Maybe this is the curse of living in the Bay Area... it's like some bizarre cyberpunk scenario. All this stuff was donated to my organization once (about 5 years ago) from Sun and other places. We used some of it, gave some of it away, and still have a bunch of it left over.
Most charities don't want your old PS/2's, they want decent, mostly-working computers that can be put to use by lower income families. Sure, the Good Will will take one or two of your 386-PC's at a time, but just try dumping a basement full on them and see how they react.
I've spent the last 6 months trying to give away a business basement full of 808*, Sun 6/60's (You know, the 10 year old workstations), old printers, Mac Classic's (No HD). Free, I'll help to haul 'em.
I called several dozen charities in the San Francisco Bay Area, nobody wants this shit. The monitors are worthless and toxic (16-color greyscale, lead. $5 disposal fee), the hard drives are too small (and probably dead), and the processers are too slow for any decent applications.
If it can't run Win95 or MacOS 7.5.x , then forget it. I've had dreams of organizing a Linux installfest for these aging systems, but to you still need a decent computer to run a GUI.
Yes, of course DVD's would hold a lot more data, but think of it this way:
By now, just about *everyone* has ditched their tape and 8-track players for CD-players. But the DVD market is moving so slowly that there may not be enough DVD players by 52001.
But be happy, after a quick visit to the Good Guys, the organizers almost put the data on DIVX! Thank god they gave that one up.
One thing that's ticked me off about most office environments is how the size of the workspace is tied to the social status of the job. The higher-ups in the company (Often Senior VP and higher) often have their own private office that's 30 times bigger then the smallest cubicle... they often have room for a couple of couches, a mini kitchen (So they don't have to eat with the rest of the grunts)... maybe even a pool table and bar, etc. While I think that every office needs a pool table and some couches, these should be shared among the whole company. They should *not* be the privledge of just a few higher-up employees.
One of the things that I like about the company I work at now is that absolutely everyone, from the President to the VP of Technology to the Administrative Assistant, works in the same sort of cubicle. There are no private offices, but there are plenty of meeting rooms and public space. The President experiences the same noise and traffic levels level that I do. We're getting pool and foosball tables and a few couches (I'm working on getting a MAME box), which will be shared resources in a public space.
VP of marketting, programmers, administrators, mail carrier, receptionists, what-have-you-- all of these jobs are important to the survival of the company. *everyone* deserves a good workspace.
When I read the headline, I was expecting a 7 foot tall black robot with mini-gatling guns for arms...
I like how much effort these folks put into making the robot cute. Small, red shell, black spots... looks like a ladybug. The criminals will die laughing...
I like how this ruling on why proprietary formats are good for the world is
contained within the proprietary PDF format.
If you look at the PDF document, you'll see that the ruling is all text, which means
that the document can be provided the in a plain text (Maybe use HTML for a
little formatting...). But instead, the government requires us to use a propietary
program to view this docuement. PDF doesn't add any value for the reader, but it
does add unnecessary bloat to my workstation. I can search, enlarge and
reformat any TEXT documents with my favorite word processor. I don't want to
rely on Adobe to do my formatting for me, thank you very much
By offering legal documents only in PDF format, the government is assisting
Adobe in gaining market share, at the expense of those people who don't want to
or can't download the Acrobat reader (Plain text browsers, people with slow
computers, people who are too illiterate to install Acrobat (but still have a right to
this information), etc).
What, is everyone at a party or something? No news today? Someone at./ sleeping with the HR director at BioWare?
There are a million fun jobs out there in the universe. Many of them are for interesting projects at fun companies... maybe even *more* interesting then an Art Director for some Starwars game....
Even if this position is about Star Wars, what makes this article so slashworthy?
Not to mention that this article is basically a reposting word for word of the IGN link...
You hinting to us Hemos? Thinking of a new job???
</gripe>
I have no problem with other folks using my papers for research. This is why I put my good stuff in the university library, so that other folks can use it for free (Well, I guess that's 'Free' as dictated by the UC Regents). I also put them up on my webpage, and said "Use em, they're free!"
If a private institution wants to profit off (An unbound copy of my works is $29.95 -- Which seems like alot).
Do I need to attach a friggen license to my papers now?
[root@localhost]# date
Mon Aug 7 17:50:22 UDT 2000 "Uh, it's 17:50... which I think is 3:50 PM, oh shit... then you need to subtract the difference between Pacific Time and Universal Mean Time, which is.... wait. Is it Daylight savings? Oh, ok... then you subtract 8 hours from Universal time, which means it's 7:50 AM... yes. It's 7:50 AM, ma'am!"
Boycotting a product is only half the solution. In order to make an industry stand up and take notice, you also need to shift those dollars to another product and let the boycottee know it.
During the Birmingham Bus Boycott, people didn't boycott the buses and then sit on their ass... They boycotted the buses and got to work via some other means like walk to work, or piling into a friends truck.
I boycott alot of commercially grown fruits and vegetables, but this means that I buy organic and small-farm grown fruits and vegetables.
A few years ago, Apple had some dismal share of new PC sales, like 6% vs 90% for Wintel machines and 4% for *nix-on-Intel machines. Their new products are pretty sexy, and the G4's seem pretty nice for alot of high-end desk applications. Does anyone know what Apple's share of the market is now?
A few years ago, AOL didn't support nice standard protocols like HTTP & TCP/IP or access to useful services like the WWW, FTP, Usenet & IRC. Now they do.
If AOL has half a brain, they'll join IMUnified. But then again, AOL users still can't use POP/SMTP.
Increase the resolution on your monitor, and these big icons get smaller. You can also change the size of the icons in the Control Panel.
>'simplified' >'very distinct colours'
I hate complex icons, especially complex icons that become jarbled when I make them small. Simple, brightly colored (but not big) icons are ideal for my user interface. With this style, my Peripheral Vison & Brain can figure out what an icon represents without me having to stare at it for a few seconds.
I love syntax-color-highlighting in emacs for the same reason. My brain acts quickly to determine: "Ok, that's an <a href>, that's a function, the function acts on the href".
"MSNBC.com learned of the flag June 11, but agreed not to publish the information until Microsoft had a chance to supply a fix. That's standard practice in the computer security business in order to prevent possible harm to computer users."
Actually, I thought Microsoft's standard practice was to create enormous security holes in their products wait until the virus spread and caused $Millions - $Billions of damage before issuing a fix:)
Let's see... you enter some figures on the screen, you pull the string attached to the back of the Palm to wind up the motor, and get funny answers like:
>I want to see whatever information a company has >on me, whenever I want to. >If some company, government organization, or >otherwise has information on or about me, it >should be my right to see it whenever I wish. >Nobody has the right to me except me.
The problem with this strategy is that there are so many agencies, corporations, departments, subdepartments, subsubdepartments, etc. that collect information on you. Finding all these organizations is a mindnumbing task... convincing these companies to disclose what information they have in their database about you will be an even bigger task (Because of the amount paperwork that will need to be filled out).
The company that collects information on you should be required to notify the person in writing whenever they collect the information. After all, it's my identity that they are playing with... and I should have the right to know what they say about me, be it what-they-think-is-my-criminal records, credit history, etc.
The Berkeley area (Albany/Berkeley/Oakland) has a ton of different neighborhoods, so we can't tell you exactly where to live.
It sounds like Bruce lives in the Berkeley Hills, which is a little too fancy and isolated for my tastes. The hills are not near Bart, and the houses up there are much more expensive then in many more neighborhoods (I'm looking to buy now, and I can't find a nice house in the Berkeley Hills for under $500K. The foothills are getting pretty expensive too).
I much more prefer the foothills or the flatlands of Albany/Berkeley/Oakland. The nicer shopping districts (Downtown, Solano Avenue, 4th Street, Shattuck, and numerous others) are all in the foothills or the flatlands.
If you are new to the East Bay area, you should rent for a few months and get to know the neighborhoods before you try to buy a house.
Slashdot Mirror
People want it to be!
Maybe this is the curse of living in the Bay Area... it's like some bizarre cyberpunk scenario. All this stuff was donated to my organization once (about 5 years ago) from Sun and other places. We used some of it, gave some of it away, and still have a bunch of it left over.
Most charities don't want your old PS/2's, they want decent, mostly-working computers that can be put to use by lower income families. Sure, the Good Will will take one or two of your 386-PC's at a time, but just try dumping a basement full on them and see how they react.
I've spent the last 6 months trying to give away a business basement full of 808*, Sun 6/60's (You know, the 10 year old workstations), old printers, Mac Classic's (No HD). Free, I'll help to haul 'em.
I called several dozen charities in the San Francisco Bay Area, nobody wants this shit. The monitors are worthless and toxic (16-color greyscale, lead. $5 disposal fee), the hard drives are too small (and probably dead), and the processers are too slow for any decent applications.
If it can't run Win95 or MacOS 7.5.x , then forget it. I've had dreams of organizing a Linux installfest for these aging systems, but to you still need a decent computer to run a GUI.
Yes, of course DVD's would hold a lot more data, but think of it this way:
By now, just about *everyone* has ditched their tape and 8-track players for CD-players. But the DVD market is moving so slowly that there may not be enough DVD players by 52001.
But be happy, after a quick visit to the Good Guys, the organizers almost put the data on DIVX! Thank god they gave that one up.
How to setup Winamp to use FreeDB instead of CDDB:
.ini file.
(I did this on Windows NT)
1. Browse to your Winamp directory
2. Open winamp.ini with your favorite editor
3. Go down to the section that says [CDDA/Line Input Driver]
Change the following values to this:
rt=888
use_cddb=1
rver=freedb.freedb.org
Unfortunately, these values will get overwritten anytime you use Winamp to change the CDDB server. In this case, just go back and edit the
... this makes Microsoft a blue-chip-of-death company!!! Mixing too many puns, I know...
Jelly man!
Ewwww....
A product that's can tell me more about RS merchandise then most Radio Shack employees!!!
"But sir, there's no such thing as a 'cpu fan'." (From 1998)
"Why does your motherboard need a battery? You plug it in to the wall... What do you mean by 'CMOS'?"
One thing that's ticked me off about most office environments is how the size of the workspace is tied to the social status of the job. The higher-ups in the company (Often Senior VP and higher) often have their own private office that's 30 times bigger then the smallest cubicle... they often have room for a couple of couches, a mini kitchen (So they don't have to eat with the rest of the grunts)... maybe even a pool table and bar, etc. While I think that every office needs a pool table and some couches, these should be shared among the whole company. They should *not* be the privledge of just a few higher-up employees.
One of the things that I like about the company I work at now is that absolutely everyone, from the President to the VP of Technology to the Administrative Assistant, works in the same sort of cubicle. There are no private offices, but there are plenty of meeting rooms and public space. The President experiences the same noise and traffic levels level that I do. We're getting pool and foosball tables and a few couches (I'm working on getting a MAME box), which will be shared resources in a public space.
VP of marketting, programmers, administrators, mail carrier, receptionists, what-have-you-- all of these jobs are important to the survival of the company. *everyone* deserves a good workspace.
When I read the headline, I was expecting a 7 foot tall black robot with mini-gatling guns for arms...
I like how much effort these folks put into making the robot cute. Small, red shell, black spots... looks like a ladybug. The criminals will die laughing...
I like how this ruling on why proprietary formats are good for the world is contained within the proprietary PDF format.
If you look at the PDF document, you'll see that the ruling is all text, which means that the document can be provided the in a plain text (Maybe use HTML for a little formatting...). But instead, the government requires us to use a propietary program to view this docuement. PDF doesn't add any value for the reader, but it does add unnecessary bloat to my workstation. I can search, enlarge and reformat any TEXT documents with my favorite word processor. I don't want to rely on Adobe to do my formatting for me, thank you very much
By offering legal documents only in PDF format, the government is assisting Adobe in gaining market share, at the expense of those people who don't want to or can't download the Acrobat reader (Plain text browsers, people with slow computers, people who are too illiterate to install Acrobat (but still have a right to this information), etc).
They really don't get it, do they...
Yeah, I agree... that wasn't a +5. I was really suprised at that when I woke up this morning...
What, is everyone at a party or something? No news today? Someone at ./ sleeping with the HR director at BioWare?
There are a million fun jobs out there in the universe. Many of them are for interesting projects at fun companies... maybe even *more* interesting then an Art Director for some Starwars game....
Even if this position is about Star Wars, what makes this article so slashworthy?
Not to mention that this article is basically a reposting word for word of the IGN link...
You hinting to us Hemos? Thinking of a new job??? </gripe>
I have no problem with other folks using my papers for research. This is why I put my good stuff in the university library, so that other folks can use it for free (Well, I guess that's 'Free' as dictated by the UC Regents). I also put them up on my webpage, and said "Use em, they're free!"
If a private institution wants to profit off (An unbound copy of my works is $29.95 -- Which seems like alot).
Do I need to attach a friggen license to my papers now?
"Excuse me, do you have the time?
"Yeah, sure. It's..."
[root@localhost]# time
0.0u 0.0s 0:00 5% 0+388k 0+0io 0pf+0w
"Oh $#!&@!"
[root@localhost]# date
Mon Aug 7 17:50:22 UDT 2000
"Uh, it's 17:50... which I think is 3:50 PM, oh shit... then you need to subtract the difference between Pacific Time and Universal Mean Time, which is.... wait. Is it Daylight savings? Oh, ok... then you subtract 8 hours from Universal time, which means it's 7:50 AM... yes. It's 7:50 AM, ma'am!"
"Uh, thanks..." (slowly backs away)
stung.com !
No court will turn him down now!
Boycotting a product is only half the solution. In order to make an industry stand up and take notice, you also need to shift those dollars to another product and let the boycottee know it.
During the Birmingham Bus Boycott, people didn't boycott the buses and then sit on their ass... They boycotted the buses and got to work via some other means like walk to work, or piling into a friends truck.
I boycott alot of commercially grown fruits and vegetables, but this means that I buy organic and small-farm grown fruits and vegetables.
A few years ago, Apple had some dismal share of new PC sales, like 6% vs 90% for Wintel machines and 4% for *nix-on-Intel machines.
Their new products are pretty sexy, and the G4's seem pretty nice for alot of high-end desk applications.
Does anyone know what Apple's share of the market is now?
A few years ago, AOL didn't support nice standard protocols like HTTP & TCP/IP or access to useful services like the WWW, FTP, Usenet & IRC. Now they do.
If AOL has half a brain, they'll join IMUnified. But then again, AOL users still can't use POP/SMTP.
>big
:)
Increase the resolution on your monitor, and these big icons get smaller. You can also change the size of the icons in the Control Panel.
>'simplified'
>'very distinct colours'
I hate complex icons, especially complex icons that become jarbled when I make them small. Simple, brightly colored (but not big) icons are ideal for my user interface. With this style, my Peripheral Vison & Brain can figure out what an icon represents without me having to stare at it for a few seconds.
I love syntax-color-highlighting in emacs for the same reason. My brain acts quickly to determine: "Ok, that's an <a href>, that's a function, the function acts on the href".
Efficient use of my brainspace
"MSNBC.com learned of the flag June 11, but agreed not to publish the information until Microsoft had a chance to supply a fix. That's standard practice in the computer security business in order to prevent possible harm to computer users."
:)
Actually, I thought Microsoft's standard practice was to create enormous security holes in their products wait until the virus spread and caused $Millions - $Billions of damage before issuing a fix
No, he means GPG (aka GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard), a GPL'ed, open source alternative for PGP which does not use patented algorithims.
The Mozilla Crypto FAQ has a little bit of information on encryption and the News/Email client.
Let's see... you enter some figures on the screen, you pull the string attached to the back of the Palm to wind up the motor, and get funny answers like:
"Hehehe, I hate math. It's soooo hard...."*
>I want to see whatever information a company has >on me, whenever I want to.
>If some company, government organization, or >otherwise has information on or about me, it >should be my right to see it whenever I wish. >Nobody has the right to me except me.
The problem with this strategy is that there are so many agencies, corporations, departments, subdepartments, subsubdepartments, etc. that collect information on you. Finding all these organizations is a mindnumbing task... convincing these companies to disclose what information they have in their database about you will be an even bigger task (Because of the amount paperwork that will need to be filled out).
The company that collects information on you should be required to notify the person in writing whenever they collect the information. After all, it's my identity that they are playing with... and I should have the right to know what they say about me, be it what-they-think-is-my-criminal records, credit history, etc.
The Berkeley area (Albany/Berkeley/Oakland) has a ton of different neighborhoods, so we can't tell you exactly where to live.
It sounds like Bruce lives in the Berkeley Hills, which is a little too fancy and isolated for my tastes. The hills are not near Bart, and the houses up there are much more expensive then in many more neighborhoods (I'm looking to buy now, and I can't find a nice house in the Berkeley Hills for under $500K. The foothills are getting pretty expensive too).
I much more prefer the foothills or the flatlands of Albany/Berkeley/Oakland. The nicer shopping districts (Downtown, Solano Avenue, 4th Street, Shattuck, and numerous others) are all in the foothills or the flatlands.
If you are new to the East Bay area, you should rent for a few months and get to know the neighborhoods before you try to buy a house.