Back in the early days of the space program, NASA spent tens of thousands of dollars on research to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity. The Russians used a five cent pencil.
ZoneEdit is great if you own your own domain. If it offers the full gambit of DNS services, from setting up a round-robim, editing your A, MX and CNAMES to setting up web and mail forwarding. Best part it's free - up to 5 domains if I remember correctly. And if you ever find your own DNS, you can also let ZoneEdit act as a slave zone as well - I highly recommend it.
An interesting note: the asteroid believed to have caused Earth's biggest mass extinction is thought to have been between 3.7 and 7.5 miles as reported here in 2001
I was just watching something the other day on the History channel about a recent find. A huge lot of dinosaurs buried under meters of volcanic ash - sort of hinting a giant volcano blast may have done all the dirt work.
I tried to google for some more info, but came up empty-handed. I did find this article though, about dinosaurs found in Alaska. It states that if they had managed to adapt to an arctic environment, then the "nuclear winter" effect of a large meteor hitting earth may not hold as much water.
Then again, I doubt we'll ever truly know - maybe the dinosaurs just got tired of living and went the way of the Heaven's Gate members.
Although it's a cool sounding idea, unless there's a big advance in motors, it's not very feasible.
For a 'hill assist' you'd need a lot of torque from a motor - and electric motors with a lot of torque don't come cheap, and they don't resemble anything small enough to put on a bike.
Very neat idea though - I bet it'll happen eventually!
Are you stuck on Win95 or 98? My current XP box will go 30 days without a sweat, and that's under heavy use (Compiling, video work, games). The only time I really need to reboot is when there's a big update released (Like SP2), other then that I'm fine. And when it comes to my servers, all of the Win2k ones stay up freaking forever. I've had my SQL/ASP abuse box (The one I use to play around with code) up for almost 470 days before the power went out. I also had an NT4.0 PDC up for over 600 days.
I use SmoothWall on a P200 with 384mb ram and a 10gb hdd.
There's been upwards of 20 PCs on the network and there's been a few times when 1 of us will been on the phone (VoIP), 2 of us are downloading a lot of files via p2p and another downloading ISO after ISO off of MSDN - all at the same time.
The little smoothwall box handled it all wonderfully, plus there's a fairly large community out there writing custom modules and addins for it.
The best part? Well, besides the transparent web proxy, I really like how you can have an internal-only network and a seperate DMZ network to hang your web services off of.
It's not as small or sexy as that 3com, but for me it's a perfect fit - handles a lot, plenty of ways to monitor it, and the price is right. Give it a shot, see what you think.
I'm going to venture a guess that upwards of 90% of the linux community just assumes that the package they downloaded is secure, simple due to the fact it is open source. They don't look at the source code, because they either wouldn't understand or they just think "Hey, it's open source and popular, therefore someone must have poured through the code".
I'd love to be in charge of a popular project and embed something into the code that isn't a trojan or hack but a simple sentence or two. Something like "Congratulations - you've actually audited this code. Please email me@address for your $50 reward (To the first person only)".
Maybe if we occasionally put these little rewards into the code, people would be more apt to pour through them.
Then again, I'm not a programmer so I'm probably going to get a lot of "This idea sucks because of...." posts hehe.
customers generally adopt Linux to get a better TCO than Unix, not Windows
While that may be more or less true in the US, from what I've read it seems like a lot of foreign countries are switching to Linux from Windows for the better TCO as well. In the US, it seems like a lot of big Unix companies are switching - but eventually there will be a large Windows to Linux switch here to.
I did a quick search on/. and didn't find it, but I thought I saw an article awhile back saying jobs have finally started coming back up.
One thing I've noticed in the US though is a lot of education-related companies are hiring. If you're in the Minneapolis area (and would like a job), just look at the listings for my company - some of these have been there since July!
As it stands, a lot of brick and mortar based colleges are expanding into online ventures - with that comes the need for a knowledgeavle staff to support that industry, might be a good time to start learning some online courseroom software and see if you can't get lucky!
Nothing big mind you, but I'd like to get a cabin up north in the middle of nowhere, and I'd love to power it via wind. Sure, generators are a possibility but all the noise sort of destroys my reason to go out there - to commute with nature. Plus, I wouldn't have to worry about bringing fuel with me at all either - just let the wind do it.
Whoa, calm down - I was talking about cats. I have no dog shelter experience. The dogs I've owned we've either rescued from the woods (One, named Duchess, we found tied to a tree with one of her hind legs almost shot off from BB guns - we took her to the vet and they had to amputate), were bought from friends and family who couldn't handle them, or are breeds that would no way in hell be found in a shelter for $45, like our Saarloos Wolfhond (I had to sell him though, moved into the city so there was no way I could get a pen in the size required and you're never supposed to chain wolf hybrids).
Speaking of, if you're mainly a cat person, then a wolf hybrid would be a good dog for you. They are a lot like cats, less of a pet and more of a companion animal.
Holefully dogs are more 'hardy' then cats with regards to shelter living. Me and my wife have said we will be getting no more cats at the shelters after we've had to put 3 out of 4 down within the past 2 years.
2 of them cost over 2500$ in vet bills before it was finally to late, the other one had leukemia and the vet said there's nothing at all we could do
I loved Mr. Wizard. Discovery Science had a "Mr. Wizard" marathon a month or two ago of all his shows from the 50s.
Funny story - back in my 9th grade Science class the teacher was giving a demonstration. It was the typical "Place lighted match in glass, place hard boiled egg on top, match goes out and egg gets sucked in" one to show air expansion/contraction. Anyway, before he did the demo he asked us all what would happen - I was the only one to get it right. He said "How did you know?" and I told him I saw Mr. Wizard do it.
Well well that wasn't something he wanted to hear! He went on a 15 minute rant about how Mr. Wizard went all over the country talking to science teachers and stealing their best experiments then putting them on TV and making big money off of THEIR ideas... It was pretty damn funny at the time, and still is.
Although I believe along the same lines you do, I still use monster cable for some things. Even though I'm not an audio or videophile, the construction of Monster Cables does tend to hold up better then a 2$ cable.
Granted, I don't buy the uber-expensive ones, I do buy their midline versions. The connectors just seem better to me. The cables are thicker and better shielded and the ends are hardier.
It may not matter much, but I have read a lot about 'cross talk' when you get power, video, audio, etc cables all close together - so I'd rather just be safe then sorry.
Besides, a good investment in cables will last a lifetime (or until they change specs) whereas people will spend thousands on AV gear which they update every few years.
Definately! Although I'm in Minneapolis now, for over a year I lived in Kenosha, WI and took the metra into Chicago - an hour and 45 minute ride each way. This thing would have been nice to have. Then again my laptop did the job quite well to.
(I went from a 20 minute commute from the NW side of Chicago to almost 2 hours - all because I was in love hehe)
There was a sig from someone on here that linked to a bit of perl that would make a realistic-looking webpage that created fake download links of files to catch the RIAA/MPAA auto-C&D letter bots. Wish I could find where it was now - I think I might like to take part in laughing at them hehe
Diesel generators are a lot more cost efficient when you get into large KW ones. To achieve the same type of KW rating with Natural Gas, you tend to need a turbine generator, which uses a lot more fuel then a diesel gen.
is a terrible thing to witness. I watched my grandmother succumb to it over many years. She received it in her mid 40s, which is somewhat rare. The doctors thought she might have had a small stroke or two in her sleep that started the process.
At first it was a slight shaking in her arm that would go away. Then it wouldn't go away. Then it was her whole arm, then the whole side of her body. It really snowballed on her, in a span of 5 years she went from driving and writing checks and such (via a special pen that had a large grip on it) to being in a wheelchair 24/7 and barely leaving her bedroom. (My grandfather died of bone cancer during that time) She basically stopped wanting to live.
The doctors put her on all kinds of medications and she went to the Mayo clinic constantly. They where talking about an experimental stem cell surgery to see if it would stop the brain deteration, but due to the costs and public outcry against stem cell research she never went through with it. The doctors said it's a part of life almost - if you live long enough you're basically guaranteed to get Alhzeimers, Parkinson's Disease, or both.
haha! I did the exact same thing, though it wasn't a mac, it was an old 386. The ram was only 256kb in size! I remember we tried to install linux on it back in 99 or so, but even though it had a dozen or so sticks in it, it didn't meet the 3mb of ram minimum - so on the keychain it went!
You'll find the answer to this question quite a few times over at Mini-ITX.com.
The people there shove a mini-itx board into everything - the front page shows a Commodor 1541 drive and a Sega Master System.
Granted, some of them are absolutely horrible (There was this God-awful Mac SE mod that looked terrible, ill-fitting pieces, a huge cut for the optical drives, etc - though I can't find it, but I did find this beautiful one instead. Damn, suppose I'll stop doing my mod now hehe) but they give you a pretty good idea of what can be done with those little motherboards
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Back in the early days of the space program, NASA spent tens of thousands of dollars on research to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity. The Russians used a five cent pencil.
No, no they didn't.
ZoneEdit is great if you own your own domain. If it offers the full gambit of DNS services, from setting up a round-robim, editing your A, MX and CNAMES to setting up web and mail forwarding. Best part it's free - up to 5 domains if I remember correctly.
And if you ever find your own DNS, you can also let ZoneEdit act as a slave zone as well - I highly recommend it.
Ok, so we see "I owned two twin-turboed Mitsubishi 3000GTs" and then we see "We're just poor kids".
:P
So which is it? And if that's whats classified as poor in your neck of the woods, then damn it I'm moving!
Huzzah! Neafevoc, you sir are a genius. That's the best of both worlds. Now, to quickly write a book on it and make millions!
An interesting note: the asteroid believed to have caused Earth's biggest mass extinction is thought to have been between 3.7 and 7.5 miles as reported here in 2001
I was just watching something the other day on the History channel about a recent find. A huge lot of dinosaurs buried under meters of volcanic ash - sort of hinting a giant volcano blast may have done all the dirt work.
I tried to google for some more info, but came up empty-handed. I did find this article though, about dinosaurs found in Alaska. It states that if they had managed to adapt to an arctic environment, then the "nuclear winter" effect of a large meteor hitting earth may not hold as much water.
Then again, I doubt we'll ever truly know - maybe the dinosaurs just got tired of living and went the way of the Heaven's Gate members.
Although it's a cool sounding idea, unless there's a big advance in motors, it's not very feasible.
For a 'hill assist' you'd need a lot of torque from a motor - and electric motors with a lot of torque don't come cheap, and they don't resemble anything small enough to put on a bike.
Very neat idea though - I bet it'll happen eventually!
Are you stuck on Win95 or 98? My current XP box will go 30 days without a sweat, and that's under heavy use (Compiling, video work, games). The only time I really need to reboot is when there's a big update released (Like SP2), other then that I'm fine.
And when it comes to my servers, all of the Win2k ones stay up freaking forever. I've had my SQL/ASP abuse box (The one I use to play around with code) up for almost 470 days before the power went out.
I also had an NT4.0 PDC up for over 600 days.
So THAT'S where I left it.
Please send it to the following address...
Err, maybe that's not such a good idea.
Who are you people? What? No, it's not mine.. It's engraved? I'm being framed. UNHAND ME YOU SCOUjsjcds,.......
I use SmoothWall on a P200 with 384mb ram and a 10gb hdd.
There's been upwards of 20 PCs on the network and there's been a few times when 1 of us will been on the phone (VoIP), 2 of us are downloading a lot of files via p2p and another downloading ISO after ISO off of MSDN - all at the same time.
The little smoothwall box handled it all wonderfully, plus there's a fairly large community out there writing custom modules and addins for it.
The best part? Well, besides the transparent web proxy, I really like how you can have an internal-only network and a seperate DMZ network to hang your web services off of.
It's not as small or sexy as that 3com, but for me it's a perfect fit - handles a lot, plenty of ways to monitor it, and the price is right. Give it a shot, see what you think.
I'm going to venture a guess that upwards of 90% of the linux community just assumes that the package they downloaded is secure, simple due to the fact it is open source. They don't look at the source code, because they either wouldn't understand or they just think "Hey, it's open source and popular, therefore someone must have poured through the code".
...." posts hehe.
I'd love to be in charge of a popular project and embed something into the code that isn't a trojan or hack but a simple sentence or two. Something like "Congratulations - you've actually audited this code. Please email me@address for your $50 reward (To the first person only)".
Maybe if we occasionally put these little rewards into the code, people would be more apt to pour through them.
Then again, I'm not a programmer so I'm probably going to get a lot of "This idea sucks because of
customers generally adopt Linux to get a better TCO than Unix, not Windows
While that may be more or less true in the US, from what I've read it seems like a lot of foreign countries are switching to Linux from Windows for the better TCO as well.
In the US, it seems like a lot of big Unix companies are switching - but eventually there will be a large Windows to Linux switch here to.
Yup yup, I totally agree with you. Up until I moved 6 months ago, my Win2k Server was up over 490 days straight without a single problem
I did a quick search on /. and didn't find it, but I thought I saw an article awhile back saying jobs have finally started coming back up.
One thing I've noticed in the US though is a lot of education-related companies are hiring. If you're in the Minneapolis area (and would like a job), just look at the listings for my company - some of these have been there since July!
As it stands, a lot of brick and mortar based colleges are expanding into online ventures - with that comes the need for a knowledgeavle staff to support that industry, might be a good time to start learning some online courseroom software and see if you can't get lucky!
...started looking into Wind power recently.
Nothing big mind you, but I'd like to get a cabin up north in the middle of nowhere, and I'd love to power it via wind. Sure, generators are a possibility but all the noise sort of destroys my reason to go out there - to commute with nature.
Plus, I wouldn't have to worry about bringing fuel with me at all either - just let the wind do it.
Whoa, calm down - I was talking about cats. I have no dog shelter experience. The dogs I've owned we've either rescued from the woods (One, named Duchess, we found tied to a tree with one of her hind legs almost shot off from BB guns - we took her to the vet and they had to amputate), were bought from friends and family who couldn't handle them, or are breeds that would no way in hell be found in a shelter for $45, like our Saarloos Wolfhond (I had to sell him though, moved into the city so there was no way I could get a pen in the size required and you're never supposed to chain wolf hybrids).
Speaking of, if you're mainly a cat person, then a wolf hybrid would be a good dog for you. They are a lot like cats, less of a pet and more of a companion animal.
Holefully dogs are more 'hardy' then cats with regards to shelter living.
Me and my wife have said we will be getting no more cats at the shelters after we've had to put 3 out of 4 down within the past 2 years.
2 of them cost over 2500$ in vet bills before it was finally to late, the other one had leukemia and the vet said there's nothing at all we could do
I loved Mr. Wizard. Discovery Science had a "Mr. Wizard" marathon a month or two ago of all his shows from the 50s.
Funny story - back in my 9th grade Science class the teacher was giving a demonstration. It was the typical "Place lighted match in glass, place hard boiled egg on top, match goes out and egg gets sucked in" one to show air expansion/contraction. Anyway, before he did the demo he asked us all what would happen - I was the only one to get it right.
He said "How did you know?" and I told him I saw Mr. Wizard do it.
Well well that wasn't something he wanted to hear! He went on a 15 minute rant about how Mr. Wizard went all over the country talking to science teachers and stealing their best experiments then putting them on TV and making big money off of THEIR ideas... It was pretty damn funny at the time, and still is.
Although I believe along the same lines you do, I still use monster cable for some things.
Even though I'm not an audio or videophile, the construction of Monster Cables does tend to hold up better then a 2$ cable.
Granted, I don't buy the uber-expensive ones, I do buy their midline versions. The connectors just seem better to me. The cables are thicker and better shielded and the ends are hardier.
It may not matter much, but I have read a lot about 'cross talk' when you get power, video, audio, etc cables all close together - so I'd rather just be safe then sorry.
Besides, a good investment in cables will last a lifetime (or until they change specs) whereas people will spend thousands on AV gear which they update every few years.
Definately!
Although I'm in Minneapolis now, for over a year I lived in Kenosha, WI and took the metra into Chicago - an hour and 45 minute ride each way. This thing would have been nice to have. Then again my laptop did the job quite well to.
(I went from a 20 minute commute from the NW side of Chicago to almost 2 hours - all because I was in love hehe)
There was a sig from someone on here that linked to a bit of perl that would make a realistic-looking webpage that created fake download links of files to catch the RIAA/MPAA auto-C&D letter bots. Wish I could find where it was now - I think I might like to take part in laughing at them hehe
Sure, but if Apple released this exact same program, you'd be gushing over how aesthetically pleasing it is, wouldn't you?
Diesel generators are a lot more cost efficient when you get into large KW ones. To achieve the same type of KW rating with Natural Gas, you tend to need a turbine generator, which uses a lot more fuel then a diesel gen.
is a terrible thing to witness. I watched my grandmother succumb to it over many years. She received it in her mid 40s, which is somewhat rare. The doctors thought she might have had a small stroke or two in her sleep that started the process.
At first it was a slight shaking in her arm that would go away. Then it wouldn't go away. Then it was her whole arm, then the whole side of her body.
It really snowballed on her, in a span of 5 years she went from driving and writing checks and such (via a special pen that had a large grip on it) to being in a wheelchair 24/7 and barely leaving her bedroom. (My grandfather died of bone cancer during that time) She basically stopped wanting to live.
The doctors put her on all kinds of medications and she went to the Mayo clinic constantly. They where talking about an experimental stem cell surgery to see if it would stop the brain deteration, but due to the costs and public outcry against stem cell research she never went through with it. The doctors said it's a part of life almost - if you live long enough you're basically guaranteed to get Alhzeimers, Parkinson's Disease, or both.
I miss you nanna!
haha! I did the exact same thing, though it wasn't a mac, it was an old 386. The ram was only 256kb in size! I remember we tried to install linux on it back in 99 or so, but even though it had a dozen or so sticks in it, it didn't meet the 3mb of ram minimum - so on the keychain it went!
You'll find the answer to this question quite a few times over at Mini-ITX.com.
The people there shove a mini-itx board into everything - the front page shows a Commodor 1541 drive and a Sega Master System.
Granted, some of them are absolutely horrible (There was this God-awful Mac SE mod that looked terrible, ill-fitting pieces, a huge cut for the optical drives, etc - though I can't find it, but I did find this beautiful one instead. Damn, suppose I'll stop doing my mod now hehe) but they give you a pretty good idea of what can be done with those little motherboards