I have been contemplating one of those weird keyboards. Where it just has 2 molds of hands, and a lot of sensing buttons @various positions in the molds. You type normally (it's supposed to take an adjustment time) but can improve your typing speed by like 100wpm, and you're not moving your wrists so it helps the pain.
For the body temperature thing, stretching is very important. streatching a muscle/region improves circulation for something like four hours.. over the last 6 months (since I moved in with a roommate who was a med major) I make it a point to go through a back, leg, arm, etc streatching routien every hour or 2, and it's done a world of good.
I read a good article on repetitive motion injury in bass player magazine a couple of years back (They might have it archived @ www.bassplayer.com, but don't take my word for it). It just had a few points in general.. some of the things I picked up were, I bought a pair of these elastic/molded gloves for $30 and I type with them when i get the pains.. i have to wear them for a while but they start to help.. apparently lower body temperature to the wrist because of bad circulation causes a lot of pains.
I cut down on my caffeine intake about 90%, started wearing the gloves, and regularly take breaks to flex my wrists & fingers.. sometimes dupping them in warm water for a few minutes..
it's helped a lot.. 2 years ago I got so bad that i couldn't type for more than a half hour @ a time.. now i'm great.
I was kind of enjoying the fight club movie for a while.. until I saw arlington road last night.. not much difference except brad pit without a shirt again.
Dune was great.. I'm very happy with humanity that Frank herbert's son cowrote house atreides, and is going to come out with a few more books to complete the series & explain the butlerian jihad.. (ok now I remember why I never went to class in high school.. well half the reason. I'm recompiling the other)
I've given up on any new books.. going back and reading the great books from before that i've missed, or rereading them (catch 22, 1984, slaughterhouse 5, burmese days, space oddyssey series)... because as with anything else in the '90s.. it's not new.
I've been hearing alot about linux in latin america lately, though.. What's that new distribution based out of brazil?
If you know linux.. why not start pushing it onto shops, companies you work with? If you show them the advantages they'll go for it..
When I was in indonesia, I think every hotel I stayed at ran mostly linux.. this was about 3 years ago.. some had webservers most of them just had linux boxes in their financial divisions, etc.. one hotel (which i'm told no longer exists since the riots caused by soeharto) had a linux x-based registration system.. I thought that was pretty cool.
More like this can only be good for all of us. I'd rather see the movement into large linux markets like southeast asia. When I've been in indonesia, everybody uses linux.. because they don't have the $ for nt.. that's where the real user base is..
Any growth at this point is good, because it means jobs for us linux geeks everywhere.. Personally I like traveling.
Tracy kidder wrote it right? I read that book when I was 8. that's what really got me into computers, because they referred to the engineers/coders as "kids" a lot:)
What coder really cares about such things? Yes we will all use the best jdk.. but is it really important who produces it? It's like dealing with ibm people.. sit around.. talk. worry about saving face and making good relationships.. Then never get anything done.
Press releases that aren't related to stock, cool new apps, important tech decisions, or serious crises are just a waste of bandwidth.
The market will definately be greater if they do things like let you choose what packages you want installed.. well not greater but it'd be more convenient if I had to order 30 servers if I could ahead of time give them a rpm with my.config file, have them compile the kernel put it on.. all my other configs and a list of my own packages + their packages to install.. that'd save a lot of time.
Not really.. not in our "Justice system".. All the riaa has to do to get rid of napster is sue them. Riaa has the $$ they've stolen in dues from artists, to put towards lawyers.... Look back in time.. GO back to the car, the Tucker.. GM wanted it killed.. gm killed it...
I seem to quote this line from the president of tucker more and more lately..
"It used to be in this country, that if you had a better way of doing something, no matter what it was, you had the shot at making something out of it"
Now, you are allowed to do something with that idea or method, as long as you're not stepping on any huge corporation's toes.. if you are, then shoot yourself now, or you just will in 2 years when you've won the court case, filed bankruptcy, and moved into a homeless shelter.
On the topic of ASM-based OS.. synthetix
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I used to know this guy, Henry.. he wrote an asm-based os called synthetix.. him and some researcher, carlton pu.. either way I think this is the url : http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/synthetix/ I never saw much about it.. but apparently they wrote it out of asm for m68k's.. was supposed to be amazingly fast for it's time
I've noticed that two people I work with, as well as myself, and my fellow geek roommate all drive new vws.. I see vws in my area with freekevin stickers, with redhat stickers, I eve saw an old bus with a copyleft shirt draped over the seat in a parking lot.. and this is a very non-geek town..
has anybody else noticed the geek-vw connection?
someday they'll fnd that geek-vw connection, though I know it's probably maaaaaaaaagic
I really can't agree with the ideas of hosting it yourself/building a network for it.
It's always been geek fantasy to have the T1 to the house. Fantasy is rarely practical.
It will cost you in the neighborhood of $1500-$2000 a month for a t1.
A t1 really is not that much bandwidth. I've worked for a few companies that do webhosting like iuinc.com (I don't work for them now, just host servers there). Hosting with a mid-sized hosting company is a much better solution.
The problem with doing it from your home/business means you have to have somewhat of a datacenter in the building. This requires a lot of Hardware:
CSU/DSU
Redundant CSU/DSU
Router
Redundant Router
UPS
Ethernet cable
Link to the net
Redundant feed
remote-access switch and phonelines.
This is all very costly.. You also have to put into account the money & time it will take you to purchase, configure, test, and put into production, all of this hardware. Then maintenance is a big hassle.. maintaining the systems is one things.. but rebooting @ 2am when you're away on vacation? dealing with the telco/bandwidth provider when something goes wrong.. a web-hosting company charges a small premium basically for hosting, and saves you a LOT of $$..
It is much more effective to host your server at a company who solely does that. You can expect to pay $200+ for that, plus between $8-$15 per gigabyte of transfer. That's great, if you only transfer 30 gigs a month.. that's $500 a month.. compared to $2500-3000 for your t1 & redundant t1 + hardware costs of doing it yourself.. money better spent on advertising, site development, video games..
I'm currently in the process of doing the same thing, setting up a small hosting company.. to deal with people I meet @ places I work with (a good point to getting business like this is people you meet, interact with.. at clubs, bars, computer stores, libraries, etc).. know less than a ny times journalist about the internet.. and for your well-developed server, and highly knowledgable self, they'll gladly pay $50-$100 a month for basic hosting.. since you can provide for them a lot more than a large hosting company can. I've got a friend @ sony music who does web/e-commerce design on the side.. and got me to do it because he gets 2-3 clients a week asking him for a place to host.. and refers them somewhere else @ $70 a month for basic hosting..
I'm finding it a better idea to build two servers, setup a good tape backup system, connect them to a raid (i'd like to go nas.. but it's not cost effective yet).. and write some good easy user-management cgi's in perl for my customers to do their own configurations.. so i'll just be sitting back, getting the occasional new customer.... and hopefully soon be paying for a t1 to my house (I am a geek) that I won't have to share
The problem is that there is no good browser for linux. Netscape for linux is a joke. I hate to say it, but it crashes more than it does under windows. It's the only program in linux i've ever found to crash more than it's equivalent under windows, but it does.
You could start with the typical web hosting company naming convention:
name your first machine WOPR like in the movie, then start with simpsons (bart, lisa, maggie, marge, mo, homer, etc), then south park.. i've worked @ 4 hosting companies, they all did it the same way for some reason.
Hah.. that's kind of an odd comment, being as today is my birthday.. was it a gift to me?:) somebody else's freedom is cool enough of a gift.. even if nobody did get me a tie..
That's well.. but how much do we want outside bodies to intervene? I agree there are instances that legal precedence could be a good pressure point on jerks... but what about when it's just a matter of configuring our systems to avoid the hassle altogether? Should we still sue? where's the spirit in that?
I have several multias running in my home & on various networks.. they're great little boxes for the price.. you can throw a small ide drive inside, but might as well go scsi.. scsi-2 ports built-in.. the ram is true parity 70ns ram.. i'm not sure.. maybe from alphalinux.org.. but you can get a pdf of the multia hardware-spec that's easy to read and answers all the specifics.
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Right.. like everybody stopped connecting to rust.net when became known that sanford wallace got his access there?
Goliath cries as he falls on david.
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NSI is behaving in the manner of any long-standing institution, who's demise is eminent.
Like all other long-standing institutions which are facing eminent demise/change. It's sad, because we all remember nsi.. we've know them since our youth. We now have to watch, red-faced, as they cry like babies who are made to eat instead of bottle-feed. Can't they just accept the change gracefully?
Especially with the spamming, good-riddance.. The last use I had for them was to register domains I knew I wanted but didn't have the $$ for at the time, that's gone so I might as well go with a service that doesn't stand for beauracracy, but for a newer company.. that is seperate, not independent of a central organization (wasn't the arpanet originally designed for the sole purpose of a non-central based network that can't be taken out by nuclear attack? to stay true to those goals, you just can't have any sole entity on-line for such an important service)
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I have been contemplating one of those weird keyboards. Where it just has 2 molds of hands, and a lot of sensing buttons @various positions in the molds. You type normally (it's supposed to take an adjustment time) but can improve your typing speed by like 100wpm, and you're not moving your wrists so it helps the pain.
For the body temperature thing, stretching is very important. streatching a muscle/region improves circulation for something like four hours.. over the last 6 months (since I moved in with a roommate who was a med major) I make it a point to go through a back, leg, arm, etc streatching routien every hour or 2, and it's done a world of good.
I read a good article on repetitive motion
injury in bass player magazine a couple of
years back (They might have it archived @ www.bassplayer.com, but don't take my word for it). It just had a few points in general.. some of the things I picked up were, I bought a pair of
these elastic/molded gloves for $30 and I type with them when i get the pains.. i have to wear them for a while but they start to help.. apparently lower body temperature to the wrist because of bad circulation causes a lot of pains.
I cut down on my caffeine intake about 90%, started wearing the gloves, and regularly take breaks to flex my wrists & fingers.. sometimes dupping them in warm water for a few minutes..
it's helped a lot.. 2 years ago I got so bad that i couldn't type for more than a half hour @ a time.. now i'm great.
I was kind of enjoying the fight club movie
for a while.. until I saw arlington road last night.. not much difference except brad pit without a shirt again.
Dune was great.. I'm very happy with humanity that Frank herbert's son cowrote house atreides, and is going to come out with a few more books to complete the series & explain the butlerian jihad.. (ok now I remember why I never went to class in high school.. well half the reason. I'm recompiling the other)
I've given up on any new books.. going back
and reading the great books from before that i've missed, or rereading them (catch 22, 1984, slaughterhouse 5, burmese days, space oddyssey series)... because as with anything else in the '90s.. it's not new.
I've been hearing alot about linux in latin america lately, though.. What's that new distribution based out of brazil?
If you know linux.. why not start pushing it
onto shops, companies you work with? If you
show them the advantages they'll go for it..
When I was in indonesia, I think every hotel I stayed at ran mostly linux.. this was about 3 years ago.. some had webservers most of them just had linux boxes in their financial divisions, etc.. one hotel (which i'm told no longer exists
since the riots caused by soeharto) had a linux x-based registration system.. I thought that was
pretty cool.
More like this can only be good for all of us. I'd rather see the movement into large linux markets like southeast asia. When I've been in indonesia, everybody uses linux.. because they don't have the $ for nt.. that's where the real user base is..
Any growth at this point is good, because it means
jobs for us linux geeks everywhere.. Personally I like traveling.
It's opening up opportunities for all of us.
Great book!
:)
Tracy kidder wrote it right? I read that book
when I was 8. that's what really got me into computers, because they referred to the engineers/coders as "kids" a lot
This definately sounds like a mixture of both..
Post-Apocalyptic Australia = Mad Max
Anti-technology religion = Dune (butlerian Jihad)
ok. Well I guess if I tried I could fix in
a few more of the dune series, as well as the matrix, farenheit 451, and lemmings the video game.
fame.. fortune.. a jedi wants not these things.
What coder really cares about such things? Yes
we will all use the best jdk.. but is it really important who produces it? It's like dealing with ibm people.. sit around.. talk. worry about saving face and making good relationships.. Then never get anything done.
Press releases that aren't related to stock, cool new apps, important tech decisions, or serious crises are just a waste of bandwidth.
Sun, Your kungfu is old.. and now you must die!
and btw.. though dell's servers are in great
cases. they're way overpriced compared to
va boxes.
The market will definately be greater if they .config file, have them compile the kernel put it on.. all my other configs and a list of my own packages + their packages to install.. that'd save a lot of time.
do things like let you choose what packages you
want installed.. well not greater but it'd be more
convenient if I had to order 30 servers if I could ahead of time give them a rpm with my
My father's broker said they won't trade :(
until friday.. great. guess i won't be getting
those 300 shares @ "up to $30" like i bid my order
Not really.. not in our "Justice system".. All the riaa has to do to get rid of napster is sue them. Riaa has the $$ they've stolen in dues from artists, to put towards lawyers.. .. Look back in time.. GO back to the car, the Tucker.. GM wanted it killed.. gm killed it...
I seem to quote this line from the president of
tucker more and more lately..
"It used to be in this country, that if you had a better way of doing something, no matter what it was, you had the shot at making something out of it"
Now, you are allowed to do something with that idea or method, as long as you're not stepping on any huge corporation's toes.. if you are, then shoot yourself now, or you just will in 2 years when you've won the court case, filed bankruptcy, and moved into a homeless shelter.
I used to know this guy, Henry .. he wrote an asm-based os called synthetix.. him and some researcher, carlton pu .. either way I think this is the url : http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/synthetix/ I never saw much about it.. but apparently they wrote it out of asm for m68k's .. was supposed to be amazingly fast for it's time
oh come on.. hurd has only been talked about for what.. 12 years now? we wouldn't actually expect it to be.. STABLE or available would we?
I've noticed that two people I work with, as well
as myself, and my fellow geek roommate all drive
new vws.. I see vws in my area with freekevin stickers, with redhat stickers, I eve saw an old
bus with a copyleft shirt draped over the seat
in a parking lot.. and this is a very non-geek
town..
has anybody else noticed the geek-vw connection?
someday they'll fnd that geek-vw connection, though
I know it's probably maaaaaaaaagic
I really can't agree with the ideas of hosting it yourself/building a network for it.
It's always been geek fantasy to have the T1 to the house. Fantasy is rarely practical.
It will cost you in the neighborhood of $1500-$2000 a month for a t1.
A t1 really is not that much bandwidth. I've worked for a few companies that do webhosting like iuinc.com (I don't work for them now, just host servers there). Hosting with a mid-sized hosting company is a much better solution.
The problem with doing it from your home/business means you have to have somewhat of a datacenter in the building. This requires a lot of Hardware :
This is all very costly.. You also have to put
into account the money & time it will take you to purchase, configure, test, and put into production, all of this hardware. Then maintenance
is a big hassle.. maintaining the systems is one things.. but rebooting @ 2am when you're
away on vacation? dealing with the telco/bandwidth provider when something goes wrong.. a web-hosting company
charges a small premium basically for hosting, and saves you a LOT of $$..
It is much more effective to host your server at a company who solely does that. You can expect to pay $200+ for that, plus between $8-$15 per gigabyte of transfer. That's great, if you only transfer 30 gigs a month.. that's $500 a month.. compared to $2500-3000 for your t1 & redundant t1 + hardware costs of doing it yourself.. money better spent on advertising, site development, video games..
I'm currently in the process of doing the same thing, setting up a small hosting company.. to deal with people I meet @ places I work with (a good point to getting business like this is people you meet, interact with.. at clubs, bars, computer stores, libraries, etc).. know less than a ny times journalist about the internet.. and for your well-developed server, and highly knowledgable self, they'll gladly pay $50-$100 a month for basic hosting.. since you can provide for them a lot more than a large hosting company can. I've got a friend @ sony music who does web/e-commerce design on the side.. and got me to do it because he gets 2-3 clients a week asking him for a place to host.. and refers them somewhere else @ $70 a month for basic hosting..
I'm finding it a better idea to build two servers, setup a good tape backup system, connect them to a raid (i'd like to go nas.. but it's not cost effective yet).. and write some good easy user-management cgi's in perl for my customers to do their own configurations.. so i'll just be sitting back, getting the occasional new customer.... and hopefully soon be paying for a t1 to my house (I am a geek) that I won't have to share
The problem is that there is no good browser for
linux. Netscape for linux is a joke. I hate to say it, but it crashes more than it does under windows. It's the only program in linux i've ever found to crash more than it's equivalent under windows, but it does.
You could start with the typical web hosting company
naming convention:
name your first machine WOPR like in the movie,
then start with simpsons (bart, lisa, maggie, marge, mo, homer, etc), then south park..
i've worked @ 4 hosting companies, they all did
it the same way for some reason.
Hah.. that's kind of an odd comment, being as today is my birthday.. was it a gift to me? :) somebody else's freedom is cool enough of a gift.. even if nobody did get me a tie..
That's well.. but how much do we want outside bodies to intervene? I agree there are instances that legal precedence could be a good pressure point on jerks... but what about when it's just a
matter of configuring our systems to avoid the hassle altogether? Should we still sue? where's the spirit in that?
I have several multias running in my home & on various networks.. they're great little boxes for the price.. you can throw a small ide drive inside, but might as well go scsi.. scsi-2 ports built-in.. the ram is true parity 70ns ram.. i'm not sure.. maybe from alphalinux.org .. but you can get a pdf of the multia hardware-spec that's easy to read and answers all the specifics.
Right.. like everybody stopped connecting
to rust.net when became known that sanford wallace got his access there?
NSI is behaving in the manner of any long-standing institution, who's demise is eminent.
Like all other long-standing institutions which are facing eminent demise/change. It's sad, because we all remember nsi.. we've know them since our youth. We now have to watch, red-faced, as they cry like babies who are made to eat instead of bottle-feed. Can't they just accept the change gracefully?
Especially with the spamming, good-riddance.. The last use I had for them was to register domains I knew I wanted but didn't have the $$ for at the time, that's gone so I might as well go with a service that doesn't stand for beauracracy, but for a newer company.. that is seperate, not independent of a central organization (wasn't the arpanet originally designed for the sole purpose of a non-central based network that can't be taken out by nuclear attack? to stay true to those goals, you just can't have any sole entity on-line for such an important service)