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Another mirror:
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/psand/airport/

For me, it ends at the edge of my isp, where everything else goes on to alter.net, and from my university the connection is dead beyond janet in London.

You're forgetting Sinister Theme Park! How could you?

I sent this email to museumtour.com 2 days ago. Hopefully, this helps them out.

I have seen the ridiculous claims by SBC concerning your website and their patents. So, I thought i might attempt to be a little help in this situation and do a little online searching for previous art. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1995S ep/0034.html As you can see, that email is from September of 1995, almost a full YEAR before that patent was filed. It appears that the patent SBC filed was on the very reason for the invention of frames in the first place!

In particular I would like to refer to the following in that September 1995 email: NAME="window_name" The NAME attribute is used to assign a name to a frame so it can be targeted by links in other documents (These are usually from other frames in the same document.) The NAME attribute is optional; by default all windows are unnamed. Therefore, a frame could remain static while referencing other frames with each click in the original frame.

Also, you might check out this url: http://www.focazio.com/web95/images/cnn.gif

This is a screenshot of cnn.com in 1995. I'm sure you'll notice the navigation icons at the top.

Also, there is this link: http://www.ac603.dial.pipex.com/webinov.htm#Intro

As you see, it's from December 1995 and SPECIFICALLY talks about using frames for navigation.

Fred Sotherland of C|Net gave an overview of how the C|Net television network is using the web to integrate TV with the Internet. He also gave some rules which they apply to make sure that pages are usable.

* *No page with more than 20k graphics * *All pages have 256 colour graphics * *Making use of Netscape 2.0 frames to put content and navigation side by side. * *Your only limitation is your Imagination (an the available bandwidth)

Again, this link is from November 1995: http://www.i-m.com/November-1-7-1995/0018.html

If you read that, you see the following: - If you have an image (a button bar for example) that is 80 pixels high and 400 pixels wide, DON'T make a Frame 80 x 400. As with everything else, allow a buffer. The scroll bars (or the blank space that makes them up) runs 20-25 pixels. In addition to that Netscape does appear to add a little more in the gutter area. An 80 x 400 image should be in a 110-120 x 430 frame at the least. - More of a good thing, isn't better. Having a fixed portion of the interface for the navigation bar is a good thing. However, having 4 frames isn't.

As you can see from that, not only does it mention a navigation bar, but it also mentions a BUTTON BAR..like what you have on your webpage. That is from the year BEFORE SBC's patent.

If there is any doubt to that, check this link: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/guide.html The pictures are from Spring 1996 when the patent was filed, but they're using the features from Netscape 2.0.

http://semanticstudios.com/publications/web_archit ect/frames.html This is a PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT example of prior art. It is published 2 months before the patent application and describes websites with the EXACT features the patent was filed on.

One more, from netscape itself discussing netscape 2.0: http://wp.netscape.com/navigator/v2.0/frames.html

Netscape 2.0 was released in February of 1996, as you can see from this link: http://scout.wisc.edu/addserv/NH/96-02/96-02-05/00 31.html

That is all I have time for right now, I hope you fight this and don't give in. There is clearly prior art and it seems SBC just filed a patent on something that was already in heavy use at the time of the filing. Now, they want to harass small companies almost 7 years later. They don't go after the big companies because they know their claims are fraudulent. But, I think if you can show them YOU know beyond the shadow of a doubt that their claims are ridiculous, they might look elsewhere for a sitting duck.

Hare Krishna!

As I recall, back in the day, the early Cray Super Computers was water-cooled ... imagine, a system so proverbially "hot" that the install required the services of a plumber!

it's sleek, it's sexy, I want one

that said, it does make me wonder how far away we are from having to hire plumbers to help install water-cooled towers ... just like they did back in the day with the old Crays.

Is Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, a quite popular wedding theme.

Here is page full of midi versions for those who are interested:
http://www.ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com/pachelbel/

Congrats the the happy couple.

Don't worry, ignorance can be cured.

I used to live on RAF Woodbridge in the UK back in the 80s (go Warriors!) and was there during the infamous Rendlesham forest UFO sighting (of Unsolved Mysteries and East at Left Gate fame). One of the better theories I've read about the whole thing was that the UFO story was a cover story for retrieving low flying spy satellite film canister, which, frankly, makes a hell of a lot more sense than the UFO nutters who are convinced we were doing all sorts of who knows what with ET.

They're there on both Google and Altavista, page 3 and 4 of the results, respectively. But you have a point, no wonder they're "near endangered" when they hardly turn up in a web search at all. ;-)

Here ya go: Jaguar Panthera onca. And here, and here, for starters.

This [pipex.com] mod to add an external antenna to the Airport hubs is one that Apple should really look into. It would be easy to do, and would make the range much farther. And Apple could make some sort of sexy looking antenna for it.

Another mirror of this to be found here.

On a related note, I read somewhere that it would be impossible to write out the number googol because their aren't enough atoms in the universe (here). Uhuh. As if some crazy scientists started counting the atoms and figured out how many their were...

I can't guarantee this for every distro, but I've always been able to use the "right flying window" key (found on just about every American 104-key keyboard these days) as the compose key, right out of the box, so to speak.

It's just a matter of looking up the sequence and typing it in. For instance,


[right windows key] + ['] + [e] = é

[right windows key] + [,] + [c] = ç


Note that it is not necessary to hold down the buttons; one at a time will do.

:Peter

I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Popular Canadian wanker Jim Carey [adultdvdexperts.com] was found alive at his home in Ontario this morning. It is believed that he suffered a massive "not being funny" attack. Carey (fuckwit) appeared in many wastes of celluloid including "Dumb and Dumb enough to watch this" [pipex.com] and "Ass Ventura - prat defective". Truly a cunt.

I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Popular Canadian wanker Jim Carey [adultdvdexperts.com] was found alive at his home in Ontario this morning. It is believed that he suffered a massive "not being funny" attack. Carey (fuckwit) appeared in many wastes of celluloid including "Dumb and Dumb enough to watch this" [pipex.com] and "Ass Ventura - prat defective". Truly a cunt.

I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Popular Canadian wanker Jim Carey was found alive at his home in Ontario this morning. It is believed that he suffered a massive "not being funny" attack. Carey (fuckwit) appeared in many wastes of celluloid including "Dumb and Dumb enough to watch this" and "Ass Ventura - prat defective". Truly a cunt.

They seperated about 25 years ago from the crown.

Part of the rich legacy of common law that Canada inherited from the Crown are:

Writs of assistance . Senior officers of the RCMP still carry the very same universal search warrants that were one of the causes of the American Revolution.

Cats may not be restrained. To combat the rats that caused the Black Death in London in 1665, Charles II ordered that cats be allowed to roam free. This decree has the force of law in Canada and municipalities cannot issue cat licenses.

Well, speaking as a former staff writer on Amiga Format and editor of Amiga Shopper, I can tell you that we didn't review unfinished games. We would sometimes do news stories, etc on cool new games before they were released, but we didn't review them. I can't comment on other mags, but that was the way we did it...

The Amiga Power 2 site was done by Stuart Campbell and other AP alumni. Stuart has a Web site (which doesn't seem to have been updated for several months) and the AP2 site is here

Well, speaking as a former staff writer on Amiga Format and editor of Amiga Shopper, I can tell you that we didn't review unfinished games. We would sometimes do news stories, etc on cool new games before they were released, but we didn't review them. I can't comment on other mags, but that was the way we did it...

The Amiga Power 2 site was done by Stuart Campbell and other AP alumni. Stuart has a Web site (which doesn't seem to have been updated for several months) and the AP2 site is here

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ap2/ is probably what you're looking for. This page is especially topical, but the rest of the site gives a great deal of insight into what the games magazine industry is really like.

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ap2/ is probably what you're looking for. This page is especially topical, but the rest of the site gives a great deal of insight into what the games magazine industry is really like.

right here, bud

Whilst the EFF Cracker cost $500,000, they recognised that now the research had been done you could build one for about $50K or so. Also FPGA tech has come a long way since then, so I reckon with a little forethought $10-20K may not be an impossible target, which if you can get a few million out of a bank for the effort is a good investment/ return ratio!

The EFF device was only cracking DES, not 3DES.

Just after EFF cracker came out I wrote a letter to the UK Daily Mail (National newspaper) about the security of credit card trading on the net.

Before you reply about it bear in mind:
a) the letter got edited heavily
b) this was when Euro browsers only had 40/56 bit encryption, and
c) yes the photo isn't of my good side! =-0 ]

... I'll tell you what supercomputering is ... back when I was a young lad, in days when we had to compute uphill, both ways, with punch-card boxes strapped to our feet for shoes ...

.... we had to hire a plumber to install the cooling system in our Cray 2, it was so hot ...

... don't get me started ...

In 1999, I contracted at SGI for a few months. Since I had an Indy R5K with a webcam, I took the opportunity to post a little "Ciannait's office" page on reality.

Ever since I contracted there, I've been known to reference The Annotated Aerial View of the Cray Research Park as evidence that yes, I worked there. I was in Building F, in the supercomputing department.

Despite my waste of bandwidth site on reality, the creative and intelligent people at SGI used it for all sorts of things. SGI folks are demoralized enough as it is, and I feel for them, considering that this resource is being taken away. What's next, the end of Ducky Day?


"During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I was riding the pogostick."

Edward Shorter is the history of medicine chairman at the University of Toronto that is quoted in the article. Here is a page that seems like a review of his work on RSI. Mildly useful.

From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation

Bedside Manners

So, the point of these links is this: This dude's whole career is based on bashing illness. He seems to think that almost any illness or disease is in the mind.

The pain in your wrist, elbow, arm, and back is fake. Do you hear me? Fake! Just ask Edward...

CD32... I mean Dangerous Streets? What the fuck were Commodore thinking?

Hmmm, a reply... yes. At least the UK have some slightly sane journalists (read the link, it's quite good really).

If you want to read about the creation of Pinball 2000 from one of the inventors standpoints check out this article.

Hey you nasty games companies! The loudmouth Stuart Campbell journalist thinks you should leave him and his retro-gaming rampant piracy activities alone. In fact, he thinks you shouldn't make much money on them, too.

Now, I've never wanted to point this out to Stuart, but most of his earnings come from game-related punditry. If the only games available were badly-done freeware clones, why would anyone want to have them reviewed, especially by a man with an evil streak a mile wide? But I digress...

Hey you nasty games companies! The loudmouth Stuart Campbell journalist thinks you should leave him and his retro-gaming rampant piracy activities alone. In fact, he thinks you shouldn't make much money on them, too.

Now, I've never wanted to point this out to Stuart, but most of his earnings come from game-related punditry. If the only games available were badly-done freeware clones, why would anyone want to have them reviewed, especially by a man with an evil streak a mile wide? But I digress...

It's a bit like old Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (quick link from google). Which basically says you can't expect someone to work as a team member (level 3) when they're having their house re-possessed (level 2). Retention is a bit like that I guess.

Today, we have Polaris, which sits pretty much exactly on the polar axis. Back then, they didn't have such a star. So Spence reasoned they might have used a couple of the closest bright stars to the pole, which was two stars in Ursa Minor

So by your reasoning, (and I am neither an Egyptologist, nor an astronomer), she went back an abitrary amount of time, found two arbitrary stars which lined up, and that proves something? What I'm saying is that, due to the wobble in the earth's rotation, if she went back 2500 years, not 4500, she could have probably found two stars which have the exact same characteristics when used to orient objects mapped to a location on the ground. Would this provide any more proof of the age of the pyramids? What if she chose Polaris and ??? (rembemer IANAA) to explain the alignment? Would that mean that the pyramids are less than 500 years old? Of course not.

For more information on the controversy raging in the archaeological community (as much as anything can rage within the archaeological community - 'raging' is pretty relative) the age of the pyramids, take a look at http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ritson/qu est /sphinx/

The fundamental method of science is real simple: come up with an idea, check what else has been said, and look for new evidence that tests your idea.

Right! Exactly! My point is that the whole 'check what else has been said', and finding evidence that tests your evidence is missing.

What we're seeing here (if we go back far enough) is someone reading that Khuffu (sp?) built the pyramids (which is based on a single hastily painted cartouche of dubious origins), tracing Khuffu's reign back to 4500 years ago, and then everyone else trying to line up all other evidence to match those dates. If you do some reading on the subject, you'll find that there are a lot of questions regarding the age of the pyramids. The people who are questioning the age of the pyramids have their own astrological explanations, but they also have geological explanations, such as the weathering patterns on the Sphinx. A Google search found the following http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ritson/que st/ sphinx/. Read all about it.

We'll leave the questions of the builders out of this for now...

Your post, as it follows mine, seems to indicate that you believe the above methodology to be ok. If you do, then logically, you'd believe the flat earth to be the center of the universe, and that heavy things fall faster than light things.

We had computers with limited graphics resources - so no games like the ones today. And most of all we had BASIC IN ROM !

If you want your kids to have a *fun* computer for playing with, and a built in programming language and editor - get a Psion handheld. Little keys are easy for kids. There are many, many sites on programming for it, it's easy to learn OPL, and you can quickly make genuinely useful apps.
You can pick up a 3a for less than $100, with all the accessories. Most Linux distro's include connectivity software. And if you get tired of a Psion5 - you can install Linux on it!
- Derwen

• Large screen size
• Color screens
• Oval screens
• Touch screen
• Motion video
• Cameras the size of a phone button

Links to other concept phone galleries:

ZDNet - Road to 3G
FutureZone - Telecom 99 Photo Gallery
CeBIT 1999
Wireless Review - Future Phone
WSJ - Staying in Touch
BW - The Latest Web-Phone Wonders Are...Still Out of Reach "Clearly, somewhere between the trade fairs and the marketplace, Ericsson runs into troubles"

If you look hard enough, you can find references to all sorts of fantastic phones that won't exist for quite a while.
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Zigurat?

Oops, I was being ignorant of pyramid types! It seems the Borobudur Temple is part Zigurat, and being one of the seven wonders of the world, I'd better take back my comment about steps being "ugly".

The Stockport pyramid, however, is not so pretty, as you can see.

Here is a site I'd love to see continued, or for anyone to build a similar one. Any GB developers reading this: Please make a totally though tutorial on GB Development and I will be happy. MAKE ME HAPPY!

sig:

Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.

So all we need to do is fly it higher and match the rotation speed of the earth, thereby making the earth seem to be still from the satellite's perspective.

For the moment, I don't care if it's pseudo-science or not - it's interesting, it's intriguing and even has some entertainment value. I trust the system of scientific peer review enough to let it sort out the science from pseudo-science by itself. It doesn't really need me to strike at the infidels.

If you take the idea of interaction between living beings and quantum mechanics too far you end up with magick. I highly recommed the book Liber Kaos by Peter J. Carroll - just as long as you don't take it too seriously. Magick can get quite dangerous if you start believing in it.


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Open Directory: Planetary_Defense/ and
http://dspace.dial.pipex.co m/town/terrace/fr77/more.htm.

This only underlines the conclusion that this Centre (British spelling please!) is urgently needed.

It's been done. Here is a FAQ on cryptography using elliptic curves dated Dec. 1997. The FAQ indicates that keys can be shorter than RSA keys for the same level of cryptographic difficulty.

Here's a very nice Cray FAQ! All you ever wanted to know about 'em.

I have read on www.benews.com that there is an effort to port apache to BeOS. As you know, BeOS is pervasively multithreaded, which means it will use multiple processors much better than even NT. Now, Apache 2.0 is a version of Apache utilizes this feature and, therefore, rund much faster. There is an alpha version of Apache 2.0. I guess once Linux kernel gets the pervasively multithreadedness, apache 2.0 will run on it, too. But I wonder how much of a re-engineerig effort this is for Linus?

BTW, there is a Apache 1.3.9 port for BeOS; but the 2.0 is the thing to go for, for BeOS.

here is info on Apache for BeOS

So, the really cool hting would be for Linux kernel to have pervasive multithreading.

Silly question, I know, still.

What parts of the AmigaOS are usefully salvageable for other OSs? File system, graphics, GUI?

I just can't see Amiga becoming anything more than a reminiscing toy (although that's quite a nice place to be in, really)

I had an Amiga. All I did all day was play Turrican2, maybe Swiv, and some games by Bullfrog. Also, I read Amiga Power but I rant about that in other places.

- What browsers have you tried? Do you get this with Netscape*, lynx and others?

- Have you any specific url's that fail or pass?

I have noticed very occasional pages which work with Windows* browsers but rarely if ever with my Netscape and lynx on Linux*

The cause seems to be a large number of lines overwhelming the storage capabilties of the processes on my small Linux machine.

Specifically there are a lot of useless carriage returns (0x013) embedded in Javascript widgets in this page - of which the first 2K will load before the http link fails "stalled"

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/plaza/ec91/

Try this link at your own risk! Oddly it seems to be working for me today.

AC David _

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