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'On that note, I just want to mention that Canadians are rarely seriously offended by Americans. We just think they are good for humor value [comcast.net] if nothing else. :)'

That's pretty funny from a resident of a country who's national security is dependent upon their proximity to the US. Face it, Canada would have been overrun long ago by Greenland, the Fiji Islands or some other half-assed county if it weren't for the presence of the US military. Canadians are drunks, liars and cowards and the whole world knows it.

As a Canadian, I just want to assure you that we do indeed refer to ourselves as being Canuckistani. It's absolutely hilarious to be talking to an American about Canuckistan. I remember one time I was playing America's Army, and I was going on about how we shared a border with Russia, and were the country furthest north. The guy I was talking to never clued in.

On that note, I just want to mention that Canadians are rarely seriously offended by Americans. We just think they are good for humor value if nothing else. :)

Those 5% that do need to serve data can get a "business" connection that has a more balanced upstream, and whose contract allows the customer to run servers / LANs / etc off the connection.

A common misconception. If it were true, I'd gladly pay $95/month for a full-service pipeline. But if you order the Comcast Pro product for $95/month you are still subject to the same crappy TOS. From the agreement:

2. Use of Service. The Subscriber Agreement is hereby modified to permit You to use the Service for small business commercial purposes in accordance with Comcast's then current published Comcast High-Speed Internet Pro product description (which may be changed from time to time in Comcast's sole discretion); provided that no servers will be placed behind your connection (i.e., HTTP, SMTP, NNTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, etc.). Comcast does not represent or warrant that the Service is appropriate for business or commercial use or will work as desired. There is no service level agreement covering the Service...

Need I go on?

"(xiv) run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;"

From the art.:...At the same time, agents received disturbing news from a prized snitch embedded in the identity theft and credit card fraud underground. Unnamed in court documents, the informant was an administrator and moderator on the Shadowcrew site who'd been secretly cooperating with the government since August 2003 in exchange for leniency. By all accounts he was a key government asset in Operation Firewall. ...
If you can read about it in the news, that may be more compelling if less flowing than reading the book. The full text of Bluejay Books edition including illustrations of this very prescient piece of SF is on line where you will not find any illustrations of Demi Moore or Paris "overexposed" Hilton. Sorry.

Yeah, and most canadians can't find their home state on a Map!

It's a disgrace!

It's all here: http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen/americans/



CBC has great shows :)

I say screw overclocking, how about parallel processing? Take this NES flash cartridge that has a nice 40Mhz PIC on it for example. Prototype pic

It might be interesting to write a game using that. It's not available yet, though.

The front (image is an underwater photo of an octopus)
The back guts held together with industrial velcro

The front (image is an underwater photo of an octopus)
The back guts held together with industrial velcro

There have been some public trials of these already. Very good, if you like blue. :-)

LaCreole Middle School, Dallas, Oregon, 1989
(Sorry about the editorial comments on the other pictures, that was my sister's doing and that's why I don't have any of my HS yearbooks any more)

I'm not trying to embarass anyone, but Slashdot demands proof, so there you go. As far as I'm concerned that does not diminish Jeri's accomplishments one bit. It should however, give all of you guys making comments like the upskirt stuff something to think about. Oh, and Mal, I expect you to apologize.

Interesting, my Googling turned up a value of 1.07 for Saturn here and here, so I assumed that 1.07 was the correct value. Further googling reveals estimates of Saturn's surface gravity ranging from 0.74 to 1.19.

However, she is a single geek with a masters degree who plays volleyball and who might be interested in dating a like minded, athletic, non-smoking, sane, intelligent person in the new england area.

email me at gary dot huntress at gmail for details

For example the output of the Archos Jukebox 6000 had overly small capacitors which limited bass. There is a mod that fixes this.

If regulators approve a Sprint-Nextel merger, Montezemolo said, "those great deals that consumers have come to expect and the ever-better packages will be a thing of the past."

Well, I hope you have big hands then, or some of them might be too big to handle.

Cliki, a wiki directory of "Links to and resources for free software implemented in Common Lisp and available on Unix-like systems."
CLOCC - the Common Lisp Open Code Collection"
common-lisp.net, providing hosting and remote repositories to dozens of Free Software Common Lisp applications.

This doesn't even touch SourceForge (which hosts another two dozen or so Lisp projects I'm aware of). When you consider how small the Lisp community is compared to the number of Perl hackers (easily in the range of 1000:1), and the number and quality of the code on just those repositories to CPAN, the productivity advantage of Lisp really does seem closer to 50x. According to your argument, all those Perl hackers should not have had any trouble in coming up with an efficient implementation by now. Yet, with less that a dozen regular hackers between them, the CMUCL and SBCL projects have produced compilers that outperform g++. At the very least, the Perl folks should not have had any trouble producing an efficient regular expression library, but here again, Lisp has them beat.

Of course, the above links point to software written in only one dialect of Lisp, Common Lisp. When you consider the software produced in other dialects, like Scheme, NewLisp, LUSH, XLISP, and Isis, the difference becomes even more apparent. To say nothing of commercial software, where none of the languages you mention can even boast a fraction of the number of large, successful systems delivered in Lisp.

And you can import the Blocklist into Zonealarm PRO using ZAUpdate: http://home.comcast.net/~zaupdate/index1.8.html

Hope this info helps.

(here, Lisp = Common Lisp)

Depending on the implementation, you can get some type checking (CMUCL and SBCL do type inference a lot, iirc).

While ML has type checking, it also needs a different operator for each type of argument. It probably affects refactoring a little and is sort of annoying, but nothing serious.

Just consider the Lisp "system" as a library. Depending on the smartness of the compiler, it can be shaken down to a smaller size.

FFI isn't exactly hard to do. From UFFI's (LGPL) manual:
def-function name args &key module returning

(def-function "gethostname"
((name (* :unsigned-char))
(len :int)) :returning :int)

Bah syntax. Both our opinions are probably extremely well anchored :)

How's Lisp harder to use imperatively? Just about every control operator has an implicit progn.

Faster. Often true, but how much so? Lisp, with annotations and compiled for speed instead of safety, is pretty to close to C. (Here's the last troll-induced response I can remember: http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/040308.html) . However, how much and how often does it matter?

Better metaprogramming support.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP .html Has quite a few useful tools listed, as well as links to download them. Adaware, Spybot, SpyWareBlaster, FireFox, and a lot more. Also, for those of you who have relations who won't use FireFox because it doesn't look the same, here's a short workaround: there are skins out there that will make FireFox look like IE (sacrilige, I know). If you get a few extensions and play with them as well, you can get the functionality to duplicate IE (minus those few instances where a page just doesn't load quite right). If you do a good enough coverup, nobody will be the wiser. ALSO, there are supposed to be some pretty good windows-looking-skins for some Linux distros... I believe UserFriendly made a reference to one a while back. If they won't do what's good for them...

That seven seconds between shots is killer for some folks... Check out this screenshot (take it easy slashdot, it ain't that interesting) http://home.comcast.net/~sean.workman/2004/11/worl ds-largest-digital-photo.html#comments/

What kind of music do you play out of curiosity?


The good kind.

If you're sad that Kerry lost November 2nd, consider that Kerry voted for the DMCA. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are on the side of the RIAA and MPAA. They're on the side of the big-money donors after all. That needs to change.

Kerry also supported the invasion and continued occupation of Iraq, as well as strengthening the USAPATRIOT Act!

This means that if you voted for Kerry, you voiced your support of the unilateral invasion of a foreign nation by the US, as well as your opposition to the preservation of civil liberties in this country. That's some heavy shit, and I failed to see why anyone voted for Kerry over Bush... the only reason any of those people were able to give me was that they were "sick of looking at Bush's face" on TV, and such. Us americans are getting what we deserve, if that's the amount of thought we're putting into deciding who to vote for... sheesh.

oh, and BTW, Nader was pointing this out the whole time. But as we all know, even though he had them found to be a partisan organization, "not credible to run nonpartisan debates", the CPD was even worse than they were in 2000 (when Nader was in the audience of the CPD debates).

I always had fun on my American Flyer

:-)

Now, an updated version for 'kids nowadays' ;-)

They didn't, but watch out for pistol-wielding airmen.

Direct links:
http://neverhost.net/public/full.mov
http://www.cornstar.net/ep3tease.qt
http://www.worldofepic.net/ep3.mov (Seems to only be teaser)
http://www.corrosiveproductions.com/files/mirrors/ starwars/starwars3trailer.mov (Verified by me as of 8:00)
http://www.crackabit.com/home/ep3teaser.mov (Seems to only be teaser)
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dbldn11/ep3.mov
http://www.jackpearce.info/full.mov (Verified by me as of 8:00)

Torrents:
http://www.numbski.net/downloads/sw3trailer.torren t
http://www.filerush.com/torrents/swep3-480.mov.tor rent

...at 500kb/sec. Well, not for long I'd imagine!

One of my favorites: I, Robot (Atari, 1983) Absolutly amazing for its time. You have to see it to believe it.

Victory Greetings to Slashdotters

Here ya go: Bush Victory Salute to Liberals, Democrats and The World!

Y HELO THER

MythTv

PVR Hardware Database

RedHat install guide

Gentoo Install Guide(I went this route)

Knoppix Myth

The console controls aren't very big in my opinion.

Got it now. Mirrored here, JIC. Please hit the link if you can, because they have a "Rate this article" thing at the bottom (I don't know if the form still works from the mirror, relative resources and such.), and we should give the author the good karma he/she deserves.

-hattmoward

OTOH, fast lisp code is ugly as sin.

His website brandonrouth.tv is not available, but his site has been archived with the Way Back Machine on archive.org. It looks like he even dressed up as superman (aka Clark Kent) for halloween some previous year. Here's his picture from the archive. Archived Halloween Picture I backed up a smaller version (I don't know my bandwidth limit though): My backup Hopefull he's put on some weight since this. He looks kinda skinny to be superman.

There are scads of folks out there busily building their own add-ons and plugins for the BartPE environment which you can just download and include in your own installation- everything from Java Runtime to Citrix ICA client to Trillian. And literally a hundred more.

I've found it an indispensible Windows recovery tool. I can boot off the CD and run Adaware, Spybot and McAfee scans on the system hard drive, removing all the IE trojan nonsense before it starts up and get resident in memory. I can connect to network shares and transfer data from machines that won't boot.

You don't even have to boot from the CD- it will autorun in an active Windows XP session and give you the same NU2 menu. So it can be used to run applications locally that you don't want to install on the client's machine.

Yeah, one thing about USA and capitalism, it's sooo hard for the price of things to drop in 10 years.

Escuse me as I head home to watch some TV on my 27" HDTV, mess around on my 3 GHz home computer, maybe do some christmas shopping on the cable modem... I've been thinking of a 5 MegaPixel digital camera, or maybe an XBox, or maybe an MP3 Player, or maybe one of any number of things that were inconceivable 10 years ago yet commonly affordable today...

They really should recapture that video, the "hi-res" version circling the net isn't really that hi-res by current standards.

FYI, I found it here

Glassner's strongly held opinion, which he argues quite coherently, is that a great story is the product of one (or a few) expert storytellers presenting a strong, consistent vision to you, the consumer. The fabled holy grail of gaming is letting the player do whatever they want -- full interactivity. And this is to a point fundamentally incompatible with telling a great story.

A decent LARP can demonstrate the folly of this statement. IL LARPers are a notoriously creative group of players. Games that allow the players to push the boundaries of the writers' story ideas and plots can turn into amazing events. Conjunction (at Intercon 11.5) and Tabula Rasa II are prime examples of games that just blew everybody away when they were done, including the authors.

I would love to get Mr. Glassner to an Intercon just to see what kinds of experiences are already out there. Interactive storytelling could learn a lot of lessons from the art of LARP writing.

For those who want to learn the secrets, there are occasionally Build Your Own Game seminars at Intercons and elsewhere. LARP authors get together to teach others how to write a good LARP by doing so collaboratively in 24 hours. (Intercon MidAtlantic is the next example I know of.) These games are not necessarily trivial, either. There have been some pretty amazing games as a result.

Among one of the changes to the original movies is the addition of Jar Jar.

http://home.comcast.net/wsb-cgi-bin/ssi.cgi?PWPToo l=ALEntry&State=True&wsbID=633698&GroupID=626840&O wner=gfeez This is working

http://home.comcast.net/wsb-cgi-bin/ssi.cgi?PWPToo l=ALEntry&State=True&wsbID=633698&GroupID=626840&O wner=gfeez

The Debate Badnarik Blog http://debatebadnarik.blogspot.com/ Sign up for the Debate Badnarik email List! http://home.comcast.net/wsb-cgi-bin/ssi.cgi?PWPToo l=ALEntry&State=True&wsbID=633698&GroupID=626840&O wner=gfeez/

Cool, maybe you would like my NES modem.

Internet cartridge and online games coming soon. :)

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

> You guys don't seem to understand that John is just the entry in a contest that the Dem's knew they couldn't win.

Funny, I thought Kerry was just their somewhat-good enough candidate to ride the Bush backlash into the white house. After all, Anyone But Bush, right? [35 kb animated gif, sfw]

Let me preface this with the fact that I'm a diehard slackware fan. If I used the Knoppix-based myth distro this all would have been close to plug and play.

My first attempt didn't go well. Unfortunately MythTV has a lot of dependencies and was a tweaking nightmare as it took a couple days of off-and-on effort for me to get to the point where I could just compile. Then work got busier and I set the project aside.

I finally ended up using the excellent walkthrough located here. I still ended up with some tweaking, but that was primarily the result of some bad permissions on a shared MySQL file.

The other thing I did that was a bit unusual is that I have a 4DTV analog and digital C-Band satellite receiver. I wrote a small python script that translates DirectTV program codes to tune the same channel on C-band, so the on-screen guide works (4DTV is yet to be supported by the OSG data supplier, hence this workaround.)

Anyway, it's been solid once I got it up and running. My next project is to attach the 7" touchscreen LCD display I got to use as a remote control head (mostly for the stereo so I don't have to fire up the plasma TV in another room just to listen to music.)

As far as how it compares to Tivo -- all my friends that have visited and seen the setup like the MythTV a lot better, especially the music and weather options. The main downside is that the best output on the PVR-350 is s-video, so you're not really driving the display at HDTV quality.

here

You'll be able to buy a 4-way Opteron system, use it for a while, then tie it into another 4-way Opteron later. And another, and another, up to 8 boxes with 4 CPU's each, or 64 CPUs if you're using the upcoming dual-core chips.

A 32- or 64-way system, with 32 128-bit DDR400 memory controllers (total aggregate memory bandwidth: 102 GB/s) with hardware partitioning, hot-plug connect/disconnect between systems, and even up to 64 megs of RDC cache between each link.

And, even better than the current offerings: If you think you might need 32 chips in a machine from one of the big names, then you buy a 32-way chassis/backplane to start with. These let you buy only what you need.

There are still some features that are found in the true "big iron" that aren't found in this platform, and some that will never be found in the Opteron platform. But with this level of advancement, you just can't tell me that the Opterons aren't eating in to the "high-end" server market.

steve