i'll have to agree with others on this list. i used to run inkjets... epson,
canon, lexmark... but they drink thsoe carts like crazy..AND if you dont use them
in a while they become painful with nozzle cleaning etc etc. I got an HP 2600n
a while back and though the initial outlay was higher, the printing is quicker
cleaner and the running costs are lower. for really fancy printing (eg glossy
8x6 photos) i prefer to just head to local supermarket and use their 10p per
picture printing service.
even with the standard 20db of eg linksys WRT54G with good directional antennae (YAGI or dish)
3/4 of a mile isnt much. your issue may be fresnel related - and especially over that large
body of water! on warm days the evapouration levels may make over-water humidity levels high
enough to really mess up the signal for 802.11b/g. note, use of the 5GHz 802.11a would
not overcome that issue. Putting the antennae higher up will help signal behaviour regarding eg the fresnel
but I worry about that body of water...refraction, refection and multipath may all occur..but
at least with it you have no physical objects in the way!:-)
Apple never puts anything actually NEW in their point releases, just some fancier graphics
and a changed layout or 2 (that still breaks their own guidelines).
nah, ZFS if it ever appears will be in Apple OS XX (or 11 if they are calling it a sensible name)
freeview TV is perfectly fine in the worst weather i've experienced since viewing it. unlike
satellite. there again. in REALLY bad weather you turn off and disconnect the TV/settop box etc;-)
I'm sorry. but I totally agree with this guy on this singular aspect
(his other policies generally suck!) if someone comes to my country,
then I expect them to no only learn the lingo, but also to embrace
the culture and society of the country. THAT is surely why they were
moving to the country and what makes that country attractive in the first
place, no? the residents of the country shouldnt expect to have to start
making new laws enforcing the views and cultural requirements/demands of
the incoming people. THAT is just wrong.
i've made FPS maps of pretty much everywhere I've studied and worked. why?
1) because its easy to map FPS maps of your workplace using those gaming tools
than it is to make the maps in generic autoCAD style packages. go figure.
2) because it *is* fun to play these maps as games. its an alien/different
environment and is great for team building exercises.
what I dont understand is that its 'dangerous' to make such a game level but
it'd be perfectly okay for him to be in the real place with a real gun(*)
so long as he doesnt use it.
(*) ie in real life he could have a gun and barring exceptions such as concealment
and location thats fine.
crazy!
the virtual world is more dangerous than the real world? then why the hell did they
create 'Americas Army' then? surely just give all the population a gun instead?
hell, thats gotta be safe! (err, thats irony for you US folken)
all of the linux users in my department have succesfully configured WPA under linux - and not just PSK crap either, but the full EAP-TTLS/PEAP stuff. once you've got your head around the basics, the rest follows on rather smoothly. difficulties are as follows
1) finding the correct driver for your card 2) compiling that driver for your kernel (you will need to have a home-built kernel 95% of the time) 3) configing the compile for eg wpa_supplicant 4) configuring wpa_supplicant *
* this , once done, is a simple clone the config to other systems, setup
I have been pleasantly shocked/suprised by the edgy eft/feisty-fawn Ubuntu experience. on a few guineapig^H^H^H^H^H^H test laptops, the WiFi worked straight after the install. note that I'm certain that there wont be such happiness with the gnewsense releases due to GPL-ism issues etc
but WiFi on Linux is certainly catching up with the MacOSX experience (the windows experience starts to really suck when you move to attempting enterprise WPA)
I vowed that I would never pre-order a games console again...and that I would only buy one if I could buy one when I felt like it (ie passing a shop, visiting amazon and it happened to be in stock etc.
about a month back, local GAME store had them in. about 20 units arrived on the saturday morning. less than an hour later (when I passed by) only 8 left in stock. They didnt have a big crazy sign on the shop window announcing 'Wii in stock!' or somesuch. they didnt need to. (that said, EVERY console-selling store in town has signs saying 'PS3 in stock!' - yeah, we know. theres no rush, noones buying them. I could pop into town now and buy 40 of them from various stores.)
so yes, they DO exist...and they are very cool. I'm awaiting a few killer games. Cricket, Starwars....maybe even a nifty Harry Potter (use wand, use broomstick, play Quiditch in real time - throw the ball through hoop, hit bludgers, grab snitch etc???), a Wiimote version of f-zero might be very nice too. I've just seen the trailers for paper mario 2. whoah! freaky!
...not buy buying a new version but by upgrading. how?
well, you could either buy in UK stirling or US dollars. the dollar price as ALREADY less (we get screwed in the UK all the time this way!) AND the exchange rate was VERY favourable (almost 2.0 USD per 1.0 UKP) so I paid in US dollars on credit card and therefore paid less than a quarter of the UK upgrade price.
the global economy DOES work if you know how to make it work.
PS this security product sucks - but since it was the one already on that Windows box and the one they are used to driving and I'm not paid to do tech support for it (I had recommended a Mac Mini from day one.....) an upgrade is all i got and sorted (installed) for them. the upgrade actually lost 2 bits of functionality too - those of you with knowledge of these products can probably pinpoint which software I'm now talking about
oh, but they DO support the classic PowerPC addon cards for A1200 and A4000. I myself have a 4.0 prerelease working on A1200 with BlizzardPPC and a Mediator 1200 SX. its a frankenstein of a system lash-up and I'd hoped the standard new Amiga platform would have been for sale way before the 4.0 release.
hey! its not just the distros. anyone been keeping an eye on the
codename releases for the actual Linux kernel recently? Snow Leopards,
Albatrosses etc are all present and correct.
A long time back in the Amiga A500 days, there was a MIDI adapter which came with a keyboard and various software 'games' to teach children/interested folk to play the piano. can't recall its name.....anyhow, the musical equivalent of mavis beacon touch typing (or tux-typing, or typing of the dead if you will....;-) )
so...are their OSS equivalents of THAT type of tool?
theres a quick overview of the Amiga GUI timeline over at http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/amigaos - though I wouldnt want to slashdot any particular site...if you use a decent search engine you can easily see a multitude of screenshots that show each incarnation...there are sites dedicated to showcasing the best setups in AmigaOS desktops - usually using a multitude of eye-candy addons (doing the sort of stuff OSX and WinXP have only just got now....). I remember having an OS3.1 desktop that used an MPEG animation as my desktop background back in 1994... OS4 now has all the transparent windows/frames/icons etc built in rather than depending on the 3rd party addin hooks and API hacks.
I'm backing this guys opinion on this subject 100% !
I'm fed up of having to do ridiculous 'quests' or beating some form of mini-game within a time limit to unlock the content of the game. This whole 'unlockable' genre has crept up on us and stems from the idea of 'extending the lifetime' of the game. it doesnt. I just give up on the whole thing, trade it in and not buy another title from that code-shop again.
game too short? most titles people scream are 'too short !!' are about 24 hours of gameplay. if sold at a reasonable price, not only is that a fair amount to pay for entertainment, but thats about all I can afford time-wise to spend on gaming within a small timeframe. Give me a game that takes much much longer with 2 or 3 hour dedicated timeslots to complete (anything in recent FF series springs to mind..) then I'm never going to see the end credits. in fact, I'll not see over 50% of the hard-worked content thats gone into that game data... I'm not going to see anything that requires this 'unlocking' - so they are wasting their time...and therefore LOTS of money.
..considering the MacMini uses a 2.5" laptop HD - I've got doubts about using such a device 24/7 as my normal desktops operate.
and performance of such devices is way behind the curve of 3.5" HD's - eg the fluid bearing 80-250Gb Seagate Barracuda IV range with 2MB of cache.
they could have used a 3.5" drive if the MacMini were just a little bit bigger. Typical Apple though. never makes the best product available for the customer...always some shortcoming so you buy the next model when its released. ah well. I can see plenty of people buying a specially designed module which sits underneath and compliments the Mac Mini (think GBA game player for GameCube)
..I'm not sure why this article didnt mention the most obvious and common food found in keyboards.
bread. specifically breadcrumbs. The result of a simple sandwich, sub, roll, bagel or somesuch (mmmm. getting hungry now...) , easy food to eat whilst browsing the web too. unlike all those fancy foods listed in the article...angel hair pasta?
and even the flake bar was wrong - dont we all eat high energy choco bars? The glucose biscuity stuff of Boost bars (guarana or glucose version...not plain!) really does powder everywhere:-)
this article is a dupe of an identical one from last week.
anyway. When I was at school we used such computers as commodore PETs, BBC Micro Bs and Masters, Acorns and the occasional spectrum or Dragon32. I didnt
use a 'Windows PC' until college (17 years old)
and even then its not what folk use these days (being pre Windows 3.11!) and that was only when I couldnt get onto an Acorn Archimedes 3010!
what harm did 'not using microsoft' do me? none. I am far more computer literate than someone who has been stuck in front of a Win2k box for 4 years
and been taught 'computers'. I think not only ditching microsoft at schools but also ditching x86 PC's is the best way to go. lets get an eductional machine back into the schools. lets allow our children...future generations of the human race..what computers mean and how they work. NOT just to move the mouse to select icons and
how to type a basic spreadsheet in. I WROTE a spreadsheet program when I was at school. do children learn that sort of skill now at school?
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i'll have to agree with others on this list. i used to run inkjets... epson, canon, lexmark... but they drink thsoe carts like crazy..AND if you dont use them in a while they become painful with nozzle cleaning etc etc. I got an HP 2600n a while back and though the initial outlay was higher, the printing is quicker cleaner and the running costs are lower. for really fancy printing (eg glossy 8x6 photos) i prefer to just head to local supermarket and use their 10p per picture printing service.
even with the standard 20db of eg linksys WRT54G with good directional antennae (YAGI or dish) 3/4 of a mile isnt much. your issue may be fresnel related - and especially over that large body of water! on warm days the evapouration levels may make over-water humidity levels high enough to really mess up the signal for 802.11b/g. note, use of the 5GHz 802.11a would not overcome that issue. Putting the antennae higher up will help signal behaviour regarding eg the fresnel but I worry about that body of water...refraction, refection and multipath may all occur..but at least with it you have no physical objects in the way! :-)
once again we are shown how foolish it is to be a 1st gen purchaser of Apple kit.
Apple never puts anything actually NEW in their point releases, just some fancier graphics and a changed layout or 2 (that still breaks their own guidelines). nah, ZFS if it ever appears will be in Apple OS XX (or 11 if they are calling it a sensible name)
freeview TV is perfectly fine in the worst weather i've experienced since viewing it. unlike satellite. there again. in REALLY bad weather you turn off and disconnect the TV/settop box etc ;-)
I'm sorry. but I totally agree with this guy on this singular aspect (his other policies generally suck!) if someone comes to my country, then I expect them to no only learn the lingo, but also to embrace the culture and society of the country. THAT is surely why they were moving to the country and what makes that country attractive in the first place, no? the residents of the country shouldnt expect to have to start making new laws enforcing the views and cultural requirements/demands of the incoming people. THAT is just wrong.
i've made FPS maps of pretty much everywhere I've studied and worked. why? 1) because its easy to map FPS maps of your workplace using those gaming tools than it is to make the maps in generic autoCAD style packages. go figure. 2) because it *is* fun to play these maps as games. its an alien/different environment and is great for team building exercises. what I dont understand is that its 'dangerous' to make such a game level but it'd be perfectly okay for him to be in the real place with a real gun(*) so long as he doesnt use it. (*) ie in real life he could have a gun and barring exceptions such as concealment and location thats fine. crazy! the virtual world is more dangerous than the real world? then why the hell did they create 'Americas Army' then? surely just give all the population a gun instead? hell, thats gotta be safe! (err, thats irony for you US folken)
all of the linux users in my department have succesfully configured WPA under linux - and
not just PSK crap either, but the full EAP-TTLS/PEAP stuff. once you've got your
head around the basics, the rest follows on rather smoothly. difficulties are as follows
1) finding the correct driver for your card
2) compiling that driver for your kernel (you will need to have a home-built kernel 95% of the time)
3) configing the compile for eg wpa_supplicant
4) configuring wpa_supplicant *
* this , once done, is a simple clone the config to other systems, setup
I have been pleasantly shocked/suprised by the edgy eft/feisty-fawn Ubuntu experience. on a few
guineapig^H^H^H^H^H^H test laptops, the WiFi worked straight after the install. note that
I'm certain that there wont be such happiness with the gnewsense releases due to GPL-ism issues etc
but WiFi on Linux is certainly catching up with the MacOSX experience (the windows experience starts
to really suck when you move to attempting enterprise WPA)
err.......yes!
I vowed that I would never pre-order a games console again...and that I would only buy one if
I could buy one when I felt like it (ie passing a shop, visiting amazon and it happened to
be in stock etc.
about a month back, local GAME store had them in. about 20 units arrived on the saturday
morning. less than an hour later (when I passed by) only 8 left in stock. They didnt have
a big crazy sign on the shop window announcing 'Wii in stock!' or somesuch. they didnt need to.
(that said, EVERY console-selling store in town has signs saying 'PS3 in stock!' - yeah, we know.
theres no rush, noones buying them. I could pop into town now and buy 40 of them from various
stores.)
so yes, they DO exist...and they are very cool. I'm awaiting a few killer games. Cricket,
Starwars....maybe even a nifty Harry Potter (use wand, use broomstick, play Quiditch in real
time - throw the ball through hoop, hit bludgers, grab snitch etc???), a Wiimote version of
f-zero might be very nice too. I've just seen the trailers for paper mario 2. whoah! freaky!
hi,
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yes, two monitors can make you more productive. there has already been an article on slashdot
about this:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/
and there are also:
http://www.netlobo.com/dual_monitor_productivity.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000012.
http://lifehacker.com/software/dual-monitor/dual-
well, you could either buy in UK stirling or US dollars. the dollar
price as ALREADY less (we get screwed in the UK all the time this way!)
AND the exchange rate was VERY favourable (almost 2.0 USD per 1.0 UKP)
so I paid in US dollars on credit card and therefore paid less than a
quarter of the UK upgrade price.
the global economy DOES work if you know how to make it work.
PS this security product sucks - but since it was the one already on that
Windows box and the one they are used to driving and I'm not paid to
do tech support for it (I had recommended a Mac Mini from day one.....)
an upgrade is all i got and sorted (installed) for them. the upgrade actually
lost 2 bits of functionality too - those of you with knowledge of these products
can probably pinpoint which software I'm now talking about
don't your web guys check their access.log file or have stats for the site? ;-)
oh, but they DO support the classic PowerPC addon cards for A1200 and A4000. I myself have a 4.0 prerelease
working on A1200 with BlizzardPPC and a Mediator 1200 SX. its a frankenstein of a system lash-up and I'd hoped
the standard new Amiga platform would have been for sale way before the 4.0 release.
hey! its not just the distros. anyone been keeping an eye on the codename releases for the actual Linux kernel recently? Snow Leopards, Albatrosses etc are all present and correct.
A long time back in the Amiga A500 days, there was a MIDI adapter which ;-) )
came with a keyboard and various software 'games' to teach children/interested
folk to play the piano. can't recall its name.....anyhow, the musical
equivalent of mavis beacon touch typing (or tux-typing, or typing of the dead
if you will....
so...are their OSS equivalents of THAT type of tool?
theres a quick overview of the Amiga GUI timeline over at http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/amigaos - though I wouldnt want to slashdot any particular site...if you use a decent search engine you can easily see a multitude of screenshots that show each incarnation...there are sites dedicated to showcasing the best setups in AmigaOS desktops - usually using a multitude of eye-candy addons (doing the sort of stuff OSX and WinXP have only just got now....). I remember having an OS3.1 desktop that used an MPEG animation as my desktop background back in 1994... OS4 now has all the transparent windows/frames/icons etc built in rather than depending on the 3rd party addin hooks and API hacks.
I'm backing this guys opinion on this subject 100% !
I'm fed up of having to do ridiculous 'quests' or beating
some form of mini-game within a time limit to unlock the content
of the game. This whole 'unlockable' genre has crept up on us and
stems from the idea of 'extending the lifetime' of the game. it
doesnt. I just give up on the whole thing, trade it in and not buy
another title from that code-shop again.
game too short? most titles people scream are 'too short !!' are
about 24 hours of gameplay. if sold at a reasonable price, not only
is that a fair amount to pay for entertainment, but thats about all
I can afford time-wise to spend on gaming within a small timeframe.
Give me a game that takes much much longer with 2 or 3 hour dedicated
timeslots to complete (anything in recent FF series springs to mind..)
then I'm never going to see the end credits. in fact, I'll not see
over 50% of the hard-worked content thats gone into that game data...
I'm not going to see anything that requires this 'unlocking' - so they
are wasting their time...and therefore LOTS of money.
..considering the MacMini uses a 2.5" laptop HD - I've got doubts about using such a device 24/7 as my normal desktops operate. and performance of such devices is way behind the curve of 3.5" HD's - eg the fluid bearing 80-250Gb Seagate Barracuda IV range with 2MB of cache. they could have used a 3.5" drive if the MacMini were just a little bit bigger. Typical Apple though. never makes the best product available for the customer...always some shortcoming so you buy the next model when its released. ah well. I can see plenty of people buying a specially designed module which sits underneath and compliments the Mac Mini (think GBA game player for GameCube)
....ah! finally we'll have the same abilities in a mass market console that the Dreamcast gave us ;-)
..I'm not sure why this article didnt mention the most obvious and common food found in keyboards. bread. specifically breadcrumbs. The result of a simple sandwich, sub, roll, bagel or somesuch (mmmm. getting hungry now...) , easy food to eat whilst browsing the web too. unlike all those fancy foods listed in the article...angel hair pasta? and even the flake bar was wrong - dont we all eat high energy choco bars? The glucose biscuity stuff of Boost bars (guarana or glucose version...not plain!) really does powder everywhere :-)
this article is a dupe of an identical one from last week. anyway. When I was at school we used such computers as commodore PETs, BBC Micro Bs and Masters, Acorns and the occasional spectrum or Dragon32. I didnt use a 'Windows PC' until college (17 years old) and even then its not what folk use these days (being pre Windows 3.11!) and that was only when I couldnt get onto an Acorn Archimedes 3010! what harm did 'not using microsoft' do me? none. I am far more computer literate than someone who has been stuck in front of a Win2k box for 4 years and been taught 'computers'. I think not only ditching microsoft at schools but also ditching x86 PC's is the best way to go. lets get an eductional machine back into the schools. lets allow our children...future generations of the human race..what computers mean and how they work. NOT just to move the mouse to select icons and how to type a basic spreadsheet in. I WROTE a spreadsheet program when I was at school. do children learn that sort of skill now at school?