Then you've probably been the cause of more than just a trifle of unnecessary computer pollution down at the local landfill.
Monitors routinely get a little out of focus, and not all of them have little access holes to reach the adjustment knob(s). So you open the case and have at it.
Monitors also just sort of "fade out to black" with a frequency that is not insignificant. Same deal as with the focus, except the knob inside will say "screen." Give it a tweak and a black monitor suddenly comes right back to full life.
Some monitors will also get a little wonky in the color balance department, and again, will have no ability to adjust this from the outside, but will have a set of knobs inside that can be twiddled to restore proper color.
And finally, some monitors just go dead as a doornail because a small fuse inside has blown. Swap out the fuse and presto, new monitor.
None of the above items involve any kind of "rewiring" or replacement of components (unless you want to call a fuse a "component") and can be done by anybody with a screwdriver and enough common sense to keep from electrocuting themselves.
I'm sitting here in a room containing a whole slew of monitors, amongst which ALL of the above proceedures have been performed to salutory effect.
I'm guessing that the people who design pages that look this way are the same people that, while still in school, simply COULD NOT take notes or work problems without attempting to crab EVERYTHING on to a single sheet of paper.
It's a weird tendency and I've yet to hear a sensible explanation from anybody who does this. THEY are fully aware that it's worse than useless to crab too much stuff into a limited amount of room (especially in light of the fact that additional room comes pretty cheap), and yet somehow they're simply COMPELLED to do so.
Good topic for a Psych Major to do a thesis on, but that's about it.
Bullshit. Private companies should not have a monopoly on information that was collected and processed using taxpayers money.
Amen, brother!
Below, my own unworthy letter to the NWS regarding the proposed policy, complete with cc's.
As a SERVICE, subsidized by government tax revenue, the NWS should provide all raw and processed data that it generates, to the public for no additional charge above and beyond the original tax revenue that was collected.
Paying for my weather twice, in the form of having to pay commercial services in order to obtain data that was originally collected using MY tax dollars, is a type of double taxation at best and outright theft at worst.
The interests of public safety are best served by the widest dissemination of that data on which decisions can be made. Anyone who is unable to interpret the raw and/or processed data generated by the NWS is free to purchace additionally processed forms of that data from commercial enterprises, either directly, via subscription-based specialty services such as are available at Accuweather and other specialty outlets, or indirectly, via advertiser-sponsored services on the internet, television, radio, etc . No one should be COMPELLED to purchace additionally processed data if they choose not to do so.
Commercial enterprises that advocate any other position can only be doing so in their OWN self interest as opposed to a genuine interest in PUBLIC safety. I find this to be an unacceptable position regarding a SERVICE that is, at its root, founded upon my tax dollar.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the above, please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience at either my email address of "xxx@xxx.com" or my personal address at xxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx xxx xx xxxxxxx
And even though I charge for cleaning the machines, it just gets tiresome to constantly do the same process to the same machines.
Well then, you're obviously not charging enough. With a proper pricing structure, you'll either be relieved of your duties on a given box, or look forward with joy in your heart toward the next exciting installment of Joe User Screws The Pooch (Again). Either way, you win.
Won't it be nice when they finally figure out how to make EXCELLENT music algorithmically? And even better when we can dial that music to suit our own individual tastes? And even maybe have some kind of diddybop that would allow the machine to read our emotional state in some kind of basic way (heart rate, skin temperature, whatever) to let it give us a variety of music that would keep in tune with our mood?
Yeah, that will be nice. And I can't even imagine why somebody would want to smother such a thing in its crib, so I'm sure we'll all be listening to our own private music here real soon.
Dunno, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't run windows.
By the way, my mom used to work for Univac as a stenographer, out on Cape Canaveral back in the 50's. She'd bring home boxes of punched tapes, punch cards, and all the rest of the detritus of mid 20th century computing. We thought we were the hot shit playing around with that stuff as kids. Space Age! Whoa!
Success itself is a concept that few really delve into with any depth. If you're smart enough to bail out on the whole damned Blueberry Charade, you stand half a chance of achieving a success that the counting of beans simply will not admit even exists.
Throw away the tv, it's poisoning you.
Learn to live low. Discover how to weed the willfully stupid, the insincere, the mindlessly ambitious, and all other less than honorable people from your life and then hold tightly to the few good people who remain, by doing good by them at every opportunity.
Raise one good child. Ask only that your child be honest, intelligent, and kind.
Find a thing outside the mainstream that's worthy of a lifetime of joyous study and practice, fully capable of delivering tremendous hard knocks in addition to delivering sublime feelings of joy and achievement. For me, surfing fits that bill, for you it will be something else.
Do well by strangers and give everyone a chance. Those who attempt to take advantage unfairly, sweep forever from your life that you may move forward to find better folk.
People on their death beds never look back on their lives and measure using things like cars, houses, and material things in general. It's all about love and how you treated, and were treated, by your fellow humans, family in particular.
Good luck figuring this stuff out, it's not easy nor does it come quickly. Eyes kept open will eventually see, however, so by all means do so.
So let me get this straight. Not only did you NOT back up your profile directory, but you also just downloaded and installed a beta on to your primary computer without even bothering to run it on your (or somebody's) test rig to see what it did first?
Ok, I agree. You DO need a warning, but I'm guessing it's not exactly the warning you had in mind.
They make it sound like the rover is undergoing a massive risk, and doing something utterly untoward, by entering the crater - this is nothing new in science - the majority of space probes are designed for limited function, and not to survive their missions, witness voyager and the like.
"Oh tra la la, I sent a perfectly functioning multi-million dollar spacecraft into an environment that destroyed it. Well golly shoo, what a shame. No more science for the rest of you guys. Yeah, I know you've invested the last ten years of your life in preparing for this, but you're simply going to have to move on now. Oh well, these things happen, don't they?"
Your attitude bespeaks a profound lack of understanding. If I was working on one of the consoles next to you and you pulled a stunt like that, I'd personally come over there and MAIM you. Not kill you, but MAIM you. My intent would be to make sure that you lived a long life of terrible suffering to pay for your foolish approach to matters which you are unable to comprehend fully.
Surely noone is going to have a problem with sending the company's plans to take over foosoft over an encrypted link.
Don't bank on it. These guys are casting the net as far and as wide as they can. As far as they can tell, "foodsoft" is a code word inside an encrypted message that refers to the White House. And while they're puzzling over that one, whether for ill or for good, you can rest assured that they will be taking the fine-toothed comb to everything else, with results that you cannot know. Tinfoil hat talk? Certainly. But history has already provided way more than the standard twoexamples of a state gone overboard against its own citizens. It can, and it will, happen again. Budding tyrants rely on most people's distaste for history, as it allows them to maneuver for their own advantage in a much less restricted environment.
My guess is that by merely sending data with that sort of encryption, you are waving a red flag in the direction of Those Who Would Seek to Watch Over You.
At which point other, less straightforward methods may be employed as seen fit by The Watchers.
this article is all about playing with a new destructive toy and not much about using the toy in question to do interesting science-related experiments.
Yeah, and I guess it shouldda been Smiley Captioned for the Humor Impared, too.
I daresay this may be the long sought for absolutely sure method for permanently removing data from a hard drive in such a way that nobody, not even the NSA will be able to recover it.
You have to explicitly tell it to search inside all files.
To change this:
Search
Change Preferences
With Indexing Service (you don't have to actually enable it)
Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced)
Action > Properties
Check [x] Index files with unknown extensions
And people wonder why I dredge through slashdot.
It's to find nuggets like this. Every XP box I ever lay hands on in the future will have this tweak.
Whether I'm stupid or not for not having known this little sleight of hand is not what matters. What matters is, Thank you Sir.
functional equivalent to updatedb to run at regular intervals
Assuming people shut their machines down by telling the software to shut down (as opposed to just killing the power), why won't the following work?
Run the update as part of the shutdown process and save that. The machine takes longer to finish turning itself off. So what? Load what you saved at the next startup and merely append changes to it for as long as the machine runs, saving as you go. Repeat every time the machine is turned off. For folks who don't turn the machine off, give them an autoupdate option to run at 3am or some equally convenient hour for the user. Or am I missing something vital here and am too dazed to appreciate it?
It always puzzled me why/. never seems to get as much spam as other message boards that allow anonymous cowards. Was this ever a problem, and how was it solved?
Because you'd like to be able to read anything you want for free, no matter what effort might have gone into it ?
We already know what the fucking RIAA and all their little besuited buddies think about this. Please don't bother to try and flog that dead horse around here.
Slashdot Mirror
Then you've probably been the cause of more than just a trifle of unnecessary computer pollution down at the local landfill.
Monitors routinely get a little out of focus, and not all of them have little access holes to reach the adjustment knob(s). So you open the case and have at it.
Monitors also just sort of "fade out to black" with a frequency that is not insignificant. Same deal as with the focus, except the knob inside will say "screen." Give it a tweak and a black monitor suddenly comes right back to full life.
Some monitors will also get a little wonky in the color balance department, and again, will have no ability to adjust this from the outside, but will have a set of knobs inside that can be twiddled to restore proper color.
And finally, some monitors just go dead as a doornail because a small fuse inside has blown. Swap out the fuse and presto, new monitor.
None of the above items involve any kind of "rewiring" or replacement of components (unless you want to call a fuse a "component") and can be done by anybody with a screwdriver and enough common sense to keep from electrocuting themselves.
I'm sitting here in a room containing a whole slew of monitors, amongst which ALL of the above proceedures have been performed to salutory effect.
Face hell, I'm still pissed off over that whole canal fiasco!
Aw hell, we like Jesse James and John Dillinger too. Yeah, they were asswipes, but we still like 'em.
Too much stuff on each page.
In a word, clutter.
I'm guessing that the people who design pages that look this way are the same people that, while still in school, simply COULD NOT take notes or work problems without attempting to crab EVERYTHING on to a single sheet of paper.
It's a weird tendency and I've yet to hear a sensible explanation from anybody who does this. THEY are fully aware that it's worse than useless to crab too much stuff into a limited amount of room (especially in light of the fact that additional room comes pretty cheap), and yet somehow they're simply COMPELLED to do so.
Good topic for a Psych Major to do a thesis on, but that's about it.
Knock off the clutter!
Amen, brother!
Below, my own unworthy letter to the NWS regarding the proposed policy, complete with cc's.
As a SERVICE, subsidized by government tax revenue, the NWS should provide all raw and processed data that it generates, to the public for no additional charge above and beyond the original tax revenue that was collected.
Paying for my weather twice, in the form of having to pay commercial services in order to obtain data that was originally collected using MY tax dollars, is a type of double taxation at best and outright theft at worst.
The interests of public safety are best served by the widest dissemination of that data on which decisions can be made. Anyone who is unable to interpret the raw and/or processed data generated by the NWS is free to purchace additionally processed forms of that data from commercial enterprises, either directly, via subscription-based specialty services such as are available at Accuweather and other specialty outlets, or indirectly, via advertiser-sponsored services on the internet, television, radio, etc . No one should be COMPELLED to purchace additionally processed data if they choose not to do so.
Commercial enterprises that advocate any other position can only be doing so in their OWN self interest as opposed to a genuine interest in PUBLIC safety. I find this to be an unacceptable position regarding a SERVICE that is, at its root, founded upon my tax dollar.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the above, please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience at either my email address of "xxx@xxx.com" or my personal address at xxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx xxx xx xxxxxxx
Regards,
xxxxx xxxxxxxx
cc:
DL.Johnson@noaa.gov Conrad.C.Lautenbacher@noaa.gov devans@doc.gov myersb@accuweather.com
Well then, you're obviously not charging enough. With a proper pricing structure, you'll either be relieved of your duties on a given box, or look forward with joy in your heart toward the next exciting installment of Joe User Screws The Pooch (Again). Either way, you win.
The prosecution rests. Guilty! Take him to the gibbet in the morning.
Yeah, that will be nice. And I can't even imagine why somebody would want to smother such a thing in its crib, so I'm sure we'll all be listening to our own private music here real soon.
Dunno, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't run windows.
By the way, my mom used to work for Univac as a stenographer, out on Cape Canaveral back in the 50's. She'd bring home boxes of punched tapes, punch cards, and all the rest of the detritus of mid 20th century computing. We thought we were the hot shit playing around with that stuff as kids. Space Age! Whoa!
Success itself is a concept that few really delve into with any depth. If you're smart enough to bail out on the whole damned Blueberry Charade, you stand half a chance of achieving a success that the counting of beans simply will not admit even exists.
Throw away the tv, it's poisoning you.
Learn to live low. Discover how to weed the willfully stupid, the insincere, the mindlessly ambitious, and all other less than honorable people from your life and then hold tightly to the few good people who remain, by doing good by them at every opportunity.
Raise one good child. Ask only that your child be honest, intelligent, and kind.
Find a thing outside the mainstream that's worthy of a lifetime of joyous study and practice, fully capable of delivering tremendous hard knocks in addition to delivering sublime feelings of joy and achievement. For me, surfing fits that bill, for you it will be something else.
Do well by strangers and give everyone a chance. Those who attempt to take advantage unfairly, sweep forever from your life that you may move forward to find better folk.
People on their death beds never look back on their lives and measure using things like cars, houses, and material things in general. It's all about love and how you treated, and were treated, by your fellow humans, family in particular.
Good luck figuring this stuff out, it's not easy nor does it come quickly. Eyes kept open will eventually see, however, so by all means do so.
Yeah, sure. Whatever.
Different tentacles, same octopus.
So let me get this straight. Not only did you NOT back up your profile directory, but you also just downloaded and installed a beta on to your primary computer without even bothering to run it on your (or somebody's) test rig to see what it did first?
Ok, I agree. You DO need a warning, but I'm guessing it's not exactly the warning you had in mind.
"Oh tra la la, I sent a perfectly functioning multi-million dollar spacecraft into an environment that destroyed it. Well golly shoo, what a shame. No more science for the rest of you guys. Yeah, I know you've invested the last ten years of your life in preparing for this, but you're simply going to have to move on now. Oh well, these things happen, don't they?"
Your attitude bespeaks a profound lack of understanding. If I was working on one of the consoles next to you and you pulled a stunt like that, I'd personally come over there and MAIM you. Not kill you, but MAIM you. My intent would be to make sure that you lived a long life of terrible suffering to pay for your foolish approach to matters which you are unable to comprehend fully.
Don't bank on it. These guys are casting the net as far and as wide as they can. As far as they can tell, "foodsoft" is a code word inside an encrypted message that refers to the White House. And while they're puzzling over that one, whether for ill or for good, you can rest assured that they will be taking the fine-toothed comb to everything else, with results that you cannot know. Tinfoil hat talk? Certainly. But history has already provided way more than the standard two examples of a state gone overboard against its own citizens. It can, and it will, happen again. Budding tyrants rely on most people's distaste for history, as it allows them to maneuver for their own advantage in a much less restricted environment.
If you haven't got anything to hide you don't need privacy?......said the lamb as it was being led to slaughter.
We're already there. Things can and will get worse, but we're already there.
My guess is that by merely sending data with that sort of encryption, you are waving a red flag in the direction of Those Who Would Seek to Watch Over You.
At which point other, less straightforward methods may be employed as seen fit by The Watchers.
Burn the garage!
Yeah, and I guess it shouldda been Smiley Captioned for the Humor Impared, too.
I daresay this may be the long sought for absolutely sure method for permanently removing data from a hard drive in such a way that nobody, not even the NSA will be able to recover it.
Job well done, guys!
I suppose it's all in the ear of the beholder or something. Ah well.
To change this:
Search
Change Preferences
With Indexing Service (you don't have to actually enable it)
Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced)
Action > Properties
Check [x] Index files with unknown extensions
And people wonder why I dredge through slashdot.
It's to find nuggets like this. Every XP box I ever lay hands on in the future will have this tweak.
Whether I'm stupid or not for not having known this little sleight of hand is not what matters. What matters is, Thank you Sir.
Assuming people shut their machines down by telling the software to shut down (as opposed to just killing the power), why won't the following work?
Run the update as part of the shutdown process and save that. The machine takes longer to finish turning itself off. So what? Load what you saved at the next startup and merely append changes to it for as long as the machine runs, saving as you go. Repeat every time the machine is turned off. For folks who don't turn the machine off, give them an autoupdate option to run at 3am or some equally convenient hour for the user. Or am I missing something vital here and am too dazed to appreciate it?
All things in Moderation.
We already know what the fucking RIAA and all their little besuited buddies think about this. Please don't bother to try and flog that dead horse around here.