I lived in a geek house... and yes, it was full of GA Tech students... even though I was a GSU CIS major... but we had lots of fun. We got on the cable modem bandwagon at the very beginning and had the LAN basement that was full of all types of computers with various servers and gadgets. It was great to tell our friends and relatives around the world to check out the streaming video from the War Room... and of course LINUX powered the gateway and firewall. The house is no longer a geek house, but still filled with students and is guarded by headless... the notebook without a screen that started out as a LINUX MP3 server for a car.
Unless you have been stuck in an elevator before you might not know the feeling... 5 minutes seems like hours. What would happen if the elevator breaks half way to the moon? Hit the emergency button and wait for the maintenance crew to arrive... at least 2.5 hours for the lunar colony or earth... provided the problem could be easily repaired. I think I will wait until Stargate(tm) technologies are developed.
Just my $.02
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Like I read in one post, the FOX animation studio in Phoenix (actually Scottsdale) closed months before the release of the film Titan A.E. It was this studio that was reponsible for the film... I knew people who worked there as animators... An unfortunate thing, since it was a dream of mine to work there since moving to AZ.
I have found that there is only one GREAT solution to SPAM (of which I am sent way too much)... the answer, MsgTo spam filtering! If you want to scrub your mail for good, set up an account at www.MsgTo.com I forward all my accounts through it and it has a free pop service or web interface. If the cell companies would set up a system to allow you to manage your phone mail account the same way, I think that would solve many problems.
I have used MsgTo for about a year now and I have never had a single SPAM mail show up in my Inbox! Sure, there are some other features that would be awesome, but for the pure SPAM scrubbing utility of it, there is nothing better.
All this talk of a $99 Linux box puzzles me. I have yet to figure out how such a thing costs $99. If you purchase the unit for $99 and it require mods... will it not be more? Maybe all of you out there have a few extra 2.5" HDs in the scrap parts box... I don't... I am afraid that will be a few extra dollars... you can probably pick a small one up for $75 - $100... by the time you start adding things up (include your time)... you could have purchased a 400 mhz eMachine.
Small footprint... yes... flat panel...yes... $99... no.
I think this thing is awesome... I am going to track one down this weekend... I want to perform the mods... but I'm not fooling myself... this thing is not $99 when all is said and done... I figure to do it right, $350 - $400 to get it up on a network.
Side note: If someone can find a way to retro-fit this thing into a notebook case for under $400... let me know... make this thing portable and keep the modem and I am a happy Linux camper.
AOL plans to open access to their cable lines for all ISPs to share. Good will, or just an attempt to keep the anti-trust demons off their back?
I guess in a community that hates AOL, none of you are aware that AOL has lead the battle to open access on cable networks to other ISPs. This is not an attempt to "keep the anti-trust demons off their back" this is an attempt to put their money where there mouth is.
Now that you point that out... it makes much more sense... I am familiar with the "bablefish" from the Hitchhiker's Guide... damn, don't I feel like fool missing that one.:) But without errors like this, how can any one slip in a reference to Jusux OS?
DON'T PANIC (sorry, no friendly letter fonts available)
I read a lot of post asking if there will ever be a change. I ask you this... when has American culture ever chosen superiority over what "they are used to?" The answer... never. Don't hold me to that... well then, almost never.
From a country that can never seem to make the migration the metric system (to the detriment of a Mars probe). Do you actually think that the dovark keyboard will ever be more than a pricey "option?" Sometimes, we can't let go of what were are used to just to grab onto something better. Can you say 1.4M Floppy?
I assume that that when you say Babelchip, you are referring to the biblical account of the tower of Babel... which tells a story about the source all the different languages that exist. I suggest, despite the cool-sounding name, that Babel suggests the confusion of languages... plus the biblical reference might suggest that it run the Jesux OS as it's native OS.
I suggest a name that indicates the unification of multiple languages. No single name encompasses that idea than that of the Rosetta Stone.
For those of you who ignored high school in favor of a GED and late nights hacking code to the latest tunes of some Goth band-- the Rosetta Stone was the single key in unlocking the mystery of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Napoleon's troops discovered it in 1799 near the seaside town of Rosetta in lower Egypt, and it eventually made its way into the British Museum in London where it resides today. It is a slab of black basalt dating from 196 BC. inscribed by the ancient Egyptians with a royal decree praising their king Ptolemy V. The inscription is written on the stone three times, once in hieroglyphic, once in demotic, and once in Greek. Thomas Young, a British physicist, and Jean Francois Champollion, a French Egyptologist, collaborated to decipher the hieroglyphic and demotic texts by comparing them with the known Greek text. From this meager starting point a generation of Egyptologists eventually managed to read most everything that remains of the Egyptians' ancient writings.
Anyway, I think that a reference the Rosetta Stone would be a great option for the Transmeta chip. Then again Babelchip might be a good idea-I always thought the Jesux OS was a good idea:)
What you might be surprised to find out is that Christ is apart from religion. As a matter of fact, Jesus Christ was against religion. A good book that discusses this is Christ Versus Religion by Witness Lee. A good book that goes against the concepts of many yet firmly grounded in the Bible. Check it out!
A better name would be JesusX-- after all, X is the first greek letter in the greek word for Christ. X has been a shortened form for Christ for quite a long time (ie. X-mas). Rumor has it that all of the current X themes are based on Christ. X Windows is actually "Christ Windows" which can be argued is an answer to Microsoft Windows-- being in direct opposition to Bill Gates who is the anti-Christ and all... or haven't you seen that e-mail yet?
Fame has damaged an otherwise great career. Alec has over 60 years of acting experience in wonderful movies like:
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Doctor Zhivago (1965)
...to quote some names that some may be familiar with. Despite his dramatic roles, he is a wonderful comedic actor. Dig into his rich film history and you might be shocked to realize that he is more than a man in a tunic with a British accent that uttered the words "Use the Force Luke."
Like today's child actors, who at an early age get type cast into their TV or film rolls, Alec (with more than an established film history), has been type cast as the old Jedi, Obi-Wan.
Other than Harrison Ford, who has been able to escape the Star Wars type-cast? Harrison Ford only succeeded because of his role in Indiana Jones that allowed him to play off the "scruffy" Han Solo and open peoples minds to other roles. Who has seen the movies (other than Apocalypse Now and Empire Strikes Back) that Harrison did between Star Wars and Indiana Jones?
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)? More American Graffiti (1979)? Frisco Kid, The (1979)? Hanover Street (1979)?
Not that Alec didn't go on to other roles, but he can never escape the role he played in the Star Wars films. Now what was so bloody banal about his lines in the movie? If after all of your history in film, the only line you were known for was "USE THE FORCE LUKE," you might think it all banal too.
Give the guy a break. Alec's historical contribution to film goes MUCH, MUCH, MUCH farther than Star Wars. Go to your local video store and discover for yourself. He has well over 60 movies under his lightsaber belt.
>If you work on a project that is important enough >you could be terminated for creating a sufficent >monitary loss for the company to cause >alientation of it's stockholders.
But if it is a TRUE disability, the company MUST make more than a REASONABLE attempt to accomidate the disability... however, you must first disclose your disability. My comment was toungue-in-cheek, but in a world of litigation... you never know what a smart lawyer might be able to build a case on.
Hey-- don't discount the research! Addictions are sometimes considered a DISABILITY... that might mean that if a official Internet addiction is recognized that it is possible to be considered disabled... in other words, most American hackers might be protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and other Civil Rights laws... Simply put, it might be illegal for your boss to fire you for spending too much time online! Your addiction to the net might be protected under law! Hmmmm... think of the implications.
OK... we watched Big Blue play against a person... we know the power (and lack of power) of a computer against a living chess master.
Let's battle it out against computers.... Big Blue vs. Internet based distributed computing. Heck, I would spare my idle CPU cycles for something like that. The best part is.... they could play for weeks... humans slow the process down. Once you can prove that some form of Internet based distributed computing can consistantly beat the super-computer, then we can take on a real person.
If Big Blue can't always beat a human, why should we trust distributed computing, unless you can prove it can beat the machine that lost to a human?
As a cable channel provider in Atlanta... MediaOne sux... except for the fact that the Cartoon Channel comes standard:) But I use MediaOne's Broadband service and have not had a single problem in 6 months... but many people I know spend half of their time on the Customer Support lines. I guess I benefit from the fact that I live in an area that has been supported from the begining:)
It is also CHEAP... $50 bucks/mo. (includes modem) split among my roomates makes it cheaper than my Mindspring account which was $25 per mo. "unlimited" that I couldn't get above a 33.6 connection.
The best part-- tell them you don't want cable TV service with Broadband and you don't pay the additional $10/ mo. but get extended cable anyway:)
They could use some better programming-- and some better service (much better Customer Service)-- but I'm happy.
What no one has told you is that the future MS Office portsw ill be run on a "Microsoft Linux" distribution and whatever other distributions include the extra OS crap the MS throws in thier Microsoft Linux disribution to make the port work.
Can't you see the scheme? MS X-Windows 2000, MS X-Windows NT... maybe even MS X-Windows CE? Hey, Linux is an OS free for anyone to develop on... what will keep MS from jumping on the bandwagon and developing their own flavor? What would they lose? By doing something like that, they could begin to dictate the direction of Linux as a desktop environment. Heck, call it the attempt to capture a missing part of the *NIX server market.
Could just be my fear of the Borg... but a reasonable fear me thinks none the less.
What no one has told you is that the future MS Office portswill be run on "Microsoft Linux" distributions and whatever other distributions include the extra OS crap the MS throws in thier Microsoft Linux disribution to make the port work.
Can't you see the scheme? MS X-Windows 2000, MS X-Windows NT... maybe even MS X-Windows CE? Hey, Linux is an OS free for anyone to develop on... what will keep MS from jumping on the bandwagon and developing their own flavor? What would they lose? By doing something like that, they could begin to dictate the direction of Linux. Heck, call it the attempt to capture a missing part of the *NIX server market.
Could just be my fear of the Borg... but a reasonable fear me thinks none the less.
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I lived in a geek house... and yes, it was full of GA Tech students... even though I was a GSU CIS major... but we had lots of fun. We got on the cable modem bandwagon at the very beginning and had the LAN basement that was full of all types of computers with various servers and gadgets. It was great to tell our friends and relatives around the world to check out the streaming video from the War Room ... and of course LINUX powered the gateway and firewall. The house is no longer a geek house, but still filled with students and is guarded by headless... the notebook without a screen that started out as a LINUX MP3 server for a car.
Just my $.02
Unless you have been stuck in an elevator before you might not know the feeling... 5 minutes seems like hours. What would happen if the elevator breaks half way to the moon? Hit the emergency button and wait for the maintenance crew to arrive... at least 2.5 hours for the lunar colony or earth... provided the problem could be easily repaired. I think I will wait until Stargate(tm) technologies are developed.
Just my $.02
Like I read in one post, the FOX animation studio in Phoenix (actually Scottsdale) closed months before the release of the film Titan A.E. It was this studio that was reponsible for the film... I knew people who worked there as animators... An unfortunate thing, since it was a dream of mine to work there since moving to AZ.
Bummer.
I have used MsgTo for about a year now and I have never had a single SPAM mail show up in my Inbox! Sure, there are some other features that would be awesome, but for the pure SPAM scrubbing utility of it, there is nothing better.
All this talk of a $99 Linux box puzzles me. I have yet to figure out how such a thing costs $99. If you purchase the unit for $99 and it require mods... will it not be more? Maybe all of you out there have a few extra 2.5" HDs in the scrap parts box... I don't... I am afraid that will be a few extra dollars... you can probably pick a small one up for $75 - $100... by the time you start adding things up (include your time)... you could have purchased a 400 mhz eMachine.
Small footprint... yes... flat panel...yes... $99... no.
I think this thing is awesome... I am going to track one down this weekend... I want to perform the mods... but I'm not fooling myself... this thing is not $99 when all is said and done... I figure to do it right, $350 - $400 to get it up on a network.
Side note: If someone can find a way to retro-fit this thing into a notebook case for under $400... let me know... make this thing portable and keep the modem and I am a happy Linux camper.
Just my $.02
I guess in a community that hates AOL, none of you are aware that AOL has lead the battle to open access on cable networks to other ISPs. This is not an attempt to "keep the anti-trust demons off their back" this is an attempt to put their money where there mouth is.
If you don't believe me, read it and weep.
Now that you point that out... it makes much more sense... I am familiar with the "bablefish" from the Hitchhiker's Guide... damn, don't I feel like fool missing that one. :) But without errors like this, how can any one slip in a reference to Jusux OS?
DON'T PANIC
(sorry, no friendly letter fonts available)
From a country that can never seem to make the migration the metric system (to the detriment of a Mars probe). Do you actually think that the dovark keyboard will ever be more than a pricey "option?" Sometimes, we can't let go of what were are used to just to grab onto something better. Can you say 1.4M Floppy?
Just my $.02,
I assume that that when you say Babelchip, you are referring to the biblical account of the tower of Babel... which tells a story about the source all the different languages that exist. I suggest, despite the cool-sounding name, that Babel suggests the confusion of languages... plus the biblical reference might suggest that it run the Jesux OS as it's native OS.
:)
I suggest a name that indicates the unification of multiple languages. No single name encompasses that idea than that of the Rosetta Stone.
For those of you who ignored high school in favor of a GED and late nights hacking code to the latest tunes of some Goth band-- the Rosetta Stone was the single key in unlocking the mystery of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Napoleon's troops discovered it in 1799 near the seaside town of Rosetta in lower Egypt, and it eventually made its way into the British Museum in London where it resides today. It is a slab of black basalt dating from 196 BC. inscribed by the ancient Egyptians with a royal decree praising their king Ptolemy V. The inscription is written on the stone three times, once in hieroglyphic, once in demotic, and once in Greek. Thomas Young, a British physicist, and Jean Francois Champollion, a French Egyptologist, collaborated to decipher the hieroglyphic and demotic texts by comparing them with the known Greek text. From this meager starting point a generation of Egyptologists eventually managed to read most everything that remains of the Egyptians' ancient writings.
Anyway, I think that a reference the Rosetta Stone would be a great option for the Transmeta chip. Then again Babelchip might be a good idea-I always thought the Jesux OS was a good idea
My $.02
What you might be surprised to find out is that Christ is apart from religion. As a matter of fact, Jesus Christ was against religion. A good book that discusses this is Christ Versus Religion by Witness Lee. A good book that goes against the concepts of many yet firmly grounded in the Bible. Check it out!
Are you telling me that people in Texas have never heard of the Arizona State University Sun Devils?
A better name would be JesusX-- after all, X is the first greek letter in the greek word for Christ. X has been a shortened form for Christ for quite a long time (ie. X-mas). Rumor has it that all of the current X themes are based on Christ. X Windows is actually "Christ Windows" which can be argued is an answer to Microsoft Windows-- being in direct opposition to Bill Gates who is the anti-Christ and all... or haven't you seen that e-mail yet?
My $.02
Fame has damaged an otherwise great career. Alec has over 60 years of acting experience in wonderful movies like:
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
...to quote some names that some may be familiar with. Despite his dramatic roles, he is a wonderful comedic actor. Dig into his rich film history and you might be shocked to realize that he is more than a man in a tunic with a British accent that uttered the words "Use the Force Luke."
Like today's child actors, who at an early age get type cast into their TV or film rolls, Alec (with more than an established film history), has been type cast as the old Jedi, Obi-Wan.
Other than Harrison Ford, who has been able to escape the Star Wars type-cast? Harrison Ford only succeeded because of his role in Indiana Jones that allowed him to play off the "scruffy" Han Solo and open peoples minds to other roles. Who has seen the movies (other than Apocalypse Now and Empire Strikes Back) that Harrison did between Star Wars and Indiana Jones?
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)?
More American Graffiti (1979)?
Frisco Kid, The (1979)?
Hanover Street (1979)?
Not that Alec didn't go on to other roles, but he can never escape the role he played in the Star Wars films. Now what was so bloody banal about his lines in the movie? If after all of your history in film, the only line you were known for was "USE THE FORCE LUKE," you might think it all banal too.
Give the guy a break. Alec's historical contribution to film goes MUCH, MUCH, MUCH farther than Star Wars. Go to your local video store and discover for yourself. He has well over 60 movies under his lightsaber belt.
My $.02,
>If you work on a project that is important enough
>you could be terminated for creating a sufficent
>monitary loss for the company to cause
>alientation of it's stockholders.
But if it is a TRUE disability, the company MUST make more than a REASONABLE attempt to accomidate the disability... however, you must first disclose your disability. My comment was toungue-in-cheek, but in a world of litigation... you never know what a smart lawyer might be able to build a case on.
Truely my post WAS in jest.
Hey-- don't discount the research! Addictions are sometimes considered a DISABILITY... that might mean that if a official Internet addiction is recognized that it is possible to be considered disabled... in other words, most American hackers might be protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and other Civil Rights laws... Simply put, it might be illegal for your boss to fire you for spending too much time online! Your addiction to the net might be protected under law! Hmmmm... think of the implications.
OK... we watched Big Blue play against a person... we know the power (and lack of power) of a computer against a living chess master.
Let's battle it out against computers.... Big Blue vs. Internet based distributed computing. Heck, I would spare my idle CPU cycles for something like that. The best part is.... they could play for weeks... humans slow the process down. Once you can prove that some form of Internet based distributed computing can consistantly beat the super-computer, then we can take on a real person.
If Big Blue can't always beat a human, why should we trust distributed computing, unless you can prove it can beat the machine that lost to a human?
Just my $.02 worth...
As a cable channel provider in Atlanta... MediaOne sux... except for the fact that the Cartoon Channel comes standard :) But I use MediaOne's Broadband service and have not had a single problem in 6 months... but many people I know spend half of their time on the Customer Support lines. I guess I benefit from the fact that I live in an area that has been supported from the begining :)
:)
It is also CHEAP... $50 bucks/mo. (includes modem) split among my roomates makes it cheaper than my Mindspring account which was $25 per mo. "unlimited" that I couldn't get above a 33.6 connection.
The best part-- tell them you don't want cable TV service with Broadband and you don't pay the additional $10/ mo. but get extended cable anyway
They could use some better programming-- and some better service (much better Customer Service)-- but I'm happy.
What no one has told you is that the future MS Office portsw ill be run on a "Microsoft Linux" distribution and whatever other distributions include the extra OS crap the MS throws in thier Microsoft Linux disribution to make the port work.
Can't you see the scheme? MS X-Windows 2000, MS X-Windows NT... maybe even MS X-Windows CE? Hey, Linux is an OS free for anyone to develop on... what will keep MS from jumping on the bandwagon and developing their own flavor? What would they lose? By doing something like that, they could begin to dictate the direction of Linux as a desktop environment. Heck, call it the attempt to capture a missing part of the *NIX server market.
Could just be my fear of the Borg... but a reasonable fear me thinks none the less.
My $.02,
GI Jones
"Greatest American Zero"
What no one has told you is that the future MS Office portswill be run on "Microsoft Linux" distributions and whatever other distributions include the extra OS crap the MS throws in thier Microsoft Linux disribution to make the port work.
Can't you see the scheme? MS X-Windows 2000, MS X-Windows NT... maybe even MS X-Windows CE? Hey, Linux is an OS free for anyone to develop on... what will keep MS from jumping on the bandwagon and developing their own flavor? What would they lose? By doing something like that, they could begin to dictate the direction of Linux. Heck, call it the attempt to capture a missing part of the *NIX server market.
Could just be my fear of the Borg... but a reasonable fear me thinks none the less.
My $.02,
GI Jones
"Greatest American Zero"
Multiple T3s from University Servers:
ftp.gsu.edu/tmp/C2menaceB2.mpg (crappy quality)
ftp.gsu.edu/tmp/menace_480.mov (best quality)
Should be up for 48 hours or until they pull it off. Enjoy!