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Being from Wichita, Ks, L.ROn could never find any decent drugs, but thanks to questionable ancestry and a little help from his family, he roasted right along on his own hormones and brain chemistry.
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I am wondering how long will it takes to review all of those apps .... is there a alt community store for FLOSS ? because, mine is a meego's basic (but helpful) text editor and it is pending since sunday ... and I am ready to share sources ... -- http://rzr.online.fr/q/qnx

who's next ? is this feat supported in mobile browsers too ? Else I fear I have to warmup my chrooted rootfs on device : http://rzr.online.fr/q/ubuntu :-)

Let me remind about may 19 : http://www.opendiscussionday.org/# Time to leave facebook, msn for a open protocol with decentralized network etc -- http://rzr.online.fr/q/xmpp

just install nitdroid on n9 ... well dont hold your breath , but it's booting and you can install apps, anyway I prefer meego/harmattan :-) -- http://rzr.online.fr/q/omap3

I forgot to suggest something: mix history with doing fun thing with programming.

Ex,
Talk about the Von Neumann Machine, then do a small win32 asm program like those: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut4.html
Talk about the history of encryption, implement a simple Cesar cipher in python. Talk about the history of code breaking and break his cipher with him...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence If you can understand French this video explains a bit more : http://rzr.online.fr/q/obsolete

Do you remember those time ? pple use to make demos instead of webpages and the h2h (hand2hand) was the internet ... -- http://rzr.online.fr/q/amiga# #Amiga #SmartPhone is real ! #video of me playing battle #chess on #harmattan #N950Club #AmigaWillNeverDie

I'll Will ask a nokia representative for Qt on WP7 tomorrow , but who cares ? -- http://rzr.online.fr/q/qt

http://3430.online.fr/computing/electricity_power_consumption.html

According to that, the negligible power difference is actually in favor of showing white images on LCDs in most cases. It makes sense that unless the screen dims when showing dark colors (as you see on some TVs), there is extra effort required to change the color from its natural state, light, to dark.

With CRTs, the opposite would be true. Black should require less power than white.

As far as I know, the technology exists and is even publicly known to some extent. I'm not sure how great the lift actually is, because all the models I've seen so far appear to be very lightweight foam and/or cardboard. This guy does a neat job showing off one of these toys. Still it would be interesting what composites and a decent high-bypass fanjet might do. It might actually be useful in situations where a risk of collision and rotorstrike would completely wreck a helicopter.

But I suppose it is possible for some technology that has previously been fairly public to go classified. Of course you could ask professor J. Reece Roth about what happens when your startup company signs papers involving gov't contracts, and then what happens in regards to export controlled technology laws when you have foreign students intern on related projects. I'm pretty sure there was a not too old slashdot article on it.

As far as I know, the technology exists and is even publicly known to some extent. I'm not sure how great the lift actually is, because all the models I've seen so far appear to be very lightweight foam and/or cardboard. This guy does a neat job showing off one of these toys. Still it would be interesting what composites and a decent high-bypass fanjet might do. It might actually be useful in situations where a risk of collision and rotorstrike would completely wreck a helicopter.

But I suppose it is possible for some technology that has previously been fairly public to go classified. Of course you could ask professor J. Reece Roth about what happens when your startup company signs papers involving gov't contracts, and then what happens in regards to export controlled technology laws when you have foreign students intern on related projects. I'm pretty sure there was a not too old slashdot article on it.

and not supported by the Mozilla Foundation, but it is a Mozilla 1.3.1 based web browser.

Too bad it does not support the 68K MacOS 7.5.X environment, there are a lot of people running Mac 68K emulators and that is the version of Mac System that Apple allows to be downloaded legally for free.Usually the Basilisk II Mac 68K emulator, which seems to be popular.

At least they try for PowerMac Mac OS 8.6 compatibility, which is good for those PowerMac users who cannot upgrade to Mac OS9.

Shitty or ripoff comics don't matter. True fans can tell what is and what isn't canon. Some people also find novelty in such things. And if they spawn their own audience, oh well. The only way it could hurt the originating franchise is if the original actually is of a lesser quality than the spinoff.

And on a completely different topic about a professor going to jail, these might be of interest (but I can't post to that thread for some reason.):
Active glow discharge plasma
1998 IEEE Conference on Plasma Science (If you have access, look for the article by the same professor.)
I would have posted there, but for some annoying reason slashdot isn't letting me. Feel free to post these over to the relevant article. I suspect there is some good irony in those tidbits of info.

Really? Go read the papers. Relying on a high school science fair expo to validate your results is bad enough, but in another paper cited there, on of the authors, Mr. Kowalksi wrote this at http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/ppclkrs/index.htm

> "Our container is an ordinary two-liters beaker."

In other words, the beaker was a beaker, not a Dewar flask. That's amazingly stupid for an experiment to measure thermal production: you would need to measure the actual heat transfer, and you _cannot_ do so reliably with a container that's uninsulated _on the bottom_, even if you have confidence in your actmospheric convection by keeping it in a sealed chamber. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy work.

This kind of sloppy work is amazingly typical of the papers I've seen making cold fusion claims, and they _are_ cold fusion claims. Renaming Pons & Fleishman's admittedly fascinating original work and claims is like renaming "Palladium" as "Trusted Computing". It sounds better, but it's the same beast.

You mean extremely low yield results that rely on extremely expensive and very tricky to set up setups of palladium and deuterium?

Nope. Cold fusion has come a long way in twenty years. The initial interpretation has fallen by the wayside, and many experimental configurations showing more pronounced effects and energy output have been developed. For a fun one that you can easily reproduce yourself, see this page: http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/index.htm

You sure do your handle "assert(0)" justice: you make assertions with zero basis.

Nature has spoken loud and clear, low energy nuclear reactions are happening. If you do not accept the data, much of it published in established peer-reviewed journals, then go and do your own experimental reproduction. Some kinds of experiment, such as the Mizuno type experiment, are sufficiently cheap and easy that anyone with a modicum of tinkering ability can have a go: http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/index.htm

> About mac-wine ? I did look for this once, and it's not so obvious, since it's less documented than win32 is Some hints: http://rzr.online.fr/q/macos

What Apple did with OSX, Microsoft did with Vista and Azure. But as I recall OSX Classic mode couldn't run all legacy Mac programs just as Vista's Win32 Legacy mode cannot run all Legacy Windows and DOS programs.

I recall Mac OSX had the Basilisk 2 emulator to run Classic Mac 68K programs that OSX Classic mode couldn't run.

Windows Vista uses VMWare or Virtual PC to run XP and under in Vista for Legacy Windows and DOS programs.

But it is ironic that Amiga, Inc. when it wrote AmigaOS 3.1 found a way to run the old 68K and PowerPC AmigaDOS/Workbench 1.X and 2.X programs under it without too many problems, and even gave legacy rights to a group to create an open source version of AmigaOS 3.1 called AROS Amiga Research OS that can run on i386 and PowerPC systems and have built in emulation for 68K Amiga code based on UAE with their own version of Kickstart in AROS with backwards compatibility.

Amiga got it right, Microsoft and Apple didn't, for solving Legacy Software problems.

I said disklock pro - there's a distinct difference [up to 16 cuts more]

See the differences: http://protectvol.online.fr/abloy.html

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/html/cfrdatas.htm

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/index.htm

Speaking of fusion... this looks like pseudoscience too... http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/html/cfrdatas.htm
I was referring to T2O which would be easy to inhale and will stay in body for a long time. That is why I was outraged by the idea of Tritium powered laptop battery.

One key thing to take away from this is that the authors of the software made it really easy to pull the device keys out of memory for two reasons

      1. They kept them in variables that were physically near the variables for the volume key
      2. They zero-ed them out after use, leaving big gaping holes of zeros in memory in a place where that kind of looked funny, drawing attention to those areas

Yes, but even if they learn from these mistakes in future versions, we still have the keys for these early discs. When the player is loaded up with an early disc, the known key will be loaded. We can simply trace the execution until we find bytes from those keys loaded into registers. At worst, this will give us a small number of candidate keys to try until we find the right one. At best, it'll lead us straight to the key wherever they put it.

If they are smart (and if the MPAA even give them another chance), the powerdvd/windvd authors will reimplement their AACS decryption code to never store the keys in memory. Without double-checking, I believe the keys are only 128 bits, they could be loaded into the SSE registers in encrypted form and then decrypted on chip. The authors will still need to take measures to prevent an OS context switch from storing the registers in kernel-private memory during the period in which the device keys are present, but that is not an extended period of time, presumably they can kick their priority up high enough that it won't happen without hurting the system much.

Even that approach isn't hack-proof, but it is a lot harder to dump the cpu registers under such conditions than it is to trace memory accesses.

Not really. You just run as an administrator and use GetThreadContext. A user process *can't* prevent an OS context switch from occurring. You use SetThreadContext to put the CPU into single step mode, and catch the exceptions caused by that in your process using WaitForDebugEvent. See here for details.

Related: Plasmoid ( Ball Lightning ) generation with Microwaves

People have been producing ball lightning in microwave ovens for years!

My favourite comment on Gehry (from the Onion some years ago)

To sort my (ehm) porn, I hacked togheter this 8 kb python program using wxPython and pyGame a couple of months ago. Here it is: http://psionicist.online.fr/pile.py.txt

The code is god awful, but it works. Some screenshots here: http://forum.sweclockers.com/showthread.php?s=&thr eadid=504073

My employer (medical field) uses the Optos system to capture a wide angle view of the retina. This allows almost a 200 degree view, where normal dilation resuts in about a 30 degre view. If you ask, they will email you copies in either high resolution JPEG or DICOM format. The DICOM format allows you to see the same 'layers' that the doctor sees using some free tools. These images are really quite neat. We even have had a few artists that wanted copies to use as base for new works. They ususally only charge about US$30, well worth not being dilated and you get a cool picture.

The lawyers have learnt their lesson now...When the next disruptive communications technology - the next worldwide web - is thought up, the lawyers and the logic of control will be much more evident. That is not a happy thought.'"

James Boyle might write in a formalised and superficially eloquent style, but this last sentence proves that he is still what is referred to on Usenet (and here) as a troll.

A question for Boyle and all the other such fearmongers:- If Disney and the other robber baron conglomerates have such omniscient power, how come eDonkey and all the other p2p networks are still in operation? How come things like this are able to be circulated online without their authors being murdered by Big Oil?

In case you can't figure it out, I'll give you a hint. It's because the rest of us outnumber the management of such corporations by a factor of at least a few hundred million to one. Thus, although in some ways they are able to make our lives difficult and win some minor battles, ultimately they are entirely assured of losing the war.

Get it through your heads, everyone; The Evil People (the heads of most multinational corporations and the senior staff of the current US government are the primary groups I'm talking about here) are NOT going to accomplish their goal of enslaving the lot of us. By believing for even a moment that they are going to, you actually give them what they need to continue to cause problems...in the sense that they can only be a threat to anyone if we allow them to be. Continue to actively oppose them, yes, but don't give ANY mental, verbal, or literary airtime whatsoever to the idea that they have even a chance of succeeding...because a) that isn't what any of us want, and b) because of a, it ain't going to happen anywayz.

We need to spend more time creating the kind of world that we *do* want to live in, and give a lot less focus to the tiny minority of individuals who don't want to allow anyone to move forward. Not only will they fail, as I have said, but we need to start consistently knowing and realising, as an entire race, that they will. Once they have failed once and for all, we will be able to use p2p and other such technologies as much as we want or need, without interference. We will also be able to continue to research and implement things in various areas which can be of enormous benefit to all of us, but which have currently been forced underground by the aforementioned corporations.

The thing to realise though, is that this new society...without the corporate greed addicts and corrupt politicians...is coming, and there's nothing that they or anyone else can do about it. They know that, and they're terrified and desperate...because they know their time is almost permanently up.

Am I a crazed Utopian here, talking about a scenario where nobody will have any problems? No...I'm not implying that we will be free of problems at all. What I am implying however is that we are about to enter a scenario where we will be able to find solutions to said problems much more easily and freely, and where Disney and all of their kind will have evaporated into the past like fog at midday.

Just to see what the fuzz is all about I created a small AJAX "app" using SAJAX, a small AJAX toolkit for an assortment of languages. Here it is: SAJAX + Google Define-test. Kinda fun and very simple to write. I don't see any obvious use for it though except for larger applications such as Google Maps. Most "interactive" contents over HTTP is message boards and such and they don't really benefit from AJAX directly.

More information: http://psionicist.online.fr/article.html

Do the comparison yourself! Not the exact soft from the TV series (Number 96), but the same girl. (She was around 27 at the time).

Abigail Rogan

Janet Jackson

IMO Abigail wins. :-)

Microwave

It's interesting...I had a feeling virtually the moment I pressed submit that someone would label me a raving New Age fruit loop. ;)

To clarify...I don't necessarily believe all ET are going to be acorporeal by definition...but I've been reading accounts of channeling recently...and I find it an interesting concept that they could perhaps communicate via acorporeal means...telepathy and such. Then again, channels could just be raving schizophrenics. Either way, it's highly entertaining. ;)

In terms of what you say about if it makes me happy...the belief systems I've developed with regards to the Earth Changes recently (all the earthquakes, freak weather and stuff we've been experiencing recently) have helped me maintain a more positive perspective about all of that. I've believed the "End Times" as it's referred to (I don't call it that myself any more) have been imminent though for probably at least the last ten years.

If you're interested, you might want to google the Mayan Long Count in particular, as well as checking out this site, this, and maybe this as they're focal points of my belief system right now. Given the context of the recent freak meteorological/geological activity, you might just find some of it makes sense. I hope my parent post gets modded back up though...I don't think it's very fair that I get modded down just for having unusual beliefs.

Here's an interesting experiment, that you can do in your own home, to create 'ball lightning':

jlnlabs.online.fr/plasma/4wres/

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/

Yep - this has been discussed a bit on the KDE Usability mailing list in the last few days mainly in relation to KControl.

An early proposal screenshot was posted: http://www.avenheim.online.fr/kcontrol3/search.png

I believe they'll be making it list things by relevancy, and linking directly to the part of the module that has the relevant setting etc.

well yess, actually since ancient times :)
but also in supercomputing.
those cray supercomputer beauties had a big aquarium with something best described as indoor waterfall to cool the water back down

Macintoshes had 5.25" drives? Maybe you were thinking of the IIgs or something there.

Anyway, if you're looking for a decent Mac emulator, check out Basilisk II.

It's a Mac 68k (pre-PPC) emulator for Windows and Posix-types. I've never gotten the source to compile properly, but there's an up-to-date generic binary RPM as well as the Windows version hosted on the linked page. Apple.com hosts MacOS 7.5.3 plus the 7.5.5 upgrade, plus all earlier MacOSes. The problem is getting a copy of the Mac BIOS. Unless you have a real Mac and the software to do it, you may find yourself doing a lot of searching.

I didn't have a Mac myself, but it is kinda neat to see what I missed out on. Spectre VR and Wolfenstein 3D run nicely on it.

Do you happend to know what's the status for the IGP adapters? (I have an IGP345, chipset R250 if I recall correctly)

So far I can get 2D acceleration, but not 3D, I've found some links (ATI IGP 320, Linux on a Compaq Presario 900US to name a few) but DRI is disabled (I use debian sid, and the dri-trunk-sid packages by the way)

I can't get a working radeon framebuffer, all i get is a garbled screen mode and I can't seem to fix it (I've even installed a kernel patch)

All I'd want is a working 3D acceleration, the framebuffer is not important to me.

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And, of course, the icon is a bull fucking a nymph.

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Forget backing vocals, here's a sample of "Amazing Grace" mentioned in the article. Not perfect, but quite impressive.

It's downloadable free from here