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That was an outdated idea even in the 80s.

Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day too. Apple DOS was written several years before MSDOS, and has more sophisticated filenames. (Oh, I just realized, the later ProDOS has "only" 15 character filenames.) I realize other personal computers probably have similar features, I just don't recall the specifics about them.

from https://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl...

    4.1: DOS 3.x file names and types

      DOS 3.x filenames can from 1-30 characters in length, and must start
      with an uppercase letter. They cannot contain commas, colons, but can
      contain control characters.

The anti-call script script

May 11, 1989 and Apr 4, 1993.

May 11, 1989 and Apr 4, 1993.

So they made available a bunch of files to play with.

ftp://ftp.xs4all.nl/pub/test/

Or Am I Bluffing?

Very low quality pdf, and in Dutch... but it is what you asked for. :) https://blog.xs4all.nl/wp-cont...

Um... not really. I asked not to link to slashdot inappropriately. Turns out it was the fine folks at slashdot doing it. Thanks for the link though.

Now, to learn me some Dutch...

Very low quality pdf, and in Dutch... but it is what you asked for. :) https://blog.xs4all.nl/wp-cont...

Plus, you could mod it pretty well ... :
http://bjdouma.home.xs4all.nl/SD-mod/

Let me start with the fact that I don't use DSD. But I use mpd as my primary music player. If you are like me and don't check for updates or search for new features very often then perhaps you have not seen this and perhaps it is of no use. Apologies if I am wasting your time.

http://slimnet.home.xs4all.nl/mytek/

http://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html might be another way of going about it.

Here's the accompanying picture of a suicidal squirral on
an obstacle course.

Note this the extremely shy European red squirrel, not your
average USA chipmunk.

Enjoy.

http://bjdouma.home.xs4all.nl/eekhoorntje.png

http://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html

In Belgium you can add yourself to the http://www.robinsonlist.be/ and not get any calls anymore. This needs to be refreshed after two years. A list like this is European law.

For the UK i found http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html that says:
It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent to do so.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_call_list for a few other countries.

http://download.xs4all.nl/test/100MB.bin

Maybe Olivetti? http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/m10/guide/m10ug_toc.html (though this isn't the one I was looking for, but still a 'portable computing device', they also did a far smaller version running a 286 with a very basic gui, but I can't remember the name of it now). With keyboard/without, it's all portable/refining the tech surely?

Here it is:
http://bjdouma.home.xs4all.nl/tilt-1.22.tar.gz

Took about an hour to solve, but I'm already insane.

http://hjohn.home.xs4all.nl/RegEx-Solution.jpg

Try a real beer, not that "lite" artificially carbonated piss water or the so-called "normal" beer offerings from the mega swill breweries (Anheuser-Busch, Molson Coors Brewing Company, SABMiller, etc.). The poor quality of the crap they sell is reflected by their all-encompassing target audience and massive marketing budgets.

http://patto1ro.home.xs4all.nl/beertemp.htm
[The most relevant parts begin with the section titled "The real trouble starts", though the whole article is interesting...]

Eat you heart out -- I'm the 'friend' in this story, owner of this
magnificent Memorex Telex 122 keyboard:
http://loosen.home.xs4all.nl/memorex_telex/index.html

All this here typed on a Sun Type 5 keyboard (attached to a Linux
box) for which I made the interface myself. Latter keyboard has
keybeep (5kHz for 2ms with each keystroke), Yea!

The Reinheitsgebot isn't necessarily a good thing to follow. Many great British, Belgian, and American craft beers do not meet the sometimes odd rules of the Reinheitsgebot.

The list of "11 Reasons why the Reinheitsgebot is bollocks" explains it pretty well: http://patto1ro.home.xs4all.nl/reinheit.htm

But they should just randomly make some up in stories because, really, who's going to call them on it? If it sounds real enough, no one will know!

This same ISP offers HBO for €15 per month as an add-on to their TV subscription, no other pay-TV channels required. There does appear to be a delay, but they're claiming it's often no more than a day.

http://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html

If you don't like the warm light of an incandescent, you won't like these. It's very, very close in character. There's no reason they couldn't make cool white LED "bulbs" at 6000K. They would in fact be significantly more efficient, but would have a markedly poorer CRI.

No they wouldn't have a markedly poorer CRI. These Philips EnduraLEDs have a CRI of at least 80, but that's not very high. 75-80 is standard among all high power LEDs (Cree XRE, XPE, XPG, Philips Rebel, etc.)

All LEDs have the problem of a large spike in the blue wavelengths, a drop off, then a lower hill again. It's much less of a spike in warm white. Note that esp. cool-white (5000K and higher) is not very good to differentiate various colours. For use outside all greens become one green blob, yellow/brown disappear and this results in a loss of depth perception.

I tested these issues for bicycle use and found neutral white of ca. 4000-4500K to be the best. See: http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/fiets/tests/verlichting/experimenten/index_nl.html

Within the house you encounter other colours and neutral white is also far better than cool white. I modified LED torches/flashlights which are normally cool white with neutral white LEDs and it was a huge improvement.

Another issue is that lower colour temperatures (esp. more red) are easier on the eyes. This is also a reason why people actually like warm white.

Cool white is harsher, gives more eye strain therefore not a good idea for environments you spend a lot of time in.

Someone said about 5000-5500K CFLs:

Cold and uninviting? That's not a very nice thing to say about the midday sun.

Except that it's not. It's a lower temp. but due to the blue spike it's not the same as what you experience in sunlight, see above about disappearing colours and the blue spike...

Yeah, it's us Europeans that got it backward. really?

The Photosniper was my first thought. Though it's often thought of as a 'KGB' camera, they were made mostly for the civilian market, particularly (like the modern equivalent) for wildlife shots. They were exported to western Europe, and I remember seeing them in the catalogues of mainstream UK camera dealers in the 80s. Apparently they're surprisingly practical, despite the heavy lens and Zenit SLR:

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/tobiko/fotosniper.html

Camera geeks might want to check out the very first version, which was designed in the 30s, came with a really nice wooden rifle stock, and used a FED I (Soviet copy of the Leica) as its camera:

http://tomtiger.home.xs4all.nl/fs-2/fs-2.html

Apparently Khrushchev was a fan, which may have been one reason why the factory introduced a mass-market SLR version in the 60s.

Slashdot is just as likely to make good posting invisible at -1 or 0 as happened to a very good reply of mine to a dimwit, but that dimwit was one that spouted pro-GPL nonsense claiming that people who want the BSD licence want to take advantage of others etc. Complete BS! But as there is a pro-Linux/GPL attitude here, those who are pro-GPL come in and downmod anything they don't like. Whether it's true or insightful doesn't matter. This is bullying, not really different than making nasty comments and chasing people away from newsgroups.

You might want to read this about this problem:

http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/kritiek/linux/

And for more about the problems on forums and newsgroups (which are autists, bullshit artists, zealots, people who feel the need to defend and expensive purchase and do so in a stupid way, ditto for viewpoints, and more), see this page:

http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/kritiek/discussies/index.html

I find most postings to be really poor on slashdot, very little information content and the nutters who come up with silly stuff that it essentially made up (be it about global warming or about BSD people wanting to take advantage of other people's work), keep posting the same shit over and over again.

Slashdot is just as likely to make good posting invisible at -1 or 0 as happened to a very good reply of mine to a dimwit, but that dimwit was one that spouted pro-GPL nonsense claiming that people who want the BSD licence want to take advantage of others etc. Complete BS! But as there is a pro-Linux/GPL attitude here, those who are pro-GPL come in and downmod anything they don't like. Whether it's true or insightful doesn't matter. This is bullying, not really different than making nasty comments and chasing people away from newsgroups.

You might want to read this about this problem:

http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/kritiek/linux/

And for more about the problems on forums and newsgroups (which are autists, bullshit artists, zealots, people who feel the need to defend and expensive purchase and do so in a stupid way, ditto for viewpoints, and more), see this page:

http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/kritiek/discussies/index.html

I find most postings to be really poor on slashdot, very little information content and the nutters who come up with silly stuff that it essentially made up (be it about global warming or about BSD people wanting to take advantage of other people's work), keep posting the same shit over and over again.

Since the piratebay IPs are blocked by my ISP these days (and redirect me to http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/ ) I have to use a proxy to get around it.
Here's a link for those of you in the same boat: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepiratebay.se/blog/209

Between telco work, new families, PhDs and a very tight dev community with set views on the look and feel of the game :)
This was one neat idea http://jemmet.home.xs4all.nl/spnkrghol/3Dpolygonmap.html
But visions like that did not last long.
The map making tools have their own story too :)

Wikipedia page about "Underground"

Download page for "Underground"

I read it on my Kindle.

On networks like these, tools like this come in handy. I hate it when places advertise "Free wifi!" and then not allow ssh.

Do you know Counter Script? At least against humans it could be fun ;-)

It seems that Twinkle even supports ZRTP and is compatible with Zphone but the instructions I found to set it up are the perfect example of why Skype is so successful (compare with install / create account / it works... )

Oh, you mean giving an element min-height: 100% of the viewport height, as this page describes.

Adding any padding to the container totally breaks the layout in Firefox 3.X / Chrome / Safari.

- Horrible scrollbars appear, which is absolutely "correct" according to CSS's buggy box model.
- The footer now overflows to the right of the container.

Here is what I call a brittle solution. Try again :)

I don't have Chrome installed on this computer. In which web browsers must examples work?

Well, it should certainly work on a browser that has over 10% market share and whose rendering engine is seen as state-of-the-art.

Even if an XSLT (EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) style sheet adds this markup?

Yes, that's a solution, but XHTML becoming a second-class citizen with HTML 5, it won't remain applicable in many work environments.

A sticky footer is a footer (...) that remains at the bottom of a page when there isn't enough content to fill the whole space, but that get pushed below when there is.

Oh, you mean giving an element min-height: 100% of the viewport height, as this page describes.

Your example doesn't work in Chrome. Rejected.

I don't have Chrome installed on this computer. In which web browsers must examples work?

example: adding additional markup violates the "semantics / content separation" principle

Even if an XSLT (EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) style sheet adds this markup?

And the full collection of Infocom games is online:

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/

If you want to try the track for free, you can get a Nurburgring addon for Racer (you'll need a wheel or at least an analog gamepad to play)

One of my favorite cars to drive around there is a fictional Le Mans-style car, can't remember the name of it, I remember it's white, has a metric shit-ton of torque and sounds MEAN...I'll reply to myself with the name and hopefully links when I get home.

Enforcement (or at least serious stimulation) by the Government may well exactly what is required to get IPv6 off the ground. The main problem (on the consumer level at least) is the definitely the lack of equipment. Making it illegal to sell modem/routers which lack IPv6 support will fix that in no time making it way easier for providers to roll out dual-stack to there customers.
Providers could use DHCPv6 on their networks and simply issue an IPv6 range to anyone who's router requests it, no one will notice the difference. But currently that's just pointless because nobody will have an IPv6 capable modem, not even when they bought it yesterday.

I'm getting native dual-stack on my VDSL line at home, along with 7000 other customers. But they had to push their modem manufacturer (AVM) to get it properly implemented. Their list of supported modems is depressingly short, it contains 3 AVM models which basically use the same firmware, one Draytek modem and two Cisco which aren't really what I'd call 'consumer grade'. But it works just fine, I'm pretty certain a customer who doesn't care wouldn't notice the difference.

OT III

1. Check for any BTs (E-meter, theta perceptics, intention, pressure areas, telepathy is HOW) on and in:

1. Body surface (WHERE)
2. Body inside
3. In thetan's space (Approx. 40' X 60')
4. On thetan

2. Run Incident 2, then Incident 1, until BT(s) have gone and are released. Then, check for additional Incidents 1's and 2's until dry (on the meter).

3. Return to Step 2, to find new ones to run. Use ruds while running if necessary. There is an effort to stop and hurry on Incident 1.

4. When complete, exact date and run both of the incidents on self.

5. If a bog, do Millazo Pack. Write down some 'mutual associations'. Re each one on this list, FIND THE INCIDENT THAT MADE THEM ONE, and run that. Then, run OT III, Incident 2 and 1 after that cluster is broken up. Occasionally, BTs will have an incident that made them one other then Incident 2, thus this action.

INCIDENT 2: Dates approx. 75 million years ago, earth years, location, Earth, named TEEGEEACK at that time (meaning planet of sorrow), involved 33 planets of this sector, each with populations of 80 - 200 BILLION PER PLANET. XENU, the ruler, and 'Renegades' decided to solve overpopulation as follows, but was halted and XENU placed in a mountain trap after over 5 years of war.

Incident 2 Patter: DETERMINE IF A LOYAL OFFICER, RESIDENT OF EARTH, or FROM ANOTHER PLANET. If the latter two, start at their being picked up and shot and if from another planet, frozen in an ice cube, transported (flying saucer), taken to mountain, a volcano always, H BOMB EXPLOSION, TERRIFIC WINDS, EFFORT TO ORIENT, MAGNETIC STRIP UP FROM CENTER OF VOLCANO OR DOWN FROM AN AIRPLANE, EFFORT TO GET OFF AND FIND REST OF SELF, PROTEST, BEING PULLED ON STRIP, VISUAL DISPLAY OF INSTRUCTION BY A 'GO TO THE PILOT', WHO SAYS 'HE'S MOCKING IT UP'. There are 26 - 29 days of implanting (the CC and OT II, God and Devil material, reasons for this being done, helicopters, etc.) that need not be run. SOME WERE PACKAGED INTO CLUSTERS in the HAWAII and LOS PALMAS ISLANDS (8 to a cluster). If a loyal officer, the sequence is SURPRISE at being shot, placed at the volcano. Use meter to determine and determine volcano. Watch for earlier beginning (pulled in for a tax audit), run only up to the 'HE'S MOCKING IT UP' as BTs can go into 'free fall', spin and get sick from the 29 days implanting, with pneumonia and death the implanted phenomena of free fall in addition to insomnia. Coltus, the Reigning planet, Hubbard a part of the 'rescuing force that put an end to it'. Don't force or push them off, and answer the BTs questions. There were probably not any good or bad guys in this incident, although Hubbard insists the sector to have been a cultural desert since. Very SP BTs can usually be brought around with adept 2WC, Charm, Ruds, but if not use Power Processing on the rare hard core.

Incident 1: Dates 4 QUADRILLION YEARS AGO (which is 15 zeros or 4,000 trillion years ago).

Incident 1 Patter: LOUD SNAP, WAVES OF LIGHT, HORSES DRAWING CHARIOT RIGHT TO LEFT, CHERUB COMES OUT, BLOWS HORN, COMES CLOSE, SHATTERING SERIES OF SNAPS, CHERUB FADES, RETREATS, BLACK MASS IS DUMPED ON THE THETAN.

Volcano List

HAWAII Pacific Ocean
MT HOOD Pacific NW
MT BAYER Pacific NW
MT RAINIER Washington
MT ETNA Mediterranean
MT ST. HELENS Washington
MT EREBUS Antarctica
MT FUJI Japan
MT EVEREST Himalayas - Nepal & Tibet
MT KILIMANJARO Northeastern Africa
LAS PALMAS Canary Islands off NE
Africa MT SHASTA California
MT VESUVIUS Italy
MT KRAKATOA Indonesia
MT PELEE Martinique
MT MCKINLEY Alaska
Volcanoes existed New Zealand
at these locations Philippines
then, but no Mexico
longer South America
North Dakota
Vermont
Scotland
Iceland

Note: These were the most common locations. 600 other volcanoes did and

The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged". His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time. In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful. One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body. One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small. Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck.

The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".

Incident I Occurs at start of track (4 quadrillion years ago). LOUD SNAP WAVES OF LIGHT CHARIOT COMES OUT, TURNS RIGHT AND LEFT CHERUB COMES OUT BLOWS HORN, COMES CLOSE SHATTERING SERIES OF SNAPS CHERUB FADES BACK (RETREATS) BLACKNESS DUMPED ON THETAN

Incident II is over 36 days long. Capture on other planets was weeks or months before the implant. Those on Teegeeack (Earth) were just blown up except for Loyal officers who were (shortly before the explosion on Earth) rounded up.

H-BOMB DROPPED ON VOLCANO EXPLOSION TERRIFIC WINDS THETAN CARRIED OVER PEAK ELECTRONIC RIBBON CAME UP HE STUCK TO IT IT WAS THEN PULLED DOWN AND HE WAS (AS PART OF A GROUP) IMPLANTED WITH R6 PICTURE OF PILOT SAYING HE IS MOCKING IT UP

(1) capture (being shot), (2) freezing, (3) transport to Teegeeack (sometimes via a relay point), (4) being placed near a volcano, (5) beginning implant up to "the pilot", (6) various picture sequences, (7) the 7s and C.C. and OT II materials, (8) 36 days of picture implants which give a vast array of materials and three explanations for the bombing, (9) transport to Hawaii or Las Palmas for packaging up into clusters. The pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera, theaters, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer, trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it, it's in this implant we call in its entirely "R6".

> How many isps or carriers now are giving ipv6 as an option

Some ISPs of which I know:

Free.fr in France
AAISP in the UK
XS4All in the Netherlands

And those are just those with which I have had personal contact.

Most academic networks such as HEANet and Janet are also fully-v6.

Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp

Way to go, soundbite journalism!

Although he is a self-proclaimed hacker, he is more known for establishing the first ISP in The Netherlands. The ISP has characterized itself over the years as a high-quality service provider and an avid supporter of online freedom of speech (they supported one of their clients against Scientology). He is also an active supporter of Bits Of Freedom, our local version of the EFF.

Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp

Way to go, soundbite journalism!

Although he is a self-proclaimed hacker, he is more known for establishing the first ISP in The Netherlands. The ISP has characterized itself over the years as a high-quality service provider and an avid supporter of online freedom of speech (they supported one of their clients against Scientology). He is also an active supporter of Bits Of Freedom, our local version of the EFF.

Password Composer http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/PasswordComposer/ is what I use.

For example http://www.slashdot.org/ and my master password of buba yields a right(md5sum("slashdot.org:buba"),8) yields fc56e979

They have a static web form, a bash script, and a greasemonkey script. I have also written a delphi app that runs in Linux, Windows, Mac that I keep on my memory stick. So all I have to do is remember one master password, for example "buba". And with that master password every site gets a unique password that is hard to crack. I decided about four years back that if anyone ever hacks one password of mine or can fool me into revealing a password to them, that is all they get one password.

The ironic thing is the only site that I use a regular password that I came up with, that is related to me, that can be broken by a dictionary attack, is the one for my slashdot account. Still the same password I came up with in 1999 or 2000. I assume no one else would want to hijack my opinions.

No: you're just reading the wrong journals.

Said Schroedinger," isn't this fun
Shot a cat in a box with a gun
I'll be sure it survives
'Cause the cat has nine lives
And I'll only be using just one."

Schroedinger should not have done that
It was cruel "playing God" with a cat
Which, by the way, mister
Belonged to your sister
The next time please make it a rat.

Said Schroedinger poison is nifty
To dispose of this cat, God is shifty
We can't tell if it died
Till we all peer inside
And the odds are at just that, 50/50.

The cat in the box still has growth
Or it's dead, and infested with sloth
One should not get unnerved
Till the cat is observed
It's a superposition of both.

So that is the way that you tell it
Leave a cat in a box with a pellet
Should the trigger let go
The poison will flow
And you'll know the cat's dead when you smell it.

Said Schroedinger, "let Physics advance
Though it might be kitty's last dance
When we open the box
Be prepared for some shocks
But there's only a 50% chance."

Said Schroedinger, "let's take a chance
Though it might be kitty's last dance."
"The poor cat," he then joked
"is alive, or it's croaked"
But you can't know these things in advance.

(more)

Not sure of the original link, but here's a copy:
http://dribibu.xs4all.nl/dilbert20091117.html

All nature sounds eerily silent to people accustomed to the noise of city living. There is no hum of engines or transformers, no sirens, no screeching tires, no TV or radio. It is shocking like plunging into cold water when you step out of your car and into an environment where noise is the exception rather than the rule. At first, it sounds dead. As you begin to grow accustomed to it, however, you start hearing wind in the trees or grass, birds, etc. It sounds "desolate" because the sounds are different in volume and frequency, not because everything is dead. Moles, deer, and wolves don't make a lot of noise. There's a reason people that go way out into the bush for a long time sometimes come back and don't talk much. Silence is natural.

I'll grant you that the containment doesn't seem promising. Plants regularly grow in radiation zones, though, afaik; they're usually a lot more radiation-tolerant than we are. Gingko trees survived at Hiroshima (still growing today; http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/hiroshima.htm ), lichens are hard to affect with radiation, etc.

Totally agreed on Thorium (liquid salt) reactors. I don't like having our nuclear power technology stuck in the 60's.

I use Password Composer (runs as a grease monkey script, so will run under Chrome or GlimmerBlocker).

I was told I was eligible for a loan, and I thanked them profusely for it. I explained that I was a bankrupt, and that his message to me was such welcome news.

He kept asking how much my wife earned - I explained I didn't know as she kept that from me, but I didn't think her disposable income was high because she had to support my son's drug habit. Managed to spin that one out for quite a while.

Another time I annoyed the telemarketer so much that after he hung up on me he rang back to abuse me.

This http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html is also fun to follow.