Not exactly a small ISP, but Earthlink has a webmail feature which allows you to open the message and determine from the email/filename if you want to download the file. If not, you can delete the email without having to wait an hour for the 10-meg attachment to finish downloading. On broadband, the webmail feature kinda sucks...but on dialup it's a lifesaver.
There is only one expansion "slot" on the PS2. If the network card didn't have this feature, then you would be forced to choose between having a HDD or having a NIC. The HDD connectors on the NIC are a "pass-through" connector of sorts (more like they took a PS2 HDD connector and merged it with the NIC). Also, the reasons nothing happened when you plugged in your HDD are (1) no games I know of use the HDD, just the linux kit, and (2, maybe) Sony says in the documentation for the linux kit that there's something special about the hardware in their HDD that makes it slightly different from a normal HDD. They claim if you use a normal HDD in the PS2, it won't work quite right and if you use their HDD in a computer, you could fry your computer. (I didn't write it, they did.) This might just be marketing FUD, or there actually might be some differences between the PS2 HDD and a normal IDE HDD, who knows.
As long as she has limited hand movement, build on it. Someone else here suggested buying one of those loud annoying "I'm being mugged" alarms...by default these are designed so that when contact is made, the alarm is silent, but when contact is broken (by yanking a pin/headphone jack from a plastic housing), it is loud as hell. Break apart the device and instead of breaking contact when a pin is janked from the housing, solder a couple wires to the contacts on the alarm, and have the wires barely held together (probably vertically), so that if she moves her hand, it causes them to seperate, and thus open the circuit and trigger the alarm.
When I first started looking at computer books, I classified the Sams "Teach Yourself" series into the same category as "for Dummies". Then, one day, I decided I wanted to learn C. I went to the bookstore (long before the days I knew of free online book sites like informit) and was presented with only two choices: Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, or C for Dummies. Weighing out my chances (and glancing through the table of contents of each book), I decided to suck it in and try the Sams book. (I refused to sink to the level of the other choice.) I took the book home, and four days later (at a rate of 3-4 chapters/day, skipping the "how computers work" and "installing Borland C" first couple chapters) I knew more about C than (I later found out) was taught at the college I went to. The books are very well structured, and after the first four chapters (Days), each chapter builds on something taught in the earlier ones. Since then, I have bought several Sams books, and with the exception of one (Advanced C in 24 Hours, only because it was DOS-centric), I have been very happy with them. Definately a recommended {publisher / series / whatever you want to call it}.
Let's step through this logically. I will call the rows as numbered as in the puzzle and the positions as numbered left to right, leftmost being position #1. Thus, the ball at row 1, position 3 is the red one.
Comparing lines 1 and 2, we see three of the colors from one have been copied in two. Since there are two "pegs" (not counting black/white color yet) in 2, and one in 1, the new ball (yellow) must be triggering one of the pegs. Therefore, one ball in the solution is yellow. Also, therefore one of the three "copied" balls is triggering a peg, therefore the non-copied ball (red) is not in the solution.
Going on to three, line three states two of the balls are in the correct position. Since we know yellow is one of our balls, we now know the position of yellow in the solution (position 3).
Going back to line two, we now know the yellow ball is the one triggering the white peg (right color, wrong position). Therefore one of the other three balls is triggering the black peg (right color, right position). We have three choices: lt blue, dk blue, and green. It can't be dk blue because we know there's a green or a lt blue ball in the right position in line three...but it can't be green or lt blue because there's no shared positions between those two lines! Thereore, as stated, there is no solution to this puzzle.
Back in high school, a friend and I made a Marx Generator from about 7 of these capacitors. The flash tubes in these cameras make wonderful spark gaps, BTW. It took about 30 seconds to charge up the thing, and the output from it lasted for mere picoseconds, but dang was it cool.
P.S.: Word to the wise: just the task of putting a load across the output terminals can set one of these things off. I was moving one of the terminals with a metal screwdriver and I accidently touched the other contact with my other hand. To this day I do not know how I managed to survive that one.
The controversy isn't necessarily over Yucca Mountain itself as it is over politics. During his campaign tour, G.W. Bush promised Nevada he wouldn't put a nuclear waste facility in their state. Now he is. That's why everyone's so pissed. Unfortunately for the people of Nevada, they're fighting an uphill battle. Bush has said "put it there", and not a single member of Congress (except those representing Nevada) is going to say word against it because they don't want the facility to end up in their state. Basically, Nevada's fscked no matter what. There are some extenuating circumstances, such as the fact that some researchers say Yucca Mountain will fsck up the local water table and stuff, but the primary problem here is the broken campaign promise.
If there's not cell phone coverage out in the woods, then this product isn't likely to work either. Sure, it'll know where you are from the GPS, but without cellphone (aka PCS) service, it wouldn't be able to transmit the distress signal to anyone. You'd still be better off with a cellphone.
The linux community has rallied behind causes we felt were worth supporting in the past, however I cannot remember any instance in which the community has rallied behind a commercial venture before. Anyone interested in setting up a Paypal account for the purpose of helping out Loki? How much are linux games worth to you? Would you be willing to donate a few bucks to help keep Loki afloat? Consider what message this would send to Windows-only game developers...the linux community is not only wanting for games, but willing to support companies that will provide for them. Anyone with me?
Nahh, you technically couldn't even do that...you'd be disconnected before the entire login process text finished being transmitted to your end of the connection.
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Anyone know any methods of getting around this short of physically ripping apart the printer and soldering a few wires together?
Not exactly a small ISP, but Earthlink has a webmail feature which allows you to open the message and determine from the email/filename if you want to download the file. If not, you can delete the email without having to wait an hour for the 10-meg attachment to finish downloading. On broadband, the webmail feature kinda sucks...but on dialup it's a lifesaver.
...for once, the guys who keep complaining of a lag kill might actually be telling the truth!
There is only one expansion "slot" on the PS2. If the network card didn't have this feature, then you would be forced to choose between having a HDD or having a NIC. The HDD connectors on the NIC are a "pass-through" connector of sorts (more like they took a PS2 HDD connector and merged it with the NIC). Also, the reasons nothing happened when you plugged in your HDD are (1) no games I know of use the HDD, just the linux kit, and (2, maybe) Sony says in the documentation for the linux kit that there's something special about the hardware in their HDD that makes it slightly different from a normal HDD. They claim if you use a normal HDD in the PS2, it won't work quite right and if you use their HDD in a computer, you could fry your computer. (I didn't write it, they did.) This might just be marketing FUD, or there actually might be some differences between the PS2 HDD and a normal IDE HDD, who knows.
As long as she has limited hand movement, build on it. Someone else here suggested buying one of those loud annoying "I'm being mugged" alarms...by default these are designed so that when contact is made, the alarm is silent, but when contact is broken (by yanking a pin/headphone jack from a plastic housing), it is loud as hell. Break apart the device and instead of breaking contact when a pin is janked from the housing, solder a couple wires to the contacts on the alarm, and have the wires barely held together (probably vertically), so that if she moves her hand, it causes them to seperate, and thus open the circuit and trigger the alarm.
Just my $0.02 USD.
When I first started looking at computer books, I classified the Sams "Teach Yourself" series into the same category as "for Dummies". Then, one day, I decided I wanted to learn C. I went to the bookstore (long before the days I knew of free online book sites like informit) and was presented with only two choices: Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, or C for Dummies. Weighing out my chances (and glancing through the table of contents of each book), I decided to suck it in and try the Sams book. (I refused to sink to the level of the other choice.) I took the book home, and four days later (at a rate of 3-4 chapters/day, skipping the "how computers work" and "installing Borland C" first couple chapters) I knew more about C than (I later found out) was taught at the college I went to. The books are very well structured, and after the first four chapters (Days), each chapter builds on something taught in the earlier ones. Since then, I have bought several Sams books, and with the exception of one (Advanced C in 24 Hours, only because it was DOS-centric), I have been very happy with them. Definately a recommended {publisher / series / whatever you want to call it}.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
As stated, Mastermind II is not possible.
Let's step through this logically. I will call the rows as numbered as in the puzzle and the positions as numbered left to right, leftmost being position #1. Thus, the ball at row 1, position 3 is the red one.
Comparing lines 1 and 2, we see three of the colors from one have been copied in two. Since there are two "pegs" (not counting black/white color yet) in 2, and one in 1, the new ball (yellow) must be triggering one of the pegs. Therefore, one ball in the solution is yellow. Also, therefore one of the three "copied" balls is triggering a peg, therefore the non-copied ball (red) is not in the solution.
Going on to three, line three states two of the balls are in the correct position. Since we know yellow is one of our balls, we now know the position of yellow in the solution (position 3).
Going back to line two, we now know the yellow ball is the one triggering the white peg (right color, wrong position). Therefore one of the other three balls is triggering the black peg (right color, right position). We have three choices: lt blue, dk blue, and green. It can't be dk blue because we know there's a green or a lt blue ball in the right position in line three...but it can't be green or lt blue because there's no shared positions between those two lines! Thereore, as stated, there is no solution to this puzzle.
Contests to this logic are welcomed.
Back in high school, a friend and I made a Marx Generator from about 7 of these capacitors. The flash tubes in these cameras make wonderful spark gaps, BTW. It took about 30 seconds to charge up the thing, and the output from it lasted for mere picoseconds, but dang was it cool.
P.S.: Word to the wise: just the task of putting a load across the output terminals can set one of these things off. I was moving one of the terminals with a metal screwdriver and I accidently touched the other contact with my other hand. To this day I do not know how I managed to survive that one.
The controversy isn't necessarily over Yucca Mountain itself as it is over politics. During his campaign tour, G.W. Bush promised Nevada he wouldn't put a nuclear waste facility in their state. Now he is. That's why everyone's so pissed. Unfortunately for the people of Nevada, they're fighting an uphill battle. Bush has said "put it there", and not a single member of Congress (except those representing Nevada) is going to say word against it because they don't want the facility to end up in their state. Basically, Nevada's fscked no matter what. There are some extenuating circumstances, such as the fact that some researchers say Yucca Mountain will fsck up the local water table and stuff, but the primary problem here is the broken campaign promise.
If there's not cell phone coverage out in the woods, then this product isn't likely to work either. Sure, it'll know where you are from the GPS, but without cellphone (aka PCS) service, it wouldn't be able to transmit the distress signal to anyone. You'd still be better off with a cellphone.
The linux community has rallied behind causes we felt were worth supporting in the past, however I cannot remember any instance in which the community has rallied behind a commercial venture before. Anyone interested in setting up a Paypal account for the purpose of helping out Loki? How much are linux games worth to you? Would you be willing to donate a few bucks to help keep Loki afloat? Consider what message this would send to Windows-only game developers...the linux community is not only wanting for games, but willing to support companies that will provide for them.
Anyone with me?
Nahh, you technically couldn't even do that...you'd be disconnected before the entire login process text finished being transmitted to your end of the connection.