Re: [silk] Burn baby burn
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biju Chacko wrote [at 10:41 AM 2/20/2007] : Got any in your collection? Not yet. Any kind-hearted soul want to bring me a few? just recently had a discussion with somebody in my college about the spice with the most variations. my guess was chili. is that true? -b
Re: [silk] Burn baby burn
There are a lot of types of Basil, too...Mushrooms are considered a spice in some cookery (and there are lots of those as well, no?) On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Bernhard Krieger wrote: Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biju Chacko wrote [at 10:41 AM 2/20/2007] : Got any in your collection? Not yet. Any kind-hearted soul want to bring me a few? just recently had a discussion with somebody in my college about the spice with the most variations. my guess was chili. is that true? -b
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
btw did u try n ? regards anish On 2/20/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/20/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know the MacBook Pro C2D supports 802.11 a/b/g officially, and draft n unofficially. However, my notebook doesn't detect an 802.11a network. Any particular reason for using an 802.11a network, btw? It's faster. Cheeni
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anish Mohammed said the following on 20/02/2007 16:19: btw did u try n ? regards anish Anish: I'm just being curious here. You spell you as u, presumably to type less. Why would you then type out Regards in full, or your name (which is already in the header)? rgds/ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF2ujVRQoToz9njMgRCOgwAJ9gnSvZK4qmesBZ/WeaSbkWIXxopACgsdpn lkYYTqREClIp99sbWnAK4aM= =1k+N -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [silk] Eureka!
My wife and I recently converted every bulb in our apartment from incandescent to these new swirly bulbs. It cost us around $150.00 to convert all of them, with the logic that energy and replacement savings would offset investment cost. She's a business woman, and I've learned to speak her language. We had recently watched 30 Days, a TV series made by the guy who did Super Size Me, about energy consumption and the massive drop in energy usage if everyone switched one bulb. We figured that only 1 in 20 American's would actually bother to switch one bulb, so we switched all of ours hoping to make up some of the difference. It's pretty amazing that you end up replacing 60 Watt consuming bulbs with 13 Watt. Casey On 2/19/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 10:50 AM 9/7/2006 ] http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/108/open_lightbulbs.html http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Smart_Ideas/Design?Article=/Smart%20Ideas/Design/U4J4M9K7
Re: [silk] Burn baby burn
No inputs from the Kook yet about this spice thread? Deepa. On 2/20/07, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of types of Basil, too...Mushrooms are considered a spice in some cookery (and there are lots of those as well, no?) On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Bernhard Krieger wrote: Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biju Chacko wrote [at 10:41 AM 2/20/2007] : Got any in your collection? Not yet. Any kind-hearted soul want to bring me a few? just recently had a discussion with somebody in my college about the spice with the most variations. my guess was chili. is that true? -b
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
habits makes the man On 2/20/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anish Mohammed said the following on 20/02/2007 16:19: btw did u try n ? regards anish Anish: I'm just being curious here. You spell you as u, presumably to type less. Why would you then type out Regards in full, or your name (which is already in the header)? rgds/ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF2ujVRQoToz9njMgRCOgwAJ9gnSvZK4qmesBZ/WeaSbkWIXxopACgsdpn lkYYTqREClIp99sbWnAK4aM= =1k+N -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:17:44PM +, Anish Mohammed wrote: habits makes the man Homo floresiensis? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [silk] booze and poppy seeds
they call it modernisation :-) regards anish
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
Homo floresiensis? Dont suspect microcephaly
Re: [silk] Eureka!
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:47:24AM -0500, Casey O'Donnell wrote: My wife and I recently converted every bulb in our apartment from incandescent to these new swirly bulbs. It cost us around $150.00 to I used to heavily used fluorescents when I as a student (in the early 1990s). I then found the technology interesting, and more elegant than incandescendents. Less wasteful, which appealed at the intellect level. However, since then I found out I hated them. With a passion. Fluorescents suck. Let me count the many various ways in which they suck:. They take a tiny little moment to ignite, making little clonking noises. They take a while to get hot enough for the mercury (!!!) to evaporate and reach maximum brightness, so you have to always think conciously whether to let them burn, or switch them off. Each time you switch them on, the life time is taking a hit. You can't dim them. They only do diffuse lights, no spots. They flicker. No, not the kHz flicker, can't claim to see that, they start flickering visibly when they age. Which is very soon. Their spectrum sucks. They become dimmer and dimmer as they age. Etc. Which is why I went back to halogens (about 1.3 kW worth of them, and in a small household). I *think* (never used them for major lighting yet) I would like LEDs, but they'll probably take to be color-tunable, or at least use simulated solar spectrum, maybe shifted a bit to the red range. convert all of them, with the logic that energy and replacement savings would offset investment cost. She's a business woman, and I've learned to speak her language. We had recently watched 30 Days, a TV series made by the guy who did Super Size Me, about energy consumption and the massive drop in energy usage if everyone switched one bulb. We figured that only 1 in 20 American's would actually bother to switch one bulb, so we switched all of ours hoping to make up some of the difference. It's pretty amazing that you end up replacing 60 Watt consuming bulbs with 13 Watt. I'm a light nazi. I need really bright lights everywhere, and dimmable, too. I wouldn't bother under multiple 90 W of fluorescents, which is OP-room bright. Except you couldn't dim them, and they would burn out my photorhodopsin in no time at all, and I would look like Malkovich, except without the many tiny metal legs. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[silk] geek-ish comics
i recently discovered and have been enjoying xkcd. http://xkcd.com/c196.html http://xkcd.com/c221.html http://xkcd.com/c215.html http://xkcd.com/c217.html -rishab
Re: [silk] geek-ish comics
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:02:18PM +0100, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: i recently discovered and have been enjoying xkcd. http://xkcd.com/c196.html http://xkcd.com/c221.html http://xkcd.com/c215.html http://xkcd.com/c217.html A nice place for news is http://science.reddit.com/ and http://my.reddit.com/ recommended, once you've told it what you like and don't like. The clustering doesn't work very well, though, the guy who's supposed to do it has to finish his Ph.D. first. Oh, and http://planet.lisp.org/ is usually worth every visit, too. I've never found boinbboing particularly wondeful, and for a year or two their clientele seemed to have suffered the same fate as /. and digg. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
Are you a monk? -- b On 20/02/07, Anish Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: habits makes the man On 2/20/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anish Mohammed said the following on 20/02/2007 16:19: btw did u try n ? regards anish Anish: I'm just being curious here. You spell you as u, presumably to type less. Why would you then type out Regards in full, or your name (which is already in the header)? rgds/ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF2ujVRQoToz9njMgRCOgwAJ9gnSvZK4qmesBZ/WeaSbkWIXxopACgsdpn lkYYTqREClIp99sbWnAK4aM= =1k+N -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[silk] Video Game Art Bits
I recently ran across two interesting projects... One which visualized old Atari games in an interesting way: http://benfry.com/distellamap/ As well as one which displays the sprite memory (like texture memory now, only way ahead of its time) of the Nintendo Entertainment System: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/deconstructulator/ And I heard a vicious rumor that a fellow silk-lister (*cough* Abhishek *cough*) was using code/data/spam/etc? as inspiration for graphic art. I'd love to see anything that might be available. Any other links that folks have would be excellent. No links to t-shirts with DeCSS however. :) For something more inspired by game code rather than created from it, you can also encounter the slightly more disturbing: http://flickr.com/photos/terrible2z/279024864/ Best. Casey
Re: [silk] Video Game Art Bits
Casey O'Donnell wrote: [ on 09:47 PM 2/20/2007 ] And I heard a vicious rumor that a fellow silk-lister (*cough* Abhishek *cough*) was using code/data/spam/etc? as inspiration for graphic art. I'd love to see anything that might be available. Any other links that folks have would be excellent. No links to t-shirts with DeCSS however. :) How about this? http://vipul.net/perl/sources/scripts/rsa-dolphin I'll let Vip talk about the history of this. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
Anish Mohammed wrote: btw did u try n ? I don't intend paying for the software update. I thought it downright sneaky of Apple to suggest that a firmware update to enable existing hardware functionality should be billed extra. Even if they plead that it's due to SOX, it seems dishonest. Cheeni
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
You could just buy a new airport and get the CD with it. ;) I don't blame SOX or Apple. I blame Enron. Casey On 2/20/07, Srini RamaKrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anish Mohammed wrote: btw did u try n ? I don't intend paying for the software update. I thought it downright sneaky of Apple to suggest that a firmware update to enable existing hardware functionality should be billed extra. Even if they plead that it's due to SOX, it seems dishonest. Cheeni
[silk] open sores
Maybe you remember my question about a bank account API. Well, I finally got HBCI (FinTS, nowadays this would a no-brainer XML over SSL, but this is a braindead legacy protocol, albeit encrypted) to work with aqbanking. Behold my tale of woe. The epic story behind it: this is something I've been trying for years. Attempted it about 10 times, and each time gave up. Messed up an operating system in the course of one such setup (when upgrading to unstable branch, where packages are fresher, but where be dragons, too). It's a simple command line application, available in the Ubuntu package depository. The documentation is really bad. Not just nonexistant: there are too many different documentations for different versions (and names) of the package in question. Still, I tried, and actually created a key set, and submitted it to the bank, and verified (out of band, via passing a clerk a piece of signed dead tree with hex numbers on it) my public key (fingerprint). Try to connect to the bank to receive a list of transactions, no go. Search long and wide, find a report that Ubuntu packages are way out of date. So far, nothing new. Look for new packages, only source available. Don't want to mess with building Ubuntu packages, attempt a straight tarball install. Configure complains I need a newer library version XY. I pull in the library, and also build it from tar ball. That library has a different dependancy, I also resolve it that way. Hey, I'm lucky, just three dependencies. This is way unusual. Attempt to build the new application (remember, it's a plain command line interface), and it asks for qt3, kde, and libofx. I howl, comply, and pull in some 100 packages by way of codependancies. It's a frigging mess, but it happens to work, in the end (this time, it didn't the last time I tried). I send the developer a donation, because though a) it was intensely painful, 2) it worked, and I absolutely need that piece of logic working for a user account/shopping cart infrastructure. The problem is that my experience is typical for an open source package. Tale of woe ends here. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D
Casey O'Donnell wrote: You could just buy a new airport and get the CD with it. ;) I don't need one right now, my Linksys WRT54G serves me fine. That's the other reason why I am in no hurry to get the firmware upgrade, I don't have an 'n' capable access point to use. Cheeni
Re: [silk] open sores
On 2/20/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attempt to build the new application (remember, it's a plain command line interface), and it asks for qt3, kde, and libofx. I howl, comply, and pull in some 100 packages by way of codependancies. It's a frigging mess, but it happens to work, in the end (this time, it didn't the last time I tried). I send the developer a donation, because though a) it was intensely painful, 2) it worked, and I absolutely need that piece of logic working for a user account/shopping cart infrastructure. The problem is that my experience is typical for an open source package. Tale of woe ends here. Building from source is dependency hell as you have encountered. If I were you, I would search for the availability of a newer version of the software in Debian or Ubuntu backports. Worst case, you will have to try and build the deb package for new upstream source. Thaths -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer: (pause) A dinosaur. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar ChandraSlacker Without Borders
Re: [silk] Eureka!
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:59:07PM +, Bruce Metcalf wrote: Fluorescents certainly did suck, and hard, once upon a time. But time changes, and I suggest you may want to give fluorescents, especially compact fluorescents, another look. They are far less sucky than even a few short years ago. I run a recent fluorescent. It sucks pretty much the same way the other systems did. I don't like the delay at lighting, the time it takes the thing to come up to working temperature, and the constant thinking about whether I should switch it off, or let it burn. I like light sources which don't tax the eye and the brain. You can now get CFs in a variety of Kelvin ratings, and some are even I know about the phosphor spectrum available. It still looks like crap. I know it isn't supposed to be, but it is just so. dimmable (but only down to about 40%, which is normally enough for me). There are even reflector bulbs that can replace conventional floods -- not such good focus yet as to replace spots though. I actually like metal halides for the spot. Normal halogens not nearly aggressive enough. For a 72% reduction in power consumption (and waste heat), I'll live with that half-second hesitation on turn on. The money side certainly works. I run a rack full of hardware, which is about 30-40 EUR worth of electricity/month. The lighting part doesn't even register on the financial radar. As for LED lighting, it's just now coming on the market, and so far it's outrageously expensive, like $48 for a 50W incandescent equivalent. Yes, but the best stuff in the lab is twice the lumen for watt of fluorescents. And still rising... OTOH, it promises even greater power savings, the ability to not only dim to zero, but also to adjust the color balance. Might be a few years My point precisely. Also, they're not diffuse, but can be made diffuse. My halogen floolights are directed at the ceiling, too. before it becomes cost effective, but the possibilities are intriguing, especially as it doesn't *have* to be built as screw-in replacements. I'm thinking about linear LED assemblies of flat panels. LED wallpaper, preferrably. An example of this last point is seen where I work. Step lights (small fixtures mounted in a wall to light stairs) are used all over. They were originally installed with 60W incandescents. Five years ago, we began a program to replace them all with 11W compact fluorescents -- with the same color balance. You couldn't tell which a given fixture had without taking off the cover. Now we're starting to replace them with LEDs, but Maybe I have a special retinal receptor for fluorescents, just like tetrachromate mutants. I can always tell, and these things make me want to smash them in instantly. Probably a direct neural pathway to the amygdala... instead of screw-in devices, the LEDs are mounted on a PWB so they all point in one direction and are hard-wired to the AC, eliminating the socket as a failure point. They also are color matched to the incandescents, they draw only 4W per fixture. Not a bad improvement! -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [silk] open sores
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:20:17AM -0800, Thaths wrote: Building from source is dependency hell as you have encountered. If I My point is that there was absolutely no reason to go beyond the three dependencies for a command line client. In fact, it arguably needs no dependancies at all. were you, I would search for the availability of a newer version of the software in Debian or Ubuntu backports. Worst case, you will have Alas, because I'm 64 bit and 6.06 LTS and the package is kraut-only there's zero luck. I'm surprised German gnucash users who needed hbci never complained. The thing never worked. to try and build the deb package for new upstream source. I decided to invest 2 hours of a busy day. It did pay off, this time. It didn't in the last 3 years, and about 10 attempts (I'm not kidding). I began to dread each attempt of making it work (and contemplating murdering the developer, the nice guy that he is). -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [silk] Laptops no more
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:19:42AM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: I want to use my computer while sitting down away from a convenient computer perch, and yet I don't want to cook my nether regions. Any suggestions? I had the same problem, and researched before I bought a G4 iBook. It's been extensively bed-tested, and never even produced a case of blisters, or even red thighs. Newer Mac Books are reasonably hot, no? P.S. What's also needed is a headup display, which doesn't wake up the S.O. just because you can't sleep, and read email at 3 a.m. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [silk] Re 1 trick to stop trains
Rail cars will indeed provide an adequate current path to shunt the rail circuit and trigger the signal system. That's the whole point. and in case anyone is interested, the railroads had to come up with ways to deal with exclusivity, priorities, and scheduling in decentralized systems about 100 years before these problems became well-known in software. (indeed, failure to observe a proper semaphore system leads to crashes, in either field) -Dave (WWI is one of those wars for which no one has any good excuses as to why it was started. One of the stories is that after the order was given for mobilization into belgium (because it was widely believed at the time that the road to moscow went through paris), the kaiser was about to change his mind, but was convinced that the logistics of deployment were so intricate that there could be no undo. Years later, after all the destruction, the guy who'd been in charge of the railroads published a book full of charts and graphs and timetables to explain how, in fact, the order could have been relatively easily reversed, had cooler heads prevailed)
Re: [silk] Burn baby burn
I guess mint. A lot of spices you wouldn't otherwise suspect are part of the mint family. Square stalk, pairs of opposing leaves, most likely a mint. Besides plants called mint like peppermint and spearmint you also have basil, oregano, sage, rosemary, thyme and marjoram all in family Lamiaceae. -- Charles On 2/20/07, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of types of Basil, too...Mushrooms are considered a spice in some cookery (and there are lots of those as well, no?) On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Bernhard Krieger wrote: Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biju Chacko wrote [at 10:41 AM 2/20/2007] : Got any in your collection? Not yet. Any kind-hearted soul want to bring me a few? just recently had a discussion with somebody in my college about the spice with the most variations. my guess was chili. is that true? -b
Re: [silk] Eureka!
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:59:07PM +, Bruce Metcalf wrote: Fluorescents certainly did suck They are far less sucky than even a few short years ago. I run a recent fluorescent. It sucks pretty much the same way the other systems did. No accounting for taste, and I certainly won't question yours. You can now get CFs in a variety of Kelvin ratings I know about the phosphor spectrum available. It still looks like crap. I know it isn't supposed to be, but it is just so. Maybe I have a special retinal receptor for fluorescents, just like tetrachromate mutants. I can always tell, and these things make me want to smash them in instantly. Probably a direct neural pathway to the amygdala... Ever gotten yourself tested? Most folks cannot tell the difference, even with side-by-side presentation. I run a rack full of hardware, which is about 30-40 EUR worth of electricity/month. The lighting part doesn't even register on the financial radar. I must have more sensitive radar. Or maybe it's just my wife's monthly scrutiny of the bill. Or maybe it's the A/C that brings the monthly rate up over US$200. As for LED lighting I'm thinking about linear LED assemblies of flat panels. LED wallpaper, preferrably. Parallel thoughts. I've been working on a low-heat, zero-UV, LED lighting system for museum displays. Still too pricey, but the technology is getting closer every year. Any vendors to recommend? Bruce Metcalf, Lake Buena Vista
Re: [silk] Re 1 trick to stop trains
Did the computer term semaphore come from train semaphores? I have always assumed so. -- Charles On 2/20/07, Dave Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rail cars will indeed provide an adequate current path to shunt the rail circuit and trigger the signal system. That's the whole point. and in case anyone is interested, the railroads had to come up with ways to deal with exclusivity, priorities, and scheduling in decentralized systems about 100 years before these problems became well-known in software. (indeed, failure to observe a proper semaphore system leads to crashes, in either field) -Dave (WWI is one of those wars for which no one has any good excuses as to why it was started. One of the stories is that after the order was given for mobilization into belgium (because it was widely believed at the time that the road to moscow went through paris), the kaiser was about to change his mind, but was convinced that the logistics of deployment were so intricate that there could be no undo. Years later, after all the destruction, the guy who'd been in charge of the railroads published a book full of charts and graphs and timetables to explain how, in fact, the order could have been relatively easily reversed, had cooler heads prevailed)
Re: [silk] Re 1 trick to stop trains
And since it's been a while since I've pedanted about etymology on the list: Semaphore, liketelegraph is a compound word irregularly formed from two Greek roots: 'sema' = symbol (as in semiotics), and 'phoros' or 'phoreus' = carrier/bearer (as in phosphorus). cheers, Divya
Re: [silk] Re 1 trick to stop trains
On 2/21/07, Divya Sampath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did the computer term semaphore come from train semaphores? I have always assumed so. Possibly - though semaphores stared out as a military signaling system (in France, about the time of the French revolution, if I recall correctly). Other countries soon adopted it - and the name of Telegraph Hill outside London dates from the period that an 'optical telegraph' signal tower stood on it. You may recall an episode in The Count of Monte Cristo where the eponymous count tricks de Villefort into bankruptcy by bribing a semaphore signaler to send a false report about an impending revolution in Spain? Sure I understand how semaphores were used as a general purpose signalling mechanism, but it was from their use as excusion flags for trains (as Dave mentions above) that I thought the name (and semantics) were borrowed for computers. Anyone know for sure? -- Charles
Re: [silk] Laptops no more
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Neha Viswanathan said the following on 21/02/2007 00:30: I ended up buying an IBM thinkpad for the same reason - of all the laptops I can second that - it's usually my back, my attention span, or my wrists that give way first, rather than heat, with my thinkpad. My Powerbook G4 is not bad either, though I'm worried that the battery will blow up any moment. It's on recall, and I've been promised a new one for the last six months. Ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF29vPRQoToz9njMgRCBmUAKCje1jMzzDpD2ASznwz/iSYjpZvoQCg3Yvu jePeOcZZAHXJM9HKfhY+IeE= =/NjQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [silk] Re 1 trick to stop trains
Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure I understand how semaphores were used as a general purpose signalling mechanism, but it was from their use as excusion flags for trains (as Dave mentions above) that I thought the name (and semantics) were borrowed for computers. Anyone know for sure? I'd say it was highly probable - seems logical, doesn't it? I don't know who created the use of semaphores in concurrent programming, but the use seems analogous to railway signaling for traffic management... cheers, Divya
Re: [silk] Re 1 trick to stop trains
Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure I understand how semaphores were used as a general purpose signalling mechanism, but it was from their use as excusion flags for trains (as Dave mentions above) that I thought the name (and semantics) were borrowed for computers. Anyone know for sure? Highly probable - seems logical, doesn't it? I don't know who pioneered the use of semaphores in concurrent programming, but the intention seems analogous to railway signaling for traffic management. Are semaphores still used in OSs? Thought they'd more or less died out... cheers, Divya
Re: [silk] Eureka!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bruce Metcalf said the following on 21/02/2007 07:29: electricity/month. The lighting part doesn't even register on the financial radar. I must have more sensitive radar. Or maybe it's just my wife's monthly scrutiny of the bill. Or maybe it's the A/C that brings the monthly rate up over US$200. It's certainly the AC. I switched the whole house to CFL two years ago - about 40 bulbs. There's been no observable difference in the bills. But eight months a year here it goes above 40 degrees celsius, and the electricity bills drop to about 30% of their summer peak in the other 4 months. Ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF296ERQoToz9njMgRCMWWAKDM58CSQPzhFOuSjsgQKhJUTO1a+gCfXha8 LlyqWV31ntOCF7LCmwUFcFE= =1h0g -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [silk] sorry about the double post
Thought the first one bounced, but then it apparently didn't...
Re: [silk] Laptops no more
I ended up buying an IBM thinkpad for the same reason quite true, they are better than other lap-tops in that respect, i use a T42 my friend owns a latest T60 but what i have noticed is that newer T series(T60) ones(read Lenovo laptops) get much hotter than the T4x series(T42,T43 they are phased out now) which was the topmost seller in T series when IBM owned it, did anyone else noticed the same too..or is it just me seeing (rather feeling) too much into the change in thinkpad brand owners. -Vatsal -- It is not about a revolution (well, it could be) and neither about freedom (well, it may also be). Is mainly about having FUN!. On 2/21/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use my computer while sitting down away from a convenient computer perch, and yet I don't want to cook my nether regions. Any suggestions? I ended up buying an IBM thinkpad for the same reason - of all the laptops I've used it's the only one that could actually stay on the lap for upwards of 5 hours without causing any discomfort. I tried using a Dell in an airport once and burnt my lap. -- Neha Viswanathan +44(0) 77695 65886 London, UK http://withinandwithout.com | http://globalvoicesonline.org
Re: [silk] Laptops no more
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Vatsal said the following on 21/02/2007 11:01: i use a T42 my friend owns a latest T60 but what i have noticed is that newer T series(T60) ones(read Lenovo laptops) get much hotter than the T4x series(T42,T43 Not true. I have had a T21, T42 and a T60. The T60 is about as hot as the T42. Ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF2/BbRQoToz9njMgRCC9FAKDSb8X+TL0JiObyiQKA1ZLH9Fy7DwCg1cIH A8i3mELjaPR2CkEhqZ3mUMg= =dkY/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
