Gosh, that seems like so much trouble. Why do you need to keep all that email anyway? Is it really that important?
What you're saying isn't totally off-base though. How much of that E-Mail over the years do you really need accessible immediately? I have a ton of messages from when I used OE, and even more from KMail. When I switched to Mail app I just decided to leave it all behind. If I need a message from either of those I just load Kmail from my old Linux box over X11, or start up Windows in VPC. Mail app is sluggish as it is, no need to throw it 3000 pieces of 5 year old E-mail.
Did anyone ever notice girls seem to be more likely to write in cursive?
I can still write in cursive, but I haven't had a reason to use it since 7th grade. And since everyone has their own little variation of it, it's a pain in the ass to read (i.e. professors who write comments on papers, that take 15 minutes to decipher).
Actually, there's something I'm more interested in. Since MSN and AIM are supposedly going to merge, would that mean I could dump M$'s messenger client in OS X, and just use iChat? Unfortunately all my friends are on MSN . . .
My father bought me a c64 because it was cheaper, but I still would make a trip to my public library just to use their Apple ][e. I can't really explain it, but there were little things about it I just appreciated more, like turing on the computer and it booting automatically. I wrote better BASIC programs for the Apple than I did my own computer. Just like Macs compared to PC's today, the Apples then just felt so much cleaner than the competitors. Little things like being able to sit the monitor on top of the computer, or the dual 5.25 drives you could place under the monitor to save desk space. You can see how those little design techniques made their way into Macs today.
Anyway, you can imagine my excitement last year when I finally got a Powermac G4:)
Keep a few Linux boxes on your network to play around with. Since I've switched they still handle all my grunt work (privoxy, spamassassin, firewall, dns).
IF ISPs go back to metered bandwith almost universally, they are going to be INNUNDATED with complaints that spam and getting hacked with viruses and worms are eating all the customers bandwith.
I moved my firewall to a new machine last night, and after maybe only 12 hours of letting it sit I saw that it had received 24mb of traffic on the external interface. On the internal interface, only about 4mb had been moved, which means there was 20mb's of crap hitting that machine. I suppose if I had a metered connection I'd be paying for that.
With a PSX > USB adapter and this free driver I can use my PSX controller with any game. Gamepad Companion also will let you use a PSX controller, though it's not free.
. . . that/.'ers who are generally opposed to M$'s monopolistic business tactics rush to buy Xboxes. I know the usual arguments is "M$ loses money for each one sold," but it seems people are actually buying games for their systems too.
I'm guessing you enjoy M$ dominating yet another industry?
Taking control of Europe was not enough for Hittler. He wanted to control the entire world. What we have with Bush, is very much the same thing. A trillion dollars is no longer enough to feed all the hungry piranhas, and that's not what it's all about either. It's the recognition and the power that comes with being "President of the United States"..
Basically, this is no longer just about a democracy. This is about a way of life. The Bush family is deeply entrenched in many other businesses, and we don't even notice. While we're watching them twirl their left fist at us, their right hand is getting ready to slap us in the face.
I only hope that we're waking up to this fact early enough...
To show your deep admiration of this utterly useless hack, email me."
This almost makes me wish I didn't sell my Dreamcast a couple weeks ago. Though to me it was kind of useless since I wasn't going to spend $100 for a DC NIC anytime soon.
This is a quote from a song by Stetsaonic, around '88 or '89, I don't remember:
'Tell the truth, James Brown was old / Until Eric B. and Rakim Made 'I Know You Got Soul."
And sure enough, I bought the James Brown box set a couple years later. Any interest I had in Jazz music started from hearing different producers sample the Blue Note library, and from then on I just started buying records by artists that had been sampled, hoping to find something interesting.
The point is, a lot of these musicians who are being sampled have been washed up for years (case in point, Gilbert O'Sullivan who sued Biz Markie for sampling "Alone Again (Naturally)".) Yet, after Biz sampled that record I went and found the 45 to hear it. If it weren't for Dre sampling that record nobody in the US would've heard it to begin with. Do you think the whole resurgence of P-Funk amongst white teenagers/college students would've happened if it weren't for Dre sampling so many Funkedelic and Parliament tracks?
Actually, M.O.P. (Mash Out Posse) would be a better selection for this device.
Get on your favorite P2P client and check out their song "Cold As Ice," and I think you'll agree. "Follow Instructions" is another good one.
No matter how peaceful you're feeling at the moment, listening to these guys may provoke you to beat the hell out of anyone/anything within a 12 foot radius.
I was browsing Slashdot this morning and stumbled upon your wonderfully written, and highly objective post. I'm hoping, my dear friend, that you would contact me. You seem to have the right attitude for helping my colleagues and I with our pursuit of Total Information Awareness.
Just five minutes ago I spoke with Condoleezza and she agreed you have what it takes: absolute submission to authority and belief in the morality of bureaucracy, regardless of any thought or self-reasoning. After 9/11 this is preciously the people we've been looking for, and I'm hoping you can join our team, including such members as Colin Powel, Donald Rumsfield, and Dick, or as we nickname him around the office "Killa" Cheney.
Waiting to hear from you!
Sincerely, John
PS: Colin and Condy asked if I could post a help wanted ad too. They're looking for a person to bring them tea, as well as coffee, and clean up the offices. Preferably the person to fill this position should be black, and willing to be referred to as "boy" on numerous occasions.
So what is the likelihood that there will ever be a 970 upgrade path? My Quicksilver is only a year old; it would suck to be left behind in 32-bit land.
Yeah, thanks. I actually stumbled upon Privoxy right after I posted the parent. I'll probably upgrade to it one rainy afternoon, simply because Junkbuster seems to be abandoned nowadays.
In the meantime though, I did find a relatively new blocklist for Junkbuster, if anyone's interested.
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Last time I counted there was only one, and it was out to exterminate the rest of them.
I don't understand, you mean they have the 700 club in Egypt?
For your information Coptics make up a huge percentage of the population there.
I SSH into a box at work to attach to a screened BitchX session.
/detach from BX, and then scr-bx from your shell to resume it without loading screen.
Or you could just use
Gosh, that seems like so much trouble. Why do you need to keep all that email anyway? Is it really that important?
What you're saying isn't totally off-base though. How much of that E-Mail over the years do you really need accessible immediately? I have a ton of messages from when I used OE, and even more from KMail. When I switched to Mail app I just decided to leave it all behind. If I need a message from either of those I just load Kmail from my old Linux box over X11, or start up Windows in VPC. Mail app is sluggish as it is, no need to throw it 3000 pieces of 5 year old E-mail.
Did anyone ever notice girls seem to be more likely to write in cursive?
I can still write in cursive, but I haven't had a reason to use it since 7th grade. And since everyone has their own little variation of it, it's a pain in the ass to read (i.e. professors who write comments on papers, that take 15 minutes to decipher).
Actually, there's something I'm more interested in. Since MSN and AIM are supposedly going to merge, would that mean I could dump M$'s messenger client in OS X, and just use iChat? Unfortunately all my friends are on MSN . . .
Is the goal of case modding to make something better than before? Not only does it not look like an iMac, but it's ugly as hell.
My father bought me a c64 because it was cheaper, but I still would make a trip to my public library just to use their Apple ][e. I can't really explain it, but there were little things about it I just appreciated more, like turing on the computer and it booting automatically. I wrote better BASIC programs for the Apple than I did my own computer. Just like Macs compared to PC's today, the Apples then just felt so much cleaner than the competitors. Little things like being able to sit the monitor on top of the computer, or the dual 5.25 drives you could place under the monitor to save desk space. You can see how those little design techniques made their way into Macs today.
:)
Anyway, you can imagine my excitement last year when I finally got a Powermac G4
Right thumb here. Of course I'm left handed.
:(
I wonder if right handed people use the left thumb by default, and left handed the right?
Sad I'm even thinking about this
Keep a few Linux boxes on your network to play around with. Since I've switched they still handle all my grunt work (privoxy, spamassassin, firewall, dns).
IF ISPs go back to metered bandwith almost universally, they are going to be INNUNDATED with complaints that spam and getting hacked with viruses and worms are eating all the customers bandwith.
I moved my firewall to a new machine last night, and after maybe only 12 hours of letting it sit I saw that it had received 24mb of traffic on the external interface. On the internal interface, only about 4mb had been moved, which means there was 20mb's of crap hitting that machine. I suppose if I had a metered connection I'd be paying for that.
With a PSX > USB adapter and this free driver I can use my PSX controller with any game. Gamepad Companion also will let you use a PSX controller, though it's not free.
. . . that /.'ers who are generally opposed to M$'s monopolistic business tactics rush to buy Xboxes. I know the usual arguments is "M$ loses money for each one sold," but it seems people are actually buying games for their systems too.
I'm guessing you enjoy M$ dominating yet another industry?
I hate to make this comparison, but...
Taking control of Europe was not enough for Hittler. He wanted to control the entire world. What we have with Bush, is very much the same thing. A trillion dollars is no longer enough to feed all the hungry piranhas, and that's not what it's all about either. It's the recognition and the power that comes with being "President of the United States"..
Basically, this is no longer just about a democracy. This is about a way of life. The Bush family is deeply entrenched in many other businesses, and we don't even notice. While we're watching them twirl their left fist at us, their right hand is getting ready to slap us in the face.
I only hope that we're waking up to this fact early enough...
I got to it before the /.; this is all it said:
"This is a test server only
This is not the server you were looking for.
Actually, it is micro_http running on a Dreamcast and serving a piece of html saved on the Dreamcast vmu.
For more details please visit linuxdc.net.
To show your deep admiration of this utterly useless hack, email me."
This almost makes me wish I didn't sell my Dreamcast a couple weeks ago. Though to me it was kind of useless since I wasn't going to spend $100 for a DC NIC anytime soon.
This is a quote from a song by Stetsaonic, around '88 or '89, I don't remember:
'Tell the truth, James Brown was old / Until Eric B. and Rakim Made 'I Know You Got Soul."
And sure enough, I bought the James Brown box set a couple years later. Any interest I had in Jazz music started from hearing different producers sample the Blue Note library, and from then on I just started buying records by artists that had been sampled, hoping to find something interesting.
The point is, a lot of these musicians who are being sampled have been washed up for years (case in point, Gilbert O'Sullivan who sued Biz Markie for sampling "Alone Again (Naturally)".) Yet, after Biz sampled that record I went and found the 45 to hear it. If it weren't for Dre sampling that record nobody in the US would've heard it to begin with. Do you think the whole resurgence of P-Funk amongst white teenagers/college students would've happened if it weren't for Dre sampling so many Funkedelic and Parliament tracks?
problem is getting the thing networked, anyone with an Appletalk/Ethernet adapter for cheap?
If you have any Mac from the ADB era you should be able to network it with your IIgs through the serial/parallel ports via Appletalk.
Inside was just a commercial-labled floppy with the title "Global Termonuclear War".
Anyone happen to know if there's a disk image of this floating around on the Internet somewhere? Would love to check it out.
Does anyone know what hosts I need to tell Privoxy to bypass so that the song previews work?
I'm glad you took it well :)
Actually, M.O.P. (Mash Out Posse) would be a better selection for this device.
Get on your favorite P2P client and check out their song "Cold As Ice," and I think you'll agree. "Follow Instructions" is another good one.
No matter how peaceful you're feeling at the moment, listening to these guys may provoke you to beat the hell out of anyone/anything within a 12 foot radius.
Greetings Brother deadsaijinx:
You probably know me, I'm Attorney John Ashcroft.
I was browsing Slashdot this morning and stumbled upon your wonderfully written, and highly objective post. I'm hoping, my dear friend, that you would contact me. You seem to have the right attitude for helping my colleagues and I with our pursuit of Total Information Awareness.
Just five minutes ago I spoke with Condoleezza and she agreed you have what it takes: absolute submission to authority and belief in the morality of bureaucracy, regardless of any thought or self-reasoning. After 9/11 this is preciously the people we've been looking for, and I'm hoping you can join our team, including such members as Colin Powel, Donald Rumsfield, and Dick, or as we nickname him around the office "Killa" Cheney.
Waiting to hear from you!
Sincerely,
John
PS: Colin and Condy asked if I could post a help wanted ad too. They're looking for a person to bring them tea, as well as coffee, and clean up the offices. Preferably the person to fill this position should be black, and willing to be referred to as "boy" on numerous occasions.
Not Gil Scott, but somewhat related, the Last Poets "E - Pluribus - Unum," my personal favorite.
I dunno.. There were PPC upgrade cards for many 68k machines. It makes me think it will be a possibility this time around too.
So what is the likelihood that there will ever be a 970 upgrade path? My Quicksilver is only a year old; it would suck to be left behind in 32-bit land.
Yeah, thanks. I actually stumbled upon Privoxy right after I posted the parent. I'll probably upgrade to it one rainy afternoon, simply because Junkbuster seems to be abandoned nowadays.
In the meantime though, I did find a relatively new blocklist for Junkbuster, if anyone's interested.