... started playing Live for Speed and got engaged in Australian racing leagues. May my level 60 paladin RIP.
I can't quite quote those monthly fees. New hardware aquired so far: advantage1.com.au GTR pedals, naturalpoint trackir4 pro system - at a total cost of A$700. Now I'm hoping to score a manual shifter somewhere. Already had the momo wheel.
Seriously, while I may put the same amount of time into the thing for practicing etc, learning about proper race car control sure feels alot healthier than the endless grinding for more XP and that next Lightforge set item. The race goes for a set number of laps, and when done, all you can do is post about it and prepare for the next round. No more of that staying up till 03am in the morning just to get a little bit more - with alcohol or tiredness in your system, you lap times WILL go down.
Downloading at 4260 kB/sec, as reported by Firefox. Going for the 32 bit versions for device compatibility. This is about 11 minutes in total for the 3200.1MB file:)
Funny. Being a ColdFusion developer (since 1996..), I'm mainly a windows person, with a bit of Mandriva XP - I run a Linux server at home with a few little things on it. Now, the psql application is one of top reasons why I like postgres, which I've been using with CFMX for the past couple of years.
For me, the ability to quickly document tables with the \d function is just awesome - extremely quick, no messing around. So I much prefer running a putty window with PSQL to MS' enterprise manager.
One "stumbling block" was that Postgresql required installation from source on Mandriva 2006 / Silver club licence, whereas mysql was prepackaged. I was supposed to be able to use some RPMs but it was a RPITA and I couldn't get it to work - just tons of conflicts.
It was sort of nice to do the from source installation though; it required a bit of research and will probably help those linux skills coming slowly along. It all worked well; not a single hitch with it either. Only thing is that Coldfusion people still need to use the latest 7.x JDBC libs - the newer ones won't work.
I found the XP gotten from lots of hours in Live for Speed and Papy's Nascars with a racing wheel setup helped me when doing an advanced driving course (www.murcott.com.au - high performance driving). Even though now past 30, I only started driving 3 years ago, and I wanted to do some experience catching up by attending such a course. I did first do their level 1 and 2 defensive driving - something I wish was mandatory down here. (In Australia you'll pass the test if you can do a tiny little drive ending in a reverse park and can answer a pretty simple multiple choice test -- no further skills required, an absolute disgrace).
My instructor (an ex race driver) said my car control was impressive, and that I was almost ready for CAMS - all I needed was a bit more track time. Had been practicing heel toe downshifts in my then 2002 Civic Hatch VI (96kw thing - great car) for weeks before the course, and got reasonably good marks on that too.:)
Now, racing lines, throttle control, brake points and situational awareness (the day ends in a club race, and features several timed laps too) are all key skills that sim training will tell you - even though I didn't have the Sandown VIC AU track in any of my sims.
If you crash out in an online game like Live for Speed, or cause a stack, there's loss of standing amongst your peers - winning a race requires lots of concentration and you really don't want to spin out. I don't think this would compare to much to playstation like driving games.
Having done Superbikeschool level 1 & 2 on a 250cc motorbike before that course might have helped a bit when it came to the experience of being on a race track, but the two are vastly different. Now here's to hoping that Rossi joins F1) and car control.
I've already checked off slashdot, car, computer games and newspaper/newsreading, kitten and wife addictions - not necessarily in that order, but you forgot motorbike addiction, you insensitive clod - why do car people get all the limelight?
And how about beers-with-mates addiction? I guess life is addictive, what you have to do to be successful is to work out a balance between them. 12 hours per day on WoW is not good, as is eating hamburgers every day. Some still do, and look the part.
Except Linux is free and a decent plasma or LCD television will set you back thousands;)
Speaking of which, the really BIG question is whether to wait for SED in Q3/4, or buy a HDTV plasma/LCD now. Yes, Yours Truly wants a proper HDTV display after having used a HD PC card tuner for a while - a 22" CRT is fine, but it really doesn't have the oomph for home cinema.
Use one of these for your system/applications, then add a slower terabyte-or-thereabouts drive for your media. Two drives make a lot of sense; you can format your systems/applications drive without affecting the media, should the need arise.
Silly or not, I want one. The specs alone make this a very worthwhile addition for your OS and PROGRAMS partitions; I haven't seen 10kRPM SATA drives at this capacity before.
Add a bigger, slower "media harddrive" for all your gigs of DVI captures or whatever fills'em up - e.g 400GB or something like that. Together they'll make for a screaming fast & good system.
I took photos just the other day of a large cat animal in Melbourne zoo. Moving around with some urgency, being behind thick security fence and not too well lit, all you'd get is the wire fence with something furry behind.
My D70s's manual focus mode made light work of the problem though, and the fact that what I see [through the viewfinder] is what I get [well given a quick enough shutter speed] was a massive benefit that let me take some good, sharp photos even in such difficult conditions.
My previous camera was a Nikon 990, and although great when I bought it I'm not going back to non-SLR again.
As for non fuss, the green, default auto mode really only gives you one option: Click & shoot. If you are able to ignore all the other buttons that are disabled in this mode, it could really not be too much easier.
YMMV, but I was tempted to buy a record the other day - it was not a Sony. Having passed that, looking closely at the jewel case, however, I couldn't see if it was actually a CD. So I assumed it was DRMed and dropped the thought.
The case is this: I won't buy any "CD" that is not a CD. Add to the fact that there's a lot less interesting albums, or maybe the interesting albums are all in hiding from the one hit wonders they'd rather have us buy, and I'm amazed sales haven't dropped more than they've done.
Whatever the reason, I buy less music and spend more on online games like World of Warcraft. At one stage I used to buy several CDs every week, meaning I probably have about 400 or 500 CDs in my total collection. In the past two years however I've bought less than a handful.
The publishers do everything in their power to piss off their once faithful customers, what do they really expect? It is much easier and safer for me to torrent a new album and burn it to a CD - not that, as said, I can find that much of value anymore. If I did, and I had some EASY SURE-PROOF way of knowing that it didn't contain any DRM, I'd much rather be buying it.
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With the weather we've been having lately, I dare say it can be quite different according to which side of the city you are on. Living in Northcote with some nice city views I've often seen the CBD being stormed under whilst we've enjoyed relative quiet. As the saying goes, if you don't like the weather, just wait for an hour or two - we really can get all four seasons [less the snow] in one day.:)
Hehe, Spectra. I worked on that, and delivered some good services with it - after stripping out pretty much everything and replacing with my own code. I think CFA_content was the only tag I still used. Why use Spectra? The clients, sold on Macromedia's market, insisted - however in order to get it to work I used my own application framework. The less said about the Spectra WDDX architecture the better. It paid good money though.
I agree with what you say about ColdFusion, especially release 4 and 4.5 were not too good in terms of stability. However they did introduce cfscript, and with the performance and stability fixing CFMX (version 6 onwards - well make that 6.1, the.0 was pretty buggy) the new components allow for object oriented development. Ok so you don't get some of the java niceties, such as method overloading, but it does quite let you get stuck into some good programming concepts.
Using CFSCRIPT, pretty much everything except for function wrappers can be ecma script based and this makes for much neater code than the old tag based stuff. I never ever touch their java forms, and I'm probably not too enthusiastic of a lot of the bloat that's added into the version 7 release. I'm still developing on 6.1, waiting for a 7.1 before I even consider doing the migrate.
What CFMX has going for it is a very good core library of services that you can trust to work, straight out of the box - Verity content searching, POP, HTTP, XML [improved with 7 to include DTD validations, one of the few "real" reasons to upgrade imo], file manipulations - it's all there. From a business point of view this takes away uncertainties wrt delivery times - the developers can just focus on writing the application.
Unfortunately some of the more interesting "bloat" such as SMS gateway is put out of the reach of individual contractors by being put into the Enterprise version. Costing a whopping US$6k, there's no way I can afford to register this - I typically do the development at home (1500/256 BADSL) and then deploy to the customer's servers once finished. Until that time the clients will be using my server during development to populate content and test etc. The free developer version has a 1 IP address restriction so it cannot be used for this purpose; too bad for Macr^T^T^T^TAdobe, they're selling less Enterprise versions as a result.
I've been working pretty much full time with Coldfusion since 1996. It was oh so cool back then, have been great for my career ever since, and as a product it has matured into a very stable & great performing one.
I currently build all my apps with MachII framework, which incidentally was just released for PHP - it's certainly no beginner's only product anymore, if you don't want it to; CFMX will let you develop your apps however you want to, regardless of whether you are a beginner or someone very experienced.
However, if anything, my feeling of working with an "underdog", if there was any of that left after Macromedia purchased Allaire, is completely and utterly obliterated right now.
Coincidence of coincidences, I'm wearing the t-shirt I got from the Allaire developer's conference in Boston 99. Shame it doesn't say "Boston 99" on it - but I know where it's from. I wonder if I should give a really good ironing after next wash, frame it and put it on the wall. And then start looking more closely at Apache/Java OSS programming?:P
I've been working on Infoglue lately and it is a very cool CMS - it has certainly opened my eyes to the many cool technologies out there.
Well the more expensive fridges come with Internet displays and what you now anyway, so what about one that supports liquid cooling of PCs?
I would really dig a unit that has a built in pump and reservoir. Think about it.:) The LCD could be used to render extra information like CPU and case temperatures, plus pump speed and water levels. This would be one nerdy fridge.
The pump should be strong enough to support long cabling, so that it could support the PC in my home office.
I'd be happy with something that keeps the temperature of the liquid solution from increasing as CPU load is high over time - i.e. 10c (??) or so, just on the borderline of condensation. (Please fill in what the optimal water temp would be, I suppose it is in relation to room temp so it'd have be variable).
Well, until then, I'll just have to be happy with my current Aquarius 3 water cooling solution.
Amen to the above. When searching for reviews on products I'm interested in buying, I often find myself having to do large amounts of filtering out junk as there are literally hundreds of sales sites that all feature "write your own review" or something to that effect - i.e. spoiling the "review" word.
In fact I often find I can improve results by adding '-"write your own"' . I just wish there was a predefined filter to add when searching for reviews, as google only accepts so many words.
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... started playing Live for Speed and got engaged in Australian racing leagues. May my level 60 paladin RIP.
I can't quite quote those monthly fees. New hardware aquired so far: advantage1.com.au GTR pedals, naturalpoint trackir4 pro system - at a total cost of A$700. Now I'm hoping to score a manual shifter somewhere. Already had the momo wheel.
Seriously, while I may put the same amount of time into the thing for practicing etc, learning about proper race car control sure feels alot healthier than the endless grinding for more XP and that next Lightforge set item. The race goes for a set number of laps, and when done, all you can do is post about it and prepare for the next round. No more of that staying up till 03am in the morning just to get a little bit more - with alcohol or tiredness in your system, you lap times WILL go down.
Downloading at 4260 kB/sec, as reported by Firefox. Going for the 32 bit versions for device compatibility. This is about 11 minutes in total for the 3200.1MB file :)
They should wait till 20:06 in the UTC+06 timezone.
What a nice datetime: 2006-06-06 20:06+06.
...wii don't care!
(ducks)
And you'll be able to play WoW on both - WOW! :D
Actually, it'd be interesting to see which OS the game works best under.
Funny. Being a ColdFusion developer (since 1996..), I'm mainly a windows person, with a bit of Mandriva XP - I run a Linux server at home with a few little things on it. Now, the psql application is one of top reasons why I like postgres, which I've been using with CFMX for the past couple of years.
For me, the ability to quickly document tables with the \d function is just awesome - extremely quick, no messing around. So I much prefer running a putty window with PSQL to MS' enterprise manager.
One "stumbling block" was that Postgresql required installation from source on Mandriva 2006 / Silver club licence, whereas mysql was prepackaged. I was supposed to be able to use some RPMs but it was a RPITA and I couldn't get it to work - just tons of conflicts.
It was sort of nice to do the from source installation though; it required a bit of research and will probably help those linux skills coming slowly along. It all worked well; not a single hitch with it either. Only thing is that Coldfusion people still need to use the latest 7.x JDBC libs - the newer ones won't work.
I found the XP gotten from lots of hours in Live for Speed and Papy's Nascars with a racing wheel setup helped me when doing an advanced driving course (www.murcott.com.au - high performance driving). Even though now past 30, I only started driving 3 years ago, and I wanted to do some experience catching up by attending such a course. I did first do their level 1 and 2 defensive driving - something I wish was mandatory down here. (In Australia you'll pass the test if you can do a tiny little drive ending in a reverse park and can answer a pretty simple multiple choice test -- no further skills required, an absolute disgrace).
:)
My instructor (an ex race driver) said my car control was impressive, and that I was almost ready for CAMS - all I needed was a bit more track time. Had been practicing heel toe downshifts in my then 2002 Civic Hatch VI (96kw thing - great car) for weeks before the course, and got reasonably good marks on that too.
Now, racing lines, throttle control, brake points and situational awareness (the day ends in a club race, and features several timed laps too) are all key skills that sim training will tell you - even though I didn't have the Sandown VIC AU track in any of my sims.
If you crash out in an online game like Live for Speed, or cause a stack, there's loss of standing amongst your peers - winning a race requires lots of concentration and you really don't want to spin out. I don't think this would compare to much to playstation like driving games.
Having done Superbikeschool level 1 & 2 on a 250cc motorbike before that course might have helped a bit when it came to the experience of being on a race track, but the two are vastly different. Now here's to hoping that Rossi joins F1) and car control.
I've already checked off slashdot, car, computer games and newspaper/newsreading, kitten and wife addictions - not necessarily in that order, but you forgot motorbike addiction, you insensitive clod - why do car people get all the limelight?
And how about beers-with-mates addiction? I guess life is addictive, what you have to do to be successful is to work out a balance between them. 12 hours per day on WoW is not good, as is eating hamburgers every day. Some still do, and look the part.
Except Linux is free and a decent plasma or LCD television will set you back thousands ;)
Speaking of which, the really BIG question is whether to wait for SED in Q3/4, or buy a HDTV plasma/LCD now. Yes, Yours Truly wants a proper HDTV display after having used a HD PC card tuner for a while - a 22" CRT is fine, but it really doesn't have the oomph for home cinema.
Use one of these for your system/applications, then add a slower terabyte-or-thereabouts drive for your media.
Two drives make a lot of sense; you can format your systems/applications drive without affecting the media, should the need arise.
Silly or not, I want one. The specs alone make this a very worthwhile addition for your OS and PROGRAMS partitions; I haven't seen 10kRPM SATA drives at this capacity before.
Add a bigger, slower "media harddrive" for all your gigs of DVI captures or whatever fills'em up - e.g 400GB or something like that. Together they'll make for a screaming fast & good system.
I took photos just the other day of a large cat animal in Melbourne zoo. Moving around with some urgency, being behind thick security fence and not too well lit, all you'd get is the wire fence with something furry behind.
My D70s's manual focus mode made light work of the problem though, and the fact that what I see [through the viewfinder] is what I get [well given a quick enough shutter speed] was a massive benefit that let me take some good, sharp photos even in such difficult conditions.
My previous camera was a Nikon 990, and although great when I bought it I'm not going back to non-SLR again.
As for non fuss, the green, default auto mode really only gives you one option: Click & shoot. If you are able to ignore all the other buttons that are disabled in this mode, it could really not be too much easier.
Just rename the file extension to something else, then ask the recipient to rename it back. Not really that hard.
YMMV, but I was tempted to buy a record the other day - it was not a Sony. Having passed that, looking closely at the jewel case, however, I couldn't see if it was actually a CD. So I assumed it was DRMed and dropped the thought.
The case is this: I won't buy any "CD" that is not a CD. Add to the fact that there's a lot less interesting albums, or maybe the interesting albums are all in hiding from the one hit wonders they'd rather have us buy, and I'm amazed sales haven't dropped more than they've done.
Whatever the reason, I buy less music and spend more on online games like World of Warcraft. At one stage I used to buy several CDs every week, meaning I probably have about 400 or 500 CDs in my total collection. In the past two years however I've bought less than a handful.
The publishers do everything in their power to piss off their once faithful customers, what do they really expect? It is much easier and safer for me to torrent a new album and burn it to a CD - not that, as said, I can find that much of value anymore. If I did, and I had some EASY SURE-PROOF way of knowing that it didn't contain any DRM, I'd much rather be buying it.
Just FYI. Ok, so I had to Google it...
With the weather we've been having lately, I dare say it can be quite different according to which side of the city you are on. Living in Northcote with some nice city views I've often seen the CBD being stormed under whilst we've enjoyed relative quiet. As the saying goes, if you don't like the weather, just wait for an hour or two - we really can get all four seasons [less the snow] in one day. :)
That nice purring sound of the engine is strictly no coincidence.
This may sound extremely stupid, but what about the sun's spinning action around the galactic core. How do you factor this in?
Hehe, Spectra. I worked on that, and delivered some good services with it - after stripping out pretty much everything and replacing with my own code. I think CFA_content was the only tag I still used. Why use Spectra? The clients, sold on Macromedia's market, insisted - however in order to get it to work I used my own application framework. The less said about the Spectra WDDX architecture the better. It paid good money though.
.0 was pretty buggy) the new components allow for object oriented development. Ok so you don't get some of the java niceties, such as method overloading, but it does quite let you get stuck into some good programming concepts.
I agree with what you say about ColdFusion, especially release 4 and 4.5 were not too good in terms of stability. However they did introduce cfscript, and with the performance and stability fixing CFMX (version 6 onwards - well make that 6.1, the
Using CFSCRIPT, pretty much everything except for function wrappers can be ecma script based and this makes for much neater code than the old tag based stuff. I never ever touch their java forms, and I'm probably not too enthusiastic of a lot of the bloat that's added into the version 7 release. I'm still developing on 6.1, waiting for a 7.1 before I even consider doing the migrate.
What CFMX has going for it is a very good core library of services that you can trust to work, straight out of the box - Verity content searching, POP, HTTP, XML [improved with 7 to include DTD validations, one of the few "real" reasons to upgrade imo], file manipulations - it's all there. From a business point of view this takes away uncertainties wrt delivery times - the developers can just focus on writing the application.
Unfortunately some of the more interesting "bloat" such as SMS gateway is put out of the reach of individual contractors by being put into the Enterprise version. Costing a whopping US$6k, there's no way I can afford to register this - I typically do the development at home (1500/256 BADSL) and then deploy to the customer's servers once finished. Until that time the clients will be using my server during development to populate content and test etc. The free developer version has a 1 IP address restriction so it cannot be used for this purpose; too bad for Macr^T^T^T^TAdobe, they're selling less Enterprise versions as a result.
What are you working on now?
I've been working pretty much full time with Coldfusion since 1996. It was oh so cool back then, have been great for my career ever since, and as a product it has matured into a very stable & great performing one.
:P
I currently build all my apps with MachII framework, which incidentally was just released for PHP - it's certainly no beginner's only product anymore, if you don't want it to; CFMX will let you develop your apps however you want to, regardless of whether you are a beginner or someone very experienced.
However, if anything, my feeling of working with an "underdog", if there was any of that left after Macromedia purchased Allaire, is completely and utterly obliterated right now.
Coincidence of coincidences, I'm wearing the t-shirt I got from the Allaire developer's conference in Boston 99. Shame it doesn't say "Boston 99" on it - but I know where it's from. I wonder if I should give a really good ironing after next wash, frame it and put it on the wall. And then start looking more closely at Apache/Java OSS programming?
I've been working on Infoglue lately and it is a very cool CMS - it has certainly opened my eyes to the many cool technologies out there.
Well the more expensive fridges come with Internet displays and what you now anyway, so what about one that supports liquid cooling of PCs?
:) The LCD could be used to render extra information like CPU and case temperatures, plus pump speed and water levels. This would be one nerdy fridge.
I would really dig a unit that has a built in pump and reservoir. Think about it.
The pump should be strong enough to support long cabling, so that it could support the PC in my home office.
I'd be happy with something that keeps the temperature of the liquid solution from increasing as CPU load is high over time - i.e. 10c (??) or so, just on the borderline of condensation. (Please fill in what the optimal water temp would be, I suppose it is in relation to room temp so it'd have be variable).
Well, until then, I'll just have to be happy with my current Aquarius 3 water cooling solution.
Amen to the above. When searching for reviews on products I'm interested in buying, I often find myself having to do large amounts of filtering out junk as there are literally hundreds of sales sites that all feature "write your own review" or something to that effect - i.e. spoiling the "review" word.
In fact I often find I can improve results by adding '-"write your own"' . I just wish there was a predefined filter to add when searching for reviews, as google only accepts so many words.
Short Messaging System.
Yet millions upon millions of teenagers (and young adults) seem to be able to use it every day - to very great abandon.
Crappy interface or simplicity of use?
ps. I'm talking Scandinavian markets especially here, but also other European and Australian. The US is way behind on use of SMS.
And still being young is when you say, "But I'll get it anyway".