(Yes, I know... *whoosh" goes the joke over my head...)
Actually, dust wasn't the problem. It was the pins. They would get bent more and more each time you inserted a cartridge, to the point of not making contact anymore. A small screwdriver and a lot of patience can fix that;)
My plain-jane stereo Pioneer amp also takes a good 5 seconds from power-on to actually produce any output. And it involves a relay going 'click', too. Perhaps it's some sort of warm-up circuit or something.
But if you conside those 5 seconds to be literally "forever", you are rather impatient.
Just be glad you don't have a real tube amp. Those things could take anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes to warm up properly and start playing music.
I share all your sentiments about Sony TVs and online games.
If you wash it by hand, dry it thoroughly, and wipe some rape seed oil on it, it won't rust. And if it does rust a bit, fine sandpaper and oil are your friends.
I have cast iron frying pan that I use from time to time when I feel like cooking myself a good ol' steak. As far as I've been told, it's been in my family for more than 75 years. Still looks as good as new, though the wooden handle needed a fixin';)
I've just moved out 4 weeks ago, mostly because I got a job about 200km away from home. The food we can buy at work is pretty damn good, actually. There are different hot dishes, veggie dishes and sub-30% fat dishes every day, in addition to a pretty damn sweet salad bar. What I do is I usually have the hot dish or the sub-30% dish around noon, and some light food at home in the evening, mostly something like a few slices of rye bread and an apple or two.
In addition to fitting my personal rhythm better, I've also lost almost 4kg these 4 weeks. Dunno if it's just coicidence, but I actually feel better, too.
I guess moving from a "large meal in the evening" rhythm to a "large meal at noon" rhythm was a good idea, after all.
It works like a charm, and best of all, thanks to the ioslave framework, every application written for KDE supports it automatically. I wish the KDE and Gnome guys would get together and at the very least share the ioslave stuff. Or perhaps make it a system-wide function that somehow makes all apps share the functionality, kinda like on Plan9.
You just have to remember stuff like the fact that F5 doesn't refresh the current page, like in every single other piece of Windows software. Noooo, that's the shortcut for logging out. F9 is refresh, of course. Duh.
Other than that, Notes is a pretty good and very versatile piece of software, but the non-standard shortcut keys really bug me.
Fallout 1 and 2 can easily be played using only the mouse.
The "Ask About" dialog feature in Fallout 1 is obviously keyboard-only, but it's a pretty useless feature anyway, and other than that, both games should be very much completable using only a (head)mouse.
And the fact that Fallout 1 and 2 are among the 5 best computer RPGs ever makes the deal even sweeter.
You can pick up a double pack containing both games (sometimes even with the very cool printed manuals) from most bargain bins. I highly encourage anyone who hasn't already played these wonderful games to do just that. And do remember to apply the patches. They fix a lot of problems.
We develop games currently for PS2, XBox, Windows and previously NGC.
Any particular reason for not developing games for the GC anymore? After all, it has got higher hardware sales than the Xbox, but then again, much of the core audience is somewhat japanese-oriented to a certain degree, perhaps making it harder for western-oriented developers to thrive.
But I'd like to know why you've stopped.
For instance, I was very disappointed that Bugbear weren't porting Flatout to the GC, bloody brilliant game that it is.
I just imagined it would be roughly the same size as the ARM processors I've seen inside various PDAs. But then again, they're probably a lot more powerful, anyway.
I have a Jens Of Sweden MP-400, and with the latest firmware it plays Ogg Vorbis up to and including Q9 quality.
I have a very hard time imagining how they would shoehorn an ARM7 into a device not much larger than my thumb, what with also fitting a rechargeable LiIon battery with nearly 20 hours playing time inside.
The Toshiba Portégé R100 is very cool, ultra light and gets upwards of 8 hours of battery life with the extended battery. It comes with a 1.1GHz Pentium-M, 256MB ram and a 40GB HDD.
It's also quite a bit more powerful than the MM1110, and much more affordable than the damn cool Sony X505.
And the build quality is very impressive, IMHO. Almost as good a a Thinkpad.
Don't worry. Some (most?) geeks are still very attracted to brainy girls, but I'll admit that beauty still plays a big part.
Personally, I like intelligent, chess-playing, beer-drinking girls, and I've found that I am very, very attracted by 'quirky'-looking females. A cute face with a playful gleam in the eye, perhaps a few freckles and a cute smile is infinitely more attractive than the IMO boring standard "look at me, I'm a model" look.
I'm sure I share this preference with many, many other geeks.
Don't worry about it. Really. You're intelligent. You're a geek girl. You rock by definition. The odds are in your favour.
Rubber bands or rubber grommets cut the noise pretty well, but since you're decoupling your drive from the metal drivecage, it will get noticably hotter.
I'd recommend checking out Silent PC Review. They have a lot of great tips and neat ideas for silencing.
IMHO the iPod is nearly perfect as it is. The only reason I still don't own one is the lack of Ogg Vorbis support. Anything more than that is just gravy.
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Yes, that's definitely a better solution if you have a soldering iron and aren't afraid to use it...
I didn't even know those parts were still available. Thanks for the link!
(Yes, I know... *whoosh" goes the joke over my head...)
;)
Actually, dust wasn't the problem. It was the pins. They would get bent more and more each time you inserted a cartridge, to the point of not making contact anymore. A small screwdriver and a lot of patience can fix that
My plain-jane stereo Pioneer amp also takes a good 5 seconds from power-on to actually produce any output. And it involves a relay going 'click', too. Perhaps it's some sort of warm-up circuit or something.
But if you conside those 5 seconds to be literally "forever", you are rather impatient.
Just be glad you don't have a real tube amp. Those things could take anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes to warm up properly and start playing music.
I share all your sentiments about Sony TVs and online games.
I guess I'd better watch out my 733MHz P3-based machine doesn't blow up then, what with the "unsupported" 133MHz FSB and PC133 RAM.
$1299 at the local Apple Store, with edu discount
:-(
ARGH!
That's precisely what I'm going to have to pay for a 12" iBook (with edu discount, no less)
Why must I live in a country where computers are so damn expensive?
(Denmark, FYI)
As a replacement for sudo on Windows, try shift+right clicking on an executable. Then choose the new 'hidden' option "Run as..."
It works absolutely brilliant (and for Control Panel applets, too), and I have no idea why they haven't documented this feature better.
It also works on the command line via the command "runas", although the syntax is sorta hairy.
Nonsense about washing a cast-iron frying pan.
;)
If you wash it by hand, dry it thoroughly, and wipe some rape seed oil on it, it won't rust. And if it does rust a bit, fine sandpaper and oil are your friends.
I have cast iron frying pan that I use from time to time when I feel like cooking myself a good ol' steak. As far as I've been told, it's been in my family for more than 75 years. Still looks as good as new, though the wooden handle needed a fixin'
(Cast iron frying pan geek)
I've just moved out 4 weeks ago, mostly because I got a job about 200km away from home. The food we can buy at work is pretty damn good, actually. There are different hot dishes, veggie dishes and sub-30% fat dishes every day, in addition to a pretty damn sweet salad bar. What I do is I usually have the hot dish or the sub-30% dish around noon, and some light food at home in the evening, mostly something like a few slices of rye bread and an apple or two.
In addition to fitting my personal rhythm better, I've also lost almost 4kg these 4 weeks. Dunno if it's just coicidence, but I actually feel better, too.
I guess moving from a "large meal in the evening" rhythm to a "large meal at noon" rhythm was a good idea, after all.
Here ya go:
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http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=1720
It works like a charm, and best of all, thanks to the ioslave framework, every application written for KDE supports it automatically. I wish the KDE and Gnome guys would get together and at the very least share the ioslave stuff. Or perhaps make it a system-wide function that somehow makes all apps share the functionality, kinda like on Plan9.
Bah, Notes isn't all that bad...
You just have to remember stuff like the fact that F5 doesn't refresh the current page, like in every single other piece of Windows software. Noooo, that's the shortcut for logging out. F9 is refresh, of course. Duh.
Other than that, Notes is a pretty good and very versatile piece of software, but the non-standard shortcut keys really bug me.
Fallout 1 and 2 can easily be played using only the mouse.
The "Ask About" dialog feature in Fallout 1 is obviously keyboard-only, but it's a pretty useless feature anyway, and other than that, both games should be very much completable using only a (head)mouse.
And the fact that Fallout 1 and 2 are among the 5 best computer RPGs ever makes the deal even sweeter.
You can pick up a double pack containing both games (sometimes even with the very cool printed manuals) from most bargain bins. I highly encourage anyone who hasn't already played these wonderful games to do just that. And do remember to apply the patches. They fix a lot of problems.
Actually, the swedish chef is only swedish in the USA. Here in Denmark, he's norwegian. And in Germany, he's danish.
:)
He sounds roughly the same everywhere, though, which I think is a wonderful example of what our languages sound like to foreigners
The test tells me I need a 343 watt PSU, but I'm using the 250 watt one that came with my Soltek QBic SFF barebone. Works like a charm.
I think they inflate the ratings a wee bit.
We develop games currently for PS2, XBox, Windows and previously NGC.
Any particular reason for not developing games for the GC anymore? After all, it has got higher hardware sales than the Xbox, but then again, much of the core audience is somewhat japanese-oriented to a certain degree, perhaps making it harder for western-oriented developers to thrive.
But I'd like to know why you've stopped.
For instance, I was very disappointed that Bugbear weren't porting Flatout to the GC, bloody brilliant game that it is.
Ah, I see.
I just imagined it would be roughly the same size as the ARM processors I've seen inside various PDAs. But then again, they're probably a lot more powerful, anyway.
I have a Jens Of Sweden MP-400, and with the latest firmware it plays Ogg Vorbis up to and including Q9 quality.
I have a very hard time imagining how they would shoehorn an ARM7 into a device not much larger than my thumb, what with also fitting a rechargeable LiIon battery with nearly 20 hours playing time inside.
You're welcome.
Now, if only I could find a geeky, funky, chess-playin', beer-drinkin' girlfriend for myself...
She's got to be out there somewhere, waiting. I hope.
The Toshiba Portégé R100 is very cool, ultra light and gets upwards of 8 hours of battery life with the extended battery. It comes with a 1.1GHz Pentium-M, 256MB ram and a 40GB HDD.
It's also quite a bit more powerful than the MM1110, and much more affordable than the damn cool Sony X505.
And the build quality is very impressive, IMHO. Almost as good a a Thinkpad.
Don't worry. Some (most?) geeks are still very attracted to brainy girls, but I'll admit that beauty still plays a big part.
Personally, I like intelligent, chess-playing, beer-drinking girls, and I've found that I am very, very attracted by 'quirky'-looking females. A cute face with a playful gleam in the eye, perhaps a few freckles and a cute smile is infinitely more attractive than the IMO boring standard "look at me, I'm a model" look.
I'm sure I share this preference with many, many other geeks.
Don't worry about it. Really. You're intelligent. You're a geek girl. You rock by definition. The odds are in your favour.
Rubber bands or rubber grommets cut the noise pretty well, but since you're decoupling your drive from the metal drivecage, it will get noticably hotter.
I'd recommend checking out Silent PC Review. They have a lot of great tips and neat ideas for silencing.
The submitter got it wrong and needs to actually RTFA.
It is a half-height drive, ie. the same size as most current CD or DVD drives.
Maybe you should keep your fingers crossed
I think so too.
G5 Powerbooks, Ogg-playing iPods and OSX Tiger... *drool*
Quite certainly. It's just all the other junk they've tacked on to the otherwise brilliant NT kernel that ruins it.
Obviously not content with breaking compatibility with other people's products, they absolutely had to ruin their own product, too.
IMHO the iPod is nearly perfect as it is. The only reason I still don't own one is the lack of Ogg Vorbis support. Anything more than that is just gravy.
Like I said, the only things I do with my left hand are writing and eating.
I wipe my ass with my right hand.