hehe... yup. Granted, it was 1985 and I was in elementary school and all they had were Apple IIe's at our school. I got good at making the turtle do neat tricks, like mapping out equations and simulating a working analog clock. Of course, the fact that I was teaching myself BASIC at home on my Commodore 64 may have had something to do with it, too.
I'm all for selling used books, CDs, movies and just about anything else you can come up with. Why? Because it encourages the creation of longer-lasting works... instead of much of the throw-away pop-culture stuff that permeates our culture today. If you create a cheesy pop tune or fluff book... you'll still get paid for people buying it. But, as people tire of it and start selling their shiny new copies as used, you make less. On the other hand, if you create a truly interesting novel or ground-breaking CD, people will buy it and hold on to it... and, even better, tell their friends.
Also, let's not forget that these are the SAME people who didn't like Amazon allowing people to post online reviews of books. Seems they thought that if people found out a book sucked, they might not buy it, and that isn't fair to the author now is it.
I graduated Binghamton (a State Univeristy of New York school) in 96 with a BS in Computer Science and Information Systems. Computer Science Math was a seperate major and focused almost solely on Math. CSIS was heavier on the CS than the IS, but both were there. They actually phased out the CSMath major that year, since enrollment was down, and since the industry had been changing alot.
Most of the CS stuff I learned at Binghamton hasn't been of any use to me in the real world. I've never needed to look back to my logic design courses or circuit stuff. Some of the IS stuff has been handy, like my database courses. Even some of the math stuff has served me well... like statistics.
As far as what you should end up in... it kinda depends on what you want to do... and what is focused on in each degree at your school. If you're planning on going into web development or programming of some sort... as long as the CIS track has enough of that sort of thing (or enough electives to fit em in) go with that. If you want to go into hardware.... or teaching... or if your school only focuses on programming in the CS major... go with that.
Actually, some of the 'cable modem booster' registry tweaks do make a difference... at least they did under Windows 98SE on my box. I did the tweaks listed at speedguide.net in their Cable and DSL Tweaks section and was able to get a 30% increase in throughput. (based on actual tests) Most noticable at 3am... but hey, I'm on then alot.
XHTML 1.0 is the current W3C recommendation for regular web content (ie the stuff we use HTML for now). XHTML Basic is basically a subset of the XHTML 1.0 functionality and is "designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes".
Basically, XHTML Basic has about the same feature set as HTML 3.2: images, forms, simple tables, etc.
Lots of places have been giving you the hardware free... or leasing it free with a free setup. I got RCN Cable Modem service a year ago. It was free setup, free leased modem, $40 a month, no contract, when I signed up. Granted there were a couple months that were hell as they grew their network, but things seem to be running smoothly now. I'm guessing that they've probably set the cable modem up so that it will only work with their network.
By the way, I very much agree with the other posts here that prefer leased hardware over owned hardware. I'm on my 3rd cable modem (the Hybrid modems are kinda flakey). Each time I've had major problems, it was traced to a flakey modem. Swapouts aren't too painful. Buying a new modem is.
Kinda Offtopic Note: Oh yeah... and if you're using a cable modem, make sure all your cable lines are clean (no staples or nails through em) and that all your splitters give less of a signal loss to the cable modem side of the wire. The better the signal, the better your performance.
I've used XOSL for about a year now and had very good results. I'm currently using it for a quad boot. You can install it to its own partition, or have it stuff its information on a FAT or FAT32 volume.
The site says that XOSL supports BeOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, Linux (with Lilo), Solaris, VxWorks 5.x, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000. So far, I've used it with Win95, Win98SE, WinNT, Win2K, BeOS and Red Hat Linux with no problems.
And don't forget, it is GPLed. Take a look at it when you get a chance. At least check out the screen shots.
there was a guy in Hellraiser II who had a bunch of CDs in his head, and who killed people by whizzing these CDs at them, Tron-like
Wow... I don't remember that one... course, I haven't watched it in a bunch of years. I do remember that in I Come In Peace there was an interplanetary drug dealer who had a gun that shot homing CDs that sliced through people's throats.
I like to think of the difference between the two to be the same as taking a photograph of an event (MP3s) and painting a picture (Mod's).
Actually, I think a more accurate comparison is based on the information contained in the file... say maybe a photoshop file with all of its layers and vector lettering, compared to a JPG. MODing music is very similar (in some cases, exactly the same as) sequencing tunes using MIDI equipment. Just that people who lay tunes down with equipment like that, usually convert it into MP3 for folks to listen to. I even convert many of my MODs to MP3 for people who don't know what I MOD is. I was merely making the observation that *some* of what people used MODs for was supplanted by MP3 files... mainly on the listening to music end of it... they do have a bit of overlap. But what most of us really did with MODs can't be done in MP3... since, in the end, it is just a compressed audio file... and not something you get to play with.
I'm not talking about mod as in modern... I'm talking about mod as in the file format, originally started on the trusty Amiga. Think MIDI, but with the instruments stored as digital samples within the file. And think (relatively) small file sizes. Back before we had MP3s, we had MODs (or S3M, XM, etc). Every day, new mods would be released onto Usenet. Some pop, some oldies, some just plain odd, and lots of techno. People would rip samples from popular songs and remake them. Others would get similar sounding instruments and try to recreate the original song. And everyone would eventually start making their own music for the world to hear. And you always tried to keep the files as small as you could. I remember spending a weekend modding Mortal Kombat during college, not to mention the many late nights writing my own tunes. The best part was that when you downloaded a mod to listen to, you had all the instruments and the notes to play around with, yourself.
Realistically, the MOD scene is still around, though it has been eclipsed by the plethora of MP3s, etc and the advent of more bandwidth. Now, it is mainly hobbyists and the like, whereas before, you'd get people who wanted to download their favorite song to listen to it, or check out some random DJ's remix.
This article touches on a number of good points. A read all the way will do all of us good. I like to think of the problem as a toolbox. You can get a screw in with a hammer, but a screw driver will do a much better job. Just as you can get a nail in with a screw driver (by bashing it in with the handle... which I've done when there IS no hammer around), but a hammer will do a much better job.
I like to think of programming languages in much the same way. The best programmers have many tools they can draw from and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each for a given task... making it alot easier to use the best tool for a particular job.
The best programmers don't think of themselves as VB programmers or Perl programmers or the like... they just think of themselves as programmers.
If an ISP has an entire Class B and one IP/domain is sending spam then that should be the only one blocked.
Actually, I *do* agree with this part of what you're saying. I think MAPS decision to hit the whole class is a 'Bad Thing'. The decision by MAPS to blackhole everything used by the spammer does, however, have merit. Afterall, most spammers are just sending spam through open relays in Asia or popping up on dial-up accounts that get cancelled 5 hours later now. But, they host their sites here. I don't know if I totally agree with blackholing sites and all, but I can definitely see the logic here.
Either way, this is why the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) and the Relay Spam Stopper (RSS) are two seperate lists on MAPS. The RBL blackholes all spammer nasties and some non-nasties in an attempt to get spammers thrown off legit providers altogether. The RSS lists ONLY open mail relays. So, if you just use this service, you'll just be blocking open relays (like all the ones in Asia).
Personally, I think it would be nice if they offered another option: all spamming mail servers. Just the IPs of open relays and known spam mail servers, without any of the other collateral sites. That way ISPs could vote (with their feet) which service they choose to use: RBL, RSS, or RBL+RSS-ExtraSites. What does everyone else think of that?
In this case, the "bad" website sells software which could be used to spam.
Sendmail could be used to spam. This website sells software that is DESIGNED to extract email addresses and then stealth email them, most likely through hijacked mail servers with forged headers and from addresses.
What I don't get is why Media3 isn't happy to change their AUP and dump the site. Afterall, the bulk email software is probably being used against Media3's own mail servers by spammers using the software. Kinda like a gun shop selling a gun to a guy who tells them he's going to rob the gun store with it.
They aren't harboring spammers, but they are harboring spam-tool makers. And this isn't software that CAN be used to spam. It is software that is DESIGNED to extract email addresses and then 'stealth' send them... ie, send it illegally using hijacked equipment without getting caught. Your anaolgy would be correct if they were blocking, say, sendmail's web host... since their software CAN be used for spamming.
So, it isn't like just providing the photo paper and ink to the kiddy porno makers... it is like providing the building, cameras, film, video-feed and streaming servers for kiddy pornographers - knowing full well what they are doing - and then being surprised when people are upset with you.
I just read a good article on this online... I knew I should have bookmarked it. Anyway, the problem with credit cards flying around is huge. Expedia lost about US$5 million to fraud this year... knocking out 1/3 of their profits. The credit card companies have had NO real incentive to stop it. Whether the charge goes through or not, VisaMastercard (the duopoly) gets their cut. They make a percentage on a successful sale, and they get a $40 chargeback fee from the merchant on a contested one. The merchants are screwed, where else can they go? They need to let people pay online, right?
American Express has extra numbers on the card... Visa and Mastercard are going to start using them, too... so what? 3 extra numbers for hackers to pluck out of ripe databases. And our current smart cards?? HA. All they do, so far, is enter your billing information for you. Real secure.
The bottom line is... this problem won't go away until we change the way credit cards work... most likely to a true smart card, like many of us have used with external corporate accounts. Then knowing a credit card number won't get you anything.
Interland's snailmail ads can't be that effective. One site I host with Interland I receive snailmail ads for saying "switch to Interland". Hello... the site IS at Interland.
Several months back I was having problems with strain and the occasional muscle spasm in my eyes. I had an eye exam and learned I had esophoria. Basically, when the eyes are at rest (i.e. closed), they have a tendency to point inwards, or cross. Focusing for a long time on something close-up (like a monitor or a book) causes muscle fatigue and leads to spasms, headaches and other nasties.
Esophoria and exophoria (where the eyes tend to point outward) are becoming more common... and near-vision stress may aggravate the conditions. Esophoria can be treated with a mild or moderate magnifying prescription (mine is made just for the distance between me and my monitor) and eye therapy (aka exercises). Exophoria is usually treated with exercises. Frequent breaks help, too!
If you've been having eye problems, and fixing glare, resolution, brightness, lighting, etc. doesn't solve all your problems, I really suggest going to see a professional.
Sometimes management just strikes me as plain idiotic. (The rest of the time, it's only stupid.) What difference does it make if you have someone to point to, if, when you point, they just shrug their shoulders? How many times has Microsoft been made aware of a major problem and dragged their feet fixing it... or claimed it was a 'feature'? How many companies do you know of that have successfully sued Microsoft for one of their products failing to perform?
It seems like it isn't that they need someone to point a finger at... it's that they are afraid to take any kind of risk or do things even the slightest bit different than they've been done in the past. It has always worked that way and probably always will. As long as the less intelligent and risk-averse continue to be promoted to prevent them from doing any harm in the trenches... things will stay the same.
The page has right-clicking 'disabled' with JavaScript. You right-click and get a 'Graphics on this page are copyrighted and not available for download or use.' popup window. That's just incredibly lame... especially since it takes all of 3 seconds to View-Source and get the image location and all I wanna do is Right-Click, Open in New Window.
Granted, you can always use the workaround for this. In IE, links are triggered on a mouse-up and the Javascript is on the mouse-down. So, right-click on anything and hold the button down. The popup appears. Hit your Spacebar to dismiss it. Then release your mouse button. Voila... instant right-click menu.
I'd been looking around for something new myself. If you're considering a revolving holder, there's one here at Improvements Catalog that holds 800 CDs on four 19-inch (.5m) sides that stands 52 inches (1.3m) tall for US$169.
Just use Dotster. Better service, security and admin utilities than Network Solutions. And you can use any words you like, including the seven dirty ones. I checked and this domain:
piss-shit-fuck-cunt-motherfucker-cocksucker-tits.c om
;
is open and available for registration via Dotster. Proof you can use as many dirty words as you'd like in your domain name.
It isn't networking, but it will allow you to get more than a floppy's worth of information out of a system at a time. SmartDisk makes a product called the FlashPath, which allows you to read and write to smart media or sony memory sticks through a PC's floppy drive. In short, you'd be able to read/write up to 64mb of data at a time (and soon, 128mb). It does require a driver to be installed in the PC to be used, but it will allow you to get more data in and out without any hardware modifications at all... just a quick driver install (and yes, the driver will fit on a floppy and is available for Win9x/NT/2000, Mac and Linux here).
Oh yeah, it'll run you US$89.95 at the SmartDisk store with a 16Mb SmartMedia card, or you can head over to PriceScan's Digital Film Readers section and find one for under US$60 without a card.
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hehe... yup. Granted, it was 1985 and I was in elementary school and all they had were Apple IIe's at our school. I got good at making the turtle do neat tricks, like mapping out equations and simulating a working analog clock. Of course, the fact that I was teaching myself BASIC at home on my Commodore 64 may have had something to do with it, too.
Hey, I used to love playing with LOGO in elementary school. Even got to go to computer camp for free cuz I was good at it.
I'm all for selling used books, CDs, movies and just about anything else you can come up with. Why? Because it encourages the creation of longer-lasting works... instead of much of the throw-away pop-culture stuff that permeates our culture today. If you create a cheesy pop tune or fluff book... you'll still get paid for people buying it. But, as people tire of it and start selling their shiny new copies as used, you make less. On the other hand, if you create a truly interesting novel or ground-breaking CD, people will buy it and hold on to it... and, even better, tell their friends.
Also, let's not forget that these are the SAME people who didn't like Amazon allowing people to post online reviews of books. Seems they thought that if people found out a book sucked, they might not buy it, and that isn't fair to the author now is it.
I graduated Binghamton (a State Univeristy of New York school) in 96 with a BS in Computer Science and Information Systems. Computer Science Math was a seperate major and focused almost solely on Math. CSIS was heavier on the CS than the IS, but both were there. They actually phased out the CSMath major that year, since enrollment was down, and since the industry had been changing alot.
Most of the CS stuff I learned at Binghamton hasn't been of any use to me in the real world. I've never needed to look back to my logic design courses or circuit stuff. Some of the IS stuff has been handy, like my database courses. Even some of the math stuff has served me well... like statistics.
As far as what you should end up in... it kinda depends on what you want to do... and what is focused on in each degree at your school. If you're planning on going into web development or programming of some sort... as long as the CIS track has enough of that sort of thing (or enough electives to fit em in) go with that. If you want to go into hardware.... or teaching... or if your school only focuses on programming in the CS major... go with that.
Actually, some of the 'cable modem booster' registry tweaks do make a difference... at least they did under Windows 98SE on my box. I did the tweaks listed at speedguide.net in their Cable and DSL Tweaks section and was able to get a 30% increase in throughput. (based on actual tests) Most noticable at 3am... but hey, I'm on then alot.
XHTML 1.0 is the current W3C recommendation for regular web content (ie the stuff we use HTML for now). XHTML Basic is basically a subset of the XHTML 1.0 functionality and is "designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes".
Basically, XHTML Basic has about the same feature set as HTML 3.2: images, forms, simple tables, etc.
Lots of places have been giving you the hardware free... or leasing it free with a free setup. I got RCN Cable Modem service a year ago. It was free setup, free leased modem, $40 a month, no contract, when I signed up. Granted there were a couple months that were hell as they grew their network, but things seem to be running smoothly now. I'm guessing that they've probably set the cable modem up so that it will only work with their network.
By the way, I very much agree with the other posts here that prefer leased hardware over owned hardware. I'm on my 3rd cable modem (the Hybrid modems are kinda flakey). Each time I've had major problems, it was traced to a flakey modem. Swapouts aren't too painful. Buying a new modem is.
Kinda Offtopic Note: Oh yeah... and if you're using a cable modem, make sure all your cable lines are clean (no staples or nails through em) and that all your splitters give less of a signal loss to the cable modem side of the wire. The better the signal, the better your performance.
I've used XOSL for about a year now and had very good results. I'm currently using it for a quad boot. You can install it to its own partition, or have it stuff its information on a FAT or FAT32 volume.
The site says that XOSL supports BeOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, Linux (with Lilo), Solaris, VxWorks 5.x, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000. So far, I've used it with Win95, Win98SE, WinNT, Win2K, BeOS and Red Hat Linux with no problems.
And don't forget, it is GPLed. Take a look at it when you get a chance. At least check out the screen shots.
there was a guy in Hellraiser II who had a bunch of CDs in his head, and who killed people by whizzing these CDs at them, Tron-like
Wow... I don't remember that one... course, I haven't watched it in a bunch of years. I do remember that in I Come In Peace there was an interplanetary drug dealer who had a gun that shot homing CDs that sliced through people's throats.
I like to think of the difference between the two to be the same as taking a photograph of an event (MP3s) and painting a picture (Mod's).
Actually, I think a more accurate comparison is based on the information contained in the file... say maybe a photoshop file with all of its layers and vector lettering, compared to a JPG. MODing music is very similar (in some cases, exactly the same as) sequencing tunes using MIDI equipment. Just that people who lay tunes down with equipment like that, usually convert it into MP3 for folks to listen to. I even convert many of my MODs to MP3 for people who don't know what I MOD is. I was merely making the observation that *some* of what people used MODs for was supplanted by MP3 files... mainly on the listening to music end of it... they do have a bit of overlap. But what most of us really did with MODs can't be done in MP3... since, in the end, it is just a compressed audio file... and not something you get to play with.
I miss Fast Tracker ][.
I'm not talking about mod as in modern... I'm talking about mod as in the file format, originally started on the trusty Amiga. Think MIDI, but with the instruments stored as digital samples within the file. And think (relatively) small file sizes. Back before we had MP3s, we had MODs (or S3M, XM, etc). Every day, new mods would be released onto Usenet. Some pop, some oldies, some just plain odd, and lots of techno. People would rip samples from popular songs and remake them. Others would get similar sounding instruments and try to recreate the original song. And everyone would eventually start making their own music for the world to hear. And you always tried to keep the files as small as you could. I remember spending a weekend modding Mortal Kombat during college, not to mention the many late nights writing my own tunes. The best part was that when you downloaded a mod to listen to, you had all the instruments and the notes to play around with, yourself.
Realistically, the MOD scene is still around, though it has been eclipsed by the plethora of MP3s, etc and the advent of more bandwidth. Now, it is mainly hobbyists and the like, whereas before, you'd get people who wanted to download their favorite song to listen to it, or check out some random DJ's remix.
In case you're curious, check out: Arts: Music: Sound Files: MOD for mod files and Computers: Multimedia: Music and Audio: Software: MOD for players and trackers on Open Directory. Oh, and if you have Winamp, you already have the ability to play MODs.
This article touches on a number of good points. A read all the way will do all of us good. I like to think of the problem as a toolbox. You can get a screw in with a hammer, but a screw driver will do a much better job. Just as you can get a nail in with a screw driver (by bashing it in with the handle... which I've done when there IS no hammer around), but a hammer will do a much better job.
I like to think of programming languages in much the same way. The best programmers have many tools they can draw from and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each for a given task... making it alot easier to use the best tool for a particular job.
The best programmers don't think of themselves as VB programmers or Perl programmers or the like... they just think of themselves as programmers.
If an ISP has an entire Class B and one IP/domain is sending spam then that should be the only one blocked.
Actually, I *do* agree with this part of what you're saying. I think MAPS decision to hit the whole class is a 'Bad Thing'. The decision by MAPS to blackhole everything used by the spammer does, however, have merit. Afterall, most spammers are just sending spam through open relays in Asia or popping up on dial-up accounts that get cancelled 5 hours later now. But, they host their sites here. I don't know if I totally agree with blackholing sites and all, but I can definitely see the logic here.
Either way, this is why the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) and the Relay Spam Stopper (RSS) are two seperate lists on MAPS. The RBL blackholes all spammer nasties and some non-nasties in an attempt to get spammers thrown off legit providers altogether. The RSS lists ONLY open mail relays. So, if you just use this service, you'll just be blocking open relays (like all the ones in Asia).
Personally, I think it would be nice if they offered another option: all spamming mail servers. Just the IPs of open relays and known spam mail servers, without any of the other collateral sites. That way ISPs could vote (with their feet) which service they choose to use: RBL, RSS, or RBL+RSS-ExtraSites. What does everyone else think of that?
In this case, the "bad" website sells software which could be used to spam.
Sendmail could be used to spam. This website sells software that is DESIGNED to extract email addresses and then stealth email them, most likely through hijacked mail servers with forged headers and from addresses.
What I don't get is why Media3 isn't happy to change their AUP and dump the site. Afterall, the bulk email software is probably being used against Media3's own mail servers by spammers using the software. Kinda like a gun shop selling a gun to a guy who tells them he's going to rob the gun store with it.
They aren't harboring spammers, but they are harboring spam-tool makers. And this isn't software that CAN be used to spam. It is software that is DESIGNED to extract email addresses and then 'stealth' send them... ie, send it illegally using hijacked equipment without getting caught. Your anaolgy would be correct if they were blocking, say, sendmail's web host... since their software CAN be used for spamming.
So, it isn't like just providing the photo paper and ink to the kiddy porno makers... it is like providing the building, cameras, film, video-feed and streaming servers for kiddy pornographers - knowing full well what they are doing - and then being surprised when people are upset with you.
I just read a good article on this online... I knew I should have bookmarked it. Anyway, the problem with credit cards flying around is huge. Expedia lost about US$5 million to fraud this year... knocking out 1/3 of their profits. The credit card companies have had NO real incentive to stop it. Whether the charge goes through or not, VisaMastercard (the duopoly) gets their cut. They make a percentage on a successful sale, and they get a $40 chargeback fee from the merchant on a contested one. The merchants are screwed, where else can they go? They need to let people pay online, right?
American Express has extra numbers on the card... Visa and Mastercard are going to start using them, too... so what? 3 extra numbers for hackers to pluck out of ripe databases. And our current smart cards?? HA. All they do, so far, is enter your billing information for you. Real secure.
The bottom line is... this problem won't go away until we change the way credit cards work... most likely to a true smart card, like many of us have used with external corporate accounts. Then knowing a credit card number won't get you anything.
Interland's snailmail ads can't be that effective. One site I host with Interland I receive snailmail ads for saying "switch to Interland". Hello... the site IS at Interland.
Several months back I was having problems with strain and the occasional muscle spasm in my eyes. I had an eye exam and learned I had esophoria. Basically, when the eyes are at rest (i.e. closed), they have a tendency to point inwards, or cross. Focusing for a long time on something close-up (like a monitor or a book) causes muscle fatigue and leads to spasms, headaches and other nasties.
Esophoria and exophoria (where the eyes tend to point outward) are becoming more common... and near-vision stress may aggravate the conditions. Esophoria can be treated with a mild or moderate magnifying prescription (mine is made just for the distance between me and my monitor) and eye therapy (aka exercises). Exophoria is usually treated with exercises. Frequent breaks help, too!
If you've been having eye problems, and fixing glare, resolution, brightness, lighting, etc. doesn't solve all your problems, I really suggest going to see a professional.
Sometimes management just strikes me as plain idiotic. (The rest of the time, it's only stupid.) What difference does it make if you have someone to point to, if, when you point, they just shrug their shoulders? How many times has Microsoft been made aware of a major problem and dragged their feet fixing it... or claimed it was a 'feature'? How many companies do you know of that have successfully sued Microsoft for one of their products failing to perform?
It seems like it isn't that they need someone to point a finger at... it's that they are afraid to take any kind of risk or do things even the slightest bit different than they've been done in the past. It has always worked that way and probably always will. As long as the less intelligent and risk-averse continue to be promoted to prevent them from doing any harm in the trenches... things will stay the same.
You are correct... it appears the offending JavaScript was removed sometime between 11am and 5pm.
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Some day I hope to have a
The page has right-clicking 'disabled' with JavaScript. You right-click and get a 'Graphics on this page are copyrighted and not available for download or use.' popup window. That's just incredibly lame... especially since it takes all of 3 seconds to View-Source and get the image location and all I wanna do is Right-Click, Open in New Window.
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Granted, you can always use the workaround for this. In IE, links are triggered on a mouse-up and the Javascript is on the mouse-down. So, right-click on anything and hold the button down. The popup appears. Hit your Spacebar to dismiss it. Then release your mouse button. Voila... instant right-click menu.
Some day I hope to have a
I'd been looking around for something new myself. If you're considering a revolving holder, there's one here at Improvements Catalog that holds 800 CDs on four 19-inch (.5m) sides that stands 52 inches (1.3m) tall for US$169.
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Some day I hope to have a
Just use Dotster. Better service, security and admin utilities than Network Solutions. And you can use any words you like, including the seven dirty ones. I checked and this domain:
c om
.plan.
piss-shit-fuck-cunt-motherfucker-cocksucker-tits.
; is open and available for registration via Dotster. Proof you can use as many dirty words as you'd like in your domain name.
Some day I hope to have a
It isn't networking, but it will allow you to get more than a floppy's worth of information out of a system at a time. SmartDisk makes a product called the FlashPath, which allows you to read and write to smart media or sony memory sticks through a PC's floppy drive. In short, you'd be able to read/write up to 64mb of data at a time (and soon, 128mb). It does require a driver to be installed in the PC to be used, but it will allow you to get more data in and out without any hardware modifications at all... just a quick driver install (and yes, the driver will fit on a floppy and is available for Win9x/NT/2000, Mac and Linux here).
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Oh yeah, it'll run you US$89.95 at the SmartDisk store with a 16Mb SmartMedia card, or you can head over to PriceScan's Digital Film Readers section and find one for under US$60 without a card.
Some day I hope to have a
Indian in the village sounds good to me.
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Some day I hope to have a