i recently started using a dual monitor setup to help me write code at work. it speeds debugging up a LOT, AND it was easy to get started. i just used an old PCI video card and an old monitor that were lying unused in storage. the old equipment runs 1024x768, but its much better than a single monitor and its a good way to recycle old hardware.
if you want to investigate dual-monitor setup really cheaply, i would just look in a closet somewhere for some old equipment (or grab PCI video cards off of eBay) and draw your own conclusions. then, you can always upgrade later.
i've had to move my stuff 7 times in 7 years... here's what i learned:
in a perfect world, you could organize the hell out of your boxes, and when you got to the new place everything would be right where you wanted it. but, the fact is that no matter how much you organize stuff in boxes, your new apartment will be arranged differently and you'll have to reorganize anyway.
pack the stuff that you use the most and/or consider to be the most important FIRST. then the lesser important stuff, etc. for the stuff you take last, get a few huge boxes and just dump the stuff into it. after a few months at the new place, if you havent needed to dig through the huge boxes, just get rid of the contents.
management software? pack your computer and quit procrastinating this move! you wont get anywhere until you turn it off.
maybe you should look for smaller motherboards instead of larger cases? mini-itx motherboards would be great for this sort of thing. you could probably fit 3 or 4 in a regular size case.
just get an X client like Xmanager or Xwin32 or something, and set up a linux machine with your favorite editors on it. then X11 forward those apps to your windows desktop (ssh is easist - use PuTTY).
then, if you mount your windows PC over samba, you'll be editing the files locally. try it, it works really well.
the recording goes through the legal details of it, but basically all you need is your account number (upper right of your phone bill) to opt out. and (if for some reason you want to), you have the choice of opting back in.
wouldnt the testing of military aircraft be a better explanation? the southwest USA has several "secret" bases. how can you live in the same state as a covert installation and think that unidentified aircraft come from space?
i would imagine that scotland has a similar situation, either on land or somewhere in the north atlantic.
i know that tapes seem like an outdated technology, but there are some very nice advantages to using a tape adapter in your car.
one reason is that you won't limit yourself to just one of mp3/minidisc/hybrid cd/your friend's new player. plus, since you spend more time with your handheld than your in-dash stereo (hopefully!), messing with the handheld while driving will be less distracting than messing with the in-dash.
the other big advantage of a tape player over something like a line-in is that the tape adapter is (electrically) isolated from the amplifier circuit. just about everyone who does custom car stereo stuff themselves has probably had to deal with one ground fault or another - it can range from hearing the engine buzz on the speakers to widely fluctuating signal levels.
a cable modem is a bridge, not a router. unless it has 4 ethernet ports and says "router" on it, a cable modem bridges DOCSIS protocol to ethernet protocol.
a router doing IP masqerading (the linksys in this case) needs to know the outgoing data so it can correctly route the incoming data. so, you can't hook the router up between the computer and the modem and expect it to work.
you might be able to use a linux server to do this. i'm not sure if it would work, but here's the idea:
you'd need a linux machine, phone modem, and 2 ethernet cards (one for the cable modem, one for the router).
use the linux bonding driver (multilink) to combine the phone modem interface and cable modem (ethernet) interface.
set up ipchains or netfilter to make all traffic go through the bonded interface to the router interface and vice versa, preventing any from reaching the linux machine itself (you want the linux machine to be transparent).
that should give you the single bi-directional interface to plug into your router. you might also try
I work in a lab at The University of New Hampshire called IOL (InterOperability Lab) that does a lot of device testing for vendors in conformance with ITU and ANSI standards. I don't work in the Ethernet group myself (I do DSL), but I know that they have lots of tests written up that may be a big help in analyzing traffic. I'm not sure what the other "expensive" services you mentioned cost, but IOL's may be very competitively priced, certainly worth a look.
why haven't we seen screens for laptops that are like sony mavica displays (4th picture down)? they let the sunlight in behind the LCD screen and reflect it out to better illuminate the display. its not perfect (you have to get the angle right for the sunlight to get in there), but it can't hurt.
i wish i remember which magazine had the article, but in south america, natives hung bunches of hot peppers over the sides of their boats to keep sharks away.
that's not superstition; the same sense of "smell" that lets sharks detect blood from miles is extremely sensitive to the hot sensation from peppers- and they hate it.
i guess if you have to jump in shark infested waters, grab the salsa if you have nothing else...
depending on what type of drive, of course, (some have pins that are less accessible than others), you can do this:
snip the end off of an old IDE cable and break (or dremel) the plastic off of the part of the drive that protects the pins. then you a steady hand or a friend who's good at precision soldering. you can solder each of the pins on the drive to the wires of the IDE cable.
then its just a matter of buying a new drive and connecting the 2 together and running "xcopy/e/y c: d:" to migrate the data. of course, you can still use the drive with the cable hard-wired, but i wouldnt rely on that for any real length of time.
just put a one-shot (monostable multivibrator for you EE guys) before all the LED's. that way, each LED will stay on for a few extra clock cycles, but will still indicate activity to the human eye.
concerned sysadmins could even do this as a mod by themselves to an existing piece of hardware with a 74123 IC chip (thats got a few one-shots on it - look it up). then you wouldnt sacrifice the visual aid that LED's are meant to provide in the first place.
by shutting down morpheus, they just admitted that they have control over their network and users. now they're screwed in terms of legal defense. meanwhile, morpheus switches to gnutella and will probably survive the onslaught.
i have used the ampapod plugin for several years now with no problems. if you want to use this plugin, DO NOT install X10's software. and if you use it with win98se or higher, you must "disable in this hardware profile" the "serial mouse" when it comes up in device manager. if windows picks up the serial port mouse functionality, the ampapod software won't be able to access it. (win98 and below don't automatically detect it, and thus you dont have to worry about it).
if you need help/advice, feel free to email me at: fist_187[at]hotmail
if using a remote is the bulk of the functionality you want, then don't overlook using an old laptop. X10's universal remote ($25 US) has a serial-port receiver and works great for controlling winamp. (there's a few plugins that give you winamp functinoality).
the other good thing about that setup is that the X10 remote uses RF for the computer control instead of infrared... so line-of-sight doesn't matter.
in this day and age, companies rely on the sluggishness of the judicial system to pull this kind of crap. by the time the courts got their act together, microsoft had made millions, if not billions off their monopoly.
it doesnt matter what the settlement is, microsoft has already abandoned this monopoly for another one:.NET. they're going to do it the same way all over again- because by the time they go on trial for it, they'll be reaping the benefits of their next monopoly.
somebody who works for these companies must be reading these stories. what do they do when their company sucks? this must be why corporate america looooves job shortages- nobody can afford to quit when corporate integrity goes down the drain.
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i recently started using a dual monitor setup to help me write code at work. it speeds debugging up a LOT, AND it was easy to get started. i just used an old PCI video card and an old monitor that were lying unused in storage. the old equipment runs 1024x768, but its much better than a single monitor and its a good way to recycle old hardware.
if you want to investigate dual-monitor setup really cheaply, i would just look in a closet somewhere for some old equipment (or grab PCI video cards off of eBay) and draw your own conclusions. then, you can always upgrade later.
i've had to move my stuff 7 times in 7 years... here's what i learned:
in a perfect world, you could organize the hell out of your boxes, and when you got to the new place everything would be right where you wanted it. but, the fact is that no matter how much you organize stuff in boxes, your new apartment will be arranged differently and you'll have to reorganize anyway.
pack the stuff that you use the most and/or consider to be the most important FIRST. then the lesser important stuff, etc. for the stuff you take last, get a few huge boxes and just dump the stuff into it. after a few months at the new place, if you havent needed to dig through the huge boxes, just get rid of the contents.
management software? pack your computer and quit procrastinating this move! you wont get anywhere until you turn it off.
maybe it was a spherical mouse that just had a whole bunch of buttons... i can imagine that being much more plausible.
maybe you should look for smaller motherboards instead of larger cases? mini-itx motherboards would be great for this sort of thing. you could probably fit 3 or 4 in a regular size case.
finally america will be safe from cellular phone theft.
i've heard that putting a webcam on a lava lamp and then generating a number from the shape of the lava is a very good randomizer.
just get an X client like Xmanager or Xwin32 or something, and set up a linux machine with your favorite editors on it. then X11 forward those apps to your windows desktop (ssh is easist - use PuTTY).
then, if you mount your windows PC over samba, you'll be editing the files locally. try it, it works really well.
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call 1-866-483-3385
the recording goes through the legal details of it, but basically all you need is your account number (upper right of your phone bill) to opt out. and (if for some reason you want to), you have the choice of opting back in.
enjoy.
wouldnt the testing of military aircraft be a better explanation? the southwest USA has several "secret" bases. how can you live in the same state as a covert installation and think that unidentified aircraft come from space?
i would imagine that scotland has a similar situation, either on land or somewhere in the north atlantic.
i know that tapes seem like an outdated technology, but there are some very nice advantages to using a tape adapter in your car.
one reason is that you won't limit yourself to just one of mp3/minidisc/hybrid cd/your friend's new player. plus, since you spend more time with your handheld than your in-dash stereo (hopefully!), messing with the handheld while driving will be less distracting than messing with the in-dash.
the other big advantage of a tape player over something like a line-in is that the tape adapter is (electrically) isolated from the amplifier circuit. just about everyone who does custom car stereo stuff themselves has probably had to deal with one ground fault or another - it can range from hearing the engine buzz on the speakers to widely fluctuating signal levels.
i'm arguing for tape decks. who'd have thought.
a cable modem is a bridge, not a router. unless it has 4 ethernet ports and says "router" on it, a cable modem bridges DOCSIS protocol to ethernet protocol.
a router doing IP masqerading (the linksys in this case) needs to know the outgoing data so it can correctly route the incoming data. so, you can't hook the router up between the computer and the modem and expect it to work.
you might be able to use a linux server to do this. i'm not sure if it would work, but here's the idea:
that should give you the single bi-directional interface to plug into your router. you might also try
i don't know enough about bonding to say whether this would work or not, can anyone help me out here?
I work in a lab at The University of New Hampshire called IOL (InterOperability Lab) that does a lot of device testing for vendors in conformance with ITU and ANSI standards. I don't work in the Ethernet group myself (I do DSL), but I know that they have lots of tests written up that may be a big help in analyzing traffic. I'm not sure what the other "expensive" services you mentioned cost, but IOL's may be very competitively priced, certainly worth a look.
why haven't we seen screens for laptops that are like sony mavica displays (4th picture down)? they let the sunlight in behind the LCD screen and reflect it out to better illuminate the display. its not perfect (you have to get the angle right for the sunlight to get in there), but it can't hurt.
yes, $2.40. or less
i wish i remember which magazine had the article, but in south america, natives hung bunches of hot peppers over the sides of their boats to keep sharks away.
that's not superstition; the same sense of "smell" that lets sharks detect blood from miles is extremely sensitive to the hot sensation from peppers- and they hate it.
i guess if you have to jump in shark infested waters, grab the salsa if you have nothing else...
depending on what type of drive, of course, (some have pins that are less accessible than others), you can do this:
/e /y c: d:"
snip the end off of an old IDE cable and break (or dremel) the plastic off of the part of the drive that protects the pins. then you a steady hand or a friend who's good at precision soldering. you can solder each of the pins on the drive to the wires of the IDE cable.
then its just a matter of buying a new drive and connecting the 2 together and running
"xcopy
to migrate the data. of course, you can still use the drive with the cable hard-wired, but i wouldnt rely on that for any real length of time.
just put a one-shot (monostable multivibrator for you EE guys) before all the LED's. that way, each LED will stay on for a few extra clock cycles, but will still indicate activity to the human eye.
concerned sysadmins could even do this as a mod by themselves to an existing piece of hardware with a 74123 IC chip (thats got a few one-shots on it - look it up). then you wouldnt sacrifice the visual aid that LED's are meant to provide in the first place.
hah! i doubt it ... good point
by shutting down morpheus, they just admitted that they have control over their network and users. now they're screwed in terms of legal defense. meanwhile, morpheus switches to gnutella and will probably survive the onslaught.
how ironic...
you can get the x10 remote here at X10's website.
the winamp plugin (ampapod) is here at winamp's site.
i have used the ampapod plugin for several years now with no problems. if you want to use this plugin, DO NOT install X10's software. and if you use it with win98se or higher, you must "disable in this hardware profile" the "serial mouse" when it comes up in device manager. if windows picks up the serial port mouse functionality, the ampapod software won't be able to access it. (win98 and below don't automatically detect it, and thus you dont have to worry about it).
if you need help/advice, feel free to email me at:
fist_187[at]hotmail
if using a remote is the bulk of the functionality you want, then don't overlook using an old laptop. X10's universal remote ($25 US) has a serial-port receiver and works great for controlling winamp. (there's a few plugins that give you winamp functinoality) .
the other good thing about that setup is that the X10 remote uses RF for the computer control instead of infrared... so line-of-sight doesn't matter.
in this day and age, companies rely on the sluggishness of the judicial system to pull this kind of crap. by the time the courts got their act together, microsoft had made millions, if not billions off their monopoly.
.NET. they're going to do it the same way all over again- because by the time they go on trial for it, they'll be reaping the benefits of their next monopoly.
it doesnt matter what the settlement is, microsoft has already abandoned this monopoly for another one:
somebody who works for these companies must be reading these stories. what do they do when their company sucks? this must be why corporate america looooves job shortages- nobody can afford to quit when corporate integrity goes down the drain.