(Ordinarily I would balk at the use of the word 'ass' in this way, since I am English and would much prefer to use the correct form of 'arse', but I'm afraid it just doesn't work as well.*sigh*)
And, incidentally, little outbursts like this will ensure that your attempts to 'launder' your public image, so that future generations consider you as some kind of benevolent god rather than a little rich kid who gets his kicks pushing others around, will ultimately fail.
Things that work for me...
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Wrist rests may work for some, but I find that they place pressure on the wrists and forearms right where I don't want it. My recommendations:
1) Posture is important. Have a look on Google for guidance on arranging your workspace on ergonomic guidelines. Also, consider seeing a chiropractor - a competent chiropractor will be able to track down areas of weakness and suggest exercises to strengthen muscle groups which are causing problems. Which leads to:
2) I find that regular light workouts with a set of dumbells help - make sure your arms can support themselves!
3) If I find my forearms are getting a little sore, contrast bathing is helpful. Bathe your arms for a minute at a time in cold water, then hot water, then cold again, alternating back and forth and always finishing on cold. Do that once a night for a week or so.
Usual caveats - I'm a geek, not a doctor, dammit; your mileage may vary; if you're really having problems, see a doctor rather than asking Slashdot...
It's a pet theory of mine that evolution works in three stages, and we're just embarking on the third stage:
1) Environment changes species. The species responds to its environment until it reaches a certain point, which leads us to:
2) Species changes environment. Tool-handling gives us the ability to shape our environment to our own benefit. This reduces the need to adapt to the environment, so natural evolution slows down, until:
3) Species changes itself. Genetic engineering/screening/manipulation gives us the ability to modify ourselves... and, for good or bad, the pace of change will increase again.
You're right, a Toughbook is way too much for your dad's job. In order to prevent this shocking misuse of equipment, I hereby volunteer to take it off his hands. I know, I know... it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
So, if you actually involve yourself in your kids' lives and activities, they might turn out okay, but if you let a computer babysit them, they'll be little gits? Who'd have thought it?
I've mentioned this before on these pages, but I recommend you wander over to www.allegro.cc and download a copy of Overgod, which is a really sweet, retro-flavoured cross between Asteroids (game) and Tron (film). It's one of the few games to have really grabbed me since ye olden days playing games on my Spectrum.:)
Slackware comes with XFCE as an option for your desktop. Zenwalk, which is based on Slackware, uses XFCE as the default (only?) desktop.
I've been using XFCE on Slackware for about a year and find that it's very functional - not quite so spartan as using just a window manager like Fluxbox or Blackbox, but still light enough to run on a 250MHz laptop.
Recently I've been tinkering with KDE and Mandriva on a PC I'm setting up for my computer-phobic dad, and KDE is quite user-friendly, but I prefer my desktop to get out of the way and let me get on with things, which XFCE does nicely.
Some of the boards have hardware acceleration for video work, and Via have released a version of Xine modified to take advantage of said hardware. If you're planning to use Linux have a look for the Via Enhanced Xine Player project on Sourceforge, with the caveat that I haven't tried compiling it myself and can't vouch for how well it works.
Via's Mini-ITX motherboards are best described as adequate. I built myself an M10000-based mini-desktop a while back and while it is useable for web browsing, word processing etc, it certainly doesn't blow me away.
A desktop pc with a decent performance, but low power requirements, really appeals to me - the idea of cranking up a 3+GHz PC with half a gig or more of RAM just to write a letter or pick up email seems terribly wasteful.
For the past three years or so, I've been keeping a diary of all my dreams that I can remember on waking. Mostly, they're pretty garbled, but sometimes there is some resonance with a real world problem.
Not explicitly, of course; it tends to be on a metaphorical level. Dreaming of spiders usually means I'm distressed or under pressure, for example, since spiders give me the wiggins; any dream involving people who are masked or whose faces are otherwise occluded means I feel threatened.
So... is dreaming part of the decision-making process?
These teeth are Darwinian survival tools, baby. In a deathmatch situation all I'd have to do is bite you once and the resultant infection would finish you off... IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS.
Much the same could be said for Tony Blair and George Bush. (I currently languish under the former, not that I voted for him; and neither did about 70% of the population, most of whom couldn't be arsed even to turn up for the last election. The Matrix has you.)
On the other hand, if IBM, Red Hat et al are encouraged to commit manpower to the project by a loosening if licence restrictions, wouldn't that help in cleaning up the codebase?
That's couple of pretty big ifs, of course. Many open source projects, for good or bad, tend to focus on the addition of new features rather than just making the old ones work properly and cleanly, every time; so chances are, more manpower might well be used deployed on tasks other than cleaning and streamlining, despite OOo sorely needing a bit of both. Still, a guy can dream.
If Sun were to sever all ties to the project, and coders are more willing to contribute, that would be beneficial to pretty much everyone - including Sun, since they can still polish up the end product and release a commercial version, no?
Plus, it might make it easier for someone to take the Mozilla route and split the suite up into smaller components, for those of us who don't particularly need a spreadsheet or presentation tool but would love a lean version of Writer.
S'pose this is one of those, 'If you love it, set it free' kinda things.
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Run it? I can't even SAY it.
I'll make a note of it for Scrabble purposes, though.
... you are an asshat.
(Ordinarily I would balk at the use of the word 'ass' in this way, since I am English and would much prefer to use the correct form of 'arse', but I'm afraid it just doesn't work as well.*sigh*)
And, incidentally, little outbursts like this will ensure that your attempts to 'launder' your public image, so that future generations consider you as some kind of benevolent god rather than a little rich kid who gets his kicks pushing others around, will ultimately fail.
Wrist rests may work for some, but I find that they place pressure on the wrists and forearms right where I don't want it. My recommendations:
1) Posture is important. Have a look on Google for guidance on arranging your workspace on ergonomic guidelines. Also, consider seeing a chiropractor - a competent chiropractor will be able to track down areas of weakness and suggest exercises to strengthen muscle groups which are causing problems. Which leads to:
2) I find that regular light workouts with a set of dumbells help - make sure your arms can support themselves!
3) If I find my forearms are getting a little sore, contrast bathing is helpful. Bathe your arms for a minute at a time in cold water, then hot water, then cold again, alternating back and forth and always finishing on cold. Do that once a night for a week or so.
Usual caveats - I'm a geek, not a doctor, dammit; your mileage may vary; if you're really having problems, see a doctor rather than asking Slashdot...
I call it INSILLIANT!
I tend to pronounce both as 'Not Slackware. Meh.'
It's a pet theory of mine that evolution works in three stages, and we're just embarking on the third stage:
1) Environment changes species. The species responds to its environment until it reaches a certain point, which leads us to:
2) Species changes environment. Tool-handling gives us the ability to shape our environment to our own benefit. This reduces the need to adapt to the environment, so natural evolution slows down, until:
3) Species changes itself. Genetic engineering/screening/manipulation gives us the ability to modify ourselves... and, for good or bad, the pace of change will increase again.
You're right, a Toughbook is way too much for your dad's job. In order to prevent this shocking misuse of equipment, I hereby volunteer to take it off his hands. I know, I know... it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
What's a death kneel? Is it some kind of kung-fu move?
So, if you actually involve yourself in your kids' lives and activities, they might turn out okay, but if you let a computer babysit them, they'll be little gits? Who'd have thought it?
I've mentioned this before on these pages, but I recommend you wander over to www.allegro.cc and download a copy of Overgod, which is a really sweet, retro-flavoured cross between Asteroids (game) and Tron (film). It's one of the few games to have really grabbed me since ye olden days playing games on my Spectrum. :)
Slackware comes with XFCE as an option for your desktop. Zenwalk, which is based on Slackware, uses XFCE as the default (only?) desktop.
I've been using XFCE on Slackware for about a year and find that it's very functional - not quite so spartan as using just a window manager like Fluxbox or Blackbox, but still light enough to run on a 250MHz laptop.
Recently I've been tinkering with KDE and Mandriva on a PC I'm setting up for my computer-phobic dad, and KDE is quite user-friendly, but I prefer my desktop to get out of the way and let me get on with things, which XFCE does nicely.
Some of the boards have hardware acceleration for video work, and Via have released a version of Xine modified to take advantage of said hardware. If you're planning to use Linux have a look for the Via Enhanced Xine Player project on Sourceforge, with the caveat that I haven't tried compiling it myself and can't vouch for how well it works.
Have a look at www.mini-itx.com - they tend to stock Via integrated motherboards. That might be a good jumping-off point.
Actually, the M10000 motherboard has a fan. It sounds like a bunch of bees bitchslapping a hovercraft.
Via's Mini-ITX motherboards are best described as adequate. I built myself an M10000-based mini-desktop a while back and while it is useable for web browsing, word processing etc, it certainly doesn't blow me away.
A desktop pc with a decent performance, but low power requirements, really appeals to me - the idea of cranking up a 3+GHz PC with half a gig or more of RAM just to write a letter or pick up email seems terribly wasteful.
For the past three years or so, I've been keeping a diary of all my dreams that I can remember on waking. Mostly, they're pretty garbled, but sometimes there is some resonance with a real world problem.
Not explicitly, of course; it tends to be on a metaphorical level. Dreaming of spiders usually means I'm distressed or under pressure, for example, since spiders give me the wiggins; any dream involving people who are masked or whose faces are otherwise occluded means I feel threatened.
So... is dreaming part of the decision-making process?
If the RIAA are involved, presumably it will be run by aHoles.
These teeth are Darwinian survival tools, baby. In a deathmatch situation all I'd have to do is bite you once and the resultant infection would finish you off... IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS.
Much the same could be said for Tony Blair and George Bush. (I currently languish under the former, not that I voted for him; and neither did about 70% of the population, most of whom couldn't be arsed even to turn up for the last election. The Matrix has you.)
The future of law enforcement... Blobocop!
Sorry, that's all I have.
I create pongs on a daily basis. Ain't nobody honouring me... :(
On the other hand, if IBM, Red Hat et al are encouraged to commit manpower to the project by a loosening if licence restrictions, wouldn't that help in cleaning up the codebase?
That's couple of pretty big ifs, of course. Many open source projects, for good or bad, tend to focus on the addition of new features rather than just making the old ones work properly and cleanly, every time; so chances are, more manpower might well be used deployed on tasks other than cleaning and streamlining, despite OOo sorely needing a bit of both. Still, a guy can dream.
If Sun were to sever all ties to the project, and coders are more willing to contribute, that would be beneficial to pretty much everyone - including Sun, since they can still polish up the end product and release a commercial version, no?
Plus, it might make it easier for someone to take the Mozilla route and split the suite up into smaller components, for those of us who don't particularly need a spreadsheet or presentation tool but would love a lean version of Writer.
S'pose this is one of those, 'If you love it, set it free' kinda things.
Genesis? Is system FORBIDDEN! Money, more...
That sounds too much like Goo Sex to me, which means that one of us is a pervert. Unfortunately I'm not sure which.