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"... influences the military with his games."

Surely you mean with his songs. Either that or you're talking about John Carmack.

Umm...yeah, I like that they phrased it this way, rather than in dry technical language. But it ain't exactly great poetry. It's an intentional parody of this thing, which has been floating around on inspirational posters for years. It was apparently written and copyrighted by Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) in 1927.

• 6 backbone connections
• UPS/generator backups
• Controlled environment colocation (inc. humidity)

Their DSL offering ALLOWS SERVERS if you DO want a DIY offering. No portscans and no policies against it. I use 'em right now for my own mail server. If you're in Texas, that's Jump.Net.

And they have a 100% uptime guarantee...
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After reading through most of the other replies, I'm finding a lot of electoral college hatred. I understand that. I don't like it myself--I was born in Tennessee (not much EC impact), grew up in Texas and Ohio (are you kidding?), and moved to Mississippi. Hell, in '92, there might as well not have been an election for me. I don't think I saw a single paid political advertisement for Bush or Clinton that wasn't on a national news program.

Now I live in Alabama, which has two more EC votes than does Missisippi. Whoop-de-freaking-doo. I still have yet to see Bush or Gore next to a bunch of enraptured, smiling children. I kinda miss seeing election commercials.

So, if you're pissed with the electoral college, why don't you pester your local Congresscritter? In looking at the Electoral College, you have to win 11 states to win. Don't believe me? Check out Jim Howard's EC Calculator. They are: California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Georgia or Virginia. Win those, and you have 270--enough to win.

The EC was a filtering mechanism. In this Information Age, do we need a filter? Nope. Remember, the original U.S. Constitution had the state legislatures electing Senators. Amendement XVII changed that. The Constitution can be changed again to reflect the desires of the people. It takes just 37 states. There are only 12 in the above list?

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world. Start now. Pester your Congresscritter.

I have a Java applet that models the electoral college at http://www.jump.net/~jnhtx/ec/ec.html.

1. Hackmaster
Irreplaceable. Get it and pay the guy.

2. DateBk3
My Bread & Butter app. It's a Datebook/Todo replacement with lots of very useful stuff. There's also a DateBk4.

3. Commute
Bus schedules

4. QED
Doc reader/editor

5. OnBoard C
If your're into coding for fun, this is a refreshing experience.

6. TextPlus
Frequency-based word and phrase suggestion in any Plam application

7. PopUp Favorites
8. PopUp Calculator
Extremly useful helper apps. One is to switch tasks, the other is a small yet powerful calulator.

9. Font Hack & Alpha-NX
FontHack allows you to choose your own fonts, selectable for each app you have installed.
Alpha-NX is small but very readable.

10. TapPad
Adds some nice features to your Graffiti area.

a. SpadeLover Spades
b. Rally 1000
Games. Don't miss them

I chose jump.net because they have an "any server you want policy". I also get an 8 fixed IP block (with a class C netmask, so I can use all 8 if I want) for an extra $10/mo. (A single IP is $5, so splunge a bit.) The total I pay is $80 a month. If I had their 384K up/1.5M+ down ADSL I would pay about twice as much.

However, my circuit is provided by SWB, and they really sucked after they were forced to spin off their DSL business to an annoying little company called ASI. So now you have to deal with both companies (and maybe your ISP as well) to get your line hooked up, and there are a lot of problems. Not only that, but they're regularly capping circuits to 384K downstream. Jump.net put a hold on new orders through them because they sucked so bad, but I'm still on a one-year contract.

I moved up from San Antonio, where I was about 8000 feet from the CO, and wasn't capped, so I got the full 1.5 megabits down. Damn it was nice. But I finally had to move to Austin for the job opportunities. (At least I only had to go 100 miles to do that!) The only trouble I had back in February was they shipped the install kit via two-day UPS on the day before the install... from the other side of town! UPS takes their two-day shipping very seriously, you know. So I got an old Alcatel that the phone guy had in his truck.

I did have to change my fixed IP when moving to Austin, but that's CIDR for you.

One of SWB's little tricks is said to be dropping orders when they get too far behind. It was three weeks before I realized they had never taken my order properly. So I had to wait another three weeks (even with a self-install), and then they managed to set up my ATM circuit wrong. At least my Alcatel can't do PPPoE, so I have an excuse not to run that abomination.

And above all, do not go with texas.net if you're the kind of guy who wants a fixed IP. They have great service if you're a Joe Luser, but they filter their connections so you can't run any servers, or anything which quacks like a server, so they can force you to pay for "business" service. Which is also good if you're not their customer, because that's a lot less machines that can be turned into DDoS zombies.

"net" was traditionally intended for use by network service providers.

Yes, and I've only seen one ISP (UUNet) which actually uses that as their primary address.

How about Jump.Net or Texas.Net?

1. Get kernel 2.2.13
2. Get the USB backport patch from http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/"> and apply it
3. Get the latest USB scanner driver from http://www.jump.net/~dnelson and apply the patch. You'll have to manually patch drivers/usb/Makefile based on the .rej file.
4. Follow instructions in drivers/usb/README.scanner