I wish they'd use that at both ends and provide some way to lock it in. The USB cable from my laptop is the only one that tends to fall out when I pull it off the nightstand.
Of course if it locked, I'd just drag the hub off too:(
(Oh FYI those tiny $10 usb hubs from walmart do work well, amazingly enough, although their max cable length seems to be about 9 feet for high speed data transfer)
I found a solution for that (works for my three cats at least). Get some exanded metal mesh from your local lumberyard - the same stuff often used as plaster backing and under floor tile. It's like a sheet of sharp edges.
Some window screen underneath it helps with the cat hair (the only constant in a household full of cats:-) I must have more window screen around and inside my computers than I do on the windows!
I cut some pieces big enough to fit on the back of the monitors, and the cats won't sleep up there (they refuse to walk on it either).
To me, risking one's life for a goal that can benefit others makes one a hero.
The sad thing to me is we have many more soldier heros we have than explorer/adventurer heros. It's a helluva comment on ourselves as human beings. But such is the way things are. Changing, but still the way things are.
Sacrificing your life in war is honorable and deserves recognition because of your service to your country; Sacrificing your life in space because of some stupid engineering/manufacturing mistake is a waste.
So if a soldier sacrifices himself in a war zone to save his buddies from a situation caused by a "stupid engineering/manufacturing mistake" - and it happens somewhat often - what do you consider that?
Do you not consider training for decades and risking your life to further our national goals in space "service to your country"? I'm afraid I can't see your point.
SB (no disrespect to soldiers of any stripe meant)
Public perception is a funny thing... now if we routinely sent thousands or tens of thousands of people to space, the media hype over accidents would subside considerably (on a national level anyway).
A good example there might be the airline industry?
I tried XP64 (the 1280 build) and the system was horribly unstable. Video artifacts and lockups, sound lockups... ran thru the usual troubleshooting procedures, different drivers, lots of internet fixes - nothing worked. The way the system behaved reminded me of some of the Sis boards and win98 back when. Mobo is a Epox 8kda series, crucial ram and good components.
To be fair I had some major problems with Gentoo, also - that seem to arise from conflicts between the newest xorg and nvidia's drivers. I eventually solved that one, but not after a lot of head-banging.
Installed Fedora Core 3, made a few minor fixes, and have a very stable, very fast system. I've had a few kernel lockups, but some tweaking seems to have solved that (the only real problem I have right now is that Xorg loses mouse/keyboard at times, but that's easily dealt with)
I wish I had more time to fiddle with the others, but I need this system up and stable, and FC3 worked and worked well.
April Fools is supposed to be funny. This deluge is like the random output of a crack addict.
Come on, previous April Fools at least had some *subtle* joke/stories rather than this random output of poorly written blurbs gleaned from google news.
Me: So, what it'd say on the screen after it went all blue?
C: Something about a dee-el-el. Do I have a dee-el-el in my computer?
Me: Yes, you do, and we're going to have to remove it. Think of it as surgery, we biopsied the cancer, and now we're going to remove it.
C: *doubtful look* Ok. So my norton won't report any more trojans, then, right? I really have a lot of email to read.
Me: *Sighs, grabs coffee.* Well you see....
---
Heh. Two or three times a week I have to explain to someone at work that the popups on the winXP machines there is not serious, it's just a junk ad. (those bastards are getting really clever in their wording, aren't they?:) We've managed to keep them off the actual register terminals, but the lounge computer (gateway) is a running battle, probably because it gets a lot of net use.
I still haven't figured out how to teach them how to tell the difference between an advertising popup and a system popup. Oddly enough, it's the younger ones that learn the quickest;-)
Agreed. I've done a lot of in-home tutoring the last few years and the most difficult and most challenging part of it is some way to put across the basics in terms they are familiar with - one has to get to know them, a little. Without some basics, like your example with files, they will always be hopelessly lost.
But one still can't just expect them to understand the deeper concepts automatically - it's kind of like expecting them to pass a couple college level physics classes and be able to discourse knowledgably about quantum physics. YPMV, of course:)
I find that it's getting harder to avoid talking over people's heads, especially regarding the internet. fixing hardware hasn't changed too much, it's like taking a car to the garage, you can show them the part, and say "this is broken". At least with bad drivers or bad installs you can just fix it. But Internet problems? Here we go...
Trying to explain to them how to protect themselves against the huge proliferation of exploits of one sort or another is getting to be lecture rather than just quick pointers;-)
(there are very few fields that don't suffer from this sort of problem to one extent or another, but computer technology is undoubtedly one of the worst, especially in the last couple years)
Disclaimer: A virus has invaded my head, so I may or may not be rambling;-D
I'm nearly forty and it's one of the (very VERY few) tv shows I watch.
Why?
Not so much because of what he teaches, nearly all of which I know already - but because the man is an artist, and simply watching him teach is an education in itself.
The PA and the radio run over the same wires, and indeed thru the same switch/mixer. (which is ancient:)
I'm playing with different filters at the head end right now. Problem is I only had a few parts that were useful left in my parts bin:-( and nothing seems to work.
I've only tracked about half of the speaker wire runs right now; but at this point I don't think it's practical to tackle thru rewiring. It's a mess above that ceiling...
There are five seperate amp systems that can cut in on this circuit, including our stone age telephone system PA, and the wiring is a disaster, and wiring a new system in right now is out of the question (we're entering our spring cycle and there's simply no time to be pulling ceiling panels )
I basically need something I can install on the speaker wires just downstream of the amps - because I know where they are. To be honest, I have no experience with flourescent ballast interference and don't reall y know where to start *embarassment*
and on that note I have to crash, I have another long day tomorrow and prolly no time to think about this:-(
We have a radioshack here, but it's very understocked and the employees aren't all that well versed in much other than their main sell points.
I grew up in the Midwest, so I'm fairly used to the lack of good (non-metro) electronics parts stores. It's been one of my sore points for more than two decades now.
Mail order is fine, but if I need a particular ferrite core* I don't happen to have, and I want to finish this tonite, I'm kinda screwed:-( (which was essentially my experience at RS today)
Lowe's "electronics" section is a joke. Sorry.
Sigh.
SB * I'm trying to solve interference problems at work - all our old flourescent lights are playing merry hell with the speaker systems. We have a lot of 15-20yo magnetic ballasts still running...sorta...and it's just too damned expensive to replace all the noisy ones at once. Meanwhile the ~100 - 120hz hum anytime there's a live amp on the store speaker lines is making all us nuts.:) The main problem seems to be the number of places where the suspended ceiling T's and speaker lines were zip-tied together parallel-like:)
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I wish they'd use that at both ends and provide some way to lock it in. The USB cable from my laptop is the only one that tends to fall out when I pull it off the nightstand.
:(
Of course if it locked, I'd just drag the hub off too
(Oh FYI those tiny $10 usb hubs from walmart do work well, amazingly enough, although their max cable length seems to be about 9 feet for high speed data transfer)
SB
I found a solution for that (works for my three cats at least). Get some exanded metal mesh from your local lumberyard - the same stuff often used as plaster backing and under floor tile. It's like a sheet of sharp edges.
:-) I must have more window screen around and inside my computers than I do on the windows!
:-D
Some window screen underneath it helps with the cat hair (the only constant in a household full of cats
I cut some pieces big enough to fit on the back of the monitors, and the cats won't sleep up there (they refuse to walk on it either).
YMMV of course
SB
Don't worry, that comes with time ;-)
SB
Not quite right, many soldiers serve humanity. It's all too often their political masters don't :-(
SB
To me, risking one's life for a goal that can benefit others makes one a hero.
The sad thing to me is we have many more soldier heros we have than explorer/adventurer heros. It's a helluva comment on ourselves as human beings. But such is the way things are. Changing, but still the way things are.
SB
Drinking in young people's bars can be quite a bit of fun, eh? ;-)
;)
SB (every web-enabled cellphone should have snopes.com as it's homepage, heh
Sacrificing your life in war is honorable and deserves recognition because of your service to your country; Sacrificing your life in space because of some stupid engineering/manufacturing mistake is a waste.
So if a soldier sacrifices himself in a war zone to save his buddies from a situation caused by a "stupid engineering/manufacturing mistake" - and it happens somewhat often - what do you consider that?
Do you not consider training for decades and risking your life to further our national goals in space "service to your country"? I'm afraid I can't see your point.
SB (no disrespect to soldiers of any stripe meant)
Look at it this way - you are flying in designs that have a LOT more testing, redesign and rebuild on them then new, more untested designs have :)
;-D
Cheers
SB
Soldiers are many, but Astronauts are few.
Public perception is a funny thing... now if we routinely sent thousands or tens of thousands of people to space, the media hype over accidents would subside considerably (on a national level anyway).
A good example there might be the airline industry?
SB
I tried XP64 (the 1280 build) and the system was horribly unstable. Video artifacts and lockups, sound lockups... ran thru the usual troubleshooting procedures, different drivers, lots of internet fixes - nothing worked. The way the system behaved reminded me of some of the Sis boards and win98 back when. Mobo is a Epox 8kda series, crucial ram and good components.
To be fair I had some major problems with Gentoo, also - that seem to arise from conflicts between the newest xorg and nvidia's drivers. I eventually solved that one, but not after a lot of head-banging.
Installed Fedora Core 3, made a few minor fixes, and have a very stable, very fast system. I've had a few kernel lockups, but some tweaking seems to have solved that (the only real problem I have right now is that Xorg loses mouse/keyboard at times, but that's easily dealt with)
I wish I had more time to fiddle with the others, but I need this system up and stable, and FC3 worked and worked well.
Just my 0.02
SB
April Fools is supposed to be funny. This deluge is like the random output of a crack addict.
Come on, previous April Fools at least had some *subtle* joke/stories rather than this random output of poorly written blurbs gleaned from google news.
Lay off the coffee already Taco...
SB
Or writing them yourself.
not that anyone is likely to notice these posts tomorrow
SB
Any professional who isn't still an amateur at heart has stopped learning.
- Unknown, from my random sig files
SB
Me: So, what it'd say on the screen after it went all blue?
:) We've managed to keep them off the actual register terminals, but the lounge computer (gateway) is a running battle, probably because it gets a lot of net use.
;-)
C: Something about a dee-el-el. Do I have a dee-el-el in my computer?
Me: Yes, you do, and we're going to have to remove it. Think of it as surgery, we biopsied the cancer, and now we're going to remove it.
C: *doubtful look* Ok. So my norton won't report any more trojans, then, right? I really have a lot of email to read.
Me: *Sighs, grabs coffee.* Well you see....
---
Heh. Two or three times a week I have to explain to someone at work that the popups on the winXP machines there is not serious, it's just a junk ad. (those bastards are getting really clever in their wording, aren't they?
I still haven't figured out how to teach them how to tell the difference between an advertising popup and a system popup. Oddly enough, it's the younger ones that learn the quickest
SB
Agreed. I've done a lot of in-home tutoring the last few years and the most difficult and most challenging part of it is some way to put across the basics in terms they are familiar with - one has to get to know them, a little. Without some basics, like your example with files, they will always be hopelessly lost.
:)
;-)
;-D
But one still can't just expect them to understand the deeper concepts automatically - it's kind of like expecting them to pass a couple college level physics classes and be able to discourse knowledgably about quantum physics. YPMV, of course
I find that it's getting harder to avoid talking over people's heads, especially regarding the internet. fixing hardware hasn't changed too much, it's like taking a car to the garage, you can show them the part, and say "this is broken". At least with bad drivers or bad installs you can just fix it. But Internet problems? Here we go...
Trying to explain to them how to protect themselves against the huge proliferation of exploits of one sort or another is getting to be lecture rather than just quick pointers
(there are very few fields that don't suffer from this sort of problem to one extent or another, but computer technology is undoubtedly one of the worst, especially in the last couple years)
Disclaimer: A virus has invaded my head, so I may or may not be rambling
*Achooo!!*
SB
but you will see the full effects of our plan, of course, as time goes on.
Obviously improving humanity's condition, and disarming them, is a prelude to assimilation.
You must be lonely, so far from the collective. I think we'll call you Hugh...
SB
Why doesn't slashdot have a +1:'Perfectly Aimed Sarcasm' moderation? ;-)
SB
I wish I had mod points left.
^
SB
It would sure explain this timeline if instead of disappearing, the universe merely got warped, wrenched, and wefted a bit :)
I didn't do it! (Ok, I wasn't the first one!)
SB
I'm nearly forty and it's one of the (very VERY few) tv shows I watch.
Why?
Not so much because of what he teaches, nearly all of which I know already - but because the man is an artist, and simply watching him teach is an education in itself.
Cheers!
SB
Nope, we have an asbestos-free building
Not that shoving around two feet of fiberglass is all that fun either!
SB
The PA and the radio run over the same wires, and indeed thru the same switch/mixer. (which is ancient :)
:-( and nothing seems to work.
:-(
I'm playing with different filters at the head end right now. Problem is I only had a few parts that were useful left in my parts bin
I've only tracked about half of the speaker wire runs right now; but at this point I don't think it's practical to tackle thru rewiring. It's a mess above that ceiling...
There are five seperate amp systems that can cut in on this circuit, including our stone age telephone system PA, and the wiring is a disaster, and wiring a new system in right now is out of the question (we're entering our spring cycle and there's simply no time to be pulling ceiling panels )
I basically need something I can install on the speaker wires just downstream of the amps - because I know where they are. To be honest, I have no experience with flourescent ballast interference and don't reall y know where to start *embarassment*
and on that note I have to crash, I have another long day tomorrow and prolly no time to think about this
Cheers
That was exactly my point, thank you.
:-(
:) The main problem seems to be the number of places where the suspended ceiling T's and speaker lines were zip-tied together parallel-like :)
We have a radioshack here, but it's very understocked and the employees aren't all that well versed in much other than their main sell points.
I grew up in the Midwest, so I'm fairly used to the lack of good (non-metro) electronics parts stores. It's been one of my sore points for more than two decades now.
Mail order is fine, but if I need a particular ferrite core* I don't happen to have, and I want to finish this tonite, I'm kinda screwed
(which was essentially my experience at RS today)
Lowe's "electronics" section is a joke. Sorry.
Sigh.
SB
* I'm trying to solve interference problems at work - all our old flourescent lights are playing merry hell with the speaker systems. We have a lot of 15-20yo magnetic ballasts still running...sorta...and it's just too damned expensive to replace all the noisy ones at once. Meanwhile the ~100 - 120hz hum anytime there's a live amp on the store speaker lines is making all us nuts.
Any suggestions would be MOST welcome!
What saddens me isn't radio shack's lack of quality, it's that nobody has sprung up to replace them :-(
SB
Duh.
;~0
Obviously anarchy is the most powerful medium for innovation
SB