I am too old, I never watched transformers on TV!
I am waiting for captain future , or captain herlock or even a Grendizer movie, true old anime from the end 70s/begin 80s
About astronomy...
I am sorry but with a dobson, you can take picture of the moon and a few planets, holding your digital camera, but that's all... to take pictures of DSO (deep space object), you need a very stable equatorial mount and automatic tracking motors, to allow e.g. 10 minutes CCD exposure. (Or a heavy fork mount and a field "de-rotationner")
But it's true that now this is open to a lot of people, a > 10" SCT and a good CCD will cost more than 10000$, but hardcore amateurs can afford that, and share information and pictures on the net.
for example I can open a passport with a fake address like "root@slashdot.org" assigining a password. Of course an email will be send to this address, but just a few seconds after registering, you can connect to MSNM for example with your email and password, and it will works.
Passport does NOT wait for the confirmation link being clicked in the email, and as long as nobody deny it, you can login.
"NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty " clearly show the
SI as being their standard units of measure.
here's also the entry on wikipedia about the SI
And also, the metric system is easy to understand, when you know that 1 liter of water = 1 dm^3 = 1kg, you can easily convert between things.
unfortunatly for the USA (and UK) and echelon! France has developped their backbone in a
way that when you connect from a IP in France to another IP in France, it's
100% sure that the packet will stay in France and NOT take a route outside
of the country, especially the big big router in London.
too bad we do not have this in Canada... it's stupid here, sometimes from
montréal to montréal, if I traceroute, my packet goes to toronto, chicago,
new york, then come back to montreal, silly... so all packets has been
sniffed by echelon...
for people who still think in foot, hand, and inch, you can can find more about the SI
of course at the Wikipedia entry, but also for people in the USA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a lot of page about the SI where yes, they talk about meter for distance, and kilogram, for mass.
I had an hotmail address years ago, back in the day before MS buy the domain... I never really used it... and I still don't know why people need an hotmail address? passport thing? you can live without it and without MSNM you know... /. should make a poll to know who has and who hasn't an hotmail address, and in comments we would know why people who has one, well... has one.
I'd like to see the/. statistics, what is the % of people browsing/. who use IE on windows, or even firefox on windows? certainly more than 50% for sure
The 1st thing I install on windows (for about 10 years, I was using it in win31 also) is TotalCommander, which was known as WindowsCommander before, it mimics the good old NortonCommander3/4/5 I was using under DOS, it can do almost everything in windows.
Then I install tweakui, winace, winamp, and of course all the windows update...
BTW I never reformat, I just delete the c:\windows or c:\winnt folder and reinstall from the setup files I have copied on my HD, I keep my favorites, cookies, and clean up some folder in c:\progra~1 before re-installing.
why google does not index ftp? anonymous ftp, like the good old ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ was doing, reading each day the ls-lR or ls-lr.Z from the ftp?
after web, images, news, catalogs, etc, they should index ftp
what the?!? I tried with obscur french actors like louis de funes, michel galabru, philippe noiret, michel blanc, and they are 2 bacon far... anemone and jean gabin are 3 however.
kevin bacon played in a lot of movie or what?!?
I am born in 1970, and discovered my first computer in 1978 when I was visiting a university, there was a LEM game, where you enter the amount of fuel to give thrust to a moon lander, and it gives you your speed and altitude, and you have to land safely...
Then in 1982 my father bought a ZX81 in kit, assembled it, and I started learning BASIC on it, writing games (with 1K of RAM...), as it was slow, I started to learned Z80 assembly language, then we bought the 16K extension, it was wonderful!
I continued a few years later with an Amstrad CPC 6128, still a Z80, but with 128Kb of RAM, colour graphics, sound, integrated EXPENSIVE 3" floppy, still doing games in assembly, and applications in Turbo Pascal and DBaseII under CPM+
Next was a 8086PC, dumb... then a 386 with VGA and I re-started to write games and applications, in C and assembly.
When I discovered unix, I wanted to know all of it, then I let games and did all my study in unix environment, to become a BOFH...
*years* ago, I couldn't have cable/dsl in my area, so I took a 56k subscription, a second phone line, and a little utility to reconnect when disconnected. After having used more than 600 hours in a month (and more than 3Gb of download), my ISP cancelled my account:). I then took another 56k ISP who didn't care and kept it a few years, until I took cable.
*ouch* it says I am in Saint Petersburg, Florida... but I am in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, so they missed by what? by 1323 miles according to their distance calculator between Montreal, PQ and St-P, FL.
and as they said on their page "Great tool for Fraud Prevention." yeah!
remember this story? there is a nice explanation here, don't know if it's really valid or not, but still, very interesting.
PS: sorry for the previous post, I clicked submit instead of preview:-/
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I am too old, I never watched transformers on TV! I am waiting for captain future , or captain herlock or even a Grendizer movie, true old anime from the end 70s/begin 80s
and the TGV can do this speed for almost 20 years too...
more than 300km/h since 1981 (cruise speed)
515.3 km/h (320.2 mph) in 1990 (a record)
About astronomy...
I am sorry but with a dobson, you can take picture of the moon and a few planets, holding your digital camera, but that's all... to take pictures of DSO (deep space object), you need a very stable equatorial mount and automatic tracking motors, to allow e.g. 10 minutes CCD exposure. (Or a heavy fork mount and a field "de-rotationner")
But it's true that now this is open to a lot of people, a > 10" SCT and a good CCD will cost more than 10000$, but hardcore amateurs can afford that, and share information and pictures on the net.
as an article on the ESA website dated November 13th 2001, already talk about the spacehouse, on earth, with a "true" picture of it!
I have never heard of a person who has hacked a record labels servers and distributed rough tracks of an upcoming album
not a "hack" but the upcoming CD of U2 has dissapeared...
it works also on 3dfx cards, as seems to be tested here, don't know if it's a fake or not
there's a problem with MS passport...
for example I can open a passport with a fake address like "root@slashdot.org" assigining a password. Of course an email will be send to this address, but just a few seconds after registering, you can connect to MSNM for example with your email and password, and it will works.
Passport does NOT wait for the confirmation link being clicked in the email, and as long as nobody deny it, you can login.
"NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty " clearly show the SI as being their standard units of measure.
here's also the entry on wikipedia about the SI
And also, the metric system is easy to understand, when you know that 1 liter of water = 1 dm^3 = 1kg, you can easily convert between things.
unfortunatly for the USA (and UK) and echelon! France has developped their backbone in a way that when you connect from a IP in France to another IP in France, it's 100% sure that the packet will stay in France and NOT take a route outside of the country, especially the big big router in London. too bad we do not have this in Canada... it's stupid here, sometimes from montréal to montréal, if I traceroute, my packet goes to toronto, chicago, new york, then come back to montreal, silly... so all packets has been sniffed by echelon...
for people who still think in foot, hand, and inch, you can can find more about the SI of course at the Wikipedia entry, but also for people in the USA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a lot of page about the SI where yes, they talk about meter for distance, and kilogram, for mass.
I had an hotmail address years ago, back in the day before MS buy the domain... I never really used it... and I still don't know why people need an hotmail address? passport thing? you can live without it and without MSNM you know...
/. should make a poll to know who has and who hasn't an hotmail address, and in comments we would know why people who has one, well... has one.
I'd like to see the /. statistics, what is the % of people browsing /. who use IE on windows, or even firefox on windows? certainly more than 50% for sure
The 1st thing I install on windows (for about 10 years, I was using it in win31 also) is TotalCommander, which was known as WindowsCommander before, it mimics the good old NortonCommander3/4/5 I was using under DOS, it can do almost everything in windows.
Then I install tweakui, winace, winamp, and of course all the windows update...
BTW I never reformat, I just delete the c:\windows or c:\winnt folder and reinstall from the setup files I have copied on my HD, I keep my favorites, cookies, and clean up some folder in c:\progra~1 before re-installing.
convert everything to mp3, and send them to your gmail account, they will be kept here forever in multiple redundant copies
why google does not index ftp? anonymous ftp, like the good old ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ was doing, reading each day the ls-lR or ls-lr.Z from the ftp? after web, images, news, catalogs, etc, they should index ftp
The goggle!!!!!! they do nothing!!!
yeah this url is in my sig, and my score of the AQ test too!
what the?!? I tried with obscur french actors like louis de funes, michel galabru, philippe noiret, michel blanc, and they are 2 bacon far... anemone and jean gabin are 3 however. kevin bacon played in a lot of movie or what?!?
I am born in 1970, and discovered my first computer in 1978 when I was visiting a university, there was a LEM game, where you enter the amount of fuel to give thrust to a moon lander, and it gives you your speed and altitude, and you have to land safely...
Then in 1982 my father bought a ZX81 in kit, assembled it, and I started learning BASIC on it, writing games (with 1K of RAM...), as it was slow, I started to learned Z80 assembly language, then we bought the 16K extension, it was wonderful!
I continued a few years later with an Amstrad CPC 6128, still a Z80, but with 128Kb of RAM, colour graphics, sound, integrated EXPENSIVE 3" floppy, still doing games in assembly, and applications in Turbo Pascal and DBaseII under CPM+
Next was a 8086PC, dumb... then a 386 with VGA and I re-started to write games and applications, in C and assembly.
When I discovered unix, I wanted to know all of it, then I let games and did all my study in unix environment, to become a BOFH...
I read some when I was young, Mandrakesoft should not take the name Lotharsoft :)
search on yahoo for hyundai performance parts and get this link http://plaisirs.us/hyundai-parts-manuals.html which is not really about the kind of parts you are looking for :)
I know in Canada you can buy Sun, HP, IBM, SGI, here http://unixhq.com but it's more expensive than what you posted
*years* ago, I couldn't have cable/dsl in my area, so I took a 56k subscription, a second phone line, and a little utility to reconnect when disconnected. After having used more than 600 hours in a month (and more than 3Gb of download), my ISP cancelled my account :). I then took another 56k ISP who didn't care and kept it a few years, until I took cable.
*ouch* it says I am in Saint Petersburg, Florida... but I am in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, so they missed by what? by 1323 miles according to their distance calculator between Montreal, PQ and St-P, FL. and as they said on their page "Great tool for Fraud Prevention." yeah!
remember this story? there is a nice explanation here, don't know if it's really valid or not, but still, very interesting. :-/
PS: sorry for the previous post, I clicked submit instead of preview