Why is it so difficult to believe that the universe just always was in existance? Not everything requires a beginning and based on what I do know about the current evidence, it seems like it's getting increasingly difficult for scientists to continue to try and prove a big bang theory. Just my 2c...
I haven't been doing it robotically, but I've been mowing the lawn in patterns for quite a while now. It looks a bit nicer, but annoys the neighbors since it looks a lot more fancy than their hack attempt to just get it done in the least amount of time possible.:-)
Now, if you're willing to do design patterns as a business and do it robotically, you might get a few bucks more than the kid down the block since you'd have something to sell to the rich folks.
I've been in this 'mode' for quite some time. I typically jump from one major hobby/interest to another every 6 months or so. Photography, graphics, programming, cooking(including the sub-categories of homebrewing and coffee roasting), music(keyboard, guitar), motorcycles, general shop type stuff(woodworking, metalworking), electronics(digital and analog), and the list goes on...
Truth be known, if I'm not learning something new, I'm totally and utterly bored to death. The trick is to get yourself setup with a job that allows you to learn new things all the time(I'm a sysadmin, so keeping up with Linux, Mac, and Micro$oft keeps me on my toes). I earn enough in that job to buy books, and whatever other materials will help me with my hobbies. Furthermore, a job at a university will take you a long ways in - well - learning more stuff. If you work at a university, classes are generally free as an extra benefit.
Now, you might say that there's more to life than just learning new things - you're absolutely right. However - it's really tough to do the mundane stuff when you feel like you could be doing something more productive(or at least that's how I feel). Staff meetings, for instance, take an interminable length of time out of my week just to discuss what everyone else in the room already knows. Wish I could skip them, but the others in the office really like to socialize and *maybe* they learn something from it.
FYI - sensitivity may be a bigger problem...
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The Blues for LEDs
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I spent some years doing television service. The statistic that really stuck in my head was that blue was only 11% of the picture. The implication is obvious - the eye is a lot more sensitive to blue than either of red or green(don't know who came up with the reverse statistic and posted that the eye is less sensitive to blue - must be a typo). Consequently it makes sense that blue led's emitting the same number of lumens would appear to be brighter. One other factor stuck in my head from that experience(in aligning the picture, anyway) was that it's pretty difficult for the eye focus blue into sharp edges - it wants to scatter and it therefore looks fuzzy no matter how good the focus of the blue gun is.
That said, I've looked around my desk. I have 6+ computers and not one of them has a blue LED. Not even my monitor or keyboard. I didn't do this on purpose, so either I live a charmed life or this guy has bad karma.
The easiest solution to any overbright LED? Black Gaffer's Tape. The adhesive is a lot easier to deal with than duct tape, and it's fully opaque. One layer, and you've effectively converted it into a black emitting diode.
That seems contradictory. Why would you get braces if you don't care what anyone thinks of you?
Personally, I'd tell myself to get into Karate/Martial Arts asap. Once I did that, the other savages I knew stopped screwing with me and I actually learned to meditate. It's been years since I've actually taken a class, but the benefits are still with me to this day.
The only other thing I'd tell myself is to make damn sure I got kicked out of that backwards church my parents were sending me to. Forced religion is more damaging than just following what you already know to be right/true.
-drsmith
Power conservation on these ain't so great
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Flirting With Mac OS X
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I have an iBook with OSX.1 on it. The power management features of the OS are very poorly implemented in comparison to the way they were in OS9.2. Previously, you had different options depending on if you had the laptop on battery or AC power. In OSX.1, you only get one profile for both.
Add to that the fact that sleep/wakeup operations while it's plugged into a live network sometimes put the machine in a coma, and it truly sucks. I eventually removed the magnet that causes it to sleep when the lid was closed just becuase it would be more stable.
I'm seriously hoping they fixed these issues in Jaguar.
"How long before kernel developers have to worry about patents?"
Now that you've posted it on slashdot, I'm certain there's a lot of lawyers getting ready to file suit. You don't really think Linux geeks are the only people who read this site, do you?
Really, I don't mean to sound rude or obnoxious, but publicizing the problem like this doesn't help any of us.
Big freakin' deal - So I have to compile it and then resell the compiled version. At least I'll make some money on the lamers who can't type./configure; make; make install
I guess that's another loss for the 'small' distro companies...
I rarely post here, but this is one subject in which I have some in-depth background.
I've evaluated Citrix Metaframe XP(no relation to the Windows XP product) as well as Windows 2000 Terminal Services in a large(several thousand node) network.
Win2k term. svcs gives you data compression, bitmap caching, the ability to control client/drive mappings, and a bunch of other things. The only additional features I see in the Citrix software is cross-platform support(MacOS plus some unices), control of what applications the end-users can run, and some advanced encryption. Everything else is already included in Win2K Term. Svcs.
For the price tag, and the poor quality of the cross platform support, I really couldn't justify the cost of Metaframe except we *had* to support the Mac plaforms somehow and this was the only way out. Bear in mind that Metaframe runs *on*top*of* Windows 2000 Terminal Services, so you'll have to fork over the money for M$ Terminal Services no matter what.
Of course, if there were a good Linux solution to the problem, and our users could install/configure software for themselves, we'd be doing that instead. I know of no Unix based solutions that can do what Terminal Services does.
Keep in mind also that hardware solutions allow a level of security not available to software solutions. Any traffic over the wire can be decrypted *eventually* and since I work in a lab with wide access to network sniffers, I'll take a hardware solution anytime.
ahh - but I read most of RFC's on LDAP and the protocol is not secure. Any idiot that has root would be able to query my LDAP server. That's why I wanted something more like a secure challenge/response mechanism like SMB or Kerberos(not Lerberos -- seriously I did NOT misspell that when I submitted it, I'm sure of it).
Anyway, I do appreciate the suggestion. I will take a look at pam_smb and see if it uses the NT challenge/response mechanism which would be a step in the right direction.
This has been cited several times in the previous discussion -- though some think cyl 1 is near the spindle and others think it's near the edge of the platter. The basic principle is that there are more sectors/track at the outer edge of the platter(Zone Bit Recording technology) and the sequential media rate is faster(though you will suffer some from rotational latency on the outer tracks -- it's a trade off)
The real answer is that it's manufacturer dependant. The SCSI/IDE command set doesn't specify when I seek where the head will wind up physically. Right now I have queries in with both Seagate and Quantum over this issue because I'll be tuning a new server in the next few days.
Actually, that makes perfect sense. Take a look at space/matter/energy and assume that the universe was once made up of pure energy(pre-big-bang) with no space and no matter. If there was only a 0.00003 percent chance of a bang occurring at any given time(I know -- time didn't exist either, right? You know what I mean here...) and time is assumed to be infinite, we can then postulate that a bang must/will occur at some point. The universe's decision over life/non life is very similar, IMHO and we are one small part of the result.
This might seem deterministic to all of you who ardently believe in free will, but then again, the more we learn about DNA, the more we realize we were programmed by the biggest computer of all right from the start - the universe/God/Nature(call it what you want).
There are a multitude of reasons why I want Linux on a smaller platform. One of the most basic is my job -- network troubleshooting from a small appliance is worth its weight in gold. Just try to carry a Dell Precision 410 with you all the time and you'll see what I mean. Even placing that system on a cart to help lug it around doesn't make it worth it.
The other major reason: Playing MP3's in the car -- IMHO much more flexible than most of the specialized solutions out there right now and it costs about the same.
The last time I looked at this thing, it was about a million 1k files and it took something like an hour to de-archive! If you're going to port this information to a new system, do yourself a favor and put the info into a relational database -- heck, I'll write a script to upload the year-old-files into a mysql database if you want...
I'm not volunteering to head such a project, but it seems to me that the idea is already out there. What's stopping us(linux enthusiasts) from implementing it ourselves. After all, we DO have 100% of the required technical information, and it's mostly a matter of pattern matching and symbol lookups...
Of course, we should also be aware that such an innovation would give pause to the ISV's that are currently supporting linux(no one wants their IP usurped even if it is a *really* good hack) -- witness the UltraHLE problems/issues.
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Why is it so difficult to believe that the universe just always was in existance? Not everything requires a beginning and based on what I do know about the current evidence, it seems like it's getting increasingly difficult for scientists to continue to try and prove a big bang theory. Just my 2c...
I haven't been doing it robotically, but I've been mowing the lawn in patterns for quite a while now. It looks a bit nicer, but annoys the neighbors since it looks a lot more fancy than their hack attempt to just get it done in the least amount of time possible. :-)
Now, if you're willing to do design patterns as a business and do it robotically, you might get a few bucks more than the kid down the block since you'd have something to sell to the rich folks.
I've been in this 'mode' for quite some time. I typically jump from one major hobby/interest to another every 6 months or so. Photography, graphics, programming, cooking(including the sub-categories of homebrewing and coffee roasting), music(keyboard, guitar), motorcycles, general shop type stuff(woodworking, metalworking), electronics(digital and analog), and the list goes on...
Truth be known, if I'm not learning something new, I'm totally and utterly bored to death. The trick is to get yourself setup with a job that allows you to learn new things all the time(I'm a sysadmin, so keeping up with Linux, Mac, and Micro$oft keeps me on my toes). I earn enough in that job to buy books, and whatever other materials will help me with my hobbies. Furthermore, a job at a university will take you a long ways in - well - learning more stuff. If you work at a university, classes are generally free as an extra benefit.
Now, you might say that there's more to life than just learning new things - you're absolutely right. However - it's really tough to do the mundane stuff when you feel like you could be doing something more productive(or at least that's how I feel). Staff meetings, for instance, take an interminable length of time out of my week just to discuss what everyone else in the room already knows. Wish I could skip them, but the others in the office really like to socialize and *maybe* they learn something from it.
I spent some years doing television service. The statistic that really stuck in my head was that blue was only 11% of the picture. The implication is obvious - the eye is a lot more sensitive to blue than either of red or green(don't know who came up with the reverse statistic and posted that the eye is less sensitive to blue - must be a typo). Consequently it makes sense that blue led's emitting the same number of lumens would appear to be brighter. One other factor stuck in my head from that experience(in aligning the picture, anyway) was that it's pretty difficult for the eye focus blue into sharp edges - it wants to scatter and it therefore looks fuzzy no matter how good the focus of the blue gun is.
That said, I've looked around my desk. I have 6+ computers and not one of them has a blue LED. Not even my monitor or keyboard. I didn't do this on purpose, so either I live a charmed life or this guy has bad karma.
The easiest solution to any overbright LED? Black Gaffer's Tape. The adhesive is a lot easier to deal with than duct tape, and it's fully opaque. One layer, and you've effectively converted it into a black emitting diode.
That seems contradictory. Why would you get braces if you don't care what anyone thinks of you?
Personally, I'd tell myself to get into Karate/Martial Arts asap. Once I did that, the other savages I knew stopped screwing with me and I actually learned to meditate. It's been years since I've actually taken a class, but the benefits are still with me to this day.
The only other thing I'd tell myself is to make damn sure I got kicked out of that backwards church my parents were sending me to. Forced religion is more damaging than just following what you already know to be right/true.
-drsmith
I have an iBook with OSX.1 on it. The power management features of the OS are very poorly implemented in comparison to the way they were in OS9.2. Previously, you had different options depending on if you had the laptop on battery or AC power. In OSX.1, you only get one profile for both.
Add to that the fact that sleep/wakeup operations while it's plugged into a live network sometimes put the machine in a coma, and it truly sucks. I eventually removed the magnet that causes it to sleep when the lid was closed just becuase it would be more stable.
I'm seriously hoping they fixed these issues in Jaguar.
"How long before kernel developers have to worry about patents?"
Now that you've posted it on slashdot, I'm certain there's a lot of lawyers getting ready to file suit. You don't really think Linux geeks are the only people who read this site, do you?
Really, I don't mean to sound rude or obnoxious, but publicizing the problem like this doesn't help any of us.
Robert L Wolke's "What Einstein Told His Cook" - if you're into kitchen/cooking/food science.
I wonder if it would be possible to get a
Big freakin' deal - So I have to compile it and then resell the compiled version. At least I'll make some money on the lamers who can't type
I guess that's another loss for the 'small' distro companies...
I rarely post here, but this is one subject in which I have some in-depth background.
I've evaluated Citrix Metaframe XP(no relation to the Windows XP product) as well as Windows 2000 Terminal Services in a large(several thousand node) network.
Win2k term. svcs gives you data compression, bitmap caching, the ability to control client/drive mappings, and a bunch of other things. The only additional features I see in the Citrix software is cross-platform support(MacOS plus some unices), control of what applications the end-users can run, and some advanced encryption. Everything else is already included in Win2K Term. Svcs.
For the price tag, and the poor quality of the cross platform support, I really couldn't justify the cost of Metaframe except we *had* to support the Mac plaforms somehow and this was the only way out. Bear in mind that Metaframe runs *on*top*of* Windows 2000 Terminal Services, so you'll have to fork over the money for M$ Terminal Services no matter what.
Of course, if there were a good Linux solution to the problem, and our users could install/configure software for themselves, we'd be doing that instead. I know of no Unix based solutions that can do what Terminal Services does.
Hope it helps.
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Anyway, I do appreciate the suggestion. I will take a look at pam_smb and see if it uses the NT challenge/response mechanism which would be a step in the right direction.
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The real answer is that it's manufacturer dependant. The SCSI/IDE command set doesn't specify when I seek where the head will wind up physically. Right now I have queries in with both Seagate and Quantum over this issue because I'll be tuning a new server in the next few days.
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This might seem deterministic to all of you who ardently believe in free will, but then again, the more we learn about DNA, the more we realize we were programmed by the biggest computer of all right from the start - the universe/God/Nature(call it what you want).
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The other major reason: Playing MP3's in the car -- IMHO much more flexible than most of the specialized solutions out there right now and it costs about the same.
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Of course, we should also be aware that such an innovation would give pause to the ISV's that are currently supporting linux(no one wants their IP usurped even if it is a *really* good hack) -- witness the UltraHLE problems/issues.
Is it just me or am I the only one that thinks making it harder for your co-workers to unceremoniously 'borrow' components is a Bad Thing(tm)?