I saw an excellent cartoon strip where a guy lves in a world where everything is square. He buys a package from a shadey guy, tucks it under his overcoat and smuggles it home. When he gets home, he opens it, takes out a pair of compasses and starts to draw circles. If anyone has a URL to it, id love to see it again...
The BBC had their ActionMan Nick Bryant on the scene at the RipTech Computer Center in Washington with a camera crew and a live saterlite link up. They are T+ 4 hours, and the conversation goes a bit like this:
Nick: Well, computer expert, whats happning?
Expert: Well, actually, nothing.
Nick: Do you think it's over-hyped by the media
Expery: Um, well... Yes...
Itchy (which is short for Attichitcuk) is Chewbacca's father; Malla (Mallatobuck) is Chewbacca's wife; and Lumpy (Lumpawarrump) is Chewbacca's son.
Wonder if they ever made a 'Wookie Pornstar' figure???
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"The truth is, it has already started happening. Concert attendance has been plumetting over the last 10 years, because nobody seriously thinks any band really matters anymore."
Threre are less stadium concerts, but there are more and more festivals, and they are getting bigger. Glastonbury in England had about 150,000 people there last year, and grows by about 10,000 every year. How many were at Woodstock the other year? There are about ten big live music festivals in the UK alone. The kids love live music, (and you can't rip the experience!)
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I allways wonderd why they don't put the arials on the bottom, then they are a lot furhter away form your brain. Loads less radiation, thanks to an inverse square distance thingy (i think).
Maybe 'cause you would talk into the ear thing when you were drunk, and they would look crap.
Nice idea anyway (where did i put that spare patent application form)...
The broadband companies are out in force in Stockholm. Many people live in appartment blocks which are maintained by a cooperation. A lot of the appartments are being wired for broadband access. It's about $15 - $20 a month and you get up to 100MBPS, with little or no installation charge. They are also laying broadband cables to houses in the city too. I got my line fittet last month, can't wail till it's connected up!!!
>>Yet, this problem of children going berserk killing people is only a relatively recent phenomenom.
No, remember the Boomtown Rats song "I don't like Mondays"? That was based on a true story about a girl who shot kids an her school playground form her house with her father's gun. In true American media tradition, a TV station phoned her house and asked her why she was doing it.
"I guess I just don't like Mondays" was the reply.
I think that link has been on/. too many times already. Judging by the picture, it looks like the main page has suffered heavily form the slashdot effect...
Most code editors allow you to change the colour settings, and the default is usually white background. I change the background to black, the normal text to light grey, and the keywords etc to other colours. This helps a lot as there is a lot less light form the monitor. Also, green text on a black background looks pretty cool too! Like the old Commadore PETs.
I am living in Sweden where they have always been very environmentally conscious.
Every phone shop has a bin where you can leave your old phones, batteries and other equipment and they will be re-cycled and disposed of properly. I know the batteries contain harmful chemicals and should not be tossed in the trash. The plastics can be re-cycled, as can other parts of the phone.
For the 99.8% of the world population who don't live in Sweden, you may find this service at phone shops, or you could hassle them to provide such a service.
Of course, that much money (just the money they're paying to take care of uncertain licenses) could probably also buy CD burners and enough blanks to create no-license-hassles copies of Linux or Free / Open / NetBSD for every computer the city owns.
And then they could spend five times that on support. The licence fees are often the cheapest part of an IT department's budget.
I'd love to get a Linux, MySQL, Appachie, Java based web server going, but it's such a pain finding the info to do the basic stuff like installation and config.
The good thing with MS products is you can get Windows Server 2000, SQL Server, IIS, up and running in half a day, and then learn how to use it as you work with it. This ease of installation no doubt leads to lots of badly setup servers, but it gets you over the steap learning curve quickly and you can start to play with the fun stuff...
I'd love to get my hends on a MSDN type reference for Linux, either web based, or on CD. Surely there is a market there for someone???
How 'bout SUHDCB (Support for Unemployed Homeless Dot Com Burnouts).
Only six months ago they were living in luxury accommodation, driving Ferraris and eating and drinking in the finest restaurants and nightclubs. This Christmas many of them will be living in a cardboard 25" monitor box (if they are lucky...). While we can't offer the millions that the venture capitalists used to fund them with, we can help to make a difference to their lives.
Please give generously. (Any 25" monitor boxes welcome).
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Sounds the best way to go. I am wanting to do the same, but I am waiting for a card that can encode directly to DIVX, or an MPEG4 based compression.
Has anyone heard of such a card?
So, thay got a Mac, converted it to a PC & started running IIS.
And before they even got the thing powered up, they got their first attack of Code Red.(check picture three down on the right.)
I saw an excellent cartoon strip where a guy lves in a world where everything is square. He buys a package from a shadey guy, tucks it under his overcoat and smuggles it home. When he gets home, he opens it, takes out a pair of compasses and starts to draw circles. If anyone has a URL to it, id love to see it again...
This cracks me up!
The BBC had their ActionMan Nick Bryant on the scene at the RipTech Computer Center in Washington with a camera crew and a live saterlite link up. They are T+ 4 hours, and the conversation goes a bit like this:
Nick: Well, computer expert, whats happning?
Expert: Well, actually, nothing.
Nick: Do you think it's over-hyped by the media
Expery: Um, well... Yes...
Check the article or the RealVideo
They have the whole Chewbacca family here...
Naff StarWars trivia of the day:
Itchy (which is short for Attichitcuk) is Chewbacca's father; Malla (Mallatobuck) is Chewbacca's wife; and Lumpy (Lumpawarrump) is Chewbacca's son.
Wonder if they ever made a 'Wookie Pornstar' figure???
But then they all said thay about Kylie Minogue...
"The truth is, it has already started happening. Concert attendance has been plumetting over the last 10 years, because nobody seriously thinks any band really matters anymore."
Threre are less stadium concerts, but there are more and more festivals, and they are getting bigger. Glastonbury in England had about 150,000 people there last year, and grows by about 10,000 every year. How many were at Woodstock the other year? There are about ten big live music festivals in the UK alone. The kids love live music, (and you can't rip the experience!)
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I allways wonderd why they don't put the arials on the bottom, then they are a lot furhter away form your brain. Loads less radiation, thanks to an inverse square distance thingy (i think). Maybe 'cause you would talk into the ear thing when you were drunk, and they would look crap. Nice idea anyway (where did i put that spare patent application form)...
Or just stick it on a tripod...
In the films, sometimes, hackers actually get laid. This never happens in real life and is a real misrepresentetion of the hacker culture.
More info on this here...
That's the one were all waiting for. Did I miss it or what??
The broadband companies are out in force in Stockholm. Many people live in appartment blocks which are maintained by a cooperation. A lot of the appartments are being wired for broadband access. It's about $15 - $20 a month and you get up to 100MBPS, with little or no installation charge. They are also laying broadband cables to houses in the city too. I got my line fittet last month, can't wail till it's connected up!!!
Don't worry, they are back to bashing Microsort again. (See above post).
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>>Yet, this problem of children going berserk killing people is only a relatively recent phenomenom.
No, remember the Boomtown Rats song "I don't like Mondays"? That was based on a true story about a girl who shot kids an her school playground form her house with her father's gun. In true American media tradition, a TV station phoned her house and asked her why she was doing it.
"I guess I just don't like Mondays" was the reply.
That was in 1978...
I think that link has been on /. too many times already. Judging by the picture, it looks like the main page has suffered heavily form the slashdot effect...
Yeah, I find that all the time in bars...
"Do you come here often?"
Line rejected
"Nice legs, what time do they open?"
Line rejected
"Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?"
Line rejected
"I'm easy. Are you?"
Line rejected
Maybe I should start drawing icons...
Most code editors allow you to change the colour settings, and the default is usually white background. I change the background to black, the normal text to light grey, and the keywords etc to other colours. This helps a lot as there is a lot less light form the monitor. Also, green text on a black background looks pretty cool too! Like the old Commadore PETs.
I am living in Sweden where they have always been very environmentally conscious.
Every phone shop has a bin where you can leave your old phones, batteries and other equipment and they will be re-cycled and disposed of properly. I know the batteries contain harmful chemicals and should not be tossed in the trash. The plastics can be re-cycled, as can other parts of the phone.
For the 99.8% of the world population who don't live in Sweden, you may find this service at phone shops, or you could hassle them to provide such a service.
Of course, that much money (just the money they're paying to take care of uncertain licenses) could probably also buy CD burners and enough blanks to create no-license-hassles copies of Linux or Free / Open / NetBSD for every computer the city owns.
And then they could spend five times that on support. The licence fees are often the cheapest part of an IT department's budget.
Kids...
Quit school, leave home...
(Whilst you still know everything).
I'd love to get a Linux, MySQL, Appachie, Java based web server going, but it's such a pain finding the info to do the basic stuff like installation and config.
The good thing with MS products is you can get Windows Server 2000, SQL Server, IIS, up and running in half a day, and then learn how to use it as you work with it. This ease of installation no doubt leads to lots of badly setup servers, but it gets you over the steap learning curve quickly and you can start to play with the fun stuff...
I'd love to get my hends on a MSDN type reference for Linux, either web based, or on CD. Surely there is a market there for someone???
How 'bout SUHDCB (Support for Unemployed Homeless Dot Com Burnouts).
Only six months ago they were living in luxury accommodation, driving Ferraris and eating and drinking in the finest restaurants and nightclubs. This Christmas many of them will be living in a cardboard 25" monitor box (if they are lucky...). While we can't offer the millions that the venture capitalists used to fund them with, we can help to make a difference to their lives.
Please give generously. (Any 25" monitor boxes welcome).
You'd be suppressed what goes on in the darkened theatres in Amsterdam.