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Here's the contents of an advisory email about this sort of thing from the FFII (lists of MEPs removed to get around /. lameness filter). The "Key Messages" section for each party is particularly interesting.
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Dear XYZ,

You have registered as a supporter of FFII and thereby agreed to receiving e-mails which tell you how you can support our work.[1]

The European Parliament will vote next Tuesday or Wednesday. Unless more than half of the members (= 367) vote for serious amendments, the Council's version will become law and US-style software patent enforcement will begin in Europe.

On 5 July there will be a demonstration in Strasbourg, with coaches from Paris, Brussels, Munich, Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere http://noepatents.eu.org/index.php/StbDemo050604

Final things for you to do:

* Check that your MEP will attend the plenary session, an abstention is a vote for the unmodified council version.

We recommend him/her to vote for the 21 cross-party amendments[2], but even a vote for the official liberal or conservative party line is probably better than not showing up or abstaining. If the 21 cross-party amendments do not get passed we recommend that your MEP should vote to reject the directive.

* At this point sending e-mails alone is probably of no great value. Below you find a list of UK MEPs with phone numbers and some hints on specific messages to be delivered.

* Phone calls can be very effective if you are well informed. *Otherwise they can backfire*. Always be polite, never get aggressive. Explain clearly how software patents would affect *you* and *your* business. Only contact MEPs from *your own* region.[4]

* Before calling your MEP by phone, please make sure you have read the 21 cross-party amendments yourself, have a printed copy ready beside your phone and are well aware of the central ones, particularly Amendments 8, 4, 3, 9 and 1.

* It would also be good to have read the FFII discussion paper[3]. You can use Sunday (tonight) and Monday morning for preparation. MEPs arrive in Strasburg Monday afternoon.

* For help, please email the UK coordinators at uk-help@ffii.org with your name, region and relevant details of your business or profession.

* More instructions on how to contact your MEP are at http://wiki.noepatents.eu.org/index.php/MEPinfo

With kind regards, Hartmut Pilch and Alex Macfie, FFII

[1] Your user id is XYZ at http://aktiv.ffii.org/, in case of
difficulties you also may contact buero at ffii.org.
[2] Buzek-Rocard-Duff amendments
http://wiki.ffii.org/AmPlenPr050701En
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/amends05 /komprom0506.en.pdf
[3] http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/juri0504 /ffiiepp050615.en.pdf
[4] Map of UK Euro regions at
http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm

UK MEPs

email @europarl.eu.int
Strasbourg phone, MEP assistant: 0033-3881-77 XXX
Strasbourg phone, MEP him/herself: 0033-3881-75 XXX
Strasbourg fax: 0033-3881-79 XXX

LIBDEMS (ALDE UK)
=================

Messages:

Please follow the 21 cross-party amendments which are championned by Andrew Duff
http://www.andrewduffmep.org.uk/news/163.html

The Duff line conforms to the recommendations of the UK Libdem party policy documents and of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC)

Here's the contents of an advisory email about this sort of thing from the FFII (lists of MEPs removed to get around /. lameness filter). The "Key Messages" section for each party is particularly interesting.
--------
Dear XYZ,

You have registered as a supporter of FFII and thereby agreed to receiving e-mails which tell you how you can support our work.[1]

The European Parliament will vote next Tuesday or Wednesday. Unless more than half of the members (= 367) vote for serious amendments, the Council's version will become law and US-style software patent enforcement will begin in Europe.

On 5 July there will be a demonstration in Strasbourg, with coaches from Paris, Brussels, Munich, Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere http://noepatents.eu.org/index.php/StbDemo050604

Final things for you to do:

* Check that your MEP will attend the plenary session, an abstention is a vote for the unmodified council version.

We recommend him/her to vote for the 21 cross-party amendments[2], but even a vote for the official liberal or conservative party line is probably better than not showing up or abstaining. If the 21 cross-party amendments do not get passed we recommend that your MEP should vote to reject the directive.

* At this point sending e-mails alone is probably of no great value. Below you find a list of UK MEPs with phone numbers and some hints on specific messages to be delivered.

* Phone calls can be very effective if you are well informed. *Otherwise they can backfire*. Always be polite, never get aggressive. Explain clearly how software patents would affect *you* and *your* business. Only contact MEPs from *your own* region.[4]

* Before calling your MEP by phone, please make sure you have read the 21 cross-party amendments yourself, have a printed copy ready beside your phone and are well aware of the central ones, particularly Amendments 8, 4, 3, 9 and 1.

* It would also be good to have read the FFII discussion paper[3]. You can use Sunday (tonight) and Monday morning for preparation. MEPs arrive in Strasburg Monday afternoon.

* For help, please email the UK coordinators at uk-help@ffii.org with your name, region and relevant details of your business or profession.

* More instructions on how to contact your MEP are at http://wiki.noepatents.eu.org/index.php/MEPinfo

With kind regards, Hartmut Pilch and Alex Macfie, FFII

[1] Your user id is XYZ at http://aktiv.ffii.org/, in case of
difficulties you also may contact buero at ffii.org.
[2] Buzek-Rocard-Duff amendments
http://wiki.ffii.org/AmPlenPr050701En
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/amends05 /komprom0506.en.pdf
[3] http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/juri0504 /ffiiepp050615.en.pdf
[4] Map of UK Euro regions at
http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm

UK MEPs

email @europarl.eu.int
Strasbourg phone, MEP assistant: 0033-3881-77 XXX
Strasbourg phone, MEP him/herself: 0033-3881-75 XXX
Strasbourg fax: 0033-3881-79 XXX

LIBDEMS (ALDE UK)
=================

Messages:

Please follow the 21 cross-party amendments which are championned by Andrew Duff
http://www.andrewduffmep.org.uk/news/163.html

The Duff line conforms to the recommendations of the UK Libdem party policy documents and of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC)

The time is not to make fun of the patent system in general. It is the right time to call for reform in the United States. There are currently US patent reform discussions initiated by Microsofts while myriads of stupid MS lobbyists walk on the floors of the European parliament to lobby for Software patents:

* Hugo Lueders, CompTIA or Initiative for Software Choice
* Jonathan Zuck, ACT
* Simon Gentry, Campaign for Creativity
* Pleon
* DCI Group
and so on. And the more professional guys, which are also partially paid by Microsoft.

* Francisco Mingorance, Business Software Alliance
* Mark McGann, EICTA

So I recommend you to act now.

1. Help to save Europe, participate in our webdemo

2. Subscribe to the US FFII List

We do not have to complain about the US patent system, we can change it.

Register your site now!

Try here for free domains on the .eu.org second level domain.

You're never going to get a second level for free because ICANN takes a $6 cut from each one, but there are countless domain name owners who offer free or cheap subdomains.

That data of avg. literacy rate of 52% is from 1991 census in India. According to the 2001 census , the avg. literacy rate is 64.8%.

Also check out this ...

http://india.eu.org/1963.html

India's literacy rate stands at 64.8%
The Economic Times, Saturday 10 July 2004,

NEW DELHI, JULY 10: As much as 64.8 per cent of India's population is literate while Uttar Pradesh continues to be most populous state followed by Maharashtra, according to details of the 2001 Census released on Saturday.

First, you need to extract the .sit file: I got the demo of stuffit expander

Then you need something that can burn the .dmg file, or something to convert it to an .iso: I used dmg2iso (the perl script seems to work better).

Then I burned the .iso, but it's a mac file system, so you need something that can read mac filesystems. I grabbed the demo of macdrive.

With that I can grab all the .aif files from the "The Hand That Feeds 1.0.band\Media" directory and import them into my audio program of choice! I couldn't find anything to convert the garageband "projectData" file into another format (it's xml, but with a weird encoded data block), but the .aif files are a good enough place to start playing with the sounds.

I'm sure there's equivalent utilities for linux, as well, but I don't know about them.

Seriously.

If the music industry tries to say I can't run a server, I'm gonna say that they better distribute my music projects FOR me since they won't let me distribute my independent music on my own.

Not like they'll care.

does this help?

Do a little research... Here is one piece of evidence. The timing of the report you read was obviously wrong, the fact of sea level rise is not. See here for an example

Now we will need an annual BSD brew-hike. http://www.lbw2000.eu.org/

Both blogs are from viewers of the trial. As is mine :
http://maxime.ritter.eu.org/proces-de-guillermito- j-y-etais-breve139.html
And also :
http://maxime.ritter.eu.org/du-full-disclosure-et- de-guillermito-breve141.html

And a blog written in english : http://serendipity.lascribe.net/blogologie/2005/01 /rule-of-law-one/ and http://serendipity.lascribe.net/blogologie/2005/01 /rule-of-law-and-of-the-free-market-part-2/

There were about 40 peoples in the public at the trial, most were bloggers, or people from french usenet group fr.comp.securite.virus, where the story took place.

Both blogs are from viewers of the trial. As is mine :
http://maxime.ritter.eu.org/proces-de-guillermito- j-y-etais-breve139.html
And also :
http://maxime.ritter.eu.org/du-full-disclosure-et- de-guillermito-breve141.html

And a blog written in english : http://serendipity.lascribe.net/blogologie/2005/01 /rule-of-law-one/ and http://serendipity.lascribe.net/blogologie/2005/01 /rule-of-law-and-of-the-free-market-part-2/

There were about 40 peoples in the public at the trial, most were bloggers, or people from french usenet group fr.comp.securite.virus, where the story took place.

OpSed

It's relatively easy to customise Opera's search list. Under Windows, it's stored in the file search.ini in your Profile directory, and is very simple to understand. Or if you don't want to do that, you can download a third party editor. I presume that is is equally simple in Linux.

Another feature that people switch to Firefox for is ad blocking, but this is also present in Opera - in this case, the relevant Opera file to edit is filter.ini, and there's a good guide to editing it here.

Not my picture, but my (former!) bank had ATMs which did stuff like this.

I've seen it personally. None of the keys on the ATM were mapped to 'return' so you were stuck with the message there.

(For those who don't read Swedish, it's an 'out of virtual memory' error, and that's Win95/98!!)

this?

Look at this chart. If there is no correlation between C02 and temperature, then what is the explanation?

Amail, Bmail, Cmail, Dmail, Email, Fmail, Gmail, Hmail, Imail, Jmail, Kmail, Lmail, Mmail, Nmail, Omail, Pmail, Qmail, Rmail, Smail, Tmail, Umail, Vmail, Wmail, Xmail, Ymail, and Zmail

Sorry.

A similar war game Boson is open source, playable, though not completely done.

Too bad it doesn't work with my Firefox. I've got popups forced to tabs and it looks kinda funny: whole browser window, inside tab's render area. I don't know anyone who would fall for this.

Robert

Matt Dillon put RC2 on the download page.

It's also available via BitTorrent.

Same thing for windows users (only different) is here. Submit an LM or NT hash, get the password emailed back to you...

it's REALLY done

particularly the GUI-drawing system

From my experience, this is the most commonly sited perk of VB. It's something that you've been able to do for darn near any language for a long time- GUI designers really aren't new, and VB doesn't even have the best one available.

The frequency that I see people cite the GUI designer as the major benefit to VB makes me think that most folks- especially the types of people on /.- seem to be stuck in the past, coding all of their GUIs manually. I know that the development setup is generally some years behind for most Linux developers compared to your average coder on Windows or Mac OS X, and that there are fewer good and polished tools on Linux. But still- there are free GUI designers for GTK+, FLTK, Qt and Motif. And for just about any other toolkit and language. Do people not use these?

That said, tools like VB and RealBasic (with which I've more experience than VB) are RADs for more than just a GUI designer. Using Glade for a C/GTK+ app won't make you as productive as a seasoned VB coder for simple app development, but it will shave off some time spent coding the GUI programatically.

But there are options, and some darn good ones on, for Linux:

Prima: a new GUI toolkit for perl- including a really nice RAD GUI builder- for Linux, OS/2 and Windows.

Squeak Smalltalk: Runs on just about every platform. Uses a seperate GUI toolkit, but affords a huge amount of power and ease of development.

RealBasic: A cross-platform VB clone for Mac OS Classic/X, Windows and Linux. *Really* nice. Costs money, but it's worth it.

RunTime Revolution: Has a HyperTalk-like language and runs almost anywhere. ...and others. But those are some that embody the feeling of a RAD IDE like VB. That is, they do more than just add a GUI designer.

Additionally, a torrent and list of mirrors are also available.

Developers Techno Remix

The link vivek7006 gave is not a "monster-remix."

By chance I downloaded the newest version as I was reinstalling everything else too. But it still has "jerks" whenever I play a flash game. My slower windows box doesn't have this problem. The problem is reproducible on all three of my linux machines, no matter the processor speed. It makes it especially difficult to play a game like this since there are unexpected jerks in movement.

I've created an RSS feed from the Project Gutenberg list of etexts. The RSS feed contains titles, authors, descriptions and links to the relevant page or file on http://www.gutenberg.net/

PGDB.rss PGDB.rss.gz

I've created an RSS feed from the Project Gutenberg list of etexts. The RSS feed contains titles, authors, descriptions and links to the relevant page or file on http://www.gutenberg.net/

PGDB.rss PGDB.rss.gz

This Article shows the temperature and CO2 concentration changes for the last 400,000 years taken from the Ice core in Antartica... Anyone else see a pattern? Anyone else think that the rise in temp in the last 20,000 years is actually less than previous changes? If you look at the length of time mankind has been having an effect on the planet, it's a tiny blip on and otherwise large and spiky graph. a

here.

here
It's a lot easier to use than the previous version.

The DDRParadise forums have tons of screenshots and info on Gmail, and have a link to apply for an account. Could be a good way to reserve your gmail user name!

...gaming is next to be rearranged by OSS and ultracheap top quality stuff. As I said the other day.
Unless MS comes forward with DX9 and some good tools for Linux I don't see this taking off.

Searching Google for "physical dimensions" "credit card" gave me this link on the third page. This came up as the first result for "physical characteristics" "credit card". Of course if I had of thought there might be an ISO or ANSI standard for it, adding either of those terms gives a good result in first place. I didn't find Vivisimo's categories immediately helpful for this case (eg none of the FAQ->Specification results looked relevant), but a bit of browsing found the required info fairly quickly. Vivisimo was a little quicker for me than Google, but it only took me 5-10 minutes with Google. I also use Google heavily for dictionary lookups so I'm not ready to switch just yet.

I prefer gMUDix on *nixen, and RoAClient on win32

On the Windows side, your best bet is Zuggsoft's ZMud. If you do not want to pay the shareware cost, it has a free, albeit trimmed down, version. Another free Windows client you might want to try is the R0A client.

On Unix, a good GUI client is GMudix.

I'm a big fan of minimalist mud clients (at least in appearances. More room for text) so I've gone with gMUDix (or MUDix for the console version). It has all the trigger/timers/paths/macros/alias/etc features. Occasionally I use Crystal as it's even more minimalist and reaches the goal of, basically, a telnet client with a command input line (so the scrolling text doesn't make you unable to see what you're typing). They're both very good and very free. Depends on what you need.

First of all, you forgot SAVAGE . A reference grade quality, high end Action FPS / Large Multiplayer RTS with state-of-the-art grafics, dripping with eye-candy. And they are the _very__first_ to come out with a client for Linux from the get go whilst officially making that their policy.
So right away, go and buy that game and mail them how much you appriechiate them making a Linux game and how much you love to give them your money for it! They've even got a download purchase, so you can be playing in something like 20 minutes.
Second of all: The transgaming people are heroes, no doubt, but something like 1 out of 30 mentionable games actually run. I won't buy any windowsgames any more, even *if* they are supported by tg and those where the first and last 30 bucks tg got from me. Sorry guys, Master of Orion 2 runs quite ok (the first 15 min.) but that's about it. No, really, it's better we rid this shoddy emulation stuff sooner than later and pay developers for making cool native Linuxgames. Whe can use them to await the time when Linux has conquered the desktop and gaming developement kicks in.
Remember the Amiga days? Would've you thought that PCs would once be a gaming plattform? Me neither.

Bottom line:
Quit whining. And if you're bored help the Boson team finish their promising project.

Another poster: And you don't think the fact that Venus is MUCH closer to the Sun has anything to do with its hotter temperatures? If the distance from the Sun to the Earth were to change by only a few percent either way we'd become a desert planet or we'd be an ice ball, and the activities of Man would have nothing to do with the outcome.

Not as much effect as you think. As you can see here, Venus is 30% closer to the Sun than the Earth is. A simple application of the blackbody equation to calculate the surface temperature of a planet shows that one would expect Venus to have a surface temperature of about 22 deg C. In fact it has a temperature of 464 deg C. The difference is entirely due to the greenhouse effect. So yes, the greenhouse effect is very real and can have tremendous impact on the surface temperature of a planet. I should also point out that without the greenhouse effect, the Earth itself would be rather cold: about -22 deg C. Given that the presence of a tiny amount of CO2 and water vapor is enough to change the mean surface temperature of the Earth by 40 deg C, it is not unreasonable to think that an increase in the CO2 concentration by 50-100% might raise surface temperatures.

This is a test. slashdot@kma.eu.org
slashdot@kma.eu.org

There is a larger version of that picture here: http://www.lbw2000.eu.org/lbw-1999aug10-13.jpg

Linux can't afford braces because it trade it's dental plan for a keg of beer!

That would explain this: http://www.lbw2000.eu.org/lbw-1999aug10-13_small.j pg

• There's a special version of TeX called Omega which does 16-bit Unicode. It can even do Sanskrit. Some critics say it doesn't cut the cake, however.
• There's also Unicode support for LaTeX.

Promoting someone who has no talent but just a body that would appeal to most customers in the target group (according to research) to perform songs that have neither innovative music nor significant lyrics but would appeal to most customers in the target group (according to research) is the way it should work?? Maybe these so-called artists are promoted too much with too much money?

I think there is something fundamentally wrong with a society where a business of entertaining is more profitable and respected than business of actually building something. If it pays better to be Ozzy Osbourne than Alex Wolszczan or Linus Torvalds then we have some priorities terribly wrong.

If you want to send any notes to help@xupiter.com, you can always use an anonymous remailer:

Remailer

That's help@xupiter.com

KLF's The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) will answer all questions.

It is the best book ever on recording an album and availble as a .txt file.

Its also guaranteed to work:

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YOU ARE UNABLE TO ACHIEVE A NUMBER ONE SINGLE IN THE OFFICIAL (GALLUP)
U.K. CHARTS WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE PURCHASE OF THIS MANUAL AND ON
CONDITION THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED OUR INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER. TO
RECEIVE THIS GUARANTEE PLEASE WRITE TO KLF PUBLICATIONS, BOX 283, HP21
7HG, U.K. WITH YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR PURCHASE
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EIGHT DAYS.

"Providing a Feedback form [pm.gov.au] rather than just an email address is a very good way of limiting the spam that the PM would receive."

Howabout writing a Perl script such that when you email some other address, it loads that page, and submits it with the email attached?

Maybe even implement it as part of an anonymous remailer chain, and you'll have the added advantage of anonymous free speech.