I repaired the tray on a CDROM drive using some of the glue used for plastic model kits. It's basically just a solvent, and it smells absolutely horrible (and it probably killed a fair amount of brain cells, too).
The tray was snapped in four pieces (some fat asshat broke it off and sat on it at a LAN party)
I fixed it a couple of years ago, and it still works just fine.
I haven't had that exact problem, but back when I was on a ski trip to Norway (very recommendable) my yellow snow goggles made everything look very, very blue when you took them off.
The secretaries who used DOS may have no problem whatsoever using a new program or even a new OS.
But most secretaries today know nothing but Windows (>95), MS Office and a couple of pieces of financial software. Move the taskbar somewhere else and watch (and hear) them wail in despair.
Finally being able to use MDs as removable media is really great. I remember hearing about a drive for the old MDs that was intended for using them as data storage, but I've never seen one.
These new MDs coul be a viable replacement for CD-roms, but only if they aren't bogged down with DRM. A physically small, 1GB disc in a protective caddy. It's almost too good to be true.
The first GTA had Liberty City (New York), San Andreas (Los Angeles) and Vice City (Miami).
GTA: London was of course set in London.
GTA2 had three areas of one city. Downtown, Residential and Industrial.
Since GTA3 was situated in Liberty City and GTA: Vice City was situated in Vice City (duh!), the next GTA is most likely going to be situated in San Andreas, possibly in a 70ies setting.
Just as we know hardcore pron of the harder kind probably isn't for education, a CD with tons of duplicates and stupidly harvested "addresses" is not used for statistics.
I think the infrastructure related companies (Cisco, FedEx, etc etc) will no doubt be a stable viable business model. There will always be a demand for more and higher quality infrastructure.
On the other hand, the dotcoms that lived past the bubble are doing quite well, so if one has the 'nads and a good idea, a whole lot of money can be made, but it's a risky affair. Niche interests can be a way to success, but if it's too obscure, it won't go anywhere.
In general, the companies that are most likely to have the most success are going to those who either are very friendly to their customers and investors and provide a truly superior service or those who are utterly ruthless.
Unfortunately, Trusted Computing (or whatever the acronym du jour is) will probably be a humongous cash cow for the big businesses, so in terms of money, that's a viable business model too, as despcable as it may be.
What we really need is a relatively standardized interface for hotkeys, like most (all?) KDE apps use the hotkeys you define in the Control Center.
Having a single place to configure hotkeys for all apps (except for extreme cases like Emacs and Vi) would be a blessing for users, because when they *know* the save function is bound to ctrl+s in all the apps (word processor, browser etc) they use, I would guess they become a lot more confident.
Of course, it wouldn't really work for Emacs or Vi, but it could be supported as an optional feature, if someone really wanted it.
But proving that a persons attention wasn't on the act of driving might be very hard. Eye witnesses won't be much help since you can't really judge it that well unless you're sitting right next to the person.
I'm all for banning distractions, but some people just *want* to be distracted it seems. "Oh look at that funny car/building/person!".
Banning every kind of monitor except navigation systems from the drivers view and restricting navigation system from accepting input while the car is moving would go a long way to prevent accidents.
And of course, if we could stop people from being so friggin' ignorant to the safety of others we would prevent even more accidents.
I've been using ReiserFS 3 as my primary filesystem for quite a while now, and I'm loving it. I haven't had a single case of corrupted files (unlike with Ext2 and Ext3), and it seems and feels much faster. All in all, it's a very sweet filesystem, and I'm quite sure ReiserFS will be well worth upgrading to.
But since it's a complete rewrite, bugs are bound to happen. Let's just hope they aren't serious.
Don't forget Doom Legacy, possibly the best Doom source port available for Linux. It's been actively developed for some 5 or 6 years now, and seems very, very solid.
But since jDoom will probably be out for Linux soon, Legacy Doom might fade a bit in comparison...
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Then explain to me why I can use my Wacom Graphire3.
GIMP does work with drawing tablets, and it works absolutely great.
The only problem was one single (as in just that one) version of GTK2 that had broken Xinput support, but it was fixed rather quickly.
So if you would be so kind as to remove your head from your rectal cavity and go check up on some facts before posting unfounded idiocy.
I repaired the tray on a CDROM drive using some of the glue used for plastic model kits. It's basically just a solvent, and it smells absolutely horrible (and it probably killed a fair amount of brain cells, too).
The tray was snapped in four pieces (some fat asshat broke it off and sat on it at a LAN party)
I fixed it a couple of years ago, and it still works just fine.
"made everything look very, very blue when you took them off."
That should have been "when I took them off", since I'm quite sure that the person removing my snow goggles was me, and not an anonymous coward.
Perhaps I've met the wrong secretaries, then ;)
I haven't had that exact problem, but back when I was on a ski trip to Norway (very recommendable) my yellow snow goggles made everything look very, very blue when you took them off.
The secretaries who used DOS may have no problem whatsoever using a new program or even a new OS.
But most secretaries today know nothing but Windows (>95), MS Office and a couple of pieces of financial software. Move the taskbar somewhere else and watch (and hear) them wail in despair.
The very first link on a google search for 'gimp windows download' is this one:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/
You can download both the stable and development versions, as well as GTK.
As long as it's faster than burning a CD at 16x it's fast enough.
Finally being able to use MDs as removable media is really great. I remember hearing about a drive for the old MDs that was intended for using them as data storage, but I've never seen one.
These new MDs coul be a viable replacement for CD-roms, but only if they aren't bogged down with DRM. A physically small, 1GB disc in a protective caddy. It's almost too good to be true.
That would positively rule.
To Nintendo: let me buy and download all the Super Mario Bros. games and play them on my GC, and I will forever be in your debt.
It's quite normal actually.
All of B&O's stuff is Phillips parts inside, I believe.
Ultimately, the only way to make sure you know where your stuff is made is to make it yourself.
Exactly.
The first GTA had Liberty City (New York), San Andreas (Los Angeles) and Vice City (Miami).
GTA: London was of course set in London.
GTA2 had three areas of one city. Downtown, Residential and Industrial.
Since GTA3 was situated in Liberty City and GTA: Vice City was situated in Vice City (duh!), the next GTA is most likely going to be situated in San Andreas, possibly in a 70ies setting.
Of course, that would also require games that are our for all three consoles *and* has network connectivity on all three.
I can't really find any games that fulfill these two requirements.
Yes, but it cannot be claimed that its purpose is for people to conduct statistics about spam.
Its purpose is quite simply to provide emails to spammers (and in this case, con the spammer who buys the CD).
Of course, but it is, in essence, a loophole.
Just as we know hardcore pron of the harder kind probably isn't for education, a CD with tons of duplicates and stupidly harvested "addresses" is not used for statistics.
I think the infrastructure related companies (Cisco, FedEx, etc etc) will no doubt be a stable viable business model. There will always be a demand for more and higher quality infrastructure.
On the other hand, the dotcoms that lived past the bubble are doing quite well, so if one has the 'nads and a good idea, a whole lot of money can be made, but it's a risky affair. Niche interests can be a way to success, but if it's too obscure, it won't go anywhere.
In general, the companies that are most likely to have the most success are going to those who either are very friendly to their customers and investors and provide a truly superior service or those who are utterly ruthless.
Unfortunately, Trusted Computing (or whatever the acronym du jour is) will probably be a humongous cash cow for the big businesses, so in terms of money, that's a viable business model too, as despcable as it may be.
But is there a legal/moral use for a collection of email adresses, with no name or address information?
The lack of name or address means that it's absolutely useless as an email phonebook.
The only use for such a CD is for bulk emailing.
What we really need is a relatively standardized interface for hotkeys, like most (all?) KDE apps use the hotkeys you define in the Control Center.
Having a single place to configure hotkeys for all apps (except for extreme cases like Emacs and Vi) would be a blessing for users, because when they *know* the save function is bound to ctrl+s in all the apps (word processor, browser etc) they use, I would guess they become a lot more confident.
Of course, it wouldn't really work for Emacs or Vi, but it could be supported as an optional feature, if someone really wanted it.
It's all part of the experience as a whole.
I completely and 100% agree with you. When you're driving, you should be *driving*, not doing all kinds of other stuff.
But proving that a persons attention wasn't on the act of driving might be very hard. Eye witnesses won't be much help since you can't really judge it that well unless you're sitting right next to the person.
I'm all for banning distractions, but some people just *want* to be distracted it seems. "Oh look at that funny car/building/person!".
Banning every kind of monitor except navigation systems from the drivers view and restricting navigation system from accepting input while the car is moving would go a long way to prevent accidents.
And of course, if we could stop people from being so friggin' ignorant to the safety of others we would prevent even more accidents.
I've been using ReiserFS 3 as my primary filesystem for quite a while now, and I'm loving it. I haven't had a single case of corrupted files (unlike with Ext2 and Ext3), and it seems and feels much faster. All in all, it's a very sweet filesystem, and I'm quite sure ReiserFS will be well worth upgrading to.
But since it's a complete rewrite, bugs are bound to happen. Let's just hope they aren't serious.
Don't forget Doom Legacy, possibly the best Doom source port available for Linux. It's been actively developed for some 5 or 6 years now, and seems very, very solid.
But since jDoom will probably be out for Linux soon, Legacy Doom might fade a bit in comparison...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=279792
Compatibility Mode is available in Win2000, from SP2 and up.
His name is Edmond Honda, and he's probably the only sumo wrestler capable of jumping higher than he's tall ;)
It probably is. If I mount my USB Memory Thingie with the FAT driver, I get 8.3 filenames, but if I use the VFAT driver, I get long filenames.
Apart from losing the long filenames (and perhaps support for disks larger than ~8 gigs) it works fine.