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The last couple of months AmigaOS4 has been demonstrated at special 'AmigaOS4 Tour events' around the world on classic systems equiped with PPC boards. At various events in Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Austria, US Westcoast (Sacramento), US Eastcoast (New York), Sweden, Italy, France, Denmark, etc. The Tour will also go DonwUnder.

Personally I have been to Switzerland to report on one of these events. You can read it here:
Swiss 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' presentation in Basel (29-Jul-2003)

At the Italian Pianeta 2003 fair AmigaOS4 was demonstrated on AmigaOne hardware for the first time! More screenshots of AmigaOS4 can be found here at the AmigaWorld.net community portal.

Hyperion will also be present at the upcoming Benelux Amiga Show which is planned for the 4th and 4th of October in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I plan to be there as well. :-)

I managed to get The startup splash screen image, and I've put it on my website.

Here is a page of links for such lists.

I've got a composite of the difference that the blackout made areas that were darker during the blackout are in red. Areas that were bright at both times are white.

Well, okay, months. But I've got a blog *nobody* reads but me! And I'll never tell you about it! Never!

I contacted the technical support departments for Telus(ADSL) and Shaw(cable) with regards to their support for IPv6. Telus and Shaw are the two major broadband providers in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

Here are the results:

- Telus: Technical support rep. actually knew what IPv6 was and said that I was the first person to ever ask him that question. His response (after talking to supervisors) was: "Telus will deploy IPv6 within two years".

- Shaw: Technical support rep. did not know what I was talking about, escalated me to second level support, who then put me on hold for a while. Their response: not supported and there is no schedule to deploy IPv6. He said that Shaw "would do it when we start running out of IPs".

I didn't bother to contact any small ISPs in town.

"in which Hussites threw 7 members of the Czech Town Council out of Prague's New Town Hall window--and to their deaths on the points of Hussite-wielded pikes below. To make the situation more interesting, King Wenceslas IV had an apoplectic fit and died of a heart attack upon learning of the defenestration."

BTW: This isn't a job for GIMP... mogrify does a really nice job of bulk translation...

Once you've saved the (massive) jpeg files, you can do the following: mogrify -resize 14.6666% *.jpg
mkdir smaller
for i in *.mgk ; do mv $i smaller/${i%mgk}jpg ; done
cd smaller
ls | sed '%s_.*_<a href="http://spiderling.blockstackers.com/\~hemos/ wedding/&"><IMG src="&">&</a><BR>_' > index.html

in the sed script, I'm using _ instead of / for obvious reasons (there are slashes all over the edit string). The result should be your own index with smaller pictures (you might want to change the 14.6666% to 33.333 or 50%......

I put the result on my ISPs personal web service
Larger versions (33%) of the pics are there too. Mogrify also seems to do a pretty good job of JPEG compression overall....

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to rotate the thinker image right side up (gotta get to work).

Feel free to make your own mirrors (not like it's my copyright...). I have no idea as to if/when Telus (my ISP) will cut off the page for bandwidth usage.. Hemos... PLEASE feel free to put a copy on your site.

BTW: This isn't a job for GIMP... mogrify does a really nice job of bulk translation...

Once you've saved the (massive) jpeg files, you can do the following: mogrify -resize 14.6666% *.jpg
mkdir smaller
for i in *.mgk ; do mv $i smaller/${i%mgk}jpg ; done
cd smaller
ls | sed '%s_.*_<a href="http://spiderling.blockstackers.com/\~hemos/ wedding/&"><IMG src="&">&</a><BR>_' > index.html

in the sed script, I'm using _ instead of / for obvious reasons (there are slashes all over the edit string). The result should be your own index with smaller pictures (you might want to change the 14.6666% to 33.333 or 50%......

I put the result on my ISPs personal web service
Larger versions (33%) of the pics are there too. Mogrify also seems to do a pretty good job of JPEG compression overall....

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to rotate the thinker image right side up (gotta get to work).

Feel free to make your own mirrors (not like it's my copyright...). I have no idea as to if/when Telus (my ISP) will cut off the page for bandwidth usage.. Hemos... PLEASE feel free to put a copy on your site.

BTW: This isn't a job for GIMP... mogrify does a really nice job of bulk translation...

Once you've saved the (massive) jpeg files, you can do the following: mogrify -resize 14.6666% *.jpg
mkdir smaller
for i in *.mgk ; do mv $i smaller/${i%mgk}jpg ; done
cd smaller
ls | sed '%s_.*_<a href="http://spiderling.blockstackers.com/\~hemos/ wedding/&"><IMG src="&">&</a><BR>_' > index.html

in the sed script, I'm using _ instead of / for obvious reasons (there are slashes all over the edit string). The result should be your own index with smaller pictures (you might want to change the 14.6666% to 33.333 or 50%......

I put the result on my ISPs personal web service
Larger versions (33%) of the pics are there too. Mogrify also seems to do a pretty good job of JPEG compression overall....

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to rotate the thinker image right side up (gotta get to work).

Feel free to make your own mirrors (not like it's my copyright...). I have no idea as to if/when Telus (my ISP) will cut off the page for bandwidth usage.. Hemos... PLEASE feel free to put a copy on your site.

1987 US CRX Si specs:
91 bhp@5500rpm
1953 lb
0-60: 8.5 sec
1/4 mile: 16.7
top speed: 115 mph

According to the same site, a CRX with an aftermarket supercharger and intercooler (and one would assume beefed up tires, suspension, drivetrain to handle the extra torque) can do a 5.7 0-60 and a 14.8 1/4 mile. And even after all that money, it still looks like a shitty old Honda. Now:

Corvette LS1 | Z06:
350@5600 | 385@6000
3214 lbs | 3115 lbs
0-60: 4.6 sec | 4.0 sec
1/4 mile: 13.22 | 12.6
top speed: 175mph | 171mph

Unless by "well-tweaked" you mean "full-blown tube-chassis racecar running high boost and nitrous with few or no original parts," you're talking out your ass.

"the need for higher pricing for users who tend to use more than their fair share of the bandwidth"?

Are we referring to the uncapping of cable-modems or just someone using all they can? I don't know what your American companies call 'fair share' but up here in Canada that means if I pay for a 512Kb connection and my monthly limit is 3GB upstream, if that's all I am using, that's all I pay for (at a reasonable $35 CAD/mo.(about $22.75 USD/mo.)). Most of our providers don't even care if you have a home network and use NAT! Check here if you don't believe me.

Maybe Canadian companies just don't understand the concept of gouging like those good 'ol American ones. We always were a little slow.

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http://bogr46qdy22tc.bc.hsia.telus.net:9000/perlbo x.jpg

Seems to work okay.

Bet my office view beats yours! :-)

Vancouver is a relatively dull place. Remember New Year's Y2K? No huge parties. No major *celebration*.

Having lived in a REAL world class city (Tokyo), Vancouver comes across as podunk small town.

$40 (canadian) for 1.5Mbps / 512kbps

That's $US 25 ,or 29 Euros

Although I've never seen it that fast. Large files from MS download at ~1 Mbps.

$39.95 CDN ($25 USD) for 1.5Mbps downstream, 512kbps upstream in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from Telus Communications

When Telus (fully) enters the DSL market in Ontario, we should Ontarians should see some price competitions.

Telus is offering high speed DSL service for $79.95 (including modem)
Downstream speed up to 2.5 Mbps1
Upstream speed up to 640 Kbps
5 e-mail boxes
30 MB Webspace
5 dynamic IP addresses
Domain hosting - Included
6 GB/month Internet connection traffic (5 GB/month down, 1 GB/month up)
Unlimited hours with high-speed connection
10 hours dial access per month for when you're away from your high-speed connection, $1.50 per hour overtime
Expert technical support
Satisfaction guarantee

Now, Rogers is offering
128 Kbps UP/1.5 Mbps DOWN
1 ip
(don't know about email, cause I don't trust their server uptimes)
5 megs webpage
blah blah...

Bell DSl isn't much better, than rogers, other than it's DSL (you know the trade offs)

Personally I think the service stinks everywhere, and CRTC won't do anything about it, because it's not cable, radio, television, or telephone service. It's internet... which they are not monitoring, or governing, yet if ever.

Shaw cable, when there were in Ontario, was great, high speeds both up and down. Things didn't break too often to complain about.

Well... enough ranting... atleast we have choice... well ones that are close enough to a CO for DSL.

Wonder if Look.ca/Look.com (Look communications) still has wireless digital internet?

Horray for Ontarians and their choices:
1.) Bad [Bell]
2.) Bad, if not Worse [Rogers]
3.) Don't know yet, but will be coming soon [Telus]
4.) dead [Look]
5.) dialup [is this the same as 4?]
6.) high cost Small business DSL lines [misc companies, and really expensive for home use]

see here:
>On the contrary, many folks have had exceptional service with DSL. --emphasis mine.

Now see here:
> I have had BellSouth's
> my IP
>There has been exactly one outage...after I got the service...which I used the freely-provided
>Most of my friends...have cable modems, and not a day goes by...complain about their connection going down
>It seems to me that cable modem technology ... are much more questionable than DSL.

Well it seems to me that you are using alot of I's, Me's, and My's in your "factual" account on "many folks' DSL service". And the rest is the opinion of your friends. Let me give you my *experience* as a seasoned helldesk tech at more than 3 companies that offered DSL and/or cable.

Invariably, customers of DSL broadband technology suffer more inconvenience/disatisfaction caused by faulty DSLAMS, line attentuation, network outages, software incompatibilities (PPPoE), and red tape from the Telco, than their cable modem counterparts.

Add to this the fact that average downstream and upstream speeds for cable users are usually twice as fast as DSL, waitlists are virtually non-existant, and availability is generally subject to whether or not you can get cable TV. If you can get TV, you can probably get broadband. Oh, and for the same price if not cheaper.

Vancouver

Shaw Cable (TV company): $39.95/month CDN, 2 dynamic IPs, no traffic limit, first month free(30-day trial). Average dl 80 KILOBYTES/s, ul 40 KILOBYTES, distance is irrelevent, usually installed within 5 days.

Telus (phone company): $39.95/month CDN, 2 dynamic IPs, 5GB down 1 GB up (residential! pfft!), 2 months free if you buy the modem (translation:you just paid 2 months), avg dl 40KILOBYTES/s ul 10KILOBYTES/s, speeds are dependant on distance from the CO, and affect availibility, eligibility affected by line integrity (for those of you in older buildings--you're screwed), waitlists are usually about 6 months.

Both companies offer outlandish "corporate" and SOHO accounts, but the links are there, make up your own mind.

Really? The first time I saw this (on dotto I think) I though "Neat... I wonder how many days till this gets cracked".

I have plain old residential ADSL from the local telco and, after some near-disasterous teething problems, it works fine. It was actually easier to set up under Linux than under Windows. Quelle surprise!

I bought the modem (one of the 3Com jobs) and they ding me $CDN 34.95 for the service. Or, rather, they will, after I use up all the rebates and incentives.

Oh, BTW: a week and a half from placing the order to getting a green ADSL Status light on the modem.

...laura who likes high-speed Internet

See http://www3.telus.net/brian_winters/mutt/ for mutzilla.

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panic("esp: Mr. Potatoe Head is on the loose!"); --linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c

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panic("esp: Mr. Potatoe Head is on the loose!"); --linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c

These clear cases sure do look nice, but what can look better than a case made solely out of legos? This case is made from legos only, with no glue or adhesives whatsoever!

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panic("esp: Mr. Potatoe Head is on the loose!"); --linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c

These clear cases sure do look nice, but what can look better than a case made solely out of legos? This case is made from legos only, with no glue or adhesives whatsoever!

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panic("esp: Mr. Potatoe Head is on the loose!"); --linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c

These clear cases sure do look nice, but what can look better than a case made solely out of legos? This case is made from legos only, with no glue or adhesives whatsoever!

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panic("esp: Mr. Potatoe Head is on the loose!"); --linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c

Out of curiosity, I hunted down a copy of the dhrystone benchmarks, and did some comparisons. megahertz to dhrystone rations go from a low of .02 for an apple 2e on drhystone 1 to a high of 2.35 for my P3/450). (Other than my own benchmarks, the latest results on the table are a couple of years old.)

In any case, the point is that dhrystone to MZ ratings vary by a factor of aabout 100 when you go across CPU families (and compilers). Even for relatively recent CPUs the ratio is still 3-1. I think that this supports my contention that clock times are a really bad way of gauging CPU performance.
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Out here in the wild west of Canada (Alberta), Telus has a very good DSL service. I've had mine for over a year and it has worked great. Once they had done maintenece on a server and I had to restart my server to get reestablished, but other than that no problems.

I get it for $39.95 (CAD) (26.65 USD) a month from Telus, they provided the router/DSL Modem (Cisco 625). I think they have changed routers, and are now even offering self intallation. I have 1.5mb downstream and 512kb upstream, and being in a relatively new subdivision, I have a very good connection and regualarly get 1.6mb downstream.

They use standad DHCP (I'm allowed 2 addresses)and I have just recently switched over to a 486 box running LRP (Linux Router Project) and it work damn fine.

They scale up very good too, for $89.95 (CAD) you can get 2.5mb downstream/1.0mb upstream, and for 169.95 (CAD) you can get 4.0mb downstream/1.5mb upstream and 5 statis IP addresses.

All in all, a very good service in my opinion,
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I live in Calgary, and I have no problem with my DSL at ALL. 2.5mbps down, and 500kbps up, $39.95CAD a month (that's like $4 USD), no contract at all, and to top it all off, a static IP. Most people that I know get cable because they cannot get DSL.

I use TELUS for my service. The only complaint I had about it was the time to get it installed. 4ish weeks from the time I called. However, should be a little better now. They offer a package that lets you "roll your own". Basically provide you with splitters etc that you add to your jacks, your own modem (you end up buying it), and all they have to do is setup the port at the switch. This is pretty much nothing for a wait, though a little more expensive to get going.

DSL availability and quality totally depends on where you live. Being in British Columbia Canada we're blessed with some very fast and cheap ADSL. (Telus.net DSL) I've heard my fair share of horror stories about Pac Bell DSL in particular. For now unfortunately there aren't too many options, Cable or DSL, it just depends which is better in your location. I am also of the opinion that you get what you pay for. You want connection powaz the Telco's are going to make you pay through the nose. (Ala $1600/mo for a T1 here). The cable companies and Telco's don't compete, they're in bed together! It's amazing how much bandwidth/backbones they share when it boils down to it. They have similar pricing schemes and put on a show for the consumer. (PacBell DSL Cops Commercial Spoof) What it basically comes down to is, if you're a nerd, and you need a phat connect, chances are you'll pay far more than the average joe. It just depends on how far you're willing to go for that connection. The more you pay the more you'll get in my experience, it's as simple as that. GX-Deltan deltan@gamers.com

I thought that the NS 6.0 installer is supposed to only install the pieces of the application that you want. If that's not the case, I'm sure someone will correct me. Now, on the Unix side of things, there already is something called Muttzilla that does exactly what you describe: launch your favorite email program. In my case, it uses gnudoit to send a message telling emacs to create a mail buffer with the given email address, subject, etc. I would expect something similar will be available for Mozilla.

Aside from the sarcasm and italics, where is your rebuttal? Do you really think that the average citizen of Vienna in 1800 had access to the quantity and range of music that even an average Wal-Mart customer has today?

>What the original poster proposes is no more than a pay-by-worth system: one pays to support music one like.

Hmmm, 'paying for music that one likes', that seems to be exactly what Metallica is asking for. We already have a pay-by-worth system, it's called the mass market. The difference between a consumer market and a patronage/commisioning system is that in a mass market, anyone who can scrape together $15 for a CD gets a vote, not just those who can afford to underwrite a band of their own.

Of course communications technlogy might enable some hybrid of mass market and patronage by allowing individuals to cooperate to underwrite works of art and other IP. For an interesting take on this, see Ray Gardener's payvoting scheme

The telcos don't suckle at the government nipple. They didn't get money or support from them, beyond the initial massive giveaway of land rights for their transmission paths (in BC, mainly small areas to put up towers; they generally piggybacked the land lines on the electrical utility poles)--same as in the US.

What they did get is controlled. They couldn't fart or sneeze without needing clearance from the CRTC.

This guaranteed that everyone got a standard level of service at a standard level of pricing. It ensured that prices dropped as costs dropped. It ensured that as communities grew, party line service would become private line service. It ensured that when line quality was poor, the telco had to look after fixing it.

It was a good situation for the monopoly: they got a guaranteed, healthy income. And it was a good situation for the consumer: they got a good price on service with a guarantee of service.

Now that we have open competition, we have lower per-minute costs, but higher monthly lease costs; we have outrageously expensive repair fees; we have no guarantee of service.

All in all, we've broken even: what we save in one area, we pay for in another.

What we have lost, though, is the control. The previously tame monopoly is now a mainly uncontrolled near-monopoly. Oh, joy.

As far as "lag behind the US" goes, I don't think you have a clue about the advanced state of our communications systems, and the decrepit state of your own.

You should go hang out in telecom newsgroups on Usenet for a while. You people are being seriously *screwed* by your communications providers. For gods sake, you still have mechanical switching stations, while we're getting fiber-to-home in new community developments.

Lag behind the States? How about Internet access, then? Every sizeable town, let alone city, in BC has access to ADSL -- look at Telus HS Access for details. And at a price that's *cheaper* than having a second line with dialup access.

Canada has a higher Internet usage, per capita, than the US. We have better access, more access and cheaper access than most of you.

You haven't a fucking clue. You actually believe the American superiority myth that your government pacifies you with.

Hey, it keeps you from every demanding something better.

Ignorance is bliss. Welcome to 1984, America-style.

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Just where are you getting your facts from? My athlon smokes my p3 of the same clock speed.. okay.. well maybe not SMOKES but it is noticeably faster..

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