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Did it with Netscape Composer.
Surprisingly, it still exists today... http://scudhavoc2.chez.com/
(It's in french, but look at the layout and press ctrl-w )

when was the last time I built a system with a floppy drive? yesterday?

And I used a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive last week. And someone brought in an 8 inch ssdd floppy about two months ago with the sad face and the "this is the only copy of my dissertation, can you help me?" story. Which, of course, we did. Went into the back room, pulled the 8" drive out of the anti-static bag, plugged it in copied their files up to the hdd using 22Disk http://www.chez.com/futurs/ETelecharge.html , ran a format converter over it to get plain ascii text... burned a CD and handed it to them. Printed them a fresh copy while we were at it.

This never happens to you?

I'd double whatever you're willing to pay to see the average Slashdot reader in a room for 5 minutes with somebody who robs houses for a living.

Don't even pretend, twiggy.

The orient, anyway-- there's also some evidence China may have been a source. A website which discusses the origins can be found here, and at least sounds plausible, but whose accuracy I am unqualified to judge. However, notable (and something I remember from may days with the SCA as being accurate) is that the exact pieces, moves, and board played on have varied over the ages. The game we commonly call chess today looks notably different from the Indian original (enough to send Deep Blue into a fit if you set it up for a match), and is a composite from several influences, having changed markedly over the centuries. (There still are a lot of obscure variants out there.)

So, while you're correct that this may have been the church altering history, it may be that life imitates art. This alteration of history might be why the CURRENT European style pieces have the CURRENT moves. You'd really want to ask an expert about it-- or at least, to recommend a good book on the subject. But more likely, it's unprovable at this point.

But the glyph V is also often used for the letters U or W (if doubled, VV), or for the digit 5 in (mostly Latin) inscriptions, so solving the puzzle it is best treated as a character class. It might be in Greek since Arcadia is mentioned, but the tombstone's ironic and ambiguous inscription (either "I, death, am in Arcadia, too" or "I, too used to dwell in Arcadia") suggests Latin.

So we may consider V = [VWU5] as a working assumption.

Since Arcadia is where the 'goddess' Artemis was said to live, we may assume the 'D' of D and M is a lady named Diana (the Latin name for Artemis), which supports further the hypothesis that it is all Latin.

If this is so, we may extend out working assumption to A = [D].

Now could anyone please post a complete family tree of Nicholas Poussin as well as the Anson family (and others who lived at Shugborough House around the time the stone was set up? Guests, staff, etc). We would need to find all possible candidates for D and M, then define some constraints to prune the search space (e.g. solution might be a couple, i.e. sex(D) != sex(M), female(D) => male(M) or a group of either 3 or five (again, 'V') friends).

Here's an interesting picture collection to support the cryptoanalytic hunt.

As for the 'holy grail', you can easily participate in the Sunday mass tomorrow (between breakfast and reading ./), sharing the Eucharist in rememberance of Jesus with much less hassle.

And boy does he ever look like a /. geek. I bet he doesn't get many dates with the ladies either

http://www.chez.com/grafart/portrait/rennes/bouche r.jpg

So that's what the typical Slashdot geek looks like. You're right, he's not very attractive!

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Pah! You Americaens! You sink you are so smart wiz your Market Economy and Free Trade...

But, to answer your remark:
It is probably true that you can get a GBA/SP cheaper in the States. As I understand, MS just lowered the price of their X-Box there, as well.
Not in Denmark.

Apart from that, there are far more possibilities in the GP32.

Or, of course, non-inflammable, which means it doesn't go up in flames. and means the same as non-flammable, except it's a proper English word.

I could never watch Duel without getting annoyed by the large "FLAMMABLE" on the back of the truck.

"In short, HTAs pack all the power of Microsoft Internet Explorer"
Woooo-hoooooooooo! At last I can harness da powa of da Intanat Explowa! w00t! (how I will harness all that powa to my customized Trabant though, I still don't know)

.... "protocol support" ...
Muahahahahaha!

"the strict security model [...] of the browser."
Muahahahahahhahahahahahahah!

Ah, those good guys at Microsoft, they're always around when you need a good laugh :)

• Conversion from Word to OpenOffice. This is currently done in manual mode until I get someone to write me a batch process based on the OO APIs.
• Conversion to Simplified DocBook with OOo2sDbk. Works perfect for me.
• Analysis with Lucene to find often / rarely used words
• Presentation of a subset of these words to the user for definition as important or unimportant for the project
• Based on the user decision, the documents are connected in a structure remotely similar to a mindmap.

It's not really revolutionary in that such a thing as never been done before, but I shudder at the thought to do that with Microsoft Office as a base.

Java Apple I emulator. ...
I'm just about to give them a try. Can't find anything for Linux or UNIX though :-(

I like the Spanish and Russian stuff the best, although I have discovered I also have a taste for Turkish hiphop and Egyptian techno.

You can get a taste of what's available right here....

I've been an avid fan of this comic book for over a decade or so (at the rate of one release a year, there are currently 14/15 comic books, it depends if you count the overview).

For the ppl that want (some) more background: the comic book is written (scenarie) by Jean Van Hamme, who has also worked on Thorgal and Largo Winch (btw, the series does not do the comic book justice), just to name the most well know ones (I am personally a fan of the chninkel. Van Hamme (a professor in Brussels IIRC) is one of the best scenario writers (with the ever dark Dufaux).

The drawings of XIII are done by Vance, who also worked on Bruce J Hawker (and some other high profiled titles, the names escape me at this moment).

Currently, the story arc of the comic book has stopped (a bit), mainly because the identify of number I (yes XIII stands for a number) has been shown. However, the new comic book seems to identify that all is not what it seems and new conspiracies await (showing high ranking CIA/FBI and military personal having succeeded in the coup d'etat in the US).

The first cycle (if I can call it that) was mainly driven by the search for the identity of the main character, finding himself in situations where his life is changed in a blink of an eye and where nothing is what it is and can be trusted.

Furthermore, the issue of the identity of XIII is still not entirely clear, nor is the role of some of the seemingly allies.

I've been an avid fan of this comic book for over a decade or so (at the rate of one release a year, there are currently 14/15 comic books, it depends if you count the overview).

For the ppl that want (some) more background: the comic book is written (scenarie) by Jean Van Hamme, who has also worked on Thorgal and Largo Winch (btw, the series does not do the comic book justice), just to name the most well know ones (I am personally a fan of the chninkel. Van Hamme (a professor in Brussels IIRC) is one of the best scenario writers (with the ever dark Dufaux).

The drawings of XIII are done by Vance, who also worked on Bruce J Hawker (and some other high profiled titles, the names escape me at this moment).

Currently, the story arc of the comic book has stopped (a bit), mainly because the identify of number I (yes XIII stands for a number) has been shown. However, the new comic book seems to identify that all is not what it seems and new conspiracies await (showing high ranking CIA/FBI and military personal having succeeded in the coup d'etat in the US).

The first cycle (if I can call it that) was mainly driven by the search for the identity of the main character, finding himself in situations where his life is changed in a blink of an eye and where nothing is what it is and can be trusted.

Furthermore, the issue of the identity of XIII is still not entirely clear, nor is the role of some of the seemingly allies.

I've been an avid fan of this comic book for over a decade or so (at the rate of one release a year, there are currently 14/15 comic books, it depends if you count the overview).

For the ppl that want (some) more background: the comic book is written (scenarie) by Jean Van Hamme, who has also worked on Thorgal and Largo Winch (btw, the series does not do the comic book justice), just to name the most well know ones (I am personally a fan of the chninkel. Van Hamme (a professor in Brussels IIRC) is one of the best scenario writers (with the ever dark Dufaux).

The drawings of XIII are done by Vance, who also worked on Bruce J Hawker (and some other high profiled titles, the names escape me at this moment).

Currently, the story arc of the comic book has stopped (a bit), mainly because the identify of number I (yes XIII stands for a number) has been shown. However, the new comic book seems to identify that all is not what it seems and new conspiracies await (showing high ranking CIA/FBI and military personal having succeeded in the coup d'etat in the US).

The first cycle (if I can call it that) was mainly driven by the search for the identity of the main character, finding himself in situations where his life is changed in a blink of an eye and where nothing is what it is and can be trusted.

Furthermore, the issue of the identity of XIII is still not entirely clear, nor is the role of some of the seemingly allies.

This page explains the "fringe" theory : The color of the sky on Mars, the true true images

Which we all know was caused by UFOs. Have the utilities thoroughly considered the potential impact that aliens might be having on our power infrastructure?

I mean, without giggling?

It wasn't deregulation back in '65, it was those damn UFOs

Well, it'd be slow if you decided to send a raytracer or some fractals or even the Mandelbrot set itself to the printer.

Yes, I've actually sent a fractal to an old LaserJet with PostScript, and waited ten minutes for the page to pop out.

For normal usage, of course, you'd never run into any sorts of problems. But if you decided to be crazy about it...

More on-topic, there's a refurbished HP color laser on PriceWatch's "not exactly new" section for $650. I've seen them for moderately cheaper than that at the local computer chop shop---used, of course.

Color laser is faster and better than inkjet, and you won't go crazy refilling or replacing ink. It's worth the extra cash.

--grendel drago

.. about this is that River Phoenix, which played in the Young Indiana Jones tv series, and which was going to be the next Indiana Jones in the movies, died in 1993. I'm wondering who's going to play him now. Harrison Ford is too old anyway.

• Col. Wilma Deering Buck Rogers in the 25th century
• Lt. Gay Ellis UFO
• Diana V
• Dr. Helena Russell Space:1999
• Lt. Uhura Star Trek

Some bands may choose to cater to that core audience and "stay small" - but I doubt many would turn down the chance at a major tour if one of their "indie releases" suddenly turned into a popular download.

I personally have zero use for iTunes - I don't have a Mac and even if i did I'm not gonna pay a dollar a goddamn track for RIAA label downloads locked into a DRM'd format. But if Apple can sign a bunch of bands and release them in a more consumer friendly format (ie >256kbps MP3) then I'd be all over that. What would really rock is if they'd sign some of the international artists and DJs I've grown attached to but who get little to no respect in the US - like Garmarna, Linda, NOME, Oceania, Juno Reactor, Natacha Atlas, Digiweed, etc. If I could pay a buck a track to download HQ tracks from artists I like and I knew with some certainty the artists were getting a significant benefit from my purchase, my opinion of iTunes would change dramatically - and likely would for many, many others as well.

Where do I sign up?

I have seen molestedcars.com before, yet it doesn't impress me as much as it's french equilavent The Jacky Touch . Even if you don't speak a word french, go and take a look at the atrocities in the galleries. If you do know french, go and read the comments... That guy is incredibly funny.

Quite a similar thing happened in Australia. John Safran, a young rebellious media maverick putting together a pilot for a new TV show, decided to show up at the house of Ray Martin, the host of one of Australia's rather sleazy "investigative current affairs" shows.

The host of this show certainly didn't cope with being the victim of the same tactics that his reporters use on all sorts of down and out storekeepers. Watch the most amusing video here.

Go Aussies!

For Windows, there's the full-featured FusionsSoft DVD Player which is described as published under the GPL license, but where is the source? The indicated home page of the project is constantly over its monthly bandwidth quota. The last version available seems to be from July, 2002, version 5.0.0.1.

The binaries for FusionSoft DVD Player can be found here. Gut again, since it's GPL, the sources should be somewhere. The program itself is multilingual, although you may have to do some german to download it and some french during the installation.

• Jason Andresen's site
• Bernhard Frhmesser's site
• Fabrice Colin's site

BUFFY: It stung me or something, and ... then I was like ... no. It, it wasn't "like." I *was* in an institution. There were, um ... doctors and ... nurses and, and other patients. They, they told me that I was sick. I guess crazy. And that, um, Sunnydale and, and all of this, it ... none of it ... was real.
XANDER: Oh, come on, that's ridiculous! What? You think this isn't real just because of all the vampires and demons and ex-vengeance demons and the sister that used to be a big ball of universe-destroying energy? (pauses, frowns)

The French provider AlternB had to pay Estelle Halliday 40 000FF back in 1999 for a similar case (pics uploaded by a user of the free webhosting). It was called then "La Defaite de l'Internet" (the Lost of the Internet), and Altern has yet to reopen their free hosting service.

I just visited the site, because I own one of those 225HP models (you can guess which one), and I dunno if I could shell out 499$ for a measely 19HP more. Besides I heard (from people having BMW modding chips. Warranty? What warranty?) that those chips can damage the engine badly. (It goes "Poof" and suddenly your enigine is a piece of metallic junk)
Yes, I am an european, and 225HP is quite a lot here (average must be 100HP, newer models)...to my experience anything above 150HP is "too" much when you use the car to go to work on snowy roads (and that is what I do, so next time I'll settle for the 180HP model ;-)) . You can't use the cars full potential anyway, since speed limit is 120kmh.
Okay, I admit, I'm not into car tuning... if you are, go here and weep.

Yeah, so if I set this picture as my wallpaper, my wife won't mind, right?

Probably not, but this one might make her angry.

coffee.el allows Emacs users to submit a BREW request to an RFC2324-compliant coffee device (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, or HTCPCP). It prompts the user for the different additives, then issues a HTCPCP BREW request to the coffee device.

Care to post a coffee-making script?

Well there is this:

Coffee.el" for submitting a BREW request to a RFC-2324 compliant coffee maker.

There is kitchensink.el around here somewhere too ... :-)

Cheers,

Toby Haynes

In France, the people who foolishly sued Yahoo earlier this year are already jumping on the "fight terrorism" bandwagon. Guess what, they've found one (1!) pro-terrorism islamic site on the Internet, and well! it's enough to justify censorship, isn't it?

Konqueror is great, and web pages look terrific with anti aliasing is turned on. Galeon / moz can't do it as far as I know (may be with GTK 2?)

GTK+ 2 will have antialiasing in all apps, so you can bet that Galeon will. I saw a bit of talk on the Galeon development list about a port to the GTK+ 2 beta, but I don't know if anything will come of it quite yet. Mozilla will have to also be ported to GTK 2 to get antialiasing in the actual web pages.

If you're brave and you feel up to recompiling gtk+, mozilla, and galeon, there are patches available against gtk+ 1.2.9 or later and mozilla 0.9 or later that provide antialiasing. I've got galeon running with antialiased fonts using this approach. The one caveat is that some apps will break. Many of them can be convinced to work by recompiling, some of them (notably nautilus and xemacs-gtk-gnome) can't. If you feel lucky, the patches are at http://www.chez.com/alex9858/gtkaa/. I'm not currently using them, because I need xemacs-gtk-gnome and I like nautilus, but if anyone's interested I can post source rpms and i386 (rh6.x) rpms.

I agree, and would like to offer these comments:

Compare the speed of:

Move all files to parent directory

• mv * .. (bash)
• Ctrl+A Ctrl+X Backspace Ctrl+V (explorer)

Move all files starting with a-n to the parent directory

• mv [a-n]* .. (bash)
• a press-shift m up release-shift ctrl+x Backspace Ctrl+V (explorer)

Move them back:

• Ctrl+z (explorer)
• Not sure of the best way to do this with an existing CLI.

Conclusions:

1. Graphical file managers can be just as fast as CLIs for many operations.
2. For me, the only useful file manager is one that supports intuitive keybindings, and does not require a mouse to be efficiently operated. This is why I enjoy the pre-win98 explorer and why SFM has become one of my most treasured linux apps.

If I were to build a desktop operating system/windowing system/file manager geared toward end users on desktop PC's, its first priority would be the user interface responsiveness. I don't care about disk writes, backup drives, underrunning CD-R's, whatever... the user interface, above all, must be perpetually snappy and responsive, no matter what else the system might want to do at the time. I get mad when my machine won't listen when I'm trying to tell it something. And I mean immediate. When that mouse button goes down, 1.5 seconds is far too long to wait for a popup menu.

If I were the designer of a windowing system and file manager, it would be a GUI at the very base-level (see the MacOS), and it would integrate a cool drag n drop GUI file manager with the BASH shell. As in, you could use a single keystroke to switch from GUI-Mode to terminal-mode. (Terminal using antialiased fonts, of course.) From there, maybe version 2 could implement a Mozshell-like blend to create a terminal that is supplemented with graphics. Anytbody know of existing software that approximates this?

Comments, whatever. Apologies for the poor grammar and lack of focus. I'm just textually mumbling to myself at this point.

> For years I've been hoping that Ultima 7 (and Serpent Isle) would be open sourced

You're not the only one. Unfortunately EA now owns the copyright, and they will NEVER release the source for their old games. When I first released U7Shapes I got a job offer from Origin, ironically the same day I had an interview with EA Canada. After working for EAC for a bit (Need For Speed PSX), I emailed Lord British asking if it would be possible release the source to keep the game alive for its fans. He replied, but said Origin wasn't able to since they didn't know where the source was. ;-(

Here's 2 links for the Ultima 7 hackers out there ...

http://www.geocities.com/hous tondragon/utility7bg.htm

http://www.chez.com/pulsar rtc/wizard/ultima/u7wizard.htm

P.S.
I've run the Disassembler on U7.EXE, but I still can't locate the "flat real mode" techique that it uses. e.g. switching to flat real mode. (I know it uses the +EBX offset in flat real mode, to access up to 4 gigs from real mode, but where does it check for if EMM is already running? )

The French judge ruled that the ISP was responsible for the content its users posted just like a newspaper is responsible for the content it prints. I don't think I even need to comment on the absurdity of that statement. The Altern.org admin was forced to pay a few hundred thousand Francs. Slashdot covered the story.

Altern.org was down for a while. The admin set up a petition webpage. Thanks to Slashdot and the concerned Altern.org users, the site was later put back up, and accepting logins. But now, a name and an email address was required. Later on, this was changed to a verified email address (the usual send-the-unlock-key-in-an-email mechanism.) I'm not sure whether or not Valentin (that's the Altern.org admin) had to pay the money to the model.

Since the service is no longer really anonymous, I don't see what the problem is. When the site went back up, all previous Altern.org users were required to provide an email before their account was reopened.

For some reason, Altern.org is the prime target of all the French anti-freedom legislators. I've yet to hear a story about the other ISP's like Chez or CiteWeb.

--

99% of the addresses you mention are fake. Bank on it.

And Microsoft and other American capitalist software companies wrote all its code and never stole any of it.

Although the closed settop box is a concept that is wasted on a home PC builder like myself, this project is more exciting to me than others if just for the fact that Nokia is involved. I've come to like their products, both for computer monitors and their portable phones. Alas, so far I've found one thing lacking, namely Linux support.

Initially, I wasn't real pleased to have to carry a phone around but I really fell in love with my 6110. It goes a long way towards a PDA with its built in SMS email, faxing, calendar, calculator and even some games. You can also hack it for some fun. Anyhow, I never figured portable phones for a geek thing, but it's been fun to play with.

Then a problem had to come up. One feature of the phone that appealed to me is the ability to link it with a PC or a laptop through cable or infrared link and then use the phone as a modem. But the modem function is software, and of course that software (Nokia Data Suite) is only available for Windows. It also costs an arm and a leg, which I don't care to invest in a legacy platform.

So I realise this is my mistake for not investigating the purchase closely enough and figuring the infrared function would be a normal IRDA compliant device and the modem would be hardware. I guess I should've bought a 8110 or an Ericsson instead. Still it leaves me wondering if there are other 61xx owners that use Linux and are bugged by this. Any software modem projects underway perhaps?

Michiel