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Other than starting out with Lego mindstorms and/or a dummies guide to assembler or FORTH, there is no one single source or publication that I've ever regarded as definitive and up to date, outside of actually majoring in robotic engineering (a little above and beyond for a layman just wanting to ha...

Any books by Forrest M. Mims III will be an excellent starting point. I grew up with his simple explanations and project books that lead to me to furthering my interests. Really good stuff for children ages 8 to 80. Check it out. His books can be had for cheap at just about any Radio Shack, Edmund S...

I have a rather large group of them that live outside my frint door. Tell me about it. I am pretty sure my geckos number vaery near a thousand or just slightly more. I can hardly walk anywhere there is a light source at night without startling a couple of dozen of 'em. Of course, watching them do t...

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/research/txherps/lizards/hemidactylus.turcicus.html I bet this is what you found based on your descriptions so far. They're pretty cute and they control pests like you wouldn't believe. Kids love 'em, dogs and cats ignore 'em and they reproduce rapidly. I've seen some as lon...

My computer: Gateway DS 4000 SP Laptop Processor: 2GHz Pentium 4 M Coppermine RAM: 512MB SDRAM Graphics Cards: Integrated Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller 8MB RAM Sound: Integrated Cmajor Audio AC '97 ICH 4 Speakers: Tozaj Headphones Internet Connection: 3Mb/s Cable. Ethernet: RealTek 10...

To those of you looking for work or who are going to join the workforce after graduation, beware of services such as Resume Blaster or anything similar that offer to send your resume to countless recruiters because you might end up being on the radar of this: Received: from s1read2.nuskin.com ([216....

ukami: personally im a humanist, so.. :) I thought so. I noticed that some days you're just so damned reasonable, and others, when your hackles are up, justifiably so. 8) Now what bothers me, are people who call themselves humanist, but lack the wherewithal to investigate their position, make argum...

Then may I humbly suggest buffet style Humanism/Philosophy/Legalism. With all the other humanistic systems out there, there is no reason why one couldn't cobble together a workable, agreeable and correct system. What we don't use from the other systems, burn. Take the ethics and morality, make your ...

I apologize for not clarifying, but what I meant to say was use urpmi (or gurpmi) to install gcc perhaps saving you some trouble and effort. As far as WineX, don't they give out the source and it's the precompiled binaries that you have to pay for? And even then, I don't think you get the whole sour...

I don't think unused server daemons have much impact on performance- I'm running Apache2, SSH, Squid, Masqmail, Uptimed (yes, a daemon whose sole purpose is to track and record uptime), Samba, Portmap(needed by FAM which I'm about to remove, since I haven't used a full desktop environment in ages),...

Yeah, took a LOT of work (there were no good tutorials on "how to download source code from CVS in UNIX", everyone assumed I knew how to do it) but I got it from CVS. Problem was, I don't have GCC installed. I tried to get it, but it was only available in source code. And even ignoring th...

I just started reading Patricia Cornwell's book, "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-- Case Closed", in whicch she names Walter Sickert as the Ripper. She used 21st century DNA tersting and other modern day forensic techniques on several things, along with a ton of circumstantial evide...

What is your name? Christopher Keith Brown. Where do you live? Arlington, Texas, USA How old are you? 28 What do you do? Computer Consultant for the Texas Educational Regions. Do you have a family? No. What is your favorite color? Purple If you could be any geometric shape, what would it be? Hyperc...

[quote="Pu-239"][/quote] Dude, nice. Tell me more about your HDD & Controller and how you figured yourself for -a512 for your reads, please. Oh, BTW for everyone else, I forgot (Thanks for reminding me Pu*): cat fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none...

So are you gonna turn it into a real computer and install GNU/Linux on it?

Specify: Distro Desktop Environment/Desktop customizations Browser Kernel Version Hardware you are running it on (CPU, RAM, GPU, and disk capacity)(optional), Other customizations/non standard configurations. Amount of usage Boot configuration Fedora Core 1, moving to FC2 KDE 3.2.2 Opera 7.23 Final...

Alexander the Great, titular Ruler of the Known World before the age of 20? Everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten the the Great King of Eastern Europe, the Meditarranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India. The biggest exponent of the light cavalry, an excellent strategist...

55.22682%- Extreme Geek
I'm rather puzzled by this high rating, considering I'm a liberal arts guy and I don't partake of the more stereotypical behaviours/activities.

Yes, and the resemblance is uncanny...
That picture was taken of me while I was having a conspiratorial moment, so naturally I had to use it for SD.net.

BA Philosophy, UTA 1999. I tried to take some postgrad courses but I got fed up with it because it was a very long and arduous indoctrination into Postmodernism and all the ills that it brings outside of Literature, where it belongs. I'm seriously considering taking the last 12 hours and turning in ...

Like a lot of people here already, I too mimic a lot of Teal'c's gestures and especially the "Indeed..." thing. However, to counterbalance the sombreness of Teal'c, I have also picked up all the Gir-isms from Invader Zim. This is especially humorous to my friends and family because I act l...

I would have to say it would be the postmodern gothic romance anti-hero(ine) of the last 150 years to present because while working on the only tenets of the genre, thus their environment where the conflict is to take place, (horror/terror, history and homosexuality) you have to balance their neuros...

Maybe some of ya'll caught this on Adult Swim.
Of the mp3's available, I think I like "Fett's Vette" and "Ratz" the most.
I'm thinking this is worth the money.
Whaddya'll think? Or is it a little to close to the bone...

So who here trains with Boken? I do. I have used both traditional peachwood and iron wood, alternatingly. Ultimately I switched from Kendo to Iaido because I preferred its more artistic, meditative qualities, but I still have not acquired a shenai which would be more appropriate for that sub-discip...

Modern, living and usefully: English, Spanish (First Language), German, French, Saudi Arabic and Apache (Adopted). Good at but rusty: Tzotzil(Ancestral), Russian, Portuguese and Urdu. Academically and coincidentally dead: Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom), Archaic Greek, Latin, Aramaic (Comparative ...