What exactly would the difference between rugged and replaceable do for you? For example (and this is purely numbers out of my butt, like most/. numbers/poll results/stats/etc) if a ruggedized camera that will last 4-5 years costs $1500, but a cheap one that you can get for $250 lasts 10-14 months before replacement is needed, can you budget to just do the annual replacement? I'd also think that camcorder tech has a trend sorta similar to the computer world - wait a year and its either half price or twice as good.
Anyway, if you really need rugged, try checking with the companies that supply cameras that mount on race cars or perhaps military suppliers.
Yup, had a student come back to challenge some college prep grades (athlete...go figure). His records were on the floppy floppies, I was able to assemble an old POS machine and read them. Didn't help - he still failed.
I too am too young for the SoL.... but I have friends who Were There.
Cheap relatively safe recreational drug that makes chicks horny as hell, plenty of other drugs, birth control pills that were fairly available, the common STDs were mostly curable with a course of antibiotics or similar, and a general loving, free giving attitude combined with a "revolt against The Man" attitude. Now throw in the sense of impending doom for young men who would certainly be headed off to 'Nam.
Who says they can't start over? How many times has the marketing dept. promised "incredible new windows experience" stuff? Why not make it new. Keeping compatability for 3rd party would be easy - heck, the Wine folks can do it and they don't have the luxury of seeing the source of the original.
Go to emachineshop.com and draw up a drive rack that will hold a powersupply and another 8 drives, and provide some way to attach to the side/bottom/whatever of your current box, add the extra controller(s) to your current box, and just use a slightly long SATA or IDE cable to connect them. Much like the old external SCSI racks.
The proverbial "someone" who does this type of thing needs to get net.xxx, com.xxx, org.xxx and all the other tlds as domain entries, and allow anyoen who currently runs a sex site off foo.[org|com|net|whatever] to have the foo.[net|com|whatever].xxx domain name.
While there are plenty of sleazy porn folks out there, many are responsible, and having pointers to their content on the.xxx domain would allow parents to block it all completely.
Well I was drivin' down I-95 the other night. Somebody nearly cut me right off the road. I decided it wasn't gonna do any good to get mad. So I wrote a song about him instead. It goes like this...
Were you born an asshole? Or did you work at it your whole life? Either way it worked out fine 'cause you're an asshole tonight.
Yes you're an A S S H O L E... And don't you try to blame it on me. You deserve all the credit. You're an asshole tonight.
You were an asshole yesterday. You're an asshole tonight. And I've got a feelin' you'll be an asshole the rest of your life.
And I was talkin' to your mother just the other night. I told her I thought you were an asshole. She said, "Yes. I think you're right."
And all your friends are assholes 'cause you've known them your whole life. And somebody told me you've got an asshole for a wife.
Were you born an asshole? Or did you work at it your whole life? Either way it worked out fine 'cause you're an aaaass...hole tonight.
I'll challenge each of you to do one of the following:
1) Burn 10 copies of Knoppix or whatever your favorite LiveCD is, have a decent looking label printed for it (and applied), print the various readme's in the various languages, create a cover/index page for it, put it all in a 3 ring (or similar) binder
2) Burn 10 copies of the full install CDs for the distro(s) of your choice. Again, print the readme's, install docs, etc., label everything nicely, and put it in a binder of some sort
3) Burn 10 copies of the OpenCD. Again, print whatever readme,etc. files are on the disk. Add label, binder, etc.
4) If you have the desire to spend lots of money, buy 10 boxed-set copies of the distro of your choice from some non-geekish retail outlet. Maybe even do it in separate purchases.
Now take the product of your above choice, go to your local library, and ask for them to be put into circulation. If you are given a hard time about breaking the copyrights, etc. just point to the copy of the license(s) you printed. Check to see if the media needs replacing every few months, either for newer versions or due to damage.
Unless of course you are an educational institution, a student, instructor, or otherwise in education. Then its $25 for the workstation version and $50 for the servers.
You've not been around computers for long have you? We used to have all these nasty viruses, before Visual Basic and script kiddies, back when AOL wasn't on the Internet and dial up was mostly BBSes. Boot sector viruses, trashing hard drive controllers, etc.
Sadly, this has failed several times where I live. Sad, considering it has been tried over a period of 25 years in a town with a population of 45,000 college students.
I do think the idea is great, esepecially if they are willing to boot you if you are talkin on your cell.
Actually, quite a few of the gnu utils (textutils, fileutils, etc) are available in win32 format. Used to be linked to from the gnu.org page (probably still is somewhere) but it is hosted on sf.
Yeah, lots of WebCT is in perl too. And if you go modifying it you loose your support contract and start violating your licsense(s). Haven't read BB's license agreement, but I'd be supprised if they allowed playing with the perl scripts as well.
For pure open source, check moodle and sakai (sp?). For something that isn't F/OSS but is very customizable, check out Angel.
Personally, I never liked Blackboard. I learned WebCT back in its infancy (v 1.1, 1.something beta for Win32) after struggling with TopClass for a few months. We were up and running with 12 completely online classes (english, library science, biology, etc) in just 2 weeks using WebCT.
Also, I've been playing with Desire2Learn for a few months - they may be worthwhile in a few years, but not now.
Check with the powers-that-be regarding license costs, server costs (our new webct servers are gonna be about $22k each next fall), whos going to admin them, if publisher prepared courses are desireable (usually are by instructors, but usually include so much as to be overwhelming and therefore nearly useless), etc. Also consider that many of the big players (webct and bb included) can host courses for you on their servers, etc.
We've gone one better. We have had a few employees die unexpectedly (once over the weekend, one guy b0rked in his office, etc). They've both taken the blame posthumously for several things that happened while they were With Us....
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Now if it has Tim Curry in it, and they do the lumberjack skit, would it be acceptable for him to be wearing a black teddy and fishnets?
So why doesn't MS offer a monthly CD update subscription? Why aren't there CDs at Best Buy, Circuit City, WalMart, etc. that have SP2 and updates on it? Heck, AOL can get their CDs there to get people to sign up for service.
I can't imagine many take advantage of the SP on CD option from MS now, I don't think many more would sign up for a monthy update cd at a minimal cost ($10/yr to cover shipping,etc?) either.
If you install XP today and SP2 from a cd/whatever, you still need over 20mb of downloads to get up to date on your updates, and god forbid if you don't have SP2 around on some sort of media or local archive. How long do you think that will take on a modem? What was that average time to infection for an unpatched machine plugged into the 'net?
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What exactly would the difference between rugged and replaceable do for you? For example (and this is purely numbers out of my butt, like most /. numbers/poll results/stats/etc) if a ruggedized camera that will last 4-5 years costs $1500, but a cheap one that you can get for $250 lasts 10-14 months before replacement is needed, can you budget to just do the annual replacement? I'd also think that camcorder tech has a trend sorta similar to the computer world - wait a year and its either half price or twice as good.
Anyway, if you really need rugged, try checking with the companies that supply cameras that mount on race cars or perhaps military suppliers.
Yup, had a student come back to challenge some college prep grades (athlete...go figure). His records were on the floppy floppies, I was able to assemble an old POS machine and read them. Didn't help - he still failed.
I too am too young for the SoL.... but I have friends who Were There.
Cheap relatively safe recreational drug that makes chicks horny as hell, plenty of other drugs, birth control pills that were fairly available, the common STDs were mostly curable with a course of antibiotics or similar, and a general loving, free giving attitude combined with a "revolt against The Man" attitude. Now throw in the sense of impending doom for young men who would certainly be headed off to 'Nam.
*Everyone* got laid, even the geeks and nerds.
As a note, I think that coolscan has an option for a batch slide feeder that can batch process 50 or so slides in one shot.
Who says they can't start over? How many times has the marketing dept. promised "incredible new windows experience" stuff? Why not make it new. Keeping compatability for 3rd party would be easy - heck, the Wine folks can do it and they don't have the luxury of seeing the source of the original.
Well, as long as we are going way OT, I have a Commodore CP/M kit here on my shelf as well.
Do these antiquities have any value?
Shouldn't your sig be "CLOAD" and not "LOAD" ? I have my TRS-80 manuals here on my desk if you need a new reference....
Go to emachineshop.com and draw up a drive rack that will hold a powersupply and another 8 drives, and provide some way to attach to the side/bottom/whatever of your current box, add the extra controller(s) to your current box, and just use a slightly long SATA or IDE cable to connect them. Much like the old external SCSI racks.
The proverbial "someone" who does this type of thing needs to get net.xxx, com.xxx, org.xxx and all the other tlds as domain entries, and allow anyoen who currently runs a sex site off foo.[org|com|net|whatever] to have the foo.[net|com|whatever].xxx domain name.
.xxx domain would allow parents to block it all completely.
While there are plenty of sleazy porn folks out there, many are responsible, and having pointers to their content on the
Well I was drivin' down I-95 the other night.
Somebody nearly cut me right off the road.
I decided it wasn't gonna do any good to get mad.
So I wrote a song about him instead.
It goes like this...
Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine
'cause you're an asshole tonight.
Yes you're an A S S H O L E...
And don't you try to blame it on me.
You deserve all the credit.
You're an asshole tonight.
You were an asshole yesterday.
You're an asshole tonight.
And I've got a feelin'
you'll be an asshole the rest of your life.
And I was talkin' to your mother
just the other night.
I told her I thought you were an asshole.
She said, "Yes. I think you're right."
And all your friends are assholes
'cause you've known them your whole life.
And somebody told me
you've got an asshole for a wife.
Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine
'cause you're an aaaass...hole tonight.
I'll challenge each of you to do one of the following:
1) Burn 10 copies of Knoppix or whatever your favorite LiveCD is, have a decent looking label printed for it (and applied), print the various readme's in the various languages, create a cover/index page for it, put it all in a 3 ring (or similar) binder
2) Burn 10 copies of the full install CDs for the distro(s) of your choice. Again, print the readme's, install docs, etc., label everything nicely, and put it in a binder of some sort
3) Burn 10 copies of the OpenCD. Again, print whatever readme,etc. files are on the disk. Add label, binder, etc.
4) If you have the desire to spend lots of money, buy 10 boxed-set copies of the distro of your choice from some non-geekish retail outlet. Maybe even do it in separate purchases.
Now take the product of your above choice, go to your local library, and ask for them to be put into circulation. If you are given a hard time about breaking the copyrights, etc. just point to the copy of the license(s) you printed. Check to see if the media needs replacing every few months, either for newer versions or due to damage.
Unless of course you are an educational institution, a student, instructor, or otherwise in education. Then its $25 for the workstation version and $50 for the servers.
Actually, I'm fairly sure a large portion of AOL/MSN users wouldn't know or wouldn't care if they were being NAT'd.
....
Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the Internet could be a slightly better place if AOL, et. al. *were* NAT'd
Pretty sure phat is "pretty hot and tempting"...
You've not been around computers for long have you? We used to have all these nasty viruses, before Visual Basic and script kiddies, back when AOL wasn't on the Internet and dial up was mostly BBSes. Boot sector viruses, trashing hard drive controllers, etc.
Sadly, this has failed several times where I live. Sad, considering it has been tried over a period of 25 years in a town with a population of 45,000 college students.
I do think the idea is great, esepecially if they are willing to boot you if you are talkin on your cell.
Actually, quite a few of the gnu utils (textutils, fileutils, etc) are available in win32 format. Used to be linked to from the gnu.org page (probably still is somewhere) but it is hosted on sf.
Yeah, lots of WebCT is in perl too. And if you go modifying it you loose your support contract and start violating your licsense(s). Haven't read BB's license agreement, but I'd be supprised if they allowed playing with the perl scripts as well.
For pure open source, check moodle and sakai (sp?). For something that isn't F/OSS but is very customizable, check out Angel.
Personally, I never liked Blackboard. I learned WebCT back in its infancy (v 1.1, 1.something beta for Win32) after struggling with TopClass for a few months. We were up and running with 12 completely online classes (english, library science, biology, etc) in just 2 weeks using WebCT.
Also, I've been playing with Desire2Learn for a few months - they may be worthwhile in a few years, but not now.
Check with the powers-that-be regarding license costs, server costs (our new webct servers are gonna be about $22k each next fall), whos going to admin them, if publisher prepared courses are desireable (usually are by instructors, but usually include so much as to be overwhelming and therefore nearly useless), etc. Also consider that many of the big players (webct and bb included) can host courses for you on their servers, etc.
Gee, sorta a lot like the gun control laws that were being passed daily from the mid 80s on...
Gentlemen don't drive after dark.
We've gone one better. We have had a few employees die unexpectedly (once over the weekend, one guy b0rked in his office, etc). They've both taken the blame posthumously for several things that happened while they were With Us....
Now if it has Tim Curry in it, and they do the lumberjack skit, would it be acceptable for him to be wearing a black teddy and fishnets?
That's OK. It is somebody else's problem.
So why doesn't MS offer a monthly CD update subscription? Why aren't there CDs at Best Buy, Circuit City, WalMart, etc. that have SP2 and updates on it? Heck, AOL can get their CDs there to get people to sign up for service.
I can't imagine many take advantage of the SP on CD option from MS now, I don't think many more would sign up for a monthy update cd at a minimal cost ($10/yr to cover shipping,etc?) either.
If you install XP today and SP2 from a cd/whatever, you still need over 20mb of downloads to get up to date on your updates, and god forbid if you don't have SP2 around on some sort of media or local archive. How long do you think that will take on a modem? What was that average time to infection for an unpatched machine plugged into the 'net?