It broadcasts commentary of cricket test matches (between two countries). For furriners this is a game that last five days and is normally a draw. The commentary is excellent, apart from times when they talk about the cricket.
Got up from table to make cup of tea. [I'm english] Leg got caught around power cable. Catapulting laptop off table.
The laptop landed on the PCMCIA WLAN card, this became a embedded wireless card.
The good news is the home insurance paid out.
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Poker is great.
Real poker, not IRC Poker, means face to face. It makes me leave the computer and the interweb alone for a while, forces interaction with real friends.
I play in-frequently with friends, for 10 pounds made up of 10p pieces, each (15 USD). Usually out beer cost more than the one hundres 10p poker chips.
I'd recommend building yourself a simple "run from RAM" setup using Knoppix (or something similar)
Try Morphix You take a basic image then just add a minimodule, using the mminimodule generator (See HowTos).
Then you have you operating system, and photos all on the CD. Very low power and if you have enought memory to hold all the photos in ram it will run cool.
You can use the CD Persistant MiniModule. With a LiveCD burnt as a multisession CD you can then to save you setting/files back to the LiveCD, Not bad hey ?
Morphix is definitely interesting, but it's not for the faint of heart. Building a Morphix ISO is one part education, one part command line voodoo, and one part dumb luck.;-)
For help building a your won Modular Live-CD, have a look at the MorphixHow Tos, we have updated them.
The How Tos inlcude all the command line voodoo. It even possible to make a live-cd (image) by using the live-cd.
There are different pre-made CD images with a whole range of (currently GUI-cantered) software. It also has an easy-to-use installer.
I can only agree. I have been using me.spam@domain.tld for a few months now. The amount of spam has gone down.
Most people when replying will not even look at the actual email address. They will also be the people most likely to have my email address harvested, (virus, chain mail). The power users will ask or drop the.spam part.
The evil spammers, AFAIK just drop all address containing spam, as logical speaking if you have offuscated your email address your not going to respond to a spam and/or your going to report the spammers IP.
It works a bit like a double bluff.
t the X11 port of OOo is ugly, has poor font handling and doesn't conform to any of the Mac's environment. Even cut and paste still uses control and not command.
From NeoOffice
Welcome to the online home of "Neolithic Office", or NeoOffice(R) for short. NeoOffice is a prototyping project exploring different methods for porting OpenOffice.org to run natively on MacOS X. It is a free software port of OpenOffice.org to the MacOS X platform, currently in its prototyping stages.
Don't belive the modest site, its very good full OO on the Mac
No mention of how long it takes from pressing a button to getting a green light. My guess is that it's "2 minutes, or when there's no traffic, whichever is earlier"
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As to 'pre-timed max', surely imposing a "minimum time between stopping cars" doesn't have any effect if the crossing was just waiting there doing nothing for 10 minutes before I arrived?
Rough Outline Of How Pre-timed Max Works
There are a timer for the traffic stage, a min time, a 'max' time and lots of other setting - one of which is the gap length.
A ped crosses the road, then the traffic stage starts. (Green to traffic)
This run for at least the min time.(Normally 7 secs)
Now if there is a low ped flow the traffic can run for say >180 seconds. Greater than the max time and has 'pre-timed out'). If you then press the button the traffic stage will end striaght away, and give you green man in about 5 seconds. Hence the term 'pre-timed' max.
If there is a high pedstrain flow the max timer has to expire before the pedestrain stage will run again. Max timers vary alots ~ ballpark 60 seconds. (Unless there is a gap in the traffic - then it will gap change to the pedestrian stage.
That being said - speak to your Council and your local Traffic Signal Engineer. Drop them a email, you pay there wages (taxes) they will bend over backwards to help you and may not know there is a problem until a (MOP) member of the public reports it.
Most/All of us prefer to here a complaint, than to have badly configured junction.
In the UK your unlikely see these type of traffic signals.
Imagine two young kids at this crossing, As timer, counts down they get ready to race across the crossing.
At zero they both dash accross, not looking to confirm the traffic has stopped, at they are too busy racing each other. The countdown encourages this - rather than a Red/Green Man.
The Pedestrain signal is aligned so that pedestrian look toward the oncoming traffic, to confirm that traffic has stopped and not jumped a red signal.
IMHO - Countdown are un-safe.
BYW - You have audioable signals and Rotating Tactile Cones, (on the bottom of the push button), for the visually impaired.
Even better are the ones with a sensor to see if a pedestrian is waiting. So not only do they pander to any approaching car, but they require the pedestrian to be standing in a particular place otherwise they don't operate at all. Very useful.
If the pedestrian has crossed when there is a gap in the Traffic the demand from the Push Button is cancelled. If demands are being cancelled incorrectly the detector is badly configured.
Solution
Post the location of the signal crossing and I drop a line to Bedford.
Also ask Bedford to configure the crossing as 'Pre-timed Max'
So they wait until there's no traffic around and only then activate the pedestrian sequence.
Pre-timed Max Solves this problem.
Also further reading on Push Buttons and computerised traffic control.
I am Traffic Signal Engineer in the UK. I know that pressing the button, more than once has no effect on the latched input to the traffic Signal Controller. All the Traffic Signal Engineers I know, including myself, still press the push button two or three times - Human nature.
This is just what Morphix allows you to do. It basically takes away the hard work of re-mastering a Knoppix CD.
Morphix is modular, and can be adapted with less effort
The base, the Knoppix part contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules.
The are four basic images to start off with. So making you own LiveCD is much easier.
It even possible to save you files, configuration and setting to the Morphix CD you using, ready for next boot up.
I would like to see a live Boot CD build system which allows you to customize the payload *easily* (easier than it is to actually 'install' something on a local dedicated machine, individually, and administer it, anyway)
This is just what Morphix allows you to do. It basically takes away the hard work of re-mastering a Knoppix CD.
The base, the Knoppix part contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules.
The are four basic images to start off with. So making you own LiveCD is much easier.
This is just what Morphix allows you to do. It basically takes away the hard work of re-mastering a Knoppix CD.
Morphix is modular, and can be adapted with less effort
The base, the Knoppix part contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules.
The are four basic images to start off with. So making you own LiveCD is much easier.
It even possible to save you files, configuration and setting to the Morphix CD you using, ready for next boot up.
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It broadcasts commentary of cricket test matches (between two countries). For furriners this is a game that last five days and is normally a draw. The commentary is excellent, apart from times when they talk about the cricket.
Also the shipping forcast is like listening to poetry.
If I use slides (I often do not) I use a laptop -- currently a Mac running OSX.
Sad he is not, perhaps reading his HTML would be nice.
The laptop landed on the PCMCIA WLAN card, this became a embedded wireless card.
The good news is the home insurance paid out.
Real poker, not IRC Poker, means face to face. It makes me leave the computer and the interweb alone for a while, forces interaction with real friends.
I play in-frequently with friends, for 10 pounds made up of 10p pieces, each (15 USD). Usually out beer cost more than the one hundres 10p poker chips.
Oh wait a minute, Live Music CD's
Then you have you operating system, and photos all on the CD. Very low power and if you have enought memory to hold all the photos in ram it will run cool.
You can use the CD Persistant MiniModule. With a LiveCD burnt as a multisession CD you can then to save you setting/files back to the LiveCD, Not bad hey ?
See the How To
To start off there is how to do simplest morph, then how to build a Mini-Module, then how to Add Modules to the Live CD. Then how to do bigger changes in by changing one of the Main-Modules.
The How Tos inlcude all the command line voodoo. It even possible to make a live-cd (image) by using the live-cd. There are different pre-made CD images with a whole range of (currently GUI-cantered) software. It also has an easy-to-use installer.
Most people when replying will not even look at the actual email address. They will also be the people most likely to have my email address harvested, (virus, chain mail). The power users will ask or drop the .spam part.
The evil spammers, AFAIK just drop all address containing spam, as logical speaking if you have offuscated your email address your not going to respond to a spam and/or your going to report the spammers IP. It works a bit like a double bluff.
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NeoOffice -> Download -> one of the NeoOffice/J mirror sites -> NeoOfficeJ-0.8.2.dmg
[RANT]Come on three maybe four clicks, ok so your a mac user and you can't right click to save the url, but please.. [/RANT]From NeoOffice
Don't belive the modest site, its very good full OO on the MacRough Outline Of How Pre-timed Max Works
There are a timer for the traffic stage, a min time, a 'max' time and lots of other setting - one of which is the gap length.
A ped crosses the road, then the traffic stage starts. (Green to traffic)
This run for at least the min time.(Normally 7 secs)
Now if there is a low ped flow the traffic can run for say >180 seconds. Greater than the max time and has 'pre-timed out'). If you then press the button the traffic stage will end striaght away, and give you green man in about 5 seconds. Hence the term 'pre-timed' max.
If there is a high pedstrain flow the max timer has to expire before the pedestrain stage will run again. Max timers vary alots ~ ballpark 60 seconds. (Unless there is a gap in the traffic - then it will gap change to the pedestrian stage.
That being said - speak to your Council and your local Traffic Signal Engineer. Drop them a email, you pay there wages (taxes) they will bend over backwards to help you and may not know there is a problem until a (MOP) member of the public reports it.
Most/All of us prefer to here a complaint, than to have badly configured junction.
Imagine two young kids at this crossing, As timer, counts down they get ready to race across the crossing.
At zero they both dash accross, not looking to confirm the traffic has stopped, at they are too busy racing each other. The countdown encourages this - rather than a Red/Green Man.
The Pedestrain signal is aligned so that pedestrian look toward the oncoming traffic, to confirm that traffic has stopped and not jumped a red signal.
IMHO - Countdown are un-safe.
BYW - You have audioable signals and Rotating Tactile Cones, (on the bottom of the push button), for the visually impaired.
If the pedestrian has crossed when there is a gap in the Traffic the demand from the Push Button is cancelled. If demands are being cancelled incorrectly the detector is badly configured.
Solution
Post the location of the signal crossing and I drop a line to Bedford.
Also ask Bedford to configure the crossing as 'Pre-timed Max'
Pre-timed Max Solves this problem.Also further reading on Push Buttons and computerised traffic control.
I am Traffic Signal Engineer in the UK. I know that pressing the button, more than once has no effect on the latched input to the traffic Signal Controller. All the Traffic Signal Engineers I know, including myself, still press the push button two or three times - Human nature.
Morphix is modular, and can be adapted with less effort
The base, the Knoppix part contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules.
The are four basic images to start off with. So making you own LiveCD is much easier.
It even possible to save you files, configuration and setting to the Morphix CD you using, ready for next boot up.
Did I mention the GUI installer ...
Brendan Mentioned before and here
The base, the Knoppix part contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules.
The are four basic images to start off with. So making you own LiveCD is much easier.
Brendan
Yes even Sun use Morphix, but it a long story . They maybe should have mentioned that they were going/planning/had used Morphix, just to be nice.
But it does show how flexiable it is.
Morphix is modular, and can be adapted with less effort
The base, the Knoppix part contains the kernel, kernel modules, hardware detection, etc. This base is left untouched. You can either a change a mainmod or add lots of minimodules.
The are four basic images to start off with. So making you own LiveCD is much easier.
It even possible to save you files, configuration and setting to the Morphix CD you using, ready for next boot up.
Did I mention the GUI installer ...
Brendan
Typical every geek in the UK will now be ordering one and VAT man will be getting his share, once the volumes of direct imports go up.