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Huh? As a person with one mini-ITX PC already, I'd have to say that Transmeta are hitting a major part of their market spot on with this release. Not only will a significant number of people already considering, say, a small media PC try a Transmeta board, but the more innovative hobbyist projects should drive a very successful grassroots advertising campain.

Now, if I could only get the page to load...

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Shocking stuff how they could miss that while redoing it almost frame by frame, and now all my childhood memories of that creature looking real have been ruined. I hate you George Lucas :(

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Shocking stuff how they could miss that while redoing it almost frame by frame, and now all my childhood memories of that creature looking real have been ruined. I hate you George Lucas :(

D. Gareth Jones... asks what neurological reasons there might be for concluding that an incapacity for consciousness becomes a capacity for consciousness once this point is passed... it has yet to be provided with a firm biological base.

Ummm... damage to the brain damages consciousness. Do a google search on hemisphere inattention("hemisphere neglect"). Or "Wernicke's aphasia". Or just go read an Oliver Sacks book like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" or "An Anthropologist On Mars". Whatever consciousness is (in humans at least), it needs a brain to exist. If you can show me a conscious individual that does not possess a brain, then I'll change my tune.

Now, the brain doesn't even start to form in an embryo before about four weeks. I don't know when there's "enough" brain to be conscious, but I feel confident in saying that there's no consciousness when there's no brain. And if there's no consciousness, then there's no person. In the case of an embryo there's a potential person, but not an actual person.

I'd actually go farther in many cases; for example, I think it's perfectly justified to take an anencephalic baby and harvest its organs for transplantation. Tragic but perfectly justifiable. (I'd also understand if the parents chose not to do so.)

I go through iiNet.. to be fair, the 1.5Mb ADSL is normally $80/month when combined with preselecting iiNet for long-distance phone calls, the $60/month is a special deal just until the end of November. See here for details.

I go through iiNet.. to be fair, the 1.5Mb ADSL is normally $80/month when combined with preselecting iiNet for long-distance phone calls, the $60/month is a special deal just until the end of November. See here for details.

Now if the 30+ year old tape is still good & I had a 9 track 1600 bpi drive to load it with, I could run it on this simulator...Cyber Emulator

I've just finished gutting an SE/30 case for someone interested in a Mac Aquarium here in Perth.

... in medicine, and one in physics, and probably one in chemistry, waiting for anyone who can demonstrate a possible mechanism of action for health effects of non-ionizing radiation at athermal levels.

I used to agree with you, but a number of studies recently have shown that under these radiation wavelengths, some membranes in the body pass some molecules when they would otherwise block them.

Example here.

It turns out it's insufficient to just consider heating effects and ionization effects, since lipid membranes are composed of dipolar molecules which can be subject to other electromagnetic effects.

Rodin has already been there, done that...

My ISP blocks SMTP (also netbui and any http incoming) by default, but allows users to remove the port blocks by logging into their online account admin page and clicking unblock.

I think this is the best of both worlds, as it makes it harder for the average user to get infected and send out spam (or pickup nimda et al by accidentally enabling iis) but others who want to use these ports can easily enable them.

That's because you're not a cow.

Here's a relevant quote on the dangers of elevated carbon dioxide levels:

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the body's regulator of the breathing function. It is normally present in the air at a concentration of 0.03% by volume. Any increase above this level will cause accelerated breathing and heart rate. A concentration of 10% can cause respiratory paralysis and death within a few minutes. In industry the maximum safe working level recommended for an 8 hour working day is 0.5% .

I just discovered MegaWiki for Palm OS and EmacsWikiMode for Emacs. It essentially allows you to create hyperlinked documents with ease. Basically, it's a private Wiki. If you don't know what a Wiki is, check out wikipedia.org for an example.

This software allows you to type text documents with minimal formatting, and the real beauty is that when you WriteSomethingLikeThis (i.e. CamelCase), it automatically turns that string of text into a link to a new entry. Click on that link and you can fill in the details for that new entry. I've found MegaWiki on the Palm does a great job of keeping my thoughts organized. Check it out.

This is great if you're a scatterbrain like me and come up with a new thought while you're writing one thought down.

I think my current ISP has the best of both worlds... several ports are blocked on new accounts, but all a user has to do is goto their secure account page (or phone tech support) and choose to disable blocking to get them opened. This stops most cluesless users with zombie PCs, and allows powerusers to run mail servers as well.

My ISP - iinet in Perth Western Australia - blocks port 25 (SMTP) by default.

But, you can request to have it unblocked.

This seems to be a good way to prevent this kind of issue, but without breaking the open nature of the internet. Surely this could reduce this kind of problem?

Nintendo unveiling a new portable
By Steven Kent, Special forUSA TODAY
LOS ANGELES -- Video game giant Nintendo, facing increased competition in the market for handheld entertainment, will have a new portable out this fall with twin color screens, sharper graphics and the feel of a PDA. The Nintendo DS -- short for dual-screen -- will be unveiled Tuesday morning at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry gathering.

The Nintendo DS -- short for dual-screen -- will be unveiled Tuesday morning at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry gathering. The DS will sell alongside today's Game Boy Advance, not replace it, according to the company. Nintendo has not announced a release date or price, though analysts predict it may sell in the $150 range.

One of the two 3-inch screens is touch-sensitive and works with a stylus -- like Palms and Pocket PCs -- to control the action in some games. In one demo, players guide a toddler-age Mario as he falls from the sky by drawing clouds. Other games give multiple views of the action.

The DS also has Bluetooth wireless communication to connect with other units within range for cordless competition. DS has separate slots for current Game Boy Advance cartridges and new, smaller DS game cards.

DS is largely viewed as Nintendo's response to Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP, a new system that will play both movies and video games stored on mini DVD discs. Sony has announced plans to release PSP in Japan later this year and in the USA in 2005.

"I have not seen the PSP," says Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the famous Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong characters. "The screen, I believe, is bigger than a DS screen, and I am sure it will have excellent graphic quality." But, he adds, "the PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system. ... We want to do things that you could not do before. We are looking at the creative end."

The DS has slightly more processing power than the Nintendo 64 console released in 1996. While that's nowhere near today's top game-system graphical capabilities, two- and three-dimensional game images, when viewed on DS screens, are surprisingly crisp.

Sony's PSP, reported to be only slightly less powerful than the PlayStation 2, will have a higher-resolution screen and more graphics power. The price has not yet been announced, though estimates have ranged to $250 and up.

Having sold more than 168 million Game Boys worldwide since 1989, Nintendo dominates the handheld game market, even as it's losing market share in console systems to Sony and Microsoft. Over the past 15 years, such companies as Sega, NEC, SNK and most recently cell phone giant Nokia have launched nine competing portable game systems without much success.

And the image is here!

Of course the US and Australia both share the same primary language which results in far more US traffic than South Korea. Add in the people per capita, Telstra and South Korea's pro broadband government and that explains bandwidth costs in Australia.

Of course the price of bandwidth has resulted in a lot of peering exchanges meaning that while I can only download 8 gig of "premium" data a month on my 512 account, my ISP lets me download from itself and other peered ISP's in my state for free.

I don't know which ISP you're with, but I'm on 1500/256 for AU$80. After you hit your 10GB limit, you're just bandwidth shaped to 72kb/s rather than charged per MB. I lived in Boston last year and this was pretty comparable to what I was paying there.

This is who I'm with - iinet

I would guess that most IT professionals are not in tech support. I've not seen numbers on it, but if you lump together programmers, DBA's, web developers, analysts, etc, vs. sysads and tech support I bet you get something like an 80/20 ratio. Anyone seen stats on it?

But, for those in tech support, I think there are inherent conflicts. People attracted to tech are often more introverted. You take people like that and force them to deal with users who know nothing, are resentful of their utter dependence on others, want immediate results, and blame tech support for the problem in the first place, and you get BOFH.

Based on the submitter's resume, the ISP he's working for is ihug. And based on a Google search, the buying company is iiNet (confirmed in iiNet's own press release).

Are there any Linux / Unix-based New Zealand ISPs that feel like offering Simon a new job? (Assuming that posting his situation on Slashdot doesn't get him fired first?)

Based on the submitter's resume, the ISP he's working for is ihug. And based on a Google search, the buying company is iiNet (confirmed in iiNet's own press release).

Are there any Linux / Unix-based New Zealand ISPs that feel like offering Simon a new job? (Assuming that posting his situation on Slashdot doesn't get him fired first?)

screenshot of the default setup running under gnome.

The interface has some very nice improvements. Each tool window can be dragged around, to dock things together (see the tabs on the layers window? Behind that are paths, undo history etc)

You don't have to right click on an image to do functions to the image, it has them up the top of that window, making it more friendly to new users.

And here is my following move.

I seem to recall an old BOFH story to this effect. Hell of the thing is, do it right as a contractor and it might just work in some companies.

Anyone else think of the BOFH excuse of the day?

Hmmmm... the BOFH excuse generator turns up a real excuse for once....

Because a lot of ISP's (like mine iinet.net.au) only support FTP and do not allow shell access to the web hosting servers.

As to why ISP's still insist on forcing ftp on their customers... I have no idea :)

Oh you devil you!

Why would I pay AUD $2.00 for a .wma format from bigpond when I can get a ... Okay, I have to pay for the bandwidth because it's not free if I go outside bigpond...

Why would you use Bigpond when there are real ISP's out there, that will give you 16GB of international traffic for around the same price as Bigponds 1GB plan?

Zilch

Actually my current ISP by default blocks http, smtp and a couple of others, but allows customers to quickly turn the blocked ports on and off via a simple click in our account's "toolbox" webpage. I think this is the best solution, as people who have no idea, and arn't running servers (to thier own knowledge) have the ports blocked, but anyone with some knowledge who wants to run a server can unlock themselves easily.

It was 1997 when Simon the BOFH wrote about such a contraption, which won him the IT Idiot Award for Least Intelligent Supervisor.

... This year I've decided to sell the boss on using the network as a storage medium. I casually drop a couple of remarks until the boss decides to channel his massive intelligence away from tying his shoelaces and onto the matter at hand.

"It's simplicity itself!" I cry "We've got these Gigabit Ethernet switches all around the place that we just aren't using! Instead of letting them go to waste we could be sending data continuously around them until it's needed which would actually cut down on the amount of physical disk storage we would need! And just think of the time we would save with read and write latency when the data's already on the net!"
...

I don't think that it's likely that it crashed for that reason -- older boxes (UNIX and otherwise) could be taken down with a traffic flood as well, and if they're older boxes on a 100M network, you could probably crush them fairly easily with just random packets.

I also do know that SCADA (sorry about the horrible page design, but can't be arsed to find a better link) systems in use by utility companies do use DCOM for communication between nodes. Example: iPower.

I also choose to continue using the word port. Deal with it.

Probably a variation of the "clickety click" that the BOFH uses every time he is victimizing someone.

For the copy-paste impaired...

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no, you are definitely not.

*g*

he makes excellent use of the system on various occasions...

no, you are definitely not.

*g*

he makes excellent use of the system on various occasions...

Hopefully letting the enemy advance into a gully lined with claymores?

Another fun thing to do with lOX. Just remember, fire first and then oxygen.

Your quota is measured as the maximum of traffic in and out, which is fairly common. Some ISPs ignore traffic from you and only charge for traffic to you.

For comparison, Telstra charge you up to 19c/megabyte (here 12-16c) for the combined sum of all traffic both directions, and iiNet (biggest ISP in West Aus, second would be WestNet) soft-limit all home accounts (limits are 6GB for AUD$79.95 512kb a/c or 0.5GB for AUD$49.95 128kb a/c) and charge 12c/MB on business excess.

ALL DSL goes through Telstra DSLAMs except on a very few busy exchanges Optus and/or Request have their own DSLAMs. This causes no end of problems for competing ISPs because they have to phone up and ask Telstra to do a "tunnel reset" when someone's DSL screws up, which often takes a day or two to execute.

Note in the Telstra DSL plans avobe that their entry level plan is AUD$10/mo more expensive, and a 512kb plan with only 3GB limit (sum of both directions, remember?) and a max of two users - the cheek! - is $18/month more than I pay ArachNet.

I started using Telstra ADSL back before they started capping the bandwidth, and all I can say they are absolute shit.

When ringing them when the net is down, I had to wait at least 20 minutes before I got through, and when I did, they wouldn't help me because I wasn't using Windows, their USB-to-Ethernet converter, and my computer was plugged into a network. When I finally had reverted my network back to whatever they wanted, they finally started helping me, and the problem was on their end, as I already knew. Usually it takes around a day before it starts working again, and that's nowhere near satisfactory.

After endless hours of surfing, I found iiNet, a Perth-based ISP that offered 512/128, 6gb on peak and 6gb off peak for $79.95 AUD. Which was much better than the $100 we were paying for unrealiable 3gb. And if you go past the limit, you get 'shaped' to 72kbits, which is good enough for surfing. Plus, they have an extensive peering network, PIPE Networks, which include a large amount of ISPs and FTPs to grab latest trailers, etc., off.

But wait! There's more! iiNet has an unique way of counting your bandwidth limit. It adds up the last 30 days of usage, and if it goes over your limit, it starts shaping the next day. That means if you manage your download effectively, you can squeeze in 12gb of downloads easily. Only downside to iiNet, however, is you have to pay in blocks of three months.

Otherwise, iiNet is a great ISP to look at if you wanna get of Telstra.

My ISP doesn't charge for excess data, but they 'shape' your traffic. Once you go over the limit (varies by account, 2GB peak + 2GB off peak for my 256/64) they cut your download speed down to about 72Kbps. Better than dialup, but slower than normal. And still free of charge.

The good thing though is that traffic from sources within their own network (nntp, their ftp mirrors, games servers, etc) and from ISPs that are connected with a peering agreement (they agree to carry each others traffic free of charge) is always at full speed, and doesn't count towards that quota.

...mention of the BOFH!!!

Another relevant fave found here.

The whole shebang.

this guy will sell you all the gear you need to do this... just as soon as he deals with the child rape case he is being tried for
dmiller@iinet.net.au

Oh I get it, that's the guy who raped the 2 year old baby
dmiller@iinet.net.au

Thanks for the help guys, my website , and is now unhackable If you have any more questions/tips, dont hesitate to get in touch (no spics, niggers, greaseballs or towelheads please)dmiller@iinet.net.au

What is BSOD, and what is LOL? help please

David
dmiller@iinet.net.au

Hello, this is my first internet. Looking for penfriends with interesting links dmiller@iinet.net.au

David

iiNet here in Australia has a 512/128 plan which has 6Gb down(+6Gb off-peak) with no upload restrictions and simply caps you at 76kbit/s if you go over in any 30-day period.

Oh and it's AU$80/month - $15 cheaper than the Telstra 512 plan(3Gb total, 20c/mb over).

More information about the event, including maps can be found here.