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I would check with Lloyd's. Last I checked, they would insure anyone for anything.


Oh, did you think I couldn't answer that...

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Get a decent MUA, and it'll handle the threading for you.

I recommend Sylpheed.

if the world might pressure them in to lowering prices...

It might not even be necessary.

From this link.

February 1998

©SIGNAL Magazine 1998

Innovations Propose Marriage Of Diamonds, Semiconductors


Nature's hardest substance sparkles aplenty as a heat-sink substrate for computer chips.

Robert K. Ackerman

Researchers are coming ever closer to diamond fabrication technologies economical enough to be incorporated in mass semiconductor fabrication. The ability of chip designers to use diamond as a heat sink for microprocessors will permit significant advances in processing power by enabling denser designs.

Approaching the Holy Grail of cost-effective diamond substrate fabrication are several companies employing different technologies. These range from conventional pressure systems that have crossed logistical Rubicons to deposition methods enabled by novel applications of exotic processes.

The potential playground for semiconductor diamond substrate begins in military systems and ultimately extends into the consumer marketplace. Programs sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aim at incorporating the technology into sensor suites aboard the Air Force's new Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter aircraft. The agency is pursuing a number of different approaches that would be wed to existing circuitry for improvements in efficiency and performance.

Concurrently, companies not necessarily involved in the DARPA effort are generating larger, better and less expensive diamond substrates. Existing technologies already are able to generate 4-inch wafers, and larger wafers at lower costs beckon. The potential market for this diamond technology runs in the billions of dollars, according to some industry analysts.

Awesome. Hey, I hear a Defender port is upcoming...

We've had that covered for years. Heck, even Quake 1 and 2 have been available for a long time. But 3D Realms is slow, as always.

Yeah, I actually asked the lead developer of the ATI's catalyst drivers about Linux support at lanwar 18 (reviewed here), and he blew me off with a "go look at the website, next!" answer.

So... Does that mean the invisible pink elephants are NP problems???

The best Sysadmin boot disk IMO is Toms RTBT. I use the enchilada cdrom iso myself. Very tight and no compatibility problems ever.

Neverwinter Nights Leaps to mind. They also just released a Linux Version.

Jainith

I googled for +"General Instrument" +"SC-01" and got links shown here .

I think Votrax was in bed with General Instruments, as they have another chip by the same name, that apparently does the same thing, but I do remember mine was a GI part.

It turns out all speech is nothing but sequences of utterances ( vowels and syllabic ). Just string them together and you get speech. String them together very carefully and the speech begins sounding like it came from a human instead of a machine.

I know IBM is refining this, but the concept is really old hat.

I'd hardly call the EV1 small, ugly or impractical.

...Virtually none of these software developers and hobbyists had access to enterprise-scale equipment and testing facilities for Linux development. Without access to such equipment, facilities, sophisticated methods, concepts and coordinated know-how, it would be difficult or impossible for the Linux development community to create a grade of Linux adequate for enterprise use.

Not really, when lefty types hear that there are more people coming to the commune, they tend to react with jubilation.

What the lefty types are afraid of is this: The first generation of barbie-kens will unify with their GM skin as their uniform, smash said lefty types into bits and then start wasting resources squabbling amongst themselves about how their super enhanced (and possibly tusked, horned, sleepless and photosynthetic) babies are so original.

Result? You could see unity based on superficial similarities, and a distinct lack of regard for making sure that the lifesaving technology of genetic disease prevention or old age genetic enhancement reaches all sectors of society - And that includes people who worked all day and all night in a commodity market like farming just so that you can go down to the supermarket and buy fresh vegitables.

The leftys are afraid because more often than not, it's not stupid people who end up poor. It's the people who get trapped in industries which we need to be low cost - food production, mining, cleaning, security, transportation, manual labour. Eventually we will replace human labour with machines, but if you've ever been laid off you know how hard it is to adjust to a new workplace in the same industry, let alone reskill from industries as different as horse breeding and webdesign.

We need these people to do these jobs (Jobs, I might add, that are soon to vanish)for next to nothing so that we can do our high-tech high-touch jobs and enjoy the lifestyles that we do. We also make going to college something that our parents had to plan from before we were born, so that we can keep whole family lines in these low paid commodity jobs simply by setting the pay+tips just on par with the cost of living, so it's impossible to save for the future unless you're willing to sacrifice your family line to give your nephew or niece a chance. If they start to get out of hand, we can market to them something to suck up the cash, while giving them a minimal return (like cars that depreciate as they're driven off the lot and then break down, or fashionable shoes that go out of fashion).

In the future of unbridled modification of children, or radical modification of existing humans, we might have fashionable mods to one's body which become "so 2015" in 2016, and then need to be upgraded with more mods. In the past a poor person with a good body could get ahead. Just look at tito ortiz. Now, skip the stuff about the donations, bottom line is that an athletic person can make good from a poor background in a world where bodies are random, and the rich blood can run thin.

Add gm mods to the mix, and suddenly the rich kids are titans.

The lefties are afraid that this will turn into an arms race of bodily modification, and will seal off the last few avenues for the poor to become rich, beyond religeon and outright war.

Fortunately, it might be possible to do gm mods underground. But I worry about who to trust in the black clinics of chiba.

Designing DC electonics to run reliably in a car is an ugly business.

A PC in particular has some interesting challenges, You've got multiple output voltages, different polarities, and absolute cr*p for an input.

The charging circuit in your car delivers roughly 13.8VDC with the engine running. This is enough over the desired +12V to run a series pass type regulator with no problem. The trouble is you are not guaranteed to get that voltage. With the engine off or with something drawing heavily, you may have less than 12 volts available. Expect to see about 11.5 volts with the engine stopped.
Even worse is while cranking the engine, the voltage will probably dip into the +8-10 volt range.

This dictates a DC-DC step-up converter to ensure you never run below the regulators minimum input voltage. You could buy/build/borrow one.... but why? It would be far cheaper to run an inverter and a standard PS.

If your heart is set on doing this, You might want to hack up an old ps... redesign the input switcher to work on +12. That would probably require winding a new toroidal transformer and a smallish PCB to hold the new switcher. The bonus here is you get to reuse the regulator circuitry and case. I've done this with excellent results, but I've been building power supplies for 30+ years. There's two huge time wasters implied here: figuring out the supply's original schematic, the other being getting the right magnetics. I ended up winding a new transformer.

whatever you decide to do, you'll probably want to stay within the ATX specs, one source is here.

Good luck :)

Sounds like a combination of Google's Zeitgeist and LiveJournal's MemeTracker. In other words, nothing that new.

It's also the basis for Computational Lexicography. Doing analysis on large corpora. One of the interests people have in this field is introduction of new words in society. The field used to use corpora such as the British National Corpus, but since the explosion of the Web, sites such as Google can far exceed that size. Weblogs are simply a good example of a more natural form of language. The interesting thing would be not so much to find new trends through words... but if we can truly solve the whole natural language parsing problem and use such information to extract higher-level knowledge

So which of the following happens, if a customer buys one 50c MP3 and never buys anything for the rest of his life:

a) His CC never gets charged
b) His CC gets charged 50c immediately
c) His CC gets charged 50c after a set period of time
d) His CC gets charged $10 immediately
e) There's a % chance his CC gets charged $10 immediately, otherwise never charge
f) There's a % chance his CC gets charged 50c immediately, otherwise never charged

It seems to be that (a) means free goods, (b) means no saving in CC charges, (d) is unfair, (e) means maybe free goods, and (f) is gambling, so probably (c) is correct?

But if (c) or (d) is correct, then PepperCoin is acting as a bank -- ie. the same as Paypal and thus free to rip everybody off with no recourse. Sucky. At least I'd trust Rivest more than I'd trust Paypal.

Next question: the Peppercoin website suggests that the coin is like a cheque, and the merchant collects all the customer's coins and then redeems them to PepperCoin. So why can't each coin contain the actual transaction value? Peppercoin would then aggregate the merchant's coins after a set period and credit the merchant's account.

The Onion.com

The Best Page in the Universe

Something Awful

Consumption Junction

The Bastard Operator from Hell

Don't forget

*nix.org either

From FireWire Depot page:

"...offers the military grade protection for your classified data."

Calling DES "military grade protection" is pretty close to a blatant lie.

> the FORTH REICH ENSUES!!!!!

All hail Charles Moore

http://http://www.softwarereality.com/lifecycle/xp /case_against_xp.jsp

In two minutes I was able to save both myself and my company many man-years and headaches.

It's... In my sig! 20th Century Vole

As a former IT Director I am somewhat familiar with federal labor laws. It all depends on your salary range here is an exerpt from a labor site online:

" The federal salary level for professional employees remains at $170 per week, exclusive of board, lodging or other facilities; and the short test for professionals also uses a salary of just $250 per week. Computer professionals are treated somewhat differently, however. In 1990 the U.S. Congress passed legislation specifically to address the computer field. The exemption is applied only to "highly-skilled employees who have achieved a level of proficiency in the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly-specialized knowledge in computer systems analysis, programming, and software engineering." These computer professionals must receive a salary of at least $1,105 per week, which breaks down to an hourly wage of $27.35 for a 40-hour workweek; and is an annual salary of $57,460 - a far higher salary than most bona fide exempt EAPemployees receive in the human services field."

*ehem* pardon me, but it's "carnie", you damn dirty ape.

Yeah, I thought it might be, but I was too lazy to Googlefight it.

(I think you're right, but Googlefight gives the nod to "carny".)

*ehem* pardon me, but it's "carnie", you damn dirty ape.

Yeah, I thought it might be, but I was too lazy to Googlefight it.

(I think you're right, but Googlefight gives the nod to "carny".)

Might be considered ot, but wanted to add this link. This quote made me think of this.

"The fact that someone even attempted to convert them, let alone that they succeeded, is bad enough. What was wrong with their belief system before that some missionary felt it their duty to "save" these "savages"?"

Take a read.

Ishmael

Great read.
Peace

It seems to be missing from the article.

http://www.morphos.de/

the alternative to pico - which is the editor for pine is nano check it out...ofcourse theres mutt for the pine replacement;)

I develop data driven applications for a living. It's not very easy to do that in Linux. Sure, I could use Perl, PHP, or something like that, but it'd be command line or web based, neither of which is desirable. Web based interfaces are good for some things, but not all things. Command line interfaces are good for nerds, not for users.

In Visual Basic, it is very easy to develop a data driven application, either for reporting or for data entry/maintenance. If you use Perl or Python, how do you develop the GUI? Tk? That's not very easy. In VB, you start out with a form, throw controls on it by dragging and dropping and throw some code around it. Does it make me a bad programmer that I like this? No. Does it make me less of a programmer? No. It makes me smart. My employer pays me for getting work done, not for beind idealistic. I can throw a recordset into Excel (the way the accounting department wants their reports) in 5 lines of code in VB, and I didn't have to wander all over CPAN to figure out how.

I also do some things in Magic. Yes, it runs on Linux, but most everything else we use doesn't so I don't use the Magic version of it. For data driven programs, nothing is faster than Magic. It's a whole different paradigm for programming, and it is one that I suggest you learn.

The only thing that seemed to bother me was the simple availability of IP addresses gathered from the client. IP addresses = ISP = Account Name = RIAA & MPAA & everyone else knocking on your door.

This is a problem inherint in most Internet based sharing systems (as that damn annoying popup ad says, you're broadcasting your IP address (duh, it's how the Net works, you can't stop that (well, see below)).

There are alternatives however, the much proclaimed FreeNet, and IIP, however, with IIP, (which is secure & anonymouse IRC) sending/receiving files is, afaik, still in heavy alpha testing.

FreeNet, as a concept works, and as a product, is usable, however, due to the complex nature of the task it does (complete anonimity), it is slow. Frost is the best way currently to swap files. Frost is (imho), NNTP for freenet.

With every other system, your IP address is available, this includes Gnutella and Fasttrack. If you want to hide who you are, you need to use Freenet. Take a look at the "bad" stuff on FreeNet (I mean figuativly, not literally). The reason why there is so much, is because its SAFE to put it there (unless you are really stupid).

The only other thing you could do is find an ISP that guarentees to destroy any record of who used what IP address at what time. However, that doesn't stop a court ordered tapping being placed to monitor you in real time.

NOAA provides Bathymetry data and electronic navigation charts (vectorized) and NIMA (that's right, .mil, -- NIMA used to be the Defense Mapping Agency provides city lists and populations for all the countries in the world, as well as DEMs (digital elevation models--i.e. gridded topography). The National Atlas project provides boundaries of federal lands, outlines of states, locations of major cities, stuff like that.

ENJOY!

Most bands are commercial failures, too, so the few successful acts have to be priced high enough to cover the money lost on the others.

agree.. index

To complete the list: lowendmac's dealers page.

w.t.f.?

We use a VOIP solution from Shoreline Communications. From our perspective, it's boxes that just work, but the docs says they're running VxWorks, not Windows. They do integrate with Windows via a Java call manager app.

...legal counsel for America Online today served the entire community of Paoli, Indiana, with a collective Cease and Desist.

Paoli is the home of Paoli Peaks, a popular ski resort, which in 2002 celebrates 25 years of
"thrills, chills, and just plain fun on the snow!"

AOL attorney Les Humor says the media conglomorate's suit was unavoidable.

"Paoli clearly is attempting to trade on goodwill associated with the AOL brand by their continued and sequential use of the letters A, O, and L."

The area is named after the historic General Paoli Tavern, which stood nearby in the late 18th century.

"Really, the fact that the Paoli name goes back over two hundred years isn't germane to my client's case," explained Humor. "I mean--couldn't they call the place Cold Hills or something? Of course they could."

Courts sometimes find in favor of a trademark holder when another entity attempts to market related goods or services under a similar name. It must be demonstrated that the new product might cause confusion or be mistaken for the trademarked product.

"That's the real kicker," said Humor. "Those skiers are going downhill pretty fast, and so is our stock."

AOL is an AOL Time Warner company. AOL: so easy to abuse, no wonder it's number one!

lemon power
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cedu.niu.edu
or more google

This is the example that would apply to me. I have this chipset, and I've been using Linux, since before it had support, and it was moderately annoying because I couldn't use the ATA133 that my drives and chipset supported.

PS: I'm surprised that I got modded down for that other post. I was trying to be funny :(
Superbeast (Rob Zombie) - "Hell yeah! I'm the one that you wanted!
Hell yeah! I'm the UberGeek!"

We are all pink on the inside.

Use sourcemage instead. when sorceror finished lunar seemed nto to be too nice ppl, sourcemage however have debian like policies.

VAXGeek, I trust you are using NetBSD/vax?

and as for Apple, well, they're trying to make a buck off you -- what do you expect? That's capitalism. There are other ways, you know.

Another example of a body researching the societal effects of the internet

The Pew Charitable Trust

A resolution WAS passed... Mickey has another 20 years (2019)

Wired Article on it when it was an
act

Wikipedia article on it as a bill

.Net Framework Deployment Guide

As far as TWAIN support is concerned, Go pick up a program called VueScan. It works flawlessly with my Epson Perfection 1680 at work, under Firewire even! No need to wait for Epson's official implementation. The only problem of course is that it isn't integrated into Photoshop, but I think it's a small price to pay. Cheers

That's Kansas that's filled with literalists [Fred Phelps] fundAmentalists [Topeka Capitol-Journal] who believe the earth is 6000 years old [CNN].

Iowa has corn.

Hes having anal sex with a goat

Thanks to the fine folks at IMDB, Godzilla made his first appearance in the movie Gojira in 1956. Also consider that the court hearing this will likely be in Japan where Godzilla is a cultural icon (and monster movies as a whole). First round to Mister Godzilla.