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1) Get a Palm SSH client.
2) Get a Palm VPN client and a Palm VNC client.
3) THis is the trickyish part. The best you can do for low-cost is have SMS_Biffsend you an SMS every time you get an e-mail. The cool part is, there's a program out there that will monitor your incoming SMS messages and do something based on the contents. Basically you could set it up so as soon as you get the SMS notification (usually within a matter of seconds), it pulls down your mail, so you'd have it from within a minute or two of when it hits your inbox.

Funny, my post to Slashdot was rejected...grrr :( Anyway, now that the show is coming back, it might be worthwhile reminding fans that the history of the show is incomplete, so while Dr.Who's future is assured, its past is very patchy. Theres an initiative to find lost UK TV treasures: have a look here

Indeed, here's a reassuring photo taken at an irc meet from ages ago in London.

There's a place in the UK similar to what you have described. It's called Mole Manor. Located in Gloucestershire, it was documented in several web pages. I saw the documentary on TV once, and I thought it was really cool to live like a hobbit. In case you're interested in looking for the opportunity to buy an underground house in the UK, there's adedicated property guide. Interestingly Mole Manor was valued at 950,000 pounds (around 1.4 million dollars) about a year ago.

There is also an underground log cabin in Idaho. Could this be similar to the place you described.

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Please make www.slashdot.org worth looking at.
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He got together with the science fiction author Gerry Davis and created the Cybermen for 'Doctor Who'. Must have been around 1965 - 66 when they first appeared on 405 lines...

The back story? A race of humans that wanted to improve itself, eliminate weaknesses and live forever became more machine than man. Then they thought everyone else should have those benefits - whether they wanted them or not.

And a generation of children were scarred for life.

I expect Pedler would be simulatenously amused and appalled by the article. Pedler went on to write several Cybermen stories before turning to pen the very dark series 'Doomwatch'. Not a happy chappie.

(And yes, the Cybermen were the scariest monsters on 'Doctor Who'. Forget the low budget, it was that they could make people into more Cybermen that was SO scary.)

Best wishes,
Mike.

I used to use VNC on my Psion 5mx through the Java VNC viewer. I did experiment using the IR link on my mobile phone to my Psion a few times to check e-mail with pine in an xterm. I upgraded to a Palm Zire71 after my Psion died and VNC is the one thing I'm missing most. If I get a bluetooth phone, I'll probably buy a bluetooth upgrade for my Palm (if one gets releases) to use VNC on my Palm rather than get a phone with the display built in.

Day of the Triffids was made into perhaps the worst 50s Sci-Fi movie of all time. In the film, the character of Josella was all but eliminatd, and it had a mandatory happy ending tacked on - the plants melt when exposed to salt water (I kid you not).

It was also made into a 6 part 1981 BBC TV series. It was very good, and from memory, very similar in tone to parts of 28 Days Later. The plants were a bit rubbery, but we can live with that, right?

Google brought up this episode guide

Been a while since I did out the equations, but basically, every time you stress an object above it's endurance limit, (aka fatigue limit) which is in its elastic region, you form microfractures. These microfractures propogate every time you stress the material.

It's fairly easy to figure out the lifespan, from a ballpark figure, anyway. If you test the number of cycles to failure right at the endurance limit, for the most part, if you double the stress, you half the life. (and if you have both types of stress, you have about .75 times the life... I'll skip the details and qualifications, which would require me to check my notes).

BTW, you can tell how something failed. Grab a paperclip, and bend it back and forth (you might need a pair of pliers to keep the bend at the same point) until it breaks. Examine the end. You will notice 2 different surface types. One that looks shiny and flat, the other that looks dull and bumpy. The dull and bumpy parts (probably one on either side of the clip in the same direction you were bending it) are where the fractures propogated. Once the fractures went far enough, the next time you bent it, you exceeded the yield strength of the material, and you got a brittle yeild failure. Just like if you shatter glass. That's the center, flat section. (here, if you don't want to try for yourself)

This looks like it might be useful if you're still interested in more detail. As opposed to hating me for actually explaining in this much detail.

I would suggest taking a look at the following sites for what other online schools (many are brick & mortar divisons) have to offer.

Peterson's E-Learning Programs: http://www.petersons.com/distancelearning/

U.S. New's E-Learning Graduate Programs 2003-2004: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/elearning/tables/ edu_reg.htm

Educational Technology Web-based & Distance Education / Associations etc.: http://www.btinternet.com/~iberry/html/et.htm#eta

Regards, Robin

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...a party at Grover's Mill!

Here is a picture of an electronic Japanese toilet.

I got paranoid when I used it because I couldn't get it to flush- I tried everything. So I waited until no-one else was around, then dashed out of the cubicle. ...At which point the toilet detected I had left, and flushed.

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With this client you can use the scaling features to zoom out and then zoom in by clicking on an area of the desktop.

This does take some getting used to but it works.

One advantage of using VNC over X is that with X if you break the connection, all your programs close, while with VNC the desktop keeps running...this is an important consideration with a mobile, battery-powered device like a Palm.

And it's been available for the PalmOS for sometime from here.

Here's a Java Applet which can run GameBoy software.

Therefore, (if the applet's updated to run the GBA SP software), you can run Java applications on your Java GB emulator.

JVM on GB on JVM on GB on JVM..........

... the big issue is not wearing the devices, it's actually wearing the antenna.

More importantly, in terms of realism regarding UK broadband connectivity:

ADSL-For-Ipswich | Barnt Green, Birmingham | Edenbridge, Kent | Brinscall, Lancashire | Chafford Hundred, Grays | Broxburn/Uphall, Scotland | New Mills, Stockport | Bradford-on-Avon | Antrim, Northern Ireland | Paddock Wood, Kent | Mossley, Greater Manchester | Maltby, Rotherham | Cudworth, South Yorkshire | Pembury, Kent | Telford, Shropshire | Totnes, Devon | Caister on Sea, Great Yarmouth | Broadband in the East of England | Wargrave, Berkshire | Alton, Hampshire #1 | Alton, Hampshire #2 | Frodsham, Cheshire | Atherstone, Warwickshire | Sleaford, Lincolnshire | Neston, South Wirral | Blackpool/Fleetwood, Lancashire | Colwyn Bay, Wales | Whitby, Yorkshire | Saltcoats/Ardossan/Stevenston, Strathclyde | Thornbury, South Gloucestershire | Dinnington, Sheffield | Irby, Wirral | Colwyn Bay/Old Colwyn/Rhos-On-Sea, North Wales | Hednesford, Staffs | Connahs Quay/Flint/Mold/Sealand/Queensferry, North Wales | Eastham/Wirrall, Cheshire | Worle, North Somerset | Dereham, Norfolk | Leicester Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire | Bolton Westhoughton, Lancashire | Leek, Staffordshire | Ivybridge, Devon | Attleborough, Norfolk | Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire | Montrose, Angus, Scotland | Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex | Worcester/St Johns/Fernhill Heath, Worcester | Allerton, Liverpool (and surrounding exchanges) | Buntingford, North Hertfordshire | Glastonbury, Somerset | St Budeaux, Devon | Fenland towns of Ramsey, Yaxley, Whittlesey, Chatteris, Ely and Soham | Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire | Pershore, Worcs | Yarmouth, Norfolk | Great Oakley, Corby, Northants | South Woodham Ferrers, Essex | Goring & South Stoke, South Oxfordshire and Streatley & Lower Basildon, West Berkshire | Kinross & Milnathort, Perthshire | Bolsover, Derbyshire | Elton, Ince and Helsby in Cheshire | Hanwell/Horley/Wroxton/Balscote/North Newington/Drayton, Oxfordshire | Tonyrefail/Gilfach Goch and surrounding area, Mid Glamorgan | Rotherfield Greys/Rotherfield Peppard/Shepherds Green, Oxfordshire | Heath Hayes, Staffordshire | Hednesford, Staffordshire | Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire | Adderbury (Nr. Banbury), Oxfordshire | Lydney, Gloucestershire | Knaresborough, North Yorkshire | Saltburn-By-The-Sea, Cleveland | Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire | Churchdown, Gloucestershire

SSH client (SSH v1 only, unfortunatly): Top Gun SSH

There's no terminal services client that I know of, but there *is* a VNC client

Does someone want to modernize Logo for OS X? That would rock! ;)

Ask, and ye shall receive:

ACSLogo for Mac OS X

...a futile wild-goose chase for the legendary 97th exit hidden in the sunken ghost ship. Argh.

Well, it's not in the Sunken Ghost Ship, but there supposedly is a 97th stage.

Yeah, I breathed a sigh of relief when I realised that it wasn't a biker gang. Kicking in doors, looking for owners of Japanese motorbikes.

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I'd wager that a modern Ghz+ would emulate a 6502 and subsystems at a speed greatly outpacing a actual 20Mhz 6502.

Maybe, maybe not. See here for details.

It is incorrect to assume "that asbestos problems had been mostly solved by removing it from all buildings, etc." Unfortunately, asbestos will be around for a long time. Consider the case of Libby, MT. For years this town's residents mined vermiculite contaminated with tremolite, a very hazardous form of asbestos. This vermiculite was used as insulation, potting soil, came home to families on miners' clothing, etc., and so almost the entire town is now contaminated. Rates of rare cancers have sky-rocketed. Also consider the World Trade Center's asbestos. Luckily it was only used on the first 40 floors of the North tower and half of it was later removed, but still the dust that coated lower Manhattan was contaminated with the stuff. Controversy still swirls around issues of the cleanup and its costs.

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What's wrong with a tricycle?
My tricycle web page

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Yes... these do look cool. Especially if they displace automobiles for short run traffic like grocery shopping, going to school or work, etc... We really need to wean ourselves off of petroleum. We could just tell the middle east to kiss our asses once we don't need oil. However, that isn't the real subject of my post. I was just wondering if anyone here has wondered, as I have:

Oat Willie and Segway Riders. Separated at birth?

E=mc^2 is actually a simplified form of the real equation, E=mc^2/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2). A convenient graphical depiction can be found in a few seconds with google, or here: http://www.btinternet.com/~j.doyle/SR/Emc2/Derive. htm.

Just found some screenshots with comparisons. IT looks pretty bad, but not worth what they're asking in the lawsuit.

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What's honeybeer anyway?

The original Oregon honey beer

Honey beer recipe ... but don't brew it at home!

In both cases, however, you'd have to get the Opie source and re-compile them for X86 since the ipk's are all pre-compiled for the Z.

Honestly, if you've got a Zaurus, the easiest way to try it is to just back up everything and flash OZ. It's just not that hard to flash back and forth. I did it in the very early days and went almost immediately back to the Sharp ROM and just restored the data. Then I went to Paul Flinders "enhanced" (/home on SD card) rom. Since OZ 2.9.5-beta-something, however, I haven't looked back.

Been there, done that.

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I did not d/l any of them because...well because Windows is bad enough now but they do appear to be the real thing. Enjoy...I guess.

This offers a cute looking, 'for dummies' solution (what mac is best at).

And yes, Jaguar is a wonderful thing. Long live the X!

As I'm sure other have pointed out, this tool isn't necessary to play/replace subtitles.

For Windows there is already the DirectVobSub codec/program which overlays, in real time, subtitles on any kind of video stream. If the stream has embedded subtitles, DirectVobSub will provide those as an option; if a file exists alongside the stream file named .language.ssi or .language.sub (eg., Signs.English.sub), it let you use that. It's most easily available through the Nimo Codec Pack.

This convenient package of codec's would never be possible in a normal business environment. You'd drown in licensing hell first.

Simple James Bond is a Timelord!

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• Depending on your length of run, RG-6 or RG-11 cable (3x or 5x your run -- depends on how much you care about the sync signals, or if you're lucky enough to be using a Sync-On-Green monitor :-). RG-6 is for shorter runs. TV coax is probably not good enough.
• A crimping tool, if you don't have one already.
• VGA to BNC cable. (you can skip this step if you want to do it yourself).
• BNC connectors.
• Serial mice will require a good quality, low gauge extension cable. PS/2 mice I wouldn't bother with. USB will not extend past 15 ft due to design flaws.
• Hack yourself up a keyboard lengthener with your leftover cable (for the clock and data signals). Here's the pinout. Put together your long BNC VGA cable in whatever fashion suits you, making sure that the RGB signals and returns are going through their proper, separate, cables.
  
  There ya go, home-made long video non-sucky cables made easy. :-)
  

A slightly darker version I did before seeing your post.

This article describes the ice storm in a bit more detail.

HHOJ (Ha Ha Only Joking)

hehe 10 yrs in BBS & Internet and i thought HHOJ wtf does that mean!

what do I care if a bunch of Englishmen get farmed off to Austrialia

Australians note that there are probably more Scots in Australia than in Scotland.

I do appreciate the joke but it's one of my pet peeves in the world. A direct attack by the ruling elite on the poorest people. Made poor by the industrial revolution that empowered that elite.

My own family was a victim of the Scottish clearances *and* the transportations.

I stood in the dock in the museum (the museum is inside the former Crown Court of Nottingham) and went through a mini mock trial of one of the Luddite rioters from 1831 and then proceeded to tour the remand cells from whence prisoners were transported / moved to other prisons etc.

My character was hung until dead on the steps outside.

History teaches much about the human spirit. I wish more people were interested in it.

A listing of Enya composed/contributed soundtracks.

Hated Far and Away. Age of Innocence as well. Don't get me started on Sweet November...

The fact is that 802.11b channels are only 25MHz wide. And 802.11b equipment is quite capable of working with adjoining 'cells' butted right up against each other. Check out this table. The non-overlappig channels are 1,6 and 11. Total center-to-center separation? 50Mhz between channels 1 and 11 with room for a channel in between. If Sirius has a problem with 802.11b I'm going to hazard a guess it's because their receivers are crap. I'll bet that they are receiving part of the legitimate 802.11b signal.

I've actually run tests to see how well two access points work if you locate them close together (about 4 feet). You can see a writeup of all the tests I did here: Interference Tests. When I tried to run two laptops connected to two access points on channels 1 and 6, I found a little interference. Not much. Maybe a 20% drop in total thruput. Once I went to channels 1 and 7 (30MHz separation) the two access points operated with no detectable interference at all. The aggregate thruput was basically 2x the thruput of a single access point. (Note that the 209% and 212% results are because I was using laptop to ap traffic as the baseline, but the equipment I was using produced higher thruput in the ap to laptop direction)

While the interference at channels 1 and 6 technically shouldn't happen, no body in their right mind puts two access points four feet apart and tries to run them both at full bore. So the radios could be a little better. But even in this worst-case scenario, all interference disappeared at 30MHz separation. And Sirius is complaining about 55MHz separation? Almost twice the distance?

What Sirius is finding out is that the idea of transmitting from a satallite to a non-directional antenna is extremely hard. That's probably why the other sat radio company XM plans to spend ~$250,000,000 dollars building a system of terrestrial repeaters! It's hard to link to, but check out the 10-Q SEC filing on their web site if you don't belive me. I can't find it now, but another SEC filing in there goes into detail about the need for repeaters because they know their signal can't be reliably received inside a major metropolitan area.

If Sirius has burned thru $3 billion and still doesn't have a reliable system, well boo hoo. The only reliable sat-based communications I know of use directional dish antenna's. (Please don't use GPS as a comeback because it doesn't have to work in a lot of places that a car radio has to, and it carries almost no information in the signal.) Irridium tried it and failed. Sirius apparently can't get it to work, and I'm going to guess that they will soon be history. As for XM, well, I think they got it to work, but only by spending a fortune on repeaters so most of their customers probably aren't even using the satellites! I think XM is going to go down the tubes anyway since they probably need to get at least 1,000,000 paying customers this year to keep going.

So I think Sirius and XM are going to follow Irridium down the tubes. And life will go on. As every good capitalist knows, massive failures prove the resiliancy of our system. That's what's know as "The Enron Axiom". ;-)

Erm... you don't know your history, anybody worth their scientific salt is aware of Louis Essen :-

"Essen is the only British physicist ever to have been honoured for his contribution to science by both the USA and USSR during the Cold War.

He received the Rabi Award from America and the Popov Medal from the former Soviet Union."

Now... William F. Libby was a brilliant Chemist in his own right, but he didn't invented the Atomic Clock, he created C14 dating (carton dating), he recieved the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960, according to the Nobel Institute.

So ironically you've gone on to prove the very opposite of your insults and suppositions, the Atomic Clock was actually invented in Britain and you quote a Chemist that actually invented something quite different (though still valid).

Get your facts right unless you want to make an idiot of yourself.

Microsoft publicly released the specification for the .DOC format a long time ago, beginning with Word 6.0 (the last 16-bit version) and updating it through Word 97. Microsoft didn't update it for the minor extensions in Word 2000 and 2002, and the old versions have since been pulled off the MSDN web site, but several sites still have it, such as http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/generator_ wword8.htm. The authors of competing word processors have had this information for many years, but having the spec and being able to implement full rendering, editing, and output are two different things. It's a lot like when Netscape first released its source code. A lot of people who thought they would be making non-trivial modifications and churning out their own browsers within weeks or even months were stunned at the complexity and volume of code in a mature product.

StratSat is from Advanced Technologies Group and will sit at 20km altitude for up to 5 years, using photovoltaics for power.

Hopefully it will be a bit more successful than the last big British airship...

Personally, I suffer from somewhat minor (read: ignorable) ADD and was told (though I have no facts or links to back this information up) that children with ADD demonstrate a sudden absence of blood in the frontal lobe when concentrating on certain (generally repetitive) tasks. This is unfortunately only diagnosable with an MRI, which is too costly to be of much use to most alleged sufferers of AD(H)D.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

You really need them as PDF? Otherwise it's surprising how many are available online. I don't know much about the console mags & C64 mags because I was a Speccy / Amiga owner, but I know many mags are archived online by enthusiasts (often WITH covertapes, posters, silly 3D pullouts etc).

A few I know of:
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/
http://www.old-computer-mags.co.uk/
http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm
http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/crash/
http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/
http://www.btinternet.com/~amigapower/

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LONG LIVE THE PAST!!!

I was wondering if anybody else here thought the statue at the Turing Memorial in Manchester is just a little bit morbid? Honestly, I was offended at first and the statue made me think more deeply about the many populations that owe Turing a debt of gratitude, but still... Maybe looking at the apple was just a little bit too much for me. Couldn't he have had a book TOO?

To anyone visiting Manchester in the North West of England, I'd recommend visiting the Turing Memorial. It's good to go in the evening, because in the dark the statue is very lifelike. I do an evening class in the building behind the statue (see photo) and even I jump sometimes when I cross the park on my way back, even though I've walked past the statue only two hours before!

I must say, Alan Turing is my favorite computer scientist, however I don't believe he get's the recommendation that he deserves. They just created a memorial for him, and the site states that they could not find funding from not even one major corporation. They had to rely on donations from the public. Here is the site. Alan Turing Memorial Site -Matt

Since the above post was brought it up (albiet in a round about way)...
The link provided: The Light Clock [btinternet.com]
Brings up the old light clock on a train scenario, however, this scenario glosses over something that I think is and important question. How is this situation created?
Ok, if we assume that such a train/rocket can exist, size being ignored. And further we ignore the need for perfect mirrors, a laser that is viewable from the side, and beam degridation. My question is, how is the laser started?
The obvious answer would be that it is fired in the 'Y' direction (assume a simple cartisiean plane 'X' vs 'Y'). But this would cause the laser to miss, as it traveled in purely the 'Y' direction with no 'X' component, the train/rocket would cause the upper mirror to move in the 'X' direction, but since the laser's velocity is unaffected by the velocity of the source, it has no velocity in the 'X' direction, and thus misses the mirror.
The next answer would be that the laser is fired at an angle such that the 'X' component of velocity would be the same as the 'X' velocity of the train/rocket. But this would mean that the 'Y' component of velocity is not c. Raising the question, what would the person inside see?
The inside person would either see the laser go in a wholy different direction than that which it was pointed in, thus allow him to know he is the one who is moving, and thus violating part of special relativity. And, at what speed would he perceive its motion? Ideally, he would see it move at c in the 'Y' direction, but would this not mean that, since the direction was affected, the apperent velocity of the laser has been changed due to the velocity of the observer?
I would love a good answer to this, its been bugging me since High School Physics.