wma files for 88 cents. I was able to download and play the test file with MPlayer and Linux. Finally, a music service for us geeks.
Yes, huzzah and hurrah with highly polished brass knobs on. Everybody knows the vma format is the sound format of choice for true geeks. Geeks even make a point of cat-ing their.vma files to/dev/audio and decoding the audio by ear. I mean, how geekier can you get?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it was a ballistic flight, the aircraft would have been given a large initial push at a certain angle from the ground, then simply let free to "fly" (or lop, or a combination of the two) un-powered, until it touched ground again. However, it seems to me that there was an engine on this plane, and that it took off more or less unaided.
That the engine wasn't powerful enough to sustain a real flight, that it was a ground-effect fluke, that's just as maybe, but it hardly seems a ballistic flight to me.
The Telegraph is running a story about a recreation of the Wright's (and world's) first heavier-than-air powered flight. President Bush will be in attendance at the event.
Yes, President Bush being heavy and full of air, he'll be the perfect choice to commemorate this event.
1) VMware is a virtualization program 2) Bochs is an emulator
The difference is that Bochs interprets foreign machine code, while VMware lets code run natively, with "traps" to catch it when it tries to do things with the virtual hardware. As a result, Bochs is slow but can run x86 code on any architecture (a PowerPC box) for example, while VMware is fast but only runs on x86.
Amos Ives Root published the first eye witness account of the Wright Brothers flight almost 100 years ago. Scientific American had rejected his article as 'unbelievable'
I told them to report that I saw a large white commercial supersonic airliner called Concorde only yesterday and they didn't believe me either.
They're right there under your table, whenever you open your computer case to install a new card and you cut your finger to the bone with the rough cut inner edges of the PC's case.
Pentium X, XYZ Ghz, super-huge hard drive, roaringly fast computer, yet still clad in crappy sheet metal from some pervert Taiwanese case manufacturer that seems bent on making products designed to hurt you...
Many businessmen hope that economic considerations will prevent both sides from marching down a self destructive path.
Both economically and militarily, there won't be mutual self-destruction between mainland China and Taiwan. Instead, there will be one huge mammoth of a country squashing a football-field-sized other country.
And there won't be economic or military sanctions on China (the threat of which is what prevented it from harming Taiwan for so long) because now the US, the only country able to inflict any kind of sanctions on China, has vested interests in both countries.
The only thing China risks is reproachful looks at the UN for a while, then after everybody there is done looking really shocked, Taiwan will be history. Proof is, if the rest of the world had any kind of power against China's actions, Tibet would have been freed a long time ago.
from the top of a big hill near San Francisco, and anyone with a clear sight line to the signal can connect. Another set of wireless nodes are being placed around town by SFLan, making Wi-Fi available to tens of thousands of people
In other news, the CDC and the Cancer Research Institute have sent observers in the city of San Francisco. When asked about their presence, CDC operatives declared they were here to monitor the results of an undisclosed "full-scale experiment".
Ok, so now Win98 is retired, i.e. not available from its maker, Microsoft. Soon, the second-hand market for Windows licenses will die out.
Once there are no licenses available anymore, and since Microsoft doesn't care anymore either (they've abandoned the OS), why shouldn't it be possible to copy and download it freely?
I mean, I realize Win98 is still under copyright from M$ and isn't public domain, but given that they don't make money out of it and they don't support it, it's as good as abandonware, no?
SCO was hit with a 50,000 packet-per-second SYN flood peak
If their servers died from a synflood attack, there are 3 possible reasons:
- The IT guy is a monkey (likely, but still, he would have to be a really daft monkey)
- The IT guy has time-travelled from the mid-nineties and didn't know about synfloods
- The IT guy was told to compile a kernel without the synflood protection, so that Caldera/SCO would look like the poor company hit by naughty hackers.
Also, I might add, there are another aspect to consider : whoever hit SCO with a synflood attack has either:
- the brain of a monkey
- time-travelled from the end of the nineties and attacked SCO with what he thought was a really cool unbeatable DoS
- been told to attack SCO so that SCO looks like the poor company hit by naughty hackers.
Yes, that's because when they download a song from Madonna, the computer they download the song from doesn't recount their download requests and send them a Waylon Jenning track instead.
With the Canadian Dollar rising and this on the horizon, maybe now is the right time to get that iPod."
Or you could just get one from a country outside Canada. Say, like one that's big on technology, with small(er) taxes, not too far from Canada and with a currency that's falling through the floorboards...
Who the hell modded this guy down? You may think what you like of Michael Moore (I like him personally, and he makes me laugh a little), but he too controversial, and looks too "basic American", to be a good reference to use in most intelligent, well argumented discussions.
In short, SpaceTrav is right: unless you're talking with a buddy, or someone you know, avoid quoting Michael Moore or you run the risk of sticking out like a turd on a Persian carpet in a conversation.
For your information, current 802.11b hardware can pose problems when you use them outside the country they're meant to be used. For example, France uses channels that are different from US channels. If you buy cards that aren't anally retentive, like Orinocos, you'll be able to find common channels (channel 10 in that case), but not always.
One standard, several ways of being shafted. Just like DVD zoning...
The HTML configuration pages are all in Chinese, and the devices have strict orders to not talk to foreign capitalist pigdogs, under penalty of immediate brutal termination and dismantlement.
If OSS is going to be successful over the long run, remember that the market responds to what IT wants -- not what the OSS community wants.
Gee yes, darn good thing Linus responded to the ardent desire of the IT industry for an alternative, Finnish-made, student-pieced-together, Richard Stallman-supported Minix-booting Unix kernel clone for the 386 platform back in 91. Where would we be if he had followed one of his whims instead...
But why? Both have engines that make you go forward and reverse, steering, etc.. But one's a luxury model. Leather seats, nifty spiffy in-dash computer, all that kind of good stuff.
Indeed. I'd never drive one of those $15000 BMW sedans myself.
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wma files for 88 cents. I was able to download and play the test file with MPlayer and Linux. Finally, a music service for us geeks.
.vma files to /dev/audio and decoding the audio by ear. I mean, how geekier can you get?
Yes, huzzah and hurrah with highly polished brass knobs on. Everybody knows the vma format is the sound format of choice for true geeks. Geeks even make a point of cat-ing their
Did you mentally disadvantaged spotty teenager even know that the svastika is a Hindu symbol for good luck?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it was a ballistic flight, the aircraft would have been given a large initial push at a certain angle from the ground, then simply let free to "fly" (or lop, or a combination of the two) un-powered, until it touched ground again. However, it seems to me that there was an engine on this plane, and that it took off more or less unaided.
That the engine wasn't powerful enough to sustain a real flight, that it was a ground-effect fluke, that's just as maybe, but it hardly seems a ballistic flight to me.
The Telegraph is running a story about a recreation of the Wright's (and world's) first heavier-than-air powered flight. President Bush will be in attendance at the event.
Yes, President Bush being heavy and full of air, he'll be the perfect choice to commemorate this event.
Take a time out to remember the accomplishments of two bicycle shop owners who changed the world immeasurably, 100 years ago today.
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That's right, where would we be today without rubber tyres and saddles
One Word: Bollocks
1) VMware is a virtualization program
2) Bochs is an emulator
The difference is that Bochs interprets foreign machine code, while VMware lets code run natively, with "traps" to catch it when it tries to do things with the virtual hardware. As a result, Bochs is slow but can run x86 code on any architecture (a PowerPC box) for example, while VMware is fast but only runs on x86.
EMC plans to grab the privately held VMware for $635 million in cash."
And I plan to grab the latest copy of VMware before the company disappears, of before their product becomes a giant mess.
Remember AOLscape?
Amos Ives Root published the first eye witness account of the Wright Brothers flight almost 100 years ago. Scientific American had rejected his article as 'unbelievable'
I told them to report that I saw a large white commercial supersonic airliner called Concorde only yesterday and they didn't believe me either.
They're right there under your table, whenever you open your computer case to install a new card and you cut your finger to the bone with the rough cut inner edges of the PC's case.
...
Pentium X, XYZ Ghz, super-huge hard drive, roaringly fast computer, yet still clad in crappy sheet metal from some pervert Taiwanese case manufacturer that seems bent on making products designed to hurt you
Many businessmen hope that economic considerations will prevent both sides from marching down a self destructive path.
Both economically and militarily, there won't be mutual self-destruction between mainland China and Taiwan. Instead, there will be one huge mammoth of a country squashing a football-field-sized other country.
And there won't be economic or military sanctions on China (the threat of which is what prevented it from harming Taiwan for so long) because now the US, the only country able to inflict any kind of sanctions on China, has vested interests in both countries.
The only thing China risks is reproachful looks at the UN for a while, then after everybody there is done looking really shocked, Taiwan will be history. Proof is, if the rest of the world had any kind of power against China's actions, Tibet would have been freed a long time ago.
In short: Taiwan's days are numbered.
SF is not as big as some people think it is. Compared to neighboring cities you could probably fit 3 SF's in Oakland, and as many as 5 in San Jose.
I'm sorry, that doesn't speak to me much : just so I have an idea, how many SFs would you say fit in one Library of Congress?
from the top of a big hill near San Francisco, and anyone with a clear sight line to the signal can connect. Another set of wireless nodes are being placed around town by SFLan, making Wi-Fi available to tens of thousands of people
In other news, the CDC and the Cancer Research Institute have sent observers in the city of San Francisco. When asked about their presence, CDC operatives declared they were here to monitor the results of an undisclosed "full-scale experiment".
Ok, so now Win98 is retired, i.e. not available from its maker, Microsoft. Soon, the second-hand market for Windows licenses will die out.
Once there are no licenses available anymore, and since Microsoft doesn't care anymore either (they've abandoned the OS), why shouldn't it be possible to copy and download it freely?
I mean, I realize Win98 is still under copyright from M$ and isn't public domain, but given that they don't make money out of it and they don't support it, it's as good as abandonware, no?
SCO was hit with a 50,000 packet-per-second SYN flood peak
...
If their servers died from a synflood attack, there are 3 possible reasons:
- The IT guy is a monkey (likely, but still, he would have to be a really daft monkey)
- The IT guy has time-travelled from the mid-nineties and didn't know about synfloods
- The IT guy was told to compile a kernel without the synflood protection, so that Caldera/SCO would look like the poor company hit by naughty hackers.
Also, I might add, there are another aspect to consider : whoever hit SCO with a synflood attack has either:
- the brain of a monkey
- time-travelled from the end of the nineties and attacked SCO with what he thought was a really cool unbeatable DoS
- been told to attack SCO so that SCO looks like the poor company hit by naughty hackers.
Conclusion: The cause of this DoS was either:
- 2 particularly stupid monkeys
- 2 time-travellers
- 2 suckers paid by SCO
Dunno for you, but I know where my money would go if I had to bet
SIG: More Americans run Kazaa than vote.
Yes, that's because when they download a song from Madonna, the computer they download the song from doesn't recount their download requests and send them a Waylon Jenning track instead.
With the Canadian Dollar rising and this on the horizon, maybe now is the right time to get that iPod."
...
Or you could just get one from a country outside Canada. Say, like one that's big on technology, with small(er) taxes, not too far from Canada and with a currency that's falling through the floorboards
Hint: it's not Mexico, Greenland or Russia.
Can we please abandon the phrase "Surf the web" to Sunday supplement columnists and others of a related ilk?
I'll second that. I vote for "Ride the information superhighway" as a more serious-sounding expression myself.
What a crock of low-quality anti-US bollocks.
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1) The post isn't about phone service, it's about high-speed internet
2) Just try to get DSL in a rural village, or even a smaller town almost anywhere in France, Portugal, Spain, or Greece
"Yo quiero Pacific Bell"
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No wait
Who the hell modded this guy down? You may think what you like of Michael Moore (I like him personally, and he makes me laugh a little), but he too controversial, and looks too "basic American", to be a good reference to use in most intelligent, well argumented discussions.
In short, SpaceTrav is right: unless you're talking with a buddy, or someone you know, avoid quoting Michael Moore or you run the risk of sticking out like a turd on a Persian carpet in a conversation.
9. Nigeria 69
Shouldn't it have been 419 Nigerian reps?
For your information, current 802.11b hardware can pose problems when you use them outside the country they're meant to be used. For example, France uses channels that are different from US channels. If you buy cards that aren't anally retentive, like Orinocos, you'll be able to find common channels (channel 10 in that case), but not always.
...
One standard, several ways of being shafted. Just like DVD zoning
The HTML configuration pages are all in Chinese, and the devices have strict orders to not talk to foreign capitalist pigdogs, under penalty of immediate brutal termination and dismantlement.
If OSS is going to be successful over the long run, remember that the market responds to what IT wants -- not what the OSS community wants.
...
Gee yes, darn good thing Linus responded to the ardent desire of the IT industry for an alternative, Finnish-made, student-pieced-together, Richard Stallman-supported Minix-booting Unix kernel clone for the 386 platform back in 91. Where would we be if he had followed one of his whims instead
But why? Both have engines that make you go forward and reverse, steering, etc.. But one's a luxury model. Leather seats, nifty spiffy in-dash computer, all that kind of good stuff.
Indeed. I'd never drive one of those $15000 BMW sedans myself.