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Ok, Conroe appears to be a lake in Texas, Merom is a bluff near the Wabash river in Indiana...where/what was the inspiration for Woodcrest?

Hundreds of tourists must take similar photos every day.

It looks like this one had a dream of being a great professional wrestler, only to accidently send a letter to one of those folks at 419eater.

http://members.419eater.com/~homerjfong/wrestlersc ammer.zip
http://community.webshots.com/album/397026494naLUk e

For your enjoyment my slashdot friends. Isn't she hot?

http://community.webshots.com/photo/226073165/2260 73165aThRno

Cute friend of mine--real hottie!
http://community.webshots.com/photo/226073165/2260 73165aThRno

cHECK THIS HONEY OUT

http://community.webshots.com/photo/226073165/2260 73165aThRno
She a real looker huh?

Overdramatized pat on the back for Law Enforcement.

e.g. " The HangUp Team has been operating in Russia with impunity for years. Some members are allegedly based in Archangelsk, an Arctic Circle city of rusting Soviet nuclear submarines and nearly perpetual winter."

IANARH (not a russian hacker)

Firstly there is really no point to the stupid above statement. Secondly its most likely 100% untrue, as romantic as the post apocalyptic rusting submarine hulks and perpetual winter may be..

Here's some Pictures of Archangelsk

So would you have to hire people to shovel this ice into the CPU just so _you_ could get your porn in multiple tabs in firefox ? This comes to mind: http://image30.webshots.com/30/3/56/25/229835625YR BxIE_ph.jpg

wrong. Those are the names of two of the most famous mountains in Switzerland. They are located near Interlaken, and the third one next to Eiger and Mönch is the most famous one, Jungfrau. Eiger apparently means ogre, Mönch means monk, and a Jungfrau is a virgin.
Here's an image: Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau
Eiger has a famous north wall, if you wanna climb it, here's where to go: climbing route

Unfortuanately, the satellite image isn't of a high enough resolution to see it in google maps. If anyone from Google is reading this, please upload high resolution pictures of a place called Vegerville, Alberta, Canada so you can have a true and authentic Easter Egg in Google maps.
Giant Easter Egg
Another pic
more info

Well, you can be sure at least one person would watch that show.

im actually going to school at kansas state salina and i have seen the global flyer close up. they shut down our cafeteria to set up their 'hq'... here are some pics. pic 1 pic 2

im actually going to school at kansas state salina and i have seen the global flyer close up. they shut down our cafeteria to set up their 'hq'... here are some pics. pic 1 pic 2

file sharing

game, specifically the only one your girlfriend/mother/mother in law probably cares about.
more games
games

Of course, this is kind of silly, because if you're worried about saving money you're not playing games on a PC or a Mac. "Let's see, I can buy a whole Playstation 2 with a couple of nice games for $200, or I can buy a new video card for for $200 so I can play Doom 3". PC's are excellent gaming platforms, but they are nowhere near as cost effective as any of the console systems. The games, especially when new, cost about the same (if the PC version isn't a little more expensive). It's almost cheaper to have one each of the "big three" consoles than try to keep PC hardware up to spec for playing the newest video games over any given 5 year span. PC's are also nice, open systems, so for online gaming you get access to the wide world of cheaters, where console games at least have some semblance of sofware control. PC games will look nicer, and probably be a little more of a rich experience, but as far as cost-effective, a PC is really far down.

The Windows PC can't do this, at least without buying expensive software. GarageBand comes with a new Mac, and this is also bundled into a new Mac. The ability to painlessly sync my phone and my computer's contact list is pretty valuable. And I can run most other software too, because I've got X11.

Now, admittedly there are lots of things you can't get to work on a Mac. this isn't available, neither is this, or this, or this. As a side effect, neither this nor this is available on the Mac. So, ya know, you're right, there's a lot of stuff that is much harder to do on my Mac than on my Windows PC, like being a Spambot and reporting my personal information to advertisers.

http://community.webshots.com/album/22241403vBWOPj pTfB

Looks like a mushroom shaped cloud caused by a forest fire to me. Layman/Common sense to the rescue!

It's one thing for a bunch of anonymous bureaucrats who are spending other people's money collected by government force to spend it on a huge pork-barrel Big Science project that doesn't have to produce anything for anyone except votes. It's another thing for private philanthropists to back a major investment (still vastly less costly than the Hubble Space Telescope, BTW).

Check out the disco ball. I don't recall seeing that feature on the Enterprise. He actually did a pretty good makeover, considering the before shots. I think I saw a clip about this guy on television- he did all this stuff after his wife left him. He was claiming that he actually had a working transporter and could beam over to the pub around the corner. I didn't see the actual show, so I don't know if he was just kidding around or if he actually believed it himself.

Check out the disco ball. I don't recall seeing that feature on the Enterprise. He actually did a pretty good makeover, considering the before shots. I think I saw a clip about this guy on television- he did all this stuff after his wife left him. He was claiming that he actually had a working transporter and could beam over to the pub around the corner. I didn't see the actual show, so I don't know if he was just kidding around or if he actually believed it himself.

However, it is fictional, i.e. NOT REAL... and Star Trek is not real either, no matter how much some people wish otherwise.

Tell that to this guy http://community.webshots.com/photo/70233469/70234 045hyvlcE

Some places I'd like to see on the list:

- The Playboy Mansion
- The Oval Office
- Stonehenge
- Atlantis

And of course this place: http://community.webshots.com/album/70233469ukYjLT

Actually, it looks more like the Gehry buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany, to me... and that's not very surprising, considering it's the same architect :-)

You mean something like This?

Hi, I am a teenage cheerleader with pics of myself and friends online, check out the last time we went to the beach. Check out the other sections as well. Feel free to comment on the pictures and I will try to write you back if I can!

But they're so cuuuuuuuuuuute....

Dammit, they said "What happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas"!!!!

I don't know about anybody else, but that looks pretty nice to me. I mean, if it were any color but purple...

Anyhow, with this you could create even lighting throughout a room without using track lights, or lamps studding every surface. Though many use lamps for decoration purposes, I dont really have enough space for my equipment as it is. Computers, Fish tanks, Cameras and supplies, Guitar/amp, books, stereo+record/cds... Its all in a fairly small area, cramping my style, as it were.

In addition, you could probably get a light that is colored to better suit your decor than might be availiable with lightbulbs, not to mention to possible power saving bonus and decrease in heat output over Standard Lightbulbs. I won't even discuss the evils of flourescent lights.

All in all it seems like an interesting use of LED lighting which might actually be viable. [trekkie]and I can pretend I'm on the Starship Enterprise![/trekkie]

I attended the Linux Bangalore/2003 event today. After Miguel de Icaza's Mono talk, me and five others had a really long and interesting one-on-one talk with Miguel over lunch. Some photos here. It was really nice to see and interact with some great people over here in Bangalore itself.

Okay... let's see if this works better...

You need something like this if you want to rest a laptop on in your lap while sitting in a sofa or on a couch. It's a simple do-it-yourself and it doesn't get any better than this. Amazingly my Sony Vaio is the exact width to a standard A4 folder. The folder adds hardly any significant weight, and it will sheild a significant amount of heat from your thighs, as air and carboard, which is still tough enough and durable if good quality, are poor conductors of heat. Also, as long as you don't rest your wrists, which you should never do anyway, typing will be comfortable with this tilted angle. In addition, the tilted angle will lift the screen up, especially when you adjust the screen hinge to unfold it a little further, so instead of looking down, you're looking a little more forward. You can even use two folders on top of each other, in either of two combinations, either for a more horizontal or a more tilted towards vertical position. You can also use two thick rubber bands if you don't trust the quality of those you purchased.

Interestingly, IBM has recently demonstrated a prototype that does something similar, which mimics a lot of this simple trick that you can have for almost free.

Since the US dollar tumbled recently, those jokes just aren't as funny.

A year ago AU$1.5 million AUD was US$10 or so. "these days" though, it's worth a little over US$1 million.

What I find humorous about the story is that it happened in Nyngan, of all places.

I thought that gator was the worst until:

1) WebShots started trickling other various spyware programs onto the host PC. If you install webshots, then you will get a number of other programs eventually. One of them involves a continuous stream of popups.

2) I forget the name of this particular gem but it modified the HOSTS file to redirect websites to *other* sites. One of them was google.com. It redirected the PC to a similar looking site. The only reason that this one was discovered in the first place is that it became too successful and DoS'ed its own website. The user came in with the complaint that he couldn't get to google.com. If you get something like this, you'll need to go into the \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (or \winnt or whatever systemroot is) and delete the entries from the hosts file (use a text editor to open it). The problem here is that most Joe's don't know the difference.

I'd literally like to shoot some of these software companies in the back of the head. This is criminal activity. It is probably microsoft's "trusted computing marketing department" at work. (sarcasm) Seriously, this will cause huge sales for Microsoft's trusted computing platform if open source doesn't address it on a free basis.

And yes - I've tried all of the blockers out there. None of them are seamless and usuable by Joe User (i.e. - they do not maintain themselves quietly). What is required is a program that will go resident upon bootup and update it self continuously without user input. Anytime a spyware program is encountered, then it needs to block it. If the home page/search function is hijacked, then it needs to be reset without prompting the user. I had been installing spyware blockers on some of the PCs that I maintain but it resulted in too many calls from the users - itis easier to let this shit happen then fix it after it builds up for a while. Answering trivial questions every 5 minutes is not worth it.

Microsoft's antivirus is going to kill the rest of the AV industry if it addresses the number of unethical bits of software floating around out there. I can't wait.

AOL allows you to get "content" that you wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.
Gator allows all sorts of useful searching and ads on your computer.
MSN explorer A very nice web browser that takes over your whole web experience.
Webshots is a very nice background rotator that hogs bandwidth and proccesor time and whaterver else it does.
Weatherbug is a handy little sys-tray app that shows the weather, and watches your every move.


So if you are willing to listen to all the "help" given here on /. You will have the buggiest bulkiest computer there is.

Although some essential programs include...
xmms,Mozilla (most incarnations are great), Gimp (The best FREE image editor)
Also check out Easy URPMI for obtaining linux software.

Webshots Offers photosharing and print services...

if your just looking to put a gallery oneline what about something like blrop script. and roll your own.

Compare these two photos:
Inspiron 8500
PowerBook G4

I know, I know... it's just the bottom of the machine, but you gotta love style.

In all likelyhood the weapons carried by the average compound assault troop^H^H^H^H^H^H agent will be the H&K MP5 Navy .
Here you can see some of your future friends training .
I'm *sure* that the Feds will appreciate anything a group of people do that deviates from the norm.
They'll like it so much that they'll just *have* to come over and check it out, all in the interest of the public safety of course. ;-)

In all likelyhood the weapons carried by the average compound assault troop^H^H^H^H^H^H agent will be the H&K MP5 Navy .
Here you can see some of your future friends training .
I'm *sure* that the Feds will appreciate anything a group of people do that deviates from the norm.
They'll like it so much that they'll just *have* to come over and check it out, all in the interest of the public safety of course. ;-)

Nah. These days we all ride little gas powered scooters.

But anyway, just bring a flask. I haven't gotten searched for one yet, hopefully you won't. Either that, or just get so hammered before the game that you're good for a few hours. That's been working for me too.

On a sidenote, if anybody's watching College Gameday on ESPN at 10:30am EST, look out for the drunken bastard in a #32 jersey wearing facepaint that looks like The Ultimate Warrior's (in Scarlet and Gray, of course) -- That's me! The game starts at 3:37pm, that's a LONG time to tailgate. I'm so pumped!

gives its home workers a computer, but requires them to pay about $45 a month for two phone lines to handle calls and dial into the booking system. "It's a small price," says Smith, who makes reservations 25 hours a week in her slippers. (She makes about $9 an hour; starting pay is $7.75.) JetBlue doesn't fuss about a dress code, but insists that callers not be treated to the sounds of domestic bliss, like crying kids. Supervisors monitor calls occasionally to make sure that all a customer hears is a friendly voice and a clicking keyboard. JetBlue gave its reservation agents computers so they could work from home; Jill Smith puts in about 25 hours a week of work, often in slippers. The savings from running a home-based reservation center helped the airline report its first profit a mere six months after its first flight.

True, however in these recession times when we are close to the threshold of the collapse of all free content on the Internet when,

cost of AD bandwidth > price of AD

this at least gives us a little extra breathing room. I was not worried until Webshots started charging subscription fees. I mean for God's sake they dish out loads of ads and a few 100k JPEGs. If they can't break even with all those ads.... Then Geocities and all other free content providers will be going down, and the Internet will become just another medium for TV. If you look at it this way then JPEG2k is critical to the survival of the Internet as we know it.

The ultimate open source - every spot in the world on camera, everybody in the world is everyone elses' big brother => lots of little brothers. I don't see why anybody would want to travel abroad now, just take these pictures in London (England), Macchu Pichu (Andes), ancient ruins as of yet unnamed (Bolivia), Pyramids (Egypt). Personally I can spend a few months at this site alone if it was big enough, honestly. Just look at the success of Webshots and that just spews out pictures of rabbits, mountains, dogs, cats all at random. Nothing can beat the Dallas skyline on a beautiful red sunset evening reflecting off the skyscrapers with hazy-red skyline. Nice. I'm sure there are lots of other places with views just as spectacular but nobody has ever been there or heard of it.

For instance, an architect would love to see places with beautiful buildings, the travel agent doesn't give two hoots about what building is where and who made it. This architect can just log on and see the building structure in Spain, France, Canada, Russia, heck even Vietnam and other thrid world countries.

A computer programmer would want to see the last remaining building with a VAX inside to mourn (or last Win 95 machine to celebrate), the travel agent would have no idea what he is talking about, but the computer programmer could call up any worlwide location at will so it's not a problem.

I can't imagine how many people there are in Oklahoma or whatever that can't afford travelling to Canada or France or England or Mexico or Brazil. This way they can get one heck of a taste. Brilliant idea, I'll be watching this closely.

I love seeing these new novel ways of using the web. When something like this happens it reminds me of the good old dot-com days when every idea seemed like a good idea. This is a brilliant way to use the web, and could become a new central nexus like Webshots Desktop and the incredibly profound Jonnie Walker's keep walking

I wrote something like this two years ago (though i was unaware of Sims's paper) based on the image generation ideas from this 1999 Slashdot piece, referring to the apparently still active Gallery of Random Art. My stuff allows you pick a size, though, so you can make desktop backgrounds :) You act as the environment, selecting images that you would like to see mutated. The mutations are frequently fairly subtle, so it can take several iterations. Sadly, there is no cross-breeding yet.

With some trepidation, I'll point to my server which is running this. Be gentle, it's just one box and it's on a cheap DSL line (128Kb upload). You can see and download some examples of what it's produced on my server and also on WebShots here and here.

On the odd chance that you'd like to see my code, email me. I don't have the ego to presume that this stuff is so interesting to people to have published it myself.

mahlen

I wrote something like this two years ago (though i was unaware of Sims's paper) based on the image generation ideas from this 1999 Slashdot piece, referring to the apparently still active Gallery of Random Art. My stuff allows you pick a size, though, so you can make desktop backgrounds :) You act as the environment, selecting images that you would like to see mutated. The mutations are frequently fairly subtle, so it can take several iterations. Sadly, there is no cross-breeding yet.

With some trepidation, I'll point to my server which is running this. Be gentle, it's just one box and it's on a cheap DSL line (128Kb upload). You can see and download some examples of what it's produced on my server and also on WebShots here and here.

On the odd chance that you'd like to see my code, email me. I don't have the ego to presume that this stuff is so interesting to people to have published it myself.

mahlen

Ah yes, the good 'ole days of '94, when everyone who had 'net access had (or was persuit of) an advanced degree at a university. Hardly "any Jow Schmoe".

Throw in the unwashed masses, and you get lots of personal pages along the lines of My Cat Fluffy's Grand Adventure On The Day I Bought The Digital Camera!

• http://members.aol.com/ltutihasi/cr-f.html
• http://www.rubricity.com/album/
• http://community.webshots.com/album/9189298zIBwSDn MyO http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/9616/pets /newpictures.html

alltheweb.com Let's you search the web, ftp files, images, MP3s and Videos. The results are quite good though not as good as in google. It has support for more languages than google and I use it exclusively to search pages written in my native language(which isn't supported in google). Has the best ftp search.

ResearchIndex Nice scientific literature search engine. Lets you search not only documents but also citations. Keeps cached copies of the documents in multiple formats. Can show related documents or other documents viewed by users that viewed the current document.

vivisimo.com Groups the found documents by topics and subtopics. Nice interface and the sudgested topics are quite reasonable.

www.wisenut.com Similar to vivisimo, but vivisimo(IMO) is beter.

www.searchshots.com Lets you see screenshot of the found pages. Too bad has a content filter and the results are not very good.

www.teoma.com Simple interface. Can group the results by their topic.

ditto.com An image search engine.

webshots.com Not exactly an image search engine. But I've had much better luck finding images there than in any image search engine. Requires you to download a program (windows only) that puts the images as a wallpaper.

This guy did it as a project. And This guy apparently felt his effort was worth a web-photo album about his computer "Woody".

I also remember reading an article in Wired a couple of years ago about a company that was doing high end PC's what were encased in mahogany and teak and other stuff like that, but I can't find the company now. I gues it's for the executive who has everything and doesn't actually need anything.

Honestly, I think making a computer case out of clay, adobe or ceramics might be better and cheaper. Additionally, there would be a reduced fire hazard and the materials are available onsite. I also think Paper Mache might be good for laptops (weight, you know). Of course, you'd have to have a KILLER fan to keep it from bursting into flames and you'd most certainly have to keep it out of the rain, but there you go.

you mean like this?

Before (taken 5 months ago):
http://community.webshots.com/photo/8916386/891652 5MrRHyhTMIA

After (sept 11th, around 1:00pm):
http://community.webshots.com/photo/21192612/21192 864qZXvgWteKm

Both photos taken by me

Before (taken 5 months ago):
http://community.webshots.com/photo/8916386/891652 5MrRHyhTMIA

After (sept 11th, around 1:00pm):
http://community.webshots.com/photo/21192612/21192 864qZXvgWteKm

Both photos taken by me