In the original SW movies (Ep4-6) when a jedi died, their body disappeared. (Yoda, Obi Wan).
They also turned into a ghost. (Yoda, Obi Wan, Anakin)
How come this didn't happen to Qai gon jinn in episode 1? And they burnt his body at the end of the movie? Apparently this was meant to be made clear in Episode 2, but i didn't see how or where.
Why were there so many magazines, websites, books about WindowsME (I think that's the one, I can't keep track of it anymore. I mean the successor of WindowsNT) before the product was on the shelves in the shops?
Um, the successor to Windows NT 4.0 was Windows NT 5.0, more commonly known as Windows 2000 when its name was renamed by the marketroids a few months before release.
Windows ME? That was the end of the line(tm), for that pile of shit known as Windows 3.1/95/98/98SE.
If your still slow, Win2000 (NT5.0) was followed by Windows XP (NT5.1), and Windows.NET (NT5.2). Windows.NET is the Server version of XP. When.NET comes out, people except a XP Second Edition with the same build number of.NET. (it'll be NT5.2 too)
Yes, all the different names, and now mismatched release of Server and Workstaton/Professional versions is very confusing. If MS has any consistency, it's its consistency in being inconsistent!
In the original SW movies (Ep4-6) when a jedi died, their body disappeared. (Yoda, Obi Wan).
How come this didn't happen to Qai gon jinn in episode 1? And they burnt his body at the end of the movie? Apparently this was meant to be made clear in Episode 2, but i didn't see how or where.
What i want to know is, would this be a good thing to invest it? They say it will cost $5bn, so they need money from SOMEWHERE, right?
So say if i had a significant amount of money.. like $1million (hell, $500,000 or $100,000) and invested in the construction of this thing (or invested in a company that is constructing it by buying shares), would this be a wise investment, with good return?
Would direct investment by supplying monies for construction and then demanding a % share of profits operating the elevator forever into the future be better then just buying shares in a company that is producing the elevator?
Any thoughts?
I'm always wondering what would be a very good sure bet for investment with VERY good returns, and something like these seems to be an ultimate one. The benefits of a space elevator are simply amazing, and the elevator will be in use for decades if not centuries, until replaced by something better, or a better elevator..
The memory manager in Linux has lots of problems (as previous posters have pointed out).
Have you tried FreeBSD? Apart from being a better OS all round, the 4.x series has a brand new revamped VM subsystem that handles high memory loads very efficiently. I never have a problem with swapping on any of my machines (which range from 32mb, 64mb, to 512mb ram machines).
This isn't a troll. Sometimes a certain OS isn't the best solution for a job, and a different OS should be used. I use Linux for GUI/X type things, FreeBSD for heavily loaded servers (since it handles much better), and even Windows 2000/XP for other things. If those programs you use are linux binaries, FreeBSD can easily run them. If you have source, all the better. Recompile with all the specific optimizations for your hardware. (-O3, -mcpu=pentiumpro, -march=pentiumpro, etc)
People will ALWAYS find a way to circumvent copy protection, and record whats on TV for later viewing. Just like DVD encryption was to prevent copying DVD's, viewing DVDs in different regions and so on.
The weak encryption was easily cracked.
And if worse comes to worse, you can always set up your video camera infront of your TV and record it while your gone, to watch it later. Sure, the quality will be lesser, but you can ALWAYS record whats on TV.
Well, kind of. Okay, so it gets very confused with fast user switching (it uses services which i think don't understand the concept of multiple users logged in simultaneously) so apart from the various errors that come up when you log in, yeah, it works. (Come to think of it, if it doesn't understand multiple users it certainly won't run on W2k Adv. Server with terminal services then...)
You can right click on files and do encrypt. pgpkeys and pgptools work fine.
Outlook 2002 (Office XP) plugin support is different. Yeah, it works. But not really well at all. The icons seem corrupt in outlook too. You need to enable an option to auto decrypt mail. Then when you open an email PGP tries to decrypt it automatically. (the reason you must do this is that the decrypt button on the toolbar doesn't work *shrug*). Sending encrypted mail on Outlook 2002 works fine too.
I've been doing this for about a month now, with no ill effect.
So yeah, PGP 7.0.3 works on WinXP. It would be nice if it supported XP properly.
This is extremely cool, and a good thing for all of us.
Hopefully it will kick start another space race, and get the americans off their butts. Bush has done nothing but slowly kill NASA with its budget cuts.
In 2005, Russia may become the only country with access to the ISS. (find the story on space.com somewhere -- With all the budget cuts the US no longer has a HAB module or Crew Return Vehicle. Russia's obligations supplying Soyuz Rockets ENDS in 2005 leaving the USA totally stranded.)
With China sending men and women into space on its own, and making plans to build its own Space Station and sending men to the moon, EVEN if it doesn't wake up the US govt. and inject more money into NASA, at least we are making progress and reaching for the stars.
Communist regimes are very good at certain things. The Soviet Union was a powerful military country, and built 9 space stations. (Salyut 1-7, Mir, and now the ISS).
Hopefully China can also achieve some amazing things.
I want to live on Mars someday. I don't care how it happens, or who gets me there, i just want to be there.
Seriously, though. I've had NOTHING but endless trouble with NSI. They literally ignore me. They refuse to let me renew my domains with them. One domain in particular, diskiller.net, they would not let me pay for! I even rang them, and they wouldn't give me an answer, and refused the eletronic credit card payment over the phone.
I tried to "delete" my domain so i could
reregister it elsewhere (we now finally had competing registrars). This wouldn't work. They wouldn't delete it.
In the end i had nochoice, but to wait it out. 6 months went by, and the domain was finally purged from their system, and i reregistered it at register.com. (it expires in a few months, i'm gonna transfer it to gandi. I recommend these folks, cuz they are cheapest, but register.com is very good too).
wasted.net was another important domain of mine. It sat there for endless months before it was finally purged from their system. Unfortunately, within hours of it being purged, someone registered it elsewhere, before i did. So now someone else owns my domain:(. I have no idea what to do about this situation, and i can't afford a domain dispute. sigh.
I also have simliar problems with cnbinc.com. Its expired. I don't even know if they'll let me pay for it, and i don't really care, cuz i don't want to pay for it with them. I want to register my domain elsewhere. I tried to transfer it to register.com, and they refused. Its been 2 years, and i'm still without my company's domain name:(
Any suggestions?
Should i take legal action?
All i want is a domain, and registered with a decent company, not these scum bags. I've heard nothing but bad news about NSI. In the old days, you had no choice.
These days, we do. Stay away from NSI at all costs.
I thought the African Wildcat that was posted on slashdot was. (Sorry, can't find the url. Seems slashdot's search won't find stories more then a year or so old, and google can't find it either! Stranger yet, i was looking at that story a few days back because i was showing it to a friend, and now i can't find it!)
However some urls to actual stories (and some VERY cute pics!) are here and here.
The eggs are from titanosaurs, most likely fossilized by mud in an overflowing river shortly before the eggs were to hatch, thus leading to good preservation of the embyros.
If we made like, a Jurassic Park kind of thing using recovered DNA. (please don't go on about how the movies sucked -- i know they did -- do yourself a favour, and read Jurassic Park and The Lost World in dead tree form, they are real real good).
Has anyone recovered any decent amount of dinosaur DNA? I'm just wondering. Theres been alot of stories on slashdot over the past year or so about bringing back extinct animals, like the Tasmanian Tiger (look it up on slashdot), and various others in Australia, New Zealand, and other places in the world. (Then again, cloning doesn't seem to work well, according to a slashdot story just a week ago).
As for where to put these dinosaurs.... *evilish grin*, why not put them on a terraformed mars? Or some other planet. We could watch the dinosaurs evolve and spread over an entire planet, and not affect them in any way but by simply watching them from above. (This is starting to sound like a computer game or something..) Of course Mars isn't suitable atm, and Venus too hot.. but ahh wells.
but is there some device that could simply plug in between your UPS/Computer/Power Strip and the outlet and tell you? If not, how difficult would one be to build?
Yes. Its called an AC Watt Meter. You wrap the coil around any AC cable, and it'll tell you the amount of power drawn in watts....
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In the original SW movies (Ep4-6) when a jedi died, their body disappeared. (Yoda, Obi Wan).
They also turned into a ghost. (Yoda, Obi Wan, Anakin)
How come this didn't happen to Qai gon jinn in episode 1? And they burnt his body at the end of the movie? Apparently this was meant to be made clear in Episode 2, but i didn't see how or where.
Just curious.
D.
Why were there so many magazines, websites, books about WindowsME (I think that's the one, I can't keep track of it anymore. I mean the successor of WindowsNT) before the product was on the shelves in the shops?
.NET (NT5.2). Windows .NET is the Server version of XP. When .NET comes out, people except a XP Second Edition with the same build number of .NET. (it'll be NT5.2 too)
Um, the successor to Windows NT 4.0 was Windows NT 5.0, more commonly known as Windows 2000 when its name was renamed by the marketroids a few months before release.
Windows ME? That was the end of the line(tm), for that pile of shit known as Windows 3.1/95/98/98SE.
If your still slow, Win2000 (NT5.0) was followed by Windows XP (NT5.1), and Windows
Yes, all the different names, and now mismatched release of Server and Workstaton/Professional versions is very confusing. If MS has any consistency, it's its consistency in being inconsistent!
D.
But summer just finished!!!
;)
Oh, wait. You meen in the US. I forget you people have different seasons to us Aussies
D.
So when is MacOS X 10.2 planned?
From earlier stories, it looks like some really nice speed enhancments adn goodies are planned!
D.
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http://www.MarsFirst.org/ -- Martian News. And other stuff.
In the original SW movies (Ep4-6) when a jedi died, their body disappeared. (Yoda, Obi Wan).
How come this didn't happen to Qai gon jinn in episode 1? And they burnt his body at the end of the movie? Apparently this was meant to be made clear in Episode 2, but i didn't see how or where.
Just curious.
D.
Of course its legal, it SHOULD be legal!
It boggles my mind how it could be made illegal. You broadcast data for the world to see, and you can make it illegal to view it? wtf?!
Makes no sense to me..
Laws get worse and worse each day...
What i want to know is, would this be a good thing to invest it? They say it will cost $5bn, so they need money from SOMEWHERE, right?
So say if i had a significant amount of money.. like $1million (hell, $500,000 or $100,000) and invested in the construction of this thing (or invested in a company that is constructing it by buying shares), would this be a wise investment, with good return?
Would direct investment by supplying monies for construction and then demanding a % share of profits operating the elevator forever into the future be better then just buying shares in a company that is producing the elevator?
Any thoughts?
I'm always wondering what would be a very good sure bet for investment with VERY good returns, and something like these seems to be an ultimate one. The benefits of a space elevator are simply amazing, and the elevator will be in use for decades if not centuries, until replaced by something better, or a better elevator..
Martin.
Exchange? Just run an Exchange Server box (on Win2k server, or whatever), and Outlook on the macs.
Yes, outlook for mac exists, for accessing exchange server.
Go to www.microsoft.com/mac for yourself.
D.
Pick a different channel, and run at a different frequency. Your not longer competing with him for bandwidth as you have your own bandwidth slice.
:)
Also, use WEP (infact, don't use WEP, use IPsec, but anyway), and no one will see your data
D.
Who wants to do this in Adelaide, Australia? If so, please contact me :)
Okay, i know theres www.adelaide.air.net.au (and www.air.net.au !) and www.airnet.com.au...
Broadband prices here suck, and we want to give fast internet access to the masses.
D.
GPRS, hrm, interesting. I didn't know what it was till i just went and read about :)
Unfortunately, that kind of bandwidth will most likely cost you a vital organ on Telstra Mobilenet. (I'm in Australia).
So fat chance we'll be using it any time soon.
D.
I am going to put the 9210i on my Christmas Wish List!
Okay, so i might be waiting a while, but this baby is worth the wait.
Something decent to replace my crusty ancient 5110. *ashamed of owning it still*
D.
The memory manager in Linux has lots of problems (as previous posters have pointed out).
Have you tried FreeBSD? Apart from being a better OS all round, the 4.x series has a brand new revamped VM subsystem that handles high memory loads very efficiently. I never have a problem with swapping on any of my machines (which range from 32mb, 64mb, to 512mb ram machines).
This isn't a troll. Sometimes a certain OS isn't the best solution for a job, and a different OS should be used. I use Linux for GUI/X type things, FreeBSD for heavily loaded servers (since it handles much better), and even Windows 2000/XP for other things. If those programs you use are linux binaries, FreeBSD can easily run them. If you have source, all the better. Recompile with all the specific optimizations for your hardware. (-O3, -mcpu=pentiumpro, -march=pentiumpro, etc)
D.
Umm... Wouldn't that be Windows Automatic Update?
It automatically downloads XP patches, updates, critical updates and bug fixes, etc, etc...
Did i mention the feature can be turned off? Whats the big deal then?
D.
TV Copy Protection?
Ha!
People will ALWAYS find a way to circumvent copy protection, and record whats on TV for later viewing. Just like DVD encryption was to prevent copying DVD's, viewing DVDs in different regions and so on.
The weak encryption was easily cracked.
And if worse comes to worse, you can always set up your video camera infront of your TV and record it while your gone, to watch it later. Sure, the quality will be lesser, but you can ALWAYS record whats on TV.
D.
PGP 7.0.3 for Windows 2000 does run on XP.
Well, kind of. Okay, so it gets very confused with fast user switching (it uses services which i think don't understand the concept of multiple users logged in simultaneously) so apart from the various errors that come up when you log in, yeah, it works. (Come to think of it, if it doesn't understand multiple users it certainly won't run on W2k Adv. Server with terminal services then...)
You can right click on files and do encrypt. pgpkeys and pgptools work fine.
Outlook 2002 (Office XP) plugin support is different. Yeah, it works. But not really well at all. The icons seem corrupt in outlook too. You need to enable an option to auto decrypt mail. Then when you open an email PGP tries to decrypt it automatically. (the reason you must do this is that the decrypt button on the toolbar doesn't work *shrug*). Sending encrypted mail on Outlook 2002 works fine too.
I've been doing this for about a month now, with no ill effect.
So yeah, PGP 7.0.3 works on WinXP. It would be nice if it supported XP properly.
D.
February 2002, you mean.
Feb 2001 was last year...
This is extremely cool, and a good thing for all of us.
Hopefully it will kick start another space race, and get the americans off their butts. Bush has done nothing but slowly kill NASA with its budget cuts.
In 2005, Russia may become the only country with access to the ISS. (find the story on space.com somewhere -- With all the budget cuts the US no longer has a HAB module or Crew Return Vehicle. Russia's obligations supplying Soyuz Rockets ENDS in 2005 leaving the USA totally stranded.)
With China sending men and women into space on its own, and making plans to build its own Space Station and sending men to the moon, EVEN if it doesn't wake up the US govt. and inject more money into NASA, at least we are making progress and reaching for the stars.
Communist regimes are very good at certain things. The Soviet Union was a powerful military country, and built 9 space stations. (Salyut 1-7, Mir, and now the ISS).
Hopefully China can also achieve some amazing things.
I want to live on Mars someday. I don't care how it happens, or who gets me there, i just want to be there.
D.
What to do when your registrar (NSI) ignores you?
:(. I have no idea what to do about this situation, and i can't afford a domain dispute. sigh.
:(
Answer: Bitch Slap them!
Seriously, though. I've had NOTHING but endless trouble with NSI. They literally ignore me. They refuse to let me renew my domains with them. One domain in particular, diskiller.net, they would not let me pay for! I even rang them, and they wouldn't give me an answer, and refused the eletronic credit card payment over the phone.
I tried to "delete" my domain so i could reregister it elsewhere (we now finally had competing registrars). This wouldn't work. They wouldn't delete it.
In the end i had nochoice, but to wait it out. 6 months went by, and the domain was finally purged from their system, and i reregistered it at register.com. (it expires in a few months, i'm gonna transfer it to gandi. I recommend these folks, cuz they are cheapest, but register.com is very good too).
wasted.net was another important domain of mine. It sat there for endless months before it was finally purged from their system. Unfortunately, within hours of it being purged, someone registered it elsewhere, before i did. So now someone else owns my domain
I also have simliar problems with cnbinc.com. Its expired. I don't even know if they'll let me pay for it, and i don't really care, cuz i don't want to pay for it with them. I want to register my domain elsewhere. I tried to transfer it to register.com, and they refused. Its been 2 years, and i'm still without my company's domain name
Any suggestions?
Should i take legal action?
All i want is a domain, and registered with a decent company, not these scum bags. I've heard nothing but bad news about NSI. In the old days, you had no choice.
These days, we do. Stay away from NSI at all costs.
D.
Thats because slashdot seems to break up really long words since slashdot was upgraded to banjo. Why, i don't know.
The correct way to make a link is to make it html (you know, blah).
D.
First surviving clone?
I thought the African Wildcat that was posted on slashdot was. (Sorry, can't find the url. Seems slashdot's search won't find stories more then a year or so old, and google can't find it either! Stranger yet, i was looking at that story a few days back because i was showing it to a friend, and now i can't find it!)
However some urls to actual stories (and some VERY cute pics!) are here and here.
D.
The eggs are from titanosaurs, most likely fossilized by mud in an overflowing river shortly before the eggs were to hatch, thus leading to good preservation of the embyros.
Can anyone say Jurassic Park?
D.
Heres some more about the Buran at space.com .... http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology /buran_010628.html.
D.
You know what would be cool?
If we made like, a Jurassic Park kind of thing using recovered DNA. (please don't go on about how the movies sucked -- i know they did -- do yourself a favour, and read Jurassic Park and The Lost World in dead tree form, they are real real good).
Has anyone recovered any decent amount of dinosaur DNA? I'm just wondering. Theres been alot of stories on slashdot over the past year or so about bringing back extinct animals, like the Tasmanian Tiger (look it up on slashdot), and various others in Australia, New Zealand, and other places in the world. (Then again, cloning doesn't seem to work well, according to a slashdot story just a week ago).
As for where to put these dinosaurs.... *evilish grin*, why not put them on a terraformed mars? Or some other planet. We could watch the dinosaurs evolve and spread over an entire planet, and not affect them in any way but by simply watching them from above. (This is starting to sound like a computer game or something..) Of course Mars isn't suitable atm, and Venus too hot.. but ahh wells.
D.
but is there some device that could simply plug in between your UPS/Computer/Power Strip and the outlet and tell you? If not, how difficult would one be to build?
Yes. Its called an AC Watt Meter. You wrap the coil around any AC cable, and it'll tell you the amount of power drawn in watts....
D.