I remember watching a BBC documentary about a Japanese "researcher" who was on a quest to find out what happened with the brain of Einstein.
The Japanese guy was a bit potty, and the only English he knew was "Am looking for Einstein brain". He kept asking that to anyone the BBC got on film. He went completely out of his mind when he finally got hold of a little bit of brain material. Apparently he was some kind of professor but I didn't really get a scientific impression of him. In fact, I thought he was a loony...
The documentary did make clear that some *very* strange things happened with Einstein's brain, as somebody else already noted...
I don't know how Nullsoft made their funding from 1997 till today. Does anyone know? But whoever gave them money in that period must be a very happy person right now...
I have been using Mandrake 5.3 for a while, and was delighted to hear that RedHat was going to include KDE in RedHat 6.0. I assumed that RedHat was going to take notice of the usability enhancements of Mandrake but I must say I was a bit disappointed when I installed RH6.0. It's still a great server distribution (I make my living with it;-) but for the beginning user, I like Mandrake better. For instance:
- Everyone using KDE should run Appfinder after installation. Point is, RedHat *broke* the Appfinder.
- KDE 1.1.1 instead of a prerelease
- More KDE apps and toys bundled.
- More icons on the desktop, such as Netscape, GIMP, CD-ROM, floppy etc. Nicer backgrounds;-)
- With Mandrake, if you click on the CD-ROM or floppy as a normal user, it gets mounted automagically. I have a hard time explaining new users why they have to edit/etc/fstab to make this work under RH6.0
- Mandrake distributes ISO images. I screwed up a CD-R while making a bootable RH 6.0 image. (I wanted to add KDE 1.1.1, various contrib junk and crypto stuff from ftp.replay.com). My own fault, of course, but still, CD(-image)s are a boon for new users.
When I just got my ADSL line at home, I stumbled upon the Farnsworth Chronicles. Fascinating story. I stayed up late until 3 in the morning to read about them. Admittedly, this guy didn't receive the credits where credits are due, but I still got the feeling he was no better than the rest. Everyone wants to be the Bill Gates of his time, isn't it?
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I remember reading that programmer/writer/journalist Charles Petzold has (had?) a tattoo of the Windows logo.
Now, if you're a user, it's fine with me that you get yourself tattooed. But a journalist is supposed to be independent, right?
Besides, I also remember reading that Petzold was emberassed when it was exposed that he had this tattoo. I suppose he only wanted to show it to MS officials, as the secret ultimate proof of his loyality...?
Mr. Sergeant is using a URL redirecter hosted by Plant. Those are the guys who are running NT and having the problems. I don't know about Mr. Sergeant's site.
BTW, "The server appears to be not available"? Appears? How's that for an understatement by Microsoft...
I couldn't get to 206.251.0.167 either with my normal provider. Then I used another proxy server (my work's;-) and got to Counting Down where they mention several other mirrors.
I got the trailer from the UK at almost 100 Kbps (kissing my ADSL modem right now;-)....
Considering that Dell has always boasted that they don't do R&D and by following "industry standards" (i.e. Wintel) they keep the costs down, this announcement doesn't make sense...
I agree with CNNfn that Dell's service for servers isn't up to specs. When we asked about servers with a couple of special requirements (no OS installed, Linux compatible etc.) they didn't even respond. The only thing they did was to put me on their mailinglist and now I get my monthly share of snailmail spam...:-(
I don't see what IBM has to gain out of this. Except for the money perhaps.
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I remember watching a BBC documentary about a Japanese "researcher" who was on a quest to find out what happened with the brain of Einstein.
The Japanese guy was a bit potty, and the only English he knew was "Am looking for Einstein brain". He kept asking that to anyone the BBC got on film. He went completely out of his mind when he finally got hold of a little bit of brain material. Apparently he was some kind of professor but I didn't really get a scientific impression of him. In fact, I thought he was a loony...
The documentary did make clear that some *very* strange things happened with Einstein's brain, as somebody else already noted...
Theory #1: they need more people because they think they are not quite up to the task with the current number.
;-)
..or...
Theory #2: they need other people because they think they are not quite up to the task with the current people, i.e. they are not good enough at it.
Either way, this sounds like good news for us!
Surely this can't be true! Can it?
I don't know how Nullsoft made their funding from 1997 till today. Does anyone know? But whoever gave them money in that period must be a very happy person right now...
I have been using Mandrake 5.3 for a while, and was delighted to hear that RedHat was going to include KDE in RedHat 6.0. I assumed that RedHat was going to take notice of the usability enhancements of Mandrake but I must say I was a bit disappointed when I installed RH6.0. It's still a great server distribution (I make my living with it ;-) but for the beginning user, I like Mandrake better. For instance:
;-)
/etc/fstab to make this work under RH6.0
- Everyone using KDE should run Appfinder after installation. Point is, RedHat *broke* the Appfinder.
- KDE 1.1.1 instead of a prerelease
- More KDE apps and toys bundled.
- More icons on the desktop, such as Netscape, GIMP, CD-ROM, floppy etc. Nicer backgrounds
- With Mandrake, if you click on the CD-ROM or floppy as a normal user, it gets mounted automagically. I have a hard time explaining new users why they have to edit
- Mandrake distributes ISO images. I screwed up a CD-R while making a bootable RH 6.0 image. (I wanted to add KDE 1.1.1, various contrib junk and crypto stuff from ftp.replay.com). My own fault, of course, but still, CD(-image)s are a boon for new users.
Cisco had (has?) a competition for the oldest router still in use. You could win the latest gear from them.
:-)
Although I sincerely hope that those old routers are not connected to the Internet anymore, due to security bugs in the firmware and all that...
Nice guys win before the race has even started.
You got a girlfriend? The Frenchman does... ;-)
All you have to know is how to do boolean searches against the Dejanews database.
I often search for the exact error message. 9 out of 10 times it's there, with several Re: replies...
"[from] Larry Ellison saying he'd like to take his MIG up to Redmond".
;-)
Hehe. Wouldn't we all?
You have to know that Ellison is so filthy rich that he bought himself a Russian MIG.
(On the other hand, Gates is also filthy rich so who knows he has bought himself some discarded SDI equipment...)
Sounds like a "buy this share" scheme to me...
And yes, I am too lazy to cut-n-paste! So it is appreciated (if done right ;-)
But granted, it's for a Good Cause... ;-)
When I just got my ADSL line at home, I stumbled upon the Farnsworth Chronicles. Fascinating story. I stayed up late until 3 in the morning to read about them. Admittedly, this guy didn't receive the credits where credits are due, but I still got the feeling he was no better than the rest. Everyone wants to be the Bill Gates of his time, isn't it?
I remember reading that programmer/writer/journalist Charles Petzold has (had?) a tattoo of the Windows logo.
Now, if you're a user, it's fine with me that you get yourself tattooed. But a journalist is supposed to be independent, right?
Besides, I also remember reading that Petzold was emberassed when it was exposed that he had this tattoo. I suppose he only wanted to show it to MS officials, as the secret ultimate proof of his loyality ...?
BTW, "The server appears to be not available"? Appears? How's that for an understatement by Microsoft...
I don't see what's the problem...
Hehehe ;-) Zen rules!
I wish I had a VCR back then... Anyone have samples or movies from the series?
Surely this can't be good for your wrists, eh? ;-)
I got the trailer from the UK at almost 100 Kbps (kissing my ADSL modem right now ;-)....
Considering that Dell has always boasted that they don't do R&D and by following "industry standards" (i.e. Wintel) they keep the costs down, this announcement doesn't make sense...
:-(
I agree with CNNfn that Dell's service for servers isn't up to specs. When we asked about servers with a couple of special requirements (no OS installed, Linux compatible etc.) they didn't even respond. The only thing they did was to put me on their mailinglist and now I get my monthly share of snailmail spam...
I don't see what IBM has to gain out of this. Except for the money perhaps.
Just kidding... :-)
What is this? Binary code?
In the words of Alan Cox: Owing to repeated refusal by ATI to provide any useful documentation the ATI TV card is not supported. I strongly recommend you look at non ATI card combinations if you want TV on PC .
... in the streets of Rio can't be wrong!