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a knife works too. the problem is that you don't have one while at the office, bus-stop or wherever.

theft prevention and being cheap as fuck to put together are the reasons for these horrible packages though.

What a crap article, they couldn't even find a http://www.earlytelevision.org/images/marconi-702-hd.jpg of the thing.
here's some more technical info on this TV.

I doubt many people would find a use for this old tool
http://mrevil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/interesting/plane/

Amazingly enough, the original implementation of 'Colour Recovery' was done in BBC Basic for Windows - an extension of the language used on the old Acorn computers in the 1980s.

That link is a much more technical overview of the process - the first time they used Colour Recovery, they used it as a supplement to more traditional computer colorization. They had an outside firm (Legend) do a hand-colorization of a black and white episode using an improved version of the old Ted Turner colorization process. While it works, it tends to turn out a somewhat washed-out and unsubtle colorizing - it's really hard to get the gradations of skin tones right, so they desaturate the color a little bit so it just looks washed out rather than as if everyone is wearing pancake makeup.

The Colour Recovery process is error-prone (you're using artifacts of the original color signal recorded on a different medium - there are drop-outs and inconsitencies due to the original transfer process) but where it works, it really captures the original color range and gradations much better. And it also takes out some of the guesswork - the Legend team based a lot of their work on still photos, but where none existed, they used their best judgment. In one case, they made flower in a jungle scene purple, where Colour Recovery picked up the fact that the cheap (er, cost-constrained) BBC effects department had just made everything different shades of green.

In the end, they blended the two techniques - using CR to correct the Legend colorization. The link has Legend/CR/blend shots - the blend really looks good, while each of the originals have (different) problems.

The Rover gas-turbine car was almost ready for launch (in the mid-'60s). It was cleaner, quieter and potentially cheaper than cars with conventional reciprocating engine designs.
It did have two major disadvantages - unreliability due to brittleness of the heat exchanger, and
- the tendency to singe the paint off cars that approached too close to the exhaust.

1) VU meters
2) Blinking lights.

1) VU meters
2) Blinking lights.

I thought the U.S. missiles in Turkey were removed as part of negotiation that ended the Cuban-Turkish Missile Crisis. I believe that was one of the terms Robert Kennedy worked out with the Soviets: we'll withdraw our missiles from your backyard if you'll withdraw your missiles from our backyard.

Also, rumor has it the Soviet submarine K129 was hijacked by elite troops, and tried to launch a missile at Pearl Harbor. If this happened, and the sub did try to launch a missle, the missile's safety mechanisms caused it to self-destruct, taking the sub down to the bottom of the sea. There's a lot of rumor and conspiracy theory about it, but Project Jennifer seems to have been about recovering the sunken Soviet sub.

Yes, Microsoft Word has had this facility for ages.

http://www.c-wilkie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jokes/pages/word1.html

Or use this handy script.

Tennants are people who live in a building owned by someone else.

That's Tenants you're thinking of.

Tennants is an auctioneer in Yorkshire, UK.

Not to be confused with Tennents, which is a popular lager in Scotland (and Tennents Super, which is popular with tramps).

That's not always true, there are some stars which evolve at a very fast rate, like FG Sge (in Sagitta) http://www.garypoyner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fgsge.h tml

deb-src http://packages.quickfox.org/ deb-source/

deb http://packages.quickfox.org/ ubuntu-edgy/

Unless I'm missing something, we've had this service in the UK for the last year or so. It's available via Blueyonder (a cable TV provider who actually laid their own fibre backbone years ago I believe).

The service is called Teleport, and in a lot of ways it seems better than this offering because it streams instantly (like really, instantly) to the TV. There is no lag, the picture quality is normal broadcast quality, and the price competes with DVD rental (with the obvious bonus of not having to move off your couch).

As part of the normal cable tv subscription Blueyonder also offer the ability to stream a variety of TV programmes that you may have missed earlier in the week. Streaming TV shows is free. Its almost like having a PVR, but without the need to remember to record stuff. Its a great service that I sorely miss since I moved 6 months ago into a street which isnt wired for cable.

Or you can just go here. There's an extra / at the end of the posted URL.

And the WMD thing is from an old meme.

It seems that what Sony has done with the "new" controller design is exactly what they have been doing with the rest of the PS3 development: same thing, with incremental upgrades. Nothing really new or innovative, no risks, just the same thing rehashed with current technology. I may be alone in this, but I think the old design for the PS3 controller was better. This demo shows how the original design was supposed to work. It just looks like it would fit in the hand much better than the PS2 controllers, which I've always thought were ergonomic disasters. But maybe that's just me.

I've been looking at BlueYonder myself. I particularly like the fact that they provide a Debian mirror.

http://www.bearnol.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Math/riema nn.htm

He upgraded that to a beefier gemini later on, but apart from playing around in Z80 assembler I never really got to use that one. After that he got a compaq 8086 which was destined to be my first computer. I remember it well, 2 * 5 1/4 " floppies. In fact I still have that machine and (AFAIK) it still runs (I must dig it out and try it). That's back when Norton actually made some useful software !

After that I had a brief fling with a 286 and windows 3.1 before upgrading to a 386 and the same OS.

After the Pentium had been around for a while (50, 60 and 66 mhz) I built my first machine - A whopping 75mhz cpu with 32MB ram and an 850 MB hard disk. That damn hard disk cost me £350 back then ! ('95 ?). I couldn't afford a cd drive so I had to get win95 on floppies - 14 of them ! When I did get a cd drive and speakers Doom was cool though, especially with Rob Zombie playing as the game music.

After that, I upgraded to a 200 mhz cpu and then on to a cyrix 300mhz socket 7. That chip and various upgrades lasted me until 2000 (!) when I splashed out and got an AMD 1400 T-bird with new everything (and a flashy Elsa Gladiac 920 Nvidia based graphics card). I still have that box, although it is on an AMD XP2200 chip now and is only used for games and TV (windows 98se). I still have the T-bird 1400 on a board somewhere, I was using it for running a FBSD web server.

My next box will have a bit more beef though -
Tyan K8WE (S2895) Dual Opteron DDR400 SLI with dual 246 Opterons and 4 GB RAM and 1TB SATA goodness. I am trying to get more into video editing so I need a bit of muscle. Interestingly, this machine will cost roughly the same as the the P75 system cost back in 95/96.

Ooops, I seemed to have drifted off topic slightly, but as all this has taken place in around 20 years, it is amazing what we take for granted these days. Likewise the internet. I built my first web page using Netscape Composer using dial up when 1 meg download took 7 minutes. Now I get around 70MB in that time, and thats not stretching the technology even slightly.

Memories eh...

The problem with "the c-word" is that there's already an unmentionably dirty word that starts with "c". ;)

You mean this one? (Rated NSFW for language)

The American version does have more CG, but let's face it, the American version had a much larger budget. Look, Hideo Nakata directed both "Ring 2" and "Ringu 2," and Ring 2 had more CG. I find it very unlikely that he was makingany sort of artistic statement by avoiding it in the low budget Japanese version, and using it in the high budget American version.

I wouldn't say Ringu was better than The Ring. I've seen them both, and I like The Ring better. The American video tape is WAAAAAAAY creepier than the Japanese tape. Also, I'd say The Ring, actually had less information about Samara/Sadako. In the American version, Samara was simply Evil. In Ringu they give this whole backstory about a how her mom was psychic and predicted a volcanic eruption, and what not. Who cares? The girl is Evil. She comes out of your tv, and she's coming to kill you in a week after you watch Un Chien Andalou,

I've had this discussion friends before, and it breaks down along cultural lines. The Americans inevetiably find the American version creepy, and the Japanese version weak. And the people form Asian cultures think the Japanese version is superior. They were made for two different audiences. It's not surprising that a psychological scare movie would work different. Each side is bringing something different to the film, and expects something different.

I liked Naomi Watts's character in The Ring. She was independent. The female lead character in Ringu, was independent at first, but as soon as the ex-boyfriend showed up, she let him push her aside, even though he didn't (or at least shouldn't have) known anything more than she did. In fact I believe, he was actually less informed about Sadako and the tape than she was. It was disappointing development in the film.

This isn't to say that many American versions of foriegn films aren't watered down. Many times they are. I just don't think so in the case of Ringu/Ring. Many many times, big audience movies have transparent plot "twists" (e.g. "TheUsual Suspects" and "The Village"). My personal favorite complaint about a movie was "Mission: Impossible" (which is a fine film, and vastly superior to the sequel, since M:I2 removed what makes M:I, M:I., that is THE TEAM). Many audiences, and critics, compained that the plot was "too complicated" because there was two halves of the list matching spies' code names to their real names. "Wait. Was it one list or was it two? I was confused," was the refrain. Those people are morons.

Luckily this year, there have been a few really good movies released to make for the usual crapfest.

To get you started. The previous incarnation of the GP32 had a solderable GPS kit available from these same folks

http://www.nigelibrown.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gp32/i ndex.htm

I often have the same feeling about Slashdot. it's like a big haystack, but the needles are larger and easier to find. I have noticed that the Roland Piquepaille needles happen to the most worthless. The obvious solution for finding the proverbial needle in the haystack of data is to make it up. It's not like there's any real world examples.

Here is the PVC flamsthrower project. Great for frying Zerglings!

this was too good to pass up searching for; thanks for the hint!

http://www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_217.html
http://www.speedcam.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index2.ht m

and a little news article on the topic
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,690 3,1037031,00.html

Oregeon Trail. Man, I loved that game. I was just meditating not long ago the long lost feeling of sitting in the school library trying to get me and my family safely across the river. This prompted me to download the game: http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/otrail.shtml Of course you'll need an old apple emulator. One I found that works great for this particular game: http://www.tomcharlesworth.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

... but all I got was this error message!

mirror here
http://www.georgiagrrl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/win101 _vm.zip

nto on my home connection, so should be pretty fast for most people anyway.

Use AppleWin to emulate an Apple 2 Game. Download the Oregon Trail images from Here. After getting both pieces of software, load each disk image into a separate emulated drive in the emulator, then press run. Enjoy!

For slightly younger people, there's Rocky's Boots made by the same people (The Learning Company). It teaches a lot of the same things, but in an easier (and cuter) style.

All you need is an Apple II emulator like AppleWin and you're all set!

Never mind, here's a link for UK readers.

Mozilla Mail (part of Mozilla Internet Suite) helps by not not allowing the user to run an executable attachment from within Mozilla Mail. The user has to save the attachment out of Mozilla Mail and then run it by double-clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer before they can infect their machine. See my article, "Avoiding Windows email viruses with Mozilla Mail" for details:

http://www.pjls16812.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mozilla/ index.html

IMHO Mozilla Mail has an excellent design that other Windows based emailers would do well to follow. Regarding executable file names, I was surprised to find that NTFS does actually have an execute bit. It's just that it doesn't seem to ever get used, because the file name extension gets in the way! Kind of sad really.

Phil

...inspired by the late lamented interurban railways around metro London (I think), a song by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. (This nostalgic and evocative song made me misty-eyed years before I set foot in England. The rhythm is very slow and pulses like the Slow Train of the title.)

UPDATE - Like all vandalised Gatsos in the area it was replaced shortly afterwards but the new camera has since been blown up using dynamite, see below.

You're absolutely spot on here. Look at the aewm project (a good reference implementation of an ICCCM compliant window manager), and then look at how many derivatives it has:

aewm++, alloywm, evilwm, maewm, Oroborus, phluid, Sapphire, swm, Clementine, WindowLab, YeahWM, Spook, wimpwm

Some of these are genuinely innovative but how many of them would exist if their authors had had to reimplement everything from scratch?

I think this one is way better.

http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/ trailers/ROFL.STARWARS.NERDS.wmv

Featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Reminds me of Triumph the insult comic dog's attack on Star Wars fans waiting for Episode II...

I prefer the insightful documentary made during Episode II's release by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Hopefully in the same sort of places as these speed cameras :)

Steve...

HTML is your friend, m'kay?

I don't understand how a DNS or network capacity problem could cause a web server to respond with an explicit "404

If you use MSIE with the default "friendly error messages", then pretty much ANY failure (code 404, no DNS, congestion timeout, etc) displays the same generic error (which is also the same as the default 404 page sent by IIS).

Which is why when I'm trying to diagnose a customer's complaint about our web site "not working", the first thing I do is have them turn off "friendly" error messages (followed by some casual buzz for Firefox).

So I'm an asshole...

Ahhhhh, bonghits and cartoons.... why? what did you do in college?

But what will happen then with the miserable failure and weapons of mass destruction? Can't anyone efficiently bomb google anymore?

However, those are not the result of spamming or spoofing, merely of a zeitgeist.

But what will happen then with the miserable failure and weapons of mass destruction? Can't anyone efficiently bomb google anymore?

That should read: My isp has in the last year doubled the download speed of all of it's packages from their starting point. They've done it, I think, because our cost to them has got less and they're passing it on.

has in the last year doubled the download speed of all of it's packages from their starting point. They've done it, I think, because our cost to them has got less and they're passing it on.

http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/ trailers/movies/quakeworld/blahbahlicious.avi