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Gnome has had this for a while now You need to click refresh to see the image since my ISP does not allow images to be linked from external sites.

ah, but you don't need your local company to provide dsl (well, you might depending on your area) all you need is their wires.. but check with other ISP's in the area. For instance, in quite a bit of NY state, Logical Net provides DSL service, and they simply use verizon's (or your local bell's) wiring (for a meager fee) and boom, you have lovely DSL, without even talking to your all powerful bellco Then, there's Roadrunner, and other cable modems, as you all know, but if you can't get ANY other high speed, there's always sattelite. (and if you can't get that, you should probally move somewhere that has power.

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Any way about it, I have vonage, and it's a Wonderful thing.. it's cheaper than any other phone company.. (oops, did I say that?) umm.. base station land line telecommunications service, (IP or otherwise) you can hook up regular phones, answering machines, fax machines, anything with a phone jack! (non-vonage sponsored faq, and cheap plug for referrals) Not to mention you can keep your regular phone number, equipment, etc.. (FYI, if you use a refferal, you get an extra month free, instead of going directly to vonage :) Where else can you get a true to life 800 number for a couple extra bux a month?

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ok.. I'm done now..

(yeah, I know, you already knew most of that anwyays...)

http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/sco.html

Apt has been ported to RPM for a while now. It makes installing RPM's a snap. Apt for Red Hat How-To

See any products that aren't made in your home country?

I don't see any that ARE made in my home country. What is still made here in the US? My computers I'm sure are made somewhere else, even if the companies are American. My desk is from Thailand or Singapore or Hong Kong or Korea. I just looked at my Belkin router... sticker says "Designed In California" and then just below that "Made In Taiwan"... so at least they employ an American designer... except how do we know that? Maybe they hired someone from Taiwan to move over here and design the router...who knows.

users can ask their computers to retrieve all pictures that include a specific person's face

I wonder if they'll link to any of this pictures, when searching for this specific person's face:

http://www.areyadone.com/images/hated/bill-gates.j pg
http://users.cybercity.dk/~cfs4636/PIC/Bill%20Gate s%20-%20007.jpg
http://www.holub.com/goodies/images/Billborg.jpg
http://home.midsouth.rr.com/catcam/bill-gates-borg .gif
http://www.kewlcard.de/bilder/postcard/5/bill%20ga tes.jpg
http://www.rockhardplace.com/horror/images/ironmai den/eddie-bill%20gates.jpg
http://superwebon.iespana.es/superwebon/Archivos/B romas/Fotos/Humor%202/Bill%20Gates%20Feto.jpg
http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/images/cyborg.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/graphics/2002/09/ 24/cnforb24.jpg
http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/DV/Staff/Lemmens/gates.jp g
http://images.ecampus.com/images/d/258/0312192258. gif

Sounds to me like the whole moon is infested with Paradroids.

(For the youngin's, here, here, and here.)

"Exit quickly or feel the sting of the pimp hand."

RoadRunner now has fairly detailed instructions on dealing with the "why are you blocking my email" situation. The linked example is for residential users. Commercial users complaining about blocks are referred to their own ISP and told to have them get in touch with RoadRunner (this may be just for businesses that have been misidentified as being in a residential IP block).

Having a web-based email account can come in handy, especially if you choose a reputable (no hotguy68734@) handle and a known provider (Yahoo, Fastmail).Besides, this gives you an alternate means of contact if your own mail servers become unavailable (blackout, crash, backhoe).

Calling a RoadRunner 800# might have helped.

I received this yesterday - To my surprise it appears that Roadrunner neither advised their customers that such a thing was about to happen, nor do they provide an opt-out mechanism. (reason: 550 5.7.1 Mail Refused - dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net_Residential_Range - See http://security.rr.com/residential.htm - 030813d)

OMGLOFLROFLMAOblahblah...

I wish I had mod points.

Do you smell what I smell?

I smell a new Slashdot poll about SCO's new Slashdot icon.

1. $CLOWN_1

2. $CLOWN_2

3. $CLOWN_3

4. $COWBOY_NEAL

C'MON! Take this idea and run with it, someone....

Here's a start
Sorry, but I'm at work and I only have access to Microsoft Paint right now. But maybe we can have a new /. contest where we all "decorate" this picture.

Here's a start
Sorry, but I'm at work and I only have access to Microsoft Paint right now. But maybe we can have a new /. contest where we all "decorate" this picture.

Behold Leviathan
1st Books Library
208 pages (paperback)

Force Recon units are part of the U.S. Marine Corps. We conduct raids, do enemy captures, and collect intelligence. We perform other special operations, too. One of these dark ops is covert surveillance of our national security, to expose the mind set in Washington that tolerates acts of domestic terrorism like the "Great Blackout of 2003" that just happened.

Now you can read all about it, in this first ever public disclosure of our activities stateside ... a document which clearly predicts events like the "power failure" in the NorthEast that left 50 million people without electricity on August 15th, 2003.

About the Author

William Clark was 21st in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, and later received the Army''s highest peacetime award for turning in a cache of drug users and dealers at White Sands Missile Range; the military''s highest security installation. Clark is a licensed Professional Engineer in several engineering disciplines, and has a MSE in Celestial Mechanics . He is considered an international expert in energy conservation, having published many technical papers, and two textbooks with McGraw-Hill, Retrofitting for Energy Conservation and Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings He is quite knowledgeable in all aspects of major power distribution systems. Fundamentally there are two problems: the electrical distribution system and total neglect of the principles of energy conservation. Why has nobody in authority mentioned the latter? That is what "Behold Leviathan" is all about.

I've been reading the replies to this thread, and I'm a little bit confused. The licensing of engineers has been a hotly-debated practice for...well, for as long as engineers have been licensed.

Whether in favour of or opposed to licensing, I don't see how it could qualify as a Ponzi scheme. It may or may not be a worthwhile practice, but it's quite a stretch to describe it as a pyramid scheme.

For those who are lost, look here and try the song at the bottom of the page, although it doesn't seem to work for me (but I may not have Real installed). Lyrics here.

I tried to find an album on Amazon with a song preview, but gave up after looking at a few. Here's the list of albums with this song if you want to keep trying.

"On Friday, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell reiterated the company's earlier position that the GPL provisions don't apply because SCO is the Unix copyright holder and it never placed the copyrighted code under the GPL."

Bullshit. Go to their FTP site and READ THE GPL they have posted there. It states explicitly that SCO is distributing the code under the GPL.

Fscking LIARS....

Oh yeah, hey Darl, here's a little something special for you:
Behold, the truth..

I have the Ultimate Guide

Darl Bin Laden is as un-American as they come.
Here he is with his mask removed.
Darl Bin Laden

Darl Bin Laden is showing his TRUE COLORS

My foo2zjs driver support the Minolta 2200 DL, 2300 DL, and PageWorks/Pro L color laser printers under Linux.

I gave up on inkjets last February. I had already switched to doing my photo printing using dotphoto.com for about .15-.19 per photo.

I bought a Minolta 2300 DL network color laser on sale from OfficeMax for $600. The network interface is included in the base price, which makes this printer the best bargain I've seen in a color laser printer. An optional duplexer adds about $330 to the price. The protocol used by this printer is Zenographics ZjStream (JBIG based). I wrote an open source driver for it, called foo2zjs.

The printer with my driver is good enough for business graphics and casual photo printing. The resolution of this printer is 2400x600 with one bit (1 dot size) per CMYK color plane. The printer is not good enough for photo printing, but I prefer dotphoto.com for that anyway. For the price, I would buy htis printer again.

I've also got an unreleased driver for the HP LaserJet 1500 color laser printer. This printer uses Oak Technologies OAKT protocol, also JBIG based. This printer has two bits (3 dot sizes) per CMYK plane. The driver currently produces output that can be parsed and turned back into the original page images, but has never been tested on a real LJ 1500. I shelved further work on the OAKT driver due to HP's lack of interest in loaning me a LaserJet 1500 for final testing.

The printer has parallel, USB, and 10/100 ethernet connections. I personally use the ethernet connection exclusively. It does 16 pages a minute in greyscale, and 4 pages per minute in color. While a lot of the more expensive color lasers can do single pass color printing and get 20+ ppm, 4 ppm for 8 x 10 color photos at top quality easily beats any inkjet. I printed my Christmas card (~100 copies x 2 pages full color) in under 2 hours. It used to take me days of printing with an inkjet.

My only issue with the Magicolor 2300DL is that it is not postscript. My primary desktop OS is Red Hat 9. Greyscale printing is perfect from linux. Color printing is not photo quality, as you can see patterning in the output. Linux printing is also slower than Windows. Linux printing does work well enough to be usable (it's the only printer set up on my linux boxen), but if you're going for true photo quality, for now, you'll need a windows PC lying around. Linux drivers can be found on linuxprinting.org jump directly to the 2300DL linuxprinting.org page or the driver page, which also gives info on the protocol used by the 2300DL.

As far as toner goes, I've had a hard time finding the high capacity 4500 page toner cartriges for everything but black. The standard 1500 page cartridges go for about $70, the large color ones for about $120, and the black ones (only comes as large) for about $80. The toner is a little more expensive than other lasers, but any laser toner is dirt cheap compared to ink.

The list price is $800, but you can probably pick it up for $600 if you can wait a little while for it to go on sale. It's definitely worth the extra $100 and the wait.

I like the way you obfuscate your email address! That way, none of the harvesters will be able to send spam to you at PhrostByte@socal.rr.com ( PhrostByte@socal.rr.com ) ! Super clever, phrosty!

You mean like this?
mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com

I have another one too that's pretty much the same but it begins with trolling4spam@ and it's a dead giveaway.

They both actually function and I do get mail through them. But they allow me to discover who gives out what and how far it spreads.

They also allow me to finetune my spam filtering system.

It's not two lemons and a piece of copper wire. If he's talking about creating a fruit-based battery, he needs:

* One lemon (or any compatible citrus fruit)

* A chunk of copper

* A chunk of zinc

If I remember my daughter's 4th grade science experiment correctly, I'll need about a half dozen in series to run my Palm III.

Of course, I wondered how the lemon (and the orange, and the potato) would *taste* after the electrical potential had been depleted... and what would happen if I tried to recharge the "battery"?

By the way, she came in 2nd place, mostly because Dad didn't print up fancy titles for her project board like he was supposed to. Bad Dad!

As a general rule, I don't believe that it is essential for people to have permission to modify all sorts of articles and books. The issues for writings are not necessarily the same as those for software. For example, I don't think you or I are obliged to give permission to modify articles like this one, which describe our actions and our views.

However, this has caused friction with the Debian community, because they feel that the fact that the GNU Free Documentation License provides for Invariant Sections and mandatory Cover Texts makes it non-free. They're working on a policy statement to this effect, and getting ready to move all the GFDL'ed documentation from main to non-free. You can find out more about that in Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL.

I observed some of the debate between the Debian developers and RMS on the debian-legal list, and while there are other significant issues, the main sticking point seemed to come down to whether or not political activism had any place in technical documentation. You can imagine Stallman's position on that. I come from way before "Open Source" was ever heard of, so I personally share Stallman's position.

It's an issue for me because I have some articles which use the GFDL, so I discussed the issue at some length in Which License for Free Documentation? The followup discussion has been very helpful.

Now why is this relevant to music?

The issue of whether it is moral (from Stallman's perspective) to forbid alteration of a work I believe comes down to whether the work is primarily functional in nature, or expressive of a personal opinion. The obvious utility of software, and the ability to combine code from different packages into new programs tips the balance heavily towards the side that says one must allow software to be altered. But that's not so clear with writing, which may be either unexpressive technical documentation, or impassioned political expression.

Music is much more like writing than software. Someone who is not a musician might not see it this way, but I feel that my music is an expression of my opinion. I can well see that there is other music that could not possibly be considered that way, and so I would support Stallman's position that not only copying but modification of such music must be permitted.

However, I don't think Stallman has completely thought this through when considering music explicitly. Have a look at his piece Regarding Gnutella.

I follow your logic, but thankfully criminals must not be too smart (or at least the ones doing low yield armed robbery aren't). The crime rates in concealed carry states doesn't give with your interpretation.

Link1, Link2

Quote from link2, empahasis mine:
"Across all the states, whether low crime or high crime, violent crime rates are lower in Concealed Carry states.
The adjacent table divides states in thirds by low, middle and high violent crime rates. In each group the violent crime rate is lower in Concealed Carry states.
Not surprisingly, violent crimes rates are lower by at least the 25% reduction found after the first five years. This indicates that the drop in violent crime continues beyond the initial five-year effect."

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To answer your other objection, my rifle is ready to rock in a location no one less than 6 feet tall could reach. No chairs, ladders or stepstools are in the vacinity.

You think I'm kidding??
I'm dead serious.
Here's two of the units in reserve.
And notice, the cases left at the curb after I stripped two of the
microwaves are in the foreground picture of the kids that I'm gonna HERF.

And even better, a few days after I took those pictures, THOSE KIDS threw away
a working microwave. I walk across the street after dark and grabbed it from the curb.
It worked too. They just bought a newer model I guess but now I get to HERF them with their own microwave!!!!
Bwhahahahaha!!

You think I'm kidding??
I'm dead serious.
Here's two of the units in reserve.
And notice, the cases left at the curb after I stripped two of the
microwaves are in the foreground picture of the kids that I'm gonna HERF.

And even better, a few days after I took those pictures, THOSE KIDS threw away
a working microwave. I walk across the street after dark and grabbed it from the curb.
It worked too. They just bought a newer model I guess but now I get to HERF them with their own microwave!!!!
Bwhahahahaha!!

I have 7 computers up and running, 5 of them being in the same room, one in the garage and one in my sons room.

I'm here to tell you that the noise and the heat is more than I can stand. So, I scored a twin door soda display cooler from a drive in grocery store for CHEAP. It was broken and has a bullet hole in it from a robbery attempt. But, it LOOKS good. It's 6.5' tall, 5' wide and 3' deep. It's got a dozen heavy duty adjustable shelves plus internal and external 48" flourescent light fixtures. The doors are self closing, double paned glass.

Well, I stripped out the compressor and all the other cooling things. Now I have a HUGE, insulated sound proof box that is big enough to put ALL of my computers into including my laserjet and other heat producing devices.
pic of cooler stripped all the way down

pic 2 of cooler stripped all the way down

I pulled the doors off and seperated the double panes of glass and removed the "COKE" logos,
pic of one door before removing logos

Now I'm going to apply my own "etched glass" appliques that suit my tastes, I'm sanding the outer cabinet down and priming it so I can put a nice paint job on it and shortly I'll have a giant soundproof box for my pc's..
I'm going to put vents in the bottom rear and baffle and filter them to keep the sound in and and the dust out. In the top I'm going to cut a four inch diameter hole and run a PVC duct through the top of the cabinet and through my ceiling into my attic. With a small, super quiet 4" fan to help exhaust the hot air, my computer room will stay nice and cool and my air conditioner will not have to work nearly so hard as it does now.
In the winter I'll divert the exhaust into the computer room to assist the central heater..

And to top it all off, I'm going to put a few cold cathode lights in it just for a nice effect. The internal 48" flourescent light I'll leave in there to light it up when I have to pull a rack out to work on something...

My biggest problem now is figuring out how to get it into the house. I can take some door frames out but I don't know if it will turn the corners or not..

I have 7 computers up and running, 5 of them being in the same room, one in the garage and one in my sons room.

I'm here to tell you that the noise and the heat is more than I can stand. So, I scored a twin door soda display cooler from a drive in grocery store for CHEAP. It was broken and has a bullet hole in it from a robbery attempt. But, it LOOKS good. It's 6.5' tall, 5' wide and 3' deep. It's got a dozen heavy duty adjustable shelves plus internal and external 48" flourescent light fixtures. The doors are self closing, double paned glass.

Well, I stripped out the compressor and all the other cooling things. Now I have a HUGE, insulated sound proof box that is big enough to put ALL of my computers into including my laserjet and other heat producing devices.
pic of cooler stripped all the way down

pic 2 of cooler stripped all the way down

I pulled the doors off and seperated the double panes of glass and removed the "COKE" logos,
pic of one door before removing logos

Now I'm going to apply my own "etched glass" appliques that suit my tastes, I'm sanding the outer cabinet down and priming it so I can put a nice paint job on it and shortly I'll have a giant soundproof box for my pc's..
I'm going to put vents in the bottom rear and baffle and filter them to keep the sound in and and the dust out. In the top I'm going to cut a four inch diameter hole and run a PVC duct through the top of the cabinet and through my ceiling into my attic. With a small, super quiet 4" fan to help exhaust the hot air, my computer room will stay nice and cool and my air conditioner will not have to work nearly so hard as it does now.
In the winter I'll divert the exhaust into the computer room to assist the central heater..

And to top it all off, I'm going to put a few cold cathode lights in it just for a nice effect. The internal 48" flourescent light I'll leave in there to light it up when I have to pull a rack out to work on something...

My biggest problem now is figuring out how to get it into the house. I can take some door frames out but I don't know if it will turn the corners or not..

I have 7 computers up and running, 5 of them being in the same room, one in the garage and one in my sons room.

I'm here to tell you that the noise and the heat is more than I can stand. So, I scored a twin door soda display cooler from a drive in grocery store for CHEAP. It was broken and has a bullet hole in it from a robbery attempt. But, it LOOKS good. It's 6.5' tall, 5' wide and 3' deep. It's got a dozen heavy duty adjustable shelves plus internal and external 48" flourescent light fixtures. The doors are self closing, double paned glass.

Well, I stripped out the compressor and all the other cooling things. Now I have a HUGE, insulated sound proof box that is big enough to put ALL of my computers into including my laserjet and other heat producing devices.
pic of cooler stripped all the way down

pic 2 of cooler stripped all the way down

I pulled the doors off and seperated the double panes of glass and removed the "COKE" logos,
pic of one door before removing logos

Now I'm going to apply my own "etched glass" appliques that suit my tastes, I'm sanding the outer cabinet down and priming it so I can put a nice paint job on it and shortly I'll have a giant soundproof box for my pc's..
I'm going to put vents in the bottom rear and baffle and filter them to keep the sound in and and the dust out. In the top I'm going to cut a four inch diameter hole and run a PVC duct through the top of the cabinet and through my ceiling into my attic. With a small, super quiet 4" fan to help exhaust the hot air, my computer room will stay nice and cool and my air conditioner will not have to work nearly so hard as it does now.
In the winter I'll divert the exhaust into the computer room to assist the central heater..

And to top it all off, I'm going to put a few cold cathode lights in it just for a nice effect. The internal 48" flourescent light I'll leave in there to light it up when I have to pull a rack out to work on something...

My biggest problem now is figuring out how to get it into the house. I can take some door frames out but I don't know if it will turn the corners or not..

MyIM will remove those icons, as well as the ads on the AIM window. Also provides logging features. Doesn't work with AIM 5.x.

Put an icon for OpenOffice on the desktop. Don't call it open-office, just call it Office.

Sure, this will piss off 'lites, but so the fuck what? Elitists won't be using Lindows anyways: the person who's been using Macs and Windows all his/her life will, or who's never used an OS before.

On the desktop, put things like:

Office or Word Processor
Spreadsheet
Database
Slideshow Presentation Creator
E-Mail
Internet
Porn
Music Player
Movie Player
File Sharing
CD-Ripping/Burning ...and other commonly used apps by home users

Or better yet, create a superior UI from the start. See some of my examples from my home page:

a model desktop
some explanation of the desktop model

Put an icon for OpenOffice on the desktop. Don't call it open-office, just call it Office.

Sure, this will piss off 'lites, but so the fuck what? Elitists won't be using Lindows anyways: the person who's been using Macs and Windows all his/her life will, or who's never used an OS before.

On the desktop, put things like:

Office or Word Processor
Spreadsheet
Database
Slideshow Presentation Creator
E-Mail
Internet
Porn
Music Player
Movie Player
File Sharing
CD-Ripping/Burning ...and other commonly used apps by home users

Or better yet, create a superior UI from the start. See some of my examples from my home page:

a model desktop
some explanation of the desktop model

I have SEVEN PC's (all Linux of course), monitors, laserjet, all sorts of crap.

It's HOT and NOISY in my computer room..
Here's what I'm working on.

I obtained an old soda water cooler from an out of biz conv. store for CHEAP. It even has a bullet hole in it from a robbery attempt.
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/mvc-716f.jpg
and
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/mvc-717f.jpg

I stripped it all down and going to repaint it and pimp it all out with those "etched glass" decals and cold cathode lights. It'll be a religious experiance.
It has lots of very heavy duty adjustable racks and built in lights. I stripped out the compressor (and related gear) because it was broken anyway.

I pulled the doors off and seperated the sheets of glass so I could scrape the Coca-Cola logo decals from the inside.
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/door-orig.jpg


The whole thing WAS designed to keep cold air in.
Well, it's gonna keep the hot air out of my computer room and the noise too.
It's heavily insulated and sound proof too.
I'll put a 4" exhuast up through the top of it and into my attic through my ceiling. My cooling bills in the summer will go down. In the winter I'll redirect the hot air into the room.

Yeah, it's big but it'll hold every computer I have plus additional equipment. I'm even going to seal the vents on my monitor and run a duct hose from the monitor case into the monstercase so that even that hot air is sucked away.

I'm sick of screaming hard drives and hot equipment.

This will do the trick. Once I've got it done I'll post finished pics on /. if anyone cares to see it finished..

I have SEVEN PC's (all Linux of course), monitors, laserjet, all sorts of crap.

It's HOT and NOISY in my computer room..
Here's what I'm working on.

I obtained an old soda water cooler from an out of biz conv. store for CHEAP. It even has a bullet hole in it from a robbery attempt.
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/mvc-716f.jpg
and
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/mvc-717f.jpg

I stripped it all down and going to repaint it and pimp it all out with those "etched glass" decals and cold cathode lights. It'll be a religious experiance.
It has lots of very heavy duty adjustable racks and built in lights. I stripped out the compressor (and related gear) because it was broken anyway.

I pulled the doors off and seperated the sheets of glass so I could scrape the Coca-Cola logo decals from the inside.
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/door-orig.jpg


The whole thing WAS designed to keep cold air in.
Well, it's gonna keep the hot air out of my computer room and the noise too.
It's heavily insulated and sound proof too.
I'll put a 4" exhuast up through the top of it and into my attic through my ceiling. My cooling bills in the summer will go down. In the winter I'll redirect the hot air into the room.

Yeah, it's big but it'll hold every computer I have plus additional equipment. I'm even going to seal the vents on my monitor and run a duct hose from the monitor case into the monstercase so that even that hot air is sucked away.

I'm sick of screaming hard drives and hot equipment.

This will do the trick. Once I've got it done I'll post finished pics on /. if anyone cares to see it finished..

I have SEVEN PC's (all Linux of course), monitors, laserjet, all sorts of crap.

It's HOT and NOISY in my computer room..
Here's what I'm working on.

I obtained an old soda water cooler from an out of biz conv. store for CHEAP. It even has a bullet hole in it from a robbery attempt.
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/mvc-716f.jpg
and
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/mvc-717f.jpg

I stripped it all down and going to repaint it and pimp it all out with those "etched glass" decals and cold cathode lights. It'll be a religious experiance.
It has lots of very heavy duty adjustable racks and built in lights. I stripped out the compressor (and related gear) because it was broken anyway.

I pulled the doors off and seperated the sheets of glass so I could scrape the Coca-Cola logo decals from the inside.
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/door-orig.jpg


The whole thing WAS designed to keep cold air in.
Well, it's gonna keep the hot air out of my computer room and the noise too.
It's heavily insulated and sound proof too.
I'll put a 4" exhuast up through the top of it and into my attic through my ceiling. My cooling bills in the summer will go down. In the winter I'll redirect the hot air into the room.

Yeah, it's big but it'll hold every computer I have plus additional equipment. I'm even going to seal the vents on my monitor and run a duct hose from the monitor case into the monstercase so that even that hot air is sucked away.

I'm sick of screaming hard drives and hot equipment.

This will do the trick. Once I've got it done I'll post finished pics on /. if anyone cares to see it finished..

I *WANT* spam.
Not shit, mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com
Send it to me baby!

I'm teaching my PC how to deal with it and I've been on a mission to sign up for every bullshit mailing list I can find, all the typical trash that pesters people to death.

Once I get this worked out I'll install it on my dad's PC and all my friends too. Then they can say bye-bye to spam.

I told my friend, "Your shit works because my shit is always broke!".. In other words, I am the guinna pig for everyone else. I test it then they get the working version..

So, mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com

I *WANT* spam.
Not shit, mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com
Send it to me baby!

I'm teaching my PC how to deal with it and I've been on a mission to sign up for every bullshit mailing list I can find, all the typical trash that pesters people to death.

Once I get this worked out I'll install it on my dad's PC and all my friends too. Then they can say bye-bye to spam.

I told my friend, "Your shit works because my shit is always broke!".. In other words, I am the guinna pig for everyone else. I test it then they get the working version..

So, mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com

one other thing.

Take an OLD PC case and fill it with whatever size batteries you want, wire them in parallel and run the cables into your UPS. Wire the external battery pack into the UPS in parallel.
The voltage must remain the same but you get more amp hours this way. You can also use batteries that are physically larger that normally won't fit inside the UPS.
You can get LOTS of run time this way, hours and hours of run time..

mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com

a friend gave me an old tripplite BC500LAN that was dead.
Or so he thought. I opened it up and discovered that the SLA batteries were swollen and some had split open.

I watched ebay carefully and found direct replacements for about $7 each plus shipping. So, for under $30 I got a killer UPS. just get the model numbers from the internal batteries and find them on ebay..

mailto:spammesilly@gt.rr.com

>Oh, and this purple shit hurts my eyes.

hmmm...

you sound like you had RK...

RKSA

the only thing i hate more than black-on-purple is red-on-black...

blech...

(1) Always use the 4 corners of the screen, as well as the screen sides. Don't ever place anything that's interactive just a pixel shy of the screen-edge.

(2) Form follows function, not vica-versa. Don't focus on making an "appealing" UI. Focus on making one that works very well for the tasks at hand.

(3) Passive memory, not active. People have a huge capacity for passive memory, and can remember things passively very quickly (that is, they recognize it upon seeing it). Users already have enough stuff to memorize, so don't make them memorize bizarre key-combinations.

(4) For a guide to a desktop, see here (explanation here), and here (explanation here).

(5) Remember to have strong software-support. The reason I like Gentoo so much is because of the helpful and friendly message boards, as well as the excellent documentation.

(6) User testing, user testing, user testing. Grab someone and ask them if your program is easy to use. Sit them down in front of it -- without a manual -- and ask them to do something that the program was designed to do. If they can do it, then the program has good design. If not, bad design. If they can't do it, or if it took them a long time, ask them what they would expect, or where your program was confusing.

(7) Have context menu's for everything in your program with "send feedback on this". E.g., if someone right clicks on the menu-bar or a specific sub-menu, they send feedback on that. You thus instantly know what their feedback is about, and it makes it easy for them to send feedback.

(8) Actively seek out the opinions of those who download your program and use it. You can do this by creating a message board, newsgroup, etc, and specifically asking what they think about x, y, and z.

(1) Always use the 4 corners of the screen, as well as the screen sides. Don't ever place anything that's interactive just a pixel shy of the screen-edge.

(2) Form follows function, not vica-versa. Don't focus on making an "appealing" UI. Focus on making one that works very well for the tasks at hand.

(3) Passive memory, not active. People have a huge capacity for passive memory, and can remember things passively very quickly (that is, they recognize it upon seeing it). Users already have enough stuff to memorize, so don't make them memorize bizarre key-combinations.

(4) For a guide to a desktop, see here (explanation here), and here (explanation here).

(5) Remember to have strong software-support. The reason I like Gentoo so much is because of the helpful and friendly message boards, as well as the excellent documentation.

(6) User testing, user testing, user testing. Grab someone and ask them if your program is easy to use. Sit them down in front of it -- without a manual -- and ask them to do something that the program was designed to do. If they can do it, then the program has good design. If not, bad design. If they can't do it, or if it took them a long time, ask them what they would expect, or where your program was confusing.

(7) Have context menu's for everything in your program with "send feedback on this". E.g., if someone right clicks on the menu-bar or a specific sub-menu, they send feedback on that. You thus instantly know what their feedback is about, and it makes it easy for them to send feedback.

(8) Actively seek out the opinions of those who download your program and use it. You can do this by creating a message board, newsgroup, etc, and specifically asking what they think about x, y, and z.

(1) Always use the 4 corners of the screen, as well as the screen sides. Don't ever place anything that's interactive just a pixel shy of the screen-edge.

(2) Form follows function, not vica-versa. Don't focus on making an "appealing" UI. Focus on making one that works very well for the tasks at hand.

(3) Passive memory, not active. People have a huge capacity for passive memory, and can remember things passively very quickly (that is, they recognize it upon seeing it). Users already have enough stuff to memorize, so don't make them memorize bizarre key-combinations.

(4) For a guide to a desktop, see here (explanation here), and here (explanation here).

(5) Remember to have strong software-support. The reason I like Gentoo so much is because of the helpful and friendly message boards, as well as the excellent documentation.

(6) User testing, user testing, user testing. Grab someone and ask them if your program is easy to use. Sit them down in front of it -- without a manual -- and ask them to do something that the program was designed to do. If they can do it, then the program has good design. If not, bad design. If they can't do it, or if it took them a long time, ask them what they would expect, or where your program was confusing.

(7) Have context menu's for everything in your program with "send feedback on this". E.g., if someone right clicks on the menu-bar or a specific sub-menu, they send feedback on that. You thus instantly know what their feedback is about, and it makes it easy for them to send feedback.

(8) Actively seek out the opinions of those who download your program and use it. You can do this by creating a message board, newsgroup, etc, and specifically asking what they think about x, y, and z.

(1) Always use the 4 corners of the screen, as well as the screen sides. Don't ever place anything that's interactive just a pixel shy of the screen-edge.

(2) Form follows function, not vica-versa. Don't focus on making an "appealing" UI. Focus on making one that works very well for the tasks at hand.

(3) Passive memory, not active. People have a huge capacity for passive memory, and can remember things passively very quickly (that is, they recognize it upon seeing it). Users already have enough stuff to memorize, so don't make them memorize bizarre key-combinations.

(4) For a guide to a desktop, see here (explanation here), and here (explanation here).

(5) Remember to have strong software-support. The reason I like Gentoo so much is because of the helpful and friendly message boards, as well as the excellent documentation.

(6) User testing, user testing, user testing. Grab someone and ask them if your program is easy to use. Sit them down in front of it -- without a manual -- and ask them to do something that the program was designed to do. If they can do it, then the program has good design. If not, bad design. If they can't do it, or if it took them a long time, ask them what they would expect, or where your program was confusing.

(7) Have context menu's for everything in your program with "send feedback on this". E.g., if someone right clicks on the menu-bar or a specific sub-menu, they send feedback on that. You thus instantly know what their feedback is about, and it makes it easy for them to send feedback.

(8) Actively seek out the opinions of those who download your program and use it. You can do this by creating a message board, newsgroup, etc, and specifically asking what they think about x, y, and z.

I guess I don't get it. If you can open an ssh connection to the remote machine, why wouldn't you just tunnel PPP over the connection and have full VPN networking between the local box and the remote box?

I've been doing this for years.

http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/sw/pppssh.tar.gz

From the README:

This is poor man's VPN. Just as effective as the expensive kind, but costs less. And you can set it up in minutes. All it requires is the ability to ssh into the remote machine. Then it tunnels PPP over the ssh connection to provide full network connectivity.

Two sample scripts are provided: frostyppp ipcroeppp

You are expected to understand routing and the concept of tunneling and to create your own version of one of these scripts. If you don't understand routing, then use Windoze and the expensive VPN box or software that your IT guys probably want you to use (because they don't understand routing and tunnelling, either).

right here, here, here, here,