Your daughter is very young. She doesn't care what you do for crust. She doesn't care what firemen and policemen do for crust either.
Your daughter cares about you and her immediate family. They are her entire world right now. Just spend time reading big colourful books with her. Cuddle her, change her, feed her, do all the things parents are supposed to do.
There's not point trying to teach her what you do. In the grand scheme of things it's not really important as long as you can support her and love her.
There is inherrent value in teaching her what people like police and firemen do though, she may need to call upon them early in her life.
Let her learn and understand you as she grows and develops. Kids aren't stupid. They're surprisingly smart, and they absorb so much more than anybody gives them credit for. She will figure it out in her own time, provided you are willing to share with her at her pace.
But some make it easier than others; We run RH9 at work and I think it (mostly) looks great. It's also quite easy to install true-type fonts on RedHat.
There are RPMS available here to allow installing the MS core fonts (Arial, Comic, etc).
Most Windows users seem to miss a few of the MS fonts, and are infinitely happier when they are available and configured for use.
Nearly all of the applications use the KDE font settings and anti-aliassed fonts. It's only the few older apps that don't get used anyway that seem to screw it up.
Try setting the lights to dim down to a reasonably dark level over the space of an hour or so before you want to go to bed. You may need to go out and find a programmable light dimmer.
It used to work for me when I was having problems sleeping because of my typical geek schedule...
Re:20 years to work out the bugs?
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1. Well the claim is valid; any image sensor will generate (and measure) noise that is a function of temperature. The cooler you make it the less noise.
2. Most cameras are unlikely to be specified to work at such low temperatures. I think that has more to do with battery power than anything else... cool the batteries too much and they can't output electrical energy fast enough to drive the camera.
3. How often do you take pictures? Do you need the camera cool all of the time. Why not just put it in the freezer in between taking photos and just take a couple of photos at a time before returning it to the freezer? If you're not handling it too much it should stay mostly cool for a few minutes after you take it out.
There are alternatives. I didn't have the forethought to realise that powerbooks don't have PS/2 ports. They do have a RS232 or a Parallel port though don't they?
This page first describes an approach to use the sound input to record IR remote control signals and then provides hard- and software to deploy it on Linux/Unix systems and on Mac OS X.
I presume that the Powerbook has a line (or possibly even microphone) input available that's supported by Debian.
Just get any old IR remote control and LIRC. You should be able to configure it to output keystrokes into X that will be passed to the current application.
There is even a specific howto for setting it up on Debian on their page.
I was fortunate enough to learn assembly on a few architectures. Admittedly all of them are microcontrollers (PIC, AVR, HC11), but it really does force you to understand how the machine is working.
Some of the more serious asselbly languages still scare the hell out of me though; have you ever looked at the assembly for the TI C6x DSPs? It took me quite a while to come to terms with something simple, and the C compiler can better use the 8 parallel execution units better than I can...
I was fortunate to be involved in a Rock Eisteddfod Challenge piece performing an interpretation of this story. 8 minutes was the perfect length; enough time to really tell the story through a combination of dance and drama and not have to try and stretch it thin.
I would post a link to a site with pictures, but I don't really want to/. a good friend of mine.. I'll try get his permission to mirror it and post a link to the mirror.
I have mixed feelings about this... it's nice to see somebody working on a replacement for Windows that your average L-user will want to use (Because it will run all their L-user software) and look like their L-user operating system.
But, at the same time their efforts could be better used to improve the Wine project. I still can't get Wine to run IrFanView.
I'd like to see ReactOS and Wine get together and share their code and ideas. It could really help to improve both systems. It can't be that hard to emulate Windows (I'm not saying it's easy though). Just clone all the Windows system calls by starting with the common ones, work up to the less common. If you had a good clone of the system calls you could use the DLLs straight out of your cloned version of Windows and then replace them at your leisure.
There was talk of a Microsoft SDK detailing most of the Windows system calls except the "obsolete" ones that their own applications happen to call (and probably get preferential treatment from the OS because of it). Could start there, but I dont' recall where I heard the talk about the SDK.
At the end of the day I don't care how it's done, as long as I can play the same Windows games at LANs that all my friends want to play...
My thoughts on the war were about the oil all along. But enough about the oil.
Sending a robot to fix hubble is great - hubble has its uses. And this is a great way to prove their robot technology. I am all for anything that advances space travel; I'd like to go there some day before I die, and I can't do that while it's limited to a small group of "elite" Americans. Everything to improve technology is a step toward my goal.
I have seen sites with inline images. If you "block images from this server" and reload the page more than once (the first will have the image blocked) you will end up with Java or Flash where the image used to be playing the same crappy ads. What you propose is already happening.
I presume there's some script on the server that detects an image was meant to be loaded and wasn't, so it switches to more expensive technologies that are less likely to be blocked.
It's really starting to get annoying. I have to keep 2 copies of my browser; one with Java and Flash for the (ever increasing number of) sites that use those, and one without to keep avoiding ads.
I tended to favour certain machines in a computer lab - although I haven't been in one for a while since I finished uni.
I like the machines close to the end of an aisle that give me the best overall view of the room; i hate sitting with my back to the door or the rest of the room. It's not a matter of which machine is better because they're (idiot proof, but only the idiots can break them) all the same.
They may just find that users were gravitating to machines based on personal preference; some users like to have their back to the rest of the room to avoid other distractions, some like to be near the door.
And such a loss it was; she was a geek to die for:'(
I was getting toward the big-M at the time. I was just finishing uni and waiting until I'd done with that... apparantly that wasn't soon enough for her... but given her speed on Zelda I can see why.
I had an ex girlfriend who was awesome at Zelda. She could complete it in 30-40 minutes (on a real NES console). I didn't realise how good her time was because I could never fully understand the game.
Wow....
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Any of the [Space][Hero's][King's][Police] Quest series speed up to hell when you run them on anything that is half decent. I used to be able to keep them playable om my P233 by setting the game speed to slow, but with the advent of faster machines that just don't cut it.
It's not just the amateurs that wrote code that didn't rely on timers. There is a lot of stuff out there.
Most modern PCs are too fast to satisfactorily run games - a lot of games run so fast that you've consumed all your lives and the game is over before you were even aware that it had begun.
Old PCs are so cheap (read: free) these days. I keep an old 486 around to run the old DOS games. It's easier than jerking around with emulators, speed throttling software, non soundblaster compatible cards, etc.
My friend recently went to an interview for a job that involved C#. They were looking for someone with 5 years experience with the language. AFIK C# is not quite that old yet.
Needless to say, they wanted someone who'd had 5 years experience in C# and gone back in time a couple of years to apply for their job.
This sounds simply like an electric transformer. A slightly more efficient way to do it over large (and even larger) distances is using a Tesla coil. These are simply just transformers where the primary is run at some frequency in the order of kilohertz and the secondary doesn't necessarily have to be wound tightly around the primary.
True wireless electrical current transfer occurs as a spark (think lightning). That is current flowing through whatever meduim between highly positively charged and negatively charged areas.
If it's done magnetically (with coils of any description) it's not really current flow, because current involves the physical flow of electrons. If it's a coil of any descriptioon, including a transformer or Tesla coil then it's mostly magnetic. That makes it wireless transfer of energy, which is no great achievement; we've known about that for ever!
Maybe their league of "talented" programmers is actually taking the time to do something right and improve security in Longhorn? I mean, it's a nasty task to acomplish putting security into Windows.
First, you have to fix all the holes in the OS. Then you have to protect the OS from the users. Then you have to make sure that the system is configured as secure out of the box rather than totally open.
We're used to seeing a major push of Windows every year or so. This might signal Microsoft taking the Linux issue a lot more seriously. The primary reason for using Linux (or something similar) on a server is long-term stability and security. Two things that Windows has been lacking for a long time.
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Your daughter is very young. She doesn't care what you do for crust. She doesn't care what firemen and policemen do for crust either.
Your daughter cares about you and her immediate family. They are her entire world right now. Just spend time reading big colourful books with her. Cuddle her, change her, feed her, do all the things parents are supposed to do.
There's not point trying to teach her what you do. In the grand scheme of things it's not really important as long as you can support her and love her.
There is inherrent value in teaching her what people like police and firemen do though, she may need to call upon them early in her life.
Let her learn and understand you as she grows and develops. Kids aren't stupid. They're surprisingly smart, and they absorb so much more than anybody gives them credit for. She will figure it out in her own time, provided you are willing to share with her at her pace.
But some make it easier than others; We run RH9 at work and I think it (mostly) looks great. It's also quite easy to install true-type fonts on RedHat.
There are RPMS available here to allow installing the MS core fonts (Arial, Comic, etc).
Most Windows users seem to miss a few of the MS fonts, and are infinitely happier when they are available and configured for use.
Nearly all of the applications use the KDE font settings and anti-aliassed fonts. It's only the few older apps that don't get used anyway that seem to screw it up.
Yes, I'm here, can I help anyone?
I have seen a warning on the back of Shintaro blank DVDs that says not to use it with Pioneer (some specific models that I can't remember) drives.
Apparantly unless you put in some after-market firmware the drive will be irrepairably damaged by burning onto these Shintaro blanks.
Wierd!!!
Try setting the lights to dim down to a reasonably dark level over the space of an hour or so before you want to go to bed. You may need to go out and find a programmable light dimmer.
It used to work for me when I was having problems sleeping because of my typical geek schedule...
It must be Microsoft IPV6!
1. Well the claim is valid; any image sensor will generate (and measure) noise that is a function of temperature. The cooler you make it the less noise.
2. Most cameras are unlikely to be specified to work at such low temperatures. I think that has more to do with battery power than anything else... cool the batteries too much and they can't output electrical energy fast enough to drive the camera.
3. How often do you take pictures? Do you need the camera cool all of the time. Why not just put it in the freezer in between taking photos and just take a couple of photos at a time before returning it to the freezer? If you're not handling it too much it should stay mostly cool for a few minutes after you take it out.
There are alternatives. I didn't have the forethought to realise that powerbooks don't have PS/2 ports. They do have a RS232 or a Parallel port though don't they?
You could try LIRC using a sound card for input.
To quote the page:
This page first describes an approach to use the sound input to record IR remote control signals and then provides hard- and software to deploy it on Linux/Unix systems and on Mac OS X.
I presume that the Powerbook has a line (or possibly even microphone) input available that's supported by Debian.
Just get any old IR remote control and LIRC. You should be able to configure it to output keystrokes into X that will be passed to the current application.
There is even a specific howto for setting it up on Debian on their page.
I guess they could run the fibre up the elevator shaft :-p
I was fortunate enough to learn assembly on a few architectures. Admittedly all of them are microcontrollers (PIC, AVR, HC11), but it really does force you to understand how the machine is working.
Some of the more serious asselbly languages still scare the hell out of me though; have you ever looked at the assembly for the TI C6x DSPs? It took me quite a while to come to terms with something simple, and the C compiler can better use the 8 parallel execution units better than I can...
I was fortunate to be involved in a Rock Eisteddfod Challenge piece performing an interpretation of this story. 8 minutes was the perfect length; enough time to really tell the story through a combination of dance and drama and not have to try and stretch it thin.
I would post a link to a site with pictures, but I don't really want to /. a good friend of mine.. I'll try get his permission to mirror it and post a link to the mirror.
I have mixed feelings about this... it's nice to see somebody working on a replacement for Windows that your average L-user will want to use (Because it will run all their L-user software) and look like their L-user operating system.
But, at the same time their efforts could be better used to improve the Wine project. I still can't get Wine to run IrFanView.
I'd like to see ReactOS and Wine get together and share their code and ideas. It could really help to improve both systems. It can't be that hard to emulate Windows (I'm not saying it's easy though). Just clone all the Windows system calls by starting with the common ones, work up to the less common. If you had a good clone of the system calls you could use the DLLs straight out of your cloned version of Windows and then replace them at your leisure.
There was talk of a Microsoft SDK detailing most of the Windows system calls except the "obsolete" ones that their own applications happen to call (and probably get preferential treatment from the OS because of it). Could start there, but I dont' recall where I heard the talk about the SDK.
At the end of the day I don't care how it's done, as long as I can play the same Windows games at LANs that all my friends want to play...
Just my $AU0.02 + gst.
My thoughts on the war were about the oil all along. But enough about the oil.
Sending a robot to fix hubble is great - hubble has its uses. And this is a great way to prove their robot technology. I am all for anything that advances space travel; I'd like to go there some day before I die, and I can't do that while it's limited to a small group of "elite" Americans. Everything to improve technology is a step toward my goal.
I have seen sites with inline images. If you "block images from this server" and reload the page more than once (the first will have the image blocked) you will end up with Java or Flash where the image used to be playing the same crappy ads. What you propose is already happening.
I presume there's some script on the server that detects an image was meant to be loaded and wasn't, so it switches to more expensive technologies that are less likely to be blocked.
It's really starting to get annoying. I have to keep 2 copies of my browser; one with Java and Flash for the (ever increasing number of) sites that use those, and one without to keep avoiding ads.
I tended to favour certain machines in a computer lab - although I haven't been in one for a while since I finished uni.
I like the machines close to the end of an aisle that give me the best overall view of the room; i hate sitting with my back to the door or the rest of the room. It's not a matter of which machine is better because they're (idiot proof, but only the idiots can break them) all the same.
They may just find that users were gravitating to machines based on personal preference; some users like to have their back to the rest of the room to avoid other distractions, some like to be near the door.
And such a loss it was; she was a geek to die for :'(
I was getting toward the big-M at the time. I was just finishing uni and waiting until I'd done with that... apparantly that wasn't soon enough for her... but given her speed on Zelda I can see why.
I had an ex girlfriend who was awesome at Zelda. She could complete it in 30-40 minutes (on a real NES console). I didn't realise how good her time was because I could never fully understand the game.
Wow....
Any of the [Space][Hero's][King's][Police] Quest series speed up to hell when you run them on anything that is half decent. I used to be able to keep them playable om my P233 by setting the game speed to slow, but with the advent of faster machines that just don't cut it.
It's not just the amateurs that wrote code that didn't rely on timers. There is a lot of stuff out there.
Most modern PCs are too fast to satisfactorily run games - a lot of games run so fast that you've consumed all your lives and the game is over before you were even aware that it had begun.
Old PCs are so cheap (read: free) these days. I keep an old 486 around to run the old DOS games. It's easier than jerking around with emulators, speed throttling software, non soundblaster compatible cards, etc.
My friend recently went to an interview for a job that involved C#. They were looking for someone with 5 years experience with the language. AFIK C# is not quite that old yet.
Needless to say, they wanted someone who'd had 5 years experience in C# and gone back in time a couple of years to apply for their job.
This sounds simply like an electric transformer. A slightly more efficient way to do it over large (and even larger) distances is using a Tesla coil. These are simply just transformers where the primary is run at some frequency in the order of kilohertz and the secondary doesn't necessarily have to be wound tightly around the primary.
True wireless electrical current transfer occurs as a spark (think lightning). That is current flowing through whatever meduim between highly positively charged and negatively charged areas.
If it's done magnetically (with coils of any description) it's not really current flow, because current involves the physical flow of electrons. If it's a coil of any descriptioon, including a transformer or Tesla coil then it's mostly magnetic. That makes it wireless transfer of energy, which is no great achievement; we've known about that for ever!
Maybe their league of "talented" programmers is actually taking the time to do something right and improve security in Longhorn? I mean, it's a nasty task to acomplish putting security into Windows.
First, you have to fix all the holes in the OS. Then you have to protect the OS from the users. Then you have to make sure that the system is configured as secure out of the box rather than totally open.
We're used to seeing a major push of Windows every year or so. This might signal Microsoft taking the Linux issue a lot more seriously. The primary reason for using Linux (or something similar) on a server is long-term stability and security. Two things that Windows has been lacking for a long time.
I always said John Bonham wasn't dead!!! Now I know. He's probably up there trying to play the 3 hour version of Moby Dick!
New SlashPoll.
"Should they bring back Futurama?"
- Yes
- No
- Take me to your future!