Here in Minneapolis they have a pretty decent mass transit system. It takes me 35 minutes to get to work during non rush hour. During rush hour its usually an hour due to congestion on the roads. Riding the Express bus and light rail to work also takes an hour. So in that instance, it works out for me. The Park and Rides are the way to go. Free covered parking (Yeah more snow coming tomorrow) and an express bus leaves for downtown Minneapolis every 5 minutes or so during Rush Hours. Light rail runs by the job site every 10 minutes.
Admittedly, it only pays off during rush hour. Times when I have to work alternate shifts, then it would take about 90 minutes to use mass transit. No express bus running, so I would have to use the route that stops every other block to get downtown.
Even though it's free for me to ride (retired military) there are days where I still decide to drive, just because I don't want to deal with people. So the above comment about people not wanting to "share rides" makes sense. Some days I just want to be left alone and sip coffee, even if I'm stuck in traffic.
Minneapolis has a Light Rail that goes from downtown Minneapolis, to the airport, then ends at the Mall of America. Because it has major destinations along its route, it's quite popular. It drops you off under the airport. You take three escalators and a short tram ride, and you're in the airport terminal.
For the Super Bowl they plan to have everybody park at the Mall of America, and use the light rail to go directly to US Bank Stadium. All other stops will not be in service that day.
When they jumped on board the SJW crap and came out in support of Black Lives Matter, that's when I canceled my subscription and closed my account.
I just want music on my music program. Keep your politics to yourself. When you decide to alienate half of the country, don't be surprised when they decide to part ways with your product.
Moved over to Spotify. No idea how they lean politically, because they just play music.
+1 for FB Purity! Another nice feature is the blocking of key words. Type in "Jayden K Smith" and every post containing that phrase disappeared. Rather nice.
The last time I wore a watch was when I took my boy's Cub Scout pack camping a few years ago. Four days in the rural parts of Oklahoma, crappy Cell service (T-Mobile at the time). Dug out an old sports watch from the 90's and wore it the four days, and put the cell phone away. Was able to get the boys to all the scheduled activities on time, without messing with the cell phone.
Back in the 80's I had the Casio calculator watch. Lots of fun, miss that watch.
I got introduced to Linux back with Ubuntu 8.10 and shortly thereafter discovered Kubuntu with KDE. I've tried the others, but still always come back to KDE. When KDE 5 came out on Kubuntu, I gave it a try, but had issues with Dropbox working. Hopped around several distros, before finally settling on Mageia 5, which uses KDE 4.
So I've been using KDE 4 in one form or another since 2008 or so. It works for me, and I know how to use it. I like how familiar everything is eight years later.
I'm at the point in my life where I want it to "just work", and quit changing icons and programs around just for the sake of it. My Galaxy S5 just updated the icons yet again, and introduced new programs I don't want.
As the mainline distros switch to KDE 5 I'll probably be forced to upgrade, but in the time being, going to ride the KDE 4 train as long as I can.
Back in the early 90's when Back to the Future 3 was about to be released, a theater in Denver played the first two movies in the trilogy, then played #3 before it was released. Cost about $10 or so to see all three of the Back to the Future movies. Crowd was a lot of fun, would cheer whenever Lea Thompson's name appeared. Management allowed people to bring in food from outside. Even scored a T-Shirt since I was one of the first 100 to line up.
The only time I was the only patron in the movie was when I went to see "Red" at the theater in Waconia, MN. It was a weekday afternoon showing, and I had the entire theater to myself. Lots of fun.
The Docks in Excelsior was another fun place to see movies.
In Moore, Oklahoma they have the Warren Theater, which is the theater the family prefers to go. Separate 21 and over section that has a full bar and restaurant. Also the directors room with the full reclining seats. The tickets cost more, but it's worth it. Let the riff raff go to the dollar theater.
Windows 7 is working perfectly fine on the computer I use to play Civilization, and the computers the kids use for school work. I have ZERO interest in Windows 10. What part of "Fuck off and die" does Microsoft not understand?
Glad my Linux machine doesn't try to automatically upgrade me to the next distro version.
"If the FAA had been either farsighted or fast moving, at the first sign of drones it might've outlawed them or confined them to someplace like Oklahoma where they can't get in the way of anything too important"
Hey, I live in Oklahoma, you insensitive clod!
On a serious note, the Panhandle is the perfect place to test drones, absolutely nothing out there.
Recently the Wife and I watched "Dorkness Rising". Overall she enjoyed it, even though she still doesn't understand the overall appeal of RPG's. But at least she got a fun look into the world in which I enjoy, and had some laughs at the movie along the way. It's a good movie to get non players moving towards gaming.
Still have my Sony Cassette Walkman I bought for myself as a graduation present from Basic Training back in 1993. I dug it out of the closet a few months ago to show the kids what cassettes look like.
The hard drive stack has several under 20GB drives. Smallest drive I have is 6.4Gb
Have an old Gateway Pentium computer with Windows 3.1 siting under the work bench. Has a Voodoo3 card in it, and uses my logitech Digital Extreme joystick. The F-16 game "Multi-Role-Fighter" takes full advantage of the voodoo card.
I don't have the computer anymore, but I still have the CPU from my old 486 SX25 computer. I've thought about turning it into a keychain or something.
You're correct, I'm using Astraweb. What I liked about them when I first signed up was no expiration of the GB purchased. It took me about six months to burn through the 25Gb purchased. I recently renewed for another 25 GB, and I figure when this finally runs out I'll go the 180GB route.
binsearch.info & nzbmatrix? I've not heard of these. I used to frequent newzbin, but haven’t used it for quite a while. I'll have to take at look at the sites you suggested.
Usenet is great for just browsing the various binaries if you are not sure what you looking for. I've found more obscure albums because of usenet.
The news provider I use is $10 for 25GB, and I have as much time as I want to burn through the 25 GB. Works for me. Some weeks I'll burn through it, other times a month will go by without downloading anything.
I run newsrover (windows program) using WINE on Kubuntu & opensuse. That way I can take advantage of SSH encryption, and still take advantage of the built in graphics viewer.
I use kTorrent in Kubuntu. A couple of my favorite features incudes bandwidth scheduling, automatic updating of my blocklist, and no crapware or installing of other programs.
I've run into a couple of private torrent sites that didn't work with kTorrent, so I switched over to Transmission for those. Everything else I run kTorrent.
I set up an account with Librarything.com, and we're going through the process of adding all of the books to the website.
The main advantage of this is that anybody can browse the library's collection anytime they want. On Sunday mornings they flash the URL up on the stage.
We're still using the paper checkout process though. The old ladies that run the library are 80+ years old, and are former librarians back when Eisenhower was in office. I figure one tech upgrade at a time is all they can handle.
About two years ago I switched to using Kubuntu most of the time. I still dual boot on both the desktop and notebook, but a majority of the time is spent on the Linux side.
I wouldn't have enough money to buy licenses for all the old boxes we have in the house, but with Linux they are all up and running, and each kid has their own Linux computer.
My hardware is too old to play the latest and greatest games, and with lack of free time, I like to fire up Civilization 4 for the occasional gaming bug. get Civ 4 to work under WINE, and I'd ditch Windows all together.
Libreoffice is good enough for me, and I like the feature that can print straight to pdf.
My Creative Zen is recognized under Kubuntu, and so is our ancient laser printer.
The kids computers run Linux (this month's flavor is Lubuntu) and they love it.
So in 2009, the industry takes a new approach: owning your cellphone.
This is already happening with some of the new cell phones out there. My daughter (had) the Sidekick, and it was basically a rented cell phone. You had to sign up for the $25 monthly data plan to get any functionality out of the phone. All contacts were stored on the server, along with ring tones and texts. Take away the $25 a month, and every time the phone is turned off, it returns to factory default and loses everything.
You were not allowed to import your own ring tones, but had to download from their list.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember the glory days of usenet, before AOL invaded...
Here in Minneapolis they have a pretty decent mass transit system. It takes me 35 minutes to get to work during non rush hour. During rush hour its usually an hour due to congestion on the roads. Riding the Express bus and light rail to work also takes an hour. So in that instance, it works out for me. The Park and Rides are the way to go. Free covered parking (Yeah more snow coming tomorrow) and an express bus leaves for downtown Minneapolis every 5 minutes or so during Rush Hours. Light rail runs by the job site every 10 minutes.
Admittedly, it only pays off during rush hour. Times when I have to work alternate shifts, then it would take about 90 minutes to use mass transit. No express bus running, so I would have to use the route that stops every other block to get downtown.
Even though it's free for me to ride (retired military) there are days where I still decide to drive, just because I don't want to deal with people. So the above comment about people not wanting to "share rides" makes sense. Some days I just want to be left alone and sip coffee, even if I'm stuck in traffic.
Minneapolis has a Light Rail that goes from downtown Minneapolis, to the airport, then ends at the Mall of America. Because it has major destinations along its route, it's quite popular. It drops you off under the airport. You take three escalators and a short tram ride, and you're in the airport terminal.
For the Super Bowl they plan to have everybody park at the Mall of America, and use the light rail to go directly to US Bank Stadium. All other stops will not be in service that day.
Damn I wish I had Mod points, got a good laugh out of this. Love that show (MXC)!
When they jumped on board the SJW crap and came out in support of Black Lives Matter, that's when I canceled my subscription and closed my account.
I just want music on my music program. Keep your politics to yourself. When you decide to alienate half of the country, don't be surprised when they decide to part ways with your product.
Moved over to Spotify. No idea how they lean politically, because they just play music.
+1 for FB Purity! Another nice feature is the blocking of key words. Type in "Jayden K Smith" and every post containing that phrase disappeared. Rather nice.
The last time I wore a watch was when I took my boy's Cub Scout pack camping a few years ago. Four days in the rural parts of Oklahoma, crappy Cell service (T-Mobile at the time). Dug out an old sports watch from the 90's and wore it the four days, and put the cell phone away. Was able to get the boys to all the scheduled activities on time, without messing with the cell phone.
Back in the 80's I had the Casio calculator watch. Lots of fun, miss that watch.
I got introduced to Linux back with Ubuntu 8.10 and shortly thereafter discovered Kubuntu with KDE. I've tried the others, but still always come back to KDE. When KDE 5 came out on Kubuntu, I gave it a try, but had issues with Dropbox working. Hopped around several distros, before finally settling on Mageia 5, which uses KDE 4.
So I've been using KDE 4 in one form or another since 2008 or so. It works for me, and I know how to use it. I like how familiar everything is eight years later.
I'm at the point in my life where I want it to "just work", and quit changing icons and programs around just for the sake of it. My Galaxy S5 just updated the icons yet again, and introduced new programs I don't want.
As the mainline distros switch to KDE 5 I'll probably be forced to upgrade, but in the time being, going to ride the KDE 4 train as long as I can.
Back in the early 90's when Back to the Future 3 was about to be released, a theater in Denver played the first two movies in the trilogy, then played #3 before it was released. Cost about $10 or so to see all three of the Back to the Future movies. Crowd was a lot of fun, would cheer whenever Lea Thompson's name appeared. Management allowed people to bring in food from outside. Even scored a T-Shirt since I was one of the first 100 to line up.
Minnesota Nice - Agreed.
The only time I was the only patron in the movie was when I went to see "Red" at the theater in Waconia, MN. It was a weekday afternoon showing, and I had the entire theater to myself. Lots of fun.
The Docks in Excelsior was another fun place to see movies.
In Moore, Oklahoma they have the Warren Theater, which is the theater the family prefers to go. Separate 21 and over section that has a full bar and restaurant. Also the directors room with the full reclining seats. The tickets cost more, but it's worth it. Let the riff raff go to the dollar theater.
I second that. Anytime I get on a computer without KDE, or a windows computer, I miss the split screen. Very handy!
Windows 7 is working perfectly fine on the computer I use to play Civilization, and the computers the kids use for school work. I have ZERO interest in Windows 10. What part of "Fuck off and die" does Microsoft not understand?
Glad my Linux machine doesn't try to automatically upgrade me to the next distro version.
"If the FAA had been either farsighted or fast moving, at the first sign of drones it might've outlawed them or confined them to someplace like Oklahoma where they can't get in the way of anything too important"
Hey, I live in Oklahoma, you insensitive clod!
On a serious note, the Panhandle is the perfect place to test drones, absolutely nothing out there.
Recently the Wife and I watched "Dorkness Rising". Overall she enjoyed it, even though she still doesn't understand the overall appeal of RPG's. But at least she got a fun look into the world in which I enjoy, and had some laughs at the movie along the way. It's a good movie to get non players moving towards gaming.
Just curious, what makes Kubuntu the "worst" distribution, in your opinion?
I like KDE, what do you recommend for another distribution that integrates KDE better than Kubuntu?
Found this thread.. People offer a couple of solutions, plus a link to a program that is supposed to strip it out. Haven't tried it myself.
http://forums.sonyinsider.com/topic/3624-removing-drm-from-atrac-files/
Another thought, is it possible to recreate the specs of the old computer using VMware Player?
The hard drive stack has several under 20GB drives. Smallest drive I have is 6.4Gb
Have an old Gateway Pentium computer with Windows 3.1 siting under the work bench. Has a Voodoo3 card in it, and uses my logitech Digital Extreme joystick. The F-16 game "Multi-Role-Fighter" takes full advantage of the voodoo card.
I don't have the computer anymore, but I still have the CPU from my old 486 SX25 computer. I've thought about turning it into a keychain or something.
Best way to add books is to type in the ISBN, then the website searches online databases, to include Amazon.
You can also add tags to your books, like fiction, non-fiction, read, not read, etc.
Every book I read this year gets a "2012" tag, so I'll always know how many books I read in a given year.
binsearch.info & nzbmatrix? I've not heard of these. I used to frequent newzbin, but haven’t used it for quite a while. I'll have to take at look at the sites you suggested.
Usenet is great for just browsing the various binaries if you are not sure what you looking for. I've found more obscure albums because of usenet. The news provider I use is $10 for 25GB, and I have as much time as I want to burn through the 25 GB. Works for me. Some weeks I'll burn through it, other times a month will go by without downloading anything. I run newsrover (windows program) using WINE on Kubuntu & opensuse. That way I can take advantage of SSH encryption, and still take advantage of the built in graphics viewer.
I've run into a couple of private torrent sites that didn't work with kTorrent, so I switched over to Transmission for those. Everything else I run kTorrent.
The main advantage of this is that anybody can browse the library's collection anytime they want. On Sunday mornings they flash the URL up on the stage.
We're still using the paper checkout process though. The old ladies that run the library are 80+ years old, and are former librarians back when Eisenhower was in office. I figure one tech upgrade at a time is all they can handle.
I wouldn't have enough money to buy licenses for all the old boxes we have in the house, but with Linux they are all up and running, and each kid has their own Linux computer.
My hardware is too old to play the latest and greatest games, and with lack of free time, I like to fire up Civilization 4 for the occasional gaming bug. get Civ 4 to work under WINE, and I'd ditch Windows all together.
Libreoffice is good enough for me, and I like the feature that can print straight to pdf.
My Creative Zen is recognized under Kubuntu, and so is our ancient laser printer.
The kids computers run Linux (this month's flavor is Lubuntu) and they love it.
A Princess Bride reference on Slashdot. I love it!
So in 2009, the industry takes a new approach: owning your cellphone.
This is already happening with some of the new cell phones out there. My daughter (had) the Sidekick, and it was basically a rented cell phone. You had to sign up for the $25 monthly data plan to get any functionality out of the phone. All contacts were stored on the server, along with ring tones and texts. Take away the $25 a month, and every time the phone is turned off, it returns to factory default and loses everything.
You were not allowed to import your own ring tones, but had to download from their list.