I used some cat6 ethernet I bought at newegg for cheap, and already crimped. Then I bought some of these from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812993025. I have seen other sites that carry them too, and they worked great in the plates that I got at home depot. Finally, a trip to home depot for some low voltage boxes and some modular wall plates. I have done 2 rooms for around $40 bucks, but most of my cost was the couplers and tools. The boxes and plates are really cheap and I also picked up a bag of blank plugs and some coax cable plugs.
It helped that I have a drop ceiling, full basement, but Lowes sells a long flexible drill bit just for doing wiring. I ended up putting a gig-e switch in my office and one in my basement. I don't know how fast they are since I only have one gig-e computer, but the switches say they connect at gig-e.
Key word here is mother-in-law, which in my case is 30 miles away (my parents are 30 miles in the opposite direction, makes holidays interesting). Given this is slashdot, I'm assuming you won't understand the benefits of being at least 30 miles from your mother in law.
Actually stopping people from buying cars that require more energy to keep cool purely because of their colour sounds like a damn good idea and a cheap way to reduce energy usage to be perfectly honest
It sounds great until you realize it is the dumbest idea yet. Sure the color of the car makes a difference, but most of the environment in the car is regulated by the windows of the car, not the paint. The windows allow more energy to pass through than the color because the interior offers some insulation from the hot metal outside. I drive a black car and a red car, both with black interiors and hardly any tint to the glass, both heat up the same. However the black car has a sun roof and closing the shade for that makes a huge difference in how well the AC and heater works.
Most people don't realize how the environment systems in cars works. When you turn on the AC you turn on the compressor under the hood, you make fine adjustments by changing the fan control. The compressor only has 2 settings, on and off. Sure the compressor might turn off when it builds up a certain cold level that the fan takes away, but in places like the southwest, you just keep it on full blast all the time anyways.
This also leads to the idea that everybody in cold climates should drive dark cars. Well this might be an idea when we go all electric, but cabin heat is just waste heat from the engine. The heater block in a car is nothing more than a smaller version of the radiator in the front. Even small car engines can bring plain water to boiling temps at idle. What little energy your sheet metal absorbs is going to be insignificant to boiling water.
I haven't lived there in some time (10 years), but the area is still going strong. The part you stop at is probably along the highway that runs through there. That area has been on the decline for some time as new development has shifted to the north end of town. The towns population is 30,000 which if the base does close, wouldn't spell the end of the town. At that size, most of the economy is generated in the town itself and not from the base.
The only people I have seen use one are older people that have no problem being on there feet, but takes great effort to walk or they walk slower than a baby can crawl. I guess it has a non-zero practicality after all. Takes up less space than a power chair and is more mobile.
Much difference gameplay wise? Probably not. Realize that part of the FPS experience is it being a visual experience. Most of the time when new game and/or engine comes out they brag about how many objects it can handle. It is possible that one model from L4D contains the same amount of polygons that all of Quake 1 (as in the number of polygons you encounter throughout the whole game).
1) Banks fucking suck. They don't always post your CC transactions right away so they can lie about your true balance and fuck you over with overdrafts and NSF's.
Because running a spreadsheet to keep a running total is so hard.
Isn't checkbook registers proven technology, and there use is taught in highschool?
The drain pipes in the yard may not freeze, but what about all your sink drains? You would have to add RV anti-freeze to them and then you wouldn't be able to use them (have to keep adding more back to them). You don't want to drain your traps...you wouldn't like the smell very much.
I have to agree about the Microsoft mouse. I got a Intellimouse Explorer v1 USB for a present at Christmas 2000. Several trips back and forth from college, lan parties, and long hours gaming...and it still works. Paint and rubber on it is well worn (pretty ugly to look at these days), but still functions perfectly. I'm pretty rough with these things to, beating on keys and buttons, but it has lasted me through 3 keyboards. To bad the v4 mouse I use at work is junk. I'm on my third one, the left button gets some dead spots in it.
I agree with this one here (sorry, no mod points).
This worked for me. I done a lot of programming in my college classes, but when looking for a job I still applied to some jobs even though I didn't have the years in. I knew I had the skill set for it. There are several reasons that companies may not post entry level jobs, and my be trying to get somebody that can hit the ground running. Your future boss will still look at your resume and decided if hiring a greenie will be cost effective.
Look for companies that are open source friendly, or a using a lot of open source tech. It is these types that are more willing to let you on.
I didn't do it, but I do agree with being a open source dev. Don't try to do a lot of projects but pick a few and be good at them. This will also help you in learning the tools of the trade (debuggers, code repositories, and various other tricks).
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So, if the 'One Free Man' is one of the first to get sucked into the black hole.....how are we going to get the satellite to orbit that will fix the black hole? Surely he is the only one capable of launching a rocket that defies all odds of escaping a black hole.
Car batteries has more amperage than that, try 500 at least. I have a car that I put in a 1000 amp (800 when cold) battery. It was a off the shelf one at Autozone.
I would love to link to it but I can't seem to find them online. However, I have saw in Lowe's and Fry's 3-prong pass through plug that is wired to a switch. Mostly been sold as a Christmas lights thing where you plug it into the socket, then you plug the lights in it's socket. Much like the old Christmas lights that didn't have those end to end plugs. Well it then had a 3~6ft cord with a switch on the end. Allows you to have stuff plugged in a hard to reach place yet have a easy to locate switch.
I really enjoyed the music from the later DOS games. Warcraft, Warcraft II, Mechwarrior, Descent, Command and Conquer. I still get the music stuck in my head plenty of times. I realized early one that games used audio CD tracks for music and I made a cassette tape of Warcraft II music that I listened to while I mowed the lawn, I even remade the tape when I got the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion.
My MP3 player has both Hell March from Red Alert and Hell March 2 from Red Alert 2 on it. When they come up in the rotation I crank them and hit repeat a couple of times. If my player supported OGG I would have Serious Sam 2 - Grand Cathedral on it too. That game had a ton of great music on it as well.
Anybody get the music from Pilotwings stuck in their head while looking out the plane window? I do.
As I'm writing this post though, I keep having a bunch of great songs that I like go through my head. Now I'm going to have to dig up all old games and rip the music tracks from them again.
The key part to make the music great is not only does it sound good on its own, but it really needs to fit in the game too.
I'm close, but not quite that. I use F for forward, C for backward, S for strafe left and D for strafe right, A for crouch. I don't have a hard time at it and I have done it since Quake I. I tried for a setup that is natural and has more keys available. Even though it does bother me to have two separate fingers on opposing actions at all times (strafe L/R) I find it easy to remember in a clutch and very responsive.
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I used some cat6 ethernet I bought at newegg for cheap, and already crimped. Then I bought some of these from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812993025. I have seen other sites that carry them too, and they worked great in the plates that I got at home depot. Finally, a trip to home depot for some low voltage boxes and some modular wall plates. I have done 2 rooms for around $40 bucks, but most of my cost was the couplers and tools. The boxes and plates are really cheap and I also picked up a bag of blank plugs and some coax cable plugs.
It helped that I have a drop ceiling, full basement, but Lowes sells a long flexible drill bit just for doing wiring. I ended up putting a gig-e switch in my office and one in my basement. I don't know how fast they are since I only have one gig-e computer, but the switches say they connect at gig-e.
I have some photos of what I done on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjpugh/sets/72157621578462074/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjpugh/sets/72157622296384977/
Key word here is mother-in-law, which in my case is 30 miles away (my parents are 30 miles in the opposite direction, makes holidays interesting). Given this is slashdot, I'm assuming you won't understand the benefits of being at least 30 miles from your mother in law.
Simple, dump the dimming part. Light switches are around a dollar a piece and it takes about 5 minutes to swap them.
Actually stopping people from buying cars that require more energy to keep cool purely because of their colour sounds like a damn good idea and a cheap way to reduce energy usage to be perfectly honest
It sounds great until you realize it is the dumbest idea yet. Sure the color of the car makes a difference, but most of the environment in the car is regulated by the windows of the car, not the paint. The windows allow more energy to pass through than the color because the interior offers some insulation from the hot metal outside. I drive a black car and a red car, both with black interiors and hardly any tint to the glass, both heat up the same. However the black car has a sun roof and closing the shade for that makes a huge difference in how well the AC and heater works.
Most people don't realize how the environment systems in cars works. When you turn on the AC you turn on the compressor under the hood, you make fine adjustments by changing the fan control. The compressor only has 2 settings, on and off. Sure the compressor might turn off when it builds up a certain cold level that the fan takes away, but in places like the southwest, you just keep it on full blast all the time anyways.
This also leads to the idea that everybody in cold climates should drive dark cars. Well this might be an idea when we go all electric, but cabin heat is just waste heat from the engine. The heater block in a car is nothing more than a smaller version of the radiator in the front. Even small car engines can bring plain water to boiling temps at idle. What little energy your sheet metal absorbs is going to be insignificant to boiling water.
I haven't lived there in some time (10 years), but the area is still going strong. The part you stop at is probably along the highway that runs through there. That area has been on the decline for some time as new development has shifted to the north end of town. The towns population is 30,000 which if the base does close, wouldn't spell the end of the town. At that size, most of the economy is generated in the town itself and not from the base.
The only people I have seen use one are older people that have no problem being on there feet, but takes great effort to walk or they walk slower than a baby can crawl. I guess it has a non-zero practicality after all. Takes up less space than a power chair and is more mobile.
Much difference gameplay wise? Probably not. Realize that part of the FPS experience is it being a visual experience. Most of the time when new game and/or engine comes out they brag about how many objects it can handle. It is possible that one model from L4D contains the same amount of polygons that all of Quake 1 (as in the number of polygons you encounter throughout the whole game).
Newegg has Cat6 in 1 foot lengths for less than a buck: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2050400132%201230513961%20123040283%201230415264&name=1%20ft.
I think you forgot some, just about every key was used for something and that was before going to alt- and ctrl- combos
Tractor paper, bonus if it is wide and green.
http://www.dyndns.org/ and http://http//httpd.apache.org/. Well, it works for me.
I'd rather he used them for awesome.
1) Banks fucking suck. They don't always post your CC transactions right away so they can lie about your true balance and fuck you over with overdrafts and NSF's.
Because running a spreadsheet to keep a running total is so hard. Isn't checkbook registers proven technology, and there use is taught in highschool?
The drain pipes in the yard may not freeze, but what about all your sink drains? You would have to add RV anti-freeze to them and then you wouldn't be able to use them (have to keep adding more back to them). You don't want to drain your traps...you wouldn't like the smell very much.
I have to agree about the Microsoft mouse. I got a Intellimouse Explorer v1 USB for a present at Christmas 2000. Several trips back and forth from college, lan parties, and long hours gaming...and it still works. Paint and rubber on it is well worn (pretty ugly to look at these days), but still functions perfectly. I'm pretty rough with these things to, beating on keys and buttons, but it has lasted me through 3 keyboards. To bad the v4 mouse I use at work is junk. I'm on my third one, the left button gets some dead spots in it.
mwhahahahahahaha
I agree with this one here (sorry, no mod points).
This worked for me. I done a lot of programming in my college classes, but when looking for a job I still applied to some jobs even though I didn't have the years in. I knew I had the skill set for it. There are several reasons that companies may not post entry level jobs, and my be trying to get somebody that can hit the ground running. Your future boss will still look at your resume and decided if hiring a greenie will be cost effective.
Look for companies that are open source friendly, or a using a lot of open source tech. It is these types that are more willing to let you on.
I didn't do it, but I do agree with being a open source dev. Don't try to do a lot of projects but pick a few and be good at them. This will also help you in learning the tools of the trade (debuggers, code repositories, and various other tricks).
So, if the 'One Free Man' is one of the first to get sucked into the black hole.....how are we going to get the satellite to orbit that will fix the black hole? Surely he is the only one capable of launching a rocket that defies all odds of escaping a black hole.
Car batteries has more amperage than that, try 500 at least. I have a car that I put in a 1000 amp (800 when cold) battery. It was a off the shelf one at Autozone.
I just happen to know the best man for the job
"Greetings children...I'm here to put you back on schedule"
(incase the above is removed)
I would love to link to it but I can't seem to find them online. However, I have saw in Lowe's and Fry's 3-prong pass through plug that is wired to a switch. Mostly been sold as a Christmas lights thing where you plug it into the socket, then you plug the lights in it's socket. Much like the old Christmas lights that didn't have those end to end plugs. Well it then had a 3~6ft cord with a switch on the end. Allows you to have stuff plugged in a hard to reach place yet have a easy to locate switch.
Why bother, somebody is just going to reinvent later on.
I'm sure we will find out in a rude way when we bend over to pick up the carrot.
I really enjoyed the music from the later DOS games. Warcraft, Warcraft II, Mechwarrior, Descent, Command and Conquer. I still get the music stuck in my head plenty of times. I realized early one that games used audio CD tracks for music and I made a cassette tape of Warcraft II music that I listened to while I mowed the lawn, I even remade the tape when I got the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion. My MP3 player has both Hell March from Red Alert and Hell March 2 from Red Alert 2 on it. When they come up in the rotation I crank them and hit repeat a couple of times. If my player supported OGG I would have Serious Sam 2 - Grand Cathedral on it too. That game had a ton of great music on it as well. Anybody get the music from Pilotwings stuck in their head while looking out the plane window? I do. As I'm writing this post though, I keep having a bunch of great songs that I like go through my head. Now I'm going to have to dig up all old games and rip the music tracks from them again. The key part to make the music great is not only does it sound good on its own, but it really needs to fit in the game too.
I'm close, but not quite that. I use F for forward, C for backward, S for strafe left and D for strafe right, A for crouch. I don't have a hard time at it and I have done it since Quake I. I tried for a setup that is natural and has more keys available. Even though it does bother me to have two separate fingers on opposing actions at all times (strafe L/R) I find it easy to remember in a clutch and very responsive.