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I don't see a whole lot of difference.

"How will Eircom legally differentiate between that content, and the content that some ragamuffin may be downloading illegally, without infringing privacy laws?"

In all sincerity, did you ask them?

I'd start here.

http://eircomconnect.eircom.net/Forum/default.aspx

It has now become common practice to boost the sound level of quieter passages so there is more sound power in the frequency range where the ear is sensitive.

Are you talking about the minimise and maximise buttons? There are keyboard shortcuts like [command-h] to hide and then [option-tab] to cycle through running applications to bring it back from oblivion.

I think this could be personal preference, but you might look into that other desktop because X11 would probably give you options for moving the buttons to other parts of the windows that would achieve what it seems you want.

OroborOSX I think it's called. Link.

Runs as an App under OS X to give you another desktop. I tried it once, didn't use it enough to work out how much of a performance hit it is - didn't like it too much. See this screenshot of my computer to show how you can emulate the look of Classic under OSX. Doesn't work for all programs though :-(

SenderID is patented, developed by Microsoft. This is how they "embrace and extend" email, and attempt to take over the Internet by bundling everyone on Earth's email with "Microsoft frameworks". Now we know why they've "given away free email" with Hotmail for so long. They expect the return on their investment to be control of the Internet.

"The people who can destroy a thing, they control it." - Paul Muad'Dib, in Frank Herbert's _Dune_

WOW thats lean
http://homepage.eircom.net/~lsleroy/sslbnd.png

;)

Air America Radio offers progressive talk radio in regressive streaming/file formats so you would need conversion utilities such as realcap ; specify the show start time via a cron job and the duration as a command line parameter. Use their contact form to ask them to support sensible streaming formats such as shoutcast/icecast/peercast instead of forcing regressive users to use regressive formats and thus support the regressive companies behind them.

I have not yet seen anyone point this person to some of the online implementations (commercial and OSS) of popular board games.
Examples:
Settlers of Catan (http://www.s3dconnector.com/)
Ticket To Ride (http://www.ticket2ridegame.com/)
Lost Cities (http://www.flexgames.com/)
Dune (http://homepage.eircom.net/~monalisa/Dune/
Most require Java-enabled brower. Some have a downloadable binary for Wintel (or WINE...YMMV). All of them (that I have played) require mouse only to actually play the game.

This is just a tiny fraction of boardgames available online. See a whole host of Online Boardgames at Board Game Geek in the following list...and elsewhere on the site:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action= view&listid=6451

Also keep in mind that a lot of great actors, particularly British ones, as far as I can see, tend to be very reluctant to sign on to movies with bad scripts.

"I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific."

funnily enough, that was exactly the same story that came to my mind. You would have though they would have got more than $3000 though

over here in the UK the machines tended to be built into brick walls (hence the expression "i'm just getting some cash from the hole in the wall")

this has led to enterprising thieves using a JCB to steal the whole damn thing netting a cool $140,000.

just goes to show, that like so much in life, the real money isn't in making something, it's in stealing someone elses.

What's with all these people going "OMG wot do teh Sweds need hax0r ship for??!"? Click here to see a page about some of the Swedish naval ships. I mean, they have submarines and stealth ships, etc. Are these "jokes" and comments about why the Swedish would have any need for a military subtle jokes, or ignorant comments from people in the USA who think they are in the only country on earth with a military and navy?

Your wrong about broadband. It's quite readily available, and at a reasonable price. IOL has 16Gb cap at 47Euro/month, or 8Gb at 39Euro. UTV has 8Gb at 30Euro, Eircom have something similar, at to netsource. There are many, many companies offering satellite or wireless broadband in the country too. The situation with broadband in Ireland was very bad a few years ago, but its very reasonable not. Get your facts straight. Check out these links:
http://www.iol.ie/broadband/
http://www.u.tv/internet/services/clicksilver/inde x.asp
http://home.eircom.net/broadband/

Will either of these two new versions allow me to record from a realaudio stream to WAV or similar?

You could try realcap. This is a realmedia capture script I wrote (well, adapted) to cap dramatisations of Terry Pratchett books from BBC7.

More info here

Someone else said it better.

(Yes, it's a cover, but it still tells the truth better than you or your colleagues ever did.)

If you have a decent 3D graphics card and an interest in unmanned space exploration, you should download Celestia:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X . . . Then, install one of the many spacecraft add-ons here:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/

Images are here:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/browseima ges/mer.htm

One add-on features a detailed model of the Mars rovers in interplanetary cruise configuration, together with two proposed trajectories for each rover. Add a high-resolution (8k x 4k) texture and bump map for Mars, and you'll have a very detailed and accurate simulation of the Mars missions. We're still trying to get trajectory data from the ESA so that we can make an add-on for the Mars Express mission.

--Chris

If you have a decent 3D graphics card and an interest in unmanned space exploration, you should download Celestia:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X . . . Then, install one of the many spacecraft add-ons here:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/

Images are here:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/browseima ges/mer.htm

One add-on features a detailed model of the Mars rovers in interplanetary cruise configuration, together with two proposed trajectories for each rover. Add a high-resolution (8k x 4k) texture and bump map for Mars, and you'll have a very detailed and accurate simulation of the Mars missions. We're still trying to get trajectory data from the ESA so that we can make an add-on for the Mars Express mission.

--Chris

-Fantastic Lad --Run Chicken Little, Run!

Slashdot inserted a space on him. HERE is the actual link. Personally, I would take anything comeing from gulufuture with a whole SHAKER of salt, but it SEEMS credible

Bandwidth shmandwidth. This is propaganda control!

BBC correspondent Kate Adie who is now covering the US invasion reports in an interview on Irish radio about pentegon censorship:

"I've seen a complete erosion of any kind of acknowledgment that reporters should be able to report as they witness. The Americans... and I've been talking to the Pentagon ...take the attitude which is entirely hostile to the free spread of information."

"I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if uplinks--that is the television signals out of... Bhagdad, for example--were detected by any planes ...electronic media... mediums, of the military above Bhagdad... they'd be fired down on. Even if they were journalists ..."

Some will argue this is a necessary step in protecting the invaders, but this threat came well before the 'war' started. I for one doubt physical safety is anywhere close the true goal here. Political and public opinion safety is more like it.

And perhaps foreshadowing our buying up extra bandwidth for 'backup' Adie later in the interview says:

"...the Americans are: a) Asking journalists who go with them, whether they are... have feelings against the war. And therefore if you have views that are skeptical, then you are not to be acceptable.

Secondly, they are intending to take control of the Americans technical equipment ...those uplinks and satellite phones I was talking about. And control access to the airwaves."

Guess she had it right.

A description of the interview with links to audio and other sources can be found here

ha ha ha you laugh, but some people are maybe not afraid, but concerned about what's happening:


gulufuture

I've tried to dig that out of the Google Cache to save it like I did with Q-BAL but without success. If anybody does have a copy, would they send it to me?

This is only a preliminary thing lads, don't get too excited. The judge has quite correctly decided that we don't suffer much financially by this preliminary injunction, and that it's possible that the DVD people would suffer by it's absence. It's not hard to see his point of view here, and he hasn't barred linking to pages with CSS code. All things considered this is a fair and reasonable judgement IMHO.

Anyway, roll on the (unadorned but functional) Whack A Mole Entry

Paul.

DeCSS 1.21b and a livid snapshot available here.