Hmmm. The Linux URI was OK, but the source URI isn't working for me. I eventually got through to the tracker and downloaded the torrent, but wound up with
Linux: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:SD36UE42IMPAKVUXAXRF3FQH4QYM23 FS
Source: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:NBLH57XACLSOXY7KTKCRE2TWCAEMJN 5G as the URIs.
Now that it's all here, I'm burning a bunch of CDs to pass around the company.
All you need, even without an accurate timetable, is an odometer.
And course you can ensure with 100% reliability that no switch or human will ever malfunction and (for example) place a northbound freight on the same track as a southbound express.
And there will be no slip in whatever it is that drives the odometer, or any other odometer inaccuracy.
The ridges are not "new" in the sense that they were thrust up 1500m on Dec 26. They are the product of the plate collision which has been going on for some millions of years, and have been slowly pushed up duing that time. The eastern part of the ridge is probably only a few 10s of thousands of years old, and in that sense it is "new".
OK, some folks take it really seriously. Me, well I drank some floridated water the other day, which made me vulnerable to the mind control messages Rush Limbaugh sends over the radio, and now I think it's all commie lesbian liberal nonsense.
Return-Path: <basemenKirk647994@charter.net> Delivered-T o: heiny@eznet.net Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail04.ext.ispc.xtelegent.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC722BCD27; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:30:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail04.ext.ispc.xtelegent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail04.ispc.xtelegent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41569-856; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:30:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [removed to protect the (maybe) innocent] by mail04.ext.ispc.xtelegent.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 327622BD82A; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:30:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 40.193.192.116 by 80.118.100.41 Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:28:28 +0200 Message-ID: [removed to protect the innocent] From: [removed, since I can't tell if they're guilty or not] Reply-To: [removed, since I can't tell if they're guilty or not] To: [removed to protect the innocent] Subject: Fully automated home based business oughtn't Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:30:28 -0300
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If you wish to be taken off, you may send to f.t.b. assoc.
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http://66.78.0.254/cgi-bin/rem/myr.cgi?dir =MSU
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Called ol' Bob up to let him know I didn't appreciate it. He couldn't quite understand that I
didn't want any spam;
didn't trust his remove link;
wanted him, personally, to ensure that I was removed from his list.
He kept protesting that it was a "compliant email" , which seemed to make everything OK in his eyes. He didn't seem to understand the burden placed on his victims - stealing a minute to do the remove from each of those 2 million people is equivalent to 16 years of a full time job down the tubes. Serious lack of clues, on Bob's part.
Eventually he agreed to take my email address and see that it was removed. We'll see if that actually happens.
I use Starband (a DirecWay competitor). The only other option where I live is 30K (on a good day) dialup.
I don't use games or interactive video, so can't comment on the latency issues there - just plain surfing the latency is not generally a problem. Personally, I can handle a.25 sec delay between a click and the time the download starts. If that's not quick enough for you, maybe it's time to cut down on the caffiene:-).
File downloads are really fast, with no FAP. However, uploads are severely limited in terms of speed - big attachments can take a long time to send.
Streaming audio works adequately for KPIG, Nascar races (including all their fancy applets), and hockey games.
I was warned strongly that the system was very weather sensitive, but have experienced no significant problems due to weather on my end, and only a couple or three outages due to severe thunderstorms at Starband's Florida ground station.
My employer's Windows-based VPN system does not work over Starband, but they warned me about that upfront. I don't know if it's a latency thing or they're just blocking the ports for some reason. No biggy, since my work travels well on a USB flash drive. SSH works - I use it to contact SourceForge and other places.
I use an old P-II system running WinProxy on Win98 to connect to the Starband modem. The P-II is connected to a Linksys wireless gateway, and my home network lives behind that.
There aren't any openly Creationistic articles in those journals purely because the editors simply refuse to run them, regardless of merit.
Uh, no. It's because none of the articles submitted have any merit. How 'bout you show us a single instance of a pro-Creationist article published anywhere that meets the technical standards of the scientific community?
Suggestions, some of which I've done, some I want to do:
visit all the publicly displayed archaeopteryx fossils
drive coast to coast without using any freeways, eating at any chain fast food places, shopping at any chain stores (except gas), or staying in a chain hotel/campground.
take the trans-siberian railway
ride the fastest train on each continent
spend a month in europe and drive 15 different racetracks, each in a different country
After I moved to the Santa Cruz mountains, I had a 2 month run-around with Pac Bell during which they said "yes, we can provide you with DSL" and "no, we can't". Turns out that my house can't get DSL, but my mailbox, which is almost 2 miles away, could. Not sure how they could confuse the two...
Anyway, StarBand was installed in August. Since then max download speeds have typically been in the 130..180KByte/sec range (for servers that can keep up). I was warned by other users that the system is "awful" during bad weather, but during gale force winds and 5"/day of rain a couple of weeks ago it still managed 30KByte/sec. Since the best the noisy land-line dialup ever managed was 1KByte/sec, that's more than acceptable. The only downtime that I noticed was for a few hours in September when a major thunderstorm blocked their NOC. YMMV.
If you're a big uploader, though, watch out. Upload speeds suck relative to the download capability, being not much faster than a 56kbit/sec modem on a clean phone line. Almost all my flow is down, though, so this isn't a biggy.
I'd really prefer to see something like... dynamic HTML with Javascript
Check out products incorporating the NUON processor (formerly from VM Labs, recently bought out by Genesis Microchip), such as the ToshibaSD-2300 and SamsungN-2000, N-501, and N-504. NUON-enhanced DVDs contain additional info in the form of (tada!) HTML and Bob scripts - the DVDs play normally on regular players, the enhanced features are available on products like those above.
There are some NUON-enhanced DVDs available. You can also play games on these units, although it is by no means intended as a PS2/XBox/etc competitor. You can even download the NUON SDK and hack your own NUON programs! Check out the NUON dome for more info.
Disclaimer: I used to work for VM Labs. I don't anymore (left in September 2001), and have no business or financial connection with either VM Labs or Genesis Microchip. I still think the technology is pretty cool, though.
Hmmmmmm - so in theory the University of Ediacara could have 2000 Athlon MPs running M$ products, and the licensing fee would only include that old P5-133 sitting in the corner? Hmmmmm.
And does Pentium == Pentium II == Pentium !!! == Pentium Pro == Pentium IV? What about Celerons?
A bunch of extremely useful Unix tools ported to Windows can be found here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. For me, simply making this available to Windows users has frequently sparked an eventual migration toward Linux.
And the downside to the Web Start I found is that it constantly wanted to download and install a new version of Java Runtime Environment 1.3.x everytime I lauched an application
Yeh, this is a constant aggro for me as I try to develop JNLP based apps. I've already submitted one complaint about this, but it didn't make it into the bug parade. I just put in another, more strongly worded request - we'll see what happens.
In the meantime, you might want to consider OpenJNLP, which we're targetting for interim use until JavaWS works right.
For your install problem (separate JavaWS install on Linux), see Bug Parade 4636877 and get your votes in!
Something basically like what you are describing was (is?) available on the Tadpole on their products. I used it on their SparcBook 3 series of Sparc based laptops (pretty cool things in their own right, but really expensive). They ran modified versions of SunOs 4.x and Solaris 2.x - I think (but am not certain) that the current Solaris suspend/resume is based on this.
Basically, when you wanted to turn off the system, you would hit the Suspend button on the control panel (or an appropriate set of hotkeys). Your RAM image would then be flushed to a special disk partition, and the system would be powered down. At the next power on time, this partition was checked to determine if it was valid (I forget what the cookies were), and if it was, the boot loader would simply copy the contents of that partition to RAM.
It worked pretty well for me - I went months at a time of several power-on/power-off cycles per day without a real reboot.
Yeh, it is so quick to download 1MB of email over a slow wireless link (9.6 kbps, paying by the minute) only to find out that all of it is a spam-storm for toner bargains in Argentina. Spam is theft. Whether it's one second or two hours of my time, it's still theft. Maybe you don't find burglaries inconvenient, but I sure as hell do.
I've received vast amounts of.biz spam, and of course the.biz registrars have failed to honor their own 'remove' process (OK, OK, I deserve what I get for using a spammer's 'remove' method - but I thought this time it would be different...).
This trick of referring unresolved addresses to a "Hey! Wanna buy a cheap watch?" website is pretty slimy, too.
So far as I can tell, the.biz registrars and their customers have the ethics and intelligence of a hungry leech. I'm unlikely to even visit.biz domains, much less actually buy one.
Gronk gronk gronk. I was there. I didn't have so much beer since then that my memory is totally toasted. Only partially toasted.
The Tajo environment on the Alto (basically, an IDE for the Mesa programming language) implemented overlapping windows. This later evolved into the MDE (Mesa Development Environment) on the 8000/6085 series, and was rechristened XDE (Xerox DE) in the late 80s.
The first release of the Star workstation software on the 8000 series machines used tiled windows. Overlapping windows were implemented in the following release.
As someone else pointed out, Atkinson may have been attempting to implement either clipping (drawing only exposed areas of a window) or cookie-cutters (windows bounded by arbitrary polygons). The Tajo/MDE API defined calls to support cookie-cutters, but these were never successfully implemented that I know of.
An alternate subject for this might be "Another Xerox GUI idea rises from the dustbin". Dunno how old Cliff is, but around 1982 the original Xerox Star/8000 desktop forced users to tile their documents (B&W on a 1024x768 display, if I recall correctly). General user community reaction was "Bleah!". Some folks liked it a lot, many didn't. The next software release included the option of choosing betweeen tiled and overlapped windows. [OK, the idea might not have been Xerox's originally, but it's the oldest one I'm acquainted with]
Personally, I like to choose between the two models, and frequently find myself using a hybrid, with some windows tiled (whether in an MDI or within the wm) and some overlapping.
Additionally, as I grow older, I find that even with a 21" 1600x1200 display, I require larger fonts. There are times when the amount of information required simply will not fit on a forced tiled screen, unless I make the font smaller and put my face right up next to the display.
But basically, it's the old light beer question. Some people want one, some people want the other. Some people want both.
As a side note, I must say that window managers that force the active window to the top of the stack of overlapped must die! Or at least be rewritten. I like my windows to stay where I put them, thank you.
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Hmmm. The Linux URI was OK, but the source URI isn't working for me. I eventually got through to the tracker and downloaded the torrent, but wound up with3 FSN 5G
Linux: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:SD36UE42IMPAKVUXAXRF3FQH4QYM2
Source: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:NBLH57XACLSOXY7KTKCRE2TWCAEMJ
as the URIs.
Now that it's all here, I'm burning a bunch of CDs to pass around the company.
Anyone have the Azureus magnet link for the Linux x86 installer?
Fifteen minutes on /., and the server (IIS .Net) is toast.
Hmmmm. Wasn't there a "crash IIS" contest or something like that going on in the past couple or three week?
And course you can ensure with 100% reliability that no switch or human will ever malfunction and (for example) place a northbound freight on the same track as a southbound express.
And there will be no slip in whatever it is that drives the odometer, or any other odometer inaccuracy.
The ridges are not "new" in the sense that they were thrust up 1500m on Dec 26. They are the product of the plate collision which has been going on for some millions of years, and have been slowly pushed up duing that time. The eastern part of the ridge is probably only a few 10s of thousands of years old, and in that sense it is "new".
Oh, it just takes a little longer - 45 minutes after your post, Lik-Sang.com can't be contacted... it's good to see people adhering to traditions.
OK, some folks take it really seriously. Me, well I drank some floridated water the other day, which made me vulnerable to the mind control messages Rush Limbaugh sends over the radio, and now I think it's all commie lesbian liberal nonsense.
- didn't want any spam;
- didn't trust his remove link;
- wanted him, personally, to ensure that I was removed from his list.
He kept protesting that it was a "compliant email" , which seemed to make everything OK in his eyes. He didn't seem to understand the burden placed on his victims - stealing a minute to do the remove from each of those 2 million people is equivalent to 16 years of a full time job down the tubes. Serious lack of clues, on Bob's part.Eventually he agreed to take my email address and see that it was removed. We'll see if that actually happens.
They make excellent keywords in spam filters - no false positives so far based on those two (well, for me. YMMV).
I don't use games or interactive video, so can't comment on the latency issues there - just plain surfing the latency is not generally a problem. Personally, I can handle a .25 sec delay between a click and the time the download starts. If that's not quick enough for you, maybe it's time to cut down on the caffiene :-).
File downloads are really fast, with no FAP. However, uploads are severely limited in terms of speed - big attachments can take a long time to send.
Streaming audio works adequately for KPIG, Nascar races (including all their fancy applets), and hockey games.
I was warned strongly that the system was very weather sensitive, but have experienced no significant problems due to weather on my end, and only a couple or three outages due to severe thunderstorms at Starband's Florida ground station.
My employer's Windows-based VPN system does not work over Starband, but they warned me about that upfront. I don't know if it's a latency thing or they're just blocking the ports for some reason. No biggy, since my work travels well on a USB flash drive. SSH works - I use it to contact SourceForge and other places.
I use an old P-II system running WinProxy on Win98 to connect to the Starband modem. The P-II is connected to a Linksys wireless gateway, and my home network lives behind that.
There aren't any openly Creationistic articles in those journals purely because the editors simply refuse to run them, regardless of merit. Uh, no. It's because none of the articles submitted have any merit. How 'bout you show us a single instance of a pro-Creationist article published anywhere that meets the technical standards of the scientific community?
After I moved to the Santa Cruz mountains, I had a 2 month run-around with Pac Bell during which they said "yes, we can provide you with DSL" and "no, we can't". Turns out that my house can't get DSL, but my mailbox, which is almost 2 miles away, could. Not sure how they could confuse the two...
Anyway, StarBand was installed in August. Since then max download speeds have typically been in the 130..180KByte/sec range (for servers that can keep up). I was warned by other users that the system is "awful" during bad weather, but during gale force winds and 5"/day of rain a couple of weeks ago it still managed 30KByte/sec. Since the best the noisy land-line dialup ever managed was 1KByte/sec, that's more than acceptable. The only downtime that I noticed was for a few hours in September when a major thunderstorm blocked their NOC. YMMV.
If you're a big uploader, though, watch out. Upload speeds suck relative to the download capability, being not much faster than a 56kbit/sec modem on a clean phone line. Almost all my flow is down, though, so this isn't a biggy.
>There's also evidence from ancient times of people ten feet tall...
References for this evidence, please.
Check out products incorporating the NUON processor (formerly from VM Labs, recently bought out by Genesis Microchip), such as the Toshiba SD-2300 and Samsung N-2000, N-501, and N-504. NUON-enhanced DVDs contain additional info in the form of (tada!) HTML and Bob scripts - the DVDs play normally on regular players, the enhanced features are available on products like those above.
There are some NUON-enhanced DVDs available. You can also play games on these units, although it is by no means intended as a PS2/XBox/etc competitor. You can even download the NUON SDK and hack your own NUON programs! Check out the NUON dome for more info.
Disclaimer: I used to work for VM Labs. I don't anymore (left in September 2001), and have no business or financial connection with either VM Labs or Genesis Microchip. I still think the technology is pretty cool, though.
And does Pentium == Pentium II == Pentium !!! == Pentium Pro == Pentium IV? What about Celerons?
A bunch of extremely useful Unix tools ported to Windows can be found here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. For me, simply making this available to Windows users has frequently sparked an eventual migration toward Linux.
Yeh, this is a constant aggro for me as I try to develop JNLP based apps. I've already submitted one complaint about this, but it didn't make it into the bug parade. I just put in another, more strongly worded request - we'll see what happens.
In the meantime, you might want to consider OpenJNLP, which we're targetting for interim use until JavaWS works right.
For your install problem (separate JavaWS install on Linux), see Bug Parade 4636877 and get your votes in!
Basically, when you wanted to turn off the system, you would hit the Suspend button on the control panel (or an appropriate set of hotkeys). Your RAM image would then be flushed to a special disk partition, and the system would be powered down. At the next power on time, this partition was checked to determine if it was valid (I forget what the cookies were), and if it was, the boot loader would simply copy the contents of that partition to RAM.
It worked pretty well for me - I went months at a time of several power-on/power-off cycles per day without a real reboot.
Yeh, it is so quick to download 1MB of email over a slow wireless link (9.6 kbps, paying by the minute) only to find out that all of it is a spam-storm for toner bargains in Argentina.
Spam is theft. Whether it's one second or two hours of my time, it's still theft. Maybe you don't find burglaries inconvenient, but I sure as hell do.
This trick of referring unresolved addresses to a "Hey! Wanna buy a cheap watch?" website is pretty slimy, too.
So far as I can tell, the .biz registrars and their customers have the ethics and intelligence of a hungry leech. I'm unlikely to even visit .biz domains, much less actually buy one.
The Tajo environment on the Alto (basically, an IDE for the Mesa programming language) implemented overlapping windows. This later evolved into the MDE (Mesa Development Environment) on the 8000/6085 series, and was rechristened XDE (Xerox DE) in the late 80s.
The first release of the Star workstation software on the 8000 series machines used tiled windows. Overlapping windows were implemented in the following release.
As someone else pointed out, Atkinson may have been attempting to implement either clipping (drawing only exposed areas of a window) or cookie-cutters (windows bounded by arbitrary polygons). The Tajo/MDE API defined calls to support cookie-cutters, but these were never successfully implemented that I know of.
An alternate subject for this might be "Another Xerox GUI idea rises from the dustbin". Dunno how old Cliff is, but around 1982 the original Xerox Star/8000 desktop forced users to tile their documents (B&W on a 1024x768 display, if I recall correctly). General user community reaction was "Bleah!". Some folks liked it a lot, many didn't. The next software release included the option of choosing betweeen tiled and overlapped windows. [OK, the idea might not have been Xerox's originally, but it's the oldest one I'm acquainted with] Personally, I like to choose between the two models, and frequently find myself using a hybrid, with some windows tiled (whether in an MDI or within the wm) and some overlapping. Additionally, as I grow older, I find that even with a 21" 1600x1200 display, I require larger fonts. There are times when the amount of information required simply will not fit on a forced tiled screen, unless I make the font smaller and put my face right up next to the display. But basically, it's the old light beer question. Some people want one, some people want the other. Some people want both. As a side note, I must say that window managers that force the active window to the top of the stack of overlapped must die! Or at least be rewritten. I like my windows to stay where I put them, thank you.
It appears to be really toasted now - at 0020 PDT, I got a message saying the download center will be unavailable until 1800 PDT.