Thats not the "lightweight" Firefox it used to be.....:/
3 Tabs open containing about 400k of HTML/media (Adblock and Mouse Gestures are the only plugins)
If I left this instance running for more than another 18 hours my console will start swapping like a biatch and the machine becomes un-useable. (10 secs to action a mouse cursor movement on the screen)
Crtl Alt F1 - fixes this, as it normally kills Firefox instantly because it needs to grab some memory for the tty. Otherwise its just a case of manually killing it by PID number on a very slow console.
Also why the FF has its own "appearance/themes" and will not conform to your current Window Manager settings is beyond me.
However FF is still the best there is and thats why I use it along side w3m. IMO
Just place 2 lengths of string/rope along each conduit from a central point (fuse box/basement) then plaster over it. If you need another cable/cable standard - just tie it to the string and pull - then pull it back with the other length of string./Rocket Science
Just ensure that each room has 1 point to do this from ie (back of wardrobe etc)
The only "new" item you will need in the future are wires (hopefully low voltage DC cables, instead of 120/240AC)..... I cannot see you needing to pull 1.5" PE gas pipes - just wires.
Why are "Ask Slashdot" questions allways so generic and vague?
Try posting some more information..... just a thought?
ie.
Location - What County/City/State?..... even a Country/CONTINENT would help!
Cellphone Service Provider - Would be handy.
Current Cellphone - Make/Model - as above.
Somebody may have had exactly the same issue in the same region with the same phone/provider and could answer your question in one sentence.
Please when posting "Ask Slashdot" questions be a little more concise!.....
My thoughts.....
A basement is an enclosed space (I will assume you have no windows/sky lights) however there must be a means of circulating air around the "basement" - im thinking..... air vents.
Have a look at the car antenna kits that are compatible with you current phone - remember these antennas are normally installed in the rear car window and after trailing the cable around the window/sills/footwells you could easily use 6-9 metres of cable.
Next..... trace any wires/pipes/air vents that come into your building - could you follow any cable/phone/water inputs to the outside world? If so how far would it be to get a cable to there?
Then stick a car antenna on the wall.....
If you own the place then get out a 2 foot long drill - bang a hole through the wall - problem solved..... or are you renting? (you never said)
Even if you have to follow the path of an existing cable/pipe that runs "upstairs" - measure the distance - then talk to somebody who knows about signal loss/vs/ cable length when using car antenna (hint usenet) - from what I know the are shielded coax..... so they *may* be useable at 100 metres.
Then spend about (rough guess £40) on a bluetooth headset..... as you phone will be pinned to the antenna cable..... depending on max cable length
I just want a PDA / Phone that will happily run Nethack. Sony Clios will but they also run Windows CE - so sod that! The Psion Series 7 has a bespoke release of Nethack... anybody had any experience with it?
The BBC is funded not by advertising but requires each UK household to pay approx 103(Pounds)/year if they own a TV set (I understand the fee is slightly less if the TV is black and white)/lol This worked quite well in the 1980's (when there were only 3 channels) however due to the introduction of cable/satellite boxes we now have access to 50+ channels and still have to pay the BBC it's "rental" fee each year on top of our cable package charges. Now we have the internet and because the BBC stream radio and other services across the internet there are laws currently being passed that require a TV licence if you have a BROADBAND connection and no TV receiver what so ever.
Make of this what you will......
Disclaimer..... I do like the BBC and find it funny that our episodes of the Simpsons last 20 minutes and not 30 minutes (no adverts) =P
Would have been even better if the web page containing those 102 words wasnt 108KB. Do web developers test a pages on a T1 connection?
Sorry if this sounds like a rant - but my Broadbands been a little iffy this morning so I switched to a 56K modem, the page "only" takes 26 seconds to load at 4KB/Second! Arnt modems (33.6 - 56K) still the most popular connection method to the Internet?/rant off
There are 2 x 1.5 volt cells in series And 2 x 9 volt cells in parallel
I know for certain this causes heat problems during charging or discharging because of the charge inbalance between the cells. This could lead to explosions in extreem cases.
If you need to build one, I would suggest removing one of the 9 volt cells or adding 2 more 1.5 volt cells in parallel
Ok you get your Spouse a love injection but how does that tie there love to you? Imagine waking up one morning only to find shes ran off with the milkman!:/
Really, getting your hands on windows source can't be that hard if you're motivated & have some connections. I was student-admin at a v.small college (think 500ish students) a few years back and, while cleaning out the server room, found a copy of NT4 that nobody knew existed (it was the same cabinet as the VMS tapes).
From what I can gather you must have found the NT4 Installation CDRom? The "leaked" precompiled source code for NT4 must be at least 15GB (10+CDRoms) and I severly doubt it would be sitting in a small college's tape backup cabinet!
Not wishing to be a Troll - however if it is only shared on the local network (as you stated), then why not just share it on a local machine? This would provide much better control over the printer and its current jobs etc and much less heart ache!
Is there a reason why you cannot do the above?
Allways nice when you can get that piece of hardware working..... I know =)..... but do you really need to?
Yes we should give them credit, they pioneered powered flight. They kept an man made object in fairly stable flight for over 4 minutes - as they were lifting off from a beach (sea level) and landing (cough crashing) at the same altitude (sea level) they were not using the 25mph wind to exploit a height advantage from a cliff / hill etc. They used state of the art technology to accomplish this. (Wooden construction, heavy engine and fabric wing film)
What the Wright brothers did for us in 1903, Galileo has done for us in 2003. (ok its spent 14 years in space)
They pushed a scientific frontier to the limit and won. What they did then (1903) was persure an idea and achived a goal. Look back technology available at the time of manufacture;
Consider the marvel of Galileo and space travel - then go back 100 years - imagine aeroplanes.
To start, I would like to give the author credit presenting his case (notably the.png images)
However I cannot really grasp the concept of what he is trying to get across. I could draw a map of all the digital (non cash tranactions) I have made in the past week, or I am likely to make next week.
If this is a paranoia issue then why use digital money transfers / store cards? OK the ATM/POS transefers will still be logged (cash withdrawls) and so will the video evidence that you used them.
However add to the map all of the other tracking points you may have triggered.....
Digital Transactions - As allready mentioned Road Traffic Cameras - These monitor road tax offences as well as driving offences Security Cameras Internet Habbits EMail Content Mobile Phone's Triangulated Geograpic Location (I can pinpoint this to approx 1 square mile using cell ID's)
Then you will have an even larger picture of your daily routine;
Ok so UK Resident #5637463 (Me)
Passes 4 road traffic cameras on route to work. Works 8:30 -> 16:30 weekdays (Location found easily by a call to the UK's tax offices) Buys lunch at the same garage each working day, if not on site Drinks to much - (too many credit card transactions to "Rugby Road Wine Store") =) etc etc etc.....
The amount of number crunching needed to integrate these systems together would be astronomical even for a small island like the UK (unsure of the current population).
However if I was a Wanted - Criminal / Pedophile etc #45358 I WOULD BE WORRIED as the police do have access and the power to track rouge individuals - making the Earth a "safer" place to live.
My point's.....
Fellons should be tracked and taken to justice.
Innocent people should have nothing to fear and should be content with the measures that there Government / President has taken to ensure there safety and well being.
Quote from above post - "I want to know what I'm patching or downloading before I do anything. This is my computer, I should know what's happening to it."
If you want to know what is happening system then use an open source solution. DUH
Quote from above post - "People don't update their systems"
Maybe thats because over 50% of the security holes in Windows/Windows Applications are either ignored by Microsoft or patched AFTER the $h!7 hits the fan. (Perhaps thats why there is no patch available yet?)
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed - I opened this instance of Firefox last night ..... Top Output ..... FF 1.0.2
..... :/
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
14436 xxxx 15 0 245m 173m 39m S 0.3 34.4 12:20.63 firefox-bin
Thats not the "lightweight" Firefox it used to be
3 Tabs open containing about 400k of HTML/media (Adblock and Mouse Gestures are the only plugins)
If I left this instance running for more than another 18 hours my console will start swapping like a biatch and the machine becomes un-useable. (10 secs to action a mouse cursor movement on the screen)
Crtl Alt F1 - fixes this, as it normally kills Firefox instantly because it needs to grab some memory for the tty. Otherwise its just a case of manually killing it by PID number on a very slow console.
Also why the FF has its own "appearance/themes" and will not conform to your current Window Manager settings is beyond me.
However FF is still the best there is and thats why I use it along side w3m. IMO
If you have not guessed by now - Linux - FF 1.0.2
Just place 2 lengths of string/rope along each conduit from a central point (fuse box/basement) then plaster over it. /Rocket Science
..... I cannot see you needing to pull 1.5" PE gas pipes - just wires.
If you need another cable/cable standard - just tie it to the string and pull - then pull it back with the other length of string.
Just ensure that each room has 1 point to do this from ie (back of wardrobe etc)
The only "new" item you will need in the future are wires (hopefully low voltage DC cables, instead of 120/240AC)
Why are "Ask Slashdot" questions allways so generic and vague?
..... just a thought?
..... even a Country/CONTINENT would help!
.....
.....
..... air vents.
..... trace any wires/pipes/air vents that come into your building - could you follow any cable/phone/water inputs to the outside world? If so how far would it be to get a cable to there?
.....
..... or are you renting? (you never said)
/vs/ cable length when using car antenna (hint usenet) - from what I know the are shielded coax ..... so they *may* be useable at 100 metres.
..... as you phone will be pinned to the antenna cable ..... depending on max cable length
Try posting some more information
ie.
Location - What County/City/State?
Cellphone Service Provider - Would be handy.
Current Cellphone - Make/Model - as above.
Somebody may have had exactly the same issue in the same region with the same phone/provider and could answer your question in one sentence.
Please when posting "Ask Slashdot" questions be a little more concise!
My thoughts
A basement is an enclosed space (I will assume you have no windows/sky lights) however there must be a means of circulating air around the "basement" - im thinking
Have a look at the car antenna kits that are compatible with you current phone - remember these antennas are normally installed in the rear car window and after trailing the cable around the window/sills/footwells you could easily use 6-9 metres of cable.
Next
Then stick a car antenna on the wall
If you own the place then get out a 2 foot long drill - bang a hole through the wall - problem solved
Even if you have to follow the path of an existing cable/pipe that runs "upstairs" - measure the distance - then talk to somebody who knows about signal loss
Then spend about (rough guess £40) on a bluetooth headset
spHAM
Parents Sig : "I have a Google E-mail account and you (probably) don't!"
... AOL n00b!1!
AND?
However YOU have an AOL email account and I CERTAINLY don't!
R0LfFIE!!!11!!1O0L
Dupe
try "man google"
.... Cliff - why did you even consider this as an artice?
And stop asking stupid questions
I just want a PDA / Phone that will happily run Nethack. Sony Clios will but they also run Windows CE - so sod that! ... anybody had any experience with it?
The Psion Series 7 has a bespoke release of Nethack
The BBC is funded not by advertising but requires each UK household to pay approx 103(Pounds)/year if they own a TV set (I understand the fee is slightly less if the TV is black and white) /lol
......
..... I do like the BBC and find it funny that our episodes of the Simpsons last 20 minutes and not 30 minutes (no adverts) =P
This worked quite well in the 1980's (when there were only 3 channels) however due to the introduction of cable/satellite boxes we now have access to 50+ channels and still have to pay the BBC it's "rental" fee each year on top of our cable package charges.
Now we have the internet and because the BBC stream radio and other services across the internet there are laws currently being passed that require a TV licence if you have a BROADBAND connection and no TV receiver what so ever.
Make of this what you will
Disclaimer
IE Sod Off ..... Prick
Would have been even better if the web page containing those 102 words wasnt 108KB. Do web developers test a pages on a T1 connection?
/rant off
Sorry if this sounds like a rant - but my Broadbands been a little iffy this morning so I switched to a 56K modem, the page "only" takes 26 seconds to load at 4KB/Second! Arnt modems (33.6 - 56K) still the most popular connection method to the Internet?
Insightfull article though!
THIS IS NOT SAFE!
There are 2 x 1.5 volt cells in series
And 2 x 9 volt cells in parallel
I know for certain this causes heat problems during charging or discharging because of the charge inbalance between the cells.
This could lead to explosions in extreem cases.
If you need to build one, I would suggest removing one of the 9 volt cells or adding 2 more 1.5 volt cells in parallel
What about none highway car useage?
My personal mail box is 1/2 mile from my dam house and crosses NO public property/roads!
So I walk to my mailbox everytime I'm still slightly over the limit in the morning, because my f**king car won't start!
Lollipops and candy usually work for me!
..... would you like to see my puppies =)
Followed by
Ok you get your Spouse a love injection but how does that tie there love to you? :/
Imagine waking up one morning only to find shes ran off with the milkman!
Really, getting your hands on windows source can't be that hard if you're motivated & have some connections. I was student-admin at a v.small college (think 500ish students) a few years back and, while cleaning out the server room, found a copy of NT4 that nobody knew existed (it was the same cabinet as the VMS tapes).
..... Not a flame! ;)
From what I can gather you must have found the NT4 Installation CDRom? The "leaked" precompiled source code for NT4 must be at least 15GB (10+CDRoms) and I severly doubt it would be sitting in a small college's tape backup cabinet!
Just FYI
... the now defunct "RedHat" Linux distro?
:/
Way to go on damming Linux users reputation
Ssssshhhh! Just dont tell SCO
Not wishing to be a Troll - however if it is only shared on the local network (as you stated), then why not just share it on a local machine? This would provide much better control over the printer and its current jobs etc and much less heart ache! Is there a reason why you cannot do the above? Allways nice when you can get that piece of hardware working ..... I know =) ..... but do you really need to?
I dont think that Rocket Jumping is an option here!
Yes we should give them credit, they pioneered powered flight. They kept an man made object in fairly stable flight for over 4 minutes - as they were lifting off from a beach (sea level) and landing (cough crashing) at the same altitude (sea level) they were not using the 25mph wind to exploit a height advantage from a cliff / hill etc. They used state of the art technology to accomplish this. (Wooden construction, heavy engine and fabric wing film)
What the Wright brothers did for us in 1903, Galileo has done for us in 2003. (ok its spent 14 years in space)
They pushed a scientific frontier to the limit and won.
What they did then (1903) was persure an idea and achived a goal. Look back technology available at the time of manufacture;
Consider the marvel of Galileo and space travel - then go back 100 years - imagine aeroplanes.
Create Several Email Addresses - Be scientific ...
.....
Address 1 - (Control Address) Post No Where and read no messages until the testing time is over
Address 2 - Post On Usenet (Deja.com)
Address 3 - Post In Public ICQ program
Address 4 - Porn Sites
Address 5 - IRC
etc
My fingers are at the ready =D
To start, I would like to give the author credit presenting his case (notably the .png images)
.....
.....
.....
However I cannot really grasp the concept of what he is trying to get across. I could draw a map of all the digital (non cash tranactions) I have made in the past week, or I am likely to make next week.
If this is a paranoia issue then why use digital money transfers / store cards? OK the ATM/POS transefers will still be logged (cash withdrawls) and so will the video evidence that you used them.
However add to the map all of the other tracking points you may have triggered
Digital Transactions - As allready mentioned
Road Traffic Cameras - These monitor road tax offences as well as driving offences
Security Cameras
Internet Habbits
EMail Content
Mobile Phone's Triangulated Geograpic Location (I can pinpoint this to approx 1 square mile using cell ID's)
Then you will have an even larger picture of your daily routine;
Ok so UK Resident #5637463 (Me)
Passes 4 road traffic cameras on route to work.
Works 8:30 -> 16:30 weekdays (Location found easily by a call to the UK's tax offices)
Buys lunch at the same garage each working day, if not on site
Drinks to much - (too many credit card transactions to "Rugby Road Wine Store") =)
etc etc etc
The amount of number crunching needed to integrate these systems together would be astronomical even for a small island like the UK (unsure of the current population).
However if I was a Wanted - Criminal / Pedophile etc #45358
I WOULD BE WORRIED as the police do have access and the power to track rouge individuals - making the Earth a "safer" place to live.
My point's
Fellons should be tracked and taken to justice.
Innocent people should have nothing to fear and should be content with the measures that there Government / President has taken to ensure there safety and well being.
Quote from above post - "I want to know what I'm patching or downloading before I do anything. This is my computer, I should know what's happening to it."
If you want to know what is happening system then use an open source solution. DUH
Quote from above post - "People don't update their systems"
Maybe thats because over 50% of the security holes in Windows/Windows Applications are either ignored by Microsoft or patched AFTER the $h!7 hits the fan. (Perhaps thats why there is no patch available yet?)