When i was just a little kid @ church camp, i released a balloon with a note attached and someone actually contacted me who picked up the balloon, but i was a lazy little kid and I never wrote them back.
I had forgotten about it until just now, and it makes me a little sad that i didn't complete the circuit.
don't remember the model. bought it at bestbuy friday. it was like $160 +tax after i used my special 10% discount card i got in the mail... www.buy.com has them for like 150 but i couldn't wait for them to send me one) just look for the cheapest linksys 802.11b base station and that's the one.
granted, i did have to configure the base station with my windoze box, but that was beyond simple and it would have actually worked just fine right out of the box on my network (preset @ 192.168.x.don'tremember) set it and forget it. Then I just pluggedit into my cheapo little 5 port hub and voila! i am poopin' and postin'....
I have a headless Pentium200 running OpenBSD 2.8 which does all the firewall/NAT/cache stuff with my cable connection. You might want to get the cable/dsl router version of the linksys If you don't feel like setting up a linux/bsd box to do that stuff. the bsd firewall/nat is a cheap and superior solution though with existing obsolete hardware, and its fun.
i just got a g4-powerbook last week (my very first mac, and first notebook computer) i was looking at the ibook seriously until i actually looked at it, sat down and played with it for a while. The deciding factor for me wasn't speed, it was the screen! the ibook is just too small, and the screen is huge on the g4. (okay its pretty fast too) but compared to my desktop 1ghz athalon i'd say its pretty comparable. was it worth the extra 700 bucks? hell yeah. i'll have this g4 for a long-ass time.
I got an airport card and a cheap-o linksys base station and i can post from the crapper now! im serious! i can sit and take a 5 hour crap while posting to slashdot on one battery! this was a minor selling point for me, but a selling point nevertheless.
hey retard turing would have loved a backdoor in it.
iirc turing was killed because he was a homosexual. he was arrested and had his security clearance revoked. then someone poisoned him with cyanide. its very sad.
For an enlightening experience, try smoking in an outdoor major league ballpark that was paid for largely by tax revenue generated by the sale of cigarettes.
To be fair though, at least baseball stadiums get used more than 8x a year. football stadiums are a truly tremendous waste of space and tax dollars.
noone is physically in danger of being harmed, maimed, or killed by mp3's, and whether you agree with the artists half-witted scheme or not, cars, guns, etc are not a valid comparison.
When these fucking morons wake up and realize all of their music, movies, and IP are totally worthless commodities for which free and easily accessible equivalents will always exist, maybe few more people will decide to become engineers instead of lawyers and rockstars.
Legal responsibility isn't what @home or any other ISP cares about. you can always count on the corporation to take the path of greatest profit. if they happen to be in the content and bandwidth businesses simultaneously, well you know the obvious choice.
But the Cable ISP without a vested interest in the content being pirated (arrrrrrrr... say like a pirate arrrrrrr) has to weigh what costs them more? the "Pirate" consuming 8000% more bandwidth than the average user by serving up 50 gigs of movies, or actually having to pay someone to write letters and police the network.
In terms of quality of service the latter is the better deal for bob and betty user, and a great reason to ignore the all that pesky personal-rights stuff. It is then convenient to consider that whole bit about the personal rights of bob and betty user with crappy speeds cause of 1337 j03 m00vie hax0r next door.
there's software that accomplishes the same thing although through different means. Every time your PC goes online, the software makes itself known to a central server. If the server gets contacted by a PC on the 'red alert' list, it contacts it and gets more info on it
You've never heard of Oog Vorbis? Its so easy to remember! Its a great name! why, I can envision the words on the lips of every teenager in the western hemisphere.
If the oog people wanted to change the world and give everyone a new high quality truly open audio standard, they should have freakin' given it a name that's not STUPID.
the MP3 "brand" is huge partly because its easy to remember. WMA? harder to say... Oog Vorbis.. how do you prononuce that? is it "aah-g Vor-bis? or Ooooo-g Vor-bis? help me out here?
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actually, sony sells high end stereo gear as well. you just don't see it in the states.
Maybe your mom doesn't know how to defeat copy protection, but i'm having a hard time thinking of anyone i know with a computer that can't type something into a search engine @ a crack site. Maybe my friends are smarter than these "people" of which you speak.
btw, KEYGENSTUDiO is way more 1337-Cr4x0r than astalavista hehe haha
I have faith that with DeRaadt's legendary tact and reserved diplomatic manner things will be smoothed out and we will all be happily filtering with current very soon.
"They designed an entire fucking cross-platform toolkit instead of focusing on the real point--a good rendering engine and a good browser"
You are so right on this point. I always wondered why the heck they bundled all the other crap with the browser. It was far more annoying than useful, even for the clueless novice user it was useless. Messenger sucked, composer sucked, and I resented the fact that I had to wait for all that crap to download.
I stopped using windows netscape @ version 4.7, and only fire nutscrape up when i'm proofing my web work for "the other browser"
Exploder rocks. plain and simple. I hope people quit using netscape soon so i can quit setting up extra style sheets.
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this is the first sane suggestion i've heard all day.
did you just make that up?
Modern technology has eliminated the necessity of tape monkeys.
Many tape monkeys who have not been unable or unwilling to find new employment in non-monkey related fields have found new careers as weight tranfer facilitators in the trunks of high performance vehicles.
hahahaha
you rock.
i've been listening to 2112 all day!
(ps im joking)
Worst track ever.
ps. i love house music
When i was just a little kid @ church camp, i released a balloon with a note attached and someone actually contacted me who picked up the balloon, but i was a lazy little kid and I never wrote them back.
I had forgotten about it until just now, and it makes me a little sad that i didn't complete the circuit.
HA HA hA hA hA~!
i bout fell outta my chair on that one. somebody mod that one up.
don't remember the model. bought it at bestbuy friday. it was like $160 +tax after i used my special 10% discount card i got in the mail... www.buy.com has them for like 150 but i couldn't wait for them to send me one) just look for the cheapest linksys 802.11b base station and that's the one.
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granted, i did have to configure the base station with my windoze box, but that was beyond simple and it would have actually worked just fine right out of the box on my network (preset @ 192.168.x.don'tremember) set it and forget it. Then I just pluggedit into my cheapo little 5 port hub and voila! i am poopin' and postin'
I have a headless Pentium200 running OpenBSD 2.8 which does all the firewall/NAT/cache stuff with my cable connection. You might want to get the cable/dsl router version of the linksys If you don't feel like setting up a linux/bsd box to do that stuff. the bsd firewall/nat is a cheap and superior solution though with existing obsolete hardware, and its fun.
i just got a g4-powerbook last week (my very first mac, and first notebook computer) i was looking at the ibook seriously until i actually looked at it, sat down and played with it for a while. The deciding factor for me wasn't speed, it was the screen! the ibook is just too small, and the screen is huge on the g4. (okay its pretty fast too) but compared to my desktop 1ghz athalon i'd say its pretty comparable. was it worth the extra 700 bucks? hell yeah. i'll have this g4 for a long-ass time.
I got an airport card and a cheap-o linksys base station and i can post from the crapper now! im serious! i can sit and take a 5 hour crap while posting to slashdot on one battery! this was a minor selling point for me, but a selling point nevertheless.
ps. i'm not pooping as i type this...
hey retard turing would have loved a backdoor in it.
iirc turing was killed because he was a homosexual. he was arrested and had his security clearance revoked. then someone poisoned him with cyanide. its very sad.
anyway if you care check out the alan turing homepage
I think a mouse on mars is a great idea!
For an enlightening experience, try smoking in an outdoor major league ballpark that was paid for largely by tax revenue generated by the sale of cigarettes.
To be fair though, at least baseball stadiums get used more than 8x a year. football stadiums are a truly tremendous waste of space and tax dollars.
Impossible.
noone is physically in danger of being harmed, maimed, or killed by mp3's, and whether you agree with the artists half-witted scheme or not, cars, guns, etc are not a valid comparison.
When these fucking morons wake up and realize all of their music, movies, and IP are totally worthless commodities for which free and easily accessible equivalents will always exist, maybe few more people will decide to become engineers instead of lawyers and rockstars.
there is no microsoft. only zeul
the fateful paragraphs translated is nothing!
i saw empire strikes back a few weeks ago dubbed into italian (a language i don't speak) and it was surprisingly easier to ignore the bad acting.
plus, have you ever heard c3po speak italian? good gawd that was a hoot!
check out this little bag here.
It looks like a courier bag, but has nice padded compartments for your expensive fragile geek gadgets.
Legal responsibility isn't what @home or any other ISP cares about. you can always count on the corporation to take the path of greatest profit. if they happen to be in the content and bandwidth businesses simultaneously, well you know the obvious choice.
But the Cable ISP without a vested interest in the content being pirated (arrrrrrrr... say like a pirate arrrrrrr) has to weigh what costs them more? the "Pirate" consuming 8000% more bandwidth than the average user by serving up 50 gigs of movies, or actually having to pay someone to write letters and police the network.
In terms of quality of service the latter is the better deal for bob and betty user, and a great reason to ignore the all that pesky personal-rights stuff. It is then convenient to consider that whole bit about the personal rights of bob and betty user with crappy speeds cause of 1337 j03 m00vie hax0r next door.
there's software that accomplishes the same thing although through different means. Every time your PC goes online, the software makes itself known to a central server. If the server gets contacted by a PC on the 'red alert' list, it contacts it and gets more info on it
I thought it was called Windows XP ???
karma hoe.
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Oog Vorbis?
You've never heard of Oog Vorbis? Its so easy to remember! Its a great name! why, I can envision the words on the lips of every teenager in the western hemisphere.
If the oog people wanted to change the world and give everyone a new high quality truly open audio standard, they should have freakin' given it a name that's not STUPID.
the MP3 "brand" is huge partly because its easy to remember. WMA? harder to say... Oog Vorbis.. how do you prononuce that? is it "aah-g Vor-bis? or Ooooo-g Vor-bis? help me out here?
actually, sony sells high end stereo gear as well. you just don't see it in the states.
agreed. they are a buncha rock smokin fuckwits.
Dope wars is insanely fun.
you can download the palmOS version of it from here
Maybe your mom doesn't know how to defeat copy protection, but i'm having a hard time thinking of anyone i know with a computer that can't type something into a search engine @ a crack site. Maybe my friends are smarter than these "people" of which you speak.
btw, KEYGENSTUDiO is way more 1337-Cr4x0r than astalavista hehe haha
I have faith that with DeRaadt's legendary tact and reserved diplomatic manner things will be smoothed out and we will all be happily filtering with current very soon.
"They designed an entire fucking cross-platform toolkit instead of focusing on the real point--a good rendering engine and a good browser"
You are so right on this point. I always wondered why the heck they bundled all the other crap with the browser. It was far more annoying than useful, even for the clueless novice user it was useless. Messenger sucked, composer sucked, and I resented the fact that I had to wait for all that crap to download.
I stopped using windows netscape @ version 4.7, and only fire nutscrape up when i'm proofing my web work for "the other browser"
Exploder rocks. plain and simple. I hope people quit using netscape soon so i can quit setting up extra style sheets.