Universal Remote Control?

eypeon · 2012-05-27T00:32:06.299845+00:00

I've been tempted to try out a Beacon remote app+device for iOS or Android. Basically, your phone connects to a device with Bluetooth, and the device sends out IR signals. I don't know if it works with the ps3 or not though.

Captain_Sabatini · 2012-05-26T22:26:18.892896+00:00

I've got a friend that works at Entrance Software. She said that they're hiring a bunch of developers right now, so I'd recommend giving them a resume. Other software development places in town that I know folks at: Pros, Halliburton, Schlumberger, HP.

pncslvd · 2012-05-26T13:53:47.195214+00:00

The Heights has some super nice parts, and a few parts that aren't quite as nice, but still not too terrible. If you have any questions about any places in particular, feel free to PM me. Also - for a budget of 2k/month, you could pretty easily rent a smaller house in my neighborhood. In general, stuff to the south and central, and south east of the area bounded by the 610 loop, 45, and 10 is pretty nice. Stuff to the north and north east is a bit sketchier.

johnleemk · 1 day

That isn't what this article is talking about. They are referring to being able to bid or ask on stocks at a price incremental lower than one cent. For example, the current lowest asking price for stock ABC is $100.00. If you wanted to sell your stock of ABC, your options are either to sell at $99.99 or to find a trader who had a lower latency than the other guy who is selling at $100.00, and put the price at $100.00 as well. Then, when someone finally wants to buy at $100.00, you win the bid because your server responded first.

If, as the article mentions, you could sell in smaller increments than $.01, perhaps you would instead choose to list at $99.9999 rather than going for the server with the lowest latency.

honestbleeps · 2 days

I was going to do that, but some of our users assign other groups to some files in their home directories. Out of an overabundance of caution, I did a find script on each user's NetApp .snapshot directory just to make sure I could do a recursive chown on their directory and get them back to where they started.

banezing · 2 days

My office doesn't do CAD, but we do have an awful lot of 3d modelling. We've been going down the route of using Blade Workstations for most of our high end users, and having everyone access their workstation with HP Remote Graphics. These days, it's included for free with any HP workstation. If you aren't running HP hardware, it's kind of pricey ($200 / seat), but since it did 3D graphics support out of the box with basically 0 issues in the last 5 years vs. spending god only knows how much time trying to screwing with any of the other few dozen RDP apps, we found it to be worth it.

From there, all of the storage is on NAS. On our Linux workstations, we've even done the application installs on the NAS, and mounted the application trees with autofs. That way everyone has the same version, same system level configurations, and can all be upgraded at the same time.

Our users are actually pretty happy with the solution so long as the latency to their house doesn't go too far north of 50 ms or get too many dropped packets. Then it starts being a pain.

honestbleeps · 2 days

As root:

cd ~someuser

chown -R someuser:someuser * .*

I was just trying to get this user's home directory's permissions cleaned up and include any .blah files, but because .. is the parent directory, it matches .* . The chown made it up to /home, and recursively started chowning everyone's home directories to someuser. Thankfully, the recursion was getting tied up in everyone's .snapshot directories, so it only made it to a dozen or so users before I caught it, but it was a walk of shame to the senior admin to fess up and ask for a hand getting everyone's permissions fixed.

Rubberdoll · 3 days

SEO shouldn't be something you have a company for, it should simply be part of good web page design. You're much more likely to run into the Google black hole by hiring some SEO company who tries to hack their way to higher search results.

dexcel · 3 days

This causes a problem with time zones and requires a lot more circuitry and slows down wake-up times. Really, a simple clock circuit is a minuscule amount of power to keep running. The key is to go through the entire hardware and verify that volatile memory (RAM, CPU registers and caches) gets pushed off to non-volatile memory (flash) after which all non-essential components can be powered off. On the software side, the operating system needs to move to a "tickless" design (already commonplace in most Linux kernels since approximately v2.6), and handle timer events in a graceful event driven way rather than sitting there spinning in a while loop waiting for something to happen.

trouphaz · 3 days

If you're on Windows 7, quickly launch the Problem Steps Recorder - it will automatically take screenshots and log all of your mouse clicks and keyboard presses. If you're more of a terminal guy, in Unix there is always the script command to log all of your work to a file. At least these can give you enough information to fill out what happened later.

eviljolly · 4 days

I would say go through official channels first. Call up the police station and log an official complaint about their failure to act on this case. If you have a particular detective's name, ask to speak to their superior officer. Sometimes you can talk to your county's sheriff's office - occasionally they will help out as well.

If none of that seems to be working, that should be plenty of evidence to go to small claims court over. Just get the small claims court judge to rule in absentia when they don't bother to respond to their summons. Then the court can go after them for 5k or so to compensate you for your loss.

NoobFace · 4 days

Tell me about it. I would love to be able to virtualize some of our modeling workstations, but the best we've been able to do is Blade Workstations just to get them out of the offices and into a pool in the data center.

TommyCollins · 4 days

I agree that independent humans can do a better job of associating similar neighborhoods together into districts. In my preference, someone - whether the legislature or an independent committee would get the first chance to determine a map that can be agreed upon by a super-majority of the legislature. However, if that map doesn't pass, the Shortest Split Line or whatever other algorithmically determined map becomes the district map. None of the years of political fights, court battles, and nonsense redistricting battles that go on today. You get to play nicely with eachother, or the computer does it for you.

It would be interesting to see some additional filters and criteria placed on Shortest Split Line to accommodate areas of similarity. Perhaps start with a SSL map, but then run additional passes on the map where districts can "trade" precincts with one another if certain census criteria determine that an area is more like another district.

NoobFace · 4 days

I don't think you would get a lot of boost for rendering farms - unless you're talking shared cloud farms. In general, you always take a performance hit when virtualizing resources, and render farms are all about the maximum possible performance.

darksim905 · 4 days

Or the ones that talk about sysadmin burnout.

darksim905 · 4 days

Dev-ops, get tasked with doing both, and end up doing a good job at neither.

robotevil · 4 days

To be fair, USB did effectively replace the PS/2, Parallel, and Serial ports on most PCs. Most computers only need USB, Ethernet, and 3.5 mm jacks. Netbooks and Ultrabooks even drop the Ethernet ports.

hmistry · 5 days

I'd go a bit off the handle for someone depriving the world of that magnificent mustache as well.

TommyCollins · 5 days

The key is to assign districts in a completely fair and unbiased manner. Sure in some situations minority votes may get diluted somewhat, but it is much less likely that they will be diluted as much as they currently are with a gerrymandered district. Just look at some of the districts that Texas created after their most recent redistricting.

I see the dangers of packing, incumbent protection, and racial dilution are all worse with the current let the majority party draw the map than with some fair and unbiased way of drawing it up.

TommyCollins · 5 days

Which is exactly what the National Popular Vote strategy is about. If they can acquire 270 electoral votes, the Electoral College becomes irrelevant because the majority of the electors would vote for the popular vote victor.

machonacho · 5 days

For most of my furniture, I stalked my college listservs / emailed friends who had been o/c and were moving back on, fliers in the dorms, etc. I ended up getting a desk, bed, dresser, and some other furniture for less than $100 that way.

Craigslist ends up with plenty of random furniture as well, typically for cheap or free. Just be careful with used couches and beds - bedbugs and mystery stains/smells suck.

My girlfriend was on campus at the time, and she would regularly sneak me food out of the serveries, and the rest of the time I just bought meals on points ... so yah, hook up with someone on campus. Also, no shame in packing a bag lunch.

Check out /r/Frugal for plenty more tips about striking out on your own and saving a few bucks.

NerdMachine · 8 days

If you have a farmers market in the area, and see if anyone is there selling meat. I've found a number of local ranchers and butchers this way.

furrowed_brow · 9 days

"Pants" is what the British call panties. Trousers is the British word for what Americans call pants.

CashOverAss · 10 days

Check the requirements for each of them. Frequently they will have something like "People who live and work in the _______ area". Some have even gotten looser about their requirements and will say - to join you need to be a member of whatever club or organization. However, the club membership forms are right next to the bank applications, require a $10 donation to join, and the credit union gives you a $10 bonus for joining.

Really, if you can't find a credit union that will accept you, you aren't trying very hard.

CashOverAss · 10 days

If it works for him/her, and it's not financially irresponsible, I don't have a problem with it. Some people who are quitting smoking might be able to walk around with a pack in their pocket and simply chose not to smoke. Most, however, need to get rid of them all and not hang around places where they are available. Same with spending - if you're "addicted" to spending, keeping your savings difficult to access makes it that much more likely you'll resist the urge to splurge.

thatmorrowguy

TROPHY CASE

thatmorrowguy

TROPHY CASE

you'll need to login or register to do that

create a new account

login