Pisses me off when websites stop doing RSS. Guess they don't want me ever visiting their website again... (Forget you gocomics! I supported you for a long time but the last update mangled RSS feeds so badly it wasn't worth my money. Now I get all of those comics for free from other sites!)
I have been using Liferea on Linux for years. Simple, but gets the job done.
I just switched to the "News" app on my Nextcloud instance. This is quite nice because it updates all my devices. I can read and bookmark articles on my tablet during my commute, then when I get home the desktop only shows the feeds I haven't read + the ones I bookmarked. It works really well and all of it remains under my control (my Nextcloud server).
I don't listen to many any more. I used to listen to ~20 when I had a long commute and a boring job. These days it is just:
Tech: http://www.rce-cast.com/ because supercomputers and clusters are my job. http://www.jupiterbroadcasting... I wasn't a fan of the old hosts, but this year they have new hosts and I am giving them a shot. So far it's been good. http://www.programmingthrowdow... has good ones every now and then.
News: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting... I really like how in depth they research even if I have issues with the host and I don't always agree with them.
Fun: http://www.writingexcuses.com/ I enjoy/reading/ sci-fi and fantasy. These authors actually do the writing and I like getting the behind-the-scenes stories of their creative process.
http://delightyourmarriage.com... this is aimed more toward the wives, but it has been very helpful at times for us. Every marriage goes through a few rough times especially with intimacy. The wife likes it and that is enough for me to enjoy it as well.:-)
There is a lot of good advice in this thread and a lot of terrible advice as well (in my opinion). I am in my 30's and already have 10 years of experience in what I am doing. I too have found that I am one of the few who enjoys what I do and I continue to learn. Unfortunately far too many people around me do not. I understand the guys that don't go home and absorb a new programming language over the weekend because they were with their family. Good for them! I encourage that. The people I really don't care for are the ones who stand in the way of because they are so jaded and filled with contempt (which is/really/ evident in some of the older Help-Desk guys). A few examples:
- One Windows admin is now so sick of technology he has BANNED computers and laptops from his house. His poor college-age daughter isn't even allowed to bring her laptop home with her (it has to stay in the car). If you ask for his technical wisdom/incite/knowledge/ect it had _better_ be on-the-clock or you are going to get griped at.
- Another refuses to debug hardware. Claims that it isn't worth his time to fix the computer. He spends THOUSANDS buying new computers and parts. Management doesn't like it, but wont do anything about it because he has been there almost 30 years. A few years ago I got a 7 month old quad-processor dual core server rack for my project because 'crashes all the time', 'isn't worth the time to fix', and 'wasted too much time already'. This was a $12K system when they bought it. I spent ~5 minutes hooking it up and started memtest only for it to fail near instantly. Spent thirty minutes going through the sticks of memory one at a time till I found the one generating the problems. Let memtest run over night and no other problems. That system has been running in production since then (I also took the 20 minutes to RMA the memory). I can't tell you how much equipment I have reintroduced into production use that he was sending to the dumpster. NEW equipment or close to it (even i don't care to work on the 1.4Ghz P4). I never spend much time fixing these problems either.
- Another guy has a similar issues but much more frustrating in my opinion. He _refuses_ to buy _anything_ that doesn't have a support contract on it. No hardware and certainly no software (meaning he won't touch any of my FOSS projects even if his life counted on it). If something 'breaks' he is on the phone with someone for them to fix it. If something goes out of support contract time he either renews it or gets rid of it. He isn't so much an IT admin as he is an over paid babysitter. The company could replace him with a 15 year old at minimum wage and accomplish the same results. Unfortunately I know several people with this attitude. It is one thing to have a good support contract when things get over your head, it is another thing to call a company because "a yellow light on the hard drive came on and they should come out and fix it" or calling microsoft because his computer blue screened once and they should look at the logs and fix it (I wish those were jokes or exaggerations).
- The last guy that I will mention really pisses me off. Had a big new project coming down the pike. He wanted to do it in an old and inefficient method. I knew I could do better. I did my research and due diligence. Had a presentation of results comparing multiple products and everything showing why my solution was the best choice. Everyone was on-board including several layers of management upwards except him. Next day I come in and find out that my plan had been shot down. I asked way and kept pestering until I was called in with him and the manager in charge of the project. After some effort trying to get an answer even the manager wanted to know why he pulled strings on this. We finally got him to open up. Turns out my solution required us to run on Linux and he was a Windows guy. I quote "I have less then 5 years till retirement and I will be DAMNED if I have to learn a new operating system." Turns out this was also why he was so aga
This is not official by any means, but when I spoke with someone who claims to work at Samsung (and claims to know a bit about this) he told me that they were working on a bunch of devices that used this. The product that sparked my interest the most was a receiver that all of your devices would plug into, and then only power and a single cat 5 cable need to run into the TV which can be 100 feet away. Just using cat6 cable (aka pretty cheap). That is really cool to me.
The other intriguing product was a 12' touch panel that was powered via the PoE on HDBaseT (up to 100 watts). Video (1080p), Audio, interface, and power over a single cable. While that wouldn't be great for the home theater, that would be fantastic for the kitchen, office, kids bedroom, ect. It looks like others are working on similar things as well since the Wikipedia link states "A 40” TV connected via an HDBaseT enabled Cat5e/6 cable requires no power source, as it can be powered with 70 watts."
This conversation was months ago and they were aiming for a Christmas release but I never heard anything about this stuff at Christmas. Not sure how far out it actually is. A quick Google search didn't return much but blog-advertisements. Hopefully it isn't too far out and more products start shipping with this. I would love to ditch HDMI for a cat6 cable.
Since others are adding their "I use $product" I might as well do the same...
I use Zabbix to monitor everything. It will monitor just about everything out there and isn't just limited to SNMP like OpenNMS. It is much easier to install, configure, and maintain then Nagios and it has much prettier graphs and management tools then Cacti.
The reason why Zabbix stands out from the others to me is because of how well it functions in the server room for monitoring, alerting, and self healing plus when management walks by they are always impressed. The display that sits on the wall is visually appealing to them when they see the graphs and colors and since that system is set up for read access only they can drag time lines around, see other graphs, print reports on trouble systems, and they can do this on their own (aka: they don't pester me for the information!). Meanwhile, Zabbix is off and monitoring things like the DHCP server so that when a MAC it doesn't know shows up, I get a complete nmap scan of the system (tools are supported out of the box, but this is something you setup manually in the discovery section), and the systems activities are tracked and monitored until the box is configured as a trusted server. Zabbix watches things like a proprietary (ugh) program that is known to crash a few times a week and when it does crash, Zabbix flushes the logs, and restarts the program for me; I just get an email "The program crashed; I fixed it." I even have Zabbix monitor SMART information on the hard drives so I can track everything down to the hard drive serial numbers, temperature, and prefail states. Several of the UPS's are fairly intelligent and work well with the OS, so I have Zabbix monitor those (those few that don't even have a port to connect to the computer I still track manually). It does everything from problem finder, to healer, to network watchdog.
The one thing it doesn't do well is the automatic population of server data even though it has manual entry fields for Server Serial Number, MAC address's, ect, ect, ect. However, it was trivial setting up Zabbix to run a script that gathers that information up and dumps it into the SQL fields for that system.
Programming is basically putting algorithms into a form a computer can understand. Nothing more.
I will agree with you here.
It baffles me to no end every time I see "programmers" apply who consider math as some sort of secondary skill. It's not. It is the primary skill for a good programmer.
I would say this is more dependent on what field they are programming in. I know a really good web developer who has worked with just about every language needed to generate a webpage and is currently employed by a fortune 500 company to run their website as lead dev. Yet he failed out of college and never took higher math then calc I. Smart guy when it comes to web design, but I frequently find myself having to explain the math jokes in Futurama (and similar shows)...
I do not need someone who can "translate" my algorithm into code. I need someone who can take my problem and develop an algo for it. Coding it is the most trivial part of the solution.
It all depends.
I don't claim to be good at a lot of things. However, I like my job and consider myself pretty damn good at what I do. I run a giant Linux cluster. Most of the projects we get are from groups who have a basic understanding of how to write code for a cluster/parallel and a firm understanding of what they want to accomplish. This make my job easy because all we have to do is tweak the code and run it. The new project passed on to me involves physics and math calculations that are way over my head. When the math gurus gave me a sample of their code, my team and I split up the math (knowing little about what it does) and dumped it across the nodes. Turns out how we split the function screws up the results and a big meeting was called. There were two options. 1) Have a parallel programming class for the Math gurus who are very knowledgeable about Math but have only enough programming skills to churn out a inefficient piece of Fortran code (most of which they cut and pasted from another similar program) or 2) send me and my team back to school for more Math. So while it has been years since I graduated school, I am currently working on my masters (Paid for by work! Whoohoo!).
My point is that these guys have the math part down pat. I don't have and won't ever get the Math that they understand just as they don't have and won't get the programming I have. They absolutely need someone to translate their Math into functional code. Now part of that is developing an efficient parallel algo, but without these Math classes my team and I would be struggling to get this project working efficiently. We need to be able to understand the basics of what they want accomplished.
Another guy I frequently communicate with runs a big Linux cluster render farm. He has got the basic ideas behind the math and he is not a strong programmer. Heck of an eye for detail in the rendering and a much better graphics designer then I will ever be, but give him a stack of code in Fortran with MPI bindings and he is lost. He knows how to create his animation and dump it to the farm for processing and that is all his job requires.
My personal opinion on this whole necessary or not question is this: Math classes sucked and I hated them in college (still do), however, to prepare kids for all aspects of what they can do in the future they should have a good solid background in these classes. In fact, I REALLY wish more schools would put the Math classes in the CS dept or have more CS classes that leaned heavy on the Math. Just having the skill isn't worth a lot unless you can put it to practical use. Is it absolutely necessary though? Not really. Plenty of fields in the computer world don't need a lot of math. Flip side of coin. Good luck getting one of those jobs where you never need Math and remember the scientific world is pretty much always hiring and will want a strong background in Math....
Computers can do a lot of things. Just depends on what you are trying to accomplish with them.
Why not just `startx --:1` then configure keyboard and mouse for that session? It has worked for me in the past and I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work now. No reason to wait for the next version when it already works.
My current place of employment has a standard format. However, it doesn't mean it is easier to deal with. We have a NT-MailServ1 as well as a LX-MailServ1. One is 2k3 and the other Debian. We also have a cluster that the nodes were named after the last grouping of the IP address. Try remembering which one is which when they are named N101-N180.
Granted, some of the other places I have worked were not much easier to remember. My university named all of their clusters after people in Beowulf and the mainframes were named after stars. Students always had issues trying to spell the weird names. So many trouble tickets because they forgot how to spell the names...
One place I worked named the servers after famous philosophers. Kant, Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, ect.
The coolest place though (showing my bias here:-) named all of the Linux servers after heros from Batman (Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, ect). The Mac systems were named after cops (Gordon, Yin, Montoya, ect). All the Windows servers were Batman villains (Two-Face, Riddler, Joker, ect). I desperately wanted to change/swap the name of one of the servers because we always had issues with MadHatter. I always thought it would be best to have the trouble maker be Joker or, because I was always fighting it, have it renamed to Bane (of my existence).
Well first of I have an old jornada, that has fallen down two flights of stairs, throw in the pool while on, thrown out of a moving car, and has survived me not only through high school, but college as well....
then there is my old p2 450...when i first got it, it was a nice comp...after a few months I had to upgrade. I put in a second vid card and couldnt get the punk to boot with two vid cards. A friend who did tech support (jokingly) told me to kick it...so I did...and it turned on! A little later I decided to upgrade the ram from 64mb to 256 using 2 128mb memory sticks. It wouldnt do crap when you turned it on. No beeping, no error msgs, nothing. Remembering how I kicked it last time, I thought I would do it again. However, it was on the table, so I just bitch slapped it. It immediatly worked. A little later, I upgraded the CDrom drive. Same thing, wouldnt work. Windows would boot and wouldnt see the drive...that is till I brought my fist down on top of the case and windows suddenly recognized the drive...Then I got peeved at windows and decided that it was time to put linux on. Linux WOULD NOT BOOT! tried everything from floppy to CD to net boot...always failed with a kernal fault error...no matter which distro I used. So I slid the box off the table and it smacked on the wall, while I was booting off a linux cd, and it installed. It has been running for about a year and I havnt had any other issues... oh and btw...I have named the box with a big black sign written in a gothic font I found on the net....Masochist!
and last but not least...my dad worked as a hardware tester at a lab for about a year. one time they had a bunch of left over parts and time to kill, so they took an old 486, stuck it in this setup to overclock it..they got it up pretty high when they relized the fan wouldnt keep it cool, so they took some liquid nitrogen and used it to spray on and kept pumping it up...they got it up so high, that you couldnt acutally use it to process anything, but it was just screaming fast...that is until they liquid nitrogen ran out...then it blew a hole straight through the motherboard...
Well thats all I am going leave you with today...enjoy... ~S~
Actually this is already going on. At least with other forms of comunication. I know of at least a few malls in the Ft. Worth/Dallas area that use short dist. broadcasting for cell phones. You walk past the store and your cell rings to tell you that there is a certain special going on inside.
Even when I went to miami, and went wifi hunting w/ my friend and his laptop, we found a place that would msg us. Everytime we walked by we would a msg for a discount on one of their products.
I would not be surprised in the least to see this occuring with bluetooth at all. Actually it would surprise me more to not have it occuring...
Other then the rendering mentioned before.... Does anyone know about any linux in space projects? Other then of course the one Linus menitoned "I know it's been on the Shuttle, but that's just low Earth orbit. And I'm wondering if it's been on anything more interesting." I for one am def just as curious.
I have been known to pride myself on the useless information I know, and I dont know about you guys, but this is just stupid. You gotta wonder what kinda stuff could have ben done with that computing power and money...I wonder how much further cancer treatment couldve gone...but then again it is amazing to see what kind of BS someone can come up with when avoiding real work:-D
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Pisses me off when websites stop doing RSS. Guess they don't want me ever visiting their website again... (Forget you gocomics! I supported you for a long time but the last update mangled RSS feeds so badly it wasn't worth my money. Now I get all of those comics for free from other sites!) I have been using Liferea on Linux for years. Simple, but gets the job done. I just switched to the "News" app on my Nextcloud instance. This is quite nice because it updates all my devices. I can read and bookmark articles on my tablet during my commute, then when I get home the desktop only shows the feeds I haven't read + the ones I bookmarked. It works really well and all of it remains under my control (my Nextcloud server).
Forgot about Hak5's ThreatWire. https://www.patreon.com/Threat...
I don't listen to many any more. I used to listen to ~20 when I had a long commute and a boring job. These days it is just:
/reading/ sci-fi and fantasy. These authors actually do the writing and I like getting the behind-the-scenes stories of their creative process.
:-)
Tech:
http://www.rce-cast.com/ because supercomputers and clusters are my job.
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting... I wasn't a fan of the old hosts, but this year they have new hosts and I am giving them a shot. So far it's been good.
http://www.programmingthrowdow... has good ones every now and then.
News:
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting... I really like how in depth they research even if I have issues with the host and I don't always agree with them.
Fun:
http://www.writingexcuses.com/ I enjoy
http://delightyourmarriage.com... this is aimed more toward the wives, but it has been very helpful at times for us. Every marriage goes through a few rough times especially with intimacy. The wife likes it and that is enough for me to enjoy it as well.
Second for tutanota.de as I have been very happy with their services.
Decoding it now.... B-e-s-u-r-e-t-o-d-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-O-v-a-l-t-i-n-e... Aw man....At least it wasn't a rick roll....
- One Windows admin is now so sick of technology he has BANNED computers and laptops from his house. His poor college-age daughter isn't even allowed to bring her laptop home with her (it has to stay in the car). If you ask for his technical wisdom/incite/knowledge/ect it had _better_ be on-the-clock or you are going to get griped at.
- Another refuses to debug hardware. Claims that it isn't worth his time to fix the computer. He spends THOUSANDS buying new computers and parts. Management doesn't like it, but wont do anything about it because he has been there almost 30 years. A few years ago I got a 7 month old quad-processor dual core server rack for my project because 'crashes all the time', 'isn't worth the time to fix', and 'wasted too much time already'. This was a $12K system when they bought it. I spent ~5 minutes hooking it up and started memtest only for it to fail near instantly. Spent thirty minutes going through the sticks of memory one at a time till I found the one generating the problems. Let memtest run over night and no other problems. That system has been running in production since then (I also took the 20 minutes to RMA the memory). I can't tell you how much equipment I have reintroduced into production use that he was sending to the dumpster. NEW equipment or close to it (even i don't care to work on the 1.4Ghz P4). I never spend much time fixing these problems either.
- Another guy has a similar issues but much more frustrating in my opinion. He _refuses_ to buy _anything_ that doesn't have a support contract on it. No hardware and certainly no software (meaning he won't touch any of my FOSS projects even if his life counted on it). If something 'breaks' he is on the phone with someone for them to fix it. If something goes out of support contract time he either renews it or gets rid of it. He isn't so much an IT admin as he is an over paid babysitter. The company could replace him with a 15 year old at minimum wage and accomplish the same results. Unfortunately I know several people with this attitude. It is one thing to have a good support contract when things get over your head, it is another thing to call a company because "a yellow light on the hard drive came on and they should come out and fix it" or calling microsoft because his computer blue screened once and they should look at the logs and fix it (I wish those were jokes or exaggerations).
- The last guy that I will mention really pisses me off. Had a big new project coming down the pike. He wanted to do it in an old and inefficient method. I knew I could do better. I did my research and due diligence. Had a presentation of results comparing multiple products and everything showing why my solution was the best choice. Everyone was on-board including several layers of management upwards except him. Next day I come in and find out that my plan had been shot down. I asked way and kept pestering until I was called in with him and the manager in charge of the project. After some effort trying to get an answer even the manager wanted to know why he pulled strings on this. We finally got him to open up. Turns out my solution required us to run on Linux and he was a Windows guy. I quote "I have less then 5 years till retirement and I will be DAMNED if I have to learn a new operating system." Turns out this was also why he was so aga
This is not official by any means, but when I spoke with someone who claims to work at Samsung (and claims to know a bit about this) he told me that they were working on a bunch of devices that used this. The product that sparked my interest the most was a receiver that all of your devices would plug into, and then only power and a single cat 5 cable need to run into the TV which can be 100 feet away. Just using cat6 cable (aka pretty cheap). That is really cool to me.
The other intriguing product was a 12' touch panel that was powered via the PoE on HDBaseT (up to 100 watts). Video (1080p), Audio, interface, and power over a single cable. While that wouldn't be great for the home theater, that would be fantastic for the kitchen, office, kids bedroom, ect. It looks like others are working on similar things as well since the Wikipedia link states "A 40” TV connected via an HDBaseT enabled Cat5e/6 cable requires no power source, as it can be powered with 70 watts."
This conversation was months ago and they were aiming for a Christmas release but I never heard anything about this stuff at Christmas. Not sure how far out it actually is. A quick Google search didn't return much but blog-advertisements. Hopefully it isn't too far out and more products start shipping with this. I would love to ditch HDMI for a cat6 cable.
I use Zabbix to monitor everything. It will monitor just about everything out there and isn't just limited to SNMP like OpenNMS. It is much easier to install, configure, and maintain then Nagios and it has much prettier graphs and management tools then Cacti.
The reason why Zabbix stands out from the others to me is because of how well it functions in the server room for monitoring, alerting, and self healing plus when management walks by they are always impressed. The display that sits on the wall is visually appealing to them when they see the graphs and colors and since that system is set up for read access only they can drag time lines around, see other graphs, print reports on trouble systems, and they can do this on their own (aka: they don't pester me for the information!). Meanwhile, Zabbix is off and monitoring things like the DHCP server so that when a MAC it doesn't know shows up, I get a complete nmap scan of the system (tools are supported out of the box, but this is something you setup manually in the discovery section), and the systems activities are tracked and monitored until the box is configured as a trusted server. Zabbix watches things like a proprietary (ugh) program that is known to crash a few times a week and when it does crash, Zabbix flushes the logs, and restarts the program for me; I just get an email "The program crashed; I fixed it." I even have Zabbix monitor SMART information on the hard drives so I can track everything down to the hard drive serial numbers, temperature, and prefail states. Several of the UPS's are fairly intelligent and work well with the OS, so I have Zabbix monitor those (those few that don't even have a port to connect to the computer I still track manually). It does everything from problem finder, to healer, to network watchdog.
The one thing it doesn't do well is the automatic population of server data even though it has manual entry fields for Server Serial Number, MAC address's, ect, ect, ect. However, it was trivial setting up Zabbix to run a script that gathers that information up and dumps it into the SQL fields for that system.
Programming is basically putting algorithms into a form a computer can understand. Nothing more.
I will agree with you here.
It baffles me to no end every time I see "programmers" apply who consider math as some sort of secondary skill. It's not. It is the primary skill for a good programmer.
I would say this is more dependent on what field they are programming in. I know a really good web developer who has worked with just about every language needed to generate a webpage and is currently employed by a fortune 500 company to run their website as lead dev. Yet he failed out of college and never took higher math then calc I. Smart guy when it comes to web design, but I frequently find myself having to explain the math jokes in Futurama (and similar shows)...
I do not need someone who can "translate" my algorithm into code. I need someone who can take my problem and develop an algo for it. Coding it is the most trivial part of the solution.
It all depends.
I don't claim to be good at a lot of things. However, I like my job and consider myself pretty damn good at what I do. I run a giant Linux cluster. Most of the projects we get are from groups who have a basic understanding of how to write code for a cluster/parallel and a firm understanding of what they want to accomplish. This make my job easy because all we have to do is tweak the code and run it. The new project passed on to me involves physics and math calculations that are way over my head. When the math gurus gave me a sample of their code, my team and I split up the math (knowing little about what it does) and dumped it across the nodes. Turns out how we split the function screws up the results and a big meeting was called. There were two options. 1) Have a parallel programming class for the Math gurus who are very knowledgeable about Math but have only enough programming skills to churn out a inefficient piece of Fortran code (most of which they cut and pasted from another similar program) or 2) send me and my team back to school for more Math. So while it has been years since I graduated school, I am currently working on my masters (Paid for by work! Whoohoo!).
My point is that these guys have the math part down pat. I don't have and won't ever get the Math that they understand just as they don't have and won't get the programming I have. They absolutely need someone to translate their Math into functional code. Now part of that is developing an efficient parallel algo, but without these Math classes my team and I would be struggling to get this project working efficiently. We need to be able to understand the basics of what they want accomplished.
Another guy I frequently communicate with runs a big Linux cluster render farm. He has got the basic ideas behind the math and he is not a strong programmer. Heck of an eye for detail in the rendering and a much better graphics designer then I will ever be, but give him a stack of code in Fortran with MPI bindings and he is lost. He knows how to create his animation and dump it to the farm for processing and that is all his job requires.
My personal opinion on this whole necessary or not question is this: Math classes sucked and I hated them in college (still do), however, to prepare kids for all aspects of what they can do in the future they should have a good solid background in these classes. In fact, I REALLY wish more schools would put the Math classes in the CS dept or have more CS classes that leaned heavy on the Math. Just having the skill isn't worth a lot unless you can put it to practical use. Is it absolutely necessary though? Not really. Plenty of fields in the computer world don't need a lot of math. Flip side of coin. Good luck getting one of those jobs where you never need Math and remember the scientific world is pretty much always hiring and will want a strong background in Math....
Computers can do a lot of things. Just depends on what you are trying to accomplish with them.
Why not just `startx -- :1` then configure keyboard and mouse for that session? It has worked for me in the past and I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work now. No reason to wait for the next version when it already works.
Granted, some of the other places I have worked were not much easier to remember. My university named all of their clusters after people in Beowulf and the mainframes were named after stars. Students always had issues trying to spell the weird names. So many trouble tickets because they forgot how to spell the names...
One place I worked named the servers after famous philosophers. Kant, Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, ect.
The coolest place though (showing my bias here:-) named all of the Linux servers after heros from Batman (Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, ect). The Mac systems were named after cops (Gordon, Yin, Montoya, ect). All the Windows servers were Batman villains (Two-Face, Riddler, Joker, ect). I desperately wanted to change/swap the name of one of the servers because we always had issues with MadHatter. I always thought it would be best to have the trouble maker be Joker or, because I was always fighting it, have it renamed to Bane (of my existence).
Well first of I have an old jornada, that has fallen down two flights of stairs, throw in the pool while on, thrown out of a moving car, and has survived me not only through high school, but college as well....
then there is my old p2 450...when i first got it, it was a nice comp...after a few months I had to upgrade. I put in a second vid card and couldnt get the punk to boot with two vid cards. A friend who did tech support (jokingly) told me to kick it...so I did...and it turned on! A little later I decided to upgrade the ram from 64mb to 256 using 2 128mb memory sticks. It wouldnt do crap when you turned it on. No beeping, no error msgs, nothing. Remembering how I kicked it last time, I thought I would do it again. However, it was on the table, so I just bitch slapped it. It immediatly worked. A little later, I upgraded the CDrom drive. Same thing, wouldnt work. Windows would boot and wouldnt see the drive...that is till I brought my fist down on top of the case and windows suddenly recognized the drive...Then I got peeved at windows and decided that it was time to put linux on. Linux WOULD NOT BOOT! tried everything from floppy to CD to net boot...always failed with a kernal fault error...no matter which distro I used. So I slid the box off the table and it smacked on the wall, while I was booting off a linux cd, and it installed. It has been running for about a year and I havnt had any other issues...
oh and btw...I have named the box with a big black sign written in a gothic font I found on the net....Masochist!
and last but not least...my dad worked as a hardware tester at a lab for about a year. one time they had a bunch of left over parts and time to kill, so they took an old 486, stuck it in this setup to overclock it..they got it up pretty high when they relized the fan wouldnt keep it cool, so they took some liquid nitrogen and used it to spray on and kept pumping it up...they got it up so high, that you couldnt acutally use it to process anything, but it was just screaming fast...that is until they liquid nitrogen ran out...then it blew a hole straight through the motherboard...
Well thats all I am going leave you with today...enjoy...
~S~
Would they refund your money if the first 5 pictures sent back to earth, was an asteroid coming towards, and smacking your telescope??
Actually this is already going on. At least with other forms of comunication. I know of at least a few malls in the Ft. Worth/Dallas area that use short dist. broadcasting for cell phones. You walk past the store and your cell rings to tell you that there is a certain special going on inside. Even when I went to miami, and went wifi hunting w/ my friend and his laptop, we found a place that would msg us. Everytime we walked by we would a msg for a discount on one of their products. I would not be surprised in the least to see this occuring with bluetooth at all. Actually it would surprise me more to not have it occuring...
Other then the rendering mentioned before....
Does anyone know about any linux in space projects?
Other then of course the one Linus menitoned "I know it's been on the Shuttle, but that's just low Earth orbit. And I'm wondering if it's been on anything more interesting."
I for one am def just as curious.
I have been known to pride myself on the useless information I know, and I dont know about you guys, but this is just stupid. You gotta wonder what kinda stuff could have ben done with that computing power and money...I wonder how much further cancer treatment couldve gone...but then again it is amazing to see what kind of BS someone can come up with when avoiding real work:-D