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In Italy at national level they've mapped the entire territory through highly detailed aerial photos, then superimposed those images on the topographical maps of registered buildings (from the house registers, or "catasto").

Here is the translated article.

They found that way more than 2 million unregistered houses ("ghost houses", where ghost stays for the owners who should have asked permissions first and then pay taxes on those houses), made a public chart of it, then sent all data to all involved municipalities (the ones that should have got that tax money and may now claim it).

It was a huge load of work that took 4 years of efforts and certainly high amounts of money, though aerial photos have been possibly those of one or the other commercial operator like this.

Seen how in Italy entire entire "ghost town" have been built over time without the house registers or other officials noticing, this was too a huge step forward to fight against illegality.

...Even if he was studly enough to build it from vacuum tubes, he probably wouldn't be winding his own filaments.

Uh, maybe not. :-)

There is a Photoshop Compatibility Mode .. To draw a straight line, select pen and then press SHIFT .. To draw a circle use this or else a script someone produced ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=s4z7f2_BpBA&gl=GB

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/lwcon/gimp/script-fu/draw-circle-point.htm

http://www.gimpshop.com/

You are wrong...
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/dicuoghi/Piri_Reis/PiriR eis_eng.htm

see this: http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/224310.
better in this flavour: http://film.spettacolo.virgilio.it/imgbank/GALLERY /CH/01459701.JPG.

The ATI drivers require a little knowledge about compiling kernels and modules. You need the kernel source installed at /usr/src/linux and ideally the same libraries and compiler versions installed that compiled your running kernel to compile the new FGLRX module. If you have just compiled and installed a new kernel, then you should have no problems there, unless you have updated your system immediately since then.

For Debian users, there is a slightly easier way, but still involves the commandline stuff and some manual editing of the XF86Config-4 file.

Is it possible for a star flung like this to keep any planets it had

Ginux - Glinux - LinuG - LiGux - G-Linux - Gnix - Ginix - Goonix - Lingle - Lingoo -G*nix - Gnugle/Linux and Gurd and GOS and GFOSS and Mangoo and Gonectiva and Goose and Yellow God GOT Goontoo and
Glackware and Glookware and Slackgoo and Slackgle and
Gasp and
Grosa and
Gine and
Grudgeware and
G007! and
Gycoris and
Gaydar and
Galt and
Grid and
Gark and
Ginspire and
Goper and
Gorphix and
Guppy and
Fedora Gore and
Gimpi and
Golinux and
The list goes on and on..

Dashes/ands/bad formating for benefit of lameness filter.
Gnopix is already taken!

Debian users might find it easier to use Flavio Stanchina's ATI debian packages and HOWTO. I found these much easier to install.

In ATI's case, I don't think it's a matter of expertise. I didn't have any problems getting their drivers to work (even with a 2.6.x kernel), and the OpenGL acceleration is great (1700fps on glxgears with my 9600). It's pretty simple, at least if you use Debian (I dunno about other distriutions). There's a whole page on it here:

ATI even encourages the circulation of those prebuilt packages. OK, sure, there should really be a nice GUI, but at least they provide Linux drivers in the first place unlike some other manufacturers...

Mine looks better than that, but it doesn't help...

Simply put, American engineers excel at creativity. Indeed, when you consider the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th Century as reported on the National Academy of Engineering website - innovations such as human flight, refrigeration, electrification, the telephone, automobiles, television, computers, space travel and the Internet - you see that almost all of them were either invented by Americans, or had some crucial American link that helped turn a fledgling technology into a major boon for human kind."

Endless debate. Check here who was the real telephone inventor, an italian living in Italy in a region where they speak italian and french.

No american connection at all.

Thanks to my parent (modded -1?) for this link, looks like a fork of thttpd with performance-enhancing updates. Still not ideal for large filesets but a lot more efficient than plain thttpd, and full keep-alive support.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/adefacc/httpd/thttpd/tht tpd-2.21b-pNN/index.html

true, but if you use a real download manager like CLI based wget for win32 (Site found here, direct link here , getright or download accellerator that directly downloaded to a directory of choice, you could get around that.

Yes, people aren't going to want to use wget b/c it doesn't have a GUI, but I'm working on a plugin for IE, mozilla and opera that enables a GUI w/options etc for the windows and nix platforms.

-z

Yes but has anyone here heard of the Piraeus map? It apparently comes from the middle ages, and is a depiction of an unknown landmass...

Its only in the last century that we can discern that the map is, in fact, very similar to Antarctica, only without the ice!

The supposed Antarctica on the Piri Reis map is located around southern Brazil and conjoins South America. The more likely explanation is that either Reis ran out of room and warped the coast, or misinterpretted the maps he was using in his work. The map (and others like it) is thorougly debunked here.

The earth rolling may be a bit of a stretch, but sure the entire monstrous mass rotates completely every 24 hours... is it really that far fetched?

Yes, actually. The Earth's spin is a product of its formation and continues by way of inertia. The energy required to change a planet's inertia is enormous -- we're talking the sun's entire energy output for several seconds. Even tidal forces are only able to slow the Earth's rotation over geological -- if not astronomical -- time. Sorry, but beyond its natural precesion, the axis isn't going to budge.

There's a detailed discussion of the Piri Reis map here which shows these claims are almost certainly false.

I good piece of art is one where you can look back on it and say "this depicts how people were back then" or something. It speaks for them.

It's nice to know that you're so capable of defining what a "good peice of art" is when so many of the masters were unable to define it themselves. I'll agree that the art may speak to the viewer, but I'll stop shy of stating that the artist has absolute control over what I (or anyone else) might get from the art.

All art is like pornography, I may not be able to tell you what art may be, but I do know it when I see it.

Fuck if my theoretical [if I paid taxes] tax dollars went to the art it should at least represent me!

If you want art that represents you, then you'll have to make it yourself. I'm rather happy that some of my tax dollar goes to supporting artists and their work. Even if most of it does nothing for me, tghere's a lot worse the money could be going to, and the few things I truly like make the rest worth suffering through.

you want m3u2sburner. It's still not a interface, but much better than openmd or real one. basically, it's a bit of a hack that convert your mp3 files to wav, then uses daemon tools to present the collection of wav files as a cd for simple burner so you can bypass all the drm nonsense.

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Try using the native Win32 wget and PuTTY. Both have no problems on SP2 build 2055 or 2082. Cygwin is just too much bloat for me.

That said, I wouldn't install a beta SP on my production box ever. I have run through several scenarios on VMWare though, including upgrading to SP2 as well as simply installing a clean SP2-slipstreamed copy. Starting to like the changes I see. The few applications that may break are worth the collective security of the Windows population at large.

This package is worth checking out if you use Debian
and want to use ATI's own drivers:
ATI Linux drivers packaged for Debian

Hm, anyone actually know what the big difference
between using ATI's closed source drivers or the
open sourced DRI-ones? (except not poluting your
karma ;>)
DRI (debs)

History books won't be rewritten. Ask your average idiot --- Ok, you average idiot will just say "I dunno." Ask you average, reasonably intelligent person who invented the telephone. The vast majority will say Alexander Graham Bell. They might even know that he registered a patent for it in 1876.

But they are still wrong. It was really Innocenzo Manzetti in 1871.

Just because it wasn't really Bell doesn't mean that the populace doesn't believe that it is.

With my ATI Radeon 9000, I get exactly the same performance playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory as I do on my Windows 98SE partition. These are damn good drivers IMO.

Uh, the Santa Cruz Turtle Beach uses a Cirrus Logic SoundFusion DSP, which is supported by the cs46xx module in the 2.4 series and also by ALSA.

The Echo Layla also has ALSA support, although it is still in development.

Yeah, that was no big deal -- as a matter of fact, I've only ever used 2.4.20. Using Debian's kernel-source-2.4.20 and even the vanilla kernel. I followed these directions: http://space.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina@tin.it/d ebian/fglrx-installer.html

It was only yesterday (*not kidding*) that one of the bigger Vivendi owned satellite TV (Canalsat) upgraded it's encryption system to "Seca2".

But I'm afraid the Seca2 system is DOA as it has already been cracked by Italian Crackers.

See that and a whole bunch of other eye-poppin' stuff in this gallery. However, strange doesn't need to be small, in fact it can stand out a fair bit (bear in mind (which the page's author doesn't seem to have done) that things move over time).