Their network stuff is great, but their 4 port switch at least doesn't work with Linux well at all. The software switching (through the keyboard) requires some kind of X key configuration which they helpfully did not document at all.
Also, the switch doesn't accept a key repeat modification. You'll be stuck at a repeat of 10.2 CPS with a.5 second delay. I tried forever to get the thing to do 30 CPS with a.25 second delay, but it won't work.
The switch works well with Windows however. I wrote them a couple e-mails for support, but they never responded to them.
Can't blame Evercrack for this. People have been ruining their marriages since waaaay before online gaming. The technique of "incessant yelling and screaming" was patented at about the same time as "nagging the hell out of your husband", "sleeping with the babysitter", and "blowing the house payment on a lifetime supply of pudding."
Your setup worked because you weren't doing anything that stressed the machine. All you did was run a measley BBS and some doors. That's nothing at all compared to what I was doing: C programming. Stray pointers still brought the machine down.
Alright, I know there are some people who read about these things and get all teary eyed as they relive their youth again. Not me. I was a college student with my 386SX, running MS-DOS. All I wanted to do was run an editor in one window, and Microsoft C 5.1 in the other window. I had hardly any money at all to spend on this stuff. The computer cost me $900 with a lot of scrounged parts, and I could barely afford that. The compiler belonged to my boss. Tuition bills were killing me.
I bought Desqview thinking that would help. It didn't, because it just partitioned the 640K into chunks that were too small. Also, it kept crashing . I spent a lot of time booting my computer. So, I got QEMM to go along with that. I think that I spent $150 for both of them. The QEMM gave me more memory, but it crashed even MORE. I couldn't work that way. Little did I know that it would be more than 3 years before I could move away from MS-DOG onto a real system that would accommodate a poor person AND not crash - Linux.
I have no illusions that those days with MS-DOS were the "good old days." I am forever in the debt of Linus Torvalds and his operating system, and it's all I can do to forget pissing away money that I couldn't really afford to spend, trying to get a Microsoft OS to just plain work. It was a nightmare that I never want to think about ever again.
I never said get a 12 inch CAT instead of binoculars. I said get a telescope.
You suggest 10x50's. Have you checked the weight on those puppies? Well, let's go to Orion's website and see. BTW, if you MUST get binocs, Orion makes some damn fine ones. Don't go to KMart and buy Tasco crap if you can help it. Anyway, here's Orion's website.
This page says that 10x50 binocs weigh 28 ounces. That's almost 2 pounds! Now how long is that going to be comfortable to hold over your head? Not long. Observing with unmounted binoculars is a great way to get someone to dislike Astronomy.
I'd recommend a small dobsonian, say a 4.5 inch or a 6 inch. Another great scope (which I own) is the Edmund Scientific Astroscan. It's a 4.5 inch Newtonian in a funky looking mount that is incredibly stable and easy to use. The magnification with the eyepiece that comes with it is 16X, which is PERFECT for a beginner.
Here is the Astroscan's page on Edmund's site. I cannot recommend this scope highly enough. It will show you far more than binoculars, you don't have to hold heavy binoculars over your head, it's a real telescope, it's quality built, it's easy to use, it has nice bright images (I can easily see the Veil with mine), it has very very easy setup, it's easy to find objects in the sky (it has a 3 degree field of view), it's completely manual (making the process of learning the sky a PART of observing rather than a tedious memorization process), and it's inexpensive.
1) Binoculars can be a great astronomical instrument. This is not disputed
2) BUT, a person looking for a scope is unlikely to be satisfied with binoculars. They don't have great eyepieces generally, and they have very low power. While great for star fields, they lack the ability to look at planets and other really cool objects easily seen in a scope.
3) Binoculars are a pain in the ass to hold over your head. They get heavy real quick. Advanced users have nice counterbalanced mounts that cost a bit of money, but a beginner won't have that.
Stay away from binoculars unless you're sure that you're going to go observing exactly once, get sick of the hobby, and throw them in the closet.
When I eat I always separate my food into individual places. My pototoes are always separated from the stuffing which is also separate from the turkey. If I was faced with this kind of food, I don't know if I could even begin to eat.
Indeed. Who's to say that some among us can't be sickened by:
1) small doses of fluoride in the water
2) small doses of iron in the water
3) small doses of radiation from smoke detectors
4) small doses of nutrasweet
5) small doses of saccharin
6) small doses of psychic energy
7) small needles inserted into energy points in the body
8) small amounts of chemicals emitted by menstruating women
9) small amounts of pig sweat in perfumes
10) extremely large amounts of staph bacteria on everything we touch
11) etc.
The answer to your question "who's to say that some among us can't be sickened by smaller ones?" is ME. It's called the burden of proof. The person making the claim needs to provide the evidence. Without evidence the rational position to take is "I don't believe it. Prove it."
I just thought of something else. I have never used a Beowulf cluster, so maybe I'm completely wrong, but virtual machines could make a Beowulf more easily upgradeable. The idea is that you'd make a cluster with a whole bunch of virtual machines, say 1024. The cluster is fixed at that size for all the software that runs. But in reality, you've got 32 processors actually running. When you upgrade the cluster to 64, you don't need to reconfigure any of the software that runs on the cluster, because they all assume that you've got 1024 processors. But, you get a performance increase because there's now more physical processors. As I said before, I don't know much about clusters. I imagine that somebody who really does know will quickly either confirm what I said or reduce my idea to a pile of stinking rubble.
Maybe I want to develop software for a Beowulf cluster, but either I don't have a cluster of my own, or I just want to write the software, not run it in production. Either way, a set of 8 virtual processors would be good enough for the job.
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I'm a blogger, sort of. My logs are all static pages so there's no conversation forum. I maintain my logs strictly for myself, in the place that is most useful to me. If others want to read them too, that's fine. Basically it's just a large mash of things that are neat and worth writing down someplace.
But mostly, I am a logger so that 50 years from now I can read them and say "was I really that stupid back then?" It's an amazing sensation to read something you wrote a long time ago, you ought to try it.
Your comments caused me to make a couple of neural connections in my brain.:-) Do you suppose that one of the effects of capitalism is that to adequately gain from it a person has to become a capitalist? I know it sounds sort of obvious, but I've been hearing for a long time that capitalism can improve the standard of living for everyone. Often the progress of the middle class (non-capitalist) in the 20th century is used for evidence of this. But now, we've got a pretty high standard of living for the middle class and working class, compared to the rest of the world, and the gains we see now are nothing like the gains we saw in the past. It seems like we're at the limits of how far capitalism can drag along the people who don't have capital. Maybe what we've experienced all along was just capitalism growing up, and now many people have reached a decision point. Should they start their own business and become a capitalist themselves? I suppose that a capitalist would describe this as a natural sort of correction or balance in the market, but it seems to me that it's a forced path, which many people might not choose themselves.
OR, maybe capitalism needs to change. I experienced just a bit of that when I became a contract programmer. I am selling the capital of my person, not a product or service of a company. But, I am only paid by the hour, and anything that I write has copyright assigned to my customer.
The essential issue is one of property rights. If a person cannot control the rights to their own work, then they cannot really be capitalists. Everything about business and work seems to boil down to ownership of work. I think that properly addressing ownership of work in intellectual property law would go a long way towards fixing what is broken in the system right now.
I hadn't noticed that Linux was any slower feeling than Windows. On my Celery 300A Windows is PAINFUL to use, but Linux is amazingly quick - running 2.4.17. I run Windowmaker, and that's it. No Gnome, no KDE, no funny transparent terms.
I'm too old for the army, but I think it would be extremely fun to put on my "running pants" and motorcycle helmet and run 50 miles to work like the bionic man. I hope that the no pedestrians rule would be waived so I could use the commuter carpool lane.
It took that long because I had to post a message to "Ask Slashdot" about how to find things on the internet. Once I got the answer back, I looked it up. Elapsed time: 14.2 seconds.
Take things in order:
1) First, get elected. Kiss babies, make promises, tell everybody what they want to hear. Everyone does it. You can't contribute unless you get elected. A free software platform is noble, but won't get you elected.
2) Do good.
I am amazed at your tour de force of denial. How can somebody read the 10th commandment's list of property that one should not covet and not see the implicit sanction of slavery there? If the author of the bible did not approve, why weren't there 11 commandments?
Anyway, kudos to you for knowing about one of the urine drinking passages. Theres quite a bit of duplication in the OT, and the other reference is nearly the same as the first. To find them both, do a search on the word "piss" in the KJV.
Manufacturers of ant farms used for science education are starting to release a new product: cockroach farms. We've always known that after a nuclear war, all that would be left would be radiation resistant cockroaches. These enterprising entrepreneurs aren't going to wait until WWIII to use that characteristing to their advantage. The new procedures at the post office will ensure that the new product is a market success.
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Their network stuff is great, but their 4 port switch at least doesn't work with Linux well at all. The software switching (through the keyboard) requires some kind of X key configuration which they helpfully did not document at all.
.5 second delay. I tried forever to get the thing to do 30 CPS with a .25 second delay, but it won't work.
Also, the switch doesn't accept a key repeat modification. You'll be stuck at a repeat of 10.2 CPS with a
The switch works well with Windows however. I wrote them a couple e-mails for support, but they never responded to them.
Can't blame Evercrack for this. People have been ruining their marriages since waaaay before online gaming. The technique of "incessant yelling and screaming" was patented at about the same time as "nagging the hell out of your husband", "sleeping with the babysitter", and "blowing the house payment on a lifetime supply of pudding."
But this is not a recipe for concrete only - also for other materials.
Yes, it is also a recipe for meatballs.
Your setup worked because you weren't doing anything that stressed the machine. All you did was run a measley BBS and some doors. That's nothing at all compared to what I was doing: C programming. Stray pointers still brought the machine down.
Alright, I know there are some people who read about these things and get all teary eyed as they relive their youth again. Not me. I was a college student with my 386SX, running MS-DOS. All I wanted to do was run an editor in one window, and Microsoft C 5.1 in the other window. I had hardly any money at all to spend on this stuff. The computer cost me $900 with a lot of scrounged parts, and I could barely afford that. The compiler belonged to my boss. Tuition bills were killing me.
I bought Desqview thinking that would help. It didn't, because it just partitioned the 640K into chunks that were too small. Also, it kept crashing . I spent a lot of time booting my computer. So, I got QEMM to go along with that. I think that I spent $150 for both of them. The QEMM gave me more memory, but it crashed even MORE. I couldn't work that way. Little did I know that it would be more than 3 years before I could move away from MS-DOG onto a real system that would accommodate a poor person AND not crash - Linux.
I have no illusions that those days with MS-DOS were the "good old days." I am forever in the debt of Linus Torvalds and his operating system, and it's all I can do to forget pissing away money that I couldn't really afford to spend, trying to get a Microsoft OS to just plain work. It was a nightmare that I never want to think about ever again.
Gotta come right back at you...
I never said get a 12 inch CAT instead of binoculars. I said get a telescope.
You suggest 10x50's. Have you checked the weight on those puppies? Well, let's go to Orion's website and see. BTW, if you MUST get binocs, Orion makes some damn fine ones. Don't go to KMart and buy Tasco crap if you can help it. Anyway, here's Orion's website.
This page says that 10x50 binocs weigh 28 ounces. That's almost 2 pounds! Now how long is that going to be comfortable to hold over your head? Not long. Observing with unmounted binoculars is a great way to get someone to dislike Astronomy.
I'd recommend a small dobsonian, say a 4.5 inch or a 6 inch. Another great scope (which I own) is the Edmund Scientific Astroscan. It's a 4.5 inch Newtonian in a funky looking mount that is incredibly stable and easy to use. The magnification with the eyepiece that comes with it is 16X, which is PERFECT for a beginner.
Here is the Astroscan's page on Edmund's site. I cannot recommend this scope highly enough. It will show you far more than binoculars, you don't have to hold heavy binoculars over your head, it's a real telescope, it's quality built, it's easy to use, it has nice bright images (I can easily see the Veil with mine), it has very very easy setup, it's easy to find objects in the sky (it has a 3 degree field of view), it's completely manual (making the process of learning the sky a PART of observing rather than a tedious memorization process), and it's inexpensive.
Yes, relativity is like a willow tree, bending in the wind, not breaking, and it gets all those tiny little leaves all over your yard.
In other words, WTF are you talking about???
1) Binoculars can be a great astronomical instrument. This is not disputed
2) BUT, a person looking for a scope is unlikely to be satisfied with binoculars. They don't have great eyepieces generally, and they have very low power. While great for star fields, they lack the ability to look at planets and other really cool objects easily seen in a scope.
3) Binoculars are a pain in the ass to hold over your head. They get heavy real quick. Advanced users have nice counterbalanced mounts that cost a bit of money, but a beginner won't have that.
Stay away from binoculars unless you're sure that you're going to go observing exactly once, get sick of the hobby, and throw them in the closet.
Any thoughts on what would work best in the fuel?
Spammers and trolls.
When I eat I always separate my food into individual places. My pototoes are always separated from the stuffing which is also separate from the turkey. If I was faced with this kind of food, I don't know if I could even begin to eat.
Indeed. Who's to say that some among us can't be sickened by:
1) small doses of fluoride in the water
2) small doses of iron in the water
3) small doses of radiation from smoke detectors
4) small doses of nutrasweet
5) small doses of saccharin
6) small doses of psychic energy
7) small needles inserted into energy points in the body
8) small amounts of chemicals emitted by menstruating women
9) small amounts of pig sweat in perfumes
10) extremely large amounts of staph bacteria on everything we touch
11) etc.
The answer to your question "who's to say that some among us can't be sickened by smaller ones?" is ME. It's called the burden of proof. The person making the claim needs to provide the evidence. Without evidence the rational position to take is "I don't believe it. Prove it."
Try putting them through an experiment in an environment secure & devoid of radio activity (say, a bunker somewhere with a guassian cage around it).
Then your experiment would have to control for those who are ground sensitive. It wouldn't work otherwise.
I just thought of something else. I have never used a Beowulf cluster, so maybe I'm completely wrong, but virtual machines could make a Beowulf more easily upgradeable. The idea is that you'd make a cluster with a whole bunch of virtual machines, say 1024. The cluster is fixed at that size for all the software that runs. But in reality, you've got 32 processors actually running. When you upgrade the cluster to 64, you don't need to reconfigure any of the software that runs on the cluster, because they all assume that you've got 1024 processors. But, you get a performance increase because there's now more physical processors. As I said before, I don't know much about clusters. I imagine that somebody who really does know will quickly either confirm what I said or reduce my idea to a pile of stinking rubble.
Maybe I want to develop software for a Beowulf cluster, but either I don't have a cluster of my own, or I just want to write the software, not run it in production. Either way, a set of 8 virtual processors would be good enough for the job.
I'm a blogger, sort of. My logs are all static pages so there's no conversation forum. I maintain my logs strictly for myself, in the place that is most useful to me. If others want to read them too, that's fine. Basically it's just a large mash of things that are neat and worth writing down someplace. But mostly, I am a logger so that 50 years from now I can read them and say "was I really that stupid back then?" It's an amazing sensation to read something you wrote a long time ago, you ought to try it.
Your comments caused me to make a couple of neural connections in my brain. :-) Do you suppose that one of the effects of capitalism is that to adequately gain from it a person has to become a capitalist? I know it sounds sort of obvious, but I've been hearing for a long time that capitalism can improve the standard of living for everyone. Often the progress of the middle class (non-capitalist) in the 20th century is used for evidence of this. But now, we've got a pretty high standard of living for the middle class and working class, compared to the rest of the world, and the gains we see now are nothing like the gains we saw in the past. It seems like we're at the limits of how far capitalism can drag along the people who don't have capital. Maybe what we've experienced all along was just capitalism growing up, and now many people have reached a decision point. Should they start their own business and become a capitalist themselves? I suppose that a capitalist would describe this as a natural sort of correction or balance in the market, but it seems to me that it's a forced path, which many people might not choose themselves.
OR, maybe capitalism needs to change. I experienced just a bit of that when I became a contract programmer. I am selling the capital of my person, not a product or service of a company. But, I am only paid by the hour, and anything that I write has copyright assigned to my customer.
The essential issue is one of property rights. If a person cannot control the rights to their own work, then they cannot really be capitalists. Everything about business and work seems to boil down to ownership of work. I think that properly addressing ownership of work in intellectual property law would go a long way towards fixing what is broken in the system right now.
I hadn't noticed that Linux was any slower feeling than Windows. On my Celery 300A Windows is PAINFUL to use, but Linux is amazingly quick - running 2.4.17. I run Windowmaker, and that's it. No Gnome, no KDE, no funny transparent terms.
No, not 50 miles an hour, 50 MILES. Hopefully about 100 miles an hour.
I'm too old for the army, but I think it would be extremely fun to put on my "running pants" and motorcycle helmet and run 50 miles to work like the bionic man. I hope that the no pedestrians rule would be waived so I could use the commuter carpool lane.
It took that long because I had to post a message to "Ask Slashdot" about how to find things on the internet. Once I got the answer back, I looked it up. Elapsed time: 14.2 seconds.
Right at the top of the page. It took me 15 seconds on google to find it.
Take things in order: 1) First, get elected. Kiss babies, make promises, tell everybody what they want to hear. Everyone does it. You can't contribute unless you get elected. A free software platform is noble, but won't get you elected. 2) Do good.
Heh heh! Is that concept in the Swedish copy of the book "Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten?"
I am amazed at your tour de force of denial. How can somebody read the 10th commandment's list of property that one should not covet and not see the implicit sanction of slavery there? If the author of the bible did not approve, why weren't there 11 commandments? Anyway, kudos to you for knowing about one of the urine drinking passages. Theres quite a bit of duplication in the OT, and the other reference is nearly the same as the first. To find them both, do a search on the word "piss" in the KJV.
Manufacturers of ant farms used for science education are starting to release a new product: cockroach farms. We've always known that after a nuclear war, all that would be left would be radiation resistant cockroaches. These enterprising entrepreneurs aren't going to wait until WWIII to use that characteristing to their advantage. The new procedures at the post office will ensure that the new product is a market success.