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You have consistently come down on the side of a few experiments, and utterly ignored all others.

Obviously, it has taken rather more for me to start to doubt what I was taught. It began with some first hand experience of surpression. Not too surprising, if you consider the implications of my line of research. That made me question whether in other branches of physics something similar might be going on. So I asked around and it was pointed out to me that there were quite a few claims about surpression of lightspeed experiments and data falsification. This one, for example http://surf.de.uu.net/bookland/sci/farce/farce_6.html#SEC6.

Given this context, it is imprudent to rely on an "immense amount of more precise data" type argument.

When any Big Bang type of theory is mentioned, I sometimes wonder why alternative theories, like the Electric Universe, are never mentioned, as though there is only one way to try to explain cosmological phenomenon.

To get closer to the reason you must take one step back and realize that Big Bang theories are based on general relativity theory. Relativity theory has been elevated to sacred dogma that is defended at all costs. And that includes supression of experimental evidence indicating a slightly variable and varying speed of light. See for example http://surf.de.uu.net/bookland/sci/farce/farce_6.html#SEC6, or go back to what Michelson and Moreley actually published and ignore the spin that was applied later. Or look at what Dayton Miller actually measured and reported before the inquisition arrived.

The thing that makes cosmology, and particularly the corresponding astronomical observations, highly political is that any reasonable cosmological model is bound to run into conflict with relativity theory. That's why we're stuck with a patched-up ludicrous model that includes a singularity, inflation, and more ad-hoc magic required to keep the model within the bounds of relativity theory.

Well, I can not explain things better than the link you posted (maybe you should read it again).

If you read carefully, you can see what his experiment found, and that the validity of those findings has retained support. That others tried to explain the results away is not surprising: obviously relativity has won the war of words and minds. The neutrality of the article is under dispute for a reason. One side would like you to please move along, nothing to see here, which you of course would prefer to do rather than challenge your own belief system. The other side has a word here http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm.

A further example is the Venus radar experiment, where a radar pulse was bounced off Venus and the roundtrip delay measured. You can read more about it here http://surf.de.uu.net/bookland/sci/farce/farce_6.h tml#SEC6.

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"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside."

I can somewhat imagine this being a bit of a possibility in the medical field, which is a large financial business if anything. But cosmology?

Some cool artificial life programs...

Evolutionz
Avida
AntWorld

And a whole list of others here.

FYI, I'm not latching onto or regurgitating someone else's complaints as if they're my own -- I wrote that chapter in the Unix Haters handbook, based on years of experience with X. I attended the original X conference at MIT, and I've been using X since X10, ported SimCity to X11, developed a multi player user interface for SimCity that supported multiple servers connected to the same X11 client, and sold multiplayer SimCity as a commercial product in 1992. So I think I have the right to complain about the shortcomings of X, without being accused of regurgitating someone else's opinion.

Here's some nifty X10 window manager code I wrote in Forth in 1986:

X.f - X10 window system interface for Forth.
Xlib.f - X10 XLib interface for Forth.
xutil.f - X10 utilities for Forth.
uwm.f - X10 uwm window manager interface for Forth.
load-fuwm.f - X10 uwm library loader for Forth window manager.
fuwm-main.f - X10 Forth window manager main driver.
menulist.f - pie menus and linear menus for Forth window manager. hacks.f - X10 Forth window manager hacks.

I extended Gancarz's original X10 "uwm" window manager in C to support pie menus, then I broke it up into a library so I could link it into Mitch Bradley's Sun Forth (Forthmacs) and script it in Forth. We used it to perform an experiment comparing pie menus and linear menus. (Pie menus won hand down!)

The last file (hacks.f) is especially fun, because it lets you pick up windows and fling them around the screen, so any number of windows will bounce around on the screen with inertia and gravity and friction, each with their own Forth task. It ran quite fast on a 4 meg Sun 3/50, with enough room for Emacs to bounce around too.

Programming a window manager with a stack based language foreshadowed the work I later did with the NeWS window system and user interface toolkit, which is an extensible window system written by James Gosling, scripted in PostScript.

Ever heard of AJAX? NeWS did cool stuff that X still can't touch 20 years later, like dynamically downloading code to the server to define efficient application specific protocols and implememt locally interactive custom user interfaces. AJAX is not a new idea, and it wasn't even invented by Microsoft: NeWS was totally "AJAXian" 20 years ago, but with PostScript code instead of JavaScript, PostScript graphics instead of HTML, and PostScript data instead of XML -- much more consistent and easier to program than AJAX's potpourri of incompatible standards!

Believe it or not: with NeWS, you could actually draw circles and diagonal lines in PostScript without making a remote procedure call to download an image (like Google Maps has to do, in order to support Firefox).

-Don

Donner's program was a variant of a program I first saw in 1987. Tom Anderson posted "mines - minefield game for Suns" to the comp.sources.games usenet group 1987 November 19. I found a copy at ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume2 /mines.shr.Z

Shortly after that, a similar freeware game was available on the Atari ST.

Since nobody has (yet) taken the pains of posting the mirror list (yea, yea, I know, this is /.) -- here it is:

Hmm .. I wonder if the /. lameness filter was designed so that people couldn't post whole mirror lists themselves. Telling me that I don't have enough characters per line. I think I'll just ask the KDE people to create a static fast-serving no-css page full of mirrors for KDE whenever a release happens. That way, at least some amount of trouble would be saved. Goes off to mail KDE team ...

(pulled from KDE Mirror List)

WARNING: VERY BAD FORMATTING to get around the lame lameness filter.

mirrors.isc.org. . .ibiblio.org. . .ibiblio.org. . .ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu. . .ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu. . .
mirrors.midco.net. . .mirrors.midco.net. . .ftp.oregonstate.edu. . .kde.oregonstate.edu. . .download.uk.kde.org. . .
download.at.kde.org. . .download.at.kde.org. . .ftp.eu.uu.net. . .ftp.tiscali.nl. . .ftp.du.se. . .
ftp.solnet.ch. . .ftp.rutgers.edu. . .ftp.rutgers.edu. . .kde.uk.themoes.org. . .kde.us.themoes.org. . .
ftp.de.kde.org. . .ftp.de.kde.org. . .ftp.gwdg.de. . .ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de. . .ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de. . .
ftp.uni-kl.de. . .download.au.kde.org. . .ftp.roedu.net. . .ftp.fi.muni.cz. . .ftp.fu-berlin.de. . .
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de. . .sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de. . .filepile.tiscali.de. . .ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl. . .ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl. . .
sunsite.icm.edu.pl. . .sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch. . .ftp.se.kde.org. .

http://catalog.com/hopkins/images/pizzatool.gif (screen snapshot)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/NeWS/tnt/pizzatool (source code)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/NeWS/tnt/pizzatool.6 (manual)

-Don

http://catalog.com/hopkins/images/pizzatool.gif (screen snapshot)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/NeWS/tnt/pizzatool (source code)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/NeWS/tnt/pizzatool.6 (manual)

-Don

That UU.net link for Firebird worked. Thanks. Firebird 0.7 is really fast, I'm impressed. It may actually be able to compete with Opera in terms of speed now.

Actually I got 144KB/s when downloading firebird from the torrent posted here, and I can't even connect to the mozilla.org. Now all I need is a good md5sum, because mozilla.org publishes their md5s on the FTP. Most people seem to get 8c363353b6529f50451091e6bface362 which is what I get as well on the bittorrent and the one from the uu.net ppl. Someone has the mozilla.org zip to do a md5 on?

Courtesy of your unwitting friends at UU.net.

ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip

The real problem is large ISPs/backbones like UUNet/MCI, Cogent, Comcast, Level3, China Netcom, AT&T, Brasil Telecom, and Above.net (among others) who flat-out refuse to do anything about the spammers to whom they provide connectivity.

Complaints sent to any of them are promptly auto-acked and then /dev/nulled (if they don't bounce) and so the spammers keep on spamming, most likely due to ephemeral pink contracts and the crooked marketing/sales departments that agree to them, who then put pressure on abuse personel and network admins to ignore complaints about the contracted spammers.

Because of this, those large ISPs and backbones end up on blacklists, DNS blocklists, and a wide variety of other filters. For them, the money they make off the spammers seems to be of greater concern than the money they make off legitimate customers, i.e. those who end up with their netblocks on every blacklist because of who their providers are.

If it weren't for rogue ISPs and backbones, there would be little use for blacklists or blocklists. However, those reprehensible companies do exist. And because of their policies on spam, they continue to be blocked. Money gained from spammers guarantees the blacklists' continued existence.

It's all just cause and effect. As much as it sounds like a conspiracy theory, I truly believe that it isn't, after fighting spam, one email at a time, since 1997.

Define "valid"? While a made-up number won't pass, a stolen number certainly will. And while they are stealing, why not use stolen AOL accounts?

The fact is, almost all ISPs have anti-spam provisions in their contracts (even SpewSpewNet.) Deleting an account is easy; they'll just signup for an other one. Fining them is easy, in theory; in practice, good luck getting a spammer to pay up. Cleaning up after the fact is difficult and time consuming.

In retrospect, I'm gonna blame the sales people who are too stupid or too blinded by their commision check(s) to realize they are selling an OC3 to a spammer. Really, how much spam is done by dialup these days? They either use broadband or pay some nuts to spam for them.

Carsten "Russ" Meyer, editor at German c't magazine, has a few pages (in English) on hacking his Chevy Camaro Z28:

Tuning the PROM
Diagnosing the ALDL

Cool.

I'm not planning to go that far, but I'll be buying an Auterra OBD II Scan Tool interface for my Palm. Lots of interesting information about what's going on under the hood.

Carsten "Russ" Meyer, editor at German c't magazine, has a few pages (in English) on hacking his Chevy Camaro Z28:

Tuning the PROM
Diagnosing the ALDL

Cool.

I'm not planning to go that far, but I'll be buying an Auterra OBD II Scan Tool interface for my Palm. Lots of interesting information about what's going on under the hood.

Carsten "Russ" Meyer, editor at German c't magazine, has a few pages (in English) on hacking his Chevy Camaro Z28:

Tuning the PROM
Diagnosing the ALDL

Cool.

I'm not planning to go that far, but I'll be buying an Auterra OBD II Scan Tool interface for my Palm. Lots of interesting information about what's going on under the hood.

there are plenty of places to find info on this on the internet. one such place is The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation

if you want to learn about some of the many variations of GA, try doing a search on ieeexplore.ieee.org (assuming you are a member) or try www.researchindex.org (free) note that these are both research sites, and so learning something like this from research papers can have a steep curve. i'm sure many academic books cover the subject, too. another topic that would be interesting to use is neural networks (some might say that is obvious, and i would agree) the realm is similar to GA, but VERY different in the guts of the solution.

--paul

ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/NeWS/tnt/pizzatool

-Don

ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/NeWS/tnt/pizzatool.6

Pizzatool used the NeWSPrint PostScript to Fax server that Sun was running for a while.

I believe Ross Thompson at Adobe wrote a shell script called "burrito" a year or so later. It faxed orders to La Costania, but it was a command line tool without a graphical user interface and PostScript preview window like PizzaTool. (You could actually spin the pizza preview with the mouse.)

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/94q1/burritopgm. html

The first time I faxed a PostScript picture of a pizza to Tony and Alba's, they were quite confused and didn't know what to think, because I had neglected to list the toppings out as text, they were just rendered graphically. So they had to look at the black and white faxed rendering of a pizza, to decypher which toppings I ordered. I took a bug report and fixed the problem by adding the text so they could figure out the subsequent orders.

Here's a video that includes a demo of the spinning pizza in pizzatool (as well as lots of other weird inexplicable stuff)...

Streaming: HyperLook SimCity Demo
Download: HyperLook SimCity Demo

Demonstration of SimCity running under the HyperLook user interface development system, based on NeWS PostScript. Includes a demonstration of editing HyperLook graphics and user interfaces, the HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, and the HyperLook Happy Tool. Also shows The NeWS Toolkit applications PizzaTool and RasterRap. HyperLook developed by Arthur van Hoff and Don Hopkins at the Turing Institute. SimCity ported to Unix and HyperLook by Don Hopkins. HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, Happy Tool, The NeWS Toolkit, PizzaTool and Raster Rap developed by Don Hopkins. Demonstration, transcript and close captioning by Don Hopkins. Camera and interview by Abbe Don. Taped at the San Francisco Exploratorium.

-Don

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

While originally written as a "cheat" detector, it also does a good job of identifying similar structures in systems that are good candidates for refactoring. It helps find things that should be functions rather than cut-and-paste-with-trivial-or-no-change.

-dB

4. The rest of us will be bored out of our minds.

Whoops, messed up the links:

UUNet
Reselling Ricochet

Whoops, messed up the links:

UUNet
Reselling Ricochet

I know UUNet's not the most popular company with the Slashdot crowd, but they have been reselling Ricochet services for some time now as UUNet Wireless. If UUNet were to buy them out, they'd have much better exposure in the corporate market (being sold by UUNet more aggressively, and by Worldcom), and hopefully be run off of UUNet's very nice backbone.

Just my $.04 (inflation).

Since UUNet resells Ricochet service, it would be super sweet if they bought them out. I know UUNet's not the most popular ISP here at slashdot because of the spam issues, but they are pretty much the best business ISP.

Since UUNet resells Ricochet service, it would be super sweet if they bought them out. I know UUNet's not the most popular ISP here at slashdot because of the spam issues, but they are pretty much the best business ISP.

Who decides what 'other parties' are 'qualified'? Will they only allow large corporations that are running BIND for their name services to participate? Is a smaller web hosting company less deserving to be secure than UUnet?

The MBone is still out there. Sorta. It's not really the same MBone that most of those web pages talk about, created with DVMRP tunnels and all. A lot of the major ISPs are starting to natively enable their networks for multicast with new protocols like PIM-SM, MSDP, and MBGP. With PIM-SSM coming up, it looks like we might finally have a really workable protocol to get multicast out there to the masses. Here's some sites for multicast information regarding ISPs.

• Sprint
• UUNET
• IP Multicast Initiative. Other ISPs that are doing multicast will be listed here along with contact information.

Most people who are doing video streaming via multicast end up going with Windows Media Server or Real Server. I think QuickTime is also multicast-enabled, but I haven't seen it used much. Another option is to go with Cisco IP/TV. Although most of their stuff says to use it in an enterprise network, I've seen it used for multicast video streaming on the MBone/Internet. Pretty good quality stuff... I've seen demos of DVDs streamed using it, and the quality was at least that of VHS.

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/ioccc/1992/westley.c

$ gcc -o world westley.c
$ ./world -40 115

and, you'll get a nice little map! *yay*.. my home town, Perth, Western Australia. pass the lat, long and wola.. it'll show you where it is.

The ftp site ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/ioccc/ contains information regarding 'The International Obfuscated C Code Contest'. One of the best programs ever seen in these contests is one written by Brian Westley in 1988 which prints 3.141 (the mathematical constant pi) on the screen using the source code shown in ...

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/ioccc/1988/westle y.c

this is taken from my Java lecture notes (What is Java) - basically saying what the goodies they took out of C/C++ to create Java were :P

oh boy, were my students pissed when i said i loved this stuff :P

The ftp site ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/ioccc/ contains information regarding 'The International Obfuscated C Code Contest'. One of the best programs ever seen in these contests is one written by Brian Westley in 1988 which prints 3.141 (the mathematical constant pi) on the screen using the source code shown in ...

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/ioccc/1988/westle y.c

this is taken from my Java lecture notes (What is Java) - basically saying what the goodies they took out of C/C++ to create Java were :P

oh boy, were my students pissed when i said i loved this stuff :P

I've spamcopped more mails from them than any other ISP. The only replies I've gotten were from de.uu.net, their German branch.

I am the Raxis.

I've opened a case number with UU.net. Send them your logs of being scanned! I'm sure UU.net will not be pleased with someone tying up their network with pings, (Is Quova the biggest script kiddie ever?) let alone making money from it. If you have logs showing Quova tapping at your doorway, send them to security@uu.net and we can take care of these people.

Stop wasting bandwidth. It's precious.

I've opened a case number with UU.net. Send them your logs of being scanned! I'm sure UU.net will not be pleased with someone tying up their network with pings, (Is Quova the biggest script kiddie ever?) let alone making money from it. If you have logs showing Quova tapping at your doorway, send them to security@uu.net and we can take care of these people.

Stop wasting bandwidth. It's precious.

• Cheaper Then a Playstation 2 ($300 or less)
  1. A copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage for CmdrTaco ($12.03 at Amazon). The phrase is "cheaper than a Playstation 2".
  2. A 128K Metricom Ricochet modem ($299?) and 128K wireless service in Washington DC from UUNET before 2001-Q1 (~$60/month?)
• Cheaper Then a Playstation 2's rumored eBay sale value ($301-$1500)
  1. My 1987 VW Golf repainted in the Slashdot color scheme with the Slashdot logo on the side
• Unlimited (Mommy, can I have a stealth bomber for Christmas?)
  1. No more spam
  2. No more junk mail delivered by USPS
  3. Every corporation and every person decides to do the right thing always.

Sorry, the link above is for an old version of the software that doesn't do rotation. Here is a link to a more recent version.

Where on earth did you get that information? Even a quick search turns up more than two links between Canada and the U.S.

For example, UUNet's North American Map shows at least Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto. Toronto on its own has a whole bunch (there are so many lines, it's hard to say how many).

PSINet's North American Map shows Canada-U.S. links in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal.

That's only two of the major providers. I'm sure Sprint, Telus, etc. have more as well. I'm really curious about where you got the idea that there were only two links.
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usenet is the best source of pics. aub and a t1 will yield more porn pics then one person could ever need. i'd recommend looking at the "nospam" groups myself, they tend to have less spam (didn't see that coming did you?). sadly usenet is 90% spam when you troll for binaries. in addition to pics video is a must have, see above AC posts on where to get free videoz.

open source porn! heh.

The JPEG algorithm is capable of encoding images that use any type of color space. Jpeg itself encodes each component in a color model separately, and it is completely independent of any color-space model, such as RGB, HSI, or CMY.

However, as you say CMYK isn't very useful for web graphics.

So, you want an open source easter egg?

The GNU C compiler used to have an interesting easter egg: at one point, the ANSI C draft (it wasn't finalized yet) said that the effect of #pragma was undefined. At the time, GCC had no pragmas; RMS didn't like them because you couldn't use a pragma in a macro.

So the easter egg was this: if your code contained a #pragma, gcc would attempt to launch a game of rogue or hack. If it couldn't find either program on your system, it would print a message reading "You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different".

See this link for more details.

ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/

It said it was filtered at ISP level, so it shouldn't affect it. If it would be filtered at UUNet, that would be a big problem since Frankfurt is a Multiple Hub City.

This might actually work. According to this web page, Trial by Combat is still a valid part of the common law in Maryland, and perhaps other states in the USA. I can just see it, Bill Gates and Ray Noorda in an arena, hacking at each other with battle axes.