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that's a good point. you can take the joker out of hialeah, but you cant .

any heads from miami know exactly what i mean.

Doesn't support anything as easily as IE on Windows eh? Could you be anymore vague? I've been using Mozilla on Win2k Pro since 1.0, and now 1.5. I can't think of one thing that Mozilla doesn't have that IE does.. oh except for this. I'm sorry but I just don't see how Mozilla would be slow with a 1.8 mhz processor. It's fast on my p2 400 box and amazingly fast on my friend's p3 700. It feels slow while using X on Linux or FreeBSD but not on Windows.

Office was MUCH better than WP for Linux. Interoperability with EVERYONE else I knew. No converting and reformatting, no font problems, no nothing.

No shit. You experienced better interoperability with other MS Office users while using MS Office yourself?? I don't know where I got this crazy idea that creating software to be compatible with MS Office would be a challenge considering that MS doc formats are locked-in proprietary 'standards'.

It was fast, easy, and nice. IE was far superior to Mozilla. I never used tabs as Roblimo did and I never thought Mozilla was fast. I opened the browser and pages loaded faster, nice. I clicked on movies and low and behold codecs were downloaded automatically and the movies started playing (all without having to compile mplayer, get codecs, and fool with Mozilla to get it to play them).

Now you're trolling, if you weren't before. You first compare IE and Mozilla on windows, complain about speed (which is a problem that I don't think exists but whatever) and then go back to singing praises about IE while comparing Mozilla all of a sudden on Linux to compile mplayer, downloading codecs blah blah. Again, I have yet to do anything of the sort while using Mozilla on Windows. I click on a link and I either save the file or it launches Media Player. Thank you come again.

Google will translate it for you.

:-)

Even Ash knows what it means! Groovy!

I'm sorry, but I can't see Hu Jintao's name without thinking of Hu's on First

Here's Googles somewhat hilarious cache of the Mamufilms.com page. The page includes links for everything from "Peter Paul and Mary mp3" to "preteen bra images". The text is vaguely reminiscent of actual gramatical English. Here's one sentence:

And With Unknown virtual gifts Already baby food coupons to Information Installed The 2000, with Himself, to other tips, tricks, and tweaks The Issue De Processes services.exe.

Thanks to google, here's the HTML version of the PDF.

Sure, karma whoring, but who wants to load a PDF? At least I didn't post a MS Word version of it!

-ted

Karma whoring is easy -> Google PDF->HTML

If you check the Google cache, you'll see that Dr. Geer was #2 two at the company. Whatever the cause, he was not fires by a "middle management type." He was upper management, so he must have been fired by more-upper management!

Check with Mark Hulbert's magazine for a better description of his failures.

According to this copy of a July 2002 CBS Marketwatch column the Elliot Wave Financial Forecast was one of only five newsletters to beat the market. If Hulbert's critique of Prechter's predictions is available on the Web, please post a link.

Certainly, Prechter's forecast of a deflationary crash should be hard to miss, and the lack of same can't go into his "win" column.

But I was surprised that Hulbert's list didn't include Bob Brinker's Market Timer newsletter. On his radio show Brinker told people to move to cash and out of stocks just weeks before the 2000 crash started!

See this. A gigabyte is exactly 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.

google cache

When the old 12" powerbook came out, a major issue of contention was that the G4 was losing a significant chunk of its performance advantage over the G3, because it didn't have the 1 meg of L3 cache (google cache link) that the rest of the powerbook line came with.

My first thought about these updates was "maybe apple has finally put some L3 cache in the 12" model!" But when I went to check it out, they had removed every mention of L3 cache on their pages. I doubt that they took the cache OUT of the larger models, so is this just an attempt at obfuscation by no longer mentioning the cache, or did they finally equalize the chipset?

Call me a little paranoid but this reminds me of the data leakage problems of some communication devices (Modems, DSU's, etc). Have to 'nix the plexiglass case mod now 8->. Here is the article: Information Leakage from Optical Emissions or Google HTML here

Who are the member companies of RIAA and how do I stop supporting them?

The page was down, but this is Google's cache of the RIAA members page. I was surprised there were so many. I was further surprised that Sanctuary was one of them. Now I wish I hadn't have bought the new Anthrax CD. Gonna have to stop buying Anthrax, now. :(

Boycott RIAA is a website that talks about boycotting them. I haven't read through the website myself, I've just been doing my own independent thing.

RIAA Radar is a searchable database to see if an artist is on an RIAA label. They also have a javascript bookmarklet that will tell you when an artist is RIAA while you're on Amazon.

Text here and images here.

Only 3 posts, and the site is already slashdotted... Google Cache here

Slashdotted, some images in a google cache further down, here's the text though.

Google Cache

Click for the Google Cache of the SCO page, since they've changed it. Looks like someone at SCO has been reading /. a bit. They know where their threat lies. And its in using stock images!!!! :)

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:mGZE0qQMFU4J: www.caldera.com/products/authentication/+&hl=en&ie =UTF-8

well, canada is significantly ahead of the states in broadband penetration in general. source for that statement is here. other source here. there are two reasons for this:

1. there's government programs. look at the canadian gov'ts "broadband for rural and northern areas" program: it's here. even saskatchewan, which has a reputation for being behind the curve has a program to get broadband across the province in three years. it's here. so, reason one: government money.
2. there's competition! in canada if you can get cable tv and phone service you probably have two choices for broadband. the tv and phone companies want to expand into rural areas to get the first-to-market jump on the other guy. so, reason two: competition.

You can find the Google cache for the Google search for Kazaa Lite here.

Here is a paper discussing the idea that computer code is a form of speech.

Do they count slashdottings as 'cruft'? Either way, this isn't going to increase their opinion of the internet now, is it?

Google cached copy of article.

here.

The M$NBC article claims, "Today, four years into the five-year partnership, the protests are over and Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT." Irony? Looks like an outright lie to me and an implicit endorsement I doubt any University, especially MIT, would make or will be happy about. It misrepresents the original 1999 initiative, the extent of penetration and M$ influence.

MIT has it's own private computer system, Athena What else would you expect from the people who developed X, kerbos and many other awesome packages while M$ was putzing around with Windoze 3.1? Athena finished in 1991, where did M$ want to go at that time? MIT is more likely to take credit for being an early haven for RMS.

Here is an informative PDF about Athena and kerbos usage at MIT With 96% of the students using Athena, I'd say that M$ hardly has a toe in the door. Indeed, it's hard to imagine serious scientific computing with Microsoft, though there are some interesting and expensive toys available on that platform, Athena seems to have them all and their betters. Here is an old list of software available to Athena users

"The university?s educational computer network is being overhauled to use Microsoft?s .Net architecture." Is a particularly rich lie considering the Company's ambition of 1999, expressed in this NYT article, to be set the tone for MIT and 36 other companies and thereby pervert everyone's standards and lock up all publishing in M$ DRM. The above article also claimed that M$ had become the "de facto standard" at Universities. It seems strange that M$ feels the need to restate the case four years later. Slashdot covered that move and the student comments are cutting.

Some things remain the same, however. The few M$ boxes seem to be the same headache at MIT as they are everywhere:

1. 750 boxes infected with sobig and blaster, presumably student owned, remedy is rebuild.
2. Problems with mail directories:
3. Problems with different versions of M$ office (another old page)

I can hardly believe that I read half of that nauseating piece of BS. Microsoft has tried to make policy at Universities and they have bought a few whores at some of them. This article is typical Microsoft, "we've already won" when the battle is far from over, "smart people use us" when the truth is far from it and "look how generous we are to be giving away Millions of dollars worth of binaries" as if an M$ CD was worth any more than an AOL CD. NBC should be ashamed to publish such rubbish, someone is asleep at the wheel.

Punching holes in this article for the last 30 minutes has been fun. Microsoft polute a LUG mailing list? No way. Come here, pig, I'm going to eat you alive. Bang, pow, bite, squeel, squeel, smash crash thud. /* - Big Grin full of exposed teeth - */ Only someone completely immersed in M$ BS and completely ignorant of scientific computing and campus life in general would think M$NBC was being critical of M$.

I now return you to news that matters and reality, which have nothing to do with M$ press releases.

The M$NBC article claims, "Today, four years into the five-year partnership, the protests are over and Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT." Irony? Looks like an outright lie to me and an implicit endorsement I doubt any University, especially MIT, would make or will be happy about. It misrepresents the original 1999 initiative, the extent of penetration and M$ influence.

MIT has it's own private computer system, Athena What else would you expect from the people who developed X, kerbos and many other awesome packages while M$ was putzing around with Windoze 3.1? Athena finished in 1991, where did M$ want to go at that time? MIT is more likely to take credit for being an early haven for RMS.

Here is an informative PDF about Athena and kerbos usage at MIT With 96% of the students using Athena, I'd say that M$ hardly has a toe in the door. Indeed, it's hard to imagine serious scientific computing with Microsoft, though there are some interesting and expensive toys available on that platform, Athena seems to have them all and their betters. Here is an old list of software available to Athena users

"The university?s educational computer network is being overhauled to use Microsoft?s .Net architecture." Is a particularly rich lie considering the Company's ambition of 1999, expressed in this NYT article, to be set the tone for MIT and 36 other companies and thereby pervert everyone's standards and lock up all publishing in M$ DRM. The above article also claimed that M$ had become the "de facto standard" at Universities. It seems strange that M$ feels the need to restate the case four years later. Slashdot covered that move and the student comments are cutting.

Some things remain the same, however. The few M$ boxes seem to be the same headache at MIT as they are everywhere:

1. 750 boxes infected with sobig and blaster, presumably student owned, remedy is rebuild.
2. Problems with mail directories:
3. Problems with different versions of M$ office (another old page)

I can hardly believe that I read half of that nauseating piece of BS. Microsoft has tried to make policy at Universities and they have bought a few whores at some of them. This article is typical Microsoft, "we've already won" when the battle is far from over, "smart people use us" when the truth is far from it and "look how generous we are to be giving away Millions of dollars worth of binaries" as if an M$ CD was worth any more than an AOL CD. NBC should be ashamed to publish such rubbish, someone is asleep at the wheel.

Punching holes in this article for the last 30 minutes has been fun. Microsoft polute a LUG mailing list? No way. Come here, pig, I'm going to eat you alive. Bang, pow, bite, squeel, squeel, smash crash thud. /* - Big Grin full of exposed teeth - */ Only someone completely immersed in M$ BS and completely ignorant of scientific computing and campus life in general would think M$NBC was being critical of M$.

I now return you to news that matters and reality, which have nothing to do with M$ press releases.

He would have noticed if he's trying to load the kernel.org page that shows him the mirrors...

For what it's worth, those of us in the US should probably start with this list.

Or better yet, the google cache of the top mirrors page and the
google cache of the US mirrors page.

Remember that images on those pages (little flags) are still sucking up the main kernel.org bandwidth.

He would have noticed if he's trying to load the kernel.org page that shows him the mirrors...

For what it's worth, those of us in the US should probably start with this list.

Or better yet, the google cache of the top mirrors page and the
google cache of the US mirrors page.

Remember that images on those pages (little flags) are still sucking up the main kernel.org bandwidth.

...the only thing I'm fit to take care of is a houseplant.
[the plant is dead]
Lousy houseplant!
[shakes it]
You son of a -- I'll teach you to --
[tires] [sighs]
Oh.

Google has managed to salvage some of the site before it got slashdotted, so here is the Google cache.

What I want to know is - why SCO hasn't set their sights on Google yet? By their own admission, Google has over 10,000 Linux boxes. If SCO still wants $699 a box, that's a cool 6.9 million dollars!!

I'd like to see them try and get that.

It appears that the second shot may be moot. It looks like a bitkeeper patch to the 2.5 tree may have removed the file that the code apearred in in it's entirety in early July of this year:

See here

Slashdot effect on comment URL's...wow! Well, a geocities page, so not all THAT amazing.

Here's Google's cache of the refferred-to page.

sooo... they ran a distributed client on all the computers on a reasonably-sized engineering campus and came up with a answer in how many hours? In 97 there were 465 PCs on UMR's campus (more computers than women enrolled at the college), and I'd imagine they're probably all 1+ ghz by now (considering 1ghz PCs have been out for nearly 4 years now) and they may have more PCs by now.

Kid, have you ever been de-wheeled?

If it isn't safe, it fails for practical use. The segway circumvents this as being reliable sturdy (heavy) US alteration it seems. Of course I'm merely a young chap[sic] residing in the US who has never heard of it before now.

Before I depart, I was wondering just how dangerous it was. Proceeding to google it, I found an interesting interview that appears to have taken place August 1986.

Of course relational interests are too much so I had to look into the Clive Computer. I came across some interesting information since my inception was the NES ;-]

I just looked up my home state's definition of extortion on the google cache, and found this part to be interesting:

514.080 Theft by extortion.

(1) A person is guilty of theft by extortion when he intentionally obtains property of another by threatening to

• (a) Inflict bodily injury on anyone or commit any other criminal offense; or
• (b) Accuse anyone of a criminal offense; or
• (c) Expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or to impair his credit or business repute; or
• (d) Use wrongfully his position as a public officer or servant or employee by performing some act within or related to his official duties, either expressed orimplied, or by refusing or omitting to perform an official duty, either expressed or implied, in a manner affecting some person adversely; or
• (e) Bring about or continue a strike, boycott, or other collective unofficial action, if the property is not demanded or received for the benefit of the group in whose interest the actor purports to act; or
• (f) Testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information with respect to another's legal claim or defense

(emphasis mine in section f).

Have they crossed the line with their arcane "sign-a-NDA-and-wreck-your-career-in-the-process" antics, yet? Because, if they have, then the penalty is:

Theft by extortion is a Class A misdemeanor unless the value of the property obtained is three hundred dollars ($300) or more, in which case it is a Class D felony.

Each and every $699 fee that they collect is a FELONY (in Kentucky), if they have stepped over this line . . . And there are definitely people here in this state that use Linux.

And, if some big company is behind this lawsuit and is using SCO to simply cast FUD upon Linux, then that third (hidden) party may run afoul of (e).

that HLA is not just about updating object state data during gameplay - it can also be used to setup of the initial rules regarding object interaction

Well, the biggest difference between HLA and DIS, after all, is that HLA is fully generic and makes no assumptions about the subject being simulated. (Whereas DIS only works if you have vehicles shooting at each other, the arbitrary attribute-definitions of HLA allow it to represent cardiovascular blood-flow or thermal conductivity just as easily). DIS came with its own set of rules for object interactions. While this limits the standard's reusablity, it makes it more useful as a target for compatibility. If two programs use DIS, you can be sure they will make general sense when plugged together. But knowing that two systems use HLA tells you nothing about their prospects for interoperability.

So, any statement of the form "HLA can XXX" is trivially true. (Well, unless you go into the weeds... standards-compliant HLA cannot emulate DIS, for example)

they were the first one to achieve integration between live, virtual, and constructive simulations - something that has (to my knowledge) evaded Millenium Challenge.

The eetimes article mentions nothing about LVC integration... I suppose you have another data source.

Live and virtual are easy to combine- this has been done at least since 1980s SimNET at Knox. Adding in "constructive" is trickier, and arguably impossible. You can pack a constructive sim into a virtual framework... but at that point, is it really constructive anymore? The guarrantees normally provided by constructive sim are broken if it's accepting input from live players. I'd call that "code reuse from constructive models into a virtual sim project".

The list of software used in MC02 is long (40+ programs?) and I don't recognize all the names. However, if any one of them had been initially designed for constructive execution, one could say that MC02 had already achieved LVC.

(Note that the only real goal of MC02 was to achieve simulation interoperability milestones, and not to actually gain insight into future combat strategies. It was too haphazard to draw conclusions from)

As a result, Linux is special (but not necessarily unique) because of lower initial cost, multiple platform capability, and because of the Open Source development support that surrounds it.

Linux is still only marginally successful in the wargaming arena. Both traditional big-iron UNIX and desktop Microsoft Windows are still strong competitors (it pains me every time I watch a venerable M&S be ported to Windows, but the customers demand it). Most of Linux's success comes at the expense of more costly Unixes. The free development tools are nice, but not a major factor to DoD customers (they care more about recurring deployment costs than one-off development expenses)

Offtopic, there is an interesting article regarding "Open Source" development and wargaming. The article is funny to read, because it's so completely wrong- the author wasn't even using a valid definition of "Open Source". The ModSAF program he refers to was only "Open Source" as much as Minix was (all changes must be sent to the project originator), and we all know what happened to Minix.

that HLA is not just about updating object state data during gameplay - it can also be used to setup of the initial rules regarding object interaction

Well, the biggest difference between HLA and DIS, after all, is that HLA is fully generic and makes no assumptions about the subject being simulated. (Whereas DIS only works if you have vehicles shooting at each other, the arbitrary attribute-definitions of HLA allow it to represent cardiovascular blood-flow or thermal conductivity just as easily). DIS came with its own set of rules for object interactions. While this limits the standard's reusablity, it makes it more useful as a target for compatibility. If two programs use DIS, you can be sure they will make general sense when plugged together. But knowing that two systems use HLA tells you nothing about their prospects for interoperability.

So, any statement of the form "HLA can XXX" is trivially true. (Well, unless you go into the weeds... standards-compliant HLA cannot emulate DIS, for example)

they were the first one to achieve integration between live, virtual, and constructive simulations - something that has (to my knowledge) evaded Millenium Challenge.

The eetimes article mentions nothing about LVC integration... I suppose you have another data source.

Live and virtual are easy to combine- this has been done at least since 1980s SimNET at Knox. Adding in "constructive" is trickier, and arguably impossible. You can pack a constructive sim into a virtual framework... but at that point, is it really constructive anymore? The guarrantees normally provided by constructive sim are broken if it's accepting input from live players. I'd call that "code reuse from constructive models into a virtual sim project".

The list of software used in MC02 is long (40+ programs?) and I don't recognize all the names. However, if any one of them had been initially designed for constructive execution, one could say that MC02 had already achieved LVC.

(Note that the only real goal of MC02 was to achieve simulation interoperability milestones, and not to actually gain insight into future combat strategies. It was too haphazard to draw conclusions from)

As a result, Linux is special (but not necessarily unique) because of lower initial cost, multiple platform capability, and because of the Open Source development support that surrounds it.

Linux is still only marginally successful in the wargaming arena. Both traditional big-iron UNIX and desktop Microsoft Windows are still strong competitors (it pains me every time I watch a venerable M&S be ported to Windows, but the customers demand it). Most of Linux's success comes at the expense of more costly Unixes. The free development tools are nice, but not a major factor to DoD customers (they care more about recurring deployment costs than one-off development expenses)

Offtopic, there is an interesting article regarding "Open Source" development and wargaming. The article is funny to read, because it's so completely wrong- the author wasn't even using a valid definition of "Open Source". The ModSAF program he refers to was only "Open Source" as much as Minix was (all changes must be sent to the project originator), and we all know what happened to Minix.

(via google cache) http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:philsci-archi ve.pitt.edu/archive/00001197/02/Zeno%27s_Paradoxes _-_A_Timely_Solution.pdf

pdf

For all you people (like myself) who had no idea what iTrip is/was, here's the link from googles cache.

From the page: You are looking at the coolest iPod accessory in the world. The iTrip FM transmitter for the iPod can play your music through any FM radio in your car, at a party, wherever the mood strikes you - and you have a radio.

Here's one for the FOX Network's regional VPs contact information. Email addresses... phone numbers... etc... (its white on white so you have to do a select all in order to view the stuff)

Why is it always inner city schools that are under-funded and big, while suburban schools are always good? Is no one in the suburban school districts overworked? Are there no overcrowding problems in small towns schools - they can afford all the classrooms and teachers they need? Are there not *any* desirable inner city schools?

Suburban schools can have money problems too. Even a rich suburb like Lake Oswego, OR can have serious budget problems.

And in Portland the "inner city" is expensive. The "poor" areas are mostly outside of the "inner city" area.

My small town highschool had no money and more than 30 kids per classroom. We had really old books, crappy computers shared amongst too many kids.
Yeah, us "white suburban" kids had it made. all gravy... (not)

I for one have little objection to another check on HISD principals inflating their own performance by disowning failing students.

Chris Owens
San Carlos, CA

Where is this acknowledgement if IPR infringement? The patents essential to implementing C# and the CLI are available on a "royalty-free and otherwise RAND" basis so the core, and most important part of Mono is safe.

I wonder how Spike Jonze feels about this...

If like me, you are now a big fan of Javed's write-ups, don't miss his other famous review, where he covers the "UNIX System Administration Handbook", a great book on how to protect yourself from Dilbert's boss (sic)!

Check out Novell NetDrive. It's available as a free download right here support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/uns/pub/ne tdrv41.exe/ and allows you to mount FTP servers, WebDAV shares, and iFolders as local Windows drives.

Works with 98, 2K, and up and allows you to control caching, supports SSL, etc.

Here's a clip that I used to get WebDAV to work while testing. Only use this as a _starting point_ -- I wouldn't trust its security setup for live usage without some tweaking/checking.

-- Replace [ and ] with greater-than/less-than:

[Directory /var/www/html/share]
Dav On
Options Indexes
AuthName "password_required"
AuthUserFile /etc/htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
Allow from all
[Limit HEAD GET PUT POST OPTIONS CONNECT DELETE PROPFIND PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK]
Require user jsmith
[/Limit]
[/Directory]

-- Then just have a WebDAV client open up whatever URL points to that specific directory.

It's not a bad setup, the FTP mount is actually pretty decent here also.

Send me an email privately if you have any issues.

Jason

Site is slashdotted :-)
Google cache is here!

Please mod as informative hehehe :-)