Why are we sitting around debating this. Just ask SurfControl to change the categorisation.
Just go to their 'test-a-site' page", enter www.libertyforum.org, and yes, it does indeed come back as "Hate Site". Now, all you have to do is click on "Submit a site" and you can ask for the category to be changed. I set it to "Lifestyle & Culture", but you might chose something else.
No need to dig underground. BT will probably have already done this.
Ask BT to install an EPS-8 or EPS-9 circuit. (Someone's already mentioned "alarm circuit", which is what these are often used for). These are just 4 or 2-wire circuits with no amplification. They are only available when the two end points are on the same local exchange. Cost is approximately £500pa. Of course, you'll need something on the end, these people sell equipment from Tut Systems. Ask to speak to Hannah & tell her Matt sent you. Matt
I think that spam is a necassary evil that can be easily controlled. If we make a law to simply ban spam then we might be banning other things like mail lists. I personally recieve NO SPAM in my main account and less than one piece a day in my "junk mail account." That's inluding things that the spam filter catches. All people have to do is to be careful with their e-mail addresses. Spam is not a problem for people who use a modicum of common sense
Let me tell you, the longer you've been online the more likely you are to get this shite. Remember, it only takes ONE posting of your mail address to a newsgroup (which in my case could have been years ago) and that's it. Then of course you end up on one of these "1 BILION fresh email addresses for $100" lists and you're dead meat.
Sources I've seen (but not tried) in the UK include Display Electronics (who have a "Robot Wars" button on their front page) and Bull Electrical who have one of the worst "online shopping" sites I have seen in a long while.
If any other UK reader has surplus equipment suggestions, please post here. Matt
If the heat's a problem, how about this? Put the light source (lamp, LED, arc light, whatever) in a box which you can cool and place some distance from the LCD part of the projector - thus keeping noise/heat levels down (water cool it, I dunno?). Then feed the light to the LCD using fibre optics.
I can't take credit for this - I seem to recall seeing a diagram years back suggesting this for a car, with a central light source feeding all the car lights. Google searches bring up these links:
I must say I've not been impressed with the Consume effort - or, rather, with their web-presence. http://www.consume.net looks messy, and whilst the use of Wiki is a good idea for discussion, the people over at Melbourne Wireless look a LOT more professional.
It doesn't make me want to connect my WLAN to what they're doing, at least at the moment. I'm keeping an eye on things.
>How did doctors get by without cell phones and beepers >before those things existed? If they were on call, they >stayed in places where they could get phone calls or messages!
I wish I had some mod points for you! How the original post got modded "insightful" is beyond me. Ok, so I wasn't a doctor, but when I was on call for an ISP
- I never drank (in case I had to drive anywhere)
- I made sure I never travelled more than 1 hr from home (in case I had to get back in a hurry & dial in to a customer network)
- I called the support desk from a landline at regular intervals if I didn't have mobile coverage.
It's called "responsibility", Dr...and I accepted that for £2000 a year ($3000 approx). And I'm damn sure you get more than that a MONTH.
>I can't believe a language named "F#" got past
> Microsoft's marketing department. Or are
> they retarded enough to think it won't get
>expanded to "F#@%"?
You think that's bad? As a non-programmer I expanded "F#/OCaml/ML" to "f*ck em all"...
Seems to me it would make a lot more sense for distributed computing efforts like SETI to be looking for such "extinction" objects, rather than the Little Green Men.
Something nobody seems to have mentioned is that you may need to UPS your AC. There's little point in running your servers during a power failure on a UPS, whilst the temperature in the room slowly rises & they cook in their own juices.
Here we recently designed a new server room where the UPS includes 6 tons of battery - this is enough to run all our servers & all their AC for 5 hours - which is long enough for us to organise an alternate power feed from another village (we're a bit out in the sticks here!).
>Not that I'm saying the sysadmins would stoop to
>anything illegal, but there's lots they can do
>legally if they find out who's behind the attack.
I wouldn't be so sure. Here in the UK it would seem that the Data Protection Act would stop the hacker's ISP from handing over details. See this recent story from Silicon where a UK ISP has refused to cooperate over hacking allegations.
Yet another case of UK law helping the miscreant & not the victim.
I once heard a phone engineer (BT) plug himself in...
At the time (1984-89) I worked on the JANET network as a Network Operator. We used to have to chase line faults on the 9600 analogue circuits used back then (isn't progress a great thing?). One particular afternoon I was on the phone to the local exchange helping said engineer trace an intermittent problem.
Suddenly in the middle of the conversation there was a strangled yell, followed by a loud metallic clatter as he fell off his aluminium step-ladder. A few seconds of silence passed, then a wavering voice came back on the line "..h..hello?..".
Turned out the poor bloke had been talking to me on a linesman's phone (attached to the exchange with croc-clips) whilst he looked for a dry joint - then decided to grasp a bare wire carrying ringer circuit. This page gives ringer as 75V AC @ 25hz. Ouch
Although the poster says "no Quake" my girlfriend & I play Quake II together often. The fact that it will run (just) on a P133 is a bonus, because they are cheap to get hold of just to use as a Q2 machine;-)
One thing I would suggest is to upgrade to v3.20 and then download one of the "co-operative" patches. In this way you play together against the baddies, rather than just killing each other.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the hex crashcodes of the X25 packet-switches I worked on on the JANET network in the 1980s had a crash code of "EEEEDEAD".
Matt
What happens if you find the car (internally or externally) dirty? (e.g. mud on the outside, fast-food on the inside)
;-)
I note you are not allowed to smoke - what happens if you do? Hopefully the airbags go off..
Basically, I'm just wondering what would happen if the slob after you said "oh, the guy before me made all this mess".
Matt
Why are we sitting around debating this. Just ask SurfControl to change the categorisation.
Just go to their 'test-a-site' page", enter www.libertyforum.org, and yes, it does indeed come back as "Hate Site". Now, all you have to do is click on "Submit a site" and you can ask for the category to be changed. I set it to "Lifestyle & Culture" , but you might chose something else.
Matt
One of the few reasons FOR region coding.. ;-)
Matt
I know what you mean, I was similarly dismayed by the dangling cable from the plasma screen.
Shoddy.
Black Firs
No need to dig underground. BT will probably have already done this.
Ask BT to install an EPS-8 or EPS-9 circuit. (Someone's already mentioned "alarm circuit", which is what these are often used for). These are just 4 or 2-wire circuits with no amplification. They are only available when the two end points are on the same local exchange. Cost is approximately £500pa. Of course, you'll need something on the end, these people sell equipment from Tut Systems. Ask to speak to Hannah & tell her Matt sent you.
Matt
>Wouldn't a simpler solution be to release a film on the same day in every region?
They did this for Austin Powers, I believe, and also the latest Star Wars?
Matt
I think that spam is a necassary evil that can be easily controlled. If we make a law to simply ban spam then we might be banning other things like mail lists. I personally recieve NO SPAM in my main account and less than one piece a day in my "junk mail account." That's inluding things that the spam filter catches. All people have to do is to be careful with their e-mail addresses. Spam is not a problem for people who use a modicum of common sense
Let me tell you, the longer you've been online the more likely you are to get this shite. Remember, it only takes ONE posting of your mail address to a newsgroup (which in my case could have been years ago) and that's it. Then of course you end up on one of these "1 BILION fresh email addresses for $100" lists and you're dead meat.
Matt
Sources I've seen (but not tried) in the UK include Display Electronics (who have a "Robot Wars" button on their front page) and Bull Electrical who have one of the worst "online shopping" sites I have seen in a long while.
If any other UK reader has surplus equipment suggestions, please post here. Matt
If I had mod points I'd give you +1 Insightful for spelling "voila" correctly!
(hint - it's a French word, folks, not a stringed instrument)
Matt
If the heat's a problem, how about this? Put the light source (lamp, LED, arc light, whatever) in a box which you can cool and place some distance from the LCD part of the projector - thus keeping noise/heat levels down (water cool it, I dunno?). Then feed the light to the LCD using fibre optics.
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I can't take credit for this - I seem to recall seeing a diagram years back suggesting this for a car, with a central light source feeding all the car lights. Google searches bring up these links:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fibre_20optic-lit_
http://www.ind-auto.com/news/sept2000.html
Matt
I must say I've not been impressed with the Consume effort - or, rather, with their web-presence. http://www.consume.net looks messy, and whilst the use of Wiki is a good idea for discussion, the people over at Melbourne Wireless look a LOT more professional.
It doesn't make me want to connect my WLAN to what they're doing, at least at the moment. I'm keeping an eye on things.
Matt
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>How did doctors get by without cell phones and beepers
>before those things existed? If they were on call, they
>stayed in places where they could get phone calls or messages!
I wish I had some mod points for you! How the original post got modded "insightful" is beyond me. Ok, so I wasn't a doctor, but when I was on call for an ISP
- I never drank (in case I had to drive anywhere)
- I made sure I never travelled more than 1 hr from home (in case I had to get back in a hurry & dial in to a customer network)
- I called the support desk from a landline at regular intervals if I didn't have mobile coverage.
It's called "responsibility", Dr...and I accepted that for £2000 a year ($3000 approx). And I'm damn sure you get more than that a MONTH.
Matt
>I can't believe a language named "F#" got past
> Microsoft's marketing department. Or are
> they retarded enough to think it won't get
>expanded to "F#@%"?
You think that's bad? As a non-programmer I expanded "F#/OCaml/ML" to "f*ck em all"...
Seems to me it would make a lot more sense for distributed computing efforts like SETI to be looking for such "extinction" objects, rather than the Little Green Men.
goatse.cx link hidden in Google URL above.
Something nobody seems to have mentioned is that you may need to UPS your AC. There's little point in running your servers during a power failure on a UPS, whilst the temperature in the room slowly rises & they cook in their own juices.
Here we recently designed a new server room where the UPS includes 6 tons of battery - this is enough to run all our servers & all their AC for 5 hours - which is long enough for us to organise an alternate power feed from another village (we're a bit out in the sticks here!).
Matt
If your laptop is 50 pounds, it's not really a laptop, is it?!
You don't know how big his lap is.
>Not that I'm saying the sysadmins would stoop to
>anything illegal, but there's lots they can do
>legally if they find out who's behind the attack.
I wouldn't be so sure. Here in the UK it would seem that the Data Protection Act would stop the hacker's ISP from handing over details. See this recent story from Silicon where a UK ISP has refused to cooperate over hacking allegations.
Yet another case of UK law helping the miscreant & not the victim.
Matt
I once heard a phone engineer (BT) plug himself in...
At the time (1984-89) I worked on the JANET network as a Network Operator. We used to have to chase line faults on the 9600 analogue circuits used back then (isn't progress a great thing?). One particular afternoon I was on the phone to the local exchange helping said engineer trace an intermittent problem.
Suddenly in the middle of the conversation there was a strangled yell, followed by a loud metallic clatter as he fell off his aluminium step-ladder. A few seconds of silence passed, then a wavering voice came back on the line "..h..hello?..".
Turned out the poor bloke had been talking to me on a linesman's phone (attached to the exchange with croc-clips) whilst he looked for a dry joint - then decided to grasp a bare wire carrying ringer circuit. This page gives ringer as 75V AC @ 25hz. Ouch
Matt
Doh! I've fallen into the NASA trap of mixing my metric & Imperial measurements!
Why on earth would I want a 3-foot tall transvestite?
Matt
Although the poster says "no Quake" my girlfriend & I play Quake II together often. The fact that it will run (just) on a P133 is a bonus, because they are cheap to get hold of just to use as a Q2 machine ;-)
One thing I would suggest is to upgrade to v3.20 and then download one of the "co-operative" patches. In this way you play together against the baddies, rather than just killing each other.
Matt