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I don't suppose it means anything that Cray's next supercomputer is going to be an Alpha Linux cluster...

Honestly though, Linux lacks the tools to make this sort of thing a straightforward setup. Configuring Linux from the ground up gets you there, but that's a tedious process that most people don't want to go through. ("What, Linux from Scratch? Ummm...can I have ReliantHA, please?") Also, as of glibc 2.1.3, the basic GNU/Linux system as a whole was not completely POSIX compliant. Some of the missing POSIX features (like atomic file locking, which finally works in glibc 2.2) are actually very good features to have ;)

I don't know what Caldera's claim on Linux threads vs SCO threads is all about. If Linux threads don't actually share the code segment's space (which I doubt) then there could be a performance hit, I suppose. A lot of people insist that the Linux __clone() call (the basis for Linux threading) is not "real" threading, but I fail to see where it differs or takes a significant performance hit.

Kelledin Tane, the Dreaming Minstrel
http://kelledin.tripod.com/scovsms.jpg

Just another way to screw with users...

This reminds me of another Bill Gates-ism.

WeiB Kreuz isn't hentai, has no giant robots, and no martial arts, but it does have a flower shop and some regular-non-akira-style motorcycles.

weiB, like Love Hina, isn't released yet, and from the looks o fthings, it never will be. it's about 4 assassins who run a flower shop. the dialogue is good, and each episode gives some insight into the past of the characters.

For more info, visit The White Cross or Endlessly Clear White.

*grins* well looking at your original posting, I think you can see why I might have mistaken you for a troll, my appologies for the implied insult :)

OK, if you're willing to stipulate a code of morals for atheists, (I hate the i before e thing too :)) which I think is a reasonable premise for any discussion down this line, then canabalism is generally ruled out by most codes of ethics/morals, (as well as being evolutionally selected against, to look at it from the atheist pov, let's not turn it into a creationist vs evolutionist argument tho, please.) If canabalism is morally repugnent ("Don't eat people, eating people is wrong"), it would follow logicly that killing people for a reason less then food would be also morally wrong. So Athiests are precluded from killing people by their own codes of morality.

Speaking personally (as opposed to Atheticly :)), if there was a way to survive without killing animals or for that matter plants, I'd be happy to go along with it. As soon as we come up with a protien substitute created without killing anything I'd be first in line to change. I'm not 100% sure they don't have souls, and killing or being part of the death of any living thing is something I would prefer to avoid. Unfortunatly in our current state of scientific development that is unrealistic.

Cheers,


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Remove the rocks to send email

In one of my recent blunders, I removed lots of jumpers from a working motherboard for which I did not have the manual. So, after a LOT of searching, I discovered what it was, an ABIT AH4T. However, ABIT did not have the manual on their sites, no matter how much I looked. And unfortunately, their "moved manuals" site was down.

Anyway, after a lot of searching, I came across a rather large file (for a dialup user, 9.2MB) that looked promising, so I spend 30-45min downloading it. It said it was an archive of motherboard jumper settings. And it was! Over 14,000 devices, not just motherboards. You name it, and it's not currently easily available, and it's likely there. For your convenience, I've placed it here: http://downloads.members.tripod.com/ahaning/th99fr ee.tar.gz. I encourage those with fast connections to mirror this. Enjoy!

(Oh, and yes, I was able to get the settings for my board. Of only board makers would have more often printed that information on the board somewhere. Whoopie for the internet!


kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.

Yeah! They're really great, you buy them on the big spike in a Markham computer store, and they come pre-scratched!

If Canada didn't have the blank media tax, the $1 blank CDs might have recognizable brand names and might not be pre-scratched.

If I lived in Baffin Island, that would probably work. As it is, I have some novel CPU cooling systems of my own. My many American friends love to hop across the border and come up to Toronto to see my latest creation.

As soon as I get the Quickcam to work under FreeBSD, I'll invite Slashdot to the party, too.

Re: dumb Americans. No, Americans are not, as a whole, stupid. The United States wouldn't be the world's one remaining superpower if Americans were. Though, it's nice to know that I've got friends who, in Niagara Falls, NY, paid at Denny's using Canadian Tire Money.

(Canadian Tire is a big and very poor quality department store that uses very official-looking paper "money" as an incentive to come back. The "currency" bears the name "Canadian" and has lots of cool pictures of snowtires and a stereotype Canadian dressed up against the winter.)

Just to put a little weight behind what I've said, see the following web pages:

http://www.chasebanksucks.com/workingatchasesucks. html
http://members.tripod.com/fusa1/examples/321-325.h tm

Clearly these pages wouldn't be around if these companies could do something about it.

She offers web design services. Maybe it has something to do with the beer I've been drinking, but seeing anyone who creates a page this ugly offer web design services is really funny.

She offers web design services. Maybe it has something to do with the beer I've been drinking, but seeing anyone who creates a page this ugly offer web design services is really funny.

She offers web design services. Maybe it has something to do with the beer I've been drinking, but seeing anyone who creates a page this ugly offer web design services is really funny.

the geek antipathy to GIFS is well known

Is it any wonder then that the internet has come to be dominated by corporations? These are the only organisations that have had the foresight and desire to implement the common mans preferences. From AOL to Amazon, these are the organisations now controlling the internet, much to the geeks chagrin.

We had a chance, an opportunity, for a commerce free web, an arena of equality and information. But we did not grasp it, we did not show enough imagination. It is our fault, us, the geeks, that the commercial corporations are taking the initiative and providing the internet that the common man wants.

As far as I'm concerned, portable media is only good for installing fresh to a new computer and digital cameras.

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I am not named after the capital of Tasmania, nor am I named after an industrial dough mixer brand.

I am named after one of the two protagonists from The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh trilogy by Brian Daley, who died on Feb 11, 1996. He wrote the novelization of Tron. He also wrote many Han Solo novels, and Robotech novels under the pseudonym "Jack McKinney". The trilogy is a pretty decent read, it includes:
REQUIEM FOR A RULER OF WORLDS
JINX ON A TERRAN INHERITANCE
FALL OF THE WHITE SHIP AVATAR
Unfortunately I believe all three are out of print. It'd be nice if Del Rey or someone would release never-to-be-reprinted novels on the 'net under some free license :-P

Further history: Upon getting a modem in 1985 at age 11 for my Atari 8-bit, the first handle I used with any regularity was Asmodeus, then The Shadow. When I signed on to DiversiDial #6 (DDials were a 6-line 300 baud multiuser chat system run on Apple IIs with all 6 slots filled with modems! They were networked to each other like some giant realtime Fidonet!) which was "Silly Chat", I ran into "Alacrity" who was already a user (and I think another Atari user). He pretty much said that there were several other "The Shadow"s, and suggested Hobart. The name stuck.

For the record, I've also been using the nick on EFNet since 1990, and I am not the alternative-lifestyled gent from Australia. ;-)

dreadlocked Rastafarian animal.

Chronic the Hemphog's brother, perhaps?

--K

OT: in case you want to try Win2K again...

There's a reghack-NOT-patch for your particular scenario. I had similar problems under Win2K until I applied this fix--crashed every few hours, especially in 3D games. It's chipset independent--happens with VIA, SiS, ALI, AMD, you name it. I applied this fix, and Win2K now actually gets uptime comparable to WinNT. That's not saying much, I know...

Interesting that it only happens with Win2K. Says something about that O/S...like maybe it was rushed out of the door? Not like that's anything new from MS.

Kelledin Tane, the Dreaming Minstre
"All your base are belong to us."

If you telnet into your friendly, neighbourhood POP2 server you can use commands found here which are explained in excruciating detail in RFC1939. Who needs a mail client.:)

IMHO, as per
J:)

This way to the egress of repression > The Linux Pimp

Hello! This file is hosted by Tripod, a Lycos Network site, providing the best personal and commercial publishing tools available on the Net. For premier homepages and lively community interaction, visit Tripod often.

Please click on http://members.tripod.com/laffs/images/keyboard.jp g to load this file."

Clicking that takes you to exactly the same place. What delightful recursion.

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Microsoft's new keyboard kicks ass.

This has been posted to the Pilsbury http://www.mealtimeideas.com/bulletinboard/

For those of you who don't know, Pilsbury is sending cease and desist orders to a variety of organizations who use the term "bake-off."

The most recent round of such letters went to computer companies who use the term for a state of software testing. Salon has an article about it online. http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/01/19/pillsbury /index.html

Your local school could be next!

Anyway, my computer geek background and my considerable cooking skills inspired me to come up with the following recipe for Dough-Boy cakes.

First, you start with a basic pound cake or Mazitpan recipe. If using a pound cake recipe, you need to add flour to create a very dense dough.

Roll the dough into circles for the head, an oval for the chest and smaller ovals for the legs and arms. If you're feeling creative you can even make the hat and add some food coloring.

The more sadistic among us can shape the head with skeleton features to indicate a cooked Dough-Boy who met a gruesome end, as in the picture here: http://members.tripod.com/laffs/images/Doughboy.jp g

Serve and enjoy.

http://www.matthewmiller.net

mmmm...

1. Flyers that get dropped in my mailbox, or
2. Weird Xtian tracts. Texe Marrs is my favourite...click here to see why.

Try: http://members.tripod.com/khazad_dum0/
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.

direct link to the mpeg download: here. Slow as hell, but at least it's wgettable...

BTW, did anyone else find it strange that even though the movie is being shot with spherical lenses, all the computer-generated lens flares in the trailer are oval-shaped (like those produced by anamorphic lenses)? A minor detail, but it's a tad sloppy. I would have expected them to be more careful about little things like that...

Phrasm


Were all going to die why not take the Government with us.

Looked for about an hour and finally found his site here: http://salemcops.tripod.com/

I know, I know, you don't believe me. You think it's "satire". You think it's "all a big joke". You think it's "just some peurile wanna-be irony maven looking for quick hits on his website". So help me, nothing would give me more pleasure. Nothing would make me happier. I want more than any of you to believe that it's wrong!why would a woman like Ayn Rand -- a successful author and a happy wife, a philosopher and intellectual of the first order, and a fiercely devoted critic of the existing social order -- have her head severed unless there was some awful calamity approaching that she could see, but we ignored?

A small bit of progress, but progress nonetheless. And kudos to B of A finally doing the right thing--though it's a sad state of affairs when such kudos are necessary!

A close relative of the CRA's is an agency called ChexSystems. ChexSystems is supposed to keep information on people who have defrauded banks, but often all it takes to get on their list is one bounced check, or forgetting to move an automatic debit to your new account after closing the old one. A ChexSystems record is the KISS OF DEATH financially speaking.

I was reported to them for a car payment which was auto-debitted from my checking account. After cancelling my old account, I informed my bank that I wanted the payments to come from the new checking account. They didn't do it for three months (during which time I was calling them regularly to try to get the auto-debit moved), and the ensuing confusion was cause enough for this bank to report me to ChexSystems. Not that I knew anything about it at the time. It was only a year later, when I moved to another city and attempted to start a checking account there, that I found out what had happened. After looking all around town for a bank that did not use ChexSystems (and in a town like Dallas, there are a lot of banks to look at), I finally concluded that the only way for me to get a checking account would be to get rid of the ChexSystems record.

After some research, I determined that a ChexSystems entry stays on file for FIVE YEARS, and that it is almost impossible to either get the record removed before then (whether or not the information is valid) or to get an account with any institution despite the entry. After a week or so of trying to contact ChexSystems, it became obvious that if I was going to get anything done, it would be through the bank, not through them. ChexSystems said that the only way they would update their information would be at the request of the bank who reported me. Fine. I called the bank and it wasn't hard to get them to fax documentation to ChexSystems saying that all amounts were paid in full and that no outstanding debt existed. Thinking I had the problem taken care of, I attempted again to open a checking account.

No luck. It turns out that even if all amounts are paid, the mere presence of a ChexSystems record of the event is enough to be denied for any sort of account. I had to climb the bank's chain of command all the way to the director for the southwest region before getting any action. After spending a half hour of her (no doubt very expensive) time explaining what had happened to me, I was able to convince her to request that ChexSystems remove the record entirely. She told me that this essentially is never done, and that it was an enormous exception to their policies. I don't doubt it.

I consider myself very lucky. That was a year ago. The incident in question was a year before that. If I had not been able to convince this woman to purge my record, It would still be three years from now before I could have any hope of getting a basic checking account. During the time while I was sorting this stuff out, I was paying my apartment rent with money orders, cashing my paychecks at the local branch of the bank my company uses, and paying cash for everything I bought. No check card. No credit cards at that time. Can you imagine living that way for five years, because of either a screwup that wasn't your fault, or for one small mistake? It's appalling.

Here's an article that gives a fairly objective overview of the situation. And here's a site that takes a move combative stance.

...or in rather old-fashioned physics terminology, as quoted in Flanders & Swann's excellent song "The First and Second Law"

The First Law of Thermodynamics:-
Heat is work and work is heat
...
The Second Law of Thermodynamics:-
Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body

sorry - no explicit mention of the third law. (But some gems such as

Heat is work and work's a curse
And all the heat in the universe
Is gonna cool down,
'Cos it can't increase
Then there'll be no more work
And there'll be perfect peace

At the risk of drifting even further off-topic, they also have a great Gnu song

I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo

...or in rather old-fashioned physics terminology, as quoted in Flanders & Swann's excellent song "The First and Second Law"

The First Law of Thermodynamics:-
Heat is work and work is heat
...
The Second Law of Thermodynamics:-
Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body

sorry - no explicit mention of the third law. (But some gems such as

Heat is work and work's a curse
And all the heat in the universe
Is gonna cool down,
'Cos it can't increase
Then there'll be no more work
And there'll be perfect peace

At the risk of drifting even further off-topic, they also have a great Gnu song

I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo

...or in rather old-fashioned physics terminology, as quoted in Flanders & Swann's excellent song "The First and Second Law"

The First Law of Thermodynamics:-
Heat is work and work is heat
...
The Second Law of Thermodynamics:-
Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body

sorry - no explicit mention of the third law. (But some gems such as

Heat is work and work's a curse
And all the heat in the universe
Is gonna cool down,
'Cos it can't increase
Then there'll be no more work
And there'll be perfect peace

At the risk of drifting even further off-topic, they also have a great Gnu song

I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo

"Lord of the Token Ring"

One MC to rule them all
One MC to find them
One MC to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them...

Mr. Bungle, Cirith Ungol
I kick the shit from here to the motherfuckin Jungle
Crazy shit from the top of my head
Cuz I write the rhymes that'll Raise the Dead
Watch your front when steppin' to me, cuz
I'll stab your ass, just for a free buzz
Death trippin', the blood steady drippin'
Gotta send a shout out to Sam, Frodo & Pippin
On a mission, straight Gortician
Talk some shit and in your face I'm pissin'
The funky plumber, comin' like a Hummer
Cuz you know High-C just gets Dumb and Dumber
At The Gates of Cirith Gorgor
Steppin straight into Mordor
I get wicked like Sauron, bringin' chaos to order
Break beat poet, for ten years I flow it
You can't tell me shit because I already know it
1 percenter, political dissenter
El Duce was my motherfuckin Mentor
Mind blowin', Angry Samoan
I get high and then the funk starts flowin'
You fuckin' zombies need to wake the fuck up
You think you're the shit but I think you suck
Weak-minded, you're blinded by the blight
Sayin' I'm Guilty of Being White
My ancestors didn't own no slaves
The whole tired argument is oh so played
Face facts, we all get taxed
But like Possessed I'm fuckin' swingin' the axe
Grindin' up sacred cows
And now you know High-C's in the motherfuckin house...

J00 think J00 can 0utrhyme m3?

Cross-Referenced and Hyperlinked at Everything2

Snuh Snuh Meow Gortician Meow Snuh

• N'Sync
• Metallica (same thing, see here)
• Gangsta anything
• Rage Against the Machine (which I like)
• Hole (which I also like)
• Nine Inch Nails (which I also like, just so there's no confusion.)

Death metal bands:

• Death (I'm not sure about 'extreme', but the best of the genre IMO)
• Deicide (this one definitely qualifies as extreme)
• Obituary
• Carcass
• Napalm Death
• Suffocation
• Entombed (once upon a time)

And that doesn't even cover black metal (which is mostly European, btw), or the old 1980s speed metal.

ObJectBridge (GPL'd Java ODMG) needs volunteers.

Here it is! ( http://guppy_28.tripod.com/jpegs/megamania612880.g if )

Agreed, the amount of pages is highly irritating, but you can do something about the ads. On my NT workstation at work I run Proxomitron as a filtering proxy. I can even route it to the corporate firewall without much headache. At home I run CGIProxy on my home web server to get around the corporate firewall when it blocks pages (until they block my home machine). If you're running linux (or WinX, for that matter), you can set up a Junkbuster proxy that will perform pretty much the same function as Proxomitron.

With XVideo you can:

• Fetch the video from external sources (like TV card, camera, and so on). This is where video4linux "backend" comes to play. Then you can put it into file or on the screen.
• Put the video on the screen (either playing from file, or from live source). This is the place, where scaling and filtering is used.

Filtering is only done when scaling, so the picture will not appear pixelated (see here). There is no reason to use filtering, when you are displaying picture 1:1. Obviously, in this case you would not use scaling either.

So, when someone is pulling bad picture from his TV card, Xv can not "enhance" it (while watching 1:1).

Google also started at Stanford? Hmm...1998. Sheesh, that's not so long ago. I can say the same about Yahoo!, and I'm sure plenty of others here can too.

Side topic: you know how most baby boomers remember exactly where they were when they heard JFK was shot? I have that kind of memory for exactly two things: when the Challenger blew up, and when my Yahoo bookmark (in Mosaic) redirected from stanford.edu to yahoo.com. I had already seen the bad side of internet commerce, but Yahoo was when I realized there could also be good witches in the world.

Scroll forward five years. Yahoo is an enourmous "portal" that actually makes a profit. Canter & Siegel have faded away, but their descendants thrive like cockroaches. Where will Google be five years from now?

So was PalmOS.

For example, the email program I use on my MP 2100 uses the standard contact information for getting its email addresses, and is treated by the system as simply another way to get information in and out of the system.

Again, PalmOS does this too.

The NewtonOS has a full TCP/IP stack, with communications being done over Ethernet, or PPP. The email, browser, ftp, irc, telnet, ect.. clients all use the standard protocols, and you can download new packages directly off of the 'net.

Once again, I do this with my palm. TCP/IP and PPP are built into the OS. While the applications you mentioned are not bundled with PalmOS, there are a wealth of them available for free.

With my Palm, I snap on a modem, plug in a phone line, and connect PPP to earthlink. Then I can check/send email (Eudora), "surf" the web (EudoraWeb, AvantGo, others), get on IRC, use AIM, use Yahoo! Messenger, and can telnet. All these clients use their respective "standard protocol."

I'm not saying the Newton isn't a great machine. Just that you're choices aren't as limited as you think.

wishus
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While it's true that many of the screwups in Palm Beach County are due to stupidity or carelessness on the part of the voters, it's also true that a better layout could have prevented about half of the mistakes. (Eliminating punch-card machines would cover the other half). Both the voters and the election officials are to blame here.

For the lazy among us, there's a leetspeak translator. Uses somewhat different rules, so the translation of the above isn't perfect, but it's a help. The page also caused a script error in my IE, but Netscape worked ok. It'll also translate into leetspeak. My secret shame is that I find this sort of thing fun.

Actually, maybe. Microsoft already owns rights to online depictions of Whistler's Mother for their Encarta encyclopedia, so they could partake of this whimsy if it so struck them. However, Microsoft has always been slow to acknowledge codenames in their software once it gets to final distribution stage.

I've ported gtk-gnutella to darwin. Here is the link.

Darwin Gnutella

Regards,

proclus

I've ported gtk-gnutella to darwin. Here is the link.

Darwin Gnutella

Regards,

proclus

Folding works, I guess...but having the cable actually separated pin by pin and rounded is even easier to work with.

Btw, you can actually get cables pre-rounded. IDE (40-conductor), floppy, and SCSI are all available in a rounded form. For LVD SCSI, that's actually a fairly common form to get it in, since LVD cable starts off as individual twisted-pair wires anyways. For other cables, you just have to either look around a bit harder than usual or be ready to have your cables custom punched from appropriate parts (I use AMP). Custom punching cables really isn't that hard, btw, but the tools and the bulk supplies are a bit costly if you just want a few cables.

As for ATA66/100 (80-conductor)...that stuff has very delicate signaling. Folding or stacking the stuff causes erratic performance drops; I don't even want to think of what rounding would do to it. If you ever want to see these performance drops in action, run WinBench's Disk Inspection Tests and watch the Disk Transfer Rate graph during the test.

Kelledin Tane, the Dreaming Minstrel

http://kelledin.tripod.com/scovsms.jpg

"It's just too much," a spokesman said. "He tries real hard to come up with quick satire for quick karma, but then something like this comes along and just defies parody."

"He's feeling pretty bad, as you can imagine," the spokesman added.

Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman was unavailable for comment. A source close to the programmer said he was "busy frantically trying to think of a punchline."

A friend of mine lives in Palm Beach county, and he agreed that the ballot was confusing and difficult. He spent a good long time looking it over in the voting booth before he stabbed it with the little toothpick thingy that they used.

Is it reasonable to pick the most powerful job in the world because a minor clerk didn't understand good user interface design?

This could be stuck in the courts for months. If it takes until New Year's, I hope Gore will gracefully concede rather than force a national crisis. I'd rather have a calm nation grumbling about President Nitwit than risk rioting and martial law and whatever else could happen.

I've collated several links and images about this on my personal pages:

• Palm Beach @Home
• Palm Beach on Tripod

p.s. Having half the candidates in a second row may be a violation of Florida election laws. I've heard that mentioned several times on NPR but unfortunately don't have a link.