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Well, we already know that the ps3 will cut the fat!

Hey everyone, I followed this guy's instructions and uploaded the torrent for you. So in case you're scared to use vim or it is not working for you, just click here.

Oh, and I found this. What's interesting is that this mod is to make the Mac even quieter, and not more performant.

More screenshots I've seen:

http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-mplayer.j pg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/metacity-compo sitor.png
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/skippy-xd.jpg
http://albin.abo.fi/~jfors/images/saya-20040830-1. png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/ioslipstream/milk shot.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~amsilveira/screenshots/08 -27-04bg.jpg
http://www.rpi.edu/~penwan/ss-20040829.png
http://home.pacbell.net/elomire/screenshot.png
http://thorin.battleaxe.net/~prototyped/kde33.png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/Screens hot-14.jpg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-glxgears. png
http://www.arslinux.com/~jorge/screenshots/xorg.pn g
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-transvide o.jpg

More screenshots I've seen:

http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-mplayer.j pg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/metacity-compo sitor.png
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/skippy-xd.jpg
http://albin.abo.fi/~jfors/images/saya-20040830-1. png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/ioslipstream/milk shot.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~amsilveira/screenshots/08 -27-04bg.jpg
http://www.rpi.edu/~penwan/ss-20040829.png
http://home.pacbell.net/elomire/screenshot.png
http://thorin.battleaxe.net/~prototyped/kde33.png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/Screens hot-14.jpg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-glxgears. png
http://www.arslinux.com/~jorge/screenshots/xorg.pn g
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-transvide o.jpg

More screenshots I've seen:

http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-mplayer.j pg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/metacity-compo sitor.png
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/skippy-xd.jpg
http://albin.abo.fi/~jfors/images/saya-20040830-1. png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/ioslipstream/milk shot.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~amsilveira/screenshots/08 -27-04bg.jpg
http://www.rpi.edu/~penwan/ss-20040829.png
http://home.pacbell.net/elomire/screenshot.png
http://thorin.battleaxe.net/~prototyped/kde33.png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/Screens hot-14.jpg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-glxgears. png
http://www.arslinux.com/~jorge/screenshots/xorg.pn g
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-transvide o.jpg

More screenshots I've seen:

http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-mplayer.j pg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/metacity-compo sitor.png
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/skippy-xd.jpg
http://albin.abo.fi/~jfors/images/saya-20040830-1. png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/ioslipstream/milk shot.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~amsilveira/screenshots/08 -27-04bg.jpg
http://www.rpi.edu/~penwan/ss-20040829.png
http://home.pacbell.net/elomire/screenshot.png
http://thorin.battleaxe.net/~prototyped/kde33.png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/Screens hot-14.jpg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-glxgears. png
http://www.arslinux.com/~jorge/screenshots/xorg.pn g
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-transvide o.jpg

More screenshots I've seen:

http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-mplayer.j pg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/metacity-compo sitor.png
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/skippy-xd.jpg
http://albin.abo.fi/~jfors/images/saya-20040830-1. png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/ioslipstream/milk shot.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~amsilveira/screenshots/08 -27-04bg.jpg
http://www.rpi.edu/~penwan/ss-20040829.png
http://home.pacbell.net/elomire/screenshot.png
http://thorin.battleaxe.net/~prototyped/kde33.png
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/Screens hot-14.jpg
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-glxgears. png
http://www.arslinux.com/~jorge/screenshots/xorg.pn g
http://home.centurytel.net/jacob002/xorg-transvide o.jpg

That does a lot to alter public perception... which sucks. I mean I even have a really big anti P4 rant on my silly site, though it is a bit out of date at this point, and people that I know have read it still act all surprised when I mention I don't like P4s. So all us geeks have issues that we get rabid about, right? ;)

Gotta love The Daily Show! Funny stuff.

Yesterday, I noticed google had this banner. I thought it was cute. Heh.

I got sued by SCO for Christmas, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!

Somehow, I have a feeling that you might be correct.

Somehow, I have a feeling that you might be correct.

Somehow, I have a feeling that you might be correct.

Here is Rain 2.0. It's an oldie, but still does the job. Again, this is not needed if you are using Windows 2000 or higher, because those use the HLT commands automatically.

Replying to my own post to include my page of screenshots for Deus Ex. Doesn't look to bad for 3 years old.

A classic comic on video game violence: http://home.centurytel.net/mraymer/19981209l.jpg

image one | image two

And now a humorous anecdote. Back in my senior year of high school, a student decided to turn in a lengthy research paper... in symbol font.

Needless to say, this little plot of his didn't exactly work.

By the way... does anyone else think that font resembled Elvish?

image one | image two

And now a humorous anecdote. Back in my senior year of high school, a student decided to turn in a lengthy research paper... in symbol font.

Needless to say, this little plot of his didn't exactly work.

By the way... does anyone else think that font resembled Elvish?

If power plants ran Windows, I think we'd see outages every few hours at least.

http://www.ussjoshua.org/bbaggins.mov

my mirror (same file, zipped)

Something I've wondered for a while... what's up with the points coming off the stars?

As was mentioned in another post, those are diffraction spikes from the supports for the secondary mirror.

Newtonian reflectors and classical Cassegrain telescopes support their secondary mirror with "spiders" that produce diffraction spikes. There have been various efforts over the years to eliminate these from that type of telescope. One method is to seal the tube with an optical flat (a flat piece of optical glass) which supports the mirror. The trade-offs include longer times for the scopes to reach temperature equilibrium, distortion from imperfections in the optical figure of the flat, and slight light loss. Other attempts have included the use of spiders with curved support arms, which reduce or eliminates spikes at the cost of slightly degraded overall image contrast.

Other telescope types, such as refractors, Maksutovs, Schmidt-Cassegrains, and Yolo reflectors have no diffraction spikes, but they are all more optically complex (Yolos, for instance, require toroidal mirrors) and are more difficult to produce as a result. Refractors have the added problem of chromatic abberation, which is the fringing of color on the edge of bright objects. Various complex, multi-element objectives have been developed to reduce, or even practically eliminate, this problem. The problems are optical complexity, cost, and light loss. Figuring a 3-element objective lens for a refractor means grinding six optical surfaces with precise curves. Compare that to a Newtonian which has a single parabolic primary mirror and a flat optical secondary.

There are many other telescope types than the few popular types I mentioned here and each have their proponents. Most designs that have survived the test of time can be made to perform well, but each has trade-offs.

Something I've wondered for a while... what's up with the points coming off the stars?

As was mentioned in another post, those are diffraction spikes from the supports for the secondary mirror.

Newtonian reflectors and classical Cassegrain telescopes support their secondary mirror with "spiders" that produce diffraction spikes. There have been various efforts over the years to eliminate these from that type of telescope. One method is to seal the tube with an optical flat (a flat piece of optical glass) which supports the mirror. The trade-offs include longer times for the scopes to reach temperature equilibrium, distortion from imperfections in the optical figure of the flat, and slight light loss. Other attempts have included the use of spiders with curved support arms, which reduce or eliminates spikes at the cost of slightly degraded overall image contrast.

Other telescope types, such as refractors, Maksutovs, Schmidt-Cassegrains, and Yolo reflectors have no diffraction spikes, but they are all more optically complex (Yolos, for instance, require toroidal mirrors) and are more difficult to produce as a result. Refractors have the added problem of chromatic abberation, which is the fringing of color on the edge of bright objects. Various complex, multi-element objectives have been developed to reduce, or even practically eliminate, this problem. The problems are optical complexity, cost, and light loss. Figuring a 3-element objective lens for a refractor means grinding six optical surfaces with precise curves. Compare that to a Newtonian which has a single parabolic primary mirror and a flat optical secondary.

There are many other telescope types than the few popular types I mentioned here and each have their proponents. Most designs that have survived the test of time can be made to perform well, but each has trade-offs.

Something I've wondered for a while... what's up with the points coming off the stars?

As was mentioned in another post, those are diffraction spikes from the supports for the secondary mirror.

Newtonian reflectors and classical Cassegrain telescopes support their secondary mirror with "spiders" that produce diffraction spikes. There have been various efforts over the years to eliminate these from that type of telescope. One method is to seal the tube with an optical flat (a flat piece of optical glass) which supports the mirror. The trade-offs include longer times for the scopes to reach temperature equilibrium, distortion from imperfections in the optical figure of the flat, and slight light loss. Other attempts have included the use of spiders with curved support arms, which reduce or eliminates spikes at the cost of slightly degraded overall image contrast.

Other telescope types, such as refractors, Maksutovs, Schmidt-Cassegrains, and Yolo reflectors have no diffraction spikes, but they are all more optically complex (Yolos, for instance, require toroidal mirrors) and are more difficult to produce as a result. Refractors have the added problem of chromatic abberation, which is the fringing of color on the edge of bright objects. Various complex, multi-element objectives have been developed to reduce, or even practically eliminate, this problem. The problems are optical complexity, cost, and light loss. Figuring a 3-element objective lens for a refractor means grinding six optical surfaces with precise curves. Compare that to a Newtonian which has a single parabolic primary mirror and a flat optical secondary.

There are many other telescope types than the few popular types I mentioned here and each have their proponents. Most designs that have survived the test of time can be made to perform well, but each has trade-offs.

My upload speed is capped at around 128 Kb/s, and (unless you pay extra) most basic DSL services have similar caps.

I get ADSL from my local telephone company (CenturyTel). It's a 512/256 connection, so my upload is twice what a typical cable modem user gets. And I consider this to be a relatively slow DSL connection. (But I've had very few problems with the service, especially compared to some DSL horror stories I've heard.)

http://vboy.emuhq.com

This is the absolute best GBA emulator out there. Yes, there is a Linux version. In fact, v1.5 was just released on the 13th. So go have fun. You need a GBA bios for some games to work properly so, here you go. Watch as a 14K file brings down CenturyTel's servers... ;)

Enjoy!

http://home.centurytel.net/mraymer/Q815411_WXP_SP2 _x86_ENU.exe

So, what do you want [...]?

(Why isn't every company asking me this?)

I want to be able to run peer-to-peer services and not have to worry about exceeding some stupid number of bits per unit time. I want a static IP address. I want no ports to be blocked, in either direction; in fact, I want no restrictions on the nature of the traffic I allow, in terms of direction, port numbers, protocols, content, etc., beyond what the lawyers will require ("don't do anything that would get you arrested or sued; if you do, we let you hang for it").

Right now, I'm getting all of this with a 512/256 ADSL connection from my local telco. It's a bit expensive/slow ($40 USD/month for the service, $20/month for the static IP), but I have no complaints. I've gotten what I paid for. How many people in, say, Australia can claim that?

A 100 Mbps fiber connection to my house? Sounds good. A 5 GB/month bandwidth cap? Not allowed to run services? Hahahahaha! Excuse me while I ignore your company.

In closing, I'd just like to say, it will never cease to amaze me what some men will do for their pr0n. Err, I mean, sharing a lot Linux distros in p2p networks? ;)

Image One | Image Two

My most sincere condolences to the families of the astronauts, and to NASA.

Image One | Image Two

My most sincere condolences to the families of the astronauts, and to NASA.

Tripod is slow... I mirrored it here. It's only 30K.

Right. You have access to Slashdot but not Google. Try again.

Lastly, in nearly all of my posts I am polite...

Yeah, I've seen your "politeness". Everyone is treating you like a sanctimonious, little know-it-all because you act like one when you talk out of your ass. Buy an astronomy text and grow up, you little prick.

OK, I gotta give some credit for that one.

You've committed a (probably intentional) logical fallacy. You assume that because the protesters want these particular trees to be saved, that it must mean that they want no tree in the world to be cut down, and that therefore their use of any natural resource is hypocritical. Have I got your logic right?

The fallacy of course, is that these particular trees are very unique. They represent some of the last old-growth coastal redwoods left in the world. They are thousands of years old. There used to be a lot more of them, but they've almost all been cut down over the last century, to make crap like this.

These trees should not be cut down. There's plenty of non-unique timber out there.

This may sound shocking, but a great place to buy hardware online is eBay. At least with eBay, if something goes wrong, it's usually easier to track down the user than to try dealing with some no name online vendor that might be out of buisness next week. I feel much more confident buying hardware from users with high feedback than online vendors listed on pricewatch.

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As for AMD, I hope they keep making great processors. I've become annoyed with Intel's focus on GHz. Intel's idea of performance seems to be, "Let's just throw lots of clock cycles around!"

Also, if you want a good laugh, you can read my Intel rant. I should warn you though, it's almost totally devoid of logic... ;)

At least, I'm not having any trouble logging in... take a look!

Here's a shot of Almathea and of the Galileo probe itself as seen in Celestia.

Here's a shot of Almathea and of the Galileo probe itself as seen in Celestia.

Celestia is a 3D space simulator much like OpenUniverse. It's avaible for both Windows and *nix OSes. In it, you can view all the planets, some moons, asteroids, and a fair number of stars. Here's a shot of Almathea. They release add-ons every now and then-- you can even download the recently discovered Quaoar!

Never underestimate the power of a Slashdoting, I guess

Never underestimate the power of an <A> tag, ergo mraymer's mirror

It's very simple to use, actually:

<A HREF="URL">Link text</A>

Location: Lorain, OH (USA)
Local telco: CenturyTel
DSL ISP: CenturyTel
Price: $40/month (USD) for residential service with 2-year commitment
Speed: 512/256 kbps
Reliability: fairly good

And believe me, the options around here are not great. When my family first signed up for internet access ~4 years ago, there were two choices, and we were only presented with one. The maximum speed was 33.6, and since then has only risen to 56k (for my particular ISP). The service is lowsy, although the stability is decent. A quick check shows almost 3000 accounts.

But recently things have begun to change. The larger ISP in the area was bought out by CenturyTel (national telco). Goodbye customer service, hello broadband. This summer they offered it to customers in Kalispell (larger city by Whitefish), and they recently aquired another small ISP and started offering DSL in even more "rural" areas.

And what was one of the big issues the incumbant senator was running on? Wide spread broadband. I kid you not. According to common knowledge, there is only one pipe in Montana. Its not enough. My school couldn't even get a T1 line. They had to settle for DSL (for an entire school district). There is a district wide technology committee for the schools, and almost everyone recognizes the importance. Despite the lack of broadband, the internet has become very widespread in rural areas, and I can't think of a single friend who doesn't have it.

So I don't know how much of an impact the MS/RS deal will have on the area. We already have DSL in the more urban areas (a town of 4000 has it), for reasonable prices. The only benefit I can foresee is if it prompts the local telcos to built more stations in the rural areas, because DSL does no good at my house, which is many, many miles from the nearest station/DSLAM.

Any maybe timothy would care to comment on why he chose Whitefish? Perhaps he went to the entire-town-including-adults-get-dressed-up-and-pa rty Halloween celebration?