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Wikipedia Needs $20K
TaranRampersad writes "Wikipedia's server is crashing off and on, and Jimmy Wales has posted a letter requesting some assistance from anyone out there with a dollar burning a hole in their pocket. Let's face it, you really don't need that candybar anyway ..."
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I find that Funk & Wagnalls makes a pretty good encyclopedia set.
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Ask papa Satan.
This is not flamebait - its just opinion. If you don't like it, don't censor it. Instead, make a thoughtful reply of why YOU think he's wrong.
...but what is the deal with you Ham Radio fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Ham Radio and TNC (Kantronics KPC-2 TNC Packet Communicator II hooked up to an ICOM 706 MK IIG) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder on a harddrive 5 miles away. 20 minutes. At home, on my WiFi enabled laptop, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Ham Radio/TNC combonation, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, simplex communication will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even my morse code keyer is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Ham Radio machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Ham Radio box that has run faster than its WiFi counterpart, despite the Ham Radio machines faster chip architecture. My ancient 1980's numeric pager with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Ham Radio is a "superior" machine.
Ham Radio addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Ham Radio over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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How is this flamebait? I support wikipedia, it's the people I'm arguing with who don't. I love information. I just don't like the emotional appeals that people make, saying "information [doesn't] want[s] to be free!". Information isn't a living thing. It doesn't want anything...
If I had the money, I would donate.
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I need 20k
for oxycodone k
so I say to the kommune nih tay
send me yo money
shit isn't funny
i need my nose runny
like rush lim baw
yaw aint never gon believe
that wikki really needs
some speed in our system
so we claiming our systems is down
we just messing around
trying to stay high
so send me some money
cuz oxy's so fly
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