Did everyone see the new iMacs, Mac Minis, and MacBooks? There's also the new Magic Mouse.
Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.
'Why We Fight'
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NoiseDesign - Oct 20, 2009 10:18:24 am PDT #11415 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Stephanie - Oct 20, 2009 10:29:20 am PDT #11416 of 25501
Trust my rage
I admit that I'm totally trying to do this under pressure, but is there an easy way to slow down my clip? The answer isn't jumping out at me.
eta: I found "change tempo without changing pitch" but obviously, I want to change the pitch.
etaa: nevermind. i guess I just had to ask out loud.
Steph L. - Oct 20, 2009 2:53:24 pm PDT #11417 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The Magic Mouse looks excellent.
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 5:25:30 am PDT #11418 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I'll be overhauling my computer with the arrival of Windows 7. I've already cleared off most everything on the hard drives that are going to be taken out of the computer. I have an Intel X-25M SSD drive that will be the system drive. What I'm trying to figure out is where the page file should go. On the SSD drive? On the mechanical drive (a 7200rpm Seagate)? Or just turn it off completely and assume 8GB of RAM is sufficient?
I need Linux for some things I do and that's the other decision. Ubuntu 9.10 or OpenSuse 11.2, both coming out soon.
DCJensen - Oct 21, 2009 5:36:06 am PDT #11419 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I'd probably just let Windows 7 manage it on the primary drive at first, and see what happens. You can always turn it off/move it.
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 6:10:59 am PDT #11420 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
My concern with the primary drive is adding unnecessary write cycles to the SSD. I could just see if there is a performance impact with moving it. My theory is that with 8GB RAM putting the pagefile on the slower drive won't have any real impact on performance, but I was curious if anyone has had any experience with that kind of setup.
amych - Oct 21, 2009 7:08:12 am PDT #11421 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Adorable chameleon logo aside, why OpenSUSE? (Asking just out of curiosity -- I've never used it and don't know much positive or negative about what the differences are.)
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 7:53:47 am PDT #11422 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
OpenSUSE looks like it has a nice implementation of KDE 4 and it might be interesting to try out. I'm more used to Ubuntu though.
amych - Oct 21, 2009 8:16:00 am PDT #11423 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Gotcha. I'm happy enough with (x)ubuntu that I haven't been seriously tempted to switch outside that family in many upgrades' worth of years, but I'm always weirdly fascinated by what draws people to one distro over another.
tommyrot - Oct 21, 2009 5:34:22 pm PDT #11424 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, I found what I'm getting myself for Christmas!
Description: This is a USB powered Geiger Counter equipped with an ATMega168 that can be programmed in circuit using one of the programmer below. Simply plug the unit into USB (make sure you have FTDI drivers installed), open a terminal program to the correct COM power at 9600bps, and you will see random bits being generated from the random background radiation. Here at SparkFun, on average, we get about 20 counts a minute.
This can be used to create a true random number generator.