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(I am the Speex author) There are already at least two Windows front-ends: here and here. There may be others I'm not aware of. Note that I haven't developed of tested any of these since I don't use Windows.

> Now, if you could get me totally lossless compression of sound, then I'll consider switching...

LPAC and FLAC may be worth a look, as may this comparison.

"Ha-ha! We come in peace, shoot to kill,
shoot to kill,
shoot to kill.
We come in peace, shoot to kill,
shoot to kill, men."
--Captain James T. Kirk, clay
Star Trekking song on Dr. Demento radio show.

Here is a picture and small description of the Seiko Wrist Information System model UC-2200 I used to have.

I still think you're some kind of twinky-boi. Back to looking at this, now. Away with you!

I lost my copy of the green golf ball joke can anyone find it for me?

http://home.wanadoo.nl/fox-1/golfball.htm

• to people bemoaning the absense of mars missions and moon bases. Why go?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. . . . Not because it is easy, but because it is hard. . . . Because there is new knowledge to be gained. We shall send to the moon--240,000 miles away--from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented . . . on an untried mission . . . on the greatest adventure.

Now, I'm a pretty cynical old bastard, but those words, nearly forty years on, still choke me up. To me, the defining quality of humanity is that our reach can exceed our grasp.

It's impossible (I think) to justify space exploration in any rational or economic terms. But if "because it's there" isn't justification enough, then that's a sad indicator we have become society of navel gazers and bean counters. And history shows us that societies only go one way once they've reached that stage.

You're right that the space race was based on competition. But I believe that still applies, and if we no longer want to compete, sooner or later we will be superceded by a society that does.

If mmargae@wanadoo.nl is this user's email address, then
home.wanadoo.nl/mmargae/
is the user's homepage. It's broken, though.

cheers

pyz

Probably a scriptkiddie, look at http://www.wanadoo.nl/.
It's nothing special, they provide free internet-access in Holland

I gathered similar projects into a single comment. I know that this is redundant, strictly speaking, but I'll post anyway. It's much more accessible this way. I'm knocking on the karma cap anyway, so no, this isn't whoring, just risking to get modded down for redundancy. Enough blabber, here we go:

Chaos Computer Club Blinkenlights, Berlin, Germany
18 x 8 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.blinkenlights.de/

KPN Building, Rotterdam, Netherlands
22 x 44 matrix of green lights
Links:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/makiueda/climbman/index-e.h tml
http://www.blezer2.myweb.nl/rotterdam2000/building s/kpn.html

La Bastille: A Tech House Installation, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
10 x 10 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/16/2148245.shtm l

Marnix 2001, Brussels, Belgium
52 x 7 matrix of RGB lights
Links:
http://marnix2001.bbl.be/

TU-Delft Electro Technology SMS-Display, Delft, Netherlands
264 lights (unknown configuration), displayed mobile phone short messages
Links:
http://etv.its.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/stunt .php

TU-Delft Electro Technology Tetris, Delft, Netherlands
10 x 15 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/90/eng lish.html

MIT's Green Building Sound (VU) Meter, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
9 x 1 matrix of red lights
Links:
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1993/green_bldg _vu_meter/green_bldg_vu_meter.html

Clickscape 98, Linz, Austria
13 x 8 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.servus.at/clickscape98/

Poli-uni students dorm, Warsaw, Poland
14 x 16 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.astercity.net/~kvas/riviera.jpg

Ahh, the many hours of meetings that I've spent folding paper. I did, however, tend to get in trouble for folding paper during middle and high school.

For some serious challenges, try memorizing more complicated models like Kawasaki's rose. (diagram) (makes a nice tip, too. the rose in Origami for the Connoisseur is easier to learn...) Or learn to make modular origami stuff (origami that uses multiple units that are [generally] all the same). (instructions)

A great place to start is Joseph Wu's Origami Page.

The myth that a thousand paper cranes will bring good luck and health is much older than Sadako's story, although she did try to fold 1,000 while she was sick with leukemia. She finished 644 before she died, and her classmates completed the rest. There are two books about her story: Sadoko and the Thousand Paper Cranes and Child of the Paper Crane .

It's also not true that "classical" origami is extremely restrictive. Most of the rules mentioned were added by outsiders. There are many very old designs (such as connected cranes) that require cutting. It is an interesting challenge to follow those kinds of restrictive rules, but they are not really requirments with a long history.

The Origami FYI covers these and many other interesting points.

Hi,

I'm going to unabashedly karma whore for a second because Nethack is my favourite game ever. I can't tell you the number of hours I wasted playing this (or other rogue-like games, such as rogue, larn, adom, or omega).

Here are some links to get you all started:

Nethack.org

One of the first and best Nethack pages, from the legenday Boudewijn Waijers

another Nethack homepage

A newer Nethack page

QT Nethack

An impressive graphical Nethack

The google Roguelike directory entry

the classic rec.games.roguelike.nethack

Happy hacking!

Bummer. This configuration screen seems to only advertise support for serial mice. I'm using the USB IntelliMouse. :(

Did my IP end up on FBIs pedophile file now? Is this site some sort of a honeytrap for pedophiles?

Sweet little girls, though.

They definitely remind me of Natalie Portman!

I would go there for birthdays, all the way up to to the observation deck, and spend the day there with my Grandmother. I have more childhood memories from these buildings, by far, than anywhere else in the world.

It was an amazing place. Structured yet mysterious, metalic yet comforting, with an amazing variety of nooks, crannies, personalities, and other secrets to discover.

It was also a very social place, with people having lunch at the plaza, looking up at the building and sky [1] or sharing time on the observation deck or in line to get there [2].

I went to the observation deck every time I could; every time I was in New York City... I've easily spent over 100 hours there throughout my life. In March, I spent the day at the observation deck on tower 2, then had dinner at Windows on the World on top of tower 1 [3].

It was a spiritual place for me, as strange as that may sound. It presented an eagle eye view of the world I grew up in; my childhood in one panoramic view [4] [5]. There I could reflect on my past and look forward to tomorrow.

I would always sit at the same bench on top of the observation desk. The one closest to the Statue of Liberty. I'd stay there, looking out to the Atlantic, for hours and hours on end. I learned many things about myself and other other trade center visitors there. I would focus on that spot, on top of the building, on top of the world, one small, specific spot ... yet everywhere in the universe, in an expanding stream of thought. It was my own form of meditation, on an amazing bench that no longer exists.

When my wife and I got engaged, I wanted to get married at the top of the trade center. We didn't end up doing it, but others did. [6]

I loved it for the unique place that it was, but not nearly as much as I -- or anyone -- loved all of the unique individuals who have now died there. The tragedy is unreal. The reasons absurd. The people, and their lives, invaluable. I will never forget them.

I am not a vindictive person, but this calls for something beyond revenge. This requires a defense of our way of life, about our principals and individuality. Anything that can be done to remedy this should be done, and will.

God help us all, and especially those who did this.

-Jonathan
( at the World Trade Center ... http://www.robpatton.com/photoalbum/jontaylor/9.jp g )

Exactly. They could go home to each other.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/c.leung/Pictures/takeittux. htm

• Cool hole in the building
• Another view

• Cool hole in the building
• Another view

I've used XOSL for about a year now and had very good results. I'm currently using it for a quad boot. You can install it to its own partition, or have it stuff its information on a FAT or FAT32 volume.

The site says that XOSL supports BeOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, Linux (with Lilo), Solaris, VxWorks 5.x, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000. So far, I've used it with Win95, Win98SE, WinNT, Win2K, BeOS and Red Hat Linux with no problems.

And don't forget, it is GPLed. Take a look at it when you get a chance. At least check out the screen shots.

I made a mirror of it, just in case it 'disappears' (Next to the DeCSS & QuakeLives source):

http://home.wanadoo.nl/whatdoya/

Now I would like a native Linux PSX emu ;-)

Here's some pictures of my DC with a blue power LED that I soldered in

They tried the same thing in a limited sense in several cities in the Netherlands, a few years back. These ISP's - called "digitale stad" (digital cities) - were usually sponsored by private companies, such as IBM and SUN as well as the local authorities. (See: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Leiden, Groningen, etc)

Huge amounts subsidies (tax money) went into these so-called non-profit organizations blocking independant commercial initiatives. Back then, the monopolitized phone company earned lot's of money, as will the one in Hamburg. Meanwhile, Hamburgers will have no alternative, since THERE SHALL BE ONLY ONE.

In the Netherlands phone bills are slighly lower due to privatization (and new legislation with respect to telecommunications). Only recently, when legislation allowed ISP's to get a percentage of the customer's phone bill, commercial ISPs (such as: Zon, Wanadoo and Het Net) started to provide their services for free. If it would not have been for the digital cities, these services would have been provided by a free market much earlier...

Tune

-- The More You Drink, The W.C.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/whatdoya/QuakeLives , Just in case the others get /...ed http://home.wanadoo.nl/whatdoya/css is still up as always..

Just my personal vendetta, for euronet.nl selling the bandwidth I payed for 1 year in advance, for free under wanadoo.nl (the upstream from S1-0-0.mae-east.us.euro.net to asd-bfr.euro.net still sucks, no matter how much excuses) You can't give away that which you don't own.. (bandwidth)

http://home.wanadoo.nl/whatdoya/QuakeLives , Just in case the others get /...ed http://home.wanadoo.nl/whatdoya/css is still up as always..

Just my personal vendetta, for euronet.nl selling the bandwidth I payed for 1 year in advance, for free under wanadoo.nl (the upstream from S1-0-0.mae-east.us.euro.net to asd-bfr.euro.net still sucks, no matter how much excuses) You can't give away that which you don't own.. (bandwidth)