Clearly designed to get PHB's to sign-off on it, this collection of patches and hotfixes is not enough to qualify for a SP rating. That would be like me calling a.bat file 'high-level' coding!
I had done something very similar, but I kept it very simple for troubleshooting. 3 colours: red, amber, green 3 shapes: circle, square, triangle
Another idea I was toying with was to substitute traffic signs: ie. stop, yield, caution, etc.. but I found that people are used to ignoring those.
With my setup, it gave me 9 distinct error levels (more if I used them in combination), but 9 was good enough for me to track down most problems. Shapes: Circle - Bad Input (i.e. data field entry) Square - Bad Output (i.e. printer jam) Triangle - Back-end (db/php/html, etc..) Red, amber, Green = error levels
I am tired of my gear owning me. DRM that makes it hard for me to use what I bought. Cell phone companies crippleing the hardware and then 'selling' you the features at a higher cost. Operating Systems that assume I am an idiot and don't let me get at the guts to configure it the way I WANT IT!
No thank-you. I am getting off this roller-coaster.
I have always respected JMS for how 'realistic' he chose to portray space physics with the movement of his StarFury ships and the beam weapons. (As a side note, I could never understand how the station was able to rotate under the support struts when the station was obviously move massive.
As an alternate persona to the Linux Geek I share here I am also a Cross-Border Truck Driver when the IT market takes a nose-dive.
I have crossed at Windsor/Detroit & Sarnia/Port Huron THOUSANDS of times.
I will _GLADLY_ add 2 hours to my day if I have the option of crossing at Port Huron.
Detroit Customs officer: "How long have you been driving?" "How long have you been with this company?" "Did you check the trailer?" "Did you seal the trailer?" "What kind of seal on the trailer?" "Why didn't you seal the trailer?" (A: because GM/Chrysler/Ford sealed it before I picked it up and I am not allowed by law to open it.) "What are you bringing with you?" "What are you bringing for lunch?" etc...
Port Huron Customs: "Hello sir, how are you today?" "What are you hauling?" "Have a nice day."
The difference is night & day. You can find assholes anywhere, but 100% of my experience at Port Huron has been positive.
B5_Geek: Truck Driving, Linux coding, Recumbent riding, pencil-neck Geek!
On the topic of Autism, I suggest everybody read "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon. It puts the condition into a very approachable context that allows the reader to live through the eyes of an Autistic. It also has a great science/research back story that us geeks like.
Sorry to go off-topic here, but what software do you use? What file formats do you use?.txt.rtf ???
I have lost access to more copies of my writing over the years due to changing formats. (I will not repeat the loss of dozens of stories/ideas that happened with my C64.)
As we all most likely know, It would be impossible* to actually try 4 million passwords per second. I'd be willing to wager the actual headline should be:
"PS3s have been purchased to calculate 4 Million hash-table lookups per second."
Step 1: load hash table to RAM. Step 2: let the brute force CPU bang away at it till it finds a match.
The last Buggy-Whip manufacturer was heard gloating with his buddy the Spittoon manufacturer about how they had 100% market share in their respected fields.
I will not install or run win7 until there is a 3rd party alternative or a MS patch that gives me explorer back.
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There are many things that make B5 awesome, but the single most compelling reason for its awesomeness is the cohesive storyline. It is the only video (tv/movie) that feels like you are watching a book. Great arc episodes, fantastic writing of dialog, and growth of characters that you have never seen before make it unique and memorable in TV history.
The StarGate Universe however has always felt like a high-school writing class in comparison. SG:U could develop into a good show, and as my TV sci-fi choices are limited I will watch it.
Lets imagine for a second a future where our 'pollution' is the base building material for the majority of products constructed.
Carbon nanotubes/fibers could be the perfect sequestering medium/method for all the CO2 in the atmosphere. They have already shown to be such a useful product, we are continually finding new ways to make use of them. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that only iron has proven to be as diverse.
If mass-production ever takes off I suggest we proclaim this to be the birth of the Carbon age.
Sorry to reply to my own thread but I see a few people making the same misconceptions about printing languages. First and foremost, PCL6 is not 'better' then PCL5.
PCL5e: multi-corporation 'agreement' on a common printer language. Best for text. PCL6: next standard designed with photo-reproduction in mind. Quite shitty. PS: photo & font 'accurate' reproduction. Actual PS3 'chips' are rare in anything less then $40,000 EFI/Fiery controllers. Most boxes that claim to be PS are just "PostScript compatible".
I used to work for Canon and saw a low of low-end printers come through our shop for repair, and software support was a nightmare.
As most people already know HP = Canon, but the main difference was that the HP software was so superior to what Canon offered us it made a significant difference in usability. I.E. typical office with typical $20k multi-function scanner/copier/printer/fax. Customer has trouble with our drivers on one form, if we substituted the HP Laserjet2 driver for ours the form came out perfectly.
If you want durability in a 'home' printer, make sure the drum/toner are all the same unit. This makes them more pricey (the drum life should be good enough to last 20,000 pages, but toner will only last you 2,000 pages) almost all the moving parts are replaced everytime you drop in a new drum. Also avoid the '3rd party' toner & drum makers. They are crap.
I am looking for a new phone because my existing HTC smartphone (Win based) is crap and doesn't run putty. I need to be able to ssh into my linux servers and do remote work/maintenance on them. I would like to be able to run the CLI tools (irssi, mc, etc..)
I also need the following: Gmail contact/calender sync. (2-way), wifi VoIP
Nice to have: Gtalk and/or Skype What phone should I get? The Nokia N900, this one, or anything else? I would even be willing to 'give-up' cell-phone usage in exchange for excellent wifi VoIP.
I have suffered from chronic back pain for 25+ years. I was recently given a 'sample' drug by my doctor to determine if it was helpful.
The first dose was about 75% effective. It eliminated some of the pain but not all. The subsequent dosages (which included increasing the # of pills) had ZERO effect on pain levels. I do not doubt that placebo effect accounted for the initial pain relief, but I am usually very logical and calm about drug actions on my psyche.
SpaceX bought a shuttle, worked on it in their parents garage, brought it to Berkley and got friends to help out.
I suggest an equally stupid title: The fledgling Independant Space Industry is just like the Alaska Gold Rush; Folks are excited about getting up their and getting rich!
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Clearly designed to get PHB's to sign-off on it, this collection of patches and hotfixes is not enough to qualify for a SP rating. That would be like me calling a .bat file 'high-level' coding!
Now we wait for SP2 before we will look at it.
I had done something very similar, but I kept it very simple for troubleshooting.
3 colours: red, amber, green
3 shapes: circle, square, triangle
Another idea I was toying with was to substitute traffic signs: ie. stop, yield, caution, etc.. but I found that people are used to ignoring those.
With my setup, it gave me 9 distinct error levels (more if I used them in combination), but 9 was good enough for me to track down most problems.
Shapes:
Circle - Bad Input (i.e. data field entry)
Square - Bad Output (i.e. printer jam)
Triangle - Back-end (db/php/html, etc..)
Red, amber, Green = error levels
And I still see less then 1 per month in my Inbox.
_THIS_ is the price I am willing to pay to allow Google to filter my email.
This is how AND why computers work.
Simple and exact reproduction.
Another way to look at it:
There are only so many ways you can type:
10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
(Yes folks that is the limit of my programming knowledge. I busted my cherry on a C64.)
It's not a Nokia N900.
You need iTunes to use it.
I am tired of my gear owning me. DRM that makes it hard for me to use what I bought. Cell phone companies crippleing the hardware and then 'selling' you the features at a higher cost. Operating Systems that assume I am an idiot and don't let me get at the guts to configure it the way I WANT IT!
No thank-you. I am getting off this roller-coaster.
Get a Nokia N900 if you want that killer feature.
Debian ... check ... check ... check
root access
ssh + screen
apt-get install damn near anything ... CHECK!
Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games.
I have always respected JMS for how 'realistic' he chose to portray space physics with the movement of his StarFury ships and the beam weapons. (As a side note, I could never understand how the station was able to rotate under the support struts when the station was obviously move massive.
As an alternate persona to the Linux Geek I share here I am also a Cross-Border Truck Driver when the IT market takes a nose-dive.
I have crossed at Windsor/Detroit & Sarnia/Port Huron THOUSANDS of times.
I will _GLADLY_ add 2 hours to my day if I have the option of crossing at Port Huron.
Detroit Customs officer:
"How long have you been driving?"
"How long have you been with this company?"
"Did you check the trailer?"
"Did you seal the trailer?"
"What kind of seal on the trailer?"
"Why didn't you seal the trailer?" (A: because GM/Chrysler/Ford sealed it before I picked it up and I am not allowed by law to open it.)
"What are you bringing with you?"
"What are you bringing for lunch?"
etc...
Port Huron Customs:
"Hello sir, how are you today?"
"What are you hauling?"
"Have a nice day."
The difference is night & day. You can find assholes anywhere, but 100% of my experience at Port Huron has been positive.
B5_Geek: Truck Driving, Linux coding, Recumbent riding, pencil-neck Geek!
On the topic of Autism, I suggest everybody read "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon. It puts the condition into a very approachable context that allows the reader to live through the eyes of an Autistic. It also has a great science/research back story that us geeks like.
Sorry to go off-topic here, but what software do you use? What file formats do you use? .txt .rtf
???
I have lost access to more copies of my writing over the years due to changing formats. (I will not repeat the loss of dozens of stories/ideas that happened with my C64.)
As we all most likely know, It would be impossible* to actually try 4 million passwords per second. I'd be willing to wager the actual headline should be:
"PS3s have been purchased to calculate 4 Million hash-table lookups per second."
Step 1: load hash table to RAM.
Step 2: let the brute force CPU bang away at it till it finds a match.
4MFLOPS seems much more likely.
Am I the only one who thinks that GUI design/usage peaked with Fluxbox and all else is lipstick on a pig?
In other news, water is wet.
The last Buggy-Whip manufacturer was heard gloating with his buddy the Spittoon manufacturer about how they had 100% market share in their respected fields.
I will not install or run win7 until there is a 3rd party alternative or a MS patch that gives me explorer back.
There are many things that make B5 awesome, but the single most compelling reason for its awesomeness is the cohesive storyline. It is the only video (tv/movie) that feels like you are watching a book. Great arc episodes, fantastic writing of dialog, and growth of characters that you have never seen before make it unique and memorable in TV history.
The StarGate Universe however has always felt like a high-school writing class in comparison. SG:U could develop into a good show, and as my TV sci-fi choices are limited I will watch it.
Lets imagine for a second a future where our 'pollution' is the base building material for the majority of products constructed.
Carbon nanotubes/fibers could be the perfect sequestering medium/method for all the CO2 in the atmosphere. They have already shown to be such a useful product, we are continually finding new ways to make use of them. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that only iron has proven to be as diverse.
If mass-production ever takes off I suggest we proclaim this to be the birth of the Carbon age.
They call him Mr.Glass
Sorry to reply to my own thread but I see a few people making the same misconceptions about printing languages.
First and foremost, PCL6 is not 'better' then PCL5.
PCL5e: multi-corporation 'agreement' on a common printer language. Best for text.
PCL6: next standard designed with photo-reproduction in mind. Quite shitty.
PS: photo & font 'accurate' reproduction. Actual PS3 'chips' are rare in anything less then $40,000 EFI/Fiery controllers. Most boxes that claim to be PS are just "PostScript compatible".
I used to work for Canon and saw a low of low-end printers come through our shop for repair, and software support was a nightmare.
As most people already know HP = Canon, but the main difference was that the HP software was so superior to what Canon offered us it made a significant difference in usability. I.E. typical office with typical $20k multi-function scanner/copier/printer/fax. Customer has trouble with our drivers on one form, if we substituted the HP Laserjet2 driver for ours the form came out perfectly.
If you want durability in a 'home' printer, make sure the drum/toner are all the same unit. This makes them more pricey (the drum life should be good enough to last 20,000 pages, but toner will only last you 2,000 pages) almost all the moving parts are replaced everytime you drop in a new drum. Also avoid the '3rd party' toner & drum makers. They are crap.
Ok, sounds like a cool idea. I would LOVE the Amarok2.x devs to sit in on that session.
A far better test metric would be CPU/mem/swap usage. If those 3 didn't have a direct relationship to battery life nothing will.
I would like to see the test run using lynx also.
I am looking for a new phone because my existing HTC smartphone (Win based) is crap and doesn't run putty. I need to be able to ssh into my linux servers and do remote work/maintenance on them. I would like to be able to run the CLI tools (irssi, mc, etc..)
I also need the following: Gmail contact/calender sync. (2-way), wifi VoIP
Nice to have: Gtalk and/or Skype
What phone should I get? The Nokia N900, this one, or anything else? I would even be willing to 'give-up' cell-phone usage in exchange for excellent wifi VoIP.
I have suffered from chronic back pain for 25+ years. I was recently given a 'sample' drug by my doctor to determine if it was helpful.
The first dose was about 75% effective. It eliminated some of the pain but not all. The subsequent dosages (which included increasing the # of pills) had ZERO effect on pain levels. I do not doubt that placebo effect accounted for the initial pain relief, but I am usually very logical and calm about drug actions on my psyche.
Yes it was JUST like the early computer days.
SpaceX bought a shuttle, worked on it in their parents garage, brought it to Berkley and got friends to help out.
I suggest an equally stupid title:
The fledgling Independant Space Industry is just like the Alaska Gold Rush; Folks are excited about getting up their and getting rich!