Take a programming language class at a small college. Any language!
Syntax is easy, structure is hard. Any language will teach you the basics of conditions, looping, branching, subroutines and procedures, etc. Once you get the gist of algorithmic design, you're set to understand what programming is about.
Once you've done that, you may want to pursue learning object-oriented vs. non-oo languages (if that's what you started with) so you understand both paradigms.
Either use a portable music player (I use a Rio Karma), or transcode your files. If your car's anything but off, it's going to make some background noise. The more background noise it makes, the less important the audio quality of your files.
Seconded on the vote for Desterm 128. I used it too.
When I got my first Amiga, I used VLT, written at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. SLAC was even nice enough to send me a manual when I requested one!
I worked out what I'll do. It turns out that a fresh Debian install fixed the main problems I had on my home machine, software-wise. Since my 250GB SATA drive is still under warranty (and the MaxBlast software on its CD gave me a diagnostic code for RMA), I will change that out for a new drive.
Before that happens, though, I'm going to order a new one of the same type so I can use dd_rescue to get my old files back. I think I have a good chance of getting just about everything. Then, once I have a safe backup, I'm going to put the two new 250GB drives into a mirrored RAID setup to protect myself better in the future.
I looked into getting smartd running, but it doesn't look like it can see my SATA drives properly without kernel patching.
It's an object lesson in why you shouldn't make any partitions so big you can't have two of 'em, if you don't have a proper backup solution.:-)
Last week my Debian-boots-fine-from Maxtor SATA 250GB drive barfed on my/home partition. Why not/var or/tmp, WHY?!?!
I'd had some problems with CD-ripping under Debian, so I thought enough about Fedora Core 4 (I'd run FC2 before switching to Debian, and we run FC3 on a Dell PERC RAID at work just fine) to try installing it again. However, it crashed badly on the sata_sil driver every time.
I probably just have a bad burn of the first install disc, then.
Of course, I would know the answer to that if I didn't reflexively skip the media check option in Fedora installs. D'oh!
Assuming that there is gravity enough to sustain an atmosphere for the forest to grow there, it will make a sound. That is, the motion of the tree will cause pressure waves in the surrounding air, even if there is no person there to perceive the pressure waves.
However, if you had asked, "Does it make a noise?", then the answer is no. It does not make a noise if there is no one there to hear it. "Noise" is a human value judgement applied to a sound. Since there are no people to form an opinion about it, there isn't a value judgement.
I use the little lanyard which comes with the shuffle. The shuffle is so light that it's not a problem for it to bounce around. The one time I did manage to pull the shuffle off the end of its lanyard it was because I was futzing around with the bit-too-long wire for my non-Apple headphones and pulled it off. Even then, it just dangled from the headphone cable until I got it reattached. Didn't even break stride! I eventually looped the long headphone cable up and taped it neatly to the lanyard at the point it attaches to the shuffle, just long enough for the jack to plug in on one side and just long enough to allow me to look around on the other. The shuffle still bounces around a lot, but if I have my heart rate monitor on I can't even feel it.
Go with the cell phone talkers every time. It is much easier to get away with stuffing your ear canals with iPod buds than stuffing your nostrils with them. In public, at least.
Then, the Netscape team opened up much of its code, and Mozilla was born (I could be wrong; Mozilla might always have eben a codename for Netscape source, even before the OSS release).
Mozilla has, as far as I know, always been the codename for Netscape Navigator. Marc Andreessen worked on a web browser called NCSA Mosaic, and later, Netscape Navigator. Navigator was more powerful/featureful than Mosaic, so it was called Mozilla.
The ISS is not in a good orbit to serve as a launch platform to Mars. However, the orbit it's in does make it possible to get to the ISS from multiple launch sites at different latitudes like Cape Canaveral and Baikonur.
(At least, that's what I remember, and I'm certainly willing to be corrected, but the boss is near and I haven't got time to look up references, heh)
Many of the power cables in cars go to lights. You can centralize your lights like the fuses and relays are centralized. Instead of having deep reflectors holding bulbs, you'd end up with flatter lights. Imagine getting two more inches in your trunk without the tail lights sticking into the compartment. Some of this advantage is already being realized with LED lamps. You could have a light box with small visible light solid-state lasers or bright LEDs replacing a hundred bulbs and their associated wiring and switching gear in your car (think of all the lights: dash lights, fog lights, all the marker lights, the one in the glove compartment, the luggage lights in the trunk...).
My HP Compaq laptop does it, but I don't take advantage of it. I have a 21" CRT running at 1600x1200, and the laptop's LCD has a native resolution of 1024x768.
It sucks. Any applications that open up when the laptop's not connected to the CRT shrink their windows to fit in 1024x768. That wouldn't be so bad if they remembered their sizes and positions when the CRT was available again, but I just end up with a bunch of uselessly small windows I have to go re-size.
And another thing: There's no power button on the port replicator, and the laptop docks with it vertically. You can't put this thing under a monitor stand! What kind of desktop-replacement laptop doesn't do this right?
The 4 year-old Dell Inspiron this thing replaced had all that, plus a usably large 1440x1024 screen. Shame on you, HP. If these weren't provided by my place of employment, I would have returned it. As it was, we almost *did* return the things.
This is not a solar-powered truck, this is a fusion-powered truck. The light energy is just a way of transmitting the power from the fusion source kept at a safe distance.
Presumably, they could have run a wire to the sun's magnetic field to induce a current rather than use batteries.
I only mention this because I find it annoying when people don't refer to the last step in the process as the energy source.
It's a hydrogen-powered truck. The solar plant is a nifty method of obtaining hydrogen to combust in the engine. By using a regular internal combustion engine, they offer fuel flexibility as the truck can also be powered by petroleum (it's gasoline-powered now!) and maintainability (you can get your spark plugs at Pep Boys).
I truly don't understand how touchpads have become the predominant pointing device on laptops.
Beacause a lot of people, many more than just you, prefer them?
FWIW, I hate trackballs and can't see why anyone would use one instead of a mouse, at least when they're not playing Centipede. But they still sell the useless things, heh.
I had a work laptop where I had to install everything from scratch myself, and I would occasionally get annoyed with the touchpad if I brushed it with my palm while I was typing, or made a selection by inadvertently tapping somewhere on the pad.
I got a new laptop where the Synaptics touchpad driver had already been installed - I'd never put it on my old laptop because it worked without it. The driver, I found out, has a configurable palm-sensing feature and I can turn off the tapping=clicking.
I prefer a real mouse to the touchpad, but those settings made using the touchpad much, much less frustrating.
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Take a programming language class at a small college. Any language!
Syntax is easy, structure is hard. Any language will teach you the basics of conditions, looping, branching, subroutines and procedures, etc. Once you get the gist of algorithmic design, you're set to understand what programming is about.
Once you've done that, you may want to pursue learning object-oriented vs. non-oo languages (if that's what you started with) so you understand both paradigms.
Either use a portable music player (I use a Rio Karma), or transcode your files. If your car's anything but off, it's going to make some background noise. The more background noise it makes, the less important the audio quality of your files.
Seconded on the vote for Desterm 128. I used it too.
When I got my first Amiga, I used VLT, written at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. SLAC was even nice enough to send me a manual when I requested one!
gl /w installing!
:-)
Thanks!
I worked out what I'll do. It turns out that a fresh Debian install fixed the main problems I had on my home machine, software-wise. Since my 250GB SATA drive is still under warranty (and the MaxBlast software on its CD gave me a diagnostic code for RMA), I will change that out for a new drive.
Before that happens, though, I'm going to order a new one of the same type so I can use dd_rescue to get my old files back. I think I have a good chance of getting just about everything. Then, once I have a safe backup, I'm going to put the two new 250GB drives into a mirrored RAID setup to protect myself better in the future.
I looked into getting smartd running, but it doesn't look like it can see my SATA drives properly without kernel patching.
It's an object lesson in why you shouldn't make any partitions so big you can't have two of 'em, if you don't have a proper backup solution.
This is good to know.
/home partition. Why not /var or /tmp, WHY?!?!
Last week my Debian-boots-fine-from Maxtor SATA 250GB drive barfed on my
I'd had some problems with CD-ripping under Debian, so I thought enough about Fedora Core 4 (I'd run FC2 before switching to Debian, and we run FC3 on a Dell PERC RAID at work just fine) to try installing it again. However, it crashed badly on the sata_sil driver every time.
I probably just have a bad burn of the first install disc, then.
Of course, I would know the answer to that if I didn't reflexively skip the media check option in Fedora installs. D'oh!
And when the routing goes wrong enough that the TTL expires: Yikes!
I work in Oak Ridge, TN, so I'm at least near to four Top 500 systems. That's as good as it gets for me.
I have, like, 30 gigs (if I ever finish) of music ripped from my own CDs, but only about 6 gigs is not crap. :-)
I can *triple* boot Mac, Linux, and Windows. Gives me dirty thoughts just thinking about it.
I, too, feel unclean every time I boot Windows.
This is Slashdot. You must be new here. :-)
Assuming that there is gravity enough to sustain an atmosphere for the forest to grow there, it will make a sound. That is, the motion of the tree will cause pressure waves in the surrounding air, even if there is no person there to perceive the pressure waves.
:-)
However, if you had asked, "Does it make a noise?", then the answer is no. It does not make a noise if there is no one there to hear it. "Noise" is a human value judgement applied to a sound. Since there are no people to form an opinion about it, there isn't a value judgement.
Aren't you glad you asked?
Turbo-props are, technically, internal combustion engines since fuel burning outside the confines of the engine in this case is a Really Bad Thing. :-)
A reciprocating internal combustion engine would differentiate between the turbo-props in the C-130 and the piston engines in Piper Cubs, etc.
I use the little lanyard which comes with the shuffle. The shuffle is so light that it's not a problem for it to bounce around. The one time I did manage to pull the shuffle off the end of its lanyard it was because I was futzing around with the bit-too-long wire for my non-Apple headphones and pulled it off. Even then, it just dangled from the headphone cable until I got it reattached. Didn't even break stride! I eventually looped the long headphone cable up and taped it neatly to the lanyard at the point it attaches to the shuffle, just long enough for the jack to plug in on one side and just long enough to allow me to look around on the other. The shuffle still bounces around a lot, but if I have my heart rate monitor on I can't even feel it.
My Rio Karma really does not like to go running. It usually freezes up after a couple miles with disk errors.
I keep the Karma for road trips and commuting in my car, and I got an iPod shuffle to carry when I run.
Go with the cell phone talkers every time. It is much easier to get away with stuffing your ear canals with iPod buds than stuffing your nostrils with them. In public, at least.
Plus, nobody will complain that you reek of iPod.
It is perfectly natural to occasionally experience the need for a vowel movement.
Mozilla has, as far as I know, always been the codename for Netscape Navigator. Marc Andreessen worked on a web browser called NCSA Mosaic, and later, Netscape Navigator. Navigator was more powerful/featureful than Mosaic, so it was called Mozilla.
You must be new here. :-)
Don't forget: wearing socks with sandals! And for the hardcore, black socks with sandals.
You can't just set up computers in any old warehouse, you need the proper power, air conditioning systems, cable conduits, etc...
Acutually, you can.
The ISS is not in a good orbit to serve as a launch platform to Mars. However, the orbit it's in does make it possible to get to the ISS from multiple launch sites at different latitudes like Cape Canaveral and Baikonur.
(At least, that's what I remember, and I'm certainly willing to be corrected, but the boss is near and I haven't got time to look up references, heh)
Many of the power cables in cars go to lights. You can centralize your lights like the fuses and relays are centralized. Instead of having deep reflectors holding bulbs, you'd end up with flatter lights. Imagine getting two more inches in your trunk without the tail lights sticking into the compartment. Some of this advantage is already being realized with LED lamps. You could have a light box with small visible light solid-state lasers or bright LEDs replacing a hundred bulbs and their associated wiring and switching gear in your car (think of all the lights: dash lights, fog lights, all the marker lights, the one in the glove compartment, the luggage lights in the trunk...).
My HP Compaq laptop does it, but I don't take advantage of it. I have a 21" CRT running at 1600x1200, and the laptop's LCD has a native resolution of 1024x768.
It sucks. Any applications that open up when the laptop's not connected to the CRT shrink their windows to fit in 1024x768. That wouldn't be so bad if they remembered their sizes and positions when the CRT was available again, but I just end up with a bunch of uselessly small windows I have to go re-size.
And another thing: There's no power button on the port replicator, and the laptop docks with it vertically. You can't put this thing under a monitor stand! What kind of desktop-replacement laptop doesn't do this right?
The 4 year-old Dell Inspiron this thing replaced had all that, plus a usably large 1440x1024 screen. Shame on you, HP. If these weren't provided by my place of employment, I would have returned it. As it was, we almost *did* return the things.
This is not a solar-powered truck, this is a fusion-powered truck. The light energy is just a way of transmitting the power from the fusion source kept at a safe distance.
Presumably, they could have run a wire to the sun's magnetic field to induce a current rather than use batteries.
I only mention this because I find it annoying when people don't refer to the last step in the process as the energy source.
It's a hydrogen-powered truck. The solar plant is a nifty method of obtaining hydrogen to combust in the engine. By using a regular internal combustion engine, they offer fuel flexibility as the truck can also be powered by petroleum (it's gasoline-powered now!) and maintainability (you can get your spark plugs at Pep Boys).
I truly don't understand how touchpads have become the predominant pointing device on laptops.
Beacause a lot of people, many more than just you, prefer them?
FWIW, I hate trackballs and can't see why anyone would use one instead of a mouse, at least when they're not playing Centipede. But they still sell the useless things, heh.
I had a work laptop where I had to install everything from scratch myself, and I would occasionally get annoyed with the touchpad if I brushed it with my palm while I was typing, or made a selection by inadvertently tapping somewhere on the pad.
I got a new laptop where the Synaptics touchpad driver had already been installed - I'd never put it on my old laptop because it worked without it. The driver, I found out, has a configurable palm-sensing feature and I can turn off the tapping=clicking.
I prefer a real mouse to the touchpad, but those settings made using the touchpad much, much less frustrating.