And I DIDN'T vote for him this time around. And I won't next time. Berman is the congressperson for the East San Fernando Valley. We need to find a geek-friendly candidate, preferably Latino, to take him on next time he stands for re-election. And I WOULD vote for a pro-Choice, pro-Tech Republican.
Ashitaka in "Mononoke Hime" has Legolas beat, even after the scenes of shield-surfing and strafing as he surfs. Ashitaka could shoot an arrow from Antelope-back (those are antelopes, right?) and BEHEAD you with one shot. And with a bad, demon-possessed arm, yet! Please, Legolas is a rank amateur next to him. And it took Ashitaka less time to learn his mad leet archery skills, too! Ph33r!:)
And the best Game Masters know when to ignore an inappropriate dice roll because if they went with the result it would ruin the story. Game Mastering is basically storytelling with a random number generator. If you can't tell a good story, you have no business behind the screen.
BBSes started me on a lot of things. My first exposure to the Internet was through USENET feeds piped into The Ledge BBS. My first exposure to the world of alternative spirituality came through the Pagan BBS community.
It really was a special time and a special place and basically, when you think about it, you were basically invited into your SysOp's living room for a while. People like Phil Hansford and Joseph Sheppard paid for the multiple lines and keeping computers going 24/7 with their own money and time. There was camaraderie then that doesn't exist now.
It had to die...when the Internet became more and more accessable, it simply offered a lot more than any single BBS could. But I miss it, man. I really do.
(there are EPIA systems which I think would have enough power to do what this box does, and I believe there are 12v power supplies for them, too).
To be excruciatingly exact, the EPIA you are thinking of is EPIA-M
The M stands for "Media" and this iteration of the mini-board includes MPEG-2 decoding onboard (with a dedicated co-processor, no less) and 5.1 audio. There are a few Chinese companies who are actually looking to build EPIA-M based DVD players...the Chinese name for the VIA CPU is "Heart Of China" and there is a certain amount of national pride involved in the EPIA gaining acceptance. VIA might be based in Taiwan but its boards are manufactured on the Mainland.
One drawback, if you look at it one way, is that the EPIA-M chipset is set up for DDR RAM, not the less expensive SDRAM that previous Eden Platform systems used. However, if you look at that another way, it means a faster bus speed and a little better performance. No, it won't turn this puppy into a gaming monster system, but it will make this a friendlier platform for a MAME box, for instance.
VIA is trying to make a play for Linux support for their EPIA platform too...the article I referenced is basically a how-to about Linux on EPIA-M. They haven't been forthcoming to the point of providing all the little details on their stuff to open-source developers, but their binary drivers have been pretty good.
I suspect that this version of the EPIA could handle MythTV, Freevo and the other TiVo-like projects. The same cannot be said about the earlier EPIA motherboard/CPU combos...those are best left to web servers, file servers, firewalls, and other similarly light-duty projects.
I don't care WHO reads my journal. My journal is basically for an audience of one...ME. As journals should be. If you like what you read, fine, enjoy. If you don't, you don't.
As far as the "zoo" system...the proof in the pudding is in who has befriended me and who is a "freak" of mine. I basically have a handful of crapflooders as freaks. Whoopee-doo. The folks who have befriended me are with few exceptions people who contribute positively to Slashdot on an ongoing basis.
Sure, I'm not a "superstar" here. Frankly, if nominated for Slashdot superstardom I would not run, and if elected I would not serve. But I try my best to be a good contributor and actually add something to discussions.
Re:Mini-ITX power supply of doom over here...
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Uh...I mean that it will use the transformer brick that comes with a Cubid. It replaces the power supply board for the Cubid.#^_^#
Mini-ITX power supply of doom over here...
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Not exactly two AAA batteries, but small and sufficiently powerful to run 512MB of RAM and two 120GB hard drives: http://www.mini-box.com/PW-60.htm.
This works with all iterations of the EPIA platform and will happily use the power supply that comes with a Cubid (common mini-ITX factor case about the size of a 1" 3 ring binder) case. No need for a fan, so it's totally silent.
No, he means DSL Extreme. They ENCOURAGE the use of NAT/Firewall boxes. They give you a static IP and only charge $8 for each additional IP. If you are clueful enough to support it yourself, you can run servers on their system. If you are in California, USA check them out. They rule. I've been up since June with no connectivity outages. There was a bit of flakiness with their DNS for about a couple of days but if you are only using your ISP's DNS addresses you are asking for trouble.
What if your Congresscritter is Howard Berman. Howard Berman, as in the RIAA and MPAA's towel boy? Howard Berman, the author of the RIAA Peer To Peer hack-back bill? What then? Pity me...I live in the East San Fernando Valley, CA!!!!
Also, after the Anthrax letter incident, it is becoming exceedingly hard to get paper letters to your pols. Send a fax.
...it would probably have happened on the ground as the shuttle was being prepared for launch.
I am old enough to remember the first flight of the good ship Columbia. Please bear in mind a few facts:
The Columbia was the first Shuttle to blast off. The Enterprise was basically a glider that was used to test how well a Shuttle could land.
It's old. 22 years old. It has flown 25+ missions and literally millions of miles.
When the Columbia first landed in the early 1980s, there was concern for the safety of the Astronauts during re-entry. Nobody was entirely certain about whether or not the ceramic tiles would hold, and it was speculated that if a tile broke loose before or during reentry the entire heat shield would be compromised enough for the ship to break up under the stress of the friction of the atmosphere.
I am not saying that this was the work of terrorists...there are so many things that can go wrong during reentry that a completely accidental breach of the heat shield is probably the most likely cause of the disaster. However, very simple "monkey-wrenching" of the heat shield could have caused this as well. If an infiltrator broke a tile or two in such a way that it wouldn't be readily apparant to final inspection, or maybe pried one or two loose...
I have no doubt, however, that either Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or Hesbollah, all three and/or any combination of the three will claim responsibility for this event. I don't think AlQaeda will, because they seem to only take credit for things they actually have a hand in. Also I don't think that you will hear anything from the Palestinian Authority other than conciliatory words.
Weird coincidence: smack dab in the middle of the debris field is a Texas town called Palestine.
Heh. BillG wasn't all that great of a programmer anyway. His oevre was, and remains, marketing. Oh yeah, and stealing. Sort of like one of the people he's been compared to, Thomas Edison.
Screw "Alias," man...is Mitnick going to get his own show on Tech TV? That's the big question. Heh, if I ran the zoo there, I'd give him "Cybercrime" all to himself. The current hosts of that show are boring. If anything, Kevin Mitnick is an entertaining guy. He'd be great.
From what I understand, all of the improvements Apple made to KHTML will be in KDE 3.2 when it comes out. Apple *IS* giving back to that project, who says they won't give back to FreeBSD? Considering that Jordan Hubbard is an Apple employee now, they will probably get a lot of pressure to do exactly that.
Lycoris. It's a real Linux that plays by the rules. Lycoris is Lindows done right. Well, mostly right...I'd like to see them incorporate things like Open Office into the main distro instead of selling them separately as a "productivity pack." Oh yeah, Lycoris doesn't have you login as root all the time like Lindows does...eew.
Another bonus about Lycoris over Lindows: a damn fine user community. Oh yeah, and Joseph Cheek isn't an asshole like Michael Robertson is.;-)
...since this got posted on/., this board is going to get attacked by a whole army of crapflooders. Maybe this story should have not gotten through the submission process...if the poor devils who run the board think they had troubles with this one guy, just wait.
Actually it's more like this: the homeless man walks into the restaurant, one which advertises itself as a place specifically friendly to women in technology, carrying stinkbombs, very nasty gay pr0n and spouting obscenities. The homeless man also beat up on the proprietor.
The proprietor of the restaurant doesn't call the police or sue the homeless man, she calls the director of the homeless man's shelter and tells them of the incident. The homeless man is then told by the shelter he is not welcome there anymore and to find one of the other many shelters in or out of the town. She is then forced to hire bouncers to protect the restaurant from future molestation.
The homeless man finds a new shelter, then contacts his buddy trolls-under-the bridges and tells them "Open Season on Ms. Geek's!" They then start attacking the building the restaurant rents, vandalizing it, even to the point of setting up wiretaps in the building's trunk phone line.
The owner of the building suggests that maybe Ms. Geek's should find a new location. The proprietor of the restaurant decides that rents are too high, the frustration factor is way too much, and most people who were visiting the restaurant were checking out the menu, admiring what other people were eating, then deciding "oh no, I mustn't sit down and eat, it's too fattening."
So Ms. Geek's goes out of business thanks to that homeless troll and his buddies. Next week, a Starbuck's opens up in its place. Thanks a lot, WIPO, Vladinator and the rest of you.
If you really want to improve your typing speed, spend a lot of time in IRC. I used to think IRC was a timesink. Wrong. It improved my typing speed to the point where I now have my first decent job since the end of the Dot-Bomb era.
Now, if I could just fit that spoiler on my Model MII I might just crack the 60wpm barrier. Oh yeah...gotta paint it bright yellow and put those Kanji stickers all over them. Heh heh heh...
...this one I'm typing on right now is a fakey MII, not as good as a true Model M, but it's way better than most keyboards you can buy. Me and my buds call them "bludgeons" because they are heavy and built tough.
I would LOVE a mod where the keys were replaced with clear keys and backlit from the inside, but I would rather have a keyboard that feels good than one that looks good, and I'd be afraid the mod might interfere with that great click-click-click.
Like the guy who runs http://www.modelm.org/ says, TYPE HARD OR GO HOME!
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And I DIDN'T vote for him this time around. And I won't next time. Berman is the congressperson for the East San Fernando Valley. We need to find a geek-friendly candidate, preferably Latino, to take him on next time he stands for re-election. And I WOULD vote for a pro-Choice, pro-Tech Republican.
Ashitaka in "Mononoke Hime" has Legolas beat, even after the scenes of shield-surfing and strafing as he surfs. Ashitaka could shoot an arrow from Antelope-back (those are antelopes, right?) and BEHEAD you with one shot. And with a bad, demon-possessed arm, yet! Please, Legolas is a rank amateur next to him. And it took Ashitaka less time to learn his mad leet archery skills, too! Ph33r! :)
And the best Game Masters know when to ignore an inappropriate dice roll because if they went with the result it would ruin the story. Game Mastering is basically storytelling with a random number generator. If you can't tell a good story, you have no business behind the screen.
BBSes started me on a lot of things. My first exposure to the Internet was through USENET feeds piped into The Ledge BBS. My first exposure to the world of alternative spirituality came through the Pagan BBS community.
It really was a special time and a special place and basically, when you think about it, you were basically invited into your SysOp's living room for a while. People like Phil Hansford and Joseph Sheppard paid for the multiple lines and keeping computers going 24/7 with their own money and time. There was camaraderie then that doesn't exist now.
It had to die...when the Internet became more and more accessable, it simply offered a lot more than any single BBS could. But I miss it, man. I really do.
To be excruciatingly exact, the EPIA you are thinking of is EPIA-M The M stands for "Media" and this iteration of the mini-board includes MPEG-2 decoding onboard (with a dedicated co-processor, no less) and 5.1 audio. There are a few Chinese companies who are actually looking to build EPIA-M based DVD players...the Chinese name for the VIA CPU is "Heart Of China" and there is a certain amount of national pride involved in the EPIA gaining acceptance. VIA might be based in Taiwan but its boards are manufactured on the Mainland.
One drawback, if you look at it one way, is that the EPIA-M chipset is set up for DDR RAM, not the less expensive SDRAM that previous Eden Platform systems used. However, if you look at that another way, it means a faster bus speed and a little better performance. No, it won't turn this puppy into a gaming monster system, but it will make this a friendlier platform for a MAME box, for instance.
VIA is trying to make a play for Linux support for their EPIA platform too...the article I referenced is basically a how-to about Linux on EPIA-M. They haven't been forthcoming to the point of providing all the little details on their stuff to open-source developers, but their binary drivers have been pretty good.
I suspect that this version of the EPIA could handle MythTV, Freevo and the other TiVo-like projects. The same cannot be said about the earlier EPIA motherboard/CPU combos...those are best left to web servers, file servers, firewalls, and other similarly light-duty projects.
Give me flowers, I will smile.
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Give me candy, I will pelt you with it.
Give me an nVidia Ti4600 or a Radeon 9700Pro, and I am putty in your hands.
(Subtle hint to my hubby)
I don't care WHO reads my journal. My journal is basically for an audience of one...ME. As journals should be. If you like what you read, fine, enjoy. If you don't, you don't.
As far as the "zoo" system...the proof in the pudding is in who has befriended me and who is a "freak" of mine. I basically have a handful of crapflooders as freaks. Whoopee-doo. The folks who have befriended me are with few exceptions people who contribute positively to Slashdot on an ongoing basis.
Sure, I'm not a "superstar" here. Frankly, if nominated for Slashdot superstardom I would not run, and if elected I would not serve. But I try my best to be a good contributor and actually add something to discussions.
Uh...I mean that it will use the transformer brick that comes with a Cubid. It replaces the power supply board for the Cubid.#^_^#
This works with all iterations of the EPIA platform and will happily use the power supply that comes with a Cubid (common mini-ITX factor case about the size of a 1" 3 ring binder) case. No need for a fan, so it's totally silent.
They are also less expensive than Speakeasy.
What if your Congresscritter is Howard Berman. Howard Berman, as in the RIAA and MPAA's towel boy? Howard Berman, the author of the RIAA Peer To Peer hack-back bill? What then? Pity me...I live in the East San Fernando Valley, CA!!!!
Also, after the Anthrax letter incident, it is becoming exceedingly hard to get paper letters to your pols. Send a fax.
...can this protocol get you onto the Wired without the need for a computer? Does it lock into the Schumann Resonance of Planet Earth? Have I watched too much Serial Experiments: Lain on TechTV recently?
No, buy them used. Half.Com is your friend.
...it would probably have happened on the ground as the shuttle was being prepared for launch.
I am old enough to remember the first flight of the good ship Columbia. Please bear in mind a few facts:
The Columbia was the first Shuttle to blast off. The Enterprise was basically a glider that was used to test how well a Shuttle could land.
It's old. 22 years old. It has flown 25+ missions and literally millions of miles.
When the Columbia first landed in the early 1980s, there was concern for the safety of the Astronauts during re-entry. Nobody was entirely certain about whether or not the ceramic tiles would hold, and it was speculated that if a tile broke loose before or during reentry the entire heat shield would be compromised enough for the ship to break up under the stress of the friction of the atmosphere.
I am not saying that this was the work of terrorists...there are so many things that can go wrong during reentry that a completely accidental breach of the heat shield is probably the most likely cause of the disaster. However, very simple "monkey-wrenching" of the heat shield could have caused this as well. If an infiltrator broke a tile or two in such a way that it wouldn't be readily apparant to final inspection, or maybe pried one or two loose...
I have no doubt, however, that either Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or Hesbollah, all three and/or any combination of the three will claim responsibility for this event. I don't think AlQaeda will, because they seem to only take credit for things they actually have a hand in. Also I don't think that you will hear anything from the Palestinian Authority other than conciliatory words.
Weird coincidence: smack dab in the middle of the debris field is a Texas town called Palestine.
Heh. BillG wasn't all that great of a programmer anyway. His oevre was, and remains, marketing. Oh yeah, and stealing. Sort of like one of the people he's been compared to, Thomas Edison.
I would watch the Super Bowl if Eric Idle was one of the commentators. That is pretty cool. You Brits are lucky.
Screw "Alias," man...is Mitnick going to get his own show on Tech TV? That's the big question. Heh, if I ran the zoo there, I'd give him "Cybercrime" all to himself. The current hosts of that show are boring. If anything, Kevin Mitnick is an entertaining guy. He'd be great.
From what I understand, all of the improvements Apple made to KHTML will be in KDE 3.2 when it comes out. Apple *IS* giving back to that project, who says they won't give back to FreeBSD? Considering that Jordan Hubbard is an Apple employee now, they will probably get a lot of pressure to do exactly that.
Another bonus about Lycoris over Lindows: a damn fine user community. Oh yeah, and Joseph Cheek isn't an asshole like Michael Robertson is. ;-)
...since this got posted on /., this board is going to get attacked by a whole army of crapflooders. Maybe this story should have not gotten through the submission process...if the poor devils who run the board think they had troubles with this one guy, just wait.
Beautiful idea...maybe you should pitch it to the people who are building Nuke (PHPNuke/PostNuke, etc) variants.
Actually it's more like this: the homeless man walks into the restaurant, one which advertises itself as a place specifically friendly to women in technology, carrying stinkbombs, very nasty gay pr0n and spouting obscenities. The homeless man also beat up on the proprietor.
The proprietor of the restaurant doesn't call the police or sue the homeless man, she calls the director of the homeless man's shelter and tells them of the incident. The homeless man is then told by the shelter he is not welcome there anymore and to find one of the other many shelters in or out of the town. She is then forced to hire bouncers to protect the restaurant from future molestation.
The homeless man finds a new shelter, then contacts his buddy trolls-under-the bridges and tells them "Open Season on Ms. Geek's!" They then start attacking the building the restaurant rents, vandalizing it, even to the point of setting up wiretaps in the building's trunk phone line.
The owner of the building suggests that maybe Ms. Geek's should find a new location. The proprietor of the restaurant decides that rents are too high, the frustration factor is way too much, and most people who were visiting the restaurant were checking out the menu, admiring what other people were eating, then deciding "oh no, I mustn't sit down and eat, it's too fattening."
So Ms. Geek's goes out of business thanks to that homeless troll and his buddies. Next week, a Starbuck's opens up in its place. Thanks a lot, WIPO, Vladinator and the rest of you.
Ms. Geek
Damn! 150WPM! I'm in awe.
If you really want to improve your typing speed, spend a lot of time in IRC. I used to think IRC was a timesink. Wrong. It improved my typing speed to the point where I now have my first decent job since the end of the Dot-Bomb era.
Now, if I could just fit that spoiler on my Model MII I might just crack the 60wpm barrier. Oh yeah...gotta paint it bright yellow and put those Kanji stickers all over them. Heh heh heh...
...this one I'm typing on right now is a fakey MII, not as good as a true Model M, but it's way better than most keyboards you can buy. Me and my buds call them "bludgeons" because they are heavy and built tough.
I would LOVE a mod where the keys were replaced with clear keys and backlit from the inside, but I would rather have a keyboard that feels good than one that looks good, and I'd be afraid the mod might interfere with that great click-click-click.
Like the guy who runs http://www.modelm.org/ says, TYPE HARD OR GO HOME!