Jaycar Electronics in Australia have a kit for a white/pink noise generator that is supposed to help with this.
The thoery is that the white noise drowns out the ringing but isn't intrusive. I don't know how effective it is.
Jaycar Web site
I've seen similar to these on the street in London and San Francisco. The downside is that if there is a queue, you have to wait for it to complete the "wash cycle" after each user, which includes having the floor descend into a pit of antiseptic goo, and hot sprays washing & drying everything inside.
I had to restrain a lady who tried to bolt straight inside after I had finished. Maybe I shouldn't have...
The Royal Flying Doctor Service issued pedal powered short wave radios to remote Australian farmers in the 1920s.
They were used to summon medical assistance and for social interaction in areas where phones and electrical power weren't available.
The reason they do that is to avoid giving free rides to companies that haven't paid to have their logo used, not because the product vendor won't let them.
IIRC the only thing holding this up was the need to develop radio tags cheap enough so that you could throw one out with each package and not ad too much to the cost of the food.
Wouldn't one of those heavy duty military grade laptops be the go for this? Surely it would be chealer, and in addition to music/movies, you could actually hook it up to your SQL server full of recipes and have it generate your shopping list.
O/S could be anything that can talk to a server with a database.
Yes! In fact, get it to send the list once a week to one of those web grocery places and you'll never have to grocery shop again.
Even if you just have it scan all the packaged stuff, and the let you edit the list before it is sent.
I like the recipe database idea too. I don't think you would need to start with an inventory though, just have it track all the stuff it knows you used from the recipe database and the bar code reader, and a default weekly inventory would be generated. When you edit the list, that becomes next week's default.
This, to me is the only real use for a pc in the kitchen. If you want to listen to music or watch movies, use a DVD player and a 14" telly. It'll be cheaper.
Why should Philips care about the DMCA? They are a Dutch company (a big one). DMCA is a US law. If the FBI try to do a Skylarov on them, they will have the EEC breathing down their necks and rightly so.
Maybe one reason to leave some of the scenes out in the cinema version is out of resect for people's bladders. You can always pause the DVD version while you take a quick slash.
Carpet bombing to instil fear in an enemy doesn't work. Just ask anyone living in London in 1940, anywhere in Germany 1943-45 or anyone in Bagdad or Belgrade. It doesn't demoralise people, it just makes them hate you more.
Autodesk is one of the worst offenders in sunsetting software. Our company was recently stung for thousands of dollars in upgrades to the new version that we didn't really need, or face losing suport and all rights to upgrade prices when they changed formats (again)
AutoCAD 12 did all that most people ever needed from CAD software, on far more modest hardware too. but anyone doing CAD for other people has to stay on the upgrade treadmill to avoid getting left behind.
They can do this only because of a proprietary file format that is so widely used that everyone is forced into it, despite the existence of cheaper (better?) alternatives.
Autodesk is no better than Microsoft, it's just that it affects fewer people.
I used to have a Corolla GTi that was like this. To get the diagnostic code, you bridged two terminals on the diagnostic socket with a wire and the dashboard light blinks the code at you. The codes are available in any good Corolla workshop manual.
In fact faults with my car were rarely related to the engine management system - usually obvious things like charging/battery failures and overheating. diagnosed like any other car.
In municipal wastewater treatment, methanol or ethanol is often used to provide food for the bacteria used to remove phosphates & nitrates. All you really need is a cheap source of carbon. (Of course, using beer gives brownie points for PR)
I shipped a whole lot of stuff from London to Sydney by air with a company called Interpack last year. I insured it all completely.
When it all arrived, one of the items (a guitar) had had a forklift tine poked through it, and my computer looked like it had bewen dropped down the stairs.
We claimed on the insurance and heard nothing, then on enquiring further, were told that Interpack were in receivership, and their insurers weren't paying claims.
When I checked later, I found that Interpack were still offering shipping services. DOn't ever use them, even if you pay for insurance, your stuff won't be covered.
So just because the words "deCSS", DVD, Linux & Commercial appear together in an article, the conspiracy theorists start frothing at the mouth.
Perhaps they are just ironing the bugs out before they release it? One of the criticisms levelled commercial software is that it is all too often rushed to market without proper testing. Maybe these people aren't like that.
After all, this is the reason Linux 2.4 is still awaiting full release, even though it was promised for April. I don't hear Linus Torvalds being accused of having hidden agendas (not that I'm doing that, I just think people are being a bit unfair here.)
Slashdot Mirror
Jaycar Electronics in Australia have a kit for a white/pink noise generator that is supposed to help with this. The thoery is that the white noise drowns out the ringing but isn't intrusive. I don't know how effective it is. Jaycar Web site
Add the domain where the ads are coming from to /etc/hosts and point it to 127.0.0.1
This works for most flavours of windows too, but the location of hosts varies (in Win2000 it is c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc)
Good for blocking most ads (even the slashdot ones when they come from doubleclick)
This circumvention method is probably now illegal in the USA, but I don't lve there so bite me!
I've seen similar to these on the street in London and San Francisco. The downside is that if there is a queue, you have to wait for it to complete the "wash cycle" after each user, which includes having the floor descend into a pit of antiseptic goo, and hot sprays washing & drying everything inside.
I had to restrain a lady who tried to bolt straight inside after I had finished. Maybe I shouldn't have...
The Royal Flying Doctor Service issued pedal powered short wave radios to remote Australian farmers in the 1920s.
They were used to summon medical assistance and for social interaction in areas where phones and electrical power weren't available.
Hand me that mirror!
Didn't you know Gollum worked for Slashdot?
The reason they do that is to avoid giving free rides to companies that haven't paid to have their logo used, not because the product vendor won't let them.
IIRC the only thing holding this up was the need to develop radio tags cheap enough so that you could throw one out with each package and not ad too much to the cost of the food.
Wouldn't one of those heavy duty military grade laptops be the go for this? Surely it would be chealer, and in addition to music/movies, you could actually hook it up to your SQL server full of recipes and have it generate your shopping list.
O/S could be anything that can talk to a server with a database.
Yes! In fact, get it to send the list once a week to one of those web grocery places and you'll never have to grocery shop again.
Even if you just have it scan all the packaged stuff, and the let you edit the list before it is sent.
I like the recipe database idea too. I don't think you would need to start with an inventory though, just have it track all the stuff it knows you used from the recipe database and the bar code reader, and a default weekly inventory would be generated. When you edit the list, that becomes next week's default.
This, to me is the only real use for a pc in the kitchen. If you want to listen to music or watch movies, use a DVD player and a 14" telly. It'll be cheaper.
Then I'd actually be able to use my CD-R/RW burner for back-ups. (I know - not the ideal device, it's just what I have available)
Yay! Lets start another US vs EEC trade war! It'll be bananas and hormone free beef all over again!
Why should Philips care about the DMCA? They are a Dutch company (a big one). DMCA is a US law. If the FBI try to do a Skylarov on them, they will have the EEC breathing down their necks and rightly so.
Maybe one reason to leave some of the scenes out in the cinema version is out of resect for people's bladders. You can always pause the DVD version while you take a quick slash.
Carpet bombing to instil fear in an enemy doesn't work. Just ask anyone living in London in 1940, anywhere in Germany 1943-45 or anyone in Bagdad or Belgrade. It doesn't demoralise people, it just makes them hate you more.
Autodesk is one of the worst offenders in sunsetting software. Our company was recently stung for thousands of dollars in upgrades to the new version that we didn't really need, or face losing suport and all rights to upgrade prices when they changed formats (again)
AutoCAD 12 did all that most people ever needed from CAD software, on far more modest hardware too. but anyone doing CAD for other people has to stay on the upgrade treadmill to avoid getting left behind.
They can do this only because of a proprietary file format that is so widely used that everyone is forced into it, despite the existence of cheaper (better?) alternatives.
Autodesk is no better than Microsoft, it's just that it affects fewer people.
UK has had at least one nuclear accident at Windscale
I used to have a Corolla GTi that was like this. To get the diagnostic code, you bridged two terminals on the diagnostic socket with a wire and the dashboard light blinks the code at you. The codes are available in any good Corolla workshop manual.
In fact faults with my car were rarely related to the engine management system - usually obvious things like charging/battery failures and overheating. diagnosed like any other car.
In municipal wastewater treatment, methanol or ethanol is often used to provide food for the bacteria used to remove phosphates & nitrates. All you really need is a cheap source of carbon. (Of course, using beer gives brownie points for PR)
I shipped a whole lot of stuff from London to Sydney by air with a company called Interpack last year. I insured it all completely.
When it all arrived, one of the items (a guitar) had had a forklift tine poked through it, and my computer looked like it had bewen dropped down the stairs.
We claimed on the insurance and heard nothing, then on enquiring further, were told that Interpack were in receivership, and their insurers weren't paying claims.
When I checked later, I found that Interpack were still offering shipping services. DOn't ever use them, even if you pay for insurance, your stuff won't be covered.
Actually, they do have cameras on the outsides of the buses in London to bust people using the bus lanes illegally
So just because the words "deCSS", DVD, Linux & Commercial appear together in an article, the conspiracy theorists start frothing at the mouth.
Perhaps they are just ironing the bugs out before they release it? One of the criticisms levelled commercial software is that it is all too often rushed to market without proper testing. Maybe these people aren't like that.
After all, this is the reason Linux 2.4 is still awaiting full release, even though it was promised for April. I don't hear Linus Torvalds being accused of having hidden agendas (not that I'm doing that, I just think people are being a bit unfair here.)
It's because all the modules have moved. I have been loading the ppp related ones manually
A BLEVE applies to flammable gases held in a compressed liquid state(like LPG) Doesn't apply to Nitrogen, which isn't flammable.
So does this mean that the first the policeman manning the radar speed trap will see is this purple blur flying past at 200km/h?
I want one!