Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone.
As old as me!
“it took 23 seconds to record a single digital image to its cassette deck. To view the filmless photo, Mr. Sasson had to remove the cassette from the camera and place it in a customized reader that could display the image on an old black and white television.”
(via Slashdot)
Sounds like Sesame Street. First, Apple tried to assert that they own the word “pod” and the letter “i”, now Facebook are trying take ownership of the word “book”.
Oh well, it’ll keep the lawyers in hot dinners I guess…
‘‘Now we’ve got this massive white elephant down the coast, three times as big as the one they swore they’d never build. All of this and an absence of using some contemporary technology for capturing and recycling, let alone capturing stormwater.’’
| — | Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten |
No matter what you think you’ve heard, TV commercials really don’t get louder than the programs they accompany. Production tricks only make them sound like they do. It’s called “inconsistent” or “perceived” loudness. Perceived or not, the problem likely will get worse with digital television.
| — | Siddhartha Gautama |
My ISP (iiNet) mirrors Ubuntu, but not Mint. Aside from being free content, it’s also the fastest download coming from the iiNet mirror.
Since Mint is so closely based on Ubuntu, it seems to use the same repos. So what I’ve done, is opened /etc/apt/sources.list (take a copy first) and done a find and replace to replace:
archive.ubuntu.com
with
A little apt-get update once you’re done, and it seems to work fine. The Mint-specific stuff comes off the normal mirrors, and the Ubuntu stuff (which I think is the bulk of it) comes off my ISP.
Well, madness may be overstating it. Maybe “Slight inconvenience”? Doesn’t start with M though…
I’ve got around to rolling my main desktop onto Linux Mint (from Ubuntu) after running it on my laptop for a few weeks - definitely a nice little distro, works a lot more “out of box” than Ubuntu (which is what it says on the tin).
Anyway, the madness of which I speak is that I’m running a dual monitor setup - a nice-ish 22in Samsung LCD, and an old 17in CRT that I picked out of a dumpster. Hence, most of my work is done on the LCD. Mint seems intent on wanting the 17in to be the “main” monitor - firstly when I changed it to a dual monitor setup from clone (in the monitor settings), it still had the taskbar on the 17in.
Did a search online, couldn’t find much about how to move the taskbar, or whatever it’s called, is this a Windows term? (Microsoft TaskBar™?) Saw something mentioned about dragging it around while holding down Ctrl, however it did work with Alt - Just hold Alt, hold left-click on the mouse and drag it to where-ever your heart desires.
Vampires Suck trailer. Looks really crappy, appears to have about the same acting, writing and production values as the Twilight movies….
