Its primary purpose is to replace nuclear testing that has been banned for ten years -- ten years of having NO idea how the existing warhead supply is aging.
You may agree or disagree with their intended use, but right or wrong there are two critically important things that we have to know as long as a single warhead still exists.
1) As the parts age, will it work as designed, when it needs to go off 2) As the parts age, will it work as designed, when we sure as hell don't want it to.
In either case, failure carries terrifying outcomes. Think about it -- in one case, the warhead doesn't detonate completely, causing an incredible amount of fallout (Chernobyl-style), which is never the intent of a nuclear warhead. In the other case, people dye (very likely in a similarly polluting manner) when it goes off unexpectedly.
As long as nuclear warheads exist, this sort of research is absolutely critical, and its not anyones place to put down this research for ethical reasons related to the existance of the bomb. The two are related but totally separate, and you shouldn't cross those beams.
Is this like the Sharper Image air filters?
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Those are the damnest things, best $350 I've ever spent on a gadget, but thats not really relevent...
Does anyone know for certain how this works? I'm guessing its the same way the Quandra air filters at Sharper Image work -- they move air electrostatically, although I haven't found any good writeups online about exactly how they do it.
Makes me wonder, though, if they'd work in a vaccuum. I'm guessing not, that they are actually using the electrical potential to move air to provide thrust.
I don't particularly like Sonic Blue as a company -- they seem to have gobbled up and ruined a lot of good product lines, but I've used the Empeg before (which they bought), and own two Rio Receivers. (Which seem to be based on the Empeg technology, from the looks of the software running on them).
I love the Rio Receivers. I have two of them -- one in the living room, and one in my bedroom, streaming music from a Linux server running JReceiver. I can access all my MP3's, as well as listen to streaming music sources over the net on my stereo with a minimum of hassle.
Although a lot of the college students on here (or unemployed ex dot com people) have time to build one off solutions, for $1500, these are a good buy for those of us who unfortunately don't have time available to custom build solutions. For $99, the Rio Receivers were a no-brainer, I just wish I had bought a couple more.
I don't even have to go to my Tivo to do that. You're posting like you assume I haven't done that before. Backdoors were cool when they first were found two years ago, but they pretty much bring yawns now.
So you want me to go see whats in my log files. Since I'm at work, I can't play with the silly backdoors, but since I know a pretty fair amount about how the Tivo works, I have two options available to me. One, I can log into my Tivo over the web and look at the reports there. Or I can look through the entire MFS database on the Tivo for anything I find suspect. But I've done that before and it got old too. Have you? I'm guessing not, since you seemed so excited about the backdoors.
So that aside, my other option is to just ssh into my Tivo. Easy enough, and I can go and just ftp off the syslog. But you know what? I was doing that a year and a half ago too, and it just isn't that interesting either. I know perfectly well what data gets sent up to Tivo. I know perfectly well that the serial number is used via HTTP basic authentication before data is uploaded or downloaded from Tivo. I also know perfectly well that they have said they do not correlate data with users, and I believe them because in two years I've never had a reason not to, and I've dealt pretty directly with Tivo. I also know that Tivo doesn't have the right information to really find out anything useful about me anyway, since they don't know what was on a channel at a given time anyway!. Want to know what else I know? Having worked with a number of companies in the past that write software for data mining demographic data sources, I can tell you for absolutely certain that the Tivo information isn't within two or three orders of magnitude as damaging to your privacy as the data collected when you go shopping and pay for anything with any tender other than cash. And walk there because you don't have a drivers license or car. And don't own or rent property.
Get real. I can't say you're being paranoid, but you're looking at the world with blinders... things are a whole lot worse than you think, and a whole lot more out of your ability to control than you think. Going after Tivo for what they are doing is just plain silly.
Those backdoors aren't anything new, nor is the knowledge that they log data about viewers viewing habits. Keystroke logging is how they do it. (Its far more accurate -- but keep in mind that Tivo doesn't know, even remotely, what commercials you may or may not be fast forwarding through, so they don't have any useful info about you at all!) Tivo has NEVER hidden the fact. They have been extremely upfront with it in their terms of service and on their website.
Its your own damn fault if you didn't read up on it. But keep in mind before you start calling for some silly protest, that Tivo doesn't correlate information they gleem with who it came from -- only from where they are from, and the provide that data in aggregate to networks who actually *know* what commercials and such were being shown. So if the networks know that 20% of people in 02139 actually stopped to watch the new Volkswagon commercial during a rerun episode of Will and Grace, how does that impact your privacy in the slightest? Volkswagon doesn't know who you are. NBC doesn't know who you are. Tivo doesn't know you were watching a Volkswagon commercial. So where's the problem?
I don't want to hear it if you a) don't have a Tivo and b) haven't looked into what exact data they collect.
Privacy people tend to get all spazzy on here, and work everyone else up into a tizzy, and in the case of Tivo, its not even remotely warranted.
This sort of thing is what keeps Tivo going. This is a new market and it takes a long time to start breaking even. I have zero problem with Tivo doing this, if it allows me to continue using their service which, frankly, I can't imagine having to do without.
Tivo has been a company that from day one has been extremely concerned about privacy rights, and open communication with their users. If you spend any time browsing the Tivo forums at http://www.tivocommunity.com you'll see that not only do they have a powerful support presense, they are very open about what they collect, how its analyzed, and how its sold. People in the underground community independantly verified what they were saying.
So, basically, everyone relax. Step away from the keyboard, and go unpause Jerry Springer on the Tivo. That's where the real excitement is, not here.
I'm actually suprised he got that kind of milage out of a Ferrari engine (not at ALL known for reliability) running turbocharged (which is absolute HELL of an engine not designed for it), and that kind of power level. That is absolutely fantastic that he got that kind of lifespan out of his engine. I know people who have burned out $15k engines with $10k of mods on them in a couple thousand miles!
As someone who has spent way too much money modifying cars, I can say for certain that reliability is entirely dependant on how well done the entire collection of modifications is. At that price level, even on a Ferrari, he didn't just slap a turbo on the engine and call it there. I'm sure there was a lot of fabricated parts that went to ensuring the whole package ran reliably, and clearly whoever did it did a fantastic job.
An hour, tops, if you have any ability to follow directions at all.
Getting more useful things like TivoWeb set up takes a bit more time, and some Linux experience, but I'd be shocked if anyone who could basically follow a sheet of paper with directions couldn't install TivoNet without any problems at all.
Biggest reason desktops will still: the display
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The iMac looks nice, but a 15" 1024x768 screen won't cut it. Home users are okay at that, but professional mac users aren't going to work at that sort of extremely limited screen resolution.
For a while I was thinking this might be my first foray into the world of Macintoshes, but the unusually low resolution for a 15" LCD ends any interest in my mind. They should've used screens like the one on my mother's Dell notebook: 15" and 1440x1024 or something close to that.
Try JBoss+Jetty in place of JBoss+Tomcat running through Apache. Unless your application is a very simple one, you'll get a 2-4x increase in performance under load.
CompUSA, last week they had a $399 sale with a $100 rebate. I think the rebate is still going on, but I think the sale ended, so its probably more like $350 after rebate now.
Flame suit on, but whats the point of this? I bought an iPaq last week with the intention of putting one of the various Linux distributions on it, but haven't.
Why? Simple. I decide that I, like the vast majority of people who buy PDA's, want to use it for something more than a gimmicky toy.
I hate Microsoft products as much as the next guy -- I've been running Linux since 1992, almost exclusively. I have precisely one PC running a Microsoft OS (a Toshiba Libretto that I use for running diagnostic and performance data logging software for my car, which only runs on Windows). But the iPaq will be staying Pocket PC until there are applications available for it on Linux. (But of course, will they be QT applications or X applications?)
Examples:
Media Player 7.1 rocks on the iPaq. Nice big compact flash card and I can carry a movie or at least a TV show to watch on the train.
Vindigo: no problem finding restaurants or bars in Boston. Always know what movies are available.
Avantgo: I have 4 meg of news cached on it, very handy over the weekend when the girlfriend was off shopping, or I was waiting for the T.
Pocket Streets: Well, anyone who's ever driven in Boston would immediately see the usefulness of this.
Mame: Well, duh. I hope this is at least avaiable on Linux for the iPaq.
Dashboard: Excellent replacement UI for Pocket PC.
It pains me (a lot) to say it, but Microsoft has a superior product. Source code for the OS is of no fundamental use to me -- this isn't a desktop box. License fees are clearly negligible. The iPaq was $299 for a 64 meg model, essentially with the same hardware specs as this one running Linux, only $100 cheaper.
So where's the benefit other than the sheer geekiness of it? Being able to say I CAN run Linux on it covers that need in my soul, plus if anyone rips on me I can point out I hacked Linux onto three Virgin WebPlayers, an Audrey (sort of), and an iOpener at home, and my Tivo has ethernet. Installing Linux on foreign hardware just isn't that cool any more.
So basically, this Linux-on-a-PDA craze is interesting from an intellectual standpoint, but its a LONG ways away from being commercially useful, and this product will probably bomb as quickly as every other non-compatible PDA out there. Especially at $400+!
Most DLP projectors in theaters are 1920x1080, progressive scan (progressive scan 24fps version of HD's 1080i).
Most film editing systems run using 2k scans (2048 pixels across), so there's not any extra resolution available in the output from the production of the film.
Some effects houses use 4k scans for input to heavy effects scenes, but as a general rule thats beyond the capability of the film stock to hold. (A 35mm film frame is less than 1/2 the area of a 35mm print frame on your normal film camera, and those barely get any benefit from a 4k scan).
My car has spent two of the eight months I've owned it in the shop. The valve in my shower keeps having its seals go bad. Microsoft.
The examples go on and on and on about people either selling defective products, or not admitting and properly fixing existing problems. Companies need to respect their customers, and in the case of things like my car, so do sellers and service people.
Worst example I can think of was an old Q-phone I had. The plastic case at the hinge broke six times in two years. I owned seven Q-phones in two years, every time I had to go to the hassle of exchanging it, and reprogramming all my phone numbers in it. Their solution was eventually to stop replacing the phone and to take my clip away (which was the primary feature that led to me buying the phone).
Sounds like a quack to me. I wouldn't give much credit to the whole concept just because of the stupidity of carrying around bottles of oxygen in the car to burn with the hydrogen. Where is this guy from, outer space?
It still, through numerous incarnations, has not come out with the ability to play streaming MP3's. I rarely, if ever, use my Dreamcast any more. Can't manage to burn a CD with Linux on it that'll actually boot, so I can't play with it for Linux. Got tired of the few games I had for it. I've burned a couple MP3 CDs using some of the free MP3 player software out there, which is handy, but the #1 thing I wish I could do on the DC is boot the damn thing off a CD, and play streaming music, whether off Digitally Imported or streaming off my own internal server. Then I wouldn't need to waste a Virgin WebPlayer just to play music in my living room.
Of course most of my collection is OGG now, anyway. How about some clever/. hacker get us a DreamCast streaming OGG player. I'll gladly pay for it.
I don't know off the top of my head. If you've seen the Hindenburg film, then you haven't seen hydrogen burning. Hydrogen burns almost invisibly, with a dark blue flame, not billowing red and orange flame.
Basically the gist of it was that the envelope was doped in a sealant that uses the same chemincal composition as solid rocket fuel. An electrical discharge (static charge is the commonly accepted source) ignited the envelope. It burned for quite a while before the hydrogen exploded.
Hindenburg exploded because its envelope was coated in the same chemicals that Morton-Thiakol uses in the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters.
It doesn't matter if I've eaten Taco bell or not, wearing boxers soaked in rocket fuel is a bad idea.
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Any shows you've got on your PVR -- if you can rip them, Divx encode them and run WinMX... get the files out there. People should search for them and download them. Keep them spread out.
The PVR idea is great. But widely distributing this historical record is just as important.
Its dog slow. Really incredibly slow. Even though I prefer the Gnome environment, on this SunBlade I'm using, its not even remotely usable. I ended up switching to KDE, which is so much faster than Gnome, someone should be embarassed.
I'm hoping Sun will do something about these performance issues sooner than later, but I'm not holding by breath given that the slowest JVM they have is the Sparc/Solaris one too.
Now if only someone would release KDE 2.2 packages for Solaris (I've had zero luck building it from sources!)...
There's only a couple reasons why he would be able to get DSL and you can't.
#1, you're on different CO's
#2, you have lousy wiring into your neighborhood
#3, He's close enough to the CO, and you're not.
In the case of #1, you can't use an alarm circuit. In the case of #2, you won't have the quality to get a signal anyway, and in the case of #3, your line has to go from you, to the CO, and back to him. If you can't get DSL one way to the CO, you definitely can't do this in and back out again.
What in the world are they doing modding up posts that say "I have one" and don't have any supporting data (like even a album title!?!?)
Here's a suggestion to keep this/. article from totally degrading to a "me too!" fest and a panicked shouting match of fears that big brother is coming: Don't post "me too"'s without at least putting the title of the disc so someone else can confirm it.
And don't let all the unconfirmed "me too"'s stir the coals even more.
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Quit it, its not my fault /. doesn't let you spell check or edit posts. :)
Its primary purpose is to replace nuclear testing that has been banned for ten years -- ten years of having NO idea how the existing warhead supply is aging.
You may agree or disagree with their intended use, but right or wrong there are two critically important things that we have to know as long as a single warhead still exists.
1) As the parts age, will it work as designed, when it needs to go off
2) As the parts age, will it work as designed, when we sure as hell don't want it to.
In either case, failure carries terrifying outcomes. Think about it -- in one case, the warhead doesn't detonate completely, causing an incredible amount of fallout (Chernobyl-style), which is never the intent of a nuclear warhead. In the other case, people dye (very likely in a similarly polluting manner) when it goes off unexpectedly.
As long as nuclear warheads exist, this sort of research is absolutely critical, and its not anyones place to put down this research for ethical reasons related to the existance of the bomb. The two are related but totally separate, and you shouldn't cross those beams.
Those are the damnest things, best $350 I've ever spent on a gadget, but thats not really relevent...
Does anyone know for certain how this works? I'm guessing its the same way the Quandra air filters at Sharper Image work -- they move air electrostatically, although I haven't found any good writeups online about exactly how they do it.
Makes me wonder, though, if they'd work in a vaccuum. I'm guessing not, that they are actually using the electrical potential to move air to provide thrust.
I don't particularly like Sonic Blue as a company -- they seem to have gobbled up and ruined a lot of good product lines, but I've used the Empeg before (which they bought), and own two Rio Receivers. (Which seem to be based on the Empeg technology, from the looks of the software running on them).
I love the Rio Receivers. I have two of them -- one in the living room, and one in my bedroom, streaming music from a Linux server running JReceiver. I can access all my MP3's, as well as listen to streaming music sources over the net on my stereo with a minimum of hassle.
Although a lot of the college students on here (or unemployed ex dot com people) have time to build one off solutions, for $1500, these are a good buy for those of us who unfortunately don't have time available to custom build solutions. For $99, the Rio Receivers were a no-brainer, I just wish I had bought a couple more.
I don't even have to go to my Tivo to do that. You're posting like you assume I haven't done that before. Backdoors were cool when they first were found two years ago, but they pretty much bring yawns now.
So you want me to go see whats in my log files. Since I'm at work, I can't play with the silly backdoors, but since I know a pretty fair amount about how the Tivo works, I have two options available to me. One, I can log into my Tivo over the web and look at the reports there. Or I can look through the entire MFS database on the Tivo for anything I find suspect. But I've done that before and it got old too. Have you? I'm guessing not, since you seemed so excited about the backdoors.
So that aside, my other option is to just ssh into my Tivo. Easy enough, and I can go and just ftp off the syslog. But you know what? I was doing that a year and a half ago too, and it just isn't that interesting either. I know perfectly well what data gets sent up to Tivo. I know perfectly well that the serial number is used via HTTP basic authentication before data is uploaded or downloaded from Tivo. I also know perfectly well that they have said they do not correlate data with users, and I believe them because in two years I've never had a reason not to, and I've dealt pretty directly with Tivo. I also know that Tivo doesn't have the right information to really find out anything useful about me anyway, since they don't know what was on a channel at a given time anyway!. Want to know what else I know? Having worked with a number of companies in the past that write software for data mining demographic data sources, I can tell you for absolutely certain that the Tivo information isn't within two or three orders of magnitude as damaging to your privacy as the data collected when you go shopping and pay for anything with any tender other than cash. And walk there because you don't have a drivers license or car. And don't own or rent property.
Get real. I can't say you're being paranoid, but you're looking at the world with blinders... things are a whole lot worse than you think, and a whole lot more out of your ability to control than you think. Going after Tivo for what they are doing is just plain silly.
Those backdoors aren't anything new, nor is the knowledge that they log data about viewers viewing habits. Keystroke logging is how they do it. (Its far more accurate -- but keep in mind that Tivo doesn't know, even remotely, what commercials you may or may not be fast forwarding through, so they don't have any useful info about you at all!) Tivo has NEVER hidden the fact. They have been extremely upfront with it in their terms of service and on their website.
Its your own damn fault if you didn't read up on it. But keep in mind before you start calling for some silly protest, that Tivo doesn't correlate information they gleem with who it came from -- only from where they are from, and the provide that data in aggregate to networks who actually *know* what commercials and such were being shown. So if the networks know that 20% of people in 02139 actually stopped to watch the new Volkswagon commercial during a rerun episode of Will and Grace, how does that impact your privacy in the slightest? Volkswagon doesn't know who you are. NBC doesn't know who you are. Tivo doesn't know you were watching a Volkswagon commercial. So where's the problem?
I don't want to hear it if you a) don't have a Tivo and b) haven't looked into what exact data they collect.
Privacy people tend to get all spazzy on here, and work everyone else up into a tizzy, and in the case of Tivo, its not even remotely warranted.
This sort of thing is what keeps Tivo going. This is a new market and it takes a long time to start breaking even. I have zero problem with Tivo doing this, if it allows me to continue using their service which, frankly, I can't imagine having to do without.
Tivo has been a company that from day one has been extremely concerned about privacy rights, and open communication with their users. If you spend any time browsing the Tivo forums at http://www.tivocommunity.com you'll see that not only do they have a powerful support presense, they are very open about what they collect, how its analyzed, and how its sold. People in the underground community independantly verified what they were saying.
So, basically, everyone relax. Step away from the keyboard, and go unpause Jerry Springer on the Tivo. That's where the real excitement is, not here.
I'm actually suprised he got that kind of milage out of a Ferrari engine (not at ALL known for reliability) running turbocharged (which is absolute HELL of an engine not designed for it), and that kind of power level. That is absolutely fantastic that he got that kind of lifespan out of his engine. I know people who have burned out $15k engines with $10k of mods on them in a couple thousand miles!
As someone who has spent way too much money modifying cars, I can say for certain that reliability is entirely dependant on how well done the entire collection of modifications is. At that price level, even on a Ferrari, he didn't just slap a turbo on the engine and call it there. I'm sure there was a lot of fabricated parts that went to ensuring the whole package ran reliably, and clearly whoever did it did a fantastic job.
An hour, tops, if you have any ability to follow directions at all.
Getting more useful things like TivoWeb set up takes a bit more time, and some Linux experience, but I'd be shocked if anyone who could basically follow a sheet of paper with directions couldn't install TivoNet without any problems at all.
The iMac looks nice, but a 15" 1024x768 screen won't cut it. Home users are okay at that, but professional mac users aren't going to work at that sort of extremely limited screen resolution.
For a while I was thinking this might be my first foray into the world of Macintoshes, but the unusually low resolution for a 15" LCD ends any interest in my mind. They should've used screens like the one on my mother's Dell notebook: 15" and 1440x1024 or something close to that.
Most, but not all, SSH installations have it turned off.
man sshd
UseLogin defaults to "no" -- so unless you have
UseLogin yes
in sshd_config, then you don't have a problem.
Try JBoss+Jetty in place of JBoss+Tomcat running through Apache. Unless your application is a very simple one, you'll get a 2-4x increase in performance under load.
Tomcat is nice, in theory, but its dog slow.
I haven't seen any that do anything but play from CDs.
CompUSA, last week they had a $399 sale with a $100 rebate. I think the rebate is still going on, but I think the sale ended, so its probably more like $350 after rebate now.
Flame suit on, but whats the point of this? I bought an iPaq last week with the intention of putting one of the various Linux distributions on it, but haven't.
Why? Simple. I decide that I, like the vast majority of people who buy PDA's, want to use it for something more than a gimmicky toy.
I hate Microsoft products as much as the next guy -- I've been running Linux since 1992, almost exclusively. I have precisely one PC running a Microsoft OS (a Toshiba Libretto that I use for running diagnostic and performance data logging software for my car, which only runs on Windows). But the iPaq will be staying Pocket PC until there are applications available for it on Linux. (But of course, will they be QT applications or X applications?)
Examples:
Media Player 7.1 rocks on the iPaq. Nice big compact flash card and I can carry a movie or at least a TV show to watch on the train.
Vindigo: no problem finding restaurants or bars in Boston. Always know what movies are available.
Avantgo: I have 4 meg of news cached on it, very handy over the weekend when the girlfriend was off shopping, or I was waiting for the T.
Pocket Streets: Well, anyone who's ever driven in Boston would immediately see the usefulness of this.
Mame: Well, duh. I hope this is at least avaiable on Linux for the iPaq.
Dashboard: Excellent replacement UI for Pocket PC.
It pains me (a lot) to say it, but Microsoft has a superior product. Source code for the OS is of no fundamental use to me -- this isn't a desktop box. License fees are clearly negligible. The iPaq was $299 for a 64 meg model, essentially with the same hardware specs as this one running Linux, only $100 cheaper.
So where's the benefit other than the sheer geekiness of it? Being able to say I CAN run Linux on it covers that need in my soul, plus if anyone rips on me I can point out I hacked Linux onto three Virgin WebPlayers, an Audrey (sort of), and an iOpener at home, and my Tivo has ethernet. Installing Linux on foreign hardware just isn't that cool any more.
So basically, this Linux-on-a-PDA craze is interesting from an intellectual standpoint, but its a LONG ways away from being commercially useful, and this product will probably bomb as quickly as every other non-compatible PDA out there. Especially at $400+!
Most DLP projectors in theaters are 1920x1080, progressive scan (progressive scan 24fps version of HD's 1080i).
Most film editing systems run using 2k scans (2048 pixels across), so there's not any extra resolution available in the output from the production of the film.
Some effects houses use 4k scans for input to heavy effects scenes, but as a general rule thats beyond the capability of the film stock to hold. (A 35mm film frame is less than 1/2 the area of a 35mm print frame on your normal film camera, and those barely get any benefit from a 4k scan).
My car has spent two of the eight months I've owned it in the shop. The valve in my shower keeps having its seals go bad. Microsoft.
The examples go on and on and on about people either selling defective products, or not admitting and properly fixing existing problems. Companies need to respect their customers, and in the case of things like my car, so do sellers and service people.
Worst example I can think of was an old Q-phone I had. The plastic case at the hinge broke six times in two years. I owned seven Q-phones in two years, every time I had to go to the hassle of exchanging it, and reprogramming all my phone numbers in it. Their solution was eventually to stop replacing the phone and to take my clip away (which was the primary feature that led to me buying the phone).
Clearly a number of posters so far didn't.
Sounds like a quack to me. I wouldn't give much credit to the whole concept just because of the stupidity of carrying around bottles of oxygen in the car to burn with the hydrogen. Where is this guy from, outer space?
It still, through numerous incarnations, has not come out with the ability to play streaming MP3's. I rarely, if ever, use my Dreamcast any more. Can't manage to burn a CD with Linux on it that'll actually boot, so I can't play with it for Linux. Got tired of the few games I had for it. I've burned a couple MP3 CDs using some of the free MP3 player software out there, which is handy, but the #1 thing I wish I could do on the DC is boot the damn thing off a CD, and play streaming music, whether off Digitally Imported or streaming off my own internal server. Then I wouldn't need to waste a Virgin WebPlayer just to play music in my living room.
/. hacker get us a DreamCast streaming OGG player. I'll gladly pay for it.
Of course most of my collection is OGG now, anyway. How about some clever
I don't know off the top of my head. If you've seen the Hindenburg film, then you haven't seen hydrogen burning. Hydrogen burns almost invisibly, with a dark blue flame, not billowing red and orange flame.
Basically the gist of it was that the envelope was doped in a sealant that uses the same chemincal composition as solid rocket fuel. An electrical discharge (static charge is the commonly accepted source) ignited the envelope. It burned for quite a while before the hydrogen exploded.
Hindenburg exploded because its envelope was coated in the same chemicals that Morton-Thiakol uses in the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters.
It doesn't matter if I've eaten Taco bell or not, wearing boxers soaked in rocket fuel is a bad idea.
Any shows you've got on your PVR -- if you can rip them, Divx encode them and run WinMX... get the files out there. People should search for them and download them. Keep them spread out.
The PVR idea is great. But widely distributing this historical record is just as important.
Its dog slow. Really incredibly slow. Even though I prefer the Gnome environment, on this SunBlade I'm using, its not even remotely usable. I ended up switching to KDE, which is so much faster than Gnome, someone should be embarassed.
I'm hoping Sun will do something about these performance issues sooner than later, but I'm not holding by breath given that the slowest JVM they have is the Sparc/Solaris one too.
Now if only someone would release KDE 2.2 packages for Solaris (I've had zero luck building it from sources!)...
There's only a couple reasons why he would be able to get DSL and you can't.
#1, you're on different CO's
#2, you have lousy wiring into your neighborhood
#3, He's close enough to the CO, and you're not.
In the case of #1, you can't use an alarm circuit. In the case of #2, you won't have the quality to get a signal anyway, and in the case of #3, your line has to go from you, to the CO, and back to him. If you can't get DSL one way to the CO, you definitely can't do this in and back out again.
What in the world are they doing modding up posts that say "I have one" and don't have any supporting data (like even a album title!?!?)
/. article from totally degrading to a "me too!" fest and a panicked shouting match of fears that big brother is coming: Don't post "me too"'s without at least putting the title of the disc so someone else can confirm it.
Here's a suggestion to keep this
And don't let all the unconfirmed "me too"'s stir the coals even more.
I'm glad I don't listen to any mainstream music.