I 2nd the X series Thinkpads, I run Gentoo on a X61s, everything works including the multi-touch screen. When you want to type you flip it out. I put a SSD in this puppy and it flies.
Adverse weather usually does make things more challenging, thats the nature of adversity. Changing weather is nothing new on this planet. The only place that this information is relevant is your wallet. Watch where the money flows.
Looks great on paper but the real world chooses differently, look at some farm crops, long straight swaths, easy to manage.
A human would spend so much time trying to re evaluate the lawn as he goes it would lead to wasted time and inefficiency. Also machines may not be able to physically follow the "ideal" line.
All that turning would: slow down the machine introduce a lot of overcut of areas that have already been mowed. ( not to mention that a machine may not be able to make the turns required to be 100%
Straight lines maximize the amount of grass cut over time and reduces complexity so the operator can drink beer.
...Unfortunately for him, the cartel has tremendous firepower (smuggled from the United States)
reporter you should get your facts straight. Most of the "tremendous" fire power comes from arms dealing from corrupt regimes of South America and not from the USA where the strict gun laws make weapons traceable, which is why they stick out.
Automatic weapons and grenade launchers are are strictly controlled in the US. This is just not the case elsewhere, especially south of Mexico.
If the so called reporters in the media outlets would do some actual investigative reporting, the real facts would be more clear. The liberal agenda poppy cock would be exposed for what it is, propaganda.
You must be a member of Trinity United Church of Christ.
This is exactly why slashdot has gone down the tubes, an argument that has absolutely nothing to do with the current context gets modded up to insightful.
Thumbs are for buttons, fingers are for pointers and trackballs.
Kensington Expert Mouse/ Turbo Mouse(both fine trackballs) and IBM erasers. I hope Lenovo doesn't screw this up on the Thinkpads, X series has only pointer last time I looked. Who wants a douche pad anyway? Most people usually plug in a mouse because the touchpads stink so bad.
The files date string on my flash cards are all Jan 1 2002 not when I took the shot.
I know the meta data exists but I want to reduce the amount of post processing I need to do.
The [some string]_[number].[format] format may be a standard but it certainly does not mean anything to a human. Do I care that it is the nth picture I have taken +100023? The standard could have easily have been a date stamp if anyone would have actually thought about it. The nice thing about this is would be the chances of a duplicate file name would be greatly reduced provided there was seconds and fractions of seconds.
Maybe I am missing something but renaming based on the exact time I took the shot is not as easy as you make it out to be. You got me itching for a solution though.
Here is a meta data extraction tool. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ Unfortunatly my olympus 5050 does not seem to record the metadata for the time. WTF, it gives me everthing else
I'll have to do some more digging on this. This shit drives me batty.
HDTV blows chunks when the programing is not in high def. The stretch format looks bad, like a funhouse mirror, and the grey bars on the sides when viewing in stadard format look like total crap.
HDTV has a way to go before it is the killer app.
Until the uglyness gets fixed I'll stick with my 27" phillips TV that I paid under $400 about 6 years ago. I think hell will freeze over before I spend $1700 on a TV. I think I'm turning into my father;-)
I've been in many industrial / shop enviornments where standard of the shelf PCs are in use for many years. Black with dust grime, plugged into any old outlet and most run forever.
Just once I would like to see one of these companies design with ergonomics in mind. Left handers must be loving these things because they can use the pen in their left hand and push the buttons and hold the unit with the right hand. My tablet pc is the exact same way. Sure I can rotate the screen but the buttons are all backwards. XP tablet edition did not like fliping back and forth so I gave up and installed linux on it. Tablet pc as a form factor would get a lot further if manufactures would make them easy to hold and operate. A bios selection that allowed the device to be one way or another would be a plus.
Why don't we design stuff with attention to detail anymore.
Trying to get my Xplore iX104 http://www.xploretech.com/index.pl digitizer to work. I am working with the linux wacom project dist at sourceforge but am hitting a wall with the code.
Anybody have any info on this tablet. It comes up as a wacom usb, but apparently it has some sort of step child serial to usb converter built it. I have a gentoo installation running nicely on the machine but no pen input. X.org with window maker looks really sweet. Currently it boots up to wavemon for wireless site surveys.
feel free to email regarding this "proph at frontiernet dot net"
OS X is wicked, nicest os I've seen since NextStep. To bad it only runs on my wifes box;-)
I use a lot of red hat and this puts me in somewhat of a pickle. The oldest I'm running is Guinness and that is mostly custom builds anyway, its the little shit that gets you -- when a quick rpm fix fixes a hole. I think it may be time to get a suse box running.
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100% of those firearms are linked to humans.
How many criminals will give up their guns and ammunition because of the law?
I 2nd the X series Thinkpads, I run Gentoo on a X61s, everything works including the multi-touch screen. When you want to type you flip it out. I put a SSD in this puppy and it flies.
The only thing I miss is the keyboard light.
Job security.
Adverse weather usually does make things more challenging, thats the nature of adversity. Changing weather is nothing new on this planet. The only place that this information is relevant is your wallet. Watch where the money flows.
Looks great on paper but the real world chooses differently, look at some farm crops, long straight swaths, easy to manage.
A human would spend so much time trying to re evaluate the lawn as he goes it would lead to wasted time and inefficiency. Also machines may not be able to physically follow the "ideal" line.
All that turning would:
slow down the machine
introduce a lot of overcut of areas that have already been mowed. ( not to mention that a machine may not be able to make the turns required to be 100%
Straight lines maximize the amount of grass cut over time and reduces complexity so the operator can drink beer.
No one has a right to an education or a job.
unbelievable.
You have the right to pursue those things in the USA. At least last time I looked.
Websense? Why should an organization have to pay for filtering software and services to protect people from themselves?
Why aren't they fired for not doing their jobs?
...Unfortunately for him, the cartel has tremendous firepower (smuggled from the United States)
reporter you should get your facts straight. Most of the "tremendous" fire power comes from arms dealing from corrupt regimes of South America and not from the USA where the strict gun laws make weapons traceable, which is why they stick out.
Automatic weapons and grenade launchers are are strictly controlled in the US. This is just not the case elsewhere, especially south of Mexico.
If the so called reporters in the media outlets would do some actual investigative reporting, the real facts would be more clear. The liberal agenda poppy cock would be exposed for what it is, propaganda.
what do you mean... its Window Maker
If we were going to war for iraqs oil we would not be paying over $3 per gallon at the pump today.
You must be a member of Trinity United Church of Christ.
This is exactly why slashdot has gone down the tubes, an argument that has absolutely nothing to do with the current context gets modded up to insightful.
go figure
Thumbs are for buttons, fingers are for pointers and trackballs.
Kensington Expert Mouse/ Turbo Mouse(both fine trackballs) and IBM erasers. I hope Lenovo doesn't screw this up on the Thinkpads, X series has only pointer last time I looked. Who wants a douche pad anyway? Most people usually plug in a mouse because the touchpads stink so bad.
It takes a significant amount of effort from the IT guys to harden a system against this
Actually they have had these systems for years... They are called Main Frames;-)
I wonder how long it will take Apple to realize a three button mouse is the only way to go.
The files date string on my flash cards are all Jan 1 2002 not when I took the shot.
I know the meta data exists but I want to reduce the amount of post processing I need to do.
The [some string]_[number].[format] format may be a standard but it certainly does not mean anything to a human. Do I care that it is the nth picture I have taken +100023? The standard could have easily have been a date stamp if anyone would have actually thought about it. The nice thing about this is would be the chances of a duplicate file name would be greatly reduced provided there was seconds and fractions of seconds.
Maybe I am missing something but renaming based on the exact time I took the shot is not as easy as you make it out to be. You got me itching for a solution though.
Here is a meta data extraction tool. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
Unfortunatly my olympus 5050 does not seem to record the metadata for the time. WTF, it gives me everthing else
I'll have to do some more digging on this. This shit drives me batty.
thanks for the info and thoughts.
HDTV blows chunks when the programing is not in high def. The stretch format looks bad, like a funhouse mirror, and the grey bars on the sides when viewing in stadard format look like total crap.
HDTV has a way to go before it is the killer app.
Until the uglyness gets fixed I'll stick with my 27" phillips TV that I paid under $400 about 6 years ago. I think hell will freeze over before I spend $1700 on a TV. I think I'm turning into my father;-)
Sun 21" (Trinitron)
best monitor I have ever seen. Best computer investment I ever made.
sharp sharp sharp...1600x1200 Have yet to see any lcd that could even come close. Have not seen any crts that come close either come to think of it.
I just wish my camera would name my photos with something that means something to a human like me like a date stamp.
t ead of MsomeMeaninglessNumber.tiff
05-01-22.220059.tiff
05-01-22.220102.tiff
ins
If it were "open" I could control how this worked.
And I thought it is because its the number on the rolling rock bottle.
Right on..
I've been in many industrial / shop enviornments where standard of the shelf PCs are in use for many years. Black with dust grime, plugged into any old outlet and most run forever.
I use an older ibm thinkpad running linux in my shop.
The beauty of the laptop is that dust bunnies are minimized by keeping it closed. Also, no need for a dust gathering mouse because of the trackpoint.
I think... AS far as I know the wacom tablet pc digitizer is usually serial.
Just once I would like to see one of these companies design with ergonomics in mind. Left handers must be loving these things because they can use the pen in their left hand and push the buttons and hold the unit with the right hand. My tablet pc is the exact same way. Sure I can rotate the screen but the buttons are all backwards. XP tablet edition did not like fliping back and forth so I gave up and installed linux on it. Tablet pc as a form factor would get a lot further if manufactures would make them easy to hold and operate. A bios selection that allowed the device to be one way or another would be a plus.
Why don't we design stuff with attention to detail anymore.
Trying to get my Xplore iX104 http://www.xploretech.com/index.pl digitizer to work. I am working with the linux wacom project dist at sourceforge but am hitting a wall with the code.
Anybody have any info on this tablet. It comes up as a wacom usb, but apparently it has some sort of step child serial to usb converter built it. I have a gentoo installation running nicely on the machine but no pen input. X.org with window maker looks really sweet. Currently it boots up to wavemon for wireless site surveys.
feel free to email regarding this "proph at frontiernet dot net"
TIA
Yep, my Dad threw out my Nimh "alkalines" once
OS X is wicked, nicest os I've seen since NextStep. To bad it only runs on my wifes box;-)
I use a lot of red hat and this puts me in somewhat of a pickle. The oldest I'm running is Guinness and that is mostly custom builds anyway, its the little shit that gets you -- when a quick rpm fix fixes a hole. I think it may be time to get a suse box running.