Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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amych - Jul 29, 2007 5:00:33 pm PDT #2302 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

For your current purposes, the only place anything non-database lives is htdocs.


Theodosia - Jul 29, 2007 5:05:32 pm PDT #2303 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Good! And I found out there was an extra space in the URL I was pasting into the command, so that explains that!

My sanity, she is saved. Well, what little sanity I have is preserved. You know what I mean.

Thanks again!


amych - Jul 29, 2007 5:06:46 pm PDT #2304 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

And I found out there was an extra space in the URL I was pasting into the command, so that explains that!

D'oh! My bad - I stuck the space in so you could see the URL rather than letting it be auto-linkified by the b.org.

Good luck!


§ ita § - Jul 29, 2007 5:37:15 pm PDT #2305 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I suck at remembering the code, but whenever I want to post a link and not have it magicked away, I use / instead of a forward slash, so typing in http://buffistas.org gives [link] nice and inactive.


Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2007 7:40:05 am PDT #2306 of 25496
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.

Omnis_audi - nothing wrong with your idea other than cost, which would be high. Normal cost of solar panels (already high), plus cost of roof, plus connection to grid. More expensive per square unit of power than rooftop cells. So likely that California would want to cover rooftops before it starts covering parking lots.


Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2007 7:47:41 am PDT #2307 of 25496
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.

Any one have suggestions for reasonably priced microphone speaker video camera combination with echo cancellation?

This is for video conference sit with multiple people at the site. We need better than a low end home system, but not up in stratosphere of true professional system - ideally web camera, speakers, and microphone and echo cancellation should be under $500. I'm pretty sure the PC we hook this up to will be a windows PC.


omnis_audis - Jul 30, 2007 10:22:23 am PDT #2308 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Typo Boy - Omnis_audi - nothing wrong with your idea other than cost, which would be high. Normal cost of solar panels (already high), plus cost of roof, plus connection to grid. More expensive per square unit of power than rooftop cells. So likely that California would want to cover rooftops before it starts covering parking lots.

Actually, I don't think they'd need roofs. Solar panels are relatively light. They can be mounted easily on unistrut. So it could be as easy as planting some columns, then running lightweight truss beams out, then mount on the truss. Since most parking lots already have lights in them, I wonder if you could use those posts. Ah. Just thought of a problem. would have to run all new lighting for night time for shopping center ones. And they currently have those suckers on tall towers with super bright no-crime lights, so one light covers a large area. damn.


Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2007 11:06:16 am PDT #2309 of 25496
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.

Actually, I don't think they'd need roofs. Solar panels are relatively light. They can be mounted easily on unistrut. So it could be as easy as planting some columns, then running lightweight truss beams out, then mount on the truss.

Which is still a at least a roofing frame. Also by the time you put all those panels on you are going to be concentrating rainwater and dumping at the edges of the panels - which would promote puddling. To avoid that you will need gutters to direct the rain where you want to. Since panels are available that double as roofing material, you would probably just build a roof out of solar panels. And there is also the lighting problem you mentioned.


Cashmere - Jul 30, 2007 11:14:30 am PDT #2310 of 25496
Now tagless for your comfort.

When should I be looking to replace my laptop battery? It used to hold a charge for websurfing at nearly 3 hours. Now it's fallen to about an hour. My warranty is up in September. Should I go ahead and replace the battery on warranty before then?


amych - Jul 30, 2007 11:16:36 am PDT #2311 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Should I go ahead and replace the battery on warranty before then?

Definitely. It'll keep going downhill, and they're stupidly expensive to pay cash for if you can get one on warranty.