You can already buy smoke detectors that come with a ten year 9v battery ( which is apparently also the life of the detector itself. I just bought a few at Wal-Mart for $15 each.
There have been testing cases around for ages, cyberguys has some very nice ones, but I can't find the link. This was what I found on the first page of google results. Seems like a much better system for component testing.
I find this interesting, as I just had an issue related to this last Sunday. I tried to play a video from my Ubuntu fileserver running software RAID-5 and found the video was corrupted. It would jump and skip with no sound. In fact *all* the files on the RAID array were corrupted, videos, images, mp3's and everything else.
I checked/proc/mdstat and it said everything was fine. So I checked each drive with fdisk and found one of the 5 drives had no TOC, so I wrote a new TOC to it and tried to re-add it to the array, only to find the new TOC didn't stick.
I dropped the drive off the array, and reassembled it, and all my files were fine afterward. I am currently mirroring everything to a 1 TB external drive.
"I haven't seen a three pronged plug for a laptop, but if you somehow have one (which I doubt), then run your conductivity tests on it as well."
I've owned 2 hp laptops that both had three-pronged plugs, the first was a ze1610us, and I don't know the model of the second offhand, but it's on my desk at home, and is only a couple months old.
What annoys me is that instead of using a standard computer power cable from the brick to the wall, they have a special molded connector.
You seem to be under the impression that JavaScript has some relationship to Java. It doesn't.
From the Wikipedia Javascript page: "Despite the name, JavaScript is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language; though both have a common debt to C syntax. The language was renamed from LiveScript in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their browser, which was dominant at the time. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self programming language."
The reason the planets orbit in the same plane is the same reason rings around celestial bodies like Saturn eventually fall into a common orbital plane: gravity. As the mass collects there is something like a gyroscopic effect, causing a general influence towards the common plane.
The reason the planets orbit in the same plane is the same reason rings around celestial bodies like Saturn eventually fall into a common orbital plane: gravity. As the mass collects there is something like a gyroscopic effect, causing a general influence towards the common plane.
But.. if that's the case, why do we have a planet that doesn't follow the plane? And, also, is it slowly falling into line with the rest? (I think the answer is yes, it is, but I don't know for sure.. at least I think it should be).
The reason that the planets generally roate on a single plane is because all the planets and the sun formed out of a spiraling mass of dust. Think of the milky way on a much smaller scale. The dust formed clumps which became planets. that's why, not some magical gyroscopic effect.
Which leads me to ask.. Was Pluto originally extra-solar? Could it have developed in this eccentric orbit if it were originally part of the solar system when it formed? Is it possible that Pluto somehow, amongst the billions of years our system has been around, floated into orbit here for good, from Out There?
Didn't you take science in High School. I was taught the prevalent theory is that Pluto *is* and extra-solar mass caught by the graviational pull of the sun. That's why it has such an erratic orbit.
And if so, if there are enough of these free-floating masses out there, what kind of percentage of the unobservable 'dark matter' might this account for?
No. If these are you're "intelligent" questions, go read a high school science book.
I don't think you're getting the point. They don't need the firefox minimalist philosphy, that's what *firefox* is for. Flock is for the "I want tons of whiz-bang features" crowd. If a person (such as yourself and I) want a minimalist browser, they don't use flock, they use firefox. They are targeting two completely different types of users.
I'm in essentially the same boat, thought I only have around 1500 books. I've started a project to catalog and catagorize all of them. I would suggest using Koha. It's an open source ILS (Integrated Library System) built on perl and mysql. It's being used worldwide (originally developed in new zealand). My library system (which i work for) is transfering the whole county to it, and I'm using it for my personal library at home.
There is already an extension that adds a close button to each tab. Even it they made that design standard, I'm sure someone can write another extension to change it back to a single close tab button.
Rather than that, why not just attached non-main articles to main page articles of the same section, ie. stories in the apple section attached to an apple story on the front page.
Perhaps they kept thier mouths shut not only out of fear, but to use the situation as an opportunity to do exactly what they are doing. By waiting until it was public they have legitimized their claims without fear of a lawsuit.
I guess I'm a really strange one. Where I work (a library), everyone dresses very casual, except me. Most days I come in wearing dress pants, a nice shirt, and a tie. I guess I just like to look sharp.
If you bought a brand name computer, you're out of luck if you want to install the copy of xp on another machine. The OEM licensing says that copy of XP is only valid for that individual pc. I tried using a copy of XP that came with a Dell on an HP computer. I had to call micrsoft for validation. They asked why I needed xp re-activated and I said I was moving it to my new PC. I was told that I could only use that copy on the Dell and that I must purchase a new copy for the new computer. I told the rep I'd install Linux instead, and I did ; ).
The moral of the story: If you want to use an OEM copy of XP on another computer. lie.
I was an assistant sys admin for the Crawford County Federated Library System, and can't say first hand what kind of increase came from the availability of computers, but I can say that patrons use them constantly. There is a collection of 98 machines in the childrens room to browse the web and play kids games, but the main floor computers are thin clients running from a Linux server. Patrons are on them constantly, and they work great. They run icewm with a win xp theme to lessen confusion, and they've got a choice of browsers (opera, mozilla, etc). The only problem is that periodically the printing abilities go haywire.
Does anyone know if Neil is planning any near future works besides the Baroque Cycle? I loved The Cryptonomicon, but I've heard to many dissapointing things about his last two novels to invest that much time reading them. I want a sequal to Snow Crash!
BTW, has anyone else noticed the between Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash and Gibson's Virtual Light? They were published at nearly the same time and I found alot of similarities in the characters and stories.
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You can already buy smoke detectors that come with a ten year 9v battery ( which is apparently also the life of the detector itself. I just bought a few at Wal-Mart for $15 each.
There have been testing cases around for ages, cyberguys has some very nice ones, but I can't find the link. This was what I found on the first page of google results. Seems like a much better system for component testing.
I find this interesting, as I just had an issue related to this last Sunday. I tried to play a video from my Ubuntu fileserver running software RAID-5 and found the video was corrupted. It would jump and skip with no sound. In fact *all* the files on the RAID array were corrupted, videos, images, mp3's and everything else. /proc/mdstat and it said everything was fine. So I checked each drive with fdisk and found one of the 5 drives had no TOC, so I wrote a new TOC to it and tried to re-add it to the array, only to find the new TOC didn't stick.
I checked
I dropped the drive off the array, and reassembled it, and all my files were fine afterward. I am currently mirroring everything to a 1 TB external drive.
Yes you are.
"I haven't seen a three pronged plug for a laptop, but if you somehow have one (which I doubt), then run your conductivity tests on it as well." I've owned 2 hp laptops that both had three-pronged plugs, the first was a ze1610us, and I don't know the model of the second offhand, but it's on my desk at home, and is only a couple months old. What annoys me is that instead of using a standard computer power cable from the brick to the wall, they have a special molded connector.
You seem to be under the impression that JavaScript has some relationship to Java. It doesn't.
From the Wikipedia Javascript page:
"Despite the name, JavaScript is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language; though both have a common debt to C syntax. The language was renamed from LiveScript in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their browser, which was dominant at the time. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self programming language."
Yes, I'm too lazy to find a better source.
In Soviet Russia, Old Jokes Tire Of YOU!
I don't think you're getting the point. They don't need the firefox minimalist philosphy, that's what *firefox* is for. Flock is for the "I want tons of whiz-bang features" crowd. If a person (such as yourself and I) want a minimalist browser, they don't use flock, they use firefox. They are targeting two completely different types of users.
I'm in essentially the same boat, thought I only have around 1500 books. I've started a project to catalog and catagorize all of them. I would suggest using Koha. It's an open source ILS (Integrated Library System) built on perl and mysql. It's being used worldwide (originally developed in new zealand). My library system (which i work for) is transfering the whole county to it, and I'm using it for my personal library at home.
There is already an extension that adds a close button to each tab. Even it they made that design standard, I'm sure someone can write another extension to change it back to a single close tab button.
Rather than that, why not just attached non-main articles to main page articles of the same section, ie. stories in the apple section attached to an apple story on the front page.
Are you even trying? I mean, come on.
Perhaps they kept thier mouths shut not only out of fear, but to use the situation as an opportunity to do exactly what they are doing. By waiting until it was public they have legitimized their claims without fear of a lawsuit.
I guess I'm a really strange one. Where I work (a library), everyone dresses very casual, except me. Most days I come in wearing dress pants, a nice shirt, and a tie. I guess I just like to look sharp.
Even with such language, does that stop them from forking the sources and creating a new closed source program with a new name?
Is this just another Internet Bubble? I'd have to say that I feel these services are a bit overvalued. Are blogs really a trend or just a fad?
If you bought a brand name computer, you're out of luck if you want to install the copy of xp on another machine. The OEM licensing says that copy of XP is only valid for that individual pc. I tried using a copy of XP that came with a Dell on an HP computer. I had to call micrsoft for validation. They asked why I needed xp re-activated and I said I was moving it to my new PC. I was told that I could only use that copy on the Dell and that I must purchase a new copy for the new computer. I told the rep I'd install Linux instead, and I did ; ).
The moral of the story: If you want to use an OEM copy of XP on another computer. lie.
Vint Cerf is one of two men who designed the TCP/IP protocol that we use today. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf/
I pretty sure that he meant capturing analog video and encoding it into dv format, ie. capture vhs home movies, edit, make dvd.
Screw this! I'm gonna start my own Slashdot! With Blackjack, and Hookers. On second thought, forget the Blackjack.
I was an assistant sys admin for the Crawford County Federated Library System, and can't say first hand what kind of increase came from the availability of computers, but I can say that patrons use them constantly.
There is a collection of 98 machines in the childrens room to browse the web and play kids games, but the main floor computers are thin clients running from a Linux server. Patrons are on them constantly, and they work great. They run icewm with a win xp theme to lessen confusion, and they've got a choice of browsers (opera, mozilla, etc). The only problem is that periodically the printing abilities go haywire.
I can use 2 gig disks for my OpenBSD servers. However, I finally have a use for that stack of 200MB to 500MB Harddisks I've stashing like a packrat.
Ok, I want a direct sequal to snow crash.
Does anyone know if Neil is planning any near future works besides the Baroque Cycle? I loved The Cryptonomicon, but I've heard to many dissapointing things about his last two novels to invest that much time reading them. I want a sequal to Snow Crash! BTW, has anyone else noticed the between Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash and Gibson's Virtual Light? They were published at nearly the same time and I found alot of similarities in the characters and stories.