Oh, linux handles my v.92 modem just fine. But as far as I know, there is no linux software, as there is for Win32, that will give you the pop-up window stating that there is another call coming through, etc. I have not yet seen any linux apps that take advantage of this portion of the protocol, as I have seen for Windows and/or Mac.
Wasn't it Sierra's Hero Quest where you had to utter a password to enter a house, or cave, or something? The password, if I'm not mistaken, was "schwertfische"; If you said, "swordfish", it responded with something akin to "Wrong game!" before kicking you back to from whence you came.
Alex: Gee. I think some doctor in New York is doing that for me right now. Our company cannot afford to do this kind of expensive research at this stage. This kind of research would cost hundreds of thousands. I rather use that money on advertising. Testimonials are enough to convince people for now. I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?
They carefully control the quantity and quality of diamonds released to the public so that the level of supply and demand remains constant.
I may be wrong, but I think they strictly regulate the number of gem quality diamonds on the market. I don't think they care a bit about black/brown industrial grade diamonds. Those are used every day in stuff like sanders, saw blades, etc.
I read an article years ago about synthetic gem production, and wish I could remember what it said about the cost. But that's also key, there's probably a difference between "gem" and plain ole "diamond".
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There's a great wealth of Space Quest quotes at the Virtual Broomcloset, in the section labelled "Quoth the Janitor". Pretty amusing. At first, I thought that's where these came from
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Want to know about a situation where living in a proclaimed "rural area" really bites?
Welcome to Loudoun County, Virginia. I moved out here to live close to my place of employment. In the past few years Loudoun was sly enough to lure all these high tech companies out here. Let's look for a second at which companies have buildings and/or HQ in this general region:
AOL
WorldCom
PSINet
EDS
AT&T
Oracle
Winstar
...probably a lot more that I've missed.
Looks neat, right? Until you move out here and realize that there is/shit/ for broadband. Absolutely nothing. Adelphia cable is oversubscribed and not accepting new customers, and is unidirectional anyway. And then despite being 9000 feet from the CO, I ran into fiber on the loop when I tried to get DSL. Oops. And of course satellite is right out.
Granted, this isn't ma bell's fault so much, as it is the county for luring in the high-tech companies w/o appropriate infrastructure. But there's something bitterly ironic about the fact that I live 4 miles from the largest ISP in the US and can't get broadband. They call this area "silicon valley of the east". Well, if this is an oasis, I'm in the fucking desert.
* People don't care about low power on servers. Even if the power
costs and cooling costs are trippled, only a handful are in a
position where optimizing for power, not speed is important.
At LWE, he talked about the Exodus deal. "People don't care" is false, with Exodus being case-and-point. Exodus is limited, by the state of California, as to how much power they can consume and thus how much they can expand. They are reaching their limits right now, with their current architecture. Thus, it's pretty evident that Exodus does 'care' enough about lowered power consumption, enough to make the move to these low-wattage configurations.
I dunno if this will be any use to anyone, but here goes...
Those web-bugs are so small that you can't easily right-click and block image from server. I started to put a page together a while ago where I take the webbug, as I find it, put it on a page where i've expanded height and width to 50x50, in order to be able to right-click and block em.
I was thinking about writing a cgi that would allow people to enter an URL and offending page/company name and add to the page, but I've not had time to do it.
If you want to see the page, click here. If anyone wants to help throw together the cgi for such a page, or even gets one going, contact me.
Has anyone here compared the performance and/or functionality of these two distros? I just installed Yellow Dog 1.2.1 on a G3 laptop the other day, and was sorely disappointed... especially considering that it's based on the "Easy-to-Use" Redhat. A few issues I had w/ YDL:
* Would lock or power-down on me if I booted straight "linux"; could only sucessfully do things booting to "linux-novideo". This may be a somewhat known issue, but it keeps me from using > 256 colours.
* Gnome was crap on my machine. The task bar (gnome-session?) cored every time I tried to load up X. the mouse cursor would "float" as it approached max/min/etc buttons on the window.
* KDE was better, but only somewhat. If screen blanked, palette never shifted back to normal colours.
* Since there doesn't appear to be any real "text" mode, minicom had everything shoved into an 80x25 corner of my display, leaving 2 inches of blank black space to the bottom and right.
* Could not alt-Fx between terminals. Could alt-F7 to the blank one reserved for X -- but could not get back to any other terminals.
* Other little, nagging issues.
I haven't been able to easily find information on most of these issues, either. I guess what I'm trying to say is, when Jason tells us "You can run on a PPC box as well as an x86 box", I just certainly hope this is true, and that my YDL experiences won't be repeated with in Yet Another Linux Distro. Based on what I've seen, it didn't perform or function "as well as an x86 box", and it certainly won't be easy for joe user to find ways to fix these issues.
I'm an ardent linux user. I use it almost exclusively. However, unless LinuxPPC is any better, I'm gonna to take a look at OSX or *BSD.
It was March 2000 that the 10 digit dialing was enforced. It was optional in January, and announce (stupid Ma Bell message in my VMB) in Nov. or Dec.
This said, for a while, I was able to dial 7-digit after March, but only rarely. And there was no rhyme or reason to it, sometimes a 7 would work, other times not -- even the same number.
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...A few years back, when we published Verbosity. Personally, I loved his response.
Oh, linux handles my v.92 modem just fine. But as far as I know, there is no linux software, as there is for Win32, that will give you the pop-up window stating that there is another call coming through, etc. I have not yet seen any linux apps that take advantage of this portion of the protocol, as I have seen for Windows and/or Mac.
It's back now. That amulet of life saving can come in handy, eh.
- Ben LaHaise: make vma merging more generous, help Mozilla /proc/<>/maps
Can anyone with the know-how explain what this means?
Cheers.
Was I the only one to think that, based on the headline "Ice Man" referred to Val Kilmer, killed in some freakish fashion?
Urgh. Must grab my morning coffee.
Quick link to CNet, since I hadn't seen their story posted yet.
heh.
Sucks to be them... UOL.com is owned by a well-known south-american ISP, and Unitedonline.com is owned by United Airlines.
There goes any intuitive/impulse recognition...
Wasn't it Sierra's Hero Quest where you had to utter a password to enter a house, or cave, or something? The password, if I'm not mistaken, was "schwertfische"; If you said, "swordfish", it responded with something akin to "Wrong game!" before kicking you back to from whence you came.
Well, it was amusing... back in those EGA days...
Alex:
Gee. I think some doctor in New York is doing that for me right now. Our company cannot afford to do this kind of expensive research at this stage. This kind of research would cost hundreds of thousands. I rather use that money on advertising. Testimonials are enough to convince people for now. I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?
Lots of advertising? Lots of hot air? No R&D?
Are we sure Alex isn't involved with RAMBUS?
Is the section entitled "Piker of the Week". From a physics perspective, anyway.
How the hell did that guy hit a home run, on a pitch like that?
And as soon as we get really good with the genetic engineering, I want my own half height clone to mow my lawn.
For some strange reason, I now have Sir Mix-a-Lot stuck in my head.
"36-24-36? Only if she's five-three!"
Someone, help!
yeah, I thought the same thing. And I wondered who the hell this "shaun" guy was for quite a while, until I read the whole string in succession.
/me gets some coffee.
They carefully control the quantity and quality of diamonds released to the public so that the level of supply and demand remains constant.
I may be wrong, but I think they strictly regulate the number of gem quality diamonds on the market. I don't think they care a bit about black/brown industrial grade diamonds. Those are used every day in stuff like sanders, saw blades, etc.
I read an article years ago about synthetic gem production, and wish I could remember what it said about the cost. But that's also key, there's probably a difference between "gem" and plain ole "diamond".
...is that anything like "opium den"?
Moderators: read the article before your greasy little trigger fingers mark this Off-Topic.
They don't sight. they "cite".
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There's a great wealth of Space Quest quotes at the Virtual Broomcloset, in the section labelled "Quoth the Janitor". Pretty amusing. At first, I thought that's where these came from
Buy it from the dudes who got laid off and managed to stuff as much as they could in the back of their cars.
o/~ Wireless Man, Wireless Man
Doin' the things that your wireless can
What's the latency, it's not important
Wireless Man
Is he bluetooth? Is his IP spoofed?
Do potholes set his data aloof?
Or do his checksums always tell us the truth?
Nobody knows
Wireless Man o/~
Want to know about a situation where living in a proclaimed "rural area" really bites?
/shit/ for broadband. Absolutely nothing. Adelphia cable is oversubscribed and not accepting new customers, and is unidirectional anyway. And then despite being 9000 feet from the CO, I ran into fiber on the loop when I tried to get DSL. Oops. And of course satellite is right out.
Welcome to Loudoun County, Virginia. I moved out here to live close to my place of employment. In the past few years Loudoun was sly enough to lure all these high tech companies out here. Let's look for a second at which companies have buildings and/or HQ in this general region:
AOL
WorldCom
PSINet
EDS
AT&T
Oracle
Winstar
...probably a lot more that I've missed.
Looks neat, right? Until you move out here and realize that there is
Granted, this isn't ma bell's fault so much, as it is the county for luring in the high-tech companies w/o appropriate infrastructure. But there's something bitterly ironic about the fact that I live 4 miles from the largest ISP in the US and can't get broadband. They call this area "silicon valley of the east". Well, if this is an oasis, I'm in the fucking desert.
while fondling around with Anna Kournikova virus
So what does that have to do with your computer?
...Oh you mean that Outlook thing.;-)
* People don't care about low power on servers. Even if the power
costs and cooling costs are trippled, only a handful are in a
position where optimizing for power, not speed is important.
At LWE, he talked about the Exodus deal. "People don't care" is false, with Exodus being case-and-point. Exodus is limited, by the state of California, as to how much power they can consume and thus how much they can expand. They are reaching their limits right now, with their current architecture. Thus, it's pretty evident that Exodus does 'care' enough about lowered power consumption, enough to make the move to these low-wattage configurations.
Add a useragent testing to your webpage. if it detects Altavista's "scooter", send it a message, "FSCK OFF, CMGI".
I dunno if this will be any use to anyone, but here goes...
Those web-bugs are so small that you can't easily right-click and block image from server. I started to put a page together a while ago where I take the webbug, as I find it, put it on a page where i've expanded height and width to 50x50, in order to be able to right-click and block em.
I was thinking about writing a cgi that would allow people to enter an URL and offending page/company name and add to the page, but I've not had time to do it.
If you want to see the page, click here. If anyone wants to help throw together the cgi for such a page, or even gets one going, contact me.
Has anyone here compared the performance and/or functionality of these two distros? I just installed Yellow Dog 1.2.1 on a G3 laptop the other day, and was sorely disappointed... especially considering that it's based on the "Easy-to-Use" Redhat. A few issues I had w/ YDL:
* Would lock or power-down on me if I booted straight "linux"; could only sucessfully do things booting to "linux-novideo". This may be a somewhat known issue, but it keeps me from using > 256 colours.
* Gnome was crap on my machine. The task bar (gnome-session?) cored every time I tried to load up X. the mouse cursor would "float" as it approached max/min/etc buttons on the window.
* KDE was better, but only somewhat. If screen blanked, palette never shifted back to normal colours.
* Since there doesn't appear to be any real "text" mode, minicom had everything shoved into an 80x25 corner of my display, leaving 2 inches of blank black space to the bottom and right.
* Could not alt-Fx between terminals. Could alt-F7 to the blank one reserved for X -- but could not get back to any other terminals.
* Other little, nagging issues.
I haven't been able to easily find information on most of these issues, either. I guess what I'm trying to say is, when Jason tells us "You can run on a PPC box as well as an x86 box", I just certainly hope this is true, and that my YDL experiences won't be repeated with in Yet Another Linux Distro. Based on what I've seen, it didn't perform or function "as well as an x86 box", and it certainly won't be easy for joe user to find ways to fix these issues.
I'm an ardent linux user. I use it almost exclusively. However, unless LinuxPPC is any better, I'm gonna to take a look at OSX or *BSD.
It was March 2000 that the 10 digit dialing was enforced. It was optional in January, and announce (stupid Ma Bell message in my VMB) in Nov. or Dec.
This said, for a while, I was able to dial 7-digit after March, but only rarely. And there was no rhyme or reason to it, sometimes a 7 would work, other times not -- even the same number.
By April every call I made required 10 digit.