If you are storing data that will not change much, it may be simpler to simply make a cron job to copy the data from one drive to another. Set the copy to happen in the middle of the night and you're good. You'll have a copy of the data on a drive that you can put into any machine, and not have the overhead of software raid. I've used software raid, but found that it is slow when you have more than one drive on an IDE channel.
If I have the time to work on someones computer I typically ask for dinner. When I setup my coffee dealer's two computers I got free lattes for a month. It worked out great for the both of us.
Yep, I'm a man and married my boyfriend. I'm a systems admin; he is a programmer. We both love watching football, and we both weigh over 225 pounds. We are both major comptuer geeks. Life is great. We just go to show that stereotypes are often very, very wrong.
I first downloaded the Smashing Pumkins album, Meloncoly and the Infinate Sadess back in June of 1997. Made me go out an buy the album a few months later. I would of never bought the double set if I had not heard all the songs and knew how good they were. }:-)
Yes, you'll need the component video cables to run the HD modes. If you're like me you'll run out of component video inputs and need to get a receaver that switches component video or a switch box. Right now I have HDTV cable, Progressive scan DVD and a game cube. Not sure how I would hook up the PS2 I would like for xmas. }:-)
Sounds like you have the exact same setup as I do. I got a Toshiba 36HF71 and am very happy with it. I agree, when you need to watch 16x9, the bars are not that distracting. Besides most movies are narrower than 16x9 and you would get black bars anyways.
I have a game cube and if a game supports 480p, it makes all the differance in the world. Metroid and Mario Sunshine are stunning. The only thing not supported much is 16:9, but for the few games that do support it (Eternal Darkness, F-Zero) it looks great. That's why I got a 36" 4:3 TV. Video games and normal TV are more common, and my tv does 16:9 well. There is no slow down at all with any of the progressive scan options in any of the games.
you need to down load a patch from the Alpha Centari website. I also do not recommend this patch unless you are color blind becaue the colors they change to are not nice! You can not remove it with out a reinstall of the game. My friend who is completly red-green color blind loved the patch.
It was a Tandy 1000. One of the first PC clones. It had 16 color CGA and three channel sound with one noise channel. One of the better comptuers out at the time. The two front joystick ports were perfect. The only problem was that you could not plug in a standard HD controller for an IBM PC and have it work.
I defeated KQ2 and 3 on a Tandy 1000. Those were the days.
Google turned up this... http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tand y/
I just got a new TV and a component cable for the game cube. When I started up Mario Sunshine it asked if I wanted to display in progressive scan mode. I said yes as I knew my TV could handle it and my jaw hit the ground. The differance between an interlaced screen and a progrressive scan screen is huge. The colors were vibrent, the detail was fantasic and moving objects look clear no matter how fast they moved. Not all games support progressive out, but if they do, they will look like a new game.
I am all for resurch like this, and love to eat meat, but I do not like to think how they measured the nerve impulses behind the eye in a living bunny... bunnys are just to cute to be used in this way.
A bear is sub-culture of gay men. They are typically larger, hairier men, and older men or those who are attracted to them. Typically we simply want to be ourselves and are accepting of anyone. I suggest you look at the informational sight Resources for bears.
The only problem with this method of manufacture would be speed. While I am sure it does not take long for the laser to create these objects, chemical and biological methods of making nano-sized objects can produce billions of components quickly.
Though making arbitrary shapes makes nano-technolgy much more realistic. I better hurry up and go back to school to get ahead of the curve!
Silly little comment but the Tandy 1000 was 4.77mhz 8088. Though it had some good games that could only be played on a Tandy 1000. It still has the best port of demon attack, you could play Kings Quest with 16 colors and three channels of sound, and Star Flight was simply a great game. That with the joystick ports in front of the machine, it really was a great machine to play games on.
If you take the premise of the article and say that survival equals intelligence, then that implies the evolution is intelligent. This idea is touched on in Akira, but I choice not to believe this one. As the universe ages is edges towards complexity, so more complex systems look more and more intelligent. The illusion of intelligence or intelligence itself is just s side benefit of complexity.
For more on complexity I would read "Complexity: the Emerging Science At the Edge of Order and Chaos" by M. Mitchell Waldrop. We read this after reading "Chaos" by Gleick. These books and the class change my perspective on the universe and changed it from a static thing to a wonderful complexity.
Why not make the ion engine more powerful and use this for humans? Even if it was running at 1/100 of a G it would make travel to other planets trival. I belive Heinlein wrote an essay on this once.
You are correct about the floating iceburgs, but is most of the ice at the south pole in the water? I do not know the numbers but I would guess a good chunk of the ice is on land, and that ice would cause some flooding.
Orson Scott Card (of 'Enders Game' fame) wrote a book about this as well. It is called 'Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus.' It deals more with the implications of when studying history we find out that it has been changed from a future that no longer exists. Card makes this more interesting by going into why they changed it, and why it might need to be changed again. A good book worth a read.
You make your own life. No matter how bad things may ever get, the choice to live a happy life is yours. I spent the time to find a good tech gob in a small town (less than 4000) but is about an hour and a half away from a large town (aprox. 500,000) Living in the small town allows me to get a house out in the woods and setup my own little kingdom where I can do what ever the hell I want.
Be willing to work for what you want. And do not put up with what you don't want. Sort of like running Linux instead of win98. (grin)
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I read the book and enjoyed a very good read, but in the end I did not see any thing bad about the up of things as important.
Some times you need to get as much out of your time as you can. Other times you can simply run away. I know several people in thier 50's who walked away from the thier high stress jobs and moved out to the contry and simply enjoy life on a slower pace. I myself am choosing to get into a more time intensive job (and therefore life) to earn the money so I can get away and truly enjoy life.
If an ISP pulls your content of of thier server, then setup your own server and host the sight yourself! (Linux and BSD make good web servers from what I hear (grin)) Even a 33.6K connection can handel a good amount traffic, and broadband is getting cheaper. At that point you become responcible for your own content.
Even if you do not user ALSA drivers I would check out ALSA Player. It is the only CD and MP3 that I know of that can play music backwards and at different speeds. Because of this I removed the cable between my CD and sound card (this reduced the line noise considerably!) XMMS is a better program all together, but ALSA Player is must have for the variable speed play.
I would like to apologize for making the first post a stupid 'first post' post. This is really the first time I could have got a first post. Not having much time to decide I figured why not.
I now feel sorry for this. Why? Well in order to see my post I turned the filter down to score:-1. I found out something interesting - moderating down stupid posts like mine eats up too many moderation points. I have had the operatunity to moderate once. I went to a story, read the story, and then read all of the posts. I moderated three score:! posts up, one score:1 up, and lowered one score:5 post. All of my moderations were based to how well the posts made me see the story in a new way. That is why I read the comments - to get a new view point on the story.
Now I realize that moderation spent to lower off topic posts wasts the moderators ablity to promote the good posts.
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If you are storing data that will not change much, it may be simpler to simply make a cron job to copy the data from one drive to another. Set the copy to happen in the middle of the night and you're good. You'll have a copy of the data on a drive that you can put into any machine, and not have the overhead of software raid. I've used software raid, but found that it is slow when you have more than one drive on an IDE channel.
If I have the time to work on someones computer I typically ask for dinner. When I setup my coffee dealer's two computers I got free lattes for a month. It worked out great for the both of us.
Yep, I'm a man and married my boyfriend. I'm a systems admin; he is a programmer. We both love watching football, and we both weigh over 225 pounds. We are both major comptuer geeks. Life is great. We just go to show that stereotypes are often very, very wrong.
I first downloaded the Smashing Pumkins album, Meloncoly and the Infinate Sadess back in June of 1997. Made me go out an buy the album a few months later. I would of never bought the double set if I had not heard all the songs and knew how good they were. }:-)
Yes, you'll need the component video cables to run the HD modes. If you're like me you'll run out of component video inputs and need to get a receaver that switches component video or a switch box. Right now I have HDTV cable, Progressive scan DVD and a game cube. Not sure how I would hook up the PS2 I would like for xmas. }:-)
Sounds like you have the exact same setup as I do. I got a Toshiba 36HF71 and am very happy with it. I agree, when you need to watch 16x9, the bars are not that distracting. Besides most movies are narrower than 16x9 and you would get black bars anyways.
I have a game cube and if a game supports 480p, it makes all the differance in the world. Metroid and Mario Sunshine are stunning. The only thing not supported much is 16:9, but for the few games that do support it (Eternal Darkness, F-Zero) it looks great. That's why I got a 36" 4:3 TV. Video games and normal TV are more common, and my tv does 16:9 well. There is no slow down at all with any of the progressive scan options in any of the games.
you need to down load a patch from the Alpha Centari website. I also do not recommend this patch unless you are color blind becaue the colors they change to are not nice! You can not remove it with out a reinstall of the game. My friend who is completly red-green color blind loved the patch.
o r_ Blind_Palette.zip
http://www.firaxis.com/downloads/patch/smac_Col
It was a Tandy 1000. One of the first PC clones. It had 16 color CGA and three channel sound with one noise channel. One of the better comptuers out at the time. The two front joystick ports were perfect. The only problem was that you could not plug in a standard HD controller for an IBM PC and have it work.
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I defeated KQ2 and 3 on a Tandy 1000. Those were the days.
Google turned up this...
http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tan
I just got a new TV and a component cable for the game cube. When I started up Mario Sunshine it asked if I wanted to display in progressive scan mode. I said yes as I knew my TV could handle it and my jaw hit the ground. The differance between an interlaced screen and a progrressive scan screen is huge. The colors were vibrent, the detail was fantasic and moving objects look clear no matter how fast they moved. Not all games support progressive out, but if they do, they will look like a new game.
I am all for resurch like this, and love to eat meat, but I do not like to think how they measured the nerve impulses behind the eye in a living bunny... bunnys are just to cute to be used in this way.
A bear is sub-culture of gay men. They are typically larger, hairier men, and older men or those who are attracted to them. Typically we simply want to be ourselves and are accepting of anyone. I suggest you look at the informational sight Resources for bears.
The only problem with this method of manufacture would be speed. While I am sure it does not take long for the laser to create these objects, chemical and biological methods of making nano-sized objects can produce billions of components quickly.
Though making arbitrary shapes makes nano-technolgy much more realistic. I better hurry up and go back to school to get ahead of the curve!
Silly little comment but the Tandy 1000 was 4.77mhz 8088. Though it had some good games that could only be played on a Tandy 1000. It still has the best port of demon attack, you could play Kings Quest with 16 colors and three channels of sound, and Star Flight was simply a great game. That with the joystick ports in front of the machine, it really was a great machine to play games on.
If you take the premise of the article and say that survival equals intelligence, then that implies the evolution is intelligent. This idea is touched on in Akira, but I choice not to believe this one. As the universe ages is edges towards complexity, so more complex systems look more and more intelligent. The illusion of intelligence or intelligence itself is just s side benefit of complexity.
For more on complexity I would read "Complexity: the Emerging Science At the Edge of Order and Chaos" by M. Mitchell Waldrop. We read this after reading "Chaos" by Gleick. These books and the class change my perspective on the universe and changed it from a static thing to a wonderful complexity.
I am guess that Xenon is used because it is the heaviest noble gas that is not radioactive. The heavier the particle the more thrust you get.
Why not make the ion engine more powerful and use this for humans? Even if it was running at 1/100 of a G it would make travel to other planets trival. I belive Heinlein wrote an essay on this once.
You are correct about the floating iceburgs, but is most of the ice at the south pole in the water? I do not know the numbers but I would guess a good chunk of the ice is on land, and that ice would cause some flooding.
Orson Scott Card (of 'Enders Game' fame) wrote a book about this as well. It is called 'Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus.' It deals more with the implications of when studying history we find out that it has been changed from a future that no longer exists. Card makes this more interesting by going into why they changed it, and why it might need to be changed again.
A good book worth a read.
Be willing to work for what you want. And do not put up with what you don't want. Sort of like running Linux instead of win98. (grin)
For the best information on any Hayao Miyazaki work look at They have everything about his movies (Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke) and his magna (from whitch most of his movies come.)
I read the book and enjoyed a very good read, but in the end I did not see any thing bad about the up of things as important.
Some times you need to get as much out of your time as you can. Other times you can simply run away. I know several people in thier 50's who walked away from the thier high stress jobs and moved out to the contry and simply enjoy life on a slower pace. I myself am choosing to get into a more time intensive job (and therefore life) to earn the money so I can get away and truly enjoy life.
If an ISP pulls your content of of thier server, then setup your own server and host the sight yourself! (Linux and BSD make good web servers from what I hear (grin)) Even a 33.6K connection can handel a good amount traffic, and broadband is getting cheaper. At that point you become responcible for your own content.
Even if you do not user ALSA drivers I would
check out ALSA Player. It is the only CD and MP3
that I know of that can play music backwards and
at different speeds. Because of this I removed
the cable between my CD and sound card (this
reduced the line noise considerably!) XMMS is a
better program all together, but ALSA Player
is must have for the variable speed play.
I would like to apologize for making the first post a stupid 'first post' post. This is really the first time I could have got a first post. Not having much time to decide I figured why not.
I now feel sorry for this. Why? Well in order to see my post I turned the filter down to score:-1. I found out something interesting - moderating down stupid posts like mine eats up too many moderation points. I have had the operatunity to moderate once. I went to a story, read the story, and then read all of the posts. I moderated three score:! posts up, one score:1 up, and lowered one score:5 post. All of my moderations were based to how well the posts made me see the story in a new way. That is why I read the comments - to get a new view point on the story.
Now I realize that moderation spent to lower off topic posts wasts the moderators ablity to promote the good posts.
Again, I am sorry.
Gurgi
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