As a backup when the ADSL goes down, (get 4 hours dialup included in my ADSL plan), in my laptop on the road to rural places where there's no broadband/wireless, and also to recieve faxes on the computer from some of my more digitally challenged clients.
Dying...yes, but it's going to be a useful "fallback" for awhile yet.
Why no wireless? A properly secured wireless lan (WEP/Boundary Control) poses no security threat if properly managed. AES still works over wireless you know.
That perhaps leaving a small and valuble robot on your front lawn all day where less-then-respectable people can just grab it and walk away might be a poor idea?
I suppose you would build a larger version with the blades on the front to guard the smaller robot from would-be thieves though...
But that probably reintroduces the problem of it killing curious kids by mistake.
Wouldn't it be nice if relationships were based on mutal desires and understanding instead of having to give up things you enjoy to suit someone else? That would be crazy. It kinda blows my mind whenever my SO tells me that "relationships are about compromise". I would think a really good relationship would simply be happy with eachother.
Okay I probably have to stop now before this turns into a rant. (Big fights today, and I don't think slashdot wants to know/cares.):D
You Americans are gun crazy. Bowling for Columbine (despite it's many flaws) should be required watching for all you nuts. You did it in the arms race and you do it now...
Simply getting a bigger weapon then your aggressor is not a solution, as your attacker will then follow suit. You may have a handgun in your purse, but your muggers will all be carrying automatics.
I do Xbox mods for other students in my high school and their friends. I have them order the chip themselves, then give me the mod chip and their xbox, and a 6-Pack of Kokanee. All in all it's about a 5 minute soldering job, and I can usually get a pile more beer if they want a lesson on how to use it too!
Everybody ends up happy!
There are clearly not a whole lot of posters here from Vancouver. It's the best part of Canada, and we get snow like one week a year. It's beauty warm now and has been for some weeks, and will be till mid October!
I've made arrangements with my closest friend, in the event of my unexpected demise, he gets my computer and servers on the condition he sifts through all my data, files it, and backs it up somewhere safe.
My life is defined in my data. My photo albums, my emails, the work I've done for school, personal journals, everything that defines who I am and what I have done. If my house was burning and I had to run, the first thing I'd take would be my hard drives.
"If you lived in the Northeast US or Canada what were your memories of the August Blackout?"
That was quite the night for me, I'd been working at a childrens camp as a counsellor and was just getting ready to leave that night for my hard earned day off when all the lights went out. I didn't notice they went out at first because it was daytime and there arn't that many electrical things in a camp. But news eventually drifted through over the radio that it was out all over the place, even in Ottawa, my destination that night. (I was staying at the Ottawa youth hostel as I had every previous day off, it's a really great place.) From the sound of things on the radio, it was pretty chaotic in the city. There was talk of possible riots when the sun went down and the usual media fear mongering, and my boss suggested I skip the day off and take it another time, but there was no way I was going to miss a blackout in downtown Ottawa! My two friends and coworkers coming with me that night were also not too keen on the idea, but I conned them into it. I wasn't sure if the greyhounds were running, so I tried to call them to find out, but it just kept ringing. Creepy. I decided to risk it, figuring the busses wouldn't stop just for a power outage. We hitchhiked up to the nearby rural town, Smith Falls and waited at the gas station there for the bus. The pierced guy working in the station had no idea if it was running or not, but we still decided to stick it out. Now Smith Falls isn't a very nice place. In fact, it's a downright terrible place. Previous teen murder capitol of Ontario and current teen pregnacy capitol. So as the sun was starting to set, and the local sheriff came driving by booming the news of a curfew at 9 that night, and an hour after the bus was supposed to arrive, we began to get worried. It wasn't a place a geek wanted to get stuck in at night. Just as we were discussing just how to get the hell out of there, up pulled the greyhound! Home free!
The 1:30 busride into Ottawa was surreal. Darkness from every little town, broken only by police lights and sirens. We slipped through one intersection with two manged and burning cars in its center, surrounded by flares. The approach to Ottawa was just weird. No streetlights on the highway, and the only lights from the skyscrapers were emergency stairwells and exit signs. We arrived to the darkened bus terminal and were greeted by two police officers armed with flashlights and automatic weapons who promptly told us to leave the building. The streets were like nothing I'd ever seen before.
Darkness, and people. There were people all over the streets, everyone was out. But it was oddly quiet, the police had ordered all cars off the streets that didn't have a reason to be there. The first light I saw was a police car, it had these two big lights in that light box ontp of it, they created a little island of light in a circle all around the car. It slid slowly past and around a corner. I didn't see another cop all night. The walk from the terminal to the hostel is about 40 minutes, and goes right through the downtown core. I was about to get a foot tour of a blackout in a city. Surreal and tension filled as the walk was, nothing bad happened. I was expecting looting, gunfights and all that, but everybody was clean as a whistle.:D The worst we got was a brief encounter with two fairly drunk gentlemen who demanded to shake our hands before they would remove themselves from our path. With all of us ready to lay the proverbial "smackdown" on these drunks if they got any funny ideas about letting a fist fly, I decided to try the peaceful solution first and shook one of their hands, at which point they thanked us and left.
We arrived at the hostel worried there would be no vacancy in the situation, but all was well and after depositing our valubles in our room there, (our primary concern was getting jumped of course), we got ready to head back out onto the streets and see what there wa
They do indeed exist, just very, very rarely. You either are not looking (you can't see them from behind that monitor!) or you just haven't met enough girls. But, just to add to the pile of proof, I present to you our resident geek girl, who indeed:
-Is much less of a pain then "normal" girls -Is very low maintainance -Doesnt ask stupid questiong -Isnt girly to the point of annoyance, but is still feminine enough to be attractive
And the proof: http://alpha39.servehttp.com:8000/gallery/geekfest 2003/DSC01939
Theres more geek girls then you think out there, but some of them are hard to find because they don't proudly wave a flag of geekyness as we guys do. Some "normal" girls are even geek girls in disguise (I've found a few), until you get to know them! Try it!
(Or if all else fails, just get a normal girl and slowly turn her geeky!)
Slashdot Mirror
"Ohhhhhh Canada..."
As a backup when the ADSL goes down, (get 4 hours dialup included in my ADSL plan), in my laptop on the road to rural places where there's no broadband/wireless, and also to recieve faxes on the computer from some of my more digitally challenged clients.
Dying...yes, but it's going to be a useful "fallback" for awhile yet.
Why no wireless? A properly secured wireless lan (WEP/Boundary Control) poses no security threat if properly managed. AES still works over wireless you know.
That perhaps leaving a small and valuble robot on your front lawn all day where less-then-respectable people can just grab it and walk away might be a poor idea?
I suppose you would build a larger version with the blades on the front to guard the smaller robot from would-be thieves though...
But that probably reintroduces the problem of it killing curious kids by mistake.
Call me stupid... But whould that actually work? At what point does the RIAA get to figure out who you are?
Make that MEDICAL marijuana. We haven't even legalized up here in Canada yet, and somehow I don't think you folks are going to beat us to it.
:D
We had it first.
Goatse no more? What rock have you been hiding under?
It lives at http://www.goatse.ca now! Stare into it once more...
Wouldn't it be nice if relationships were based on mutal desires and understanding instead of having to give up things you enjoy to suit someone else? That would be crazy. It kinda blows my mind whenever my SO tells me that "relationships are about compromise". I would think a really good relationship would simply be happy with eachother.
:D
Okay I probably have to stop now before this turns into a rant. (Big fights today, and I don't think slashdot wants to know/cares.)
Loser.
My favorite is to suggest a friendly meeting behind the "7-11, at 3am tonight... And uh... Bring your wallet."
Here in Canada, everyone has the same rights, no matter if you look scruffy... Or Muslim...
It's worrisome that you would be afraid to appear shady for fear of prosecution.
You Americans are gun crazy. Bowling for Columbine (despite it's many flaws) should be required watching for all you nuts. You did it in the arms race and you do it now...
Simply getting a bigger weapon then your aggressor is not a solution, as your attacker will then follow suit. You may have a handgun in your purse, but your muggers will all be carrying automatics.
Crazy...
Just out of curiosity, are there any Canadian map services like TIGER that anyone knows about?
I do Xbox mods for other students in my high school and their friends. I have them order the chip themselves, then give me the mod chip and their xbox, and a 6-Pack of Kokanee. All in all it's about a 5 minute soldering job, and I can usually get a pile more beer if they want a lesson on how to use it too! Everybody ends up happy!
I use a subnet calculator. Math is a great foe to me...
a lc .htm
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/sparkman/netc
There are clearly not a whole lot of posters here from Vancouver. It's the best part of Canada, and we get snow like one week a year. It's beauty warm now and has been for some weeks, and will be till mid October!
I've made arrangements with my closest friend, in the event of my unexpected demise, he gets my computer and servers on the condition he sifts through all my data, files it, and backs it up somewhere safe. My life is defined in my data. My photo albums, my emails, the work I've done for school, personal journals, everything that defines who I am and what I have done. If my house was burning and I had to run, the first thing I'd take would be my hard drives.
That should be: CNet.
Can't forget Final Cut Pro, LiveTitle, Garageband and all the like for us Mac film geeks!
I find #2 worrisome at best...
Here's to the Great White North. "Ohhhh Canada..."
"If you lived in the Northeast US or Canada what were your memories of the August Blackout?"
:D The worst we got was a brief encounter with two fairly drunk gentlemen who demanded to shake our hands before they would remove themselves from our path. With all of us ready to lay the proverbial "smackdown" on these drunks if they got any funny ideas about letting a fist fly, I decided to try the peaceful solution first and shook one of their hands, at which point they thanked us and left.
That was quite the night for me, I'd been working at a childrens camp as a counsellor and was just getting ready to leave that night for my hard earned day off when all the lights went out. I didn't notice they went out at first because it was daytime and there arn't that many electrical things in a camp. But news eventually drifted through over the radio that it was out all over the place, even in Ottawa, my destination that night. (I was staying at the Ottawa youth hostel as I had every previous day off, it's a really great place.) From the sound of things on the radio, it was pretty chaotic in the city. There was talk of possible riots when the sun went down and the usual media fear mongering, and my boss suggested I skip the day off and take it another time, but there was no way I was going to miss a blackout in downtown Ottawa! My two friends and coworkers coming with me that night were also not too keen on the idea, but I conned them into it. I wasn't sure if the greyhounds were running, so I tried to call them to find out, but it just kept ringing. Creepy. I decided to risk it, figuring the busses wouldn't stop just for a power outage. We hitchhiked up to the nearby rural town, Smith Falls and waited at the gas station there for the bus. The pierced guy working in the station had no idea if it was running or not, but we still decided to stick it out. Now Smith Falls isn't a very nice place. In fact, it's a downright terrible place. Previous teen murder capitol of Ontario and current teen pregnacy capitol. So as the sun was starting to set, and the local sheriff came driving by booming the news of a curfew at 9 that night, and an hour after the bus was supposed to arrive, we began to get worried. It wasn't a place a geek wanted to get stuck in at night. Just as we were discussing just how to get the hell out of there, up pulled the greyhound! Home free!
The 1:30 busride into Ottawa was surreal. Darkness from every little town, broken only by police lights and sirens. We slipped through one intersection with two manged and burning cars in its center, surrounded by flares. The approach to Ottawa was just weird. No streetlights on the highway, and the only lights from the skyscrapers were emergency stairwells and exit signs. We arrived to the darkened bus terminal and were greeted by two police officers armed with flashlights and automatic weapons who promptly told us to leave the building. The streets were like nothing I'd ever seen before.
Darkness, and people. There were people all over the streets, everyone was out. But it was oddly quiet, the police had ordered all cars off the streets that didn't have a reason to be there. The first light I saw was a police car, it had these two big lights in that light box ontp of it, they created a little island of light in a circle all around the car. It slid slowly past and around a corner. I didn't see another cop all night. The walk from the terminal to the hostel is about 40 minutes, and goes right through the downtown core. I was about to get a foot tour of a blackout in a city. Surreal and tension filled as the walk was, nothing bad happened. I was expecting looting, gunfights and all that, but everybody was clean as a whistle.
We arrived at the hostel worried there would be no vacancy in the situation, but all was well and after depositing our valubles in our room there, (our primary concern was getting jumped of course), we got ready to head back out onto the streets and see what there wa
They do indeed exist, just very, very rarely. You either are not looking (you can't see them from behind that monitor!) or you just haven't met enough girls. But, just to add to the pile of proof, I present to you our resident geek girl, who indeed:
t 2003/DSC01939
-Is much less of a pain then "normal" girls
-Is very low maintainance
-Doesnt ask stupid questiong
-Isnt girly to the point of annoyance, but is still feminine enough to be attractive
And the proof: http://alpha39.servehttp.com:8000/gallery/geekfes
Theres more geek girls then you think out there, but some of them are hard to find because they don't proudly wave a flag of geekyness as we guys do. Some "normal" girls are even geek girls in disguise (I've found a few), until you get to know them! Try it!
(Or if all else fails, just get a normal girl and slowly turn her geeky!)