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Club Internet who is a minor ISP in France. But you're right, all MS TV deployments have been late, buggy and overbudget. In france, all major ISP have been proposing TV for something like 2 years.

The nice marketing twist is that Club Internet propose Microsoft TV as an ... exclusivity !

For what it's worth, The two french ISP are :

  - The (only) cable company in Paris (and a handful of medium cities), Noos (http://www.noos.fr/ or http://www.noos.net/),
- the other is a DSL (and modem) provider, club-internet (http://www.club-internet.fr/)

  This DNS wilcarding (with http redirection to commercial sites where no match is found in b3gtelecom's "typo DB") has just been activated this month;
  AFAIK it only managed to increase calls to tech support, mainly for misconfigured wifi routers showing the "wildcard" page redirection sometimes. it doesn't make the troubleshooting any easier...

(Wardriving in Paris is a pleasure, there are default-config APs everywhere!)

  Well, Farewell, NXDOMAIN ! I'm afraid I will not see you for a long time (since I have no other choice for a broadband ISP...)

http://mirrors-av.club-internet.fr/pub/games/nofra g/halflife2/mods/Eclipse-Setup.exe
ftp://ftp.4players.de/pub/pc/halflife2/mods/Eclips e-Setup.exe
http://download2.gamespot.com/d3/gsc/action/halfli fe2/Eclipse-Setup.exe

I hate to waste one of my two "terrible Karma" posts on this...
(and I don't get the mod system, really.. I just went negative one day.. but I digress. Sorry).

Anyway, here is why you're wrong: The R2 Series droid could have any number/letter combination. R2-D2 was just an early model of the D Series, R2 Astromech droid. There concievably would have been R2-D3, R2-X1938401, R2-A511, etc, etc, ad infinitum. However, Artooayfive-eleven just doesn't roll off the tongue all that easily!!!!

Heck, even Obi-Wan had an R4 unit, so R2 was really an old hunk of junk.

But can you imagine how Star Wars would have been different if that R5 Unit was in possesion of a GOOD motivator?!?!

----

For the real truth, check out what really happened in the Mos Eisley Cantina with Han and Greedo.

:-)

Episode IV

Episode V

Episode VI

Episode IV

Episode V

Episode VI

Episode IV

Episode V

Episode VI

The Emperor's Court

There is a link to a funny comic where they take Han Solo to court over the shooting of Greedo and its revisioning history. Very well done and funny. Check it out.

Han Solo in Court Comic

Someone with a lot of time on their hands wrote a comic titled: Greedo Shoots First Comic.

Greedo's mother sues Han Solo because he shot first, with Palpatine as the judge, and C3PO as an attorney.

Read it yourself!

(Some people really need to work on their acceptance of reality ... It's just a movie...

you mean too small to notice things like alien languages and uniforms fastening on opposite sides?

you mean too small to notice things like alien languages and uniforms fastening on opposite sides?

Take a look at these pages for alleged quality differences between recent home releases of the films, including the 2004 DVD release.
- Episode IV
- Episode V
- Episode VI

Take a look at these pages for alleged quality differences between recent home releases of the films, including the 2004 DVD release.
- Episode IV
- Episode V
- Episode VI

Take a look at these pages for alleged quality differences between recent home releases of the films, including the 2004 DVD release.
- Episode IV
- Episode V
- Episode VI

...all those big ears: http://perso.club-internet.fr/bastien.lopes/photos .htm

On one hand, you have a small and efficient 1 watt wireless radio modem. It just works. Now, you wanna listen to the signal. You look around and find that the SETI antennaes are still in use, so you fell deseperate because you cannot borrow them right now...

But all those nice countries (http://www.hermetic.ch/crypto/echelon/echelon.htm ) made you a gift: huge HUGE HUGE antennaes that can even receive the signal of your 1 watt modem 40 miles away!!! I just hope they will provide me a truck to help me borrowing them to my home...
Thank you, America!

I don't see this listed as a change in the exhaustive list of Special Edition changes.

Personally I'm most intrigued by the small decisions - the removal of a flame effect from the shooting of an Imperial Officer, or the translation of the tractor beam label from English to Lucasian. (That was changed in the 2004 edition, not the SE.)

I don't see this listed as a change in the exhaustive list of Special Edition changes.

Personally I'm most intrigued by the small decisions - the removal of a flame effect from the shooting of an Imperial Officer, or the translation of the tractor beam label from English to Lucasian. (That was changed in the 2004 edition, not the SE.)

It all got sorted out in court

cLive ;-)

But here it is anyway, it details most the changes between original star wars, special edition, and the new 2004 dvd.

Updates StarWars scene image comparison

And... ...an interesting trivial tid-bit on the enhancement process to the trilogy.

Here's a online comicthat pokes a little fun at the "Han/Greedo shoots first" argument.

Forget Snopes & monkeys. This is where the real action is.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/willow/Index.html

I wasn't sure how seriously to take it, but it seems to be corroborated by the article. (talking about having a better CG Jabba in ANH)

Yes, this very much reminds me of 68 and the following end of the leftist movement in Europe which split up and vanished due to ideological hairsplitting.

The Shadoks (this link English) (from that historic era) to me give an excellent persiflage, quote: Il y a trois sortes de casseroles : Les casseroles avec la queue a droite, les casseroles avec la queue a gauche, et les casseroles avec pas de queue du tout. Mais celles la on les appelle des autobus. Il y a trois sortes d'autobus : les autobus qui marchent a droite, les autobus qui marchent a gauche et les autobus qui ne marchent ni d'un cote ni de l'autre. Mais ceux la, on les appelle des casseroles. Il y a trois sortes de casseroles : les casseroles...

I hope this will not lead to a sad end.

CC.

But what got me started was the 50 in 1 electronic lab. Mine was made of wood and cardboard now they're plastic. The blasphemers.

I've used every one of the methods described by the author, from Ghost, or Drive Image (aka: DeployCenter), g4u, and some other wacked out ideas like getting a tftp session and dd to do the work for you.

Believe me when I say that they all suck, just in different ways. The only winning combination I have found is the one that you like the best and gives the least headaches on the supported hardware.

That's a cop out, you say? No, it's not. Look, Ghost is great--still not too Ext2 friendly (can funk some things up pretty badly); Drive Image/DeployCenter is just as good as Ghost--and has its own little issues; dd with netcat works but the source and the destination needed to be the same size or it would barf (apparently) randomly...it might work, then it might not...not a good thing there.

In a Windows environment, you can't beat Ghost. For GNU or Linux, dd is pretty nice. It's also free.

The best possible solution is for some OSS person to write an all-in-one solution that boots from a floppy or CD and works for Linux/Unix and Windows, but that just ain't happening.

You could try this, but I can't vouch for it.

Like I said, none of the solutions really work well. After all that is said and done, the best thing is to just start from scratch, taking lots of time, but at least you know you won't get bit in the ass by some random failure of a third party application that has control of your drive.

So how do you draw a virgin?

Trace this picture?

I guess I remembered what my DA-P1 cost incorrectly, though I found it for $1600 new and you can get a used one on ebay for well under a grand. I could've sworn I only paid $1200 or so.

Here is proof of at least one other commercially available pre-recorded DAT. My local music store had a small DAT section (one rack) with a bunch of choices for a year or two.

None of this changes the fact that you bitched about SCMS as though it was an unsolved problem, and you made it sound as though there was only one DAT deck available (not true, even in 1987). Slashdotters will repeat the things they say on here, they must be accurate or else somebody will start claiming it's true (I SWEAR, there was only ONE DAT EVER!), and then history gets distorted.

From the article:

The case, regardless of its outcome, also points to a broader issue that will not go away: how to manage the meeting of two worlds of programming. The traditional kind produces proprietary software guarded by strict intellectual property laws of copyright and patent, while the fast-growing open-source movement, responsible for software like Linux, has thrived by freely sharing code and shunning the constraints of intellectual property.

Excuse me?

Software development was originally and traditionally open source. The first software came from academic researchers who had no need to sell software, and from computer equipment manufacturers who initially only viewed the market for selling hardware. There was no concept of proprietary software when the computer industry started. Eventually that was brought into the scheme of things as competitors came along, such as RCA when it first tried to clone the IBM mainframes. But all along, most academically developed software was free and open source. That tradition just became more noticed by businesses once critical mass (e.g. Linux) was reached that attracted everyone to it.

No..this is a chicken and egg problem..
http://perso.club-internet.fr/chuot/humour/poulet. jpg

a dying breed of course....

http://perso.club-internet.fr/chuot/humour/poulet. jpg

Cmd-` is a big step forward in this. (It switches between an app's windows.) I still find Cmd-Tab unusable.

I use Windows XP, X11 and Mac OS X, now. My biggest complaint with Macs is not the one-button mouse thing (for god's sake, get a $10 usb 2-button mouse and be happy, or better yet a Kensington Orbit trackball); it's not the one-menu-to-rule-them-all-thing (I don't care).

It's the lack of good keyboard bindings for menu navigation. even the "Keyboard Navigation" mode doesn't really do it. I've been doing okay with Youpi Key (the best freeware ever). But I miss the glory days of Now Menus or was it Action Menus... I forget now, whichever one automatically added arrow and key control to all menus.

But when all is said and whinged... I use OS X for everything I can. - Eric

One was a sega mega drive in the same case as a desktop

that would have been the amstrad mega pc ... linkage:

here and here

With all those hands

More than five years ago I set up a page about how to disassemble a Greyscale quickcam and how to remove the infrared filter from it. The web page of this /. story even links to the old URL. I left the company four years ago and the page was removed from their web server shortly afterwards.

Astrophotographers loved it, though, and a French astro club even recreated the page from a browser cache (!) and put up a backup: How to disassemble a quickcam, even Connectix tech support mentioned it to their users from time to time.

I am still receiving questions about the procedure described on that page, more than five years later...

What is this place, a porn shop?

Anyway, just do a firmware update. About 95% of the drives up there can be fixed so as to be either regionless or have a resettable region change counter.

See here.

get a patch for your drive, then get Region X; warning, direct download link to control the number of region changes you have left.

Works flawlessly for me, but usual disclaimers about fscking your dvd drive with a 3rd party mod apply.

-- james

get a patch for your drive, then get Region X; warning, direct download link to control the number of region changes you have left.

Works flawlessly for me, but usual disclaimers about fscking your dvd drive with a 3rd party mod apply.

-- james

The first generations (601, 603/604 and the ?aborted? 620) of the PowerPC line were scaled-back versions of the Power and Power2 architectures respectively [the original Power architecture was mounted on a 3x5 daughter card with 4-5 separate chips [I'll have to go looking for my tech papers] making-up the core ... because of this the migration of everything into one die for the PowerPC was amazing.

The PowerPC 601 was not a scaled back version of the Power series. To say this would imply that they took the design and modified it. In fact, they took the Power instruction set, modified that and then designed the processor to support it for the target markets.

The 64 bit PowerPC 620 was not "aborted" per se (like the PowerPC 615 was), rather IBM decided that its role was filled by the higher clocked 604 series and the then soon-to-come IBM Rochester, MN designed 64 bit PowerPC 630 (aka Power 3).

To verify my claim that the PowerPC 620 was not aborted, Motorola got suckered into manufacturing them for Bull.

Personally I prefer just going to one of the DVD firmware and utilities site, like The Firmware Page, and looking up which models of DVD drives can be painlessly modified to be region-free. I did this when I decided to upgrade to a new DVD drive; I bought a LiteOn LTR-163D 16X dvd drive with RPC-2, ran a DOS RPC-1 utility which safely disables RPC-2 without reflashing the drive, and everything works.

You don't really have to do this: as someone posted above, if you use a libdvdcss-based player, you can set the DVDCSS_METHOD environment variable to "title" and libdvdcss will usually be able to read the disc anyway. This isn't guaranteed to work, however, so I decided to disable RPC altogether in the drive.

In any case, with a little research you can do all of this for free, which beats giving money to some company that's profiting off of an already bad system.

keep it for the forthcoming hard times, it'll taste more like "boudin" :-)

The simplest way is to buy an ASUS DVD drive: just remove the "test" jumper and it is region free. See drawing

Also, this still won't help with the DVD drives that have the region checking stuff built into the hardware.

Well.. you could try writing down the model number of your DVD drive and go right over to the firmware page and see if you can find some region-free firmware for it.

It's worked for me on 2 different occasions.

Hardware hackers.. god love 'em..

Fucking

Austria rewlz !!!

Are the drives region-locked? Remember that the region lock is usually in the firmware as well as the player. All modern drives are shipped with a firmware region lock. Modified firmware is available from a number of places (such as this) to defeat the lock. After that, the data files should be easily accessible by DECSS.

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

Linux on toasters? Yawn. It's been done. I don't want to hear about toasters on linux either.

I've been a Mac user for years'n'years'n'years, and believe you me, I can feel your pain w.r.t. Mac OS X's window management.

The trick I'm using to keep them under control is to download Youpi Key, which is an automation tool, and configured it to hide all other applications with command-space. It's not perfect, because there are some apps I'd like not to hide, like DesktopConsole.

One final thing to note: Many of us (including Apple) would appreciate it if you could send this feedback to Apple here. If you could clearly explain your problem (and your post, as is, is mostly there), and then make clear suggestions on what exactly would help you, I'm sure they'll give it serious consideration. Their recent track record seems to support my belief that they are more customer-focused these days.