SPOILER:The original ending featured a scene in which Grant Faraday figures out his father's fate based on Oliver Lang's strange behavior toward him. It was cut for time.
As far as "woa" movies go. Arlington Road was probably the one that caught me the most off guard. But so did Fight Club. No one says you have to watch NEW movies. I'll hear about an obscure older movie and see if I can find it somewhere there are a ton of Independent Films that never got exposure because they predated the internet.
One of my favorite movies is The Man from Earth. Simple, 0 CGI and it's a great discussion and there's even a small plot twist at the end.
And just so I don't sound like a complete idiot. The 'months' was googling and waiting for the drivers to make it into the kernel. When I first got the cards there was little/no support for them in the kernel.
You're joking right? It took me a few months to finally figure out how to get a RAID card in my debian box to work (Had to recompile the kernel with support for that card).
Oh and with 2.6.24 they completely changed away things were. Apparently there's IT821X kernel drivers, then there's libata. So magically when upgraded my kernel all my hd* drives are now sd* drives. But wait, with libata (or was it the IT drivers) it didn't support UDMA. So I was stuck transferring at a whopping 3-4 MB/s. Recompile again. Shit, now grub thinks my hda is sdi. Reboot again and change grub menu. Ahh, finally... no wait. I have to put a noraid=1 at the grub so that the drive doesn't enable RAID. A short 8 hours after doing a simple kernel recompile I'm back up and running.
Don't get my wrong, I love my linux home server. But in no way does even Ubuntu come close to having everything integrated and 'just working'.
There's a reason my MacBookPro is my main machine, because some days I don't want to tinker with all of that. My grandma finally wants to get online. My parent asked me what I suggested and honestly an old G4 in simple finder with a few applications: iPhoto, Safari, Mail (if that). SSH will be enabled and I'll have an account for fixing most things.
My dad used to assemble big presentations for Kraft. You know all that stuff that people use Power Point for? Those slides used to be assembled by hand by someone.
Presentations took a few days (or weeks) and not everyone had them. Then again Bill from marketing couldn't show us all how cool his headers look spinning around in 3D for EVERY SLIDE while accompanied by a "wooosh" sound.
Not sure if we made the step in the right direction.
After some more reading, here are my favorites.
* Apple will release a tablet * Apple will release a new PDA * Apple will release a cell phone * Apple will move to Intel chips
The same damn rumors keep popping up over and over and over and over and over again. Enough already. If I was Jobs, I'd swear never to do any of the four just to piss people off.
While I will agree that there is little a PPC can do that a x86 can't currently do - besides run Mac software at the moment - the likelihood of Apple using x86 chips as their central CPUs is just ludicrous. If this happened, Apple would need to provide support for two seperate code bases in the x86 and the PPC realm. This means two versions of Final Cut Pro, two versions of Xcode, two versions of Motion, etc. This will alienate their current base of customers and serve to wreck what little momentum they have gained in the PC arena. This is simply a shot across the bow of IBM; you'll NEVER see the x86 version of MacOS X.
- Microsoft might actually not want to release office at all.
This is simply a shot across the bow of IBM; you'll NEVER see the x86 version of MacOS X.
'Analysts' have been predicting this for years, saying its cheaper, more flexable, etc. Apple has too buch invested PPC, if Apple switched to x86 EVERY program on the current platform that is optimized for PPC would have to be reworked to run on x86. That and Apple has too much of a proformace advantage with the G5. Congrats on predicting the future Slashdot.
I write VBA routines all the time at work. To an engineer they're invaluable. One of our data acquisition boxes always outputs a fubar CSV style file. I have a script in my personal.xls file that anytime I open one of these files I run this script and it does 10 minutes of cleanup in 10 seconds.
I know that some people write entire programs in Excel but I'd wager that 90% of VBA programs are something written by an engineer or other technical person to make their life easier.
And yes, I know about Matlab. Problem is not everyone has a $10k seat. Everyone has Excel. I'd never publish my code to anyone but as far as making my job easier, you're damn straight I love VBA.
What's up with Slashdot and the Videos lately? I was hoping to be taken to a page with drawings schematics, etc of a floppy gun. Instead it was a straight to video.
The video was obviously shot directly for Fark, one big fark cliche (the B&W picture of the chick with White Teeth) 'Photoshopped' in.
I like both sites and for different reasons. If I want stupid internet videos I'll get them on Fark.
You are correct. How does this fit into the paranoid posts where people think that Apple or the Government has a back door into every Mac and are spying on the populus?
So someone would have to break into my house. Take apart my laptop, solder some bits on, re assemble it so they could spy on me.
I meant you can change the Command-Shift-3/4 command to output a different file type. Instead of dropping a PNG to the desktop, you can have it make a PDF.
I know you can convert it at a later time using Preview.
And if you hit the spacebar when you do a Command-Shift-4 you can select a specific window instead of having to try the best that you can to select one.
The LED is probably sitting across the power lines to the camera. Camera has power = LED is on. there is no non-physical way to disable it.
Personally, I have Undercover installed on all my and my siblings laptops.
I wish the guy that wrote the command line tool (iSightCapture) to take photos would either release the source or make some updates. A video capture CLI tool would be awesome.
I'm thinking of writing my own poor man's Undercover using cron, bash scripts and curl. Attempt to curl a website which I have access to, all the website does is return a 1 or a 0. (Stolen, not stolen). If anything gets taken just update my website and next time my Mac connects to the net, it gets what it needs.
And some times during all nighters we get bored so we spice up our comments and code to keep us entertained. Here's something from my young and stupid days:
//unset stuff that doesn't need to be going into the mysql db.
foreach(array('submit', 'table',....) as $evil) { // unset each evil field. // depending on evilness, may have to call on priest();
unset($_POST[$evil]);
}
Slashdot Mirror
while [ 1 ];do curl -o /dev/null http://beta.slashdot.orgdone/
Started that up on a few servers I have..
Spoilers from the IMDB Page:
SPOILER:The original ending featured a scene in which Grant Faraday figures out his father's fate based on Oliver Lang's strange behavior toward him. It was cut for time.
As far as "woa" movies go. Arlington Road was probably the one that caught me the most off guard. But so did Fight Club. No one says you have to watch NEW movies. I'll hear about an obscure older movie and see if I can find it somewhere there are a ton of Independent Films that never got exposure because they predated the internet.
One of my favorite movies is The Man from Earth. Simple, 0 CGI and it's a great discussion and there's even a small plot twist at the end.
Or switching from Windows (supported) to Linux (not supported)...
And just so I don't sound like a complete idiot. The 'months' was googling and waiting for the drivers to make it into the kernel. When I first got the cards there was little/no support for them in the kernel.
You're joking right? It took me a few months to finally figure out how to get a RAID card in my debian box to work (Had to recompile the kernel with support for that card).
Oh and with 2.6.24 they completely changed away things were. Apparently there's IT821X kernel drivers, then there's libata. So magically when upgraded my kernel all my hd* drives are now sd* drives. But wait, with libata (or was it the IT drivers) it didn't support UDMA. So I was stuck transferring at a whopping 3-4 MB/s. Recompile again. Shit, now grub thinks my hda is sdi. Reboot again and change grub menu. Ahh, finally... no wait. I have to put a noraid=1 at the grub so that the drive doesn't enable RAID. A short 8 hours after doing a simple kernel recompile I'm back up and running.
Don't get my wrong, I love my linux home server. But in no way does even Ubuntu come close to having everything integrated and 'just working'.
There's a reason my MacBookPro is my main machine, because some days I don't want to tinker with all of that. My grandma finally wants to get online. My parent asked me what I suggested and honestly an old G4 in simple finder with a few applications: iPhoto, Safari, Mail (if that). SSH will be enabled and I'll have an account for fixing most things.
If you're going to go, go big. 797 all the way.
My dad used to assemble big presentations for Kraft. You know all that stuff that people use Power Point for? Those slides used to be assembled by hand by someone.
Presentations took a few days (or weeks) and not everyone had them. Then again Bill from marketing couldn't show us all how cool his headers look spinning around in 3D for EVERY SLIDE while accompanied by a "wooosh" sound.
Not sure if we made the step in the right direction.
* Apple will release a new PDA
* Apple will release a cell phone
* Apple will move to Intel chips
The same damn rumors keep popping up over and over and over and over and over again. Enough already. If I was Jobs, I'd swear never to do any of the four just to piss people off. While I will agree that there is little a PPC can do that a x86 can't currently do - besides run Mac software at the moment - the likelihood of Apple using x86 chips as their central CPUs is just ludicrous. If this happened, Apple would need to provide support for two seperate code bases in the x86 and the PPC realm. This means two versions of Final Cut Pro, two versions of Xcode, two versions of Motion, etc. This will alienate their current base of customers and serve to wreck what little momentum they have gained in the PC arena.
This is simply a shot across the bow of IBM; you'll NEVER see the x86 version of MacOS X. - Microsoft might actually not want to release office at all. This is simply a shot across the bow of IBM; you'll NEVER see the x86 version of MacOS X. 'Analysts' have been predicting this for years, saying its cheaper, more flexable, etc. Apple has too buch invested PPC, if Apple switched to x86 EVERY program on the current platform that is optimized for PPC would have to be reworked to run on x86. That and Apple has too much of a proformace advantage with the G5. Congrats on predicting the future Slashdot.
Just like Apple would NEVER switch to X86.
Also reminds me of this classic quote: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.", hindsight is 20/20
Not that I think it will happen, but never is a long time.
I write VBA routines all the time at work. To an engineer they're invaluable. One of our data acquisition boxes always outputs a fubar CSV style file. I have a script in my personal.xls file that anytime I open one of these files I run this script and it does 10 minutes of cleanup in 10 seconds.
I know that some people write entire programs in Excel but I'd wager that 90% of VBA programs are something written by an engineer or other technical person to make their life easier.
And yes, I know about Matlab. Problem is not everyone has a $10k seat. Everyone has Excel. I'd never publish my code to anyone but as far as making my job easier, you're damn straight I love VBA.
Now is that 1-8 cents or 1-8 dollars?
What's up with Slashdot and the Videos lately? I was hoping to be taken to a page with drawings schematics, etc of a floppy gun. Instead it was a straight to video.
The video was obviously shot directly for Fark, one big fark cliche (the B&W picture of the chick with White Teeth) 'Photoshopped' in.
I like both sites and for different reasons. If I want stupid internet videos I'll get them on Fark.
Ok, I guess it's a vernacular thing.
One-one thousand is an American colloquialism for one second. We use it for counting out in sports or other events when a stop watch isn't needed.
That's 1 second until the camera takes
4 seconds that the light is on, it's definitely noticeable.
isightcapture test.jpg
About a one-one thousand before the LED comes on
About a four-one thousand when the LED is on.
File is available immediately.
You are correct. How does this fit into the paranoid posts where people think that Apple or the Government has a back door into every Mac and are spying on the populus?
So someone would have to break into my house. Take apart my laptop, solder some bits on, re assemble it so they could spy on me.
Any word on how to use it with the iSight? I got it compiled (had to do a --without-mysql and change setpgrp to setsid) but it compiles and runs now.
Searching their site for iSight turned up nothing.
I meant you can change the Command-Shift-3/4 command to output a different file type. Instead of dropping a PNG to the desktop, you can have it make a PDF.
I know you can convert it at a later time using Preview.
You don't *have* to use the .Mac to do this, there are numerous different scripts people have made/thought of using the built in camera.
Taking iSight photos during invalid login attempts
Take photos via cron every 5 minutes
Take a photo everytime the lid is opened (Includes all of his pictures.
And using TinkerTool or other such applications you can change it to be:
PNG, PDF, TIFF, PICT, JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, GIF, PSD, CGI or TGA.
And if you hit the spacebar when you do a Command-Shift-4 you can select a specific window instead of having to try the best that you can to select one.
The LED is probably sitting across the power lines to the camera. Camera has power = LED is on. there is no non-physical way to disable it.
Personally, I have Undercover installed on all my and my siblings laptops.
I wish the guy that wrote the command line tool (iSightCapture) to take photos would either release the source or make some updates. A video capture CLI tool would be awesome.
I'm thinking of writing my own poor man's Undercover using cron, bash scripts and curl. Attempt to curl a website which I have access to, all the website does is return a 1 or a 0. (Stolen, not stolen). If anything gets taken just update my website and next time my Mac connects to the net, it gets what it needs.
Do the ISP's in the UK state that they have a 1GB limit or do they advertise "Unlimited Usage"?
Let Greenpeace know that nuclear has been around for a few decades.
And some times during all nighters we get bored so we spice up our comments and code to keep us entertained. Here's something from my young and stupid days:
//unset stuff that doesn't need to be going into the mysql db. ....) as $evil) {
// unset each evil field.
// depending on evilness, may have to call on priest();
foreach(array('submit', 'table',
unset($_POST[$evil]);
}