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minoten has made a working HDCP addon for dvi projectors, I believe... perhaps you should contact him, may be cheaper than from germany. ... not that you should need it in the first place.

Speaking of greenbacks and paper swans...

I didn't like the BCD display either, so I made my own. Mind you, this was months before ThinkGeek had a clock with blue leds. And the LEDs in mine fade on and off instead of just blinking. It's much more serene.

Video of the clock, schematic and C code (I am *not* a C programmer, and the code reflects that fact) are available in the zip file.

I didn't like the BCD display either, so I made my own. Mind you, this was months before ThinkGeek had a clock with blue leds. And the LEDs in mine fade on and off instead of just blinking. It's much more serene.

Video of the clock, schematic and C code (I am *not* a C programmer, and the code reflects that fact) are available in the zip file.

Do you mean ... this one? Mwa ha ha ha ha

Creeped out yet? Now? .. How about now?

Sky King will be so happy!

I call bullshit.

Content Management Systems can be updated very quickly.

Here's a little flash demo of adding a new article to a joomla site(the demo's about 1meg of flash)

That's creepy.

I always knew thier burgers tasted funny.

Same here. Apparently privoxy doesn't like "banner.jpg"

mirror

I like the green line

How about this ?

You really should fix this ASAP. The default is confusing and looks very much like the stories in grey are assosicated with the front-page stories.

Take a look at how much more intutive this simple change is:
screenshot

Sounds a lot like Directive 10-289 from Atlas Shrugged...

It's a bit more money, but there is atleast one custom lcd panel/controller which'll do WUXGA (1920x1200) with DVI input for native 1080p HDTV.

har har har. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_t he_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_cor rected_in_Wikipedia, http://members.cox.net/kevin82/eberrors.htm, and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/42095 75.stm

I've been using Beanshell for a while and it works pretty well. I like that it allows to write scripts in java syntax.
My only gripe is that there isn't a safe way to kill a script that is running in a seperate thread. Groovy any better in that respect?

BTW, here's a little app I wrote using swing & beanshell.

... but for what it's worth. http://members.cox.net/yro.yro/

Public Viewing Session

The observatory will be open to the public on Friday, October 28th at 8:00pm weather permitting.
Venus shines brightly in the west-southwest just before sunset. It's second in brightness only to the moon after sunset. After night falls, you'll find Mars rising in the east. Mars is closest to Earth this week and next! It's shining brilliantly at magnitude -2.2 in Aries near the Taurus border. It rises fiery yellow-orange in the east-northeast in twilight, blazes high in the eastern sky by 10 p.m., and moves over to the west by dawn. And it's rising earlier every day. In a telescope Mars is 20 arcseconds wide. For a couple of weeks it remains essentially as large as when at its very closest on the night of October 29th. Check out recent amateur images of the planet including its dust storm here: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/plane ts/article_1612_1.asp

SFA OBSERVATORY NOTES http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/obs.htm

The SFA Observatory's viewing sessions are intended for visitors of all ages and are free of charge. Since these are outdoor events, poor weather conditions may force a cancellation. The current weather report can be found here. To reach the SFA Observatory dial 936-569-0102 and for maps and directions http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/tour_form .html. We have free SFA Star Charts that you can download and print http://members.cox.net/astro7/SFAStarCharts.html. To see what's up in the sky see this Week's Sky at a Glance.

For larger groups please email me in advance so that I can have additional help available.
In addition to our public viewing session at the SFA Observatory you may also want to attend a planetarium show on a Friday night. Here's the planetarium schedule: http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/planetarium/index.htm

As a geek with a CNC mill and a couple of electronic digital clock projects completed, this is a very attractive project.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any detailed plans for the construction of the elements of the clock.

Anybody see any construction details?

Here's one

I knocked it out in a couple minutes. No XML parsing, just simple request and innterHTML.

One problem. XmlHttpRequest is sandboxed in much the same way Java applets are.
They can only make requests back to the host they originated from. So I defaulted in an address.

• herman miller aeron - nice chair, comfortable for many hours
• datahand proII split keyboard/mouse - nice ergo keyboard, no arm strain moving to mouse and back. mouse fine for programming use, but for extended image work/CAD, would not be sensitive enough. They take a while to learn. Personal has most of the required features, and costs less. Pricing is very good right now. A bit sensitive to dust, nobody can operate your computer.
• chair arm mounts for datahands - split keyboard mounted on arms is very nice. Always in fine ergo position, even with feet up on desk.
• dual opteron 246HE, 3G RAM, tyan k8we, with newer nvidia vidcard. nice board after the week of configuration.
• gentoo gnu/linux - excellent footing, great pkg mgmt, fine community.. requires a bit of initial configuration
• eclipse - best IDE there is, with plugins, even better. Need a beast of a box to run it well.
• video
  1. current - nv twinview (2560x1024) over 17"crt and 19" lcd. LCD is Samsung 191T+. Nice, but low resolution (1280x1024)
  2. future - 19" LCD with WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD based homebrew projector on good screen in dimmed room. Should be fine for coding and good for movies/sdtv/hdtv.

All the above are no substitute for hard work, research and forethought, of course. But you'll go better for longer.

The quote on the front from none other thatn Athur C. Clarke is. "Both an amusing fantasy and a serious warning of the 24-hour a day future."

Most CDs survive 5 years. Some CDs were made badly - a chemical was used on the label which ate into the foil. You should check around, for instance:

http://members.cox.net/surround/uhjdisc/bronze.htm
http://www.classical.net/music/guide/bronzedcds.ht ml

But most are OK. Like most records are.

1920x1200, hdtv spec, dvi/vga/composite/component in, PiP, etc $795. Group buy, in volume. Would make for great core of homebrew projector. Buy 10 of 'em and have a nice cave ;)

looks like this.

These are my two favorite computing memories, at least the two that first came to mind:

* Tandy PC-3 : This was my first computer. I got it when I was 10. I credit it with my long standing infatuation with pocketable and portable computers, programming, and the idea of user-programmable operating environments and applications. It has a whopping 4 KB of memory. And not just RAM, in the sense of working memory- but it was 4KB in which your program and any data would have to fit. It was tiny- smaller than most PDAs are today... very thing. It docks with a sweet Printer/Tape Drive interface, that provides a little 2-3" wide thermal tape printer and the jacks to interface to a little casette drive. I got it free from my uncle. Apparently they were tossing it out. He worked at BASF, and they used it for calculating how much ink/water to put in for making ink mixtures just right. I had been a computer nerd my whole life before it, but unfortunately, a computer nerd without a computer. But it was something I always thought about, making fake computers out of cardboard, reading books about computers, etc. And now I had my own! Not only a computer, but something really, really cool! I took it to school and printed off friends biorhythms, which was one of the BASIC programs I keyed in, one of the examples in the extensive user manuals. I still have her, though she languishes in a drawer at my parents house. Everything works, but the LCD (one line,baby!) is cracked, and only the first half of the characters are readable. Sometimes, I think about trying to figure out what screen I could replace it with and resurecting it... There are too many memories about this beaut to describe just one.

* Tandy TRS-80 4P : Ahh... another computer surrounded with many great memories. A couple friends and I came upon a TRS-80 4P for free at some point. This was in 1995 or so and I was 15. For those who don't know, the P denotes "portable." It was a luggable to be sure, though from what I've read, more luggable than some others that carry the descriptor. When we got it, the monitor was out of sync. But V- and H-Sync dials weren't on the outside. Thinking it was just a broken old computer, and having little respect for the mechanical god it was, one of us had smacked the thing. I have no idea who or why it was smacked in the first place- but after it was, we noticed the sync was a little better! Another smack... and better yet! We ended up taking turns whacking the thing, beating it- until the sync was fixed! We were amazed and, at the time, we thought it was pretty damn hillarious, proud that we could tell people that sometimes, to fix a computer you just have to beat it senselessly. A few months later, we took it apart for fun and found those V- and H-Sync nobs, hidden somewhere deep in the case. Now that's what I call good industrial design!

Another fond nerd-memory about the 4P... After a couple weeks of no manuals, no help, no prior experience with any TRS model (we were in Apple country, see) but a lot of random hacking, we were able to write a very very simple editor in BASIC that would write to 5.25" floppies. Nothing fancy like ed, but it worked. With this editor, one of my friends Lucas and I started to take it to school with us for takling out notes. "Annoyingly nerdy" comes to mind as a descriptor. We had a lot of classes together, and would take turns. Some teachers made us put it away- after all, the thing beeped every key you pressed, and the keyboard's clacking and the computer itself was pretty loud. But others seemed to think it was a great idea, introducing technology into the classroom, with the initiative being in the hands of the students. That amused us by itself, since we didn't think they knew the kind of useless dinosaur we had on our hands- though with better software, it would've been far more useful. Anyway, lugging around a 40 lb

continuous rotation electric power generator-- 300,000 km, o petrol/liter, just compressed air

Orontes Corporation

It meets every one of her user requirements to a tee: shiny stuff to wiggle around and click, and playing of veggie-tales DVDs (with a little help).

I can understand everyone being unimpressed with this article, but do not cast doubt upon DIY LCD projectors so suddenly.

I built a projector with a resolution of 1920x1200 (WUXGA) - for around $1,000. My screen size is 102" diag, with my projector mounted behind me in the closet (silent).

Up to now people were limited to 1024x768 (XGA) resolution in their DIY Projectors, and that just isnt much these days. I set out to change this.

I accomplished a WUXGA resolution by utilizing a previously unusable LCD Panel, a laptop LCD Display.

I ended up using the SHARP 15.4" WUXGA displays used in laptops, and had a custom controller made for the LCD panel. The controller features PiP, PbP, DVI-D, VGA, Component, Composite, S-video, Remote, and other advanced features.

I have not heard one complaint from anyone who has watched my projector, in fact they all beg me to build them one or try to buy mine off of me.

For those interested in some REAL DIY with some REAL results, go to http://www.lumenlabs.com/, that is where I learned about all the necessary things to build a projector.

For those interested in the LCD Display setup I used, I offer them in the US & Canada once every few months in a group buy format. Read about it here: http://members.cox.net/minoten and here: http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic =4203

Perhaps you are thinking of, To Serve Man.

http://members.cox.net/johnahamill/armorodd.html

I admit, "Rail Guns" have become common shorthand for all electromagnetic accelerator guns, but it's still taking an existing name in common usage and using it for something completely different. You can't just call a Building to Building weapon a B2Bomber, or an armored 18 wheeler a "battle-ship."

Get a new name. The one you want was taken in WW2.

All of the programs mentioned run on a variety of platforms, how is this a blow to M$?

BTW, what the fuck kind of word is "VZBIRYT", and why do I have to fucking type it in?

apparently the word is "VZBIRVT" or I am not a fucking human...

Apparently the fucking thing is broken....

It is fucking broken, here's the test picture...

Tell me what the fuck it is....

There may be a huge amount of educational software out that will run under common run times like macromedia or quicktime, but the powers that be are only currently interested in windows and mac.
IMHO, a good chunk of that software provides little more than help in developing children's rudamentary motor skills. For more advanced content there is already a common runtime platform in HTML.

I understand everyone has to make a living, and I don't mind paying for some software. My animocity towards renlearn.com is slightly biased because of their arrogance in refusing to even acknowledge the requests of paying customers.
There is an immediate need to have their software run correctly (which Wine, crossover, & cedega wont do) on Linux and there is no relief in sight. Its content is what is of some value, not its presentation by any means.

For this purpose, existing software applications based on a programming paradigm of icon based custom workflows doesn't really help when a database of testing reading comprehension on specific library books is needed.
I have no desire to re-invent the wheel, I just don't think that this wheel exists as far as a standardized relational content repository of questions and answers of library books.
It is very possible that an existing XML schema to hold this type of data already exists, if that's the case I'll just use that one and work on making it easy to collect data for it.

All that said, I really do like your idea of an open source SVG authoring toolkit and runtime.
I'm more of a Java guy than a pascal guy, but it does sound like it would be fun to write.
I wrote programming tutor called jturtle using BeanShell which seems like it would be a pefrect fit. BeanShell allows you to script using java and compiles on the fly. I think I'm going to try and slap together a little proof-of-concept app that allows you to run an xml file containg GUI icon elements and scripts to help with workflow/decision logic. Authoring would come second if this is a viable option.

Your boss can't hold back your paycheck, it's against the law! Being treated like scum is against the law too. I have a web page with some links. http://members.cox.net/yro.yro/at_work.html Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself.

Gee.. I wonder why you posted that as an AC

Using linux does not have to mean typing in scripts at a bash shell.
Linux can be made to look and act just as point-and-clicky as windows.

Using K12LTSP enables you to quickly set up a large school network where students have access to office applications, web browsing, photo editing, desktop publishing, web publishing,programming languages , etc.
It also centralizes network administration, allows for recycling hardware, and saves a ton of money on software licensing.
It is important to teach computer concepts, not just the nuances of the latest proprietary office suite.

Just remember, It should never under any circumstances be the responsibility of educators to teach brand loyalty.

"Serving Canadians"

It's a cookbook!

The patent system is really, really, screwed!

http://members.cox.net/falcon842/TechnicalReport.p dfats there needs to be a space between Technical Report

Here is the technical document http://members.cox.net/falcon842/TechnicalReport.p df

My favorite question from the list:

Are you familiar with a joint paper of Besovik and Bombialdi which might explain why the converse of Theorem 5 is false without further assumptions?

lego PC cases
http://members.cox.net/richw/lego.htm

hay, that's Cox.net's tier 2 office.

Meet Jack Chick

Never seeded before but thought since no torrents have shown up I'd give it a try. Hopefully it will work, and hopefully my ISP won't freak out thinking I'm distributing illegally. :)

http://members.cox.net/gothzilla/ns_install_v3.exe .torrent

I have a Motorola i730 and use myJAL (with a data cable) to upload .mid or .wav files from my computer to my phone. I can easily convert my MP3 songs into WAV format and then have a custom ringtone for free!

Teaching Linux is like teaching Esperanto: not practical in the real world. Students should be taught skills they can readily use in the real world, and with computers that means Windows. Too bad, its true.

Wow.I can see why you posted that as an AC.

What exactly are these windows specific "real world" skills that we should teach a k-12 student?

Intenet usage?... check
Word processing? Spreadsheets? Presentations?... check check check
Programming?... check
Photo Editing?... check


Is it that Linux looks so different that kids wouldn't be able to find their way around in windows?

I've got a "real world" story for you.
Two years ago I put together one of these k12ltsp labs for a small school of about 300 students ages 5-13. I doubt very many of them had ever heard the word Linux before.
Guess what? They took to it instantly. Even the older kids that were using windows for several years.

The fact is Linux (LTSP especially) is a much more economically viable option for schools.

One more thing. You have the right to your own opinion, but your analogy was weak.
Esperanto provides no immediate benefit. Using Linux saved the school enough budget that they were able to purchase flat panel monitors for the entire lab this year.

Was that meant in response to my post?
If so, you missed the point.

I was just pointing out that it is not necessary for a k-12 user to have to compile a kernel to use the system.

I'm all for teaching them as much as possible. I've even gone as far to write an object-oriented programming tutor.

What joseamuniz was posting was FUD about linux being inherently difficult to use.

Yay, I get to plug another poject again:

You can move a turtle around in java with Jturtle

Did you get caught up in this recent "terrorist" attack on WoW? I know somebody who did, and thought it was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

This document is also 15 years old. Let's think about computing power available 15 years ago. Yes, there were computers more than powerful enough to do handle brute force decryption, not to mention more sophisiticated means. In terms of portability, however, there was nothing.

That's simply not true! A great example is the Tandy 100 portable computer. Introduced in 1983, it was basically about as powerful as other 8-bit computers. It was portable and ran on AA batteries. The cost was very reasonable; according to one site, the early models were about $800 to $1000 and they later dropped to about $500.

Yes, it would have been slow and annoying to use an old 8-bit computer like this for real cryptography. But not impossible. You could easily do RSA on it, if you restrict yourself to small keys, like 16-bit or something. I'm sure you could even do some symmetric crypto algorithm with reasonable speed. If you're using it to transmit military messages, what does it matter if it takes 10 minutes to encrypt 1 kilobyte?

The point isn't that you could do some kind of crypto that'd be unbreakable by today's standard. The point is that computer-assisted crypto would easily have been possible in the field 15 years ago if someone really wanted to do it. And that's using off-the-shelf parts that were available at your local shopping mall. If, say, the US military wanted to design a portable device for electronic crypto in the field, they could've built a box with 50 Motorola 68020 processors running in parallel if they'd really wanted. Or put the crypto algorithm straight into silicon -- that kind of thing is totally possible if you have a budget like the US military had in the 1980's...

Does he correct for all those errors in real-time too?