that's funny. That's exactly what happened to me. We had a great idea for a product and many many sysadmins loved it. We sold a few thousand and were working on the next one. In the meantime, we patented our idea and were awarded a patent. We sold the follow-on version and were working on the 3rd edition; the whole time operating on revenue from sales to handle manufacturing, marketing, and development... It was going well, until another company copied our product and began selling it. A US company with the backing of a larger parent company. They undercut us on price... They were selling below our own bill of materials cost.. We sent a C&D referencing our patent and received a response from them that simply said "We acknowledge receipt of your letter.".... Our lawyer explained that was a "PFO. Come and get us if you have the balls.". It was going to take more money than we had to fight them... After a short while, our sales dried up and we shut down.
Since you can't use dump(8) as others have pointed out, maybe you can do something with UnionFS. After you do your full backup to USB HDD and are about to leave on a trip, mount a unionfs over top of your critical filesystem(s)... Then every day, copy the union layer off to thumb-drive.
Agreed. My dad gave me 40 trays of slides, all containing every photo he'd taken since shortly after I was born. I spent some quality time with a Sony slide scanner that I'd borrowed from a friend and now have them online, on my own webserver with Gallery3. I gave my dad access to the site and he added comments. My wife's family loved the idea so they produced their multitude of slides and I set my wife up with the slide scanner.. Our webserver is mirrored every night to a machine at home. Add to this the 15,000 photos I have of our son documenting the first 10 years of his life. I'm sure his biggest complaint as an adult will be the resolution and/or file format... Or perhaps when I do a little show-and-tell at his wedding.
I work for a company that has an on-site restaurant/cafeteria... The food is fine and is subsidized by the company... But most people don't eat there because, really, there's only a subset of my co-workers that I feel like talking to at lunch. The rest, I don't really want to socialize with. On the one or two occasions where I've eaten at the cafeteria, there's always someone that sits down and wants to talk to me that frankly, I would rather not talk to... So we go out for lunch every day, somewhere different.. We're careful about what we discuss and usually, it's not about work anyway.
It's even more retarded than that. It tells you there's a handful of updates and makes you log off. Then you have to sit and watch while it downloads the updates on your now incapacitated desktop. Then you have to watch as it updates itunes or quicktime... Why does upgrading a media player mean you have to reboot your computer? So not only do I lose all the context in all of my terminal sessions, I have to sit and watch it download, and then watch it reboot. Then after the reboot, after I start working again, it does another software update and discovers yet more things that it can now update...
My son bought an ipod touch with his own money... Saved up for 11 months doing work for neighbors and so on to buy it. He was so proud. For birthdays and other occasions, relatives bought him itunes gift cards so he could buy apps and music... So in effect, he had his own CC with a limit. Well, one day he came to us and said that his itunes account was empty.. He'd somehow been drained of $75. Well some free game (which he claims he didn't purchase, and to be honest, doesn't seem like something he _would_ purchase; but I can't prove he didn't). Unfortunately, in a very short time after that, there were a bazillion in-app purchases that drained his account. Apple was, of course, disinterested. The author of the game was some chinese company.
We bought the Sylvania Ultra-LED Par20 bulb for $47. It's 700 Lumens and the light output is decent... My problem with it is the startup time. The Sylvania box says "instant-on". I guess in Sylvania-land, 500ms is "instant"... If this L-Prize bulb is the same sort of delay, I predict another flop. Everyone I've shown this Sylvania bulb to, has said the same thing... "I'm not buying LED lighting until they solve that problem." It reminds people of the blinking/clinking CFL bulbs....
I understand this is all in the power supply but really, they gotta do something about that.
My son was having trouble 'fitting in' at school almost right at the beginning but most pronounced in gr.4. He's in gr.5 now at a different school. After psych-ed testing, we established he needed a gifted program. He's not overly a genius or anything, and does plenty of stupid stuff.. He was simply bored with the kids at his school, bored with the program, and generally acting up. The teachers at his old school contacted us and suggested he may have ADHD and should get him looked at so they could at least understand how to deal with him... Anyway, after switching to the new school, he made friends on Day.1, and came home, pronouncing that "I've met my people."... I guess the point of my reply is, you're right... I wish he was simply of average intelligence... The additional load we have as parents is very taxing... Not only does he ask questions pretty much non-stop, he breaks all kinds of stuff dismantling it or repurposing it... He learns technology way too quickly, faster than he's been able to develop the judgement to know better... He's interested in all sorts of dangerous things like welding, driving, chainsaws, etc but lacks the impulse control to prevent him from acting on his ideas... A 10 year old should probably not be using a chainsaw; even with supervision. I hope he grows up to be a net contributor to society.
I'm also canadian, and also on my 3rd diesel. I don't know what part of canada you're in, but in my part (Calgary), it does get down below -30C and if my webasto doesn't come on for whatever reason, I'm not going anywhere. My neighbor with his 2010 Jetta TDI is also not going anywhere if he isn't parked in his garage.
Not to mention that because Diesels are so damn efficient, unless you have a webasto, you're freezing your nuts off in stop/go traffic because the engine doesn't generate enough waste heat to bring the coolant up much above 0C..
Don't get me wrong, I love my truck... But it's not for everyone yet.
The Apple-][ was my first as well. I had to move beyond Integer Basic to asm in order to figure out the increasingly complex copy protection that was evolving as fast as we could figure it out... Did my first BBS'ing with a Hayes MicroModem...
Seriously, a few times I've used the brakes to transfer torque from the tire spinning on the ice back to the tire on dry pavement... Just enough to get off the ice patch. I suppose most new cars are all traction-computered up the wazoo but us old geezers know how to drive cars without computers.
My aunt has a farm in southern alberta. We used to sit on her deck remarking how peaceful it is and nice to get away from the city. Now there's one of these things down the hill and across the highway from her, about 1-1.5km away... Now when you sit on her deck, if the wind is going the right way (which it is most of the time), there's an unpleasant low frequency low period thrumming noise... It's such low frequency that you don't even have to be outside to hear it. You can 'feel it' inside the house. Now, I don't know that it's causing any health problems but it has certainly transformed the atmosphere and enjoyability of her house.
I have an acreage with a cottage on a ridge that is currently a very serene and quiet place to be (except for this time of year when the Moose are rutting, and the coyote babies are exercising their lungs)... I dread the day that serenity is destroyed by a natural gas compressor station or wind farm... But I know I will have no control over it.
My son's teachers communicate with us via e-mail; the school sends out newsletters via e-mail... My son gets assignments from the teachers via his e-mail when he's sick, and turns them in via e-mail... The school has google calendars that parents can subscribe to. There is an online site where report cards are posted and attendance is recorded and made available to parents and students.
My wife used to teach an Intro to Anthropology course (among others) and each year was a new textbook, which she would get a week before class started in Sept. Towards the end of her teaching career, the textbooks were less complete than the previous year and each book came with links to a publisher's website of 'supplemental material' which was the stuff that was missing plus some videos and flash demos... The links were embedded throughout the book. At the end of that school year, the website 'expired' making that textbook useless to be replaced by the current years' textbook and corresponding website. Pure evil.
In addition, there were lots of errors in the chapters causing my wife to have to spend a great deal of time fact checking each lesson plan against the book.. Eventually, she stopped simply telling the students about the errors and issued a challenge for students to identify the errors in the book, and then next class they would discuss the chapter focusing on the errors... It turned into a great teaching tool while simultaneously demonstrating to students not to believe everything they read.
When my wife was a prof, the textbook industry was her biggest peeve. Every year, a new textbook comes out, many with websites that contain supplementary and additional information. The websites become invalid at the end of the school year thereby eroding the used textbook market. With each coming year, faced with a new textbook, course instructors have to run through the book to update their curriculum where necessary..
I don't think so. it's a 39l bladder but net volume is 59l. I think if you do the math on that, you'll find a diameter of about 19 inches which is somewhat larger than the 14" quoted in the article summary. But I always sucked at math.
The guy in the cube next to me made substantially more than me. We did the same job, worked on the same code, similar education, probably equally valued by the company... After the office was closed down by head office, I asked my ex-manager, wtfup with the salary inequity? His response was "You were paid less because Corporate deemed you less of a flight-risk."
It's not about value, talent, experience, etc. It's about how little can they pay you and still keep you around.
- advertising. Ads before the show, ads after the title sequence, ads throughout the show. Recap after the ads with product placement. Animated ads that appear at the bottom of the screen, often covering up crucial content. Ads after the show when they cram the closing credits to the left of the screen and show an ad on the right half of the screen. - Ever try counting the amount of actual non-recapped content in a mythbusters episode? - Regular shows that start a season, do a few episodes and then go on hiatus for months at a time, then reappear for 2 or 3 episodes, then go on hiatus again (Big Bang Theory). No longer can you grab some popcorn and sit down with your wife to watch an episode together because it might not be on this week (or next, or next) - Content providers electing not to allow other countries to have their content until a year or two or three later. The internet has made friendships that are international... So when your friends are all laughing at the latest thing that happened on whatever show, you, as an out-of-country friend, have no way to participate in that discussion because you won't see the episode for two years. Or when the news-streams tell you how ended, it ruins it for you since you won't get the content for another year or two, if ever.
The political layer has ruined TV. The greed layer has ruined TV. Bittorrent and MythTV have saved TV for me. Until content makers, content providers and content distributors get back to the task of making/presenting TV in a way that customers want instead of investors, they can all go fuck themselves and I will continue to steal their content and view it in a way that's convenient _for_me_.
I'm not a decent photographer but I have a kid and some hobbies. I wanted to be able to document the growth of my son so I did a bunch of research on dpreview.com and bought a Panasonic Lumix LX-1. It was rated highest at practically everything. I was extremely disappointed with this camera. In low light situations, (school play, piano recitals), the pictures were practically opaque black while the lady standing in front of me with the point&shoot canon was getting far better pictures of my son than I was. So I switched to a Canon DSLR and have never been happier. Still, not a talented photographer but at least I can now get the pictures I want. I have gradually added a couple of lenses and an external flash. The Lumix still comes out for things like taking pictures of a car that I want to sell, or documenting a plumbing leak, or if we go for a little hike, we take the small camera.. But the Canon takes superior photos in every case.
I got mine. As an old geek, I just challenged the exam and got it first try. My offroad club decided to switch away from CB towards HAM. It has improved our communications immensely as well as been useful in some remote medical and mechanical emergency situations. I also use an APRS transceiver to do some home automation type stuff at our cottage. I use my amateur license as a means to an end, not as an end itself. ie: I'm not interested in the hobby as it is, I'm interested in the benefits I can derive from having access to the equipment and spectrum.
I do support the local repeater society (financially) because I use their infrastructure.
No HDMI output. Simply rasterize the video into an.mkv container... Plug the stick into the USB port, use the TV's onscreen menu to navigate to 'playme.mkv' (or whatever container these TV's support) and the movie is your video output.
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that's funny. That's exactly what happened to me. We had a great idea for a product and many many sysadmins loved it. We sold a few thousand and were working on the next one. In the meantime, we patented our idea and were awarded a patent. We sold the follow-on version and were working on the 3rd edition; the whole time operating on revenue from sales to handle manufacturing, marketing, and development... It was going well, until another company copied our product and began selling it. A US company with the backing of a larger parent company. They undercut us on price... They were selling below our own bill of materials cost.. We sent a C&D referencing our patent and received a response from them that simply said "We acknowledge receipt of your letter.".... Our lawyer explained that was a "PFO. Come and get us if you have the balls.". It was going to take more money than we had to fight them... After a short while, our sales dried up and we shut down.
Since you can't use dump(8) as others have pointed out, maybe you can do something with UnionFS. After you do your full backup to USB HDD and are about to leave on a trip, mount a unionfs over top of your critical filesystem(s)... Then every day, copy the union layer off to thumb-drive.
Agreed. My dad gave me 40 trays of slides, all containing every photo he'd taken since shortly after I was born. I spent some quality time with a Sony slide scanner that I'd borrowed from a friend and now have them online, on my own webserver with Gallery3. I gave my dad access to the site and he added comments. My wife's family loved the idea so they produced their multitude of slides and I set my wife up with the slide scanner.. Our webserver is mirrored every night to a machine at home. Add to this the 15,000 photos I have of our son documenting the first 10 years of his life. I'm sure his biggest complaint as an adult will be the resolution and/or file format... Or perhaps when I do a little show-and-tell at his wedding.
My wife and I are both left handed but our son is right handed.
We had such high hopes too.
I work for a company that has an on-site restaurant/cafeteria... The food is fine and is subsidized by the company... But most people don't eat there because, really, there's only a subset of my co-workers that I feel like talking to at lunch. The rest, I don't really want to socialize with. On the one or two occasions where I've eaten at the cafeteria, there's always someone that sits down and wants to talk to me that frankly, I would rather not talk to... So we go out for lunch every day, somewhere different.. We're careful about what we discuss and usually, it's not about work anyway.
It's even more retarded than that. It tells you there's a handful of updates and makes you log off. Then you have to sit and watch while it downloads the updates on your now incapacitated desktop. Then you have to watch as it updates itunes or quicktime... Why does upgrading a media player mean you have to reboot your computer? So not only do I lose all the context in all of my terminal sessions, I have to sit and watch it download, and then watch it reboot. Then after the reboot, after I start working again, it does another software update and discovers yet more things that it can now update...
infuriating, I tells ya.
My son bought an ipod touch with his own money... Saved up for 11 months doing work for neighbors and so on to buy it. He was so proud. For birthdays and other occasions, relatives bought him itunes gift cards so he could buy apps and music... So in effect, he had his own CC with a limit. Well, one day he came to us and said that his itunes account was empty.. He'd somehow been drained of $75. Well some free game (which he claims he didn't purchase, and to be honest, doesn't seem like something he _would_ purchase; but I can't prove he didn't). Unfortunately, in a very short time after that, there were a bazillion in-app purchases that drained his account. Apple was, of course, disinterested. The author of the game was some chinese company.
We bought the Sylvania Ultra-LED Par20 bulb for $47. It's 700 Lumens and the light output is decent... My problem with it is the startup time. The Sylvania box says "instant-on". I guess in Sylvania-land, 500ms is "instant"... If this L-Prize bulb is the same sort of delay, I predict another flop. Everyone I've shown this Sylvania bulb to, has said the same thing... "I'm not buying LED lighting until they solve that problem." It reminds people of the blinking/clinking CFL bulbs....
I understand this is all in the power supply but really, they gotta do something about that.
My son was having trouble 'fitting in' at school almost right at the beginning but most pronounced in gr.4. He's in gr.5 now at a different school. After psych-ed testing, we established he needed a gifted program. He's not overly a genius or anything, and does plenty of stupid stuff.. He was simply bored with the kids at his school, bored with the program, and generally acting up. The teachers at his old school contacted us and suggested he may have ADHD and should get him looked at so they could at least understand how to deal with him... Anyway, after switching to the new school, he made friends on Day.1, and came home, pronouncing that "I've met my people." ... I guess the point of my reply is, you're right... I wish he was simply of average intelligence... The additional load we have as parents is very taxing... Not only does he ask questions pretty much non-stop, he breaks all kinds of stuff dismantling it or repurposing it... He learns technology way too quickly, faster than he's been able to develop the judgement to know better... He's interested in all sorts of dangerous things like welding, driving, chainsaws, etc but lacks the impulse control to prevent him from acting on his ideas... A 10 year old should probably not be using a chainsaw; even with supervision. I hope he grows up to be a net contributor to society.
I'm also canadian, and also on my 3rd diesel. I don't know what part of canada you're in, but in my part (Calgary), it does get down below -30C and if my webasto doesn't come on for whatever reason, I'm not going anywhere. My neighbor with his 2010 Jetta TDI is also not going anywhere if he isn't parked in his garage.
Not to mention that because Diesels are so damn efficient, unless you have a webasto, you're freezing your nuts off in stop/go traffic because the engine doesn't generate enough waste heat to bring the coolant up much above 0C..
Don't get me wrong, I love my truck... But it's not for everyone yet.
The Apple-][ was my first as well. I had to move beyond Integer Basic to asm in order to figure out the increasingly complex copy protection that was evolving as fast as we could figure it out ... Did my first BBS'ing with a Hayes MicroModem...
good times ...
Seriously, a few times I've used the brakes to transfer torque from the tire spinning on the ice back to the tire on dry pavement... Just enough to get off the ice patch. I suppose most new cars are all traction-computered up the wazoo but us old geezers know how to drive cars without computers.
My aunt has a farm in southern alberta. We used to sit on her deck remarking how peaceful it is and nice to get away from the city. Now there's one of these things down the hill and across the highway from her, about 1-1.5km away... Now when you sit on her deck, if the wind is going the right way (which it is most of the time), there's an unpleasant low frequency low period thrumming noise... It's such low frequency that you don't even have to be outside to hear it. You can 'feel it' inside the house. Now, I don't know that it's causing any health problems but it has certainly transformed the atmosphere and enjoyability of her house.
I have an acreage with a cottage on a ridge that is currently a very serene and quiet place to be (except for this time of year when the Moose are rutting, and the coyote babies are exercising their lungs)... I dread the day that serenity is destroyed by a natural gas compressor station or wind farm... But I know I will have no control over it.
My son's school does this and is an Alberta school, though it is a charter school so they tend to be more experimental with their processes...
One teacher started this blog and lots of others have followed and it now seems to be a formal thing still available under its original domain:
http://www.missmahsclass.com/
My son's teachers communicate with us via e-mail; the school sends out newsletters via e-mail... My son gets assignments from the teachers via his e-mail when he's sick, and turns them in via e-mail... The school has google calendars that parents can subscribe to. There is an online site where report cards are posted and attendance is recorded and made available to parents and students.
My wife used to teach an Intro to Anthropology course (among others) and each year was a new textbook, which she would get a week before class started in Sept. Towards the end of her teaching career, the textbooks were less complete than the previous year and each book came with links to a publisher's website of 'supplemental material' which was the stuff that was missing plus some videos and flash demos... The links were embedded throughout the book. At the end of that school year, the website 'expired' making that textbook useless to be replaced by the current years' textbook and corresponding website. Pure evil.
In addition, there were lots of errors in the chapters causing my wife to have to spend a great deal of time fact checking each lesson plan against the book.. Eventually, she stopped simply telling the students about the errors and issued a challenge for students to identify the errors in the book, and then next class they would discuss the chapter focusing on the errors... It turned into a great teaching tool while simultaneously demonstrating to students not to believe everything they read.
yeah... And it's awesome that as much as 30% of the websites on the intarwebs will accept an email address with a '+' in it...
When my wife was a prof, the textbook industry was her biggest peeve. Every year, a new textbook comes out, many with websites that contain supplementary and additional information. The websites become invalid at the end of the school year thereby eroding the used textbook market. With each coming year, faced with a new textbook, course instructors have to run through the book to update their curriculum where necessary..
I don't think so. it's a 39l bladder but net volume is 59l. I think if you do the math on that, you'll find a diameter of about 19 inches which is somewhat larger than the 14" quoted in the article summary. But I always sucked at math.
...everyone who was forced to program in BBX's Business Basic when they were fresh out of school....
To be honest, when I heard that RIM was using 'BBX' as the name of its new OS, I immediately thought of Basis's BBX.
The guy in the cube next to me made substantially more than me. We did the same job, worked on the same code, similar education, probably equally valued by the company... After the office was closed down by head office, I asked my ex-manager, wtfup with the salary inequity? His response was "You were paid less because Corporate deemed you less of a flight-risk."
It's not about value, talent, experience, etc. It's about how little can they pay you and still keep you around.
- advertising. Ads before the show, ads after the title sequence, ads throughout the show. Recap after the ads with product placement. Animated ads that appear at the bottom of the screen, often covering up crucial content. Ads after the show when they cram the closing credits to the left of the screen and show an ad on the right half of the screen.
- Ever try counting the amount of actual non-recapped content in a mythbusters episode?
- Regular shows that start a season, do a few episodes and then go on hiatus for months at a time, then reappear for 2 or 3 episodes, then go on hiatus again (Big Bang Theory). No longer can you grab some popcorn and sit down with your wife to watch an episode together because it might not be on this week (or next, or next)
- Content providers electing not to allow other countries to have their content until a year or two or three later. The internet has made friendships that are international... So when your friends are all laughing at the latest thing that happened on whatever show, you, as an out-of-country friend, have no way to participate in that discussion because you won't see the episode for two years. Or when the news-streams tell you how ended, it ruins it for you since you won't get the content for another year or two, if ever.
The political layer has ruined TV. The greed layer has ruined TV. Bittorrent and MythTV have saved TV for me. Until content makers, content providers and content distributors get back to the task of making/presenting TV in a way that customers want instead of investors, they can all go fuck themselves and I will continue to steal their content and view it in a way that's convenient _for_me_.
I'm not a decent photographer but I have a kid and some hobbies. I wanted to be able to document the growth of my son so I did a bunch of research on dpreview.com and bought a Panasonic Lumix LX-1. It was rated highest at practically everything. I was extremely disappointed with this camera. In low light situations, (school play, piano recitals), the pictures were practically opaque black while the lady standing in front of me with the point&shoot canon was getting far better pictures of my son than I was. So I switched to a Canon DSLR and have never been happier. Still, not a talented photographer but at least I can now get the pictures I want. I have gradually added a couple of lenses and an external flash. The Lumix still comes out for things like taking pictures of a car that I want to sell, or documenting a plumbing leak, or if we go for a little hike, we take the small camera.. But the Canon takes superior photos in every case.
I got mine. As an old geek, I just challenged the exam and got it first try. My offroad club decided to switch away from CB towards HAM. It has improved our communications immensely as well as been useful in some remote medical and mechanical emergency situations. I also use an APRS transceiver to do some home automation type stuff at our cottage. I use my amateur license as a means to an end, not as an end itself. ie: I'm not interested in the hobby as it is, I'm interested in the benefits I can derive from having access to the equipment and spectrum.
I do support the local repeater society (financially) because I use their infrastructure.
No HDMI output. Simply rasterize the video into an .mkv container... Plug the stick into the USB port, use the TV's onscreen menu to navigate to 'playme.mkv' (or whatever container these TV's support) and the movie is your video output.
I just gotta know, were either of his rape-accusers generally overweight? ie: It's not over until the fat lady sings...