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http://ntp.xbsd.pe.kr/ (packets/sec graph)
http://lx.ujf.cas.cz/ntp-lx/ (packets/min graph)
http://ntp.raggedstaff.net/traffic.php (bits/sec graph)

As you can see, theres spike when your server is listed in pool dns, but traffic isn't that much..

Someone has just published all these bugs!

I did a little research myself and it turns out that there is one project on sourceforge in prealpha for linux that's GPL'd. Maybe after my finals i'll help with some patches..

i see a way to use google maps API by continuously updating the source address when your GPS "address" changes and using the number of miles left until the next turn, and using EPOS to convert text to speech: turn right at upcoming ford street.

ps: this guy made me want to save up some cash and have one of my own

The Router
Here's an ISS status report that mentions it.

Parent post is an accurate description. Grandparent must be describing physics on some other planet.

In order for a meteor to fall, at terminal velocity, for 100 minutes, it would have to reach terminal velocity 360km above earth. The atmosphere at that altitude is only around 0.00000000001 kg/m^3, not 1.2 kg/m^3.

Or perhaps DNA accumulated from other sources. Like endogenous retroviruses.

That is retrovirues that have transcribed their RNA into DNA and merged it with out genome. About 8% of the genomic DNA is from ERVs i.e. they exceed by far the number of protein-coding gene sequences.

So the question is what are they doing there?

Do they help mediating jumping genes?.

When did they arrive?

Are they involved in schizophrenia or any other diseases?

Find out more here or here.

Greg Bear has put this to good use in some of his recent books: "Darwin's Radio", "Vitals" and "Darwin's Children".

Here's the actual light curve of the asteroid in question: Binary asteroid 2000 DP107 light curve

And the one site we all love dearly.

*sigh*

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Thanks Taco!

No, no, no... the wars that will begin are the ones started by the DARK APPLEPOLISHER, and they will be full of brightly colored bouncy balls. Haven't you ever played Koules?

- Rei

The combination of high school physics, 4 player multiplay (for the full effect, have three people on the keyboard and one poor bastard on the mouse), and ZeroWing style translation errors is astounding...

--

• a guided tour of fractals and their maths
• auto-pilot mode
• zillions of different formulas to try out
• very fast rendering engine
• X or console display

I've just checked their news page and the team seem to be alive and well and signing copies of the program at SourceForge.

(speaking of Linux games): I want to see Koules take off as a game.

It's (afaik) a unique game idea, it's as fun as heck, but it seems to only run on Linux (and OS/2?).

FreeCiv, NiL, Pingus, XPilot, NetHack, Crystal Space, GFingerPoken, Koules, Liquid War, XConq, WorldForge, SpellCast. To name the tip of the iceberg; I don't have time to do this all day :)

Or, in other words: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Cheers,
Daniel

THE GOOD

• LinuxCare's little bootable Linux recovery CD kicks ass. No bigger than a business card, it fits in the 3" diameter groove in CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive trays and has the potential to save your butt when lilo eats itself. They also had some Linux stickers that now adorn the case of my 386... (Yes, it runs Linux.)
• IBM had a presence. Although certainly not the largest or flashiest booth in the show, Quake 3 on a rather large plasma display attracted lots of attention. Dual PII-400 Intellistation + Voodoo 3 3000 + large plasma display. Mmmmmm. Thanks to the guys there for letting me get some game time on that mammoth thang...
• O'Reilly also had a presence, and their trade show pricing kicks much booty. Picked up a few books for 20% off list and got a shirt to boot...
• Mad props to VA Linux Systems for not only having a cool booth and giving away lots of stuff but for supplying the machines used for public Internet access. Their Debian boxed set is pretty cool and sports Learning Debian GNU/Linux from O'Reilly. (Yes, I was one of the people who stood around in line for ten or fifteen minutes to win this...)
• Thanks to the Sun and Rave Systems folks for all the free stuff. Learn to play Quake 2 without cheating before next year's show... :-) (Now where's my complimentary Sparc 5?)

THE BAD

• None of the shirts I got fit. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. I'm 6-foot-3-inches tall and weigh 295 pounds. Show me the big-assed shirts!
• The IBM guys told me that the Showcase had a T-1 connection to the 'Net. I couldn't verify -- the packet loss and latency was horrible on the connection. I'm hoping this is only because lots of geeks were pounding on the connection like a pack of wild monkeys...
• Food choices were few, and lines were long. Within the Galleria, your choices were Subway, some cafe whose name I don't remember, Ruby Tuesday's, and Chick-Fil-A. If you were bold, you could go to the movie theater downstairs and buy a big tub of popcorn. The group I was with walked across the street to another mall and ate at Arby's. Yum... I think.

THE UGLY

• Where the hell were the Slackware people? I wanted Slackware apparel... Hmmph.
• Linux merchandise places came out of the woodworks to hock their goods. Yay capitalism...
• Don't eat at Shoney's. Our group waited over an hour for food before giving up and leaving.

THE REST

• The andover.net/freshmeat.net/slashdot.org booth was smack dab next to the linux.com booth. Taken together, it looked like one big congregation of slackers with laptops. All things considered, however, I wouldn't have minded flopping down on the couch for a rest after walking around for a few hours...
• I will seek revenge against the guy in the Debian shirt who shot me in the arm with a Nerf dart... muahahahaha
• The Debian folks had a Sun Ultra 5 running XaoS, Netscape, and some Tetris clone in separate windows. Just for kicks, I maximized the XaoS window. Can we say slideshow?
• I had nothing interesting enough to trade with the lady at the VA Linux booth, so I didn't get one of those nifty enlightenment shirts. Dammit.
• NetBSD was there. Go figure.

Overall, it was a pretty cool show, but I wish I didn't have the 2-1/2 hour drive. It was put on very professionally and appeared to be very well organized. I was only slightly disappointed that the show wasn't any bigger... The nifty canvas bag attendees got and the included CD made up for that, though.

I don't mean to nitpick, but that's not a BSOD. The BSOD is a NT term.

You are right, but the term seems to have filtered downwards to WinDOS. Take a look at BSOD Properties which lets you have a Red Screen of Death, etc, on WinDOS.

In my four years of experience administering NT boxes, every BSOD I've seen has been caused by NT not liking a particular combination of hardware devices or drivers.

Try running the DOS binary of XaoS.

I've bluescreened my NT4SP5 box twice today by running the DOS version of XaoS. This is a consistent, reproducible way to bluescreen NT (it worked on another machine with SP3, too.)

XaoS is an excellent realtime fractal zoomer, BTW. But don't run it on NT (even with the 'Windows-friendly' -i_love_bill switch) unless you have synced your disks first.