As we've seen home built roller costers and rockets on/., now is the time to build your own Maglev train. All you need is posterboard, foamboard, or cardboard, 20-30 square or rectangular magnets, masking tape. Then follow the instructions. Have fun!
Windows XP supports Java Explorer supports style sheets Windows 3.11 supported DR-DOS Office supports XML Windows Media Player supports MP3
Now Virtual PC will support Linux. That just means Microsoft hates Linux as much as they hate Java, style sheets, DR-DOS, XML and MP3, thinks Linux a danger for their business model (which it is!) and will try to destroy it. (Which of course we knew already).
the report (in Dutch) says: "gemiddelde snelheid van 97.02 km/h" and also "de gehele dag gemiddeld zo'n 110 km/h gereden, de snelheidslimiet in South Australia.". In English: "average speed of 97.02 km/h" (60.29 mph) and "the whole day an average of 110 km/h, the speed limit in South Australia". The race takes place on public roads, remember?
I once worked at a help desk. One call I remember is a man who, after my suggestion he should press "control alt del" went silent for a moment, then told me he only had one hand.
(It's sad to see that an option that was originally meant for engineers, made it all up to the login screen of an operating system. Well, maybe Larry presses the "eject" button to start his plane, what do we know?;-)
... as Kazaa is considered illegal by the RIAA, Kazaa makers are now building a high quality VOIP application. It can send voices and other sounds in a high quality, 128Mbit stream to your audio equipm^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H telephone. Call your favorite artist now!
inflate, then encrypt
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Cracking GSM
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From http://israelemb.org/sanfran/News&Media/full/03/se p/02#c
"Elad found that the GSM network does not work in proper order: First, it inflates the information passing through it in order to correct for interference and noise and only then encrypts it," Biham told The Jerusalem Post. "At first, I didn't believe it. We checked it, and it was true."
That probably means higher predictability for the encrypted data.
Any news article claiming that a "Company develops unbreakable data encryption code" is silly. Unbreakable data encryption has been developed long ago, it's called a one time pad and there is strong mathematical proof that it's unbreakable. The problem is, of course, it's key distribution - but that's another story.
... and just when everyone and their dog has switched - the cock will probably not crow today until you have all denied three times to ever start using WMP - then Microsoft will suddenly dump WMP support for Linux - or even better, WMP will cost money, as "the free days are over and Linux users should know that software costs money". Embrace and extend this is called. Been there, done that.
As the saying goes "lies, damned lies and statistics", this research proves it again: "Ten persons who had suffered from insomnia [...] For the placebo group, the improvement was only about 15 percent as compared to 75 to 85 percent for the experimental group". That means that three quarters of a person in the (5 persons) placebo group slept better, whereas 3.75 to 4.25 persons slept better with their own brain music. "10 persons is not a large group, but the project builds on numerous other related studies". Yeah right. Maybe psychiatrist Leonid Kayumov listened too much to his own brain music? (So maybe it is addictive!;)
You can actually see the invention. First message is something about trying to spam the Google search engine by repeating the word Travel in a posting. He probably found out that this results in a brightly coloured posting and the next day he tries this one, which, as far as I can see, the official first Google-art posting.
A must read about rechargeable batteries is the NiCd Battery FAQ from sci.electronics, to be found at
members.aol.com/ralph234/cb-page/f_nicd_b.htm
. You'll see why NiCd batteries for consumers are merely fool proof instead of high capacity.
Dump those $15 battery chargers, get a good one, and you'll only need one Set of batteries for every appliance for the rest of your life.
Ha! 2.2.18 on december 11, 2000. 2.4.0 in january, 2001. That means, roughly, 1.5 versions of 2.4 per month, while we have only 1 version of 2.2 in 6 months.
Somewhere in april we'll have 2.4.21 and 2.2.21 and one month later, 2.4.22 will be out. Hooray!
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Page two of this letter states "for use in Linux or any other UNIX-based software product.". Pretty much says it all.
;-)
Thou shalt drink beer or any other UNIX based brewerage without our prior consent!
As we've seen home built roller costers and rockets on /., now is the time to build your own Maglev train. All you need is posterboard, foamboard, or cardboard, 20-30 square or rectangular magnets, masking tape. Then follow the instructions. Have fun!
Windows XP supports Java
Explorer supports style sheets
Windows 3.11 supported DR-DOS
Office supports XML
Windows Media Player supports MP3
Now Virtual PC will support Linux. That just means Microsoft hates Linux as much as they hate Java, style sheets, DR-DOS, XML and MP3, thinks Linux a danger for their business model (which it is!) and will try to destroy it. (Which of course we knew already).
the report (in Dutch) says: "gemiddelde snelheid van 97.02 km/h" and also "de gehele dag gemiddeld zo'n 110 km/h gereden, de snelheidslimiet in South Australia.". In English: "average speed of 97.02 km/h" (60.29 mph) and "the whole day an average of 110 km/h, the speed limit in South Australia". The race takes place on public roads, remember?
I once worked at a help desk. One call I remember is a man who, after my suggestion he should press "control alt del" went silent for a moment, then told me he only had one hand.
;-)
(It's sad to see that an option that was originally meant for engineers, made it all up to the login screen of an operating system. Well, maybe Larry presses the "eject" button to start his plane, what do we know?
... as Kazaa is considered illegal by the RIAA, Kazaa makers are now building a high quality VOIP application. It can send voices and other sounds in a high quality, 128Mbit stream to your audio equipm^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H telephone. Call your favorite artist now!
From http://israelemb.org/sanfran/News&Media/full/03/se p/02#c
"Elad found that the GSM network does not work in proper order: First, it inflates the information passing through it in order to correct for interference and noise and only then encrypts it," Biham told The Jerusalem Post. "At first, I didn't believe it. We checked it, and it was true."
That probably means higher predictability for the encrypted data.
/. editors should have known that a 56K connection can be /.-ed all too easy... ;-)
yes, and
SLAshdot
Seldom
Has
Dupes
On a
Topic
There's a server in my soup! ;-)
Waiter! There's a server in my fly!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Find a do-it-yourself manual here (or Google for irreproducible+atomic+bomb)
Any news article claiming that a "Company develops unbreakable data encryption code" is silly. Unbreakable data encryption has been developed long ago, it's called a one time pad and there is strong mathematical proof that it's unbreakable. The problem is, of course, it's key distribution - but that's another story.
... and just when everyone and their dog has switched - the cock will probably not crow today until you have all denied three times to ever start using WMP - then Microsoft will suddenly dump WMP support for Linux - or even better, WMP will cost money, as "the free days are over and Linux users should know that software costs money". Embrace and extend this is called. Been there, done that.
As the saying goes "lies, damned lies and statistics", this research proves it again: "Ten persons who had suffered from insomnia [...] For the placebo group, the improvement was only about 15 percent as compared to 75 to 85 percent for the experimental group". That means that three quarters of a person in the (5 persons) placebo group slept better, whereas 3.75 to 4.25 persons slept better with their own brain music. "10 persons is not a large group, but the project builds on numerous other related studies". Yeah right. Maybe psychiatrist Leonid Kayumov listened too much to his own brain music? (So maybe it is addictive! ;)
Next thing you know: a whole thread dedicated to Google artwork.
Oh, by the way: this guy seems to promote two web sites about (you guessed it) travelling, you might want to see promoting tourism and the world's best travel search engine. (Hope this helps him :)
Another good resource: the Princeton Mathclub
The windows equivalent of /dev/null is where you send your money. (And a very efficient device indeed) ;-)
Find the SuSE press release about this (in German).
Given enough eyeballs, all your documents are shallow.
... when you post all your stories twice.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/20/149213 &mode=thread
Dr. Fun about the colors of personal computers.
Dump those $15 battery chargers, get a good one, and you'll only need one Set of batteries for every appliance for the rest of your life.
Ha! 2.2.18 on december 11, 2000. 2.4.0 in january, 2001. That means, roughly, 1.5 versions of 2.4 per month, while we have only 1 version of 2.2 in 6 months.
Somewhere in april we'll have 2.4.21 and 2.2.21 and one month later, 2.4.22 will be out. Hooray!