That's plenty more than the 300 MHz Celeron I'm using for my desktop at home. And I have few complaints about it. And my 300 MHz laptop, running XP of all things, isn't terribly bad, either.
In the case of civil suits, I suspect that only judgements and relevant information (in summary) is kept, because, in civil suits, once the judgement happens, it rarely matters later why it happened.
In the case of suits that are being dropped, no court would care.
So, what you're saying is that there are (conservatively) 210 genes that not only differentiate me from you, but from that cute blonde on my floor, my wife, Nelson Mandella (no, they're not the same person), every member of the American Idol finalist team AND every chimp in Africa? Sounds fishy to me.
I seem to remember from some high-school chemistry class (too many years ago) that DNA molecules are made up of 4 chemicals paired with one another to create "genes." If I have that right, then the math would be (I think) 210^(4^2) or 210^16, which my calculator shows as 1.43E37.
I think that's in the category of dang-that's-a-lot. It's starting to sound less fishy all the time...
Agreed. Another question, one they didn't address, is how far removed from other apes we are. 99.4% of a couple quadzillion genes still leaves a lot of genes that define us as humans. And if an orangutan is 89.7 % (an arbitrary number on my part) the same as a human, that speaks somewhat to the relativity of the 99.4% number of the chimp. Also, how far off are we from one another?
Having said all that, I think that all the ape species deserve somewhat more respect than we've been giving them...
You seem to connect themes with simple bitmap changes, and the like.
I think it's more correct to say, "confusing themes with skins." It's actually kind of annoying to get all your apps set up with visually-compatible skins the way you like, then have some non-skinnable app come along and use the default (in my case, Windows at work) system theme. It seems like an intrusion into my desktop.
Avoiding my initial reaction of revulsion at putting Explorer on Linux, it sounds at least intriguing.
How does it handle the file system? Does it try to figure out how to turn / into c:\ ?/home into My Documents? Or do you open a window to the file system and see things as you might in Konqueror?
You should put together a document on how you achieved your feat and post it here.
Was anyone whining? Maybe my filter (1+) is set too high, but I didn't hear any whining. In a commonly-open source community, freely downloadable ISOs are, well, common. A fair mistake, I'd say.
Having said that, I agree that the base expectation of things being free is somewhat overused. And, if it's a good implementation (I can't tell a thing, 'cause the site's slashdotted), I wouldn't mind paying $40 for it.
Geez, I paid less for this laptop I'm using than those screens cost. I went to our corporate salvage office (public) and bought a Compaq Armada 3500 (P-II 300, 128 MB, 13.3" Active Matrix, DVD drive, no HD) for $175. I think a comparable machine is probably available on eBay for a like amount (as the first post said).
What would be the difficulty involved in splitting a laptop into a base and a monitor connected by a VGA cable?
In a kitchen, there's probably a space consideration. In my kitchen, it would be hard to find a place to mount a 15" (or even 13") CRT, but easy to mount a 15" (or even 17") LCD.
Yeah, that's interesting. I read The Ring shortly after I read Emerald Eyes, The Long Run and Armageddon Blues. I thought it was great. It was kind of wierd, and had some overtones that might be questioned in this modern society, but overall I thought it was a great story.
DKM is far and away my favorite sci-fi author. And, contrary to what's posted here, he hasn't stopped writing. He just published Terminal Freedom, co-authored with his sister Jodi. It's a hoot.
And if you're up for some freeware short stories, check out Left Behind and Realtime. The former is from the QueenOfAngels website and the latter is from the kithrup site that someone above mentioned. There are lots more short stories and whatnot on the kithrup site.
Lastly, new prints of most of DKM's books can be had from QuietVision Publishing, his new publisher. Sorry, but we early adopters got all of the limited-print hardcovers. Trade paperbacks are available, though.
How do you get through the day without putting a bullet in your head? Or is that too much work?
You're right about one thing: Print editors and writers are terrible at spelling and grammar. I don't think they put enough effort into it.
But this nonsense about, "If I can't get what I want, I won't get anything at all," is a load of crap. How do you expect to get anything? Get off your ass and get out in the world.
The geek culture (of which I am a part) has an unfortunately large subculture of people (of which I am not a part) who seem to think that if they wait long enough, whatever they want will come to them. It's unfair to say that life is passing them by while they wait, but more accurate to say that the life they have while waiting sucks. Maybe this stems from early childhood development where learning the trivia taught to them in school ("Washington was the first president of the U.S." or "2+2=4") came so easy to them that they determined that they probably didn't need to apply themselves to get anything they wanted. Then they get out in the real world and can't figure out why the inflow stopped.
The basic model of existence that can be applied to all life forms comes down to, "Ask yourself what you want, then what you're willing to do to get it." Payment usually outweighs the reward. So, why do we go on? Life is an integrated solution.
I was thinking along the same lines some time ago and posted a question to the SourceForge Storage Foundry about creating a "storage router" that would run under Linux and be able to route storage requests between any two types of interface (SCSI to IDE, FC to SCSI, etc). The response I got was, "That sounds doable," but nothing else. Not knowing the first thing about either kernel-level development or project management on SourceForge, I didn't pursue it. It still strikes me as a good idea, though...
Well, if you can exert 140 grams of force over a millimeter of distance, applying that to a lever a millimeter from a fulcrum should be able to lift 20 grams a distance of (taking off shoes to count toes) 5mm on a 7mm moment arm on the other side of the fulcrum. I think.
Mind you, I'm figuring all this out in my (suspect) head while watching CSI, so can someone corroborate/refute this?
Ah, yes, you're right. I've been out of the networking field long enough that the finer details are starting to slip... (no pun intended)
Still, depending on the layout of the condo site, I suspect that CAT5 or even CAT6 (though I don't really know what the CAT6 limits are) would be insufficient. A friend of mine just bought a condo in a large complex that's probably 20 acres in size with about ten units in each building. Wiring that with CAT5 only would be a nightmare.
In that situation, if you were going to stick with Ethernet (probably the best option), 10 or 100BASEFL between buildings would probably be the best bet.
Depending on the layout of the units, cable length may or may not be an issue. With 10/100 Ethernet, the max cable length is around 100m. I seem to remember that restricting the speed to 10 Mbit triples the max cable length, but that bit of data is suspect.
Most commercial buildings have a wiring closet on each floor that houses switches for that floor. The switches from each floor are connected to a central (REALLY FAST) switch that typically has all the routing rules on it. Routers for Internet and other network connections are also connected in here, giving everyone on the whole network access (per permissions) to "the world."
If your condos are distributed widely, I'd keep considering DSL but try and figure out a way to go with Ethernet. I'd avoid wireless for the time being, but consider other technologies like IP over power lines.
There are other posts below that detail other considerations to be made when providing your own network service, such as developing a TOS and all that's encumbered there.
Actually, so long as you call out MapQuest, give credence to phprojekt as a Project replacement. And it's a self-hosted app rather than a service, too. I haven't installed it (yet), but it sure looks pretty good. It's a different model than MS Project, but the end result is project tracking.
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That's plenty more than the 300 MHz Celeron I'm using for my desktop at home. And I have few complaints about it. And my 300 MHz laptop, running XP of all things, isn't terribly bad, either.
In the case of civil suits, I suspect that only judgements and relevant information (in summary) is kept, because, in civil suits, once the judgement happens, it rarely matters later why it happened.
In the case of suits that are being dropped, no court would care.
Now I'll wonder, every time I use the john, if this piece of paper once made Microsoft embrace Unix...
(okay, so I'm stretching things just a little)
Isn't that "restore him from backup?"
So, what you're saying is that there are (conservatively) 210 genes that not only differentiate me from you, but from that cute blonde on my floor, my wife, Nelson Mandella (no, they're not the same person), every member of the American Idol finalist team AND every chimp in Africa? Sounds fishy to me.
I seem to remember from some high-school chemistry class (too many years ago) that DNA molecules are made up of 4 chemicals paired with one another to create "genes." If I have that right, then the math would be (I think) 210^(4^2) or 210^16, which my calculator shows as 1.43E37.
I think that's in the category of dang-that's-a-lot. It's starting to sound less fishy all the time...
Sorry, I should've called that out as an arbitrary number too. I was betting that you'd understand.
Agreed. Another question, one they didn't address, is how far removed from other apes we are. 99.4% of a couple quadzillion genes still leaves a lot of genes that define us as humans. And if an orangutan is 89.7 % (an arbitrary number on my part) the same as a human, that speaks somewhat to the relativity of the 99.4% number of the chimp. Also, how far off are we from one another?
Having said all that, I think that all the ape species deserve somewhat more respect than we've been giving them...
I think it's more correct to say, "confusing themes with skins." It's actually kind of annoying to get all your apps set up with visually-compatible skins the way you like, then have some non-skinnable app come along and use the default (in my case, Windows at work) system theme. It seems like an intrusion into my desktop.
In Soviet Russia, subject and direct object have places switched for them!
Ah, the depths of my madness...
Hmm.
/home into My Documents? Or do you open a window to the file system and see things as you might in Konqueror?
Avoiding my initial reaction of revulsion at putting Explorer on Linux, it sounds at least intriguing.
How does it handle the file system? Does it try to figure out how to turn / into c:\ ?
You should put together a document on how you achieved your feat and post it here.
Was anyone whining? Maybe my filter (1+) is set too high, but I didn't hear any whining. In a commonly-open source community, freely downloadable ISOs are, well, common. A fair mistake, I'd say.
Having said that, I agree that the base expectation of things being free is somewhat overused. And, if it's a good implementation (I can't tell a thing, 'cause the site's slashdotted), I wouldn't mind paying $40 for it.
Geez, I paid less for this laptop I'm using than those screens cost. I went to our corporate salvage office (public) and bought a Compaq Armada 3500 (P-II 300, 128 MB, 13.3" Active Matrix, DVD drive, no HD) for $175. I think a comparable machine is probably available on eBay for a like amount (as the first post said).
What would be the difficulty involved in splitting a laptop into a base and a monitor connected by a VGA cable?
In a kitchen, there's probably a space consideration. In my kitchen, it would be hard to find a place to mount a 15" (or even 13") CRT, but easy to mount a 15" (or even 17") LCD.
DKM is far and away my favorite sci-fi author. And, contrary to what's posted here, he hasn't stopped writing. He just published Terminal Freedom, co-authored with his sister Jodi. It's a hoot.
And if you're up for some freeware short stories, check out Left Behind and Realtime. The former is from the QueenOfAngels website and the latter is from the kithrup site that someone above mentioned. There are lots more short stories and whatnot on the kithrup site.
Lastly, new prints of most of DKM's books can be had from QuietVision Publishing, his new publisher. Sorry, but we early adopters got all of the limited-print hardcovers. Trade paperbacks are available, though.
Read the Long Run before you read The Last Dancer. It will make a lot more sense. And, if it's been a few years, re-read Emerald Eyes.
How do you get through the day without putting a bullet in your head? Or is that too much work?
You're right about one thing: Print editors and writers are terrible at spelling and grammar. I don't think they put enough effort into it.
But this nonsense about, "If I can't get what I want, I won't get anything at all," is a load of crap. How do you expect to get anything? Get off your ass and get out in the world.
The geek culture (of which I am a part) has an unfortunately large subculture of people (of which I am not a part) who seem to think that if they wait long enough, whatever they want will come to them. It's unfair to say that life is passing them by while they wait, but more accurate to say that the life they have while waiting sucks. Maybe this stems from early childhood development where learning the trivia taught to them in school ("Washington was the first president of the U.S." or "2+2=4") came so easy to them that they determined that they probably didn't need to apply themselves to get anything they wanted. Then they get out in the real world and can't figure out why the inflow stopped.
The basic model of existence that can be applied to all life forms comes down to, "Ask yourself what you want, then what you're willing to do to get it." Payment usually outweighs the reward. So, why do we go on? Life is an integrated solution.
Which, I'm sure, is a definite need-to-know-how-to-use thing.
I was thinking along the same lines some time ago and posted a question to the SourceForge Storage Foundry about creating a "storage router" that would run under Linux and be able to route storage requests between any two types of interface (SCSI to IDE, FC to SCSI, etc). The response I got was, "That sounds doable," but nothing else. Not knowing the first thing about either kernel-level development or project management on SourceForge, I didn't pursue it. It still strikes me as a good idea, though...
Well, if you can exert 140 grams of force over a millimeter of distance, applying that to a lever a millimeter from a fulcrum should be able to lift 20 grams a distance of (taking off shoes to count toes) 5mm on a 7mm moment arm on the other side of the fulcrum. I think.
Mind you, I'm figuring all this out in my (suspect) head while watching CSI, so can someone corroborate/refute this?
Ah, yes, you're right. I've been out of the networking field long enough that the finer details are starting to slip... (no pun intended)
Still, depending on the layout of the condo site, I suspect that CAT5 or even CAT6 (though I don't really know what the CAT6 limits are) would be insufficient. A friend of mine just bought a condo in a large complex that's probably 20 acres in size with about ten units in each building. Wiring that with CAT5 only would be a nightmare.
In that situation, if you were going to stick with Ethernet (probably the best option), 10 or 100BASEFL between buildings would probably be the best bet.
Depending on the layout of the units, cable length may or may not be an issue. With 10/100 Ethernet, the max cable length is around 100m. I seem to remember that restricting the speed to 10 Mbit triples the max cable length, but that bit of data is suspect.
Most commercial buildings have a wiring closet on each floor that houses switches for that floor. The switches from each floor are connected to a central (REALLY FAST) switch that typically has all the routing rules on it. Routers for Internet and other network connections are also connected in here, giving everyone on the whole network access (per permissions) to "the world."
If your condos are distributed widely, I'd keep considering DSL but try and figure out a way to go with Ethernet. I'd avoid wireless for the time being, but consider other technologies like IP over power lines.
There are other posts below that detail other considerations to be made when providing your own network service, such as developing a TOS and all that's encumbered there.
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Actually, so long as you call out MapQuest, give credence to phprojekt as a Project replacement. And it's a self-hosted app rather than a service, too. I haven't installed it (yet), but it sure looks pretty good. It's a different model than MS Project, but the end result is project tracking.
I'm a little out of my element here, but wouldn't the use of a journaled file system on the backup array help here?
Maybe I don't understand the JFS concept, but doesn't it track changes to files?