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he could buy the world a Coke(tm)!


(and teach it to sing in lockst^H^H^H^H^H^H harmony!)

Caffeine is toxic to the blood, lungs, nervous system, and mucous membranes. It is a human poison by ingestion and is a slight irritant of the skin and eye. The oral LD50 for caffeine is 127 mg/kg (mouse); the oral TD Lo for man is reported as 13 mg/kg.

Signs/Symptoms of Overexposure:
Exposure to ingested caffeine can cause convulsions, muscle spasms, tremors, poor muscle coordination, vomiting, and blood pressure increase. Continued excessive use in tea or coffee may lead to digestive disturbances, constipation, palpitations, shortness of breath, cardiac disorders, and depressed mental states.

Apparently, you'd have to drink a lot of coffee to get a lethal dose. But it does seem to possible to kill yourself (or approach it) with caffeine pills.

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:TvfSi6UFJpQC: www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html+&hl=en

Why must you ruin my page layout with this insanely large post when you could just link to Google's cache of the page?

Please mod parent down and mod a post with a link to the cache up.

Oops, sorry, there appear to be some broken links on that last mirror list, should've checked them all I guess.
Here's what looks like a more authoritative list, from Google's cache of the 641d build page:
Australia FTP/HTTP - http://planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/
Austria HTTP - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/office/openoffice/ (de, fr)
Austria FTP - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/office/openoffice/ (de, fr)
Belgium FTP - ftp://openoffice.vosberg.be (de, nl)
Belgium HTTP http://www.edumail.be/index.php/static/openoffice (de, nl)
China P.R. HTTP http://office.qkaka.com/ (All listed localizations)
Denmark HTTP http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/openoffice/(da)
Denmark FTP ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/openoffice/ (da)
Finland HTTP http://www.kongogroup.com/openoffice/oo.asp (fi-only?)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/ (de)
Germany HTTP http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/ (de)
Germany FTP ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packag es/OpenOffice/ (de, fr)
Germany FTP ftp://openoffice.tu-bs.de/OpenOffice.org/641c/ (de, fr)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.op enoffice.org/ (de, fr)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/ (de, fr, es, sv, pt, zh-cn, zh-tw)
Hungary FTP/HTTP http://office.fsf.hu/letoltes.html (hu)
Iceland FTP ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/OpenOffice
Iceland HTTP http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/OpenOffice
Indonesia HTTP http://sapi.vlsm.org/openoffice/win32split/
Indon esia FTP ftp://sapi.vlsm.org/openoffice/win32split/
Italy FTP/HTTP http://openoffice.e4a.it/ (it)
Mexico FTP ftp://mirrors.unam.mx/pub/OpenOffice/
Netherlands FTP ftp://borft.student.utwente.nl (nl)
Netherlands HTTP http://borft.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/ (nl)
Netherlands HTTP http://niihau.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/ (nl)
Poland FTP ftp://ftp.openoffice.pl/ (pl; NOTE: please use an FTP client program if your browser doesn't download the files)
Spain FTP ftp://ftp.cyberfenix.net/pub/openoffice(ca, es)
Spain HTTP http://ftp.cyberfenix.net (ca, es)
Spain HTTP http://ftp.rediris.es/ftp/mirror/openoffice.org/ (ca, es)
Spain FTP ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/openoffice.org (ca, es)
Sweden FTP http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/ (sv)
Switzerland FTP ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/OpenOffice/ (de, fr)
U.K. HTTP http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ny1.mirror.openoffic e.org/
U.S.A. FTP ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/openoffice(Linux only)

You can't get it off the Google list, but you can get it from their cache of the copyright directive.

Actually, it is the voltage.

Since we're talking STATIC electricity, there is, by definition, NO current flow.

The problem with static charge buildup and FETs is called punchthrough. Electric field strength is measured in Volts per Meter (V/m) The gate thickness of a typical CMOS FET is on the order of nanometers (1x10^-9 m).

Our 15 kV static voltage produces in the gate region of the FET a field of (15kV)/(40x10^-9 m) = 375x10^9 V/m.

According to this link the dielectric strength of (Pyrex) glass 14x10^6 V/m. Applying a field stronger than this will cause ionization of the material: electrons will be literally knocked off their atoms! This ionization allows a current to flow through the (normally) insulative material, called dielectric breakdown. In a CMOS FET, gate insulator ionization leaves residual conduction paths, ruining the transistor (punchthrough).

CMOS FETS have very thin gate insulators to increase performance, but the side-effect is that they can tolerate only very small static gate voltages without damage.

In protest of the show being canceled, someone in Chicago hijacked the airwaves of 2 TV stations. It's pretty amusing, unfortunately the only site that had video clips of it is down. Here's some information though:

Google Cache with more information

Slightly less, but more direct information

To summarize, it involved a Max Headroom mask, a bare ass and a fly swatter, while Dr. Who was supposed to be playing.

This article and this one and this one too, (Google cache).

I'm not supporting our Chinese friends if this article is true, but it would seem to me that whats good for the goose is good for the gander, no?

Well, to increase the creation of the post-modern Tower of Babel that the internet is fostering, I'm going to start pronouncing everything with a silent 'K'. Thus, it's Mail, Word, Spread, Illustrator, Rapp and of course, DE.

They could've at least thought up something that rolls off the tongue smoothly....like CBDTPA

And for posterity, it was the "Kewl Desktop Enivronment" see here (the only early reference I could find, though I'm sure if you searched through the google usenet archive you might find an early reference.)

Yeah, even from the start, they haven't given us a lot to respect.

-transiit

After writing an even loooonger discussion about the site and having it all erased in a system crash, this will be a short version. (On the second reading: ha-ha).

* The web service provider www.truepath.com/ has been online since September 1997. They are definitely for real and serves many, many other cristian sites. Let's not scan or bomb them. They are doing a great job handling the slashdot effect - we have seen many other sites choke immediately.

It all looks very, very much like a real site. Some glitches point in the hoax-direction however:

* On the member page, it is very hard to find any evidence of any pastors or doctors on the web. However, searching for '"Tim Allmon" baptist' on Google returns two hits.
-The Digital Missourian: Citing
"Tim Allmon, 22, plans to vote for Bush. But the Southern Methodist University student says he is tired of candidates "putting on the fake happy face, shaking hands and kissing babies.""
There is acutally a guy called Tim Allmon, about the age (24) of the portrait on the member page, studying at the Southern Methodist University. Sounds OK to study at the Methodist Univeristy if you are ultra christian, but I guess there are 10.000 other students there that are not, on the other hand...

The second link is not about our guy anyway.

* The bible verses they have chosen are good reading.
Tim Allmon, the treasurer, chose Mattew 22:17-22... (bible citations from bible.gospelcom.net)
"Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away."

Too good to be true? You judge. But the femnine looking Peggy Miller's choice is Luke 11:21:
""When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe."

Pastor Jose Rosas is also surprising. Claiming to work in "the ecumenical Catholic Outreach Baptist Ministries" is exceedingly hard to believe for me. If the catholic and baptist acutally had any collaborations, we would find it on Google... Wouldn't we? Again, we are directed to Objective as the first link...
Corinthians 8:1-13 is not that obvious either...

Kyle Goodman then. His story is almost too good to be true... We can read in the Google cache (to save his Geocities accound from flooding) that he was salvaged by Jim Carlson of the Objective site. He first was a "bad guy" with a webpage against Jim Carlson and pro Landover. Now he has changed and is against Landover. It is hard to know if he is serious. Would anybody changing mind so drastically still keep their old web page that insulted what you now believe in? (His pages are still up on Geocities, but they are often overloaded so use the Google cache instead.
There is some really good reading in Kyles guestbook. I especially like a comment (KirthGersen - 11/22/00 06:05:12):
"Taking parody to the razor's edge... The fact that you left your old site up shows you are faking your conversion. The fact that those idiots at Shutdown Landover believe you shows that they are really, really dumb. Congrats on your parody - it's quite convincing. Can't wait till you suddenly fall from grace - should be hilarious!"

Furthermore, Kyle Goldman is a very uncommon name in Google. Most hits points into golf result tables. Some link actually points to the Faith Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama, were they have posted the participants in the cermon (how about that privacy?). Actually Melissa Goldman also participated. This seem strange as Kyle have chocked his jewish parents when converting as the Objective site says. Maybe this Kyle Goldman is not the one we are looking for...

One of the links points to a sermon that was held the 15th of October 2000, which is only two days after Kyle's last note on his Geocities webpage. It seems normal to me that a young newcomer in a presbyterian congregation would be asked to lead the prayers.

The golf-playing Kyle was a freshman in Temple Highschool in Bell County, Texas in 1997 (See this link, and this directory listing). Is he the same Kyle Goldman? There also seems to be a horse-riding and -judging Kyle Goldman that originates from Washington in Wilkes county, Georgia. Btw, his horse is named Cookie.

Aaaarghhh. I want to know the truth!

Conclusion
It is harder for me to believe that someone spends the enormous amount of work on a site likeObjective for fun rather than if they do believe in it. (On the other hand it may be hard for people to believe that someone spent the time to write this :-) The only obvious people that could do it "for fun" is the Landover crew (and they are probably overloaded with that site, plus they specialize in sharp and clear irony) and Kyle Goldman that has a very different style on his other webpage. Faking the artwork on the Objective site would also take lots of skill and time.

This has largely turned out to be a study if the people named above really exist. It is hard to determine that using only the Internet, and it gets even harder when the persons are not supposed to use the 'net because of its low moral. It is next to impossible as the pages in discussion lack real-world adresses. Even if that is a sign of a hoax, nobody that tried leaving their mail adress on a page like that would do it again. They may be misinformed, but they are not stupid...

So, I choose to believe that there acutally are people different enough and determined to set up a site like Objective because they do believe in it for real. If anybody have hard evidence of the opposite, I welcome it.

...or maybe I think it is a hoax... :-) /Fredrik

Maybe somebody has already posted a mirror, or maybe I'm the first person that got Yahoo's "exceeded bandwidth" message, but here's a google mirror for the Jesux page.

Jesux
For the goatse weary: http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:CruA_mWMcQQC: www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/+jesu x&hl=en

Does this mean I can take my machine to Michigan and get my $25 deposit back?

Does this mean I can take my machine to Michigan and get my $25 deposit back?

Does this mean I can take my machine to Michigan and get my $25 deposit back?

Accidental Porn is a band:-)

Funny you bring it up - Joel is a fag

Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong. Apple has supprot for putting mixing openGl elements and "normal" elements, but does not treat everything as texteured 3d surfaces. Indeed in the consumer market Windows arrived at the partial solution first.

It will take so long because this is a pretty fundamental change to the GUI. Indeed it is stuff that on the X platform there is 3dwm which is significatn;y simpler than this and still has taken years of work, and is still not done yet.

You may hate MS , but don't hate blindly, MS has the best HCI lab in the world at present. And thier research lab (which has a (broken, but in google) link to story about this). MS may be dumb but the aren't stupid. I don't know if this is useful, but when they say this is new(outside a research lab), they are right.

> but there have always been some things you couldn't do. Yelling fire in a crowded theater is the classic example.

That is a fallacious argument. You might want to read this to see why.

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:www.fatalblin dness.com/FREEDOM990628.htm

Remember the DeCSS debacle? You got into trouble just for linking to that...

Maybe if your site happens to be one of the (relatively) few that the MPAA and its goons stumbled across. As one DeCSS "metasite" put it, though, "you have one bat and there are 100 million holes." I've had it up on my website for a fairly long time. I even have links up at some of the metasites, and Google has cached the page. I have never gotten a C&D. I'm sure the same holds true for many other sites that carry DeCSS.

I'm curious if the configurer considered JBOD and software raid5?

I have one of the cheapie 3ware cards (6400, $100 on sale). When configuring I read an interesting web page (Google cache) about using arrays of 6800's in JBOD mode (and letting the O/S do the RAID5 math.)

The advantage to this is that if you have 32 drives, you have 31 drives worth of information and 1 drive of redundancy information. With four 8-drive cards, you get 1 raid5 checksum drive per sub-array and hence only 28 drives worth of information.

Of course the 6xxx series has poor performance raid5 anyway, so software raid5 makes more sense.

It's been cached in google.

appearantly is the PCI-DAS4020/12 - that's what the alpha driver posted is for, specs cached here. Described as "low cost" (from a lab gear point of view) but is GBP 1200 or so.

I've always wondered what generic CPU's could do in the HF (3-30Mhz) radio spectrum since CPU speeds passed 120Mhz long ago.

Since everyone seems to be having trouble getting through, here's the Google cache.

But I though Microsoft had always been open source.