It all depends on whether you like your text "anti-aliased" or not. I personally can't stand ClearType since it makes all the fonts look blurry.. and as I stare at screens of code all today (granted with fairly small type, but it's even true here on slashdot with firefox) it makes my head hurt.
Depending on how many photos you're sending the simplest might be to simply print out the best ones at an online photo site and have them mailed directly to your dad.
This is assuming the staff there have the time and desire to show them to him and/or post his favorites on a peg board, or by his bed, or wherever he would want them.
Or pass these options to rsync changing the value of the backup directory to say the name of the day which would give you a week (or whatever scheme you want).
-b, --backup
With this option, preexisting destination files are renamed as
each file is transferred or deleted. You can control where the
backup file goes and what (if any) suffix gets appended using
the --backup-dir and --suffix options.
--backup-dir=DIR
In combination with the --backup option, this tells rsync to
store all backups in the specified directory. This is very use-
ful for incremental backups. You can additionally specify a
backup suffix using the --suffix option (otherwise the files
backed up in the specified directory will keep their original
filenames).
In my case, none of the above work because the boxes in question tend to be POS (and related) hardware built in a prehistoric era with their own operating system and only support monitor/keyboard.
Or, in my other world, this would be handy when I forgot to enable that snazzy new serial port BIOS on my home server which isn't a "real" server anyway.
Or, when a friend asks you to look at a server you know nothing about and he doesn't have a monitor handy...
If I had a laptop that had keyboard-in and video-in I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
I'm going to assume by "designer" you really mean a graphic designer, and not a web developer. That is, you'll be greating the UI and maybe putting together the pages, but not doing heavy development.
If that's true, I'd say the most important thing you can learn is what a dynamic site does. Understand that content will grow/shrink depending on the database at that moment and make sure your design can accomodate that.
I've been developing web sites for close to 10 years now and the ones that are the hardest are those where the designer thinks of a web page like a magazine page and doesn't understand that things stretch/shrink/flow.
That said, I'd also learn as much as you can about *how* the backend languages work (PHP, XML, etc.) but you don't need to know the specifics. But if you understand the relationships and their capabilities you'll be your developers best friend.
I'm not a tax guy, but my memory is that it's rather complex, but unless you're donating 10's of thousands of dollars you can deduct it all from you taxes -- remember this means you don't get taxed on that amount, not that you get that much back!
I don't remember the specifics, but a couple of years ago we went over the yearly limit and our tax guy worked it so that the over-amount was carried over to the next year.
But yeah, you should talk to a CPA. Or just give the money away and then have the CPA do your taxes at which point you'll find out for yourself:-)
I can't find the URL (and yes I tried google, but I don't remember enough of the text) about a guy in South California who put solar panels up on his garage/house and figured he'd recoup his cost in 7 years. He said the trick was not to use batteries, but instead pump the excess electricity generated during the day back onto the grid and get reimbursed by the power company...
Perhaps they should ditch the whole XP thing and stick to dates (W95, W2000, W2003) taking into consideration your suggestion.
Then the current version would be 2004.12.07 and tomorrow when the next nasty virus comes out it would be 2004.12.08 and later that afternoon when they realize their patch opens up two other holes for the one it closed they can release 2004.12.08.14.15.:-)
true, but we are the advertisers customer and the moment everyone stops watching show X because they like show Y better and it overlaps by a minute, then show Y will match the time of show X (or they'll lose their customer) and then all will be well with the world until show X moves it another minute. rinse. rather. repeat.:)
"and will usually hire a motivated self taught guy like myself over a 4 year degree if the interview shows him to be more knowledgeable."
I couldn't agree more. The *only* problem with this is if your HR department is filtering resumes prior to you seeing them and if their filtering criteria is "degree required".
I didn't graduate. Went for just under four years and left for a job doing sysadmin'ing. The only time it's ever been a problem for me is when the HR folks don't like what they see. Everyone else says, "who cares".
Not that I know anything about helicopters, but I have ridden in one so...
I would guess it has something to do with the thin air down there being a problem for the helicopters to generate enough lift to get off the ground. A couple of google links seem to suggest this, but none were definitive...
Denmark does this... well, I think it's Denmark. Loser of the lawsuit pays everyone's lawyers fees. It might only be for person-to-person suits though I don't remember.
I bought a low-end Dell server with room for a lot of disk space, a 160gb drive (for now), and a $5 sound card. Converted all my CD's using EAC and FLAC and at the moment am using flac123 to play them. Sound out the server, up the wall, across the ceiling, up through the ceiling into the livingroom and into the stereo.
Works great. One of these days I'll put a web interface on it and be done with it.
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Plus it makes the game feel more real. (lets just hope theres no Coke ads in games based on other planets/times.. that would do the opposite, it would make the game less realistic)
I dunno... if the game was set on some frozen world with talking bears it would fit right in:-)
"...lets outlaw forks and knives because someone stabbed someone to death with a fork and knife..."
You mean like on an airplane?:-) I still find it ironic that I have to use a plastic spork on a plane but they let me on with my *steel* glasses without thinking twice.
Yeah, but consider the relative sizes. I live in Seattle, WA and we see news about British Columbia quite a bit. We also see a lot of news about Oregon and Idaho -- usually regarding forest fires or other things that might affect us.
A forest fire -- or almost anything -- that happens in say Switzerland isn't going to affect me at all, but it's going to affect Germany, Austria, Italy, and France perhaps.
Not saying it's good that we don't see more about other countries, it's just not as relevant to our day to day lives due to the distance involved.
Although usually the news just shows crap regardless.
Slashdot Mirror
Get a summer job. Even if you don't make that much, what you do make will be worth it in the long run.
And at the age of 15, you can be a lot more risky in your investments so 10% might not be unreasonable.
Sure you might lose it, but your young so you've got more time to get it back.
It all depends on whether you like your text "anti-aliased" or not. I personally can't stand ClearType since it makes all the fonts look blurry.. and as I stare at screens of code all today (granted with fairly small type, but it's even true here on slashdot with firefox) it makes my head hurt.
Depending on how many photos you're sending the simplest might be to simply print out the best ones at an online photo site and have them mailed directly to your dad.
This is assuming the staff there have the time and desire to show them to him and/or post his favorites on a peg board, or by his bed, or wherever he would want them.
Or pass these options to rsync changing the value of the backup directory to say the name of the day which would give you a week (or whatever scheme you want).
-b, --backup
With this option, preexisting destination files are renamed as
each file is transferred or deleted. You can control where the
backup file goes and what (if any) suffix gets appended using
the --backup-dir and --suffix options.
--backup-dir=DIR
In combination with the --backup option, this tells rsync to
store all backups in the specified directory. This is very use-
ful for incremental backups. You can additionally specify a
backup suffix using the --suffix option (otherwise the files
backed up in the specified directory will keep their original
filenames).
In my case, none of the above work because the boxes in question tend to be POS (and related) hardware built in a prehistoric era with their own operating system and only support monitor/keyboard.
Or, in my other world, this would be handy when I forgot to enable that snazzy new serial port BIOS on my home server which isn't a "real" server anyway.
Or, when a friend asks you to look at a server you know nothing about and he doesn't have a monitor handy...
If I had a laptop that had keyboard-in and video-in I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
You mean something like this?
http://www.darwinawards.com/book/
I'm going to assume by "designer" you really mean a graphic designer, and not a web developer. That is, you'll be greating the UI and maybe putting together the pages, but not doing heavy development.
If that's true, I'd say the most important thing you can learn is what a dynamic site does. Understand that content will grow/shrink depending on the database at that moment and make sure your design can accomodate that.
I've been developing web sites for close to 10 years now and the ones that are the hardest are those where the designer thinks of a web page like a magazine page and doesn't understand that things stretch/shrink/flow.
That said, I'd also learn as much as you can about *how* the backend languages work (PHP, XML, etc.) but you don't need to know the specifics. But if you understand the relationships and their capabilities you'll be your developers best friend.
The problem is that Monster.com is both a commercial enterprise and a job site. So which do you pick?
.com version since that's what the masses think of for anything except schools...
.org.... of course they could just fall back to slashdot.com.
My personal feeling is that everyone is still going to buy the
Although it would be ironic to make slashdot.org give up the
I'm not a tax guy, but my memory is that it's rather complex, but unless you're donating 10's of thousands of dollars you can deduct it all from you taxes -- remember this means you don't get taxed on that amount, not that you get that much back!
:-)
I don't remember the specifics, but a couple of years ago we went over the yearly limit and our tax guy worked it so that the over-amount was carried over to the next year.
But yeah, you should talk to a CPA. Or just give the money away and then have the CPA do your taxes at which point you'll find out for yourself
"If anyone can point out a valid reason for this, then by all means please let me know."
:-)
Because then you'll have to buy a faster CPU so you can run 3DSOL.EXE!!!
And before you say that's not valid... it is valid, just not very good
I can't find the URL (and yes I tried google, but I don't remember enough of the text) about a guy in South California who put solar panels up on his garage/house and figured he'd recoup his cost in 7 years. He said the trick was not to use batteries, but instead pump the excess electricity generated during the day back onto the grid and get reimbursed by the power company...
Perhaps they should ditch the whole XP thing and stick to dates (W95, W2000, W2003) taking into consideration your suggestion.
:-)
Then the current version would be 2004.12.07 and tomorrow when the next nasty virus comes out it would be 2004.12.08 and later that afternoon when they realize their patch opens up two other holes for the one it closed they can release 2004.12.08.14.15.
How about a lack of being vulnerable to the Outlook virus of the week?
:-)
That's a big plus for sons-in-law
true, but we are the advertisers customer and the moment everyone stops watching show X because they like show Y better and it overlaps by a minute, then show Y will match the time of show X (or they'll lose their customer) and then all will be well with the world until show X moves it another minute. rinse. rather. repeat. :)
"and will usually hire a motivated self taught guy like myself over a 4 year degree if the interview shows him to be more knowledgeable."
I couldn't agree more. The *only* problem with this is if your HR department is filtering resumes prior to you seeing them and if their filtering criteria is "degree required".
I didn't graduate. Went for just under four years and left for a job doing sysadmin'ing. The only time it's ever been a problem for me is when the HR folks don't like what they see. Everyone else says, "who cares".
Not that I know anything about helicopters, but I have ridden in one so...
I would guess it has something to do with the thin air down there being a problem for the helicopters to generate enough lift to get off the ground. A couple of google links seem to suggest this, but none were definitive...
Denmark does this... well, I think it's Denmark. Loser of the lawsuit pays everyone's lawyers fees. It might only be for person-to-person suits though I don't remember.
Yeah, but with all the holes IE has in it, it can't be that hard to write a Firefox extension that uses IE as a proxy, right?
:-)
Right? Why are you all staring at me like that? It's not *that* convoluted...
I bought a low-end Dell server with room for a lot of disk space, a 160gb drive (for now), and a $5 sound card. Converted all my CD's using EAC and FLAC and at the moment am using flac123 to play them. Sound out the server, up the wall, across the ceiling, up through the ceiling into the livingroom and into the stereo.
Works great. One of these days I'll put a web interface on it and be done with it.
10. Profit!
There's also CopyPod for Windows which allows you to select individual albums/songs. http://www.copypod.net/index.php
I dunno... if the game was set on some frozen world with talking bears it would fit right in :-)
"..Intel says they are going to rely on approaches besides faster clock speed to improve the performance of chips."
:-)
Like getting rid of all the bloat in Windows and Office?
"...lets outlaw forks and knives because someone stabbed someone to death with a fork and knife..."
:-) I still find it ironic that I have to use a plastic spork on a plane but they let me on with my *steel* glasses without thinking twice.
You mean like on an airplane?
perceived security... wee!
Yeah, but consider the relative sizes. I live in Seattle, WA and we see news about British Columbia quite a bit. We also see a lot of news about Oregon and Idaho -- usually regarding forest fires or other things that might affect us.
A forest fire -- or almost anything -- that happens in say Switzerland isn't going to affect me at all, but it's going to affect Germany, Austria, Italy, and France perhaps.
Not saying it's good that we don't see more about other countries, it's just not as relevant to our day to day lives due to the distance involved.
Although usually the news just shows crap regardless.