Take a look at the source. There are a few things that intrigue me, and some that seem annoying.
He uses lots of "title" attributes in his links, which, in my browser (Mozilla 1.1), can only be read if I mouse over each and every link; I can't tab to them and see the meta information. Some of them seem pretty useful context info, unfortunately..
There's the "abbr" markup, such as: <abbr title="(audio) description">DX</abbr> which gets underlined in Mozilla, which is a neat tag I didn't know about, but also requires mousing over it and waiting a second for the meta info.
For some reason, punctuation characters are apparently turned into Unicode HTML elements, such as ’ for single-quote. I'd love to know why that's good standards.
You forgot to mention the author and title of where this came from. The story "Meloncholy Elephants" is printed in "By Any Name" by Spider Robinson. I recommend reading it, it's the best story in that collection.
And it is horribly apropos that this oversight was part of an article about resampling and not crediting the original creator.
It seems that Google's great successs is partly due to research coming out of the academic world. How many google employees have advanced degrees, and can they publish non-proprietry research after they join Google? How do you see the interplay between high-tech and Academia?
'Carribean Blue' and 'Down In It' sound really good together as well. I wish I had a MP3 to offer, but then again, I don't want my server slashdotted either.:-)
Since Mandrake is blocking the slashdot link in the story, here's a mirror.
Mandrake Linux 8.2: Solid server, Friendly desktop. Altadena, CA - March 18th 2002 - MandrakeSoft is proud to introduce Mandrake Linux 8.2 as the most feature-rich, multi-purpose Linux operating system ever made available to the public. This new version of our flagship product combines the power and flexibility of a full-featured Linux server with the simplicity and elegance of well designed graphical user interfaces.
Mandrake Linux 8.2 is the best "all-in-one" solution for saving time and money with personal computers: installation couldn't be easier with our world-famous graphical installer, and no post-configuration hassles means that your Mandrake system is immediately ready for work. Depending on your requirements, Mandrake 8.2 can be installed either as a full-featured & powerful Linux server, or as a highly productive personal workstation.
New server features include the ability to use an encrypted filesystem for protecting sensitive data; "kernel-secure" adds important security features to the default Linux kernel; and an "Enterprise" kernel delivers SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing) and Hi-memory support (above 1024 MB) for high-end servers. Mandrake Linux 8.2 also introduces a quick and efficient way to set up printers and scanners; a new file sharing feature for easily sharing files and directories in a networked environment; and improved "hot-plug" support that lets users install new devices quickly and painlessly without having to reboot the system. A new remote desktop utility, RFBdrake, is extremely useful for controlling machines remotely within a LAN or securely through the Internet.
New desktop features include a completely redesigned Mandrake Control Center that serves as a central location for Mandrake-specific tools and utilities, as well as many new configuration wizards. Desktop users will appreciate the task-oriented menus in GNOME and KDE which greatly simplify locating applications by categorizing them into common "tasks". MandrakeFirstTime is an easy-to-use wizard that helps setup a desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.), choose a theme and configure email settings. DrakNet, the Internet connection and network utility, efficiently helps users configure all types of network connections, from common dial-up modems to DSL and cable connections. The reworked version of MSEC, a utility for configuring the security level of a machine (Standard, High, Highest, Paranoid) is more powerful than ever. Also included are the latest stable versions of KDE and GNOME which both offer some great new features and applications such as anti-aliased fonts and Evolution (an Outlook-like email client and personal information manager). StarOffice 6.0 is included with the ProSuite and PowerPack Editions.
"With version 8.2, Mandrake Linux proves that it is the ultimate Linux experience. This new release is the result of our four year commitment to providing the best operating system ever. Mandrake Linux has long been the preferred Linux distribution for individuals, but Mandrake 8.2 marks a new step in our penetration of the corporate environment. The features and unparalleled ease of use make 8.2 an incredibly efficient and affordable alternative to UNIX and Windows 2000" said Jacques Le Marois, CEO of MandrakeSoft.
Core System Components
* Kernel 2.4.18 * Improved Firewire support * Support for USB2, ECC memory, i830 DRM, ATA133, Geforce3 * XFree86 4.2 provides 3D acceleration for many video cards previously only supported in 3.3.6 * Glibc 2.2.4
* Staroffice 6.0 is the latest version of the famous Office Suite that boasts integrated creativity and productivity tools, improved interoperability with Microsoft Office files, support for XML file formats, and improved international support.
* Evolution 1.02 is a full-featured personal information manager and advanced E-mail client. Evolution provides the best features in its class.
* KDE 2.2.2 (KDE 3.0 RC2 is also provided as an alternative desktop for users who enjoy the bleeding edge) and GNOME 1.4.1 -- Enjoy the latest versions of these popular desktop environments. KDE 2.2.2 includes a new print system which has been integrated with PrinterDrake; GNOME 1.4.1 includes Evolution to closely match the features and look of MS-Outlook.
Mandrake Linux 8.2 is currently available for x86 processors, and will soon also be available for the PPC platform.
To find out more about Mandrake Linux 8.2, please visit http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/82.php3
Pre-orders are now being accepted for the Mandrake Linux 8.2 ProSuite and PowerPack Editions at http://www.MandrakeStore.com
Or download your copy today at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
Mandrake Club members are entitled to download proprietary drivers and commercial software for 8.2: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
About MandrakeSoft
MandrakeSoft provides a trusted interface between users of information technology and open source developers. The company offers its enterprise, government and educational customers a set of GNU Linux and Open-Source software and related services, and user-friendly and highly competitive information technologies. In addition, MandrakeSoft offers technologists committed to open software and courseware a trusted channel to offer their services.
The company has technologists in over 20 countries, and is traded on Paris Euronext Marché Libre (Euroclear code: 4477.PA; Reuters code: MAKE.PA) and the US OTC market (stock symbol MDKFF). "Born on the Internet" in late 1998, MandrakeSoft established headquarters in the U.S.A., Montreal, England, Germany and France. Please visit the Web site, http://www.mandrakesoft.com for more information.
The article in the Online Journalism Review says: "Newsblaster seems to make things somewhat generic or more conservative, especially when summarizing reports over several days. This can take away the editorial edge or nuance that a reporter or editor might use to make a lead or report powerful. Summarizing news over several days in this approach results in a certain staleness."
I noticed the "blandness" of the summaries too, but I think that's a benefit-- reading CNN stories can get really tiring after a few minutes since everything has to have as much punch as possible.
Doctorow's point, I believe, is that we have a luxury of choices for searching information, but those who want to wiretap us do not have the luxury of infinite time and infinitely improved ways to find the information they want.
If they could only track us via the public internet, I would probably agree.
I would say we don't know what sort of technology they ultimately have for searching our data; until we knew that, we should not assume anything such as he has, that they're not able to keep up with the flood of data.
Remember that they're not only recording elements of email, phone, and other communications; but they are also tracking who is sending and receiving it; and those who are under "wiretap" are nearly perfectly trackable as long as they can associate an identity to an IP to a person. That is the Panopticon, the prison with ideal survailance; mapping a person to their communication and selectively watching those who bear suspicion.
When the antenna is structurally embedded in a car, it becomes "a very effective radiator" of electromagnetic waves, said Alan L. Haase, chief executive of Skycross. An antenna built into the walls of a building could do the same thing, he said.
That's what we need, millions of E&M sources built into the plastic surfaces around us...
On the bright side, the article says the material is such an effective conductor that antennas can be smaller with lower power usage. Hrm, but that doesn't mean the E&M fields are smaller.
Yah, I realized after I posted I shouldn't have said "accurate". A more careful reading of the articles didn't imply they were "accurate" maps. More so that it gave explorers a little bit to go on.:-)
Also, the most recent time I tried visiting the Telegraph article, it asked me for username and password. When I tried again from lynx, with the direct article URL, it worked.
The most exciting part of Mr. Menzies discovery was not only that discovered America; Zheng He's ships also circumnavigated the globe and got very close to both the North and South poles.
Additionally, Cook, Magellan, de Gama and Columbus all had accurate maps of the world. Mr. Menzies says: "What nobody has explained is why the European explorers had maps. Who drew the maps? There are millions of square miles of ocean. It required huge fleets to chart them. If you say it wasn't the Chinese, with the biggest fleets and ships in the world, then who was it?"
Also, apparently the Chinese ships dwarfed european ships of the 15th and 16th centuries, and only about 5% of the Chinese explorers survived to return to China; But by the time Zheng He returned to China, the government was in chaos and the fleets were mothballed.
A small number of records and charts survived to be passed to Western explorers.
From the Plan 9 FAQ: The Plan 9 release is available for free download at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html It includes source of the kernel, libraries, and commands for all supported architectures. It also includes complete binaries for the x86 architecture.
Regarding implementation: You can be the judge of whether this sounds like a good idea:
Subject: What GUIs does it support? The standard interface doesn't use icons or drag-n-drop; Plan 9 people tend to be text-oriented. But the window system, the editor, and the general feel are very mousy, very point-and-click: Plan 9 windows are much more than a bunch of glass TTYs. The system supports the graphics primitives and libraries of basic software for building GUIs. A screenshot is available at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/screenshot.ht ml
Subject: How do I cut and paste with a 2 button mouse? Plan 9 really works well only with a three-button mouse. In the meantime, Shift-Right-button will simulate a middle button, but that is inadequate for Acme's chording.
I am surprised at how many schools already use turnitin.com: "over 15000 registered users". That's teachers, not students.
And not just high-schools and junior colleges- the list on their site includes:
The University of California System Georgetown University Cornell University Duke University The California Institute of Technology Colgate University Rice University Boston University Villanova University The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers University US Military Academy, West Point Tulane University Trinity College Swarthmore College Wesleyan University The Citadel The University of Western Ontario The University of Leeds, UK Manakau Institute of Technology, New Zealand
The site description says that teachers can come to "their own turnitin.com Report Inbox" to review submitted assignments. So the reports become part of turnitin.com. From the usage policy: starting at the second paragraph:
PERSONAL AND NONCOMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION
This web site is for your personal and noncommercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from this web site. A user may not market, rent, lease, or re-license the licensed programs or services, or use the licensed programs or services for third party commercial use, commercial timesharing, or service bureau use.
COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICES:
All contents of this web site are: Copyright (c) 1998-2001 iParadigms, LLC, iParadigms Corporation and/or its suppliers.
The problem isn't the ads. The problem is potentially repetitious, annoying ads. A large number of the ads on Slashdot are repeats. I would love to see ads for neat geek stuff. I just don't want to see the same ads repeated day after day...
You've got this new "self-serve" ad system, where people can create and pay for ads on OSDN sites.
Why do you want to dilute the value of your ad-spaces by eliminating the people with spare money?
Instead, you could promote sponsorship via self-serve ads. For the same $5 for 1000 views, "sponsorship" could get your favorite open-source project advertised on Slashdot. With you creating the ad yourself. Simple, eh?
I have not tried spamassassin, but I have been using spambouncer (www.spambouncer.org) for about six weeks with very good results. 7/8 of my spam email has instantly gotten filtered away. It is procmail based and provides a similar user-interface, including an instructive set of headers added to your messages:
X-SpamBouncer: 1.5 beta (10/07/01) X-SBRule: Nimda-A X-SBNote: FROM_DAEMON/Listserv X-SBPass: Oversize-Leantagged X-SBRule: Missing To: X-SBPass: No Freemail Filtering X-SBClass: Virus
It also has hooks for RBL/ORBZ/etc. and has the capability to redirect all blocked emails back to the sender, for them to add a password to have it get through to you.
1) The movie didn't explicitly mention that Galadriel was wearing one of the Three Rings. That's important, as well as the fact that when the One Ring is destroyed, so will be the elven rings' powers.
2) Frodo stabbed one of the Dark Riders on the Hilltop before he was stabbed; he didn't just fall and cower from them. They didn't really need to make him look weaker in the first fight, did they?
3) It's OK they left out the long poems, but I think some of the essential Tolkien quality is missing, and I think it was some of the poetry. They snipped "All that is gold does not glitter / Not all those who wander are lost" which is my favorite Bilbo poem.
4) They didn't include Sauraman's magical cloak ("... an old man, swathed in a great cloak, the colour of which was not easy to tell, for it changed if they moved their eyes or if he stirred".) It would have been nice, cinematically, if when he was confronting Gandalf, he threw off his white cloak and had the multi-color cloak on underneith.
...Saw it at 10pm on Tuesday, since it got released earlier in Canada!
Which could be, for all I know, the very first mention of it on usenet.
This was a month before the Green Card Lottery spam, which did get called "spam", and which probably did a lot to improve the word's popularity.
Before that, I found a number of references to "spam" as a lunch meat, generic placeholder word like foo and bar, host name or user name, or Monty Python reference, but none that have to do with mass posting. Could this be the first?
"Using a laser-based instrument, scientists are making accurate topographic images of ground zero, in hopes that they can help firefighters and rescue workers navigate the mounds and chasms of debris and identify areas that may shift or collapse."
There is a LIDAR topo-map of the WTC area - click the first link in the "Multimedia" secton on the right of the page ("Mapping the Surface of a Disaster").
Pretty disturbing to see just two 60-foot mounds, especially in the cross-section view.
Re:Concerns and Analysis - pilot salary is higher
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More WTC News
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· Score: 2, Informative
To comment on the salaries of starting pilots, they aren't quite as bad as described here.
Check out
this and this-- it looks like an American Eagle starting salary is $30,000, with a raise of $3-8000 in the second year.
This still means the pilot is making about as much as a NYC bus driver with the same amount of seniority, which does strike me as a bit odd...
I hope this is one of the things that changes for the better after this awful ordeal.
Matt Wright's Formmail uses the following code to open a pipe to the mail program:
open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t");
No error checks. This is the sort of thing that people have been complaining about (since 1996, nach). If there is any problem with the system's mail program, the form will be silently discarded. If your site uses Matt Wright's formmail script, it might be a good idea to go and change that line to say:
open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t")
|| die "Can't open sendmail: $!\n";
I wouldn't trade anything for being a consultant. I currently work between 25-35 hours a week for (mainly) two clients who pay a good hourly rate. In the time I am not working billable hours, I am: volunteering for the local science museum; working on some open-source software; and working on my own company's programming projects, which might actually see the light of day in 2005 or so.:-/
I think the common thread here is that all of these activities (the contracts and the "free-time activity") are things I feel passionate about, or at least enjoy doing mostly, and they are varied enough that I don't feel stuck in a rut.
It's convenient that all three of these activities when I'm not "working" may also result in more billable projects. The science museum has made me interesting educational software contacts (though no contracts yet), open-source programmers are wonderful contacts as well, and my own projects, well, some of the stuff on my website has lead to contracts.
On the flip side, the uncertainty can be a problem; there was a few years when I was living on 10k a year (not in a big city, thankfully).
It's not gonna go far if you're not internally motivated, most of the repercussions from my mistakes happen long after I mess up and spend 5 hours reading pr0n instead of working...
-- Q: What do you get when a Postmodernist joins the Mafia?
Slashdot Mirror
*squint* Ah, of course; I hadn't noticed he used curley-quotes.
He uses lots of "title" attributes in his links, which, in my browser (Mozilla 1.1), can only be read if I mouse over each and every link; I can't tab to them and see the meta information. Some of them seem pretty useful context info, unfortunately..
There's the "abbr" markup, such as: <abbr title="(audio) description">DX</abbr> which gets underlined in Mozilla, which is a neat tag I didn't know about, but also requires mousing over it and waiting a second for the meta info.
For some reason, punctuation characters are apparently turned into Unicode HTML elements, such as ’ for single-quote. I'd love to know why that's good standards.
And it is horribly apropos that this oversight was part of an article about resampling and not crediting the original creator.
I just tried visiting google-watch.org, but it seems to be down ("document contains no data"). So I google for it.
Caching has been disabled for the site.
It seems that Google's great successs is partly due to research coming out of the academic world. How many google employees have advanced degrees, and can they publish non-proprietry research after they join Google? How do you see the interplay between high-tech and Academia?
"Others say it's comic -- Microsoft has pulled a Yahoo"
I'm going to start using that phrase...
'Carribean Blue' and 'Down In It' sound really good together as well. I wish I had a MP3 to offer, but then again, I don't want my server slashdotted either. :-)
Since Mandrake is blocking the slashdot link in the story, here's a mirror.
Mandrake Linux 8.2: Solid server, Friendly desktop.
Altadena, CA - March 18th 2002 - MandrakeSoft is proud to introduce Mandrake Linux 8.2 as the most feature-rich, multi-purpose Linux operating system ever made available to the public. This new version of our flagship product combines the power and flexibility of a full-featured Linux server with the simplicity and elegance of well designed graphical user interfaces.
Mandrake Linux 8.2 is the best "all-in-one" solution for saving time and money with personal computers: installation couldn't be easier with our world-famous graphical installer, and no post-configuration hassles means that your Mandrake system is immediately ready for work. Depending on your requirements, Mandrake 8.2 can be installed either as a full-featured & powerful Linux server, or as a highly productive personal workstation.
New server features include the ability to use an encrypted filesystem for protecting sensitive data; "kernel-secure" adds important security features to the default Linux kernel; and an "Enterprise" kernel delivers SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing) and Hi-memory support (above 1024 MB) for high-end servers. Mandrake Linux 8.2 also introduces a quick and efficient way to set up printers and scanners; a new file sharing feature for easily sharing files and directories in a networked environment; and improved "hot-plug" support that lets users install new devices quickly and painlessly without having to reboot the system. A new remote desktop utility, RFBdrake, is extremely useful for controlling machines remotely within a LAN or securely through the Internet.
New desktop features include a completely redesigned Mandrake Control Center that serves as a central location for Mandrake-specific tools and utilities, as well as many new configuration wizards. Desktop users will appreciate the task-oriented menus in GNOME and KDE which greatly simplify locating applications by categorizing them into common "tasks".
MandrakeFirstTime is an easy-to-use wizard that helps setup a desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.), choose a theme and configure email settings. DrakNet, the Internet connection and network utility, efficiently helps users configure all types of network connections, from common dial-up modems to DSL and cable connections.
The reworked version of MSEC, a utility for configuring the security level of a machine (Standard, High, Highest, Paranoid) is more powerful than ever. Also included are the latest stable versions of KDE and GNOME which both offer some great new features and applications such as anti-aliased fonts and Evolution (an Outlook-like email client and personal information manager). StarOffice 6.0 is included with the ProSuite and PowerPack Editions.
"With version 8.2, Mandrake Linux proves that it is the ultimate Linux experience. This new release is the result of our four year commitment to providing the best operating system ever. Mandrake Linux has long been the preferred Linux distribution for individuals, but Mandrake 8.2 marks a new step in our penetration of the corporate environment. The features and unparalleled ease of use make 8.2 an incredibly efficient and affordable alternative to UNIX and Windows 2000" said Jacques Le Marois, CEO of MandrakeSoft.
Core System Components
* Kernel 2.4.18
* Improved Firewire support
* Support for USB2, ECC memory, i830 DRM, ATA133, Geforce3
* XFree86 4.2 provides 3D acceleration for many video cards previously only supported in 3.3.6
* Glibc 2.2.4
Software and Applications
* Apache 1.3.23
* PHP 4.1.2
* MySQL 3.23.47
* PostgreSQL 7.2
* Sendmail 8.12.1
* Postfix 20010228
* Staroffice 6.0 is the latest version of the famous Office Suite that boasts integrated creativity and productivity tools, improved interoperability with Microsoft Office files, support for XML file formats, and improved international support.
* Evolution 1.02 is a full-featured personal information manager and advanced E-mail client. Evolution provides the best features in its class.
* KDE 2.2.2 (KDE 3.0 RC2 is also provided as an alternative desktop for users who enjoy the bleeding edge) and GNOME 1.4.1 -- Enjoy the latest versions of these popular desktop environments. KDE 2.2.2 includes a new print system which has been integrated with PrinterDrake; GNOME 1.4.1 includes Evolution to closely match the features and look of MS-Outlook.
Mandrake Linux 8.2 is currently available for x86 processors, and will soon also be available for the PPC platform.
To find out more about Mandrake Linux 8.2, please visit
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/82.php3
Pre-orders are now being accepted for the Mandrake Linux 8.2 ProSuite and PowerPack Editions at
http://www.MandrakeStore.com
Or download your copy today at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
Mandrake Club members are entitled to download proprietary drivers and commercial software for 8.2:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
About MandrakeSoft
MandrakeSoft provides a trusted interface between users of information technology and open source developers. The company offers its enterprise, government and educational customers a set of GNU Linux and Open-Source software and related services, and user-friendly and highly competitive information technologies. In addition, MandrakeSoft offers technologists committed to open software and courseware a trusted channel to offer their services.
The company has technologists in over 20 countries, and is traded on Paris Euronext Marché Libre (Euroclear code: 4477.PA; Reuters code: MAKE.PA) and the US OTC market (stock symbol MDKFF). "Born on the Internet" in late 1998, MandrakeSoft established headquarters in the U.S.A., Montreal, England, Germany and France. Please visit the Web site, http://www.mandrakesoft.com for more information.
The article in the Online Journalism Review says: "Newsblaster seems to make things somewhat generic or more conservative, especially when summarizing reports over several days. This can take away the editorial edge or nuance that a reporter or editor might use to make a lead or report powerful. Summarizing news over several days in this approach results in a certain staleness."
I noticed the "blandness" of the summaries too, but I think that's a benefit-- reading CNN stories can get really tiring after a few minutes since everything has to have as much punch as possible.
Doctorow's point, I believe, is that we have a luxury of choices for searching information, but those who want to wiretap us do not have the luxury of infinite time and infinitely improved ways to find the information they want.
If they could only track us via the public internet, I would probably agree.
I would say we don't know what sort of technology they ultimately have for searching our data; until we knew that, we should not assume anything such as he has, that they're not able to keep up with the flood of data.
Remember that they're not only recording elements of email, phone, and other communications; but they are also tracking who is sending and receiving it; and those who are under "wiretap" are nearly perfectly trackable as long as they can associate an identity to an IP to a person. That is the Panopticon, the prison with ideal survailance; mapping a person to their communication and selectively watching those who bear suspicion.
Moreover- from the article:
When the antenna is structurally embedded in a car, it becomes "a very effective radiator" of electromagnetic waves, said Alan L. Haase, chief executive of Skycross. An antenna built into the walls of a building could do the same thing, he said.
That's what we need, millions of E&M sources built into the plastic surfaces around us...
On the bright side, the article says the material is such an effective conductor that antennas can be smaller with lower power usage. Hrm, but that doesn't mean the E&M fields are smaller.
Yah, I realized after I posted I shouldn't have said "accurate". A more careful reading of the articles didn't imply they were "accurate" maps. More so that it gave explorers a little bit to go on. :-)
Also, the most recent time I tried visiting the Telegraph article, it asked me for username and password. When I tried again from lynx, with the direct article URL, it worked.
The most exciting part of Mr. Menzies discovery was not only that discovered America; Zheng He's ships also circumnavigated the globe and got very close to both the North and South poles.
Additionally, Cook, Magellan, de Gama and Columbus all had accurate maps of the world. Mr. Menzies says: "What nobody has explained is why the European explorers had maps. Who drew the maps? There are millions of square miles of ocean. It required huge fleets to chart them. If you say it wasn't the Chinese, with the biggest fleets and ships in the world, then who was it?"
Also, apparently the Chinese ships dwarfed european ships of the 15th and 16th centuries, and only about 5% of the Chinese explorers survived to return to China; But by the time Zheng He returned to China, the government was in chaos and the fleets were mothballed.
A small number of records and charts survived to be passed to Western explorers.
There is a more complete article about this in the London Daily Telegraph.
Correction: plan nine ISN'T open source according to Richard Stallman.
- the plan nine license requires all changes be sent back to them;
- you (possibly) can't sell your code for a profit;
- lots of other problems with the license. (see here for Stallman's take on it.)
From the Plan 9 FAQ:
l
t ml
The Plan 9 release is available for free download at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.htm
It includes source of the kernel, libraries, and commands for all supported architectures. It also includes complete binaries for the x86 architecture.
Regarding implementation: You can be the judge of whether this sounds like a good idea:
Subject: What GUIs does it support?
The standard interface doesn't use icons or drag-n-drop; Plan 9 people tend to be text-oriented. But the window system, the editor, and the general feel are very mousy, very point-and-click: Plan 9 windows are much more than a bunch of glass TTYs. The system supports the graphics primitives and libraries of basic software for building GUIs.
A screenshot is available at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/screenshot.h
Subject: How do I cut and paste with a 2 button mouse?
Plan 9 really works well only with a three-button mouse. In the meantime, Shift-Right-button will simulate a middle button, but that is inadequate for Acme's chording.
I am surprised at how many schools already use turnitin.com: "over 15000 registered users". That's teachers, not students.
And not just high-schools and junior colleges- the list on their site includes:
The University of California System
Georgetown University
Cornell University
Duke University
The California Institute of Technology
Colgate University
Rice University
Boston University
Villanova University
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rutgers University
US Military Academy, West Point
Tulane University
Trinity College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
The Citadel
The University of Western Ontario
The University of Leeds, UK
Manakau Institute of Technology, New Zealand
The site description says that teachers can come to "their own turnitin.com Report Inbox" to review submitted assignments. So the reports become part of turnitin.com. From the usage policy: starting at the second paragraph:
PERSONAL AND NONCOMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION
This web site is for your personal and noncommercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from this web site. A user may not market, rent, lease, or re-license the licensed programs or services, or use the licensed programs or services for third party commercial use, commercial timesharing, or service bureau use.
COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICES:
All contents of this web site are: Copyright (c) 1998-2001 iParadigms, LLC, iParadigms Corporation and/or its suppliers.
The problem isn't the ads. The problem is potentially repetitious, annoying ads. A large number of the ads on Slashdot are repeats. I would love to see ads for neat geek stuff. I just don't want to see the same ads repeated day after day...
You've got this new "self-serve" ad system, where people can create and pay for ads on OSDN sites.
Why do you want to dilute the value of your ad-spaces by eliminating the people with spare money?
Instead, you could promote sponsorship via self-serve ads. For the same $5 for 1000 views, "sponsorship" could get your favorite open-source project advertised on Slashdot. With you creating the ad yourself. Simple, eh?
I have not tried spamassassin, but I have been using spambouncer (www.spambouncer.org) for about six weeks with very good results. 7/8 of my spam email has instantly gotten filtered away. It is procmail based and provides a similar user-interface, including an instructive set of headers added to your messages:
X-SpamBouncer: 1.5 beta (10/07/01)
X-SBRule: Nimda-A
X-SBNote: FROM_DAEMON/Listserv
X-SBPass: Oversize-Leantagged
X-SBRule: Missing To:
X-SBPass: No Freemail Filtering
X-SBClass: Virus
It also has hooks for RBL/ORBZ/etc. and has the capability to redirect all blocked emails back to the sender, for them to add a password to have it get through to you.
1) The movie didn't explicitly mention that Galadriel was wearing one of the Three Rings. That's important, as well as the fact that when the One Ring is destroyed, so will be the elven rings' powers.
2) Frodo stabbed one of the Dark Riders on the Hilltop before he was stabbed; he didn't just fall and cower from them. They didn't really need to make him look weaker in the first fight, did they?
3) It's OK they left out the long poems, but I think some of the essential Tolkien quality is missing, and I think it was some of the poetry. They snipped "All that is gold does not glitter / Not all those who wander are lost" which is my favorite Bilbo poem.
4) They didn't include Sauraman's magical cloak ("... an old man, swathed in a great cloak, the colour of which was not easy to tell, for it changed if they moved their eyes or if he stirred".) It would have been nice, cinematically, if when he was confronting Gandalf, he threw off his white cloak and had the multi-color cloak on underneith.
...Saw it at 10pm on Tuesday, since it got released earlier in Canada!
March 12 1994
Which could be, for all I know, the very first mention of it on usenet. This was a month before the Green Card Lottery spam, which did get called "spam", and which probably did a lot to improve the word's popularity.
Before that, I found a number of references to "spam" as a lunch meat, generic placeholder word like foo and bar, host name or user name, or Monty Python reference, but none that have to do with mass posting. Could this be the first?
See article here.
There is a LIDAR topo-map of the WTC area - click the first link in the "Multimedia" secton on the right of the page ("Mapping the Surface of a Disaster").
Pretty disturbing to see just two 60-foot mounds, especially in the cross-section view.
Check out this and this-- it looks like an American Eagle starting salary is $30,000, with a raise of $3-8000 in the second year.
This still means the pilot is making about as much as a NYC bus driver with the same amount of seniority, which does strike me as a bit odd...
I hope this is one of the things that changes for the better after this awful ordeal.
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> perl -MPOSIX -le '$ENV{TZ}="EST";print ctime(1000000000)'
I think the common thread here is that all of these activities (the contracts and the "free-time activity") are things I feel passionate about, or at least enjoy doing mostly, and they are varied enough that I don't feel stuck in a rut.
It's convenient that all three of these activities when I'm not "working" may also result in more billable projects. The science museum has made me interesting educational software contacts (though no contracts yet), open-source programmers are wonderful contacts as well, and my own projects, well, some of the stuff on my website has lead to contracts.
On the flip side, the uncertainty can be a problem; there was a few years when I was living on 10k a year (not in a big city, thankfully). It's not gonna go far if you're not internally motivated, most of the repercussions from my mistakes happen long after I mess up and spend 5 hours reading pr0n instead of working...
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Q: What do you get when a Postmodernist joins the Mafia?