It came up with the desktop search under the OPTIONAL software updates. Naturally, it got unchecked and blocked. My poor Inspiron 1100 has enough trouble as it is running XP along with all the necessary stuff that makes my world go 'round. I also noted that IE 7 is back in the high priority list again, and again, it got blocked.
We're not going to have that argument again on here. The STS project has turned into a overpriced, overblown SUV that has cost us more lives than the Soyuz program has. If the shuttle went as how we had initially designed it the (PRIME, Dyna-SOAR projects, Skylab) vehicle would be more compact and durable. The Saturn HLV would have evolved into the Block 100s and 120s, doubling and tripling it's ultimate payload cap, hauling incredible payloads so tall the VAB complex would have gotten a penthouse tacked on. Nope, someone in NASA was smoking banana peels when they made the decision to go with a RLV and yanked the rug out from under the Air Force and their projects.
I watched it on NASA TV when it came in. It had a pretty good wobble, coming in at a 90 degree angle relative to the earth. Folks had kinda figured that it was going to do a pretty good job of splattering itself on the desert floor. Was a pretty good surprise when it just dug a divot and stayed pretty much intact. Some folks think that most of the lake beds are hard as rocks through and through. Some are not so. Back in the 60's, legends Chuck Yeager and Neil Armstrong took a Beech twin up for some landing practice on some of the salt flats. Neil set up on a approach for one such flat, on his judgment that it was dry and stable.. Yeager, being the "desert rat" knew of certain flats that stay muddy under the salt crusts, and the one they set up to land was just that. He told Neil that he should abort and go find another flat. Neil, being the analytical computer, declared that it would hold. The Beech's tires touched down on the crust, and proceeded to keep going down into the muddy substrate, sinking up to the struts, coming to a halt. So the Beech sat there shaking and vibrating, engines going at full throttle. Chuck, ever being the wisecracking pilot turned and said to Armstrong "I told you so". Neil turned to respond, and his computer for a brain clicked and went kerCHUNK! He had nothing to say in return. They hiked to another flat so a DC3 could pick them up on the run.
Now don't get us wrong, but we love the freedoms you Euros have. Right now, we have shackled ourselves to the point where we might as well declare martial to make it a formality.
Before 911 hit the bricks, the only major issue we 'netters had to deal with was the ack-acks. Now we have to deal with illegal monitoring of our 'net traffic, wiretapping at-will, surveillance on all levels, et al. Oh, and police breaking up (and using weapons, nonlethal or otherwise in doing so) peaceful, and with all the right permits, gatherings.
Makes one want to immigrate to Switzerland or Denmark.
14 ft tall scaled UP model of an Estes FAT BOY rocket. This one did a fine job throughout it's performance envelope, but someone misjudged the wind, so it landed on top of a van, thusly tearing a nice hole in the roof. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4d8J7N5Sts Now when did you get a chance to come home and wifey asks you how was your drive, you can say "oh, had a rocket hit my van"?
Read into the messages and you'll realize that it was the STAR TREK Fan Club, Atlanta Chapter, that made the challenge, not the Klingon FC. My impression is that the Klingons are going to go forward with this due to the fact that they don't apologize or back down without honor, they just shoot... And shoot some more.
Now the Furries, (in which I am one and quite proud of) i've yet to see any kind of response from the group that frequents the alley that this challenge is to take place in. The odds of them accepting is quite high.
BUT!
Here's the fun part.. You don't know if that's an amateur in a suit, or a Pro that bowls 300 games like clockwork.
I might just fly into ATL just to watch this go down.
Better than the leaked Keyhole satellite shots of the first Soviet Carrier.
The image is of a Ballistic Missile or "boomer" submarine, OHIO class. There are two sets of screws or propellers that they can put on them, a speed screw and a patrol screw. Obviously, the screws are named for their performance level and how quiet they are at a given speed.
The US Navy spent untold hundreds of millions in hydrodynamics and propeller research, so they don't want to make it easy for the opposition to get their grubby paws on one of the most efficient screw designs in the world.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if the NSA or the USN would step in and order the images pulled. It aint like it was taken up close and personal, with dimensional references.
Big companies acting in a predatory manner, you can always be assured that a country will be subverted into a position that they cannot get out of without gutting their economy. Take a look at AUS, NZ, and now SA.
Take a look at our own telecom infrastructure. You can see where communities are in various stages to set up their own broadband structure and the telecoms are not liking it one bit. Several towns have been pretty much abandoned by their ILECs to rot on their old copper, or worse.
Gov't MUST keep a firm hand in matters to keep these companies under control or we'll never hear the end of it!
RIAA's then-prez Rosen got into a Debate with The Oxford Union and she got a serious shellacking. This was 2002.
"The Oxford Union debated the proposition that "the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music" (via The Reg and NTK). Final scores: 72 ayes, 256 noes. A pretty resounding defeat. The report notes that a few of the more memorable bits of the debate include Hilary Rosen lying about copy-protected CDs in the US (or at the very least being deliberately ingenuous about it), Rosen also getting shocked at how many people said that they do buy music because of filesharing, and a few unsupported assertions about the importance of the music industry which no-one was allowed to contest. For more background on this debate, see the Campaign for Digital Rights."
A company the size of Dell finally made a request for improved Linux drivers.
Should have seen it coming though when Dell started bundling Ubuntu with their systems. Since they have an outstanding contract with ATI/AMD, it's only good business sense to request improved drivers.
Any takers that Dell will be making the request that ATI improve their technical support for at least Ubuntu?
spyware, adware, or malware of any kind does not deserve to be capitalized, nor do corporations, entities, or persons trying to destroy our ways of life.
I do not care if the grammar nazis give me a d-, I refuse to comply.
If the plaintiff can prove that the fake ID is his/hers, then he/she has the legal right to post the takedown. Then again, this will confirm to the legal authorities that he/she is a forger of fake ID's and can be arrested and charged. It's a double-edged sword, and in this case, the sharper edge of the blade is poised over the accuser's neck. He/she needs to reconsider the ramifications of the legal action that they took. The feds might just take notice since they take a dim view of folks that make fake IDs.
I worked for an ISP that had leased several T1 circuits during the dot-com boom from several telcos with differing results. The first ones were with Earthlink and verizon. The verizon circuit gave us nothing but headaches and their infrastructure support was godawful. Earthlink fared little better and their support was marginal. We got a Sprint T1 later on down the road and it was like a bright ray of sunshine. Their support hotline was linked directly to their NOC for the region and their turnaround response time was next to nil. Once we were relocating hardware across the server room and made a big hurry to relocate the router to a new rack, in the middle of that move (it took 5 minutes) we get a phone call from Sprint's NOC asking us if we knew our router was disconnected. Support was THAT good. To top it off this was all at 3AM!
A few things to note running a T1 in a rural community, be prepared to pay for backhaul. We got nailed 1500/mo for each T1 PRI that we had, the majority of that was the backhaul fee that verizon tacked on. The other is the interminable slowness in the response of their field support crew. Lastly, but not the least, is if the field techs know what they are doing when they are trying to diagnose a dead loop. Not to mention the quality of the copper that is in place.
A commercial grade T1 has a soft bandwidth cap, meaning that you can exceed the limit imposed by your provider, as long as it does not stay constant or they will be calling about it. The majority of the providers package an uptime policy that promises the end user 24/7/365 or they will get someone out there within a agreed upon time period and fix the sucker.
FINALLY, the creme de la creme, NO RESTRICTIONS, NO BLOCKED PORTS! You can do anything and everything with your blessed T1 without your provider blowing a gasket over.
I do not care what the others say about their lookalike cable or DSL accounts, ownership of a T1 is still the Holy Grail of the geek community.
1.5Mbps up, 1.5Mbps down, no arguments, no caps, no restrictions, no worries.
One problem with that.. It requires a high amount of energy to dissociate back into its elemental components, with poor energy return. It's heavy, bulky, corrodes certain metals, and is easily contaminated by trace elements. If it freezes, it expands to twice its volume and breaks whatever container it's in. If it's temperature exceeds it's boiling point, you get steam. With predictable results to it's vessel.
Pelletized hydrogen sounds like a novel idea that it might just work if they can get the energy/weight density to where it can be economical.
I can see the masses headed to the corner store to buy a bag of hydrogen briquets to run the family car or power the home fuel cell.
A cyclo itself is the size of a small grain silo, but the support gear that drives the unit takes up the rest of the building, particularly the power supply, vaccuum pumps, and shielding. To punch electrons up that fast in that short of run would shrink the unit and support gear to the size of two semi trailers.
If someone could find a improved method of pulling a high vaccuum with less power and more speed, then that would be a fantastic bonus to physics.
3. Start copying or get a dot matrix printer and get cracking.
Aint that difficult, only need to think it through. I got GEOS to run in CCS64 easy peasy, now only if I could get 1581 emulation to run properly, i'd be happy.
destroyed by Boeing, Grumman, and the various subcontractors on orders from the Gov't due to them being worried that some Bad Guy was going to try to duplicate the feat. As if someone had the money and resources to do that!
The Saturn Project held so much promise as an general-purpose heavy-lift vehicle. I just hope that some plans escaped the shredders and reside in someone's collection that would be a hefty bonus to the new HLV program.
I'll bet that they will take over the Kansas Cosmosphere for a month or two, reverse engineer the Apollo CM and SM they got there, not to mention pick over the LEM as well.
You may not know it but PeoplePC and Earthlink gobble up subscriber's demographics and resell it/use it for their own marketing bits. AOL at least gives folks a chance to opt out of their stuff..
"one, two three.." Crichton throws paper, Dargo throws rock. D'Argo: Again I win. Crichton: No, I win. Paper wraps rock. D'Argo: No, paper cannot possibly beat rock. Crichton: It does. Paper beats rock. D'Argo: Rock rips through paper. Crichton: D'Argo, that's not how it works. Paper beats rocks. D'Argo: That's unrealistic. Crichton: Well, it's the rules. And it's not supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be entertaining. D'Argo: My coma was more entertaining.
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It came up with the desktop search under the OPTIONAL software updates.
Naturally, it got unchecked and blocked. My poor Inspiron 1100 has enough trouble as it is running XP along with all the necessary stuff that makes my world go 'round.
I also noted that IE 7 is back in the high priority list again, and again, it got blocked.
Mod parent up.
We're not going to have that argument again on here. The STS project has turned into a overpriced, overblown SUV that has cost us more lives than the Soyuz program has. If the shuttle went as how we had initially designed it the (PRIME, Dyna-SOAR projects, Skylab) vehicle would be more compact and durable. The Saturn HLV would have evolved into the Block 100s and 120s, doubling and tripling it's ultimate payload cap, hauling incredible payloads so tall the VAB complex would have gotten a penthouse tacked on. Nope, someone in NASA was smoking banana peels when they made the decision to go with a RLV and yanked the rug out from under the Air Force and their projects.
They were hired to do a job, not get blasted by the limelight. Most of the astronaut corps is like that. They got work to do, not play reporter.
I watched it on NASA TV when it came in. It had a pretty good wobble, coming in at a 90 degree angle relative to the earth. Folks had kinda figured that it was going to do a pretty good job of splattering itself on the desert floor. Was a pretty good surprise when it just dug a divot and stayed pretty much intact. Some folks think that most of the lake beds are hard as rocks through and through. Some are not so.
Back in the 60's, legends Chuck Yeager and Neil Armstrong took a Beech twin up for some landing practice on some of the salt flats. Neil set up on a approach for one such flat, on his judgment that it was dry and stable.. Yeager, being the "desert rat" knew of certain flats that stay muddy under the salt crusts, and the one they set up to land was just that. He told Neil that he should abort and go find another flat. Neil, being the analytical computer, declared that it would hold. The Beech's tires touched down on the crust, and proceeded to keep going down into the muddy substrate, sinking up to the struts, coming to a halt.
So the Beech sat there shaking and vibrating, engines going at full throttle. Chuck, ever being the wisecracking pilot turned and said to Armstrong "I told you so". Neil turned to respond, and his computer for a brain clicked and went kerCHUNK! He had nothing to say in return. They hiked to another flat so a DC3 could pick them up on the run.
Now don't get us wrong, but we love the freedoms you Euros have. Right now, we have shackled ourselves to the point where we might as well declare martial to make it a formality.
Before 911 hit the bricks, the only major issue we 'netters had to deal with was the ack-acks. Now we have to deal with illegal monitoring of our 'net traffic, wiretapping at-will, surveillance on all levels, et al.
Oh, and police breaking up (and using weapons, nonlethal or otherwise in doing so) peaceful, and with all the right permits, gatherings.
Makes one want to immigrate to Switzerland or Denmark.
to king george II and his minions. Al found his niche as a Green and done good. Now let's see if the rest of the world will stand up and take notice.
Oh and first post?
14 ft tall scaled UP model of an Estes FAT BOY rocket. This one did a fine job throughout it's performance envelope, but someone misjudged the wind, so it landed on top of a van, thusly tearing a nice hole in the roof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4d8J7N5Sts
Now when did you get a chance to come home and wifey asks you how was your drive, you can say "oh, had a rocket hit my van"?
And another one, a Goblin went rogue when it's motor mount tore loose. nice curlicues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqtNhcODfCk&mode=related&search=Polecat%20Goblin%20rocket
Read into the messages and you'll realize that it was the STAR TREK Fan Club, Atlanta Chapter, that made the challenge, not the Klingon FC. My impression is that the Klingons are going to go forward with this due to the fact that they don't apologize or back down without honor, they just shoot... And shoot some more.
Now the Furries, (in which I am one and quite proud of) i've yet to see any kind of response from the group that frequents the alley that this challenge is to take place in. The odds of them accepting is quite high.
BUT!
Here's the fun part.. You don't know if that's an amateur in a suit, or a Pro that bowls 300 games like clockwork.
I might just fly into ATL just to watch this go down.
You still use a modem?
The Hunt For Red October.
Better than the leaked Keyhole satellite shots of the first Soviet Carrier.
The image is of a Ballistic Missile or "boomer" submarine, OHIO class. There are two sets of screws or propellers that they can put on them, a speed screw and a patrol screw. Obviously, the screws are named for their performance level and how quiet they are at a given speed.
The US Navy spent untold hundreds of millions in hydrodynamics and propeller research, so they don't want to make it easy for the opposition to get their grubby paws on one of the most efficient screw designs in the world.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if the NSA or the USN would step in and order the images pulled. It aint like it was taken up close and personal, with dimensional references.
Big companies acting in a predatory manner, you can always be assured that a country will be subverted into a position that they cannot get out of without gutting their economy. Take a look at AUS, NZ, and now SA.
Take a look at our own telecom infrastructure. You can see where communities are in various stages to set up their own broadband structure and the telecoms are not liking it one bit. Several towns have been pretty much abandoned by their ILECs to rot on their old copper, or worse.
Gov't MUST keep a firm hand in matters to keep these companies under control or we'll never hear the end of it!
Maybe his telephone bill? Or mad over something else, like the lack of broadband to his home.
Another history lesson to top it off..
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RIAA's then-prez Rosen got into a Debate with The Oxford Union and she got a serious shellacking. This was 2002.
"The Oxford Union debated the proposition that "the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music" (via The Reg and NTK). Final scores: 72 ayes, 256 noes. A pretty resounding defeat. The report notes that a few of the more memorable bits of the debate include Hilary Rosen lying about copy-protected CDs in the US (or at the very least being deliberately ingenuous about it), Rosen also getting shocked at how many people said that they do buy music because of filesharing, and a few unsupported assertions about the importance of the music industry which no-one was allowed to contest. For more background on this debate, see the Campaign for Digital Rights."
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/2
Do ya think they learned from that?
Naw.
A company the size of Dell finally made a request for improved Linux drivers.
Should have seen it coming though when Dell started bundling Ubuntu with their systems. Since they have an outstanding contract with ATI/AMD, it's only good business sense to request improved drivers.
Any takers that Dell will be making the request that ATI improve their technical support for at least Ubuntu?
spyware, adware, or malware of any kind does not deserve to be capitalized, nor do corporations, entities, or persons trying to destroy our ways of life.
I do not care if the grammar nazis give me a d-, I refuse to comply.
If the plaintiff can prove that the fake ID is his/hers, then he/she has the legal right to post the takedown. Then again, this will confirm to the legal authorities that he/she is a forger of fake ID's and can be arrested and charged. It's a double-edged sword, and in this case, the sharper edge of the blade is poised over the accuser's neck. He/she needs to reconsider the ramifications of the legal action that they took. The feds might just take notice since they take a dim view of folks that make fake IDs.
I worked for an ISP that had leased several T1 circuits during the dot-com boom from several telcos with differing results.
The first ones were with Earthlink and verizon. The verizon circuit gave us nothing but headaches and their infrastructure support was godawful. Earthlink fared little better and their support was marginal.
We got a Sprint T1 later on down the road and it was like a bright ray of sunshine. Their support hotline was linked directly to their NOC for the region and their turnaround response time was next to nil. Once we were relocating hardware across the server room and made a big hurry to relocate the router to a new rack, in the middle of that move (it took 5 minutes) we get a phone call from Sprint's NOC asking us if we knew our router was disconnected. Support was THAT good. To top it off this was all at 3AM!
A few things to note running a T1 in a rural community, be prepared to pay for backhaul. We got nailed 1500/mo for each T1 PRI that we had, the majority of that was the backhaul fee that verizon tacked on. The other is the interminable slowness in the response of their field support crew. Lastly, but not the least, is if the field techs know what they are doing when they are trying to diagnose a dead loop. Not to mention the quality of the copper that is in place.
A commercial grade T1 has a soft bandwidth cap, meaning that you can exceed the limit imposed by your provider, as long as it does not stay constant or they will be calling about it. The majority of the providers package an uptime policy that promises the end user 24/7/365 or they will get someone out there within a agreed upon time period and fix the sucker.
FINALLY, the creme de la creme, NO RESTRICTIONS, NO BLOCKED PORTS! You can do anything and everything with your blessed T1 without your provider blowing a gasket over.
I do not care what the others say about their lookalike cable or DSL accounts, ownership of a T1 is still the Holy Grail of the geek community.
1.5Mbps up, 1.5Mbps down, no arguments, no caps, no restrictions, no worries.
One problem with that.. It requires a high amount of energy to dissociate back into its elemental components, with poor energy return. It's heavy, bulky, corrodes certain metals, and is easily contaminated by trace elements. If it freezes, it expands to twice its volume and breaks whatever container it's in. If it's temperature exceeds it's boiling point, you get steam. With predictable results to it's vessel.
Pelletized hydrogen sounds like a novel idea that it might just work if they can get the energy/weight density to where it can be economical.
I can see the masses headed to the corner store to buy a bag of hydrogen briquets to run the family car or power the home fuel cell.
A cyclo itself is the size of a small grain silo, but the support gear that drives the unit takes up the rest of the building, particularly the power supply, vaccuum pumps, and shielding. To punch electrons up that fast in that short of run would shrink the unit and support gear to the size of two semi trailers.
If someone could find a improved method of pulling a high vaccuum with less power and more speed, then that would be a fantastic bonus to physics.
1. Download an emulator. CCS64 does the trick nicely.
2. Buy/Build a parallel cable that will interface a 1541 drive to a PC. http://sta.c64.org/xa1541.html
3. Start copying or get a dot matrix printer and get cracking.
Aint that difficult, only need to think it through. I got GEOS to run in CCS64 easy peasy, now only if I could get 1581 emulation to run properly, i'd be happy.
destroyed by Boeing, Grumman, and the various subcontractors on orders from the Gov't due to them being worried that some Bad Guy was going to try to duplicate the feat. As if someone had the money and resources to do that!
The Saturn Project held so much promise as an general-purpose heavy-lift vehicle. I just hope that some plans escaped the shredders and reside in someone's collection that would be a hefty bonus to the new HLV program.
I'll bet that they will take over the Kansas Cosmosphere for a month or two, reverse engineer the Apollo CM and SM they got there, not to mention pick over the LEM as well.
You may not know it but PeoplePC and Earthlink gobble up subscriber's demographics and resell it/use it for their own marketing bits. AOL at least gives folks a chance to opt out of their stuff..
"one, two three.."
Crichton throws paper, Dargo throws rock.
D'Argo: Again I win.
Crichton: No, I win. Paper wraps rock.
D'Argo: No, paper cannot possibly beat rock.
Crichton: It does. Paper beats rock.
D'Argo: Rock rips through paper.
Crichton: D'Argo, that's not how it works. Paper beats rocks.
D'Argo: That's unrealistic.
Crichton: Well, it's the rules. And it's not supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be entertaining.
D'Argo: My coma was more entertaining.
Mccarthyism
'nuff said.