Our LUG works well because we foster several associated social activities, including dinner before or after meetings, bowling gatherings, dinner parties, an adjunct weekly Hacking Society where we network and help each other with each other's issues, and even a regular geek camping trip!
In the excellent "Skunk Works" about Lockheed Martin's special projects division, Ben Rich discusses the problem of masking the heat signature from air friction against the airframe of a plane flying Mach 6, saying it would show up like a meteor to a thermal detector. At that speed you can't shoot it down, but the observed can detect it thermally. I recall that he said they put additives in the SR-71's fuel to reduce the heat signature of its exhaust. It seems that the U2 and SR-71 overflights may have had a calming effect on US military actions, as they allowed the US to better understand the USSR's level of alert, and prevented overreaction to a false belief that the USSR may have been massing for an attack.
First thought after installing Safari- The migration from Firefox isn't quite transparent. My/. log/pass didn't transfer, The bookmarks in the bookmarks toolbar were put in thier own folder, not Safari's Bookmarks toolbar folder (easy to fix with a drag and drop, but not transparent) and I have my FF bookmarks toolbar links customized to not have text, but only show the small logo icon for the site, thereby being able to fit 30+ icon on the Bookmarks toobar. Safari only displays a text name, so they don't all fit. I looked through options to change this, can this be changed?
Last October, My children and I attended a great NASA sponsored presentation about the Dawn mission given by John Ristvey of MCREL that had was very entertaining, and had wonderful participation activities for the kids. He had one activity where he had kids holding various fruit to illustrate differences in the asteroids. One was a grapefruit (large, smooth, has moisture) another, a raisin (small, irregular, dry). It's a great presentation suitable for your scout, science, or astronomy group. At the time, you could enter your name on the Dawn mission website to be included on a ROM?? that will be sent on the probe. It looks like you could contact him here to see if they can present in your area: http://www.mcrel.org/about/staffDir/request.asp?st affID=80
Our home server is a small MCE box hooked to the TV for PVR, media storage and display, and sharing files and media that are accessed by (all laptop) clients around the house. No machines host any Internet available services, so security is less of a concern. It backs up to an inexpensive NAS box. We use an outside mail host, so availability of the server and Internet connection isn't as critical.
Remember that the debates are ran by a joint R and D controlled group that excludes third party candidates. There is no real debate. The Libertarian and Green presidential candidates were arrested while trying to attend the 2004 debates: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ ID=40843
From p. 88:
Q. But you don't know whose computer it actually was, do you?
A. No.
Q. But your report said it was defendant's computer, so I think you will agree that that's an imprecision in your report.
Vista final failed to install on my Nforce2 based test machine, taking an extremely long time to arrive at a "driver failure" error. I'll have to rebuilt the machine around another Mobo/CPU this weekend. This failure of Nvidia/Microsoft to support reasonably recent hardware will certainly negatively color the "Vista intro" presentation I'm giving to the local users group this week....
Back in 2000, after a BSA audit that resulted in a $90,000 settlement, guitar parts manufacturer Ernie Ball switched to Linux saying "I think that we were so driven to find a solution that the worst reality to us would have been to give up and go back to the people up in Redmond," : http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/27/ 021127hnerniball.html?s=IDGNS
The thing that was most noticeable about the prototype was the triple wide touch pad. It's useful for alphanumeric writing practice and character input for non keyboard compatible languages. The keyboard had better than expected tactile response. The screen was small and a bit dark, but very legible. The unit felt rugged and was quite light. I'll likely buy them for my young children when they become available
A quick skim of TFA didn't indicate whether these are any more accessible for the visually impaired. The current "audio captcha" option help, but standard captchas are a real barrier to the visually impaired.
1. Buy Blu-Ray player 2. Junk it to make nifty geek toy no one will actually buy 3. Get your previously unknown web site publicized on/. for the $1500 cost of the blu-ray player 4. Profit!
Flipping the PS3 may yield a profit, but lets do some math. $1400 / 120 hours = $11.66/hr. $900 / 120 hours = $7.5/hr. I know they're getting "paid to sleep/sit" but they should be able to get a similar deal at any of the nearby stores or in Best Buy itself, and then have a job going forward.
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Joe Nacchio, CEO of Qwest during this time, recently got 6 years of fed time. Though it was for insider trading, there is some justice....
Our LUG works well because we foster several associated social activities, including dinner before or after meetings, bowling gatherings, dinner parties, an adjunct weekly Hacking Society where we network and help each other with each other's issues, and even a regular geek camping trip!
As a tech that sets up routers in homes regularly, my experience is that, in our area, some Comcast connections are MAC restricted, and some aren't.
You got a link for that?
In the excellent "Skunk Works" about Lockheed Martin's special projects division, Ben Rich discusses the problem of masking the heat signature from air friction against the airframe of a plane flying Mach 6, saying it would show up like a meteor to a thermal detector. At that speed you can't shoot it down, but the observed can detect it thermally. I recall that he said they put additives in the SR-71's fuel to reduce the heat signature of its exhaust.
It seems that the U2 and SR-71 overflights may have had a calming effect on US military actions, as they allowed the US to better understand the USSR's level of alert, and prevented overreaction to a false belief that the USSR may have been massing for an attack.
First thought after installing Safari- The migration from Firefox isn't quite transparent. My /. log/pass didn't transfer, The bookmarks in the bookmarks toolbar were put in thier own folder, not Safari's Bookmarks toolbar folder (easy to fix with a drag and drop, but not transparent) and I have my FF bookmarks toolbar links customized to not have text, but only show the small logo icon for the site, thereby being able to fit 30+ icon on the Bookmarks toobar. Safari only displays a text name, so they don't all fit. I looked through options to change this, can this be changed?
Last October, My children and I attended a great NASA sponsored presentation about the Dawn mission given by John Ristvey of MCREL that had was very entertaining, and had wonderful participation activities for the kids. He had one activity where he had kids holding various fruit to illustrate differences in the asteroids. One was a grapefruit (large, smooth, has moisture) another, a raisin (small, irregular, dry). It's a great presentation suitable for your scout, science, or astronomy group. At the time, you could enter your name on the Dawn mission website to be included on a ROM?? that will be sent on the probe. It looks like you could contact him here to see if they can present in your area: http://www.mcrel.org/about/staffDir/request.asp?st affID=80
Our home server is a small MCE box hooked to the TV for PVR, media storage and display, and sharing files and media that are accessed by (all laptop) clients around the house. No machines host any Internet available services, so security is less of a concern. It backs up to an inexpensive NAS box. We use an outside mail host, so availability of the server and Internet connection isn't as critical.
Neil Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" is an great non fiction read about the cable laying culture: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr .html
Remember that the debates are ran by a joint R and D controlled group that excludes third party candidates. There is no real debate. The Libertarian and Green presidential candidates were arrested while trying to attend the 2004 debates: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ ID=40843
There are proposals for a submarine train system that travels at very high speeds through a vacuum (filled?) tube between the US and Europe.
From p. 88:
Q. But you don't know whose computer it actually was, do you?
A. No.
Q. But your report said it was defendant's computer, so I think you will agree that that's an imprecision in your report.
Using his distributed fanbase ballot stuffing technique, I predict Stephen Colbert will try to get himself elected!
My 2 HP Omnibook 6000s give me zaps from the screw heads on the bottom.
Vista final failed to install on my Nforce2 based test machine, taking an extremely long time to arrive at a "driver failure" error. I'll have to rebuilt the machine around another Mobo/CPU this weekend. This failure of Nvidia/Microsoft to support reasonably recent hardware will certainly negatively color the "Vista intro" presentation I'm giving to the local users group this week....
"The device is powered by light..." QUICK, burn the sky!
Back in 2000, after a BSA audit that resulted in a $90,000 settlement, guitar parts manufacturer Ernie Ball switched to Linux saying "I think that we were so driven to find a solution that the worst reality to us would have been to give up and go back to the people up in Redmond," : http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/27/ 021127hnerniball.html?s=IDGNS
Also, some vendors pay large PC manufacturers to have their apps pre-loaded along with Windows, further reducing its effective cost.
Where the men are men, and the sheep are.... threatened by falling space debris??
Battlebots!
The thing that was most noticeable about the prototype was the triple wide touch pad. It's useful for alphanumeric writing practice and character input for non keyboard compatible languages. The keyboard had better than expected tactile response. The screen was small and a bit dark, but very legible. The unit felt rugged and was quite light. I'll likely buy them for my young children when they become available
A quick skim of TFA didn't indicate whether these are any more accessible for the visually impaired. The current "audio captcha" option help, but standard captchas are a real barrier to the visually impaired.
1. Buy Blu-Ray player /. for the $1500 cost of the blu-ray player
2. Junk it to make nifty geek toy no one will actually buy
3. Get your previously unknown web site publicized on
4. Profit!
Flipping the PS3 may yield a profit, but lets do some math. $1400 / 120 hours = $11.66/hr. $900 / 120 hours = $7.5/hr. I know they're getting "paid to sleep/sit" but they should be able to get a similar deal at any of the nearby stores or in Best Buy itself, and then have a job going forward.
The article doesn't say it, but it appears from a quick web search that this is the 1st of the cards that will support DirectX 10.