All this obsession with modding the part of the computer you don't look at.
They probably have a case with a window / do the common window mod.
How about an acrylic case for the monitor?
It's really not a good idea to be messing around with CRTs because the voltages involved are highly dangerous and may take quite a while to dissipate (even after they're unplugged).
Over in the UK, that look was called 'cyber kid' and worn by clubbers who liked Trance and usually attributed to a club called Gatecrasher. I say 'was' because that was about five years ago and, save for a few diehards, not many people dress like that any more.
Thanks for the link - I did have a look - but for me 'goth' doesn't really conjure up images of happy people covered in UV reactive paint boshing to 'ard 'ouse.
...there is not yet an LED out there at the right wavelength to do real damage (and be useful for things like steralizing things... if I'm wrong about this please post a link.
I'm not vouching for its ability to do what it says but this fan claims to purify air using an UV LED.
I've got a haynes manual and one thing it's taught me is that the "mechanics" (i.e. not by profession) in my family really aren't that hot - they're tinkers. But I still listen to what they've got to tell me and if they do fix something I couldn't manage on my own then I'm grateful.
Point being: in either situation if you're asking for help don't be an asshole about it.
...the biggest assholes tend to be the ones most computer "savvy"...
Isn't that the truth!
What really gets me is when you're troubleshooting on the 'phone and you tell them to do _exactly_ as you say and they start guessing the next steps and invariably screw up meaning I have to start over again. Or you ask them what they see and they omit the parts they've decided are unimportant. Or they outright lie about what they did to cause the problem because what they did was particularly stupid so they've decided to cover it up!
For years I was extremely patient and polite - explaining everything in however much detail was asked of me and putting up with argumentativeness but now, to be honest, I'm very terse and I end the call if people aren't helping themselves by listening and doing what I ask. Spare the rod, spoil the child.
I just don't have the time. And I really don't have time for the "savvy" jerks that can't manage a "thank-you" - the kind that when their problem was something simple and you fix it in less than a minute they then become rude because it was so easy to resolve.
In fact, I've often found it quicker in the past to get Johnny Know-it-all to pass me over to someone who's computer illiterate because it's less painful to take somebody through the process if they aren't constantly trying to demonstrate their "abilities" and simply do what I ask.
The IsNot operator provides a counterpart to the Is operator. Instead of the clunky and often-used check that an object has been instantiated before you reference it:
If Not myObj Is Nothing Then
IsNot lets you use a direct comparison, eliminating the Not operator:
If myObj IsNot Nothing Then
Similarly, you can eliminate the Not operator when checking if two object instances are different:
If MyObj1 IsNot MyObj2 Then
Although it's a simple change, IsNot fills a consistency gap in the Visual Basic language that helps make your code clearer.
Urk! Is that really how you Visual Basic guys test variables? 'Clunky' seems right.
The page, for me, calls window.resizeTo(630,955). I don't know if any screen size detection is being done... either way that's pretty retarded.
I encourage you to move to a browser that doesn't permit this kind of crap. Your other option is to look for an option in your current browser that prevents resizing or disable scripting completely (probably impractical). Firefox provides the option to prevent scripts from resizing your browser in:
[Edit][Preferences][Web Features][Advanced...]"Move or resize existing windows"[] <- uncheck
Even if it's an old PC system you'll have the necessary peripherals available even if you need an odd connector or two AT->PS2 etc and even those are hardly expensive. I'm not that old but I am grateful for the huge fall in the cost of storage thanks to the Moore's law-esque upholding advances in technology. I've got HDD space to spare that was, in living memory, unheard of in mainframes. I've got a DVD burner that is capable of storing many, many times the size of my first hard drive.
So you've got an old 'bin' PC. Copy your crap over and quit whining - you've never had it so good.
Quality not quantity. Unless you have an analysis of the quality of the results then it really doesn't matter how many either of them return. I'd settle for a few relevant results over many mixed (relevant/SEO'd cruft) results any day.
...the DNS directs us to a server operated by Akamai... Akamai's http caching servers run Linux, and so we report Linux as the operating system. However Akamai also forwards the http Server: header from the original server as part of the cached content, and so we report "Microsoft-IIS/6.0" as the web server.
I think some of our favourite franchises are setting an annoying precedent.
Bond (, James Bond) was guilty of surfing twice in Die Another Day.
If there wasn't a shark in the first stealth-surf sequence for him to jump then there surely must have been in the second parasail-surf-on-cockpit-canopy on several tidal waves sequence. He, of course, looked like a twat.
At least with Legolas it was done in-character as a dextrous feat.
I think you're reinventing first class / optionally more expensive travel.
Think about it - who's going to want less leg room for the same price? So then you have a price difference between the space afforded to travellers which loops back to the more expensive seats - which already exist.
Probably the biggest market for less leg room seats would be children. And who wants to sit next to children on a plane?
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I am curious. Why do you feel the need to be credited as the author?
Would you draw a distinction between, say, somebody that performed your work without crediting you, and somebody that performed your work and credits themselves as the author?
When you say, 'if I create something of value...', are you talking of intrinsic value, as I imagine you would be with respect to songs and poetry? If so, why would its value be altered by accreditation? Is knowing you made it not enough?
Well, sure. That's a lot more elegant than my analogue: I see Linus as a penguin that started the kernel snowball rolling through a snowfield slope of code-y goodness, directing its path through litigious yellow snow and such.
Oh, thanks. I did not see that! (I'm tired but I also don't see any but the most tenuous of links there).
Yes... I guess the development of Linux is like the butterfly effect... if the Linus-butterfly was studying hurricane generation at a university, had an existing standard hurricane that it wanted to improve upon, made headway, then got together with like-minded butterflies to unleash their hurricane in an iterative, controlled manner over time...
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Huh. I'd never really heard about that scene.
Downstairs: The Cure; Upstairs: Lab 4? That seems like quite an unholy union!
Gothy people getting down in fluorescent gear. If I saw it I think I would actually have seen it all. Must be good pills.
They probably have a case with a window / do the common window mod.
It's really not a good idea to be messing around with CRTs because the voltages involved are highly dangerous and may take quite a while to dissipate (even after they're unplugged).
No. Is that what you call them?
Over in the UK, that look was called 'cyber kid' and worn by clubbers who liked Trance and usually attributed to a club called Gatecrasher. I say 'was' because that was about five years ago and, save for a few diehards, not many people dress like that any more.
Thanks for the link - I did have a look - but for me 'goth' doesn't really conjure up images of happy people covered in UV reactive paint boshing to 'ard 'ouse.
I'm not vouching for its ability to do what it says but this fan claims to purify air using an UV LED.
Recently, DJs have harnessed a form of magick known as 'elastic-trickery' and contained it's essence within a small cylinder they call...
a 'torch'.
Does this look gothic to you?
Maybe I misread what you said and you were suggesting they go nuts with this paint stuff to cheer themselves up.
Typo - I'll try that again...
I've got a haynes manual and one thing it's taught me is that the "mechanics" (i.e. not by profession) in my family really aren't that hot - they're tinkers. But I still listen to what they've got to tell me and if they do fix something I couldn't manage on my own then I'm grateful.
Point being: in either situation if you're asking for help don't be an asshole about it.
I've got a manual and one thing it's taught me is that the "mechanics" (i.e. not by profession) in my family really aren't that hot - they're tinkers. But I still listen to what they've got to tell me and if they do fix something I couldn't manage on my own then I'm grateful.
Point being: in either situation if you're asking for help don't be an asshole about it.
Isn't that the truth!
What really gets me is when you're troubleshooting on the 'phone and you tell them to do _exactly_ as you say and they start guessing the next steps and invariably screw up meaning I have to start over again. Or you ask them what they see and they omit the parts they've decided are unimportant. Or they outright lie about what they did to cause the problem because what they did was particularly stupid so they've decided to cover it up!
For years I was extremely patient and polite - explaining everything in however much detail was asked of me and putting up with argumentativeness but now, to be honest, I'm very terse and I end the call if people aren't helping themselves by listening and doing what I ask. Spare the rod, spoil the child.
I just don't have the time. And I really don't have time for the "savvy" jerks that can't manage a "thank-you" - the kind that when their problem was something simple and you fix it in less than a minute they then become rude because it was so easy to resolve.
In fact, I've often found it quicker in the past to get Johnny Know-it-all to pass me over to someone who's computer illiterate because it's less painful to take somebody through the process if they aren't constantly trying to demonstrate their "abilities" and simply do what I ask.
Bad news...
IsKnot was commandeered by penknife-wielding boyscouts and iSnot is the name of the new Apple handkerchief.
Language Enhancements in Visual Basic 2005
Urk! Is that really how you Visual Basic guys test variables? 'Clunky' seems right.
The page, for me, calls window.resizeTo(630,955). I don't know if any screen size detection is being done... either way that's pretty retarded.
I encourage you to move to a browser that doesn't permit this kind of crap. Your other option is to look for an option in your current browser that prevents resizing or disable scripting completely (probably impractical). Firefox provides the option to prevent scripts from resizing your browser in:
HTH
Mouse cable; Keyboard cable; Monitor cable; PSU cable; (Ethernet cable).
That's not a great deal of wiring / rewiring.
Even if it's an old PC system you'll have the necessary peripherals available even if you need an odd connector or two AT->PS2 etc and even those are hardly expensive. I'm not that old but I am grateful for the huge fall in the cost of storage thanks to the Moore's law-esque upholding advances in technology. I've got HDD space to spare that was, in living memory, unheard of in mainframes. I've got a DVD burner that is capable of storing many, many times the size of my first hard drive.
So you've got an old 'bin' PC. Copy your crap over and quit whining - you've never had it so good.
Quality not quantity. Unless you have an analysis of the quality of the results then it really doesn't matter how many either of them return. I'd settle for a few relevant results over many mixed (relevant/SEO'd cruft) results any day.
And in www.search.msn.com it's currently the first result returned.
Sadly, included in the top Google results I get for 'HTML' is a lot of cruft (my default setting is to view 50/page):
- Adobe Acroboat download
- ENCHANTED LEARNING
- Pfizer
- Volcano World
- AOL's AIM
- Works of Shakespeare
- mIRC download
To name a but a few of the results that are clearly not directly related to HTML. Looks like their algorithm favours theFace it: Google may be !evil but the days of them being good at what they do have passed.
I suspect, like a lot of people, _if_ the MS search engine (/ next search engine along) can do any better I'll start using it.
Mostly wrong.
Bullshit. It's actually the 20th result.
Bond (, James Bond) was guilty of surfing twice in Die Another Day.
If there wasn't a shark in the first stealth-surf sequence for him to jump then there surely must have been in the second parasail-surf-on-cockpit-canopy on several tidal waves sequence. He, of course, looked like a twat.
At least with Legolas it was done in-character as a dextrous feat.
I think you're reinventing first class / optionally more expensive travel.
Think about it - who's going to want less leg room for the same price? So then you have a price difference between the space afforded to travellers which loops back to the more expensive seats - which already exist.
Probably the biggest market for less leg room seats would be children. And who wants to sit next to children on a plane?
I am curious. Why do you feel the need to be credited as the author?
Would you draw a distinction between, say, somebody that performed your work without crediting you, and somebody that performed your work and credits themselves as the author?
When you say, 'if I create something of value...', are you talking of intrinsic value, as I imagine you would be with respect to songs and poetry? If so, why would its value be altered by accreditation? Is knowing you made it not enough?
Well, sure. That's a lot more elegant than my analogue: I see Linus as a penguin that started the kernel snowball rolling through a snowfield slope of code-y goodness, directing its path through litigious yellow snow and such.
It's fun to play in Pseud's Corner! :)
Help yourself, dude!
Cranky tiredness can be fun! :)
Oh, thanks. I did not see that! (I'm tired but I also don't see any but the most tenuous of links there).
Yes... I guess the development of Linux is like the butterfly effect... if the Linus-butterfly was studying hurricane generation at a university, had an existing standard hurricane that it wanted to improve upon, made headway, then got together with like-minded butterflies to unleash their hurricane in an iterative, controlled manner over time...
Problems of scope.
Ngggh. It's late and I'm about to go sleep...
But I thought Linus intended to produce an Operating System. And, in due course, he did.
I fail to see why you're specifically linking Linux to chaos theory, any more so than you would anything else in the universe.
Que?
Linus unleashed a hurricane?
Linus as a butterfly?
Linus is a butterfly in a hurricane?
That's an odd mix of metaphors. Dude, I think you might have mistaken Linus for Mothra.