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  1. Re:Great Timing by Leif_Bloomquist · · Score: 1 · on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years

    My C64 is permanently hooked up to the Internet, running a Telnetable BBS, for those who care... :)

  2. Blast from the Past by gklinger · · Score: 1 · on Best BBS Memories?
    I grew up with the Commodore Vic-20 and 64 so I have strong nostalgic memories of the Commodore BBS scene. Luckily, that scene isn't dead. There are a bunch of C= boards you can access over the Internet. You can find a partial list here. I know what you're thinking. Accessing C= boards via telnet is well and good but without the colour graphics, it's boring. You're right. That's why you need CGTerm or CBMTerm which will give you the full-on experience.

    Oh, and if all this BBS talk has stirred up the sysop in you and you want to put up a BBS, go for it! You can get BBS software here and instructions on how to connect your 64 or 128 to the Internet here.

    Remember, if the present ain't working for you, do what I do. Live in the past!

  3. C64 Telnet BBS by Leif_Bloomquist · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Where Are The Founders Of The Dial-Up Revolution?

    Everyone's reminiscing about 80's BBSes, so I'll throw in a word about my resurrected dial-up Commodore 64 BBS. (except over Telnet).

    You can call it with a real 64, and there are programs now that support "ATDT 209.151.141.59" and so on. Call it Hayes 2.0 maybe? :-)

    --
    Call Negative Format BBS - Hosted on a real C64!
    Telnet to c64bbs.no-ip.com or 209.151.141.59 Port 23
    http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/

  4. Re:Hopefully by Leif_Bloomquist · · Score: 1 · on Roomba Robot Vacuum Gets Siblings

    I need this too, as the previous owners of my house put carpet on the ceiling in the basement!

    Pic

    (Must have been a 70's thing)

  5. Slightly less Vintage by Leif_Bloomquist · · Score: 1 · on Wiring A Vintage Teletype To The Internet

    My Commodore 64 is wired to the Internet.

    Connect to it here

    About the setup

    Next we'll see a Difference Engine on the 'net...who wants to try it?

  6. High Technology and Backward Cultures Don't Mix by reporter · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Networking Technology At Work In Rural India
    Joy of joys. The Indians are now wasting millions of dollars in bringing a low-bandwidth Internet connection into the villages. How can this Internet connection possibly benefit a backward, barbaric village? Why don't the Indians spend their money on more important things like improving their culture? How does the Internet stop female infanticide or abortions targetting female fetuses? Attempts at destroying the female sex are rampant in India.

    Backward, possibly even barbaric, societies are characterized by skewed priorities in spending. The Indians spend hundreds of millions of dollars on atomic-weapons research. Witness the recent attempts at building missiles with the capability of delivering a nuclear warhead. Meanwhile, the population engages in massive female infanticide or abortions targetting female fetuses.

    Identical comments apply to China. Millions of dollars are spent on atomic-weapons research and on sending astronauts into outer space. Meanwhile, the population engages in massive female infanticide or abortions targetting female fetuses. Instead of spending millions of dollars on weapons research, why do the Chinese refuse to spend those wasted dollars on education programs that improve their backward culture?

    The evidence for this anti-female atrocity is overwhelming. Please read "Mystery of the missing women" by the "Toronto Star". The normal male-to-female birth ratio is 1.05. Japan, Canada, the United States of America (USA), and even Vietnam have this ratio. By contrast, India, China, and South Korea have a ratio of 1.15. Further, the ratio of women to men is, normally, 106. Japan, Canada, the USA, and even Vietnam have this ratio. By contrast, India, China, and South Korea have a ratio of about 95.

    It really is a big joke to read about how Indians or Chinese are bringing high technology into remote parts of India or China. They have their priorities completely backwards. First, introduce modern culture and modern notions of morality; then, worry about whether the Indian or Chinese boy can surf the web. By the way, having a modern notion of morality is unrelated to the degree of wealth in a nation. Look at impoverished Vietnam. It has a normal ratio of women to men. Look at wealthy South Korea. It has an abnormal ratio.

    The female shortage in China and India is extremely severe. It is so severe that even the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), in 1999, did a front-page story on the problem in China. According to the WSJ, Chinese men kidnap Vietnamese women and force them to be brides. When they try to escape, the Chinese men cut their Achilles tendon.

  7. News? by panthro · · Score: 1 · on Big Bang or Cosmic Crunch?

    Stephen Hawking talks about this in A Brief History of Time. Carl Sagan talks about this in Cosmos. Lots of other people talked about this before them. For crying out loud, this very notion has been a staple part of Hindu mythology for hundreds of years.

    Is this by any chance related to the recent /. story about Mr. Steven Olson patenting swinging sideways?