I'm pretty sure there's a similar decapitation in the Bond movie, License to Kill.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 6:08 AM on July 6, 2008

le mort's answer makes more sense if it the second to last paragraph started as,

"souces c & d would be "
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 7:15 AM on July 4, 2008

chain mail definetly produces a tangible product. It can be quite a workout on the forearms, during the winding/clipping phase.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 11:02 AM on June 30, 2008 marked best answer

If you let spinrite run against the drive with the wrong partition information, it may have completely trashed the existing information.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:48 AM on June 30, 2008

It could be overheating. Did the cpu come with heatsink already attached, or did you do that yourself? One of the most common mistakes in mounting the heatsink to the cpu is to put too much thermal paste on, and just assume the pressure clips will even things out for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:43 AM on June 30, 2008

I've been planning on picking up a creation station to see what software they include. At thirty bucks, it seems pretty cheap compared to anything 'pro'.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 9:22 AM on June 26, 2008

STAF could be what you are looking for. It provides a lightweight agent that runs on each server to be monitored, and is easily hooked into your scripting language of choice. It's one downside is that, since it was developed for testing environments, the security model is simplistic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 9:14 AM on June 26, 2008

Could it have been a "stars on 45" or "jive bunny and mastermixers" album? They had original singers do constant-mix/medley pieces of pop tracks. Several are on youtube.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:31 PM on June 25, 2008

If you really like 'yakking enough, you might check and see if any of your local rental places offer a boat-share type program. It can be a great deal, where you buy a yak at significant discount from retail, and let the rental place use it as one of their boats. In return, you get free storage for your yak, they insure and repair it as part of their regular business, and you have 24x7 access to their equipment and dock. At the place I go, this means in addition to always having a kayak... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 11:10 AM on June 25, 2008 marked best answer

If your future girlfriend is in the US on a student visa when you meet, expect the process to be much more time consuming. My brother in law was required to leave the US for two years before they could come back, as I recall.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 4:44 PM on June 23, 2008

google for "seattle sewing machine repair", most likely any of these shops will have the best knowledge of the used machine market in seattle, if they don't offer consignment seeling themselves.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 4:40 PM on June 23, 2008

Note that in most states, coasting in neutral is illegal, because it increases your effective reaction time, should you need to accelerate out of the way of an accident in progress. IIRC the WA drivers manual says sitting at a stop light in neutral or park, was a no-no too, but on the other hand, I see signs all up and down our drawbridge approaches telling people to turn off the car while waiting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:35 AM on June 21, 2008

On my shuttle, the analog outlets didn't match what was marked, and I had to experiment to find which one was which.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:27 AM on June 21, 2008

Voip providers were not required by law to honor a porting request until recently. It sounds like they are now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:18 AM on June 21, 2008

Sea Monkeys are brine shrimp, not bacteria.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:27 AM on June 11, 2008

We had fun going to whirly ball as a work group. They have beer and pizza. I thought the pizza was only so-so, and would recommend trying to bring in food, but the game itself was a lot of fun.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 8:24 AM on June 4, 2008

Every internal dvd-burner I've had has died eventually, consistently at around the 350 burn mark. Neither of the external drives have died yet, and they are nearing 800 and 450 burns respectively. I suspect heat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 10:38 PM on May 29, 2008

I've never been willing to pay $.10 rather than just plugging in the USB cable, so I've only got experience with the free conversion/email side of things, and those items are definitely NOT stored permanently in my account.

I've been meaning to download Anna Ker...somethingerother...nana from gutenberg, I'll try whispernet delivery and see.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 2:23 PM on May 28, 2008

wong is correct, paying the delivery fee does not save a copy. They didn't even email me a copy to save on my own.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 2:39 PM on May 28, 2008

It is probably the standard who's who scam. Paying to be listed in these directories is a waste of your money, as no one reads them except the other people who paid to be in them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 2:13 PM on May 28, 2008

Powell's has a copy of the first edition for only ~$6.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:06 PM on May 23, 2008

There is a nixon who appears to be available for purchase/download from emusic, but he doesn't seem to be the same as the myspace guy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 10:03 AM on May 22, 2008

One of the most frustrating pieces of video I've watched in a while was Gladiator Days, which is basically the CCTV footage of a man being murdered in prison. The attackers know the camera is there, know the guards are coming, and do what they want before they can be stopped. When you're in for life, 30 days of solitary doesn't mean that much.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 11:20 AM on May 21, 2008

One of the difficulties in mixing unix and windows files systems is the ACL. Unix only knows three types of permissions-ownership, the file-owner, the group-owner, and everyone-else. Windows keeps a full spectrum of permissions for any number of users and groups. If I try to transfer a windows file owned by tom and jane, most unix can't natively support that concept.

And there's another problem...username mapping. At the filesystem level, the computer doesn't... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 9:52 PM on May 20, 2008

If you hate driving in traffic, be aware that folk life will be in progress at seattle center, which is right next to the ducks.

There's the museum of flight south of downtown, if the 10 year old likes planes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 9:40 PM on May 20, 2008

Green Velvet - Flash -
wouldn't you know it,
not here more than 30 seconds,
and I see a bad little kid doing bad little things,
he's sucking on a balloon
now this is not an ordinary balloon
it's a balloon filled with the gas nitrous oxide
laughing gas
hee hee hee haw haw
but this is no laughing matter
camera's ready, prepare to flash

posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 11:53 AM on May 16, 2008

For getting to Harbor Steps, the most cost effective non-public-transit method is going to be Shuttle Express.

For getting to 2400 4th, if you have dropped off the luggage at harbor steps, there are lots of metro routes thru the downtown core. You'll want to go up to 3rd, and see which of the 2,3,4, or 16, is coming next. There might be some others as well, check the bus maps at the kiosks. Note that 3rd is a major transfer point, so not every bus stops at every... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 11:03 AM on May 16, 2008 marked best answer

for #2 like jobs, I generally use "cut". You can define cuts by character position, or field-position, as well as defining your separator character, eg.

cut -d '\i' -f 2,3 <> outfile.out
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:09 PM on May 9, 2008

d'oeth, that example should be

cut -d '\i' -f 2,3 < tabfile.in > outfile.out
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:10 PM on May 9, 2008 marked best answer

There is a trip-hop collective-y kind of group, dunklebunt, that put out the amazing moregenlandfahrt album, which is pretty klezmer heavy, and hip-hop-ish.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:05 PM on May 9, 2008

You could try booting up under a linux live-CD and seeing if the drive is mountable there. here is an example of a successful recovery using knoppix.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 2:57 PM on May 7, 2008

perfectposters.com make prints in almost any size & shape, and are insanely cheap, and usually ship priority mail by the next day at the latest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 11:18 AM on May 7, 2008

df doesn't report max filesize, only available freespace.
mount doesn't tell you anything about what type of filesystem a remote mount is, only what type of network you used, aka cifs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 4:16 PM on May 6, 2008

1. not "space available", max FILESIZE
2. I know that cifs does provide this information between remote systems, you can get a windows error message that specifically states the remote filesystem isn't compatible with your filesize, which is different than the error message it gives when there isn't sufficient free space.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 5:06 PM on May 6, 2008

mimosa trees
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:37 PM on May 1, 2008

Do I understand correctly, you have an x-server running on the macbook, and you want to start a second one on the remote machine? Sounds like maybe you want x2x, not x11 forwarding. X forwarding is at an application level, not a window manager level.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 9:49 AM on April 25, 2008

Comcast in seattle carries the CBC on channel 99, which is analog cable, so any bar with cable Could probably show the game for you, if you ask nicely.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 2:06 PM on April 16, 2008 marked best answer

Is it either of the "jungle strut"s listed on imeem.com?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 10:34 AM on April 15, 2008

Some people, when they run across something that confuses them, they stop, research, and basically don't move on until they've satisfied their curiosity. Some people, they just go around the obstruction. It's much easier to be ignorant than it is to learn.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 4:51 PM on April 14, 2008

I suspect that the OP wonders much along the lines that I do in this situation, namely, if I can complete my stop legally, before the prior car leaves the intersection ahead of me, have I really made the legally required stop, or do I have to wait until they've completely left the intersection before I can "count" my stop.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:52 PM on April 11, 2008

Java. It's free, it's portable, and it's so close to C++ that you can easily transfer learning from one to the other.

As an aside, note that MS does release a free version of Visual Studio for C#, under the Express line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 4:07 PM on March 31, 2008

Try opening Windows Media Player, go to the Tools menu, select options.
On the window that comes up, select the devices tab.
Do you see a device called "Speakers"?
If no, close wmp, bring up the device manager, and try reinstalling your audio device.

If yes, select it and hit the properties button, then click the advanced button on the window the properties button brought up. You should now be on the sound... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:26 PM on March 28, 2008

another vote for Scorn, also look for Hydra Calm, by Main.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:51 PM on March 27, 2008

Karaoke discs are the one last remnant of CD+G technology. Basically, it allows you to create a series of static image files that are timed to the audio tracks on the CD, which of course is ideal for karaoke.

this site has a tutorial, but assumes you have karaoke mp3s, and are willing to buy some custom re-authoring software, so usefulness will vary, but it should give you a grounding in the basic concepts required.

The most important thing to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:50 PM on March 27, 2008

4mb files are not "very large" files for photo shop to work with. I routinely work on files 10-100x bigger, on machines with 1-2gb of ram (photoshop 7, not cs# though). It sounds like cs3 has a memory leak. You aren't the first to complain about it's poor memory management.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 6:08 PM on March 26, 2008 marked best answer

I once worked with an aspiring actor who was always trying to get discovered by doing lots of packers for the local tv news. He once dragged me along as filler, and got so peeved when they used my quotes instead of his.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:18 PM on March 26, 2008

I suspect they are relying on this clause form their TOS,

"1.11 Service Distinctions
You acknowledge and understand that the Service is not a telephone service."

as an out from LNP regulations from the FCC. You could try complaining to the FCC, but don't expect anything to happen quickly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 9:56 AM on March 26, 2008 marked best answer

Here in the northwest, we had someone in the news recently for getting killed by chopper blades being lower on one side, because the chopper had landed on a slight slope, as I recall, but reports say tail rotor, so not exactly your scenario.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 10:30 AM on March 25, 2008

great answers all, which bring up a follow up questions,

1. I have the original of a piece that, after an artist's death, his estate wishes to turn into a retail print. Is it safe to assume that they would have to negotiate access to my 'original' in order to turn their 'right' into an actual product? There isn't any unwritten requirement that I grant them access, correct?

2. I commission a unique work-for-hire specifically for a t-shirt.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 2:54 PM on March 24, 2008

Hrm, so if I approach an artist in a coffee house and say "dude, I'll pay you $30 to draw me x on a y doing z, so I can put it on a t-shirt", and we never right anything down, I am at his/her mercy, both if the shirt becomes popular, as well as if I want to make posters with the same image on them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 3:20 PM on March 24, 2008