This reminds me of the Brad Pitt diary/blog that existed on Diaryland from 4/2000 to 12/2000.
It was expertly written (incognito at the time) by the well-known diarylander Uncle Bob, until a cease-and-desist order was issued by Brad Pitt's legal team.
It was insanely funny, and no one would've ever actually believed that it was Mr. Pitt, but someone got their panties in a wad over it.
Poles flipping, fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling! 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos. The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
The article is very specific about the PCB pollutants, not printed circuit boards. However, toxins weren't the first thing to pop in my head when reading "Monsanto and PCBs".
I have a PayPal account and since the acquisition of X.COM by PayPal, it has remained dormant (if it even still exists).
On 8 Feb 2000, I opened a checking account with X.COM, the web front to First Western National Bank of La Jara, Colorado. (Incidentally, they had some security problems when they started operation in December 1999.)
It was actually a nice setup, with online checking, printed checks, line of credit, a Visa/bank card, and even high-yield, short term CD's!
Soon after X.COM aqcuired PayPal (March 2000), they stopped offering overdraft protection, and stopped opening new accounts. Then they began to charge a $12 monthly fee to maintain accounts with a balance of less than $100, and finally stopped reimbursing ATM fees. This was September 2000.
X.COM officially closed operations on 9 November 2000, and were still emailing users to clean out their funds by 1 December 2000. The whole mess left a bad taste, and I've absolutely refused to use PayPal since then.
It's a good thing I never actually used the account as my sole checking account! I shudder to think what might've happened if I had started using direct deposit or automatic funds withdrawal.
The premiere of "Behind Enemy Lines" was held aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. I wonder if it played as a comedy. Its hero is so reckless and its villains so incompetent that it's a showdown between a man begging to be shot, and an enemy that can't hit the side of a Bos-nian barn.
This is not the story of a fugitive trying to sneak through enemy terrain and be rescued, but of a movie character magically transported from one photo opportunity to another.
Owen Wilson stars as Burnett, a hot-shot Navy flier who "signed up to be a fighter pilot--not a cop on a beat no one cares about." On a recon mission over Bosnia, he and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) venture off mission and get digital photos of a mass grave and illegal troop movements. It's a Serbian operation in violation of a fresh peace treaty, and the Serbs fire two missiles to bring the plane down.
The plane's attempts to elude the missiles supply the movie's high point. The pilots eject. Stackhouse is found by Tracker (Vladimir Mashkov), who tells his commander Lokar (Olek Krupa) to forget about a big pursuit and simply allow him to track Burnett. That sets up the cat-and-mouse game in which Burnett wanders through open fields, stands on the tops of ridges and stupidly makes himself a target, while Tracker is caught in one of those nightmares where he runs and runs but just can't seem to catch up.
Back on the USS Vinson, Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) is biting his lower lip. He wants to fly in and rescue Burnett, but is blocked by his NATO superior, Admiral Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida)--a Frenchman who is so devious he substitutes French NATO troops for Americans in a phony rescue mission, and calls them off just when Burnett is desperately waving from a pickup area. Bet you a shiny new dime that when this movie plays in France, Admiral Piquet becomes an Italian.
The first-time director is John Moore, who has made lots of TV commercials, something we intuit in a scene where Reigart orders Burnett to proceed to another pick-up area, and Burnett visualizes fast-motion whooshing tracking shots up and down mountains and through valleys before deciding, uh-uh, he ain't gonna do that.
What Burnett does do is stroll through Bosnia like a bird watcher, exposing himself in open areas and making himself a silhouette against the skyline. He's only spotted in the first place because when his buddy is cornered, he's hiding safely but utters a loud involuntary yell and then starts to run up an exposed hillside. First rule of not getting caught: No loud involuntary yells within the hearing of the enemy.
This guy is a piece of work. Consider the scene where Burnett substitutes uniforms with a Serbian fighter. He even wears a black ski mask covering his entire face. He walks past a truck of enemy troops, and then what does he do? Why, he removes the ski mask, revealing his distinctive blond hair, and then he turns back toward the truck so we can see his face, in case we didn't know who he was. How did this guy get through combat training? Must have been a social promotion to keep him with his age group.
At times Burnett is pursued by the entire Serbian army, which fires at him with machine guns, rifles and tanks, of course never hitting him. The movie recycles the old howler where hundreds of rounds of ammo miss the hero, but all he has to do is aim and fire, and--pow! another bad guy jerks back, dead. I smiled during the scene where Admiral Reigart is able to use heat-sensitive satellite imagery to look at high-res silhouettes of Burnett stretched out within feet of the enemy. Maybe this is possible. What I do not believe is that the enemies in this scene could not spot the American uniform in a pile of enemy corpses.
Do I need to tell you that the ending involves a montage of rueful grins, broad smiles, and meaningful little victorious nods, scored with upbeat rock music? No, probably not.
And of course we get shots of the characters and are told what happened to them after the story was over--as if this is based on real events. It may have been inspired by the adventures of Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady, who was rescued after being shot down over Bosnia in 1995, but based on real life, it's not.
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I always heard it as a WinNT/Win2K saying:
Reliability
Networking
Security
Pick two.
Hmm. My Senator is on the road. I wonder if he has the time to be concerned about his citizens back home?
>>japanese pr0n games for nintendo?
>>Did anyone really get off to these things?
Yes, but only "Custer's Revenge" on the 2600.
Did you see the pixels on her! Hubba, hubba!
Even though I knew it was "Fellowship ...", for some reason, Fall of the Republic was the first title that came to mind.
Oh, so that's what they've been doing when "taking time off from their on-line stroke photos of Jessica Alba"!
This reminds me of the Brad Pitt diary/blog that existed on Diaryland from 4/2000 to 12/2000.
It was expertly written (incognito at the time) by the well-known diarylander Uncle Bob, until a cease-and-desist order was issued by Brad Pitt's legal team.
It was insanely funny, and no one would've ever actually believed that it was Mr. Pitt, but someone got their panties in a wad over it.
Poles flipping, fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling! 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos. The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
..."and we only probe the ports on your computer that you have made public"
... so follow that link at your own risk.
It was an effect in Remy Shand's Rocksteady video.
Hmm. I thought this sounded familiar, but maybe I just Remembered it Wholesale.
And Apple provides the operating system(s) to support these "legacy" machines free of charge!
Has it already been a whole year?
I thought the lame stories were over!
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!
The pesky Snow Crash rears it's head. Talk about DoS!
The binaries are hosted on an AOL account NetHackDotOrg. What a creative way to 'stick it to the man'!
AOLserver/3.4.2 on http://members.aol.com
Then again, if you were a truly l33t player, you'd snag the sources from the nethack.org ftp site.
Perhaps because it was posted three days ago?
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For those of us too lazy to cross-compile, Adrian O'Grady over at fivemouse.com has a DiscJuggler image up for download.
It's based on kernel 2.3.41 if I remember correctly, and includes XFree, PrBoom, and some standard binaries. (vi, etc.)
This is the first burn that I've had with game controller, keyboard, and mouse support.
I thought this was a war to keep Katz from droning on and on about another inane topic.
Good call, Tiny E.
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Yes, that was intended as humor.
The article is very specific about the PCB pollutants, not printed circuit boards. However, toxins weren't the first thing to pop in my head when reading "Monsanto and PCBs".
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If PCB's are toxic, I need to get out of the computer biz!
I have a PayPal account and since the acquisition of X.COM by PayPal, it has remained dormant (if it even still exists).
On 8 Feb 2000, I opened a checking account with X.COM, the web front to First Western National Bank of La Jara, Colorado. (Incidentally, they had some security problems when they started operation in December 1999.)
It was actually a nice setup, with online checking, printed checks, line of credit, a Visa/bank card, and even high-yield, short term CD's!
Soon after X.COM aqcuired PayPal (March 2000), they stopped offering overdraft protection, and stopped opening new accounts. Then they began to charge a $12 monthly fee to maintain accounts with a balance of less than $100, and finally stopped reimbursing ATM fees. This was September 2000.
X.COM officially closed operations on 9 November 2000, and were still emailing users to clean out their funds by 1 December 2000. The whole mess left a bad taste, and I've absolutely refused to use PayPal since then.
It's a good thing I never actually used the account as my sole checking account! I shudder to think what might've happened if I had started using direct deposit or automatic funds withdrawal.
The review seems a bit sketchy. How can we skip from 'Tennis for Two' (1958) to Doom (1993)?
Aside from a few sales numbers, I see no mention of Atari. This is more of a Console vs PC's article --- and new consoles at that.
Oh yeah, I don't think the PSX was 64 bits.
-B
I'm using the LinkSys USB100TX behind Linux IP Masquerading to a cable modem, and it works beautifully!
There are options for PPoE if don't have a static IP, or DHCP, or you just want to plug directly into your Cable or DSL modems.
The supported ethernet devices are:
LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 USB Network Adapter USB100TX
D-Link DSB-650TX USB Ethernet Adapter
SMC EZNET-USB 2102 USB
SOHOware 10/100 Mbps USB Ethernet Adapter NUB100
...and the supported USB modems are:
Zoom FaxModem 56K USB Model 2985L
USB Pocket 56K NetSurfer NMT00700
MultiTech Systems MultiModemUSB MT5634ZBA-USB
Actiontec Call Waiting USB Modem USB56012-01CW