...At least this robot might create the opportunity to go play outside...
yeah. What you going to do? chain your kid to the robot and spring for the extra nice mag wheels to drag the little fecker into the "big blue room" on command?
from TFA......Many people have asked whether or not they can install OS4 on their Macintosh, since both use PowerPC hardware. The answer is no, as OS4 requires a custom ROM embedded on all AmigaOne motherboards in order to boot. This was done under agreement between Eyetech and Hyperion, in order to cut down on piracy and to reduce the number of hardware combinations that Hyperion needed to test and support...
I was pretty interested until I got to that "custom boot rom". Hell, guys, even Apple tossed that requirement when they went to NewWorld.
Severely limits the usefulness of the hardware and software in my eyes. Guess I'm not the target audience then.
If mr snooty "Former Editor in Chief, the Encyclopædia Britannica" would have taken the time to fix the article he was bitching about instead of brewing up some fluff piece for that website the world would be in a much better place.
Wikipedians: "We give humanity the chance to put together the largest encyclopedia in the world together for free, from the goodness of our hearts and with no expectation of any repayment, ever"
Snooty Bastard: "It's not good enough"
Goddamned bastard should drop his fricking act, roll up his sleeves and help instead of bitch. I have.
Seems to work for me (OS X). Just make an empty directory, drop this script in it and run. Remember, slashdot mangles posts so go to my blog for the un-mangled script. Cheers!
#!/bin/bash while (:); do export name=`date +%m.%d.%y-%H:%M:%S` wget http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/images/m shvolcanocam.jpg -O $name.jpg #sleeps for 15 minutes sleep 900 done
I took a look at SafariSpeed (linked here: http://www.scifience.net/safarispeed.html ) and it looks like it's just an applescript wrapper around a shell script.
Kill safari, open a terminal and paste in (without the ""):
Damaged Display Install Linux on it and make it into a server! Tiny or Dead Hard Drive Yep! Boot it from a CD and use it as a server! Low Memory A low memory server! Dead Battery plug it into a wall outlet and use it as a server! Busted Keyboard or Touch Pad Hook up a external keyboard and use it as a server! Low Resolution Display Servers dont need a display! All of The Above? Can you see where im going with this? Conclusion With a little imagination, just about any old piece of junk laptop can be a server!
This graphical data mining tool runs on desktops and costs $1,000 per user for a standard edition and $1,600 per user for a professional version. Will this company be successful and become another Google?
Let's see:
One has a kick ass interface and is free. One runs on windows and cost over 1K per user
One is geek friendly and intelligent. One is utterly, utterly unknown.
One has "Do No Evil" all over their offices One astroturfs Slashdot for a news story
Ok guys, run with it for a while and see if someone notices. I imagine enough threads with this modded up the better chance of this color scheme going away. the evil color scheme starts with http://it.slashdot.org...blah. just pull off the 'it.' and the color scheme switches back to normal. Here, a nice copy-and-paste template, just populate it with the edited link like so:
Fix the Colors!
Mod me up if you hate the color scheme. Here's a fixed link using the "old" slashdot colors:
<a href=""></a>
that's it. Good luck!
(P.S. This is not for Karma. It's already excellent. I could care less. I would like to stop flinching when I bring up a page, however.)
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like zip codes work as well. Nice.
Here's mine, 64119.
Just in case you need it...
Clickie!
Instead of a crank, why doesn't someone get two balloon-like objects..
;-)
Looks like someone is still thinking about the current poll
heh
...At least this robot might create the opportunity to go play outside...
yeah. What you going to do? chain your kid to the robot and spring for the extra nice mag wheels to drag the little fecker into the "big blue room" on command?
I have heard YMCA an inordinate amount of times on my ipod shuffle. I wonder what that means.
;)
Means you need to steal better music, of course
How about bringing back a show that was interesting and original, like Firefly?
That would be worth the money. Not watching YATS (Yet Another Trek Show).
Do we really want to turn our bodies into a battlefield for germ warfare?
Yes. You better believe it.
After seeing my mother die from cancer I would give anything to make sure no one else would ever have to go through what me and my sister did.
In short, hell yeah. Bring it on.
from TFA... ...Many people have asked whether or not they can install OS4 on their Macintosh, since both use PowerPC hardware. The answer is no, as OS4 requires a custom ROM embedded on all AmigaOne motherboards in order to boot. This was done under agreement between Eyetech and Hyperion, in order to cut down on piracy and to reduce the number of hardware combinations that Hyperion needed to test and support...
I was pretty interested until I got to that "custom boot rom". Hell, guys, even Apple tossed that requirement when they went to NewWorld.
Severely limits the usefulness of the hardware and software in my eyes. Guess I'm not the target audience then.
...WITH REMAINING EYE
"...microbes are used to extract electricity directly from food - in this case flies or apple."
:D
If that's the case, when will these cool little bots gain the capability to cut out the middleman and huff shit directly into their little hoppers?
Someone let me know. I got a gift idea for Bosses Day.
If mr snooty "Former Editor in Chief, the Encyclopædia Britannica" would have taken the time to fix the article he was bitching about instead of brewing up some fluff piece for that website the world would be in a much better place.
Wikipedians: "We give humanity the chance to put together the largest encyclopedia in the world together for free, from the goodness of our hearts and with no expectation of any repayment, ever"
Snooty Bastard: "It's not good enough"
Goddamned bastard should drop his fricking act, roll up his sleeves and help instead of bitch. I have.
Close, but no importing .aiff and interface is pretty clunky. the app mentioned in the article looks very polished.
Would be nice to have more GPLed/Free audio/music editing apps for macos X. Sure, Garageband is nice, but the more the merrier!
Isn't by definition, OSS happens to be more of a 'stratch an itch' concept rather than a 'how much money can we make from this' thing?
Now, who can forget the Prime Number Shitting Bear?
Seems to work for me (OS X). Just make an empty directory, drop this script in it and run. Remember, slashdot mangles posts so go to my blog for the un-mangled script. Cheers!
m shvolcanocam.jpg -O $name.jpg
#!/bin/bash
while (:); do
export name=`date +%m.%d.%y-%H:%M:%S`
wget http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/images/
#sleeps for 15 minutes
sleep 900
done
I took a look at SafariSpeed (linked here: http://www.scifience.net/safarispeed.html ) and it looks like it's just an applescript wrapper around a shell script.
Kill safari, open a terminal and paste in (without the ""):
"defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.0001"
To change the timeout. To turn it back off:
"defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 1.0"
Try it out. I just made the adjustment so I can't tell at the moment.
Hope that helps someone out!
Damaged Display
Install Linux on it and make it into a server!
Tiny or Dead Hard Drive
Yep! Boot it from a CD and use it as a server!
Low Memory
A low memory server!
Dead Battery
plug it into a wall outlet and use it as a server!
Busted Keyboard or Touch Pad
Hook up a external keyboard and use it as a server!
Low Resolution Display
Servers dont need a display!
All of The Above?
Can you see where im going with this?
Conclusion
With a little imagination, just about any old piece of junk laptop can be a server!
Wait a while. It's still early.
This graphical data mining tool runs on desktops and costs $1,000 per user for a standard edition and $1,600 per user for a professional version. Will this company be successful and become another Google?
Let's see:
One has a kick ass interface and is free.
One runs on windows and cost over 1K per user
One is geek friendly and intelligent.
One is utterly, utterly unknown.
One has "Do No Evil" all over their offices
One astroturfs Slashdot for a news story
Dunno guys. I think it's a wash.
Write your own operating system.
License it however you like it.
Otherwise, piss off.
Thanks!
Signed,
The Linux Community.
Shift your Paradigm's till your fucking blue in the face. I want newton '05.
Let's Slashdot the piss outta her to show her our support!
wait, looks like you already got to it.
Ok, carry on, then.
[how Ingres compares to MySQL, Posgresql, Oracle?]
;)
So far, all I got is: The others aren't offering a million dollars for conversion tools.
Hope that helps!
Ok guys, run with it for a while and see if someone notices. I imagine enough threads with this modded up the better chance of this color scheme going away.
the evil color scheme starts with http://it.slashdot.org...blah. just pull off the 'it.' and the color scheme switches back to normal.
Here, a nice copy-and-paste template, just populate it with the edited link like so:
Fix the Colors!
Mod me up if you hate the color scheme. Here's a fixed link using the "old" slashdot colors:
<a href=""></a>
that's it. Good luck!
(P.S. This is not for Karma. It's already excellent. I could care less. I would like to stop flinching when I bring up a page, however.)