Go to an IKEA store near you. The have awesome stuff that is cheap. Most of it is geared towards apartment dwellers and those with not a lot of space. They have dozens of sample rooms setup in their store to give you ideas.
How the heck does one occupy an apartment or efficency without shopping at IKEA?!
Time to get out my patriotic hat and pin before it's too late.
While I strongly disagree with these new provisions, I think you are in very poor taste to refer sarcastically to patriotic imagery. (Although those hats are pretty cheesy looking).
Obviously you care enough about the laws of this country to make this news submission, so don't go around dissing patriotism (unless of course you are a communist or terrorist, in which case I would expect it from you).
I have an '87 Carrera. It is tough as nails, has 165k miles on it and runs like a champ. I even race it regularly in local autocrosses. Try that with a 165k mile Ford and you will probably need to call a cab to get home.
I live in an apartment so I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'll offer my opinion anyways.
I see prefab homes vs. a custom built "conventional" home like Fast Food vs. Home cooked meal.
Sure the fast food meal is faster, cheaper, and more or less "automated", but I'll take the home cooked (or chef prepared) meal anyday.
Another analogy is the construction of a Ford vs. a Porsche. Ford is built on an assembly line by grease monkeys who's job it is to turn one bolt on each engine as it arrives in front of them. Porsche engines are hand build (no robots) entirely by a single master technician. Do some homework and you'll see which one has better quality history.
This is not to say that all homes which are not pre-fab are good. There are plenty of cookie-cutter "conventional" homes which are made of substandard materials by lazy stupid workers.
Also, I personally despise siding on a home. I like concrete, stone and brick construction. What are monuments, the pyramids, castles, and 800 year old churches built of? Thats right. Stone and brick. Because it lasts.
It's a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDWP. It's a really great board and all features work well with Linux.
Tyan also makes dual athlon boards that support ECC memory, but don't waste your time and money on those - IMO they are garbage (I've been through two of them).
Make sure you turn on ECC support in the BIOS. It's OFF by default. There are several choices, but you need to set it to "Check and Correct" or "Check and Scrub", something like that.
I totally agree. I use a 3ware 8500 raid card in my machine at home. It's about $300 I think and supports hardware SATA raid, including RAID5. This card is well supported by Linux and is the only ATA raid card found in the kernel's "scsi" section!
If it's a server, isn't data integrity a higher priority than sheer performance? Why aren't they using ECC memory modules? Price is not an issue - I have a dual Athlon MP system which supports ECC and I'm running 1.5 GB of PC2100. The 512MB ECC modules were only like $112 each.
Plus they complained about not having front-panel firewire and USB! WTF? This is supposed to be a server isn't it? Not an iMac!
And my final rant - An NVIDIA FX video card? Are they smoking crack? A Matrox Millenium PCI card is all you need in a server. GeForce FX is the last thing I would ever imagine to find in a budget storage server.
I had one of these original Voodoo I PCI boards. It had a VGA passthru connector on the back. The card didn't even have any heatsink or fan at all on it! I remember it ran at 43 Mhz or something like that, but I had overclocked mine to a whopping 47 Mhz! I glued a motherboard northbridge heatsink to the Voodoo chip to dissipate the extra heat, but I lost the neighboring PCI slot due to the size of the heatsink.
Also, the flash memory it would accept will be removable, and will be the CompactFlash format - because I already own a 512 MB card for my digital camera, why should I have to pay extra for more memory if I don't need it?
Well consider the 1G MemoryStick cost around US$500, to load up the equivalent of an 20G iPod, it will cost US$10,000, allowing the removal of branding, and volume factors, it would still cost more than US$3,000.
I don't think I will go for one such device now
The goal (for me at least) is not to carry my entire music collection with me all the time. My goal is to carry the equivalent of 10 cd albums or so - like having a cd-changer in your pocket.
My goal is also small, light, and long battery life so using a hard drive is not acceptable.
If I was an electrical engineer, I would design a flash memory based portable music player that played Mp3, Ogg, and gzip/bzip'd.wav files. It would run an embeded linux based OS of course, and would ship with an open source linux, freebsd, and MacOSX client to upload and download tunes to it. The unit itself would feature a user upgradable firmware (just like the BIOS in your PC),
Also, the flash memory it would accept will be removable, and will be the CompactFlash format - because I already own a 512 MB card for my digital camera, why should I have to pay extra for more memory if I don't need it?
How hard can it be to design a GUI interface that collects people's voting selections and saves them to a file (or database)? This sounds like an exceedingly simple problem. Why are these voting machine companies having so much trouble coming up with a viable solution???
And why hasn't the EFF come up with a lobbying plan to lobby for open-source-only voting machines?
This is good news. They need to stop these insidious virus writers. Then people will see that Microsoft software will fail on it's own merit, rather than blaming all the blue screens, reboots, and downtime on "hackers". Once the virus variable is removed from the equation, then folks will realize that the software from redmond is still a steaming pile of crap, and they will migrate en masse to other platforms. Hopefully.
Hackers don't need nor want a logo. Does ESR really think that most hackers are just dying to put logos on their coffee cups, hats, shirts, etc?
No we want to put them on our shitty honda civics with coffee can exhaust and ground-scraping ghetto suspension work. oh yeah, and our shitty plastic wings that we glue onto the trunk.
if a logo "needs colour" it wasn't designed well. If you're making a logo for something, first design it in b&w, make sure it look good, then add your colour. That way, the logo will still be effective when photocopied, faxed, or viewed by those with less than perfect colour perception.
Don't forget about all of us who are viewing these logos on our black and white tv's!!
C'mon, raise your hand everyone if you still have a black and white tv!!
of course i agree with that. but i also don't think people really care *who* blows them up - most would rather not get blown up at all.
Yes, I agree with you, however I think that pulling out the troops prematurely (before reconstruction and stabilisation efforts are complete) may remove the symptoms (i.e. bombings), it won't remove the cause.
Without removing the cause, these symptoms will reappear anywhere in the world where political conditions favor them.
example:
People infected with Herpes or AIDS would like anything which can reduce or eliminate the unplesant symptoms, but they would benefit even more from the elimination of the disease altogether.
i'm not saying there's no good going on, obviously any country is better off sans-dictator, but there's plenty of bad. or are all the bombings made up by the "liberal, filtered, US media machine"? (which, by the way, i have no access to as I live in England)
The bombings are being conducted by terrorist lowlifes - not the everyday people of Iraq who just want to go to work/school and make a life. It's the everyday people of Iraq - several million inhabitabts - who are receiving direct benefit from the removal of Saddam and the rebuilding/upgrading of their nation's infrastructure (e.g. hospitals, police stations, schools, etc.).
Do you not agree that people who would bomb the UN, the Red Cross, and Iraqi civilian police stations are very sick and twisted people? It isn't the US that is causing these bombings - it's the sick terrorists and remnants of Saddam loyalists who are lashing out like cornered animals and are showing just how insidious they are.
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Go to an IKEA store near you. The have awesome stuff that is cheap. Most of it is geared towards apartment dwellers and those with not a lot of space. They have dozens of sample rooms setup in their store to give you ideas.
How the heck does one occupy an apartment or efficency without shopping at IKEA?!
Time to get out my patriotic hat and pin before it's too late.
While I strongly disagree with these new provisions, I think you are in very poor taste to refer sarcastically to patriotic imagery. (Although those hats are pretty cheesy looking).
Obviously you care enough about the laws of this country to make this news submission, so don't go around dissing patriotism (unless of course you are a communist or terrorist, in which case I would expect it from you).
I have an '87 Carrera. It is tough as nails, has 165k miles on it and runs like a champ. I even race it regularly in local autocrosses. Try that with a 165k mile Ford and you will probably need to call a cab to get home.
Why go out to find BSOD's when you can already enjoy them from the comfort of your home? ;-)
I live in an apartment so I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'll offer my opinion anyways.
I see prefab homes vs. a custom built "conventional" home like Fast Food vs. Home cooked meal.
Sure the fast food meal is faster, cheaper, and more or less "automated", but I'll take the home cooked (or chef prepared) meal anyday.
Another analogy is the construction of a Ford vs. a Porsche. Ford is built on an assembly line by grease monkeys who's job it is to turn one bolt on each engine as it arrives in front of them. Porsche engines are hand build (no robots) entirely by a single master technician. Do some homework and you'll see which one has better quality history.
This is not to say that all homes which are not pre-fab are good. There are plenty of cookie-cutter "conventional" homes which are made of substandard materials by lazy stupid workers.
Also, I personally despise siding on a home. I like concrete, stone and brick construction. What are monuments, the pyramids, castles, and 800 year old churches built of? Thats right. Stone and brick. Because it lasts.
OMG crapulent, This is so funny I almost soiled my pants when I read it!!!
Grave digging for tourist dollars is unethical. period. What ever happened to R.I.P?
Don't these cops have anything better to do than chase 100+ year old dead criminals?
It's a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDWP. It's a really great board and all features work well with Linux.
Tyan also makes dual athlon boards that support ECC memory, but don't waste your time and money on those - IMO they are garbage (I've been through two of them).
Make sure you turn on ECC support in the BIOS. It's OFF by default. There are several choices, but you need to set it to "Check and Correct" or "Check and Scrub", something like that.
Never again. Hardware raid all the time :-)
I totally agree. I use a 3ware 8500 raid card in my machine at home. It's about $300 I think and supports hardware SATA raid, including RAID5. This card is well supported by Linux and is the only ATA raid card found in the kernel's "scsi" section!
If it's a server, isn't data integrity a higher priority than sheer performance? Why aren't they using ECC memory modules? Price is not an issue - I have a dual Athlon MP system which supports ECC and I'm running 1.5 GB of PC2100. The 512MB ECC modules were only like $112 each.
Plus they complained about not having front-panel firewire and USB! WTF? This is supposed to be a server isn't it? Not an iMac!
And my final rant - An NVIDIA FX video card? Are they smoking crack? A Matrox Millenium PCI card is all you need in a server. GeForce FX is the last thing I would ever imagine to find in a budget storage server.
One more thing... The card had 6 MB of RAM on it. 4 MB main memory and a 2 MB texture buffer I think.
I had one of these original Voodoo I PCI boards. It had a VGA passthru connector on the back. The card didn't even have any heatsink or fan at all on it! I remember it ran at 43 Mhz or something like that, but I had overclocked mine to a whopping 47 Mhz! I glued a motherboard northbridge heatsink to the Voodoo chip to dissipate the extra heat, but I lost the neighboring PCI slot due to the size of the heatsink.
Ah... those were the days.
Also, the flash memory it would accept will be removable, and will be the CompactFlash format - because I already own a 512 MB card for my digital camera, why should I have to pay extra for more memory if I don't need it?
Well consider the 1G MemoryStick cost around US$500, to load up the equivalent of an 20G iPod, it will cost US$10,000, allowing the removal of branding, and volume factors, it would still cost more than US$3,000.
I don't think I will go for one such device now
The goal (for me at least) is not to carry my entire music collection with me all the time. My goal is to carry the equivalent of 10 cd albums or so - like having a cd-changer in your pocket.
My goal is also small, light, and long battery life so using a hard drive is not acceptable.
If I was an electrical engineer, I would design a flash memory based portable music player that played Mp3, Ogg, and gzip/bzip'd .wav files. It would run an embeded linux based OS of course, and would ship with an open source linux, freebsd, and MacOSX client to upload and download tunes to it. The unit itself would feature a user upgradable firmware (just like the BIOS in your PC),
Also, the flash memory it would accept will be removable, and will be the CompactFlash format - because I already own a 512 MB card for my digital camera, why should I have to pay extra for more memory if I don't need it?
What would also be nice is support for some sort of compressed lossless codec rather than using huge AIFF or WAV files.
.wav file??? perfect quality, small size.
I totally agree. What the hell is wrong with a BZIP'd
How hard can it be to design a GUI interface that collects people's voting selections and saves them to a file (or database)? This sounds like an exceedingly simple problem. Why are these voting machine companies having so much trouble coming up with a viable solution???
And why hasn't the EFF come up with a lobbying plan to lobby for open-source-only voting machines?
This is good news. They need to stop these insidious virus writers. Then people will see that Microsoft software will fail on it's own merit, rather than blaming all the blue screens, reboots, and downtime on "hackers". Once the virus variable is removed from the equation, then folks will realize that the software from redmond is still a steaming pile of crap, and they will migrate en masse to other platforms. Hopefully.
The big question is, would you tattoo it on your arm like Charles Petzold and his Windows logo?
I think he might be legally retarded.
Hackers don't need nor want a logo. Does ESR really think that most hackers are just dying to put logos on their coffee cups, hats, shirts, etc?
No we want to put them on our shitty honda civics with coffee can exhaust and ground-scraping ghetto suspension work. oh yeah, and our shitty plastic wings that we glue onto the trunk.
Ah, but that's precisely the beauty of the concept. We'll be able to identify ourselves by seeing who doesn't use the logo!
;-)
Let me guess, you are from Soviet Russia? Or do hackers use YOU as a logo there?
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/. with a sig like that.
In Soviet Russia:
3. Profit!
2. ???
1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of sigs, you insensitive clod!
Now you know this guy spends waaaay too much time on
if a logo "needs colour" it wasn't designed well. If you're making a logo for something, first design it in b&w, make sure it look good, then add your colour. That way, the logo will still be effective when photocopied, faxed, or viewed by those with less than perfect colour perception.
Don't forget about all of us who are viewing these logos on our black and white tv's!!
C'mon, raise your hand everyone if you still have a black and white tv!!
oh.
Can't you just use rsync?
of course i agree with that. but i also don't think people really care *who* blows them up - most would rather not get blown up at all.
Yes, I agree with you, however I think that pulling out the troops prematurely (before reconstruction and stabilisation efforts are complete) may remove the symptoms (i.e. bombings), it won't remove the cause.
Without removing the cause, these symptoms will reappear anywhere in the world where political conditions favor them.
example:
People infected with Herpes or AIDS would like anything which can reduce or eliminate the unplesant symptoms, but they would benefit even more from the elimination of the disease altogether.
i'm not saying there's no good going on, obviously any country is better off sans-dictator, but there's plenty of bad. or are all the bombings made up by the "liberal, filtered, US media machine"? (which, by the way, i have no access to as I live in England)
The bombings are being conducted by terrorist lowlifes - not the everyday people of Iraq who just want to go to work/school and make a life. It's the everyday people of Iraq - several million inhabitabts - who are receiving direct benefit from the removal of Saddam and the rebuilding/upgrading of their nation's infrastructure (e.g. hospitals, police stations, schools, etc.).
Do you not agree that people who would bomb the UN, the Red Cross, and Iraqi civilian police stations are very sick and twisted people? It isn't the US that is causing these bombings - it's the sick terrorists and remnants of Saddam loyalists who are lashing out like cornered animals and are showing just how insidious they are.