Ever read the BBC news.bbs.co.uk? It's refreshing getting a non-US view on what is happening in the world, even though it's still a western opinion, I think they are a bit more impartial.
Make the moon base fluffy, and make the rover a giant catapult. When the bastard breaks down, hurl yourself back at the base. If you miss you are dead, but you were dead anyway...
This thing is a joke right, this can't possibly exist, it's huge! And what's the point? Did you see the picture of it driving down a highway, you know completely covering the highway? That's practical and probably doesn't harm the road in anyway (sarcasm)
You need seven tuners because the average household has more than 1 person watching TV in it. Unless you have roommates of a similar demographic, you might need to record two shows simultaneously that are uniquely desireable to each person in the house. Four person family, Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, all want to watch two shows... oh, oh, already one tuner short. Hopefully you can stream shows to other rooms so that you can actually watch a terebyte's worth of shows!
Yeah, or I could goto Officemax, and buy a hardware firewall for $15 bucks after rebate. It draws much less power, is totally silent, and is not going to go down when the 8 year old hard drive stops spinning. Oh, and it's really, really tiny and has a built in switch--unless you're protecting one box with a crossover cable, you are going to need a switch anyway, so for no additional space nor additional power you're firewalled.
The cost is not zero unless the processors are as adept at producing heat from electricity as your electric heater is. While I agree it costs less in winter because you are utilizing heat that otherwise goes to waste, the cost isn't zero because the processors are making less heat from more electricty than your heater is.
Dual head cards are pretty cheapo, if you don't need some horribly over the top Geforce 4 or something. I have a Geforce 2Mx 32 meg of RAM dual head and it works great. At work, I have the built-in video and a 2mb pci card and that works great as well, in both windows and linux. If all you are doing it displaying windowy stuff and not graphics, you won't even know which card is the 2 mb card. I bought 10 2 mb pci cards for 20 bucks off ebay, and I've just been giving them away to friends and at work. The cards are by AccelGraphics, and no I'd never heard of them either. I'm not sure the ATI Rage will do multiple monitor, it seems that I had a problem with that type of card in a multiple monitor configuration, but that was a long time ago give it a try! My laptop doesn't dig dual monitor, some just don't, but you should try to get a driver from ATI instead of from IBM. You could futz up your system but it might be worth a shot.
Oh my god this is the funniest comment ever! If I had any idea how the modding stuff worked I would highly encourage making it 5: funny or whatever. It's funny because it's true.
Writing is easier/faster unless you only want to use one hand. Most of the time that other hand is holding something: briefcase, bottle of water, railing, another hand (well, it could happen), etc. If the whole phone was pen shaped except for a large flat screen on the top (think icepick) and I could write into thin air that could work. I sold my palm because I could not use it while walking around and if I was sitting I'd rather write on real paper or whip out the laptop.
VW's are not gay. An old woman's car they may be, but not a gay man's car. Consider the Mitsubishi Eclipse--it is by far the gayest car, in terms of being desired and driven by homosexual men.
Hi, I used to be a tech, I miss stupid user stories--now I work in networking and never have to actually interact with them anymore. I need to be reminded how dumb they are. Lighten up!
Who checks the inside of the oven?
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Do you check the inside of the oven everytime you turn it on? I came home late one night when I was living at home and preheated the oven to make a pizza. My friends and I went upstairs, 10 minutes later we smelled the most aweful thing: cooking cat food! My mother, it seems, stores cat food in the oven overnight (is it just me or is that really gross regardless). I found every fan in the house and plugged them in the kitchen, opened the windows wide in the middle of winter. I'll agree with the sentiment that some kids probably shoved it in there. POSSIBLY an adult wanting to hide it from children. We may never know.
My father is trying to start a software company, and I know for a fact that he could not install Windows. Heck, a friend of mine just graduated with a Computer Science degree from my university, and I had to walk her through installing Windows 98 (the only reasonable windows to install on a machine with these specs). I spent 2 hours on the phone with her, and she is to this day proud to have "done it herself". Installing an OS is nothing a typical user can do. Just because we have done it thousands of times, doesn't mean the "Average" user can use fdisk, format, etc. Never overestimate the user!
They say on the site that a large canister will provide 11.5 hours at 1/2 its capacity, and the smaller canister 5 hours. There are 3 stores near me, and I live in the middle of nowhere that sell the canisters. Go look at the site for the canister site and find out how much they are.
I am in intern in a networking department where we use all cisco stuff. Spanning tree and some other protocols are very scary because once one switch declares itself a server of a given protocol, other switches "fall for it" and believe the new switch over the router. Getting the network back is not as easy as turning off the offender, because the other switches are now set for a different switch server. Power outages are also very scary because if switches use any type of dynamic protocol, they have to come back up in the right order; which Murphy's Law seems to indicate would never happen. Networks are fragile, I'm surprised there arn't more massive outages. The answer might be to hire competant network staff, and perhaps train some other IT employees with basic knowledge to help in emergencies. A second network seems a little extreme--both cost and management wise.
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Ever read the BBC news.bbs.co.uk? It's refreshing getting a non-US view on what is happening in the world, even though it's still a western opinion, I think they are a bit more impartial.
Make the moon base fluffy, and make the rover a giant catapult. When the bastard breaks down, hurl yourself back at the base. If you miss you are dead, but you were dead anyway...
This thing is a joke right, this can't possibly exist, it's huge! And what's the point? Did you see the picture of it driving down a highway, you know completely covering the highway? That's practical and probably doesn't harm the road in anyway (sarcasm)
uh, two and a half theories?
You need seven tuners because the average household has more than 1 person watching TV in it. Unless you have roommates of a similar demographic, you might need to record two shows simultaneously that are uniquely desireable to each person in the house. Four person family, Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, all want to watch two shows... oh, oh, already one tuner short. Hopefully you can stream shows to other rooms so that you can actually watch a terebyte's worth of shows!
Yeah, or I could goto Officemax, and buy a hardware firewall for $15 bucks after rebate. It draws much less power, is totally silent, and is not going to go down when the 8 year old hard drive stops spinning. Oh, and it's really, really tiny and has a built in switch--unless you're protecting one box with a crossover cable, you are going to need a switch anyway, so for no additional space nor additional power you're firewalled.
Well I think this is brilliant! Except what happens when they get a little over zealous and chomp through a wire?
- Go to www.rpmfind.net
- search for apt
- download the appropriate rpm
- run: rpm -Uvh apt-get-xxx.rpm (as root)
- run: apt-get update (to get most up to date package list)
- run: apt-get upgrade (to update any out of date packages)
Hope this helpsThe cost is not zero unless the processors are as adept at producing heat from electricity as your electric heater is. While I agree it costs less in winter because you are utilizing heat that otherwise goes to waste, the cost isn't zero because the processors are making less heat from more electricty than your heater is.
Dual head cards are pretty cheapo, if you don't need some horribly over the top Geforce 4 or something. I have a Geforce 2Mx 32 meg of RAM dual head and it works great. At work, I have the built-in video and a 2mb pci card and that works great as well, in both windows and linux. If all you are doing it displaying windowy stuff and not graphics, you won't even know which card is the 2 mb card. I bought 10 2 mb pci cards for 20 bucks off ebay, and I've just been giving them away to friends and at work. The cards are by AccelGraphics, and no I'd never heard of them either. I'm not sure the ATI Rage will do multiple monitor, it seems that I had a problem with that type of card in a multiple monitor configuration, but that was a long time ago give it a try! My laptop doesn't dig dual monitor, some just don't, but you should try to get a driver from ATI instead of from IBM. You could futz up your system but it might be worth a shot.
Oh my god this is the funniest comment ever! If I had any idea how the modding stuff worked I would highly encourage making it 5: funny or whatever. It's funny because it's true.
Writing is easier/faster unless you only want to use one hand. Most of the time that other hand is holding something: briefcase, bottle of water, railing, another hand (well, it could happen), etc. If the whole phone was pen shaped except for a large flat screen on the top (think icepick) and I could write into thin air that could work. I sold my palm because I could not use it while walking around and if I was sitting I'd rather write on real paper or whip out the laptop.
VW's are not gay. An old woman's car they may be, but not a gay man's car. Consider the Mitsubishi Eclipse--it is by far the gayest car, in terms of being desired and driven by homosexual men.
Hi, I used to be a tech, I miss stupid user stories--now I work in networking and never have to actually interact with them anymore. I need to be reminded how dumb they are. Lighten up!
Do you check the inside of the oven everytime you turn it on? I came home late one night when I was living at home and preheated the oven to make a pizza. My friends and I went upstairs, 10 minutes later we smelled the most aweful thing: cooking cat food! My mother, it seems, stores cat food in the oven overnight (is it just me or is that really gross regardless). I found every fan in the house and plugged them in the kitchen, opened the windows wide in the middle of winter. I'll agree with the sentiment that some kids probably shoved it in there. POSSIBLY an adult wanting to hide it from children. We may never know.
My father is trying to start a software company, and I know for a fact that he could not install Windows. Heck, a friend of mine just graduated with a Computer Science degree from my university, and I had to walk her through installing Windows 98 (the only reasonable windows to install on a machine with these specs). I spent 2 hours on the phone with her, and she is to this day proud to have "done it herself". Installing an OS is nothing a typical user can do. Just because we have done it thousands of times, doesn't mean the "Average" user can use fdisk, format, etc. Never overestimate the user!
They say on the site that a large canister will provide 11.5 hours at 1/2 its capacity, and the smaller canister 5 hours. There are 3 stores near me, and I live in the middle of nowhere that sell the canisters. Go look at the site for the canister site and find out how much they are.
Networks are fragile, I'm surprised there arn't more massive outages.
The answer might be to hire competant network staff, and perhaps train some other IT employees with basic knowledge to help in emergencies. A second network seems a little extreme--both cost and management wise.
KISS: Keep it simple, stupid!