It looks like the OSX86 project must be getting close to being a practical option.
Even more interesting will be seeing how far Apple can use the DMCA outside of america.
Personally I think apples making a mistake here, plenty of us here would be interested in trying out OSX86 Seeing if it will meet our needs, probably will go on to evangelise OSX86
There is no reason for me to switch to OSX86 other than it'd be cool to try it. I have enough PC hardware as it is I might get hold of a compatible graphics card so I could run it.
Windows has one big asset which allows it to be run in so many homes across the world- us.
where would your parents be, other family and friends if you couldn't fix thier problems with windows or tell them howto fix them.
Right now I have no real mac experience what so ever anyone buys a mac and asks me for help well i have no idea. I can't support them to be honest I couldn't put them in touch with someone who could.
If apple want to grow then we are the people that will get them sales of apple hardware and apple software.
maybe apples just trying to get our attention. It might be time to try out an OSX86 install on our existing hardware.
yes I was being slightly sarcastic calling the water clean its just its a bit of a con people see dead fish they think the waters polluted but if you keep the oxygen levels high the fish are ok and nobody questions how clean the water flowing out actually is.
I used to write software for plc's and scada systems. this is the best project I worked on
I am impressed there is so much on it and no credit at all for the company I worked for. we were given the plc software to debug and pick faults with I wrote a scada system which demonstrated the plant in action basins filling valves opening skimmers raising and lowering it was fun to do my colleage wrote a file to create feedback for the plc program to react to. the cycle on a basin i think was 6-8 hours we naturally sped it up so you could see the whole process cycle in about 6 minutes.
We found so many problems through our testing we got to rewrite the problem code. didnt get to go to tailand thou and as you can tell we didnt even get a mention in the documentation.
If I remember rightly the process was controlled by two slc5/04 allen bradley plc's basically if one failed the other took over.
"Oh, wait. They do. And in fact on Linux/MacOS the user has to manually trigger a software update (at least in most versions) whereas Windows has done it automatically for years. Yet these people just don't apply the updates."
First point Linux at least in the case of suse linux 9.3 has yast online update. you can configure it to update daily or weekly. not difficult to find either there is a welcome icon which asks you if you want to get updates and when going for patches manually you also get the option of configuring automatic updates.
Given that an update might break something its reasonable given it might be critical that the PC stays up. Windows Professionals don't automatically install updates blindly for the same reasons.
"Yet these people just don't apply the updates." windows users you mean?
windows updates do one of two things (or both) fix vunerabilitys or restrict what you can do with your PC like sp2 limiting the number of connections to your PC, bad if you want good performance with bit torrent for example.
Microsofts installers don't always do as you tell them obvious example is online service providers in win98 and ME they get automatically installed even when you choose not to install them.
At least with Yast online update I feel confident that no patch is designed to restrict what i can do with my PC.
So in the end I am confused are you critical of linux and OsX not patching enough or Windows Users not trusting or understanding what windows update will do to thier PC?
Botnets exist because of the opportunitys provided by users and lousy software provided by vendors.
That people exist who take advantage of other people thats always been true, If you leave your car outside in the street with the keys in the ignition your car will get stolen.
incidentally will the owner of b20.pesaro.com stop trying to hack my network or secure thier system.
There are two things he's talking about here. 1)camera's in apartment buildings
it's not necessarily a bad thing if you have ever been in a lift (elevator) which someone decided to use as a toilet. not pleasant is it. maybe a camera would help. There are a few hell holes around like that. That just maybe a few camera's might make a difference. A camera covering the carpark outside so your cars still in one piece when you go back to it. It might help raise the quality of life for people trying to live thier lives in places like that.
however is that something that should be done by the police or is it better managed by the buildings owners?
I've seen in poland apartment blocks with a carpark surrounded by a fence and a guard at the entrance to the carpark 24 hours a day would you like the extra security that brings?
personally I have had 3 cars damaged or broken into whilst parked on the street outside my house. There is no camera... 2) camera's in peoples homes
What is outrageous thou is putting camera's in peoples homes and pointless too billybob will still slap maryjane he just will make sure the camera's can't see him do it. The articles absurd it misses the point by talking about camera's in peoples homes which isn't reasonable by any stretch.
Camera's in communual area's thou it's more reasonable although for me I like the guy out in his cabin watching my car all night least he should respond. Camera's don't tend to get an immediate response , a camera shows someone in a hoody busting in your car. doesnt identify him doesn't stop the damage and inconvienience.
personally i think we could do with more security guards. How much to improve the quality of life for residents in a tower block with 160 familys the cost of having a guard on duty isn't that high for the increased security it would bring.
Another plus point is a camera tape could be around for months recording what time you got in, when you left. The security guard will only ensure no break ins while he was on shift not who was visiting mrs smith whilst her husband was on shift. Security is one thing surveillance is another. memorys fade not so camera tapes.
I did some work on a few waste water treatment plants and got a slightly different view.
Basically the process I saw went like this on the inlet were some screens to take out the lumps. then went into grit basins where air is blasted through the water which has two main functions.
it takes grit out of suspension and oxygenates the water, sewage has the effect of deoxygenating the water which kills the fish. Oxygen levels are monitored and provided there is enough oxygen then the water from the sewage works can go into the river with the oxygenating of the water the fish swim around quite happily and everyone thinks the water is now clean.
I've seen other designs which do use skimmers and a TR*DE S*CRET process to do more than this but some works are really that simple.
South Korea is taking an obvious first step in removing a dependence on Microsofts operating systems. Why should they not want to reduce the flow of money out of their country by developing a free workable alternative. Linux isn't a perfect windows replacement yet however if the south koreans address the issues as it finds them. It seems reasonable they will develop a fully rounded version of linux that can go onto remove microsofts grip on south korea's infrastructure.
The really good news is if it works for them then it could work for the rest of the world too. If you look at trusted computing microsoft is being trusted and why should anyone expect that between microsoft and the US goverment they can be trusted with the IP of another competing nation.
I am not being anti US here if you gave the keys to the worlds collective IP to any nation its a foregone conclusion that nation will use it to its own advantage.
I think for me it was that I was deliberately misled by a teacher, Some one who as a child I trusted to tell me the truth, I guess you always see your teachers as all knowing. Chemistry is still being taught this way from what I heard recently by a 15 year old.
I kind of wish that children were taught that metals are crystaline. I think it would have the wow factor, like supermans base in the artic.
It's not so hard to see either 10% nitric acid in ethanol applied for a few seconds to a polished piece of steel will show the individual crystals. castings show the macrostructure quite plainly like ice crystals. In fact somewhere I still have a piece of nickel which grew like a snowflake when it solidified. It's quite bueatiful.
I like i or as its sometimes known j there's another number line at 90 degree's to the one we grew up with and it does have it's uses specifically with regards to phase in ac where capacitance and inductance are involved. voltage and current don't necessarily rise and fall together. guess it's another of those wow things.
I don't think learning about i was too bad it doesn't change the maths you learnt before it expands the field to a new dimension and of course if you can have a square root of -1 then the cube root of -1 must also be possible so is that a 3rd axis to work with I am not that hot at mathematics but i can kind of see that working. going from 1 to 2 to 3 dimensions. where do you stop thou.
It was memorable for me in that electrons orbiting a nucleus and valency was what i was taught until age 16 for 'O' level.
with 'A' level this model was abandoned and the more accurate model was used. quite shocking really to be taught one version of the truth, only to discover it wasn't the truth and my chemistry teacher had been teaching a lie.
Even then it took a further 2 years to learn that metals are crystals and alloys are closer to mixtures than the chemical compounds which chemistry had taught me. the concept of phases and the different properties a material can take on depending on how you treat it.
might make an interesting start to learning about this field. one interesting thing about steel is that it exists with two distinct crystal structures. Given time one will transform into the other as it is cooled, however quenching a 3 foot thick bar has a very different result with the outside having a more densely packed crystal structure than the inside. so you have a core trying to be bigger than the outside. It basically gives you a bomb if the outside is weakened in one spot it can explode. Usually it happens in the quenching tank.
I remember one occasion where a 15 foot long hardened steel roll failed about an hour after having its hardness checked. when i say fail i mean blew its self apart launching 1 and a half tonnes of journal end (these rolls are shaped like a rolling pin) across the factory floor about a distance of 200 feet. ( just missed old fred the hardness tester by a few inches he was off work for about a week with shock) normally annealing a roll after hardening will reduce the internal stresses to a safe level however in this case it didn't. incidentally its still a possibility with old rolls that have been in service and scrapped. one such roll blew out a warehouse wall one weekend.
"The modern idea of an atom, literally came from a dream (the guy woke up with the crackpot idea that electrons orbit a nucleus), before then the most credible theory was that atoms looked like puddings with razor blades stuck in them."
Isn't that the school kids version electrons orbiting a nucleus a simplified model which works mostly.
For me I dropped out of advance wizardry and am happy to work with prewritten spells and accept the magic that happens when i invoke them and rtfm when its not quite what I expected:)
"The fundamental question is how much has humanity effected the global warming of this planet. Just showing that it is warming is completely and totally irrelevant."
No thats like the surgeon claiming the operation was a complete success but the patient died.
The fundamental question should be are the conditions on this planet moving away from the sweet spot its had for a conciderable period of time? It seems to be accepted that there has been big changes in the past and will be again eventually.
If the changes are coming as they appear to be, has mankind got the abilty to restrict those changes and maintain an acceptable climate? can we adapt to this changed environment?
If we can reduce dependancy on oil, recycle more make better use of energy it's probably a good thing I feel happier i live longer. one final thing in denmark they are putting up wind turbines that pay back in 3 months (discovery channel) so whats with the renewable energy is expensive meme that keeps circulating.
howabout those people who were unable to turn off automatic update after installing sp2. the only security they have is automatic updates.
Security is probably on autopilot for the majority of home users and the fact that automatic updates are turned on lets them carry on in blissfull ignorance.
its a great system but if microsoft is late with a patch they will go down the users might not know they are relying on automatic updates but they are.
The XBox Controller is a very moddable piece of kit. basically its a USB Hub with a built in joystick The controller Cable is 5 wire however the yellow wire is only used for a light gun and can be safely ignored. generally standard usb colours are used so. here's a hint of what to do.
take the extension cable and split this in half (theres a big ferrite core in the middle which you may be able to dig out the plastic) and take a usb extension cable and split this in half solder the female half to the xbox half and you now have an adapter to allow std usb devices to be connected (keyboard mouse anything else supported by debian). google xbox xebian for details.
The other half of the extension join the male half of the usb connector to it and plug into pc. the xbox controller identifies as a microsoft usb hub in XP drivers are available to make the xbox controller as a std game controller. Xbox Memory cards can be read plugged ino an xbox controller using drivers used by action replay with a modification to the inf file. use USBinfo.exe to find the pid and vid numbers for the particular card.
incidently this hack should work to get a usb stick to be readable on a Pc in Xbox format.
so lets see for one controller extension and one usb extender cable you get std usb port on xbox ability to use usb stick on xbox as a memory card. maybe other types of card too.) a great controller for the PC and a dongle to connect an xbox memory card to the pc.
Or right click link save as... funny thou how Windows media player couldn't find it to save as. when its already downloaded it.
It hasn't got much going for it really, a cj boss (from reggie perrin, a duane dibley clone and an audience that was desperately trying to show how funny it was... not.
machine translation is ropey admittedly but one of the best for polish english translation is English Translator3 www.techland.pl Earlier versions didn't know the difference between a shower of rain and taking a shower for instance. although you still need to take care with Polish and polish the capital P makes a difference. it does provide alternative translations so you can do a basic translation and apply a more appropriate translation. It's getting old now so perhaps there has been an update.
I think this page explains quite well why the gpl exists and is a nice history lesson to explain where this all started.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/book /ch01_02.html "Two Bell Labs software engineers, Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie, worked on Multics until Bell Labsbwithdrew from the project in 1969. One of their favorite pastimes during the project had been playing a multi-user game called Space Travel. Now, without access to a Multics computer, they found themselves unable to indulge their fantasies of flying around the galaxy. Resolved to remedy this, they decided to port the Space Travel game to run on an otherwise unused PDP-7 computer. Eventually, they implemented a rudimentary operating system they named Unics, as a pun on Multics. Somehow, the spelling of the name became Unix.
As word of their work spread and interest grew, Ritchie and Thompson made copies of Unix freely available to programmers around the world. These programmers revised and improved Unix, sending word of their changes back to Ritchie and Thompson, who incorporated the best such changes in their version of Unix. Eventually, several Unix variants arose.
What Ritchie and Thompson had begun in a distinctly non-commercial fashion ended up spawning several legal squabbles. When AT&T grasped the commercial potential of Unix, it claimed Unix as its intellectual property and began charging a hefty license fee to those who wanted to use its Unix. Soon, others who had implemented Unix-like operating systems were distributing licenses only for a fee. Understandably, those who had contributed improvements to Unix considered it unfair for AT&T and others to appropriate the fruits of their labors. This concern for profit was unlike the democratic, share-and-share-alike spirit of the early days of Unix."
So two geeks wanted to play games and created C and unix so they could. More geeks contributed to unix then corperations hijacked it...
makes you think thou if GPL had been in place would SCO be battling it out in court trying to prove ownership and copyrights in Linux for things supposedly taken from unix which was taken from the free software world in the first place.
when you can look back and see how unix was taken from the people who developed it. It suddenly becomes clear why the GPL is important and needed.
I mean as programmers we learn from our peers and then what hoard our little knowledge pile and claim it as our own...
just for a ittle bit of info I visited a farm tha produces pots of herbs like you see in most super markets.
They are grown in big glass houses there are several rows of bars running the length of the green house. across each pair of bars is a tray containing pots of herbs each tray is loaded at one end of the glass house across a pair of bars.
A number of robots run under the bars their job is to move the trays along the bar. so you have seeds in a pot at one end and grown plants at the other basically these robots shuffle the plants along all day watering is also taken care of automatically along with a controlled environment. human involvement is quite minimal.
robots do work but it takes a very controlled environment to be practical.
Philips give away the software to allow you to design your own system.
The pda can learn all your commands operate via voice and you can create macro's to set up your systems.
alternatively there are the one for all universal remotes http://www.hifi-remote.com/ofa/ is a great site for owners of this remote brand. these remotes have a flash memory as well as a rom and they are fully programable using a 6 pin header. i built my programing lead from a 25 pin serial port with a 10 pin idc connector on the other end all it took was 2 1k resistors and a diode.
both alternatives are reasonable and a 6 device oneforall remote is about £20 from argos.
I've got a little weather station device not fantastic but it does have a little sensor which transmits the outside temperature out in the garden wirelessly continually for the last two months its powered by a slightly oversize watch battery. it shows no sign of quitting just yet.
post the rejects in a rejects section providing the submitter agrees.
if a reader wants to wade through the trash why not?
2nd fork the comments
story related or muttering in the gallery. seperate the bitching from the story.
all mods will appreciate this and meta mods too
maybe if you posted the trash so to speak as trash if the posting did gather enough comments it might be worth rescuing and putting into a relevent section.
I did think having user feedback on the story and submitter could be useful (but not the users choosing the storys)this would help the editors see what people want without compelling them to go with the lowest common denominator and would help make a better slashdot.
but then i thought of another idea fork the comments if you want to submit a story comment submit it to the story if you want to winge about the submission whinge in the whingers section of the story. (maybe "muttering in the gallery")
moderation then takes care of the rest. mod down anything appearing in the wrong section and meta moderate against anything modded up in the wrong section.
this should then allow those that want to read just about the story to do so and give a voice to those that are disgruntled- to those who want to listen.
both sections could be entertaining and interesting and make it easier to moderate and metamoderate.
often comments about the submission are interesting.
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It looks like the OSX86 project must be getting close to being a practical option.
Even more interesting will be seeing how far Apple can use the DMCA outside of america.
Personally I think apples making a mistake here, plenty of us here would be interested in trying out OSX86 Seeing if it will meet our needs, probably will go on to evangelise OSX86
There is no reason for me to switch to OSX86 other than it'd be cool to try it. I have enough PC hardware as it is I might get hold of a compatible graphics card so I could run it.
Windows has one big asset which allows it to be run in so many homes across the world- us.
where would your parents be, other family and friends if you couldn't fix thier problems with windows or tell them howto fix them.
Right now I have no real mac experience what so ever anyone buys a mac and asks me for help well i have no idea. I can't support them to be honest I couldn't put them in touch with someone who could.
If apple want to grow then we are the people that will get them sales of apple hardware and apple software.
maybe apples just trying to get our attention. It might be time to try out an OSX86 install on our existing hardware.
yes I was being slightly sarcastic calling the water clean its just its a bit of a con people see dead fish they think the waters polluted but if you keep the oxygen levels high the fish are ok and nobody questions how clean the water flowing out actually is.
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I used to write software for plc's and scada systems.
this is the best project I worked on
http://www.earthtech.co.uk/generic/documents/Yann
http://www.edie.net/Library/view_article.asp?id=2
http://www.arup.com/DOWNLOADBANK/download25.pdf
I am impressed there is so much on it and no credit at all for the company I worked for.
we were given the plc software to debug and pick faults with I wrote a scada system which demonstrated the plant in action basins filling valves opening skimmers raising and lowering it was fun to do my colleage wrote a file to create feedback for the plc program to react to.
the cycle on a basin i think was 6-8 hours we naturally sped it up so you could see the whole process cycle in about 6 minutes.
We found so many problems through our testing we got to rewrite the problem code. didnt get to go to tailand thou
and as you can tell we didnt even get a mention in the documentation.
If I remember rightly the process was controlled by two slc5/04 allen bradley plc's basically if one failed the other took over.
Slightly confused on your posistion here
"Oh, wait. They do. And in fact on Linux/MacOS the user has to manually trigger a software update (at least in most versions) whereas Windows has done it automatically for years. Yet these people just don't apply the updates."
First point Linux at least in the case of suse linux 9.3 has yast online update. you can configure it to update daily or weekly. not difficult to find either there is a welcome icon which asks you if you want to get updates and when going for patches manually you also get the option of configuring automatic updates.
Given that an update might break something its reasonable
given it might be critical that the PC stays up.
Windows Professionals don't automatically install updates blindly for the same reasons.
"Yet these people just don't apply the updates." windows users you mean?
windows updates do one of two things (or both) fix vunerabilitys or restrict what you can do with your PC like sp2 limiting the number of connections to your PC, bad if you want good performance with bit torrent for example.
Microsofts installers don't always do as you tell them obvious example is online service providers in win98 and ME they get automatically installed even when you choose not to install them.
At least with Yast online update I feel confident that no patch is designed to restrict what i can do with my PC.
So in the end I am confused are you critical of linux and OsX not patching enough or Windows Users not trusting or understanding what windows update will do to thier PC?
Botnets exist because of the opportunitys provided by users and lousy software provided by vendors.
That people exist who take advantage of other people thats always been true, If you leave your car outside in the street with the keys in the ignition your car will get stolen.
incidentally will the owner of b20.pesaro.com stop trying to hack my network or secure thier system.
There are two things he's talking about here.
...
1)camera's in apartment buildings
it's not necessarily a bad thing if you have ever been in a lift (elevator) which someone decided to use as a toilet. not pleasant is it. maybe a camera would help. There are a few hell holes around like that. That just maybe a few camera's might make a difference. A camera covering the carpark outside so your cars still in one piece when you go back to it. It might help raise the quality of life for people trying to live thier lives in places like that.
however is that something that should be done by the police or is it better managed by the buildings owners?
I've seen in poland apartment blocks with a carpark surrounded by a fence and a guard at the entrance to the carpark 24 hours a day would you like the extra security that brings?
personally I have had 3 cars damaged or broken into whilst parked on the street outside my house. There is no camera
2) camera's in peoples homes
What is outrageous thou is putting camera's in peoples homes and pointless too billybob will still slap maryjane he just will make sure the camera's can't see him do it.
The articles absurd it misses the point by talking about camera's in peoples homes which isn't reasonable by any stretch.
Camera's in communual area's thou it's more reasonable although for me I like the guy out in his cabin watching my car all night least he should respond.
Camera's don't tend to get an immediate response , a camera shows someone in a hoody busting in your car. doesnt identify him doesn't stop the damage and inconvienience.
personally i think we could do with more security guards.
How much to improve the quality of life for residents in a tower block with 160 familys the cost of having a guard on duty isn't that high for the increased security it would bring.
Another plus point is a camera tape could be around for months recording what time you got in, when you left. The security guard will only ensure no break ins while he was on shift not who was visiting mrs smith whilst her husband was on shift. Security is one thing surveillance is another. memorys fade not so camera tapes.
I did some work on a few waste water treatment plants and got a slightly different view.
Basically the process I saw went like this on the inlet were some screens to take out the lumps. then went into grit basins where air is blasted through the water which has two main functions.
it takes grit out of suspension and oxygenates the water, sewage has the effect of deoxygenating the water which kills the fish. Oxygen levels are monitored and provided there is enough oxygen then the water from the sewage works can go into the river with the oxygenating of the water the fish swim around quite happily and everyone thinks the water is now clean.
I've seen other designs which do use skimmers and a TR*DE S*CRET process to do more than this but some works are really that simple.
when you see uk goverment wants a backdoor into windows ( the US goverment probably has one already)_ collaborating_with_us_spymasters/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/05/microsoft
(not an ideal link)
It sure makes sense for korea to prefer to use something which is secure from foreign prying eyes.
South Korea is taking an obvious first step in removing a dependence on Microsofts operating systems. Why should they not want to reduce the flow of money out of their country by developing a free workable alternative. Linux isn't a perfect windows replacement yet however if the south koreans address the issues as it finds them. It seems reasonable they will develop a fully rounded version of linux that can go onto remove microsofts grip on south korea's infrastructure.
The really good news is if it works for them then it could work for the rest of the world too.
If you look at trusted computing microsoft is being trusted and why should anyone expect that between microsoft and the US goverment they can be trusted with the IP of another competing nation.
I am not being anti US here if you gave the keys to the worlds collective IP to any nation its a foregone conclusion that nation will use it to its own advantage.
I think for me it was that I was deliberately misled by a teacher, Some one who as a child I trusted to tell me the truth, I guess you always see your teachers as all knowing. Chemistry is still being taught this way from what I heard recently by a 15 year old.
I kind of wish that children were taught that metals are crystaline. I think it would have the wow factor, like supermans base in the artic.
It's not so hard to see either 10% nitric acid in ethanol applied for a few seconds to a polished piece of steel will show the individual crystals. castings show the macrostructure quite plainly like ice crystals. In fact somewhere I still have a piece of nickel which grew like a snowflake when it solidified. It's quite bueatiful.
I like i or as its sometimes known j there's another number line at 90 degree's to the one we grew up with and it does have it's uses specifically with regards to phase in ac where capacitance and inductance are involved. voltage and current don't necessarily rise and fall together. guess it's another of those wow things.
I don't think learning about i was too bad it doesn't change the maths you learnt before it expands the field to a new dimension and of course if you can have a square root of -1 then the cube root of -1 must also be possible so is that a 3rd axis to work with I am not that hot at mathematics but i can kind of see that working. going from 1 to 2 to 3 dimensions. where do you stop thou.
It was memorable for me in that electrons orbiting a nucleus and valency was what i was taught until age 16 for 'O' level.
with 'A' level this model was abandoned and the more accurate model was used. quite shocking really to be taught one version of the truth, only to discover it wasn't the truth and my chemistry teacher had been teaching a lie.
Even then it took a further 2 years to learn that metals are crystals and alloys are closer to mixtures than the chemical compounds which chemistry had taught me. the concept of phases and the different properties a material can take on depending on how you treat it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography
might make an interesting start to learning about this field. one interesting thing about steel is that it exists with two distinct crystal structures. Given time one will transform into the other as it is cooled, however quenching a 3 foot thick bar has a very different result with the outside having a more densely packed crystal structure than the inside. so you have a core trying to be bigger than the outside. It basically gives you a bomb if the outside is weakened in one spot it can explode. Usually it happens in the quenching tank.
I remember one occasion where a 15 foot long hardened steel roll failed about an hour after having its hardness checked. when i say fail i mean blew its self apart launching 1 and a half tonnes of journal end (these rolls are shaped like a rolling pin) across the factory floor about a distance of 200 feet. ( just missed old fred the hardness tester by a few inches he was off work for about a week with shock) normally annealing a roll after hardening will reduce the internal stresses to a safe level however in this case it didn't. incidentally its still a possibility with old rolls that have been in service and scrapped. one such roll blew out a warehouse wall one weekend.
"The modern idea of an atom, literally came from a dream (the guy woke up with the crackpot idea that electrons orbit a nucleus), before then the most credible theory was that atoms looked like puddings with razor blades stuck in them."
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Isn't that the school kids version electrons orbiting a nucleus a simplified model which works mostly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom#Electron_config
I think this is closer to the modern interperation of an atom or perhaps this.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/
Do I comprehend the shroedinger model, not at all but I don't think I could post this without it
or is it this
http://www.matter.org.uk/matscicdrom/manual/el.ht
For me I dropped out of advance wizardry and am happy to work with prewritten spells and accept the magic that happens when i invoke them and rtfm when its not quite what I expected
"The fundamental question is how much has humanity effected the global warming of this planet. Just showing that it is warming is completely and totally irrelevant."
No thats like the surgeon claiming the operation was a complete success but the patient died.
The fundamental question should be are the conditions on this planet moving away from the sweet spot its had for a conciderable period of time?
It seems to be accepted that there has been big changes in the past and will be again eventually.
If the changes are coming as they appear to be, has mankind got the abilty to restrict those changes and maintain an acceptable climate? can we adapt to this changed environment?
If we can reduce dependancy on oil, recycle more make better use of energy it's probably a good thing I feel happier i live longer.
one final thing in denmark they are putting up wind turbines that pay back in 3 months (discovery channel) so whats with the renewable energy is expensive meme that keeps circulating.
I see your point, however I could see people confusing the virus with the antivirus company.
The AV companys might just see that as a negative.
um ok
howabout those people who were unable to turn off automatic update after installing sp2. the only security they have is automatic updates.
Security is probably on autopilot for the majority of home users and the fact that automatic updates are turned on lets them carry on in blissfull ignorance.
its a great system but if microsoft is late with a patch they will go down the users might not know they are relying on automatic updates but they are.
The XBox Controller is a very moddable piece of kit.
basically its a USB Hub with a built in joystick
The controller Cable is 5 wire however the yellow wire is only used for a light gun and can be safely ignored.
generally standard usb colours are used so.
here's a hint of what to do.
take the extension cable and split this in half (theres a big ferrite core in the middle which you may be able to dig out the plastic) and take a usb extension cable and split this in half solder the female half to the xbox half and you now have an adapter to allow std usb devices to be connected (keyboard mouse anything else supported by debian). google xbox xebian for details.
The other half of the extension join the male half of the usb connector to it and plug into pc. the xbox controller identifies as a microsoft usb hub in XP drivers are available to make the xbox controller as a std game controller. Xbox Memory cards can be read plugged ino an xbox controller using drivers used by action replay with a modification to the inf file. use USBinfo.exe to find the pid and vid numbers for the particular card.
incidently this hack should work to get a usb stick to be readable on a Pc in Xbox format.
so lets see for one controller extension and one usb extender cable you get std usb port on xbox ability to use usb stick on xbox as a memory card. maybe other types of card too.) a great controller for the PC and a dongle to connect an xbox memory card to the pc.
Or right click link save as...
e skcable.html~content
funny thou how Windows media player couldn't find it to save as. when its already downloaded it.
It hasn't got much going for it really, a cj boss (from reggie perrin, a duane dibley clone and an audience that was desperately trying to show how funny it was... not.
http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/video/helld
thats funny
so whats it going to be 3.1 95 98 98se Me or something relevent today...
machine translation is ropey admittedly but one of the best for polish english translation is
English Translator3 www.techland.pl
Earlier versions didn't know the difference between a shower of rain and taking a shower for instance. although you still need to take care with Polish and polish the capital P makes a difference.
it does provide alternative translations so you can do a basic translation and apply a more appropriate translation.
It's getting old now so perhaps there has been an update.
hmm so does this mean that you can ping all the webservers
:(
at the same time and have them reply.
ping
melt
I think this page explains quite well why the gpl exists
k /ch01_02.html
...
and is a nice history lesson to explain where this all started.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/boo
"Two Bell Labs software engineers, Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie, worked on Multics until Bell Labsbwithdrew from the project in 1969. One of their favorite pastimes during the project had been playing a multi-user game called Space Travel. Now, without access to a Multics computer, they found themselves unable to indulge their fantasies of flying around the galaxy. Resolved to remedy this, they decided to port the Space Travel game to run on an otherwise unused PDP-7 computer. Eventually, they implemented a rudimentary operating system they named Unics, as a pun on Multics. Somehow, the spelling of the name became Unix.
As word of their work spread and interest grew, Ritchie and Thompson made copies of Unix freely available to programmers around the world. These programmers revised and improved Unix, sending word of their changes back to Ritchie and Thompson, who incorporated the best such changes in their version of Unix. Eventually, several Unix variants arose.
What Ritchie and Thompson had begun in a distinctly non-commercial fashion ended up spawning several legal squabbles. When AT&T grasped the commercial potential of Unix, it claimed Unix as its intellectual property and began charging a hefty license fee to those who wanted to use its Unix. Soon, others who had implemented Unix-like operating systems were distributing licenses only for a fee. Understandably, those who had contributed improvements to Unix considered it unfair for AT&T and others to appropriate the fruits of their labors. This concern for profit was unlike the democratic, share-and-share-alike spirit of the early days of Unix."
So two geeks wanted to play games and created C and unix so they could. More geeks contributed to unix then corperations hijacked it...
makes you think thou if GPL had been in place would SCO be battling it out in court trying to prove ownership and copyrights in Linux for things supposedly taken from unix which was taken from the free software world in the first place.
when you can look back and see how unix was taken from the people who developed it. It suddenly becomes clear why the GPL is important and needed.
I mean as programmers we learn from our peers and then what hoard our little knowledge pile and claim it as our own...
click on the link and read
just for a ittle bit of info
I visited a farm tha produces pots of herbs like you see in most super markets.
They are grown in big glass houses there are several rows of bars running the length of the green house.
across each pair of bars is a tray containing pots of herbs each tray is loaded at one end of the glass house across a pair of bars.
A number of robots run under the bars their job is to move the trays along the bar.
so you have seeds in a pot at one end and grown plants at the other basically these robots shuffle the plants along all day watering is also taken care of automatically along with a controlled environment. human involvement is quite minimal.
robots do work but it takes a very controlled environment to be practical.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4481546. stm
surprising but true
you might like to check this site out if you have a pda
available
http://www.pdawin.com/tvremote.html
it can use ccf files so you can design your own remote system
http://www.pdawin.com/ccf.html
Philips give away the software to allow you to design your own system.
The pda can learn all your commands operate via voice and you can create macro's to set up your systems.
alternatively there are the one for all universal remotes
http://www.hifi-remote.com/ofa/
is a great site for owners of this remote brand.
these remotes have a flash memory as well as a rom and they are fully programable using a 6 pin header.
i built my programing lead from a 25 pin serial port with a 10 pin idc connector on the other end all it took was 2 1k resistors and a diode.
both alternatives are reasonable and a 6 device oneforall remote is about £20 from argos.
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews97025.html
is a little review of the device.
the german website for
digitech is
http://www.digitech-gmbh.de/
but it basically says the sites in development but you can email them on
webmaster@digitech-gmbh.de
btw this was just a £7.99 device
my point basically was a remote sensor doesnt need to eat batterys to be wireless
I've got a little weather station device not fantastic but it does have a little sensor which transmits the outside temperature out in the garden wirelessly continually for the last two months its powered by a slightly oversize watch battery. it shows no sign of quitting just yet.
post the rejects in a rejects section providing the submitter agrees.
if a reader wants to wade through the trash why not?
2nd fork the comments
story related or muttering in the gallery.
seperate the bitching from the story.
all mods will appreciate this and meta mods too
maybe if you posted the trash so to speak as trash if the posting did gather enough comments it might be worth rescuing and putting into a relevent section.
I did think having user feedback on the story and submitter could be useful (but not the users choosing the storys)this would help the editors see what people want without compelling them to go with the lowest common denominator and would help make a better slashdot.
but then i thought of another idea fork the comments
if you want to submit a story comment submit it to the story if you want to winge about the submission whinge in the whingers section of the story.
(maybe "muttering in the gallery")
moderation then takes care of the rest.
mod down anything appearing in the wrong section and meta moderate against anything modded up in the wrong section.
this should then allow those that want to read just about the story to do so and give a voice to those that are disgruntled- to those who want to listen.
both sections could be entertaining and interesting and make it easier to moderate and metamoderate.
often comments about the submission are interesting.