I know, but it's still difficult to get a screen that big well positioned when you have limited space, even with the versatility of the iMac's armiture.
The unfortunate thing with the larger iMacs is that because the screen sits on top of the box, rather than directly on the desk, with a screen as big as 20" I'd find myself looking upwards (at least with the two work desks in my house and the one at work). Ergonomically this is not a good thing.
Alternatively you pull the screen down as far as it will go, but then you need a lot of space behind it for the arm and the box.
That said, it does look rather nice, but I don't think I'd spend the extra cash over the 17" given the choice. I'd probably hold out for one of the lower-end G5's. At least this way the case can sit under my desk.
That's what happens when you type in a hurry I guess! This reads slightly better:
The Internet. The Final Free Frontier. This is the 5 year mission of US Enterprises, to seek out new copyright abuses and new violations, to boldly extend the DMCA where it has never been extended before![Queue 64kps mp3 of Star Trek music]
Pallmeyer's quote instantly brought something like this to mind:
The Internet. The Final Free Frontier. This is the the 5 year mission of US Enterprises, their continuing mission to seek out new copyright abuses and new violations, to boldly extend the DMCA where it has never been extended before! [Queue 64kps mp3 of Star Trek music]
Alas, if only the DMCA were badly written science fiction...
I'm sure now that the US economy is on an upturn every parent will be buying one of these for their 5 little dumplings!
Honestly, isn't this desk worth more than quite a large percentage of US houses? (I live in the UK where the house prices are higher so correct me if I'm wrong...).
I seriously think this has to be a joke, they've obviously made the price so insanely prohibative that no-one in their right mind is going to buy one of these things. I'm pretty sure I could walk down to the local furniture shop, where I know this guy who is a seriously ancient master carpenter (he built fitted wardrobes last year, they're the best-built piece of furniture in my home), and get him to make me one of these for a far more reasonable price.
Just give any decent carpenter the dimensions of the screen, fridge, etc and I'm sure he'll come up with something better if you throw $40K at him!
Your intuitions about Linux are wrong. Drivers in Linux don't need to be installed, they come in the Kernel source tree. This is why we won't have neat pop-up boxes to tell us our completely standard mouse driver has just been installed and is now working properly. It just works. There's nothing wrong with this approach... it's just different.
I have the usual geek's collection of numerous websites and half-finished projects and have often wondered what would happen to them if the worst happened.
In typical paranoid style my files are hidden behind encryption and various usernames and passwords, and certainly no-one in my immediate family or circle of closest friends has the ability to be able to sift through all the gigabytes of crap I've accumulated over the years and deal with my online commitments (like paying hosting bills, informing people who post on the sites).
This site seems like this could be a pretty decent way of solving this. Only thing I'd worry about is the site going broke, or accidentally sending out these e-mails before my time is up!
Either that or I could program a boot-up message saying "This computer has not been booted in 72 hours, therefore assuming its owner is dead, please take the following steps..."
The guy claims they work perfectly. I've seen other case mods where people have done this, they look pretty funky. I wonder how long before the hard disk manufacturers start selling them with windows built in? (That's windows, not Windows, mind!).
It's possible, I guess, but finding a couple million quickly from Linux/XFree/Gnome/KDE/whatever developers might have been hard, and most likely it would take a while too. All in all I'm pretty relieved that Linus has OSDL behind him.
That said, I wonder who's funding the defense of the other guys? I don't think Stallmann could have made [i]that much[/i] off emacs sales...
Any more anyone knows of? They must have damned good renewal services... maybe a million monkeys sitting at a million keyboards pressing the "buy domain" button on each of their sites?
This is a step in the right direction for sure! Hopefully in 5 years they'll be handing down the death penalty for premedidated file sharing and file sharing with children, far far worse crimes than file sharing with consentual adults!
If you're using a distribution with a reasonable package manager (read: anything except Slackware) it shouldn't even be that difficult. Many distros come with it preinstalled these days anyway.
Yeah... I recently upgraded my SneakerNet from 120kbps (1.44MB floppy, 30s to load on the data, 10s walk, 30s to copy it off again) to a staggering 50Mbps (256MB USB keyring dongle, 15s to load on the data, 10s walk, 15s to copy it off).
I've also found that a non-technical manager-types will be much happier if they see that there are printed books as opposed to HTML online, no matter how good that HTML might be. It makes the product seem more "official", I guess...
Slashdot Mirror
I don't use CRTs. They're a dead technology, and IMHO they just generally suck! ;)
I know, but it's still difficult to get a screen that big well positioned when you have limited space, even with the versatility of the iMac's armiture.
The unfortunate thing with the larger iMacs is that because the screen sits on top of the box, rather than directly on the desk, with a screen as big as 20" I'd find myself looking upwards (at least with the two work desks in my house and the one at work). Ergonomically this is not a good thing.
Alternatively you pull the screen down as far as it will go, but then you need a lot of space behind it for the arm and the box.
That said, it does look rather nice, but I don't think I'd spend the extra cash over the 17" given the choice. I'd probably hold out for one of the lower-end G5's. At least this way the case can sit under my desk.
From an Image here
Linux Kernel Error, Recompile Driver?
Does this company know ANYTHING about Linux, whatsoever?
Good to see Gates' bowel movements are working great
That's what happens when you type in a hurry I guess! This reads slightly better: The Internet. The Final Free Frontier. This is the 5 year mission of US Enterprises, to seek out new copyright abuses and new violations, to boldly extend the DMCA where it has never been extended before! [Queue 64kps mp3 of Star Trek music]
Pallmeyer's quote instantly brought something like this to mind:
The Internet. The Final Free Frontier. This is the the 5 year mission of US Enterprises, their continuing mission to seek out new copyright abuses and new violations, to boldly extend the DMCA where it has never been extended before!
[Queue 64kps mp3 of Star Trek music]
Alas, if only the DMCA were badly written science fiction...
I was teasing. There's probably enough space in there for three computers, a cisco router and a DSL modem!
It seems that MSN sucks generally. It only gets 2500 hits when you search for "Windows"!
What form factor is that desk? ATX? ;)
WOAH. Those are like, teh ultimate desk. Now I know what I want for Christmas! (fat chance I'll get one considering how expensive they look, though!).
I'm sure now that the US economy is on an upturn every parent will be buying one of these for their 5 little dumplings!
Honestly, isn't this desk worth more than quite a large percentage of US houses? (I live in the UK where the house prices are higher so correct me if I'm wrong...).
I seriously think this has to be a joke, they've obviously made the price so insanely prohibative that no-one in their right mind is going to buy one of these things. I'm pretty sure I could walk down to the local furniture shop, where I know this guy who is a seriously ancient master carpenter (he built fitted wardrobes last year, they're the best-built piece of furniture in my home), and get him to make me one of these for a far more reasonable price.
Just give any decent carpenter the dimensions of the screen, fridge, etc and I'm sure he'll come up with something better if you throw $40K at him!
Your intuitions about Linux are wrong. Drivers in Linux don't need to be installed, they come in the Kernel source tree. This is why we won't have neat pop-up boxes to tell us our completely standard mouse driver has just been installed and is now working properly. It just works. There's nothing wrong with this approach... it's just different.
I can't say I've ever had a printer "plug in and go" for me, under Linux. Printing is still something that needs improvement!
I have the usual geek's collection of numerous websites and half-finished projects and have often wondered what would happen to them if the worst happened.
In typical paranoid style my files are hidden behind encryption and various usernames and passwords, and certainly no-one in my immediate family or circle of closest friends has the ability to be able to sift through all the gigabytes of crap I've accumulated over the years and deal with my online commitments (like paying hosting bills, informing people who post on the sites).
This site seems like this could be a pretty decent way of solving this. Only thing I'd worry about is the site going broke, or accidentally sending out these e-mails before my time is up!
Either that or I could program a boot-up message saying "This computer has not been booted in 72 hours, therefore assuming its owner is dead, please take the following steps..."
Also help.com, winfiles.com and of course, cnet.com. I think that just about completes the list!
The guy claims they work perfectly. I've seen other case mods where people have done this, they look pretty funky. I wonder how long before the hard disk manufacturers start selling them with windows built in? (That's windows, not Windows, mind!).
It's possible, I guess, but finding a couple million quickly from Linux/XFree/Gnome/KDE/whatever developers might have been hard, and most likely it would take a while too. All in all I'm pretty relieved that Linus has OSDL behind him.
That said, I wonder who's funding the defense of the other guys? I don't think Stallmann could have made [i]that much[/i] off emacs sales...
CNET have all the best domains!
download.com
news.com
com.com
mp3.com
builder.com
Any more anyone knows of? They must have damned good renewal services... maybe a million monkeys sitting at a million keyboards pressing the "buy domain" button on each of their sites?
This is a step in the right direction for sure! Hopefully in 5 years they'll be handing down the death penalty for premedidated file sharing and file sharing with children, far far worse crimes than file sharing with consentual adults!
Why were you trying to compile things when using a binary distribution?
If you're using a distribution with a reasonable package manager (read: anything except Slackware) it shouldn't even be that difficult. Many distros come with it preinstalled these days anyway.
Yeah... I recently upgraded my SneakerNet from 120kbps (1.44MB floppy, 30s to load on the data, 10s walk, 30s to copy it off again) to a staggering 50Mbps (256MB USB keyring dongle, 15s to load on the data, 10s walk, 15s to copy it off).
Now it can nearly keep up with my WiFi!
I've also found that a non-technical manager-types will be much happier if they see that there are printed books as opposed to HTML online, no matter how good that HTML might be. It makes the product seem more "official", I guess...