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Guess you never played River Raid on the 2600, then. It too was written by the owner of a vagina.

I didn't spam anyone; my site (2 simple and separate URLs covering the same area) is not porn or warez, or even a commercial site. It is a political site. You can see one of my pages at http://www.geocities.com/cryofan/.

After just one week I managed to get my site ranked on the first page of google using the search string "navy nuclear power program" by posting 2 times to relevent newsgroup, and posting 2 messages on message boards of relevant websites, and by linking the 2 pages together.
I used no meta tags or search engines optimization techniques or other tricks. These are/were simple handmade HTML pages.

However, not too long after that first week, when my main page came up on google first page of search returns, both my websites DISAPPEARED from google completely. Why?

Maybe because my websites speak out against the crappy workplace provided by the US Navy on nuclear submarines. Looks like google likes kissing the ass of the US Govt. That is what it looks like to me!

Real Genius

Happen to be a reference to this. I do not share its view of the situation, but, it's still friggin hilarious...

Is tech support for your familys friends, and if you do good job, for your familys friends' friends (pretty soon youll end up doing it for Kevin Bacon ;-) ).
I simply do not get it. If you help someone out in the family, say with moving or some DIY in their house, they'll be polite, offer money or some other for of compensation that you of course reject and you can be sure to count on their help when you need it.
Now If it's tech support, first of all they'll be pissed of. At everyone, because it's everybodys fault but theirs. It is especially your fault if you ever helped them out before, even if what you did was just configure their e-mail client and the problem now is that it "won't boot at all" or something. They'll just be standing there, looking bored, commenting on everything, asking if whatever you are doing won't break the computer, and why it was fixed much faster last time.
God I hate being the tech support dork of the family.

here are some links:

Daycreek Home Page

Cordwood Masonry

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PPR Cordwood - Home

here are some links:

Daycreek Home Page

Cordwood Masonry

Green Home Building...chniques: Cordwood

CORDWOOD - NEWBEE S...pages.com/cordwood

PPR Cordwood - Home

Mother in law for sure. I love my wife like crazy and want to spend every moment with her. Alive. But Mom has got to go. Funny thing is, us poisoning her seems to always be on her mind (along with everything else she imagines people are doing against her -- she has paranoid personality disorder). Every time we offer her any food we've cooked, she says we're trying to poison her. Might as well grant that wish!

(note: I do not want to poison my mother in law; this is a purely theoretical discussion, though I would be perfectly happy if she just decided to go and never speak to us again. stop tracking me, fbi)

Sir Clive Sinclair invented a "bike with an engine" in 1992. First came the Zike, which was an electric bike. Two years after that came the Zeta (check out the Zeta II) which was a electric motor that you could fit on your regular bike, converting it to an electric bike.

Need I say that both were commercial failures? Anyway, the history now repeats itself with SEGway. The difference between the Zike/Zeta and Stephen Katsaros' IC motor driven bike is minimal...

I just thought on how cool it would be to play quake against you with a ps/2 mouse!

Yeah, but the game after Quake 1 in the line-up isn't Quake 3 or Counter-strike but rather Puyo Puyo. Let's see how well you fare at that with a mouse!

You're right, of course, about the number of typing monkeys/slashdotters compared to infinity. I just had to laugh out loud when I read it the first time (here, if I'm not mistaken), after a Usenet session which involved some rather childish people, and so I put it in my sig.

The grappa, a Nonino, was good, see this and this post. If you get to go to Italy, visit the Nonino distillery if you can - but have someone who doesn't like Grappa drive you home if you want to avoid close contact with roadside trees and/or the Italian police ;-)

Raymond (posting AC because we're getting a little far offtopic here)

I just created a web site whose terms of service are that if you send an email to the email address listed then you will be charged for spell checking the email at £10 a character. Anybody want to advise on what my chances of collecting are ?

My medical opinion is that this guy has a bad allergy to Pyrimidines and Purines. He probably should watch out for those Phosphorous compounds as well. I suggest he move to a place far away from these dangerous chemicals.

Lets have a vote.

Which domain do you think would be the best for
the new home of Mozilla Blubber?

A. www.lardzillazine.org

B. www.mozillablubber.org

C. www.fatmozilla.com

D. www.thecowmozilla.com

E. www.mozillapork.org

F. www.mozblubberzine.org

G. www.mozfat.com

H. www.mozillalard.org

I. www.mozilladung.com

J. www.mozillamuffin.org

K. www.blubberzillazine.org

L. www.mozlardzine.com

M. www.mozillablubbersnot.org

N. Other (please specify)

Please email your votes to mozblubber@operamail.com

URL: http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/links.html

System information and emulators

Commodore 64/128

The Commodore 64 is based on the 6510 CPU, which is a 6502-derived 8-bit CPU. It has 64k of RAM and 16k ROM which includes a BASIC interpreter and some basic I/O services. Graphics is provided by the VIC chip which has 16 colors and a maximum resolution of 320x200 in hi-res mode. It provides a 40x25 raster of characters in character mode. The three voices of digital sound is produced by the SID chip.

The Commodore 128 is an extended version of the Commodore 64 that contains a 8510 CPU which is capable of 2 MHz operation and can address 128k RAM (hence the name Commodore 128). It also has a Commodore 64 compatibility mode which is extremely similar to a regular C64 but with a few minor differences.

The SuperCPU is a 20 MHz 16-bit 65816-based computer that is plugged into the back of the Commodore 64 or 128. It uses the C64 keyboard and joysticks for input and the VIC and SID chips for audiovisual output. The SuperCPU is capable of addressing several megabytes of memory and is usually used together with a 16 megabytes RAM expansion board.

There are no SuperCPU emulators avaliable.

• The VICE emulator is capable of emulating a large number of Commodore machines. It emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, most of the PET models, and the CBM-II. VICE runs under Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and a number of other host systems.
  
• Joakim Eriksson's Web C64 emulator, written in Java, runs as an applet within a web browser.
  
• Per Håkan Sundell's CCS64 emulator works under Windows and DOS.
  
• The ec64 emulator is developed for Linux and was originally written entirely in x86 assembler.
  
• An article by Simon N Goodwin about C64 emulators.
  
• The Commodore emulators category in the Dmoz has more links.
  

Commodore 64/128

There are plenty of alternative operating systems for the C64, mostly written in 6502 assembler. Some of them are far from complete, however, and only appear as dark shadows on a few web pages - MagerValp's SMOS and my own osT are among those.

• GEOS from 1986 probably is the most well-known graphical operating system for the C64. It is still sold commercially by CMDKEY.com.
  
• LUnix NG is an open-source multi-tasking operating system with TCP/IP/PPP-support, a *nix-like command shell, and a number of *nix-like utilities such as ls and cp.
• Craig Bruce's ACE is a text-based single-tasking operating system for the 64 and the 128. It provides a *nix-like command shell, a text-editor, a terminal program for the SwiftLink RS232 interface, as well as device drivers for a lot of devices
  
• GeckOS/A65 is a multi-tasking operating system with TCP/IP support and a *nix-like command shell.
  
• Wheels is a version of GEOS that requires RAM expansion to run.

With its 20 MHz and megabytes of memory, the SuperCPU is powerful enough to run fully-fledged graphical operating systems that rival early Machintosh or Microsoft Windows systems.

• Wings is a TCP/IP-enabled graphical operating system for the SuperCPU. It includes a MOD music player, JPEG viewer, web page download utility, etc.
• JOS is an older version of Wings.
  

TCP/IP and PPP connectivity

To surf the web, send or read email, etc., the first step is to actually get in touch with the Internet. This requires both physical access to an ISP, either via a modem and a phone-line or an Ethernet broadband connection, and the TCP/IP software running on the C64.

There are a number of programs that make it possible to reach the Internet with a C64/C128.

• LUnix NG contains a TCP/IP stack and a PPP implementation which makes it possible to reach the Internet using a modem and a dial-up ISP.
  
• GeckOS/A65 also contains a TCP/IP stack, but no PPP dialer.
  
• My own uIP TCP/IP stack has been used for some time to run a web server on a Commodore 64. uIP currently does not include a PPP dialer.
  
• Novaterm 10 contains a PPP dialer and enough TCP/IP code to be able to run telnet over the Internet.
  

SuperCPU

All of the above mentioned SuperCPU operating systems have TCP/IP support.

• The Wave is a web browser for the SuperCPU (and not for the Commodore 64/128 as the web page claims) that runs under the Wheels operating systems. Here is another page with information about The Wave (that also falsely claims that The Wave is for the Commodore 64/128). The latter page also includes screenshots of The Wave in action.
  

Small graphical user-interfaces (GUIs)

User interfaces for embedded systems range from the simple buttons on the front of a washing machine to those of fully fledged web browser type interfaces on information stations. The underlying technology varies from simple electronic circuits to full-scale PC compatibles.

• PicoGUI is a GUI architecture designed for embedded systems to desktop machines. It does not require any supporting GUI system and can be used on anything from graphical screens to text based systems. Their smallest target system are handheld terminals and the compiled object code size is on the order of hundreds of kilobytes.
  
• Microwindows/NanoGUI is a graphical user interface system designed to run without support from an underlying system. On 16-bit systems Microwindows is about 64k large.
  

The smallest web browsers are usually specially designed for the limitations of embedded systems and other specialized computers such as car navigation systems, set-top boxes and medical equipment. There are also a few small web browsers for old DOS PCs available.

• Interniche's NicheView Portable Embedded Web Browser is probably the smallest full-featured web browser around with its 35 kilobytes code footprint. There is also an additional JavaScript module available.
  
• AU-systems' AU Mobile Internet Browser supports both HTML/TCP/IP and WML/WAP as well as SSL. It occupies 340 kilobytes of code (plus an additional 190 kilobytes for the protocol stacks) and uses 5 kilobytes of RAM when idle (plus 8 kilobytes used by the protocol stacks). Extra RAM is used when downloading web pages.
  
• The Fusion WebPilot Embedded Micro-Browser supports much of the features found in modern web browsers including frames, authentication, and JavaScript. The web page does not specify memory footprint.
  
• MicroDigial's Graphical MicroBrowser supports tables, frames, images as well as FTP as uses 260 kilobytes of code memory and requires a minimum of 210 kilobytes of RAM apart from that. A demo version is available.
  
• The 2net Alice Web Browser is intended for handheld computers and PC based architectures and requires 400 kilobyte of free RAM and 200 kilobytes of code memory. It includes a TCP/IP stack.
  
• WebBoy is a fully-fledged browser with SSL support intended for 386 DOS boxes with more than 4 megabytes of memory. Includes a TCP/IP stack.
  
• The Arachne web browser runs under MS-DOS or Linux and requires at least 1 megabyte of memory. Does not include a TCP/IP/PPP stack.
  
• Lynx is probably the most well-known text-based web browser around. It is ported to many different operating systems and architectures including MS-DOS.
  
• The Off by One Web Browser has been labeled as the smallest web browser ever, but is quite large in comparison with other small web browsers. It is 1.1 megabytes large and requires support from an underlying Windows operating system.
  
• Mirko Sobe's BOSS-X HTML browser for 8-bit Ataris is not a full web browser, but an off-line HTML viewer with hyperlinking abilities written in three days.
  
• The pre-alpha v0.3 GEMWeb browser supports 640x480x16 VGA.
  
• The Atari Phoenix Web Browser is a non-existant vapor-ware web browser project intended for the 8-bit Ataris.
  

Not shit, energy! No energy, no town.

great song by The Vestibules

You can tell by having a snort'ed network which the snort box has the TX pulled out.

You mean by using a sniffing cable?

"Fish create vortices, which are like teeny whirlpools," she said. "And the vortices create changes in water pressure that move the fish forward. That's what makes fish so cool."

That's what makes fish so cool? Uber-l33t fish. What next?

I agree with you! This is what makes fishes look cool.

Watching real fish move gracefully through a tank is one of the greatest pleasures in life. You can easily zone out for an hour or so just staring at the tank. El-Fish was almost as captivating. Cheers to anyone who tries to improve on that early effort.

--madgeorge

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

- Serge Wroclawski

I have read "Darwin's Black Box", I even have the book before me as I write this, and I would be interested as to which of Mr. Behe's arguments are supposed to be testable - I, for one, haven't found any.

Behe is argumenting from ignorance throughout the whole book, saying that since we cannot figure out how a complex system could have evolved through natural selection, it must be the work of a supreme being. This sort of reasoning can be called many things, science it is not.

Even his (in)famous mousetrap example doesn't hold water (DBB, Chapter 2, section "Irreducible Complexity and the Nature of Mutation"), see for example this, this or this link.

What's wrong: the average /.'er was probably born in an era dominated by compact rather than vinyl discs. Or likely isn't familiar with Mr. Armstrong.

In other words: *WHOOSH!*

(I had thought it was Satchmo.)

Unless, of course, it's a chamber of sarin gas. :)

I believe you're thinking of Time Traveller.

Dammit:
this is it

Appropriate apologies to the tux, the goatse guy, my parents, and anyone who clicks this

Grimey, is that you?

People will use headlights for another 50 years...Lights will be integral part of cities... Unless they ban flashing of lights.... this cant be outlawed

Enough of our heroic men are buried there so Europe would have the opportunity to be 40 years late getting to the moon.

If they won't enforce their own edicts by going after a dictator who makes, and has a record of using, banned weapons of mass destruction, why should any country or multinational corporation pay any attention to their documents and edicts?

But this has already been proven... Just look at all the unenforced resolutions toward Isreal here (or the Google cache here if that page gets Slashdotted).

The UK is also perfectly capable of chucking money at a good project ultimately to have it cancelled after 10 years development.

Did anyone in the U.S. ever hear of HOTOL

I would include the Russian Buran cancellation here as well but that was more as a result of a coup.
It should, however, be noted that the Russian "Starsem" organisation really know how to get a lot into orbit using the disposible Soyuz system.

There have been 1675 Soyuz system launches to date!

This image of the Soyuz production line show the extent of the operation.

There is also a guy doing a cocoa gui version. I've tried it and it works pretty well so far (v0.2), but he claims to be releasing v1.0 in April.

More importantly, in terms of realism regarding UK broadband connectivity:

ADSL-For-Ipswich | Barnt Green, Birmingham | Edenbridge, Kent | Brinscall, Lancashire | Chafford Hundred, Grays | Broxburn/Uphall, Scotland | New Mills, Stockport | Bradford-on-Avon | Antrim, Northern Ireland | Paddock Wood, Kent | Mossley, Greater Manchester | Maltby, Rotherham | Cudworth, South Yorkshire | Pembury, Kent | Telford, Shropshire | Totnes, Devon | Caister on Sea, Great Yarmouth | Broadband in the East of England | Wargrave, Berkshire | Alton, Hampshire #1 | Alton, Hampshire #2 | Frodsham, Cheshire | Atherstone, Warwickshire | Sleaford, Lincolnshire | Neston, South Wirral | Blackpool/Fleetwood, Lancashire | Colwyn Bay, Wales | Whitby, Yorkshire | Saltcoats/Ardossan/Stevenston, Strathclyde | Thornbury, South Gloucestershire | Dinnington, Sheffield | Irby, Wirral | Colwyn Bay/Old Colwyn/Rhos-On-Sea, North Wales | Hednesford, Staffs | Connahs Quay/Flint/Mold/Sealand/Queensferry, North Wales | Eastham/Wirrall, Cheshire | Worle, North Somerset | Dereham, Norfolk | Leicester Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire | Bolton Westhoughton, Lancashire | Leek, Staffordshire | Ivybridge, Devon | Attleborough, Norfolk | Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire | Montrose, Angus, Scotland | Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex | Worcester/St Johns/Fernhill Heath, Worcester | Allerton, Liverpool (and surrounding exchanges) | Buntingford, North Hertfordshire | Glastonbury, Somerset | St Budeaux, Devon | Fenland towns of Ramsey, Yaxley, Whittlesey, Chatteris, Ely and Soham | Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire | Pershore, Worcs | Yarmouth, Norfolk | Great Oakley, Corby, Northants | South Woodham Ferrers, Essex | Goring & South Stoke, South Oxfordshire and Streatley & Lower Basildon, West Berkshire | Kinross & Milnathort, Perthshire | Bolsover, Derbyshire | Elton, Ince and Helsby in Cheshire | Hanwell/Horley/Wroxton/Balscote/North Newington/Drayton, Oxfordshire | Tonyrefail/Gilfach Goch and surrounding area, Mid Glamorgan | Rotherfield Greys/Rotherfield Peppard/Shepherds Green, Oxfordshire | Heath Hayes, Staffordshire | Hednesford, Staffordshire | Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire | Adderbury (Nr. Banbury), Oxfordshire | Lydney, Gloucestershire | Knaresborough, North Yorkshire | Saltburn-By-The-Sea, Cleveland | Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire | Churchdown, Gloucestershire

One word: Boxy.

Hee hee. Can you picture that thing without laughing? They probably had to dub over laughter from the set. I kept hoping the little boy would get vaporized. Remember that one woman, a radar operator or something, who's only job appeared to be counting down to their doom? And then Adama always looked like he needed some Metamucil.

A friend and I were just yesterday discussing BG euphemism swear words -- I can't remember BG's signature one now, something like frebcolm? Farscape has a much richer pretend vocabulary -- at least, the oaths cut much closer to what the characters really mean!

BG is campy fun, but it's hard to make money off of that. SciFi just wants to draw attention to themselves, get thirty-something loser like me (with disposable income!) to switch over, etc. But the *real* scifi fans have already come, and soon will be gone. Two words: John Edward.

Oh yeah, and they f*cked up cancelling Farscape. So there. Let's make it the SciForgotten network.

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture -- hadn't heard that one, thanks. :)

From the article:

What to make of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , the first novel by Cory Doctorow, dot-com survivor, inveterate blogger, and now, outreach coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation? Part organizational-intrigue novel, part post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and part Swiftian satire of the tech mentality, revolutionary impulses, and Disney itself, the book has acquired quite a bit of notice, at least in part for its bold use of the Net.

Having just finished the book, I can tell you what to make of it: A poor ripoff of John Varley's The Phantom of Kansas with karma added. Oh, and whereas Varley managed to pack his ideas into a well-paced short story, this one dragged out for 208 pages as it subjected us to Disney technical minutiae on the way to a disappointing resolution.

At least I found out how the ghost hall works in the Haunted Mansion.

Where can we meet? Here's five dollars.

Ever hear the Boomtown Rats' track "Tell Me Why (I don't like Mondays)"? If so, do you know what it's really about?

It's about a girl, Brenda Spencer, who came into school one day and shot her classmates (I think nine, though I'm not entirely sure of the number). When asked why, she gave her reason as "I don't like Mondays".

OK - it's not quite thirty years ago but it's not far off. These things have happened before. Sad, but true.

Cheers,
Ian

Please don't judge LARP by White Wolf, although they do have the loudest marketing voice.

LARP covers a whole spectrum, and WW's Mind's Eye Theatre is firmly at one end of it - the end with trenchcoats, angst and characters with Awesome Cosmic Pahwah (TM).

Mandatory citation:
Company of Crimson

What do politicians care about exploring Pluto?

The evidence isn't going into fall in your lap. Nobody owes you an education

So I should go off and do my own experimentation because actual results are not being made available. Or haven't you found any?

They don't. If they did, that would be strong evidence against evolution.

So the development of new traits/species is evidence against evolution? So it'd only be evidence of evolution if the rabbits suddenly became horses right. Or do they have to develop a certain number of new traits for them to become evidence of evolution?

Or do they stay as rabbits, only ever micro evolving, until one day biologist notice that there are also sheep in the paddock! They must have evolved from the rabbits!

According to your argument (which I have seen you use before) a transitional species is evidence against evolution.

ICHTYOSTEGA AS A TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL

But lets take the good old Rhipidistian and our friend the Coelacanth. Both of these came from the Cretaceous period and both are lobed fish. The Coelacanth was originally thought to be the link between fish and land animals - until they found it alive and well in 1939.

Now in the article above I really like the first sentence. I personally don't subscribe to this view. Think/accept there are transitionals in the fossil record - because the record has been put together using the "Hey this kinda looks like that" technique - so of course you will end up with transitionals. And again, how much change to you accept before something is not a transitional?

Nevertheless, we know that the Crossopterygians became more and more specialized for a deep-sea life because in 1939 a living Crossopterygian, the ceolacanth Lattimeria, was dredged up from a deep sea trench off the coast of Africa

Absolute brilliance. "We know they adapted because we found them, apparently unchanged, in deeper water than we expected. We've found fossils of this species on land before. Because the fossils were on land and these fish were in deep water, they must have evolved."

Ignores basic geology, natural selection and changes in climate.

This article must be wrong in any case because it goes on to discuss the transitional nature of the Rhipidistian fossils etc. Or if it isn't wrong, and the fossils are considered transitional, and evolution does exist, then the Rhipidistian can't be the ancestor of the land animals. So we'd have to simply remove the Rhipidistian from the fossil record and/or look for an alternative. Not that that's ever happened before.

the effort and expenditure of resources to get from there to here would probably mean the payoff for attacking us wouldn't be worth the trip.

My friend, you seem to be forgetting our vast amounts of stable Energon!

the effort and expenditure of resources to get from there to here would probably mean the payoff for attacking us wouldn't be worth the trip.

My friend, you seem to be forgetting our vast amounts of stable Energon!

Base truth: Google needs to defend it or lose it. While a verb is not trademarkable material, Google can fight to prevent the term "Google" from becoming a verb. It doesn't matter that the verb listed differs from what "Google" is or does. If they want to remain protected, they need to defend their term.

Though this does bring up another subject, that of shafting people and basically bullying people around. Some example uses may include:

• Wow, guess [extinct company due to monopolistic and predatory business practices] sure got m1cro$0fted.
• Hey, looks like [monopolistic company] is about to pull a m1cro$0ft!
• Get that m1cro$0fting jerk off of my front lawn!

It seems obvious that the term has a multitude of uses not unlike that of f#ck.

Some sites which so beautifully illustrate the various uses of the word f#ck include:

• Site 1
• Site 2

When one thinks of all the meanings associated with f#ck and the similarities between it and the m-word, one can only wonder how long it will be before the m-word will make it into dictionaries the world over. Probably not in m1cro$0ft branded dictionaries or encyclopedias, however.

Just a couple of cents.

Whoops. Slightly off link. Spork

...you would end up in Syberia (if you were lucky) for using "smurf" as a verb. Papa Smurf Rules there!

I never called junk mail Spam. Since I was Canadian I always referred to it as Spork. What is Spork?

I am an experience shell scripter [9 years, experienced as in they are not pretty but they work], I am also an experienced C programmer and more recently a java programmer [5 years]. I have written up some short notes on sed and shell coding [Shell_Boot_Camp] (and examples) .

Is there an equivalent small reservoir of java programs that do much the same thing, ie a bit of regex, find and pipeing? Whenever I have a small problem to solve that can be scripted I can never be bothered to gear up a java program 'from scratch' so I never build up a small set of java programs to do the job.

I feel I thrash so much between techniques, I should stick to java where possible, as this is the closest to one size fits all.

Hey I work in migration so the same goes from moving, or switching back and forth, between different languages, so equivalent hello regexp, find and pipe in shell (csh,bash,ksh),c, perl, msdos batch files, java, python would make a good entry in a migrationdotcom site.
This is currently a very small hint at what a database migration community site might look at, but is so light on implementation it could go any where, but most likely nowhere ...

I am an experience shell scripter [9 years, experienced as in they are not pretty but they work], I am also an experienced C programmer and more recently a java programmer [5 years]. I have written up some short notes on sed and shell coding [Shell_Boot_Camp] (and examples) .

Is there an equivalent small reservoir of java programs that do much the same thing, ie a bit of regex, find and pipeing? Whenever I have a small problem to solve that can be scripted I can never be bothered to gear up a java program 'from scratch' so I never build up a small set of java programs to do the job.

I feel I thrash so much between techniques, I should stick to java where possible, as this is the closest to one size fits all.

Hey I work in migration so the same goes from moving, or switching back and forth, between different languages, so equivalent hello regexp, find and pipe in shell (csh,bash,ksh),c, perl, msdos batch files, java, python would make a good entry in a migrationdotcom site.
This is currently a very small hint at what a database migration community site might look at, but is so light on implementation it could go any where, but most likely nowhere ...