Comment Re:Price Spikes (Score 1) 282
That's cheap. Here in Sweden one of the larger computer stores changed the price of their cheapest 2TB Seagate drive from $105 to $472.
Comment Scroll Lock (Score 1) 939
Escape is of course one of the most used keys on my keyboard, I use the Windows key for application shortcuts, and since I have remapped Caps Lock to serve as a second backspace, even this key has become quite useful. Many games use the Pause key so it can be useful sometimes, and I don't have either an F-lock key, or any media keys, on my primary keyboard. The most useless key must therefore be Scroll Lock, I don't even know it's suppose to do.
I hope they remove some of these old legacy keys eventually, Emacs only uses CTRL and ALT so why would we need anything else?
World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight 687
Jake Staub writes "Just replaced the gasoline engine in a Honda Insight with a Diesel engine. On a 3,000 mile cross-country shakedown journey the car averaged 92mpg over 1,800 miles. Around a very hilly town in Northwest Washington, the car is averaging 78mpg. These mileage averages are without the electric side of the vehicle fully functional. With a bit more tinkering on the electric side and through a slight gearing change through tire size, it is anticipated that the car will likely average 100mpg. The build for the car has been documented on the web site and is as close to open source as my time allows. The car was built by two guys in a garage in Southern Maryland. If we can do it I don't see any reason why major auto manufacturers can't do it since we used their parts."
Comment Every computer should have a good name (Score 1) 688
The naming convention I use might not scale to well, but it is perfect for the network I manage.
On this network there are three things that rarely change over time, the owner/user of the computer, the operating system, and the purpose of the computer. The names I use are therefore of the form XYZ-NAME, where X, Y and Z are single characters that shows who owns/uses the computer, what operating system it runs, and what the purpose of the computer is (in that order). NAME is the actual name of the computer, this is usually an animal name that I find appropriate.
So Bob's server running Linux would be called BLS-CHEETAH (BobLinuxServer-CHEETAH), and John's workstation running Windows would be called JWW-DONKEY (JohnWindowsWorkstation-DONKEY).
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