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I haven't been on LJ nearly that long, but I share your concerns.

I don't trust SixApart as far as I can throw them. That Brad does is all well and good, but I don't. Not after what they did with the MT license. I help maintain a community machine shared among about 70 people. We had quite a few users who were using MT to host blogs. Mind you, this is a community machine, composed of donated hardware, run with donated power and bandwidth. SixApart refused to give us a free license for the new version. They wanted $500, or whatever it was. They said that we could do the individual install thing, but we would have had to have each user install his own copy of MT. Because some of our users aren't geeks, this was really out-of-the question.

In the end, we ended up doing lots of work moving people to WordPress. But I really don't want to do business with SixApart after the way they handled MT. So, I think I probably be taking down my LJ sometime soon. It's sad, really, because I do enjoy using it.

Just my $0.02.

Okay, it would be my guess that someone used a high powered YAG laser or maybe a large DPSS. I seriously doubt this was from a handheld unit.

The beams could make it into the cockpit upon approach I believe.

You have to be an idiot to do such a thing. The "pulsing" factor makes me think it might have been a pulsed YAG system, since many are triggered by flashlamps.

Crazy stuff, and it will make it difficult for those of us into lasers for entertainment.

For a good pic of a YAG on a clear night (this isn't mine):
A flashlamp triggered yag

Argon on foggy night

I have some pics from playing around here:

http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/lasers/

Don't forget to check out www.linux-laser.org, an opensource linux laser platform. The funny thing is the only major software to use the device so far is for Windows XP.

Okay, it would be my guess that someone used a high powered YAG laser or maybe a large DPSS. I seriously doubt this was from a handheld unit.

The beams could make it into the cockpit upon approach I believe.

You have to be an idiot to do such a thing. The "pulsing" factor makes me think it might have been a pulsed YAG system, since many are triggered by flashlamps.

Crazy stuff, and it will make it difficult for those of us into lasers for entertainment.

For a good pic of a YAG on a clear night (this isn't mine):
A flashlamp triggered yag

Argon on foggy night

I have some pics from playing around here:

http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/lasers/

Don't forget to check out www.linux-laser.org, an opensource linux laser platform. The funny thing is the only major software to use the device so far is for Windows XP.

I get nostalgic, too -- here's proof. But using OS9 is just so painful in other ways, it's not worth it anymore. The biggest thing I can say is that OS9 is much better if you don't have a hi-res monitor. My toilet-seat iBook was fine at 800x600 under OS9, but a royal pain under OSX. I replaced it with a newer one mainly for that reason.

A bunch of users have blogs on a communal machine I use (and my company hosts). One of these blog spammers posted a comment on a blog. The blog owner, being a bit upset about this, tracked the guy down to collect the advertising fee the advertiser agreed to by posting the ad on the site.

Note: Unauthorized advertisements posted to this site or to the comments section for this site comprises agreement to pay $100.00 (U.S.)(non-refundable) for each advertisement. I also reserve the right to terminate said advertisement(s) at any time.

Upon receiving the collection notice, the blog spammer sent a complaint notice to our ISP saying that we were sending UCE. Jerkoff. The whole saga starts here and continues for several entries....

A bunch of users have blogs on a communal machine I use (and my company hosts). One of these blog spammers posted a comment on a blog. The blog owner, being a bit upset about this, tracked the guy down to collect the advertising fee the advertiser agreed to by posting the ad on the site.

Note: Unauthorized advertisements posted to this site or to the comments section for this site comprises agreement to pay $100.00 (U.S.)(non-refundable) for each advertisement. I also reserve the right to terminate said advertisement(s) at any time.

Upon receiving the collection notice, the blog spammer sent a complaint notice to our ISP saying that we were sending UCE. Jerkoff. The whole saga starts here and continues for several entries....

A bunch of users have blogs on a communal machine I use (and my company hosts). One of these blog spammers posted a comment on a blog. The blog owner, being a bit upset about this, tracked the guy down to collect the advertising fee the advertiser agreed to by posting the ad on the site.

Note: Unauthorized advertisements posted to this site or to the comments section for this site comprises agreement to pay $100.00 (U.S.)(non-refundable) for each advertisement. I also reserve the right to terminate said advertisement(s) at any time.

Upon receiving the collection notice, the blog spammer sent a complaint notice to our ISP saying that we were sending UCE. Jerkoff. The whole saga starts here and continues for several entries....

There was a unit made by Texas Instruments that could project 3-dimensional holographic images. A volumetric display. Pictures? You can see some pictures of it at http://lasers.757.org. Under gallery, the TI OmniSky. The files all begin with the i1-.