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Actually, my point is, that until someone makes their version control system a drop-in replacement for CVS, CVS will still remain the king.

I like the fact that I can use several different clients for CVS.

On Windows :

WinCVS is a nice CVS system for windows.

CvsIn is a plug-in for MS Visual C++ written by Jerzy Kaczorowski.

TortoiseCVS is a plug-in for Windows Explorer written by Francis Irving.

cvsscc is an SCC interface for CVS.

Jalindi-Igloo is a SCC interface for cvs using the WinCvs shared libraries. It's written by Graham Robertson and it's free!

There's also the command line version.

On Linux, there is a ton more choices.

The simple fact of the matter is there is a million different ways I can access the same repository, no matter my platform.

Until someone comes out with the server that supports CVS's whacked out protocol on port 2401, I ain't ever gonna switch.

I've been running the same CVS repository for about 4 1/2 years on an old Pentium 90 in my basement. I've got hundreds of project sitting on it, and it works fine.

Yes, I'll acknowlege that CVS has it's down sides, but hey, at least it's universal. ;)

The half-Qwerty would be nice, except the software costs US$400 per single user copy.
Little steep, I should think.

This is meant with good intentions:

Actually, according to @Home it is a violation:

From @Home's AUP or here:

"@Home residential customers may not resell, share, or otherwise distribute the Services or any portion thereof to any third party without the written consent of @Home. For example, you cannot provide Internet access to others through a dial up connection, host shell accounts over the Internet, provide email or news service, or send a news feed. You may not use the @Home residential service for commercial purposes. The @Home residential service offering is a consumer product designed for your personal use of the Internet. For example, the service does not provide the type of security, upstream performance and total downstream throughput capability typically associated with commercial use."

Their AUP is so openended in this manner that it can be construed to say that he is violating the AUP anyway. Oh well, such is big business...

BlueLava CGI Interface for X-10

Linux Home Automation Page

Considering the server is right there on the tree, controlling it via the parallel port might be the way to go.

I Wish I had written it. Enjoy!

As an enlightened, modern parent, I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children. I encourage them to join team sports. I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company they keep and the books they read. You could say I'm a model parent. My children have never failed to make me proud, and I can say without the slightest embellishment that I have the finest family in the USA.

Two years ago, my wife Carol and I decided that our children's education would not be complete without some grounding in modern computers. To this end, we bought our children a brand new Compaq to learn with. The kids had a lot of fun using the handful of application programs we'd bought, such as Adobe's Photoshop and Microsoft's Word, and my wife and I were pleased that our gift was received so well. Our son Peter was most entranced by the device, and became quite a pro at surfing the net. When Peter began to spend whole days on the machine, I became concerned, but Carol advised me to calm down, and that it was only a passing phase. I was content to bow to her experience as a mother, until our youngest daughter, Cindy, charged into the living room one night to blurt out: "Peter is a computer hacker!"

As you can imagine, I was amazed. A computer hacker in my own house! I began to monitor my son's habits, to make certain that Cindy wasn't just telling stories, as she is prone to doing at times.

After a few days of investigation, and some research into computer hacking, I confronted Peter with the evidence. I'm afraid to say, this was the only time I have ever been truly disappointed in one of my children. We raised them to be honest and to have integrity, and Peter betrayed the principles we tried to encourage in him, when he refused point blank to admit to his activities. His denials continued for hours, and in the end, I was left with no choice but to ban him from using the computer until he is old enough to be responsible for his actions.

After going through this ordeal with my own family, I was left pondering how I could best help others in similar situations. I'd gained a lot of knowledge over those few days regarding hackers. It's only right that I provide that information to other parents, in the hope that they will be able to tell if their children are being drawn into the world of hacking. Perhaps other parents will be able to steer their sons back onto the straight and narrow before extreme measures need to be employed.

To this end, I have decided to publish the top ten signs that your son is a hacker. I advise any parents to read this list carefully and if their son matches the profile, they should take action. A smart parent will first try to reason with their son, before resorting to groundings, or even spanking. I pride myself that I have never had to spank a child, and I hope this guide will help other parents to put a halt to their son's misbehaviour before a spanking becomes necessary.

1. Has your son asked you to change ISPs?

Most American families use trusted and responsible Internet Service Providers, such as AOL. These providers have a strict "No Hacking" policy, and take careful measures to ensure that your internet experience is enjoyable, educational and above all legal. If your child is becoming a hacker, one of his first steps will be to request a change to a more hacker friendly provider.

I would advise all parents to refuse this request. One of the reasons your son is interested in switching providers is to get away from AOL's child safety filter. This filter is vital to any parent who wants his son to enjoy the internet without the endangering him through exposure to "adult" content. It is best to stick with the protection AOL provides, rather than using a home-based solution. If your son is becoming a hacker, he will be able to circumvent any home-based measures with surprising ease, using information gleaned from various hacker sites.

2. Are you finding programs on your computer that you don't remember installing?

Your son will probably try to install some hacker software. He may attempt to conceal the presence of the software in some way, but you can usually find any new programs by reading through the programs listed under "Install/Remove Programs" in your control panel. Popular hacker software includes "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash".

The best option is to confront your son with the evidence, and force him to remove the offending programs. He will probably try to install the software again, but you will be able to tell that this is happening, if your machine offers to "download" one of the hacker applications. If this happens, it is time to give your son a stern talking to, and possibly consider punishing him with a grounding.

3. Has your child asked for new hardware?

Computer hackers are often limited by conventional computer hardware. They may request "faster" video cards, and larger hard drives, or even more memory. If your son starts requesting these devices, it is possible that he has a legitimate need. You can best ensure that you are buying legal, trustworthy hardware by only buying replacement parts from your computer's manufacturer.

If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never sold in stores, and you will most likely be told that you have to order them from internet sites. Do not buy this chip! This is one request that you must refuse your son, if you are to have any hope of raising him well.

4. Does your child read hacking manuals?

If you pay close attention to your son's reading habits, as I do, you will be able to determine a great deal about his opinions and hobbies. Children are at their most impressionable in the teenage years. Any father who has had a seventeen year old daughter attempt to sneak out on a date wearing make up and perfume is well aware of the effect that improper influences can have on inexperienced minds.

There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today. A few titles to be on the lookout for are: "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson; "Neuromancer" by William Gibson; "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly; "Geeks" by Jon Katz; "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling; "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland; "Hackers" by Steven Levy; and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond.

If you find any of these hacking manuals in your child's possession, confiscate them immediately. You should also petition local booksellers to remove these titles from their shelves. You may meet with some resistance at first, but even booksellers have to bow to community pressure.

5. How much time does your child spend using the computer each day?

If your son spends more than thirty minutes each day on the computer, he may be using it to DOS other peoples sites. DOSing involves gaining access to the "command prompt" on other people's machines, and using it to tie up vital internet services. This can take up to eight hours. If your son is doing this, he is breaking the law, and you should stop him immediately. The safest policy is to limit your children's access to the computer to a maximum of forty-five minutes each day.

6. Does your son use Quake?

Quake is an online virtual reality used by hackers. It is a popular meeting place and training ground, where they discuss hacking and train in the use of various firearms. Many hackers develop anti-social tendencies due to the use of this virtual world, and it may cause erratic behaviour at home and at school.

If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully locked away, and have trigger locks installed. You should also bring your concerns to the attention of his school.

7. Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour?

As a child enters the electronic world of hacking, he may become disaffected with the real world. He may lose the ability to control his actions, or judge the rightness or wrongness of a course of behaviour. This will manifest itself soonest in the way he treats others. Those whom he disagrees with will be met with scorn, bitterness, and even foul language. He may utter threats of violence of a real or electronic nature.

Even when confronted, your son will probably find it difficult to talk about this problem to you. He will probably claim that there is no problem, and that you are imagining things. He may tell you that it is you who has the problem, and you should "back off" and "stop smothering him." Do not allow yourself to be deceived. You are the only chance your son has, even if he doesn't understand the situation he is in. Keep trying to get through to him, no matter how much he retreats into himself.

8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

Your son may try to install "lunix" on your hard drive. If he is careful, you may not notice its presence, however, lunix is a capricious beast, and if handled incorrectly, your son may damage your computer, and even break it completely by deleting Windows, at which point you will have to have your computer repaired by a professional.

If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix. In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.

9. Has your son radically changed his appearance?

If your son has undergone a sudden change in his style of dress, you may have a hacker on your hands. Hackers tend to dress in bright, day-glo colors. They may wear baggy pants, bright colored shirts and spiky hair dyed in bright colors to match their clothes. They may take to carrying "glow-sticks" and some wear pacifiers around their necks. (I have no idea why they do this) There are many such hackers in schools today, and your son may have started to associate with them. If you notice that your son's group of friends includes people dressed like this, it is time to think about a severe curfew, to protect him from dangerous influences.

10. Is your son struggling academically?

If your son is failing courses in school, or performing poorly on sports teams, he may be involved in a hacking group, such as the infamous "Otaku" hacker association. Excessive time spent on the computer, communicating with his fellow hackers may cause temporary damage to the eyes and brain, from the electromagnetic radiation. This will cause his marks to slip dramatically, particularly in difficult subjects such as Math, and Chemistry. In extreme cases, over-exposure to computer radiation can cause schizophrenia, meningitis and other psychological diseases. Also, the reduction in exercise may cause him to lose muscle mass, and even to start gaining weight. For the sake of your child's mental and physical health, you must put a stop to his hacking, and limit his computer time drastically.

I encourage all parents to read through this guide carefully. Your child's future may depend upon it. Hacking is an illegal and dangerous activity, that may land your child in prison, and tear your family apart. It cannot be taken too seriously.

• launch a new instance of Internet Explorer
  
• navigate to your SpamCop authorization URL
  
• insert the selected spam message into the form
  
• submit the form for processing
  
• create a new email message addressed to the Spam Recycling Center
  
• insert the selected spam message's subject into the Subject of the new message
  
• insert the selected spam message into the Body of the new message

• you can verify if an email address is valid or if a website is active before reporting it. Doing so will help reduce the number of redundant reports to an abuse desk.
  
• verify and report all email addresses (if appropriate), including "From", "Reply-To" and "Errors-To". You can determine which addresses are fakes and which are real and find the abuse address to report them.
  
• see all the redirects for any URL.
  
• perform WhoIs on dozens of servers to find who owns a particular domain.
  
• perform TraceRoute to find the spammers upstream service provider and find their abuse address.
  
• report any email address or website that SpamCop missed.
  
• Decode obfuscated URLs.
  
• Decode HTML document.

Mail clients should have a spam-vote button, a button that lets you vote for blacklisting the sender of the message you are just viewing.

Mine does. It's called "Spam Deputy". Works a treat. Add-in for Outlook 2000, standalone program for Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora and other mail clients. Check out the details at the Spam Deputy site.

If your car is too complicated to customize, maybe you should consider souping-up some other things around the house.

I searched Yahoo's Ian Hopper archive for a copy and couldn't find one (Ian writes some nice technical pieces, and I've been reading him for a while). I get the Modesto Bee each day as an email with links to stories on their site. It's kinda nice. Although I'm not claiming to be in my right mind ;-)'

I did a quick search of the Excite web site. That same month, they promised to donate up to $3 million to a Meg Ryan-sponsered charity.

They had a revenue of $113 million for that quarter.

The 1999 news site has a ton of stuff like this. The 2000 site seems to have as much, but the last announcement is in May, 2000.

Does that shed some light on where the money went? Just another company, thinking they would keep getting exponential growth, making money out of nothing, with no provisions for an economic downturn.

I'll miss being a LPB on Counterstrike.

I did a quick search of the Excite web site. That same month, they promised to donate up to $3 million to a Meg Ryan-sponsered charity.

They had a revenue of $113 million for that quarter.

The 1999 news site has a ton of stuff like this. The 2000 site seems to have as much, but the last announcement is in May, 2000.

Does that shed some light on where the money went? Just another company, thinking they would keep getting exponential growth, making money out of nothing, with no provisions for an economic downturn.

I'll miss being a LPB on Counterstrike.

I did a quick search of the Excite web site. That same month, they promised to donate up to $3 million to a Meg Ryan-sponsered charity.

They had a revenue of $113 million for that quarter.

The 1999 news site has a ton of stuff like this. The 2000 site seems to have as much, but the last announcement is in May, 2000.

Does that shed some light on where the money went? Just another company, thinking they would keep getting exponential growth, making money out of nothing, with no provisions for an economic downturn.

I'll miss being a LPB on Counterstrike.

I did a quick search of the Excite web site. That same month, they promised to donate up to $3 million to a Meg Ryan-sponsered charity.

They had a revenue of $113 million for that quarter.

The 1999 news site has a ton of stuff like this. The 2000 site seems to have as much, but the last announcement is in May, 2000.

Does that shed some light on where the money went? Just another company, thinking they would keep getting exponential growth, making money out of nothing, with no provisions for an economic downturn.

I'll miss being a LPB on Counterstrike.

www.home.net

News release, letter to subscribers and excite users, vendor and investor info.

May actually be a source of information for youse guys.

I haven't used this myself but surfing over to the WinCVS website, I found cvsscc. It's a project to map the scc stuff that MS uses to cvs. Another attempt, perhaps more mature, is Jalindi Igloo. The first paragraph from the website says:

"Jalindi Igloo is a program that allows you to connect Microsoft Visual Studio and other IDEs directly to a CVS repository. The program is completely free and can be used anyway you like."

These look to be just what you are looking for.

Everybody check out the LOTR winamp skin I made here.

Much of what is going on here is intellectual discussion on the advantages/disadvantages of current U.S. copyright law. Discussions of encryption mechanisms are beneficial to society at large. Therefore, this forum should be viewed as a grand virtual meeting place where intellectual discourse can occur, free from the clutter of messy grits.

Much of what is going on here is intellectual discussion on the advantages/disadvantages of current U.S. copyright law. Discussions of encryption mechanisms are beneficial to society at large. Therefore, this forum should be viewed as a grand virtual meeting place where intellectual discourse can occur, free from the clutter of messy grits.

I've got something like that on my Mac-based home-automation server, connected to a modem that has Caller ID, and using XTension and MacCallerID, all glued together with healthy doses of Applescript.

MacCallerID offers you the option of dumping incoming calls with blocked/missing/incomplete Caller ID info, but I can't use that since some of my friends block theirs, and some of my relatives' calls only generate "OUT OF AREA."

What my system does do, however, is send notifications of incoming calls to whatever computers (well, the Macs, anyway) it detects on my network when the call comes in. It also speaks the name of the caller via several small wireless speakers placed throughout my house. I could do the TV text-overlay thing, but it's kinda expensive and I'm usually working on a computer while watching TV anyway. If I don't know the incoming number or there isn't one, I just don't pick up the phone.

~Philly

There is no need for overpriced sattilite or line-of-sight 802.11b. The real solution to your problem is here. Imagine, speeds up to 500Mbps!

However, I love Mother Liberty.

Proud to be White

Over at the Fans for Ultima website they have quite a bit of information about the various Ultima remakes & patches in the works.

This is yanked from that page... some info on other remakes:

Monday, September 3, 2001: Remake Mania

Hello people,
This is my first news update for FfU. Maigo and I decided to share the work, so that the site sees changes more often. This one is just a news update, the subsections will be updated soon. We're glad you've stayed tuned over the past months.

A lot has happened in the fan community, with several new and interesting projects announced. Most of them try to recapture the magic of the earlier games with newer technology, so this is both for nostalgic fans and for those who never played the older Ultimas because of their dated graphics. So here are the new projects, in "chronological" order:

Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue: The Dawn of Virtue: Using a self-written engine similar to Bioware's Infinity engine (which powered games like "Baldur's Gate" and "Planescape: Torment"), project leader Jaako Peltonen plans to redo "Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar", released 1985. The website provides several concept renderings and drawings.

Ultima Underworld 1 and 2: Twister Software is currently working on a complete remake of the two Ultima Underworlds with a new 3D Engine. Surprising is the announcement of a multiplayer mode; up to 8 heroes will be able to explore the Abyss or shatter the Blackrock dome.

Ultima VII: The Black Gate and The Serpent Isle : Like Ultima V: Lazarus, this project is going to use the Dungeon Siege engine. Interesting are the "Expected Outcome Pictures", Dungeon Siege promotional shots showing what some Ultima locations could look like.

Ultima IX: Redemption: Another project using the Dungeon Siege engine. As a response to the plotwise disappointing Ultima IX: Ascension (Dialogue/Plot patch downloadable here), Ultima IX Redemption is not a remake, but a completely new attempt at finishing the trilogy of trilogies. Avatus, the project leader, promises a rich and compelling storyline with several endings, depending on your decisions.

A similar attempt is Ultima IX: Eriadain, which will make use of the upcoming Neverwinter Nights engine.

Ultima IV: Elijah: Elijah rocks. Plain and simple.

This means that teams are working on remakes for every Ultima except 2, 3, 8 and the Worlds of Ultima series. That's a lot. It's great to see that the community is that active. If even half of these projects get finished, we'll have a lot to play in the future.

All the announcements have inspired Evil_Freak Dragon to write a pretty hilarious story featuring all the major projects. "Lazarus' Redemption Prophecy: A Legend is Reborn with the Dawn of Elijah's Great Balls of Fire" features some insider humor, but it might still be a great read even if you aren't involved in any of the projects.
-Grandor Dragon

Some may take offense, but I think it's the perfect, defiant, and ultimately New York gesture there is for rebuilding:
The NEW World Trade Center[home.net]
Desperately needing to laugh with someone, and this is a start.

For the past six years or so I've helped crew a freind's trebuchet. For me, one of the best parts about it has been watching it evolve over the years.

First it was traction powered (people pull on ropes), then it was widened so we could get more people pulling, then it was modified to have a counterweight (4 5gallon jerry cans full of water, approx 175 pounds). Then it had to be remade narrow so we would stop bending the weight bar pivot. Then all the side supports were moved inside making it easier to handle as well as making the length of the pivot even shorter. Then a pully system was added to make cranking the arm down easier. Hopefully next year we will have an easier way to get the pully hook up to the arm.

Flinging stuff with a Treb is even more fun when someone one the other side is flinging stuff back at you! No, we don't throw pumpkins. We ususally use four tennis balls taped together or volleyballs.

Pictures of the engine can be seen here. All of the links with 'War Pup' in the name are the treb. Sorry I can't seem to find any pictures of the more recent versions.

As far as I can tell, these "smart cards" do nothing at all.

Sure they do, they make a bunch of unwashed Windows users think they're 31337 because they have a credit card with a computer chip in it.

That's right, just Windows users. Oh you thought Macs and Linux might be supported? Fat chance! AmEx Blue has been promising Mac support Real Soon Now since their card debuted two years ago, but now they don't even mention it on their system requirements page anymore. The promised Mac support was one of the reasons I got the Blue card, along with the 'added security'-- but their security is a joke in general. There was significant fraud perpetrated with my account number before I even got the card, and it did not involve identity fraud or interception of my postal mail.

VISA's smart cards also offer bupkis in the way of non-Windows support.

~Philly

I suspect that they are posturing to bail out.

I just had to mirror this: http://members.home.net/mlafranc/dancemonkeyboy.mp eg

PS, I'm aware of the irony

First of all, I'm 12, and at parties where people do a lot of wrestling, my (also video-gaming) friend and I stand to the side and say "this is absolutely stupid". Second - My dad (a computer science professor) bought me a NES when I was 2, I'm serious. I now have:

SNES, PlayStation (broken...), TWO Nintendo64s, GameBoy color, GameBoy pocket, and Playstation 2.

I also know C, Python, and C++ (not fully). I'm on the vim-dev maillist. I have written an entire pong game (see this page). I would say I've developped reasonably good learning abilities...Wouldn't you? And I think video-games helped me develop that! This sounds like a biased piece of junk.

The circus got seriously underway here late last Saturday. At that time I made a short list which can be found here.

The cablemodem traffic is annoying but so far no system interference to report here. The attempted attacks just bounce off Apache. Add this to my ever-increasing list of reasons why I'm glad I don't run Windoze.

Some stats I ran to see how many times my personal firewall blocked access to my computer on port 80 on a daily basis. Just your typical computer with an always on connection. Very many of them originating from 24.*.*.* Oh, an there currently isn't (and won't be because who cares) a script for generating these. And I grabbed an username that's appropriate. I hope somebody cares. Wait, no I don't.

A log of attack attempts here over the last 3 days can be found here

The patterns of frequency and source IPs speak for themselves. Interesting to note that I'm continuing to be attacked by both versions of the virus.

Thanks to Apache, they don't achieve anything, but the waste of bandwidth is stupid and annoying.

I'm thinking of getting in touch with doubleclick to negotiate advertising and make some money since my site is suddenly so popular.

I highly recommend checking out some of the homebrew jet websites these guys have. Its wild to see the different approaches they take to reach the goal of self-sufficiency. One guy used plain old cast iron pipe you could buy at Home Depot and got it working. Another is working on an engine that uses a turbocharger from an M-60 tank! He's also got one that has an afterburner on it with some REALLY cool pictures.

This is quite the hobby. On guy built a really sweet engine that used a PLC to help start the engine which is a multi step process. His worked so well he sometimes had trouble keeping his cart braked. Interesting to see how folks also try various fuels from K-1 to LP gas to Diesel.

I honestly was blown away by the time and effort folks put into one of these just to have it run - but it really was a blast browsing all these sites all day - careful!! You might get hooked! :) Geeks with jet engines is a scary prospect!

Ok, I agree with you on the broadband thing. Pink noise is just "smoother" than white noise in that all the frequencies are represented at all times. White noise is "chunky" in comparison. white noise, pink noise through a sonogram. See what I mean?

Ok, I agree with you on the broadband thing. Pink noise is just "smoother" than white noise in that all the frequencies are represented at all times. White noise is "chunky" in comparison. white noise, pink noise through a sonogram. See what I mean?

Ok, look. I ran white noise through a sonogram. Then pink noise. Look at them and then tell me if I am wrong.

Ok, look. I ran white noise through a sonogram. Then pink noise. Look at them and then tell me if I am wrong.

Which is why I always take a screenshot or or two of graphics corruption and include them with the bug reports. The pr0n lib guys (or whatever the 'official' name is now :) ) seem to appreciate it.

Ryan T. Sammartino

Which is why I always take a screenshot or or two of graphics corruption and include them with the bug reports. The pr0n lib guys (or whatever the 'official' name is now :) ) seem to appreciate it.

Ryan T. Sammartino

...put "protecting" their blessed trademarks above absolutely all else. When my dispute last year with American Express reached the point where I was pissed off enough to register "amexblew.com" and put up an entire website (now archived elsewhere) flaming them, the FIRST thing they did, BEFORE completely rectifying the problem that angered me so much in the first place, was to sic their fucking trademark lawyers on me. Even though you'd have to be damned near illiterate to spell "blue" as "blew" and even though my site was laden with disclaimers and only an ineducable moron incapable of operating a web browser in the first place would ever mistake it for an official AMEX one, they still laid that 'confusingly similar' bullshit on me in the C&D letter.

AOL's case is of similarly nebulous merit, and I hope the GAIM guys stick to their guns. America needs a landmark case where common sense takes on rich corporate stupidity and wins.

~Philly

Using G7ToWin you can upload/download routes, waypoints, etc with your eTrex (if you have the data cable). Great little program. It doesn't let you draw on a map but I have no doubt that with a little bit of elbow grease and a product like MapPoint (otherwise known as Streets and Trips) you could achieve it. The only nuisance is that it requires that the eTrex be in a different serial data mode than MapPoint forcing me to switch it to jump between them (I considered making a virtual serial port that would automatically convert from a real serial port and both MapPoint and G7ToWin could talk to the virtual serial port, but after a quick look at the Win2000 DDK determined that it wasn't something that was worth dedicating that much time to).

I've thought of this, with an application to individuals. I call it True Human Capital, where you invest directly in people with hope of a future return. In theory you could create a "mutual fund" for an open source project and contribute to the people involved that way. Would it work? I'm not sure.
--
OliverWillis.Com

Deja vu!

One of the most incredible books to have been written about this is 'The Mars Mystery' By Graham Hancock. The book postulates at length about these phenomena.
Graham Hancock has a really well written, and comprehensive web page, with a page of links that specifically deal with this subject here.
There is a lot of information there, and on the linked pages, about recent discoveries, and not so recent discoveries. One linked page refers to a set of lunar photographs released by Nasa in 1966.
I am not sure personally that this is evidence of anything too fantastic, aliens, conspiracies or the like, but whether it is or not, it is interesting to note that there are some phenomena that do not fit into our currently accepted scientific world theory, and that the investigation into them is going on quite specifically outside of the mainstream.
As Paul K Feyerabend put it, "Success in science depends not only on rational argument but on a mixture of subterfuge, rhetoric and propaganda."

I've recently written a breakdown of a proposal for how much time people "pay" advertisers, and how a similar exchange could be worked out, exchanging attention for web enjoyment...

Curious as to your thoughts...
--
OliverWillis.Com

Pride and Prejudice: Four Decades of Lisp

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/snw2/papers/prejudice /prejudice.html Floating Point Performance of Common Lisp

http://members.home.net/vogt/fft-paper.html John McCarthy's Home Page (the creator of Lisp)

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

Short answer: yes, if you can live with (or sneak around) the restrictions.

Long answer: I use Comcast@Home, and in general I'm satisfied. It downloads faster than my office network, tech support is reasonably intelligent, willing to admit when fuckups are their fault, and telephone hold times are short. Setup was easy.

Now the down sides: upload is only a little faster than POTS. Service goes down about once a month for several hours. The included web space is dog slow. They want to charge extra if you have multiple computers -- using a router with NAT is grounds for cutoff. You aren't allowed to run a server of any kind or access VPNs -- you're supposed to buy the identical but higher priced Comcast@Work for that.

...the technology is easy, the data is hard.

...the technology is easy, the data is hard.

...the technology is easy, the data is hard.

Browsing from a PDA would be the most painful experience I can imagine... Screen is way too small.

I beg to differ. It is too small for some of sites, I read quite a bit of news and other informations on my Newton in a web browser, which has a 480 x 320 screen. The iPAQ has a res of 320x240 (I believe), and while that's a little small, it's still large enough to be useful.

The laws in Florida and Georgia are grey about TV's. My Jetta has all the features of this guys car and then some (it runs Linux), yet I've never had any legal trouble. I actually got out of one speeding ticket because FLA Highway Patrol thought it was cool because we both had computers in our cars. Anyway, I agree it's a grey area, but it's not illegal, especially when you minimize the dvd and put the Navigation screen on top. hehe.