Get a Palo alto firewall. You can filter by application, and even make firewall rules like "allow reading of facebook, but disallow posting", or even "disable attachments".
Of course, you didn't exactly specify budget...
I had two old computers - a 386SX, 16MHz, and a 486DX2/66 not so long ago. I actually booted them up occasionally - for the express purpose of running old games on them (DOS-based).
However, when I moved last summer to a new apartment, I was able to dump them for good. DOSBox pretty much has removed the need to keep real hardware around for nostalgia. Only thing I wish is that they'd get the Roland MT-32 support to work *completely* - especially the sound effects still could use some work.
It looks more like Don Martin to me...
Interestingly, the specifications (below the image of the processor box) say "Multi-core: Dual core", not just the item name...
Like I said in grandparent, I have been able to make using Latex tolerable by using Lyx. Only problem is that if there's some newfangled class that doesn't have a corresponding Lyx layout I have to somehow try to make one...and that's not really all that easy.
What's unfriendly about the following command?
\cite{some_book}
The fact that if I typo it to \cite{some_booky} it doesn't compile. And unless I rigorously recompile after every edit, I might not even catch that. Worse if the brace is missing.
What's unfriendly about the following entry?
It's in a separate file, for starters.
Also, you need to run Latex *twice* to get it working properly (the first time generates the
And like I said, if you forget a comma at the end of the line, it doesn't work.
Oh, I guess I could just use readily-made citations that I can copypaste in from ieeexplore and the like? Well, guess what, the readily available bibtex exports are crap. For example, the bibtex containing all RFC:s (http://tm.uka.de/~bless/bibrfcindex.html) have all sorts of stuff in them that shouldn't be included (including standardization status and what RFC's it obsoletes). When I wrote my latest paper to Elsevier that included lots of RFC references, I basically had to run that
So easy....not.
Only problem I have with Word's citation mechanism is that there isn't an easy way to get citations directly that format, but I have been using Bibutils (from http://sourceforge.net/p/bibutils/home/Bibutils/ ) to get back'n'forth between various formats.
I'll give Latex that it produces the most neatest documents there are, but to get that far you end up fighting all sorts of indicate details far too much. Don't even get started on how to create a new document class - if your text doesn't quite work with any of the provided classes and you'd like to create your own styles, good luck.
...and floats, and tables, and formatting of said tables, and different kinds of list styles, and,....
I've written several papers using Lyx, which fortunately manages to hide most of the annoying things of Latex. But it's *not* friendly. And don't even get started on Bibtex..Not that MS Word's XML-based system is any better, but at least I don't have to worry about mystical compliation errors due to an extra comma.
The only problem with MS Word is that unless explicitly configured to enforce usage of styles (and not just directly choosing fonts), you'll end up with bunch of documents that are pain to maintain.
Doom used a DOS extender. As such, you could pretty much have all your drivers in base memory without any of that UMB mangling.
Ultima VII and the Voodoo Memory Management (http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager) on the other hand....required a lots of base memory and you really couldn't run anything like EMM386 reliably. Was...interesting to get Ultima VII working with 2MBs of RAM.
On the other hand, CCIE's written portion goes can be done with "grab questions online and learn by rote", if you like. The lab exam is great, though (and they specifically include stuff like "cisco-proprietary" and "standards-based" approaches). Granted, I really haven't found that much use for all the stuff about BGP confererations in real life...and I also never do access lists with bitwise masks they seem to love (like 255.255.252.255 - it just makes config much less readable). But most of the material *is* applicable to real work.
- CCIE #20962
Here you go:
http://ec.europa.eu/codecision/stepbystep/diagram_en.htm
Technically, we are about to complete step 1.
Indeed, must be a real karma whore, this Anonymous Coward.
Yes, but it's not a 50m^3 cube. All my stuff fitted quite nicely in my previous 50m^2 apartment, so 7x7x1m cube is perfectly adequate - not much stuff higher than 1m apart from bookshelf
I was under the impression that stars, any star really, is continually increasing its stock of heavier elements. From Helium to Iron, and that these elements settle in the core in a layered fashion ordered by their atomic weights.
Then as it goes through its life cycles the star is progressively consuming heavier and heavier elements until there's little more than Iron left in the core and only then does it go kablooey.
"The onion of elements" happens at the end of star's life (or exiting of main sequence), but until then, there's plenty of hydrogen in core. Once star goes red giant, it has a helium core fusing to carbon (and hydrogen still fusing to helium in the mantle). If there's enough mass, the carbon core can start fusing neon, and so on all the way to iron. However, the full range with all the layers only happens in the most massive stars that finally explode as supernovas. And the main sequence is all about fusing hydrogen.
I wouldn't worry too much. The article mentions China. The Great Firewall is leaking like mad - unless you *completely* cut off the Internet, you cannot block it. The US is so tied to the rest of the world, so this North Korea-approach is not feasible there.
And once the cat is out of the bag and even the random mom just perusing Facebook is aware of Tor and Onion Routing, this becomes unenforceable. Fine, it might turn into a boondoggle like the fabulous war on drugs...but has no real effect on Internet users (of any skill set).
-Time of day billing. Power doesn't cost the same to generate at midnight as it does at 3pm. Why should the customer's price be fixed, when the cost isn't?
This is something we have had at least here in Finland for decades. If you have electric heating, you usually want to pay separate rates for nighttime (10pm-7am) and daytime power. Other option is seasonal (winter vs. summer) rates. Basically, your meter has a small relay that clicks on when it gets the signal that nighttime rate is on - and at that point, the heating elements that are hooked to that become powered. The switchover time is not always *exactly* 10 pm - the utility company usually staggers it over 5-10 minutes, for example by doing it city district at time.
We have recently gotten "remotely readable" meters, so they don't need to come over to read them anymore (in practice, even without one, most utility companies just ask you to report your usage to their website), but separate rates for different times of day is really old stuff. The remote capability has given the customer a possibility to check usage in realtime over a website, obtain statistics and so on, but no other practical benefits (or hindrances).
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
