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what made you think that I am "blaming" anyone but X10 for X10's business practices?

You said, "I really want to buy X10 products, but refuse to on the principal of their advertising methods."

X10 (the protocol) doesn't have advertising methods. X10.com ("X10 Wireless Technology", the company) does. If you speak of "X10's advertising methods" it sounds like you are confusing the two, using an ambiguous indentifier.

It's somewhat like saying "I really want to use TCP, but refuse to on the principal the tcp.com is an ugly website." (I don't know anything about the guy who runs tcp.com and don't mean to allege any likeness to x10.com's business practices, just a handy example of a website taking its name from a protocol.)

The X10 protocol long predates X10.com, it was developed in 1975. This company did not develop the X10 protocol, and is not the sole supplier of X10 products.

If you want to buy X10 products without patronizing X10.com, it's easily done.

The Blak logo looks like the old Tab logo. Compare "a" in the Blak logo to the "a" in the Tab logo.
http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tab.html

Note that the capital "b" in Blak does not look anything like the "b" in Tab.

My mom was addicted to Tab. When they relaunched the drink with a combination of saccharin and aspartame my mom totally disapproved of it. "You might as well be drinking Diet Coke."

There is no accounting for taste. As for myself, I actually prefer Diet Coke with Lime. And Diet Mountain Dew, while not something I would drink all the time, is a godsend at finals time. Ultra-caffeinated. No carbs. Rock.

Oh yeah, nothing is going to ever beat the Japanese on iced coffee beverages. UCC Coffee has ownage over anything made in the US. I'll try this but I doubt they can beat UCC.

http://www.tcp.com/doi/doi/ufo/eva/eva-ucc1.jpg
Misato knows what's good for you. Beer, Ramen, Curry Rice, and UCC Coffee.

Chairman Bill Gates has been working on a solution to the film industry's piracy problem since making a now legendary pitch to the industry in September 2002. Showing a video of himself dressed in a sailor suit...

Am I the only one that thought of this? ARRGGGHHH!!!

*scrubs brain madly to vainly try to remove subsequent image*

Warning: pedantic geekery ahead. :)

As far as I know, the last software Bill Gates actually worked on was the included software, notably the text editor, for the TRS-80 Model 100/200 portable computers from Radio Shack.

http://www.tcp.com/~lgreenf/bill.htm

It's more amusing to assume his last work was a crappy BASIC game, I suppose. But for what they were, the Model 100/200 machines were really pretty damn cool little gadgets. For all of the obvious limitations (a 16-line, 40-character screen, 32K of RAM expandable to 96K at most, IIRC), my Model 200 had the best keyboard of any laptop I've ever used -- and ran for about 15 hours on AA batteries. (And the file system was similar in some ways to the Palm's a few years later: a flat system you didn't ever save anything to, because files were persistent.)

Actually, that looks like ass over raw telnet. Download SimpleMU or TinyFugue and use that instead of telnet.

That's probably the startup crash sound.

Audio clips of the sounds from various Macintosh models are available here.
http://www.tcp.com/~dschaub/readme.html

I think the one you're talking about is Crash_PowerMac.

My Performa 6300 gives Crash_PowerMac_Card when I take the RAM out and turn it on. I laughed so hard when I first heard it.

The Apple developers always seem to have a sense of humor.

Doubtless, reputations will be besmirched and careers ruined, some no doubt unjustly. And to what end? The ills of communism were many, but they are in the past.

It's never that simple. The past is always embedded in the present. If you are African-American, you could happily forget the slave past, but you can't escape the question "why my skin color makes it impossible for me to buy a flat in Upper Manhattan?". If you think Central Europe is the only region of the world haunted by ghosts from past crimes... then think again. Or better yet, talk to some Nisei, to some Native Americans or just watch "Graveyard Of The Fireflies" anime with some Japanese friend. So if you are in Poland, you are more than eager to forget about the communist past. But forget it or not, you will still ask yourself this question: why I am a poor wage-slave or unemploeyd, while my secret service tormentor has now a management position in some state-owned company?

The fact that it's there at all.

I've been on TOS Trekmuse since 1992. Back in the day, you'd have 50-100 people at any given time, divided amongst empires, interacting in a variety of political, social, economic and of course, militaristic ways.

The lack of bells and whistles and giant graphical clients meant players had to put more of their own imagination into the game. (And at this time, processor power was just reaching that threshhold where you could run a multi-user space simulation 'in the background'). That reflected in very entertaining game play for the most part.

The advent of photorealistic FPS games with network play cut into the MUD/MUSH/MUSE scene hard. RTS games followed. For some reason, simulation games haven't quite caught the same momentum as the other genres yet, but there are examples out there, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time. Consequently, I've watched the player levels of TOS Trekmuse dwindle every year. And I can't count the number of MU* that have simply ceased to exist as players move on to other things.

That being said, if you're willing to invest some time and creativity, TOS Trekmuse can be a very rewarding gameplay experience. I know every there is looking at this sudden influx of interest from this /. post as an opportunity to grow the playerbase. There's a critical mass of players that make games like this really take off, and they're not far off from that number.

So I too would like to invite you all to check it out, ask around and see if it's a diversion you'd enjoy putting your time into.

Also, for the Unix/Linux users, I highly recommend using the tinyfugue (tf) client vs. raw telnet. You can find tf in most distributions, or at http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/

Where have I heard of this before?

Check out Aardwolf if you want something to keep on one of your windows in Screen. Its also free.

A nifty MUD client to make your play sharper: TinyFugue

In case you were wondering, an aardwolf is an African hyena that eats termites. Why they called the game that, I'll never know...

• OpenSSL - support program
• OpenSSH - connections in and out
• Mutt - email
• nmap - scanning tool
• libpcap - support library
• Ethereal - network sniffer
• mtr (Matt's TraceRoute) - trace problems
• whois (ARIN compatible) - find where the problems are
• tf (tinyfugue) - BBS client
• mangband - multiplayer ascii game

There is cetainly a lot of usefull content out there; I've read entire novels (such as The Human Memoirs) on them. However, there's little point in putting up websites which just detail ones personal information.

What I really want to see is a virtual world like the VIS in Reality Check. Then there would actually be a point in building a virtual home in Internet...

Wouldn't mind about the cat girl online, either ;)

On the other hand, it's not so much that the dubs are bad as it is that often the Japanese voice actors use unnatural voices for the characters. Almost all young/teen girl voices are done this way.

Perhaps, but let me ask you, for how long have you lived in Japan to judge (I haven't)? How did you like Chihiro's voice acting?

Obviously I think dubs suck, just because they hide the original work.

Chimes of death as well as Mac startup noises can be found here. Note that you can make most ADB-based Macs (pre-USB) "crash test" on startup by pressing Apple-Keyboard Power Button just as the startup chime is playing. This will, however, hang the Mac at the sad mac screen and you will need to reboot it with the Apple-Control-Power Key combo.

Apple-Power Key is the keyboard shortcut for the Programming Interupt Switch, just like Apple-Control-Power Key is the shortcut for the Reset Swtich. The Power Key is the button on the keyboard with the small leftward-pointing triangle.

Does anyone know where I can find a downloadable sound sample of the "Chimes of Death"? I'm not a mac user and I'm interested in hearing them...

I found copies of both the crash sounds, and the startup sounds here. I recommend the 'Crash Mac Quadra' file.

They do jump over the important stuff to mention their favorites, don't they?

1990s: A whole lotta nothing going on. Uh huh. The obviously slept through 1992.

Could buy and sell Evangelion six times before corn flakes. It also deserves mention in the U.S. licensing portion of the article, since it was one of three shows that formed the basis for the current
success of anime in general.

Oh, and it did about ten figures in merchandising too.

Pictured at the top of this page. It was an 8 bit computer with a 2MHZ processor and 8k or RAM (upgraded to 16). The tape drive still works but you have to adjust the head with a screwdriver to get the damn thing to read anymore.

It was a fun little machine with games like Goofy Golf and Mazes and Monsters. I kind of miss the musical quality of the games data as they loaded up through the tape deck, the sound of the raw data stream pouring through the speakers. Hell, you could even tell if a game was loading correctly by the pattern of the sound or if the tape deck needed an adjustement, or a good whack on the side.

Wasn't the Model 100 the last computer that Billy G. wrote software for?

Hmmm. Let me verify this.

< google... >

Confirmed. I knew it. The last useful thing MS did. Definitely one for the archives.

Here's the google search.

• Lupin Encyclopedia
• Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin III works
• Alan's Webguide

Here's my friend Run who probably knows better how to spell amok than the ./ editors.

And here I thought that Miyuki-chan in Wonderland was Alice in Wonderland Japanese-style....

I am running a Gateway surplus motherboard in a ATX case, and it just does the typical feep that all x86 computers since the IBM5150. However, I haven't played around with very recent Gateway PCs. I haven't been to a Gateway Country store since the one in Northridge, CA closed down.

It is a really efficient way to do this. It was initially done, I think, in 1984 or 1985...

I think the code that's there is for BSD 4.3, but if you've already done the library work...

The overview reads:

This is the Purdue/ksb entombing system. Files removed by programs
linked with "libtomb" are cached for a while (long enough to get on a
backup tape would be best case) in case their untimely loss is noticed.

The 3 programs are "unrm" (the user agent to get files back), "entomb"
the system agent to cache a file, and "preend" (the system agent to
clean the older files from the tombs.

Included as nifty side products are "rmfile" which helps novice users
delete files with funny names (like "-") and "untmp" which should be
used to clean /tmp from a ".logout" type file from casual users.

What would my Priest do? What the hell is that? A bumper sticker for NAMBLA?

Rei's voice is really weird in that part, however... it sounds like a man talking or something, not the regular Rei voice.

Actually, I really liked the change in Rei's voice. That voice is much closer to the rest of Megumi Hayashibara's roles. If you've heard her as Ranma Saotome, Faye Valentine, etc. it's as though she's flashing a "Hi! This really is me." Amazing.

She's also in DoCO together with the other women from Ranma 1/2. I just find it really odd to think of the same actress doing Dilando and Nabiki Tendo. I guess that's talent.

I debated mentioning Megumi by name, but decided against it. She's certainly very famous; she also has a fair number of music CDs, both by herself and with the other women of Ranma 1/2 (where she played Ranma-chan). FWIW, you can see her credits at the on-line seiyuu database. I think that the best indication of her reputation is that there's a character named in her honor in Nadesico, and fans are expected to get the joke (even that the character trained as a nurse before becoming a seiyuu, just like the original).

The Espon HX-20 came out before the Model 100. Anti-Microsoft conspiracy buffs will note that the built-in software in the Model 100 was written by Bill Gates, so maybe that explains the revisonist history.

Global Warming Is Here: The Scientific Evidence

Rumbles in the Arctic - strange new events, never seen before in the Arctic, are terrifying the locals

Scientists Now Acknowledge Role of Humans in Climate Change - yes, it's not just happening coincidentally

Hopefully, we can get a sensible discussion going here?

Global Warming Is Here: The Scientific Evidence

Rumbles in the Arctic - strange new events, never seen before in the Arctic, are terrifying the locals

Scientists Now Acknowledge Role of Humans in Climate Change - yes, it's not just happening coincidentally

Hopefully, we can get a sensible discussion going here?

Lina Inverse of the "Slayers" series.

Lime of "Saber Marionette J" and its sequels.

Ayanami Rei of "Evangelion"

Faye Valentine of "Cowboy Bebop"

Female Ranma of "Ranma 1/2"

Kitty of "Sanrio" (aka "Hello Kitty")

A more complete list can be found here. (In case you can't guess, she's one of my favorite voice actresses.)