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Iridium satellites have three large, flat, reflective antennas arrainged at an angle to the main spacecraft. These antennas, when at the right angle, can produce a very bright glint of reflected runlight. If you know where to look, the flares can be seen in broad daylight.

Look here: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sa t/vsohp/iridium.html

They explain the effect, and even link to flare prediction software.

http://www.satellite.eu.org/sat/vs ohp/iridium.html

The description for Dia is below: It's basically a Dia-gram program

All you Windows Hackers looking to get into Linux, GTK programming go check it out. It's a sweet program. http://hans.breuer.org/dia/

Yes, there is a link on http://internal-affairs.inter.net.eu.org/news/99A4 E0000C9F5345888A88-20847847,4/

Nice. This makes me more proud to have a '93 Mustang. Pic
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Nice. This makes me more prowd to have a '93 Mustang. Pic
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Back when AOL IM had a java client I connected a Eliza based chatter box to it and let it loose on April 1st. I've since lost the code but the output of one of the better conversations I posted on my web site. http://thecity.eu.org/apfeliza.html (I go by Leknor on that site.)

I still think it is quite funny when I read it. Hope some of y'all like it.
Citrix

Well I could have gone on. I know its shortcomings but it struck a very nice balance between being friendly towards developers and users alike. Indeed there's lots of stuff which smacks of terrible design, but for a few years it was a truly lovely OS to work with (e.g. the fine Zap programmers' editor-- incredibly fast (though impossible to maintain) because it was written entirely in assembler and the CorelDraw-mashing Artworks). It's certainly not faded into the realm of `nostalgia' for me, anyhow. Linux is just shit in different ways :-)

Since kernel 2.3.24, Linux supports up to 64 GB of physical memory and up to several TB of swap on the x86 platform. This means that this howto is now obsolete. The easiest way to use more than 1GB of memory is to get a newer kernel and run that.

I haven't tried it myself (send me 63.9375 GB of RAM and I will :), but it looks like the support is there. For more information, search for "64GB memory linux 2.3" on Google.

Actually, the most advanced ground based telescopes will probably beat the Hubble in resolution, if they haven't already. They combine larger apertures (resolution is a linear function of aperture) and adaptive optics.

There's a guy at Boston's Museum of Science who can take pictures of the Shuttle or satellites in broad daylight with a slightly modified closed circuit security camera on a 12 inch reflector.

Throw in a billion bucks for better CCDs, larger and adaptive optics and better image processing software and if they can't read your watch from space they can probably read your sundial.

Yeah I'm banging chicks left and right, and that's not the issue. It's the links BELOW which are informative.
Haven't you ever wondered why there would'nt be practical, unbiased, open-source, not politically correct information on how to pick up women on the 'net? Well there is!
Nathan SZILARD

Now, funny you should mention that, but building rapport does not mean mimicking exactly. Though ... it's incredible how far you can go without the other person noticing it. It's the same for trance words, where you feed back the mostr significant words of the other person back. Example: she mentions 'trust' several times? Say it back! And whatever important word.

Most 'natural' seducers (not only sexual but commercial ones, I mean, good salespeople) do just that: they repeat -- NOT EXACTLY -- but what was important to you.

Bit of conversation:

Her -- I really trusted that guy.
You -- Yeah, it's important to be able to trust someone

For more info, go to alt.seduction.fast.

Nathan SZILARD

Meaningful relationship? Hell, what I can say is that the women that have made you wait for 1 month or several to get you to bed, I (or others) might ve bagged them in a few hours or days. Women want casual sex too! And more than you'd think. The interesting part of is thusly: IT ALL DEPENDS HOW YOU POSITION YOURSELF. If you're being nice and caring, then they will position themselves as a potential long term relationshop partner -- hence, they won't show you the slutty side EVERY WOMAN HAS.
Now, if you position yourself as SEXUAL and DESIRABLE, they will show you their short term side.
You probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Hell, a year ago *I* did'nt know this!!! Woman don't want to show to LTR partner that they are SLUTS too (no pejorative connotation here) because they want to KEEP their LTR partners and get them to believe they're exclusive.
I won't go in greater details here, go read 'The Evolution of Desires', can be found on Amazon.com, or go read alt.seduction.fast if you have questions.
Nathan SZILARD

OTOH, I wonder why he didn't choose GNAT.

From the article: The problem is that if Perl 6 were written in Ada--it would require people to bootstrap GNAT before they could even get to Perl. That's too much of a burden to put on anybody.

Basically Ada '95 didn't get used because a lot of people don't have it. Chicken, egg, egg, chicken.

But that may also be suffering from lack of current maintainers.

Errm? 3.11p was released in January, and 3.12p is suppoused to be out RSN.

AdaCore Technologies is the normal maintainer, but they were sounding very commercial when I talked to them a year ago.

Hmmm. I'm a member of the Ada-Linux team and we've got a very good relationship with ACT and ACT-Europe. They are a company, but they do do a lot to help both the Ada and GNU communities (there was an ALT/ACT meeting in Paris in June), both officially and unofficially (the Ada-mode for emacs is maintained by them, and several members of ACT-Europe helped create GtkAda)

Of course the problem of where to get his programmers couldn't have anything to do with his choice. :-)

Course, comp.lang.ada wouldn't be a good place to start would it?

- Aidan (dislikes disinformation, but is horrendously behind on /.)

OTOH, I wonder why he didn't choose GNAT.

From the article: The problem is that if Perl 6 were written in Ada--it would require people to bootstrap GNAT before they could even get to Perl. That's too much of a burden to put on anybody.

Basically Ada '95 didn't get used because a lot of people don't have it. Chicken, egg, egg, chicken.

But that may also be suffering from lack of current maintainers.

Errm? 3.11p was released in January, and 3.12p is suppoused to be out RSN.

AdaCore Technologies is the normal maintainer, but they were sounding very commercial when I talked to them a year ago.

Hmmm. I'm a member of the Ada-Linux team and we've got a very good relationship with ACT and ACT-Europe. They are a company, but they do do a lot to help both the Ada and GNU communities (there was an ALT/ACT meeting in Paris in June), both officially and unofficially (the Ada-mode for emacs is maintained by them, and several members of ACT-Europe helped create GtkAda)

Of course the problem of where to get his programmers couldn't have anything to do with his choice. :-)

Course, comp.lang.ada wouldn't be a good place to start would it?

- Aidan (dislikes disinformation, but is horrendously behind on /.)

Interesting.. just yesterday I was cleaning out the garage and found my copy of the story...

If you wish to read the story that the movie is based on, it is located here.



..here are some online quotes about it..

"Kubrick, as we well know, has had A.I. in development for several years now. The narrative follows the development of a child and his
inter-relation with the technology that surrounds him. We can safely assume here that this technology will be represented by the AI.

"The trick is that the film traces the boys development, not over weeks or months, but YEARS."

June 2, 1996... A long, unsubstantiated rumor is that A.I. actually began production years ago with Joseph Mazzello (Tim from Jurassic Park)
starring. [Scoop sent in by 'hansolo'.]

April 2, 1996... Development on A.I. is in the final stages of set design and special-effects development, reports Associated Press. Kubrick plans to return to direct involvement with the project after completing Eyes Wide Shut. [Scoop feedback by Todd Dupler; originally reported by AP.]

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integrated source browser (and for OO people a class browser) so users can do things like take a struct and see where its defined and/or where its used, class heirarchys etc...

Actually the emacs Ada-mode has a nice xref thing going. It's really useful.

- Aidan

How fortuitous that Nature decided to usher in the Linux millennium in so grand a fashion. Nature herself smiled on Linux today as she decided to display her celestial crown jewels and pay homage to the Linux fraternity and its priests celebrating the high holydays of the Linuxbierwanderung

These "free" ISPs aren't really free, since you pay through the nose for your phone calls.
Another poster mentioned the Campaign for unmetered telecommunications
You should know that there are many similar groups in Europe asking for a flat rate and together they have organized the European Telecom Boycott Day on 6/6/1999. Visit http://www.telecom.eu.org and, please, support the boycott.

All very possible - I use Notepad and otherwise to edit all HTML; auto-indentation and syntax-based colouring systems help wonders (see the webpages for Zap for some ideas). Mind you, I don't really consider frames and so on as markup, more layout. But each to his/her own..

Here are some mirrors, plus a request for anyone else who can mirror:
Advancenet
Jason Holtslander
Star Wars HUB
ToodlePip! FTP
Ciateq (Mexico City)
starwars.nu (Sweden)
SKYNET (Austria)
James Wj Rose
Benjamin Everson
James Connatser

BlackJedi.eu.org (UK)
El Ombligo (Argentina)
Theed.net

josh.rlc.net

Thanks to the mirrors so far; many of these mirrors were already at their limit so if you can mirror this file, please send them a note.

This directory has it
ftp://ftp.circ. us.eu.org/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/sources/gnome-1.0- pre/

I dunno what happened to it in the main site's..
But it's there..

I would love to hear if it helps anyone, it's been pretty private (Never found a good place to post it), but I release it under GNU GPL! If anyone makes a change, I'd love to hear about it as well.

mail me.

I would love to hear if it helps anyone, it's been pretty private (Never found a good place to post it), but I release it under GNU GPL! If anyone makes a change, I'd love to hear about it as well.

mail me.

I've been looking to build a new machine with an AGP video board. The board I've been looking at is a diamond fire 1000 gl 8mb. Any clues if there is X support for these cards? I like Diamond (I've used a trident card at work and it's just not as fast as the diamonds). I haven't used ATI's much (only on gateway machines at work that comes with ATI rage). I'm not sure if replies are email forwarded to me and I usually don't return to these comments (no time =). Mail me. Spammers click here.