This sort of puts 1 million H1-B visas issued under the Clinton regime in perspective, doesn't it? 195,000 (six year visas) per year for 5 years is right about a million.
Now we know why nobody has a job. One million programmers, and one million H1-B visas issued.
Anybody that voted for Clinton, it tech, and is unemployed - guess what, you did it to yourself.
Hammer - good to hammer in nails. Bah - use the heavy side of my vice grips.
Metric 12mm socket - good to remove a 12mm nut. Bah - crank down on it with my vice grips.
Seat clamp on a bicycle seat - keeps seat at proper height. Bah - good place for my vice grips and they do that just fine.
Rubber dipped spark plug cap remover - pull off spark plug caps while the engine is running and not get zapped. Bah - use my vice grips... and a rubber glove!
Air wrench - good to remove tires from a car in a hurry. Bah - got my trusty vice grips, and nobody is in that much of a hurry to change a tire.
-:-
VMware is a good tool, and in many cases it is the best tool. The pro's get to where they are by cheating, lying, stealing, taking credit for other people's work... but also by using the right tools.
Tell you what, VMware is free for the first 30 days. Download it and install it on one of your spare machines, one with more than 512M of RAM is a good idea. Play with it for a month and if nothing else you will be well armed, able to make informed (actual experience) statements against using it - or you will be a believer. Nobody that has seen what it lets you do has anything but lust in their heart for this technology.
Virtual machines - the holy grail in computing. This technology (not necessarily this version or specific brand) is the bridge from single instance machines to mainframes. No matter how big your server is, if it is Intel based with Windows it is still nothing more than a glorified desktop. You start running multiple virtual machines and you have moved from what is essentially a game machine to a powerful business platform.
No joke. Go to www.vmware.com and download their fully functional 30 day trial. Once it clicks you will be eager to apply virtual machines to a BUNCH of problems we have all hacked our way around in the past.
Might want to get yours now, before EMC does away with the free 30 day trial, or the $300 license and goes somewhere 'professional strength' with the product.
Sorry, Redhat 8.0 vs Redhat 9.0, I was referring to the distro, not the version. I'm still a Linux newbie so I will be making mistakes - I haven't made any today but it is still early.
And yes, stuff that worked under RH8 in my VM is broken under RH9 - although I am not entirely sure it is Redhat's fault. OpenGL drivers, mostly.
he, pronoun of the third person; 1. A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before. 2. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. He is the man. 3. He is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description. 4. He, when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race. - The Grosset Webster Dictionary of 1966:
he pronoun 1. The male person mentioned previously. 2. Anyone. (The Grosset Webster Dictionary, 1966, p. 281) - The current Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
he 1 : that male one who is neither speaker nor hearer 2 - used in a generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary) - Every dictionary I found, listed the "generic he" as a valid definition. The following dictionaries all defined a "generic he":
American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition, 1994 American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 2000 Oxford American Dictionary, 1986 New Oxford American Dictionary, 2001 New Pocket Oxford Dictionary, Ninth Edition, 2001 Webster's New World Students Dictionary, 1996 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 2001 -
Note - I'm not terribly politically correct. I think it is a complete waste of energy, but it quickly allows me to determine who is smart, genuine, driven to achieve, worthy of respect, intent on success... and who spends all his time worrying about not offending anybody and apologizing / making reparations for misdeeds by his ancestors to somebody else's ancestors instead of doing his job, pulling his weight, helping us succeed.
No offense:) Heck, I have probably seen Pulp Fiction one too many times for my own good.
Oh yea, you owe us your suggestions for a Geek gift list for Christmas.
I have been experiencing the same thing - and doubly so on a laptop (the slow Linux / Gnome when running in a VM on XP as the Host.) I have found it is about 2x more responsive on a desktop machine with 640M of RAM and a faster hard drive subsystem and a P4/2.4GHz CPU (laptop has 512M, slower drive, and P4/2.0GHz.) I have a Gig of memory on order for another desktop machine (P4 2.4GHz w/ HT - will be 1.25G and a fast HD) to see what difference that makes and am considering going to 2G of RAM to see if that makes any difference. Also of note - the desktops are running Win 2000 Pro.
If the new box (2.4HT/1.25G RAM) makes a big difference I will probably make some noise about it in my journal.
In order to develop three tier client server apps without having three or more computers. In order to experiment with DMZ settings for a web front end and an SQL server back end. In order to test your Win98 client, your Win2000 client, and your Linux client against your server while you are in coach flying cross country (laptop with LOTS of memory.) In order to download and run the most spyware / virus laden crap on the planet without worrying about it hosing your primary machine. In order to host 6 different instances of application servers without worrying about any of them crashing and killing the other five. On one machine. In order to apply the power of an IBM x440 16CPU server with 32G of memory, because you only get to buy one this year. In order to establish a test environment that replicates the real environment (including data) without endangering the live data. To experiment with Linux 9.0 and see if anything new gets broken that works under Linux 8.0 - without bringing down your 8.0 server. To create a new platform to deploy your new application to in about 4 minutes (copy the files that constitute your baseline (clean) install) from one directory to another, start the new one and change the machine name.)
Ok here are some of the cool toys for your geek this Christmas. Anything on this list is something he should already have, so if he doesn't - he wants it.
[X]802.11b Wireless gear. You can get the base station and a card for under $100 total now - I suggest Linksys.
[X]LCD Monitor. Welcome to the 21st Century - a good 18" LCD (Dell 1800fp) can be had in the $400 to $500 range. Even a 15" LCD is nicer than a 17" CRT if he isn't too pissy about the 1024x768 max resolution - if he writes code go at least 17" to get one that does 1280x1024.
[X]USB Thumbdrive / Jumpdrive. 64M on a keychain, get one that doesn't look too frail (I have the Lexar Jumpdrive 64M, clear purple plastic and I am afraid I am going to shatter it in my pocket.) Cost about $30 for a 64M drive.
[ ]iPod. Has already been thrashed to death in this thread, but there is a reason for that.
[X]DVD burner. A nice 4x unit can be had for under $200 easily. Stick to brand name hardware.
[X]Good wireless keyboard / mouse combo. Logitech makes a killer set, less than $100. If he is still using that cheap $4 OEM keyboard they included with his computer, get him this. Targus Defcon1 laptop protection device. It has a blinkenlight and is motion sensitive, if anybody cuts the steel wire or moves the unit it goes absolutely ape-shit klaxxon alarming away until disarmed with the code or a big hammer. Doesn't make a laptop impossible to steal, just makes someone else's laptop easier to steal.
[X]Digital camera - stick to brand name if you don't know what you are doing. Sony, Kodak, HP, etc. Make sure it uses CompactFlash cards and uses regular AA sized batteries if possible. One that uses those mini-CDs would also be cool (but is a little on the costly side.)
[X]Laser pointer. If he doesn't have one yet he is seriously deprived - hook him up. Shark is optional.
[ ]Bluetooth telephone headset if his cell phone can use it. These are entirely too cool, but a little expensive ($100) so he probably hasn't justified getting himself one yet.
[ ]Gigabit networking. Now that Gigabit network cards have come down in price (less than $50 for Intel) and switches too (think Linksys at $200 - Intel is still a little too proud) for under $400 you could outfit most of his personal network at Gigabit speeds.
Note - anything above that doesn't have a [X] I don't have. Hint hint.
A friend got one and brought it over so I could load all his music on it - and it didn't have a USB connector. Had a firewire connector though, so we installed all the crap software bundled with it just to get it talking.
I know that there is a USB wire available for it for a small fee - if you use the USB connection and plug it in to the back of a Windows machine (assume Win 2000 or XP) - does it get assigned a drive letter like every other USB external memory device so I can just copy files where I find all the other music files, or do I still need to go through their bundled software just to load it up with tunes?
You just got Friended - just so I can find you again in the near future when I need help getting exactly that (installing the Solaris in a VMware VM) done.
You made it sound pretty straightforward - if you don't hear from me again that means I got it running myself.
I can agree with what you are saying and still retort with this:
In today's vehicles the pedal arrangement is : Clutch, Brake, Gas. Most people don't give it much thought anymore and rely on muscle memory to create a direct link from thought to vehicle control. It may be argued that rearranging them Clutch, Gas, Brake is more efficient, but that won't stop a million people a year from killing themselves with the new arrangement. More likely, the cars with the new arrangement won't sell very well and the company is screwing themselves out of LOTS of sales because they fukt with the arrangement.
See also : Dvorak keyboards.
That said, I was ready to buy one of those Microsoft keyboards until I noticed they tweaked the key arrangement. I wonder if Logitech has taken any artistic liberties with the layout on their new keyboards - I like Logitech keyboards just as much as MSoft.
Is it my imagination or did that Microsoft keyboard take the function keys and make four groups of three across the top (deviating from the normal four groups of three)?
Holy fuck, why not just rearrange all the keys on the damn keyboard while they are at it. I don't even think about keyboarding anymore - after 20+ years the keyboard is simply an extension of my thought process, words move from my head to the screen in a swift fluid motion... and things will go bad when they start dicking with the layout.
Look at the keys in the center cluster, the insert/delete/home/page up/down/ are all fucked up too.
Microsoft if you are listening, don't jack with the layout. Keyboard layout isn't an opportunity to express your artistic inner being, it is a standardized user interface. You will sell a LOT more keyboards if you extend the standard layout rather than fuck it up. I want one of those keyboards with a scrolly wheel, but there is no way I am buying that whacked version.
That said, FFResponse, I agree with you 100% - Microsoft makes some killer hardware, mice in particular. You can have my Microsoft 5 button Intellimouse (red light) when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. As I recall, their joysticks are top notch also.
-Besides, 2D output quality is going to be largely unimportant when we all finally switch to DVI.
Genuine question about DVI : I have a flat panel display with DVI in and VGA in, two machines with DVI and VGA out, and my current setup is a Linksys two port KVM switch that allows both machines to sit behind a single set of controls (keyboard, mouse, and display via the VGA connection.) My current rig works nicely but the thought of DVI razor sharp images on this display (Dell 18" LCD) is tangibly interesting.
Are you aware of a splitter (KVM switch, two port, preferably cheap) that uses DVI instead of VGA?
I know I can put one machine on the VGA and the other machine on the DVI and get half way there, but I would really prefer a DVI KVM.
This just goes to show that 'Glonoinha's Theorum of Kindness' needs more support and belief in the world.
It goes something like this:
1. You are more likely to get whant you want if you ask very nicely (and have a gun,) than if you are rude (and unarmed.)
Corollaries:
2. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission (if you have a gun.) 3. He who has the gold, makes the rules (but is careful to include the guy with the gun in the decision making process.) 4. Their superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons.
A lot of people are baggin' on the guy for not enough forethought - I am tempted to do the same : not about bringing enough gasoline or making prior arrangements, but for not including a few MP5A3s and thermite grenades in his emergency pack. Hard to argue with a man holding a willy-pete (white phosphorous) grenade when he is standing less than 100 feet from your entire fuel supply.
I seem to remember something from the last discussion about using Primestar dishes to focus Wifi - I was under the impression that the FCC limit on unlicensed broadcasts to 1W was only for non-directional (Omni-directional antennas) and they had some other (higher?) limit for tight beam communications.
I may be totally wrong on this one, but it is worth determining one way or the other.
Disclaimer : I'm pretty good at using my wifi gear stock out of the box, configuring it etc... but I wouldn't know an FCC regulation if it walked up and bit me on the leg.
Bah! Sounds real expensive and hideously complex. Didn't some European country do this like 60+ years ago with tatoos? As I recall all they had to do was show their tatoo and they got to ride on trains, go to theme parks, entry to showers and maybe a bar-b-que... all without carrying cash or showing any form of ID. I don't remember how that all turned out but I am sure that Biometrics is surely the way to a brighter, safer tomorrow here in America.
-Some people have a right to be uneasy.
Jeez - just follow the rules of Herr Ashcroft and everything will be just fine. All aboard!
(Yes I am being facetious, and no mrfibbi this wasn't directed at you. Just a good place to get my two pfenning's worth in.)
-And if you're paying OEM retail for memory, you're an even bigger idiot. Haven't you ever heard of Crucial?
I didn't say I was doing it, I just said it could be done. I have an order for memory from Crucial lined up for one of my machines.
And Dell 500sc and 600sc servers make damn fine desktops, I have one of each under my desk. None of their desktops can be bought without the Microsoft tax, but the servers can... I paid about $300 apiece for one 500sc and one 600sc delivered to the house, filled it up with Crucial memory. Not bad for 3.6GHz of CPU and 120G of drive space (the two machines combined.)
And ECC/Registered has nothing to do with 32/64 bit.
They only flagged that as '-1:Flaimbait' because there isn't a '-1:Needs to get laid' mod. Lighten up.
-The question of reparations has certainly not been settled. The post WWII economic issues I refered to in my previous post were not settled...
Here is $4.17 Billion dollars in prosperity, settled firmly in the hands of 5 black families.
1. Robert Johnson
(BET founder)
$1.5 billion 2. Oprah Winfrey
(Harpo Productions)
$1 billion 3. John Johnson
(Publishing)
$600 million 4. Bill Cosby
(Television)
$540 million 5. Bruce Llewelyn
(Coke-Cola Distrib.)
$530 million
Come to think of it, Kobe Bryant just spent $4M (four million dollars) on a single ring, a piece fo jewelry, for his wife. The $4.17B listed above, plus Kobe's $4m diamond ring, would very easily cover any and all reparations that Liberia didn't cover. The money is there (over four billion dollars,) in the hands of the black community for use by black people.
--"The basics for black prosperity in three easy steps:" -Oh dear. Suffice it to say that I do not agree with this.
Oh man that's a crying shame, because that is the best odds they are going to get. Throwing money at the situation isn't going to fix it because I just showed you over four billion dollars in the hands of five black families (totally excluded the $300M that Mike Tyson spend last decade, $250M Puffy is handling, Jordan and Jackson get overlooked also) - if four billion dollars won't do it no amount of money will. The only hope for the future is this equation : discipline, education, prosperity. First generation gets discipline in the military, second generation inherits that discipline and enough money for college and gets education, passing both down to the third generation to enjoy as prosperity. If you think Colin Powell's children are having any problems in the workplace, think again (Michael Powell is the head of the FCC.)
Still completely open minded on the subject, if you do not agree with that - then what? We know the problem, what do you propose as a solution?
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This sort of puts 1 million H1-B visas issued under the Clinton regime in perspective, doesn't it? 195,000 (six year visas) per year for 5 years is right about a million.
Now we know why nobody has a job. One million programmers, and one million H1-B visas issued.
Anybody that voted for Clinton, it tech, and is unemployed - guess what, you did it to yourself.
Think I'm joking? Look it up.
Hammer - good to hammer in nails.
... and a rubber glove!
... but also by using the right tools.
Bah - use the heavy side of my vice grips.
Metric 12mm socket - good to remove a 12mm nut.
Bah - crank down on it with my vice grips.
Seat clamp on a bicycle seat - keeps seat at proper height.
Bah - good place for my vice grips and they do that just fine.
Rubber dipped spark plug cap remover - pull off spark plug caps while the engine is running and not get zapped.
Bah - use my vice grips
Air wrench - good to remove tires from a car in a hurry.
Bah - got my trusty vice grips, and nobody is in that much of a hurry to change a tire.
-:-
VMware is a good tool, and in many cases it is the best tool. The pro's get to where they are by cheating, lying, stealing, taking credit for other people's work
Tell you what, VMware is free for the first 30 days. Download it and install it on one of your spare machines, one with more than 512M of RAM is a good idea. Play with it for a month and if nothing else you will be well armed, able to make informed (actual experience) statements against using it - or you will be a believer. Nobody that has seen what it lets you do has anything but lust in their heart for this technology.
Virtual machines - the holy grail in computing. This technology (not necessarily this version or specific brand) is the bridge from single instance machines to mainframes. No matter how big your server is, if it is Intel based with Windows it is still nothing more than a glorified desktop. You start running multiple virtual machines and you have moved from what is essentially a game machine to a powerful business platform.
No joke. Go to www.vmware.com and download their fully functional 30 day trial. Once it clicks you will be eager to apply virtual machines to a BUNCH of problems we have all hacked our way around in the past.
Might want to get yours now, before EMC does away with the free 30 day trial, or the $300 license and goes somewhere 'professional strength' with the product.
Sorry, Redhat 8.0 vs Redhat 9.0, I was referring to the distro, not the version. I'm still a Linux newbie so I will be making mistakes - I haven't made any today but it is still early.
And yes, stuff that worked under RH8 in my VM is broken under RH9 - although I am not entirely sure it is Redhat's fault. OpenGL drivers, mostly.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
... and who spends all his time worrying about not offending anybody and apologizing / making reparations for misdeeds by his ancestors to somebody else's ancestors instead of doing his job, pulling his weight, helping us succeed.
:) Heck, I have probably seen Pulp Fiction one too many times for my own good.
he, pronoun of the third person;
1. A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before.
2. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. He is the man.
3. He is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description.
4. He, when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.
-
The Grosset Webster Dictionary of 1966:
he pronoun 1. The male person mentioned previously. 2. Anyone.
(The Grosset Webster Dictionary, 1966, p. 281)
-
The current Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
he 1 : that male one who is neither speaker nor hearer
2 - used in a generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified
(Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary)
-
Every dictionary I found, listed the "generic he" as a valid definition. The following dictionaries all defined a "generic he":
American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition, 1994
American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 2000
Oxford American Dictionary, 1986
New Oxford American Dictionary, 2001
New Pocket Oxford Dictionary, Ninth Edition, 2001
Webster's New World Students Dictionary, 1996
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 2001
-
Note - I'm not terribly politically correct. I think it is a complete waste of energy, but it quickly allows me to determine who is smart, genuine, driven to achieve, worthy of respect, intent on success
No offense
Oh yea, you owe us your suggestions for a Geek gift list for Christmas.
I have been experiencing the same thing - and doubly so on a laptop (the slow Linux / Gnome when running in a VM on XP as the Host.) I have found it is about 2x more responsive on a desktop machine with 640M of RAM and a faster hard drive subsystem and a P4/2.4GHz CPU (laptop has 512M, slower drive, and P4/2.0GHz.) I have a Gig of memory on order for another desktop machine (P4 2.4GHz w/ HT - will be 1.25G and a fast HD) to see what difference that makes and am considering going to 2G of RAM to see if that makes any difference. Also of note - the desktops are running Win 2000 Pro.
If the new box (2.4HT/1.25G RAM) makes a big difference I will probably make some noise about it in my journal.
In order to develop three tier client server apps without having three or more computers.
In order to experiment with DMZ settings for a web front end and an SQL server back end.
In order to test your Win98 client, your Win2000 client, and your Linux client against your server while you are in coach flying cross country (laptop with LOTS of memory.)
In order to download and run the most spyware / virus laden crap on the planet without worrying about it hosing your primary machine.
In order to host 6 different instances of application servers without worrying about any of them crashing and killing the other five. On one machine.
In order to apply the power of an IBM x440 16CPU server with 32G of memory, because you only get to buy one this year.
In order to establish a test environment that replicates the real environment (including data) without endangering the live data.
To experiment with Linux 9.0 and see if anything new gets broken that works under Linux 8.0 - without bringing down your 8.0 server.
To create a new platform to deploy your new application to in about 4 minutes (copy the files that constitute your baseline (clean) install) from one directory to another, start the new one and change the machine name.)
Ok here are some of the cool toys for your geek this Christmas. Anything on this list is something he should already have, so if he doesn't - he wants it.
[X]802.11b Wireless gear. You can get the base station and a card for under $100 total now - I suggest Linksys.
[X]LCD Monitor. Welcome to the 21st Century - a good 18" LCD (Dell 1800fp) can be had in the $400 to $500 range. Even a 15" LCD is nicer than a 17" CRT if he isn't too pissy about the 1024x768 max resolution - if he writes code go at least 17" to get one that does 1280x1024.
[X]USB Thumbdrive / Jumpdrive. 64M on a keychain, get one that doesn't look too frail (I have the Lexar Jumpdrive 64M, clear purple plastic and I am afraid I am going to shatter it in my pocket.) Cost about $30 for a 64M drive.
[ ]iPod. Has already been thrashed to death in this thread, but there is a reason for that.
[X]DVD burner. A nice 4x unit can be had for under $200 easily. Stick to brand name hardware.
[X]Good wireless keyboard / mouse combo. Logitech makes a killer set, less than $100. If he is still using that cheap $4 OEM keyboard they included with his computer, get him this.
Targus Defcon1 laptop protection device. It has a blinkenlight and is motion sensitive, if anybody cuts the steel wire or moves the unit it goes absolutely ape-shit klaxxon alarming away until disarmed with the code or a big hammer. Doesn't make a laptop impossible to steal, just makes someone else's laptop easier to steal.
[X]Digital camera - stick to brand name if you don't know what you are doing. Sony, Kodak, HP, etc. Make sure it uses CompactFlash cards and uses regular AA sized batteries if possible. One that uses those mini-CDs would also be cool (but is a little on the costly side.)
[X]Laser pointer. If he doesn't have one yet he is seriously deprived - hook him up. Shark is optional.
[ ]Bluetooth telephone headset if his cell phone can use it. These are entirely too cool, but a little expensive ($100) so he probably hasn't justified getting himself one yet.
[ ]Gigabit networking. Now that Gigabit network cards have come down in price (less than $50 for Intel) and switches too (think Linksys at $200 - Intel is still a little too proud) for under $400 you could outfit most of his personal network at Gigabit speeds.
Note - anything above that doesn't have a [X] I don't have. Hint hint.
A friend got one and brought it over so I could load all his music on it - and it didn't have a USB connector. Had a firewire connector though, so we installed all the crap software bundled with it just to get it talking.
I know that there is a USB wire available for it for a small fee - if you use the USB connection and plug it in to the back of a Windows machine (assume Win 2000 or XP) - does it get assigned a drive letter like every other USB external memory device so I can just copy files where I find all the other music files, or do I still need to go through their bundled software just to load it up with tunes?
You just got Friended - just so I can find you again in the near future when I need help getting exactly that (installing the Solaris in a VMware VM) done.
You made it sound pretty straightforward - if you don't hear from me again that means I got it running myself.
I can agree with what you are saying and still retort with this :
In today's vehicles the pedal arrangement is : Clutch, Brake, Gas. Most people don't give it much thought anymore and rely on muscle memory to create a direct link from thought to vehicle control. It may be argued that rearranging them Clutch, Gas, Brake is more efficient, but that won't stop a million people a year from killing themselves with the new arrangement. More likely, the cars with the new arrangement won't sell very well and the company is screwing themselves out of LOTS of sales because they fukt with the arrangement.
See also : Dvorak keyboards.
That said, I was ready to buy one of those Microsoft keyboards until I noticed they tweaked the key arrangement. I wonder if Logitech has taken any artistic liberties with the layout on their new keyboards - I like Logitech keyboards just as much as MSoft.
No clue, I just saw it one day and bookmarked it.
Check Google for geforce sharp fix remove and a few other choice words - I'm sure the info still exists.
First line should read : (deviating from the normal three groups of four)?
Is it my imagination or did that Microsoft keyboard take the function keys and make four groups of three across the top (deviating from the normal four groups of three)?
... and things will go bad when they start dicking with the layout.
Holy fuck, why not just rearrange all the keys on the damn keyboard while they are at it. I don't even think about keyboarding anymore - after 20+ years the keyboard is simply an extension of my thought process, words move from my head to the screen in a swift fluid motion
Look at the keys in the center cluster, the insert/delete/home/page up/down/ are all fucked up too.
Microsoft if you are listening, don't jack with the layout. Keyboard layout isn't an opportunity to express your artistic inner being, it is a standardized user interface. You will sell a LOT more keyboards if you extend the standard layout rather than fuck it up. I want one of those keyboards with a scrolly wheel, but there is no way I am buying that whacked version.
That said, FFResponse, I agree with you 100% - Microsoft makes some killer hardware, mice in particular. You can have my Microsoft 5 button Intellimouse (red light) when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. As I recall, their joysticks are top notch also.
-Besides, 2D output quality is going to be largely unimportant when we all finally switch to DVI.
Genuine question about DVI : I have a flat panel display with DVI in and VGA in, two machines with DVI and VGA out, and my current setup is a Linksys two port KVM switch that allows both machines to sit behind a single set of controls (keyboard, mouse, and display via the VGA connection.) My current rig works nicely but the thought of DVI razor sharp images on this display (Dell 18" LCD) is tangibly interesting.
Are you aware of a splitter (KVM switch, two port, preferably cheap) that uses DVI instead of VGA?
I know I can put one machine on the VGA and the other machine on the DVI and get half way there, but I would really prefer a DVI KVM.
Actually you are running into a (not so quite) well known issue with the GeForce cards that has been addressed here :
How to fix a fuzzy GeForce card
Get out your soldering iron and you can get a crystal clear display on your GF2 while voiding the warranty and pissing off the FCC at the same time.
This just goes to show that 'Glonoinha's Theorum of Kindness' needs more support and belief in the world.
:
:
It goes something like this
1. You are more likely to get whant you want if you ask very nicely (and have a gun,) than if you are rude (and unarmed.)
Corollaries
2. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission (if you have a gun.)
3. He who has the gold, makes the rules (but is careful to include the guy with the gun in the decision making process.)
4. Their superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons.
A lot of people are baggin' on the guy for not enough forethought - I am tempted to do the same : not about bringing enough gasoline or making prior arrangements, but for not including a few MP5A3s and thermite grenades in his emergency pack. Hard to argue with a man holding a willy-pete (white phosphorous) grenade when he is standing less than 100 feet from your entire fuel supply.
I seem to remember something from the last discussion about using Primestar dishes to focus Wifi - I was under the impression that the FCC limit on unlicensed broadcasts to 1W was only for non-directional (Omni-directional antennas) and they had some other (higher?) limit for tight beam communications.
... but I wouldn't know an FCC regulation if it walked up and bit me on the leg.
I may be totally wrong on this one, but it is worth determining one way or the other.
Disclaimer : I'm pretty good at using my wifi gear stock out of the box, configuring it etc
Get the monthly ADT monitoring to go with you ADT system and have them call you if the temperature goes below a certain range. Good idea mjpaci.
How long before Bill Gates proclaims "1024 bit security ought to be enough for anybody."
-Is the Russian army not larger?
People wise, possibly. Dollar wise, I would guess probably not.
Bah! Sounds real expensive and hideously complex. Didn't some European country do this like 60+ years ago with tatoos? As I recall all they had to do was show their tatoo and they got to ride on trains, go to theme parks, entry to showers and maybe a bar-b-que ... all without carrying cash or showing any form of ID. I don't remember how that all turned out but I am sure that Biometrics is surely the way to a brighter, safer tomorrow here in America.
-Some people have a right to be uneasy.
Jeez - just follow the rules of Herr Ashcroft and everything will be just fine. All aboard!
(Yes I am being facetious, and no mrfibbi this wasn't directed at you. Just a good place to get my two pfenning's worth in.)
-And if you're paying OEM retail for memory, you're an even bigger idiot. Haven't you ever heard of Crucial?
... I paid about $300 apiece for one 500sc and one 600sc delivered to the house, filled it up with Crucial memory. Not bad for 3.6GHz of CPU and 120G of drive space (the two machines combined.)
I didn't say I was doing it, I just said it could be done. I have an order for memory from Crucial lined up for one of my machines.
And Dell 500sc and 600sc servers make damn fine desktops, I have one of each under my desk. None of their desktops can be bought without the Microsoft tax, but the servers can
And ECC/Registered has nothing to do with 32/64 bit.
They only flagged that as '-1:Flaimbait' because there isn't a '-1:Needs to get laid' mod. Lighten up.
-Are you using a 64-bit desktop yet? Because if you're not, your 2003 desktop computer can't handle $5000 of memory!
You obviously haven't bought memory from IBM or Dell for one of their servers lately. They are very proud of their 1G or larger ECC/Registered DIMMs.
I think they got more than that for it as scrap metal (35 cents a pound goes a long way on a System/32.)
-The question of reparations has certainly not been settled. The post WWII economic issues I refered to in my previous post were not settled ...
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Here is $4.17 Billion dollars in prosperity, settled firmly in the hands of 5 black families.
1. Robert Johnson
(BET founder)
$1.5 billion
2. Oprah Winfrey
(Harpo Productions)
$1 billion
3. John Johnson
(Publishing)
$600 million
4. Bill Cosby
(Television)
$540 million
5. Bruce Llewelyn
(Coke-Cola Distrib.)
$530 million
Come to think of it, Kobe Bryant just spent $4M (four million dollars) on a single ring, a piece fo jewelry, for his wife. The $4.17B listed above, plus Kobe's $4m diamond ring, would very easily cover any and all reparations that Liberia didn't cover. The money is there (over four billion dollars,) in the hands of the black community for use by black people.
--"The basics for black prosperity in three easy steps
-Oh dear. Suffice it to say that I do not agree with this.
Oh man that's a crying shame, because that is the best odds they are going to get. Throwing money at the situation isn't going to fix it because I just showed you over four billion dollars in the hands of five black families (totally excluded the $300M that Mike Tyson spend last decade, $250M Puffy is handling, Jordan and Jackson get overlooked also) - if four billion dollars won't do it no amount of money will. The only hope for the future is this equation : discipline, education, prosperity. First generation gets discipline in the military, second generation inherits that discipline and enough money for college and gets education, passing both down to the third generation to enjoy as prosperity. If you think Colin Powell's children are having any problems in the workplace, think again (Michael Powell is the head of the FCC.)
Still completely open minded on the subject, if you do not agree with that - then what? We know the problem, what do you propose as a solution?