In the form of a Bad Dudes, 2-Slot Neo Geo MVS, and Ms Pac Man cabinets. Electronics in wood cabinets is nothing new.
Once upon a time a TV set chassis was a fine piece of furniture that you wouldn't be ashamed of, and not an ugly grey/silver box that you have to hide in an armoire.
There are several companies who sell wood-inlayed cases for PCs (can't sell all wood chassis, as per FCC regs you need metal shielding) that actually look nice.
That said, this looks like shit. Worst "case mod" I've seen. That it's a full grown man, and not a 13 year old "l337 d00d" in the pictures, makes it pathetic, even sad.
The guy probably knows nothing of computers, but still wants to call himself a hacker. He sure can't call himself a carpenter or craftsman.
Exposed screwheads, clumsily hacked out bits of wood to make the monitor fit. Horrible patchy stain job. I can see brush strokes in the urethane. All signs of a someone sans-clue. Yech.
Norm Abrahms should beat this guy to death with a wood maul.
I remember seeing this years ago, as a little kid on one of those "That's Incredible" or "What will they think of next?" shows, I can't remember which one, as it was a long time ago.
It was when fiber optics were new, amazing, moon-man technology, and I distinctly remember them showing how real sunlight was being "piped" throughout some Japanese office building via this new moon-man tech.
This doesn't seem to be too different. It seemed like a great idea to me as a kid, any reason why it hasnt caught on? Fiber optics are down in the price range (ballpark-ish) of romex these days.
Then again: the big push of the story was how natural sunlight is "better" for you than flourescent light, and build morale and prevents the winter blues, etc. Then sunlight became evil and is no good for anything but causing cancer and the healthiest thing to do is live like a tibetan monk and never go outside.
eXeem is a sloppy piece of crap, and a thinly veiled vehicle to get spyware and malware on your system (whse).
Slashdot staff should be ashamed to have promoted it like they did. They did 2 or 3 articles about it, as if it were some great tech sent from the heavens.
Besides the fact that the very notion of it is what's wrong with the internet, and why the government will eventually regulate the hell out of it. The entire point is to trade warez. I did an eXeem search for linux, and didn't get one result - so don't give me some bullshit about slackware isos. Society are like kindergarteners, they had a little freedom, and blew it. Now we're all going to be grounded.
Actually, is that why michael left? It wasn't long after he "wrote" a couple "eXeem is great! get your warez on eXeem!" articles that he left.
What do you need a gui for a long running background process for?
Frankly I prefer to run btlaunchmany.py on a shared folder in screen, so I can drag and drop.torrent files onto it, and grab them when they're finished.
How many USB2 tuners could you concievably hook up before you use up all the USB bandwidth?
The Hauppage 500 has two tuners, for less than the 250, I've been waiting patiently for it to be fully supported by the ivtv module (it was close a month ago when I checked)
Too bad theres no way to do it with USB 1.1, an xbox + usb tuner would make a kickass (and cheap) myth box.
If you ordered a 60" plasma screen TV off of the 'net, payed 5 large or so for it, and the site shipped you a 13" black and white set with a broken antenna, would you just shrug and go "oh that wacky internet! Heh heh hooray for their rights online (to rip me off)!"
Cool. Basically everything but the file you were looking for!
So it works just like Google.com!
I did a search for a library that was preventing stuff from compiling, and I got:
- a bunch of forum posts from other linux users who couldnt get it to compile. - Portage links to the broken library in question. (of course it lists every single mirror on the planet, 4 or 5 pages worth) - A bunch of porn/scam sites. - A bunch of scam ebay redirect sites. - A whole bunch of advertisements for various consulting firms.
I travel constantly, and it's not an issue for me. If I needed to check an email, my cellphone doubles as a (expensive but it's the companys dime) modem. Frankly, it's just not an issue, since I'm mainly a developer, and if I wanted to work on some code while I'm waiting on a plane, I don't need to be online to do so.
I've never had any need for broadband while I'm waiting for a flight, and I'd much rather have a wired connection in the hotels I stay at, since my experience with hotel wi-fi (or hell, any public wi-fi) has been less than impressive.
Frankly waiting around in an airport or starbucks is the only chance I get to relax when travelling. I hate all this wireless tech, it just gives PHB's the expectation that, not unlike Inspector Gadget, us tech guys are "always on duty".
Fuck that. If you cant give me a place to plug in, then I'm not working.
Canada has no problem chucking the constitution in the trash and rewriting it whenever they see fit. (Meech lake, et al). There's nothing in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to stop any of these proposals.
They've done it more than a few times in the past. They try to do it every time a bunch of vocal racists in Quebec start piping up about the special priveledges they feel they deserve.
The US Constitution gets amended. The Canadian one gets rewritten.
Dumb fucks and your anti-M$ crusade. This is no better than if they chose MS Office.
If anything, it's worse and will hamper communications between agencies and to the general public, who will now need to shell out for both MSOffice and WP if they're to deal with gov't.
That's a silly thing to say. That's like saying that your TV screen is yours, and the revenue from ads placed on it should be yours, and not TV station's.
No, thats not silly at all.
I payed for, and/or created all of the content on my PC.
NBC owns "Friends", if they want to splice in ads, it's up to them. *I* own "LetterToEditor.doc" and "sec_core.cpp".
Windows built in search is shitty for finding content inside files, and Outlook is shitty at finding content inside emails.
Define shitty.
Windows built in search found the.c and.h files I mentioned earlier. And, as I said in another response to this thread, I just tried searching my 700MB plus outlook mailbox.pst file, and it took 29 seconds to return a few thousand results.
Google did not index my outlook mailbox at all. Unless this is a new feature.
I should also mention that Outlook did not present me with any context sensitive ads. I guess GDS is great if you complain about the lack of advertisments embedded in your personal data.
So far, thats the only feature I see that it has. Ads. Aside "speed", and really, searching even a completely full 80 gig HDD by walking through every file/dir with a simple VBScript doesn't take more than a couple minutes.
I don't delete emails. I happen to be using Outlook, too.
Google search doesnt (the version I tried) index the mailbox.pst file. Maybe it does now. My.pst file is 724,304KB at the moment.
So searching all my email for all references to a particular product takes... 29 seconds for a full text search. Less than two for a subject line only search.
Google does this better or faster? How please, because like I said, it didn't index the.pst file at all when I tried it.
If it works, then maybe that's something useful. Frankly though, 29 seconds isn't going to break me.
Google has stated that their goal is to become the worlds biggest advertising service. They work around the clock to try and slip ads onto my computer without me noticing, or getting upset.
Why am I supposed to like them, exactly?
Frankly I prefer the honesty of a spam, or a flashing and blinking popup with audio, to what Google's doing. At least I know the spammers intent. I'm not sure what Google is trying to do.
GMail, no thanks. I DO NOT WANT CONTEXT-RELATED ADS EMBEDDED INTO MY EMAIL. Desktop Search, no thanks: I DO NOT WANT CONTEXT-RELATED ADS EMBEDDED INTO MY DESKTOP. I don't care if they're "non intrusive" or "text only".
My desktop is not for sale as advertising space. If it were, then the revenue generated from it should be MINE, not Googles.
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I grew up near Mennonite (a religious sect not too unlike the Amish) country in southern Ontario, and I've seen beautiful wood carving and woodwork.
One of those cats would carve you an absolutly brilliant laptop case, and do it cheap too.
In the form of a Bad Dudes, 2-Slot Neo Geo MVS, and Ms Pac Man cabinets. Electronics in wood cabinets is nothing new.
Once upon a time a TV set chassis was a fine piece of furniture that you wouldn't be ashamed of, and not an ugly grey/silver box that you have to hide in an armoire.
There are several companies who sell wood-inlayed cases for PCs (can't sell all wood chassis, as per FCC regs you need metal shielding) that actually look nice.
That said, this looks like shit. Worst "case mod" I've seen. That it's a full grown man, and not a 13 year old "l337 d00d" in the pictures, makes it pathetic, even sad.
The guy probably knows nothing of computers, but still wants to call himself a hacker. He sure can't call himself a carpenter or craftsman.
Exposed screwheads, clumsily hacked out bits of wood to make the monitor fit. Horrible patchy stain job. I can see brush strokes in the urethane. All signs of a someone sans-clue. Yech.
Norm Abrahms should beat this guy to death with a wood maul.
I remember seeing this years ago, as a little kid on one of those "That's Incredible" or "What will they think of next?" shows, I can't remember which one, as it was a long time ago.
It was when fiber optics were new, amazing, moon-man technology, and I distinctly remember them showing how real sunlight was being "piped" throughout some Japanese office building via this new moon-man tech.
This doesn't seem to be too different. It seemed like a great idea to me as a kid, any reason why it hasnt caught on? Fiber optics are down in the price range (ballpark-ish) of romex these days.
Then again: the big push of the story was how natural sunlight is "better" for you than flourescent light, and build morale and prevents the winter blues, etc. Then sunlight became evil and is no good for anything but causing cancer and the healthiest thing to do is live like a tibetan monk and never go outside.
Is sunlight good or evil today?
From the story title, I thought they'd dug out a prototype Millipede arcade cabinet.
That would have been much cooler, IMHO. They could have even made a couple bucks in quarters.
/. needs a warez section for stories like this (and eXeem promotions).
eXeem is a sloppy piece of crap, and a thinly veiled vehicle to get spyware and malware on your system (whse).
Slashdot staff should be ashamed to have promoted it like they did. They did 2 or 3 articles about it, as if it were some great tech sent from the heavens.
Besides the fact that the very notion of it is what's wrong with the internet, and why the government will eventually regulate the hell out of it. The entire point is to trade warez. I did an eXeem search for linux, and didn't get one result - so don't give me some bullshit about slackware isos. Society are like kindergarteners, they had a little freedom, and blew it. Now we're all going to be grounded.
Actually, is that why michael left? It wasn't long after he "wrote" a couple "eXeem is great! get your warez on eXeem!" articles that he left.
screen
.torrent files onto it, and grab them when they're finished.
ctorrent
What do you need a gui for a long running background process for?
Frankly I prefer to run btlaunchmany.py on a shared folder in screen, so I can drag and drop
How many USB2 tuners could you concievably hook up before you use up all the USB bandwidth?
The Hauppage 500 has two tuners, for less than the 250, I've been waiting patiently for it to be fully supported by the ivtv module (it was close a month ago when I checked)
Too bad theres no way to do it with USB 1.1, an xbox + usb tuner would make a kickass (and cheap) myth box.
I forgot to say that when you call to complain, they just explain "oh, we haven't updated the pictures yet, the page is out of date".
Since when is bait and switch not fraud?
If you ordered a 60" plasma screen TV off of the 'net, payed 5 large or so for it, and the site shipped you a 13" black and white set with a broken antenna, would you just shrug and go "oh that wacky internet! Heh heh hooray for their rights online (to rip me off)!"
Or perhaps this could be another layer of red tape and bullshit when dealing with the feds (which I have to do as a contractor).
Sorry to sound pessimistic, but I think my scenario is more plausible based purely on experience.
No, it didn't pass.
But it could have.
The method for constitutional change in Canada is to rewrite it. That was my point, and that is the way it is, not FUD.
And, for the record, I think it's better than the American way: pretending that the founding fathers were gods and their words can never be undone.
Oh yeah, fuck you and your foes list. Noone cares.
They should not be above the law just because their products fit snugly in your ass, even without lube.
Cool. Basically everything but the file you were looking for!
So it works just like Google.com!
I did a search for a library that was preventing stuff from compiling, and I got:
- a bunch of forum posts from other linux users who couldnt get it to compile.
- Portage links to the broken library in question. (of course it lists every single mirror on the planet, 4 or 5 pages worth)
- A bunch of porn/scam sites.
- A bunch of scam ebay redirect sites.
- A whole bunch of advertisements for various consulting firms.
Neat!
I travel constantly, and it's not an issue for me. If I needed to check an email, my cellphone doubles as a (expensive but it's the companys dime) modem. Frankly, it's just not an issue, since I'm mainly a developer, and if I wanted to work on some code while I'm waiting on a plane, I don't need to be online to do so.
I've never had any need for broadband while I'm waiting for a flight, and I'd much rather have a wired connection in the hotels I stay at, since my experience with hotel wi-fi (or hell, any public wi-fi) has been less than impressive.
Frankly waiting around in an airport or starbucks is the only chance I get to relax when travelling. I hate all this wireless tech, it just gives PHB's the expectation that, not unlike Inspector Gadget, us tech guys are "always on duty".
Fuck that. If you cant give me a place to plug in, then I'm not working.
Canada has no problem chucking the constitution in the trash and rewriting it whenever they see fit. (Meech lake, et al). There's nothing in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to stop any of these proposals.
They've done it more than a few times in the past. They try to do it every time a bunch of vocal racists in Quebec start piping up about the special priveledges they feel they deserve.
The US Constitution gets amended. The Canadian one gets rewritten.
... introducing a new wireless standard every few months, along with a whole new line of APs, cards, etc..
Until then, I'll stick with my 1000/100 wired LAN.
Dumb fucks and your anti-M$ crusade. This is no better than if they chose MS Office.
If anything, it's worse and will hamper communications between agencies and to the general public, who will now need to shell out for both MSOffice and WP if they're to deal with gov't.
But oh oh oh MS lost a sale!! hoorah!
That's a silly thing to say. That's like saying that your TV screen is yours, and the revenue from ads placed on it should be yours, and not TV station's.
No, thats not silly at all.
I payed for, and/or created all of the content on my PC.
NBC owns "Friends", if they want to splice in ads, it's up to them. *I* own "LetterToEditor.doc" and "sec_core.cpp".
Windows built in search is shitty for finding content inside files, and Outlook is shitty at finding content inside emails.
.c and .h files I mentioned earlier. And, as I said in another response to this thread, I just tried searching my 700MB plus outlook mailbox.pst file, and it took 29 seconds to return a few thousand results.
Define shitty.
Windows built in search found the
Google did not index my outlook mailbox at all. Unless this is a new feature.
I should also mention that Outlook did not present me with any context sensitive ads. I guess GDS is great if you complain about the lack of advertisments embedded in your personal data.
So far, thats the only feature I see that it has. Ads. Aside "speed", and really, searching even a completely full 80 gig HDD by walking through every file/dir with a simple VBScript doesn't take more than a couple minutes.
Betcha WinFS wont want to embed context-related ads into my search results.
We call that malware or spyware when other companies do it. Gator Desktop Search maybe.
Cool.
.pst file is 724,304KB at the moment.
.pst file at all when I tried it.
I don't delete emails. I happen to be using Outlook, too.
Google search doesnt (the version I tried) index the mailbox.pst file. Maybe it does now. My
So searching all my email for all references to a particular product takes... 29 seconds for a full text search. Less than two for a subject line only search.
Google does this better or faster? How please, because like I said, it didn't index the
If it works, then maybe that's something useful. Frankly though, 29 seconds isn't going to break me.
I agree.
Google has stated that their goal is to become the worlds biggest advertising service. They work around the clock to try and slip ads onto my computer without me noticing, or getting upset.
Why am I supposed to like them, exactly?
Frankly I prefer the honesty of a spam, or a flashing and blinking popup with audio, to what Google's doing. At least I know the spammers intent. I'm not sure what Google is trying to do.
GMail, no thanks. I DO NOT WANT CONTEXT-RELATED ADS EMBEDDED INTO MY EMAIL. Desktop Search, no thanks: I DO NOT WANT CONTEXT-RELATED ADS EMBEDDED INTO MY DESKTOP. I don't care if they're "non intrusive" or "text only".
My desktop is not for sale as advertising space. If it were, then the revenue generated from it should be MINE, not Googles.
"Tool Bar" sounds like a gay nightclub.
So does Google Bar.
So does Chocolate Bar, come to think of it.
The toolbar supports Bush, while the browser is a staunch Democrat.