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Truely, and what other desktop could display
301 clocks with a 50Mhz speed cpu?

There's also a discussion on Whirlpool's and Swiftel/People Telcom's forums.

QSpaceHulk is probably the best. It's 2nd edition, unfortunately, but it does have multiplayer. It's GPL'd

Sulk has a lot of potential. It's 1st edition and has a good AI, but currently no network play (only hotseat). It's written in Python with PyGame and is GPL'd.

Finally there's Spacehulk-SP. I don't know much about this one since it's written in VB and I haven't tried it under WINE. Surprisingly, it's GPL'd as well though.

Look, musical taste may be entirely subjective but that doesnt change the fact that if *i* dont like it, it sucks :p

Agree Krondor,

I'm amazed that /. readers are still confusing privacy with security (of the device). Whilst remotely related, they ain't the same...

I've long supported THIS very concept:
About: the Caspian Sea Monster
Much development remains with LARGER Sizes, Leading Tandem Monoplane configurations, and Sidewall Hovercraft Surface manoevering;- aspects being possibilities in solving various problems.

Enclosed Fan Propulsion can solve high-power noise problems, and be used to augment swift-climb requirements!
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getting covered in DogPoo?
Like THIS?
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> Back in those days, i read in the magazines that it was apple who was the other party, not ibm.
Care to cite such?
Here's my source:
page scan
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"Unlimited" services can't work. Someone's got to pay for the bandwidth somewhere.

I'm with Swiftel in Australia, and for AU$65/month, I get 512/128, with a 16GB/month download quota. This has built up to 16GB from the 8GB I was getting when I signed up in October. (They tend to increase user's download quotas every month or so as they receive more customers)

On top of that, p2p traffic between users in the same state doesn't count towards your quota, and a few users have set up eMule/DC++ servers (restricted to Swiftel IP ranges), which have been announced on Swiftel's user forums.

Plus, if you go over your download quota, it only costs AU$5/GB (charged per MB). Compare this to the horrendous amount Telstra charge their users.

I suppose it is truly unlimited. You just have to pay a very reasonable amount for what you use. :)

Sure, as of last week this a completely biased email, but I really am one guy who was so happy he bought the company (well 0.0001% of it at least).

Dulles International, Feb 2001.
I liked it so much, I took photos. Quad-View
Single-View

Dulles International, Feb 2001.
I liked it so much, I took photos. Quad-View
Single-View

The real problem is not so much the download cap as the horrific excess charges. My ISP (Pacific Internet) offers an entry-level ADSL plan (256/64 with 500MB of downloads) for $44.95 per month (US$30). Once you go over the 500MB, you are charged at 14.9c per MB - $149 per GB (US$100). That's a fairly typical charge across the industry.

Things have started to improve just recently. First, Comindico (through numerous resellers) have started to offer flat-rate ADSL. Second, Swiftel (directly and also through resellers) have started to offer plans with an excess charge of just $6 per GB - 25 times cheaper than the industry standard.

As others have mentioned, Whirlpool is the place to go for Broadband news in Oz. Most of it is bad, of course. Telstra is, not to put to fine a point on it, evil. Our federal communications minister, the benighted Senator Alston, is hopelessly ill-suited to the post. It's not all darkness, though.