I use WorldShare as a backup to my pay ISP. One survey a month isn't bad and besides that they donate 5% of what you would have paid them to your favorite charity. WorldShare has recieved an 89% recomendation at ePinions. There are also a number of other free ISPs listed there too.
      Well at least nomadic knew he was supposed to be cynical and pessimistic here. Since he didn't, I will take it upon myself to do it.
      Just what we need... A central web site where we can do a search and be provided with a list of government websites with all the lies, misinformation, misdirection, and censorship you could ever care to have.    Why should WE pay for anything like this?     I can here you now "but it says that won't be funded by tax dollars.".     Regardless of where the money comes from, Whether it is taxes, businesses, nonprofit organizations, etc, at some point it is coming out of our pockets!
      I was surfing around a little while back when I decided to see if I could find a sliderule for sale somewhere. (yes..I AM a nerd:) During my search I ran across refrences to a mechanical calculator called the Curta.       According to this web page, the Curta was designed and built by a gentleman named Curt Herzstark of Austria. Although several prototypes were made, the first production began in April, 1947. The last Curta was made in November, 1970 but they were still sold until early 1973. Over the course of about 20 years approximately 80,000 of the Curta I and 60,000 of the Curta II were constructed.       Additional links, articles, and pictures of this awesome little device can be found here and at Curta.org I gotta say..The Curta is one sexy little calculator:) thanks to Bruce Flamm at the first link for some of the info.
Woz has been one of my heros ever since I got hooked on the Apple back when the Apple II was new. I checked out his web page and saw a link to another one of my heros from that era. John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, worked with Woz off and on. John designed the first modem for the apple. He had to redo it because Woz thought there might be some legal problems with the blue box built into it. Woz hosts Capn' Crunch's web site here . The thing I think is really cool is another hero of mine is John's roommate, Richard Cheshire, aka Cheshire Catalyst, one of the early phone phreaks and editor of TAP magazine. Chesh. has his web page here.
It may not be crowded but I heard room service sucks and not a single pool for hundreds of miles. Look on the bright side though. You can't beat the Vodka and cavier.
This is beginning to get a bit frightening. The question is..have all these computers that have come up "missing" gone the way of the thousands of single socks and just been misplaced hopefully, or are these things walking out with someone and ending up in the wrong hands? This incident in particular worries me the most if that is the case.
The other question is why are we not hearing about someone being punished for the serious lack of control of these classified materials?
I would tend to think that the UK would get a little upset if another group or country decided to use ANY type of military force against Sealand considering that Sealand and the waters approx. 6 miles past it fall into the waters belonging to the UK.
All the discussion about prior art made me curious ao I decided to see what I could dig up. Found this hidden in the history files of W3.org. This looks to me to originate 1989-90 and documents the "birth" of the web from my point of view.
I live in a rural area and at this point only have dialup access. I have been looking for an affordable broadband solution that I could potentially bring into my area. In my search I have found that there are two forms of bradband service, besides sattelite, that may very well be the future method of delivery for rural, and quite possibly urban, internet service.
One of these delivery methods is powerline broadband. I won't go into detail on this since this about wireless. The second, of course, is wireless broadband. Fixed Wireless broadband is already being put into use in a few areas and looks like it will quickly gain in popularity for residential use because the cost of equipment and delivery is competitive if not less then other forms. The primary reasons for the reduction in cost for delivering wireless service are 1) you do not have the cost of using the phone company for the "last mile" of delivery to the user, and 2) the frequencies being used, in the U.S. at least, are open for use by anyone.
PrairieInet is one ISP that is already offering fixed wireless broadband for both home and business use, in a rural area, and at rates competetive rates. malibu Networks is another company that is working on delivering fixed wireless broadband. The eZine ISP Planet, which is a online periodical for ISPs, has a new section dedicated to wireless service which includes articles on how to setup a wireless ISP.
Overall it looks to me like Wireless Broadband is one of the up-and-coming internet technologies. This may be something to really look at if not jump into soon.
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I use WorldShare as a backup to my pay ISP. One survey a month isn't bad and besides that they donate 5% of what you would have paid them to your favorite charity. WorldShare has recieved an 89% recomendation at ePinions. There are also a number of other free ISPs listed there too.
      Well at least nomadic knew he was supposed to be cynical and pessimistic here. Since he didn't, I will take it upon myself to do it.
      Just what we need... A central web site where we can do a search and be provided with a list of government websites with all the lies, misinformation, misdirection, and censorship you could ever care to have.    Why should WE pay for anything like this?     I can here you now "but it says that won't be funded by tax dollars.".     Regardless of where the money comes from, Whether it is taxes, businesses, nonprofit organizations, etc, at some point it is coming out of our pockets!
      I was surfing around a little while back when I decided to see if I could find a sliderule for sale somewhere. (yes..I AM a nerd :) During my search I ran across refrences to a mechanical calculator called the Curta. :) thanks to Bruce Flamm at the first link for some of the info.
      According to this web page, the Curta was designed and built by a gentleman named Curt Herzstark of Austria. Although several prototypes were made, the first production began in April, 1947. The last Curta was made in November, 1970 but they were still sold until early 1973. Over the course of about 20 years approximately 80,000 of the Curta I and 60,000 of the Curta II were constructed.
      Additional links, articles, and pictures of this awesome little device can be found here and at Curta.org
I gotta say..The Curta is one sexy little calculator
Woz has been one of my heros ever since I got hooked on the Apple back when the Apple II was new. I checked out his web page and saw a link to another one of my heros from that era. John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, worked with Woz off and on. John designed the first modem for the apple. He had to redo it because Woz thought there might be some legal problems with the blue box built into it. Woz hosts Capn' Crunch's web site here . The thing I think is really cool is another hero of mine is John's roommate, Richard Cheshire, aka Cheshire Catalyst, one of the early phone phreaks and editor of TAP magazine. Chesh. has his web page here .
It may not be crowded but I heard room service sucks and not a single pool for hundreds of miles. Look on the bright side though. You can't beat the Vodka and cavier.
Umm..yeah..sure...just a sec... damn..when did the Govt. start using PGP :/
I would tend to think that the UK would get a little upset if another group or country decided to use ANY type of military force against Sealand considering that Sealand and the waters approx. 6 miles past it fall into the waters belonging to the UK.
All the discussion about prior art made me curious ao I decided to see what I could dig up. Found this hidden in the history files of W3.org. This looks to me to originate 1989-90 and documents the "birth" of the web from my point of view.
The question is, can I get a prize or maybe even some government funding to attempt to find life at NASA?
I live in a rural area and at this point only have dialup access. I have been looking for an affordable broadband solution that I could potentially bring into my area. In my search I have found that there are two forms of bradband service, besides sattelite, that may very well be the future method of delivery for rural, and quite possibly urban, internet service.
One of these delivery methods is powerline broadband. I won't go into detail on this since this about wireless. The second, of course, is wireless broadband. Fixed Wireless broadband is already being put into use in a few areas and looks like it will quickly gain in popularity for residential use because the cost of equipment and delivery is competitive if not less then other forms. The primary reasons for the reduction in cost for delivering wireless service are 1) you do not have the cost of using the phone company for the "last mile" of delivery to the user, and 2) the frequencies being used, in the U.S. at least, are open for use by anyone.
PrairieInet is one ISP that is already offering fixed wireless broadband for both home and business use, in a rural area, and at rates competetive rates. malibu Networks is another company that is working on delivering fixed wireless broadband. The eZine ISP Planet, which is a online periodical for ISPs, has a new section dedicated to wireless service which includes articles on how to setup a wireless ISP.
Overall it looks to me like Wireless Broadband is one of the up-and-coming internet technologies. This may be something to really look at if not jump into soon.