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Here's a text-only copy of the site from Google. It's a shame about the pictures, but at least his captions are descriptive.

continuing on the shame part, Sun had dedicated a page for it citing it as a staroffice success, and i guess it was removed recently after this news. see the google cache here http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F% 2Fuk.sun.com%2Fsunnews%2Fsuccess%2Fpublic_sector%2 F102.html

I got this far...

Whether it's Carpal Tunnel, Blackberry Thumb or iPod Ear, you can find out all about it here at Health-Hack.com "The Health Portal for Computer Users and Abusers"(TM)

Then I cringed and glanced at the article. It's essentially a two-page intro to a Google-cached Seattle Times article. I'll save you the trouble of going to H-H.com:

Exploring the Frontiers of Life

It is a hijack. What he is refering to is that he isn't a hijacker since he isn't profiting off the link. He using the common 301 redirect hijack that has plague google for a while. If you view the cache of his website, you'll see that googlebot is getting a different page than normal users. Googlebot is getting a 301 to adwords. The inbound(trust) links are credited towards the hijacking site as seen here. If you check the first result, you'll notice no link to the hijackers page yet is credited as an inbound link.

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Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side ...

Of course I am trolling. It's not been up long enough for google to cache it.

Since I did not cite materials from "Law and Order" but from "Law's Order"

Tenth-century Iceland was... ...a pattern of leadership emerged, some farmers acting asleaders of their close kin or immediate neighbours, others functioning as more formal leaders of a larger clientele, and eventually a distinct group of chieftains formed. A chieftain might be descended from an early settler who had claimed extensive land and been able to retain some sort of authority over later settlers in "his" area. Preferably, the chieftain had to be able to trace his ancestry to aristocratic families in Norway or somewhere in the Viking world

...Old Iceland would be more cogently defined as a "stateless society", despite its central institutions and legal unity, as there was no public executive power. Neither court verdicts nor legislation nor even the constitutional arrangements had any coercive power behind them, other than the free initiative of individual chieftains with their armed following.

The PANDA architecture was great!
Interchange between Intel Pentium Pro, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, et al
Great design; the implementations are still power-ed up today and they can run MS Win NT 4 or LINUX.

I posted previously, and to serve food for your diet visit
here and here. PANDA, when it arrived, was quite expensive. As you can see, ECS is reaping the benefits of a better market and better technology of today. Perhaps, the holders of PANDA intellectual property should be made aware of ECS' interests on this Claim.

The PANDA architecture was great!
Interchange between Intel Pentium Pro, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, et al
Great design; the implementations are still power-ed up today and they can run MS Win NT 4 or LINUX.

I posted previously, and to serve food for your diet visit
here and here. PANDA, when it arrived, was quite expensive. As you can see, ECS is reaping the benefits of a better market and better technology of today. Perhaps, the holders of PANDA intellectual property should be made aware of ECS' interests on this Claim.

I doubt the new Slashdot crowd in our midst has ever seen any venture before this ECS motherboard, and I know of one for having awe-full(good) merit; PANDA. That PANDA was a excellent architecture put into production that was verry standards-compliant to allow an interchange of daughterboards interface to the main adaptor plane to allow ease of upgradability. At the time, the architecture was implemented for cross-use between Intel PENTIUM PRO and the DEC ALPHA 21164. The designs were further built to allow interchange for a PowerPC host, and many more were being completed in the draft. Here is the google cache with some pictures of the gaudy PANDA. Every once in a long while, there is an auction posted on eBay with this computer. Verry durrable computer, as anything graced by DEC employees tends to have value that goes beyond the forecasted market consumption.

The PANDA architecture is such a extensible design that it scaled beyond its time. There were dual and quad CPU implementations and the like; the enclosure's gaudy color was over-looked by the step-fastended media drivers. More google cache with details on the Archistrat computers.

This design dies quick, for obvious reasons; it is as though its a forum for competitors to engange intercourse between their products, and they don't want consumable hardware and not something that can last a long time: atourn; replace the CPU, the whole computer needs a new spine to match; like grapting an orange tree sy-Stem and an pink grapefruit sy-Stem onto a Lemon Tree(TM) for use as a more regenerative computer like an old mobile car.

I doubt the new Slashdot crowd in our midst has ever seen any venture before this ECS motherboard, and I know of one for having awe-full(good) merit; PANDA. That PANDA was a excellent architecture put into production that was verry standards-compliant to allow an interchange of daughterboards interface to the main adaptor plane to allow ease of upgradability. At the time, the architecture was implemented for cross-use between Intel PENTIUM PRO and the DEC ALPHA 21164. The designs were further built to allow interchange for a PowerPC host, and many more were being completed in the draft. Here is the google cache with some pictures of the gaudy PANDA. Every once in a long while, there is an auction posted on eBay with this computer. Verry durrable computer, as anything graced by DEC employees tends to have value that goes beyond the forecasted market consumption.

The PANDA architecture is such a extensible design that it scaled beyond its time. There were dual and quad CPU implementations and the like; the enclosure's gaudy color was over-looked by the step-fastended media drivers. More google cache with details on the Archistrat computers.

This design dies quick, for obvious reasons; it is as though its a forum for competitors to engange intercourse between their products, and they don't want consumable hardware and not something that can last a long time: atourn; replace the CPU, the whole computer needs a new spine to match; like grapting an orange tree sy-Stem and an pink grapefruit sy-Stem onto a Lemon Tree(TM) for use as a more regenerative computer like an old mobile car.

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The article was sourced from Novosti a respected Russian news agency. Archive articles are subscription only but I found a link in the Google cache to the origional article Here

Meh. I thought we'd all be using Gnome 12 by now anyway.

Having tried to use OOo for all my work for a while (and breathing a hurricane-size sigh of relief with 2.0bc!!) and submitting some UI bugs, I think reality is a good thing to have in OSS. Caveat I have pushed it a bit, doing a lot of Word and Powerpoint imports with mixed Japanese and English, and I run it on a way underpowered system (by OSS standards), a 450MHz Celeron (Dell Inspiron 7.5K) running RH9.

OOo 1.1 sucked pretty badly unless you were doing absolutely minimal stuff.

OOo 2.0bc is really nice and much faster and smoother. Still a few niggling UI bugs that I don't think it is ready to be called 2.0 yet but hey, it is light years ahead of just a few months ago.

Bloatware. I am in the position of recommending software for third world companies this week. But to be honest OOo is not really safe as far as I can see with only 128MB so I don't think I can recommend it for use on old computers. Still if it gets polished a bit more it should be very nice.

The niggling things are probably low memory artifacts, insufficient testing, and inadequate (not 100%) import/export compatibility with Office (with windows fonts installed). And a broken autocomplete system. I think also that OOo should add some simple, useful functions that Office does not have, so people can say "gee I wish Office had this!" and keep them from going back.

I think I'm going to recommend a new feature I had on my Apple II and have never seen since then though I have dreamed of it.

Spin the clock back to 1980. I am using Apple PIE, by David Gordon at Programma International. This was a programmer's editor with keystrokes that would make emac users' eyes gleam. It is relevant to the thread because this was probably the first consumer word processor (and written in 6502 Assembler! Hah hah!) and inspired Appleworks which was the forerunner of what OpenOffice.org and MS Office do.

The function I want in OOo is where you hit the 0 key on the numeric keypad and it jumps your cursor back to the last position you were at when you saved the cursor position. You could save at least a few positions and cycle through them with the 0 key. I'd like that (and also the white block cursor too!) with the ability to pick a different key combination, and maybe also save those positions for footnotes or something.

If anybody has PIE please let me know. Should run on Catakig the emulator I think. Or if you have a manual, even better!

Links: retro.html
Apple II History (but I think mistakenly says Lissner made PIE), and google for ((( "Apple PIE" "word processor" "Apple II" ))).

here's google's cache of the site http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:0P-b3Qx1lg8J: devnulled.com/content/2005/01/an-evaluation-of-the -current-technology-job-market-updated/+&hl=en&lr= lang_en

I know... we all want the picture!

Did anyone else see: "Erasmus MC" and think that the author was also a hip-hop artist? Ewird.

The US Army studied this because they were throwing away millions of dollars worth of medicines each year because of the expiration date. Results? They throw away far, far less meds now:

"Data from the Department of Defense/US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Shelf Life Extension Program, which tests the stability of drug products past their expiration date, showed 84% of 1122 lots of 96 different drug products stored in military facilities in their unopened original container would be expected to remain stable for an average of 57 months after their original expiration date. Some US Army studies on Valium, for example, show that the drug is very stable and completely safe and effective for up to 8 years after manufacture. Tablets of ciprofloxacin, an expensive antibiotic, were found completely safe and effective when tested 9.5 years after the expiration date.

A recent issue of The Medical Letter quoted not only the above study but others showing expensive medications like amantadine (Symmetrel) and rimantadine (Flumadine) remained stable after storage for 25 years under ambient conditions and retained full antiviral activity after boiling and holding at 65-85 C for several days. Theophylline, in tablet form, shows 90% stability even after 30 years beyond the expiration date. Such stability is not reflected in the manufacturer or pharmacy dating about when tablets or capsules must be discarded. In general, although published data are not available for all medicines, The Medical Letter consultants believe that most drugs stored under reasonable conditions retain at least 70% to 80% of their potency for at least 1 to 2 years after the expiration date, even after the container has been opened (nb: current US Pharmacopoeia [USP] standard is generally 90% potency).

One problem! The tax would most likely not go to pay for the roads. I would just leave mine at home until I went to the pump to fill up. I guess they might wonder why I get 1 mile to 21 gallons of gas :) Will they GPS my gas can for the lawnmower as well?

"In other news, officials at the pacific nuclear research facility have denied the rumor that a case of missing plutonium was in fact stolen from their vault two weeks ago. A lybian terrorist group had claimed responsiblilty for the alleged theft. Now, however, officials attribute the discrepancy to a simple clerical error."

Of course, anyone who's seen the movie knows that the "officials" were wrong about that "clerical error."

According to the google cache he was putting the site up for sale.

I want AOL to start distributing their software/etc. in those AOL tins that they used to use, least 'round here. Very handy for keeping certain things in. :)

Here's the tin if you don't know what it looks like. But I don't use it for a survival kit, or at least that's not what I would call it's primary function. Come to think of it, nuking some of those AOL CDs could prove fun on those rainy days.

"Are you retarded or just trying to be a troll?"
You think *I* need to prove I am not trolling?

But as you can't seem to do your own research:
http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:Gq6dud6ZPvYJ: www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR22/FMR22updates.pdf+%2 2recruit+children%22+%22armed+forces%22+OR+army+US A+&hl=en
"Governments which continue to recruit children for front-line combat include... the USA"
Happy now?

"How have I been recruited for active duty?"
How would you expect me to know? You post AC, don't mention your name/age/country or any other info. Should I look into a crystal ball to see your whole life in action? I never said *you* had been recruited. Duh.

"...nobody I know has been to war under 18, nobody ive spoken to or heard about"
Well if you, in all you wisdom, haven't heard about it it musn't be happening. Glad you cleared that up.

If you can't be bothered to help yourself don't expect anybody else to. Please, if you could at least *think* before you press "Submit" it would be an improvement.

• • Someone in your apartment block deals drugs? Guess it's time for a drug forfeiture sweep. Doesn't matter if you're found innocent, you can kiss your worldly possessions goodbye.
  
  
  Cite one example from a reputable news source. I believe that they have gone a bit too far on some the accussed, but I don't know of one case where they seize assets just because your a neihibor of a drug dealer.

• Police bust down the door to the wrong house.
• Innocent resident dies of a heart attack.

• Cato Institute google rendering of PDF - do ctrl-f for "reverend accelynne williams" and see the examples following his.
• Alberta Spruill. Thanks Mr. Officer - here's an excerpt:
  A Harlem woman died of a heart attack after police hurled a flash grenade into her apartment during a mistaken raid yesterday morning.
  
  Heavily armed NYPD Emergency Service Unit cops smashed down the woman's door at 310 W. 143rd St., believing that guns and drugs were in the sixth-floor apartment, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
  
  Instead, they found Alberta Spruill, 57, a beloved church member and longtime city employee, who was getting ready to go to work when the grenade went off about 6:10 a.m. - creating a deafening boom and a blinding flash.
  
  Cops handcuffed Spruill, who cried as cops began probing her tidy, two-bedroom apartment. A police captain quickly realized cops had hit the wrong location, Kelly said.
  
  Officers immediately uncuffed Spruill and asked if she was hurt. She initially refused medical attention but told cops she had a heart condition.
  
  At 6:32 a.m., Spruill felt chest pains and was rushed to Harlem Hospital. She went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance and died at the hospital about 8 a.m. - less than two hours after her home was invaded.
  
  

There's a "ringer equivalence" specification that indicates how much juice it takes to make the bell gong.

Yup. But the currents required aren't "standard" in the sense that all phones require the same current. (As far as that goes, ring voltage also varies wildly based on loop length and line load.) The load of a phone-- which is usually dominated by the ringer-- is measured as its REN, the Ringer Equivalence Number. That's the standard: one of labeling. The phone company tells you how many REN you're allowed to connect (usually 3 to 5). If you're allowed 5, you can connect 25 phones with an REN of 0.2. But I've heard tell of Korean phones with RENs of 3; if you connected two of those to your line, it might not ring (and may be considered always off-hook).

Fortunately, we know the REN of the type of phone we're talking about: the Western Electric Model 500. It's the yardstick for REN; it has an REN of 1.0. (Modern phones have specific tests to determine REN.)

Modern devices usually have comparatively low RENs. My new phone has an REN of 0.1, for instance, although it pulls its power from a power outlet instead of a landline. The Cellular Connection product to which the grandparent referred is designed to be a portable interface for things like credit card machines or modems, which typically have low RENs. So my question was, would it provide enough juice to drive a high-powered device too?

As it turns out, it does. A quick search didn't find the product on Motorola's website, but I did find a seller. The web page fortunately had the maximum REN that the product could drive: 3.0. This comes at a price, though: the battery life is only 2 hours.

I know this is more information than you probably wanted, but maybe this info will be of use to somebody who's thinking about the same thing.

Not according to the Gnome website.

Good thing IBM has Gordon Freeman working for them.

According to some LiveJournal employees, a massive UPS exploded. From IRC:

<rahaeli> As far as we can tell, a UPS exploded.

Their site now says that they're buying their own UPSes, because this is the second time that the entire data center has lost power. Details on the first outage can be found here (a Google cache since LJ is down).

For the paranoid: This has nothing to do Six Apart buying LJ. They're still in the same "world-class" data center they've been in for years.

To me, it simply seems to impossible to think that the universe and all that's in it, including us, is the result of some random roll of the cosmic dice.

think numbers. large numbers. very very large numbers. units of time. very large units of time.

ever heard the 'million monkeys type out the works of shakespear' quote? think that's impossible? given a VERY large amount of time?

those numbers do give people a hard time. numbers so large, we have no common experience that even comes close. but the fact that we want to compare the age of the universe to our own small lives; does not invalidate the math and statistical theories.

randomness, given enough time, _can_ explain a lot.

but an angry bearded guy in the clouds - man, you're never going to get anywhere with THAT kind of medieval thinking. I'll take randomness in science over the Loving-God/Angry-God thing anyday.

(and if I need an Angry God being, I'll pray to joe pesci. at least he has a way with baseball bats and noisy neighbors that might come in handy..)

well, the /. effect is too late. The site is already down. The site is already down, but for anybody curious, check out the gcached site (www.e-buyonline.com)
if you are the curious type, you'll notice that my search terms are still in the link. A helful hint for finding the site if you have the page staring you in the face... search for specific phrases on the website. Happy googling.
ta ta

The license states that it is free.

The download page has source links too

google cache

You sound like the guy that always loses in sports/cards/whatever and keeps telling himself it's always "bad luck". Get over it. Realize that common sense can keep you safe enough.

Also, you expose the fact that you know absolutely nothing. Can you name one single proper release of warez containing a trojan? Didn't think so.

They use the Census.

"Recognizing the need for more precise periodic measurements of subscribership, the Commission requested that the Census Bureau include questions on telephone availability as part of its CPS, which monitors demographic trends between the decennial censuses."

It measures people with phone service, not people that have it available to them.

google cache (look for the pretty colors) is it any surprise that a guy like bush (who would never have to worry about making ends meet, not a single solitary day in his silver-spooned life) would come out and give ceo's incentives to ship jobs overseas - at the detriment of our own middle class? maybe bush will be seen as the 'nero' of our time. fiddling away while our sustaining class withers.

/damn, I need a beer. is it lunchtime yet?

Mirror of the page is available via Google cache

I don't know of any work in making programming languages amenable to speech recognition. Not to say there is none, I just don't know about it. But I do know of a prototype system for writing Java code using spoken language. It's called NaturalJava.

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