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• 250 GPH Submersible water pump $34 - I think you can get away with a smaller unit, but this runs fairly quiet, especially when put in a cabinet.
• Maze2 Waterblock $42 - This, in my opinion, is the best waterblock out there, and the price ain't bad.
• Transmission oil cooler $44 - dangerden also sells these, since in my exp. carparts.com may take months to deliver.
• Assorted hardware and tubing <$20 - Some 3/8" ID tubing, some hose clamps, and an adapter convert the 1/2" pump to 3/8".
• Some time $priceless - Anyone got some of this for sale? I can use some!

Slap it all together and you're in business. I've removed two of the fans from the case, and put one of them on the radiator but I never turn it on. The one in the power supply runs at low speed until the PSU gets really hot (which it never does now since all the heat is piped out of the case). The hard drives (2x 40GB 7,200RPM IBM 60GXPs) still make some noise, but I put the case on, and put the box in the cabinet in my desk, and I can't even tell if it is running. The ThinkNIC named littlelarry with the fan removed from its heatsink now makes more noise.

I don't even proof for Netscape anymore. Our pages work in Netscape 6, Mozilla, IE and Lynx.

If someone is still using Netscape 4.x, that's fine, but I'm not going to write two fifty-page web sites, one of which is a hacked, broken, non-standard monstrosity just so those people can see our site without a bunch of errors.

..and I'm *certainly* not going to waste time on two sets of stylesheets, Javascripts, etc. Every minor update to the site would take days.

Server-side includes and shell/sed/awk scripts are your friends. :-) You can structure a site so that it spits out standards-compliant code for real browsers, yet is able to hack a page on-the-fly to deal with Nutscrape's borkenness.

If it were entirely up to me, I'd tell the Nutscrape users to bugger off, but I had to put together a corporate website that had to be viewable with the widest range of browsers. I've since adapted the code to my homepage as well. View it with IE/Mozilla/Opera/Lynx/iCab/whatever and you get standard HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 (or is it 1?). View it with Nutscrape and you get a hack job that looks more or less like what real browsers produce with standard code.

(As an aside, iCab renders the page incorrectly. The funny thing is that it doesn't complain about invalid HTML or CSS. Given that it's a beta, it's more than likely a bug that'll get worked out. IE and Opera render the page correctly. Last time I checked it (which was some time ago), Mozilla worked OK as well.)

I wrote a Type 1 MICR font (GnuMICR) by hand, as far as I know, the only freely available MICR font out there, and licensed it under the GPL. (Postscript is a language, my font is a "program", IMHO).

I had a request from a guy who wanted to do a closed-source check printing program, and wanted to use my font. I told him that I would license it to him for a fee, but that he could not use it under the GPL if he hard-coded the font into his application. i.e., his application WOULD NOT WORK without my font. If he had made a font selection dialog, and happened to distribute my font with his program as one option, then that would probably have been fine by me.

For kicks, though, I asked the GPL newsgroup, and none other than Linus responded that he thought they were in the clear if they wanted to bundle my font with their app. I didn't really pursue it much further...

In any case, this DLL linking is probably more clear cut, and I think it's most likely a violation. But whenever you get interactions between GPL and non-GPL'd code, it gets tricky.

just use dyndns.org yourself!

Sam TH

If anyone wants to read my childish, oversimplified overview of OS theory (since this post got so many responses, someone might be interested), it's at:

ursine.dyndns.org/~mnoelharris/brainlinux.html

http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm

mirror early, mirror often.

Done. You can also get an archive, with HTML and images ready to dump into your own website to make mirroring even easier, here.

http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm

mirror early, mirror often.

Done. You can also get an archive, with HTML and images ready to dump into your own website to make mirroring even easier, here.

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Also, as a side note, you can dramatically decrease bandwidth for pages with lots of HTML (like half-empty's front page) and only some small (cachable) sparse images via GZip compression. In the past when I've mentioned this to webmasters they're usually pretty surprised, never hearing of it before. Netscape 4, IE5, and Mozilla all support client side page decompression via GZip, and all it takes is an Apache plugin (or for servlets, I had to write it myself) to send the right headers along with the compressed data. It won't break on older browsers, it's just sends the uncompressed pages. A 35k front page (something I was feeling REALLY guilty about) now serves up at around 6k, and everyone breathes a lot easier.

...after a few more years, the novelty of the 'net will fade, and it will become a standard part of our lives. People won't see the need to have their own website anymore, unless they really are trying to share something with the world that is worthwhile.

No offense, but bullshit. Did the novelty of the Polaroid fade? Are the only people who have an interest in photography these days folks like Ansel and Maplethorpe? No! Now we have disposable cameras and sticky film.

Personal pages will be around as long as somebody's giving away free hosting in exchange for ad banners... Now if you want to debate the certain death of the ad banner, that's different. :-)

Screw the banners...with broadband to the home, you can run your own server and put whatever you want on it, with the only size limit being what your hard drive can hold and without those stupid "punch the monkey" banner ads. If anything, personal pages have the potential to proliferate (say that three times quickly :-) ) to an even greater extent than before, and potentially with less meddling from The Powers That Be (assuming for a moment that they don't do something really stupid, like say that you can't host your own website on your cable-modem or DSL connection).

(FWIW, I've heard from people in other parts of the country with high-bandwidth connections that their usage of those connections is somewhat restricted. Maybe I'm lucky, as the provider I'm using doesn't seem to care much what I do with the fat pipe, as long as I don't resell bandwidth or provide warez/kiddie pr0n/etc. through whatever services I might make available. Besides, with 128 kbps upstream, it's only good for a personal site that sees maybe 10-20 hits on a good day.)

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Or controversy, considering that I was really angry and swore at a school administrator and got suspended... That kind of sucked. Lot of First Amendment vs. respect anger there. And then a friend of mine quoted me and got suspended too.

However in general I think that democratizing this sort of publishing is really positive, as long as it's not merely bitching about having a crummy day and so forth.

I bought the domain thwart.net, hoping to make it into a sort of anarchial index of other people starting up weblog-type setups oriented around their friends, not just themselves. However I've been busy. :-( Could be cool though.

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Or controversy, considering that I was really angry and swore at a school administrator and got suspended... That kind of sucked. Lot of First Amendment vs. respect anger there. And then a friend of mine quoted me and got suspended too.

However in general I think that democratizing this sort of publishing is really positive, as long as it's not merely bitching about having a crummy day and so forth.

I bought the domain thwart.net, hoping to make it into a sort of anarchial index of other people starting up weblog-type setups oriented around their friends, not just themselves. However I've been busy. :-( Could be cool though.

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I would rather mod you up if I could. I think 'them Katz flaming dudes' probably missed the /. troll HOWTO.
Personally, I like 'em all; cat, cats, Katz, whatever. This guy has the most impressive flame-suit I've seen...

On the sixth day, God created man. On the seventh, man returned the favour

Read the Slashdot Trolling HowTo and then re-read the post you're replying to...

You must have read the Slashdot Trolling Howto. You do put up some nice ones.

I'm using NAT with TimeWarner when I first got RR they where completly against it. Now they even (partially) support it. I just wish some of these providers would not frown upon servers (HTTP,FTP,...) although TimeWarner hasn't said anything to me...yet... :)

Gotta love dyndns.org free Dns Listings for Dynamic IP's! Don

You can download it here:
Wavedisk White Paper (PDF)

It's 8:30am. Do you know where your VW Bug is?

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My government cheese song.

At this point, I wouldn't consider doing anything without checking with Nominum (the company responsible for writing and maintaining BIND version 9).

These guys offer a service whereby they provide either primary or secondary nameservice for your domain, across their distributed cluster of redundant, fault-tolerant servers. Heck, the secondary service is even free (in all the various senses of the word).

I just wish they had a Dynamic DNS service, so that we could all kiss DynDNS.org and GraniteCanyon.com farewell for their incredibly crappy service.
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Brad Knowles

WTF? Is DynDNS ran by a bunch of kids? Read the posts on their status page. My grandma isn't down as much as they are.

.5e empty lives in our (DynDNS.org's) datacenter. Time to see if our bandwidth is worth all those big bucks. Now if you will excuse me, I have MRTG to stare at. ;)

You can see the notes I took at my homepage and Drop.


Refrag

However, when you have an opinion that differs from the 'slashdot party line' (e.g. pro-copyright for example) you will be marked as 'troll' by slashdot readers who are unable to distinguish a fake post from a genuine opinion. They even have a website with an faq, and for a while a hidden sid where they discussed their tactics.

Its a bit sad that a controverial opinion has become drowned by Andovers greedy page-hit-grabbing techniques.

Gamespot.co.uk is a little slow?
mirrored

http://spiralx.dyndns.org/howto.html

:::

tiny mirror
I've cut it in smaller pieces too, instead of the whole 186k html (gee...)

Hope it helps someone...

• Evolution and Nautilus running smoothly together
• Nautilus viewing my home directory
• Another one also showing the Eazel gtk+ theme better
• Illustrating image previwing in Nautilus

• Evolution and Nautilus running smoothly together
• Nautilus viewing my home directory
• Another one also showing the Eazel gtk+ theme better
• Illustrating image previwing in Nautilus

• Evolution and Nautilus running smoothly together
• Nautilus viewing my home directory
• Another one also showing the Eazel gtk+ theme better
• Illustrating image previwing in Nautilus

• Evolution and Nautilus running smoothly together
• Nautilus viewing my home directory
• Another one also showing the Eazel gtk+ theme better
• Illustrating image previwing in Nautilus

[WebWasher] can filter out Javascript cued on opening/closing windows, remove pop-ups entirely, and reclaim space which would have been used by banner ads.

Actually, squid can do some (all?) of these things. My former company used to use a squid proxy, and they'd configured it to automatically remove popups from a number of well known annoying sites (Tripod, GeoCities, etc.)

I used WebWasher for a while...it's really good at figuring out what's probably an ad, but it also tends to be a bit too aggressive in blocking JavaScript (sometimes, Windows Update wouldn't work while WebWasher was running). I put Squid on my Linux server at home a few months back, along with a Perl-based redirector script from http://taz.net.au/block. It's been nearly as effective as WebWasher, without impairing the function of certain sites like WebWasher sometimes does. If an ad slips through, it happens because the site that serves it up isn't in the known list of ad sites; I check the logs, add the new site, and no more ads come through from them ever again. (The list I'm currently using is available at http://salfter.dyndns.org/redir.)

Now I'm trying to get this setup running on the NT server at work. Squid itself is up and running (the homepage for the NT port of Squid 2.1 is at http://www.phys-iasi.ro/users/romeo/squidnt.htm, but their download link is bad...try ftp://ftp.tsu.tula.ru/pub/windows/squidnt21a.zip instead); now I need to get Perl going and then see if the redirector will work the same under NT as it does under Linux. (I'll probably have to wait until everybody's gone, in case the Perl installer decides it needs to reboot the server...and even if it doesn't, some other needed updates will want to reboot the server anyway.)

This is a good thing to hear. One of my sites that I used to spread information about DeCSS was in effect shut down. Even though I hosted off my own server at home, over my own internet connection, they went to the people who provided me with my dynamic DNS network services: dyndns.org. The guy in charge of the service just suspended my account when HE was contacted by the MPAA. This pretty much shut down the only way most people could access my site, which really pissed me off, because I didn't even provide DeCSS anymore on it, but rather instructions on how to install the Linux DVD player once you got the source, and reasons why I thought DeCSS should be allowed.

Anyway, anything that weakens the power that the MPAA has in the courtroom is fine by me

BTW, I still think dyndns is a cool service, even though they blocked my account. I recommend it to anyone who wants a server, but has a dynamic IP address.
-mdek.net

This is a good thing to hear. One of my sites that I used to spread information about DeCSS was in effect shut down. Even though I hosted off my own server at home, over my own internet connection, they went to the people who provided me with my dynamic DNS network services: dyndns.org. The guy in charge of the service just suspended my account when HE was contacted by the MPAA. This pretty much shut down the only way most people could access my site, which really pissed me off, because I didn't even provide DeCSS anymore on it, but rather instructions on how to install the Linux DVD player once you got the source, and reasons why I thought DeCSS should be allowed.

Anyway, anything that weakens the power that the MPAA has in the courtroom is fine by me

BTW, I still think dyndns is a cool service, even though they blocked my account. I recommend it to anyone who wants a server, but has a dynamic IP address.
-mdek.net

For example, you could get the domain doorframe.dyndns.org, and always map that to your machine however it was connecting to the net at the time; then you could bounce around from free ISP to free ISP as they went under, keeping the same permanent email address. Of course, you have simply moved the stability issue from the free email provider to dyndns.org, but dyndns.org is a little better I think -- it I expect it will be around longer, and you have a little bit of control over it in terms of being able to donate money to them.

I dunno, seems like Lynx is a pretty decent browser to me. I've only had one crash while using it, and that was when the power went out.

I must've forgotten that, or maybe I should've clarified IE as being a graphical browser. I occasionally fire up Lynx to view sites that I know aren't too f*cked-up to not display properly in Lynx (my site is standards-compliant and Lynx-friendly, FWIW), though I more often use Lynx as the retrieval part of a screen-scraper application to pull data off of websites. (I'm currently working on something that'll merge price information from Price Watch and vendor ratings from ResellerRatings so that you can find the best price for computer equipment without getting burned by the bottom-feeders who post lowball prices. I have the retrieval part figured out for both sites; now I just need to merge the two together. I could use MySQL, but that seems like overkill...)

I can hear it already..."But I can't get at my shell using SSH from my Windows box." You shouldn't have said that. Just go get some window putty. Put it in c:\windows\ for best results. It does raw connections and ssh connections, along with telnet connections. And it does it better than that piece of shit telnet client that comes with Windows.

We all love Debian here.

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it "will be accessible in 24-72 hours"

now, that I've opened myself up to some lawsuits, someone go register www.entangled-photons-suck.com, so I can make up for the legal fees by suing someone else.

Don't you just love the web??
-MSD.dyndns.org
"Sucks to your ass-mar"

I call first dibs on X and Y chromosomes!


-MSD.dyndns.org
"Sucks to your ass-mar"

Using a cable connection for running a server is generally a Bad Idea (tm), considering

1. you typically must use DHCP, which means you won't have a static IP (no matter how satic that IP appears, it can go away quite easily at any time), and thus makes it hard to handle DNS for your domain and point it to an IP, and
2. Most cable providers restrict the running of services on their networks, unless you upgrade to a business plan. You certainly don't want your mail server to disappear some day simply because the administration caught on that you were Breaking their AUP.

For the first problem, dyndns.org handles that pretty nicely. You can even set up a backup MX as part of your record so your mail gets routed elsewhere if your server goes tango-uniform. Changes get propagated through quickly on the dynamic service (static IP changes take longer).

As for the second problem, Cox has been pretty cool about it. There's nothing that says you can't run a server, and since your connection is rate-limited to whatever you bought (I pay $40/month for 512 kbps downstream/128 kbps upstream), they don't have to worry too much about k1dd13z setting up warez/pr0n sites and bogging down their network. I still use their SMTP server for outbound mail, but inbound mail goes straight to the K6-2 box in my coat^H^H^H^Hserver closet. (Reverse DNS still looks something like dhcp085.18.lvcm.com, but that hasn't been a problem for anything that I can recall.) I suppose Cox isn't like most cable-modem providers...don't know what they're like in other markets, let alone what other companies are like (they bought the system here in Las Vegas when they bought the local cable company), so YMMV.

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You belong in the .org TLD. So do I. That's why my computer is bound to refrag.dyndns.org. .alt was a suggestion from a fellow Slashdotter and I think it would be great. A TLD where copyrights had no influence and every domain name was FCFS.


Refrag

Take ultraviolet radiation as an obvious example; it clearly causes cancer.

Even simple, low power magnetic fields have biological effects. Higher powered magnetic fields can do even more to sensitive tissues like the brain.

So, as you said, don't believe the hype, believe the physics, but you must also ALWAYS believe what empirical evidence has shown to be true, especially if it flies in the face of known principles of biology, physics, etc. It is specifically because we find these "rule breakers" that we discover important new phenomena, and are able to refine/correct our existing equations.

Note that I am not saying that cell phone radiation is harmful; however, there isn't enough evidence to say it is clearly NOT harmful.

Take ultraviolet radiation as an obvious example; it clearly causes cancer.

Even simple, low power magnetic fields have biological effects. Higher powered magnetic fields can do even more to sensitive tissues like the brain.

So, as you said, don't believe the hype, believe the physics, but you must also ALWAYS believe what empirical evidence has shown to be true, especially if it flies in the face of known principles of biology, physics, etc. It is specifically because we find these "rule breakers" that we discover important new phenomena, and are able to refine/correct our existing equations.

Note that I am not saying that cell phone radiation is harmful; however, there isn't enough evidence to say it is clearly NOT harmful.

Take ultraviolet radiation as an obvious example; it clearly causes cancer.

Even simple, low power magnetic fields have biological effects. Higher powered magnetic fields can do even more to sensitive tissues like the brain.

So, as you said, don't believe the hype, believe the physics, but you must also ALWAYS believe what empirical evidence has shown to be true, especially if it flies in the face of known principles of biology, physics, etc. It is specifically because we find these "rule breakers" that we discover important new phenomena, and are able to refine/correct our existing equations.

Note that I am not saying that cell phone radiation is harmful; however, there isn't enough evidence to say it is clearly NOT harmful.

It goes like this:

King Philip Came Over For Good Sex.

That was from my seventh grade life-science teacher...


-MSD.dyndns.org
"Sucks to your ass-mar"