Not really that much. Entire collection of junk is 1.3tb, of which a relatively small portion is porn. Currently doing months-long cd to dvd conversion.
I've been collecting hard drive platters for around 15 years now, with the specific intent to make wind chimes. The few times i've tried have been pretty bad. At last my prayers answered...and my neighbors annoyed.
I make use of Panda Software's ActiveScan (free online virus scanner). It doesn't work in Firefox, saying it "requires the browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later version." That and my bank's web site are the only things I still need IE for. But I still need to get into those 2 places, so I can't avoid having to use IE now and then.
I started watching TechTV a few years ago (somewhere in 2000-2002). I enjoyed the Screen Savers, which was the anchor serious tech show for me. I enjoyed Xplay and its previous incarnation (who was the red haired girl that used to be co-host, before it was Xplay?). Call For Help was a nice 'lite' show, marked by the occasional accidental posting of topless sidekick photos to the TechTV web site. I think I preferred Martin Sergeant when he was a segment on the Screen Savers.
What I was disappointed to see was the gradual replacement over the years of what felt like actual characters with more and more generic people I felt were there to be telegenic rather than knowledgeable. The gradual move from an eclectic bunch of geeks to G4's pablum has been a sad, sad thing to see happen.
I watched 4 or 5 shows on TechTV on a regular basis. When it became G4TechTV, I would flip by that channel when bored, then maybe stop for one show if it was a TechTV show. Refuse to watch the evil that is G4. I think now i'll have to actively avoid the channel all together.
Holy Childhood Flashbacks...
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One Year on Mars
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I seem to recall, from reading Lucky Starr in the 1970s, that the Martian year is 687 Earth days.
With the rovers there for so long, it sure would be interesting to get them back here. Nice chance to study the long-term effects of the Martian environment.
"...some sort of (funded) international contingency plan to deal with dangers from space..."
What, you don't think this already exists? Just because no one's admitted to it...yet.
What About DVD+-R Booting?
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Games Knoppix
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Are there any of these disk-booting distros that take up an entire blank DVD? 700mb of games is nice, but why not 4.7gb? If not games, then something else?
We keep getting these stories every few months/years about how such-and-such asteroid has a 1 in a few hundred chance of hitting us. Granted, it's random and has no memory (if 4 1-in-5 things haven't happened, that doesn't mean the 5th one will), you would think, after enough of these stories, something will actually hit the Earth.
I've been saving all of my spam from 4 domains. Figured the more I have for Thunderbird to work on, the better it will do at filtering. I wondered what difference it would make if I avoided spam-attracting behaviors vs trying to attract as much spam as I could. I use my gmail account for that- I sign up for whatever mailing lists I find on google, and I respond to as many of the spam messages as I have the patience for. Playing with the 419ers is always entertaining. My goal is to see if I can get the rate of incoming spam to my gmail account to exceed that of the 4 domains. Hasn't happened yet, but it looks like it's getting closer and closer. If nothing else, i'll have a raft of extra spam for Thunderbird to chew on.
I know there's going to be a raft of prior art examples, but what leaps to mind first is the use of email back in the days when there were only a few universities connected together. Would using email to ask one of your professors fit as prior art in this case? What about using email to ask a question of a fellow student or anyone at another university? For that matter, how old is email itself? How old is the oldest know student-to-professor email?
Yellow paper, what? Just because you print in yellow ink on yellow paper doesn't mean it won't show up at some other wavelength. I don't think printing on yellow paper would help you at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Insert Tinfins joke here...
It's dead, Jim.
Not really that much. Entire collection of junk is 1.3tb, of which a relatively small portion is porn. Currently doing months-long cd to dvd conversion.
Let me see...1.3tb at 5kb per sec...
I'd say a little over 8 years.
(and please forgive the low-level question) ...How can I tell whether or not my own computer (PC, running XP) has been compromised?
...endless fields, where humans are no longer born, they are grown...by Microsoft!
I've been collecting hard drive platters for around 15 years now, with the specific intent to make wind chimes. The few times i've tried have been pretty bad. At last my prayers answered...and my neighbors annoyed.
This is Bob!
...which brought him back into public view.
...which brought him sales beyond the 3-digit range.
...which brought him world-wide respect.
...which, by 2008, placed him on over 90% of desktops in the world.
He took Enzyte, which gave him the courage to show his face on store shelves again.
Coincidence? You decide! Try Enzyte today!
Custer's Next Revenge!
tshtuatpptenaynrirragagcuoyomq
Call them and tell them to replace all their hyperlinks with uniform resource locators...
I make use of Panda Software's ActiveScan (free online virus scanner). It doesn't work in Firefox, saying it "requires the browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later version." That and my bank's web site are the only things I still need IE for. But I still need to get into those 2 places, so I can't avoid having to use IE now and then.
I started watching TechTV a few years ago (somewhere in 2000-2002). I enjoyed the Screen Savers, which was the anchor serious tech show for me. I enjoyed Xplay and its previous incarnation (who was the red haired girl that used to be co-host, before it was Xplay?). Call For Help was a nice 'lite' show, marked by the occasional accidental posting of topless sidekick photos to the TechTV web site. I think I preferred Martin Sergeant when he was a segment on the Screen Savers.
What I was disappointed to see was the gradual replacement over the years of what felt like actual characters with more and more generic people I felt were there to be telegenic rather than knowledgeable. The gradual move from an eclectic bunch of geeks to G4's pablum has been a sad, sad thing to see happen.
I watched 4 or 5 shows on TechTV on a regular basis. When it became G4TechTV, I would flip by that channel when bored, then maybe stop for one show if it was a TechTV show. Refuse to watch the evil that is G4. I think now i'll have to actively avoid the channel all together.
Shame to see them go.
Unicron, I choose you!
I seem to recall, from reading Lucky Starr in the 1970s, that the Martian year is 687 Earth days.
With the rovers there for so long, it sure would be interesting to get them back here. Nice chance to study the long-term effects of the Martian environment.
Herr Goebbels investigating issues of journalistic integrity in 1940s Germany.
Wish I still had the Bloom County book...Giant Laser Space Frisbees lost out to Milo's plan to surround the Earth with a protective barrier of money.
"...some sort of (funded) international contingency plan to deal with dangers from space..."
What, you don't think this already exists? Just because no one's admitted to it...yet.
Are there any of these disk-booting distros that take up an entire blank DVD? 700mb of games is nice, but why not 4.7gb? If not games, then something else?
We keep getting these stories every few months/years about how such-and-such asteroid has a 1 in a few hundred chance of hitting us. Granted, it's random and has no memory (if 4 1-in-5 things haven't happened, that doesn't mean the 5th one will), you would think, after enough of these stories, something will actually hit the Earth.
Rossini! Or not. I'd even settle for Paisiello or Isouard...
I've been saving all of my spam from 4 domains. Figured the more I have for Thunderbird to work on, the better it will do at filtering. I wondered what difference it would make if I avoided spam-attracting behaviors vs trying to attract as much spam as I could. I use my gmail account for that- I sign up for whatever mailing lists I find on google, and I respond to as many of the spam messages as I have the patience for. Playing with the 419ers is always entertaining. My goal is to see if I can get the rate of incoming spam to my gmail account to exceed that of the 4 domains. Hasn't happened yet, but it looks like it's getting closer and closer. If nothing else, i'll have a raft of extra spam for Thunderbird to chew on.
I know there's going to be a raft of prior art examples, but what leaps to mind first is the use of email back in the days when there were only a few universities connected together. Would using email to ask one of your professors fit as prior art in this case? What about using email to ask a question of a fellow student or anyone at another university? For that matter, how old is email itself? How old is the oldest know student-to-professor email?
Yellow paper, what? Just because you print in yellow ink on yellow paper doesn't mean it won't show up at some other wavelength. I don't think printing on yellow paper would help you at all.
And I do sincerely apologize for plugging my own site on Slashdot but, well, here it is: Abughraibprison.org