Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle. My photographer, Steve, squints through a computerized scope squatting atop a big hunting rifle. We're outdoors at a range just north of Austin, Texas, and the wind is blowing like crazy—enough so that we're having to dial in more and more wind adjustment on the rifle's computer. The spotter and I monitor Steve's sight through an iPad linked to the rifle via Wi-Fi, and we can see exactly what he's seeing through the scope. Steve lines up on his target downrange—a gently swinging metal plate with a fluorescent orange circle painted at its center—and depresses a button to illuminate it with the rifle's laser. "Good tag? " he asks, softly. "Good tag," replies the spotter, watching on the iPad. Steve pulls the trigger, but nothing immediately happens.
A second later, the spotter calls out, "That's a hit! " Through the shooting glass Of course, Steve isn't some kind of super mutant marksman—he had a bit of help. What's it like to shoot? It’s good to be Batman. Super User. Warlord Sports. z72wW9g. Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School. After protracted legal battle, System Shock 2 finally available. Few games conjure up the awe and reverence among PC gamers that System Shock 2 produces. The sci-fi horror RPG, set onboard a crippled starship drifting far from home, is an unquestioned masterpiece. The game was originally released in 1999 by Looking Glass Studios, the same development crew responsible for the genre-defining sneaker FPS Thief, and though it broke no sales records, its exquisite tension-filled story and well-implemented RPG elements quickly earned it high accolades.
Unfortunately, it has been almost impossible to legally acquire the game for a number of years. After years of limbo, however, GOG.com (formerly known as "Good Old Games") has begun offering the game for sale. Development house Looking Glass Studios dissolved barely a year after System Shock 2's debut, and after the dissolution, the rights to the "System Shock" name and the trademarks ended up with different companies—including, oddly enough, an insurance company.
I... UsingTheTerminal. "Under Linux there are GUIs (graphical user interfaces), where you can point and click and drag, and hopefully get work done without first reading lots of documentation. The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are. " -- from man intro(1) This page gives an introduction to using the command-line interface terminal, from now on abbreviated to the terminal.
There are many varieties of Linux, but almost all of them use similar commands that can be entered from the terminal. There are also many graphical user interfaces (GUIs), but each of them works differently and there is little standardization between them. For the novice, commands can appear daunting: sudo gobbledegook blah_blah -w -t -h --long-switch aWkward/ComBinationOf/mixedCase/underscores_strokes/and.dots In Unity Unity is the default desktop environment used as of 11.04. . fo. A Crash Course in Using the Mac Terminal. Almost everything can be done with the Terminal. At least that’s what the experts tell you. We find glorious “Terminal Hacks” which unlock some special features of the Mac. While for most part it’s fine not knowing, it wouldn’t hurt to know what exactly is going on behind those lines. Here’s a short crash course in using the Terminal, from a total newbie at that.
Though I did do my homework, my less than exceptional knowledge of the Terminal might produce some errors in this guide. Where’s the Terminal? Use Spotlight to launch it, or you’ll find it in the Applications/Utilities folder. Navigating the Terminal The Terminal will generally launch with your home directory selected. You can even directly navigate to a specific folder. To know that you’re in the correct directory, hit “ls” to bring up a list of file names. One important command: ^r will allow you to cycle through your history of commands. Sudo Creating Symbolic links Nano: The Terminal text editor nano “my filename.txt” QuickTime X. MIT creates LED that cools its surrounding environment | News | Lighting. Source: Happy Via Researchers at MIT recently unveiled the LED which has an energy efficiency of over 200% A group of researchers in the US have unveiled an LED which emits more light energy than it consumes in electrical energy.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) unveiled the LED, which has a conventional efficiency of greater than 200 per cent. This means that unlike traditional halogen lamps and newer LEDs, instead of producing heat this LED will instead cool its surroundings. Lead researcher, Parthiban Santhanam of MIT, said: “The most counterintuitive aspect of this result is that we don’t typically think of light as being a form of heat. The possibility of such a device was first predicted in 1957, but a practical version was seemingly impossible to create until now. Alongside energy-efficient lighting other potential applications of the LED could include cryogenic refrigeration.
Dig Up System Information Using the Terminal. Troubleshooting, upgrading, or just curious? Find out what’s in your system without opening the case. Using these Linux command line tools, you can get details about your hardware and distribution. I’ve tested these commands in Ubuntu 7.10, but they should all work in other Linux distributions. Unless noted otherwise, all of this software is included by default with Ubuntu. Graphics card:glxinfo – details about OpenGL, the Xserver, and your graphics cardglxinfo | grep direct – do you have direct 3d rendering? Audio:lspci | grep Audio – audio controlleraplay --list-devices – more audio device information Software versions:cat /etc/issue – current distribution and versionapt-cache showpkg packagename – packagename’s version and dependenciesuname -r - Linux kernel versionuname -a – all kernel details Networking:lspci | grep Ethernet – Ethernet controllersifconfig – networking interfaces, IP addresses, and more USB devices:lsusb – USB buses and attached devices Did I forget anything?
Valentine's tips: How to woo a scientist | Dean Burnett | Science. Valentine's Day is typically a hard time for many, namely those who object to the commercialised nature and emphasis on public displays of affection, those who are presently single but would rather not be and find the whole ethos of the day offensive, or some combination of the two.
But there is a simple solution to both of these problems: date a scientist. Scientists are highly educated people with decent career prospects, but are also rarely associated with a fondness for romance and passion (or any other emotional state) so are likely to be apathetic towards Valentine's Day. Ergo, scientists are the ideal partners. But how does one go about finding, courting and eventually establishing a solid relationship with an elusive and complex scientist? Locating a scientist Scientists can be hard to locate. Gaining access to a laboratory (how you achieve this is up to you) is usually sufficient to impress any scientists you find in there. Talking to a scientist Wooing a scientist If you succeed. Index of iSpace work. Anonine. CSS. An Absolute Beginner's Guide to the Terminal. Sitting discreetly in Utilities folder (nestled nearly unnoticed amid your applications) is one of the most powerful tools ever created for the Mac.
It is simple and elegant, yet can be intimidating (if not terrifying) and has the power to cure some of your computer’s most puzzling ills. It also possesses the fearsome ability to wreak unimaginable havoc on your system. We are talking, of course, about the Terminal, that magnificent gateway to the hidden underpinnings of the Mac OS. Comprised of text "prompts" (the computer’s way of indicating that it is waiting for you to type something) and commands (the precisely-worded incantations you need to issue to get the computer to do your bidding), it looks a bit antiquated in today’s point-and-click world.
(The system does actually go back more than a couple of decades, but at the time it was a vast improvement over stacks of punch cards.) Going Through the Front Door: The Terminal Type “ls” and press Return. And a couple of side doors... Mark K. Jowett, Ph.D. - Database Resources. Useful Links: Back to Useful Links Working with Databases: 1) Creating ERDs Using MySQL Workbench 2) Data Modeling Checklist 3) MySQL Data Types Quick Ref 4) SQL - Quick Reference 5) Forward Engineering Using MySQL Workbench SQL Statements (Uses Premiere database: bottom of page) Log in to *YOUR* database using MySQL Workbench, AND through SSH: Notes > MySQL Workbench and SSH Login Procedures: 1. Using MySQLWorkbench, AND 2. Using SSH Client (a. Windows, b. Mac) Overall database reports: Display user, timestamp, and MySQL version: select user(), now(), version(); Display your grants: show grants; Display the databases for which you have access: show databases; Upload table structures and data: ***First: BACKUP *ALL* existing tables!
Drop database if exists yourusername; create database if not exists yourusername; use username; source db/premiere.sql --or... \. db/premiere.sql Database Schema and Metadata: Display all tables in database: show tables; Display structure (metadata) for each table: