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Or this one: Morphix Games (Description)

I was persuing getting them to be the test-case for deep-linking by having them post the newest Dilbert on their page and reporting them to United Media, or maybe even siccing the Scientologists on them by inlining The Fishman Affidavit, but alas, that avenue of fun has ended. As I watched, a change propogated through the servers such that all the passed URL information is first translated into "web-friendly" format, ie: <s and >s get translated into & lt; and & gt; etc., so you can't sneak tags in there anymore, and they even put "try again" in the title tag, as if they were taunting us...

BOO!!!

Check out these pictures I took from an ATM of ABN-AMRO bank in Holland with the standard NT error message when it can't succesfully start all services.

Pictures

should they pump money into research for circumstances that in all likelihood will never occur?

You sound just like my relatives who play the lottery. Do you play the lottery? Or do you acknowledge that when you look at the prize values, the probability of winning, the potential cost, and the probability of losing that the expected returns are such that your finite fiscal resources are better off spent elsewhere?

Any analysis that focuses only on price is misguided. There are a number of ways the human race could go extinct. Should we spend money to protect against all of them?

especially since the telemarketers have perfected having an answer for every imaginable excuse.

There is a solution to the telemarketers ability to persuade people with their replies:
counterscript!

that's really good flowchart to aide you counter the marketer..

.murkus

the frozen case

I was seriously considering downloading this when the announcement appeared on GnomeDesktop.org, but decided to hold off until the next release.

First, this was announced the same day that Gnome 2.4 was announced. That sort of put a damper on things. I already had a (mostly) Gnome live CD via Morphix Heavy, and it wasn't clear that Gnoppix offered anything new.

Then there was also the issue of the English option being broken.

From what I've seen, the Gnoppix haven't been keeping as current as Morphix. I'm hoping that this changes in the near future, because Gnome 2.4 is starting to convince me that it's a viable desktop. In the mean time, I'll continue playing with Morphix.

Slashdot runs MySQL db on a couple of boxes. Check the FAQ and the IRC interview log. According to the FAQ, Slashdot is / was financially contributing to replication in MySQL.

For that nostalgia trip, the last attempt at magnetic non-volatile RAM was bubble memory over 20 years ago. Sharp even made a laptop that used bubble memory for storage.

Software tends to get developed for new models as they are released. See Linux-based software for the 9000 series here. Most of the stuff is for Windows (see here, for example) and written in Europe. Also here. "MMedit" is a good word to Google on.

I've been using KMPlayer almost exclusively since I began using Ark Linux a few months back. It's a desktop apt-rpm based distro and its great. It uses the Keramik/Geramik themes by default which gives the gnome and kde programs a mostly consistant look. Theres going to be a new alpha coming out soon, but they've been pretty stable for me. It's like debian without the excessive zealotry and instead of debs, rpm's, and instead of a crappy installer and configuration utilities, it lets you play tetris on the install! Anyways, it has KMPlayer in its apt sources list and its great (though I prefer kaffeine, the frontend for xine, for dvd's, as it does menus fairly flawlessly in dvd's) in conclusion, KMPlayer rocks (so help out the developer to make it even better :)

Nothing (yet) beats gecko's (mozilla renderer) CSS 1/2 compliance.

I've found this site useful in the past, and it has the following list for CSS2 compatibility:

Opera 7: 43.5 points
Mozilla: 39 points
Konqueror/Safari: 31 points
Opera 5 & 6: 30.5 points
Explorer 5 Mac: 29 points
Explorer 6: 22.5 points
Explorer 5.5 Windows: 21 points
Explorer 5 Windows: 21 points
Explorer 4 Windows: 16.5 points
Explorer 4 Mac: 12.5 points
iCab: 7 points
Netscape 4: 6 points
Omniweb: 6 points

Nothing (yet) beats gecko's (mozilla renderer) CSS 1/2 compliance.

I've found this site useful in the past, and it has the following list for CSS2 compatibility:

Opera 7: 43.5 points
Mozilla: 39 points
Konqueror/Safari: 31 points
Opera 5 & 6: 30.5 points
Explorer 5 Mac: 29 points
Explorer 6: 22.5 points
Explorer 5.5 Windows: 21 points
Explorer 5 Windows: 21 points
Explorer 4 Windows: 16.5 points
Explorer 4 Mac: 12.5 points
iCab: 7 points
Netscape 4: 6 points
Omniweb: 6 points

Hey, you might be interested to check out my little application LiVES

Well, you could try LiVES

Sure you want to meet the people who send you all the penis and enlargeners?
At Boca Raton, the spam capital
Some of the more intresting addressess: here and here

Boca Raton, proudly supporting spammers and defending their rights to spam!

• There's a special version of TeX called Omega which does 16-bit Unicode. It can even do Sanskrit. Some critics say it doesn't cut the cake, however.
• There's also Unicode support for LaTeX.

The Soviets are going to be surprised by this one since they adopted their constitution on July 10, 1918. I'd hate to ask when you celebrate Independence Day for America since by your standards, not only did the US not exist in 1776 when it declared independence but not in 1787 with the Constitution either. However you want to quibble about it, the Soviet Union certainly thought that it existed in 1918.

Small numbers of troops from western nations participated, but those were mostly British and French. The assertion that the the US invaded Russia in completely false.

The US landed a division of 8500 men in Vladisvostok in August 1918 and three regiments in Archangel and Murmansk in September 1918 and a full division of 8500 men at Vladisvostok. They fought with the Red Army, weren't numerous enough to effect a victory, and eventually the last American troops left in April 1920. See here for details or any good text on American history.

the Treaty of Versailles required that German troops to continue occupying large areas of conquered Russia after the war

Sorry, I meant the Armistice agreement. It's in article XII. Check google for an online copy. Check here for some details of the German occupation of western Russia after the Armistice. There are better offline sources.

Try picking up a history book before you go making ridiculous assertions.

With all due respect, it's you that needs to pick up a history book for a change.

I'm pretty happy about that. According to an article in The Register, One of the board members of spamvrij.nl is Karin Spaink, very likely the same Karin Spaink who has been involved in the battle against $cientology.

Taking on spammers nd $cientologists. Damn. She's got guts.

Almost all of the information on Javascript you can find on the web is aimed at web designers who aren't programmers. They pass around little snippets of code that "worked for me", which 99% of the time really means "worked when I tried it on IE". I personally would kill for a document entitled "Javascript for people who know what a first-class function is", because such a document might be written by someone who knows Javascript from MS DOM from ECMA DOM, and might explain it to me.

While I'm waiting for that document, my favorite Javascript reference is http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/version5.html.

Fun With Telemarketers

Anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript

ddaadd ddaadd bluhahaha more text here

• Baseball Reference for historical baseball data. Want to see which career is most like Barry Bonds, find out here (the answer is Micky Mantle).
• Basketball Reference. Similar to the above site, but concerned with historical NBA data.
• Soccer has two excellent sites with historical and current data. The International Soccer Server and the Rec.sport.soccer Statistics Foundation. Both sites have details on which team won the league for all of history. And you should probably check out the UEFA European Cup Football Results and Qualifications page also. It doesn't contain historical results, but is a very detailed overview on how UEFA league qualifying is determined.

Have fun...

They're hybrid 8/16 bit. They had an 8-bit databus but with full 16-bit addressing.

You do realize that Mozilla has bugs as well? And that Opera nicely renders testcases that show off bugs in Mozilla's CSS implementation? The reason it works in Opera and not Mozilla is that the test was done to show bugs in Mozilla, not in Opera. It's the same with your Opera tests.

It is really pointless to argue which browser has the better CSS support since results seem to vary, but this well known test site shows Opera as the current leader. Not that it proves anything apart from the fact that things may not be so clear in Mozilla's favor as you seem to think.

My point is just that claiming that Mozilla somehow is vastly superior to other browsers, or at least Opera, when it comes to standards that are actually in wide use (HTML, CSS, DOM - MathML is hardly widely used on the web today) is simply incorrect. Which one has better CSS support of Opera and Mozilla? No idea. I don't really care. But anyone who claims that Mozilla has supperior CSS support compared to Opera or vice versa should be corrected.

"You didn't read what I said -- ever tried using these? The latest Opera for BeOS is version 3, and the company has dropped support for the operating system. Mozilla for BeOS is a current version, and there are pseudo-nightly builds available. The story is similar for OS/2."

It seems to work here. Oh, and it seems to work here too.

Minesweeper for Mac

Yep, XS4ALL, a techie friendly ISP here in the Netherlands (a major ISP, too, btw) is a IPv6 brokering service. They assign you some block of IP addresses, you do some configging, install radvd and suddenly your whole internal network can talk IPv6. I've set it up here at home such that clients which are NAT'd in IPv4 space have their own IPv6 address which gets assigned to them dynamically. Its not that hard.

Anyways, its all nice but there's not much to do with it. There are very few IPv6 enabled sites on the net. Has kind of the 'old days of the net' feel to it. Just a few pages here and there. A small directory service like when Yahoo! started off. Its true, we need a killer app, something very useful which IPv6 offers that IPv4/NAT doesn't.

Cheers,

Costyn.

Here

Whenever a telemarketer calls me, I always keep them on the phone and use this fun script against them! It's generally a great time for me and everyone in my vicinity.

There are plenty of reports that demonstrate that Gecko's support is better. But since you asked, here.

Natural Uranium is mainly Uranium 238 (99.28%) plus a small fraction of Uranium 235 (0.71%). Depleted Uranium (DU) has had the majority of the Uranium 235 removed. It is therefore true that if DU was made exclusively from natural Uranium it would be less radioactive (although just as chemically toxic) since Uranium 238 is less radioactive than Uranium 235. However Uranium extracted from spent nuclear fuel has also been used to make DU. This has traces of Plutonium and Neptunium produced in the reactor in it and hence DU is often more radioactive than natural Uranium.

but today, words escape me. That's just wrong, somehow...

(This coming from a Lords of Acid fan :)

Well look at the page with the tickle robot map. Looks like wood to me.

Now that you've said the page looks 'Artsy', all of their various pictures have taken on a mysteriously phallic quality.
I mean seriously, look at the picture of the Morphotheque
It Can't be just me. Maybe it's what I'm drinking.
On a more serious note, it's interesting to see art and science start to mix more and more in recent years. Seems that technology, especially robotics, has gone the full circle. I mean, in publications such as Astounding from the Forties and Fifties had "outrageous" desings of humanoid robots performing all kinds of tasks and interactions - then science took over and designed the ugly montrosities that grace our car factiories today.
And now it seems that robots hold a place both functionally and aesthetically - seen both here and in recent events such as the Robot competition mentioned on slashdot a few weeks back.
Just my random rambling.

I recently switched from Chello cable internet to a 128/768 ADSL line with XS4All as my ISP. I'm very pleased with them. Not only do they allow your own servers (both http and mail) but they put Sendmail security warnings on the helppages.
And the don't care about NAT, etc. They even provide information to set up routers/firewalls and NAT.

"Customers are allowed to hack into the XS4ALL systems. The first customer to gain administrator rights gets a 6-month account for free. The requirement is that no damage is done, privacy of other customers is not broken, and that the full procedure is explained."

Now that's what I call a provider.

Hmmm.. forgot to link to the TOS and privacy statement. (both in dutch)

Hmmm.. forgot to link to the TOS and privacy statement. (both in dutch)

Just read the TOS for my ISP again and was reminded why I chose this ISP (even though it is not the cheapest available). One of the clauses says (roughly translated):

All customers are allowed to hack the system. The first custormer that manages to get 'root' status will receive 6 months free use of the system. In return customer will explain how the system was hacked. Customers will take pains not to damage the system. Customers hereby give other customers to hack the system.

I feel that this should be a standard clause in any ISP's TOS.

Back to the RFCs: the list above doesn't seem exhaustive. I found some more: 12 networking truths RFC, telnet randomly lose option and Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

My awesome ISP took their own initiative and set up various scripts and pages where you can figure out how to set up your own 6in4 tunnel and network. They even have some CGI scripts which generate settings for your flavour of OS which you can type in and it'll just work. (sorry, the scripts are behind a login, so I can't link to them).

Also how to set up the machine you have your tunnel endpoint as being a router for the rest of your internal network (with radvd, etc). Very cool. XS4ALL rocks! THE Geek/nerd friendly ISP. :-)

Cheers,

Costyn.

Malachi

That study is off-topic, it doesn't even mention BSD. Here there are also objective comparisons between Linux and BSD that you should consider before setting up your next server.

EMACS killed my mother!

For the best look at Xs4all
Yes it's in English.

Sigh. Probably true. But give a spammer or telemarketer or other sleazeball a tiny crack and they'll stretch it to allow everything.

For instance, the "Do Not Call" list, according to this would have exemptions for a number of groups. And there seems to be a blanket exemption for charities. Just this hole raises lots of potential - the telemarketers will pay the charity some amount per call to call on their behalf -- and then toss in their sales pitch.

Just Say EGBG!

Like I said, real world situations. You can think up as many hypothetical situations as you like, but there is no need for anonymous email in the real world. Anonymous tipoffs have been around a lot longer than the internet, and AFAIK the Real IRA still used old fashioned telephone calls to tip off the police about the bombs in Birmingham and Ealing in 2001. I doubt they'd ever use email, since even going via anonymizing remailers email is inherently tracable, as the Scientologists have already proven.

You can even get this tunnel when you only have dialup/shell with them but a fixed IP on for instance a cable modem.

The best thing they did is making their binary newsserver newszilla available (read-only) for IPv6 users worldwide. This is the way to get people to try to get IPv6 working.