Get an inexpensive LCD screen (about $140 at Newegg), I have a slightly older version of this Asus 21" 1920 x 1080 LCD back-light monitor, works great and is fairly light weight:
Make a case with some foam padding and cloth that won't scratch the screen. Maybe something like a Pelican case (the monitor above is about 15" x 20").
Looks like there is a Hackerspace in Austin. Go visit them and maybe they will be able to help you hack something together.
The "turbo" button wasn't really turbo... it was either normal speed, or 1/2 clock speed, or otherwise crippling the cache or something to slow it down.
Some of my favorites; Guy Gavriel Kay - Fionavar trilogy, Tigana - top notch fantasy. He helped edit Tolkien's The Silmarillion, and his writing reflects a lot of Tolkien's influence. Timescape - Gregory Benford - the only good science fiction book about time travel I've ever read. David Brin - the Uplift series Lord of Light & Roadmarks - Roger Zelazny. Lord of Light should be required reading for any Sci Fi fan. Hothouse - Brian Aldiss. May be hard to find, I found an old copy in a used book store. I read a lot of Andre Norton's books as a kid, I especially liked "The Stars are Ours". Her stuff is mostly regarded as young-adult, but very good. I may have to re-read it some day. I've also been meaning to read her Beastmaster series, I understand it's much different than the bad movie / tv adaptations.
I have a Wham-O Pluto Platter I found in the attic of my Grandpa's house - it's not the original Bakelite Morrison Pluto Platter, but the plastic version, looks very similar. Mine says "WHAM-O" on the top, but the word "Frisbee" is not on it, from what I can tell mine was made in 1957.
There is the One edition, which is a single CD, meant to be run as a live CD, or can be installed.
There is also the Free edition, which comes as a DVD, or as multiple CD's. It has to be installed to run it. It doesn't contain any proprietary drivers or software, but you can choose to install them - i.e. you will be prompted to install either the free nv driver, or proprietary nVidia driver.
The 3rd option is PowerPack, which you have to pay for, which contains proprietary drivers and software - i.e. a commercially licensed DVD player.
There are other commercial versions available for firewall, enterprise servers etc. Check it out yourself!
But your RX8 gets what... 18mpg, on a good day? I've driven them, and seen what they can do in an autocross, impressive performance, but the MPG absolutely sucks.
I had a Honda S2000, very similar performance specs, but I could get 27mpg in daily driving. I don't understand why anyone puts up with the MPG of the RX8. 18mpg is 60's muscle car territory.
I don't know much about it (other than reading about it on their web site) but Mandriva has an Enterprise desktop management system for both Windows and Linux desktops called Pulse2:
I'm a long time Mandriva user on desktops, laptop, and servers, but all in a small business or personal environment, and it works well for me... I don't claim to know anything about Enterprise.
I just got back from a PHP security class, here's a quick overview of what was covered:
- register_globals = off
- Use the Suhosin PHP hardening patch.
- Always filter all of your input for injection attempts. Write a validation class to handle this.
- Use prepared SQL statements, or stored procedures to help avoid sql injections
There are some pretty good articles out there that cover most of these points and more, just google for "PHP security". Take the time to read the articles, they're worth it.
It's really sad that more people don't pay attention to PHP security. The class I took was, as far as I know, the only commercial PHP security class offered in the US this year, and there were only 4 students in attendance.
It's been improved... the best way to handle your update repositories is to use the Easy URPMI site at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ - just click and it will automagically add the sources for you.
I've been running the Beta and RC versions on my laptop and a desktop, it's been working well. Gonna start torrenting the release version shortly.
Some things I've found: - Find forms of exercise you enjoy, because if you're bored or not engaged by it, it's hard to stick to it.
- Many geeks have had a life-long aversion to the "jocks", and don't want to go to the gym, or play organized sports with them. So... don't. Exercise with your geek friends. Bike. Play Ultimate Frisbee or go disc golfing, hike, whatever. Start a nerd soccer league.
I played soccer for years in an adult recreational coed league, and had a blast with it, until my knees couldn't take it any more. Now I bike with friends, and do some of the other things above.
IMHO, bikes are a great geek exercise tool. They can be fun to geek out with gadgets, to tinker with if you want to, it's fun & easy to ride with your geek friends and talk about coding, or the latest games, or debate who's the better captain, Kirk or Picard. And as an aside, they can keep you in shape, and work as cheap transportation.
Exactly what I was thinking. I've had a few rackmount servers & switches in my cube space before, and it's really annoying. When I moved them, it was oddly calm.
Build a server closet/room that's connected to your office, and put a big glass window in between so you can see all of the blinky lights.
"Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.."
So, if the number of Firefox users is somewhat small, how do they figure they'll get tremendous financial rewards by blocking them?
Mandriva is the best "everything works out of the box" experience I've had with Linux, and I've run just about all of the common ones. I just updated both my desktop and my laptop to pretty much cutting edge hardware, and everything works. The laptop, a Dell D620, is working great under Mandriva 2007. I'm a Mandriva Club member, so using the PowerPack DVD is sweet - the nVidia graphics card drivers, Intel wireless, Broadcom ethernet and such get set up and work on the first boot.
I won't lie and say it's perfect, but it's pretty good. 2 bugs I've run into are: - The "drakroam" wireless tool gets an error when you try to change between networks you've already configured. I usually just re-configure the wireless card when I switch networks. - A lot of problems with sound. Seems like a conflict between ALSA and OSS apps. Dammit, just choose one and go with it, people! (More of a general Linux issue than just Mandriva).
Ubuntu is OK, but IMHO not as easy to use. I usually go for Kubuntu (not a Gnome fan). For one thing, they use the goofy upside-down desktop layout like RedHat - with the menu bar on top. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, or if they just do it because it's different than Windows, but dang, it just seems un-natural.
Exactly. There are a number of other RBL's out there. I choose to use some of them, but not others. For instance, I don't use SORBS because IMHO they're a little too restrictive - but I understand why some people like them, because they block a lot more spam than others.
To lose the ability to use Spamhaus would be a big blow to spam blocking.
Dude, you should be the VP of Marketing for Gentoo.
I used Gentoo back in '94 when it was spelled "Slackware". I installed Gentoo once, didn't enjoy it one bit. I'm much happier with distro's that I can get things actually *done* with. In this day and age, if your OS install takes more than 30 minutes, there's a serious problem.
I was on the staff for a LAN party group. At one event we had participants have two power supplies blow caps, rather loudly - about like a small firecracker, within a few minutes of each other. The caps were completely split open, and there was grey papery dust all over the insides of the computer.
One of them took out every component in the computer except for the floppy drive. Both had cases & PSU's they'd gotten from a retailer known for cheap components. The power supplies were by a company whose name starts with "D" and rhymes with "Beere". Any time I see a PC with one of those, I tell people to replace the PSU immediately.
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Anyone remember Pencil Whipped?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_tEPkvYhU
Get an inexpensive LCD screen (about $140 at Newegg), I have a slightly older version of this Asus 21" 1920 x 1080 LCD back-light monitor, works great and is fairly light weight:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236100
Make a case with some foam padding and cloth that won't scratch the screen. Maybe something like a Pelican case (the monitor above is about 15" x 20").
Looks like there is a Hackerspace in Austin. Go visit them and maybe they will be able to help you hack something together.
http://atxhs.org/wiki/Main_Page
Liam Neeson will be glad to hear this news as he decides what to punch next.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/01/25/145837558/what-should-liam-neeson-punch-next
The "turbo" button wasn't really turbo... it was either normal speed, or 1/2 clock speed, or otherwise crippling the cache or something to slow it down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
Beer Milkshakes are delicious. I use a nutty brown ale with a good vanilla ice cream.
c'mon, try it. Dave Lister would not steer you wrong.
Some of my favorites;
Guy Gavriel Kay - Fionavar trilogy, Tigana - top notch fantasy. He helped edit Tolkien's The Silmarillion, and his writing reflects a lot of Tolkien's influence.
Timescape - Gregory Benford - the only good science fiction book about time travel I've ever read.
David Brin - the Uplift series
Lord of Light & Roadmarks - Roger Zelazny. Lord of Light should be required reading for any Sci Fi fan.
Hothouse - Brian Aldiss. May be hard to find, I found an old copy in a used book store.
I read a lot of Andre Norton's books as a kid, I especially liked "The Stars are Ours". Her stuff is mostly regarded as young-adult, but very good. I may have to re-read it some day. I've also been meaning to read her Beastmaster series, I understand it's much different than the bad movie / tv adaptations.
It's a big swirly thing in space.
I would agree that the Kubuntu / KDE experience is not that great, which is a shame.
My usual desktop Linux distro, Mandriva with KDE, has much better KDE integration than Kubuntu.
As many have pointed out, KDE seems to be pulling ahead of Gnome, and the KDE / QT library is much more portable to other platforms.
I hope that KDE gets pulled into the main Ubuntu stream soon!
That's sad.
I have a Wham-O Pluto Platter I found in the attic of my Grandpa's house - it's not the original Bakelite Morrison Pluto Platter, but the plastic version, looks very similar. Mine says "WHAM-O" on the top, but the word "Frisbee" is not on it, from what I can tell mine was made in 1957.
That's not true.
There is the One edition, which is a single CD, meant to be run as a live CD, or can be installed.
There is also the Free edition, which comes as a DVD, or as multiple CD's. It has to be installed to run it. It doesn't contain any proprietary drivers or software, but you can choose to install them - i.e. you will be prompted to install either the free nv driver, or proprietary nVidia driver.
The 3rd option is PowerPack, which you have to pay for, which contains proprietary drivers and software - i.e. a commercially licensed DVD player.
There are other commercial versions available for firewall, enterprise servers etc. Check it out yourself!
http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/11/04/mandriva-linux-2010-is-out/
http://www2.mandriva.com/downloads/
But your RX8 gets what... 18mpg, on a good day? I've driven them, and seen what they can do in an autocross, impressive performance, but the MPG absolutely sucks.
I had a Honda S2000, very similar performance specs, but I could get 27mpg in daily driving. I don't understand why anyone puts up with the MPG of the RX8. 18mpg is 60's muscle car territory.
I don't know much about it (other than reading about it on their web site) but Mandriva has an Enterprise desktop management system for both Windows and Linux desktops called Pulse2:
http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/en/products/overview
I'm a long time Mandriva user on desktops, laptop, and servers, but all in a small business or personal environment, and it works well for me... I don't claim to know anything about Enterprise.
I just got back from a PHP security class, here's a quick overview of what was covered:
- register_globals = off
- Use the Suhosin PHP hardening patch.
- Always filter all of your input for injection attempts. Write a validation class to handle this.
- Use prepared SQL statements, or stored procedures to help avoid sql injections
There are some pretty good articles out there that cover most of these points and more, just google for "PHP security". Take the time to read the articles, they're worth it.
It's really sad that more people don't pay attention to PHP security. The class I took was, as far as I know, the only commercial PHP security class offered in the US this year, and there were only 4 students in attendance.
It's been improved... the best way to handle your update repositories is to use the Easy URPMI site at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ - just click and it will automagically add the sources for you.
I've been running the Beta and RC versions on my laptop and a desktop, it's been working well. Gonna start torrenting the release version shortly.
Some things I've found:
- Find forms of exercise you enjoy, because if you're bored or not engaged by it, it's hard to stick to it.
- Many geeks have had a life-long aversion to the "jocks", and don't want to go to the gym, or play organized sports with them. So... don't. Exercise with your geek friends. Bike. Play Ultimate Frisbee or go disc golfing, hike, whatever. Start a nerd soccer league.
I played soccer for years in an adult recreational coed league, and had a blast with it, until my knees couldn't take it any more. Now I bike with friends, and do some of the other things above.
IMHO, bikes are a great geek exercise tool. They can be fun to geek out with gadgets, to tinker with if you want to, it's fun & easy to ride with your geek friends and talk about coding, or the latest games, or debate who's the better captain, Kirk or Picard. And as an aside, they can keep you in shape, and work as cheap transportation.
Exactly what I was thinking. I've had a few rackmount servers & switches in my cube space before, and it's really annoying. When I moved them, it was oddly calm.
Build a server closet/room that's connected to your office, and put a big glass window in between so you can see all of the blinky lights.
YOUR MOM.
"Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.."
So, if the number of Firefox users is somewhat small, how do they figure they'll get tremendous financial rewards by blocking them?
Asshats...
I'll put in another "me too" for Mandriva.
Mandriva is the best "everything works out of the box" experience I've had with Linux, and I've run just about all of the common ones. I just updated both my desktop and my laptop to pretty much cutting edge hardware, and everything works. The laptop, a Dell D620, is working great under Mandriva 2007. I'm a Mandriva Club member, so using the PowerPack DVD is sweet - the nVidia graphics card drivers, Intel wireless, Broadcom ethernet and such get set up and work on the first boot.
I won't lie and say it's perfect, but it's pretty good. 2 bugs I've run into are:
- The "drakroam" wireless tool gets an error when you try to change between networks you've already configured. I usually just re-configure the wireless card when I switch networks.
- A lot of problems with sound. Seems like a conflict between ALSA and OSS apps. Dammit, just choose one and go with it, people! (More of a general Linux issue than just Mandriva).
Ubuntu is OK, but IMHO not as easy to use. I usually go for Kubuntu (not a Gnome fan). For one thing, they use the goofy upside-down desktop layout like RedHat - with the menu bar on top. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, or if they just do it because it's different than Windows, but dang, it just seems un-natural.
Exactly. There are a number of other RBL's out there. I choose to use some of them, but not others. For instance, I don't use SORBS because IMHO they're a little too restrictive - but I understand why some people like them, because they block a lot more spam than others.
To lose the ability to use Spamhaus would be a big blow to spam blocking.
"It's really not complicated, just tedious."
Dude, you should be the VP of Marketing for Gentoo.
I used Gentoo back in '94 when it was spelled "Slackware". I installed Gentoo once, didn't enjoy it one bit. I'm much happier with distro's that I can get things actually *done* with. In this day and age, if your OS install takes more than 30 minutes, there's a serious problem.
I was on the staff for a LAN party group. At one event we had participants have two power supplies blow caps, rather loudly - about like a small firecracker, within a few minutes of each other. The caps were completely split open, and there was grey papery dust all over the insides of the computer.
One of them took out every component in the computer except for the floppy drive. Both had cases & PSU's they'd gotten from a retailer known for cheap components. The power supplies were by a company whose name starts with "D" and rhymes with "Beere". Any time I see a PC with one of those, I tell people to replace the PSU immediately.
Should come in handy next time I want to have a light-switch rave.
Not that I really care about Halo... but what a bunch of a-holes.
There's already pTunes for the Treo. My Treo 600 make a fine phone / pda / mp3 player. I have no need for iTunes.