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This is a great hack. It has to be an inside job. How else would they know when the camera takes pictures, to avoid getting caught. Not to mention the exact location of the camera.
I can't help but think that maybe it's because we have a fundamentalist Christian in the Whitehouse. Hubble has shown the universe to be several billion years older than many fundamentalists like to believe
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. I believe the creation story to be allegorical.
How much noise is the hard drive making? I wonder if it would be possible to surround it somehow with styrofoam or some other acoustic baffle.
I've got three computers and two laptops here in my office and it's just too much noise. Too much heat too, but short of putting them up in the ceiling, I don't have a solution for it.
The heat is nice right now, but late afternoons in August are unfun.
First, if you don't pay more money per month for "resellable bandwidth", then you are in a legal gray area. Your generic office class DSL service is not resellable, so I'd avoid actually charging. You might be able to get away with a tip jar, but I'd forget about charging for the service.
Giving it away free also simplifies administration, and can be seen as an easy and cheap promotion to attract customers.
Secondly, with 802.11g routers costing $79, cost isn't much of an issue. This is a business expense, go ahead and pony up the $30 extra bucks for a decent piece of equipment.
Thanks. I've bought too much music from the Apple store consider switching to WinAmp right now.
My purpose for this is to update my blog automagically with what I'm currently listening to. I've downloaded the Apple iTunes SDK, and am actually resorting to scratching my own itch.
Has someone found a "Now Playing" type plugin for iTunes? I've searched google, and found several examples for the Mac version, but not the Windows version.
I suppose I could shake the dust off my C skills and get the visual plugin development kit, and code my own, but frankly, I've been spoiled by scripting languages.
I work for a bank, and I was surprised to learn when I started here that if your Beacon score (basically a hash of your credit report) is lower than some threshhold, you cannot get a debit card.
So, while every checking account offers a free Visa debit card, not every person qualifies.
The best link I could find was this glowing 1990 review about it. I guess my love for it came from the fact it was the first word processor program I ever used, back when we carried our Creative Writing 101 papers to school on a 5.25" floppy. It was simple, cheap, and accessable.
Anyone who was not a programmer balked at the idea of having to write documentation in a (Gasp!) markup language. "Just give me Word!" they would whine.
There is a lot of overhead associated with DocBook that most non-technical people don't want to deal with. They want a WYSIWYG editor, and will cry, kick, scream, and intentionally be completely unproductive until they get it.
"I'm not just going to sit back and be a quiet engineer. I have a two-year-old son and I don't want him to grow up in a world that is less free." -- Bruce Perens (from the article)
I once had someone I admired tell me that "You shouldn't live for anything you aren't willing to die for". I've tried to incorporate that in my decision processes. Clearly, Bruce believes his child, and his freedom is more worth living for than his job at HP.
I get his motivation, I understand where he is coming from, and so, I can relate to him, and less readily dismiss him as a zealot, crackpot, or trouble maker, which is sadly the case with some other prominant free software advocates.
So, Bruce, thanks. You have my respect, even if you haven't got a job.
Labor jobs are tough, no doubt. When I was younger, I worked a couple of summers for an electrical contractor. Much of the time I was actually digging the ditches you mention. In the summer. In south Georgia with nats and 90% humidity.
Absolutely, it sucked. One thing about it, though, my brain never got so overwhelmed with mind numbing details that it wanted to climb out of my skull. When programming it often does.
An article just this morning talks about how IT work sucks the soul right out of a person. At the end of a day digging ditches, you feel good. Tired, yes, but you have whole endorphin rush thing from the exercise, as well as a real feeling of acomplishment. The ditch is dug. You can see it is dug. Nobody is going to come along later and ask you can also make it an email sending ditch with instant messaging. It's a ditch. You know where you stand.
First, let me say I feel for you, and your loss. I'm not trying to minimize it, I just don't understand something. Maybe you can help me.
What good does knowing "the path was that he was on" do? The person is dead; it's tragic. I understand grasping for answers, for a reason why your loved one did this, but how can we make sense out of a senseless act?
My father was mentally ill (paranoid schizophrenia), and when he died 4 months ago, I inherited his laptop computer. In an attempt to understand him, I started looking though his files, hoping to find something, anything, that would explain why he was the way he was.
Sadly, there wasn't anything. What I found was the disturbed dillusions and imagined conspiracies of a sick man. He was mentally ill, and as seen from inside, his world was distorted and twisted. There was no peace to be found, no epiphany of understanding his essential nature. Just more sadness at how his disease robbed him of his life.
I imagine it's similar for you, and for the parents of this Everquest player. You're grasping for a reason why, but there is no rational reason why someone kills themself due to depression or mental illness. Delving too deeply in that muck just brings more pain.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has a story complete with picture in case of a Slashdotting.
This is a great hack. It has to be an inside job. How else would they know when the camera takes pictures, to avoid getting caught. Not to mention the exact location of the camera.
Too funny!
Move to Europe, we have overclocked to 240 Volts. USA is sooo old fashioned!
Oh, great. Squander your strategic voltage reserves, and become dependent on potential differences from unstable foreign powers.
Yeah, but at that height, there'd be no atmosphere.
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. I believe the creation story to be allegorical.
How much noise is the hard drive making? I wonder if it would be possible to surround it somehow with styrofoam or some other acoustic baffle.
I've got three computers and two laptops here in my office and it's just too much noise. Too much heat too, but short of putting them up in the ceiling, I don't have a solution for it.
The heat is nice right now, but late afternoons in August are unfun.
Seems to me the power supply is but one aspect of the war on noise.
You've got hard drives spinning and cpus cooling.
Still, a step in the right direction.
First, if you don't pay more money per month for "resellable bandwidth", then you are in a legal gray area. Your generic office class DSL service is not resellable, so I'd avoid actually charging. You might be able to get away with a tip jar, but I'd forget about charging for the service.
Giving it away free also simplifies administration, and can be seen as an easy and cheap promotion to attract customers.
Secondly, with 802.11g routers costing $79, cost isn't much of an issue. This is a business expense, go ahead and pony up the $30 extra bucks for a decent piece of equipment.
Thanks. I've bought too much music from the Apple store consider switching to WinAmp right now.
My purpose for this is to update my blog automagically with what I'm currently listening to. I've downloaded the Apple iTunes SDK, and am actually resorting to scratching my own itch.
What I'm talking is this: I need (want) something that will log what the current playing song is to either a text file or http post it to a URL.
It looks like Konfabulator is only for MacOSX, but thanks for the link!
Has someone found a "Now Playing" type plugin for iTunes? I've searched google, and found several examples for the Mac version, but not the Windows version.
I suppose I could shake the dust off my C skills and get the visual plugin development kit, and code my own, but frankly, I've been spoiled by scripting languages.
I work for a bank, and I was surprised to learn when I started here that if your Beacon score (basically a hash of your credit report) is lower than some threshhold, you cannot get a debit card.
So, while every checking account offers a free Visa debit card, not every person qualifies.
... your soul sucks the mummy's ass.
Did anybody else ever use "Norton Textra Writer"?
The best link I could find was this glowing 1990 review about it. I guess my love for it came from the fact it was the first word processor program I ever used, back when we carried our Creative Writing 101 papers to school on a 5.25" floppy. It was simple, cheap, and accessable.
Ah... nostalgia!
It was a nightmare.
Anyone who was not a programmer balked at the idea of having to write documentation in a (Gasp!) markup language. "Just give me Word!" they would whine.
There is a lot of overhead associated with DocBook that most non-technical people don't want to deal with. They want a WYSIWYG editor, and will cry, kick, scream, and intentionally be completely unproductive until they get it.
I once had someone I admired tell me that "You shouldn't live for anything you aren't willing to die for". I've tried to incorporate that in my decision processes. Clearly, Bruce believes his child, and his freedom is more worth living for than his job at HP.
I get his motivation, I understand where he is coming from, and so, I can relate to him, and less readily dismiss him as a zealot, crackpot, or trouble maker, which is sadly the case with some other prominant free software advocates.
So, Bruce, thanks. You have my respect, even if you haven't got a job.
Uh, dude... you do know that PigeonRank was an April Fools joke.
Please tell me you know that.
Oooh, open source jokes.
A woman walks into a pub and asks the barman for a sexual innuendo. He slips her one.
I downloaded the DVD version, but when I tried to play it in my DVD player, all I got was Richard Stallman on my TV yelling "It's GNU /Linux!".
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Labor jobs are tough, no doubt. When I was younger, I worked a couple of summers for an electrical contractor. Much of the time I was actually digging the ditches you mention. In the summer. In south Georgia with nats and 90% humidity.
Absolutely, it sucked. One thing about it, though, my brain never got so overwhelmed with mind numbing details that it wanted to climb out of my skull. When programming it often does.
An article just this morning talks about how IT work sucks the soul right out of a person. At the end of a day digging ditches, you feel good. Tired, yes, but you have whole endorphin rush thing from the exercise, as well as a real feeling of acomplishment. The ditch is dug. You can see it is dug. Nobody is going to come along later and ask you can also make it an email sending ditch with instant messaging. It's a ditch. You know where you stand.
What if your book is How to Make Your Man Behave in 21 Days or Less Using the Secrets of Professional Dog Trainers ?
First, let me say I feel for you, and your loss. I'm not trying to minimize it, I just don't understand something. Maybe you can help me.
What good does knowing "the path was that he was on" do? The person is dead; it's tragic. I understand grasping for answers, for a reason why your loved one did this, but how can we make sense out of a senseless act?
My father was mentally ill (paranoid schizophrenia), and when he died 4 months ago, I inherited his laptop computer. In an attempt to understand him, I started looking though his files, hoping to find something, anything, that would explain why he was the way he was.
Sadly, there wasn't anything. What I found was the disturbed dillusions and imagined conspiracies of a sick man. He was mentally ill, and as seen from inside, his world was distorted and twisted. There was no peace to be found, no epiphany of understanding his essential nature. Just more sadness at how his disease robbed him of his life.
I imagine it's similar for you, and for the parents of this Everquest player. You're grasping for a reason why, but there is no rational reason why someone kills themself due to depression or mental illness. Delving too deeply in that muck just brings more pain.