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Grim state of Aussie maths?
I'm more concerned about the grim state of Aussie servers. It's already starting to slow. I wonder if his algorithms work on Ethernet?
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Re:suicide is murder
Turing was also gay. Horrible habit, that.
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Link to the photos
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
Here's a .
And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Link to the photos
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And if it's slow, here's the coral cache: pic1
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I've gotta say, this is one lovely machine. Full Linux installation etc. What irritated me was the comment that 'you can install Windows XP, for those of us who don't have beards'.
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Electronics vs. Radiation in spaceThe BBC quotes an electronics hobbyist: "Technology now is way ahead of what was available in 1957, and making your own fully functional Sputnik would now be very simple indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if you could build one in a container smaller than a matchbox, weighing about as much as a wristwatch. The components, including a transmitter, battery and the sensors you'd need would probably cost less than 50 pounds [about 100 US dollars]. It really shouldn't be a problem to build and program the whole thing in under a day."
Oh, that old meme.
Trivia: What is the probability that off-the-shelf microelectronics (like wireless routers) will work in space? Answer: Roughly zero.
Why? Look at the information starting at page 23 on this document: Spacecraft Charging and Hazards to Electronics in Space:
3. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft ElectronicsThe radiation sources discussed are hazardous to electronics since energetic particles can deposit energy inside microelectronic circuitry and disrupt their proper operation. Energy deposition in electronics is measured in rads(M) where M is a specific material being considered (1 rad = 100 ergs/gm). Energy deposition can be in the form of ionization or atomic displacements, which can permanently damage electronics, or it can be in the form of single events, which can cause transient or permanent damages depending on the severity of the event.
NASA doesn't ship Xeon processors into space, not because of budget cuts, but because they don't work reliably (if at all) in space.
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Re:Any World of Warcraft users...
Ports aren't really the problem. If you don't forward ports, other people can't initiate connections with you - you can only initiate connections to others. That's just the way NAT and port forwarding work. If you and another guy both have port forwarding disabled, neither of you can connect to the other. If either of you have port forwarding configured, the other one can initiate the connection and sharing can commence. If you only have 10 people in the swarm, cutting out half the people due to a lack of port forwarding will severely impact your download rates. However, cutting out half of the millions of WoW players still leaves over a million other users to connect to, which should be plenty to max out your download. See http://bt.degreez.net/firewalled.html and http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html for more info.
...Blizzard's download client doesn't seem to pay much regard to your upstream speed, and therefore frequently saturates your connection to the point where the patch download actually slows down.This is the real problem. Blizzard's BT client has very poor or no upload control. While downloading a file, a connection occasionally reports its status back to the sender, letting it know to keep sending data (in greatly simplified terms). If you're saturating your upload channel, your download can't report back that it's good for more data - the upload chokes off the download. It's very common with improperly configured BT clients, but can show up anytime you're uploading something (for example, unchecked uploading via FTP).
I can verify the other poster's claim. I watched as the Blizzard patcher saturated my upload and downloaded at <2K. Using an external app, I limited the patcher's upload to about 3K less than what it had been using. With no other changes, the patcher took off and maxed out my download speed.
Solution? Extract the
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Fonts are uncopyrightable
Feel free to pass these and other fonts around as you wish, entirely guilt-free.
Federal Register, Vol. 53, No 189 (coralized 4 Mbyte PDF)
Cheers,
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Re:E=MC^2
There ya go. HTH
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Re:Mirror link
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Slashdotted.
Coralized link for those who wish to read TFA.
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Old 2600 article
I'm a fan of putting a sticker on the bottom of the laptop that has your contact information and an offer of a no-questions-asked reward for it's return. You can put it over the Microsoft sticker, if you are unfortunate enough to have paid the Microsoft tax (potentially with a piece of paper over the license preventing permanent damage to preserve resale value). You could even use one of the semi-permenent stickers carried by most office supply stores for tagging inventory. This same info could be placed in a grub splash screen protected by a password. This would seem to me to be more likely to get a laptop returned than the chances of it being successfully traced, even if it was booted in a place with net access. However, some ideas for scripts to act as a lo-jack system or a backdoor (which could be augmented with grabbing the camera pics from laptops so equipped) can be found in an old 2600 article:
http://conigs.com.nyud.net:8090/static/misc/laptop.html
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Re:Andromeda Strain!!! or not...
PU-238 would be an unlikely source of problems of this sort. Most of the radiation is Alpha Particles which are easily rejected by human skin. (Alpha particle dangers are almost entirely due to internal consumption.) Even if we take possible Gamma and X-Ray emissions from long decay into account, the people who were near the meteor shouldn't feel sick until an hour or two after the exposure.
According to the article (coral cache), the problem was a "strange odor" that caused the headaches and vomiting. Such an odor suggests a strong chemical of some sort that has been aerosolized near the point of impact. The officials will probably send out a Hazmat team, take air samples, collect the debris from the crash and investigate the exact composition. (Assuming that the authorities have the necessary resources. Otherwise they'll probably get someone to dispose of it and let the air clear.) -
save his bandwidth
poor fella is getting crushed by the bandwidth
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OOXML voting vs corruption
Someone compared the voting behaviour to a corruption level study done in 2006: http://www.effi.org.nyud.net/blog/kai-2007-09-05.
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Re:Anyone have an alternate link?
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http://www.prismcoalition.org.nyud.net/index.htm
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Better Quality Video
Higher quality mov video here(direct link) if you're interested. (Or you know,if you just want to completely hose their server...)
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Re:The paper via ACM
The Coral Cache" has it also.
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Re:already slashdoted
try the coral cache, worked for me:
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Re:186,000 miles per second
That's a 'fact' not a law. And yes, it is a fact and not a theory. Gravity can be proven easily by anybody with patience.
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Why did the site crash?
Well, I left the countdown running on my computer, when it ran out, it auto refreshed and showed me the new page. Maybe a few thousand other people did the same. Anyway, the site looks quite different now, and seems to have a lot of new content, although I can't navigate it (the server being down and all). the coral cache does work though (at least it was around 8pm).
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Re:Slashdotted already -- Coral cache
Slashdotted: use the Coral Cache: http://tlug.jp.nyud.net:8080/articles/Windows_Is_
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Cached Link
Here's the Coral Cache link so we can save the poor guy's server from Slashdotting:
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Re:Yahoo! - it's the new AOL.
Who exactly takes these surveys?
Some better questions would be?
Who exactly pays for these surveys? $50,000 is not exactly chump change. Of course, I guess we could ask them to look at their analysis, but their client "receives the ACSI data on a proprietary basis" -- so I guess that means fat chance for the rest of us. And also, for those who haven't gone to their web site, it's "The American Customer Satisfaction Index (TM)" and NOT "The University of Michigan's Consumer Index" as the original poster (the corporate shill) tried to imply. -
Ooh! Offensive is my hobby!
Oooh! I'm Danish, so I feel I need to contribute here...
http://perkypants.org.nyud.net:8090/blog/wp-conten t/uploads/2006/03/bill-gates.jpg
http://www.wayodd.com.nyud.net:8090/funny-pictures 2/funny-pictures-the-bill-gates-empire-xFw.jpg
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Ooh! Offensive is my hobby!
Oooh! I'm Danish, so I feel I need to contribute here...
http://perkypants.org.nyud.net:8090/blog/wp-conten t/uploads/2006/03/bill-gates.jpg
http://www.wayodd.com.nyud.net:8090/funny-pictures 2/funny-pictures-the-bill-gates-empire-xFw.jpg
My internet connection is acting up, so I'm afraid you'll have yo imagine further insults to Gates, the eater of souls. -
All the pictures
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Re:html source is:
And here is a link to test it.
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Re:Ubuntu drive partitionSo, to avoid problem #2: Don't assume that being a knowledgeable Windows user means you're a knowledgeable Linux user: When you first start with Linux, you are a novice. From Linux is Not windows http://linux.oneandoneis2.org.nyud.net:8080/LNW.h
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Re:Ubuntu drive partitionLook at it this way: Step outside and take a look at all the different vehicles driving along the road. These are all vehicles designed with more or less the same purpose: To get you from A to B via the roads. Note the variety in designs. But, you may be thinking, car differences are really quite minor: they all have a steering wheel, foot-pedal controls, a gear stick, a handbrake, windows & doors, a petrol tank. . . If you can drive one car, you can drive any car! Quite true. But did you not see that some people weren't driving cars, but were riding motorbikes instead. . ? Switching from one version of Windows to another is like switching from one car to another. Win95 to Win98, I honestly couldn't tell the difference. Win98 to WinXP, it was a bigger change but really nothing major. But switching from Windows to Linux is like switching from a car to a motorbike. They may both be OSes/road vehicles. They may both use the same hardware/roads. They may both provide an environment for you to run applications/transport you from A to B. But they use fundamentally different approaches to do so. Windows/cars are not safe from viruses/theft unless you install an antivirus/lock the doors. Linux/motorbikes don't have viruses/doors, so are perfectly safe without you having to install an antivirus/lock any doors. Or look at it the other way round: Linux/cars were designed from the ground up for multiple users/passengers. Windows/motorbikes were designed for one user/passenger. Every Windows user/motorbike driver is used to being in full control of his computer/vehicle at all times. A Linux user/car passenger is used to only being in control of his computer/vehicle when logged in as root/sitting in the driver's seat. Two different approaches to fulfilling the same goal. They differ in fundamental ways. They have different strengths and weaknesses: A car is the clear winner at transporting a family & a lot of cargo from A to B: More seats & more storage space. A motorbike is the clear winner at getting one person from A to B: Less affected by congestion and uses less fuel. There are many things that don't change when you switch between cars and motorbikes: You still have to put petrol in the tank, you still have to drive on the same roads, you still have to obey the traffic lights and Stop signs, you still have to indicate before turning, you still have to obey the same speed limits. But there are also many things that do change: Car drivers don't have to wear crash helmets, motorbike drivers don't have to put on a seatbelt. Car drivers have to turn the steering wheel to get around a corner, motorbike drivers have to lean over. Car drivers accelerate by pushing a foot-pedal, motorbike drivers accelerate by twisting a hand control. A motorbike driver who tries to corner a car by leaning over is going to run into problems very quickly. And Windows users who try to use their existing skills and habits generally also find themselves having many issues. In fact, Windows "Power Users" frequently have more problems with Linux than people with little or no computer experience, for this very reason. Typically, the most vehement "Linux is not ready for the desktop yet" arguments come from ingrained Windows users who reason that if they couldn't make the switch, a less-experienced user has no chance. But this is the exact opposite of the truth. So, to avoid problem #2: Don't assume that being a knowledgeable Windows user means you're a knowledgeable Linux user: When you first start with Linux, you are a novice. from Linux is NOT windows: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org.nyud.net:8080/LNW.h
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Re:Ubuntu drive partition
What makes you think that Linux wants a share of the desktop migration? Anyway don't answer that question until you have read this: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org.nyud.net:8080/LNW.h
t m It's probably the best, kindest advice you will get. One last tip: you wouldn't judge windows by it's install process - the windows xp installer is pretty unfriendly unless you want to wipe the disk and start from scratch. p.s. if you are a reasonably savy computer user how come it must be a no-brains process? -
For those who still wonder...
Coral cache link to a google cache of the full text article, in case this gem disappears:
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Re:IPv4 address space shortage
Here, I made a pdf after it finally loaded in OpenOffice for anyone interested: http://meinwald.info.nyud.net:8090/tmp/intarea-7.
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Mirror Mirror on the kernel trap
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Re:slashdotted after the first comment
Yes, it is slahdotted, but coral cache is working: pyrodesktop.org.
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Coral got it
