He missed the one thing I want -- cheap clocks that set themselves.
DCF-77 (Deutscher Chronogramm Funksender, German Timesignal Transmitter) clocks have been around for years and years in Europe and they're cheap. You can get them in wristwatches and clocks and i remember there even being an ISA PC card for it years ago. You can get a DCF clock for as little as $10 here in the Netherlands.
DCF is sent by radio at 77,5kHz from Zurich, Switzerland (if i'm not mistaken), about 1000 KM from here...
1) a clear night 2) an unobstructed view of the horizon 3) a pair of binoculars
When you have a clouded night and/or blink, a meteor shower is gone. A comet will be visible for a much longer time, weeks or even 1 or 2 months...
There's a map on http://www.spaceweather.com to show where you should look.
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Well, those of us on the East coast missed out on the Leonids, is there any hopes of us seeing this?
It's a comet, not a meteor shower. I can't see it with the naked eye here (52 degrees north), but it's visible with binoculars. Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp were much easier to find...
Cultural issues also contribute to the problem. Many spammers in Asia say they do not understand why spam is a problem.
"It's a sign of respect that someone sends you an electric business card. It means he wants you as a customer," said Zhao Peng, owner of a computer store in Hong Kong.
So what does it mean when they hammer your firewall all day long? They're just being considerate in checking you for exploits? (Most scans originate from asia in my logs.)
I seem to remember that one of the early uses of telephone technology was a subscription service that let you listen to musical performances (live opera, etc.) over an ordinary telephone.
Yes, i know what you mean, can't think of the name though, something starting with 'tele'. There's a variant on it that's existed for over 75 years, it transmits church services over the phone to people who want to listen to them but can't get to church. It's simply called "churchphone" here in the Netherlands.
Maybe there is more than one definition of richest nation on earth?
According to the World Bank it's annual per-capita income.
Perhaps I define richest
I think i'll take my definition from the World Bank instead. They actually have knowledge about this stuff.
All depends on if you define richest nation as per capita income. In that case, wouldn't the sovereign nation of Sealand (population of 3-5) have a higher average?
No. The World Bank doesn't count countries with fewer than 1,5 million residents, such as Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and several sultanates. Good thing too or the US would be even lower on the list...
But anyway. This is getting rather off-topic and pointless...
I think there are several things that we as the richest nation on Earth should focus on going forward:
The richest nation on Earth is actually Switzerland.
1. Making internet access available to those in the remaining 46% who cannot afford but wish to have access. Perhaps a large campaign to recycle used computers and 56k modems and then donate them along with free monthly access to poor people would be a good start.
Are you going to man the helpdesk? Giving away PC's is one thing, support afterwards is another...
When i used to make some little programs for RemoteAccess/InterMail/FrontDoor (back in the days), all that was required to register then, was a postcard. You'd think that's a reasonably painless request; send me a nice postcard from your part of the world... I can say i received very few postcards and even found a key-generator for my programs.
I guess most people are just too damn lazy to register their software in -any- way. I know it took the fun out of making programs for me.
It appears that some scientists in the United States are claiming that they have been able to grow functional organs (kidneys) from cloned cow embryotic stem cells.
Hmm i can see it now.... a can of spam that refills itself after you've eaten it...
There actually is a basis for this name. Intel has a large presence in the state of Oregon and has a tendency to give their products code names from that state.
I can't wait for the beaver... all 64 naughty bits of it!
It's not called AOL Winamp, the presence of AOL is not there in any new version of winamp.
Have you installed winamp lately? At the bottom of the installation options (you have to scroll down all the way!) there's 2 new options: AOL Icon (New installs only) and AOL Icon (upgrades) and they're checked by default...
Wasn't there something called "leech zmodem" back in the BBS days? This version of zmodem would abort the download at the very last byte, so as to fool the BBS's upload/download ratio tracking.
Yes, and it was soon fixed on the BBS side...
I bet something like this will make the rounds when Pay Napster comes online.
If it comes online, it's gone through beta. Don't you think something like this will have been noticed? (Unless they do betatesting the microsoft way, ofcourse)
Of course, assuming further checks prove that the Earth will survive past the death of our own sun, perhaps we should leave a legacy to the rest of the Universe by planting the sum knowledge of mankind somewhere safe below the surface
I just finished ripping +- 1300 CD's. Took me almost 4 months...
1) Ripping requires significant manual work if you want good results - in particular, cleaning up missing or incorrect or inconsistent data from FreeDB/CDDB
I gave up on FreeDB and its typos, it was faster just to type in everything myself.
and cleaning/repairing/retrying discs that you can't get a clean rip from the first time.
btw, i used LAME 3.89beta, it takes quite a while, but at least i'll be sure i have near-perfect mp3's... The commandline i used is: -V1 -b128 -mj -h -q1 (VBR, average bitrate over 7600 songs is 181.5). Its rather pointless to use Xing to rip over a 1000 CD's, it will not sound good.
Ummm... try running ldconfig again as root. This will regenerate the ld.so.cache file, which stores all of the libraries' linking details.
Yeah, i already did that... wasn't the problem though; when i downgraded the symlink to libvga.so.1 wasnt updated and was still pointing to the newer version. Once i corrected it, zgv started working again! Now let's see how long it takes before there's a proper solution...
Well bugger... i've downgraded svgalib1, svgalibg1 and svgalib-bin to 1.4.1-2 and i it's still linked to libc6. Do i need to run something afterwards? To quote dr mccoy: "Damned Jim, i'm a user, not a package-juggler!"
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First, it was human; now, it is rice
And the logical conclusion would be... Rice boys?
Are they actually merged with their honda civic?
He missed the one thing I want -- cheap clocks that set themselves.
DCF-77 (Deutscher Chronogramm Funksender, German Timesignal Transmitter) clocks have been around for years and years in Europe and they're cheap. You can get them in wristwatches and clocks and i remember there even being an ISA PC card for it years ago. You can get a DCF clock for as little as $10 here in the Netherlands.
DCF is sent by radio at 77,5kHz from Zurich, Switzerland (if i'm not mistaken), about 1000 KM from here...
To see this comet, you need:
1) a clear night
2) an unobstructed view of the horizon
3) a pair of binoculars
When you have a clouded night and/or blink, a meteor shower is gone. A comet will be visible for a much longer time, weeks or even 1 or 2 months...
There's a map on http://www.spaceweather.com to show where you should look.
Well, those of us on the East coast missed out on the Leonids, is there any hopes of us seeing this?
It's a comet, not a meteor shower. I can't see it with the naked eye here (52 degrees north), but it's visible with binoculars. Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp were much easier to find...
Cultural issues also contribute to the problem. Many spammers in Asia say they do not understand why spam is a problem.
"It's a sign of respect that someone sends you an electric business card. It means he wants you as a customer," said Zhao Peng, owner of a computer store in Hong Kong.
So what does it mean when they hammer your firewall all day long?
They're just being considerate in checking you for exploits? (Most scans originate from asia in my logs.)
To solve the problem, buy a Mac.
Look at the price of a HP Pavillion.
Look at the price of a Mac.
See my point? People that buy HP Pavillions won't buy a Mac.
HP Pavillion Cheap, Mac Expensive.
I know someone who got a HP Pavillion, it's been back about 5 times too.
I think about everything that could break has broke down on the damn thing.
You get what you pay for.
I seem to remember that one of the early uses of telephone technology was a subscription service that let you listen to musical performances (live opera, etc.) over an ordinary telephone.
Yes, i know what you mean, can't think of the name though, something starting with 'tele'. There's a variant on it that's existed for over 75 years, it transmits church services over the phone to people who want to listen to them but can't get to church. It's simply called "churchphone" here in the Netherlands.
Connect any two pages on the web to each other with the minimum number of hyperlinks.
You'll probably just end up on www.kevinbacon.com...
Maybe there is more than one definition of richest nation on earth?
According to the World Bank it's annual per-capita income.
Perhaps I define richest
I think i'll take my definition from the World Bank instead. They actually have knowledge about this stuff.
All depends on if you define richest nation as per capita income. In that case, wouldn't the sovereign nation of Sealand (population of 3-5) have a higher average?
No. The World Bank doesn't count countries with fewer than 1,5 million residents, such as Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and several sultanates. Good thing too or the US would be even lower on the list...
But anyway. This is getting rather off-topic and pointless...
The CIA factbook is dead wrong.
1 Switzerland $38350
2 Norway $32880
3 Japan $32230
4 Denmark $32030
5 USA $30600
Not even close...
I think there are several things that we as the richest nation on Earth should focus on going forward:
The richest nation on Earth is actually Switzerland.
1. Making internet access available to those in the remaining 46% who cannot afford but wish to have access. Perhaps a large campaign to recycle used computers and 56k modems and then donate them along with free monthly access to poor people would be a good start.
Are you going to man the helpdesk? Giving away PC's is one thing, support afterwards is another...
When i used to make some little programs for RemoteAccess/InterMail/FrontDoor (back in the days), all that was required to register then, was a postcard. You'd think that's a reasonably painless request; send me a nice postcard from your part of the world... I can say i received very few postcards and even found a key-generator for my programs.
I guess most people are just too damn lazy to register their software in -any- way. I know it took the fun out of making programs for me.
It appears that some scientists in the United States are claiming that they have been able to grow functional organs (kidneys) from cloned cow embryotic stem cells.
Hmm i can see it now.... a can of spam that refills itself after you've eaten it...
There actually is a basis for this name. Intel has a large presence in the state of Oregon and has a tendency to give their products code names from that state.
I can't wait for the beaver... all 64 naughty bits of it!
It's not called AOL Winamp, the presence of AOL is not there in any new version of winamp.
Have you installed winamp lately? At the bottom of the installation options (you have to scroll down all the way!) there's 2 new options: AOL Icon (New installs only) and AOL Icon (upgrades) and they're checked by default...
Suspending downloads of Internet Explorer and expecting the web to automatically disappear?
Way to go BUMA/STEMRA! (Dutch record company mob), a fine example of clear thinking...
Wasn't there something called "leech zmodem" back in the BBS days? This version of zmodem would abort the download at the very last byte, so as to fool the BBS's upload/download ratio tracking.
Yes, and it was soon fixed on the BBS side...
I bet something like this will make the rounds when Pay Napster comes online.
If it comes online, it's gone through beta. Don't you think something like this will have been noticed? (Unless they do betatesting the microsoft way, ofcourse)
So let them sell their PCs and get food. Still a positive thing.
No it isn't. It's stupid and wasteful. At least give the people a choice between a PC or a cash amount.
Maybe they should learn a lesson from this: Free PCs for the poor on sale in black market... not everyone wants a PC, some people would rather have food and other basic needs.
Of course, assuming further checks prove that the Earth will survive past the death of our own sun, perhaps we should leave a legacy to the rest of the Universe by planting the sum knowledge of mankind somewhere safe below the surface
groups.google.com goes underground?
the 8' inflatable snowmen
That must be for the real lonely people at christmas i presume?
The right decision would be to invalidate Microsoft's Windows trademark because it's a common word.
Well... Apple is a pretty common word too, but i don't see that one being invalidated either.
No, they should rename it to "I Can't Believe It's Not Windows!"
I've ripped and encoded about 1000 CDs.
I just finished ripping +- 1300 CD's. Took me almost 4 months...
1) Ripping requires significant manual work if you want good results - in particular, cleaning up missing or incorrect or inconsistent data from FreeDB/CDDB
I gave up on FreeDB and its typos, it was faster just to type in everything myself.
and cleaning/repairing/retrying discs that you can't get a clean rip from the first time.
I used ExactAudioCopy, it rips perfectly!
btw, i used LAME 3.89beta, it takes quite a while, but at least i'll be sure i have near-perfect mp3's... The commandline i used is: -V1 -b128 -mj -h -q1 (VBR, average bitrate over 7600 songs is 181.5). Its rather pointless to use Xing to rip over a 1000 CD's, it will not sound good.
Ummm... try running ldconfig again as root. This will regenerate the ld.so.cache file, which stores all of the libraries' linking details.
Yeah, i already did that... wasn't the problem though; when i downgraded the symlink to libvga.so.1 wasnt updated and was still pointing to the newer version. Once i corrected it, zgv started working again! Now let's see how long it takes before there's a proper solution...
Well bugger... i've downgraded svgalib1, svgalibg1 and svgalib-bin to 1.4.1-2 and i it's still linked to libc6. Do i need to run something afterwards? To quote dr mccoy: "Damned Jim, i'm a user, not a package-juggler!"