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This made me laugh hard enough to pee my pants. Thanks!

It's like a case mod made to look like a can of Hamm's.

Like it or not, people are comfortable with Windows, and some won't use anything else.

I agree that people use what they are comfortable with. That said, I also think that people that go to a library to user the internet, not specifically to use windows. Give them something they are familiar with. Linux can be dressed up to be as ugly as windows :)
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You can easily setup 40-50 of these clients on junk old junk hardware(P90s, 16-32 MB ram) using an ltsp server with just a 3.2 gig chip and 3 gigs of ram. You also get centralized administration, and no hard drives on the client machines to worry about. All for the just the price of the hardware.

The crusades went on for hundreds of years and resulted in the murders of tens of thousands of people. The Spanish Inquisition lasted over 300 years and resulted in the murder of 300,000 people.

But in 1994 alone, the Hutus slaughtered 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda. Mao Tse Tung's regime massacred 26.3 million Chinese between 1949 and May 1965. By 1971, about 62 million Chinese had been murdered. From October 1917 to December 1959 under Lenin and Stalin and Khrushchev, 66.7 million were killed in the U.S.S.R. None of the aggressors acted because of religion, except in certain cases for the purpose of wiping it out.

(Sources for figures cited within this page.)

That sudden on-off blinking is exactly why my homemade geek clock fades the blue LEDs on and off, instead of blinking them like the ThinkGeek clock.

You can do some cool stuff with low-frequency listening. I have heard radio skip that was transmitted on the east coast, bounced of a meteor storm, and came back down to my little antenna in California. I also like the pings and zooms from various atmospheric disturbances. You don't even need a storm to do it, but that just adds to the randomness.

If your car came with onstar you can hack it to get the GPS for almost free, plus the antenna is installed nicely for you. Slashdot had an article on this.

Yes, there is a windows port of pan. I've used it and it works as well as the linux version.

The whole point of this thread (great-grandparent post) was that a way to get started on linux was to start using open source software on windows that has linux ports.

I used this strategy for a school in my area that is now using LTSP
I got the started with OpenOffice.org and programs like tuxpaint. Even threw in some SDL games. When the time came to switch over, the programs that they were used to from the previous year were still there. I also put an ugly windows theme (just for this first year) to keep them familiar with the environment.

They just didn't get to your area yet. Port 25 is officially blocked in both directions.

Apparently very ugly.
kde monkey

Ok, so I'm no artist. But I needed to try out gimp2 on something.

Hrm, that's an interesting approach to film/video production. Seems to me like it might be kind of difficult and backwards if they're using the storyboard "to get a blueprint of the show", but yet don't start with the storyboard, like you would a blueprint in the conventional sense to produce a building. :-P "Uh, ok, we've got our rafters in place, and the foundation poured. What now? Start the blueprint?"

If it works, it works. :) Simpsons certainly has a formula that does just that.

On another note: you seem like you might be slightly connected in some fashion, so I figure I might as well try and plug something: part of my brother's animation demo reel:

demo.wmv

Take a look, if you would. I'd think you'd at least be entertained - I found it quite humorous. If you can do anything for the guy, you can contact "abe" 'on' hodgens net - the same TLD my site is hosted on.

I think a large reason why animation is done overseas is because many of the students that go into animation or slack-jawed drunkards with little internal motivation (as with the majority of high school graduates in the US). They want things handed to them and are not willing to put a large amount of effort into learning something new.

My brother is currently in school for animation at Collins College in Tempe, AZ. He's pretty decent at what he does (here is part of his demo reel, if anyone cares - I think it's funny, at least). His desire is to animate and create funny looking things. His classmates just seem to want to party and enjoy life, from what I'm told.

Enjoying life is good - but to what end? What are you accomplishing? They're certainly not making themselves very appealing employees - that, to me, seems like a fair enough motivation to look overseas.

On the other hand, I don't think such behavior is acceptable. If they want to import things from other countries while milking Americans of jobs and money, they should be slapped with import fees for using overseas work while not employing Americans. Of course, that will never happen.

I believe he refers to the people known as "ricers" or "tuners" who don't even bother improving their Honda Civic's performance, but spend $1000 or more on the fart can and the spoiler.

See here for more info.....

Google cache
Program


http://www.jibble.org/files/PieSpy-0.2.2.zip
(Original link, only use if mine is down and YOU are going to mirror.)

...AKA karma whoring for fun and profit

Mirror w/ pictures

According to NetCraft, Alex Jones' site is hosted at EV1Servers.net... I wonder if the sum total of the ruined money is $700? I guess it would save a lot of time to just burn the money rather than give it to SCO, yet you would still have the same end result: out $700, and nothing much to show for it.

Just be glad that Cox isn't trying to buy them.

vaudeville Students that knows when the Gig is up.

dont let this happen if you do.

FYI, the "unlimited" they refer to is the ability to connect, not the bandwidth. As shown here. Their packages (which incidentally, don't apply to my area) are listed here. I average 250-300 gigs/month and haven't received anything.

According to my ISP (Cox), my account is unlimited also. But when I went and looked at the fine print it said that by unlimited they really mean 'always connected' and that they do, in fact, have bandwidth limitations. The limits, were not in the same reading though. I eventually managed to find the limitations on their website cox.net but only after 5 or 10 minutes of digging for it. If I remember correctly the download limit was 7 gigs a day, but no more then 30 gigs a month, and upload was 2 gigs a day, but no more than 7 gigs a month. Although these may be wrong since I can't totally remember, and when I went to look it up, I was, of course, not able to find it.

The link is so blazing fast that it actually slows down time, like Superman in the movie. That's why we all feel like Defcon was months ago. It was really last week.

In related news, the shuttle was traveling at 18x the speed of light when it broke up... Really, cnn said so here, and everyone knows cnn is the epitome of clueful.

Hopefully, this will benefit more than just cars. Strides in automotive technology have improved many other aspects of our lives.

I just remember Watergate. .... Guys like Agnew got nailed for things completely unrelated, but without the scandal, they never would have been investigated. If this blows up, watch for a lot of other things (Haliburton?) to suddenly show up on the law-enforcement agendas.

Didja know that Rumsfeld was a member of Nixon's cabinet?

"Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Assistant to the President, and a member of the President's Cabinet (1969-1970); and, as Counsellor to the President, Director of the Economic Stabilization Program, and a member of the President's Cabinet (1971-1972)."
- Source

The Rumsfeld-Cheney-Nixon connection is also interesting:

"When President Richard M. Nixon selected Rumsfeld as White House counselor in 1970, Cheney joined him as his deputy. In August 1974, Gerald Ford assumed the presidency and asked Rumsfeld to be his chief of staff. Rumsfeld immediately sought out Cheney."
- Source

Rumsfeld never got press as a major Watergate player. But this is interesting:

"Rumsfeld was not entirely divorced from Nixon's political operations. There is no sign that he was involved in any of the illegalities of Watergate, but he was willing to offer Nixon other help of a not particularly exalted nature--some dirt on political enemies, some covert ties with a prominent pollster. The Nixon tapes reveal that Rumsfeld often worked with and was a special favorite of John Mitchell and Charles Colson, Nixon's roughest political operators, who viewed Rumsfeld as savvier than other White House aides."
- Source

Mitchell was an obstructor of justice, and Colson was a hatchet man. Rummy was close with those guys? Must be sweet to have a resume like that -- fits right in with the Bush administration.

-kgj

I need to find a penguin suit for my significant other and settle this little debate

We already found one.

"But I am le tired!
so go take a nap.. THEN LAUNCH THE MISSILES!"

here's a link to the swf referred to, for those of you who don't have friends that compulsively forward everything funny they come across..

Looking at their AUP I also came across this...

How do I add a second computer to my Cox High Speed Internet service?

To request additional computer access, do the following:

1. Click here to add multiple computers.
2. Log in using your primary email address and password. Click Submit to continue.
3. Click the Multiple Computer Access link to continue.
4. Click the Add Computer link and follow the directions.

Note: You can have a maximum of three Computer Connections per Cox High Speed Internet account (including your primary computer). Adding additional computers to your account does require a monthly fee. For prices, call your local Cox Communications Office.

What is the speed, of my Cox High-Speed Internet service?
Downstream data moving from the Internet to your computer is configured at 3 megabits/second (Mbps). Upstream data moving from your computer to the Internet is configured at 256 kilobits/second (Kbps). By setting the network equipment at these levels, we are able to deliver consistent high-speed Internet service.

I bought an 'unlimited' service. I asked you if the Cox High-Speed Internet service is rate limited, and you said no. This doesn't sound like the 'unlimited' service I signed up for. What happened?
Cox provides, as advertised, unlimited access to the Internet. However, Cox neither advertises nor provides unlimited service; as bandwidth is a finite commodity. Cox High Speed Internet is still advertised as being "downstream speeds up to 100 times faster than a 28.8 telephone modem" and remains the best service, quality, features, and speed for the price.

1. Maximum downstream speed: 3 megabits per second
2. Maximum upstream speed: 256 kilobits per second
3. Maximum monthly consumption cap: 30 gigabytes downstream; 7.5 gigabytes upstream
4. Size per email message: 5 megabytes
5. Size per email account/address: 10 megabytes
6. Personal WebSpace account size: 10 megabytes of disk space per email address
7. Personal WebSpace traffic: 300 megabytes of traffic per month (for visitors viewing your pages)

So there you go--software that will encode a file as audio that'll survive being recorded to tape. Should survive MP3 compression too; it's just frequency shift keying, like the old 300 baud modems. No info is being encoded in the phase of the tones...

Firstly, I've got a 2003 honda civic. In my area they've got boxes on the side of the road that tell you your speed. I've tested it and as far as I can tell my speedometer is spot on. The box says I'm going 40 and my speedometer is right on 40. However, my GPS (Garmin Legend) is always over by about 7mph. Also, I'm not sure how it calculates my max speed, but last time I checked it said something like 242mph. All I can figure is it got corrective data and applied it to recalculated my position and the error went down from 18ft to 6ft and in doing so I moved 12ft really fast (in the eyes of the GPS...)

If your car does have OnStar you can just disconnect the damn thing and use it as a regular GPS ala Tap into Onstar

Granted you won't the "Hello, did your airbag just deploy?" kind of reassurance... however you'll know they aren't tracking your location anymore.

My fear would be that the cop would pull me over and plug a unit into the side of my car and say "I'm giving you a ticket because your car tells me you were doing 157mph in a school zone..."

Think about the local knucklehead cop in your town... they are not trained to question the technology they work with... a radar gun just works. Trying to explain that a radar gun needs to be tuned regularly falls on deaf ears.

Yes there are cops who are not knuckleheads and do understand the short comings of the techonolgy, their just in the minority.

The rest point the radar/laser gun at your car and go "It says your doing 50, your in a 30 zone, you get a ticket".

You can make great kites from bamboo, garbage bags and duct tape. The cheap-o rogalo wings scale up just as well as they scaled down to begin with. A large garbage bag or two, with carefully placed duct tape reinforement makes a very large kite, 6 to 9 foot wingspan.

A $100 camera can take good pictures. I've got a nasty old sipix with 1200x1600 resolution that works well. All you really need to worry about is protecting it from the inevitable fall and making a good trigger.

My triggers have used christmas tree lights for a timer. They are light, rugged, cheap and easy. I've used them to fire a solenoid that drew music wire down on the button and to close a relay that did the same thing electronically. This eliminates the need for figuring out how to do things via USB and you get about one picture per second of flight. All you need to worry about is having lots of memory. A 64 MB CF card did well enough for me and a 256 MB would be excellent.

The only thing I've really lacked is time when the wind is blowing. You can see some of this fun and the results here.

When it's all said and done, chances are that you have everything you need to do this already. Go get it! It's lots of fun.

My first computer was made from an article in Radio-Electronics magazine using an Intel 8008. A little googling showed me this as an example of the machine I made way back then. Nothing quite like writing a boot loader and keying it in by hand so I could read the rest of the program in from an audio tape. Then I built a keyboard and I could fill my 1K of memory in short order. And a clock speed that ran in the KHz would really light you on fire.

By god we were hackers then, in the best sense of the word. What practical use was it? It jump started me into a lifelong career and paid for itself thousands of times over. And it was fun!

2.6.0 includes a driver I wrote for an older Gravis gamepad system called the "Grip Multiport". It lets up to 4 people play multiplayer games using SNES-style gamepads.

The multiport used to cost > $100; now you can pick up a hub and 4 gamepads on ebay for under $10.

For more details, follow this link.

If any of your officemates are over 30, they may enjoy going down memory lane with some head-to-head arcade action.

There is a cheap, multiplayer gamepad that allows up to 4 simultaneous players. I've used it with XMAME to play Gauntlet, etc. with friends. I've even got some extra hubs if you're interested. Installing the driver involves a quick download and cutting and pasting a few commands.

Click this link for details. It's got links to information on linux arcade games near the bottom.

If that's really true, I have a device driver for you to port from linux to Windows that could make you semi-famous. It should be a snap to port; it makes straightforward calls to the linux joystick interface API.

anyone who reads this and wants to give it a try is welcome to it.

Click this link to learn more about a cool, cheap, multiplayer joystick driver that would be cool to have working under Windows.

I've had at least one guy who's used the Windows API for more than ten years tell me that there is no good documentation for writing device drivers using Microsoft's DirectX, even to something as simple as the joystick port. It would be so cool for you to prove him wrong, and people would adore you from afar. :-)

Looks like his web server's made of Lego too.

Well, this might be a tad too literal, but hey. A Lego Case Mod is still pretty cool, right? :)

There's an extension called This Window that should help.

Quick source.

Looking to put it in your bathroom?

The time they did the American MC Gee's version of Strawberry Shortcake... :)

Google knows all! This site has 3 versions of Snipes.

No doubt. Of course, since this is analogous to the famous Travelling Salesperson problem, it is NP complete. Finding a solution in even a medium-sized city, what with the number of vertices, would take an awfully long time. Grid cities are easy because there are simplifying algorithms (i.e. don't move away from the goal) but in more complicated cities (say, London) this is not always true. There probably are simplifying algorithms for any given city, but I'm not sure there are for cities as a group, especially when walking (when you can't weight speed or other variables very well.)

Maybe you could start with something like this.

A cool picture is here.

Maybe you could start with something like this.

A cool picture is here.

I bought my Prius after I moved from Wisconsin to D.C., but it has handled well in the snow that D.C. has thrown at it, including this batch. I prefer it to my non-hybrid in the snow, if that helps.

AllTheWeb's FTP searcher is okay, but unfortunately they seem to be all too happy to yank sites from their database when they get whined at about copyrights. I liked it better when it was still ftpsearch.fast.no... bah, humbug. Anyway, for further searching satisfaction, see filesearching.com and a directory of FTP search engines-- many of which are based on the original ftpsearch server, whose source code is available.

You are absolutely correct. I am affected by this change. Read more here. Port 135, specifically, is being blocked/filtered on the advice of the US government.

This price/performance ratio seems to make them very attractive compared to general purpose CPUs. According to the NASA G5 Study, the P4 2.66 GHz is only able to achieve 255 MFLOP/s. And the P4 costs about 4x the price of the 6711 DSP.

It seems that DSPs should be the clear winner in supercomputer applications, what are their disadvantages and why are they not used? Granted there is a lack of mass produced hardware such as motherboards for DSPs, but that alone should not exclude them from the supercomputer realm.

Actually, that block seems to have been requested by the Dept. Of Homeland Security, according to my ISP.

See:
http://support.cox.net/custsup/safety/port_135.s ht ml

Okay, how about NASA ?

Search around. A few years ago, I found an archive of the Joust sounds. There's some here and Joust (and other era games) screens and has other sounds. I suspect the game companies go after sites with sounds, so Google for more if some get killed.