But I believe that the X Files was the worst collection of sci-fi B grade cliches ever combined into a single show. This was a show to pander to the dreams of conspiracy theorists and people too young to have seen real sci fi back in the 50's and 60's. But I have watched a few episodes, and some were entertaining. But lets get real, this show was no Outer Limits.
Gnutella has always been usable for me. Even after the Napster collapse. But its kind of like stamp collecting, you have to put some work into finding the item you want. There is no guarantee that the song you want will be there today, but it might be there tomorrow, or an hour from now- who knows?
I was always dismayed to see in stores the boxed set with the "Complete FreeBSD" book with an older version of the OS. I hope now they can get the latest versions into a box along with Greg Lehey's new FreeBSD book. Plus, if you're a Linux fan, try out FreeBSD just for the ports collection. Its the best method I've seen yet for getting software packages in a unified approach with no dependency problems (99% of the time anyway)
I've used CFS on my laptop as my home directory.
How do you do it? You have a normal home directory which bootstraps the CFS encrypted home directory. You do this by adding some lines at the end of.bash_profile to Cattach the CFS directory and set $HOME to the encrypted directory. It worked very well. Even Netscape caching web pages worked well. Its pretty fast on a modern machine using Blowfish.
One of the great things about FreeBSD is the ability to upgrade to -STABLE, ie new releases via the CVSup utility. The software goes out and finds the source needed to be updated. Then you give the commands "make buildworld", compile a new kernel, and then in single user mode "make installworld". (/etc gets merged seperately)
It can take less than an hour on a fast computer with SCSI drive.
When I port a C program into Python, I take the 100 global variables and make them members of a dummy class, so I only have to feed 1 variable into each function. Oh the wonders of OO:):)
So where are all the millenium parties? Oops, I forgot that the media invented last new years day as the start of the new millenium. (remember, there was no year 0 AD)
Generally, with a directional antenna at those freq's you could get 10 to 20dB of gain, or more. Now take one watt (or whatever) and multiply it by 10 or 13. That's your ERP or effective radiated power. If your feedline isn't too long and its high quality microwave coax, these calculations should hold up pretty well. It you have to run 50 or 100 feet, you're hosed, as only something like Andrew's Heliax will have the small enough loss/ft at these frequencies.
I would be interested in any new technology which would reduce eye stress, seeing that I sit in front of a monitor for about 10hrs/wk. Does anybody know the impact of this development on my "end-of-the-workweek" blurry vision:)
I usually never respond to spam, but this was an offer I couldn't refuse. I am now accredited (through a major Somalia university) as "Grand Wizard of Windows XP Activation". My family was so happy that I finally quit that gas station.
"Addicted to 1Mb/s download rates, former @home customers appear in droves at airports, hoping to get a taste of the high bandwidth connections"
No-one wants expensive multifunction handsets
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I work as a engineer in the cellphone industry, and from the price of our stock I can tell you that no one in the US at least wants overbloated feature rich cellphones. They just want to talk and have great battery times.
I know its different in Japan, but that technology doesn't seem to be getting here very quickly. There's no spectrum space for it here.
I never have any problems printing just about anything with it. Its only drawback is that in the full configuration it needs lots of dependancies. Now one thing is that I'm using a Lexmark Postscript printer. I can imagine a case where someone using really cheap no-brand printer might have problems.
One thing I really hate about radio is the constant repetition. I have this theory that listening to the same old songs over and over again causes degeneration of the brain. What I really love is to listen to music I've never heard before- rap, Cuban jazz, techno, anything- it stimulates the brain. Gnutella and streaming radio are my favorites for finding this stuff. But just go and try and find some of this obscure music in a record store. If you live in a big city, you probably can, but Joe Schmoe in North Dakota may find file sharing, etc his only link with new music. Thats a shame.
I wonder if future versions of the chip will come down in price to rival music CDROMs? In that case, we could go to Tower Records and buy a chip of our favorite music. Of course this raises the spectre of even easier content control when everything is totally digital. Imagine a memory chip of Britney in anti-static packaging:)
The past few months have been so bizarre on a National level, that they could have come right out of a Simpson's episode. And I love the Simpsons deconstruction of TV news. I remember seeing one day the Simpsons watching TV news and the headline was "wild packs of dogs terrorizing neighborhood." Sure enough, we've had several "real" news stories here about the same exact thing. I live in Portland, OR, where the Simpson characters are named after streets in the NW neighborhood. Too surreal sometimes! Rob.
Duh! In the worst case, boot up your Windows machine and subscribe to the FreeBSD mailing lists. Then you won't need any local hacker friends. Just be sure to set your mail client to "text only". Otherwise you'll get flamed:) Rob.
There was a time that I might be able to compare Freenet to such a scheme. However, Freenet has become so complicated, even some of the developers don't seem to fully understand how it works:)
But I can attest to the fact that it does work. But its no blazing fast network. Rob.
People used to ask me why I built lots of electronic gizmos and then never used them for anything, although they were pretty to look at. I always assumed that it was the creative expression of Art. The same can be true for software. For example an FDTD program that makes beautiful pictures of electric fields, but can't compete with some commercial endeavor.
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But I believe that the X Files was the worst collection of sci-fi B grade cliches ever combined into a single show. This was a show to pander to the dreams of conspiracy theorists and people too young to have seen real sci fi back in the 50's and 60's. But I have watched a few episodes, and some were entertaining. But lets get real, this show was no Outer Limits.
Crimes against Digital Humanity would be the top capital crime, and special courts could be set up by the UN :)
Gnutella has always been usable for me. Even after the Napster collapse. But its kind of like stamp collecting, you have to put some work into finding the item you want. There is no guarantee that the song you want will be there today, but it might be there tomorrow, or an hour from now- who knows?
I was always dismayed to see in stores the boxed set with the "Complete FreeBSD" book with an older version of the OS. I hope now they can get the latest versions into a box along with Greg Lehey's new FreeBSD book. Plus, if you're a Linux fan, try out FreeBSD just for the ports collection. Its the best method I've seen yet for getting software packages in a unified approach with no dependency problems (99% of the time anyway)
I've used CFS on my laptop as my home directory. .bash_profile to Cattach the CFS directory and set $HOME to the encrypted directory. It worked very well. Even Netscape caching web pages worked well. Its pretty fast on a modern machine using Blowfish.
How do you do it? You have a normal home directory which bootstraps the CFS encrypted home directory. You do this by adding some lines at the end of
One of the great things about FreeBSD is the ability to upgrade to -STABLE, ie new releases via the CVSup utility. The software goes out and finds the source needed to be updated. Then you give the commands "make buildworld", compile a new kernel, and then in single user mode "make installworld". (/etc gets merged seperately)
It can take less than an hour on a fast computer with SCSI drive.
1. Frogs put eggs in water
2. Eggs hatch into tadpoles
3. Tadpoles turn into frogs which spend time on land and in water
So again, how is that "body making" similar to humans?
When I port a C program into Python, I take the 100 global variables and make them members of a dummy class, so I only have to feed 1 variable into each function. Oh the wonders of OO :) :)
People tended to drink all of it and the equipment ran dead.
So where are all the millenium parties? Oops, I forgot that the media invented last new years day as the start of the new millenium. (remember, there was no year 0 AD)
Generally, with a directional antenna at those freq's you could get 10 to 20dB of gain, or more. Now take one watt (or whatever) and multiply it by 10 or 13. That's your ERP or effective radiated power. If your feedline isn't too long and its high quality microwave coax, these calculations should hold up pretty well. It you have to run 50 or 100 feet, you're hosed, as only something like Andrew's Heliax will have the small enough loss/ft at these frequencies.
I would be interested in any new technology which would reduce eye stress, seeing that I sit in front of a monitor for about 10hrs/wk. Does anybody know the impact of this development on my "end-of-the-workweek" blurry vision :)
I usually never respond to spam, but this was an offer I couldn't refuse. I am now accredited (through a major Somalia university) as "Grand Wizard of Windows XP Activation". My family was so happy that I finally quit that gas station.
"Addicted to 1Mb/s download rates, former @home customers appear in droves at airports, hoping to get a taste of the high bandwidth connections"
I work as a engineer in the cellphone industry, and from the price of our stock I can tell you that no one in the US at least wants overbloated feature rich cellphones. They just want to talk and have great battery times.
I know its different in Japan, but that technology doesn't seem to be getting here very quickly. There's no spectrum space for it here.
I never have any problems printing just about anything with it. Its only drawback is that in the full configuration it needs lots of dependancies. Now one thing is that I'm using a Lexmark Postscript printer. I can imagine a case where someone using really cheap no-brand printer might have problems.
One thing I really hate about radio is the constant repetition. I have this theory that listening to the same old songs over and over again causes degeneration of the brain. What I really love is to listen to music I've never heard before- rap, Cuban jazz, techno, anything- it stimulates the brain. Gnutella and streaming radio are my favorites for finding this stuff. But just go and try and find some of this obscure music in a record store. If you live in a big city, you probably can, but Joe Schmoe in North Dakota may find file sharing, etc his only link with new music. Thats a shame.
I wonder if future versions of the chip will come down in price to rival music CDROMs? In that case, we could go to Tower Records and buy a chip of our favorite music. Of course this raises the spectre of even easier content control when everything is totally digital. Imagine a memory chip of Britney in anti-static packaging :)
Imagine having to install your Microsoft Quantum XP security patches with an NMR machine. Rob.
Now whenever an appication crashes I get a picture of Bert from Sesame street!
The past few months have been so bizarre on a National level, that they could have come right out of a Simpson's episode. And I love the Simpsons deconstruction of TV news. I remember seeing one day the Simpsons watching TV news and the headline was "wild packs of dogs terrorizing neighborhood." Sure enough, we've had several "real" news stories here about the same exact thing. I live in Portland, OR, where the Simpson characters are named after streets in the NW neighborhood. Too surreal sometimes! Rob.
Duh! In the worst case, boot up your Windows machine and subscribe to the FreeBSD mailing lists. Then you won't need any local hacker friends. Just be sure to set your mail client to "text only". Otherwise you'll get flamed:) Rob.
I think its running the Secure Ornament Server.
SOS
Rob.
There was a time that I might be able to compare Freenet to such a scheme. However, Freenet has become so complicated, even some of the developers don't seem to fully understand how it works :)
But I can attest to the fact that it does work. But its no blazing fast network. Rob.
People used to ask me why I built lots of electronic gizmos and then never used them for anything, although they were pretty to look at. I always assumed that it was the creative expression of Art. The same can be true for software. For example an FDTD program that makes beautiful pictures of electric fields, but can't compete with some commercial endeavor.