I gave up on doing anything related to DVD in linux not too long ago. In trying to get the DVD player software and install it, I felt like I was re-living that column on here not too long ago about trying to print in linux. Use apt-get! no, use up2date!, no, use yum (what kind of fucking name is that, btw)!, no, download packages! err, which packages? Well, all 10 of these of course! Or simply update your yum.conf file with this 50 character string and then do a yum install mplayer and wait for yum to download a gazillion headers and then....aw fuck it, all I wanted to do was watch a damn DVD.
When I needed to install a DVD player, it was as simple as typing "cast mplayer" at the command line, then selecting "yes" for each of the DVD libraries it asked me about installing.
There is only so much male enhancement products a man can buy.
Hey, he's getting good spam. Did you read the sort of thing he's buying from spam e-mails? Things like an antique pinball machine or first-edition mystery novels!
Get mom an iMac. Install OS X if it doesn't have it already. You can pick up a decent iMac on eBay for around $300, but make sure it's at least 300Mhz. Enable auto-updates. Install Mozilla or Firefox, ensure popup blocking is turned on. Done. You will instantly become the favorite child.
Worked just fine for my grandmother. She'd never used a computer before in her life, so something as easy to use as an iMac was perfect.
As a side note, Safari with popup blocking turned on is as good as Mozilla or Firefox, and you don't need to install it.
I doubt the "fact" remained in the Wikipedia for more than a few minutes -- peer review of changes is not only frequent, it's also very fast. Compare this to a print encyclopedia, where any errors of fact may remain for years.
And if someone's using Wikipedia for research, they should know how to use the "page history" feature to access earlier revisions of the article.
Need integrated video? I won't begrudge you this. Some people build clusters with their motherboards, and a video card is needed to boot, but if I have a choice I won't buy a mobo with integrated video.
My A7V333 mainboard boots just fine without any video.
Um..I'm sure they've thought of that. I've been hearing about this for a while, so I bet they've put it through its paces. Maybe they use uncommon frequencies so that there isn't much interference.. or maybe they use something more complex than a simple up-down in voltage to represent a bit? I'm sure they came up with something.
If they're using the standard BPL frequencies, every ham radio, emergency radio, and military radio within a hundred miles will be able to pick up the transmissions.
It's caloric intake exceeding caloric expenditure that makes people fat. Playing video games tends to reduce caloric expenditure, while people don't tend to reduce the amount they eat, so yes, playing video games can make you fat.
I just don't understand why so many people are still shackled to fax machines. Buy a scanner, scan your document, and e-mail it.
They will come out the other end with much higher quality *and* the recipient will thank you for giving them the choice as to how to store it (i.e. store it electronically, or print-and-file).
I did this for a while as a method of forwarding important mail to my parents while they were on vacation. The procedure usually went something like this:
1) Scan document. This usually involves a 45-second wait for the scanner to warm up. Scanning takes another 30 seconds. 2) Rotate the resulting image 180 degrees -- the scanner has a funny idea of up. 15 seconds. 3) Export the image to JPEG repeatedly, with different quality settings, to try getting the image size down below a quarter-megabyte while still being readable. 180 seconds or so. 4) Repeat for each page of the document. 5) Compose e-mail and attach images. 45 seconds 6) Dial up ISP and send e-mail. 30 seconds to connect, plus 45 seconds per page to send.
Total time: seven minutes to send a one-page document.
Recieving the e-mail: 1) Dial up ISP and collect e-mail. 30 seconds to connect, plus 45 seconds per page to recieve. 2) Save attachments. 15 seconds per page. 3) Open attachments in an image editor. 4) Turn on printer and wait for it to warm up. 45 seconds. 5) Print document. 30 seconds per page.
Total time: three minutes, for a one-page document.
The fastest, easiest solution we found was stuffing all the mail in a flat-rate priority mail envelope and sending it snail-mail. The mail would usually get there in two days or so, and involved a lot less effort for both parties.
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Fuck building codes. If you're saving the town money (if more people use more water, they need a new water treatment center), they should at least make it legal to do so. Also, who the fuck decided that they can tell you what you can do to your own house? If I want to do a shitty job (haha) installing a toilet, that's my right. It's my toilet and my house. If banks or insurers want to make rules, fine. It's technically their house. But it is NOT the government's house!!
If someone's do-it-yourself blackwater reclamation system malfunctions, you could get an outbreak of something like e. coli or cholera that can wipe out an entire town.
We're spoiled by our clean water supplies. It used to be that one of the leading causes of death was water-borne illnesses. Now, diseases like cholera and dysentery are just names, if that.
Even mobo manufactures say to upgrade only if the update fixes a specific problem you are having.
Mobo manufacturers say that because a failed upgrade (say, due to a power failure) will leave you with a product needing a very expensive repair -- you don't get a second chance at upgrading. Most other products, if an upgrade fails, you can try again until it succeeds.
bviously used the warpzone to 4 in 1-2, and the warp zone to 8 in 4-2. And he must have had the pipe sequence for 8-4 memorized. But how the heck did he beat 8-1 through 8-3 in under 5 minutes?
The time limit on those is pretty tight to begin with, so I can't imagine it's too hard.
The odds are far against you these days with the higher density drives.
You might get lucky with an old 20GB drive, but try it on a 320GB unit and you're 99.9% certian to have a bad drive within an hour if not immediately.
Judging from the success rates for window modding of hard drives, you're 100% certain to have a bad drive if you try it on anything larger than a 10GB disk.
You should check out Planeshift (www.planeshift.it). It has a full team of developers working on it almost full time, with a working client and non-advertising based free service. The current version is a working test client with limited interactivity, but the next release (due in about 1 - 2 months) has implemented combat, experience, etc.
Due in one to two months? That means it may be out by summer. The next milestone the Planeshift developers reach on time will be the first.
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There's also a 2.88MB variant that people keep forgetting about.
I gave up on doing anything related to DVD in linux not too long ago. In trying to get the DVD player software and install it, I felt like I was re-living that column on here not too long ago about trying to print in linux. Use apt-get! no, use up2date!, no, use yum (what kind of fucking name is that, btw)!, no, download packages! err, which packages? Well, all 10 of these of course! Or simply update your yum.conf file with this 50 character string and then do a yum install mplayer and wait for yum to download a gazillion headers and then....aw fuck it, all I wanted to do was watch a damn DVD.
When I needed to install a DVD player, it was as simple as typing "cast mplayer" at the command line, then selecting "yes" for each of the DVD libraries it asked me about installing.
How can I play a game when I'm blind?
YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Nethack has pretty good support for such technologies as screen readers and braille pads.
There is only so much male enhancement products a man can buy.
Hey, he's getting good spam. Did you read the sort of thing he's buying from spam e-mails? Things like an antique pinball machine or first-edition mystery novels!
I've invented a pen that can write 6000 times faster than a pencil.
A better comparison would be a pen that writes 6000 times faster than a book.
Get mom an iMac. Install OS X if it doesn't have it already. You can pick up a decent iMac on eBay for around $300, but make sure it's at least 300Mhz. Enable auto-updates. Install Mozilla or Firefox, ensure popup blocking is turned on. Done. You will instantly become the favorite child.
Worked just fine for my grandmother. She'd never used a computer before in her life, so something as easy to use as an iMac was perfect.
As a side note, Safari with popup blocking turned on is as good as Mozilla or Firefox, and you don't need to install it.
I doubt the "fact" remained in the Wikipedia for more than a few minutes -- peer review of changes is not only frequent, it's also very fast. Compare this to a print encyclopedia, where any errors of fact may remain for years.
And if someone's using Wikipedia for research, they should know how to use the "page history" feature to access earlier revisions of the article.
Need integrated video? I won't begrudge you this. Some people build clusters with their motherboards, and a video card is needed to boot, but if I have a choice I won't buy a mobo with integrated video.
My A7V333 mainboard boots just fine without any video.
/me runs to USPTO to file.
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Could do it, but it doesn't sound like it. Would be pretty neat for 3-D model design work, I'd think.
There are a number of devices that do this, usually called wands or space mice.
Yes, they are nice for 3D model design, especially when used with something like an Immersive Workbench or CAVE display system.
Off-topic, I admit, but there seem to be 2 more comments than are displayed here in this story. Where'd they go?
Good question. Viewing at -1 lists 18 articles, but I only see 16 of them. Might this be related to the bug that's messing up people's user pages?
was this just covered last night?
Last night's article was about the Iowa legislature. This one is about the US Congress.
I have yet to find any spyware that downloads and installs itself.
Um ..I'm sure they've thought of that. I've been hearing about this for a while, so I bet they've put it through its paces. Maybe they use uncommon frequencies so that there isn't much interference .. or maybe they use something more complex than a simple up-down in voltage to represent a bit? I'm sure they came up with something.
If they're using the standard BPL frequencies, every ham radio, emergency radio, and military radio within a hundred miles will be able to pick up the transmissions.
Please! Bring back the old Slashdot user page! The new one is just ugly!
You mean the new page is intentional? I just figured it was a bug, and would be cleared up in a few days.
Funny, I thought that calories made people fat.
It's caloric intake exceeding caloric expenditure that makes people fat. Playing video games tends to reduce caloric expenditure, while people don't tend to reduce the amount they eat, so yes, playing video games can make you fat.
Organic solvents have that sort of effect. Fuel is pretty much pure organic solvent, while ink uses an organic solvent to keep the ink liquid.
I just don't understand why so many people are still shackled to fax machines. Buy a scanner, scan your document, and e-mail it.
They will come out the other end with much higher quality *and* the recipient will thank you for giving them the choice as to how to store it (i.e. store it electronically, or print-and-file).
I did this for a while as a method of forwarding important mail to my parents while they were on vacation. The procedure usually went something like this:
1) Scan document. This usually involves a 45-second wait for the scanner to warm up. Scanning takes another 30 seconds.
2) Rotate the resulting image 180 degrees -- the scanner has a funny idea of up. 15 seconds.
3) Export the image to JPEG repeatedly, with different quality settings, to try getting the image size down below a quarter-megabyte while still being readable. 180 seconds or so.
4) Repeat for each page of the document.
5) Compose e-mail and attach images. 45 seconds
6) Dial up ISP and send e-mail. 30 seconds to connect, plus 45 seconds per page to send.
Total time: seven minutes to send a one-page document.
Recieving the e-mail:
1) Dial up ISP and collect e-mail. 30 seconds to connect, plus 45 seconds per page to recieve.
2) Save attachments. 15 seconds per page.
3) Open attachments in an image editor.
4) Turn on printer and wait for it to warm up. 45 seconds.
5) Print document. 30 seconds per page.
Total time: three minutes, for a one-page document.
The fastest, easiest solution we found was stuffing all the mail in a flat-rate priority mail envelope and sending it snail-mail. The mail would usually get there in two days or so, and involved a lot less effort for both parties.
Fuck building codes. If you're saving the town money (if more people use more water, they need a new water treatment center), they should at least make it legal to do so. Also, who the fuck decided that they can tell you what you can do to your own house? If I want to do a shitty job (haha) installing a toilet, that's my right. It's my toilet and my house. If banks or insurers want to make rules, fine. It's technically their house. But it is NOT the government's house!!
If someone's do-it-yourself blackwater reclamation system malfunctions, you could get an outbreak of something like e. coli or cholera that can wipe out an entire town.
We're spoiled by our clean water supplies. It used to be that one of the leading causes of death was water-borne illnesses. Now, diseases like cholera and dysentery are just names, if that.
Until they corrode. You've obviously never lived near the ocean.
Gold doesn't corrode.
Even mobo manufactures say to upgrade only if the update fixes a specific problem you are having.
Mobo manufacturers say that because a failed upgrade (say, due to a power failure) will leave you with a product needing a very expensive repair -- you don't get a second chance at upgrading. Most other products, if an upgrade fails, you can try again until it succeeds.
bviously used the warpzone to 4 in 1-2, and the warp zone to 8 in 4-2. And he must have had the pipe sequence for 8-4 memorized. But how the heck did he beat 8-1 through 8-3 in under 5 minutes?
The time limit on those is pretty tight to begin with, so I can't imagine it's too hard.
The odds are far against you these days with the higher density drives.
You might get lucky with an old 20GB drive, but try it on a 320GB unit and you're 99.9% certian to have a bad drive within an hour if not immediately.
Judging from the success rates for window modding of hard drives, you're 100% certain to have a bad drive if you try it on anything larger than a 10GB disk.
I kind of like the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight.
You should check out Planeshift (www.planeshift.it). It has a full team of developers working on it almost full time, with a working client and non-advertising based free service.
The current version is a working test client with limited interactivity, but the next release (due in about 1 - 2 months) has implemented combat, experience, etc.
Due in one to two months? That means it may be out by summer. The next milestone the Planeshift developers reach on time will be the first.