I see lots of people refer to the IEC C14 connector as a 'kettle lead' For one, it won't plug into a kettle - there is a notch. Secondly the kettle lead is likely to have a 13amp fuse in the plug, and computer should have a 5 amp in the plug. The proper name for a kettle plug is the IEC C14.
The kettle leads are also rated to work at higher temperatures, which is one of the reasons you can got from kettle to pc, but not from pc to kettle.
Also, do you guys in the US have kettles? I'm sure I've read many times that your electricity is too weak to power a kettle , here in the UK we can get 3KW kettles which will boil a couple of litres of water in a minute or so.
Compiz doesn't actually use that much system resources, nor strain your hardware either. It uses your gfx card to do all the work, which otherwise would be doing 99% nothing in most other circumstances anyway.
A lot of the modern TV are like this already - standard screens, standard cases, standard layout, and modules are added at manufacture to produce the different ranges.
Some of the pro panels actually have user removeable modules for things like tuners/video feeds and combinations thereof etc, check the commercial panels of Panasonic / Pioneer
combine new and old markets and double-penetrate them both?
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amen, brother. I just did the same, thing and got a MBP i7 . Saves space, more powerful than my previous desktops. keep for 3-4 years and then reassess my options.
Yeah. Matrox alway get forgotten when it come to these things. What this does offer, is some 'power' with your multiple screens, matrox lost the 'framerate/3d tech' battle a long time ago to the likes of nvidia, ati, and probably even 3dfx. They then seemed to specialise in video editing, multi monitor and all that sort of thing, ideal for traders etc.
This card looks to be aimed squarely at gameers looking for an eyefinity setup, and/or internet e-epeen enlargement.
Has Yahoo stumbled upon the Holy Grail of dupes? Have they unwittingly produced the mother of all duping systems? We must know, is there anything slashdot can learn from this to ensure more efficiently duped articles? Why stop at duped stories when we can have duped comments?! This would save so much time.
Has Yahoo stumbled upon the Holy Grail of dupes? Have they unwittingly produced the mother of all duping systems? We must know, is there anything slashdot can learn from this to ensure more efficiently duped articles? Why stop at duped stories when we can have duped comments?! This would save so much time.
This has to be one of the most retarded things I have ever seen. What that guy says in the video is a load of bollocks as well. The steering wheel is literally obstructed. What could be more distracting than having a giant fucking LCD screen jerry rigged to your steering wheel.
What is this, other than a distro with a pre populated bookmark list, cunningly hidden under 'Apps' instead of 'Bookmarks'?
What about accounts for each of these [cloud|web2.0|webapp] services? How is that managed? What if someone else uses your computer? Account creation? Data control? is there a backup service?
The most memorable part of the review for me was the wall paper. Not because I liked it, but the author of the article did, dedicating at least 2 paragraphs to it...
I love the think pad trackpoints as well. I have the concave pointer (like the xbox360 pad) and it's the best imo. The problem I find with the trackpoint is that my shoulder gets really tense after using it for a few hours as I find you do need to have quite fine motor controls to use it precisely. I can feel my whole arm tense up when using my finger to just nudge to pointer carefully.
As for trackpads, never been a fan, I always end up accidentally clicking all over the place and accidentally brushing the pad with my wrists, but DAMN I just got a Macbook Pro and the trackpads on them are phenomenol - multiouch, gestures, so smoooth, whole button click, ability to disable 'taps'
Also, the IBM thinkpad keyboards are in a league of their own when it comes to laptop keyboard quality.
The problem I always have with this is that, the way Gnome handles samba shares sucks plain and simple. As far as I can tell it kind of pseudo mounts the shares in some place somewhere, only accessible via certain gnome programs. And sometimes i'm sure i've found some progs that won't handle that and demand either a local copy of file or document.
Also, if I mount the share through gnome, then I can't access it in terminal. I have to drop to the terminal and manually mount it, and then add to my fstab for permanent system wide access.
Why can't the gnome guys just make gnome handle mounting network filessytems as just a nice gui to The Linux Way, to ensure everything should Just Work?
Oh, and KDE (3.x) does the same thing as far as I can remember. The best solution was a small utility that did act as a pure gui to fstab and allowed creating mount points. Years agao can't remeber the name of it no. Probably Knetworkmountutil or something similar.
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The kettle leads are also rated to work at higher temperatures, which is one of the reasons you can got from kettle to pc, but not from pc to kettle.
Also, do you guys in the US have kettles? I'm sure I've read many times that your electricity is too weak to power a kettle , here in the UK we can get 3KW kettles which will boil a couple of litres of water in a minute or so.
Compiz doesn't actually use that much system resources, nor strain your hardware either. It uses your gfx card to do all the work, which otherwise would be doing 99% nothing in most other circumstances anyway.
Some of the pro panels actually have user removeable modules for things like tuners/video feeds and combinations thereof etc, check the commercial panels of Panasonic / Pioneer
Or indeed, all the pr0n routed from rooms in the house to a central video encoding and web broadcasting console.
And subsequently route the signal via patch panels / wall plates to various locations around your basement/home/place of work?*
What?. Isn't that destroying evidence (or potential evidence)?
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I don't get it. Why would you want to do this? Is it to be able to cheat at physics exam?
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amen, brother. I just did the same, thing and got a MBP i7 . Saves space, more powerful than my previous desktops. keep for 3-4 years and then reassess my options.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPVlAhK2j2o Watch that !
Highly likely, given it's possible to use real midi drums/controllers as replacement for the drum controller already.
This card looks to be aimed squarely at gameers looking for an eyefinity setup, and/or internet e-epeen enlargement.
Has Yahoo stumbled upon the Holy Grail of dupes? Have they unwittingly produced the mother of all duping systems? We must know, is there anything slashdot can learn from this to ensure more efficiently duped articles? Why stop at duped stories when we can have duped comments?! This would save so much time.
Wow. I can honestly say I've never used that functionality and to be honest I don't even think I knew it was there.
I will try and use it and report back.
There tha's better.
This has to be one of the most retarded things I have ever seen. What that guy says in the video is a load of bollocks as well. The steering wheel is literally obstructed. What could be more distracting than having a giant fucking LCD screen jerry rigged to your steering wheel.
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What is this, other than a distro with a pre populated bookmark list, cunningly hidden under 'Apps' instead of 'Bookmarks'?
What about accounts for each of these [cloud|web2.0|webapp] services? How is that managed? What if someone else uses your computer? Account creation? Data control? is there a backup service?
The most memorable part of the review for me was the wall paper. Not because I liked it, but the author of the article did, dedicating at least 2 paragraphs to it...
As for trackpads, never been a fan, I always end up accidentally clicking all over the place and accidentally brushing the pad with my wrists, but DAMN I just got a Macbook Pro and the trackpads on them are phenomenol - multiouch, gestures, so smoooth, whole button click, ability to disable 'taps'
Also, the IBM thinkpad keyboards are in a league of their own when it comes to laptop keyboard quality.
For some reason I've been linked to that site a lot recently, and every video there I've seen is pretty decent, insightful, and fascinating.
Yeah - it's really a man!
I coded the basics of one in PHP, but wondered if anyone had a decent implemented solution already?
Also, if I mount the share through gnome, then I can't access it in terminal. I have to drop to the terminal and manually mount it, and then add to my fstab for permanent system wide access.
Why can't the gnome guys just make gnome handle mounting network filessytems as just a nice gui to The Linux Way, to ensure everything should Just Work?
Oh, and KDE (3.x) does the same thing as far as I can remember. The best solution was a small utility that did act as a pure gui to fstab and allowed creating mount points. Years agao can't remeber the name of it no. Probably Knetworkmountutil or something similar.
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