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Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

Extinction is a natural result of evolution. Companies go extinct when they are unable to adapt to changes in the business environment or compete effectively with other companies.

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

Extinction is a natural result of evolution. Companies go extinct when they are unable to adapt to changes in the business environment or compete effectively with other companies.

No, it's not up to date but it's better than nothing.

The cooling effect has been scientifically studied. Here is this article describing it (Google-translated from Spanish).

Just one thing to say, here

Get the cache!

The problem is that we seldom build cities. Cities morph -- especially in our suburban mindset we've have for the past century or so. Cities have in fact become more sprawling simply because of our transportation. So trying to "build" a city that is counter-culture will not only be tough, but not popular.

That's not entirely true. The further forward we go, the more often cities are built in large chunks (or in the case of Irvine, all at one go). Furthermore, City planners have a surprisingly large amount of power when it comes to things like deciding the direction of a transportation infrastructure. Portland, for example, created a well-defined busing system with exclusive lanes and lots of riders. Boston's city planners just sunk ten billion dollars and countless contruction hours into submerging the transportation system underground. San Fransisco is in the far more affordable process of striping more bike lanes, and has joined with the surrounding communities to create a 500 mile bike trail encircling the bay.

Are cities are car-focused because that is how we choose to make them. Just because you don't see your friendly neighborhood city planner doesn't mean he didn't expect the traffic you are stuck in.

The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you. --Captain Koons, Pulp Fiction

-- Len

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Sure, there have been allegations of UFOs on Mars. But multiple news sources have carried that Martian Air Force Denials that they're real - just harmless weather balloons. These reports suggest that the real explanation may in fact be swamp gas. Either way, there's no evidence of intelligent life on nearby planets.

Just because I'm such a nice guy:

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I'm getting >40kb/s right now...go nuts.

There have been reports that Microsoft created incompatibilities in Windows to prevent DRDos from running in the back-end.

In the case of Netscape it was the fact that IE could be leveraged across Microsoft's huge installed base by being bundled with Windows.

Real started out well but I agree they are the victims of their own crappy business practices. Still Microsoft has leveraged their monopoly over the desktop to promote their Media Player.

Best link i could make of the quote, also... Skittlebrau

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Once more with the right tags...
Mignight Spaghetti

This is what is wrong w/ *any* personal firewall.

Manual Removal
Look for the following registry keys:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \Generic Service Process
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Services\Generic Service Process

The associated binary may be srvhost.exe, svrhost.exe or a variation of the same. Kill the associated process in the Task Manager, then remove the "Generic Service Process" registry key. Remove the executable from the Windows system directory.

Snort Signatures
Here are some Snort signatures to detect Phatbot on a network:

alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Agobot/Phatbot Infection Successful"; flow:established; content:"221 Goodbye, have a good infection |3a 29 2e 0d 0a|"; dsize:40; classtype:trojan-activity; reference:url,www.lurhq.com/phatbot.html; sid:1000075; rev:1;)

alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Phatbot P2P Control Connection"; flow:established; content:"Wonk-"; content:"|00|#waste|00|"; within:15; classtype:trojan-activity; reference:url,www.lurhq.com/phatbot.html; sid:1000076; rev:1;)

A little bit can be found here.

Apparently, they surveyed their 1,118 of their own customers.

This is how bad statistics are born, people. An anti-spamming company surveys their own clients to find out what they think defines Spam, casually asks if they brought this down upon themselves, and find out that a surprisingly large percentage deserve what they got. Then news agencies get hold of this, strip out the "customers of" part, and it has become truth about the human condition. Furthermore, 6-10% of those surveyed said that spam can come from someone you have purchased from before. And, at least according to the above link, they didn't have to buy the product through the spam, just that they bought what was advertised in the spam, like a new Cingular Wireless telephone or a John Deere tractor. Or, for that matter, buying a subscription to the Wall Street Journal after they spammed you from the free signup page.

So in other words, it's a pretty big stretch to say that 8% of all people (+-2%) have bought from spam.

Note to Journalists: Can we at least put survey methodology in a footnote? It is a form of integrity, true, but it's not as much of a hassle as fact checking or having an objective viewpoint of your subjects.

It's not exactly slashdotted... The index page has been changed, but the "deep links" still work... Desperate for this site? Google-cache the base page here and follow the links to the real site. (Until they decide they don't like that either...)

hmm, not sure how to put this any other way than "check your facts".. you'd be suprised how much firepower the nerds have ;).

The fact that you child was born with down syndrome has just about as much to do with the doctor that delivered him\her as the sex of that child does.

Down Syndrome, or Trisomy 21 is a genetic disorder. The doctor couldn't give a baby down syndrome any more than he or she could turn the baby into a frog. If any doctor ever lost a suit alleging that the doctor caused a baby's down syndrome, it was because the doctor hired a terrible lawyer and either didn't understand Down Syndrome or couldn't explain it.

The total crap part is that you can sue ANYTIME after birth and claim that the doctor that delivered you caused any problems that you have now. I personally talked to a doctor that is being sued by some parents because their child didnt get into the college they were planning on, so they sued the doctor for causing long lasting brain damage 18 years after the birth. The really sad part is the doctor lost the lawsuit and is now repsonsible for paying millions of dollars of damages to the family. And let me say, this is a totaly normal kid who simply didnt get high enough grades on his entrance exams to a college, not some highly deformed retarded human being.

Again, this doctor did a lot wrong. This doctor was apparently operating without malpractice insurance which is just stupid. Don't say that we shouldn't live in a society where we have to have insurance -- that's nonsense. We place ourselves in the care of doctors who have the ability to do great harm and, when they do harm, the victims should be compensated. Malpractice insurance is a way of allowing for doctors that are not super-rich before they start practicing. Almost every private contractor carries insurance against liability and malpractice both for their protection and for the protection of their clients, and, really, if you value your life, health, or property you should never do business with a contractor that lacks the capacity to compensate you if he screws up.

More to the point in this case, though, this doc got horrible representation if he or she lost this case. If this child had some sort of mental defect leading to a low IQ, that would have been picked up a dozen or so times before he took his college boards. In civil cases, respondents are protected against frivolous lawsuits by a statute of limitations, most commonly dating a few years from the date of discovery.

The S.o.L. varies from state to state, but, for example, in georgia:

In no event may an action for medical malpractice be brought more than five years after the date on which the negligent or wrongful act or omission occurred.

Linky
These things tend to be pretty similar from one state to the next, and while I have no idea where you live, odds are a half-decent lawyer would have had this malpractice case thrown out of court before the first witness took the stand because (surprise) the plaintiff had no standing to make the claim.

This doctor hired a horrible lawyer, apparently, one who should never have passed a bar exam, and one who could be easily outfoxed by anyone with an internet connection and a enough intelligence to use google. If you got fired for hiring an IT professional who had never used a computer before, why would you blame your boss?

Law is an i

The proportion of the sentence to be served by offenders entering Federal prison increased from 58% during 1986 to about 87% during 1997.

Why isn't the OSS community looking at those with proven interfaces? Apple, of course comes right to mind, as well as BeOS. The thing is, programmers could have all the graphic designers working on their projects that they needed - IF the graphic designers had a way of creating a GUI without having to learn some new esoteric scripting language!

Do I (as a graphic artist and layout guy) expect a programmer to:

1) Come up with a fantastic, beautiful, informative interface to their software?
2) Spend a year on the GIMP or Photoshop or Illustrator to learn how to make one?
3) Understand that the super-cool lens-flare skull with glowing eyes might be a cool T-shirt for a poor high school metal band, and not for the interface to his software?

No. Just like I'm not going to learn the ins and outs of C, ruby, python, perl, etc. I don't want to. I'm good at what I do. I'm good at what I know. I'm getting better at the things that interest me.

Listen. Make it easy for artists to submit interfaces. A plugin. A skinner. A template. I don't know, IANAProgrammer. I do know that I was able to build an interface in 5 minutes with Apple's tools. Again, I know NOTHING about programming.

The point I'm making is this: You (the programmer) make it possible (read: easy) for me (the artist) to make visual GUI changes, and I'll do it! For nothing! We like to do stuff like this!. Make it possible and together we can get this linux thing on everyone's desktop.

Continue to avoid/ignore/and deny this issue, and it'll be a short time to Longhorn, which from what I've seen, has the worst Winamp skinners already sewn up.

Did a quick check for a google cache... couldnt find the article but managed to get alot of the pictures of the process here:
here After a few minutes though I did manage to get the Article text: Taking apart the iPod mini

February 23, 2004
By Greg Koenig

Apple has crammed a lot of stuff into the anodized aluminum enclosure of the new iPod mini, and taking it apart is no easy task. I'm an industrial designer with lots of experience pulling back the curtain and meeting the wizard in PDAs, Mp3 players, stereos, watches and all sorts of other gear. I am usually pretty good at it, having not broken something in years (lots of bug hunts for tiny parts on the floor though). Except my brand-new iPod mini, where I screwed up big time... twice!

The Procedure:

Tools needed:
(1) Wiha 1.5mm flat head screwdriver
(1) Wiha Philips #000 screwdriver
(1) Needle nose pliers or medical (Kelly type) hemostats
(1) Hair dryer

To help illustrate my disassembly adventure, view the iPod mini autopsy photos and follow along.

To begin with, make sure the 'Hold' button is locked into the ON position (showing orange) to prevent the internal components to be turning on while you are taking it apart.

The plastic top and bottom plates are glued into place with a tacky adhesive that will soften considerably when heated so use the hair dryer on a low setting to heat up the top plate. Work the area until it's very warm to the touch. Now turn the mini around so you're looking at the Apple logo and squeeze the two rounded edges together at the top, causing the enclosure to bow a little bit in the middle. Insert the flat bladed screwdriver between the plastic and the metal (in line directly above the Apple logo) and gently pry the plate straight up. Work around the edges, leaving the area around the 'Hold' button till last. When you finally do get to the 'Hold' button area, pry carefully and pull the plate STRAIGHT up. Behind the 'Hold' button are two plastic standoffs (sort of like tabs) that extend down into the case and push the real switch on and off. If you pry the thing out at an angle, you will break one of these standoffs. That was mistake #1 for me. The actual 'Hold' switch soldiered onto the main board broke, so the 'Hold' switch no longer works.

Now perform the same procedure on the plastic bottom plate. When it is removed, you will see a shiny sheet-metal plate held in place under spring tension by 4 tabs inserted into reliefs machined into the enclosure. At the end of each of these tabs, you will see a round hole. Use the Philips #000 in these holes and carefully pry each tab out of its slot. The sheet-metal plate will come right out.

Next, you need to disconnect a ribbon cable that connects the scroll/click wheel assembly to the main baord. This ribbon cable is on the bottom of the mini on the left hand side. It is orange. You can't miss it. Use the 1.5mm blade screwdriver to pry it apart. If there isn't enough slack in the ribbon cable, don't worry, as long as you get the connector loose, you have done your job here.

Turn the mini over, looking back into the top, you will see two tiny philips head screws on either side of another metal plate. Remove these with the #000 screwdriver carefully and put them in a safe place (don't drop these on the floor, you will never see them again).

Now comes the fun part - gently push on the 30 pin connector at the bottom of the mini and all of the main components (on an assembly I call the component sled) will slide right out the top. It is a bit tight, but if you meet major resistance, back off and INSURE you have the ribbon cable disconnected. This is where I messed up and killed my iPod mini, I forgot to check and I pushed with all my might, ripping the ribbon cable off of the male connector. Oops.

The c

Right here

It's not released under the Apache/BSD License . . .

It's released under an Apache Style license.

Google Cache since the site seems to be dying as we speak.

This will be needed soon:

Google Cache

Surf responsibly. Don't slashdot.

It's also interesting to note that both have a copyright date of 2004, which would imply that Google has found just under 1 billion websites in a month and a half, which seems like an interesting fact.

any RPG beyond Cadash would never work in an aracde

As someone who's only ever beaten Cadash on my (ex-)TurboExpress (man I miss that machine), does anyone know if the last boss *really* says "He who is the strongest survives, or don't you know the teachings of Carl Sagan?"

The closest I've gotten to proving that wrong is This google search that reminds me it was translated by Working Designs, so I have no problem saying that was their work.

my point was that there is no way to make one of the size needed for a car that can easily and safely be removed and replaced.

Sorry? An SRG gets about 55 watts per 600 grams of Pu-238. No fission occurs inside the system, it's all from radiation converted into electricity. Using a battery to store the extra energy created when not driving, you could power a small car with about 20 Kw of power. 20Kw * 1000 = 20,000 Watts / 55 Watts = 363.6364 * .6 kilograms = 218.1818 Kilograms of Pu-238. That's .24 tons of the stuff. Not too bad, but not really practical.

A more practical method is to use some sort of chemical storage method (e.g. cracking water into hydrogen and oxygen) that is powered by a stationary power plant. The chemical fuel can then be transported to your local fueling station. If the energy was on the grid, your fueling station could even create it right there!

[From Google's cached page]

Introduction:
Contained hereunder is a HOW-TO for brewing up kitchen-sink OpenCola. Amazingly enough, every soft-drink vendor we spoke to acted like the preparation of cola was some kind of deep, dark trade-seekrut(TM). With much reverse-engineering and creative shopping, the research kitchens at OpenCola have coopered together the following makefile for brewing up The Black Waters of Corporate Imperialism(TM) in the privacy of your own home.

The basis for the whole thing is the 7X, Top-Seekrut(TM) formula. Our sources tell us that 7X is the internal Coca-Cola codename for their syrup. You'll note that the 7X formula contains eight ingredients: still more evidence of the deviousness of the Soda Gnomes.

As it turns out, mixing up a batch of cola's pretty easy. Finding the ingredients is damned hard. Most of this file is about finding and handling ingredients so as to produce a tasty bevvy without blowing up your kitchen, melting your flesh off your bones, or poisoning yourself. As with all undertakings of great moment, read and understand the instructions before attempting to commit cola on your own. Pay special attention to the "Warnings" section.

This recipe is licensed under the GNU General Public license. It is "Open Source" Cola, or, if you prefer, "Free" Cola. That means you're free to use this recipe to make your own cola, or to make derivative colas. If you distribute derivative colas, you're expected to send email to the recipe's author, Amanda Foubister (amanda@opencola.com) with your updates. In the future, we expect to have a CVS server up to handle additions, bug-reports, etc.

The Formula
7X (Top SeekrutTM) flavoring formula:
3.50 ml orange oil
1.00 ml lemon oil
1.00 ml nutmeg oil
1.25 ml cassia oil
0.25 ml coriander oil
0.25 ml neroli oil
2.75 ml lime oil
0.25 ml lavender oil
10.0 g gum arabic
3.00 ml water

OpenCola syrup:
2.00 tsp. 7X formula
3.50 tsp. 75% phosphoric acid or citric acid
2.28 l water
2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugar
0.50 tsp. caffeine (optional)
30.0 ml caramel color

Preparation
7X Flavoring:
Mix oils together in a cup. Add gum arabic, mix with a spoon. Add water and mix well. I used my trusty Braun mixer for this step, mixing for 4-5 minutes. You can also transfer to a blender for this step. Can be kept in a sealed glass jar in the fridge or at room temperature.

Please note that this mixture will separate. The Gum Arabic is essential to this part of the recipe, as you are mixing oil and water.

Syrup:
In a one gallon container (I used the Rubbermaid Servin' Saver Dry Food Keeper, 1.3 US Gal/4.92 l), take 5 mls of the 7X formula, add the 75% phosphoric or citric acid. Add the water, then the sugar. While mixing, add the caffeine, if desired. Make sure the caffeine is completely dissolved. Then add the caramel color. Mix thoroughly.

Cola:
To finish drink, take one part syrup and add 5 parts carbonated water.

Scavenging and Handling Ingredients
7X flavor:
Measurement: I used a dropper purchased at a Shoppers Drug Mart (normally used to measure infant portions of medicine, I believe).

Oils: Oils can cause skin irritation. Wear latex food-prep or surgical gloves. If oils come in contact with skin, wash with soap and water.

I purchased all oils from health food stores and the herbalist store, Thuna's (see notes on gum arabic).

Everything could have come from the herbalist's. Try for 100 percent pure, undiluted oils. I used oils from the following companies:

CK Solutions, Ft. Wayne, IN 46825
Aura Cacia Oils, Weaverville, CA 96093
Aromaforce Essential Oils
Frontier Natural Flavors, www.frontiercoop.com
Karooch, Peterborough, ONT K9J 7Y8
When I purchased the oils, I specifically asked whether they were food grade or not.

get her the galaxy's largest diamond

get her the galaxy's largest diamond

But the Day Care Center said he was "Honest, Intellegent and a pleasure to work with."

seems dead, here's the cache
clicky

--I seem to remember reading a magazine article many, many years ago (we're talking maybe sometime in mid-to-late 1980's) that said something about Intel registers having to be programmed in "backwords" order... That would explain it.

See clicky - sorry, I googled and asked jeeves for like 10 minutes and that's the only reasonable link I could come up with.

I've noticed a trend of people starting to call these games MMOGs. Brad McQuaid and Co. (creator of EverQuest.. currently working on next gen MMOG) seem to refer to all of the "MMORPGs" as MMOGs... and rightly so. (Google highlighting for the lazy)

Thankfully Google Grabed a copy...

Cached copy of standard breaking bug fix

From the screenshots... The GameCube only runs 484.96 BogoMIPS? Sounds pretty reasonable considering the speed of the chip...

here's one. and another :-)

here's one. and another :-)

And here is the Google cache.

Is Available of his Weblog entry

None of the porn crap (check the mouseover)

Google cache here: http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:NdbQq65bnTcJ: www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/+&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8

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Linus Torvalds Interview