I run it securely on my own servers, although I've made a few modifications to prevent brute force logins and to brand it to my liking.
I create separate accounts for all my clients and give them access to their account. They seem to love it as I have all their shit in one place for them if anyone else needs it.
Actually you are not allowed to purchase alcohol nor are you allowed to be served it. However with your parents or guardians you are allowed to drink it in a bar or restaurant. The parents would need to purchase and hand the alcohol to the minor.
Many bars around here will not allow anyone under 21 in their doors for fear of getting caught not following the rules with this one. My local bar allows minors but does not allow them to drink. Even with appropriate paperwork.
But growing up between 18 and 21 I usually had a drink when I went to dinner with my family. Never had a problem at a restaurant.
Installed and played a few games without a hitch. I'm sure it's not 100% but it seems pretty playable. I think it's nice being able to play in linux first for a change.
If the video is good enough and the spirit is right I'd be willing to front my expertise converting to flv and posting on the net. I have a php logging streaming solution utilizing flv's in a flash player ala YouTube.
It doesn't take much actually, and I've never bought my server to it's knees. As long as your video isn't sixteen hours plus like mine are it should be fine.
You apparently don't have the ability to read beyond one paragraph. If you did you would have noticed my I don't give a fuck statement about the above.
Now if you want to attack the actual VALID reasons I gave for the law go ahead.
When your house is burning next door because your dead forest caught on fire it is a health and safety reason. When varmin, mosquitos and other pests are pouring out of your festering pile of crap it is my problem. When your tree knocks power out to the entire neighborhood because you can't cut down dead branches it is my problem. When refuse from your yard clogs drains and causes flooding it is my problem. When weeds in your yard overflow onto our public sidewalk it is my problem.
And if fining your lazy fucking ass that shouldn't have bought something you couldn't take care of fixes that problem. Well that's not MY problem.
Since this was the first post I found bringing up the grass I thought I'd add my two cents.
While I understand the dislike for these laws there are legitimate health and safety reasons for them. The neighborhood I live in has a good amount of lots that are unfortunately unmaintained. The grass grows unruly around abandoned buildings and it causes an eye sore and lowers property value.
This in itself doesn't bother me. I personally don't care if my neighbors house looks like crap. But when left unchecked these lots cause more issues. Animals and pests thrive in these mini forests. Trees grow to a point where they cause interference with public utility poles and overflow outside the property into other peoples property and public areas like sidewalks and roads. Trees fall into roads and yard waste from these yards block drainage.
And then there is the fact we live in Texas, and while this summer has been unexpectedly wet normally we are quite dry. Wild fires can easily spread out of control and take down several houses with them.
We have one of these grass laws and it's not that bad at all. I think it just says you can't have more then a foot and half of grass in your yard. I've had the opportunity to sit in on several of these cases and in each situation the grass had gone far beyond forgetting to mow the lawn and was heading into the situation I just described.
The severe situations are handled differently. With initial fines, then the city comes out and takes care of what it can and charges you and the cycle continues until the city has accumulated enough fines to take it over. It is then bulldozed usually and given to Habitat for Humanity or funneled through some other group where a family can actually move in to this abandoned area and hopefully maintain it.
It seems silly that they can take away your property for not mowing your lawn. But realize it is for the greater reason of not being able to even provide basic maintenance for that property.
Now I'm sure several areas have much harsher rules then this, and their might be a reason to argue for looser rules. But realize these silly rules are required to live in any community.
It happened to me just recently. I posted a snippet of code to my website because I thought others might find it useful. I guess someone did because about a month after I posted it I had a report that someone had sold my code, line by line, to someone else.
Now you have to understand the code did not work (I said this clearly in my posting, it needed to be modified for whatever specific use.) Furthermore apparently the person clearly plagiarizing and trying to monetize on my work didn't understand this and also couldn't read. The person they sold it to did a quick Google search and came up with my website and code, got their money back and then asked me a few simple questions to get it up and running.
Copyright is clear on the matter. My code on my website is just that.. MINE! While I put it up with the intention of helping out others, I didn't want someone to apply a formula of cut/paste/$$$. I certainly didn't want to spend time hunting down some scum and sending out nasty grams while debugging the mess he left behind.
The point is learn how to fucking code. I cut and paste all the time from code snippets. But I understand them, I change variables and often simplify the mathematics and logic. Sometimes I start with something and end up scrapping the entire thing because the original author was an idiot. Rarely do I come across a gem that actually works out of the box like it should. In those cases I give full attribution.
Heck the piece of code I posted was from a variety of sources on the internet. In the article and code I give URL's and attribution. That's the way it goes.
All this talk of "it was on the net so it's free to copy" is pure bullshit. Clearly someone posted it for a reason. And while it's free to UNDERSTAND, it's not free to COPY VERBATIM!
Nor are people fired because the employer's insurance is tired of paying for the employee's children expensive cancer treatment.
Nor are people hired part time to get out of benefit packages. Around here that happens a lot. I know several people who work several part time jobs to get by because their company won't hire any more full time employees because of the benefit package involved.
Fraud is very common, as is double billing or "unbundling" -- some procedures medically require others to be performed, so when the cost of the first is calculated, it includes the cost of the others. Unbundling is basically a sophisticated form of double billing where the the requisite procedures are billed on top of the procedure that required them. Most people don't fight this, thinking that the "big" procedure was just really expensive.
This has happened to me several times. Looking over my bill I noticed several procedures that were not performed. They 'might' have been performed for my particular problem but instead I got the normal 2 minutes with a nurse and 3 seconds with a doctor and should have only gotten charged for the visit. Also I was given sample medication then charged for them.
A quick phone call takes care of it, however as stated this apparently happens as often as the hospitals can get away with it. What bothered me is there didn't seem to be any sort of way to report my hospital for what I considered outright fraud.
Say what you want.. but our health care system sucks. Many people say socialized health care won't work because the level of care would drop. I'm sorry, but when you have no care whatsoever like most of us do, crappy care is better then nothing.
I thankfully did. I can attest that these are somewhat dishwasher safe, however with the rugged yet semi-modular design it isn't exactly necessary. With some patience and soap and water you can take it apart and get it fairly squeaky clean.
I also feel obligated to make a shout out to http://www.clickykeyboards.com/ I'm not affiliated with them or anything, but when I emailed to complain about ordering key caps for a couple of keys I'm missing because they require minimum orders they said to just mail them a self addressed envelope.
So if your considering buying what is hands down the best made, most rugged, best and loudest keyboard on the planet please consider them.
Why should someone learn to program HTML just to make a webpage?
A simple webpage? I guess you can use whatever you want. But when it comes to a web-application you absolutely need to learn HTML/CSS a server side language and some Javascript. I'm sure there are applications which attempt to do this for you, but I'm also quite sure the pages they produce would fail miserably in a production environment.
I worked in a bar for a year. We had certain customers that would cause problems and as a result were cut off and kicked out. Easy enough.
Now can't they go to the bar down the block and cause problems there? Actually no, our bartender knew and talked to the other bartenders in town. Soon enough that person was cut off from most avenues. Word spreads quickly and a problem is a problem.
It's just that easy. For those who cry foul there are a dozen computer stores in the area which will fix the problem for $50 or less. These people pay that for a month of internet why is it such a problem?
As a kid my father bought me the Kosmos electronic X 1000.
This thing was phenomenal. The manual is written in a very witty way and describes an adventure between Professor Sparky and his assistant Andy. It was honestly written for an 8 year old but at the time that's how old I was.
The explanations break down the circuits in easy terms, but not only do they describe each project in an easy way but they also include actual electronic diagrams.
The kit contained a basic breadboard, and the parts were actual transistors, resistors and capacitors, along with a speaker, some LED's and a few special diodes.
There was a bit of basic setup. You were instructed to bend the wires on the various components just right so they locked into the breadboard perfectly. The transistors were hard wired onto a four prong circuit board for this purpose.
I can't say enough how perfect this kit was... I still have the booklet sans cover and still use it to this day for small electronic projects. I had a friend who got one of those Radio Shack coil wire jobs and after a few days of being quite frustrated with it we ended up removing all the components and using them on my basic breadboard.
It would appear this company is still in buisness. And on Kosmos' website they list an Abenteuer Wissen Elektronik kit which by the picture seems very similar. I just downloaded the pictures they have there and these are the same components but it seems a little less then my kit had. There more advanced kits seem to be done in the same spirit (actual components, breadboard like design.)
If there products are 10% the kit I had as a kid then it's still 3000% better then any RatShack POS.
I've read most of the comments and I was surprised that I didn't see his main question answered. I don't think he's saying what would you use to recover them, but rather what you use to recover other systems with them.
Personally, I have: a copy of firefox installer putty (et al) wget portable firefox process explorer hijack this
I'll admit it's not very well rounded but I've only worked on a few computers and that's what I needed.
NASA about a year ago sent gorgeous crystal cubes to the top contributers to their worldwind project. They had a couple of NASA logos etched on them along with our names. When the manager of the project popped into our community chat room I suggested some NASA schwag for the top contributers. I was thinking stickers/pens... something small. I was quite surprised to recieve a heavy box a couple of months later containing the perfect desktop gem.
All right, Nowak at World Wind Central has mirrored and created an add-on for NASA's World Wind. You can now easily view the entire next generation blue marble sets on any windows machine.
Please consider donating so we can continue to provide quality services like this.
NASA's open source world viewer project World Wind will have support for next generation Blue Marble on the 20th. In fact developers today got the beta xml with coverage of all thirty six new blue marble layers.
That's great. One of my favorite software packages in the world is Nasa's World Wind, but when I tried to show it to my parents (both high school science teachers), the reaction was the same: we don't have time or computers to use this.
That's sad. If they took the time and found a computer I think their students would be better off. But them I'm a little biased as a developer for World Wind. We should have real time weather from NOAA in the next version.
Slashdot Mirror
I use a copy of the community edition of ClipperZ: https://clipperz.is/
I run it securely on my own servers, although I've made a few modifications to prevent brute force logins and to brand it to my liking.
I create separate accounts for all my clients and give them access to their account. They seem to love it as I have all their shit in one place for them if anyone else needs it.
That's what I did, now I have an off-site 3TB backup system.
Actually you are not allowed to purchase alcohol nor are you allowed to be served it. However with your parents or guardians you are allowed to drink it in a bar or restaurant. The parents would need to purchase and hand the alcohol to the minor.
Many bars around here will not allow anyone under 21 in their doors for fear of getting caught not following the rules with this one. My local bar allows minors but does not allow them to drink. Even with appropriate paperwork.
But growing up between 18 and 21 I usually had a drink when I went to dinner with my family. Never had a problem at a restaurant.
Very easy to run Chrombuntu on and then it makes the best laptop I know of for that price.
Second this. For a little over 200 I have a dual core Ubuntu laptop that does everything I need it for.
Actually a google images search won't show me a single example of a red-yellow-blue traffic light either.
Obligatory XKCD?
Helped discover graphene:
http://science.energy.gov/news/in-focus/2011/03-25-11/
Actually this would be great.
23,000 fatalities in 10 years is a bit better then 32,885 in one year (2010).
Check out Norby.
Installed and played a few games without a hitch. I'm sure it's not 100% but it seems pretty playable. I think it's nice being able to play in linux first for a change.
If the video is good enough and the spirit is right I'd be willing to front my expertise converting to flv and posting on the net. I have a php logging streaming solution utilizing flv's in a flash player ala YouTube.
It doesn't take much actually, and I've never bought my server to it's knees. As long as your video isn't sixteen hours plus like mine are it should be fine.
You apparently don't have the ability to read beyond one paragraph. If you did you would have noticed my I don't give a fuck statement about the above.
Now if you want to attack the actual VALID reasons I gave for the law go ahead.
When your house is burning next door because your dead forest caught on fire it is a health and safety reason. When varmin, mosquitos and other pests are pouring out of your festering pile of crap it is my problem. When your tree knocks power out to the entire neighborhood because you can't cut down dead branches it is my problem. When refuse from your yard clogs drains and causes flooding it is my problem. When weeds in your yard overflow onto our public sidewalk it is my problem.
And if fining your lazy fucking ass that shouldn't have bought something you couldn't take care of fixes that problem. Well that's not MY problem.
Since this was the first post I found bringing up the grass I thought I'd add my two cents.
While I understand the dislike for these laws there are legitimate health and safety reasons for them. The neighborhood I live in has a good amount of lots that are unfortunately unmaintained. The grass grows unruly around abandoned buildings and it causes an eye sore and lowers property value.
This in itself doesn't bother me. I personally don't care if my neighbors house looks like crap. But when left unchecked these lots cause more issues. Animals and pests thrive in these mini forests. Trees grow to a point where they cause interference with public utility poles and overflow outside the property into other peoples property and public areas like sidewalks and roads. Trees fall into roads and yard waste from these yards block drainage.
And then there is the fact we live in Texas, and while this summer has been unexpectedly wet normally we are quite dry. Wild fires can easily spread out of control and take down several houses with them.
We have one of these grass laws and it's not that bad at all. I think it just says you can't have more then a foot and half of grass in your yard. I've had the opportunity to sit in on several of these cases and in each situation the grass had gone far beyond forgetting to mow the lawn and was heading into the situation I just described.
The severe situations are handled differently. With initial fines, then the city comes out and takes care of what it can and charges you and the cycle continues until the city has accumulated enough fines to take it over. It is then bulldozed usually and given to Habitat for Humanity or funneled through some other group where a family can actually move in to this abandoned area and hopefully maintain it.
It seems silly that they can take away your property for not mowing your lawn. But realize it is for the greater reason of not being able to even provide basic maintenance for that property.
Now I'm sure several areas have much harsher rules then this, and their might be a reason to argue for looser rules. But realize these silly rules are required to live in any community.
It happened to me just recently. I posted a snippet of code to my website because I thought others might find it useful. I guess someone did because about a month after I posted it I had a report that someone had sold my code, line by line, to someone else.
Now you have to understand the code did not work (I said this clearly in my posting, it needed to be modified for whatever specific use.) Furthermore apparently the person clearly plagiarizing and trying to monetize on my work didn't understand this and also couldn't read. The person they sold it to did a quick Google search and came up with my website and code, got their money back and then asked me a few simple questions to get it up and running.
Copyright is clear on the matter. My code on my website is just that.. MINE! While I put it up with the intention of helping out others, I didn't want someone to apply a formula of cut/paste/$$$. I certainly didn't want to spend time hunting down some scum and sending out nasty grams while debugging the mess he left behind.
The point is learn how to fucking code. I cut and paste all the time from code snippets. But I understand them, I change variables and often simplify the mathematics and logic. Sometimes I start with something and end up scrapping the entire thing because the original author was an idiot. Rarely do I come across a gem that actually works out of the box like it should. In those cases I give full attribution.
Heck the piece of code I posted was from a variety of sources on the internet. In the article and code I give URL's and attribution. That's the way it goes.
All this talk of "it was on the net so it's free to copy" is pure bullshit. Clearly someone posted it for a reason. And while it's free to UNDERSTAND, it's not free to COPY VERBATIM!
Nor are people fired because the employer's insurance is tired of paying for the employee's children expensive cancer treatment.
Nor are people hired part time to get out of benefit packages. Around here that happens a lot. I know several people who work several part time jobs to get by because their company won't hire any more full time employees because of the benefit package involved.
Fraud is very common, as is double billing or "unbundling" -- some procedures medically require others to be performed, so when the cost of the first is calculated, it includes the cost of the others. Unbundling is basically a sophisticated form of double billing where the the requisite procedures are billed on top of the procedure that required them. Most people don't fight this, thinking that the "big" procedure was just really expensive.
This has happened to me several times. Looking over my bill I noticed several procedures that were not performed. They 'might' have been performed for my particular problem but instead I got the normal 2 minutes with a nurse and 3 seconds with a doctor and should have only gotten charged for the visit. Also I was given sample medication then charged for them.
A quick phone call takes care of it, however as stated this apparently happens as often as the hospitals can get away with it. What bothered me is there didn't seem to be any sort of way to report my hospital for what I considered outright fraud.
Say what you want.. but our health care system sucks. Many people say socialized health care won't work because the level of care would drop. I'm sorry, but when you have no care whatsoever like most of us do, crappy care is better then nothing.
I thankfully did. I can attest that these are somewhat dishwasher safe, however with the rugged yet semi-modular design it isn't exactly necessary. With some patience and soap and water you can take it apart and get it fairly squeaky clean.
I also feel obligated to make a shout out to http://www.clickykeyboards.com/ I'm not affiliated with them or anything, but when I emailed to complain about ordering key caps for a couple of keys I'm missing because they require minimum orders they said to just mail them a self addressed envelope.
So if your considering buying what is hands down the best made, most rugged, best and loudest keyboard on the planet please consider them.
Miranda ftw
Why should someone learn to program HTML just to make a webpage?
A simple webpage? I guess you can use whatever you want. But when it comes to a web-application you absolutely need to learn HTML/CSS a server side language and some Javascript. I'm sure there are applications which attempt to do this for you, but I'm also quite sure the pages they produce would fail miserably in a production environment.
I worked in a bar for a year. We had certain customers that would cause problems and as a result were cut off and kicked out. Easy enough.
Now can't they go to the bar down the block and cause problems there? Actually no, our bartender knew and talked to the other bartenders in town. Soon enough that person was cut off from most avenues. Word spreads quickly and a problem is a problem.
It's just that easy. For those who cry foul there are a dozen computer stores in the area which will fix the problem for $50 or less. These people pay that for a month of internet why is it such a problem?
As a kid my father bought me the Kosmos electronic X 1000.
This thing was phenomenal. The manual is written in a very witty way and describes an adventure between Professor Sparky and his assistant Andy. It was honestly written for an 8 year old but at the time that's how old I was.
The explanations break down the circuits in easy terms, but not only do they describe each project in an easy way but they also include actual electronic diagrams.
The kit contained a basic breadboard, and the parts were actual transistors, resistors and capacitors, along with a speaker, some LED's and a few special diodes.
There was a bit of basic setup. You were instructed to bend the wires on the various components just right so they locked into the breadboard perfectly. The transistors were hard wired onto a four prong circuit board for this purpose.
I can't say enough how perfect this kit was... I still have the booklet sans cover and still use it to this day for small electronic projects. I had a friend who got one of those Radio Shack coil wire jobs and after a few days of being quite frustrated with it we ended up removing all the components and using them on my basic breadboard.
It would appear this company is still in buisness. And on Kosmos' website they list an Abenteuer Wissen Elektronik kit which by the picture seems very similar. I just downloaded the pictures they have there and these are the same components but it seems a little less then my kit had. There more advanced kits seem to be done in the same spirit (actual components, breadboard like design.)
If there products are 10% the kit I had as a kid then it's still 3000% better then any RatShack POS.
I've read most of the comments and I was surprised that I didn't see his main question answered. I don't think he's saying what would you use to recover them, but rather what you use to recover other systems with them.
Personally, I have:
a copy of firefox installer
putty (et al)
wget
portable firefox
process explorer
hijack this
I'll admit it's not very well rounded but I've only worked on a few computers and that's what I needed.
NASA about a year ago sent gorgeous crystal cubes to the top contributers to their worldwind project. They had a couple of NASA logos etched on them along with our names. When the manager of the project popped into our community chat room I suggested some NASA schwag for the top contributers. I was thinking stickers/pens... something small. I was quite surprised to recieve a heavy box a couple of months later containing the perfect desktop gem.
All right, Nowak at World Wind Central has mirrored and created an add-on for NASA's World Wind. You can now easily view the entire next generation blue marble sets on any windows machine.
Please consider donating so we can continue to provide quality services like this.
To use simply download the client and the add-on.
NASA's open source world viewer project World Wind will have support for next generation Blue Marble on the 20th. In fact developers today got the beta xml with coverage of all thirty six new blue marble layers.
That's great. One of my favorite software packages in the world is Nasa's World Wind, but when I tried to show it to my parents (both high school science teachers), the reaction was the same: we don't have time or computers to use this.
That's sad. If they took the time and found a computer I think their students would be better off. But them I'm a little biased as a developer for World Wind. We should have real time weather from NOAA in the next version.