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The guy at the site below made his out of a material called blackout cloth, and he has instructions on the site. Be gentle, it just ISP webspace.

http://members.shaw.ca/danhanson/Theater/screen/sc reenproject.htm

Plus you can quite easily get into the underlying UNIX core, and tamper with things - having such a functional GUI, and being able to fire up a terminal and use things like openssh, pico, etc right out of the box just totally sold me.

Look at how viruses spread. Then compare to flash. If one additional box had been included on the popup that asks you if you want to install flash, that says, no, and don't ask me again (instead of asking every time your mouse passes over an imbedded flash file), it wouldn't have spread so far so fast.

Flash is simply an animated gif enhancement for viewing more annoying banner ads. And for locking out users from web sites designed by designers that think it is more important to show off their flash programming skills than capturing a greater percentage of users through a more user-friendly site for the business or individual that the site is promoting.

As for Dreamweaver, regardless of the naysayers, it's bloated, not stable, and it still is not fully w3c compliant, even if you do know what you are doing. There is still non-compliant code that is inserted into source code, regardless of the settings.

For those who aren't chained to cold fusion, a better, more w3c compliant, and freer solution (as in freedom, and as in beer) is Quanta+. While wysiwyg is not in the stable release, it is in the cvs tree, and will launch when the new kde launches very shortly (check the mailing list for more updated info on the feature). And the other features are numerous, but the support for xml, and other technologies is all there. And the response from developers on the mailing list is fantastic, in features, in bug fixes, in help, and in just about everything else. I once thought I couldn't leave windows solely because of Dreamweaver, but Quanta+ enabled me to move to a much more stable and less restrictive operating system.

Sun, Adobe, and Macromedia, among other proprietary companies are the old guard. And they are the future SCO's of the tech world. The future is gpl'd source code for all applications. The rest of the world has already realized this, small businesses are catching on fast, and anyone looking to stay competitive and productive needs to admit this to themselves or they will be left behind, just like Sun, Adobe, and Macromedia.

Watch what happens to Sun in the next 18-24 months. Adobe and Macromedia will follow the same path shortly thereafter, maybe sooner.

And Oracle is not far behind...

Hi,

I upgraded to Panther as well, and found the same problem. Compiling the latest CVS version of emacs seemed to fix it; I've been using it a couple of hours and it seems to be OK.

Detailed instructions can be found here.

Good luck!

There is a much better Carbon version, and instructions on building it from CVS (don't worry, it's quite stable) are at http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/, including the one-line Panther fix. I've been running it through the seed cycle and haven't had a problem.

Click here if you're over 18 years of age:
Sharps at it...

Zaurus SL-6000

I have a mirror (minus four graphs) :( workin on it...

members.shaw.ca/infonick

screenshots here

I'm also in Canada, and have good experience with both Shaw and Telus. For the non-Canadian viewers, Shaw is a cable company, Telus is a Telco. Neither Shaw or Telus have market penetration throughout all of Canada.

Your basic Shaw account for cable modem, 1 DHCP IP, email, and unlimited surfing is approx. $37.95/mo. Bandwidth is something like 2.5Mbps down, up to 512kbps up. Homepage: http://www.shaw.ca. Pricing page: http://www.shaw.ca/Tmplt.asp?pageID=647

Your basic Telus account for ADSL, 2 DHCP IPs, email, and unlimited surfing is $39.95/mo. Bandwidth is something like 1.5Mbps down, 512kbps up. Home page: http://www.telus.com. Pricing page: http://www.mytelus.com/internet/highspeed/adslquic kconnect.do

Since Shaw is cable, and cable modems have a larger span, they are more often used in rural areas.

Lots of mom-and-pop shops operate in rural parts of Canada. They are hit and miss, although are more often 'miss'. The last thing our corporate customers in rural areas need is the advice of a mom-and-pop shop - albeit good intentioned advice - it generally is worth what it cost (nothing) and often sends customers down the wrong direction.

Both Telus & Shaw provide 24hour tech support. It's reasonable. Support on either Telus or Shaw broadband is most certainly not like having a fiber optic connection, but then at $2,500/mo for fiber and aprrox. $40/mo for broadband, it's somewhat less expensive too ;)

To the original poster: unless you had to pay for build costs (in which case, it's yer own fault for wanting to live in a rural area - you didn't seriously think you get the benefits of the big city AND the country, that'd be like having your cake and eating it too)..

$40/mo is a good price in my not so humble opinion ;)

(for the American viewers, $40/mo Canadian is about $25/mo USD)

I'm also in Canada, and have good experience with both Shaw and Telus. For the non-Canadian viewers, Shaw is a cable company, Telus is a Telco. Neither Shaw or Telus have market penetration throughout all of Canada.

Your basic Shaw account for cable modem, 1 DHCP IP, email, and unlimited surfing is approx. $37.95/mo. Bandwidth is something like 2.5Mbps down, up to 512kbps up. Homepage: http://www.shaw.ca. Pricing page: http://www.shaw.ca/Tmplt.asp?pageID=647

Your basic Telus account for ADSL, 2 DHCP IPs, email, and unlimited surfing is $39.95/mo. Bandwidth is something like 1.5Mbps down, 512kbps up. Home page: http://www.telus.com. Pricing page: http://www.mytelus.com/internet/highspeed/adslquic kconnect.do

Since Shaw is cable, and cable modems have a larger span, they are more often used in rural areas.

Lots of mom-and-pop shops operate in rural parts of Canada. They are hit and miss, although are more often 'miss'. The last thing our corporate customers in rural areas need is the advice of a mom-and-pop shop - albeit good intentioned advice - it generally is worth what it cost (nothing) and often sends customers down the wrong direction.

Both Telus & Shaw provide 24hour tech support. It's reasonable. Support on either Telus or Shaw broadband is most certainly not like having a fiber optic connection, but then at $2,500/mo for fiber and aprrox. $40/mo for broadband, it's somewhat less expensive too ;)

To the original poster: unless you had to pay for build costs (in which case, it's yer own fault for wanting to live in a rural area - you didn't seriously think you get the benefits of the big city AND the country, that'd be like having your cake and eating it too)..

$40/mo is a good price in my not so humble opinion ;)

(for the American viewers, $40/mo Canadian is about $25/mo USD)

...only a very small amount of population are really that stupid, right?

Here is a mirror for the png's.

XFce screens

First, who says what the posted limit is? If it is arbitrarily set at a low point, then the speed cameras are placed where the speed limit is artificially low, then who is that saving? I would argue it increases driver frustration and may lead to more accidents.

Second, you don't seem to understand that there is more to traffic fatalities than speed. The vast majority of traffic fatalities fall into one of two categories: impaired driving, and not wearing seatbelts. People continue to drive under the influence and/or without seatbelts. Speed could potentially kill at 30mph. What do we do? Lower it to 5mph? That'd defeat the purpose of automobiles, wouldn't it? Since you obviously don't live in an area where this is a problem, take a look at this link and find out what happens when automated enforcement gets out of control. On another note: traffic fatalities are already double in Edmonton what they were last year. Goes to show that speed cameras are nothing but a money grab.

I made a few screenshots just in case anyone missed it :)

http://members.shaw.ca/pkgtool/pkgtool.png
http://members.shaw.ca/pkgtool/setup.png

I made a few screenshots just in case anyone missed it :)

http://members.shaw.ca/pkgtool/pkgtool.png
http://members.shaw.ca/pkgtool/setup.png

Read the truth about Bowling for Columbine. As much as folks would like to deify Michael Moore, he's a flat-out manipulator and liar (yes, just like the "evil" right wingers he attacks, there's nobody innocent in partisan political arenas).

I'm also not too proud of Canada when I see stuff like this.

Here's the proof... Here's more proof... Here's even more proof... Seriously, don't delude yourself. Canada is not by any stretch of the imagination the utopia you imagine it to be. Not when the government continually grabs its cash, surveils its media, and assaults citizens protesting peacefully with no reasonable warning to leave.

However, the manufacturers of digitial boxes do not sell to consumers, and cable companies have so far only been renting boxes to customers.

Not sure about US, but in Canada, cable companies do sell, and non-cable companies

Shaw sells DCT 2000 for $198.98 after rebate and DCT 5100 for $698.98... and we own the DCT 2000, so we must be in possession of stolen goods right?

Shaw sells DCT 2000 for $198.98 after rebate and DCT 5100 for $698.98... and we own the DCT 2000, so we must be in possession of stolen goods right?

Shaw sells DCT 2000 for $198.98 after rebate and DCT 5100 for $698.98... and we own the DCT 2000, so we must be in possession of stolen goods right?

Is it cheaper up there?

From what I read here, it is definitely cheaper. Regular price of $42 Canadian for a Shaw cable modem connection where I live (Vancouver). I think that's about $30 US.

Shaw cable modem service

I can get ADSL from telus for $34, but they are just a nasty company and I refuse to deal with them.

I'm sure Canada is less dense than the US. The northern 4/5 ths is basically uninhabited wasteland, and I'm pretty sure you can't get cable service up there.

The kde organization is a Euro terrorist operation, more details kan be found here.

Support Gnu/GNOME, its for your own kood!

and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.

Have you tried saving an auto-install floppy after the installation? More information can be found here.

I've got one of the rarer types, myself, protoanomaly. Reds tones are actually dimmer to me.

For the curious person, has a nice visual example.

For a bunch of good links, try here.

This is INCORRECT. As I have written in a paper available here, IBM's contract with AT&T (and now SCO) explicitly states that code developed by IBM is the property of IBM and is NOT a derivative workof AT&T (now SCO).

HOWEVER, the contract between Sequent and AT&T has NOT been made public by SCO nor IBM and so it is not clear to third parties whether or not the Sequent-AT&T agreements give Sequent the same rights as were given to IBM, though one may speculate based on the format of the IBM-AT&T agreements (see my article for full details).

Fundamentally, this is a contract law case in which the status of the Sequent-AT&T and IBM-AT&T agreements are defined. In other words, when IBM bought Sequent, what happened to the Sequent-AT&T agreement? Were it made null and all dealings between Sequent and AT&T now under the stipulations of the IBM-AT&T agreement? Or is it the case that code developed by Sequent is still bound by the original Sequent-AT&T contract?

Someone more familiar with contract law will have to respond; however, I believe that if in fact ANY code developed by Sequent BEFORE it was bought by IBM AND that code was placed in a SysV derivative (in this case probably Dynix/ptx) AND that code was placed in the Linux kernel, then it may very well be the case that SCO is standing of firm legal ground on that issue.

There are, of course, other details to this situation which may invalidate SCO's claims to right of the code, such as the GPL, and unclean hands doctrine (both arguments which IBM has included in its rebuttal) but I suppose we'll have to wait and see what happens. Also, read my article. :)

I bought the InFocus X1 at $999 and got a $100 rebate. I picked it up (it weighs a hair under 7lbs) and took it to a friend's house to watch a big boxing match. (Try that with ANY TV!) He looked at it on his gray wall for a few seconds, called his wife in and pointed at the picture...she said "how much?" and he said "call it $1000" and she said "OK, get one." BTW, you do not want to see a nasty cut in a boxing match on a big screen.

It is especially amazing with animation. My little niece's call it their uncle's "movie theater."

Also note that it is a bargain that may be disappearing soon: the x1 FAQ

Highly recommended.

I think the CRTC's decision is a bad one. In my area, the telco is a Crown Corporation, which is owned by the people(SaskTel). We paid the money to lay the telecommunications infrastructure via taxes, and cost of service, and now some other company can come, and capitalize on our expenditures. This is ludicrous. If the CRTC was truly all for competition, it would allow our television over DSL (SaskTel MAX to be packaged separate from the broadband internet service. They would also force cable companies such as Shaw Cable and Rogers Cable to open up their broadband infrastructure to competing cable companies. Broadband prices are a drop in the bucket in Canada compared to other parts of the world, including some areas of the United States, where a 384kbit/s connection costs someone as much or more than a 3mbit/s DSL connection would cost me here in Canada. ($99CDN/mo), or a 2mbit/s DSL connection ($60CDN/mo).

>>They're going to be surprised at how quickly Linux's threat will be an issue on the desktop

Indeed. The advances on the desktop are stunning. I watch kde closely and the speed of development, improvements and completeness of the desktop are stunning. Kde 3.2 will be a major release, making 3.1 feel old, and it's just 6 months old now.

There are two very good browsers, Konqueror and Mozilla. Two very good desktop environments, Kde and Gnome. Each has it's good applications, with some overlap. Each steals good ideas from the other, while going in slightly different directions. The holes are slowly being filled, ie. Openoffice, and others.

Microsoft has reason to be afraid. Right now, linux is almost at a point in the desktop that there is no good reason to not use it. Almost, very very close. Once it is, why sell a box with OS, Office, photo editing stuff, etc for money when it's available free?

Derek

For a good description of the various types, try here. At least the section on "protoanomaly" matches me to a T. :)

A more visual explanation is available here.

Heh.. I nearly ended up flunking kidergarten until a parent teacher conference; my mother asked if they had tested for it or even considered it, and they said 'no'. $#@$ing crayons boxes with the wrappers removed. :) "Color 4 blue" "Color 5 purple".

It's got strange keys like HEX, V COR/AX DUP, LCA, ALPHA, REPEAT, CHAR, BYPASS/PROG, CMND/REL and FIELD

It was made by Cortron, but has no identifying marks on the outside.

If you want it, pay the shipping and it's yours!

But you may find this worthwhile reading.

http://members.shaw.ca/cracked.floppy/

Actually, their website says the rocket "featuring a central Cesaroni Pro150 O impulse rocket motor." Also explains why they picked up such a name, Team "O" :-)

According to the project page the total impulse is close to the limit of O class, just under 41,000Ns.

1) RTFA
2) Go to their website where you can see photos of them building their rocket. Yes it's based on an old design (the French Dauphin sounding rocket), but they built it from scratch and to scale. They didn't just mod something from the salvage yard.

And besides, the last time you built and successfully launched something the size of a small school bus was ... when?

Project Dauphin website is here.

See? Now this is the type of thing that us Linux-using, tech-savvy people have been trying to tell you zealots. Apple computers are no longer the GUI only, closed-source only, one-button only computers they used to be. I run zsh on my linux machine and my OS X box. I download stuff with wget on both. Basically any utility I commonly run on Linux is easily available on OS X with a simple fink or apt command.

For all those who badmouth OS X but have never used it, see if you can find out a way to try it out for a week before you comment on it. "Terminal" is in Applications/Utilities. Fink is at http://fink.sourceforge.net/. Enabling the root account is as simple as sudo passwd root. Emacs builds on OS X right from their standard CVS repository, though it's not 100% perfect yet, more details here: http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/, and I wouldn't be surprised if vi is out there too somewhere, but hey, while you're switching OSes why not switch to a better editor anyhow. ;)

Seriously. Imagine Linux on a pretty computer, with no driver issues, and some pretty damn good closed-source programs to boot. Check it out, if you don't like it, that's cool, but at least you'll have an informed opinion.

Cool, but where are his speakers?

Specifically model railroading.

Building stuff, basic wiring, painting, logic puzzles, carpentry, photography.... Lots of variety.

Hell, my ISP probably has no idea what passwords are, let alone SSH.

Although it's basically just hex editing to update stats, it's still pretty cool.

complaining that he's running XP, at least he's it to play what appears to be nethack or some other rogue variant.

After seeing the side view, another image sprang to mind... there is another object that would seem to be capable of extended hovering.

Coincidence, or inspiration?

Actually, it's for his Hauppauge WinTV card. You can clearly see here

...does enybody else beside me think, his index page is really cute? GO! GO! Animated GIFs! ...mmmh, I better post this a.c.

That's adorable; I've never seen a web page with pictures of someone's cats before. More people should do this sort of thing.

I've got to wonder if he pronounces the name Giz with a hard "G" or a soft "g".

Oh, yeah: the case mod. Fugly. I'd rather look at pictures of kitties.

k.

Completed pictures here.
Also, does anyone else think the green paint looks hideous? IMHO, he would've been much better keeping the factory grey.

There are 5 known running Mazda rotaries, probably more because not everyone reports their successes.

More info here:
MegaSquirt Success Stories

The last I heard approximately 2000 parts kits had been sold. Best guess is around 200 cars actually running MegaSquirt. Some have spun their own boards from scratch. In addition the MegaSquirt hardware is being used with custom firmware for other purposes.

For example:

MegaSpark runs ignition
I won't post website to avoid slashdotting it, just in case people are still regularly reading this topic, but its in the MegaSquirt Yahoo group.

Someone is using it as a greenhouse temperature, humidity and soil moisture monitor and controller.

And another guy is thinking about making it a Beer brewing controller.

Laters, Colin.