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Hosting companies have large numbers of identical machines with high bandwidth interconnects. That's just what you want for "grid computing". They're already set up to allow customers to run applications on their machines, and are able to deal with the security problems. Load is very low during off-peak hours. The machines stay up; they don't suddenly get disconnected from the net because somebody turned their desktop off. They're all loaded with the same base software. It's the ideal situation for commercial "grid computing".

So why is nobody selling this? Because there's no market for it. There's no real commercial market for supercomputer time, distributed or otherwise. Once upon a time, from about 1960 to 1980, there were engineering computer service centers, where you bought time-sharing service on big mainframes. Control Data and UNIVAC were the preferred machines for this. But that business is dead. CPU time became too cheap.

A well-known commercial grid was Gateway Processing on Demand, announced in late 2002 with great fanfare. Gateway offered "grid computing" on thousands of Gateway-owned machines. They quietly dropped that service some time last spring. Their former CEO admitted that it generated "not a lot" of revenue. Basically, it was an attempt to generate some revenue from Gateway's unsold inventory of machines.

Grid computing is one of those schemes where all the interest is on the sell side. Nobody wants to buy it. "Micropayments" and "portals" are like that. They didn't sell either.

The internet dishes that RVs use cost ~ $10k for hardware and installation with a monthly service cost starting at $100. See this page about the Internet Archive's bookmobile for details. Here's a photo (small, large)of their network connection.

The vendor, Motosat, claims download speeds of 400kb/s and up, with upload speeds of 30-90 kb/s. So you would have enough bandwidth to serve a single high latency low bitrate shoutcast stream, maybe, but it's primarily for download. --Pat

The internet dishes that RVs use cost ~ $10k for hardware and installation with a monthly service cost starting at $100. See this page about the Internet Archive's bookmobile for details. Here's a photo (small, large)of their network connection.

The vendor, Motosat, claims download speeds of 400kb/s and up, with upload speeds of 30-90 kb/s. So you would have enough bandwidth to serve a single high latency low bitrate shoutcast stream, maybe, but it's primarily for download. --Pat

The internet dishes that RVs use cost ~ $10k for hardware and installation with a monthly service cost starting at $100. See this page about the Internet Archive's bookmobile for details. Here's a photo (small, large)of their network connection.

The vendor, Motosat, claims download speeds of 400kb/s and up, with upload speeds of 30-90 kb/s. So you would have enough bandwidth to serve a single high latency low bitrate shoutcast stream, maybe, but it's primarily for download. --Pat

Make sure you remove the space ("johnkerry" not "john kerry") that was inserted by Slashdot--or follow this hyperlink.

Probably because they aren't as stupid as you in swallowing RNC spin?

When we did our Strawberry Shortcake comic

You'll notice the Strawberry Shortcake comic is removed. However, the wonderful and great archive.org has saved it for you. Consider donating to them for helping preserve history. http://web.archive.org/web/20030601105900/http://w ww.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030414l.jpg

Here's my favorite internet time machine... www.archive.org.

"Going to the site now returns a 'search' page instead of the porn site it used to be."

Its situations like these that spawned the WayBack Machine

Buhs is not mentally challanged, he's going senile!

=Smidge=

The hockey player?
The perl guy?
The dead guy?
The author?
The VP of Iomega?
The musician?

Zelda.com definitely has an interesting history. It was at one point an amateur site(mid-90's), but then went big and commercialized soon after that(changed owners, I think), touting a huge 10Mb Internet link. It then changed formats some more, last belonging to "Erotic Box Office" before Nintendo got control of it(I'm not sure how). The biggest problem with the site is that unlike modern standards where potentially offensive material is not on the front page for any serious adult web site, everything up to 1999 had not-work-safe material on the front page(NWS link, duh). I seriously don't know how Nintendo put up with it for so long; it's a company's worst nightmare, and a very good example for pro-regulation arguments for the Internet.

It is still possible to check out the genuine version of this site via http://web.archive.org/web/20020903220621/http://s hadowcrew.com/

I think the site is now slashdotted, but the wayback machine reveals a bit of what it used to look like.

I think the site is now slashdotted, but the wayback machine reveals a bit of what it used to look like.

. . . and speaking of pour websites, one of our old customers (I had to try and answer his question in a professional way as to why people weren't coming to his website) designing-websites.com although he has gotten a lot better than what it was before

Do a Google search for Bush flip flops and you'll see there is a whole pile of issues Bush has flip-flopped on.

The really frightening thing is some doctors think he is showing signs of pre-senile dementia.

I find myself watching more and more stuff obtained from the net. My latest find is this movie on archive.org

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?colle ction=opensource_movies&collectionid=Ironstayn_vs_ Supergovernment/

Not because his website is particularly great, but because, if you View Source, you get...

Thanks for checking out our source code! I plan to use this space to post
special messages to those who are helping to improve our web site -- by making
our site the best it can be. The fact that you are peeking behind the
scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet
effort. I'm grateful for your help and support in this campaign. Now let's
keep working to build the 21st Century of our dreams!

Al Gore

Google cache and Archive.org

From the article:

On 21 October, the George W Bush website began using the services of a company called Akamai to ensure that the pages, videos and other content on its site reaches visitors.

Mike Prettejohn, president of Netcraft, speculated that the blocking decision was taken to cut costs, and traffic, in the run-up to the election on 2 November.

He said the site may see no reason to distribute content to people who will not be voting next week.

Managing traffic could also be a good way to ensure that the site stays working in the closing days of the election campaign.

And:

However, simply blocking non-US visitors also means that Americans overseas are barred too.

Ok, yeah, that's the ONE thing that might be pertinent, and might be arguable.

Otherwise, there's always this, and this, and this, and, um, the whole rest of the internet and every other available source of information in print, television, radio, and so on, on Earth.

This is a political campaign site with political campaign propaganda. And since there are still an extremely wide variety of ways to get at its content and information from outside the US, it's obviously not some kind of "international censorship". (C'mon, slashdot! I know you can come up with some crazy shit!) Even the Netcraft guy realizes that. It's not like the New York Times, or critical news information, is suddenly blocked. Hell, within the last week, they had to start using Akamai! That alone should prove to a normal person that there are clearly traffic concerns at play. They have little to no obligation to serve anyone outside of the US, with the statistically negligible exception of US citizens outside the US.

Ok, slashdot, let's see who can come up with the best off-the-wall looney conspiracy theories to twist this around as a malicious, underhanded tactic, and some kind of "proof" that Bush is evil incarnate! While you're at it, explain to me how it's right for the Guardian to encourage its UK readers, i.e., not US citizens, to start a letter writing and email campaign to Ohioans encouraging them to vote for John Kerry, or, better yet, calling for the assassination of the sitting US president! (Even as a "joke".)

In a regular column in The Guardian newspaper's Saturday TV listings magazine, Charlie Brooker described Bush in scathing terms, and concluded: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr., where are you now that we need you?"

3... 2... 1...

Go!

Some more useful sites: Donkey Rising is a pollster-run democratic blog with good analysis. Mystery Pollster does a good job deconstructing polls.

Dang, that was hard And yes, access denied from a Western Australian ISP.

IPOF gutenberg.net.au blocks access from North America to the Australian ex-copyright materials which might still have a legal millstone around their collective necks in the USA. Same old, same old.

Dang, that was hard And yes, access denied from a Western Australian ISP.

IPOF gutenberg.net.au blocks access from North America to the Australian ex-copyright materials which might still have a legal millstone around their collective necks in the USA. Same old, same old.

4. If I just download sound recordings from an illicit music site or if I make sound files on my computer from my CDs, it's just a copy for personal use and not a violation.

Personal use copying was considered by Congress when it enacted the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA). The AHRA was a legislative compromise to deal with certain, specifically defined, categories of digital audio copying. Attempting to balance the various competing interests, among other things, the AHRA provides that manufacturers of covered devices must (1) register with the Copyright Office; (2) pay a statutory royalty on each device and piece of media sold; and (3) implement what is known as a serial copyright management system (or SCMS) which prevents all but first generation copies. In exchange for this, the manufacturers of the devices, which might have otherwise found themselves subject to liability for contributory copyright infringement (among other things), received a statutory immunity from suit.

Consumers also received something. As long as the copying is done for noncommercial use, the AHRA gives consumers immunity from suit for all analog music copying, and for digital music copying with AHRA covered devices. It is important to note that the AHRA does not say that such copying is lawful; it simply provides an immunity from suit.

The difference between copying to cassette (for instance) as opposed to a computer hard drive is that audio cassette players (as well as Minidisc and DAT players) are devices covered by the AHRA and a computer is not. The specific reasons are technical but boil down to this: The AHRA covers devices that are designed or marketed for the primary purpose of making digital musical recordings. Multipurpose devices, such as a general computer or a CD-R drive, are not covered by the AHRA. This means that they do not pay royalties or incorporate SCMS protections. It also means that neither the devices nor the consumers who use them receive immunity from suit for copyright infringement.

I in no way claim to be intelligent, but one reason I have for supporting Bush (ignoring guns & abortion, which are big issues for me) is that he recognizes that the War on Terror is not like the War on Drugs.

Bush has also answered questions many times, while Kerry has refused to answer questions from a reporter that many consider to be left-leaning!

Bush has also had the balls to say that Social Security is in danger, and will need to be revamped. Kerry's response was, "It'll work long enough." I was pleasantly suprised to find that I actually agreed with Bush's domestic policy.

Perhaps the main reason is that Bush's reelection is going to be 4 more years of the same, which (for me and my friends) has not been too bad. But Kerry's election would be (potentially) 8 years of who knows what. I have no real hope that either party will work to fix the DMCA, as both parties supported it whole-heartedly, but perhaps we can at least keep Congress involved with howling about Iraq and not passing any more extensions.

The PATRIOT act is troubling, but Kerry just says he wants to "review" it. If Kerry says that he passed it without reading it, then he is admitting that he didn't do his job as a Senator. That is frightening. At least Bush seems to know (and do) what his job entails.

And furthermore, we need a decisive electoral victory for Bush, to show Iraq and Afghanistan that we really are going to support them, not dump them like a hot potato the moment it becomes convenient. That was the biggest mistakes we've made as a country recently - pulling up short of Baghdad in 1991, which resulted in many Iraqis who thought we were going to help them overthrow Saddam dying, and ignoring Afghanistan after the Soviet Union fell, which resulted in the Taliban taking control.

Also, I do not believe that an administration that supports the Clinton view of the Second Amendment is good for the long-term freedom in America.

Those are some of my reasons.

Things I disagree with Bush on:

1. Outsourcing. It needs control, but I don't care if an Indian has my job if I'm been blown up by a terrorist, so priorities.
2. Education. I think that education should either be controlled by local politics (cities & counties) or not by the government at all.

In fact, I am more in agreement with the Constitutional Party than with the Republicans in many ways, but I feel that especially after the 2000 election, we need to have a decisive victory. Otherwise every election from now on will be decided in courts by lawyers. This is unacceptable.

Here is a link to a blog that explains some of the reasons behind my thinking.

Other, more personal reasons I don't like Kerry:

1. He attacks Bush about this "Draft," yet the draft bills were introduced by Democrats, defeated 402 to 2, and John Kerry himself supported "National Service" as very recently. This is not just politics, but downright shameful. Also, given that many military personell have said they won't reenlist if Kerry wins, the only way he can keep his 40,000 more troops promise would be to instate a draft. Note that the link is to the archive.org's copy of the John Kerry website; this draft stuff has been modified in his current platform. Even Rumsfeld doesn't want a draft.

2. Why the hell does he try to pret

It's no longer on the current official website for John Kerry, but one of the issues he had a stance for was about copyright, in which he stated that he would vigorously defend America's copyright system against piracy. Taken directly from his website back in Feburary --

* Copyright-Based Industries Are Critical to Economic Growth: Products of the mind from America's scientists, engineers, computer programmers have little value without intellectual property protections. Copyright based industries alone now account for nearly 6% of all jobs in America and 7.75 % of GDP. These industries are in jeopardy because of the Bush Administration's failure to enforce international treaties to protect America's creative community from piracy.

* Stop Intellectual Piracy: The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative estimates that losses theft of U.S. intellectual property in 51 foreign countries total $9.7 billion. In China alone we lose $1.8 billion to piracy. Yet even where we have strong agreements, piracy remains a major problem due to a failure to fully implement the TRIPS agreement and an unwillingness or inability to crack down on the problem. A Kerry Administration will take theft of the jobs of America's creative workforce a trade and foreign policy priority.

If you'd like to see the website yourself, it's right here:

John Kerry for President (Feburary '04)

Sure it doesn't say anything about copyright/piracy in the US, but you can guage his opinion on copyright from those statements. I don't think his stance on copyright has changed, and he would most likely support the DMCA, if not strengthen it further.

They are pretty good. I guess you could call them a country jam band or something. Check out http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php and search for them to hear some live stuff.

So, assume you're a Joe Blow (no law degree or PhD, as you quite proudly boast) and you have to pick a license. Do you:
a) pick the guy who has stood up in front of the supreme court fighting for the prevention of copyright extensions, and who developed the licence that The Beastie Boys have released work under; or
b) pick the guy that quit MIT, is in serious need of a haircut/shave and who gets up on his soapbox regularly about it should be GNU/Linux, not just Linux?

So what do you actually want me to pick? A license or a guy? Because in either case the answer might be different. Of course if you want me to pick a guy, then obviously I will pick the prettiest one. However if I was going to base my opinions about texts I read only on the appearance of their respective authors, a priori excluding those "in serious need of a haircut/shave and who gets up on his soapbox regularly" as you suggest, I would never read the Bible, or the United States Constitution, for that matter.

Doesn't matter about whose right or whose wrong. It's just how it's perceived. I admire RMS, I think the world needs people like him, but I think that what he's proposing is flawed. I think that Linus's philosophy is much more realistic than RMS's semi-communist approach, and in trying to create freedom for the users he denies freedom for the developers - the people whose software it is.

If it doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong, then it's probably pointless to argue, since that who is more popular is rather obvious, and that who is handsomer is a subjective matter.

Nevertheless let's not confuse the difference between Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds with that between GPL and X11/BSD-style licenses. Linus Torvalds has released Linux under The GNU General Public License written by Richard Stallman and considers it "one of the very best design decisions" he has ever made, so the freedom of their users and developers is exactly identical.

And to be honest neither one of them has ever denied me any freedom--as a user, as a developer, or any other one. They may say different things, but their work is equally "communistic"--they both use the very same license.

First of all I respect opinions of both Stallman and Torvalds, even though I tend to agree with the former more often, which makes me a saint in the Church of Emacs, if nothing else. The important thing to understand, however, is that in any practical terms the free software/open source schism doesn't really matter. Both movements have very different reasons and slightly different goals, but their means are exactly the same.

The first version of the Open Source Definition by OSI is nothing more but Free Software Guidelines from the Debian Social Contract with words "free software" changed to "open source" and every "Debian" changed to "project." I urge everyone who wants to know the difference between free software and open source to read both of those definitions very carefully.

In other words open source software and free software is the same thing, even if backed by two movements. Those movements do essentially the same even if for different reasons. One of those movement is a "fork" of the other one, made relatively recently, only six years ago. They may have different opinions on many important issues, but at the end every single line of Linux can be legally used in GNU and vice versa.

What I have observed is that people usually stick to one side of the percieved conflict--be it Linux vs. GNU/Linux, free software vs. open source, GPL vs. BSD, Gnome vs. KDE or anything--and fight stronger than those people who have started that conflic

We already have a decent, FREE, and fast wireless network in The City: SFLan.org.

Do you really want to be bound by the government's TOS, for a service "sold" as free that you are in fact paying for, whether you use it or not?

Of course, using public money for questionable ends is nothing new... but dear Gavin already invests far too much of our money waging war on the poor (no, not on poverty... on the poor).

Isn't Perdue where George Goble teaches?

He's an engineering and BBQ legend that had to remove his site about lighting and enhancing flames with liquid oxygen.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot that open source education thingie is probably a good idea. I'd have to buy a Linux for Dummies book and then look for the "if you are still too dense..." part.

Actually that's two half-truths stuck together. If you get as far as the Attack Ship level on Perfect Agent (the hardest preset difficulty level) and pick up Cassandra's necklace, you find her username and login (which I don't remember offhand). And if you get a ranking of 1: Perfect in the Combat Simulator you get another username/password ("Entropic Decay" and "Zero-Tau" if I remember rightly).

Rare had originally intended to use these passwords for cool online stuff but they never did it, the lazy devils. They do nothing.

On the other hand, both dataDyne (the bad guys) and the Carrington Institute (the good guys) had pesudo-real websites set up with secret sections which COULD be accessed, using secret passwords whose origins I don't know, but which certainly aren't in the game. Both sites are gone now but they're still in the Wayback Machine cache:

CI, dD

The secret areas don't work anymore but I managed to dig out the passwords and logins anyway. Carrington Institute: Username: solaris, Password: pal32ver21z. dataDyne: Username: JamesTann07, Password: 8CR31D29

Actually that's two half-truths stuck together. If you get as far as the Attack Ship level on Perfect Agent (the hardest preset difficulty level) and pick up Cassandra's necklace, you find her username and login (which I don't remember offhand). And if you get a ranking of 1: Perfect in the Combat Simulator you get another username/password ("Entropic Decay" and "Zero-Tau" if I remember rightly).

Rare had originally intended to use these passwords for cool online stuff but they never did it, the lazy devils. They do nothing.

On the other hand, both dataDyne (the bad guys) and the Carrington Institute (the good guys) had pesudo-real websites set up with secret sections which COULD be accessed, using secret passwords whose origins I don't know, but which certainly aren't in the game. Both sites are gone now but they're still in the Wayback Machine cache:

CI, dD

The secret areas don't work anymore but I managed to dig out the passwords and logins anyway. Carrington Institute: Username: solaris, Password: pal32ver21z. dataDyne: Username: JamesTann07, Password: 8CR31D29

Uncompressed audio is so big that even a 40% reduction in size can make a difference. Especially if you're hauling 3 hour Dead shows around on your portable. Or downloading them for free at archive.org

There's also the embedded checksums and the support for vorbiscomments that make it real nice to use. If I weren't a poor grad student I'd definately buy one of these.

Here's a good place to start. That'll give you an idea of how popular and personable Mr. Lockwood is. Most of Scott Lockwood's tomfoolery is lost in the long-deleted past of Trolltalk or other Slashdot discussions, or buried in archives of Geekizoid's previous incarnations that Emadinator is afraid to release to the public because he openly advocates and practices illegal activities in them, but you can dig out some of the old stuff with web.archive.org. For example, here. Or here (hacking story at the very top, but not one of the worst). Or here (Kuro5hin modbombing, and racism at the very top). Or here. Read the hacking / racist / goatsex / penisbird posts. Would you trust this man with your credit card number?

Here's a good place to start. That'll give you an idea of how popular and personable Mr. Lockwood is. Most of Scott Lockwood's tomfoolery is lost in the long-deleted past of Trolltalk or other Slashdot discussions, or buried in archives of Geekizoid's previous incarnations that Emadinator is afraid to release to the public because he openly advocates and practices illegal activities in them, but you can dig out some of the old stuff with web.archive.org. For example, here. Or here (hacking story at the very top, but not one of the worst). Or here (Kuro5hin modbombing, and racism at the very top). Or here. Read the hacking / racist / goatsex / penisbird posts. Would you trust this man with your credit card number?

Here's a good place to start. That'll give you an idea of how popular and personable Mr. Lockwood is. Most of Scott Lockwood's tomfoolery is lost in the long-deleted past of Trolltalk or other Slashdot discussions, or buried in archives of Geekizoid's previous incarnations that Emadinator is afraid to release to the public because he openly advocates and practices illegal activities in them, but you can dig out some of the old stuff with web.archive.org. For example, here. Or here (hacking story at the very top, but not one of the worst). Or here (Kuro5hin modbombing, and racism at the very top). Or here. Read the hacking / racist / goatsex / penisbird posts. Would you trust this man with your credit card number?

Here's a good place to start. That'll give you an idea of how popular and personable Mr. Lockwood is. Most of Scott Lockwood's tomfoolery is lost in the long-deleted past of Trolltalk or other Slashdot discussions, or buried in archives of Geekizoid's previous incarnations that Emadinator is afraid to release to the public because he openly advocates and practices illegal activities in them, but you can dig out some of the old stuff with web.archive.org. For example, here. Or here (hacking story at the very top, but not one of the worst). Or here (Kuro5hin modbombing, and racism at the very top). Or here. Read the hacking / racist / goatsex / penisbird posts. Would you trust this man with your credit card number?

Here's a good place to start. That'll give you an idea of how popular and personable Mr. Lockwood is. Most of Scott Lockwood's tomfoolery is lost in the long-deleted past of Trolltalk or other Slashdot discussions, or buried in archives of Geekizoid's previous incarnations that Emadinator is afraid to release to the public because he openly advocates and practices illegal activities in them, but you can dig out some of the old stuff with web.archive.org. For example, here. Or here (hacking story at the very top, but not one of the worst). Or here (Kuro5hin modbombing, and racism at the very top). Or here. Read the hacking / racist / goatsex / penisbird posts. Would you trust this man with your credit card number?

There are two complaints I have, with the interviewer and the one being interviewed. I'll start with my complaint with the school being interviewed.

The administration in all schools love/hate these lists. It's a crude way to provide a relative measure of a school's performance.

fta: To determine the rankings for America's Most Connected Campuses, The Princeton Review solicited data from 357 top colleges and universities around the country, asking them twenty questions about the technological sophistication of their campuses.

That tells me that the administration had the opportunity to present to the interviewer. Most importantly, they have the opportunity to even bend the truth a little. Given that, WHY would they answer 'no' to anything that was even remotely a 'yes'. Answering 'no' is guaranteed to reduce your score and a higher score means that you can brag about the rank even more during admission season.

Take the example of my alma mater: Stevens.
question: Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations?
answer: no.

Really? Just a quick look at their website states, "WCPR is now online and accessible both on-campus and off-campus via our Internet webcast! (see the link to the right)". Yes, it does work and they've had streaming radio there for years - just check the wayback

If they answered yes to that one, they'd have 5 'no' answers and get listed in the top 25 - where I'm sure they'd love to be. Someone is not promoting the school well enough and to drop from being #1 last year to this.... As an alumnus, I'm rather disappointed.

On the complaint I have with the interviewer: IMO, the worst question is "Does tuition include a computer?". Any school that answered yes to that should be avoided. Yet a 'yes' would give you a higher score...

In defense of Forbes, they do list a lot of the details. At least one can point out the failures in their methodology to anyone interested.

Virii is completely bogus, but viri isn't valid either. That link is probably showing the genitive (standard practice for Latin dictionaries), not the plural. Virus was an uncountable noun in Latin (just like "slime" is in English), so the only possible plural in English is viruses. Check this out for an in-depth discussion.

His website brandonrouth.tv is not available, but his site has been archived with the Way Back Machine on archive.org. It looks like he even dressed up as superman (aka Clark Kent) for halloween some previous year. Here's his picture from the archive. Archived Halloween Picture I backed up a smaller version (I don't know my bandwidth limit though): My backup Hopefull he's put on some weight since this. He looks kinda skinny to be superman.

So, what you're essentially saying is that because this is an issue you don't care about, there are no major differences between the two candidates?

No. What I said was "There really wasn't much of a forseeable difference between the two candidates." If you think that Gore would have agreed to the Kyoto Treaty, then I admit that that's one somewhat significant difference between the two candidates.

I can't understand you objecting to someone's description of Nader's "there's no difference" campaign as a lie on that basis however.

Clearly "there's no difference", if it was actually said by Nader, was an exaggeration (if I recall correctly he didn't actually say that, Michael Moore might have, but I don't think Nader himself did, Nader did say on his website that "A vote for Gore is a vote for Bush", but that was a parody of the saying "A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush", see here for one example from Nader's website). But I think the basic premise of that statement is true. There was very little difference between the two candidates. Sure, you can point at Kyoto, and maybe there would have been a difference there (although personally I doubt it). But you can't talk about little vs. big without having some sort of comparison. I think you have to agree that the difference between Nader and Gore was much much greater than the difference between Gore and Bush. Gore favored a federal law banning partial birth abortions. He flip-flopped on the abortion issue. He opposed same-sex marriages. He supports the death penalty. He supports tougher drug laws, and only supports a loosening of medical marijuana laws. He supports NAFTA and the WTO. He "wants some form of non-government universal health care". He wanted to add just $1/hour to the minimum wage. He supports "charitable choice".

Looking at Kerry the Democrats haven't moved as far left as Nader may want, but they have moved somewhat left. Kerry supports I believe a $2/hour minimum wage increase. He "opposes the death penalty except for post 9-11 terrorists". He "Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record". He "Voted NO on prohibiting same-sex marriage". He "Voted NO on increasing penalties for drug offenses". His "universal" health care plan is government based, not privately based. He supports raising taxes on the top income earners. In fact, according to Bush, he's one of the most liberal if not the most liberal members of the Senate. Bush didn't accuse Gore of that, did he?

Time to start backing up the internet.

No need to. The backup is on-line. here's the link. And here's another one. And two more. As you can see, the Internet is nicely backed up and the backup copies are avaiable on-line, so there is nothing to worry about. In two years when it's gone we'll just have to download the backup copy from one of the abovementioned links.

Time to start backing up the internet.

No need to. The backup is on-line. here's the link. And here's another one. And two more. As you can see, the Internet is nicely backed up and the backup copies are avaiable on-line, so there is nothing to worry about. In two years when it's gone we'll just have to download the backup copy from one of the abovementioned links.

*yawn*

It's been around at least since 2002. Looks like they've added some flavor holes to the front now. MMmm smell that google goodness.

An interesting video about Gary Kildall's life is at the Internet Archive for Computer Chronicles - he was a co-host of the show.

http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse .php?collection=computerchronicles&cat=Episode%20y ear:%201995

...here's a free half hour TV show about BBSs, made all the way back when they were popular, which features CompuServe, Byte BBS and The Well.

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this, but the Internet Archive has the debates, along with plenty of other political stuff. See the Election 2004 video collection. The third debate isn't up yet, but, for instance, the second one is available in MPEG-4 streaming, MPEG-1, or MPEG-2 formats.

Also, they have the older SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater stuff. Pardon me while I binge.

--grendel drago

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this, but the Internet Archive has the debates, along with plenty of other political stuff. See the Election 2004 video collection. The third debate isn't up yet, but, for instance, the second one is available in MPEG-4 streaming, MPEG-1, or MPEG-2 formats.

Also, they have the older SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater stuff. Pardon me while I binge.

--grendel drago