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Eh, not many stalkers chase the ones with their noses in sci-fi books all the time with geek t-shirts on, either!

Heck that is my favorite kind of prey^H^H^H^H ummmm nevermind. :-)

I used dyndns.org because they have a very slick automated web interface and have been quite responsive. They also are pretty cheap ($15 for a year registration) but that wasn't what tipped the scales in their favor for me.

Via the interface you can change all three contact's info. They also host Dynamic DNS entries for free so that a hostname can be auto-updated to point to a dynamic IP (cable internet etc). My roommate used this for a few years before needing more bandwidth and moving his server off our cable net connection to a hosting service.

Have fun with you registrar's tech support though.

jason

The BEST Robotics competetions are rather simple, yet it teaches many things. I did it for the four years in high school. Good stuff. I went to the Texas Brazos Competetions yesterday, which the team I was mentoring won 1st place.

Check out their site at http://www.tiger-robotics.org/

or the middle school's site http://csms-robotics.dyndns.org/

I think their not bad for website coded by hand by high school and middle school students.

Knives made of: plexiglass, fiberglass, aluminum, or ceramics.

Binary (2-part) explosives (petroleum jelly and something from Anarchist's Cookbook)

ceramic single-shot firearms.

Need I go on?

What we need to fight crimes like hijackings are fewer laws disarming reputable citizens. I just got back an English Comp paper saying the same thing.

I've created a DVD featuring a 44 minute timeline of 9/11 events. It contains Booker Elementary footage split-screened against WTC events.

A am tracking bitTorrents of this DVD called "20041102.Last.Chance") at...
http://20041102lastchance.dyndns.org:6969

The DVD is 4.7GB, but I've also just started tracking a 23MB QT of just the classroom timeframe (from the DVD, this too is split-screen).

Blog with screenshots at...
http://20041102lastchance.blogspot.com

From the man himself

For those that didn't RTFM, the value for each variable should be on a scale of 1-9, with 9 being very high. A (aggrivation) should be 0.7 as set after the study. I put together something in PHP just to do the work for me. The biggest variable seems to be skill--with all others set to very high (9) it certainly "proves" that an idiot can totally screw stuff up.

is more people running this script on their pages.

Most voting methods are preoccupied with voting strategy and how it best reflects the will of the voters.

Well, there is one method that is overlooked: continuous voting.

Ok ok, it is overlooked for a very sound reason, continuous voting requires the election to be constantly held, this is difficult in our physical world. And yet, what other method would better reflect the will of the voters???

LaTeX isn't a GUI app: it's a language (like HTML or SGML) and a tool which generates a device-independent file (like PostScript or PDF) therefrom. A LaTeX document might look like this:

\documentclass{article}

\title{Sample Document}
\author{Joe Blow}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{ Jabberwocky}

\emph{Jabberwocky} is the title of a poem which one is often made to read in grammar school. Despite what one's teachers might tell one, it's not really all that great. One's time is better spent reading \emph{Mad} magazine, probably.

\section{Cool Features}

\subsection{Diacritics}
Here are some diacritics; some of these are impossible, or highly
painful, in Word: \^p, \.h, \d{n}, \~q, \b{o}, \t{b}. Note that
\th{}orn and e\dh{} (or do you prefer e\dj?) are easily written; also
$\alpha$ and $\gamma$.

\subsection{Math}

Maybe you like to do mathematics---\LaTeX{} can do them inline,
e.g.~$\int_a^b\sqrt{1\over2\times3}$.&nbs p; It can also do them in a
`callout' format:

$$\int_a^b\sqrt{1\over2\times3}$$

An d of course it knows how to scale parentheses and brackets:
$\left<{\left[{1\over2}\right]\over3}\r ight> \times 4$, which of course
scale properly when called out:

$$\left<{\left[{1\over2}\right]\over3}\rig ht> \times 4$$

\end{document}

Rendering it using pdflatex yields this document. Not terribly impressive, perhaps--but in larger documents it becomes Very Nice Indeed.

Things LaTeX buys one:

• Automatically converts 'fi,' 'ff,' 'fl' &c. into the proper ligatures.
• Inserts a slight space after sentence-ending punctuation (unless told otherwise).
• Auto-numbering of sections; auto-renumbering of footnotes, tables of contents, page references.
• More diacritics and mathematical symbols than you will ever use (the AMS requires LaTeX, last I checked).
• Auto-hyphenation.
• LaTeX calculates a visual 'badness' value for each line, and attempts to minimise badness; this means that each page has a uniform amount of greyness, and that rivers, orphans & widows are all avoided.
• Proper dashes: minus, hyphen, n-dash and m-dash are all different characters.
• Proper quotes: it doesn't do smart quotes, but real quotes.
• Programmability: LaTeX is fully programmable.

It's not a word processor: it's a document creation system. It's a whole different workflow. I'll say this much, though: in college I switched from Word to emacs + LaTeX, and my grades when from low Bs to high As: my writing didn't get better, but my presentation did--LaTeX documents are more pleasant to read. I was able to typeset my math homework, instead of handing in hand-scrawled chicken scratch.

homebrewcpu.com

Chuck Dickman's cool hardware projects including a QBus-ATA adapter

Peter McCollum has just finished a great hack involving a PDP-11 microprocessor (T-11).

Absolutely. I've been using dyndns forever it seems. They also have a great service called webhop that lets you redirect from a dyndns hostname or one of your own if you've registered one, to those ugly isp provided webstorage addresses like http://members.myisp.com/~someuser/, so you can access that page from http://someuser.mine.nu or whatever domain you choose.

Summary, DynDNS rocks. Reward them with your business if you ever get the opportunity. They deserve it. (And no I don't work for them ;)

Go with DynDNS.org. Most popular, and best supported among various clients. LinkSys routers even come with support to update DynDNS.org right in the official firmware.

They have a variety of domains you can choose from; I chose ath.cx simply because it's very short.

I would try dyndns.org. Your first five hostnames are free. :)

Not entirely sure what you want, but it sounds a bit like ALE. I've played around with it a bit and it's quite cool. Does have it's limitations, though...

Whooops. Let's try this again:

Fixed link

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As of the time of this writing, Firefox has 48% of the share on my site, and Konqueror's also way up there. Granted, I had to reset the stats last week, but the numbers are in roughly the same proportions for a sample lasting from April to a couple weeks ago when my domain got stolen...

As of the time of this writing, Firefox has 48% of the share on my site, and Konqueror's also way up there. Granted, I had to reset the stats last week, but the numbers are in roughly the same proportions for a sample lasting from April to a couple weeks ago when my domain got stolen...

As of the time of this writing, Firefox has 48% of the share on my site, and Konqueror's also way up there. Granted, I had to reset the stats last week, but the numbers are in roughly the same proportions for a sample lasting from April to a couple weeks ago when my domain got stolen...

Illustrated Guide to Safe Browsing

So, it seems that Amazon would really hope that your experiences on the Internet are safe ones.

You can put together a home video security system on the cheap if you can hang a webcam somewhere usefull. I'm running Suse 9.1 on a Celeron 433 with a measley 128MB of ram and a software called motion that does motion detection and can save video or individual images to disk (or off-site) when it does.

When I travel I have the webcam pointed at the enterance and setup to ftp any captured frames to another server. When I'm home I put the software in streaming mode, point the webcam out the window and broadcast my view:

http://astroturtle.dyndns.org/

This won't prevent your mom's car getting broken into but I'll give you some ammo to hand over to the cops!

More linux video resorces here: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/

Good luck,
--
Luis Esteves
http://www.astroturtle.com

Robocode is still very much alive.

Proof of this is a very active wiki.

Join, we could use some new cannon fodder :)

As I note in my blog entry on the subject, there's a site called Recipezaar which has the ability to scale its recipes. It doesn't really do the massive-scale stuff (e.g. it won't convert 1/2 cup of flour to pounds when scaling from 4 to 240 diners; it won't even convert to pecks or bushels, but leaves everything in cups), but it's still pretty clever.

Software called "ALE" has an implementation of this general idea. ALE is GPL software.

ALE homepage

That solution is not really as nice as DynDNS. I for one would really like to see a piece of OSS that lets you operate using the (documented) DynDNS protocol so that the standard update scripts widely availible for that would work. Running a nameserver on a system that doesn't require one seems counterproductive. Plus, you could use existing software to keep Windows boxes up to date as well. The DynDNS update protocol is availible here

dyndns.org Not a job for the root servers...

It's superresolution!

There's actually a whole host of algorithms that go well beyond the junk they throw at us for "digital zoom". The two most applicable algorithms for this particular problem -- increasing the resolution of video above and beyond the source data available in a particular frame -- are temporal integration (collecting data across multiple frames) and superresolution by example (automatically associating and recalling high resolution imagery when a low resolution equivalent is shown). Some example code:

Temporal Integration: ALE
Superresolution by Example: Image Analogies -- not automated, but remains one of the cooler pieces of code ever shown at SIGGRAPH.

From the article, I'm guessing it's another ALE style stacker. They probably needed to write one for their cameras anyway.

--Dan

-Ted

Personally, I've made an aquarium from an old monitor, and countless clocks from 3" and 5" HDD's. I've also made a few photo frames from old laptops. Usually I end up giving them to friends and family since they're sort of first to request. I've also made the (already mentioned) keychains from ram chips, but I can't think of what to use all the HDD magnets for. I also have a ton of HDD, misc PCI, and MB PCB's that I can't decide what to do with. I've seen cufflinks on Thinkgeek, and clipboards a few years back, but I hate ripping off all the components from the boards...

Personally, I've made an aquarium from an old monitor, and countless clocks from 3" and 5" HDD's. I've also made a few photo frames from old laptops. Usually I end up giving them to friends and family since they're sort of first to request. I've also made the (already mentioned) keychains from ram chips, but I can't think of what to use all the HDD magnets for. I also have a ton of HDD, misc PCI, and MB PCB's that I can't decide what to do with. I've seen cufflinks on Thinkgeek, and clipboards a few years back, but I hate ripping off all the components from the boards...

Personally, I've made an aquarium from an old monitor, and countless clocks from 3" and 5" HDD's. I've also made a few photo frames from old laptops. Usually I end up giving them to friends and family since they're sort of first to request. I've also made the (already mentioned) keychains from ram chips, but I can't think of what to use all the HDD magnets for. I also have a ton of HDD, misc PCI, and MB PCB's that I can't decide what to do with. I've seen cufflinks on Thinkgeek, and clipboards a few years back, but I hate ripping off all the components from the boards...

To activate the firewall in OS X, you have to do this:

1)Open system preferences

2)Click sharing

3)Click the Firewall tab

4) click the start button to start the firewall.

Yeah. Pretty difficult. =)

The one non-intuitive part is that it's in the sharing prefs, not in the security prefs, at least as of 10.3.4. I heard that this would change, but I'm not sure if that will happen with Tiger or before.

If you need more control, you can use a shareware app like brickhouse or you can tweak ipfw yourself.

No, but you might see the cone of ignorance...

(for the ignorant, this should explain it)

I think that the flight path will change if you start pointing this high energy RF gun at the planes overhead. At least they'll fall out of the sky or something.

Has anyone tested this? Reply if you have!!

http://chris-low.dyndns.org:6969/torrents/BatmanBe ginsTeaser.mov.torrent?792AE52228894E56BD7A7266E0A BF8D4BE41D6EA

See this http://gnubox.dyndns.org:8080/~sunil/google.php

link

Yes, but there's not many free ones, nor cheap ones. DynDNS, for example, only offers TXT records (required for SPF) only if you pay for Custom DNS, which costs $25 yearly. I don't have too much money to spare.

With a large enough noise generator (power-wise) and antenna, you could cover a nice big area - who needs to say it's legal. (see this)

Also, this device these kids are touting is nothing new. A google search will reveal various circuits schematics for cell phone detectors.

I'm sorry, but if it takes 24 days to get past the name calling when confronted with a security flaw deemed major, OSS doesn't stand a chance.

-Lucas

Here is a torrent of the 24 submissions in a single zip file (as downloadable from http://www.pdroms.de/pdrc2_5-submissions.php), just in case the site goes to a warmer place.

Mirror (Semi, still trying to wget): http://tmorton.dyndns.org/~taj/bsd-bike/bike.owns. com/

Of course the problem is with personal numbers, rather than office-based ones. Of course your work is one thing that defines you (bob.thompson@company.com), as does your physical location bob.thompson@london.uk. But not everyone has a job, and location based identifiers don't make much sense for mobile numbers. Any solutions?

Same way people have email addresses now. They buy a domain name, get a DynDNS name (what I currently use), or they sign up with an alias provider that sets them up with a username at the provider's domain which redirects to their phone. The user will just have to choose an address when they get their phone service activated.

Another idea: tie domains to the phone provider. Thus, we'll have john.doe@verizon.com, jane.smith@sbc.com, etc.

And, for the record, I think DNS for VoIP is a cool idea. Only question is whether or not it'll use the same DNS namespace as the rest of the Internet, or if it'll use its own.

Reminds me, I made this,
which is some very simple code for the uninitated to genetic algorithms.

Our unofficial Slackware mirrors are here. Some of us have been up to date with RC1 as of last night.. I'm sure the rest will be there soon, if not already.

Also, here's a reference to Univac and its one vacuum tube.

If the /. folks get their panties in a knot over an ASIMOV reference, I don't know what this world has come to! Is slashdot now only for praising Apple and bashing Bill? Can't we get back to basics with geeky sci-fi references?

BTW, one of the best short stories along those lines was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question (published in Nine Tomorrows among other places). The focus isn't really the computer, but it shows how people were thinking about these new-fangled gadgets at the time.

Here are some really useful utilities to help design wireless networks and to help plot their approximate coverage areas:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis Generates a terrain profile graph and obstruction report for a microwave radio link between two points

Wireless Network Link Analysis Calculates approximate received power level and fade margins for microwave wireless links

Longley-Rice Path Loss Analysis Generates a image showing the estimated Longley-Rice path loss for a given transmitter location

More utilities are linked from here

Here are some really useful utilities to help design wireless networks and to help plot their approximate coverage areas:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis Generates a terrain profile graph and obstruction report for a microwave radio link between two points

Wireless Network Link Analysis Calculates approximate received power level and fade margins for microwave wireless links

Longley-Rice Path Loss Analysis Generates a image showing the estimated Longley-Rice path loss for a given transmitter location

More utilities are linked from here