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@Home is going to step up port scans? Did I miss something or have the Usenet admins been giving @Home all the information necessary for many many moons?

The UDP isn't because @Home has a few bad apples, it's because they've routed reports on those wormballs to /dev/null, and this latest press release sounds suspiciously like more of the same.

IMHO @Home is welcome to be an intranet until messages sent to abuse@home.net get responses, and preferably responses like the ones sent to abuse@erols.com

I live about 15 min out of NYC and I have no broadband access to the net available to me that I know of. My cable provider does not have cable modem access and they wont for about 2 years. And as for DSL, unless i want to shell out 150 a month for shitty speeds there is no use. I'm in Bergen County if anyone knows of any broadband access around my parts please e-mail me: slardy@erols.com thanks

They are waiting for the AMD 760 chipset which, according to AMDZone are supposed to be released in 1Q'00:


New Athlon Chipsets Q1-Jeff Tom 11:50 p.m. CST
JC has heard from a source that dual and quad Athlon chipsets will be available in Q1 of 2000, contrary to other reports.

According to Chris Hare's chipset chart the 760 will support DDR RAM, although I thought I read somewhere else that DDR wouldn't be supported until 2nd half of 2000.

Hey, are any of the speakers providing their presentation notes/tutorials on the web?

FWIW, I have the slides from my two Bazaar talks available at http://www.erols.com/pavlicek/bibli ography.html.

"Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century"

There is a link for pre-20th century atrocities too, including some interesting numbers on how many natives were massacred by American settlers. Read up guys, BEFORE you go spouting on about who did what and which was worse.

"In American Holocaust, Stannard estimates the total cost of the near-extermination of the American Indians as 100,000,000."

Sit down you FREAK, your "great" country is far more guilty of mass atrocities than nearly any modern day communist led country.

I know I am going to try out the cross-band ham repeater. The launch schedule is located here.

--dej

Well, one example of a technology that was NOT very quickly replaced by a superior one (superior in some aspects anyway) was AM radio. In the 20's and 30's a very large patent holding company named RCA had a large vested interest in both capital and experience in AM. One radio pioneer named Maj. Armstrong sought to find a solution to the problem of 'static' and invented FM. He even invented mux FM (multi channel, stereo), but had very great difficulty getting it out, particularly with the RCA problem. Eventually he just walked out a 13th floor window - and FM didn't 'catch on' untill the 60's.

Chuck

I have successfully been able to deduce primality using a simple backpropagation neural network. So, maybe factoring can be done...

You can pick apart my paper at http://www.erols.com/mkatshym/Ex tendedEssay.ps.bz2.

Michael Katz-Hyman
mkatshym@erols.com

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Lynx (recent revs.) does frames just fine, almost always. For tables, maybe following Al Gilman's FAQ (H key, when in Lynx (I hope!)), searching on the keyword "tables" will take you to some URLs with brief comments about what you'll find there. I like Bruce Guthrie's HTML-to-text converter (DOS); haven't used it much, but it rendered tables nicely. Try WayneSoft for some very nice DOS freeware. (Ought to run under DOSEmu.) Look for htmst###.zip.

Religious nuts in complete uproar over life-sized Jar Jar toy!

I am proud to have in my collection Several significant tablet-type computers: the GRiDPad, the GRiD 2260 and 2270 (aka Convertable), Amstrad PDA600, a Telepad 3, and (soon) a Linux Write-Top.

For more on the history of pen-computing, see:

• probably the best collection of pen-based computers in the world (though not yet documented online)
• some valuable info on the history of pen-based computing

While I love books, and have hundreds (if not thousands), I have long felt that the advantages of reading electronic-based information has definite advantages -- the same ones we have come to take for granted with the web and other electronic references. (Things like hyperlinks to related material, in-line definitions, multi-media, and so on.)

In addition, the easy, familiar format of things like the GRiDPad, CrossPad, etc. lend themselves to quick replacement of the traditional pad of paper for note-taking, surveying, and other data entry. The ease of integrating remotely gathered data into centralized databases/references will ultimately make such devices commonplace.

In short, technology such as the WebPad, e-books, and CrossPad will be augmenting more and more everyday tasks, from taking notes in meetings, to compiling grocery lists, from street corner surveys to reading the latest news while climbing the stairmaster at the gym.

P.S., if anyone has examples of early tablets (such as those from Go, Momenta, Motorola, AT&T, etc.) or other older portable computers they want to find a new home for, please feel free to contact me!

seriously people, read his paper. it's very interesting and well written. it's what inspired me to write wipe. especially since he already came up with those byte patterns. ;)

I have gotten the Artec AS6e/Info FBOMP to work under wine with the win driver. I also have very bad protocol info. on it here.

Michael Katz-Hyman