Sounds like the tittle of a new TLC or PBS program.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2023218/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-tiny-linux-laptop.html

3D printer and some parts... A PI Laptop?

With such poor standards as white space and curly braces, write a pretty routine to clean it up. One to convert to your standard and one to convert back to theirs.

I come for the world of 6 upper charter names names for fields/columns. There naming conventions mean something becuase every is abbrivated. We keep or stnadards on single sheet of paper to so that could be followed.

Now get of my lawn!

He can start his own small Beowulf cluster.

Or 2 lego Mindstorm sets. Then you can compete building the best machine.

I tend to buy in two's for Christmas. That way a remote racecar has something to compeat with.

I do not have a degree in English. My wfie does, but does not try proof my writing any more, too many fights. I also have a hardtime with the language becuase I do not hear the differences in sounds of words like most people would have a hard time spelling to, too and two without "use" contect. But for me, I have that same problem many words like specific and Pacific. I use to leave on the west coast and if some says "go to Pacific." I would ask "Specific what?"

About proof reading, I proofed that first post for over 10 minutes. But I can not read what is written, my head fills in and fixes to what I "wrote". My wife as a "love" card/note from me, that say "Wish remain your face". I know I wrote more than that!

My favorite saying "English is my second language, I am still looking for a first." Made my college professor in English just crack up.

MENSA has plusses and minuses.

For me it was a chance to solicalized, to be long to group that was like me. Think, what others did in high school, I did post college.

I meet many different poeple, from guys to could not tie their shoes but could talk about Choas Theory for hours, to wonderful people who open their homes and their lifes to stranges that only had a card or newsletter annoucing an event.

Myself, I hosted a monthly movie "night" in my apartment. It started on first Friday of month and lasted until the last person left or Monday. Via that meet many people, including one that became my wife. My freinds in Mensa found out of our weddings plans when we both changed our addresses and my wfie to be changed her name on month newsletter. It was nice receive a hand written note congratlating us in each of our newsletters.

I left Mensa after I figured out that I out grew the it. I gradulate from that part of my life.

On a side note - since I also was at one time part of the management of the local group, membership was broken down to about 5-10-85 split.
5% wanted the membership to prove themselfs. They did want the newsletter or any assocation, just a proof of making it.
10% as active. The came to events, helped with fund raising and other programs.
85% getting the newsletter and reading it and filling it aaway. These were the ones we kept trying to join in with 10% - it took me almost 5 years to start going to events and meeting people and become found I liked being with the 10%.

I found the time enjoyable. I was traveling alot, and found events in other parts of world that I drop in on while killing a weekend in a city that I did not know. Oh, and in Slashdot fashion - my mom, while I as living at home, found the test weekend and suggested that I take it.

So when is the new new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service will be shown?

I would pull the batteries. This helps prevent further damage if water does get in. Also some batteries maybe illegal to ship without proper casing. I am thinking of sealed lead-acid in UPS (toxic) and possibly Li-ion (fire).

Expendables, like open ink-jet printer carriages or toner in laser-jets, toss The issue is leakage, not just damaging the printers, but other near by items.

And of course you are not shipping cleaning supplies, like ammonia and bleach. If they leak, yes toxic, but together can start a fire.

Used the freezer trick more than once, but I don't remove it from the freezer to try. I have a few LONG cables. Place the computer on top of fridge with long cables hanging out and into the freezer. Close door and wait, power up computer and read the drive. When I get all that is getable. I take a hammer to drive.

Amen. Covered very well. Ending is too simple.

I "knitted"

Wire-wrapped my first computer S-100 bus based Z-80A 4MHz w/ 4KB of static memory. Time 1976.

There was some solder.. power bus build of 12G wire to 100 wire-wrap pins.

It worked great! Lost it when my wife packed my stuff when we moved across the country.

Make the USPS the handler of the sales tax system. They are already in position to id your house, down to the City, County, State and whether it is actually city, county, state, federal or other jurisdiction.

Since we already have laws that make the drive of the truck responsible for the items. Then make the carriers which include FedEx and UPS, be the collector, since they are persons handing the package to customer.

This way the calculation of tax, is part of address validation that all these systems use along with freight charges.

A graet SF book of the computer systems interconnecting and helping each other, then to discover that humans are running around in the environment.

I suggested this and other ways of using VNC embedded hardware like this years ago. It will be great to have keyboard, mouse, video - hope they also add virtual CD/DVD or USB to get the machine loaded remotely.

It is shame that it maybe to late with VBLOCK and ESX system taking hold.

I love D Knuth and have read is sorting and searching book many time over, always finding good times.

SPEED does mater and so does SIZE and BANDWIDTH. It is important to design things right the first time versus loops and loops of daily optimization that must code is written in today. The understanding of record-locks, index optimization and other multiplexing methods are needed today. I see too much of sucking a 1+ million peaces into memory to find 1 item, "Because it is fast".

Yes this sounds like "get of my grass", but "fast and sloppy", is a waste on everyone's resources not just a single computer.