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You said it yourself, "the Next BIG THING", emphasis mine of course.
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Only NanoCo's Micro-Schlong-Enchancer will do it!
That's Right, Just spread this cream all over your miniscule penis, and let our specially trained nanobots naturally extend your penis longer, harder, better! Women will love you! Become the porn star you've always wanted to be!
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Yeah, that's true enough. I don't have any of the AMD's yet, although I'll be getting one of those before I get a new Intel chip. I'm sure my P3 600 wouldn't like to have no cooling for very long either.
I'd just need to make sure I have backups in place, but redundancy would be build in anyway, cause I like to be careful. It would be interesting, I think, to have the whole house plumbed for heat transfer... stick the fridge in the system too, and the freezer, and use all that heat to do WORK, as opposed to just bleeding into the atmosphere. I'd need a big-ass pump for that though, but I think it would be cool.
The added efficiency probably wouldn't be worth the added cost, but it's more of a hobby anyway, at least for now.
I've been thinking about this for a while (mostly for older CPU's, just as a way to possibly cut down noise), and I was wondering about hooking up external sources of the coolant, perhaps though a unused slots in the back of the computer. Hook up to an external pump/cooling system, and then connect multiple computers up to the same system (in parallel, so each gets cold incoming of course).
I was curious about what other people think about this. A system like this one, with some modifications, seems to me like it would work fairly well. I'd just need different CPU cooling modules (Why not for everything Pentium and up?), so I can replace all my CPU cooling fans with liquid-cooling systems. Then I'd add coolant-filled pipes to the mess behind all my computers.:)
When they find that they're being cut off from huge numbers of websites because MAPS decided to start playing dick size games with web hosting services...
But here you're blaming MAPS for offering the service, not the ISP for using it. It's a voluntary service for the ISP, so if the customers don't LIKE the policy of their ISP (to choose to use the service offered by MAPS), then they can get another ISP. The places where there aren't ISP choices are getting fewer and farther between every day.
I used to work tech. support for iStar a few years ago, and I would have PROUDLY explained the problem to my customers, had iStar had the balls to do the right thing and join MAPS.
What is it with people wanting to take away choices? MAPS offers a SERVICE, they don't force it down anyone's throats. ISPs can choose to use it, OR NOT. Innocent customers of spam-supporting web-sites can choose to move to a new host, OR NOT. There's nothing saying you need to host your web-site in your own city, or even country! Hell, I live in Toronto, and quite happily host my website in Colorado! If Peacefire.org has been caught in the cross-fire, that's unfortunate, but they need to make the moral choice and either stick by their ISP and remain on MAPS, or leave.
It's called "chording" in reference to a piano, where playing multiple keys at the same time is called a chord. Same as in guitar, when you have multiple strings depressed at the same time.
However, I think their business model is wrong. Keeping my old games will not stop me from buying new ones, if the new games are good enough.
If the new games are good enough, but most of them are, IMNSHO, CRAP. The companies know this, you know this, but they still want to suck the money out of your wallet, and so they do these and other asinine things.
I tried university a couple of times, Engineering once, and Advanced Comp Sci. once. I quit both times, because of life's little curve balls.
Luckily, I had enough knowledge that I could work doing CGI scripting, so that kept me in house-and-home (mostly) for the 6 years since my last attempt.
But, I've noticed recently that this has presented a problem. I'm bascially a High School graduate, but I'm burnt out from CGI programming. So what do I do?
My point is, you can skip College/University if you feel it's best for you, but make sure you have a backup plan, because what you choose to do in lieu of school may not be what you want it to be, or you may want something else later. Without a good education, it's pretty much McJobs, unless you go back to school.
Personally, I'd love to hear some arguments/advice about this, since this is exactly what I'm facing.
Why not do something like a database (pick your own flavour) with fields indicating the time, source, artist, subject, resolution, quality, and path on your partition (a special partition, just for the images, perhaps). Have the database be web-accessible (perhaps, depends on the application), and have the partition backed up like any other data.
That way you can search through the database for what you're looking for, configure the search to return the various paths, mount the drive (if it's shared via a network), or click (if the database is web-accessible) to see the various images (or just have the database return a thumbnail version), but since the backups are proceeding like system backups, you know your data is reasonably safe.
I just setup filesharing at home, and it's pretty quick from what I've seen. It's a 100baseT back end, and a Celeron 533 fileserver running Debian Potato, with Samba and Netatalk. Works like a dream so far.
Actually, they can if it's exported outside the US. If you read the ThinkGeekDolphin page, it says in very clear english:
Vipul Ved Prakash authored this most excellent Perl shirt. It's a diminutive implementation of RSA that does encryption/decryption and 2048-bit key generation. Unfortunately, it is considered a munitions and cannot be exported outside the U.S. - sorry no International orders on this one;(
I'm not saying this is possible, I'm merely wondering, could it not be done as an extra layer on top of the OS?
You have your OS to run the base operating of each individual computer.
You run something like LinuxNOW to configure and manage all the physical resources (drives, printers, serial ports, whatever).
You run a distribution application, that distributes the load evenly among all available computers on the network at any one time.
Is this last step impossible? I'm wondering because it would greatly enhance not only things like Seti@Home, the distributed.net clients and all that jazz, but also CPU intensive, but not necessarily specifically parallel tasks like MP3/OGG encoding, or compiling (altho I'm not sure about that one).
Should I keep singing "Dream a little dream", and wait for a parallel MP3 encoder?
This was tried here, with CDR's being asessed a tax, the same as blank tapes, with the tax money going to the big distributers, to offset their "artists" losses from the illegal copying of music.
No one thought of the fact that Indie artists use blank CDRs to LEGALLY distribute their OWN music. Or that CDRs are used for other things, like backups.
I'm not sure of the status on this, I'm afraid. It was supposed to take effect a year ago, but it was delayed, and the amount of the tax was lowered, but I haven't heard a peep about it since.
I love my country, but some of the people in charge really need to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a clue stick.
There have been many posts here, saying "If they'd been granted a.org, where they're supposed to go, and not a.com, where commercial entries are supposed to go..."...But they weren't! AND, the InterNIC didn't even attempt to segregate, ever, except for.edu and.gov (.mil is handled by someone else, AFAIK).
So please, get over what "should have" been done, because it wasn't done. Would it be better, YES, it would be a LOT better if Microsoft.com was Micro$haft Shitty Software Corp, and Microsoft.org was a non-profit organization, and Microsoft.net was for the Micro$haft *cough* Network, and the InterNIC enforced it, but they don't, they didn't, so now we have to live with it.
If living with it means that ANY complaint, no matter how obviously asinine and wrong, gets the judicial nod, I feel very sorry for all of us, because if it happens to him, what's to stop it from happening to YOU, or ME?
Great idea that has been discussed before, but do the words "Not a hope in hell" mean anything to anyone.
The Microsoft Data Storage Centre(tm) (or whatever they call it) wouldn't get my business if my life depended on it. They'd strip mine that data faster than a prospector during the Gold rush.
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You said it yourself, "the Next BIG THING", emphasis mine of course.
Spam from the future (with script-kiddie speak removed of course):
Want a bigger penis to please your mate?
Only NanoCo's Micro-Schlong-Enchancer will do it!
That's Right, Just spread this cream all over your miniscule penis, and let our specially trained nanobots naturally extend your penis longer, harder, better! Women will love you! Become the porn star you've always wanted to be!
100% successful, fully endorsed by Ron Jeremy the 4th!
Ah Ha! So that's where that damned spammer lives!
Should have been obvious, really.
Ah, good old Northern Crossroads.
I remember when NC was just a little baby, still crawling around at the U of Toronto.
*sniff*
It's good to see it still alive and kicking, even if I don't play there anymore.
DrWho...
Don't you mean vacuum off? Sorry, couldn't resist.
AI Toaster Porn? Would that be like attaching a FUFMe to Talky the Toaster?
Yeah, that's true enough. I don't have any of the AMD's yet, although I'll be getting one of those before I get a new Intel chip. I'm sure my P3 600 wouldn't like to have no cooling for very long either.
I'd just need to make sure I have backups in place, but redundancy would be build in anyway, cause I like to be careful. It would be interesting, I think, to have the whole house plumbed for heat transfer... stick the fridge in the system too, and the freezer, and use all that heat to do WORK, as opposed to just bleeding into the atmosphere. I'd need a big-ass pump for that though, but I think it would be cool.
The added efficiency probably wouldn't be worth the added cost, but it's more of a hobby anyway, at least for now.
I've been thinking about this for a while (mostly for older CPU's, just as a way to possibly cut down noise), and I was wondering about hooking up external sources of the coolant, perhaps though a unused slots in the back of the computer. Hook up to an external pump/cooling system, and then connect multiple computers up to the same system (in parallel, so each gets cold incoming of course).
:)
I was curious about what other people think about this. A system like this one, with some modifications, seems to me like it would work fairly well. I'd just need different CPU cooling modules (Why not for everything Pentium and up?), so I can replace all my CPU cooling fans with liquid-cooling systems. Then I'd add coolant-filled pipes to the mess behind all my computers.
"Sopwith Camel" was the name of the game, but I don't know if DOSEMU plays it.
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But here you're blaming MAPS for offering the service, not the ISP for using it. It's a voluntary service for the ISP, so if the customers don't LIKE the policy of their ISP (to choose to use the service offered by MAPS), then they can get another ISP. The places where there aren't ISP choices are getting fewer and farther between every day.
I used to work tech. support for iStar a few years ago, and I would have PROUDLY explained the problem to my customers, had iStar had the balls to do the right thing and join MAPS.
What is it with people wanting to take away choices? MAPS offers a SERVICE, they don't force it down anyone's throats. ISPs can choose to use it, OR NOT. Innocent customers of spam-supporting web-sites can choose to move to a new host, OR NOT. There's nothing saying you need to host your web-site in your own city, or even country! Hell, I live in Toronto, and quite happily host my website in Colorado! If Peacefire.org has been caught in the cross-fire, that's unfortunate, but they need to make the moral choice and either stick by their ISP and remain on MAPS, or leave.
Keep up the good work, MAPS!
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It's called "chording" in reference to a piano, where playing multiple keys at the same time is called a chord. Same as in guitar, when you have multiple strings depressed at the same time.
I hope it was spelt correctly!
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when you said:
If the new games are good enough, but most of them are, IMNSHO, CRAP. The companies know this, you know this, but they still want to suck the money out of your wallet, and so they do these and other asinine things.
Long Live Abandonware!
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The link should be: http://www.jagshouse.com/OSX.html. Notice the addition of the "s".
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If slashdot continues to reveal our secrets, I'll turn you all into toads!
8-)
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I tried university a couple of times, Engineering once, and Advanced Comp Sci. once. I quit both times, because of life's little curve balls.
Luckily, I had enough knowledge that I could work doing CGI scripting, so that kept me in house-and-home (mostly) for the 6 years since my last attempt.
But, I've noticed recently that this has presented a problem. I'm bascially a High School graduate, but I'm burnt out from CGI programming. So what do I do?
My point is, you can skip College/University if you feel it's best for you, but make sure you have a backup plan, because what you choose to do in lieu of school may not be what you want it to be, or you may want something else later. Without a good education, it's pretty much McJobs, unless you go back to school.
Personally, I'd love to hear some arguments/advice about this, since this is exactly what I'm facing.
HTH
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Canter & Seigal (also sp?) were posting Green Card Lottery Spam, IIRC.
I think they were the inspiration for the CancelMoose too, weren't they?
I always wanted one of those T-Shirts, too!
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Why not do something like a database (pick your own flavour) with fields indicating the time, source, artist, subject, resolution, quality, and path on your partition (a special partition, just for the images, perhaps). Have the database be web-accessible (perhaps, depends on the application), and have the partition backed up like any other data.
That way you can search through the database for what you're looking for, configure the search to return the various paths, mount the drive (if it's shared via a network), or click (if the database is web-accessible) to see the various images (or just have the database return a thumbnail version), but since the backups are proceeding like system backups, you know your data is reasonably safe.
I just setup filesharing at home, and it's pretty quick from what I've seen. It's a 100baseT back end, and a Celeron 533 fileserver running Debian Potato, with Samba and Netatalk. Works like a dream so far.
HTH.
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Actually, they can if it's exported outside the US. If you read the ThinkGeek Dolphin page, it says in very clear english:
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I'm not saying this is possible, I'm merely wondering, could it not be done as an extra layer on top of the OS?
Is this last step impossible? I'm wondering because it would greatly enhance not only things like Seti@Home, the distributed.net clients and all that jazz, but also CPU intensive, but not necessarily specifically parallel tasks like MP3/OGG encoding, or compiling (altho I'm not sure about that one).
Should I keep singing "Dream a little dream", and wait for a parallel MP3 encoder?
Thanks!
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Welcome to Canada.
This was tried here, with CDR's being asessed a tax, the same as blank tapes, with the tax money going to the big distributers, to offset their "artists" losses from the illegal copying of music.
No one thought of the fact that Indie artists use blank CDRs to LEGALLY distribute their OWN music. Or that CDRs are used for other things, like backups.
I'm not sure of the status on this, I'm afraid. It was supposed to take effect a year ago, but it was delayed, and the amount of the tax was lowered, but I haven't heard a peep about it since.
I love my country, but some of the people in charge really need to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a clue stick.
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There have been many posts here, saying "If they'd been granted a .org, where they're supposed to go, and not a .com, where commercial entries are supposed to go..."...But they weren't! AND, the InterNIC didn't even attempt to segregate, ever, except for .edu and .gov (.mil is handled by someone else, AFAIK).
So please, get over what "should have" been done, because it wasn't done. Would it be better, YES, it would be a LOT better if Microsoft.com was Micro$haft Shitty Software Corp, and Microsoft.org was a non-profit organization, and Microsoft.net was for the Micro$haft *cough* Network, and the InterNIC enforced it, but they don't, they didn't, so now we have to live with it.
If living with it means that ANY complaint, no matter how obviously asinine and wrong, gets the judicial nod, I feel very sorry for all of us, because if it happens to him, what's to stop it from happening to YOU, or ME?
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There is also, AFAIK, a ".int" TLD, for multi-national (international) companies.
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Or, while playing Diablo 2, you mutter to yourself "Warrior is about to die".
Man oh Man do we need help!
8-)
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Yet Another example:
The University of Toronto
www.toronto.edu and www.utoronto.ca.
So please, get your facts straight before you post.
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Great idea that has been discussed before, but do the words "Not a hope in hell" mean anything to anyone.
The Microsoft Data Storage Centre(tm) (or whatever they call it) wouldn't get my business if my life depended on it. They'd strip mine that data faster than a prospector during the Gold rush.
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4.08 is newest browser-only (Navigator) version (the full suite is called Communicator).
And it supports PNGs, I just checked at the burnallgifs.org site.
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