anything in the /etc/defaults folder. Copy that file to /etc/make.conf it will override the default without altering it.
I found a small homeless youth advocate non-profit that needed a lot of computer help. Since they were small I spoke directly to the Executive Director and convinced her to let me solicit donations for old computers and fix em up. She even gave me a budget for a new computer when I explained I could use 1 server to power the desktop of all these old computers she had. Now they have 3 computers (soon to be six) running FreeBSD with no licensing costs that she can give access to these homeless kids. I networked up the whole place and setup their dsl and firewalled it with some other old computer. She couldn't be happier, but since I was a volunteer and I couldn't find work I had to move back to California to save money. I can do most administration tasks from here (thank god for ssh) but sometimes the dsl modem gets disconnected and I have to walk a kid there through ifconfig down, ifconfig up routine, bleh.
The great thing about this is now that I'm moving back they can help me find work and an apartment since I'll be a homeless youth, YAY!
I found some great gems in these posts so far, now i'm gonna go and be productive... after i hit refresh 20 times in a row.
OO, or a seperate project also needs a replacement for 'Access'.
There is one it's called mysql, check out the trail of tears article at linuxworld. I find it funny that all his problems are attributable to RedHat's piss-poor package management system (or any Linux distro for that matter). I did it using FreeBSD as the server with no hassles, on a mixed FreeBSD and windows network.
Ok you want multiple streams, a handy web based interface? How about otto?
You can use multiple sound cards that connect to the localhost and play via mpg123 or you can stream them to other clients around the house, or they can listen to their own stream.
That was my first thought, freenet that baby let all those 15 users know how to mod thier x-box.
Usually people dont bother downloading sources of open source software. 99% of FreeBSD users do, it's called the port system all the software that has been ported to it is compiled from source. NetBSD has pkgsrc and OpenBSD has the ports like FreeBSD. cd /usr/ports/games/freecraft;make install clean
Where'd you think Gentoo got the idea :p
I met a girl who gave me some ritalin one time at a party for fun, it was great like speed but w/o all the nasty gritty feeling. The next day we had to go to school and popped a couple before class, cleared up my hangover and allowed me to concentrate despite it being a sucky class. I recommend it if you need to pull an all nighter.
It's called Autozen http://www.linuxlabs.com/software/AutoZen.html
hmmm... right-click save target as in any browser that has that option. Fetch on any Unix,Linux,*BSD type machine should do the trick.
I found this one on slashdot. This is the C programming course from the University of Washington in Seattle, if you poke around you'll find the other online available courses.
Have you even seen the freebsd handbook? That's one of FreeBSD's greatest strengths, its solid documentation.
You could time shift your NPR fix with streamripper plus an internet connected computer ala Tivo. Then it's a snap to download it to any portable device.