They carried a story which said that there was a new box, which can be put onto your telephone, and which will download all the webpages onto your hard drive, so that you can browse offline. and then it went ahead to say that it uses some kind of latest wireless technology that there is no telephone bill for you;-)
Dunno about there in US, but in India, we have pay channels, which have to be paid per subscriber by teh cable tv operator, and there are no advts on that channel.. But then there are also pay channels with advts..;-)
Hullo... Am i in a dream ?
so now finally i can use debian on my pc. The last time i installed it, it took me around 8 hours to complete the installation (an exaggeration, but then the time was more than normal;-), and it still doesn't work.
I ended up installing 7 kernel's, with each of them rewriting lilo.conf during install, and tell you what.. it was fun;-)
Feb. 8, 2001 -- The largest natural crystals on Earth have been discovered in two caves within a silver and zinc mine near Naica, in Chihuahua, Mexico, according to mine officials. Reaching lengths of over 20 feet, the clear, faceted crystals are composed of selenite, a crystalline form of the mineral gypsum.
"Walking into either of these caves is like stepping into a gigantic geode," said Richard D. Fisher, an American consultant with the mining company to develop the discoveries as tourist attractions.
Fisher said that most people can endure only a few minutes in the caves due to their high temperatures. The smaller of the two, which is about the size of two-bedroom apartment, is 100 Fahrenheit. The large chamber, which Fisher describes as the size of a Cathedral, is 150 F. Both are located approximately 1200 feet below the surface.
Selenite in Action
The mining company plans to air-condition the caves before opening them to the public next year, Fisher said. He adds that reducing the heat gradually will not harm the crystals.
The largest previously known crystals were found in the nearby Cave of the Swords, part of the same mine system. Some of these are now on display at the Smithsonian Institution. The local government and mine owners hope to avoid removing any of the new discoveries for museum displays or private collections, Fisher said.
While the mine company is currently limiting visitation of the caves to scientific experts, mineral hunters have destroyed locks and broken into the chambers twice since they were first opened by mining equipment last April. One man was killed when he attempted to chop out a gigantic crystal that fell from the ceiling and crushed him, according to Fisher.
"We need more onsite protection of mine caves," said geologist Carol A. Hill, co-author of the book Cave Minerals of the World, who calls the new discoveries "by far the largest selenite crystals I have ever heard of."
Hill applauds the tourism plan. "Without it, the mining company would probably destroy the caves. Museums have enough crystals," she said. "It's important to preserve discoveries like this where they occur."
Fisher and mine officials will display photographs and small samples of crystals from the new cave at the Tuscon Gem & Mineral Show in Arizona -- which starts today and runs through the weekend -- where they plan to organize a scientific study of the caves to take place in March.
Yeah.. I manage about 5 egroups, and am a member of about 12 groups. But i had do nothing at all, *NOTHING*, and my old groups work as they were working till now...
I've never had the problem on yahoo.. and i never EVER received any spam at yahoo.I can track down all the mails i receive at my yahoo account to someplace that i've subscribed to or the other.
Nope.. I'm not talking about the way 800 numbers work.. I'm talking about spammers putting 800 numbers in their spam mails. Remember, it's not that the spammers that own the 800 number, spammers are just contractors, nothing else.
Consider a scenario: I get a new 800 number, I contact a spammmer and ask him to spam with my new 800 number in it, and agree to pay him some amount on every call that i receive.
So isn't it that we benefit the spammer by calling the 800 number ?
If the e-mail has a URL and you visit it, you solve the purpose of the spam. You increase the hit rate, and they gain a penny or two for the advertising banners that are showed up to you when you visit that place.
If you send a mail to abuse@ or postmaster@ then maybe you are validating your entry in their database;-)
1-800 numbers are all bogus.. leaving a message won't really help. Maybe the spammers get a commission on the number of calls the 1-800 number receives, and you are helping them;-)
If you have Windows 95, 98, ME, NT or 2000, there's a very useful gadget included with your operating system software called TraceRoute.
This shows the level of the writer.. and the introduction says that he is modest, and doens't want to tell us about the list of books he has written. Anyway, not really what we expect from/.
-Not a flamebiat.. I'm sure about it.
Is donation to slashdot posible.. ??
on
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/. advices you to use the preview button ;-)
Have you used the IP address alotted to earth ? or are you using jupiters range ?
And what would happen, if a real fire broke out at the same moment ?
That the mp3 server on our campus with 12087 mp3 files on it will have to be shut down ?
So now we need to have service packs for patches too.. ;-)
They carried a story which said that there was a new box, which can be put onto your telephone, and which will download all the webpages onto your hard drive, so that you can browse offline. and then it went ahead to say that it uses some kind of latest wireless technology that there is no telephone bill for you ;-)
sadly, the link is gone with time...
Just like microsoft saying that if i sell xx copies of Windows2000, i'll allow free copying of it on any computer in this world ;-)
Dunno about there in US, but in India, we have pay channels, which have to be paid per subscriber by teh cable tv operator, and there are no advts on that channel.. But then there are also pay channels with advts.. ;-)
I have seen sites which throw away the older logged on computer out, if there is an attempt to log on from another computer. The latest login survives
I ended up installing 7 kernel's, with each of them rewriting lilo.conf during install, and tell you what.. it was fun ;-)
what will happen to the old 486 i do not want to waste ?
By Michael Ray Taylor, Discovery News
Feb. 8, 2001 -- The largest natural crystals on Earth have been discovered in two caves within a silver and zinc mine near Naica, in Chihuahua, Mexico, according to mine officials. Reaching lengths of over 20 feet, the clear, faceted crystals are composed of selenite, a crystalline form of the mineral gypsum.
"Walking into either of these caves is like stepping into a gigantic geode," said Richard D. Fisher, an American consultant with the mining company to develop the discoveries as tourist attractions.
Fisher said that most people can endure only a few minutes in the caves due to their high temperatures. The smaller of the two, which is about the size of two-bedroom apartment, is 100 Fahrenheit. The large chamber, which Fisher describes as the size of a Cathedral, is 150 F. Both are located approximately 1200 feet below the surface.
Selenite in Action
The mining company plans to air-condition the caves before opening them to the public next year, Fisher said. He adds that reducing the heat gradually will not harm the crystals.
The largest previously known crystals were found in the nearby Cave of the Swords, part of the same mine system. Some of these are now on display at the Smithsonian Institution. The local government and mine owners hope to avoid removing any of the new discoveries for museum displays or private collections, Fisher said.
While the mine company is currently limiting visitation of the caves to scientific experts, mineral hunters have destroyed locks and broken into the chambers twice since they were first opened by mining equipment last April. One man was killed when he attempted to chop out a gigantic crystal that fell from the ceiling and crushed him, according to Fisher.
"We need more onsite protection of mine caves," said geologist Carol A. Hill, co-author of the book Cave Minerals of the World, who calls the new discoveries "by far the largest selenite crystals I have ever heard of."
Hill applauds the tourism plan. "Without it, the mining company would probably destroy the caves. Museums have enough crystals," she said. "It's important to preserve discoveries like this where they occur."
Fisher and mine officials will display photographs and small samples of crystals from the new cave at the Tuscon Gem & Mineral Show in Arizona -- which starts today and runs through the weekend -- where they plan to organize a scientific study of the caves to take place in March.
Does anyone have a mirror out there ??
I mean, can i some day say, that i use the same palm as CowBoyNeal ?
;-)
Or the same cell as CowBoyNeal ?
Or..
maybe reverse.. like he uses emacs, and i use vim
Have you ever got a fp on a story posted by yourself ??
as an Anonymous Coward ?
And what you get is a fair estimate.. Add to it the time lost, the man hours spent in manning those anti virii, and the figures are HUGE..
Yeah.. I manage about 5 egroups, and am a member of about 12 groups. But i had do nothing at all, *NOTHING*, and my old groups work as they were working till now...
Oh man...
;-)
The first FP that i've ever seen moderated up to 3 !!!
congratulations..
Moderators: Score: 3, Informative
Which filtered out all the requests to www.sussex.edu ;-)
I've never had the problem on yahoo.. and i never EVER received any spam at yahoo.I can track down all the mails i receive at my yahoo account to someplace that i've subscribed to or the other.
And Unsolicited e-mail on yahoo.. No way..
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No sig here...
Consider a scenario: I get a new 800 number, I contact a spammmer and ask him to spam with my new 800 number in it, and agree to pay him some amount on every call that i receive.
So isn't it that we benefit the spammer by calling the 800 number ?
just a thought. eh..
If you send a mail to abuse@ or postmaster@ then maybe you are validating your entry in their database ;-)
1-800 numbers are all bogus.. leaving a message won't really help. Maybe the spammers get a commission on the number of calls the 1-800 number receives, and you are helping them ;-)
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No sig here...
Can someone point to movie files that are good so that we can view *the best* and also save the bandwidth..
thanks.. .
Sorry, I don't have time for this. I've got bugs to write.
This shows the level of the writer.. and the introduction says that he is modest, and doens't want to tell us about the list of books he has written. Anyway, not really what we expect from /.
-Not a flamebiat.. I'm sure about it.
with tax rebates ofcourse...
fp..