Except that LinuxMCE is broken, doesn't work, and support from the developers is poor.
Infact it is un-installable (unless they fixxed it last night, and I have not checked). How many other FOSS project offer 'support' via Skype and YIM? Yes it is a nifty idea, but only if the devs actually log-in to those accounts. IRC remains barren. IRC is ideal because many people get to see/share the info that is posted. The official forums seem to be devoid of any dev interaction, and the bug-report might be falling on deaf ears for all the confirmation of bugs I have posted.
I love the concept of this project. I dearly wish it would work.
I was in addicted to the stuff too, I was drinking upto 6L per day. I stopped drinking it (when I went on the Atkins diet) and lost 40 pounds in my first month.
Thanks to MS & backwards compatibility simple things like changing the mapping on lpt and com ports could still be done on modern computers. There are also wonderful things like ^M = C/R ^H = backspace...etc... that you still need when in a jam.
As all great discoveries start with "gee that's weird.." we can thank the Space Shuttle Columbia for proving to us that bacteria can survive an atmosphere entry and planet impact. http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/03fall/wormsurvive.htm l
Oxygen is the third most abundant atom in the universe, behind hydrogen and helium. Lithium is #3 followed in order by: #4 Beryllium (9.012182 amu) #5 Boron (10.811 amu) #6 Carbon (12.011 amu) #7 Nitrogen (14.00674 amu) #8 Oxygen (15.9994 amu)
I have been given these 'contracts' at the last three jobs that I have accepted, and on all three I print next to my signature:
Signed under duress.
This has only been questioned once and that one time it was allowed after I explained that (a) it was unconstitutional because the company was not paying me a specific retainer, and therefore didn't "own" my thoughts; (b) I promised to not to work on anything that could be considered a competing product; and (c) if they didn't accept it as a condition of my employment then give me a cheque right now for my time, because if I spend any additional time there then their acceptance of my terms of the contract indicated acceptance of my conditions.
Most of the time it's a standard form that the HR drones don't know anything about, or even care about. All they want is a signature because that is what gets put in their folder.
Unusual activity on non-standard ports. Atleast thats how I discovered it at my last job. Open up a packet sniffer, let it pull in traffic for a little while, then investigate.
Smarter worms use standard ports, but then you tell but unusual traffic patterns. (ie, why does "Bob the idiots" computer keep sending 2k of data to pron-iz-gud.com 50 times a minute??)
If the PSP had been able to play movies at full resolution from the flash-card instead of only from the craptastic UMD then I would have bought one instead of the Video Ipod that I own now.
I don't know why you are surprised.. TV is the opiate of the masses.
Tell them they are happy. Medicate them. Tell them that the Government is protecting them. Medicate them. Provide an conduit for masses to not _need_ to think about day-to-day life. Encourage them to medicate themselves.
I have been running *Ubuntu since the Warty days (as my only workstation OS), and I do love it.
I use KDE on the backend with fluxbox as my WM.
Will Feisty allow me to install Beryl/Compiz via apt and give my eye-candy for flux?
(A) I LOVE with speed and configurability of Flux. (B) I am envious of all the neeto window-manager effects that compiz allows (C) I am not willing to run Gnome or KDE as my WM in-order to get the eyecandy.
Am I crazy-insane or insane-crazy?
But do we really 'need' to cure them?
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Mice Cured of Autism
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I have read a fascinating book called "Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon that deals with this subject matter.
Amazon clip:
Corporate life in early 21st-century America is even more ruthless than it was at the turn of the millennium. Lou Arrendale, well compensated for his remarkable pattern-recognition skills, enjoys his job and expects never to lose it. But he has a new boss, a man who thinks Lou and the others in his building are a liability. Lou and his coworkers are autistic. And the new boss is going to fire Lou and all his coworkers--unless they agree to undergo an experimental new procedure to "cure" them.
The short version: Autistics all have gifts that we just don't recognize, what if they don't want to be 'cured'
Just thought I should warn a few of you about an annoying bug in the new "Windows Mail" (vista equivalent of Outlook Express).
In Mail each email is downloaded and saved to the computer as an.eml file (as opposed to OE where it all gets downloaded to a.dbx database).
If you are sent a virus and have anti-virus software running the AV software will catch & delete the.eml file (sounds ok so far)
The bitch of the situation is that Win-Mail will still show that email in your inbox, but you cannot remove it (or view it) because the file is missing.
So the only fix is to restore to a previous version, disable the AV, download the message & delete it.
Make life easy for yourself - there is nothing simpler than Artist/Album.
But finding music if I am in the mood for something fast and frantic for fragging in a FPS genre - artist can't be beat. I can't/won't run itunes because I use Linux.
My sorting method worked fine in the mid-90's when I started because most of my collection was small, now that I have a HUGE collection, it's not so simple.
One of these days I'll just give-up the thought/effort of browsing my files manually and just use Amarok to play all my songs.
I have made extensive use of the 'label' feature in gmail like I am sure many others here have too and I have found it very handy. Another aspect of my computing life that I found DESPERATELY needed labels was my music collection.
I have always organized my music in Genre - Artist - Album - song format, but I have found that too many songs would be multi-genre. (ie. most modern Top40 songs today are also Rap/Dance/Hip-Hop)
So as a result my collection became mass-sorted into one of four major directories:
Rock/Alternative Pop/Top 40/Rap/Hip Hop/Dance/Techno Blues/R & B Other
The ability to 'quickly find' a desired song became impossible.
Along came iTunes and it was awesome, but lacking. Along came Amarok and it was better, but lacking. Now Amarok has added a new feature called Labels, and I am in love (but it is still lacking).
Now I can ignore the Genre headache, and just use labels to identify what Genres of music that apply to the song.
This works only as long as I use Amarok for my music player. I am still SOL if i want to just browse the filesystem and grab a couple of songs on the spur of the moment.
What we need is a file system label structure that can/will apply to all files that we use. Where to store Aunt Betty's cookie recipe? ~/docs/recipes ~/docs/aunt betty/ ~/docs/cookies
A bad solution is to create sym-links everywhere. A better solution would be to have labels appear as virtual directories.
I am tired of all the "science" shows out there that are more flash and gimmick then cold-facts.
ie. Naked Science Nova Now MythBusters EVERYTHING on Discovery & TLC
I yearn for impartial & unbiased educational programming that I enjoyed in my youth. Now-a-days it seems that if they don't "wow" you in the first 10 seconds they think they have failed.
An excellent example is Nature shows. Old goodness: Lorne Greens New Wilderness, Nature, Undersea Adventures of Jacques Cousteau *, Profiles of Nature.
New Badness: Croc Hunter**, Fox Special "Worlds most Amazing/Dangerous Animals", etc.
* Jacques Cousteau was Very preachy but (a) it was needed at that time, and (b) it was the first of it's kind. ** I loved how passionate Steve Irwin was about animals, and the first Season of Croc Hunter was awesome. But IMHO I think the show got too much attention and turned into a Jerry Springer of Nature shows and lost it's credibility.
I do not have the attention span of a flea on crack. Take your time and explain the science behind what you are trying to show. I donate to PBS, but only on the 'heavy-science' shows. Alas it seems they don't get the message.
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Except that LinuxMCE is broken, doesn't work, and support from the developers is poor.
Infact it is un-installable (unless they fixxed it last night, and I have not checked). How many other FOSS project offer 'support' via Skype and YIM? Yes it is a nifty idea, but only if the devs actually log-in to those accounts. IRC remains barren. IRC is ideal because many people get to see/share the info that is posted. The official forums seem to be devoid of any dev interaction, and the bug-report might be falling on deaf ears for all the confirmation of bugs I have posted.
I love the concept of this project. I dearly wish it would work.
I was in addicted to the stuff too, I was drinking upto 6L per day. I stopped drinking it (when I went on the Atkins diet) and lost 40 pounds in my first month.
Thanks to MS & backwards compatibility simple things like changing the mapping on lpt and com ports could still be done on modern computers. There are also wonderful things like ^M = C/R ^H = backspace ...etc... that you still need when in a jam.
As all great discoveries start with "gee that's weird.." we can thank the Space Shuttle Columbia for proving to us that bacteria can survive an atmosphere entry and planet impact. http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/03fall/wormsurvive.htm l
I made a map of my whole city in SimCity (the original) and then like a terrorist I sent in Godzilla to KILL THEM ALL!!!
The Ringworld is unstable!
Sorry I just couldn't resist.
Ringworld is simply a must-read for anybody who considers themselves a geek. Thank God it won't ever be made into a movie.
You sound like the same idiot who stole my job for $20k/y less then what I was getting paid.
#4 Beryllium (9.012182 amu)
#5 Boron (10.811 amu)
#6 Carbon (12.011 amu)
#7 Nitrogen (14.00674 amu)
#8 Oxygen (15.9994 amu)
I have been given these 'contracts' at the last three jobs that I have accepted, and on all three I print next to my signature:
Signed under duress.
This has only been questioned once and that one time it was allowed after I explained that (a) it was unconstitutional because the company was not paying me a specific retainer, and therefore didn't "own" my thoughts; (b) I promised to not to work on anything that could be considered a competing product; and (c) if they didn't accept it as a condition of my employment then give me a cheque right now for my time, because if I spend any additional time there then their acceptance of my terms of the contract indicated acceptance of my conditions.
Most of the time it's a standard form that the HR drones don't know anything about, or even care about. All they want is a signature because that is what gets put in their folder.
Yes, and no.
I am a geek.
I hate eye-candy.
I use Fluxbox, and my wallpaper is solid black.
I love that Linux gives me a choice.
Port monitoring.
Unusual activity on non-standard ports. Atleast thats how I discovered it at my last job. Open up a packet sniffer, let it pull in traffic for a little while, then investigate.
Smarter worms use standard ports, but then you tell but unusual traffic patterns. (ie, why does "Bob the idiots" computer keep sending 2k of data to pron-iz-gud.com 50 times a minute??)
Perhaps now they will finally fix the missing www. entry in their DNS server. I have always hated that they didn't have that patched.
Don't cripple your product!
If the PSP had been able to play movies at full resolution from the flash-card instead of only from the craptastic UMD then I would have bought one instead of the Video Ipod that I own now.
One of these days I will realize that going to _any_ website on April 1st is a complete waste of time.
I hope it happens soon.
I don't know why you are surprised.. TV is the opiate of the masses.
Tell them they are happy.
Medicate them.
Tell them that the Government is protecting them.
Medicate them.
Provide an conduit for masses to not _need_ to think about day-to-day life.
Encourage them to medicate themselves.
Result; they will think that they are happy.
I have been running *Ubuntu since the Warty days (as my only workstation OS), and I do love it.
I use KDE on the backend with fluxbox as my WM.
Will Feisty allow me to install Beryl/Compiz via apt and give my eye-candy for flux?
(A) I LOVE with speed and configurability of Flux.
(B) I am envious of all the neeto window-manager effects that compiz allows
(C) I am not willing to run Gnome or KDE as my WM in-order to get the eyecandy.
Am I crazy-insane or insane-crazy?
I have read a fascinating book called "Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon that deals with this subject matter.
Amazon clip:
Corporate life in early 21st-century America is even more ruthless than it was at the turn of the millennium. Lou Arrendale, well compensated for his remarkable pattern-recognition skills, enjoys his job and expects never to lose it. But he has a new boss, a man who thinks Lou and the others in his building are a liability. Lou and his coworkers are autistic. And the new boss is going to fire Lou and all his coworkers--unless they agree to undergo an experimental new procedure to "cure" them.
The short version: Autistics all have gifts that we just don't recognize, what if they don't want to be 'cured'
Just thought I should warn a few of you about an annoying bug in the new "Windows Mail" (vista equivalent of Outlook Express).
.eml file (as opposed to OE where it all gets downloaded to a .dbx database).
.eml file (sounds ok so far)
In Mail each email is downloaded and saved to the computer as an
If you are sent a virus and have anti-virus software running the AV software will catch & delete the
The bitch of the situation is that Win-Mail will still show that email in your inbox, but you cannot remove it (or view it) because the file is missing.
So the only fix is to restore to a previous version, disable the AV, download the message & delete it.
This could be annoying/amusing.
But finding music if I am in the mood for something fast and frantic for fragging in a FPS genre - artist can't be beat.
I can't/won't run itunes because I use Linux.
My sorting method worked fine in the mid-90's when I started because most of my collection was small, now that I have a HUGE collection, it's not so simple.
One of these days I'll just give-up the thought/effort of browsing my files manually and just use Amarok to play all my songs.
I have made extensive use of the 'label' feature in gmail like I am sure many others here have too and I have found it very handy. Another aspect of my computing life that I found DESPERATELY needed labels was my music collection.
I have always organized my music in Genre - Artist - Album - song format, but I have found that too many songs would be multi-genre.
(ie. most modern Top40 songs today are also Rap/Dance/Hip-Hop)
So as a result my collection became mass-sorted into one of four major directories:
Rock/Alternative
Pop/Top 40/Rap/Hip Hop/Dance/Techno
Blues/R & B
Other
The ability to 'quickly find' a desired song became impossible.
Along came iTunes and it was awesome, but lacking.
Along came Amarok and it was better, but lacking.
Now Amarok has added a new feature called Labels, and I am in love (but it is still lacking).
Now I can ignore the Genre headache, and just use labels to identify what Genres of music that apply to the song.
This works only as long as I use Amarok for my music player. I am still SOL if i want to just browse the filesystem and grab a couple of songs on the spur of the moment.
What we need is a file system label structure that can/will apply to all files that we use.
Where to store Aunt Betty's cookie recipe? ~/docs/recipes ~/docs/aunt betty/ ~/docs/cookies
A bad solution is to create sym-links everywhere. A better solution would be to have labels appear as virtual directories.
So that would mean that the investigation has a success rate of 0.001463636%
Disclaimer: IMO anybody who hurts a child should be exterminated.
What % of children die from disease or other 'preventable' causes in Germany?
Would efforts be better spent helping them?
I am tired of all the "science" shows out there that are more flash and gimmick then cold-facts.
ie.
Naked Science
Nova Now
MythBusters
EVERYTHING on Discovery & TLC
I yearn for impartial & unbiased educational programming that I enjoyed in my youth. Now-a-days it seems that if they don't "wow" you in the first 10 seconds they think they have failed.
An excellent example is Nature shows.
Old goodness:
Lorne Greens New Wilderness, Nature, Undersea Adventures of Jacques Cousteau *, Profiles of Nature.
New Badness:
Croc Hunter**, Fox Special "Worlds most Amazing/Dangerous Animals", etc.
* Jacques Cousteau was Very preachy but (a) it was needed at that time, and (b) it was the first of it's kind.
** I loved how passionate Steve Irwin was about animals, and the first Season of Croc Hunter was awesome. But IMHO I think the show got too much attention and turned into a Jerry Springer of Nature shows and lost it's credibility.
I do not have the attention span of a flea on crack. Take your time and explain the science behind what you are trying to show. I donate to PBS, but only on the 'heavy-science' shows. Alas it seems they don't get the message.
I haven't found vi or emacs to be hard enough.
That why I port edlin to every box I work on.
Mod Lions Fan up!
=)
I know that there is promise for this team. Look at how excellent the first two games were!
The engine has to turn faster to keep the wheels spinning at the samme speed with the air on because it represents a very high load on the engine.