One of the more interesting activities out there is what they call Urban Exploration. The problem a lot of people have with exercise is that its soooo boring. When you go exploring its just like walking, running and climbing but there's stuff to look at. The basic idea is exploration of urban ruins, for example: old subways, abandoned factories, and abandoned amusment parks.
Check out Infiltration Magazine for more ideas I find, lacking all that, even office parks late at night can be fun, or pool hoping. There's a lot of exercise to be had if you're curious:-)
Also of course check out Google's results for Urban explorations, have fun and be safe tho!
Yeah, and an old SparcStation IPX can be had for nothing. I know people that use them as door stops, sure they'll only run upto Solaris 6, and sure you need to find a serial cable or a monitor and keyboard. Sure the floppy drive doesn't work! And big deal if you'll have to net-install and jumpstart is damn near impossible to getting working on anything but a Solaris server. So what if the OS media will cost you more than the machine.....and another thing!..*passes out*
Lisa: Um, Dad, according to the Mexican Council of Foods, this expired 2 years ago.
You're a consumer, you're the target market for the cheap end of the line. Your drives might be spinning 24/7 but they aren't working and searching 24/7, there aren't constant reads/writes to your drive for 8 years. I've never had a drive fail at home either, but they do at work, the drives at work, they just work harder.
Come on now timothy. This is news for nerds, and you should know, as a nerd, that a C64 isn't going to handle the slashdot effect, regardless of the pipe its on. I mean, you could have at least done these guys the favor of not posting the link to the webserver and maybe only to the newsgroup posting. Adding to the end of the post *We will link to the webserver tomorrow - Look for it in the Old Stuff section* I think that would be a decent idea for any project like this where expirencing the site doesn't give you any further insight to the project and when you know for a fact that the server can't handle the/. effect.
Do you every get tired of being wrong? Lets first start with the quote from the site, they were refering to that particular submarine. And second, the submarine was NOT invented in the 20th century, the submarine was invented in 1624 by a man named Cornelius van Drebbel. However, Leonardo da Vinci drew out the basic concept of a submarine over one hundred years before. Drebbel, a Dutch inventor and engineer employed by the British navy constructed a leather- covered rowboat from which oars protruded through watertight seals. Drubbel's ship could stay underwater for a few hours. Please research your claims.
As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century.
Besides say...oh...THE AIRPLANE?
The problem with this statement is actually 2 fold, there's no way a personal luxury sub is the most signifigant personal trasport device of the 20th century. On top of that fact, the thing hasn't been built yet, so it should be of the 21st century. And considering the 20th century brought us the modern automobile, the airplane, and the space shuttle, I highly doubt that anyone would call anything the most signifigant anything of the century...only 2 years into it.
I've got an idea. Lets BLAME TACO for all these dumb jokes. Ok, so even if it isn't all taco's fault we all blame him. Then taco gets mad at the rest of the nerds and tries to beat them up. But then Cowboy Neal just ends up sitting on taco, crushing his rib cage and killing him. The rest of the nerds are so upset that they decide they can't go on, so they throw themselves off the top of the exodus building. This causes a massive earth quake that shakes the exodus building so badly it completely destroys all of the slashdot servers, causing the end of all these stupid april fools day jokes!
ICANN actually requires that registars make available (for a cost) bulk whois information, unless the customer ops out of it. For anyone that doesn't wish to recieve crap like this, you might consider contacting your registry. Or using one likr gandi.net that puts it in big bold letters that if you don't want your info sold to check the box next to the big bold letters. Btw, gandi is 12 Euros a year (about $10) and they have excellent service. By excellent service I mean I've never had any problems in the 3 years I've had my domain.
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I used todo the same thing, and I got all disappointed when they started mailing CDs. Now i just cut the CDs in half and stick em in the envelope. In fact, you can usually fit most of AOL's packing material in there as well.
My suggestion would be to go with Vandyke's SecureFX. Vandyke is the same company that brought us the beloved SecureCRT. Plus its one of the very few Windows graphical SFTP clients. It does ftp over ssl, sftp, and normal ftp with a very simple user interface. It might be alittle pricey but if you've got the money then go for it.
If you're in a UNIX shop and still want graphical you should check out gftp, I know it also does sftp. Good luck and let us know if you find any other good ones!
Yeah, and so far he's drawn 2 web developers, one person todo all the kernel (and php?) hacking, and himself. At that rate its going to take him 20 years to finish all this stuff.
instead used a micro molex connector or something?
Yeah sure, he should have done that. Then they would have said "Whats that in your skin?"
RIP, out come the connectors. The point is, by reading the article, if they really don't have the authority to grant any exemptions then they sure as hell don't have the authority to strip search or harm anyone who hasn't put up any physical resistance. I mean, what reason could they have for detaining him without allowing him to speak with his doctor or colleuges?
Were they afraid he was going to goto the phone and blow someone up? Or shoot someone? If he was going todo that he would have blown up or shot the guards long before they strip searched him.
Wait, less tax income? That doesn't even make sense.
Look at it this way, a company decides to go the free software way and not pay for anything Microsoft. Lets say they save $2000 doing this, well lets go further and say they use that $2000 to pay thier employees more. That income is of course taxed.
Now lets look at it from the other side. The company spend $2000 on Microsoft products and support. Well, *scratch* that $2000 is going to be written off on thier taxes as a business expense and the government gets NO money from that except the relatively small amount from sales tax. This assuming the company didn't say, order it off the internet, thereby paying NO sales tax at all.
If they don't have computers what the hell will they do with a CD anyway? They will just have to take notes like normal people do.
um, he's burning audio. I know its a really recent development, but you can find portable CD players. I know i know, its hard to believe that they're even cheaper than those portable mp3 players. I've even heard about people putting CD players in thier cars!
It does suck, but going OS would let us see also those nifty hidden APIs and how they work. Know how all the APIs work allows us to implement them. You have to remember, the IDEA of windows is a very good one, it was just implemented horribly
You actually gave me a very good idea that i think the community could benefit from. Because I'm not positive that what you're looking for is just an internal website search engine. My guess is that you're looking for something to search all documents in all directories (all readable by you anyway) on your local network.
I can imagine this wouldn't be a tough task if you created a modified 'locate' command in perl with an updated updatedb script that would check for text files (cat those - store results in SQL database), strip html docs off tags (SQL those results), pdf2txt your pdf files and just store the names of binaries, heck you could even run "strings" on binaries if you were so inclined and store the results.
Of course this would be much more disk and processor intensive than your typical updatedb so you might only run it say, once a month, or once every 2 weeks. But it could be a real life saver. The best thing todo would be to have one SQL server, with a cgi frontend, so you could just goto your webserver on your internal network, type in your query, and the engine would tell you on what machine in what directory you could find the document. I'm actually considering writing this now unless someone else has already done it, please reply if you know of a similar or identical system.
Nope, as long as you don't have buildings and trees in the way you're all set, as long as you can get your directional antenna pointed at the access point. And, if you've already bought a directTV dish you could have it up into a ~25dbi gain antenna
Note: I can do this _legally_ because I attend the school I'm doing it to.
Project still in progress (waiting for special ordered parts). A $20 home built 802.11b antenna and a major university a mile a way, although a decent investment in equipment, I doubt more than the typical DSL or Cable setup.
1 Lucent Orinoco Silver 802.11b pcmcia card - $75
1 Antenna cable - $22
2 N connectors - $8
1 18" piece of PVC - in the garage
20' of coax - also in garage
Had the misc networking hardware already.
Apartment roof has line of site to an access point about a mile away at school. So taking all this into consideration, my setup equates to a $0 reaccuring cost. If you live in a well populated area you could probably build a similar setup linked to a local business, but that wouldn't be nice, so don't do it. I'd also like to note that when I moved into my apartment, and before I figured all this out, I would have been happy paying for broadband. But there's nothing available here.
I've had books far apart a few times before, notably, perl books...just because I would reference them a lot. So, I got my butt down to kinkos and said
"Can you fix this?"
"Um, I guess, how to you want it bound"
"Ringbound? Can you do ring?"
"Yeah sure, it'll be ready in a few"
I think the biggest reason that they don't often ring bind books is that they aren't easy to shelve. Imagine trying to shelve 100 books with no titles/authors on the sides. It would take quite awhile. It would also cost a lot more to produce both ring bound and standard, but they have to produce standard. Anyway, for all things paper, most Kinkos are open 24/7 363 days a year.
My guess is they will do this using signed certificates. Kind of how https works, so certificates must match the server they are being sent from. I've wondered for years why this sort of thing isn't required, to make spammers ID spam w/ an advertisement ID, so we could choose to block advertisements.
Personally what I do is setup a seperate address for all my mailing list mail, and then dump everything with the word "remove" into the trash for my personal mail address. Of course i still glance at the trash, just to make sure.
I agree that Dells might not be the best laptops in the world, but they're inexpensive. I think the other thing a lot of people are looking at are the consumer level laptops, instead of the high quality models. For example we all know ThinkPads rock, but look at the ThinkPad i Series, terrible, flimsy. Or Toshiba, the difference between the Tecra and the Satalite, big difference. Likewise with Dell there's the Inspiron and the Latitude. I have a Latitude L400, the ultralite model. It has a magnisium case that will stand up to a lot while still being extremely light. I've dropped 3 times and all that happened was a very small crack at the back by the fan vent, no big deal. If you're looking for a laptop that will be likely to stand upto abuse look at the corperate level laptops over the rest. Or if you just want something really reliable, get a Thinkpad T series
Actually, old Sync-on-green monitors are very very cheap. I've met places that are giving away 21" old x-term monitors, almost all of which are sync-on-green.
And, IIRC, you can still use this with a normal TV, you just won't get that great of resolution. I'm not sure how it would work with say a 1080i HDTV.
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One of the more interesting activities out there is what they call Urban Exploration. The problem a lot of people have with exercise is that its soooo boring. When you go exploring its just like walking, running and climbing but there's stuff to look at. The basic idea is exploration of urban ruins, for example: old subways, abandoned factories, and abandoned amusment parks.
:-)
Check out Infiltration Magazine for more ideas
I find, lacking all that, even office parks late at night can be fun, or pool hoping. There's a lot of exercise to be had if you're curious
Also of course check out Google's results for Urban explorations, have fun and be safe tho!
Lisa: Um, Dad, according to the Mexican Council of Foods, this expired 2 years ago.
Homer: But...*gag*...its...*cough*...so cheap.
Yeah, since marketing is a big deal for a not-for-any-profit-what-so-ever project like this.
I can picture it now, a scantly dressed 10 year old sitting on a craps table in Time Square asking passerbys to "come play"
You're a consumer, you're the target market for the cheap end of the line. Your drives might be spinning 24/7 but they aren't working and searching 24/7, there aren't constant reads/writes to your drive for 8 years. I've never had a drive fail at home either, but they do at work, the drives at work, they just work harder.
Come on now timothy. This is news for nerds, and you should know, as a nerd, that a C64 isn't going to handle the slashdot effect, regardless of the pipe its on. I mean, you could have at least done these guys the favor of not posting the link to the webserver and maybe only to the newsgroup posting. Adding to the end of the post *We will link to the webserver tomorrow - Look for it in the Old Stuff section* I think that would be a decent idea for any project like this where expirencing the site doesn't give you any further insight to the project and when you know for a fact that the server can't handle the /. effect.
Do you every get tired of being wrong? Lets first start with the quote from the site, they were refering to that particular submarine. And second, the submarine was NOT invented in the 20th century, the submarine was invented in 1624 by a man named Cornelius van Drebbel. However, Leonardo da Vinci drew out the basic concept of a submarine over one hundred years before. Drebbel, a Dutch inventor and engineer employed by the British navy constructed a leather- covered rowboat from which oars protruded through watertight seals. Drubbel's ship could stay underwater for a few hours. Please research your claims.
As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century.
Besides say...oh...THE AIRPLANE?
The problem with this statement is actually 2 fold, there's no way a personal luxury sub is the most signifigant personal trasport device of the 20th century. On top of that fact, the thing hasn't been built yet, so it should be of the 21st century. And considering the 20th century brought us the modern automobile, the airplane, and the space shuttle, I highly doubt that anyone would call anything the most signifigant anything of the century...only 2 years into it.
I've got an idea. Lets BLAME TACO for all these dumb jokes. Ok, so even if it isn't all taco's fault we all blame him. Then taco gets mad at the rest of the nerds and tries to beat them up. But then Cowboy Neal just ends up sitting on taco, crushing his rib cage and killing him. The rest of the nerds are so upset that they decide they can't go on, so they throw themselves off the top of the exodus building. This causes a massive earth quake that shakes the exodus building so badly it completely destroys all of the slashdot servers, causing the end of all these stupid april fools day jokes!
As a side note:
ICANN actually requires that registars make available (for a cost) bulk whois information, unless the customer ops out of it. For anyone that doesn't wish to recieve crap like this, you might consider contacting your registry. Or using one likr gandi.net that puts it in big bold letters that if you don't want your info sold to check the box next to the big bold letters. Btw, gandi is 12 Euros a year (about $10) and they have excellent service. By excellent service I mean I've never had any problems in the 3 years I've had my domain.
I used todo the same thing, and I got all disappointed when they started mailing CDs. Now i just cut the CDs in half and stick em in the envelope. In fact, you can usually fit most of AOL's packing material in there as well.
My suggestion would be to go with Vandyke's SecureFX. Vandyke is the same company that brought us the beloved SecureCRT. Plus its one of the very few Windows graphical SFTP clients. It does ftp over ssl, sftp, and normal ftp with a very simple user interface. It might be alittle pricey but if you've got the money then go for it.
If you're in a UNIX shop and still want graphical you should check out gftp, I know it also does sftp. Good luck and let us know if you find any other good ones!
Yeah, and so far he's drawn 2 web developers, one person todo all the kernel (and php?) hacking, and himself. At that rate its going to take him 20 years to finish all this stuff.
instead used a micro molex connector or something?
Yeah sure, he should have done that. Then they would have said "Whats that in your skin?"
RIP, out come the connectors. The point is, by reading the article, if they really don't have the authority to grant any exemptions then they sure as hell don't have the authority to strip search or harm anyone who hasn't put up any physical resistance. I mean, what reason could they have for detaining him without allowing him to speak with his doctor or colleuges?
Were they afraid he was going to goto the phone and blow someone up? Or shoot someone? If he was going todo that he would have blown up or shot the guards long before they strip searched him.
Wait, less tax income? That doesn't even make sense.
Look at it this way, a company decides to go the free software way and not pay for anything Microsoft. Lets say they save $2000 doing this, well lets go further and say they use that $2000 to pay thier employees more. That income is of course taxed.
Now lets look at it from the other side. The company spend $2000 on Microsoft products and support. Well, *scratch* that $2000 is going to be written off on thier taxes as a business expense and the government gets NO money from that except the relatively small amount from sales tax. This assuming the company didn't say, order it off the internet, thereby paying NO sales tax at all.
Oh well, just more MS FUD to clean out of my ears
If they don't have computers what the hell will they do with a CD anyway? They will just have to take notes like normal people do.
um, he's burning audio. I know its a really recent development, but you can find portable CD players. I know i know, its hard to believe that they're even cheaper than those portable mp3 players. I've even heard about people putting CD players in thier cars!
It does suck, but going OS would let us see also those nifty hidden APIs and how they work. Know how all the APIs work allows us to implement them. You have to remember, the IDEA of windows is a very good one, it was just implemented horribly
You actually gave me a very good idea that i think the community could benefit from. Because I'm not positive that what you're looking for is just an internal website search engine. My guess is that you're looking for something to search all documents in all directories (all readable by you anyway) on your local network.
I can imagine this wouldn't be a tough task if you created a modified 'locate' command in perl with an updated updatedb script that would check for text files (cat those - store results in SQL database), strip html docs off tags (SQL those results), pdf2txt your pdf files and just store the names of binaries, heck you could even run "strings" on binaries if you were so inclined and store the results.
Of course this would be much more disk and processor intensive than your typical updatedb so you might only run it say, once a month, or once every 2 weeks. But it could be a real life saver. The best thing todo would be to have one SQL server, with a cgi frontend, so you could just goto your webserver on your internal network, type in your query, and the engine would tell you on what machine in what directory you could find the document. I'm actually considering writing this now unless someone else has already done it, please reply if you know of a similar or identical system.
Maybe it is a troll, so what if it is? It's funny, laugh!
Nope, as long as you don't have buildings and trees in the way you're all set, as long as you can get your directional antenna pointed at the access point. And, if you've already bought a directTV dish you could have it up into a ~25dbi gain antenna
Note: I can do this _legally_ because I attend the school I'm doing it to.
Project still in progress (waiting for special ordered parts). A $20 home built 802.11b antenna and a major university a mile a way, although a decent investment in equipment, I doubt more than the typical DSL or Cable setup.
1 Lucent Orinoco Silver 802.11b pcmcia card - $75
1 Antenna cable - $22
2 N connectors - $8
1 18" piece of PVC - in the garage
20' of coax - also in garage
Had the misc networking hardware already.
Apartment roof has line of site to an access point about a mile away at school. So taking all this into consideration, my setup equates to a $0 reaccuring cost. If you live in a well populated area you could probably build a similar setup linked to a local business, but that wouldn't be nice, so don't do it. I'd also like to note that when I moved into my apartment, and before I figured all this out, I would have been happy paying for broadband. But there's nothing available here.
Just a note:
I've had books far apart a few times before, notably, perl books...just because I would reference them a lot. So, I got my butt down to kinkos and said
"Can you fix this?"
"Um, I guess, how to you want it bound"
"Ringbound? Can you do ring?"
"Yeah sure, it'll be ready in a few"
I think the biggest reason that they don't often ring bind books is that they aren't easy to shelve. Imagine trying to shelve 100 books with no titles/authors on the sides. It would take quite awhile. It would also cost a lot more to produce both ring bound and standard, but they have to produce standard. Anyway, for all things paper, most Kinkos are open 24/7 363 days a year.
Personally what I do is setup a seperate address for all my mailing list mail, and then dump everything with the word "remove" into the trash for my personal mail address. Of course i still glance at the trash, just to make sure.
I agree that Dells might not be the best laptops in the world, but they're inexpensive. I think the other thing a lot of people are looking at are the consumer level laptops, instead of the high quality models. For example we all know ThinkPads rock, but look at the ThinkPad i Series, terrible, flimsy. Or Toshiba, the difference between the Tecra and the Satalite, big difference. Likewise with Dell there's the Inspiron and the Latitude. I have a Latitude L400, the ultralite model. It has a magnisium case that will stand up to a lot while still being extremely light. I've dropped 3 times and all that happened was a very small crack at the back by the fan vent, no big deal. If you're looking for a laptop that will be likely to stand upto abuse look at the corperate level laptops over the rest. Or if you just want something really reliable, get a Thinkpad T series
And, IIRC, you can still use this with a normal TV, you just won't get that great of resolution. I'm not sure how it would work with say a 1080i HDTV.