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Ok, one demo is a TAD larger than 2K of source, and uses 5K of data (a MOD music file).
The other is EXACTLY 2048 bytes of source, and is a simple little T*tr*s(tm) clone.

ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/nbs/unix/x/2k/

I work at a small-sized ISP in northern california.

That wouldn't happen to be my ISP, would it?

With only around 12k customers, it's not economically feasable for us to offer voice communcation service. So, our DSL service goes "poof". If ILECs aren't forced to share, they won't!

There's more than one form of sharing involved here. There's the ILEC offering access to its copper pairs and central office space to CLECs, and there's the ILEC offering access to its ADSL transport to ISPs.

I'm not sure I see anything in the attachment to the press release discussing anything having to do with the latter (are any requirements on ILECs to offer access to ISPs other than any ISP owned by the ILEC or the ILEC's parent federal requirements, state requirements, or both?).

The attachment seems to discuss issues for CLECs, not ISPs; my DSL circuit is provided by SBC , but my Internet access is provided by Sonic.net, and I'm quite happy with both (and would prefer not to have to switch the latter to SBC).

Well, Star Raiders was made back before Atari split up into Atari Games and Atari Corp.

Still, it was an excellent game, and I believe the first 3D game for home users. :^)

I have a tribute to Star Raiders online. One of these days, I'm gonna clone it for the Zaurus. :^)

• Robert Hart responded: you can already read and write the files created by those apps; as for Exchange, ``we have something called Sendmail...'' [chuckles from the admins in the audience] One of the panelists commented that if Microsoft ports their apps, ``we've won.'' [Of course, Apple didn't win...]

They only have one Future Crew demo, second reality. Yeah, it was good, but wtf? What about Panic and Unreal?

Lucky for you, you can download their shizzle here

• Just before 10:20 p.m. on July 17th, 1944, the worst home front disaster of WWII, occurred at a Naval pier in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Five thousand tons of ammunition in ships being loaded by black sailors exploded, sending a blast more than 12,000 feet into the sky.

  The explosion destroyed the pier, a train, and both ships, instantly killing everyone aboard (some 320 men).

This page in particular is short, and has a quick list of bullet points that try to show that Port Chicago was nuclear. They may all be obviously BS (to someone more versed in its history...?), but they're not simply "the explosion was so big, it HAD to be nuclear!" as others has suggested.

And lastly, when visiting this Amazon.com page for a Port Chicago book, am I the only one who sees "Customers who wear clothes also shop for: Clean Underwear"?? Maybe I'm delerious from being up in the middle of the night.

Just in case anyone is interested in purchasing one of these you may find this useful.

ERR01 - "EAGLE? I thought you said BEAGLE."

ERR02 - "We're all out of red, so I used pink."

ERR03 - "There are 2 O's in Bob, right?"

ERR04 - "Sorry, sir, your chest will only hold the bottle dinghy."

ERR05 - "SEGFAULT"

ERR06 - "Anything else you want to say? You've got plenty of room back here."

ERR07 - "I'll bet you can't tell I've never done this before."

ERR08 - "The flag's all done and, you know, the folds of fat make a nice waving effect."

Disclaimer - adapted from this source

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treen_81 is now online

Well, maybe if ISP's had an opt-in feature for their customers.Maybe they did contact all of their customers and explain this new "feature" and gave them an option - I'm guessing not.

Thats what sonic.net does. SpamAssasin is both sick and ill. Hella, yo.

I believe the game you're referring to is Blockout.

My father brought it home from work one day, and I played it for the next few months. Took me a while to finally see the 3D blocks. =\

It's scary watching Tetris blocks fill up to the screen TOWARDS you. :O

... a while back. Right from their site:

"Although the general public often seems surprised when librarians don't fit their pre-conceived image, the profession has celebrated its own differences for years. Librarians are funny, irreverent, interesting, and often radical people. Though popular culture includes considerable library material, it often ignores those on the fringe."

PDHoss

I think the locals are missing a big opportunity here - this should be used for something more than smuggling. Admittedly, it's not as unpopulated as West Texas, but someone could start the Open Source Space Shuttle project or something here. At the very least, it needs a visitors' center.

Yes, I realize this could just be an Easter egg in Street Atlas. Where's your sense of imagination?

I think the locals are missing a big opportunity here - this should be used for something more than smuggling. Admittedly, it's not as unpopulated as West Texas, but someone could start the Open Source Space Shuttle project or something here. At the very least, it needs a visitors' center.

Yes, I realize this could just be an Easter egg in Street Atlas. Where's your sense of imagination?

I think the locals are missing a big opportunity here - this should be used for something more than smuggling. Admittedly, it's not as unpopulated as West Texas, but someone could start the Open Source Space Shuttle project or something here. At the very least, it needs a visitors' center.

Yes, I realize this could just be an Easter egg in Street Atlas. Where's your sense of imagination?

I think the locals are missing a big opportunity here - this should be used for something more than smuggling. Admittedly, it's not as unpopulated as West Texas, but someone could start the Open Source Space Shuttle project or something here. At the very least, it needs a visitors' center.

Yes, I realize this could just be an Easter egg in Street Atlas. Where's your sense of imagination?

"What we really need now is for a librarian to stand up to this nonsense and refuse to comply."

I have another solution, how about the librarians just distract the FBI with flashy attire, and a good sense of style...

Why worry about laptop damage when you might end up like this?

And there's a lot more. But I have never seen a snack vending machine that just sold candy bars, chips, etc... Weird.

Also, in Japan - you can be driving in the country, with very little to see, come around the corner, and there is a vending machine, standing by itself with nothing around. It's an odd and amusing experience.

As for huge vending machines, I saw one like this in the Geneva train station. Had everything.

Gee, Whitey, I'm glad that YOU'RE so sure! Amadou Diallo and I will be so greatly comforted by your assurance of the absence of race-bias by police authorities.

>>The real purpose of this kind of database is NOT to incriminate the not guilty, or to place random people into the database just for the hell of it.

Again, I'm glad that you are privy to the thoughts behind the purpose of this database. You are probably also an expert on the controls in place to ensure that this purpose is not abused or obfuscated. Like denial of public housing, prohibition from employment, etc.

These attitudes are the road of comfort on which a the wheels of Fascism ride so smoothly in the States, these days!

Actually all presidents have used the power of the Executive Order. It bypasses congress and allows the president to a law. For example, Bill Clinton executed an executive order lowering the allowed level of arsenic in drinking water. Bush changed that order. President Bush issued an executive order that contradicted the 1978 Presidential Records Act, a law passed by congress. The law would have required records of the Reagan White House to be released 12 years after that president left office. Bush also used an executive order to establish the office of homeland security. So parts of Bush's "anti-terrorism" package were enacted through what amounts to presidential fiat, the executive order. The next president will obviously be able to undo any and all presidential orders, just each congress can repeal the laws passed by the previous congress. I believe executive orders can also be ruled unconsitutional.

I am sure Clinton signed some executive orders I disagree with and I'm sure Bush must have signed some I agree with, but these examples were both in the news at the time and they are the ones I remember.

For more information about the checks and balances of the American government, check out your local library or go on-line and visit:

• http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa121897 .htm
• http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0431503.html
• http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usexec.html
• http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon5.html - for a view opposing the executive order power

And that's One to Grow On.

you probably are being transpaently proxied. a few years ago apple made a deal with Akamai to proxy all there content, thats why an apple download will max my DSL, my ISP has there own set of akamai servers :D

Here's why I think it would be the right thing to do. Look at what Arthur Anderson got away with because they weren't forced out of existance: multiple judgements, spanning many years, some of the largest in history (seeking $600 million in fines for AZ Baptist Foundation anyone?), finally resulting in Enron, where public opinion finally got them turned into a shell of their former corporation.

> If you are convicted of a felony, the minimu[m]
> sentence is death by lethal injection?
Repeat after me:

Companies are not natural persons.

And even if they were natural persons, they deserve to suffer the same fate as 68% of the people on Death Row. How many corporations have been executed in the last 100 years? Go ahead, I'm waiting. I can read you off a huge list of natural persons who've had their lives snuffed out by the state. Are you implying that corporations are more moral than the people they make up??? Or something even more ludicrous?

Capital punishment is not even on the same level as revoking a company's charter. And it's definitely not the same as barring them from selling to government agencies in a county (or even a country for that matter). Which is what's being recommended. The two are not even remotely close.

If a government group/agency/regional authority stops buying your products, you still have the whole rest of the world, and all of the private world to sell to. And if your products are strong enough, why do you need to be on government dole anyways?

Now it'd be interesting if in companies convicted of criminal activities, the CEO and board of directors were subjected to lethal injection. That would clean up a lot of shoddy business practices and fraud in a hurry.

That's a solution that's got a lot to recommend it, actually....

If you disband a company, and sell off it's assets, and pay off the stockholders, who actually got hurt?

Yes, some people are out of business, but if the need remains for those services, those people A) will form a new company, or B) get hired by the former companies competitors. If there are no competitors, you've just cleared the field for anyone (hopefully two or three) new companies to come in and provide services.

-- Ender, Duke_of_URL

Try Josephus, "The Jewish Wars". For a brief discussion of the historical Jesus of Nazareth, from a non-religious perspective, see Proving the historic Jesus.

I got on a nostalgia kick after reading this story and found a great site for Star Raiders. You, sir, are correct. I bow to your superior recollection.

Why play with risky new drugs when there are proven safe, effective, and more enjoyable ways of getting the same effect?

I think the beef CNet has with BDE and KAZAA is the stealth install trojan-ness of the whole thing.

I bet if I put up a program called ISpy and disclosed that it would report anything it could about your computer to me at my computer, they would leave it up there. But if I secretly installed said program while installing some other useful program they would call it a trojan and rip it off.

Even if you have a EULA for BDE included in the KAZAA EULA, BDE is a trojan to 99.9% of the windows population. Here's another summary for removing KazaA all the way

I think the beef CNet has with BDE and KAZAA is the stealth install trojan-ness of the whole thing.

I bet if I put up a program called ISpy and disclosed that it would report anything it could about your computer to me at my computer, they would leave it up there. But if I secretly installed said program while installing some other useful program they would call it a trojan and rip it off.

Even if you have a EULA for BDE included in the KAZAA EULA, BDE is a trojan to 99.9% of the windows population. Here's another summary for removing KazaA all the way

BTW, for those who care, I'm working on a rather nice, comprehensive, "for the end-user" FAQ for the Zaurus:

http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/zaurus-faq/

-bill!

This was derived from the Evil Dr. Flaxon's work on the Baseball Bat Haptic Feedback Device, the Peptic Feedback Probe and other projects. The Digitally-Enforced Midi-Operated Neurocontroller (DEMON) was another early project that met with some success.

Be sure to check out the details on his lab location. It is quite an interesting facility.

Although this is a nice post, this is not news. So called "wireless DSL" which only shares the bandwidth numbers with DSL, has been available IN "TELECOM VALLEY" as the sumitter puts it for well over a year through Sonic.net. It includes the exact same hardware as the poster mentions, and their coverage is gigantic. Wireless box and rooftop mounted antenna. Sonic is also a top rate ISP (no i dont work for them, but I am a customer with 3 DSL lines from them).

Also, being from 10 miles south of there, I would say that the roaming cattle in the Petaluma to Santa Rosa strip do not evoke the word "Telecom Valley" for Sonoma, even tho there are a lot of tech companies that fled Sillycone Valley to setup shop there. Stick with the name "Wine Country."

A local ISP in the "telecom valley", sonic.net, is offering another type of weireless broadband called "rooftop". Afaik, it doesn't piggyback other user's connections on top of yours. It sure is nice to see so many local broadband options in my area.

Semi-related topic. Get several Macs running Linux and cluster them. Includes about the best instructions you can find for getting Linux to run on Nubus Macs, too.

i got PacBell DSL when it was Minimum 384/128 kbit uncaped. and with my ISP, (sonic.net) i can host what ever i want on 4 included static IPs! :D

i usualy get around 1Mbit/128kbit and just ignore my upstream performance :)

I'm with you, man. Unix and Windows have proven that C is not suitable for a networked system that needs security.

Squeak is pretty cool, but I like Lisp dialects better than Smalltalk.

The problem is the lack of a Lisp dialect compiler suitable for OS-level work as illustrated here.

When I left Britain, I could have chosen from 11 phones companies for my local service.

Using BT's local loop and their own equipment attached to the wires, or using their own local loop? (For NTL - they provide phone service, as I remember - it's presumably the latter, using their cable infrastructure.)

It seems in the US, competition in broadband has been along technological lines, e.g. cable vs. DSL vs. wireless, etc. I'm now living in Toronto, and I can tell you in contradiction to your statement that there is plenty of competition just within DSL in parts of Canada. In this case, all of the ISPs (including Bell's Sympatico) lease DSLAM ports in the CO. Some of the ISPs go a step further and install their own equipment, which is why IStop has maximum residential speeds of 3mbs/800kbs, and business speeds of 6/1mbs.

I'm not sure what the terms of the arrangements between DSL ISPs and LECs is in the US - i.e., I don't know whether my ISP leases a DSLAM port from SBC Advanced Solutions Inc. (who, in turn, use the local loop of SBC Pacific Bell to send signals between that DSLAM port and my DSL modem at home - but, as you can guess from the TLA that appears in both their names, both those companies are parts of SBC Communications), or if they're instead purchasing from SBC ASI an ATM circuit between my home and their Redback or whatever.

In either case, what you're talking about sounds like competition between ISP's, all using the ILEC's DSLAM and local loop - but we have that in the US as well.

Now, the ISPs who have installed their own equipment are acting as CLECs; I assume they're using the ILEC's local loop. Given that, there may be more CLEC competition in Canada than in the US, given that the only remaining DSL CLEC in the US is, as far as I know, Covad, and they're not in all markets.

Now, can somebody explain how the DSL "resellers" work (worked?) in the US? Is that like here, where they lease DSLAM ports, or is it truly the "reselling" of the service?

If by "resellers" you're referring to CLECs such as Covad and the now-defunct Rhythms and Northpoint, they, as far as I know, leased space in the ILEC's CO and installed their own equipment, using the ILEC's local loop.

None of them were/are ISPs; they, in turn, sold /sell their services to ISPs.

What do you mean? If you can connect to the 802.11 network, you can ssh, ftp, http and all the other thing you would want to do. This can be done with an Ipaq or any other device that can get a dhcp lease with an 802.11 network.
Try to find a network (mine if you want) in your area that is just a simple configuration of dhcp with NAT setup and try to get it to work. Or you can go downtown in santa rosa and use Sonic.nets Wireless Downtown Network but you need a sonic account. Good luck.

I was recently very grateful for Slackware. I wanted to install a modern, up-to-date distro on an ancient 486 laptop with a ~300MB hard drive. Red Hat, which is what I use on my desktop and on all my machines at work, just laughed at my naivete, thinking that I could install Linux on a drive so small. Slackware, however, worked without a hitch. See http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/canonib150c.html .

-Rob

Amazing, huh?

It discusses in scientific detail what is wrong with the radioactive dating methods

The Creationists like to point out so-called "flaws" in dating techniques that are based on "assumptions." While they can sometimes confuse the scientifically illiterate with this terminology, there is now a dating technique that doesn't rely on knowledge of radioisotopes that is very effective in showing the foolishness of their arguments.

Dendrochronology is the science of dating by the use of annular tree rings. Nothing too confusing here, it's school kid stuff. However, by piecing together the "fingerprint" of a sequence of years, we can put overlapping material from live trees and trees used in construction or preserved in peat bogs, etc. to create a calendar of the past 9000 years, well beyond the Creationist "age of the earth."

sorry, forgot the link: http://waves.sonic.net/
(grr that 2-minute shit pisses me off!)

and the funny thing is that they just announced this service a few days ago. Now I just need a the right wireless card and I can post comments to slashdot during lunch =p

http://www.ssc.com/ssc/productlist.html.

A useful online tool, when paired with man pages, is the 'apropos' command. It can be used to search summaries of command functions to find the right command, then you can read the man page for that tool. For example:

# apropos search
apropos (1) - search the whatis database for strings
find (1) - search for files in a directory hierarchy
lkbib (1) - search bibliographic databases
lookbib (1) - search bibliographic databases
manpath (1) - determine user's search path for man pages
whatis (1) - search the whatis database for complete words.
zgrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

So, you can read these descriptions, and if one sounds like the tool you're looking for, call up the man page for that particular utility using "man".

For those missing man pages on the system, you can use my (somewhat outdated) man page web gateway at http://www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/man.

Happy Linuxing!

-Dane (last seen driving the North Bay backroads in a red 2001 Porsche Carerra with the California license plate "LINUX")

Hmm, where would we find old FC releases?

Is that good enough for you? :-)



(Hint: Starts with a 'G', ends with an 'e' and has 'oogl' in between...)

What's this? XML meets the geek code? (real site down)

Thanks for clarifying that. People toss around 'xDSL' like its another variant aside from aDSL and sDSL..

Personally, I have aDSL and my downstream is great (I can download from most fast sites at 200k/sec). My upstream, however, is capped right around 13k/sec (i mean kbytes) which I find annoying. Still, I'm happy because its cheap and it very rarely goes down.

(i have a pacbell line and service from sonic.net)

___

This is one scary book that everybody should read. The Russian author, Ken Alibek, moved to Alabama (where I live) where he was a consultant after his defection to the US Army Chemical/Biological Warfare Group at Fort McClellan in Anniston, so I have actually followed this story fairly closely. Dr. Alibek is basically the guy behind the drive to vaccinate the US Army against anthrax, which has caused quite a furor over the past few years. A slide show he gave/gives fairly frequently is here and his Congressional testimony is here... it's VERY interesting reading. If Dr. Alibek's writings don't induce a rising sense of worry in the back of your mind, just keep reading here.

try this book :
The Microsoft File by Wendy Goldman Rohm
or this one
Undocumented Windows by A Schulman
or this one
Unauthorized Windows 95 by Andrew Schulman

or this one :

Undocumented Windows NT, by Prasad Dabak, Sandeep Phadke, and Milind Borate
example chapter

Here's a whole bookstore making money from undocumented Windows API calls :
http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/bookstore.html

what something online?

try here http://www.vbworld.com/api/shelldoc/

a password cracking utility that uses Win32 undocumented api calls to display the currently logged user's password

API: Access/Office and AddressOf Operator

some more software

is that enough yet ?


.oO0Oo.

try this book :
The Microsoft File by Wendy Goldman Rohm
or this one
Undocumented Windows by A Schulman
or this one
Unauthorized Windows 95 by Andrew Schulman

or this one :

Undocumented Windows NT, by Prasad Dabak, Sandeep Phadke, and Milind Borate
example chapter

Here's a whole bookstore making money from undocumented Windows API calls :
http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/bookstore.html

what something online?

try here http://www.vbworld.com/api/shelldoc/

a password cracking utility that uses Win32 undocumented api calls to display the currently logged user's password

API: Access/Office and AddressOf Operator

some more software

is that enough yet ?


.oO0Oo.

5W NBFM transmitter, 146MHz (amateur 2m band)

Theoric distance of over 10,000 miles (in free space).

5W NBFM transmitter, 146MHz (amateur 2m band)

Theoric distance of over 10,000 miles (in free space).

Same principle as those novelty floating LED clocks, which are themselves a fairly old concept.

I'd like to see an actual 3D image with no glass case and no rotating display screen. Now that would be something. This just makes me yawn. A neat toy ... big deal.