I can remember carting 3.5" disks around the place for *ages* before they died out.
At the risk of turning this into a dick-measuring contest, I had a 5.25" that I folded clear in half by accident in sixth grade or so. Creased and everything, and man was I pissed.
Encyclopedia to the rescue! I put it inside one volume and then stacked a half dozen more over top of it, and left it for a couple days. Worked fine, not even a bad sector - I have no idea why not. I guess I lucked out and nothing shifted while it was bent, so nothing scraped.
When it asks you what CD's you have, deselect CD2 and 3. The available packages in the selection list will be lessened (for obvious reasons, I might add), but you're still good to go.
The relays use the individual signal lines off the parallel cable to turn on and off, and relays are needed to ramp up to the 12v that the motors require.
I did something similar to this in grade eight electronics, by hacking a radio shack armatron to connect to a TRS-80, by soldering in wires to the control panel surfaces, and relays to up the voltage from the parallel port. Worked great, I was able to make the robot pick up a box of screws, turn, and dump them all over.
Timing was an issue, though, because the armatron did multiple things at a slower rate than if it was doing them seperately - presumably a current draw problem, which I wonder if these guys needed to address, or if they just have a powerful enough 12V supply that it can run all 16 at once without rate changes.
The equivalent to requiring explicit permission before emailing me would be requiring explicit permission before VISITING my website.
Linking to a website is a pointer. It is akin to posting a mailto: link - which while generally causes your mailbox to be more likely to be spam harvested, does not actually result directly in anything appearing in your mailbox.
The cargo capacity is low because that's not what the military needs in a drone.
The military needs high loiter time, low signature, and small to medium payload (in equipment terms, not in cargo scales).
The same electronics for the autoflight brains and command/control systems will be applicable for big honking cargo planes and for svelte military drones, though.
Considering people used to use mechanical typewriters in rooms full of desks with 4 foot spacings and NO cubicle walls... stuff 'em. If they don't like it, tough noogies.
It used to be a no-brainer - Home Depot in Vancouver was open 24 hours, great selection, and a little bit closer to me than the nearest comparably sized Revy store.
Sure, a little bit of me didn't like shopping at a US firm when there was a Canadian firm, but at 2 AM, you don't have much choice, and for some reason I always seem to end up going and getting lumber and crap for things I'm working on at 2 AM.
Then one day, HD announced they were going stock only from 2 AM to 5 AM. Fine, I thought. No biggie. I'll just try to get there earlier.
Then it was midnight to six.
Then ten to six it was closed. Now it's the same hours as Revy.
Then they "expanded their aisles to make shopping better". Nice doublespeak for "we dropped twenty percent of our stock"!
Creature of habit that I am, I kept going there. I'm uncomfortably reminded of "how to boil a frog"... but one day, I wander into Revy on a quest for the holy rivet.
OK, not that holy. I just needed some damn copper rivets. HD had nothing. I go into Revy, and they have not just one or two but dozens of types of rivets. I realized then how bad I'd been getting it at HD. Never going back there again!
It should be easy to automate at least -link- duplicate checking, though.
The engine already pulls all the links into a sidebar for the story. Just have it autosearch the archives for each link when bringing the story up, with a list of dupes (like dependencies in bugzilla), and then the editor can easily spotcheck any suspiciously unique duped links. IE: ignore basic www.nytimes.com, but check a deep story.
I can make you have to enter in a 25 character password, changed daily. Extremely inconvenient - and really doesn't add to security, since you'll just write it down all the time.
Finding where you can get the "biggest bang for the buck", IE: the best increase in security for the least inconvenience, is a very important thing. If we stop making security needlessly a pain in the ass, then people will stop thinking that secure=impossible to use.
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Encyclopedia to the rescue! I put it inside one volume and then stacked a half dozen more over top of it, and left it for a couple days. Worked fine, not even a bad sector - I have no idea why not. I guess I lucked out and nothing shifted while it was bent, so nothing scraped.
You can, with Mandrake.
When it asks you what CD's you have, deselect CD2 and 3. The available packages in the selection list will be lessened (for obvious reasons, I might add), but you're still good to go.
They basically made their own IO board.
The relays use the individual signal lines off the parallel cable to turn on and off, and relays are needed to ramp up to the 12v that the motors require.
I did something similar to this in grade eight electronics, by hacking a radio shack armatron to connect to a TRS-80, by soldering in wires to the control panel surfaces, and relays to up the voltage from the parallel port. Worked great, I was able to make the robot pick up a box of screws, turn, and dump them all over.
Timing was an issue, though, because the armatron did multiple things at a slower rate than if it was doing them seperately - presumably a current draw problem, which I wonder if these guys needed to address, or if they just have a powerful enough 12V supply that it can run all 16 at once without rate changes.
No, the women just like having their bits flipped. ;)
That's the one! Thanks for feeding my tech envy for the day. :)
I saw these advertised a couple years back. They also have multiple air vents, etc etc. Quite amazing... wish I could remember the company name.
They made Aeron chairs look like the cheapass metal foldups from the local community hall.
And if the interface is HTML, then there's no special accomodations needed to allow a linux browser instead of a MS one.
No.
The equivalent to requiring explicit permission before emailing me would be requiring explicit permission before VISITING my website.
Linking to a website is a pointer. It is akin to posting a mailto: link - which while generally causes your mailbox to be more likely to be spam harvested, does not actually result directly in anything appearing in your mailbox.
Bad programming, bad tuning, who knows. There's many ways to make just about anything break badly, if it's not set up appropriately.
You don't send in a human to a high threat environment when you can send a drone, ergo drones get lost more.
The cargo capacity is low because that's not what the military needs in a drone.
The military needs high loiter time, low signature, and small to medium payload (in equipment terms, not in cargo scales).
The same electronics for the autoflight brains and command/control systems will be applicable for big honking cargo planes and for svelte military drones, though.
There I'll agree with you. Gamers keep greybox companies in the black and all seem to have *cough*evaluation*cough* OS installs.
Indeed, cf: cops can scoop trash without a search warrant, but not reporters.
Considering people used to use mechanical typewriters in rooms full of desks with 4 foot spacings and NO cubicle walls... stuff 'em. If they don't like it, tough noogies.
The OS wouldn't be irrelevant, though - it would be the LOCAL OS that would be irrelevant, since you just override it with your own OS.
That's a fair bit different from being able to sit down at a Mac or a Wintel or a Linux box, and get at all the same data no matter what.
Odd tweaking that requires 2-by-4's, 1/2" sheet ply, and custom cut gas pipe. ;)
It used to be a no-brainer - Home Depot in Vancouver was open 24 hours, great selection, and a little bit closer to me than the nearest comparably sized Revy store.
Sure, a little bit of me didn't like shopping at a US firm when there was a Canadian firm, but at 2 AM, you don't have much choice, and for some reason I always seem to end up going and getting lumber and crap for things I'm working on at 2 AM.
Then one day, HD announced they were going stock only from 2 AM to 5 AM. Fine, I thought. No biggie. I'll just try to get there earlier.
Then it was midnight to six.
Then ten to six it was closed. Now it's the same hours as Revy.
Then they "expanded their aisles to make shopping better". Nice doublespeak for "we dropped twenty percent of our stock"!
Creature of habit that I am, I kept going there. I'm uncomfortably reminded of "how to boil a frog"... but one day, I wander into Revy on a quest for the holy rivet.
OK, not that holy. I just needed some damn copper rivets. HD had nothing. I go into Revy, and they have not just one or two but dozens of types of rivets. I realized then how bad I'd been getting it at HD. Never going back there again!
Rumor has it he can be found here - opinionated as ever.
It should be easy to automate at least -link- duplicate checking, though.
The engine already pulls all the links into a sidebar for the story. Just have it autosearch the archives for each link when bringing the story up, with a list of dupes (like dependencies in bugzilla), and then the editor can easily spotcheck any suspiciously unique duped links. IE: ignore basic www.nytimes.com, but check a deep story.
If the only way to win is to be the only one remaining, then neither have won and both have lost (if the game were 'called' right now).
Presumably, you would buy in advance on a prepaid card, with some type of account info.
Gaining actual access to the network (or rather, outside the AP) would require some type of sign-in, that starts your billing.
I've always referred to that as "vgrep". As in visual, of course.
Just last night, I decided to try Counterstrike. Haven't played it in ages, just playing Day of Defeat, so I needed the full install.
Of course, all the mirrors were dead, full, or obscene wait lines (no, FilePlanet, I won't buy a damn personal server).
Fired up Kazaa Lite, and had it within ten minutes. Perfectly legal.
Yes, but there are degrees to everything.
I can make you have to enter in a 25 character password, changed daily. Extremely inconvenient - and really doesn't add to security, since you'll just write it down all the time.
Finding where you can get the "biggest bang for the buck", IE: the best increase in security for the least inconvenience, is a very important thing. If we stop making security needlessly a pain in the ass, then people will stop thinking that secure=impossible to use.