Domain: 216.239.37.100
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Ewoks
I can see why they are worried. Ewoks are known to use cellphones.
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Re:but is it expensive?
You're close. Half that. According to this, the retail price is... are you ready for this? $9,999!!!
Now can't you accomplish the same with a $900 refrigerator and a $500 PC and a $50 webcam to play the MP3s, take the digital photos and videos, take notes, and use MS-Access to keep track of recipies? I think so. Sheesh, for another $400 you can add an LCD panel! -
More vacuum tubes!
There is also a motehrboard using vacuum tubes for onboard audio, here is a link to google's cache of the page.
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Re:Sugar Water machines
The developed world is seriously addicted to high-sugar foods, such as soft drinks, white bread, and candy, and it's taking a toll on public health.
Not just the developed world... "Mexico's Coca-Cola consumption per person now stands at 462 bottles a year" This is the highest per capita anywhere in the world.
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Boeing JSF Videos
Although, the page has been removed from the Boeing site, this google cache provides good links to several video feeds of Boeing JSF flights and testing.
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Google Mirror
Google cache
A bit slow, but at least it's accessible. -
Re:Off Topic request
google cache
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Plz fx Kreskin link. Thx.
Amdest.com took down the Amazing Kreskin page. I guess their servers couldn't handle the angry, foaming at the mouth *BSD apologists who clicked on the link. Try the Wayback Machine or Google's cache instead.
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CLEAN YOUR TAINT...*BSD is dying
Netcraft officially confirms: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and *BSD's long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
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Re:Wow, a plastic book.
Plastic (at least most plastics) do not biodegrade. There are exceptions to this, such as plastics made from corn/soy/(and if many people would pull thier heads out of their collective arses)hemp which can biodegrade.
That's not entirely true. Plastics that were thought to out live us by several lifetimes have turned out to be rather fragile. Bakelite and the plastic they made Barbie dolls out of leap immediately to mind. See googlechached article here (no comments on the slimy PVC residue that's leaching out, only that what we thought would last forever DOES decay) -
Re:Slashdotted alread... Google cache
just use plain html:
google cache It does not point to the correct page now.
< href="http://216.239.37.100/search?q=... blah blah"> Google cache </a> -
PDAsMight I suggest an HP Jornada 820?
[Google Cache]
It runs Windows CE & may be a bit old (c.'98), but it's at the point where there's not too much clutter (Windows Media, Acrobat, etc.) on the machine to distract you from work. I have a friend that has one and for any non-sci/tech/egnineering student, it is the ultimate notetaking device
(Engineers need to take down illustrations and equations, and there's no MATLAB for WinCE).
The battery life is long (10 Hrs internal Li batt - HP), it's cheaper than a laptop, and it comes with a compact flash & PC card slot. You can easily pick one up off ebay for less than $300, which is what you'd pay for a decent Handspring/Palm anyway. The machine also comes w/ Word & Excel. The only downside of it is that it doesn't support a USB sync, but from what I've seen it's just as fast as my Handspring Visor D via USB.
Turbyne
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Re:Yah! Stick it to the users!
Give a look at any paper by Sasse, Brostoff and Adams, such as this one, and then re-think your sysadmin I-never-change-my-dictionary-password-but-I-force
Already- all-my-users-to-32-char-monthly-passwords bullshit attitude. /.'ted! Here is the Google's cache. -
Marketing scam for sanitizing wipes
Most of the bacteria in the oil and sweat on your fingertips are perfectly benign; other people are covered in bacteria, but they are not septic. You can touch them. Even if they are all sweaty....
The bacteria in someone's other excretions - especially saliva, feces and the delightful sexual juices - are potentially infectious. Blood is more likely to contain viruses (since blood borne bacteria generally kill you stone dead). Unless the other person has a staph infection on their fingertips, the bacteria on their keyboard are not. Even the infectious stuff in snot, which often ends up on people's fingertips, is also (usually) viral and, in any case, generally killed by being dried out.
The fact is - most of the organisms that remain infectious after being dried out live in your scat.
Whatever the bacteria count on a desk, I'd recommend eating off of one over eating off a toilet, which is likely to harbor some small number of bacteria (or other parasites) that favor the human digestive tract.
This is not to say that staph infections are not a real problem; especially in hospitals, which (generally) do use disinfectant soap. I am saying that alarm over the bacteria on your desk is premature.
Researchers also separated office workers into two groups: one group used disinfectant wipes to clean their desks, phones and computers; the other group did not.
Reee-lly! What an interesting project. I wonder who funded it? I have some other observations about people who clean their desks with sanitizing wipes, but I'll leave the psychoanalysis to the professionals.
Dr. Gerba has also done work on how anti-bacterial kitchen supplies reduce of risk for disease (html courtesy of google.) Search the document for "Gerba".
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Karma Whoring
fobbit.com seems to be
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Hoax? Mmmmaybe.... (GOOGLESAFARI!)
Okay, so, everyone has been crowing at how "Fellowship University" isn't listed on Google. Fine.
So I decided to go to Google and hold my own little Safari of Fun.
I'll list to you all the links I followed [and apologize in advance if I kill anyones' sites]. It took awhile before I got anything out of google. My first mistake was searching for "Fellowship University" -- all you get from that is the ability to hate search engines for not allowing you to exclude punctuation marks from a quoted string. I know why, I understand lexigraphical indexing (mostly), I still don't like it, and a second-pass process for punctuation marks should still go fast. So nya! Are you listening, Google?
Anyhow, my first paydirt didn't hit until I used a search of:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=Ba ptist+anti-ChristianToward the bottom, I got this link (to the australian broadcast servers):
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/explore/anti.htmAmusingly, they have both the Landover site, and then this other "anti-anti-baptist site" which links to:
http://www.ilovejesus.com/myhome/jimcarlson/Now, unfortunately, www.ilovejesus.com (which I'm very familiar with, it's NOT a hoax site, more's the pity) says that jimcarlson is a 404. Does that mean ilovejesus found out about him and booted him?
How about "Mt Fellowship Baptist" (which is a good quote from their own pages) ???
http://www.google.com/search?cat=&q=%22Mt+Fellowsh ip+Baptist%22That gives us the OBJECTIVE links and this:
http://www.orgsites.com/mi/cudi/news.html
Read down to 03/07/2000 for the pertinant info:"It is unacceptable that innocent and impressionable children should be exposed to the sort derogatory depictions of Christians that are becoming all too common on the 'Net," stated Dr. Andrew Miller, pastor of Mt. Fellowship Baptist Church and a member of a group opposing the Landover site, "It is imperative that we as Christians act now to keep these people in check before another incident like the one that happened at Wedgewood Baptist Church happens again.".
More than that, there's a link to the "OBJECTIVE: Ministries" on that page.
But, well, let's face it. As Abercrombie and Fitch learned to their supreme disgruntlement, two Wongs do NOT make a White. Two other sites may have been easily duped by this hoax. Or I might have better evidence that it's real. Goddamnit (no pun intended).
Hmm... but there WAS a link to "OBJECTIVE: ministries" right? Okay, let's grep the internet for that:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Objective% 3A+ministries%22Besides the CUDI links the only other useful link is from www.metafilter.com and had to be gotten from the googlecache, but it's just talking about that site as hoax:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:kvVdd74wwaoC: www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/16547+%22Objectiv e:+ministries%22&hl=enOkay, let's try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=B
a ptist+anti-Christian+objectiveAnd we get:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:SO6eFb9I3YAC: www.geocities.com/hands_off_lb/index_old.html+Bapt ist+anti-Christian+objective&hl=en
"Hands Off Landover Baptist" (google cache)
If the OBJECTIVE: site is a troll and a hoax, here's your index of all the other ones to go have fun with! (Also lists CUDI on there, w00t) (I think this would be properly described to be an anti-anti-anti-Baptist site?)Okay, one more Run through the Google Sprinklers:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=%2 2jim+carlson%22+landoverThe good link from there is:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/ninglun/fundamental ist.html
Here's some correspondence with the author of the site with Carlson. Of course, this also has a letter back from the Landover people, calling Mr Carlson a 16 year old kid. Which is fine... except 16 year old kids don't make nice happy websites like that. If they do, I want to hire him as an intern. [DON'T SEND ME EMAIL, THAT'S A !@!?! JOKE, YA MOPE]Luckily for me, I can remember some of the ``offtopic`` pages well enough to find them in google cache: http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:V9xvB3hZdYcC
: members.truepath.com/objective/progress.html+Fello wship+Baptist+-Medical+Jesus+anti-Christian&hl=enThey list there that they were once on the ilovejesus page, and had to flee. So at the worst, we could write the ILJ freekies and ask them for the real poop. But that's too much like real work.
Anyhow, even more vaguely-subtle "quite probably hoax but not quite sure" stuff on that page. Like changing the purple bear to a rainbow bear to keep people from thinking it's homosexual.
Dear god.
March 24, 2000, however....
Okay, who is good at spotting badly photoshopped text on signs? (sigh)
I love this guy.
I hate this guy.
He makes my head hurt.
And I mean that in only the best way.
Have I fallen for a troll? Do I care? I wonder if he'll marry me?
How about if he'll feed and support me because I didn't get enough work done tonight and I got fired for having so much brainfire over this silly little site?
I suppose the whole point is that we're all more than prepared to accept that these people really DO exist even when we don't want them to.
Oh well. For a bonus, if you don't mind waiting for the site to log (it's now late enough that the site is readable again if you're patient), here's all his groovy advertising links. Afaict, a random sampling mostly match against WHOIS registrations. But I'm lazy, so don't take my word for it.
http://members.truepath.com/objective/ads/
(Anybody want to research the CUDI site for hoax-or-notahoax? I'm tired and going to sleep)
Just to test who all is bothering to pay attention to all my slaving hard work and effort I've put into this damn article, I'll throw in one more punchline from google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22OBJECTIVE% 3A+Christian+Ministries%22Click on the THIRD link on the page (served through "turn.to"). The cache entry doesn't work, but the current entry comes in LOUD and CLEAR (if I need to be more obvious: "don't follow those links if you're at work").
Cheers, folks!
mig
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Hoax? Mmmmaybe.... (GOOGLESAFARI!)
Okay, so, everyone has been crowing at how "Fellowship University" isn't listed on Google. Fine.
So I decided to go to Google and hold my own little Safari of Fun.
I'll list to you all the links I followed [and apologize in advance if I kill anyones' sites]. It took awhile before I got anything out of google. My first mistake was searching for "Fellowship University" -- all you get from that is the ability to hate search engines for not allowing you to exclude punctuation marks from a quoted string. I know why, I understand lexigraphical indexing (mostly), I still don't like it, and a second-pass process for punctuation marks should still go fast. So nya! Are you listening, Google?
Anyhow, my first paydirt didn't hit until I used a search of:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=Ba ptist+anti-ChristianToward the bottom, I got this link (to the australian broadcast servers):
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/explore/anti.htmAmusingly, they have both the Landover site, and then this other "anti-anti-baptist site" which links to:
http://www.ilovejesus.com/myhome/jimcarlson/Now, unfortunately, www.ilovejesus.com (which I'm very familiar with, it's NOT a hoax site, more's the pity) says that jimcarlson is a 404. Does that mean ilovejesus found out about him and booted him?
How about "Mt Fellowship Baptist" (which is a good quote from their own pages) ???
http://www.google.com/search?cat=&q=%22Mt+Fellowsh ip+Baptist%22That gives us the OBJECTIVE links and this:
http://www.orgsites.com/mi/cudi/news.html
Read down to 03/07/2000 for the pertinant info:"It is unacceptable that innocent and impressionable children should be exposed to the sort derogatory depictions of Christians that are becoming all too common on the 'Net," stated Dr. Andrew Miller, pastor of Mt. Fellowship Baptist Church and a member of a group opposing the Landover site, "It is imperative that we as Christians act now to keep these people in check before another incident like the one that happened at Wedgewood Baptist Church happens again.".
More than that, there's a link to the "OBJECTIVE: Ministries" on that page.
But, well, let's face it. As Abercrombie and Fitch learned to their supreme disgruntlement, two Wongs do NOT make a White. Two other sites may have been easily duped by this hoax. Or I might have better evidence that it's real. Goddamnit (no pun intended).
Hmm... but there WAS a link to "OBJECTIVE: ministries" right? Okay, let's grep the internet for that:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Objective% 3A+ministries%22Besides the CUDI links the only other useful link is from www.metafilter.com and had to be gotten from the googlecache, but it's just talking about that site as hoax:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:kvVdd74wwaoC: www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/16547+%22Objectiv e:+ministries%22&hl=enOkay, let's try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=B
a ptist+anti-Christian+objectiveAnd we get:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:SO6eFb9I3YAC: www.geocities.com/hands_off_lb/index_old.html+Bapt ist+anti-Christian+objective&hl=en
"Hands Off Landover Baptist" (google cache)
If the OBJECTIVE: site is a troll and a hoax, here's your index of all the other ones to go have fun with! (Also lists CUDI on there, w00t) (I think this would be properly described to be an anti-anti-anti-Baptist site?)Okay, one more Run through the Google Sprinklers:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=%2 2jim+carlson%22+landoverThe good link from there is:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/ninglun/fundamental ist.html
Here's some correspondence with the author of the site with Carlson. Of course, this also has a letter back from the Landover people, calling Mr Carlson a 16 year old kid. Which is fine... except 16 year old kids don't make nice happy websites like that. If they do, I want to hire him as an intern. [DON'T SEND ME EMAIL, THAT'S A !@!?! JOKE, YA MOPE]Luckily for me, I can remember some of the ``offtopic`` pages well enough to find them in google cache: http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:V9xvB3hZdYcC
: members.truepath.com/objective/progress.html+Fello wship+Baptist+-Medical+Jesus+anti-Christian&hl=enThey list there that they were once on the ilovejesus page, and had to flee. So at the worst, we could write the ILJ freekies and ask them for the real poop. But that's too much like real work.
Anyhow, even more vaguely-subtle "quite probably hoax but not quite sure" stuff on that page. Like changing the purple bear to a rainbow bear to keep people from thinking it's homosexual.
Dear god.
March 24, 2000, however....
Okay, who is good at spotting badly photoshopped text on signs? (sigh)
I love this guy.
I hate this guy.
He makes my head hurt.
And I mean that in only the best way.
Have I fallen for a troll? Do I care? I wonder if he'll marry me?
How about if he'll feed and support me because I didn't get enough work done tonight and I got fired for having so much brainfire over this silly little site?
I suppose the whole point is that we're all more than prepared to accept that these people really DO exist even when we don't want them to.
Oh well. For a bonus, if you don't mind waiting for the site to log (it's now late enough that the site is readable again if you're patient), here's all his groovy advertising links. Afaict, a random sampling mostly match against WHOIS registrations. But I'm lazy, so don't take my word for it.
http://members.truepath.com/objective/ads/
(Anybody want to research the CUDI site for hoax-or-notahoax? I'm tired and going to sleep)
Just to test who all is bothering to pay attention to all my slaving hard work and effort I've put into this damn article, I'll throw in one more punchline from google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22OBJECTIVE% 3A+Christian+Ministries%22Click on the THIRD link on the page (served through "turn.to"). The cache entry doesn't work, but the current entry comes in LOUD and CLEAR (if I need to be more obvious: "don't follow those links if you're at work").
Cheers, folks!
mig
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Hoax? Mmmmaybe.... (GOOGLESAFARI!)
Okay, so, everyone has been crowing at how "Fellowship University" isn't listed on Google. Fine.
So I decided to go to Google and hold my own little Safari of Fun.
I'll list to you all the links I followed [and apologize in advance if I kill anyones' sites]. It took awhile before I got anything out of google. My first mistake was searching for "Fellowship University" -- all you get from that is the ability to hate search engines for not allowing you to exclude punctuation marks from a quoted string. I know why, I understand lexigraphical indexing (mostly), I still don't like it, and a second-pass process for punctuation marks should still go fast. So nya! Are you listening, Google?
Anyhow, my first paydirt didn't hit until I used a search of:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=Ba ptist+anti-ChristianToward the bottom, I got this link (to the australian broadcast servers):
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/explore/anti.htmAmusingly, they have both the Landover site, and then this other "anti-anti-baptist site" which links to:
http://www.ilovejesus.com/myhome/jimcarlson/Now, unfortunately, www.ilovejesus.com (which I'm very familiar with, it's NOT a hoax site, more's the pity) says that jimcarlson is a 404. Does that mean ilovejesus found out about him and booted him?
How about "Mt Fellowship Baptist" (which is a good quote from their own pages) ???
http://www.google.com/search?cat=&q=%22Mt+Fellowsh ip+Baptist%22That gives us the OBJECTIVE links and this:
http://www.orgsites.com/mi/cudi/news.html
Read down to 03/07/2000 for the pertinant info:"It is unacceptable that innocent and impressionable children should be exposed to the sort derogatory depictions of Christians that are becoming all too common on the 'Net," stated Dr. Andrew Miller, pastor of Mt. Fellowship Baptist Church and a member of a group opposing the Landover site, "It is imperative that we as Christians act now to keep these people in check before another incident like the one that happened at Wedgewood Baptist Church happens again.".
More than that, there's a link to the "OBJECTIVE: Ministries" on that page.
But, well, let's face it. As Abercrombie and Fitch learned to their supreme disgruntlement, two Wongs do NOT make a White. Two other sites may have been easily duped by this hoax. Or I might have better evidence that it's real. Goddamnit (no pun intended).
Hmm... but there WAS a link to "OBJECTIVE: ministries" right? Okay, let's grep the internet for that:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Objective% 3A+ministries%22Besides the CUDI links the only other useful link is from www.metafilter.com and had to be gotten from the googlecache, but it's just talking about that site as hoax:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:kvVdd74wwaoC: www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/16547+%22Objectiv e:+ministries%22&hl=enOkay, let's try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=B
a ptist+anti-Christian+objectiveAnd we get:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:SO6eFb9I3YAC: www.geocities.com/hands_off_lb/index_old.html+Bapt ist+anti-Christian+objective&hl=en
"Hands Off Landover Baptist" (google cache)
If the OBJECTIVE: site is a troll and a hoax, here's your index of all the other ones to go have fun with! (Also lists CUDI on there, w00t) (I think this would be properly described to be an anti-anti-anti-Baptist site?)Okay, one more Run through the Google Sprinklers:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=%2 2jim+carlson%22+landoverThe good link from there is:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/ninglun/fundamental ist.html
Here's some correspondence with the author of the site with Carlson. Of course, this also has a letter back from the Landover people, calling Mr Carlson a 16 year old kid. Which is fine... except 16 year old kids don't make nice happy websites like that. If they do, I want to hire him as an intern. [DON'T SEND ME EMAIL, THAT'S A !@!?! JOKE, YA MOPE]Luckily for me, I can remember some of the ``offtopic`` pages well enough to find them in google cache: http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:V9xvB3hZdYcC
: members.truepath.com/objective/progress.html+Fello wship+Baptist+-Medical+Jesus+anti-Christian&hl=enThey list there that they were once on the ilovejesus page, and had to flee. So at the worst, we could write the ILJ freekies and ask them for the real poop. But that's too much like real work.
Anyhow, even more vaguely-subtle "quite probably hoax but not quite sure" stuff on that page. Like changing the purple bear to a rainbow bear to keep people from thinking it's homosexual.
Dear god.
March 24, 2000, however....
Okay, who is good at spotting badly photoshopped text on signs? (sigh)
I love this guy.
I hate this guy.
He makes my head hurt.
And I mean that in only the best way.
Have I fallen for a troll? Do I care? I wonder if he'll marry me?
How about if he'll feed and support me because I didn't get enough work done tonight and I got fired for having so much brainfire over this silly little site?
I suppose the whole point is that we're all more than prepared to accept that these people really DO exist even when we don't want them to.
Oh well. For a bonus, if you don't mind waiting for the site to log (it's now late enough that the site is readable again if you're patient), here's all his groovy advertising links. Afaict, a random sampling mostly match against WHOIS registrations. But I'm lazy, so don't take my word for it.
http://members.truepath.com/objective/ads/
(Anybody want to research the CUDI site for hoax-or-notahoax? I'm tired and going to sleep)
Just to test who all is bothering to pay attention to all my slaving hard work and effort I've put into this damn article, I'll throw in one more punchline from google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22OBJECTIVE% 3A+Christian+Ministries%22Click on the THIRD link on the page (served through "turn.to"). The cache entry doesn't work, but the current entry comes in LOUD and CLEAR (if I need to be more obvious: "don't follow those links if you're at work").
Cheers, folks!
mig
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This site has exceeded it allocated data transf
Looks like the info on that new Jesux OS is unavailable. Because Geocities is heathenly blocking the Jesux site, Geocities will burn in Microhell once "The Coming of Jesux 2.0" is complete!!
Here is the Google Cache of the page. -
Re:Did anyone see this coming?
As I recall, due to post WWII treaties, Japan is forbidden from allocating more than a certain amount (2% +/-) of its national budget towards its Military. Which is probably why Tom Clancy chose an unnamed Japanese Coproration as the McGuffin for Executive Orders.
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Billy has a pointSorry guys, but I'm afraid Billy Goat Gates has a point,
Why should the government pay for research and development of software under a license that allows Microsoft to take it, modify it (perhaps trivially, perhaps integrate it into the OS) and then sell it back to the US government and citizens for $big profits?
In England, the Government supported the Nimrod project. It was inferior to the AWACS in every way, but still the Govt. funded it with the cover story that, "National security is at stake". Nobody challenged him with the England-US special relationship. For decades funding went into Plessey which turned into Marconi, it was their lifeline, the company would have gone under without the Government's help. Now they're a very succesful defence+commercial electronics/avionics producer, thanks to the British Government's lifeline. At the end of the day, half a decade ago we bought a whole bunch of AWACS anyway.Pop quiz: Should the British Govt have let Marconi go bust and lose a world class, booming defence+consumer elctronics company (until recently)?
What is CRM? What is Knowledge Management? It's real life borg, taking knowledge of employees away and storing it in a multi-dimensional cube database, sapping their tacit knowledge. All employees will be trivially sackable, nudge nudge wink wink give me a genetic sample otherwise we can fire you in a second - your entire job activities are stored in SQL server. If you're fired all you'll ever add up to is a footnote is some computer's database (Episode 18 Assessment TotalRecall2070)I've watched businesses, and 10% is the software product, and 90% is HOT AIR sales, managers, procurement, accountants whose job it is to just speak trash, to trash.
If GPL software was good enough to replace all commercial software, this would happen to all companies:
R&D: Free GPL software available => sack all software developers, except for superficial adaptation - file formats, couple of extra features.
IT Support: IRC support and official Redhat.com are a lot cheaper than Microsoft => fire all IT support. Worldwide KM system can take over, since everyone uses the same apps (free GPL)
Sales: Free software => everybody in Sales is fired. CRM apps makes top Sales into a $2/hour hire-fire job
Procurement: Shrink-wrapped software is available free => procurement costs and jobs only monitor downloading of (ftp://xxxx/file.exe).
Marketing: Web designer does this job, KM system augmented with AI learns his job and fires him.
Managers: Fire 99% of them, KM can make these jobs into $2/hour hire-fires
Accountants: Not required, see above (zero profit, zero loss, zero tax), etc.So the death of commercial software takes all those hot air sales+manager people with it. Has anyone stopped to think that maybe free software (which the GPL seems to be very condusive to) is the cause of the dotcom crash, and we all wrongly blamed it on Wall Street and Venture Capitalists?
In the Industrial revolution, mechanical engineers were in high demand, then they foolishly designed and built production lines that would automate and therefore remove their own jobs, they dug their own grave, placed themselves in a coffin, lowered themselves, and dynamited the grave shut. Are we doing the same?
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Re:Platform
The google cached page is available here.
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Re: Story made up to get traffic?
I don't think it's made up...the site did exist...check out the Google cache of perlbox.org if you need proof. I think it's more likely that someone's screwed up their DNS settings somewhere...especially since there's a splash screen for the site at perlbox.sourceforge.net and that one also eventually takes you to the camelot naturals page.
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NO, J00R THE IDIOT
Check your facts before you post, fucktard. Phil Hartman, (the voice of Troy McClure), was also on NewsRadio. Here's the Google cache of NBC's website.
Seeing as how you mentioned the homo, David Spade, I suspect you're some dirty, gay GNU/Linux hippie. Get off your 486 boxen and get tested for AIDS. -
Is it just me ?
Hmmm... I don't know about you, but for me it works just fine, even in the cache and in the categories.
Maybe this has something to do with me accessing google from Germany (i used google.com though, not google.de) ? But somehow I don't really think so...
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Cached copy on Google
Here's a link to Google's cached copy [google.com].
Of course, the story is from April 19, 2001, so it's not exactly breaking news.
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Google cache version
Here's google's cache of the page since it looks slashdotted.
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Re:BOOM!
Here's a link to the Google cached page.
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Dont mod me down if it becomes un /. ed
Seems to be
/.ed. Here are the google caches:
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monorail history
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Dont mod me down if it becomes un /. ed
Seems to be
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Dont mod me down if it becomes un /. ed
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Re:Here's an example...
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Re:nVidia supports OpenGLI googled and googled and googled, but I couldn't find any direct proof. I was able to find this in the google cache though. This seems to be the only statement which nVidia has made with respect to Linux and open source drivers. If anyone else has more info, that would definitely be cool.
PK
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Re:Unix is the light
Read this internal MS memo, written by MS employees, straight from microsoft.com and delivered via google to you.
Fair use:
. The multiple security concepts present in the Microsoft products, together with the slightly different roles that user categories have, makes their introduction at a site hard. In many cases, specifically trained personnel are needed. ÿ
The security mechanisms of Microsoft?s offerings and their interrelations are not easy to comprehend. At FairMarket, for example [7], they postponed the introduction of Exchange servers within the firewall of their eCommerce site because of the potential for security exposures.
Microsoft offerings have sacrificed security for flexibility and extended functionality.
It is also worth remembering that the cost of hardware is small compared to the cost of administration. At Microsoft?s own Canyon Park installation, the 9/00 cost per machine for various levels of service is on the order
of $5,000 per month.ÿ