Slashdot Mirror

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Since the actual site pointed to by the article has succumb to the infamous Slashdot effect and that means a lot of picture-hungry /.ers, I decided against hosting my pictures through my cable modem. I put them up on my old AOL account so you can pound AOL's servers to death instead. ;) If they don't load the first time, just keep hitting reload... AOL can take it.

Here's the result of a few seconds of running around with my digital camera... A virtual tour of the network at my house.

mypc.jpg This is the PC in my bedroom. P3 850, 256MB RAM, RADEON 8500LE, 40GB Maxtor. I'm upgrading it to an Athlon XP 2000 pretty soon.

bro1.jpg This is one of my brother's PCs. P3 750, 256MB RAM, Geforce4Ti, 40GB Maxtor.

bro2.jpg This is my brother's other PC. Duron 1GHz, 128MB RAM, Radeon 7200, 20GB Maxtor.

guest.jpg Guest room PC (What guest room is complete without a PC?!). K6-2 500MHz, 96MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 8GB HD.

office.jpg Office room PC. P4 1.6GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000, 80GB Maxtor.

hidden.jpg Hidden office room server. (Used as a Win2k Terminal Server) Celeron 850MHz, 512MB RAM, onboard SiS video (no monitor anyway!), 40GB Maxtor.

tv.jpg Entertainment center PC. Used for watching DivX movies. Yes, that is a progressive scan bigscreen HDTV. 42" of Slashdot, baby. Athlon 1GHz, 256MB RAM, Radeon 7000 Dual Display Edition, 8GB HD.

server.jpg Linux (Slackware!) NAT/Fileserver box. 200MHz PPro, 64MB RAM, generic ISA VGA card, 80GB Maxtor, 40GB Maxtor, 20GB Western Digital drives. In case you're wondering, yes, they're pretty much full.

wirebox.jpg Do not touch any of these wires! ;) With the cover removed from the IBM home director panel, you can see the UPS, the cable modem, the 8 port 100Mbps switch, the 4 way satelite switch (behind the cable modem), the video distribution amplifier and the phone line splitter.

Back when opening up CueCats and modifying them to output unencrypted data was all the rage, I experimented with putting a white LED in one. Hell, it was free so if it didn't work afterwards, I wouldn't have cared. But sure enough, it still worked... Not only did it look cooler, but I found out it also gave it the unique ability of being able to scan RED barcodes, something laser-based and normal CueCats couldn't do.

Picture of White-modifed CueCat

I've also modified my share of mice, but I don't think they're as cool as my cat.

Ummm, dude, you forgot everyone's favourite numbers, fourty two and six hundered and sixty six. What better for the mark of evil is some esoteric combination out of the meaning of the universe and the mark of the beast. You could have included some other transcendentals, too, like pi, e, G (gravitational constant) the golden mean and the square root of minus one (i). In fact, you could even cite this beautiful equation:
(t is the Golden Mean)

e ^ (pi * i) * t = sin(666) + cos(6*6*6)

That's right, an equation which features 666, e, pi, i and the Golden Mean!

You can do better than that. See this site for some more really paranoid crackpotery.

How could this software stop something like QuickBuddy that runs in a browser?

Ever heard of fixed point math?

http://members.aol.com/form1/fixed.htm

$400 dollars could be felony theft.

Reference

I'm from NJ, a friend sent me this site, and basically all of them are true at one time or another.

There's a nice FAQ and emulator on this site here

Here's what AOL has to say about these bloodsucking crooks

Oh come on people, there's no contest at all. The one person who can kick anyone's ass is Mr. T.

And I quote:
Mr. T: [in answer to a youngster who wanted to know who was tougher, Mr. T or Batman]
Mr. T is tougher. Batman would never go into the 'hood. Mr. T will go into the 'hood.

End of story. There's also the classic "Mr. T vs. Superman" but it's not up anymore. In any event, Mr. T can kick pretty much anyone's ass.

Jennifer, you might find my wang more to your liking!. It is quite large.

The accumulated total of off the books assets held by the aggregate federal, state and local governments is currently in excess of 60 TRILLION dollars. At a modest rate of return, there would be no need for any further taxation anywhere in this nation.

The Biggest Shell Game For Theft In This World's History

Essentially, the annual budget is based on income (revenue) v expenditures. When there is money left over at the end of the year, it gets transferred off the books into one of many "funds" held by the multi jurisdictional municipal corporations that masquerade as government.

Check these methods to determine whether state and local governments have excesses of your tax dollars

Why do you allow yourselves to be taxed when there are planty of funds already in the hands of the "state" to meet the needs?

I can see spyware getting loaded up on your computer if you're stuck getting your broadband from these clowns, but overall I've had very little hassle dealing with Cox.

Here

I especially like the "Horse Masturbation Preventer". (Seriously, look at the page!)

If any of you actually visited the pro-life site in question, you will notice that it doesn't advocate violence against anyone, it merely states that abortion is immoral and against God's law.

And where, exactly, is the scripture that states that abortion is against God's law? I doubt that it's possible to use scipture to show that a fetus is a human before the sixth month of pregnancy. Dennis Mckinsey has a great writeup on this in Biblical Errancy (do a find for "abortion" to page down to the discussion). Now, before you go off and assault Dennis Mckinsey, first respond to what he wrote on the subject.

Well, I do have some missing underpants.

Funny, I have never been in the need of a translator from English to English. I always sort of understood it the first time.

Gosh, I really hope you were intending this to be a funny post, because otherwise you're just being an ass and not really looking at the article in its true context:

He's talking about a site-creator's experience with users, so most of your translations don't make sense.

Community members will continually surprise you, especially if you've never really analyzed an online community before.

Translation: If you're a newbie, you will get flamed

How about, "Just like in real life, people's behaviors are not always what you would expect. And if you haven't been analyzing what has happened to other online communities, then you will be even more surprised by their behaviors." Maybe the surprise will be that your site becomes the first place people go to in the morning, and becomes so successful just by word of mouth that one morning when their is a big news event (i.e., 9/11), your server becomes totally overloaded. Maybe the surprise will be that two members of your online community fall in love, get married, and invite the whole community to their wedding party.

The issues and themes you find important may never really resonate with your users. They'll latch onto and chase down ideas you've never found important or even knew existed.

Trans: you may still be a loser even if you run a successful weblog, or more mildly, there is always someone who knows more than you about how some random chip inside some old hardware REALLY works.

How about: "Users may have different agendas, motivations, or purposes in visiting your site than you had in mind. Thus, while you online community may have at one point been geared towards just promoting Open Source software, you may find that someone starts complaining about security problems they are having with Windoze, and your site suddenly becomes a #1 resource for people to discuss and fix security problems with Windows, and it become the most discussed topic on your site.

I think your mistake here was assuming that because two people have different interests, one is a dork with serious brain damage, and the other is a supergod hacker who thinks programming in Assembly is taking the easy way out.

They'll also tend to develop some strange characteristics.

Trans: like first post, links to prOn, and the like...

This is where you get closest. First Posts are definitely one of the "strange characteristics" of Slashdot. I don't think links to porn are a strange characteristic, any more than some guy who's drunk too much puking in the street is a "strange characteristic" of a college town. It's not a particularly pleasant part of the community, but it doesn't represent a community "flavor". Generally, people who post links to porn aren't users in the usual sense. They're spammers who go to every community site that allows anonymous posts and put up links to their sites. Thus, they're not really "users" of the community, although they are users of the site. I'd say examples of "strange characteristics" on Slashdot include the contents of people's sig files, the proliferation of "Funny" comments, and an obsession with putting random links everywhere. Also, let's not forget Karma Whoring..

Not everyone will exhibit every behavior, but these are general trends in every community I've observed.

Trans: there are some people who put a lot of thought into what they say. Thanks be to God/Allah/Buddha/Krishna/The TCP/IP stack/etc...

How about: Some people won't surprise you. Or they will surprise you somewhat, but the issues you find important will resonate with them. Etc., etc. Basically, this is one of those "I'm covering my ass" sentences. He doesn't want to sound like users will always behave the way he has described, so he's allowing for other possibilities too. A lengthened YMMV.

Back in the day, ogg had a meaning as a verb in Netrek - "Let's go ogg a base". If you look at the NWfusion article, scroll down and read all of the "I won't buy it because it doesn't support Ogg" comments. Take that feedback and smoke it! They were Ogged!

It reminds me of the Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf campaign to People's Most Beautiful Person poll.

Back in the day, ogg had a meaning as a verb in Netrek - "Let's go ogg a base". If you look at the NWfusion article, scroll down and read all of the "I won't buy it because it doesn't support Ogg" comments. Take that feedback and smoke it! They were Ogged!

It reminds me of the Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf campaign to People's Most Beautiful Person poll.

I hate to break it to you, but OS X is so slow on the G3 that you might as well not bother.

Not at all. Time to drop your FUD. I just recently aquired a used 400 Mhz G3 PowerBook with 256MB RAM, and things are running on it quite well. iTunes, iCal, Mozilla, AOL, etc all at once. I've even been doing a lot of remote work with OroborOSX running apps from my Linux box remotely, including Mozilla and full-bore developer stuff.

(I'm quite interested in looking into Rendezvous also, given that it's a Zeroconf implementation.)

Could it be Jose Marti?

Nah, That's giving them too much credit.


(Now there's a thought, who said it had to be in the U.S.? Cuba would be beautiful if not for the squalid poverty. "Hey Castro, we'll give you a turnkey hightech industry -- including lucrative offshore gambling / banking for a few concessions...")

Go look at http://members.aol.com/axcel216/lastweek.htm:

"MessageBackColor=8 To specify the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) background (screen) color. Default is blue (1). See "BLUE (OR ANY OTHER COLOR) SCREEN OF DEATH", also in TIPS95.TXT [part of W95-11D.ZIP], or in MYTIPS31.TXT [part of W31-11D.ZIP], for complete details.

MessageTextColor=C To specify the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) foreground (text) color. Default is bright white (F). See "BLUE (OR ANY OTHER COLOR) SCREEN OF DEATH", also in TIPS95.TXT [part of W95-11D.ZIP], or in MYTIPS31.TXT [part of W31-11D.ZIP], for complete details."

Oh well, nice attempt ;-)

Do you mean Jan Brandt?

• • WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWW
    
    Now with 1 billion hours free!
    
    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
    

You don't need a credit card according to this ad on the AOL site.

Based on anonymous sources I know who are currently working at AMSA, this could be hell. AMSA is currently a test bed for microsoft development, and they are involved in "upgrading" their system, eventually replacing a 4 or 5 person department running their tracking software on PIC on Unix or something like that, with a windows based system with several hundred employees. Given the morale there (see the link for esplanation), it is not hard to get some gossip

Part of the problem is that with PIC, they can get real time information, not possible currently under MS. And some of the functionality does not translate well when you migrate out of a multidimensional software enviroment.

If I recall correctly, PIC was first devolped by/for the government to provide a multitasking environment with natural language queries on machines as small and slow as an IBM XT. It was and is from the start a combination OS/Database. Which MS is only now starting to explore.

I imagine that there any number of these systems out there in the navy enviroment, among others.

Typically this is a case where the MS solution is in fact an inferior technology.

BTW, PIC was part of the technology acquired by IBM when IBM purchased Informix.

This is how I'd deal with the problem: Listen

It's all suprisingly well documented by AOL here.

Let us not forget mirrors.aol.com... it's shrunk somewhat over time but still contains info-mac, CICA, and simtel mirrors, among others. It used to include mirrors of linux but I guess they figured out that that was counterproductive. "Hmm, I'll use my AOL CD to get linux installed, and then go get a real ISP..."

Software is not sentient by any stretch of the imagination.

Says You! What about: HAL Proteus Annalee Call Robot Number 5

AND P-1 Harlie.

And of course, Eliza Blue and Fritz

Please keep your biased (bigoted?) carbon-based re remarks to yourself.

Thank you.

Note to moderators: It's a joke, get it?

He even has a website. ;)

http://hometown.aol.com/NewtsPrism/

A quick search on his mailadress on google turns up this:
"Jonathan Kipling Knight has a BS in Physics, an MA in Applied Mathematics and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science."

Hardly enough credentials to guarantee that he's not a crackpot, but enough to allow the possibility that he has some basic understanding of cryptographics.

A search on google groups shows that he has never discussed on any crypto groups using this mail adress or his name. So not very active on the scene.

For those of you who are curious, the submitter's website is right here

"About Prism Research
Prism Research was founded by Jonathan Kipling Knight in June of 1997 in order to provide meaningful research tools to the Newton community.[...] Jonathan Kipling Knight has a BS in Physics, an MA in Applied Mathematics and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science."

>>There's really no equivalent to Apache or XFree86 in the open source world.

>What about Apache or XFree86?

Grandparent meant[1] that there isn't any other mature web server or other mature set of low-level GUI software.

Except there is: AOLserver, the web server software that AOL Anywhere runs, is under the Mozilla Public License 1.1.

[1] Meant != said. Some people in a hurry have no time to be pedantic because they have a life.

still stumped as to what an A size batter looks like...

Here's a picture of a battery pack made up of A cells --

click here (from www.radicalrc.com)

You won't find single A cells at the grocery store, but they're still used in battery packs like this -- for laptops, camcorders, R/C planes and cars, etc. You use them when AA is too small, and sub-C is too big.

It took me forever to find this comic online, Dog decoder (see the one to the right).

Naturally, there is also the more subtle guide to interpreting the mood of an Irish Setter.

Tommy Tutone did a song called Jenny(867-5309) which caused a lot of problems for some people.
It was one of the early 'hits' that made MTV.
I paged my buddy with this number recently and it took him days to figure it out.

In the interest of reducing the load on the servers, I present the direct link to the full-screen version of The Two Towers trailer.

Use this link to save it to your hard disk rather than beating up on the servers every time you wish to view the trailer. Also good for writing to CD to give to someone without broadband (assuming that you get the copyright holder's permission, of course).

Nah, you just need the right diet... Your dinner tonight.

The Steve Ballmer "developers" movie is here

There's a lot less shame in being caught at you-know-what than at AOL.

Some even better prior art can be found at this link.