Most notable to be honoured is the Scot Sir Chris Hoy - triple Olympic medal winning, World Champion and all round good egg. And I've been overtaken by him on the track at Meadowbank many many years ago...
...and its not like DNS should be run from a client PC anyway. This is a ISP/corporate WAN/LAN issue - nothing to do with end user machines. Would you use a mac as your gateway/dns? Apple has done the right thing, mostly.
Some interesting things to note about this keyboard:
* The Macro key for keyboard macro processing separate from any particular application. In the end, macros were really only supported by specific programs like the editor, making a separate key less necessary.
* Terminal, System, and Network keys for controlling each of several layers of communications stack between the user and their applications.
* Roman numeral I thru IV, for quick interaction with menu-like lists of four or fewer choices.
* Four bucky keys: Ctrl, Meta, Super, and Hyper.
* Top and Greek shifts. Greek might also have been called Front. Notice that there are legends on the front of the keys. In addition to a dizzying array of parens, brackets, and brockets, the complete APL character set appears on this keyboard (but not in the standard APL layout, of course).
* Unshifted colon key.
* Thumbs- up, down, left, and right keys. It was never quite clear whether these were for answering yes/no questions or for navigation. In the groups that used this keyboard, there was a cultural aversion to arrow keys. To be honest, I'm not sure why any more.
* A Repeat key. Again, there was a cultural bias against auto-repeat and this was seen as a compromise.
* A nice big Help key, which unfortunately did not do as much as it probably should have.
* Rubout to the left of the home row, as on the Knight keyboard.
In the Findhorn Eco-Village http://www.ecovillagefindhorn.org/renewable/wind.php they use a variety of power sources to maintain constant power. But they are investigating a way to disseminate information on the availability of power so that additional wind resource can be utilised without the transmission losses of using a grid. If only a Web 2.0 geek with a electrical engineering bent could invent a FireFox plug-in (sic) to allow off-peak heating to be topped up this way... Do you have projects which are power intensive but not time sensitive?
Have a look at www.sky-map.org - its really nice, and has a convenient overlaid sidebar where you can browse interesting phenomena like the Bubble Nebula without knowing its Calder Number.
I think you mean,"I welcome my co-worker lizard army Overlords"
I'd be willing to bet that your first computer operated at >1GHz, although there is nothing wrong with being young - it just means that you have lots more chaff to look forward to.
There are only 100,000 five digit Slashdot numbers.
I find that syncing iCal.app to my Sony K750i works much better than my previous Nokia Communicator ever did. I then publish the Calendar on a private webDAV share so my other machines' grab it and show in Kontact. Who uses Outlook other than out of desperation? between dotProject, Intellisys http://www.webintellisys.com/ and iCal even my boss can see what I've been up to.
I bought a (relatively) nice X31 Thinkpad, installed Fedora, and it pretty much works. Of course the WiFi manager has never flickered into life as a) The Intel driver for 802.1b doesnt work and b) The LinuxAnt driver setup doesnt either.
If I'd been more thoughtful I would have bought a ultranice Apple PowerBook, had WiFi compatibility out of the box, a faster processor, nicer looking beast and can update the OS with much less clicks...And the terminal side would have allowed me to work just as effectively.
Humph.
Torc
Geminid Meteor Shower Party - Aberdeen, Scotland
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My local ( www.aberdeenastro.btinternet.co.uk ) astro soc have arranged a meteor shower observing party tonight (Sat 13th).
Thinking about this invention, I'd love to get my hands on this stuff to line the insides of my homebrew Newtonian Dobsonian 22cm f7.3 telescope. I think that this would make a cheaper and lighter solution to microfocus the eyepiece. After all I'll be running a webcam off it and eventually will fit steppers for alt/az control as well. So an electronic focussing element would be just great.
Slashdot Mirror
Round 'em up
Put 'em in a field
And bomb the bastards!
Alas your 4digit /. number gives you away sir, you must be conversant with Fortran 77? I'm but a whippersnapper with a 5digit...
Most notable to be honoured is the Scot Sir Chris Hoy - triple Olympic medal winning, World Champion and all round good egg.
And I've been overtaken by him on the track at Meadowbank many many years ago...
Ye be fine land lubber....
Aye aye!
Nice FSM reference
I'll change into my Pirate Costume now then shall I?
SO if Chrome is built on WebKit, and Safari is built on WebKit... where exactly does this take me?
...and its not like DNS should be run from a client PC anyway. This is a ISP/corporate WAN/LAN issue - nothing to do with end user machines. Would you use a mac as your gateway/dns? Apple has done the right thing, mostly.
All your base are belong to us
Did you hear that the missing page from the front has been found?
It actually starts with:
All characters portrayed in this are fictional, no resemblance to anyone living or dead is intended...
His great steamy noodles were too much!
http://www.venganza.org/
You young pups...perhaps some investigation might reveal this mighty kb:
http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet.html
Some interesting things to note about this keyboard:
* The Macro key for keyboard macro processing separate from any particular application. In the end, macros were really only supported by specific programs like the editor, making a separate key less necessary.
* Terminal, System, and Network keys for controlling each of several layers of communications stack between the user and their applications.
* Roman numeral I thru IV, for quick interaction with menu-like lists of four or fewer choices.
* Four bucky keys: Ctrl, Meta, Super, and Hyper.
* Top and Greek shifts. Greek might also have been called Front. Notice that there are legends on the front of the keys. In addition to a dizzying array of parens, brackets, and brockets, the complete APL character set appears on this keyboard (but not in the standard APL layout, of course).
* Unshifted colon key.
* Thumbs- up, down, left, and right keys. It was never quite clear whether these were for answering yes/no questions or for navigation. In the groups that used this keyboard, there was a cultural aversion to arrow keys. To be honest, I'm not sure why any more.
* A Repeat key. Again, there was a cultural bias against auto-repeat and this was seen as a compromise.
* A nice big Help key, which unfortunately did not do as much as it probably should have.
* Rubout to the left of the home row, as on the Knight keyboard.
You know it makes sense!
In the Findhorn Eco-Village http://www.ecovillagefindhorn.org/renewable/wind.php they use a variety of power sources to maintain constant power. But they are investigating a way to disseminate information on the availability of power so that additional wind resource can be utilised without the transmission losses of using a grid. If only a Web 2.0 geek with a electrical engineering bent could invent a FireFox plug-in (sic) to allow off-peak heating to be topped up this way... Do you have projects which are power intensive but not time sensitive?
Have a look at www.sky-map.org - its really nice, and has a convenient overlaid sidebar where you can browse interesting phenomena like the Bubble Nebula without knowing its Calder Number.
Nice easy to setup software: http://www.freenas.org/
Its FreeBSD based - so potentially very secure indeed, but your perimeter should take care of that in any event.
Good opportunity to re-cycle any old PC's that are lying around.
Trull
Just sitting around, stroking my ego with the other 100k guys.
I look up and my cat leans into my arm, stretches and breathes deeper before sleeping.
That's just showing off.
You don't need anything faster than the ZX81's 3.25MHz processor with a full complement of 1Kb of RAM.
http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html
Read that and weep.
Its "Climate Change" you insensitive clod!
I think you mean,"I welcome my co-worker lizard army Overlords"
I'd be willing to bet that your first computer operated at >1GHz, although there is nothing wrong with being young - it just means that you have lots more chaff to look forward to.
There are only 100,000 five digit Slashdot numbers.
Shame, eigh!
Trull
I find that syncing iCal.app to my Sony K750i works much better than my previous Nokia Communicator ever did. I then publish the Calendar on a private webDAV share so my other machines' grab it and show in Kontact. Who uses Outlook other than out of desperation? between dotProject, Intellisys http://www.webintellisys.com/ and iCal even my boss can see what I've been up to.
T
I'll inflict erm install this on management PCs and see how long it lasts.
Ease of use is the prime and only consideration.
Torc
...I've used AppleWorks for some time, but trying to let it rest easy with CSV files made me jump to OpenOffice or NeoOffice if I need to copy/paste.
An Apple tuned OpenOffice would be awesome - and show that Apple has real commitment to Free OpenSource.
Clear skies
Torc
I bought a (relatively) nice X31 Thinkpad, installed Fedora, and it pretty much works. Of course the WiFi manager has never flickered into life as a) The Intel driver for 802.1b doesnt work and b) The LinuxAnt driver setup doesnt either.
If I'd been more thoughtful I would have bought a ultranice Apple PowerBook, had WiFi compatibility out of the box, a faster processor, nicer looking beast and can update the OS with much less clicks...And the terminal side would have allowed me to work just as effectively.
Humph.
Torc
My local ( www.aberdeenastro.btinternet.co.uk ) astro soc have arranged a meteor shower observing party tonight (Sat 13th).
Anyone else going to one?
Hopefully the weather will be kind.
Clear skies
Torc
Repeat after me:
Its not a bug, its a feature!
Clear skies
Torc
Thinking about this invention, I'd love to get my hands on this stuff to line the insides of my homebrew Newtonian Dobsonian 22cm f7.3 telescope. I think that this would make a cheaper and lighter solution to microfocus the eyepiece. After all I'll be running a webcam off it and eventually will fit steppers for alt/az control as well. So an electronic focussing element would be just great.
Clear Skies
Torc