Hm, maybe. Depends on how fast they sell out.
Also, I don't have an extra $349 right now. If I did I'd use it to replace the Tivo that's still giving me the grey screen of death once a week.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
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Jessica - Oct 23, 2012 11:40:51 am PDT #21303 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jon B. - Oct 23, 2012 11:45:19 am PDT #21304 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Westinghouse isn't a great brand and Amazon has it for $399, so you're not really saving much.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2012 12:26:31 pm PDT #21305 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damn, for a second there, I thought Jessica was getting a talking internet fridge, or something
Sad now.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2012 12:35:55 pm PDT #21306 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, this is something I'd kinda not been paying attention to, because even though I do a lot of the SSL purchasing and arrangement of installation for my company, we don't have a choice of vendors, so knowing the difference between them wasn't important.
What the FUCK is the difference between, say, a Verisign and a GeoTrust cert? Why is there such a huge variation in costs for what seems to be the same scope? Are they doing anything differently, or is it really, as I read somewhere, name brand and "my browser bar is green" that demands extra dosh?
We have some huge gaps in subject matter expertise and I'd rather have your guys' high level knowledge before I talk to the other domain-working people and ask them questions.
(gaps like when I ask "Who's our IIS SME?" I'm answered by "The person who set up all our corporate websites." "I AM THAT PERSON. Who is the IIS SME who actually knows anything about IIS?" (my answers are usually "Apache can do that, so I assume IIS will too, but I don't know where or how easily.")
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2012 6:30:22 pm PDT #21307 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.
So I just got a new computer--a Raspberry Pi. It costs $39.99.
I have it connected to my TV via HDMI. It's running a version of Debian. I'm using the Midori browser for this post.
I'm amazed at how fast it is, given how cheap it is.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2012 7:24:53 pm PDT #21308 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Memory? Peripherals? SSL?
Typo Boy - Oct 23, 2012 8:42:02 pm PDT #21309 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 6:05:59 am PDT #21310 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't so much mean what it was capable of as much as I meant what tommy was tricking out his with.
tommyrot - Oct 24, 2012 6:09:21 am PDT #21311 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.
Well, I just got it running last night, so not much so far.
I mostly bought it so I could play around with this:
Operating systems development with the Raspberry Pi - Hack a Day
Even though the Raspberry Pi has, from the very beginning, been touted as an educational computer, we’ve seen neither hide nor hare of coursework, lesson plans, or even computer sciencey tutorials using the Raspi. We’re guessing academia works at a much slower pace than the average hardware hacker, but [Alex Chadwick] at Cambridge University has managed to put together an online tutorial on developing an operating system from scratch for the Raspi.
The goal of this tutorial is to throw a budding Raspi tinkerer into the strange and confusing world of registers, hexadecimal, and ARMv6 assembly. After going through the necessary toolchain, [Alex]‘s tutorials cover blinking the ‘OK’ LED on the Raspberry Pi using only assembly.
The OS development guide goes on from there to include drawing graphics on the screen and even accepting input from a USB keyboard.
It’s important to point out what [Alex]‘s tutorial isn’t; even though this series of tutorials goes through manipulating the bare metal of the Raspberry Pi, don’t expect to be porting UNIX to the Raspi after going through these guides. That being said, after completing these tutorials, you’ll be in a fabulous position for building your own homebrew OS on the Raspberry Pi.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 7:06:35 am PDT #21312 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The year before me, one of the fundamental CS courses semester-long project was to write an OS. The mere IDEA of doing that boggled me, so I wanted that assignment, but we didn't get it. We had to, instead, design a "chip" (given certain components), and submit the wiring and the microcode that made it possible to write an OS on top of.
Which, by all rights, should boggle me too, but since we did it, it doesn't seem as cool. It was a project of 4 of us, and I was shameless in grabbing the brainiacs (and the hotties--the hottie brainiacs)--it was Andre, Louis who I was flirting with (perffectly fine call--we never went further than flirting, and he was brilliant), and Loreta, who was the smartest person in our year.
I don't remember what tasks the guys got--I wrote the microcode, and Loretta formatted the report in LaTeX. It was generally accepted that she had the hardest job, and yet it was a waste of her brains.
Jesus--I just looked up the others in the team, and two of them are at MS, and one is attached to open source VOIP projects, and I SUCK.