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AEBC? Good god, there's a name to make me shudder...the whole sordid story is here, but in a nutshell:

• Dowco sold DSL
• which we didn't tell our customers was resold from Lightspeed
• which they didn't bother telling us was resold/run by AEBC
• which explained why Lightspeed couldn't fix squat when it went wrong
• which we had to hide from our customers when things when wrong.

Good god, what a fucking mess that was. You didn't work for Lightspeed, did you? Maybe I talked to you, trying to figure out why one of our customers was borked... :-)

As for hijacking DNS queries -- that's just nasty. I haven't heard of that before.

One of the things I'm going to do while I've got both Shaw and Uniserve is compare pages fetched over different connections and see if there's any difference. Maybe this could be a service over a network: submit a page + url, the remote server fetches the url and sends you the diff between your page and what it got. Ditto for DNS maybe. Hm...

I honestly don't understand the way people fight over the whole global warming issue. Reasearch has told us that it's only going to get worse. When it comes down to it why not just do what we are doing, it's futile to try and stem the inevitable. Quite complaining about it and either find a solution, or f'ing deal with it. I can't understand why it's so political, politics have nothing to do with this problem. Left blames the right and right blames the left, all they are doing is making themselves look like fighting school shildren. In the end one of two things are going to happen. We are all going to die some horrible death, or a group of people will invent a solution to the problem and get rich because of it.

Sung to the tune of "Surfin' Bird" by The Cramps ... "well everybody's agog, about the blog! blog blog blog, the blog is the fog", etc.

Nice parody, made me chuckle.

The Cramps are a great band, likewise The Ramones -- however, Surfin' Bird was written by The Trashmen --

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I've been working on something similar: last Christmas, I picked up 3 Network Everywhere NWR04B wireless routers on sale -- $18 each! -- and have been trying ever since to duplicate this guy's success in getting uClinux (a version of Linux for CPUs with no MMU) running on the thing.

The guy who got it running originally hasn't responded to my emails, so it's a good thing he made his kernel tree available. Alsoplus, I think he used a JTAG adapter to load the image; since I wanted to make a firmware image that anyone could upload with the web interface, I had to reverse engineer the firmware checksum too. (Luckily it was a pretty simple checksum, or else I don't think I would've been able to do it...I'm really learning all this as I go along.)

In July I finally managed to get a kernel panic, am now trying to get BusyBox working on the thing. I keep getting these errors:

Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (D4) at 0x00000001
fault-common.c(97): start_code=0x740040, start_stack=0x71ffbc)

which, from what I have been able to Google, may be because of differing opinions (libc/uClibc vs. the kernel vs. the chip) about whether or not this thing has an FPU. If anyone's got any suggestions, please leave a note -- I need all the help I can get.

It's been an incredible learning experience -- I know more now about how the kernel interacts with CPUs, the filesystems, compilers and the bootloader than I ever had. (Still got tons to learn, mind you.) I'm looking forward to the day I can get a Beowulf cluster of these things going. :-)

I've been working on something similar: last Christmas, I picked up 3 Network Everywhere NWR04B wireless routers on sale -- $18 each! -- and have been trying ever since to duplicate this guy's success in getting uClinux (a version of Linux for CPUs with no MMU) running on the thing.

The guy who got it running originally hasn't responded to my emails, so it's a good thing he made his kernel tree available. Alsoplus, I think he used a JTAG adapter to load the image; since I wanted to make a firmware image that anyone could upload with the web interface, I had to reverse engineer the firmware checksum too. (Luckily it was a pretty simple checksum, or else I don't think I would've been able to do it...I'm really learning all this as I go along.)

In July I finally managed to get a kernel panic, am now trying to get BusyBox working on the thing. I keep getting these errors:

Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (D4) at 0x00000001
fault-common.c(97): start_code=0x740040, start_stack=0x71ffbc)

which, from what I have been able to Google, may be because of differing opinions (libc/uClibc vs. the kernel vs. the chip) about whether or not this thing has an FPU. If anyone's got any suggestions, please leave a note -- I need all the help I can get.

It's been an incredible learning experience -- I know more now about how the kernel interacts with CPUs, the filesystems, compilers and the bootloader than I ever had. (Still got tons to learn, mind you.) I'm looking forward to the day I can get a Beowulf cluster of these things going. :-)

I've been working on something similar: last Christmas, I picked up 3 Network Everywhere NWR04B wireless routers on sale -- $18 each! -- and have been trying ever since to duplicate this guy's success in getting uClinux (a version of Linux for CPUs with no MMU) running on the thing.

The guy who got it running originally hasn't responded to my emails, so it's a good thing he made his kernel tree available. Alsoplus, I think he used a JTAG adapter to load the image; since I wanted to make a firmware image that anyone could upload with the web interface, I had to reverse engineer the firmware checksum too. (Luckily it was a pretty simple checksum, or else I don't think I would've been able to do it...I'm really learning all this as I go along.)

In July I finally managed to get a kernel panic, am now trying to get BusyBox working on the thing. I keep getting these errors:

Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (D4) at 0x00000001
fault-common.c(97): start_code=0x740040, start_stack=0x71ffbc)

which, from what I have been able to Google, may be because of differing opinions (libc/uClibc vs. the kernel vs. the chip) about whether or not this thing has an FPU. If anyone's got any suggestions, please leave a note -- I need all the help I can get.

It's been an incredible learning experience -- I know more now about how the kernel interacts with CPUs, the filesystems, compilers and the bootloader than I ever had. (Still got tons to learn, mind you.) I'm looking forward to the day I can get a Beowulf cluster of these things going. :-)

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/The%20C ontraption.avi
http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/machine .avi

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/The%20C ontraption.avi
http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/machine .avi

All I have to say is "WOW". And well done.

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• Militia of Montana (MOM) -- one of the better known Militia/Patriot groups
• Genesis Communications -- Internet radio station that carries a lot of very paranoid people. Sometimes they've got a point, sometimes they're off the deep end (IMHO)
• Alex Jones -- Gotta check him out. Listen to his show, and watch for the Darth Vader theme. Highly amusing; he sponsored a showing of They Live! a while back as an introduction to how They rule the world
• David Icke -- British. Shape-shifting lizards rule the world and are performing rape and blood sacrifice behind closed doors. Absolutely incredible.
• Texe Marrs -- Texas fundamentalist preacher (who, it just so happens, I interviewed a few years back) who believes that Satan pretty much owns the IRS, the UN, and every other government around

That's enough to get you started...if you're not gibbering on the floor when you finish reading, you'll be fine. :-)

I don't have a negative view of people - you do. You equate self-interest with evil, whereas I think - as I said - that self-interest is a damned good thing. The more open people are about their motivations (e.g., self-interest) and what they're working for, the more likely it is that we can work in agreement or cooperation towards some mutually beneficial goal.

So, let me get this straight, Ayn...I mean, maxpublic...* The motivation for everything is self-interest? What about taking a bullet for someone? I guess even that could be interpreted as self-interest if it's done because you would be terribly sad for the rest of your life if you didn't do it. So, if everything is, in part, motivated by self-interest, what sense does it make to debate whether self-interest is a good or bad thing; I mean, if it's inescapable, why bother debating whether it should or should not be practiced? And if people's motivation is always self-interest and self-interest is a damned good thing, then are people's motivations always good? If everything is motivated by self-interest, what is your definition of altruism? Or should the word be chucked from the dictionary? I think what the original poster had in mind when they spoke of doing things for other people was that they had an interest in doing something not only for themselves (which is apparently inescapable) but for the benefit of others as well. Like you say, they both come to the table interested in a mutually beneficial arrangement, with their own interests, both directly and by proxy of the other's interests, in mind. And accordingly, it's good when the interests of others (using free software) and the interests of yourself (making software for others to use for free) are both served. If you want to make the case that altruism (a devotion to the needs of others) is then, in some sense, a particular kind of selfishness, go for it, but I don't think you can say it doesn't exist or that it can't be beneficial.

*Sorry, I couldn't resist, I knew this objectivist zealot in high school and every time I hear anythig remotely objectivist it makes me want to start screaming AYN RAND IS LORD OF ALL!! HAIL THE FLOATING HEAD OF AYN RAND!! FYI he has later recanted his fanatacism. And I'm not trying to bash your viewpoint or even calling you an objectivist.

It appears you need to be educated about The Great Ayn Rand.

http://saintaardvarktehcarpeted.com/mirror/playfai r.tgz

Keep in mind that all you have is my word that nothing's been changed (nothing has, but that doesn't mean you should trust me). I'm open to suggestions about verification (md5s of original files, maybe?).

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/Doc-100 -A.pdf

Just set up spampot.py, a similar program written in Python. Details, if anyone's interested, are here. Still waiting for a hit, but it's only been up since Saturday; firewall logs show I get probed about once a week.

I've written before about writing a fake formmail. Right now I've got my web server set up so that all requests for formmail (m/formmail/i) get directed to the script; as you can see, I still get hit about once or twice a week. I'd really like to figure out how to tarpit them, but I'm not sure I can do that on a running webserver.

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/drop

I've put up another copy of the book at http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/bbv
. Let's see who gets a cease-and-desist first :-).

What's the difference between these remarkle advertising vehicles? Don't be left without the proper knowledge when sending out your offering to the masses. Along with our other various How Tos, learn the difference before any mailing.

I have never felt so good to be part of the Slashdot effect.

BTW, as pointed to in the article, a list of members was posted to Usenet w/a list of memberships. There was also a link to an archive of the contents of the site; here's a link:

http://jscript.dk/2003/8/thebulkclub.com.zip

and a mirror:

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/thebulkclub.co m/thebulkclub.com.zip

A list of the files in the archive can be found here:

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/thebulkclub.co m/contents.txt

Grab a copy and post your own links!

What's the difference between these remarkle advertising vehicles? Don't be left without the proper knowledge when sending out your offering to the masses. Along with our other various How Tos, learn the difference before any mailing.

I have never felt so good to be part of the Slashdot effect.

BTW, as pointed to in the article, a list of members was posted to Usenet w/a list of memberships. There was also a link to an archive of the contents of the site; here's a link:

http://jscript.dk/2003/8/thebulkclub.com.zip

and a mirror:

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/thebulkclub.co m/thebulkclub.com.zip

A list of the files in the archive can be found here:

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/thebulkclub.co m/contents.txt

Grab a copy and post your own links!

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/perens/SCOSlid eShow.html

Very cool example. I've got more here -- is there any chance I could include your example on my page as well? Full credit, natch...

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/linux_vs_sco_m atrix.html

I suggest we send him an Ayn card just to make sure he gets the point. :D

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/matrix.html

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/images/snapsho t.png

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/images/tacobel l.jpg

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/images/snapsho t.png

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/images/tacobel l.jpg

• The Mars meteorite fossil
• and my wife

at the comparison page attached to the article that lets you run the same test on images that the researchers tried. In a startling discovery that is sure to earn me a Nobel Prize for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Marital Relations, I was told the following:

"Answer: Image 1 [the Mars image](1.43702451394759 % compression) has a higher complexity measure than image 2[the image of my wife] (0.773501341151519 % compression), and thus image 1 is more probably biogenic."

Not only does this prove that there was once life on Mars, but it also proves that my wife is some sort of robot. Further research will be undertaken pending receipt of my prize money.

• The Mars meteorite fossil
• and my wife

at the comparison page attached to the article that lets you run the same test on images that the researchers tried. In a startling discovery that is sure to earn me a Nobel Prize for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Marital Relations, I was told the following:

"Answer: Image 1 [the Mars image](1.43702451394759 % compression) has a higher complexity measure than image 2[the image of my wife] (0.773501341151519 % compression), and thus image 1 is more probably biogenic."

Not only does this prove that there was once life on Mars, but it also proves that my wife is some sort of robot. Further research will be undertaken pending receipt of my prize money.

He didn't appear to have the script on his site, though.

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/shatter .html

2d_flow.mpg
form_rotate_3.mpg

2d_flow.mpg
form_rotate_3.mpg

They should ask Michael Bolton for forgiveness.

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/openap-0.1.0.t ar.gz

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/oracle

Good god, people, aren't you forgetting one thing? Huh?

http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/yesiwill/index .html

Read about Objectivist objections (heh) to the whole case here.

No one is forced to eat there, do business there, or work there, but they're somehow super oppressive and evil.

Whoever modded this up to 5 must have been reading too much Ayn Rand. In fact, if these companies force competitors out of business, I am essentially forced to eat there. (Yes, I know, I can go home and make myself a sandwich, but you get the point.)

When it comes to real estate, marketing, etc., these corporation have an incredible amount of power compared to the competition. Now those who are wont to jump for joy at this display of capitalism in action should take note of a few things.

The ability to drive out competition can have nothing to do with quality or service. Merely the ability to pay higher rents, etc., until the competition leaves.

The short-term "benefits" of these megacorps often hide long-term effects that we will pay for long after this crop of shareholders cashes in on their stock dividends. An example is the loss of rainforest land and subsequent reduction in biodiversity due to slash and burn cattle ranching.

This is one of the main problems with capitalism as practised today. Cheap, short-term solutions can almost always win out by hiding expenses in long-term issues that aren't considered. If companies had to pay taxes based on those cost (e.g., throw-away packaging, strip mining), then we wouldn't see some of quality of life issues that plague us today.

And we want the government to be super-powerful to protect us from the corporate evil, but it'll never occur to us that the government's power might be used against us.

The best way to combat this possibility is not by donning fatigues and joining the local survivalists, but by staying involved in a government by the people.

Sir, you are obviously irrational. Have at you!