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I read through some of your posting history. Your hatred is rather, umm, fanatical. Does your name happen to be Gerald Holmes?

Another (small) example of an abandoned city would be Centralia in Pennsylvania, which saw its last inhabitant move out recently (massive underground coal fires will do that, I guess). ( http://ifly.freeyellow.com/miscell/centralia-by-air-etc/index.htm)

"Did you know that all linus users are long-hairs?"

"I dont really look like Bill Gates naturally but Im trying my best. I got the same hair cut as Bill Gateses hair cut and I kind of try to walk like he does and talk like he does but Im afraid Im just not very good at it no one would mistake me for him Im not as smart or as powerful but I sure wish Bill would be my personal buddy BILL IF YOUR READING THIS COME OVER AND WELL PLAY SOME SPACE CADET!"

http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/

lol

http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/

Try *that* after the M$-flash site ... :)

Hens can start laying eggs after 20 weeks.
http://gworrell.freeyellow.com/chickenfaq.html

Cows, on the other hand, only start producing milk after their first calf (so 2 years old before they get preggo, then another 9 months gestation). http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/farm/cows/cow_milk.h tml

Also, you can use lower-quality feed for chickens - up to 87% chicken shit.

No! THIS is a large nut.

I was 6 when my dad bought me a BBC model B in 1982 from the local Dixons for £399. I was 6. I played games for a while, and was subjected to Logo and the floor turtle at school, but then one day in 1984 I started thumbing through the BBC BASIC user guide and tried the double height text program. It gave me the programming bug and the rest is history.

While infinitely more powerful than the 6502 1Mhz Beeb, I don't think PCs give quite the same experience from a hands on learning point of view.

The writer comes across as a not too bright 12 year old. In other words, I think we may have just witnessed the birth of India's version of Rob Enderle.

But I've never known anyone who is really passionate about windows [...]

You should visit the site from this guys.

Okay, the page wasn't updated in a while. But I still think it's funny :)

I really want to challenge you once in a Space Cadet match. I love your Homepage. Your passion and dedication is an example for all us longhairs. Keep up the good work.

Cheers
Herbie

Gerald Holmes made a nice cartoon about the Steve Jobs & Bill Gates rivalry in the early history of the PC.

Despite the fact that they don't have computers, they're still going to have VoIP? I'm impressed!

"if you dont like it why dont you move to canada where they dont have computers and its dark for 9 months and they hate technologies" http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/MSadvocacy.html

Yes, the kid is the biggest MS fanboy on the planet, but that about sums it up.

Think music notation

Thus c# = c sharp

it's called elaphantiasis...

Obviously, sir, you have yet to see the sequel .

Gerald Holmes, yes that Gerald Holmes, has provided yet another lucid and in depth analysis of the SCO situation at this excellent site.

I highly recommend it.

Me too. I laughed and I cried.

Gerald Holmes, yes that Gerald Holmes, has provided yet another lucid and in depth analysis of the SCO situation at this excellent site.

I highly recommend it.

Me too. I laughed and I cried.

I highly recommend it.

I highly recommend it.

An even better summary can be found at this site. Yeah. Much "better".

I used to work at Fermilab, and the graphs I've seen of gamma ray bursts attributed to supernovae cover a period of tens or hundreds of seconds, with a several second huge peak, something like this

As someone else has already pointed out, this moves at lightspeed, so there's no warning. You do realize there's not enough jets/planes to even hold 0.00001 of humanity, and the real problem would be trying to outrun our own daytime as the earth is baked by our own sun. You think people will wait nicely in line for a plane on a first-come first-serve basis? Hah, imagine your local airport looking like the most violent moments of the worst civil war. Cheers!

Spammer finds moron, says "I can advertise your product for a fraction of the cost of legit^h^h^h^h^hconventional marketing companies."

Or similarly summed up with the sentence, "Hi, my name is Dave Rhodes."

Or maybe they'll get a visit by the dreaded black helicopters first? But for this, they need some real carrier, I suppose....

You'd get killer awesome battery life too
Radical, dude.

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The fake Gzip Christ isn't not user number ~0xA6CA7

• CygWin. The Linux-like environment for Windows.
  Mozilla. Use this for mail, news, and browsing if you like.
  Firebird. for FAST browsing.
  WS FTP Light. A FREE, FTP client that works great.
  Filezilla. which is TRULY free and does sftp as well.
  PuTTY. a free SSH client for Windows.
  TTSSH. is a much less clunky ssh client than PuTTY.
  iXplorer. freeware secure FTP client
  VNC hello!? remote controll software.
  Tight VNClike the original, only FAST.
  GNU-EMacs for Windows. just trust me ;).
  Dev-C++a free C++ compiler for those who can't afford VS.
  NetHack. as someone here said, you MUST have NetHack installed on everything...
  Free-AV.free Anti-Virus software for Windows, (mandatory these days). or
  AVG Free edition. another free Anti-Virus software for Windows.
  Zonealarm. my favorite Personal Firewall,, really!. or
  Kerio. another firewall that some seem to like. or
  Sygate. yet another firewall. whatever floats your boat.
  Boingo. to see where the closest hotspot is, hehe.
  OpenOffice 1.1 the Microsoft Office KILLER :) {really!}
  Winamp 2.x for audio/video usage in Windows, stay away from the new one :).
  Mark's Adding Machine is much better than the Windows calculator.
  SpyBot Search & Destroy The best Ad-ware / Spyware removal tool we've found, "IE is unusable without".
  Ad-Aware another spy-ware app "alas poor Windoze."
  Trillian a favorite IM, since we're all chatters @ heart. or
  GAIM since trillian hogs resources, "bad piggy!".
  Gimp image creation/editing. Who needs Photoshop anyway?
  EnZip freeware Zip Utility, Stop nagging you WinZip!!
  Iview is a great little image viewer. or
  Irfanviewone of the best image viewer out there for Windows.
  Audacity is a great little sound editor.
  Virtual Dub. a great video editor.
  cDex gotta rip those cd's for the RIAA!
  MAME for games, period. Free. You can buy some ROMs, or *ahem* ask around. and finally
  XPantiSPY since XP is E-V-I-L.

And FINALLY, don't trust me! Trust the experts;

Go to the Pricelessware site maintained by the alt.comp.freeware Usenet group.
The

• Instead of Mozilla, I prefer the leaner Firebird for browsing and Eudora for email. If you take the time to learn how to use the Filters feature, Eudora's pretty good at filtering spam. Especially if you crank up the size of the History of addresses you sent to and store your contacts in the address book. You can then filter messages whose sender "doesn't intersect" your address book or history into a spam folder.
• Instead of WS FTP, I prefer Filezilla, which is truly free (you have to pretend to be a student or a non-profit to use WS FTP for free) and does sftp as well.
• TTSSH is a much less clunky ssh client than PuTTY.

• If you use a Palm, PalmEudora Sync keeps your addressbooks synchronized (which will help with those Eudora spam filters).
• Mark's Adding Machine is much better than the Windows calculator for balancing checkbooks.

Some more details here. Supposedly 555-0100 to 555-0199 are now reserved for movies, although that article is about 10 years old.

Apparently ginkos are also extremely old and resemeble a Jurassic variety. And Cycads, which are woody plants that create seeds. They also seem to be quite poisonous although they are eaten as "beach tucker" after processing in the jungle. (link) Anyway here are some links.

Finally I there are also the extremely visually (and biochemically?) wierd Gymnopsperms like Welwitschia And Ephedra, which seem ancient, maybe same era..

All this because I was trying to figure out if the inch-long stem/leaf in my pocket which I snapped off a huge pencil plant was one of those. Not sure yet.. I remember my mother also has some kind of ancient plant which looks like a gray rock and does nothing, but then one day suddenly splits in half, and then each half will continue to split in the same way recursively. A very cool plant if anyone can figure out what it is!

I know that this page should have been funny, but for some reason, I'm not laughing. And I'm even familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

I kind of expected something like "Engrish" or the often funny Airtoons (but it's probably only funny for those of us that fly a lot). Or even, the hasn't-been-updated-since-the-millennium Kibo and his amusing criticisms of font use or Gerald Holmes, which has outlived the silly .com web awards that are featured on his site. Hooray for Gerald!

They are running FreeBSD. This sort of pandering doesn't really do much for me, but at least these guys aren't pitching their 'Mozilla Coffee' with IIS.

I'm not meaning this as a troll, but I don't see this huge difference between "stealing" and "copyright infringement."

Firstly, I have to say that yes, the spyware approach is a bit drastic.

Secondly, I can appreciate the distinction between physical theft and pirating an unlicensed copy of software. But I'm still having trouble reconciling with the idea that 'Information "theft" is not really theft or stealing.'

I'm not a programmer, but I am a musician, and I think there can be a common viewpoint between the two, or at least similarities.

Let me further complicate things by saying I support the sharing of .mp3 (ogg, whatever you like) files. Dave Matthews has allowed recording of his shows since day one, and he can afford to eat out once or twice a week. It gives more exposure to a performer than it detracts from that performer's profits.

[hypocrisy disclaimer]This is not to say I agree with the idea that it's everyone's right to make a copy for themselves.[/hypocrisy disclaimer]

Music fans that expect everything to be free are wrong, no matter what they tell themselves in justification. If you like someone's .mp3s, pay for a concert ticket, buy a shirt while you're there. At least go buy the CD from the artist's website. The notion that "NO ONE has a natural right to profit" isn't very clear. Are you saying that when someone works on something, they don't have a right to be paid for it? As arguable as it might be, I think Billy Ray deserves to be paid for every hopeless lemming that he managed to con into purchasing a copy of the painful abomination he released in the early 90s. If the artist chooses to sell their records through the RIAA, then it's their own fault if they're not getting a decent cut. But are you fixing that by not paying at all?

"Thousands of my users probably "steal" my software, but guess what! I DON'T CARE! It is information, which I CANNOT OWN!"

You wrote the code, and you can distribute it for free if you like, or you can charge (don't you?) for a pro version. Besides, don't you make money from the ad supported version of bearshare as well? As owner of BearShare, it would be a bit of a stretch for us to accept your opinion as completely unbiased. You SIG says, "Help me out, and use BearShare." Is that just for celebrity status?

AFA molecular reconstruction, I can't imagine technology like that being available to the average consumer to the point where it would be economically viable for anyone to "morph" themselves a brake pad. Ever.

Where does the my-copy-your-copy distinction lie in code? Open source is open source because people have voluntarily worked on it knowing that it will be shared. Smart money says these people have external sources of income; you can't pay the mortgage by working for free. There's a difference between 'personal "posession & ownership" of information' and writing original code with the intent of selling it. I don't see anything wrong with a programmer expecting money for every copy of his/her software that gets distributed.

Hmmm. "stealing money/goods/services" vs. merely "potential profits," I'll offer my Dad as an example. If he was going to buy a new computer, he could call Gateway or Dell, and he'd end up getting a licensed copy of M$ crap, for which they (M$) would receive a royalty. If I knew about it before he made the purchase, I'd have him get online, and we'd find and order the parts he needed, and then I'd... er, refer him to a friend who has an old copy of WinBlows he doesn't use anymore, and my Dad would no longer be contributing to the Expansion Of The Empire. Now assuming this would be an

So you mean that if my malehood grows, the evil Lumber Cartel is ready to strike?

The idea in itself is interesting, but in that case, I'd just open a pr0n site and use steganography in the pics.

Then why is Fyodor a free man? And how do you explain the lack of prosecution of this case?

I think you and the parent are both right. I think you're correct in saying that if the FBI wants someone badly enough, they can prosecute them for damn near anything. I think the parent is right that they will almost never pursue a case where a corporation is not the victim. They don't want to involve themselves in defending Internet cranks.

That's why Fyodor's gotten away scott free, and I can't say I blame him. Maybe it will teach these jokers some manners.

Consider the case of Biswaneth Halder, the CRWU student who walked into a campus building two weeks ago and shot a man to death because no one would investigate the hacking and deletion of his web site. His letter to Congress gives a clear account of what it's like to try to get the FBI to prosecute a cybercrime case where no financial damage can be demonstrated.

This is not to say, however, that Mr. Halder was sane.

Some guy in Cleveland recently shot up his college because no one would prosecute the cyber-breakin and erasure of his rant/web site. He has carefully detailed the FBI's process whereby they determined that not enough money had been lost to justify investigating:

http://halder.freeyellow.com/20011116PL.html

Are you related to Gerald?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

In other words, "one nation, under GOD." Atheists, liberals and other bad people can go to hell.

Now, to begin my post on why, in my opinion, Microsoft as an organization cares only about eternal perpetually increasing profits and does not give a DAMN about the quality (excuse me, the total, complete, utter lack thereof, in my opinion) of their products. Why am I not surprised? Should it surprise me that some stupid service pack makes things worse instead of better? No! Because I believe there are a million monkeys pounding away at a million keyboards, and whatever gobbledygook compiles is packaged neatly in boxes probably designed under Mac OS X or some other UNIX (as Microsoft wouldn't actually be dumb enough to use their own products in my opinion--I have to give them credit for actually knowing better in my opinion) and sold for exhorbitant prices, in my opinion.

Like I said a million times before, and like I will probably continue to say for a long time, Microsoft's products, which are already of unacceptable quality in my opinion, get increasingly worse with each iteration, in my humble opinion. (See URL below, in my opinion.)

Why don't they sell kits that let you solder a bunch of wires, which join at a large red switch, to strategic points on your motherboard and peripherals, so that when the button is pushed, it short circuits everything in the computer and blows out the circuit breakers in the entire town while it's at it? Seriously... that would probably provide more value to customers than their current offering, in my opinion.

Transmission error or button not pushed or user is drunk. More likely the latter than the former. Press any key to continue, in my opinion. My opinion, in my opinion, is that my opinion, in my opinion, is a humble opinion, in my opinion.

For more information, please visit Microsoft (see note below before clicking link), call 1-900-EAT-POOP (see charges below) or visit www.goatse.cs.

NOTE: (the one below that I was talking about a minute ago) These links don't point to where they say they point to. They point to other sites which are NOT what you think. Try it... click on them! Seriously. You can also set up your preferences so it shows the real address of a link in brackets like [ and ] after the link so you know what you're clicking on. Slashdot is a marvelous piece of engineering and I am really drunk. (How's that for expressing one idea in each sentence.)

Charges for calling the aforementioned 1-900 number, in my opinion, are as follows... 99 Euros for the first minute and $100.53 USD for each additional minute, a connection charge of 55 pesos, a convenience charge of 72 yen, 451 Uganda Shillings for somebody having to walk all the way to the phone, 41 Dinars for that person answering the phone, 119 Ouguiyas for every minute you're on hold, 49 Malgaches for every word said during the conversation, 32 Dalasis for every word you say which renders your grammar incorrect (such as, but not limited to, ending a sentence with a preposition), a one-time charge of 114 Kwanzas if you say any bad words, 16 Escudos for each such bad word, 78 Lotis if you end the conversation before ten minutes elapse, and last but certainly not least, a one-time account setup fee of 118 Dobras. Upon calling, you will be placed on hold for 9 (nine) days and if you hang up or leave the phone during this time, you will be charged a penalty of 1,368,852 Turkish L

And spamming....

see things like

This is just a small snippets of over 700 attempts caught by DNS blackholing today. The script kiddies are a problem too, but spam is more of a problem. And surely a few schmucks sending stuff from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and some other hellholes I should probably blackhole right away.

I'd prefer to have the The Lumber Cartel rule the world again.

Oh wiat. You mean _that_ NUMA.

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With a /. id below 10,000 I assume you must have some technical skills, and I'd strongly recommend you relocate to a country that does not permit its police to indiscriminately execute its citizens.

Download the tone from http://heymoe.freeyellow.com/ and record it on an old answering machine. Set the answering machine to pick up all calls on the first ring and volume to 'max' on the answering machine, so you can use it to screen your calls.

Total cost? $5 for a cheap-ass answering machine at Wal-mart.

Canada is the United States' biggest trading partner. I'd love to know what strange ideas Americans are getting by that route.

Those ideas tend to fall into the "embarrassing" catagory rather than the "dangerous" catagory.

Lets do a countdown on the top three Google hits for canada idea.

#3 on the google list of Canadian ideas:
The, "Keep Canada Warm" project. (Yes, they put a comma after the word "The". Don't ask me why, they're Canadian, I don't get it either.)

What is the purpose of the website? "Canada can be a cold and unforgiving country to someone forced to live without proper shelter". Charity to keep the homeless warm, excellent idea, dismal implementation. Their solution to the problem is to ask people to spend god-knows-how-long hand knitting or crocheting 8-inch squares that they will make into blankets. They'd be better off asking for a dollar, or just SELL the handcrafted blankets to buy several times as many manufactured blankets which would actually be much warmer.

#2 on the google list of Canadian ideas:
FOCUS: Do Canadians live in fear of shopping online?

I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that they are afraid, or to consider it an important problem.

And the NUMBER 1 GOOGLE HIT FOR CANADIAN IDEAS IS...

Drumroll please!

Oh my god! It's a double play!

WHITE TEXT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND advertizing FRUIT BASKETS!

I guess we can excuse the white text on a white background adverisment as a symptom of snow-blindness. (Try pressing CTRL-A to select all text to make it visible.) But fruit baskets!?! That's their #1 idea?!? Hell, they can't even grow fruit under all that snow!

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As a zealous Christian, (dare I admit that I might be categorized as a 'fundie' by the /. crowd?)

I can say that I am not afraid of the human body. I like sex quite a bit, too.

That having been said, I believe that God designed sex to be expressed in the context of an emotionally intimate committed relationship. One reference that discusses sexual satifaction survey results is here
Apparently Christians have higher rates of sexual satisfaction than non-Christians.

With regard to censorship, perhaps Walmart is making decisions based on what their customers want. The marketplace is free, and I don't get up in arms when your favorite pr0n store refuses to carry Jonah - If you want the game, you know where you can find it - Google is your friend.

Respectfully,
Anomaly
BTW - God loves you and longs for relationship with you.
If you would like to know more, please email me.

*drumroll*

Gerald Holmes.

Well, maybe it wasn't him. He would have done a better job.

Cheers,

Ethelres

See here.

What. Like bean-roaches?