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Then you would see the Olympics for what it really is.

The investors would not like that.

Bill Gates arrested? Never...

I was unable to see the picture, but fromthe description this should be it. Mirror early, mirror often.

I'd recommend wiring one of these to your UPS when expecting long blackouts. Its a 12V, 125Ah marine battery and each one added should provide several hours of entertainment and lighting when the grid's out. Generators optional.

no, gwb is on crack.

I'm waiting for my letter. How about you?

how many times I retyped a program because I bumped that 16k RAM pack and lost it all....

There were too many times that happened to me, so I soldered the ram pack directly to the back. That, and adding more aluminum to the voltage regulator heat sink made it very reliable. Things were great until I developed larger programs enough to notice anything greater than about four kilobytes would freeze. Turned out there was a bit stuck on a 1 in RAM about 4K in one of the chips. RAM was expensive back in those days. It cost me $49 for 16 kilobytes (and that was cheap!)

I got a lot of use out of that little computer.

I hope there is not a law against satire.

I'd love for Bill Gates behind bars

Wish granted.

Last time I did it cost me $58 USD for a small car.

NOoooooooo!!! I like paying the inflated $1.50 per gallon of gasoline. It gives me great satisfaction watching the people next to me fill up thier SUV's and extended cab long wheelbase trucks with dual 20 gallon fuel tanks spending $70 to fill up. Its so they can make the daily commute to work 40 miles away each day for eight hours then come home again. Its the American Dream.

To ease my pain, I bought a motorcycle with a 4 gallon tank that gets 50 miles per gallon. Its funny though. Even though I only live one mile from work, I started riding more and spending more on fuel. It must be the American Way.

Here's something for you LinuxOne fans. I hit the floor laughing at this. I'll have it up for a few hours, so mirror early, mirror often.

Stuff like Alias/Wavefront is very expensive. A EDA software company donated 4 licenses to our school... it was worth 1.2 million.

When I was in engineering school, we used Orcad to do our electronics layouts. At $4500 a copy, us students were too poor to take advantage of learning design techniques at home. It was a real shame, because with a good set of macros, I could bang out a circuit fast as I could dream about building it. Now that I'm out of school and no longer have access to the software, all those fun analog and microprocessor circuits that I designed are useless. That is one of the reasons I no longer trust proprietary software.

Some 404's are just a way to pass time. Sometimes I go from site to site looking for pages that don't exist just to see what happens.

Here's how to add a highly directional antenna to a wireless card with no antenna jack, specifically a zoomair card. I have three of them and did this to two of them. Line of sight goes for miles! :)

Cell phones have the neat ability to negotiate power with the cell tower. When the signal is too strong, perhaps enough to bleed into multiple neighboring cells, they get a packet to turn down the power a notch.

It would be a nice feature for wireless lan cards to do the same, but I don't see that feature on mine. I like the ability to select the channel hopping sequence and I use directional antennas for line of sight communication, so there could be a lot of traffic in this neighborhood.

I hate it when sites go down and disappear. Here is a mirror of one of the reports complete with pretty pictures.

I have some white meat from a deer killed this week. The meat was soaked in a cooler of water to draw the blood out and there's both white and dark meat. The white meat is around the legs, while the dark meat mostly comprises the tenderloins.

Black smoking meat is what you get when you frag a W2K box.

Back in 1994, there was much discussion on usenet about introducing a bill to outlaw internet usage while under the influence. My reaction was such an idea was absurd, but those people seemed serious enough to try and push for it. Laughable now, but you should see some of the laws on the books.

Oh yes, drunken surfing! Sure, what you see when drunk might cause your eyes to bug out, but the only thing that might crash is ill written code or operating system. Back in the old days when the pooter crashed, one could often see pretty colored characters dancing across the screen. And that was fun.

Coding while drunk often brings out the most lines of code and arguably the most productivity. I once wrote 200 lines of daring assembly language for a Z80 GUI with mouse and keyboard support on such a binge. The rest of the weekend was spent just to get the damn thing to work!

And a mirror of the mirror is mirrored at http://www.attaway.org/~ dattaway/www.printf.net/transmeta/ as well as the irc transcripts. Enjoy!

If you want a good dejanews interface that's free of the crap and all the advertisements,

copy this old dejanews search form to your home directory

and bookmark it from your browser. This search form was saved from my cache when deja ruined their interface. It has none of the voting crap and your search will just yield the facts and what you are looking for.

Ah, power consumption! My utility company provides the 125 volt standard; right now its at 123.2 RMS volts at the outlet. Currently my two computers (desktop and laptop) on the UPS main at full CPU load and my 17" monitor at half brightness are using 1754mA, which makes for 216.1 watts. At 8 cents per kilowatt hour, that will net me $12.44 a month.

My monitor consumes 1055mA, or 130 watts, or $7.49 a month. Turning it off could be a big savings.

The main computer required to host web pages, etc., consumes 600mA, or 73.9 watts, or $4.26 a month. That's under full load, cracking CSC, serving MP3's, and providing limited remote control functions for the house.

My laptop with the screen off, consumes the remainder of the power.

Let's see how much power is saved by turning off the monitor, CSC cracking, MP3's, and the monitor... 1658mA, or 204 watts total. 8 watts saved? Well, there's too much going on this setup, so the savings are insignificant.

You might want to ask... They gave away these Linux - Live Free or Die" at the ALS this year. Looks mighty sporty on the car...

they don't need my email. I'm not signing unless they don't require it. And I'm not the only
one.

Make a bogus, yet legitimate email address that you never intend to read. You can email me there, the message will be received, but will pour the shiny electrons into the bitbucket recyclotron. Use the command "adduser nospam" and you have an instant throwaway account!

FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Its a tool used by marketing departments and paid professionals to cause confustion and mudslinging between otherwise rational people.

Here's what seems to me a squatter on my last name. So, I had to settle for an .org address. Domain squatters need to rot in hell.

My ISP keeps web logs for about 3 to 6 hours, rotating on size. I have once put a crontab under my account with a little perl script to nslookup the addresses and have the logs of my webpage archived.

Since this script is on my own computer, I have logs of who visits, sends pings, portscans, etc. I used to have a whois search in a perl script show the user's info in the logs to make people aware of privacy.

My ISP keeps web logs for about 3 to 6 hours, rotating on size. I have once put a crontab under my account with a little perl script to nslookup the addresses and have the logs of my webpage archived.

Since this script is on my own computer, I have logs of who visits, sends pings, portscans, etc. I used to have a whois search in a perl script show the user's info in the logs to make people aware of privacy.

I'm not sure about Legos, but the Z80 is used in industrial controllers and has proven very reliable. I see the Z80 pop up in various products over time. The Z80 may never die.

Here are some Z80 source code for projects done back in college, including GUI with mouse, etc.

It seems like almost everything is running Linux these days. If I could just recompile the engine in my car, I'd be set.

I'm not sure you can patent a computer and keyboard arm. I have seen them used for ages for instruments, monitors, tools, in hospitals, shops, etc., and its not terribly novel. I use my computer from my recliner and I'm sure others do to.

I have thought of building my own monitor holder, but I don't have the equipment to work with light enough metal to make it a cool addition in my computer room. Imagine a 200 lb steel structure welded in the garage that has to be moved to the computer room. Patentable? This world is getting sick.

Too bad I don't have $490, so I'll have to settle for the computer on a table next to my recliner and couch. Almost as good, but not much room for adjustment. I hope to see something like this in stores soon as I would be tempted to charge it.

Hey, I'm gonna run out and buy two of them thangs. One to monitor the bug zapper, and the other to watch...

Beat you to it. The Redneck Bugzappercam , so grab a six pack, sit back, and watch bugs die a spectacular death in a shocking display. Should I provide a streaming mp3 of them getting nuked?

I need a switch from my parallel port and a perl script so the pinhole cam I was showing off earlier in the day can be seen.

Hey, I'm gonna run out and buy two of them thangs. One to monitor the bug zapper, and the other to watch...

Beat you to it. The Redneck Bugzappercam , so grab a six pack, sit back, and watch bugs die a spectacular death in a shocking display. Should I provide a streaming mp3 of them getting nuked?

I need a switch from my parallel port and a perl script so the pinhole cam I was showing off earlier in the day can be seen.

Its neve too cold for a penguin! If its too cold for you, there are fuzzy and cuddly penguins and can be found at linuxmall. I have a few proudly hacking away on my webcam.

About companies reading slashdot its user's web pages to become more informed: I get more visits from tide*.microsoft.com and its robots on my personal homepage than any other entity. Is there someone at Microsoft that likes me?

Makes me remember that song by Rockwell: Somebody's watching me.

Is there some paper or article that can explain why companies are buying eachother? Is it for tax reasons? To avoid patent licensing fees? To buy a competitor out? An excuse for layoffs? What is the rationale behind all of this? It seems like a company is a nobody if it isn't considering buying someone these days.

The term "weblog" has for a long time meant to me as a web log. When I see a web page called a web log, it makes me cringe.

Here is a web log.
Here is a web page.

Who coined the term "weblog" and why? What does it log?

The term "weblog" has for a long time meant to me as a web log. When I see a web page called a web log, it makes me cringe.

Here is a web log.
Here is a web page.

Who coined the term "weblog" and why? What does it log?

I have had issues with Netscape 4.x being stable before, but have had no problems with it in the Redhat 6.0 distro. The problem with severe memory leaks and random crashing and on certain pages appears to have vanished. I only restarted netscape a few days ago when I accidently killed the window with Alt-W (I frequently have dozens of browser windows open.)

Would I test Microsoft's browser? No Thanks, I would never trust a code base like that on my computer. I don't want something reading my /etc or /home or whatever back to the parent company to see what competitor's products I have. Its a matter of trust and Microsoft does not have it. Not only that, I don't want to get comfortable with such a product to only get "locked in" to the standards they promote. Active-X? No Thanks!

Regardless of my lack of problems, I hope to have a GPL'd browser soon. It would be nice to swap code with a browser and build something on a whim.

Its starting as I take note of the fud. I like the ones that are referenced from /. due to the rich discussion. I'm trying to seperate the fact from fiction and humor. It will be good when there are names and dates backing the quotes.

I have a card with the bt848 chip on it and it does good for grabbing a frame or video up to 30fps. The bttv video4linux driver that are included with the kernels worked great when compiled and loaded as modules.

The three applications that I use most often that came with xawtv and work great. I run streamer from a cron job to capture an image every minute for the webcam on my homepage. xawtv runs under X, fbtv runs under SVGA through the kernel frame buffer, and both can run overlay, grab while displaying, or snapping images while you watch. The documentation with the source tarball is excellent.

Full motion high quality video at 30fps for 14 seconds yeilded me a whopping 46MB avi! streamer will also let you grab at a framerate of your choice if you wish to make interesting time elapsed movies, such as watching grass grow...

I did have some strange problems with my bt848 card at first, but they were traced to the card not being seated in the socket correctly. I would soon find out my bt848 works like a champ. :)

If anyone needs help I would be glad to help as I greatly enjoy this card. I got mine as a refurbished Panasonic color egg cam package for $75 (US). It has the usual video-in RCA type connector. For good reading about video in Linux, there is the video4linux mailing list.