Realizing my college band jam tapes were now 20 years old, I started sampling them and encoding with FLAC. My biggest problem was the degradation of the tape players, not the tapes themselves. One tape did jam, and I opened it up and fixed it (try that with a CD). Problem is, I'm not sure what to do with the digital data to preserve it now. Back to tape?
Personally, I always thought the dehumidifying aspect of AC was just as important as the actual temperature of the room. Still, its better than nothing.
There was a time in my life I didn't go a day
without making a phone call or writing a letter.
Now I send emails. Sometime in the future, I won't
send emails and there will be another way of
communicating daily. This is not a big deal.
I've bound Caps Lock to control on all my Linux, BSD and Win XP machines. But I've noticed that Sun is shipping $30 USB keyboards with their newest Linux machines, with the Control key in the proper place.
I haven't tried on with Windows yet, but it should work.
"Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin."
That's the only gripe I don't know an extension for. But I'm sure one's available:)
This one you can fix by patching (editting) the
platformHTMLBindings.xml file in your install (google on it). Its location varies by install, but I've been able to add the "readline" keystrokes to Firefox on Windows ME, XP and FreeBSD, and Mozilla in Linux. Mozilla on WinXP I don't think was successful (not sure I ever found the file). Its a pain though, because every security patch reinstall wipes the file again. IIRC, older versions of Mozilla and Firefox had these keybindings by default.
Unlike the Bill of Rights, which don't change with the whim of the public, civil law about copyright and distribution will change if enough citizens become "criminals". They will change the laws, even if they have to vote every idiot who covers the old corporate bastards out of office.
You would think so, but I commute daily with tens of thousands of other drivers. We are all routinely doing 20 mph over the speed limit, all breaking the law, yet the speed limits have not been raised.
freeing vector graphics from the small rectangle of a browser plugin and opening up a host of exciting new possibilities for web developers
Sounds like a whole new annoying type of advertising coming our way.
I doubt the guy wants to copy the DVD. More likely he wants to edit it to put the scenes into chronological order so we can finally understand what Lynch was thinking.
I have one of the Bonzai drives with remove SD card. It is slow, it is bulky. But its nice to be able to pull the memory out of my camera or Sharp Zaurus, plug it into the Bonzai and sync to the PC. It saves battery life on the camera or PDA for sure.
Whatever happened to the Sherman anti-trust act?
Here in the states, we walk a fine line of capitalistic hypocracy.
Most service companies try to destroy their competition, but if they succeed, they find themselves facing the anti-trust act.
If they decide not to drive each other out of business, and even agree to divide up the business or fix prices, they risk being branded a cartel (also illegal).
The safest way to do business in the US is to just be mediocre.
The PXA250 in my Sharp Zaurus has a cache bug. The cache is disabled as sold. Sharp got to sell a device labeled as 400 MHz and surely paid a discount.
Many people have enabled the cache and report a much faster PDA that crashes once in a while. Not worth it to me.
Why would Microsoft care how many people use IE? They give it away for free. Is it just that Firefox is a "gateway drug" and leads to use of other non-Microsoft solutions?
Why the sudden thought? Perhaps it was talking about HP; maybe it was the fact we WEREN'T talking about Microsoft (which would have monopolized our conversation a few years ago)...
They still monopolize the conversation around "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
My company buys Dell, so they get to extend an employee discount to us for home machines. But I found that it is cheaper to buy without the discount. When I punched in the company discount code, all the free shipping and upgrade deals disappeared.
Of course, first thoughts are to the sound system.
Ah yes, that glorious month between buying and house and when you have to make the first mortgage payment. Wait 30 days and you will never think of audio again...
Slackware got mostly replaced by Gentoo on its position of "zealot distro", but Gentoo+Portage requires helluva horsepower under the hood unless you want to wait a week for OpenOffice upgrade.
But since Slackware doesn't offer OpenOffice packages, you have no choice but to compile. I use both (3 slackware boxes, 1 gentoo). They each have their merits to us zealots.
But there was bad news for Solaris users, with three out of the four honeypots running Solaris 8 or 9 hacked within three weeks. However, a fourth has been online for six months without being compromised.
Slashdot Mirror
Whatever medium you choose, you could combine with a parity archive tool to recover from minor media errors.
Good tip on the Quickpar -- a search of Sourceforge shows several partity protection tools.
Realizing my college band jam tapes were now 20 years old, I started sampling them and encoding with FLAC. My biggest problem was the degradation of the tape players, not the tapes themselves. One tape did jam, and I opened it up and fixed it (try that with a CD). Problem is, I'm not sure what to do with the digital data to preserve it now. Back to tape?
Personally, I always thought the dehumidifying aspect of AC was just as important as the actual temperature of the room. Still, its better than nothing.
There are 3d simulations of San Francisco and London already.
This is very odd.
Using a bad analogy: I would expect to be busted for offering drugs for sale, even if nobody bought them.
There was a time in my life I didn't go a day without making a phone call or writing a letter. Now I send emails. Sometime in the future, I won't send emails and there will be another way of communicating daily. This is not a big deal.
I've bound Caps Lock to control on all my Linux, BSD and Win XP machines. But I've noticed that Sun is shipping $30 USB keyboards with their newest Linux machines, with the Control key in the proper place. I haven't tried on with Windows yet, but it should work.
This one you can fix by patching (editting) the platformHTMLBindings.xml file in your install (google on it). Its location varies by install, but I've been able to add the "readline" keystrokes to Firefox on Windows ME, XP and FreeBSD, and Mozilla in Linux. Mozilla on WinXP I don't think was successful (not sure I ever found the file). Its a pain though, because every security patch reinstall wipes the file again. IIRC, older versions of Mozilla and Firefox had these keybindings by default.
Example snippet:
You would think so, but I commute daily with tens of thousands of other drivers. We are all routinely doing 20 mph over the speed limit, all breaking the law, yet the speed limits have not been raised.
GTK+ dependencies:
http://xpad.sourceforge.net/
For KDE:
http://pim.kde.org/components/knotes.php
freeing vector graphics from the small rectangle of a browser plugin and opening up a host of exciting new possibilities for web developers
Sounds like a whole new annoying type of advertising coming our way.
I doubt the guy wants to copy the DVD. More likely he wants to edit it to put the scenes into chronological order so we can finally understand what Lynch was thinking.
I have one of the Bonzai drives with remove SD card. It is slow, it is bulky. But its nice to be able to pull the memory out of my camera or Sharp Zaurus, plug it into the Bonzai and sync to the PC. It saves battery life on the camera or PDA for sure.
Whatever happened to the Sherman anti-trust act?
Here in the states, we walk a fine line of capitalistic hypocracy. Most service companies try to destroy their competition, but if they succeed, they find themselves facing the anti-trust act.
If they decide not to drive each other out of business, and even agree to divide up the business or fix prices, they risk being branded a cartel (also illegal).
The safest way to do business in the US is to just be mediocre.
The PXA250 in my Sharp Zaurus has a cache bug. The cache is disabled as sold. Sharp got to sell a device labeled as 400 MHz and surely paid a discount.
Many people have enabled the cache and report a much faster PDA that crashes once in a while. Not worth it to me.
Why would Microsoft care how many people use IE? They give it away for free. Is it just that Firefox is a "gateway drug" and leads to use of other non-Microsoft solutions?
I used to have tons of conversation pieces in my office, but then I learned it led to, well, conversations. (The hermit)
They still monopolize the conversation around "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
My company buys Dell, so they get to extend an employee discount to us for home machines. But I found that it is cheaper to buy without the discount. When I punched in the company discount code, all the free shipping and upgrade deals disappeared.
Ah yes, that glorious month between buying and house and when you have to make the first mortgage payment. Wait 30 days and you will never think of audio again...
Cool, can I get my B.S.-Grand Theft there?
And many of these tools have user interfaces that make MS look good!
But since Slackware doesn't offer OpenOffice packages, you have no choice but to compile. I use both (3 slackware boxes, 1 gentoo). They each have their merits to us zealots.
Stop nagging, I'll get to it.