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After I read the story, I went looking for items on the Hancock Tower problems (I live in New England and have been around the tower many times). There is a piece on Useless News that tells the similar story of the Citibank Building near-disaster, and it has a link to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe story on the averted collapse of the Hancock.

my mom got me quake 3 for christmas, but she got the windows version... so would someone put the linux binary up on a free www site or ftp so i can play it or you can email it to me at no0ne@midsouth.rr.com;) i don't want to wait till the first patch is released so that i can use it in linux...

So, who invented the lightbulb? Most people would answer little Tommy Edison, but they wouldbe wrong.

In fact, they were being used as electric lights for more than 50 years prior to his patent date.

In addition, Edison was not the first to patent the modern design of the lightbulb.

It seems that an inventor named Joseph Swan demonstrated the same carbon filament lightbulb in Newcastle at least ten months prior to Edison's announcement. In addition, Swan received a British patent in 1878 for the same bulb that Edison patented in the U. S. in 1879.

Did Edison know about Swan's work, or did they simply work independently and arrive at the same conclusion? There is no question that Edison had seen a Scientific American article on Swan's preliminary work with carbon filament electric lighting. But Swan's work had not been perfected at this point, so Edison may have arrived at his invention by improving on Swan's preliminary designs.

If NASA carries through with this experiment they will surely discover something that has intrigued mankind for ages. The lair of the Purple Monkey.

Little do most people know, but the lair of the Purple Monkey lies below the martian surface. It is here that the Purple Monkeys live in harmony, programming Amiga software and writing for Amiga publications.

Some say Amiga is on the decline, but the hyper-intelligent Purple Monkeys know otherwise. They know that they were put on Mars for one purpose. Total Galaxial Domination.

After the Purple Monkeys enslave humans they shall wage war on the Green Pandas of Mercury. It is only a matter of time before us humans are used as projectile weapons against the Green Pandas of Mercury. See.. the Green Pandas have a weakness.. and that weakness is their inability to NOT eat humans. The Purple Monkeys will use this knowledge to hurl us at the Green Pandas, rendering them unable to resist the temptation of human flesh. While the Pandas feast, the Monkeys will take over Mercury and drive it in to the sun.

Only the great Monkey god of Naditz-7a knows what shall follow.

Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up on whats to come.


-rdogg

oh, look! This looks like a Tiger (the guys who made all those hand-held, not-quite-up-to-gameboy-standards games for 10 bucks) R-Zone, with a better screen, and, well, everything. hmmmm... methinks i could slap a pentium on that R-Zone i got. off topic a bit, but i like this: Cats from mars! hilarious!

Yahoo, Walnut Creek, Hotmail, my personal workstation (too difficult to manage, no clean, coherent environment is presented), my mail server (no OS
should crash once a month), Best.com, USWest, Ipsilon, AltaVista, Microsoft, Apache, Whistle...

All of these have tried Linux first?

I understand that they use *BSD but the claim you make is that Linux couldn't handle it. If that is the case, then they must have tried it first without success.

My web site acts as a firewall, a ftp server, a web server, a DNS server and even a Team Fortress server. It runs on a sorry Pentium 133 with 24 megs and has (so far) an uptime of 36 days. The reason for my last reboot was installing a new fridge, and had to install a new curcuit breaker, thus shutting down the power to my house (and server). I have yet to crash it. Something must be wrong if you crash yours once a month!

Don't get me wrong, I like *BSD, but don't go yipping that *BSD is better than Linux just because its being used by commercial sites. Also I would like to note that the suggestion of using the BSD license so you don't have to give the source is the reason I don't like the BSD license. This takes away the rights of the users. But thats another story.

Those that prefer the BSD license seem to be the ones taking someone elses work, changing it a little to make it theirs. Those that prefer the GPL license seem to be the ones that create something from scratch, and thus, does not like it when others take their work and don't give back to the community.
Steven Rostedt

Yahoo, Walnut Creek, Hotmail, my personal workstation (too difficult to manage, no clean, coherent environment is presented), my mail server (no OS
should crash once a month), Best.com, USWest, Ipsilon, AltaVista, Microsoft, Apache, Whistle...

All of these have tried Linux first?

I understand that they use *BSD but the claim you make is that Linux couldn't handle it. If that is the case, then they must have tried it first without success.

My web site acts as a firewall, a ftp server, a web server, a DNS server and even a Team Fortress server. It runs on a sorry Pentium 133 with 24 megs and has (so far) an uptime of 36 days. The reason for my last reboot was installing a new fridge, and had to install a new curcuit breaker, thus shutting down the power to my house (and server). I have yet to crash it. Something must be wrong if you crash yours once a month!

Don't get me wrong, I like *BSD, but don't go yipping that *BSD is better than Linux just because its being used by commercial sites. Also I would like to note that the suggestion of using the BSD license so you don't have to give the source is the reason I don't like the BSD license. This takes away the rights of the users. But thats another story.

Those that prefer the BSD license seem to be the ones taking someone elses work, changing it a little to make it theirs. Those that prefer the GPL license seem to be the ones that create something from scratch, and thus, does not like it when others take their work and don't give back to the community.
Steven Rostedt

I have been setting up some thin clients based on our old (8MB, no hard disk) 486s. I boot off a floppy based on a modified LODS, which in turn is a modified Hal91 distribution. The machines are too small to boot X (thus, I can't use muLinux - it needs at least 16MB to boot X). VNC is ideal for me, I can have one big server with 10 running copies of the application I provide to the clients, which are completely stateless - you just boot the client and it appears exactly where you left it. On a LAN, display speed is perfectly comparable to X, and it can also be deployed (albeit VERY slowly) over a modem.

I don't buy Java. Simply, it is an ugly language. If I were to start selling and marketing an all-purpose thin client solution (unlike mine, which is very purpose-specific), I would maybe build a Perl interpreter into its hardware... It would be much more appealing than Java to many programmers. (Of course, I'd have to get big bucks to do so ;) )

Anyway, my 20 mexican cents worth ;)

A buddy of mine made this one.

DARTH TUX

Steven Rostedt

I have two possible solutions for you. Which one you will choose will depend on how your workplace is set up.

The first solution is to set up a full X server on a floppy-based Linux distribution - you can take a look at muLinux (http://mulinux.nevalabs.org). This solution requires 16MB RAM, in order to expand X to a RAM disk. muLinux is extremely loaded, given that it fits into one, two, three or four floppies (depending on your needs - I think you will stick with two).

A much lighter solution would be to use a smaller and more specialized distribution, such as LODS (Linux One Disk Svncviewer, http://home.rochester.rr.com/specht/lods/ ) - It has nothing but the minimum necessary to boot and fire svncviewer, a simple bash with the most basic commands, an editor to modify it... And, I think, that's about it. LODS is based on another minidistribution, Hal91 (http://home.sol.no/~okolaas/hal91/hal9 1.html), and is fairly easy to configure and modify. In fact, if you are interested, I can send you the images I use at my workplace - it just boots and fires svncviewer, which connects to your vncserver and looks just like X. Users may even think it is a diskless terminal, takes not more than two minutes to load... and, basically, works great :)

I use it on 486/33 machines with 16MB, though I'm sure it will fit on 8MB RAM. Mail me if you need more info.

Steve Jackson Games also publishes a rather nifty RPG called GURPS. You can download a free, completely playable 32-page version of GURPS (called GURPS Lite) at http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite. And I just so happen to have some support material for GURPS Lite on my own web page at http://home.austin.rr.com/darkbox/gu rpslit.htm. Happy gaming!

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Nevada is the only state that mandates a "None of The Above" selection on statewide ballots. They've had it there since '76, and NOTA has only won twice since then. Their law is non-binding, meaning that if NOTA wins the second place human gets the job, but they get it knowing that most people prefer Nobody.

An even better approach would be to make it binding, which forces a new election if no one likes a slate of lousy candidates. But if it were available we probably wouldn't see nearly as many lousy candidates in the first place. For instance, in the last New York State elections nearly everyone hated both D'Amato and Schumer. If NOTA were in effect it's likely that one, or both, parties would have give us a better choice.

To do this, i'd recommend a card with a composite input (as most of them have). I apologize for the confusion... RCA is actually a connector style as you would find on the VIDEO IN on your VCR. You would use a composite signal. Most VCR's and cheap cameras will use a composite signal... and you can stretch it quite a distance... although I'm not sure the technical limitations on this.

There really isn't much to using the PC parallel port for basic controls. Here's a decent example... all that needs to be done is buffer it and attach a relay... I'm sure there are other ways... but that is probably the easiest.

PC Parallel Port Info

has some basic information on the port and an example interface use...

Let me know if I can be of further assistance... granted there are probably people around here with much more of an electronics background.

Difference between a Ferrari and a Lamborgini?
about a 100 grand!

I'll still enjoy driving my Nissan Sentra!

As for a new mascot, check out this guy! -- NOTE: This link is dead at the moment. But it should be up by tomorrow (or later today). It is definitly worth the look!
The New OS Mascot

Mediaone (now Mediaone Road Runner) never explicitly supported Linux, and according to their current Service Agreement still don't support Linux. There's a FAQ now for how to hook up a cable modem to Linux, and Mediaone, while not supporting Linux, does not explicitly prohibit its use (there are many Linuxers on Mediaone).

The easiest thing to do is get your machine working with Windows, then make it work with Linux. That's what I did with Mediaone, and I never mentioned to the tech that I was planning to use Linux. I haven't used DSL, but it can't be any harder than a cable modem.

Is this disengenuous? I suppose it is a bit, but if you can figure out how Windows makes and maintains the connection, and then duplicate that with Linux, why should they care? (Just make sure your machine's secure :-) I think that a service provider would rather have someone paying for their service rather than go elsewhere because of this kind of nonsense.

Well, damn me if you want but here's a fast site with the Duel of the Fates MP3 for download:

http://home.san.rr.com/mosespa/

Just go to the soundtracks section and then to Episode 1.

Mike
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