By setting the control equipment up on the right side of our cars and driving on the left, we ensure that drivers approach down each other's right-hand side, which makes a lot of sense considering how much of the population is right-handed.
It doesn't make any sense at all to waste the dextrous right hand on the gearshift - which is probably why Americans tend to prefer automatic gearboxes (90-95% of British cars have a manual shift) - we prefer right hand for the wheel and a manual box for better control, you're never really in command of an automatic car.
I was just thinking, this is the point at which I stop buying US Robotics broadband routers and start pondering the benefits of using either a Mac Mini or a small-footprint intel PC as a linux router...
I'm not criticising.. but surely research into plants that can take extremes is of more short-term utility in creating species which can suck up and withhold pollutants as part of a clean-up operation for Earth than in sustaining the "great-post-armageddon-earth-bug-out" destination?
You can speed windows up a lot when running on K6/2 processors by changing the BIOS setting to "non PnP OS" installed, then Windows doesnt have to handle IRQ allocation, which tends to be kludgy on those boards and sucks CPU power
That said, we brits have a reputation for being heavily infected, as our ISPs don't do what a lot of US ISPs consider standard practice, and either issue a router or block RPC ports 135-139 and 593
I'm surprised that so common an infection could be linked to organised crime and nobody realised until now though. I think i'll go and hit all my MSN communities with a warning about this...
Unless its run on distilled water this will leave a thick, gunky residue of chlorine salts, calcium, limescale and anything else that's in solution in the local water supply
Binary compatibility is important to me as my time is important to me - I acknowledge your ability to build an app from code with a compiler, it's something I haven't ever tried. I prefer a nice installer file, be it.msi,.deb,.rpm or.something else format, as I take more pleasure from using my computer than configuring it. I view application installation as a 2-minute job to be done once...
Beats me what this stuff on my Windows machine is then
( iTunes, Winamp, AVG antivirus, Zonealarm FW, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, DBPowerAmp, Media Player Classic, X-chat, nVu) - yes, some of its OSS, it's all still free as in beer.
Technical binary compatibility is an irrelevance if Mr.Average User can't get his application to install. Maybe it is possible to convert an RPM to a DEB and install it with Apt-get or one of its front-ends but again that's further than most users want to go just to get a pre-compiled app running.
IMO it is near-unacceptable that any two distributions of Linux on the same processor-platform should be binary-incompatible.
Dependencies can be a problem, but that's what the LSB is for, surely - just supply the damn' libs, you don't have to use them in your default config !
The level of binary compatibility between any 2 same-platform linux distros should be at the very least equal to the level of compatibility between Win 2000 and Win XP.
Thanks for that. I knew the shuttle was largely computerised but wasn't aware that the final approach had to be done manually. I guess it makes sense given those reasons, but it's unfortunate in this case...
..and would also prevent the craft being saved were there to be some accident which killed or disabled the crew without destroying the lander (I'm thinking depressurisation)
I understand on some levels it's important to get the shuttle craft out of orbit, but since there is apparently a Soyuz capsule strapped to the ISS anyway, it might be that a safer solution would be to ride down to a hard landing on the proven Russian re-entry vehicle, which can later be returned to the ISS by rocket, and bring Discovery down on computer control.
Arguably, free speech is best protected by getting tools like this out in the wild before they're needed.
The refusal of the secret service to allow demonstrations anywhere near the president ( "free speech zones" ) and the recent raids on server farms hosting indymedia websites could be described as state-sponsored restrictions of free speech.
1) "Get your free iPod/Macmini/flatscreen" _as long as you sign up to several monthly direct debits and become a spammer to get many more people to do likewise
2) Sellers with massive favourable credit histories accumulated by selling penny-cost items to a handful of people, all of whom have traded with each other similarly to amass a good score at no expense - and who then turn up with a batch of expensive consumer goods.
3) eBay customers that suddenly change location from the UK to Nigeria but are allowed to keep purchasing items..
4)lack of a report fraud button that works, for concerned visitors to report obvious criminal actions
5) Sudden spate of sales of middle-eastern antiques in recent months from people who can be shown by other intelligence (eg by googling an email address) to have been recently serving one of several Western armies in Iraq
Its amazing how many more seeds there were for OSX Panther on eMule and BT trackers just after PearPC made their first usable release.
Apple isn't particularly worried about its users committing copyright infringement - even today OSX doesn't force the user to register it online or authenticate. However I bet they are worried that their OS would be widely pirated by Windows users who want the experience without paying for it, as to a hardware company that's suicide.
Copy all AOL mail into a standards compliant mail app, using AOL's IMAP server.
Sign up for a free IMAP webmail account at Fastmail
Copy all AOL mail into Fastmail inbox. Wait 15 mins for the web server to sync
Log into fastmail webpage, and select all messages, choose "redirect to" from actions list, and enter gmail address. All messages will be re-sent to gmail with the original senders address. the "received time" will be todays date but the mesage wil keep original sent date within.
The problem is that AOL's client only keeps recent mail in the IMAP server and backs old messages up to a cache file which is only stored locally, and completely proprietorial.
I kinda switched to email for organising as my life beame more complicated, as Spotlight and Gmail give me two ways to sort my shit out and find things of importance.
Messenger can log stuff but mail's more resilient
Slashdot Mirror
re your sig.. what must you not miss. "Keep left signs" would be a good place to start or it'll be a short visit
Now that's got me thinking.
I might get the roof-bars fitted to my Mondeo tonight and strap a webcam to them.. all I'd need is my laptop set to record straight to mpeg...
(Disclaimer - I'm British)
By setting the control equipment up on the right side of our cars and driving on the left, we ensure that drivers approach down each other's right-hand side, which makes a lot of sense considering how much of the population is right-handed.
It doesn't make any sense at all to waste the dextrous right hand on the gearshift - which is probably why Americans tend to prefer automatic gearboxes (90-95% of British cars have a manual shift) - we prefer right hand for the wheel and a manual box for better control, you're never really in command of an automatic car.
I am amazed by it. By the way my recommendations for background music are as follows:
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Born to Run - Suzi Quatro
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Stop the Rock - Apollo Four Forty
Roll All Day - Ice Cube
I want this as a screensaver
bad teeth, I guess.
I was just thinking, this is the point at which I stop buying US Robotics broadband routers and start pondering the benefits of using either a Mac Mini or a small-footprint intel PC as a linux router...
I'm not criticising.. but surely research into plants that can take extremes is of more short-term utility in creating species which can suck up and withhold pollutants as part of a clean-up operation for Earth than in sustaining the "great-post-armageddon-earth-bug-out" destination?
You can speed windows up a lot when running on K6/2 processors by changing the BIOS setting to "non PnP OS" installed, then Windows doesnt have to handle IRQ allocation, which tends to be kludgy on those boards and sucks CPU power
Concur. It's widespread in the UK too.
That said, we brits have a reputation for being heavily infected, as our ISPs don't do what a lot of US ISPs consider standard practice, and either issue a router or block RPC ports 135-139 and 593
I'm surprised that so common an infection could be linked to organised crime and nobody realised until now though. I think i'll go and hit all my MSN communities with a warning about this...
Unless its run on distilled water this will leave a thick, gunky residue of chlorine salts, calcium, limescale and anything else that's in solution in the local water supply
Perhaps they expect to sell so many x86 mac mini boards that making entry-level boards for Windows users won't be worth the resources it takes?
Perhaps not
Binary compatibility is important to me as my time is important to me - I acknowledge your ability to build an app from code with a compiler, it's something I haven't ever tried. I prefer a nice installer file, be it .msi, .deb, .rpm or .something else format, as I take more pleasure from using my computer than configuring it. I view application installation as a 2-minute job to be done once...
(there's not much good quality freeware)
Beats me what this stuff on my Windows machine is then
( iTunes, Winamp, AVG antivirus, Zonealarm FW, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, DBPowerAmp, Media Player Classic, X-chat, nVu) - yes, some of its OSS, it's all still free as in beer.
Technical binary compatibility is an irrelevance if Mr.Average User can't get his application to install. Maybe it is possible to convert an RPM to a DEB and install it with Apt-get or one of its front-ends but again that's further than most users want to go just to get a pre-compiled app running.
IMO it is near-unacceptable that any two distributions of Linux on the same processor-platform should be binary-incompatible.
Dependencies can be a problem, but that's what the LSB is for, surely - just supply the damn' libs, you don't have to use them in your default config !
The level of binary compatibility between any 2 same-platform linux distros should be at the very least equal to the level of compatibility between Win 2000 and Win XP.
Thanks for that. I knew the shuttle was largely computerised but wasn't aware that the final approach had to be done manually. I guess it makes sense given those reasons, but it's unfortunate in this case...
..and would also prevent the craft being saved were there to be some accident which killed or disabled the crew without destroying the lander (I'm thinking depressurisation)
I understand on some levels it's important to get the shuttle craft out of orbit, but since there is apparently a Soyuz capsule strapped to the ISS anyway, it might be that a safer solution would be to ride down to a hard landing on the proven Russian re-entry vehicle, which can later be returned to the ISS by rocket, and bring Discovery down on computer control.
Be thankful it isn't the Talky Toaster or it'd insist you had a muffin before reading the site
Emailchemy
Arguably, free speech is best protected by getting tools like this out in the wild before they're needed.
The refusal of the secret service to allow demonstrations anywhere near the president ( "free speech zones" ) and the recent raids on server farms hosting indymedia websites could be described as state-sponsored restrictions of free speech.
Look at the following matters!:
1) "Get your free iPod/Macmini/flatscreen" _as long as you sign up to several monthly direct debits and become a spammer to get many more people to do likewise
2) Sellers with massive favourable credit histories accumulated by selling penny-cost items to a handful of people, all of whom have traded with each other similarly to amass a good score at no expense - and who then turn up with a batch of expensive consumer goods.
3) eBay customers that suddenly change location from the UK to Nigeria but are allowed to keep purchasing items..
4)lack of a report fraud button that works, for concerned visitors to report obvious criminal actions
5) Sudden spate of sales of middle-eastern antiques in recent months from people who can be shown by other intelligence (eg by googling an email address) to have been recently serving one of several Western armies in Iraq
Its amazing how many more seeds there were for OSX Panther on eMule and BT trackers just after PearPC made their first usable release.
Apple isn't particularly worried about its users committing copyright infringement - even today OSX doesn't force the user to register it online or authenticate. However I bet they are worried that their OS would be widely pirated by Windows users who want the experience without paying for it, as to a hardware company that's suicide.
Copy all AOL mail into a standards compliant mail app, using AOL's IMAP server.
Sign up for a free IMAP webmail account at Fastmail
Copy all AOL mail into Fastmail inbox. Wait 15 mins for the web server to sync
Log into fastmail webpage, and select all messages, choose "redirect to" from actions list, and enter gmail address. All messages will be re-sent to gmail with the original senders address. the "received time" will be todays date but the mesage wil keep original sent date within.
The problem is that AOL's client only keeps recent mail in the IMAP server and backs old messages up to a cache file which is only stored locally, and completely proprietorial.
I kinda switched to email for organising as my life beame more complicated, as Spotlight and Gmail give me two ways to sort my shit out and find things of importance.
Messenger can log stuff but mail's more resilient