Even while the longevity of data on quality CD/DVD media will probably survive 25 years in a controlled environment, the welding part may just burn them useless.
Flash disks and memory cards are probably not a good idea as well. PDA's left untouched after a few years sometimes need reinstallation.
Printing in binary on microfilm is probably one way to go. Printing binary on paper would probably take up too much space.
You might want to consider the Nintendo cartridges. They've been around for more than 25 years, never needed any special handling and storage. Those things are tough, you can even run over them with your car, if you take away the external casing and stick the board on your NES, it's still going to be good to go. You won't probably even need to put it inside the capsule, just stick it in a plastic bag and bury it beside your capsule.
Hey, I did COBOL from 1987 to 2003, on PCs and UNIX boxes and even on the big boxes of IBM. I'm stuck here in the Philippines and with the way we're going, I'm willing to relocate to California and take that job!
has anyone ever successfully tried to setup a RAID system using flash drives? it shouldn't really be that hard on linux since the flashdrives just get mounted as regular devices, right?
You are looking for a **really comfortable** chair that will work with his desk. This limits your options to a chairs fit "the desk".
I suggest you look for a **really comfortable** chair like a "lazyboy", then find ways so you can bring his keyboard and mouse onto that chair. Maybe get a platform that straddles the arm rests of the chair, just make sure it has enough room for the keyboard, the mouse, a cup of coffee, a phone, and the remote for the radio/tv.
Please send a pic when you finally find "the dream chair for coders/slashdotters"
Rem SPORE.BAT @ECHO OFF DATE (DATE-10) SPORE.EXE DATE (DATE+10)
Enjoy, this is actually funny. except if you still haven't tired of playing spore in 22 days, your date would then be (starting date + 22) which makes it more than 10 days from starting date if you run it using the above logic.
however, you're not too far off the mark in getting a solution.
there's a little thingy in linux that lets you run a program using a particular date, i think it's called "runasdate" or something like that. whereas your suggestion changes the date of the entire computer, this little utility thingy changes the date that the computer passes only to the particular program.
i agree, that would be nice to have but i'd like to have it easily removable like a pair of glasses and not like contact lenses.
not that i'm trying to be negative about it, i actually think it would be a very useful thing for tactical stuff, driving, flying, etc.
i just have a few questions about it:
-- would the HUD turn off when i blink?
-- would it have an auto-on feature like an alarm that makes it light
up while sleeping?
-- would it have a proximity sensor so that popups can be displayed
for when i'm walking in a mall and a super-special sale is nearby?
-- would it have an option to turn off that popup thing like adblock?
-- can the color/hue of the HUD be changed to suit the preference
of the wearer, or to auto-adjust to the brightness of the scene?
I'd work 60hrs for 4k, the Philippine salary scale does not give me half that much, and I've been doing that since 1987. Isn't it about time you sent me an invite so I can move to your part of the world? I could do your dirty work for you:)
FF uses a really large amount of RAM. In comparison, the Maxthon browser (which is practically IE but different), has this clickable option to "Free Memory Regularly". With that, it manages to maintain a slightly smaller RAM footprint when opening the same set of tabs against FF. Any chance that FF can include this in the future? Maybe there's an extension that does this already, does anyone know?
That's right, don't risk your reputation. Either get a sub-contract from another shop (which may not be a good idea if you want to lock the customer), or hire mature IT people who have been down that road. Getting good people to work for you might be a bit challenging but if you look across the sea, there are a lot of people who might be willing to help you out.
Take for example me, I've been in the IT industry since back when the processor was named 8086 and MS-DOS was not yet commercial. I've handled networks by Novell when it was still called 1.0 and ELS, a serial network running around an IBM-AIX machine, and of course the trusty old NT and Win2k servers. I've been working with DOS, UNIX, using COBOL, Clipper, VB,.NET, and a few others. I'm in the Philippines and am used to working much more than your 60-hour weeks. Send me a contract for 4k-US$ a month and I'll be on a plane before Christmas.
and will the cameras have a toggle for the infra-red filter? everyone already has a megapixel camera, what we need are the "look thru the blouse and pants" x-ray viewer thingies
Maybe the specs they provided are to make sure you can boot up everything else. If it becomes too expensive to get Vista, I just might use Knoppix more often, or maybe even try the iPod OS.
If you had Apple, Microsoft, and Linux all on 1 harddisk and you need to remove one of them to make more space, which one would you take out?
If a node that effectively connects a group of other PCs goes down, the network would be split. Should someone new connect to the orphaned group, where does that new connection get a DHCP lease? Regarding DHCP, how big would the subnets be? Wouldn't a class C DHCP run out of addresses too soon? Would a class B setup be enough? Considering that any PC would soon be acting as a router/repeater, it is possible that a DHCP server would be serving leases over a really really large area.
so i went and changed the enableIDN entry to false. then i saw the "network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains =.doubleclick.net" entry. does this mean that i'm actually using doubleclick's DNS servers instead of my own, thus letting doubleclick know where i go everytime i use firefox? i thought firefox was a "good" thing...
Dibs on Starbucks and McDonalds and a gas station
on
The Super Superhighway
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· Score: 1
1.) If it's going to attract that much traffic, there has to be at least a gas station (and/or a hydrogen station) with a McDonalds and a Starbucks at the start of each side of that megacorridor. 2.) Eventually a Walmart will rise up somewhere in the middle of that. That would make the quarter-of-a-mile wide superduper highway at least a half a mile already. 3.) Hey, that's Texas, they're going to hit oil somewhere down the road and then they'd have to detour the whole megahighway around the oil rigs. 4.) It's so wide, there would have to be an extra couple of lanes in the middle of it all just to accomodate the billboards. 5.) When are flying cars supposed to arrive?
if there was sufficient force applied to the thing pulling against the anchor on earth so that the ribbon connecting it to earth wouldn't twist, wouldn't that force be enough to alter the balance of earth? in fact, wouldn't it eventually change the orbit of earth?
-->>> i'm not into physics, just wondering out loud... ---
you don't have to buy it if you think it's not your type, but hey, the economist in me says "no demand, no supply". or is it "supply creates it's own demand".
maybe you're just not geeky enough not to want your gizmo to do everything it possibly can. wouldn't you want your next phone to be able to change the channels on your TV? hey, they just did a simple two upgrades, they put the TV in the phone, then they offered "pay TV" as well, surround sound ringers are already available, and there are models with pulsating/disco lights already. what's next holo-projection of MTV? (what's the patent office phone number?)
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Even while the longevity of data on quality CD/DVD media will probably survive 25 years in a controlled environment, the welding part may just burn them useless.
Flash disks and memory cards are probably not a good idea as well. PDA's left untouched after a few years sometimes need reinstallation.
Printing in binary on microfilm is probably one way to go. Printing binary on paper would probably take up too much space.
You might want to consider the Nintendo cartridges. They've been around for more than 25 years, never needed any special handling and storage. Those things are tough, you can even run over them with your car, if you take away the external casing and stick the board on your NES, it's still going to be good to go. You won't probably even need to put it inside the capsule, just stick it in a plastic bag and bury it beside your capsule.
Hey, I did COBOL from 1987 to 2003, on PCs and UNIX boxes and even on the big boxes of IBM. I'm stuck here in the Philippines and with the way we're going, I'm willing to relocate to California and take that job!
Honestly! Call me! Now! Please!
has anyone ever successfully tried to setup a RAID system using flash drives? it shouldn't really be that hard on linux since the flashdrives just get mounted as regular devices, right?
You are looking for a **really comfortable** chair that will work with his desk. This limits your options to a chairs fit "the desk".
I suggest you look for a **really comfortable** chair like a "lazyboy", then find ways so you can bring his keyboard and mouse onto that chair. Maybe get a platform that straddles the arm rests of the chair, just make sure it has enough room for the keyboard, the mouse, a cup of coffee, a phone, and the remote for the radio/tv.
Please send a pic when you finally find "the dream chair for coders/slashdotters"
Rem SPORE.BAT
@ECHO OFF
DATE (DATE-10)
SPORE.EXE
DATE (DATE+10)
Enjoy, this is actually funny. except if you still haven't tired of playing spore in 22 days, your
date would then be (starting date + 22) which makes it more than 10 days from starting date if you run it using the above logic.
however, you're not too far off the mark in getting a solution.
there's a little thingy in linux that lets you run a program using a particular date, i think it's called "runasdate" or something like that. whereas your suggestion changes the date of the entire computer, this little utility thingy changes the date that the computer passes only to the particular program.
enjoy (more than 22 days)
well said!
actually, in Clipper, it's the "!" that denotes ".NOT.".
hey, is anybody out there in need of a fully functioning programmer
who's old enough to know about Clipper? drop me a line
maybe he used to be a Clipper programmer?
everybody here is a comedian!
break a leg?
i agree, that would be nice to have but i'd like to have it easily
removable like a pair of glasses and not like contact lenses.
not that i'm trying to be negative about it, i actually think it
would be a very useful thing for tactical stuff, driving, flying,
etc.
i just have a few questions about it:
-- would the HUD turn off when i blink?
-- would it have an auto-on feature like an alarm that makes it light
up while sleeping?
-- would it have a proximity sensor so that popups can be displayed
for when i'm walking in a mall and a super-special sale is nearby?
-- would it have an option to turn off that popup thing like adblock?
-- can the color/hue of the HUD be changed to suit the preference
of the wearer, or to auto-adjust to the brightness of the scene?
I'd work 60hrs for 4k, the Philippine salary scale does not give me half that much, and I've been doing that since 1987. Isn't it about time you sent me an invite so I can move to your part of the world? I could do your dirty work for you :)
FF uses a really large amount of RAM. In comparison, the Maxthon browser (which is practically IE but different), has this clickable option to "Free Memory Regularly". With that, it manages to maintain a slightly smaller RAM footprint when opening the same set of tabs against FF. Any chance that FF can include this in the future? Maybe there's an extension that does this already, does anyone know?
James
but not oracle's redhat version
That's right, don't risk your reputation. Either get a sub-contract from another shop (which may not be a good idea if you want to lock the customer), or hire mature IT people who have been down that road. Getting good people to work for you might be a bit challenging but if you look across the sea, there are a lot of people who might be willing to help you out.
.NET, and a few others. I'm in the Philippines and am used to working much more than your 60-hour weeks. Send me a contract for 4k-US$ a month and I'll be on a plane before Christmas.
Take for example me, I've been in the IT industry since back when the processor was named 8086 and MS-DOS was not yet commercial. I've handled networks by Novell when it was still called 1.0 and ELS, a serial network running around an IBM-AIX machine, and of course the trusty old NT and Win2k servers. I've been working with DOS, UNIX, using COBOL, Clipper, VB,
James
I hear there are a lot of out there who may have previous experience with this kind of thing
FYI: something is wrong with your pc, a lot of people have .NET installed, their units don't crash
and will the cameras have a toggle for the infra-red filter? everyone already has a megapixel camera, what we need are the "look thru the blouse and pants" x-ray viewer thingies
Maybe the specs they provided are to make sure you can boot up everything else. If it becomes too expensive to get Vista, I just might use Knoppix more often, or maybe even try the iPod OS.
If you had Apple, Microsoft, and Linux all on 1 harddisk and you need to remove one of them to make more space, which one would you take out?
There are two files named:
\windows\system32\wgalogon.dll
\windows\system32\wgatray.exe
Rename these two files to something else and the notifications stop, even the tray icon is gone, and there are no traces left in taskmanager either.
These are for as far as I checked, which wasn't really far at all. I just wanted the nagging notifications to stop. They stopped. I'm happy.
a cure will be developed, maybe now, maybe later, but it is just a matter of when and not if. why not now?
james
If a node that effectively connects a group of other PCs goes down, the network would be split. Should someone new connect to the orphaned group, where does that new connection get a DHCP lease? Regarding DHCP, how big would the subnets be? Wouldn't a class C DHCP run out of addresses too soon? Would a class B setup be enough? Considering that any PC would soon be acting as a router/repeater, it is possible that a DHCP server would be serving leases over a really really large area.
so i went and changed the enableIDN entry to false. then i saw the "network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains = .doubleclick.net" entry. does this mean that i'm actually using doubleclick's DNS servers instead of my own, thus letting doubleclick know where i go everytime i use firefox? i thought firefox was a "good" thing...
1.) If it's going to attract that much traffic, there has to be at least a gas station (and/or a hydrogen station) with a McDonalds and a Starbucks at the start of each side of that megacorridor.
2.) Eventually a Walmart will rise up somewhere in the middle of that. That would make the quarter-of-a-mile wide superduper highway at least a half a mile already.
3.) Hey, that's Texas, they're going to hit oil somewhere down the road and then they'd have to detour the whole megahighway around the oil rigs.
4.) It's so wide, there would have to be an extra couple of lanes in the middle of it all just to accomodate the billboards.
5.) When are flying cars supposed to arrive?
if sufficient force is applied to each end...
if there was sufficient force applied to the thing pulling against the anchor on earth so that the ribbon connecting it to earth wouldn't twist, wouldn't that force be enough to alter the balance of earth? in fact, wouldn't it eventually change the orbit of earth?
-->>> i'm not into physics, just wondering out loud... ---
you don't have to buy it if you think it's not your type, but hey, the economist in me says "no demand, no supply". or is it "supply creates it's own demand".
maybe you're just not geeky enough not to want your gizmo to do everything it possibly can. wouldn't you want your next phone to be able to change the channels on your TV? hey, they just did a simple two upgrades, they put the TV in the phone, then they offered "pay TV" as well, surround sound ringers are already available, and there are models with pulsating/disco lights already. what's next holo-projection of MTV? (what's the patent office phone number?)