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He did document it rather more - see his full report. Some of the details have been elided but it appears that the US ISP is Lycos and the UK ISP is Freeserve/Wanadoo (the URL given for T&Cs is http://www.XXXXX.com/sitebuilder/tandc.htm which matches http://www.freeserve.com/sitebuilder/tandc.htm).

"There is a high possibility we will be announcing two!" said Blake Stowell Tuesday, while placing his pinky in front of his mouth as pictured here

I disagree.

Go build it!

Pedantic [LEGO]Geek mode on

A: Lego Army men
Many fine examples already exist for filling units in most era's.

B: Lego Star trek
Trek is often done. Tho Blake's 7 is more hip.

C: Lego Warhammer 40k
A whole[all units] Dark Eldar army and ideas for modeling units for other powers can be found.

D: Lego D&D
Players of D&D[with LEGO] and other game systems are legion. As are the armies. Several rule-systems for play are also out there.

E: Lego Half life
There are CAD models[in easy format for conversion] for many of the parts go nuts. Sprite based(using POV to render frames) has also been done for a few games over the years.

F: Lego programming department
Cluster em.

PDG mode off [/;-)

a lot of roman gaming was done with knucklebones

with the rounded ends of the knuckles it was, effectively, four sided.

it's called combat cars and is on bravo in the UK. People fix up bangers (old cars) to be radio controlled and they go through some challenges and then trash each other's cars. It's just like robot wars etc. but with real cars. Certainly not news, this.
Can't find much info about it, but it's mentioned here!

Great fun to watch when someone's put in a fair amount of effort...

download kazaa lite here

messed up the link

http://mysite.freeserve.com/12thMonkey/maxpayne2_4 .jpg
http://www.tonydanzabonanza.tvheaven.com

ADSL where available either direct from BT or several resellers (there are loads more). 512 down / 128 up costs about GBP 30.00 / month give or take.

There are two major cable operators in the uk, ntl: and Telewest. Both offer cable modem in almost all areas of their networks for about GBP 25.00 / month for 512 and 40.00 / month for 1M.

ntl couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

goat fucking gnu hippies!

Example providers of the you-just-pay-for-the-call service are Freeserve No Ties and Tiscali Pay As You Go. No credit card or personal details required.

That didn't stop me uninstalling it this morning though - simply because it could not render several of the pages I often visit! As a Mozilla user, I am used to and ignore small imperfections in pages written for IE users - however Opera just made web-surfing too difficult. For example, I could not log into my webmail account (invalid session error). When you added that to the huge amount of ordinary web pages that simply loaded in an illegible state - it had to go and I have reverted to Moz, despite its bloat.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for standard-setting by committee rather than market-share. I know how much Mozilla has agonised over this problem, but I cannot use a product that renders web pages badly, however quickly - especially if they are web pages that Mozilla can render without a quirk (ahem).

cheers

drew

You clearly have a superior bus system to mine

Freeserve has these, which look very similar to the mysmart pads.
BTW, I was just at Best Buy and they didn't have any of the mysmart pads. I might try CompUSA later because they supposedly have them too.

Freeserve has these, which look very similar to the mysmart pads.
BTW, I was just at Best Buy and they didn't have any of the mysmart pads. I might try CompUSA later because they supposedly have them too.

Energis Squared runs the technical side of Freeserve and other ISPs. Most of their core systems are Linux based, with some Solaris and *BSD boxes in there too.

I recently moved to FreeServe since it's service is unmetered (and, at the time BTi wasn't). I've niticed that FreeServe take all the e-mail that's sent out by my mail server (no matter what host it was intended to be sent to) and route it through their mail server (well, actually it's PlanetOnline's server).

IMO, this is better than just blocking your mail server. I know this isn't exactly the problem we're discussing here, but it's the only similar experience I've had (as I've never had a problem sending mail from my server to another mail server), and I thought it was partially relevant.

Sorry matey but that's a bunch of arse. Freeserve do offer an off-peak unmetered scheme via BT Surftime (limited to weekends and 6pm-8am) but their peak/off-peak (ie. any time of day) unmetered scheme is via Energis.

With Unlimited Freeserve Time (the Energis service) you pay a minimum of 10 pounds per month. As well as getting unlimited Internet usage, you can also make long distance voice/fax calls at a discount up to your 10 quid (if you want to make more, you can, but you pay extra).

Unlimited Freeserve Time has the following restrictions:

• All internet calls via this service are disconnected after 2 hours even if you're in the middle of a huge download. Which is what the godess created resumable download managers for. You can redial and get straight back on instantly, but you'll have a new dynamic IP address.
• It's for modems and 64kbps ISDN only. You can't multilink devices, so if you're using ISDN you can't use 128kbps (you can't even multilink one unmetered 64kbps channel to another pay-per-minute 64kbps channel). Multilink was originally supported, but was dropped last month.
• You must have a BT phone/ISDN line (even though the call routing is via Energis- but you don't need a SurfTime upgraded exchange, any exchange will do).

Yup, I'd hardly call that "unlimited" either, but it's good enough for me- my 'phone bill has gone down from 80 quid a month + rental to 10 quid + rental in one fell swoop. Neat.

Combine a 64kbps ISDN line, Unlimited Freeserve Time, auto-redialling software and a dynamic domain name plus a bit of socket/port wizardry and you too can remote control your PC from the office or run FTP/web servers etc.

Readers might like to know that the NTL offering, unlike Freeserve, doesn't support ISDN at all, not even 64kbps.

Find out more on freeserve.help.isdn .

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Sorry matey but that's a bunch of arse. Freeserve do offer an off-peak unmetered scheme via BT Surftime (limited to weekends and 6pm-8am) but their peak/off-peak (ie. any time of day) unmetered scheme is via Energis.

With Unlimited Freeserve Time (the Energis service) you pay a minimum of 10 pounds per month. As well as getting unlimited Internet usage, you can also make long distance voice/fax calls at a discount up to your 10 quid (if you want to make more, you can, but you pay extra).

Unlimited Freeserve Time has the following restrictions:

• All internet calls via this service are disconnected after 2 hours even if you're in the middle of a huge download. Which is what the godess created resumable download managers for. You can redial and get straight back on instantly, but you'll have a new dynamic IP address.
• It's for modems and 64kbps ISDN only. You can't multilink devices, so if you're using ISDN you can't use 128kbps (you can't even multilink one unmetered 64kbps channel to another pay-per-minute 64kbps channel). Multilink was originally supported, but was dropped last month.
• You must have a BT phone/ISDN line (even though the call routing is via Energis- but you don't need a SurfTime upgraded exchange, any exchange will do).

Yup, I'd hardly call that "unlimited" either, but it's good enough for me- my 'phone bill has gone down from 80 quid a month + rental to 10 quid + rental in one fell swoop. Neat.

Combine a 64kbps ISDN line, Unlimited Freeserve Time, auto-redialling software and a dynamic domain name plus a bit of socket/port wizardry and you too can remote control your PC from the office or run FTP/web servers etc.

Readers might like to know that the NTL offering, unlike Freeserve, doesn't support ISDN at all, not even 64kbps.

Find out more on freeserve.help.isdn .

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Now all the UK needs is ADSL connections...

Now all the UK needs is ADSL connections...

I have the Freeserve offer for 10ukp/month. It is excellent value.

The ususal OK connection rates and overall performance issues exist as on the regular Freeserve accounts but I've been using it on a 56k modem for 18+ hrs a day for over a month with no real problems.

No special dialup programs that tie you to a W98 box and 10ukp/mon of normal calls thrown in for the price too.

I don't recommend you let go of your paid ISP yet (SLAs still mean something after all) but this is an excellent way to manage your bill if you do a lot of daytime work on the web/email.

http://www.freeserve.com

Last time I rang up accounts were taking about 10 days to clear and payment was by direct debit monthly. My account has saved me a LOT of money, maybe 100ukp/mon (about $750/yr)