For my own use, to block spam email, I use procmail to filter foreign language encodings in languages that I can't read. Of course there are problems, many spammers don't properly tag their encodings, assuming the target audience has their mailreader set to that language as a default. And it won't filter UTF-8 foreign language encoded mail (you have to leave that one unblocked). And of course it doesn't filter non-email attacks against my domain. But it's a good start, and a totally benign one. Email in a language I can't read is always spam.
For the people who don't want to arrive at work stinky and sweaty, try an electric bicycle. There are small folding models, as well as retrofit motor/battery kits for regular bikes.
ha.. while I'm sure you are just joshing about the Emperor's New Clothes metaphor, you should be aware there is a naked Winer pic floating around, something Winer himself posted. I saw it via the old Winerlog: http://static.userland.com/images/llamas/naked.jpg And there's a symbol of the whole problem with geek bloggers like Winer. They think the whole world is so entranced with everything they do, they think people even want to see their ugly, fat, hairy, naked body. But most people (including me), having seen it, want to wash out their eyeballs with Drano.
Idiots like Winer and Searls and the "inner circle" of blogging always act like people MUST listen to them. Perhaps the audience has finally learned they have nothing to say.
It can only be a good thing when self-appointed Blog Emperors(tm) are discovered to be wearing no clothes.
oops, I should have checked the year too. I didn't realize it was that old.
I recalled seeing this appear more than once before but I could only find the one instance in the searches I performed.
You know, this is the problem with blog style "journamalism." If this was a real news organization, there would be one guy who covered the Optics beat, who would remember he'd already published this story before.
I always thought Nagasaki gets less attention than it deserves. You always hear about the Hiroshima anniversary, but rarely hear about the Nagasaki anniversary.
So let me remedy that with a link to the San Francisco Exploratorium's exhibition of restored photos taken shortly after the attack, Remembering Nagasaki.
The Ark Mori Building in Tokyo had a fiber optic solar light distribution system installed something like 10 years ago. I remember seeing a video of the system. It's been out for 10 years, but nobody did anything to follow it. My conclusion: it's worthless.
I was just reading "Man on the Moon" which seems to be the book that the "From Earth To Moon" miniseries. I was surprised to read accounts of how the astronauts had problems continual pinching of their fingers in the spacesuit gloves, they said their fingers got bruised so badly that prolonged EVA caused them to turn black. Now that sounded horrible.
It's not a loud screeching sound, more like a little chirp. You are too sensitive, Miss Princess and the Pea. I have the same drives (two of them actually) and I don't even hear it over the cooling fans.
The "chirp" is thermal recalibration. All hard drives do it. You can't turn it off and you don't want to.
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Your information is inaccurate. I sold both the Amiga and Mindset computers and the specs on the Mindset were way higher than the Amiga. Mindset computers usually shipped with extra video ram, I recall running programs like Lumena that drew graphics with 16 bit color. Nothing came close to it, we sold quite a few of them into pro video markets, not just home users. Just face it, the Amiga wasn't the be-all and end-all of computing that their fanatics wish it to be. It wasn't particularly innovative, it was just another damn computer. There are many other computers shipping in 1985 that were more innovative, and more worthy of memorializing. Some of them even continue to be sold today. If you want to pick the most innovative computer shipping in 1985 that had the biggest impact on the market, there is only one obvious choice: the Macintosh.
It wouldn't have taken that title either. Other personal computers like the Mindset blew the Amiga away, even in the areas where the Amiga supposedly ruled, like video graphics.
I remember one legendary project, back around 1976 I helped my university create a "portable" PDP-11. It was installed in a huge 18-wheeler rig, a portable classroom in a trailer. The sides of the trailer expanded to make a larger room, the floors folded up when you pulled the sides in to move the trailer. Pulling up the floors almost killed me once, when the cables snapped and the floor came crashing down, almost decapitating me, since I was standing underneath, prodding the rollers along. Anyway, the project was an amazing failure. We were porting some old IBM Coursewriter CAI programs to BASIC, they were early courseware to help teachers identify learning disabilities. I told the project manager it would be a lot easier to just fill a van with a bunch of Apple II computers and drive them out to each school, and set them up in a spare classroom, rather than drag a classroom along with a computer in it. But of course the guy who thought up this stupid project believed that Apples were only good for playing Pong. Of course the project ran so far over budget that instead of the original plan of 16 terminals attached to the PDP-11, they could only afford 2 terminals. And they had to have the Power Company wire power lines direct from nearby power poles every time they arrived onsite, which never seemed to provide stable power. All that trouble, and they could only deliver 2 training stations to each site. After the project failed, I learned that the trailer was originally purchased from some other university that tried the same thing, and that project failed miserably, so they sold off the trailer to some new sucker (us). Some idiot thought he was going to make his reputation off this advanced concept in delivering computers to schools. And he did! But not the reputation he was expecting.
Ah, I see. What you're saying is that English majors should be ignorant of Math and Science, they don't have to bother with such things.
I take it back. The Nanoscience and Society class is not representative of everything that is wrong with college education. It is people like YOU who represent everything that is wrong with college education.
This class represents everything that is wrong with modern college education. Some poor physics teacher is stuck spending hisr time giving "Science and Society" classes to students seeking an easy A to fulfill their core science requirements. What ever happened to teaching real science classes involving math and physics, instead of "soft science" classes involving primarily politics and social issues?
You watch Plan 9 and wish it had never been made. You watch Zardoz and wish you had never seen it. You watch "Come Back to the Five and Dime," and you wish you could kill yourself to escape the horror of the memory that will never ever go away.
I see everyone claiming this movie is in the public domain, but I don't see any evidence that it really IS. Just how did this copyrighted work become no-longer copyrighted? AFAIK it's not old enough for the copyright to have expired.
On another note, I don't think this movie truly qualifies as bad. Sure it's crap, but is it bad? I remember an interesting film essay that said for a movie to be truly bad, it had to have a grand concept that was so arrogant or so ham-handedly executed that it turned on itself and became bad. Sort of hard to explain the whole essay in a couple of sentences, but to give you an example of the movies considered truly bad, he used the examples of "Pay It Forward" and "Grand Canyon."
Now to me, nothing surpasses the horror of what I consider the worst film ever made, by Robert Altman, starring Karen Black, Cher, Sandy Dennis, and Kathy Bates.. that horror is: "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." This film even fulfills that essayist's ideas, the concept is "high theatre" (it's a film of a 1-room 1 act broadway play) and it is so stridently, shriekingly feminist that it is like being trapped in a room for two hours with a bunch of suicidal women that just won't shut up.
I love the bit about being able to simultaneously capture 2D and 3D images. That's so easy, you just get the subject to stand next to a mirror that's tilted at a 45 degree angle. Voila, you have one pic with frontal and profile view, all set for stereographic reconstruction. So what's the big deal? Stereographic Reconstruction has been available for decades. Mirrors have been around for centuries.
Yes, check around the ergotron.com site, these monitor arms can be attached to a post that stands on the floor, carts, etc. Ergotron has custom rigs that can be put into many different configurations, but they can add up to a lot of money depending on what you want.
I use 3M Foam Tape everywhere, it is the most useful wire-control device I ever found. You can use the double-sided tape to stick devices together (I taped my speakers to my monitor, I taped all my little routers to the wall, etc etc) and it is a really strong bond. You can also use just one side of the tape (don't peel off the other side of the tape) and it makes a really strong cable hold-down. It also comes off pretty cleanly. Foam Tape helps organize both your stray hardware boxes and the cables too.
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For my own use, to block spam email, I use procmail to filter foreign language encodings in languages that I can't read. Of course there are problems, many spammers don't properly tag their encodings, assuming the target audience has their mailreader set to that language as a default. And it won't filter UTF-8 foreign language encoded mail (you have to leave that one unblocked). And of course it doesn't filter non-email attacks against my domain.
But it's a good start, and a totally benign one. Email in a language I can't read is always spam.
For the people who don't want to arrive at work stinky and sweaty, try an electric bicycle. There are small folding models, as well as retrofit motor/battery kits for regular bikes.
ha.. while I'm sure you are just joshing about the Emperor's New Clothes metaphor, you should be aware there is a naked Winer pic floating around, something Winer himself posted. I saw it via the old Winerlog:g
http://static.userland.com/images/llamas/naked.jp
And there's a symbol of the whole problem with geek bloggers like Winer. They think the whole world is so entranced with everything they do, they think people even want to see their ugly, fat, hairy, naked body. But most people (including me), having seen it, want to wash out their eyeballs with Drano.
Idiots like Winer and Searls and the "inner circle" of blogging always act like people MUST listen to them. Perhaps the audience has finally learned they have nothing to say.
It can only be a good thing when self-appointed Blog Emperors(tm) are discovered to be wearing no clothes.
You need something like the Ergotron Lan Organizer 3000
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http://www.ergotron.com/3_products/furniture/lan_
Plus a big multiscreen LCD like this:
http://www.ergotron.com/4_markets/financial/defau
Then you can really impress people, they'll think they're in Enron's fake War Room!
oops, I should have checked the year too. I didn't realize it was that old.
I recalled seeing this appear more than once before but I could only find the one instance in the searches I performed.
You know, this is the problem with blog style "journamalism." If this was a real news organization, there would be one guy who covered the Optics beat, who would remember he'd already published this story before.
This is a duplicate story, and even worse, it's a story that ran on Slashdot in MARCH.
So thanks a lot for the 6 month old news.
I always thought Nagasaki gets less attention than it deserves. You always hear about the Hiroshima anniversary, but rarely hear about the Nagasaki anniversary.
So let me remedy that with a link to the San Francisco Exploratorium's exhibition of restored photos taken shortly after the attack, Remembering Nagasaki.
Almost every Wright building leaks, he was notorious for this problem.
The Ark Mori Building in Tokyo had a fiber optic solar light distribution system installed something like 10 years ago. I remember seeing a video of the system. It's been out for 10 years, but nobody did anything to follow it. My conclusion: it's worthless.
I was just reading "Man on the Moon" which seems to be the book that the "From Earth To Moon" miniseries. I was surprised to read accounts of how the astronauts had problems continual pinching of their fingers in the spacesuit gloves, they said their fingers got bruised so badly that prolonged EVA caused them to turn black. Now that sounded horrible.
It's not a loud screeching sound, more like a little chirp. You are too sensitive, Miss Princess and the Pea. I have the same drives (two of them actually) and I don't even hear it over the cooling fans.
The "chirp" is thermal recalibration. All hard drives do it. You can't turn it off and you don't want to.
Your information is inaccurate. I sold both the Amiga and Mindset computers and the specs on the Mindset were way higher than the Amiga. Mindset computers usually shipped with extra video ram, I recall running programs like Lumena that drew graphics with 16 bit color. Nothing came close to it, we sold quite a few of them into pro video markets, not just home users.
Just face it, the Amiga wasn't the be-all and end-all of computing that their fanatics wish it to be. It wasn't particularly innovative, it was just another damn computer. There are many other computers shipping in 1985 that were more innovative, and more worthy of memorializing. Some of them even continue to be sold today. If you want to pick the most innovative computer shipping in 1985 that had the biggest impact on the market, there is only one obvious choice: the Macintosh.
It wouldn't have taken that title either. Other personal computers like the Mindset blew the Amiga away, even in the areas where the Amiga supposedly ruled, like video graphics.
I remember one legendary project, back around 1976 I helped my university create a "portable" PDP-11. It was installed in a huge 18-wheeler rig, a portable classroom in a trailer. The sides of the trailer expanded to make a larger room, the floors folded up when you pulled the sides in to move the trailer. Pulling up the floors almost killed me once, when the cables snapped and the floor came crashing down, almost decapitating me, since I was standing underneath, prodding the rollers along.
Anyway, the project was an amazing failure. We were porting some old IBM Coursewriter CAI programs to BASIC, they were early courseware to help teachers identify learning disabilities. I told the project manager it would be a lot easier to just fill a van with a bunch of Apple II computers and drive them out to each school, and set them up in a spare classroom, rather than drag a classroom along with a computer in it. But of course the guy who thought up this stupid project believed that Apples were only good for playing Pong.
Of course the project ran so far over budget that instead of the original plan of 16 terminals attached to the PDP-11, they could only afford 2 terminals. And they had to have the Power Company wire power lines direct from nearby power poles every time they arrived onsite, which never seemed to provide stable power. All that trouble, and they could only deliver 2 training stations to each site.
After the project failed, I learned that the trailer was originally purchased from some other university that tried the same thing, and that project failed miserably, so they sold off the trailer to some new sucker (us). Some idiot thought he was going to make his reputation off this advanced concept in delivering computers to schools. And he did! But not the reputation he was expecting.
Ah, I see. What you're saying is that English majors should be ignorant of Math and Science, they don't have to bother with such things.
I take it back. The Nanoscience and Society class is not representative of everything that is wrong with college education. It is people like YOU who represent everything that is wrong with college education.
This class represents everything that is wrong with modern college education. Some poor physics teacher is stuck spending hisr time giving "Science and Society" classes to students seeking an easy A to fulfill their core science requirements. What ever happened to teaching real science classes involving math and physics, instead of "soft science" classes involving primarily politics and social issues?
Nope.
You watch Plan 9 and wish it had never been made.
You watch Zardoz and wish you had never seen it.
You watch "Come Back to the Five and Dime," and you wish you could kill yourself to escape the horror of the memory that will never ever go away.
I see everyone claiming this movie is in the public domain, but I don't see any evidence that it really IS. Just how did this copyrighted work become no-longer copyrighted? AFAIK it's not old enough for the copyright to have expired.
On another note, I don't think this movie truly qualifies as bad. Sure it's crap, but is it bad? I remember an interesting film essay that said for a movie to be truly bad, it had to have a grand concept that was so arrogant or so ham-handedly executed that it turned on itself and became bad. Sort of hard to explain the whole essay in a couple of sentences, but to give you an example of the movies considered truly bad, he used the examples of "Pay It Forward" and "Grand Canyon."
Now to me, nothing surpasses the horror of what I consider the worst film ever made, by Robert Altman, starring Karen Black, Cher, Sandy Dennis, and Kathy Bates.. that horror is: "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." This film even fulfills that essayist's ideas, the concept is "high theatre" (it's a film of a 1-room 1 act broadway play) and it is so stridently, shriekingly feminist that it is like being trapped in a room for two hours with a bunch of suicidal women that just won't shut up.
I love the bit about being able to simultaneously capture 2D and 3D images. That's so easy, you just get the subject to stand next to a mirror that's tilted at a 45 degree angle. Voila, you have one pic with frontal and profile view, all set for stereographic reconstruction. So what's the big deal? Stereographic Reconstruction has been available for decades. Mirrors have been around for centuries.
On second thought, I have a better idea. What you want is a "book stand" or something more like a hospital over-bed table.
Here's a book stand from levenger.com.
Here's a bunch of overbed tables.
Yes, check around the ergotron.com site, these monitor arms can be attached to a post that stands on the floor, carts, etc. Ergotron has custom rigs that can be put into many different configurations, but they can add up to a lot of money depending on what you want.
I have one of those standit gadgets. But I only paid about $3 instead of $38.
That project is pathetic. Cardboard!??!?! You're going to suspend your $3000 Powerbook in the air with cardboard?!?
If you want to do this, you should do it right. Like for example, the Ergotron Laptop Arm.
I use 3M Foam Tape everywhere, it is the most useful wire-control device I ever found. You can use the double-sided tape to stick devices together (I taped my speakers to my monitor, I taped all my little routers to the wall, etc etc) and it is a really strong bond. You can also use just one side of the tape (don't peel off the other side of the tape) and it makes a really strong cable hold-down. It also comes off pretty cleanly. Foam Tape helps organize both your stray hardware boxes and the cables too.