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  1. Confluence in Salem, OR on Another Cool GPS Project: Degree Confluence · · Score: 1

    The confluence of 45N123W is in a field in Salem, Oregon. A local fellow put up a sign to that effect and it was removed by the city a few weeks later.

  2. Re:Don't Squelch History on French Court To Yahoo!: Dump Nazi-Related Auctions · · Score: 1

    I'm personally fascinated by the Nazi era. An entire nation was brainwashed to believe that the source of all of their problems lay in the Jewish religion, and they were taught to mercilessly persecute Jews without question. How?

    It's easy. They had their guns taken away from them. When the govt. and their military guns come marching down the street and tell you 'believe this or we'll shoot you', you can be sure that people without a means to fight back will have only those options, and soon enough there will only be left people that choose to believe. As a point of historical fact, most of the worst dictators in the 20th Century (and don't believe for a minute that Hitler was the worst!) started by disarming the populace. A disarmed people is easy to cow into submission with an organized army. Just ask the Chinese students at Tiananmen Square.

  3. Re:Only reasonable solution... on French Court To Yahoo!: Dump Nazi-Related Auctions · · Score: 1

    Can you just understand why we can't accept some people making money on a subject so many have die to fight against?

    That's all fine and dandy if you folks don't want any part of it. But you also have to accept that we enlightened folk over here in the US have a law guaranteeing our inherent right to freedom of speech and expression. If you don't like that then bugger off, and quit trying to force us accept your antiquated ways.

  4. Re:Offtopic, but... on ISO Image Web Site And CAD Program · · Score: 1

    I was planning on posting a simple C program that does it

    No need for that. just whip up a text file, call it rot13, give it 755 permissions, and poof, instant rot13 filter.

    Here's what you put in it:
    tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
    I hope you have tr...


  5. Meeting in Australia on The Internet is America-centric, But for How Long · · Score: 1

    From the article:
    and the first international gathering of Net industry groups is earmarked to take place in Australia this December.

    Are they going to allow reps from the adult industry, considering the meeting is in Australia? Like it or not, 'Adult' web pages are a huge part of the net.

  6. Re:Wide-aspect, all-digital TFT panels are the fut on Wide Panel LCD Displays · · Score: 1

    What I had to do was make sure that I moved all other cables (esp power) away from the video cable. That made a huge difference.

    I never thought of that. Does it make that much of a difference?
    Is there another way to shield the video signal cable from the power? I run all my cables through a small port in my desk enclosure so there's no avoiding the proximity.

  7. Linux from scratch? on Computer Science Curriculum Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    I can't help but think about the HOWTO I read recently that outlined how to build a Linux installation from scratch. I think it would be a good way to teach students how an OS is built from the ground up, not as much as from the code level but where everything goes, how to config it all, etc. Worth a peek, at least. Maybe as a side project.