In the same fashion that/. admins could use the correct grammar, as opposed to using '[sic]' and getting it wrong & showing themselves up. The 'savings' do not belong to the 'daylight', so an apostrophe isn't correct. Alcohol aides my pedantry, but still... if yer gonna try'n claim t' upper hand, at least geddit righ', gov'ner.
In the last two weeks, I have done broadly the same thing. I work at a hospital with a large canon photocopier (ir5020i). This has an auto-document feeder like any self-respecting copier would.
It is also a network device to scan / print. I took in my computer (mac mini) plugged into the ethernet port and (adding 20-30 minutes of fiddling) was away.
So.. make friends with your local big company (a hospital would be good - you can make a small donation).
Bear in mind though that it took me pretty much all (working) day and I only had the equivalent of about 6 reams of paper (3000 sheets). Thank goodness it was a public holiday!
To save time, go through meticulously beforehand with a staple remover. To separate the sheets, place them vertically and blow down onto them to get air between them. HTH.
I've just done this myself. Here are the things I did (& would recommend doing)
1. Get a grounding strap. I've done some whizz-bang electronics before, so I have quite a flash one (I got it from either http://rswww.com/ or http://www.farnell.com/ - I forget) but you can get cheap disposable ones. Some may say it's overkill, but better safe than sorry IMO. You're working in close proximity to your processor, RAM - all of which are easily fried. Plus, laptops are often not grounded. And no socks on the carpet.;)
2. DON'T USE FORCE. Or it will break. With anything. Not even screws. Take your time & be careful. Bits of case can be hard to remove, having lots of catches and things. Ease out the catches with flat-head screwdrivers or the like. Common sense prevails here.
3. Use the correct screwdriver. Preferably with a magnetic tip (not essential, but screws love to fall into hard-to-reach places). It's worth getting a set of jewellers screwdrivers. Don't use an electric one - it's too easy to strip the screw. I say that from bitter experience (yes, it was silly). Believe you me, it's a harrowing experience drilling out a screw from a laptop.
4. Have a container for all the screws. There may be differing types of screws, so have a couple ready. Try and remove the fewest possible when dis-assembling. It's best not to have bits of laptop falling all over the place when you don't want them to.
5. Take care with your connectors. I had a couple of craft (exacto) knives handy to help ease the IDE interface from the hard disk. You have to do it off gently - don't just pull (and don't cut anything).
6. Love your 'flexi's. There will be (probably brown coloured) 'flexi's. They join bits of circuit board together. These aren't designed to be bent much, so don't bend them much.
Other bits: I replaced mine with a Fujitsu MHT2040AT. While quiet and quite quick, my first one only lasted about 6-7 months. I don't know if I was just unlucky or what. I'm about to start testing the replacement =]
I think you misunderstood me - What you are using.Mac for is exactly what I'm saying it's good for - you've put your esential backup into 100MB up until now. Presumably you have a reasonably recent HD (~20GB) and a mirror of that is what I'm advocating for the hard disk.
I'm not so sure the low-storage is a bad thing. Following a couple of recent hard disk KOs, I was forced to distill my essential digital life down to my 128MB flash drive, in order to have a backup. It made me seriously think about which information I both could and REALLY COULDN'T afford to lose - and I think the.Mac offers that piece of mind. Besides, an external hard disk works out to peanuts now and that's a lot quicker for regular backups..Mac is more about essential info portability. I reckon it's fine.
I would have thought that solar power would have been a geek's dream - especially so for modders. A pure DC source would be wonderful for charging up those batteries (anyone tried charging their stuff from car batteries? You get a very solid charge - my phone seems to last for an extra couple of DAYS!)
Then, there's the option of using the pure DC for your computers - chuck out your whiz-bang power supplies and just plug straight into your house's batteries - you don't have to convert from AC, so your saving on the conversion losses (reducing your bills even further) and you get cleaner power rails. You'd need a well-designed (probably pricey) supply.
That's my dream, anyway.
I also quite like the idea of those great big flywheels that you can embed in the ground under your house - although those would require conversion back from AC even if you use a DC motor, but still - good for power outages, hey?
And an endless pool. And an e-type jag. And Kiera Knightley. OK, time to reign in the old imagination.
No, I suppose not, but then it's the end product that matters. They're just lucky that the reviewers give their time away, aren't they?;) It might not be 'on', but the filtering is, undeniably, a very useful resource.
On a side note, I think publishing results on the web will make it a LOT easier to check for plaigarism.
No idea - perhaps the people do it 'for the love of it'. If they do, it may beg the question 'why not do away with the journal completely and get the same people to do the same thing for nothing?'. Personally, I think it's better to have one (or a few) central source[s] - for which money will be needed to pay for people's time - to select and look after the good people who do the review, rather than have people 'appointing' themselves when they may be nobody, say.
The great thing about the journals is peer review. Part of the reason they ARE so expensive is because of this process. It's by no means fool-proof (look at MMR in the UK, for instance - the research that caused it was wAAAaay of being valid, but it still caused a stir, despite peer review) but it filters out MOST of the crap - in the same way running spamassassin on one's mail server is better then running nothing whatsoever. I think that people would still pay for that selection as there would be too much crap to sift through otherwise - not to mention bad writing style! It may be that the journals will have to evolve into what is simply a list of good papers that people subscribe to. I can't see it being a bad thing that people have access to the research. Perhaps it'll help people unable to pay oodles of money to teach themselves.
I cannot believe that the chap submitting this didn't think about the possibilities for this. Refrigeration in the third world is so important - if this thing can run off a cigarette lighter, then it must draw so much less current than a peltier device, making it a very good solar-power candidate. This thing could revolutionise healthcare in third world countries. It could wipe out subsistence farming - food would stay unspoilt for so much longer.
I am surprised (well, considering he's a student, not THAT surprised) that it has been marketed solely for beer. Well, some of the best inventions have arisen during wartime, and the war against cold beer has been raging for as long as I can remember, anyway.
Nah, it's called Windows for Warships. It's even got a customised clippy...
"It looks like you are trying to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile? Would you like me to f*ck it up for you?"
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In the same fashion that /. admins could use the correct grammar, as opposed to using '[sic]' and getting it wrong & showing themselves up. The 'savings' do not belong to the 'daylight', so an apostrophe isn't correct. Alcohol aides my pedantry, but still... if yer gonna try'n claim t' upper hand, at least geddit righ', gov'ner.
I have used Nildram for along time and they do a good 50GB 'peak' fair use. However for a supercharged service you can also get a 'bonded' service, so doulble the standard 448kpbs up and 8mb down - with double the download limit. You'll need a seperate comp router with these: http://www.linuxadsl.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.pro duct_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=24&ca tegory_id=8&option=com_phpshop&Itemid=6
plus about £10 a month on top of the extra service. Looks worth it, though...
In the last two weeks, I have done broadly the same thing. I work at a hospital with a large canon photocopier (ir5020i). This has an auto-document feeder like any self-respecting copier would.
It is also a network device to scan / print. I took in my computer (mac mini) plugged into the ethernet port and (adding 20-30 minutes of fiddling) was away.
So.. make friends with your local big company (a hospital would be good - you can make a small donation).
Bear in mind though that it took me pretty much all (working) day and I only had the equivalent of about 6 reams of paper (3000 sheets). Thank goodness it was a public holiday!
To save time, go through meticulously beforehand with a staple remover. To separate the sheets, place them vertically and blow down onto them to get air between them. HTH.
I've just done this myself. Here are the things I did (& would recommend doing)
;)
1. Get a grounding strap. I've done some whizz-bang electronics before, so I have quite a flash one (I got it from either http://rswww.com/ or http://www.farnell.com/ - I forget) but you can get cheap disposable ones. Some may say it's overkill, but better safe than sorry IMO. You're working in close proximity to your processor, RAM - all of which are easily fried. Plus, laptops are often not grounded. And no socks on the carpet.
2. DON'T USE FORCE. Or it will break. With anything. Not even screws. Take your time & be careful. Bits of case can be hard to remove, having lots of catches and things. Ease out the catches with flat-head screwdrivers or the like. Common sense prevails here.
3. Use the correct screwdriver. Preferably with a magnetic tip (not essential, but screws love to fall into hard-to-reach places). It's worth getting a set of jewellers screwdrivers. Don't use an electric one - it's too easy to strip the screw. I say that from bitter experience (yes, it was silly). Believe you me, it's a harrowing experience drilling out a screw from a laptop.
4. Have a container for all the screws. There may be differing types of screws, so have a couple ready. Try and remove the fewest possible when dis-assembling. It's best not to have bits of laptop falling all over the place when you don't want them to.
5. Take care with your connectors. I had a couple of craft (exacto) knives handy to help ease the IDE interface from the hard disk. You have to do it off gently - don't just pull (and don't cut anything).
6. Love your 'flexi's. There will be (probably brown coloured) 'flexi's. They join bits of circuit board together. These aren't designed to be bent much, so don't bend them much.
Other bits: I replaced mine with a Fujitsu MHT2040AT. While quiet and quite quick, my first one only lasted about 6-7 months. I don't know if I was just unlucky or what. I'm about to start testing the replacement =]
Good Luck!
Speedstep anyone?
I think you misunderstood me - What you are using .Mac for is exactly what I'm saying it's good for - you've put your esential backup into 100MB up until now. Presumably you have a reasonably recent HD (~20GB) and a mirror of that is what I'm advocating for the hard disk.
I'm not so sure the low-storage is a bad thing. Following a couple of recent hard disk KOs, I was forced to distill my essential digital life down to my 128MB flash drive, in order to have a backup. It made me seriously think about which information I both could and REALLY COULDN'T afford to lose - and I think the .Mac offers that piece of mind. Besides, an external hard disk works out to peanuts now and that's a lot quicker for regular backups. .Mac is more about essential info portability. I reckon it's fine.
I would have thought that solar power would have been a geek's dream - especially so for modders. A pure DC source would be wonderful for charging up those batteries (anyone tried charging their stuff from car batteries? You get a very solid charge - my phone seems to last for an extra couple of DAYS!) Then, there's the option of using the pure DC for your computers - chuck out your whiz-bang power supplies and just plug straight into your house's batteries - you don't have to convert from AC, so your saving on the conversion losses (reducing your bills even further) and you get cleaner power rails. You'd need a well-designed (probably pricey) supply. That's my dream, anyway. I also quite like the idea of those great big flywheels that you can embed in the ground under your house - although those would require conversion back from AC even if you use a DC motor, but still - good for power outages, hey? And an endless pool. And an e-type jag. And Kiera Knightley. OK, time to reign in the old imagination.
No, I suppose not, but then it's the end product that matters. They're just lucky that the reviewers give their time away, aren't they? ;) It might not be 'on', but the filtering is, undeniably, a very useful resource.
On a side note, I think publishing results on the web will make it a LOT easier to check for plaigarism.
No idea - perhaps the people do it 'for the love of it'. If they do, it may beg the question 'why not do away with the journal completely and get the same people to do the same thing for nothing?'. Personally, I think it's better to have one (or a few) central source[s] - for which money will be needed to pay for people's time - to select and look after the good people who do the review, rather than have people 'appointing' themselves when they may be nobody, say.
The great thing about the journals is peer review. Part of the reason they ARE so expensive is because of this process. It's by no means fool-proof (look at MMR in the UK, for instance - the research that caused it was wAAAaay of being valid, but it still caused a stir, despite peer review) but it filters out MOST of the crap - in the same way running spamassassin on one's mail server is better then running nothing whatsoever. I think that people would still pay for that selection as there would be too much crap to sift through otherwise - not to mention bad writing style! It may be that the journals will have to evolve into what is simply a list of good papers that people subscribe to. I can't see it being a bad thing that people have access to the research. Perhaps it'll help people unable to pay oodles of money to teach themselves.
I cannot believe that the chap submitting this didn't think about the possibilities for this. Refrigeration in the third world is so important - if this thing can run off a cigarette lighter, then it must draw so much less current than a peltier device, making it a very good solar-power candidate. This thing could revolutionise healthcare in third world countries. It could wipe out subsistence farming - food would stay unspoilt for so much longer. I am surprised (well, considering he's a student, not THAT surprised) that it has been marketed solely for beer. Well, some of the best inventions have arisen during wartime, and the war against cold beer has been raging for as long as I can remember, anyway.
Nah, it's called Windows for Warships. It's even got a customised clippy... "It looks like you are trying to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile? Would you like me to f*ck it up for you?"