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Yep. They're pumping dangerous fracking chemicals into a 1.3 mile deep bore hole, just like Big Oil does.

The sad thing is that for all uses, dihydrogen monoxide can be easily, safely, and CHEAPLY replaced with hydrogen hydroxide.

0x165 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table?
0x166 ... Are you up to date?

(From the Hacker purity test

Listen, in order to maintain a signal, a cellphone needs...

Where are my mod points when I need them?

+5 Funny for the Monty Python reference. :)
http://www.armory.com/swallowscenes.html/

Necron69

>>>Real men use Wget or Curl.

Bah. Humbug! Bullsh*t. 64K ought to be enough for anybody surfing the web:
Bootup - http://www.b-sting.nl/commodore64/
HyperLink 64 - http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/shots.html

Well, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be.

You know, when someone hates a class of people, let's say Catholics (the boy-rape really makes them a convenient target) they don't hate every member of the class. At the same time, Catholics will take ownership of people ("they are good catholics, there are 42532362632 of us") until they become too inconvenient, and then they decry their actions. Perhaps we the light-colored people of the world should take up our lead pipes and smite down the racist whites so that the rest of us can move on down the road. No? Then I guess we'll just have to accept that many persons of color will despise us all, since we all look the same.

I can tell you that you aren't going to do any usable web browsing in X in 28megs of ram. Those are lynx specs.

28 megs is Lynx specs? Ummm.... no. Your youth is showing. 128K is lynx specs. Heck, even the Commodore 64 has a version of Lynx. And a somewhat graphical web browser, too: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/

Text-only browsers are nice, but I wish they were wider. They are all limited to a measly 80 characters. (shrug). I bet the web browser on my C64 is safe.... mainly because the C64 is too darn slow to run exploits!

http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
http://www.jac64.com/demos-amp-music/play-62.html (turn up the speaker) (warning: Java)

"Hello customer support."
"Yes my computer's telling my to press any key to continue."
"Yes. And?"
"My keyboard doesn't have an any key."

>>>I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hard

A wise man. But here's some other cool Commodore=64 stuff to check out. Remember this stuff all works on a machine with only a 0.001 gigahertz processor and 0.064 megabytes of RAM.

- A web browser - http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
- A 1984 Mac-style OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
- A true multitasking OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Contiki-C64.png
- A photo viewer for your porn... oops, JPEGs - http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/jpeg/
- Okay here you go (NSFW) - http://girls.c64.org/ :-)

Angry that such engineering talent went into solving a problem that didn't need to be solved

And how do you feel when you read about people who build browsers for the Commodore 64? Or build a RAID'ed floppy setup? Turn buildings into low res displays?

Each of those things are completely ridiculous, gain us nothing of value (outside of entertainment) and waste time and energy that could be drected at "the very real problems that do need to be solved".

Whatever happened to "because we can" as a mantra for why we build things that are completely unneeded? I'm not talking about making a catapult that launches criminals into a strong piano wire mesh, cutting them into tiny pieces that will then rain down into the crocodile cage at the local zoo. Building the Veyron didn't hurt you. Didn't hurt anyone (well, I did hear that one of the mechanics dropped a wheel onto his bad toe). Why so angry?

Why so serious?

I have a commodore_64 for which has been working just fine for me for many many years, but I am told that I must have a "web browser" in order to post comments to the Slashdot web site.

Don't worry dude, I've got you covered!

And forcing people to use Silverlight is nothing like that. There's no good reason to use Silverlight (or Flash for that matter) on a site that easily be done without nonstandard plugins. Remember when they used to do that 10+ years ago? Every site had its own pet video, audio, or other single-purpose wonky player. We're beyond those days, with the notable exception of Flash. Does anyone really want to go back?

As Sam and Max would say:

"I guess those candy-butt astronauts didn't have the stones to try it." ;)

The health effects of Dihydrogen Monoxide (or Hydrogen Hydroxide, as it should be called) are overblown. Read more about it from this advocacy group. I fully support the Friends of Hydrogen Hydroxide, and you should too!

The other $1M goes to 'goodwill funds' that will be used for response training and public outreach.

Spend the whole lot on training. Since these gys can't tell the difference between a bomb and An led panel, I'd say they need it.

Oh, not another one of you treehugging DHMO scaremongers! Hydrogen hydroxide is safe, natural, and beneficial!

>>This article presents an alternative to dark matter
>Just as dark as your regular matter, but with only 1/3 the calories!

Heh.

Of course, there's alma matter, which is just plain wet, eh. But, being full of DiHydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) which some want to ban but other defend.

I couldn't find find anywhere in the article that said he didn't use the internet, and I know that some people *do* access the Internet on their old Commodores.

A quick search immediately reveals 2 browsers for the C-64:
- Hyperlink ( http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/ )
- Contiki ( http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/apps/webbrowser.h tml ) ...and there are probably more.

Easy. Just take the test:

You answered "yes" to 122 of 510 questions, making you 76.1% hacker pure; that is, you are 76.1% pure in the hacker domain (you have 23.9% hacker in you).
According to the scoring guide, your hacker experience level is: Computer Illiterate :(

• Japanese schools closing because there aren't enough kids?
• ...or environmentalists taking the strategy of mythologizing "Mother Earth?"

30. (Paragraph 184) A further advantage of nature as a counter-ideal to technology is that, in many people, nature inspires the kind of reverence that is associated with religion, so that nature could perhaps be idealized on a religious basis. It is true that in many societies religion has served as a support and justification for the established order, but it is also true that religion has often provided a basis for rebellion. Thus it may be useful to introduce a religious element into the rebellion against technology, the more so because Western society today has no strong religious foundation.

I realize you were making a joke, but I did Google it, and quickly got to a transcript of the scene at the Bridge of Death

Priceless!

The Coalition and others have popularized the label "dihydrogen monoxide" over the more chemically-accurate "hydrogen hydroxide" because they know how loaded the former name is. "Monoxide" has become synonymous with pollution, toxic gases, industrial waste-- and while hydrogen hydroxide is sometimes a factor in these problems facing our world today, it is rarely the dangerous element.

This has already appeared on slashdot, somebody actually tried to solve this conundrum.

For those who hadn't seen it
The original

There have been websites warning about the adverse effects of water for years now, ever since a student did a high school science project on the chemical. The websites tend to use obscure names such as dihydrogen monoxide, or DHMO for short. Of course, there are always the extremists who advocate for this substance. They also like to use scientific names such as hydrogen hydroxide to confuse their opposition.

Give it one of these.

Aww man. Not another anti-dihdrogen monoxide fanatic.

I handle this stuff on a daily basis without ill effects. It's not that bad.

Gee ok, so instead of Microsoft shoving changes down our throats, you all would rather become that which you despise and force your own preferences on people?
 
Look, a lot of people here might come off as a bunch of tech snobs proposing a geek purity testto web surfers. Heck, some of them have probably devolved to that because they're frustrated. Frustrated that when the shining pinnacle of geekdom not only spans the globe but touches the lives of everyday people, the Microsoft way of doing things makes what they say fall on deaf ears. Even if they're talking about what they built and how it should work.
 
Preferring the W3C's way of doing things to the Microsoft way of doing things isn't just a "Look I'm a real nerd" lodge pin. Compare 1) What people - the people who stayed up for days and weeks writing code so that you, I'm guessing, didn't have to - were hoping to accomplish in the 80's and early 90's, 2) The opening sentences of w3.org and 3)What Microsoft has done. One of these things is not like the other.

Yes, it's about equivalent to the Hydrogen Hydroxide anti-anti-DHMO page.

a.k.a., konqueror.

*ducks!*

But seriously folks, you'd probably do better to start with links, w3m, arachne, dillo, Contiki, HyperLink, The Wave -- any codebase that was designed to be relatively lightweight from the start. Or, especially in the case of the last three, probably just write a new one. :(

Now on my desktop, I use konqueror because it's snappy; of course the mobile device game is totally different, but I'd expect that people would want some of the same things--notably, a responsive, un-bloated browser.

DHMO is your friend! You must examine the other side of the issue too!

- Thomas;

Lyrics to "The Standard Metric System" -- music for geeks!

Seeing as how the person who did this first works for SCO, should I be concerned if I want to copy his idea? :)

Though seeing as how he lets people use it at the burning man festival, he doesn't quite seem like the type to do that... sounds like a very neat guy.

Right here: Cooking with Light.

No, no no. Neither of them puts the fucking lotion in the basket.

But I prefer a lead pipe to the hose. Because nothing satisfies like clubbing some moron to death with a lead pipe.

Depends on whether unladen or not. If unladen, it will be different for Africa and Europe.

I sig therefore I am.

There is one major reason this will not work: power.

The IRDA port is not meant to blast IR energy across a room and bounce it off the walls. TV remotes are.

Your best bet is to build a serial port IR transmitter, such as described here.

IRDA is only meant to work over distances of a couple feet. It is too tricky to get the IRDA port to match standard IR remote frequencies anyway.

Man, you think wood and concrete are bad?

Look at this stuff! DHMO is so dangerous, hell, it can kill a man in mere minutes!

Did you know the majority of people want DHMO banned? The conspiracy of the companies selling this stuff is so obvious it's not even funny!

This substance is so deadly it kills without warning. Strangely enough, there are wacko groups who would support the continued use of DHMO!

Here's some more quality information on DHMO, please read it before you kill yourself with this horrible substance. Just look at the list of people addicted to this substance: The KKK, Hitler, Pedophiles, and Charles Manson. The substance clearly changes one's mood for the worse -- just look at the groups it is linked to.

Please sign the petition to ban this horrible substance now before we all die from it.

Thank you.

>I must admit that being from Norway, Europe
>We're currently strugling with The Sellafield Nuclear plant in England, as they dump their waste directly out in the sea, killing our coastline.

Uhhhh... you do realise that England isn't part of Norway, right? That they aren't even connected in the most remote manner? And that the majority of the radiation leakage ocurred when the plant was called Windscale, eh?

And you would suggest Americans are stupid...

Agreed. If you've never seen the Anarchist's Cookbook, it's rather like a long "Overrated" Slashdot post printed on paper with pictures and a handsome black cover. The guy doesn't really understand most of the things he discusses and is on the firmest ground when he sticks with safe topics (guns and knives). It was written during the Vietnam era by a pissed-off draft age guy. Now he's turned to Jesus and says he wishes he hadn't written the book at all. Another mind lost to religion.

The best explosive recipe in the book is one that the author discounts in passing- nitrogen triiodide, or NI3. (Actually, the structure is NI3-NH3, where the NH3 is bound to the NI3 electrostatically by what resemble hydrogen bonds.) According to the Cookbook a fly landing on it will set it off (which is probably true, although I never succeeded in getting a fly to cooperate). It claims it's too useless for any serious consideration when planning your anarchy. It might not be good for that, but it's great for pranks. I've had so much fun with that stuff. The secret to NI3 is DO NOT MAKE TOO MUCH OF IT. That way you can keep your fingers. A gram is way too much. Just take a few iodine crystals and put them under ammonia, and presto, it turns into this black powder. If you keep it under the ammonia, it's actually quite stable. When not under ammonia (even when under pure water) it might go off at any moment. Pick it up from the ammonia with a plastic eyedropper, and deposit the black sludge on some surface. Once dry it rapidly loses its NH3 adduct and becomes extremely sensitive to shock, decomposing explosively producing N2 and I2. Don't get traces of it on your clothes or skin, or you'll be treated to a continuous snap-crackle-pop of microscopic explosions (quite annoying).

Finding references on it is difficult- it's almost like people don't want to do research on it. It's probably unstable because the iodine atoms are huge compared to the nitrogen. Congestion around the central N forces the molecule into a planar shape, with repulsive interactions among the three iodines, so it's unhappy for steric reasons. One thing I did find out was that the stuff turns bright orange if you leave it under the ammonia for a long time (like a month). This is probably because it picks up additional NH3 adducts.

Do we know how the speed of an eagle would compare to that on an African swallow? Supposing two swallows carried it together, on a strand of creeper?

HyperLink

The Wave (under geos on c128, so it's cheating)

Maybe with the C-One us 8-bitters can get closer to a real 8-bit Opera browser... :-) Of course it would probably have to run under Wings or Wheels though

Never say it's impossible, it will just make people want to prove you know nothing.

I'm in a similar situation. Right now, there are four of us who are playing hot potato about who will be the compliance officer. Since I'm in the office least of us, I'll probably be stuck with it (since I won't be able to protest when the paper is sent in:) I suggest a simple method of dealing with the problem: get a job in another industry. I understand there are many openings for 'drug mule' listed in the Miami Papers.

Seriously though, trudge through it. There's no easy way. Threats of beatings and sacking is a good place to start (and yes, that's serious).

I read through many comments saying "why haven't you done this already" and "there's nothing to worry about." Bullshit. First, the regulations STILL aren't cast in stone. This is hitting a moving target. Second, there are things to worry about, both from patients, doctors, and affiliated companies (where I would place suppliers of DME). There are going to be a myriad of subtle changes. Our current reading of the regulations is that we can no longer call patients the day before an appointment to remind them. Well, we can call, but if they don't answer, tough shit. Can't leave it on the machine anymore. Similar with callbacks for lab results.

The 'privacy' improvements will be neglible, particularly compared to the extra hassles. Since I won't be able to say it at work, I'll say it here: folks, you asked for it. You begged your congresspeople to do something. Well, they did. And it sucks ass. I'm going to pay for it, and so are you. But when you bitch about all the hoops and extra forms you have to sign, just remember: you asked for it. When we have to raise prices (which won't help, since insurance, medicare, and medicaid won't pay any more) to pay for capital improvements, just remember: you asked for it.

A special note for the people who literally asked for it (HIPAA, that is): I hope you die, painfully, bleeding to death on the street, waiting for some medical info to get to your location, but it can't because of some form you didn't fill out properly.

I'm not a people person. I would have an awful bedside manner. That's why I'm in IT. That's why I get called in when HR has to do something shitty. Because I don't give a damn. I have seen the light, and it is the Scorched Earth Party.

There are other possibilities too. The US Environmental Assessment Center web page lists many dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Maybe this is a new one?

Some industry zealots say it is all just FUD, but I am not so sure. They seem to be members of a violent political party too.

There are other possibilities too. The US Environmental Assessment Center web page lists many dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Maybe this is a new one?

Some industry zealots say it is all just FUD, but I am not so sure. They seem to be members of a violent political party too.

• Make Nitrogen triiodide crystals and detonate them (the purple crystals explode when jarred)
• Electric pickle - make a pickle glow!
• Oobleck! Corn starch and water combine to make a substance you've got to handle to believe.

I miss my SX-64. I used it all the way until the early 90's, even running VIPTerm in 80 column Eyestrain-O-Vison on that tiny CRT.

It's too bad it's so damn heavy -- the SX-64 is portable in the roughly same way that a cement block is portable. You could probably kill someone by swinging an SX-64 at their head. Also, don't forget your extension cord because the SX-64 never heard of batteries, and the cord that comes with it is about as long as your arm..

But you can play an aracde perfect game of Ms. Pac Man or Donkey Kong on it, check your e-mail, write a paper, surf the web, watch some fantastic demos, and crank up the SID chip music. It's hardc0re.

I think it's time for me to buy another one. :)

BE WARNED: THIS INVOLVES MESSING AROUND IN NETINFO AND COULD FORCE A RE-FORMAT AND RE-INSTALL. Don't blame me if it hoses your system.

1. Anyway, you need to be running netatalk on your debian box (which it looks like is already happening). In AppleVolumes.default I set up a share like so: /home "Users" (Why did I call it Users? Because that's what OS X does...)
2. Start up Netinfo Manager.
3. Authenticate (click the padlock at the bottom of the window.
4. Click on mounts, then select Directory -> New Subdirectory.
5. Click on new_directory, then change the value in the of it to: servername:/Users (I used the IP address 10.0.1.1:/Users
6. Select Directory->New Property and three times, adding the following names and values:
   • vfstype - url
   • dir - /Network/Servers
   • opts - net
7. Click on opts, and select Directory -> Insert Value. Add "url==afp://10.0.1.1/Users"
8. Finally, click on your username under users, change home to /Network/Servers/10.0.1.1/Users/username and add a new property home_loc with a value of: afp://10.0.1.1/Users/username

Login with that username and it should automatically mount your home directory.

(Since I use this from my Windows box too, I made a symlink from My Documents to Documents in my home directory.

I got most of this info from http://aldebaran.armory.com/~zenomt/macosx/network _homedir.html

Also with this solution you have to do something else to keep your passwords the same for both systems. Since I'm doing this at home I haven't looked into this that much.

Hey ... please let me know if you wanna mirror the rest of the notebook while our admin replaces the BURNED OUT hard-drive in the firewall system. (It was a 2.5-incher from a laptop ... on it's way out anyway)

D'Oh!

mail me at garrett@armory.com ?

Great now I can get the extra points in the hackers purity test! Guru here I come. :) http://www.armory.com/tests/hacker.html