This is how I do it... my ID card generating app is a simple web app, so it's platform agnostic.
Depends I suppose how many you are printing...
How much would it cost you to hire a printer driver programmer to knock one up for you?
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Hear hear, as soon as I get my book budget out of the claws of finance one gets bought. In fact, I'm almost tempted to...gasp...spend my own money on it!
The book has a web site - http://www.sysadminfocus.com/index.html - and you can read an excellent appendix on-line - giving quick summaries of "what to do when". Good stuff.
Well, then post "I hear rumurs that FreeBSD 4.6 is released, although if you look at their official site, it isn't". No-one would object to that, other than that it's a stupid thing to post.
It's not like people expect detailed fact checking on/. but for something you can check with a visit to one web site, that you've been asked not to report prematurely twice in the past....
Nor can you search a notepad in a few seconds. Nor can you back up your notepad in 30 seconds. Nor can you use a notepad as a web browser/e-mail client (in an emergency, like I did yesterday to useful effect). Nor can you get a few dozen full size novels into your notepad and still fit it into your shirt pocket (unless your day job is writing peoples names on grains of rice....)
...is to get involved more in local geek-related events. Just last week I went to the UK Palm user Group meeting and had a great time. Except that for once I felt I didn't have enough gadgets on my belt...;-)
Head off to these, support them, and while you're there mention slashdot if you like.
I suspect thought that a slashdot meeting in meatspace might kinda miss the point of an on-line community if you see what you mean.
One thing though, it is sooo wierd introducing yourself with your nick instead of your real name.
I don't think that would work... you'd have to keep pointing at people, and it might
We have a series over here in the UK called Macyntyre Undercover. Some interesting stuff in it... all done on a big budget, but stuff you could learn from.
One cfact is that their radio links are not as reliable as they are in the movies. They get the video by local recording, but had in a recent program voice links so they could follow and protect him. He went off the designated route and behind a building and they lost voice contact...
Another thing that stuck in my mind was when he went after the Nigerian "borrow your bank account" fraudsters and got advice from a very experienced retired undercover cop. The cop kept telling him "don't wear a camera, they'll spot it". In the end they did and the program didn't go anywhere (most of his don't, revealing howw hard undercover stuff is).
P.S. for those worrying that we are furthering the aim of international terrorism, let us repeat the "Ask Slashdot" mantra: "if you have to ask slashdot how to do something as important as X, don't do it"
The point is, that assuming your phones are going over CAT5 to the desks, then the difference between wiring one CAT-5 to every desk and running two is going to be minimal. (of course, you want at least three per desk, but you get the idea)
Of course, perhaps you're going to squeeze the voice over that 802.11b link, in which case the bandwidth is starting to look even more uncomfortable.
Why is your quote for cabling so high? Is it a tricky install? Decent flood wiring isn't cheap - labour intensive and so on. My company tried doing it cheap, and we have plenty of crappy floorboxes to show for it.
If wireless works out cheaper, and manangement want to stay wired, then it's probably because they are unsure of the new technology. Given the bandwidth and security implications, you must ask yourself "are they right?".
Well, PalmOS 5, due soon, will run on ARMs, although it will run all the Dragonball software in emulation (without speed loss,which is kinda neat until you remember how fast an ARM is;-)
But even now I can see where the Treo can be a better choice for some people than PocketPC or Symbian; the form fcator will be compelling for some people. Not an really tiny (and long and thin) screen like the phone shaped ones, and not a huge pancake like the PDA shaped ones.
Better than that, of course, he worked on Colossus, which was the "zero"th electronic computer; built before anything else, and when the war ended, cut into pieces and burnt. Pity, but National Security dontcha know.
Absolutely! Hell, Linux can't detect the sound card in my laptop(made by one of the biggest companies in the world, that has put a lot of money into Linux - oh, and BTW, Alan Cox owns one of the self same models). So pardon me if I don't accept it as theNirvana of the computing world. I still lov eit as an idea - and I'm close yo getting some OpenBSD into produciton in my company - but you know, this story deserves more that just some rant about open/free software.
The problems in the UK air traffic control, are, to my mind, general problems associated with any project of this enormous scale. Before West Drayton was transferred to Swannick, it was already handling more flights than Swannick had been designed for - so it's no surprise to me that they stillhave problems.
Oh, and the reaon for the delay is not that there is any risk to passengers; when the sstems fail they go back to pieces of paper, and all works safely - just slowly!
Nooo, he said England because American's are not famed for their grasp of non-US geography.
Mind you, you do have to consider: what actually are the chances that if he had said just London, that anyone would have thought he meant the London in Conecuh County, Alabama?
Personally I'm not inclined to laugh at US fedral judges no matter where I'm standing...
Well, true that they are not similar technologies, but BT access points are becoming increasingly popular. Here's one. Now, they seem to me to be limiting tchnologies, except that if you have a lot of BT already... Also the BT SDIO card for Palm handhelds is tiny, so people like that.
I remember reading about a guy who's redesigned the foot pedals. Instead of gas and brake pedals you have a single pivoted plate. push your toe forward to accelertate, push you heel down to brake. The swedish car safety board found it a good idea - since you don't have to move your foot, it cuts stopping distance etc. Volvo are looking at putting it into production... I reckon it sounds like you would pick it up quickly. Ah, found it, good old Google!
I recall some other tests suggesting that joysticks instead of steering wheels are better but very hard to get used to - except for people young enough to be video-game addicts, who prefer it!
His character inspired people - here you have a TV show where one of the main characters is an engineer.
The day my gf finally leaves me, when I can go and buy a Star Trek uniform (TOS, none of your modern rubbish), it's going to be a red shirt, because I'm an engineer, not a doctor.
OK, maybe not such a big deal to the world as Nichelle Nichols was. But Montgomery Scott inspired me.
Now, here's an idea for a poll; which TOS character do you associate with the most?
Lastly, a bit of TrekTrivia so far not mentioned; James Doohan played pretty much every computer voice etc. in Trek that Majel Barret Roddenberry didn't.
You'd need to reserve a proper routable address range and use that - no-one else should be using that; those with static assigned addresses will either be from their own routable range or one of the non-routables. Or they are configured very badly.
Well, I do this manually. When I remember - it's always embarassing when my significant other asks me "why are we watching adverts when it is on tape?"
This must be why ITV digital has failed in the UK - all those buggers going to the toilet during ad breaks.
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Last time I looked, South Yorkshire was not in Australia...
These awards are for the best things at the E3 trade show.
And Doom III was demoed at the show.
And, one might presume, the most interesting PC game there.
So how exactly is it odd for it to win? The award isn't for best thing you can buy in the shops, it's for best thing exhibited at the show.
I'd guess at least 60% of the stuff at E3 isn't out yet. That would be rather the point of E3, wouldn't it?
This is how I do it... my ID card generating app is a simple web app, so it's platform agnostic.
Depends I suppose how many you are printing...
How much would it cost you to hire a printer driver programmer to knock one up for you?
Hear hear, as soon as I get my book budget out of the claws of finance one gets bought. In fact, I'm almost tempted to...gasp...spend my own money on it!
The book has a web site - http://www.sysadminfocus.com/index.html - and you can read an excellent appendix on-line - giving quick summaries of "what to do when". Good stuff.
Well, then post "I hear rumurs that FreeBSD 4.6 is released, although if you look at their official site, it isn't". No-one would object to that, other than that it's a stupid thing to post.
/. but for something you can check with a visit to one web site, that you've been asked not to report prematurely twice in the past....
It's not like people expect detailed fact checking on
Nor can you search a notepad in a few seconds. Nor can you back up your notepad in 30 seconds. Nor can you use a notepad as a web browser/e-mail client (in an emergency, like I did yesterday to useful effect).
Nor can you get a few dozen full size novels into your notepad and still fit it into your shirt pocket (unless your day job is writing peoples names on grains of rice....)
"Please draw distinctions between webpages with news, mindless link propagation, discussion sites, personal diaries or journals, etc. "
;-)
Hey, isn't Slashdot all of that and more?
...is to get involved more in local geek-related events. Just last week I went to the UK Palm user Group meeting and had a great time. Except that for once I felt I didn't have enough gadgets on my belt... ;-)
Head off to these, support them, and while you're there mention slashdot if you like.
I suspect thought that a slashdot meeting in meatspace might kinda miss the point of an on-line community if you see what you mean.
One thing though, it is sooo wierd introducing yourself with your nick instead of your real name.
I don't think that would work... you'd have to keep pointing at people, and it might
We have a series over here in the UK called Macyntyre Undercover. Some interesting stuff in it... all done on a big budget, but stuff you could learn from.
One cfact is that their radio links are not as reliable as they are in the movies. They get the video by local recording, but had in a recent program voice links so they could follow and protect him. He went off the designated route and behind a building and they lost voice contact...
Another thing that stuck in my mind was when he went after the Nigerian "borrow your bank account" fraudsters and got advice from a very experienced retired undercover cop. The cop kept telling him "don't wear a camera, they'll spot it". In the end they did and the program didn't go anywhere (most of his don't, revealing howw hard undercover stuff is).
P.S. for those worrying that we are furthering the aim of international terrorism, let us repeat the "Ask Slashdot" mantra: "if you have to ask slashdot how to do something as important as X, don't do it"
No, but a sytems administrator who is running Windows ME at all, let alone in the server farm, is insane already anyhow.
The point is, that assuming your phones are going over CAT5 to the desks, then the difference between wiring one CAT-5 to every desk and running two is going to be minimal. (of course, you want at least three per desk, but you get the idea)
Of course, perhaps you're going to squeeze the voice over that 802.11b link, in which case the bandwidth is starting to look even more uncomfortable.
Why is your quote for cabling so high? Is it a tricky install? Decent flood wiring isn't cheap - labour intensive and so on. My company tried doing it cheap, and we have plenty of crappy floorboxes to show for it.
If wireless works out cheaper, and manangement want to stay wired, then it's probably because they are unsure of the new technology. Given the bandwidth and security implications, you must ask yourself "are they right?".
Well, I'm pretty sure there weren't any at the zoo last time I checked...
Well, PalmOS 5, due soon, will run on ARMs, although it will run all the Dragonball software in emulation (without speed loss,which is kinda neat until you remember how fast an ARM is ;-)
But even now I can see where the Treo can be a better choice for some people than PocketPC or Symbian; the form fcator will be compelling for some people. Not an really tiny (and long and thin) screen like the phone shaped ones, and not a huge pancake like the PDA shaped ones.
He doesn't say he is a member of Mensa, just that he owns a membership card. ;-)
Ina similar way, just because CowboyNeal owns a star trek uniform, doesn't mean he is a member of StarFleet... or is he?
Better than that, of course, he worked on Colossus, which was the "zero"th electronic computer; built before anything else, and when the war ended, cut into pieces and burnt. Pity, but National Security dontcha know.
Lots of info at http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
Absolutely! Hell, Linux can't detect the sound card in my laptop(made by one of the biggest companies in the world, that has put a lot of money into Linux - oh, and BTW, Alan Cox owns one of the self same models). So pardon me if I don't accept it as theNirvana of the computing world. I still lov eit as an idea - and I'm close yo getting some OpenBSD into produciton in my company - but you know, this story deserves more that just some rant about open/free software.
The problems in the UK air traffic control, are, to my mind, general problems associated with any project of this enormous scale. Before West Drayton was transferred to Swannick, it was already handling more flights than Swannick had been designed for - so it's no surprise to me that they stillhave problems.
Oh, and the reaon for the delay is not that there is any risk to passengers; when the sstems fail they go back to pieces of paper, and all works safely - just slowly!
Nooo, he said England because American's are not famed for their grasp of non-US geography.
Mind you, you do have to consider: what actually are the chances that if he had said just London, that anyone would have thought he meant the London in Conecuh County, Alabama?
Personally I'm not inclined to laugh at US fedral judges no matter where I'm standing...
Well, true that they are not similar technologies, but BT access points are becoming increasingly popular. Here's one. Now, they seem to me to be limiting tchnologies, except that if you have a lot of BT already... Also the BT SDIO card for Palm handhelds is tiny, so people like that.
I remember reading about a guy who's redesigned the foot pedals. Instead of gas and brake pedals you have a single pivoted plate. push your toe forward to accelertate, push you heel down to brake. The swedish car safety board found it a good idea - since you don't have to move your foot, it cuts stopping distance etc. Volvo are looking at putting it into production... I reckon it sounds like you would pick it up quickly. Ah, found it, good old Google!
I recall some other tests suggesting that joysticks instead of steering wheels are better but very hard to get used to - except for people young enough to be video-game addicts, who prefer it!
Well, I've seen se7en - so I know the FBI are monitoring what books I take oput of the Library!
Although given that I live in the UK it's probably the CIA behind it. Got to stay legal!
...I don't see any Linux ports to dragonball, so no.
His character inspired people - here you have a TV show where one of the main characters is an engineer.
The day my gf finally leaves me, when I can go and buy a Star Trek uniform (TOS, none of your modern rubbish), it's going to be a red shirt, because I'm an engineer, not a doctor.
OK, maybe not such a big deal to the world as Nichelle Nichols was. But Montgomery Scott inspired me.
Now, here's an idea for a poll; which TOS character do you associate with the most?
Lastly, a bit of TrekTrivia so far not mentioned; James Doohan played pretty much every computer voice etc. in Trek that Majel Barret Roddenberry didn't.
You'd need to reserve a proper routable address range and use that - no-one else should be using that; those with static assigned addresses will either be from their own routable range or one of the non-routables. Or they are configured very badly.
Well, I do this manually. When I remember - it's always embarassing when my significant other asks me "why are we watching adverts when it is on tape?"
This must be why ITV digital has failed in the UK - all those buggers going to the toilet during ad breaks.
Strange but true? Yeah, those italians and spaniards, they never stop working ;-)
OK, the Germans you'd expect to be workahoic, but their holidays are probably compulsory.