People using beer to manipulate jeans undoubtedly resulted in these students using genes to manipulate beer. Hopefully said students will use the manipulated beer to manipulate jeans themselves, and spawn a whole new generation to carry on the cycle.
Wonder if this measure as proposed would apply to wifi networks restricted/encrypted and thus obviously not intended for public use (cracks or the like notwithstanding).
First, on a personal level, for taking control of his life back. Second, on an environmental level, for saving unnecessary rubbish from a landfill somewhere. Third, on a charitable level, for donating the results of his work. Fourth, on an economic level, for using free software and cast-off hardware to do something useful. Fifth, on a geek level, for using Linux to do it.
Longer answer: Not really...there are places where performance and ability advance, but they are few and far between indeed, and primarily in small establishments. To most employers, employees are disposable commodity, a necessary evil that is to be pruned or removed at the earliest possible convenience. Management has become the science of keeping up appearances, with many managers being completely ignorant of the trade they are in, or the tasks of the workers they supposedly manage. Color me a pessimist, but the way I see it, Dilbert has gone from a sarcastic parody to a photorealistic portrait of the American workforce.
What he said was that Laser Printers last for months of HEAVY PRINTING. I'd like to see any non-continuous flow ink-jet printer do the same.
At my previous employer (a niche-market printmaking shop), we had a room full of Epson C84's for printing cards on assorted card stock. These little things would be printing nearly continuously from August to December, with pauses for reloading ink and cards. 3 years later, they're all still in there, printing away. That's acceptable durability for me, considering that they're only $100USD to begin with. We experimented with several Ricoh, Konica-Minolta and HP color laser printers to replace the C84 farm (space concerns mostly) but none were a). reliable enough feeding card stock or b). able to match the color output of the C84's using Epson Durabrite ink.
As for the laser vs. inkjet bit, it's something of a moot point if you're a consumer and content with paper sizes of 11x14 or less. Once you get into printmaking proper, you'll be hard pressed to match say one of the larger Epsons such as the 9600. Roll-fed paper up to 48" wide, multiple ink sets ranging from several tones of b&w to full-color, and textures. My personal experience with lasers in the same situations has been that they are too limited on paper size, ink/toner choice, and way too finicky about textured or heavy-weight paper due to the sometimes complex paper path.
Inkjet for me, thanks:) But you'll all draw your own conclusions for your own particular situations, of course.
I purchased R4 and R5 Pro (still have the CDs around somewhere), and was using them very comfortably on a dual-processor PPro-180 with 64MB RAM. Larger apps or compiles would drag a bit due to the low memory, but for the most part the system was quite snappy. Boot-time was right around 16 seconds with a 5400rpm EIDE disk.
I must be in the 50% as well... Our Sims perspectives are totally opposite though. My wife thinks they're great fun, while I would rather write random code snippets.
How's color management/calibration work with PS in emulation? I've used assorted Monaco and Xrite colorimeters on the Windows side...anyone else used a colorimeter and associated software under something like Crossover or even a VMware VM?
I don't know what state/country you're in, but I'd venture a guess that it's not New York. The highway patrols here delight in using completely unmarked cars...no logos of any sort except for the small "Police Interceptor" badge on the trunklid (Ford Crown Vic). Varying colors, civilian license plate numbers, tinted windows, and so on. The only possible giveaways are the blacked-out grille and wheels.
I've always wondered if there was some requirement for police vehicles to be visually identifiable...apparently not in NY.
D'oh, that makes no sense. It was supposed to read:
Since Sony doesn't make the DC, it makes no sense for them to be tagging Lik-Sang as a purveyor of pirated materials (at least in this particular instance).
Since Sony doesn't make the DC, them tagging Lik-Sang as a purveyor of pirated materials. Though doubtless they have enough pull to do such a thing, they could care less if people mucked with Sega's stuff.
Admittedly, it was pricey, but it's a nice PDA for when a laptop is too much, but a Palm might not be enough (IMO). Not to mention I can change almost everything to work how I want it to...big plus. Now if the price would drop, they might interest people outside the Linux-geek sector.
Concrete doesn't breathe cold air really, what you're feeling is your body acting as a radiator (or the concrete as a heat sink). Heat moves from warm surfaces to cold, and unless you can keep that concrete close to body temp you will feel it. Makes good cold computer rooms, even if they are a bit chilly for human habitation:-)
Guess those few years working in the HVAC industry weren't totally useless then...
I got mine, after a minor screwup on UPS's part. Very impressive indeed...WinCE palmtops never really got me excited, but this looks quite promising. Perhaps it's just the ability to open a terminal and see good old bash waiting for me.
Now if my CF modem and 802.11b cards would get here, I'd be in business...
I have no argument with 1 (forced induction aside), but 2 and 3 are not necessarily correct.
2) Hondas, in particular ones with the B-series motors, actually do have equal-length driveshafts. Minimal torque steer with an open differential, and even less with a limited-slip diff of some nature.
3) Front-engine, front-drive cars can be made to oversteer, though not anywhere near as easily as their rear-wheel-drive brethren. It takes some suspension-setting, but is done regularly on FWD vehicles used in autocross or road-course competition.
I don't pretend that my 4-door Civic hybrid is a sports car. I do like the option to make it accelerate faster and handle better (top end speed does not concern me)...and if I wind up with something that will keep up with sports cars, so be it. If I could afford a sports car, I'd build a Cobra replica...some of those are pretty impressive indeed.
Nice toy, but hardly practical, and at 8mph you may as well get your ass in shape and ride a bicycle. I can double this silly thing's speed without breaking a sweat, and I'm hardly fit, by bicyclist standards (or anyone else's for that matter).
Sorry, Kamen, it may be a hoot to ride, but this thing isn't terribly well-suited for outdoor urban usage. Indoors is another story however...it would be a riot to zip about a mall or large store on "IT".
In NY, using a cellphone in a car without a handsfree kit is illegal, or at least that's what they say on those signs above the highways in the NY Metro area and points east. Of course, this is pretty much unenforceable since there are so many loons doing it (including NY State police!).
I do share the concern from a commuter's point of view, however. My motorcycle is my primary mode of transportation, and I've had my share of close calls from cell-phoning oblivious idiots. There's nothing like a 2-ton cage bunting you onto the shoulder to ruin that nice-day-life-is-great feeling on a sunny morning.
Oh, and for anyone actually calling Future Shop, make sure it's 800-663-2275 that you're calling. My work phone number is one digit off from that, and it's supremely irritating to be interrupted by someone with a bug up their ass about their computer, especially since half of them seem to be speaking French, and I don't even work in IT.
Yes, it's more or less off-topic. No, I don't care.
As a former HVAC installation mechanic, I'll toss in my $.02.
Your thermostat's working just fine (unless it's not level or is calibrated incorrectly). The sensation of heat or cold you feel moving from room to room is your duct system either sized wrong or balanced wrong. In the event of hot water heating (baseboard or radiators), excessive heat is more often than not bad thermostat placement.
In-floor heating (aka radiant heating) *feels* worlds better than forced air because the floor is the radiator. You're standing on the floor, right? The reason it's not in more widespread use is that retrofitting it to buildings constructed without it is very expensive and not likely to work well,especially with thicker wood floors. It is very popular, however, in new construction using tile or stone floors.
As for your personal situation of roasting, while the thermostat has not reached its set temperature, look on your duct system for a damper (most likely outside the room you're in) and close it down some. The vent for your room is oversized. If you've got baseboard or radiators, call a plumber to reduce the amount in your room.
Me! ME! I've had Slackware on my Thinkpad 750 for years (4 years, to be precise). Sound doesn't work, but for what I do with it, I don't care. Of course, it's old enough not to have any of this fancy suspend-to-disk schmooze, but this particular Thinkpad has an uptime of 176 days, so no worries there. Now I've never tried to put BSD on there, but that was mainly because at the time I was installing things, NetBSD's PCMCIA support was on the shaky side.
On the workarounds note, I'd be interested to see what exactly the FreeBSD-laptop community is going to do to work around this. It is, after all, a challenge, is it not? Linux seems to do alright with the run-on-everything mentality, and works around a fair number of hardware bogosities. What would prevent some FreeBSD-hacker from making an end run around IBM's pesky BIOS behavior?
So run a caching-only nameserver, and don't use theirs. Assuming you keep up with BIND errata, it shouldn't be a security problem. YMMV, of course. I can do this on my cable system (Optimum Online, NY/CT area), but I don't see why it wouldn't work with @Home.
Just a suggestion....besides, cable networks often don't know how to run servers anyway. The Optonline DNS servers for my area tend to go down on what seems like a daily basis, with times anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours.
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People using beer to manipulate jeans undoubtedly resulted in these students using genes to manipulate beer. Hopefully said students will use the manipulated beer to manipulate jeans themselves, and spawn a whole new generation to carry on the cycle.
No. Also, fuck you.
Wonder if this measure as proposed would apply to wifi networks restricted/encrypted and thus obviously not intended for public use (cracks or the like notwithstanding).
Good for him, on a number of levels.
First, on a personal level, for taking control of his life back.
Second, on an environmental level, for saving unnecessary rubbish from a landfill somewhere.
Third, on a charitable level, for donating the results of his work.
Fourth, on an economic level, for using free software and cast-off hardware to do something useful.
Fifth, on a geek level, for using Linux to do it.
My hat's off to you, sir.
How much are low account numbers going for now anyway? Enough to fund my own PS3 acquisition? :-p
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Not really...there are places where performance and ability advance, but they are few and far between indeed, and primarily in small establishments. To most employers, employees are disposable commodity, a necessary evil that is to be pruned or removed at the earliest possible convenience. Management has become the science of keeping up appearances, with many managers being completely ignorant of the trade they are in, or the tasks of the workers they supposedly manage. Color me a pessimist, but the way I see it, Dilbert has gone from a sarcastic parody to a photorealistic portrait of the American workforce.
What he said was that Laser Printers last for months of HEAVY PRINTING. I'd like to see any non-continuous flow ink-jet printer do the same.
:) But you'll all draw your own conclusions for your own particular situations, of course.
At my previous employer (a niche-market printmaking shop), we had a room full of Epson C84's for printing cards on assorted card stock. These little things would be printing nearly continuously from August to December, with pauses for reloading ink and cards. 3 years later, they're all still in there, printing away. That's acceptable durability for me, considering that they're only $100USD to begin with. We experimented with several Ricoh, Konica-Minolta and HP color laser printers to replace the C84 farm (space concerns mostly) but none were a). reliable enough feeding card stock or b). able to match the color output of the C84's using Epson Durabrite ink.
As for the laser vs. inkjet bit, it's something of a moot point if you're a consumer and content with paper sizes of 11x14 or less. Once you get into printmaking proper, you'll be hard pressed to match say one of the larger Epsons such as the 9600. Roll-fed paper up to 48" wide, multiple ink sets ranging from several tones of b&w to full-color, and textures. My personal experience with lasers in the same situations has been that they are too limited on paper size, ink/toner choice, and way too finicky about textured or heavy-weight paper due to the sometimes complex paper path.
Inkjet for me, thanks
I purchased R4 and R5 Pro (still have the CDs around somewhere), and was using them very comfortably on a dual-processor PPro-180 with 64MB RAM. Larger apps or compiles would drag a bit due to the low memory, but for the most part the system was quite snappy. Boot-time was right around 16 seconds with a 5400rpm EIDE disk.
:-)
Now, where'd I put my Be polo shirt?
I must be in the 50% as well... Our Sims perspectives are totally opposite though. My wife thinks they're great fun, while I would rather write random code snippets.
How's color management/calibration work with PS in emulation? I've used assorted Monaco and Xrite colorimeters on the Windows side...anyone else used a colorimeter and associated software under something like Crossover or even a VMware VM?
I don't know what state/country you're in, but I'd venture a guess that it's not New York. The highway patrols here delight in using completely unmarked cars...no logos of any sort except for the small "Police Interceptor" badge on the trunklid (Ford Crown Vic). Varying colors, civilian license plate numbers, tinted windows, and so on. The only possible giveaways are the blacked-out grille and wheels.
I've always wondered if there was some requirement for police vehicles to be visually identifiable...apparently not in NY.
Now I've seen it all... very apropos Pogo quote :-)
Yes, they did...they don't exist any longer.
D'oh, that makes no sense. It was supposed to read:
Since Sony doesn't make the DC, it makes no sense for them to be tagging Lik-Sang as a purveyor of pirated materials (at least in this particular instance).
Since Sony doesn't make the DC, them tagging Lik-Sang as a purveyor of pirated materials. Though doubtless they have enough pull to do such a thing, they could care less if people mucked with Sega's stuff.
Admittedly, it was pricey, but it's a nice PDA for when a laptop is too much, but a Palm might not be enough (IMO). Not to mention I can change almost everything to work how I want it to...big plus. Now if the price would drop, they might interest people outside the Linux-geek sector.
Concrete doesn't breathe cold air really, what you're feeling is your body acting as a radiator (or the concrete as a heat sink). Heat moves from warm surfaces to cold, and unless you can keep that concrete close to body temp you will feel it. Makes good cold computer rooms, even if they are a bit chilly for human habitation :-)
Guess those few years working in the HVAC industry weren't totally useless then...
I got mine, after a minor screwup on UPS's part. Very impressive indeed...WinCE palmtops never really got me excited, but this looks quite promising. Perhaps it's just the ability to open a terminal and see good old bash waiting for me.
Now if my CF modem and 802.11b cards would get here, I'd be in business...
I have no argument with 1 (forced induction aside), but 2 and 3 are not necessarily correct.
2) Hondas, in particular ones with the B-series motors, actually do have equal-length driveshafts. Minimal torque steer with an open differential, and even less with a limited-slip diff of some nature.
3) Front-engine, front-drive cars can be made to oversteer, though not anywhere near as easily as their rear-wheel-drive brethren. It takes some suspension-setting, but is done regularly on FWD vehicles used in autocross or road-course competition.
I don't pretend that my 4-door Civic hybrid is a sports car. I do like the option to make it accelerate faster and handle better (top end speed does not concern me)...and if I wind up with something that will keep up with sports cars, so be it. If I could afford a sports car, I'd build a Cobra replica...some of those are pretty impressive indeed.
Nice toy, but hardly practical, and at 8mph you may as well get your ass in shape and ride a bicycle. I can double this silly thing's speed without breaking a sweat, and I'm hardly fit, by bicyclist standards (or anyone else's for that matter).
Sorry, Kamen, it may be a hoot to ride, but this thing isn't terribly well-suited for outdoor urban usage. Indoors is another story however...it would be a riot to zip about a mall or large store on "IT".
In NY, using a cellphone in a car without a handsfree kit is illegal, or at least that's what they say on those signs above the highways in the NY Metro area and points east. Of course, this is pretty much unenforceable since there are so many loons doing it (including NY State police!).
I do share the concern from a commuter's point of view, however. My motorcycle is my primary mode of transportation, and I've had my share of close calls from cell-phoning oblivious idiots. There's nothing like a 2-ton cage bunting you onto the shoulder to ruin that nice-day-life-is-great feeling on a sunny morning.
Oh, and for anyone actually calling Future Shop, make sure it's 800-663-2275 that you're calling. My work phone number is one digit off from that, and it's supremely irritating to be interrupted by someone with a bug up their ass about their computer, especially since half of them seem to be speaking French, and I don't even work in IT.
Yes, it's more or less off-topic. No, I don't care.
Your thermostat's working just fine (unless it's not level or is calibrated incorrectly). The sensation of heat or cold you feel moving from room to room is your duct system either sized wrong or balanced wrong. In the event of hot water heating (baseboard or radiators), excessive heat is more often than not bad thermostat placement.
In-floor heating (aka radiant heating) *feels* worlds better than forced air because the floor is the radiator. You're standing on the floor, right? The reason it's not in more widespread use is that retrofitting it to buildings constructed without it is very expensive and not likely to work well,especially with thicker wood floors. It is very popular, however, in new construction using tile or stone floors.
As for your personal situation of roasting, while the thermostat has not reached its set temperature, look on your duct system for a damper (most likely outside the room you're in) and close it down some. The vent for your room is oversized. If you've got baseboard or radiators, call a plumber to reduce the amount in your room.
Me! ME! I've had Slackware on my Thinkpad 750 for years (4 years, to be precise). Sound doesn't work, but for what I do with it, I don't care. Of course, it's old enough not to have any of this fancy suspend-to-disk schmooze, but this particular Thinkpad has an uptime of 176 days, so no worries there. Now I've never tried to put BSD on there, but that was mainly because at the time I was installing things, NetBSD's PCMCIA support was on the shaky side.
On the workarounds note, I'd be interested to see what exactly the FreeBSD-laptop community is going to do to work around this. It is, after all, a challenge, is it not? Linux seems to do alright with the run-on-everything mentality, and works around a fair number of hardware bogosities. What would prevent some FreeBSD-hacker from making an end run around IBM's pesky BIOS behavior?
So run a caching-only nameserver, and don't use theirs. Assuming you keep up with BIND errata, it shouldn't be a security problem. YMMV, of course. I can do this on my cable system (Optimum Online, NY/CT area), but I don't see why it wouldn't work with @Home.
Just a suggestion....besides, cable networks often don't know how to run servers anyway. The Optonline DNS servers for my area tend to go down on what seems like a daily basis, with times anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours.