My ex-girlfriend (lets call her Miss Understood) and her friend (lets call he Babs) were both riding in her sister' car (lets call her Zelma). Babs looks over at Zelma's speedometer and makes a vocal note that the speedo in her car only goes to 85 mph, while Zelma's goes to 120 mph. After a few gear rotations in Babs's melon, she speaks out with, "I guess your 85mph is faster than my 85mph"
......um....ya...Just because I know how to read the MB's of a HD, doesn't mean I know anything about marine biology. So why should I sue the local fish market for selling Jumbo Shrimp?
What a great idea to limit bandwidth usage. Hookup up a C64 as a firewall and *presto* you are blocking ports and keeping the P2P usage down to 2K/sec. Burn the firewall code to a start-up cartridge ROM, make the C64 run off a 12V battery with a DC-DC converter for the needed +/-5V. Throw the whole thing in a black box with a solar panel on top and sell it as the next big thing in network security.
I worked as a contractor for EBS in Portland in 2000. at the time, the hectic schedules, rotating management and failed deadlines seemed like normal american business procedures. one of my main concerns was all the $$$$$$ enron was dumping in brand new equipment and man power. i heard the sun contractors get $300/hr, so if you talked to them for 15 minutes while getting a friday bagel, you just cost enron $250.:)
Looking back on it now, the broadband scam is crystal clear. everything we did was smoke and mirrors, the biggest trick was fooling the employees into thinking that they were getting something done. And boy were we fooled, the exaggerated salaries, free cell phones, PDA's, laptops, hi-powered sun workstations, etc.
Q:Who would complain about that?
A:no one.
we all slowly got laid off or quit. the internet bubble had burst and the $1 billion that went into EBS was gone. The few broadcasted events we did were done on a lick and a promise, after blockbuster and msn bailed on our biggest contracts, we have cards left in our deck. RIP EBS.
after taking every electronics class offered at community college (100+ credits), i transferred to state to persue my EE. i guess it was mostly my shock and utter disappointment to find out that a vast majority of the classes were all theory. i must have been spoiled in community college by the small classes, cheaper tuition and better teacher/student interaction during lab time. watching new students trying to install a diode as a capacitor can be funny the first couple times, but the serious lack of lab time really makes one think that colleges are more of a cookie-cutter puppy mill rather than a positive learning institution for the future generation.
I think about building a house all the time, so I am always interested in different home designs. I live close to the city (Portland, Oregon) so I see old/new houses as well as old/new buildings. Some which are pushing 100+ years old. I like the thought of being self-sufficient in regards to land, food, energy, etc, as well have the option to expand my dream home if need be. In the past few years I have tinkered around with solar energy to expand my knowledge of a clean-energy lifestyle.
I recently came across solar pyramid home design. While these homes are not anywhere near most people's visions of what a home should be. I like their uniqueness, as well as their structural integrity from storms, earthquakes, etc.
As a guitar player, this sounds like a bad idea. whenever you create more connections/contacters which rely on a fixed signal, your fudge factor increases. I have broken so many guitar cords in my life by just stepping on them and/or falling off the stage.
plus- how are roadies going to figure out the wiring sequence?
Pin 1 >> Pin 3
Pin 2 >> Pin 6
Pin 3 >> Pin 1
Pin 6 >> Pin 2
A few months ago I found this site and forwarded it on to my friend who sent it to his dad (who is 80+ years old now and has lived in the SF East Bay his whole life). I also thought this might have been a nuclear explosion. here are his comments:
Your friend (lsd4all) presents an interesting 'supposition', but in my judgement has little practical possibility. Of course both of your sets of grandparents heard and felt the blasts at the time in Richmond & Albany - It shook up those areas plenty, and with great noise. Per the loading records of ammunition & H.E., put on the Bryan as cited, plus the tonnage still on the dock to be loaded, there was an approximate total of 10 million pounds of explosives. These would be in many forms - some shock sensitive, most heat sensitive, and probably ALL sensitive to minor sources of flame or static electrical discharges that might be generated by unsafe handling. That is a tremendous poundage of explosives in a concentrated area! I would say the timing of this occurence was way off considering that it was considerably later before the first atomic bomb was put together and exploded in SW desert which occured about early June 1945. Don't forget, our people were rushing like hell to get this into a useable form and produced.
We, (all service personnel in the States) were secretly shown the films of the test explosion shortly after it was test fired, sworn to not comment on it. Probably as a morale booster, as we all were anticipating early orders to participate in the invasion of Japan's islands. Another point - if the Port Chicago was an U-235 bomb, radiation contamination and poisoning would have been prompt and spreaded throughout the central Calif area, and persisted, with multiple radiation burns & residuals. That didn't happen. I lost a good local schoolmate in the explosion. Ensign Charles Riley - an Albany boy about 6 months or so older than me, and who lived on Albany Terrace - a 1 block long street off of the 1000 block of Neilson St. - a block & 1/2 East of Mom's house. He was on duty on the dock helping supervise the all black enlisted crew doing the loading. They never found him. Another much larger ammunition ship blew up during the war while at anchor in the South Pacific port - in '43 or '44 - as I recall at Ulithi harbor . It vaporized the ship and sank or blew up 5 or 6 other vessels anchored nearby. There were probably a hundred or more vessel in the huge harbor including fighting naval ships as well as supply ships. This was fairly near (by south pacific distances) to where my brother , Ed, was stationed in the Admiralty Islands. The black enlisted men in the navy at Port Chicago did get a raw deal there with their court martial. Blatant segregation - Navy was infamous for this - and they got all the dirty , dangerous, physical work of loading. They also got little or no consideration for the shock and stress and emotional harm done them by the explosion and subsequent events. Signs of the times. Also, Navy probably wanted to set an example against any type of actions that could lead to other areas experiencing mutinies or low morale of troops, or or giving any welcome news to the enemy. These were strange times.
Most of the posts I see for fav games are for Mario Bros 99999 & Shooting Guy in 3-D: the Extreme Bloody version.
I remember truly addicting games like Tetris (how many of you had nightmares about this?), Neuromancer for the C64 and Herzog Zwei for Sega Genesis (the best two person wargame EVER on 16-bit)
If you want you kids to learn how to use any OS and/or PC hardware, here is what you do:
1) Show them the latest and greatest games, apps or chat-programs, etc.
2) Let them use it for few days.
3) Erase the OS and dismantle the computer in front of their teary eyes.
4) Tell them if they can't use it until they put it back together and re-install the OS.*Tough Love*
Nowadays used PC parts are so cheap who cares if the hard drive falls down the stairs or a if mouse is destroyed.
people always ask me how i know so much about computers and OS's. My answer is simple, GAMES. How else would I have ever figured out TCP, IPX, OPEN GL, video card secrets and what the heck DMA is for.
I guess Corporate America now has a good reason to fire half of the IT department.
IT Guy: Hi this is trevor in IT, do you need any help? worker_bee_2762366: nope. IT Guy: i can come to your desk and clean you mouse balls. worker_bee_2762366: stay away from me or I will call HR. IT Guy: maybe you need some new AV updates. worker_bee_2762366: after we switched to redhat, i dont get viruses anymore. *silence* IT Guy: *sigh*
This reminds me of that group of people who wanted to start an offshore, man-made, floating country and call it Oceania. In theory it sounds kind of interesting but it wouldn't take long for all the whacked-out drugs users to pull the cork on this Utopian farce.
For those of you who aren't aware, this is Cypress Creek.
The 'Deadbeat bidders' article interested me the most. I do a fair share of eBay selling and I keep track of all my auctions in a spreadsheet. I would say 10% of my 300+ auctions had deadbeat bidders and 30% of the winning bidders never leave feedback. At first I was pissed after waiting 2-3 weeks before giving up on the bidder. Now I just look at the bidding history of my 'deadbeat' auction and contact the next highest bidder(s). Usually the 2nd and 3rd highest bids are only a few bucks shy of the highest bidder's price so I don't lose money on eBay's fees and I haven't had to re-list and item and pay double listing/auction fees. I have also had people with 20-50+ feedbacks just bail on eBay auctions altogether so the honesty system of pos/neg feedback has some flaws in it.
As if things are bad enough under the surface, eBay just finished its business absorption of PayPal. PayPal has it's own fraudulent problems, especially with credit card fraud. Check out PayPal warning. The stories on this website scare me because I use PayPal regularly but now I tend to withdraw all but $1.35 from my account just to be safe.
A simple circuit using a window/door burglar alarm magnetic switch which Radio Shack still sells could be used. Create a simple buzzer or light actuated alarm circuit with one of the magnet switches attached to her hand. Maybe even add a delay of 5-10 seconds to avoid false alarms, just in case the hand passes by the switch on accident.
Or replace the magnetic portion of this circuit with a light sensor and when the beam of light is broken. *BING*
I ust picked up a Rio MP3 Reciever. It has a built-in ethernet jack and a nice dial and buttons so you can scroll through your latest exploits to perform on compromised networks.
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ya' know, this future email got me thinking. Is there a way to carbon date something that has existed yet?
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins sung by Leonard Nimoy. i am cold, so very cold...
Powerskips - supercharged pogo-stilts
damn it. I was hoping no one would catch that. Ok, I forgot to add the DC-AC inverter for the 9VAC.
My ex-girlfriend (lets call her Miss Understood) and her friend (lets call he Babs) were both riding in her sister' car (lets call her Zelma). Babs looks over at Zelma's speedometer and makes a vocal note that the speedo in her car only goes to 85 mph, while Zelma's goes to 120 mph. After a few gear rotations in Babs's melon, she speaks out with, "I guess your 85mph is faster than my 85mph"
......um....ya...Just because I know how to read the MB's of a HD, doesn't mean I know anything about marine biology. So why should I sue the local fish market for selling Jumbo Shrimp?
What a great idea to limit bandwidth usage. Hookup up a C64 as a firewall and *presto* you are blocking ports and keeping the P2P usage down to 2K/sec. Burn the firewall code to a start-up cartridge ROM, make the C64 run off a 12V battery with a DC-DC converter for the needed +/-5V. Throw the whole thing in a black box with a solar panel on top and sell it as the next big thing in network security.
this hydrogen cracker is better
I worked as a contractor for EBS in Portland in 2000. at the time, the hectic schedules, rotating management and failed deadlines seemed like normal american business procedures. one of my main concerns was all the $$$$$$ enron was dumping in brand new equipment and man power. i heard the sun contractors get $300/hr, so if you talked to them for 15 minutes while getting a friday bagel, you just cost enron $250. :)
Looking back on it now, the broadband scam is crystal clear. everything we did was smoke and mirrors, the biggest trick was fooling the employees into thinking that they were getting something done. And boy were we fooled, the exaggerated salaries, free cell phones, PDA's, laptops, hi-powered sun workstations, etc.
Q:Who would complain about that?
A:no one.
we all slowly got laid off or quit. the internet bubble had burst and the $1 billion that went into EBS was gone. The few broadcasted events we did were done on a lick and a promise, after blockbuster and msn bailed on our biggest contracts, we have cards left in our deck. RIP EBS.
after taking every electronics class offered at community college (100+ credits), i transferred to state to persue my EE. i guess it was mostly my shock and utter disappointment to find out that a vast majority of the classes were all theory. i must have been spoiled in community college by the small classes, cheaper tuition and better teacher/student interaction during lab time. watching new students trying to install a diode as a capacitor can be funny the first couple times, but the serious lack of lab time really makes one think that colleges are more of a cookie-cutter puppy mill rather than a positive learning institution for the future generation.
I think about building a house all the time, so I am always interested in different home designs. I live close to the city (Portland, Oregon) so I see old/new houses as well as old/new buildings. Some which are pushing 100+ years old. I like the thought of being self-sufficient in regards to land, food, energy, etc, as well have the option to expand my dream home if need be. In the past few years I have tinkered around with solar energy to expand my knowledge of a clean-energy lifestyle.
I recently came across solar pyramid home design. While these homes are not anywhere near most people's visions of what a home should be. I like their uniqueness, as well as their structural integrity from storms, earthquakes, etc.
i guess i should have included my love for the analog sound in my original post.
turn offs : digitally processed effects and rude people
turn ons : valve amplifiers and walks on the beach
As a guitar player, this sounds like a bad idea. whenever you create more connections/contacters which rely on a fixed signal, your fudge factor increases. I have broken so many guitar cords in my life by just stepping on them and/or falling off the stage.
plus- how are roadies going to figure out the wiring sequence? Pin 1 >> Pin 3 Pin 2 >> Pin 6 Pin 3 >> Pin 1 Pin 6 >> Pin 2
A few months ago I found this site and forwarded it on to my friend who sent it to his dad (who is 80+ years old now and has lived in the SF East Bay his whole life). I also thought this might have been a nuclear explosion. here are his comments:
Your friend (lsd4all) presents an interesting 'supposition', but in my judgement has little practical possibility. Of course both of your sets of grandparents heard and felt the blasts at the time in Richmond & Albany - It shook up those areas plenty, and with great noise. Per the loading records of ammunition & H.E., put on the Bryan as cited, plus the tonnage still on the dock to be loaded, there was an approximate total of 10 million pounds of explosives. These would be in many forms - some shock sensitive, most heat sensitive, and probably ALL sensitive to minor sources of flame or static electrical discharges that might be generated by unsafe handling. That is a tremendous poundage of explosives in a concentrated area! I would say the timing of this occurence was way off considering that it was considerably later before the first atomic bomb was put together and exploded in SW desert which occured about early June 1945. Don't forget, our people were rushing like hell to get this into a useable form and produced. We, (all service personnel in the States) were secretly shown the films of the test explosion shortly after it was test fired, sworn to not comment on it. Probably as a morale booster, as we all were anticipating early orders to participate in the invasion of Japan's islands. Another point - if the Port Chicago was an U-235 bomb, radiation contamination and poisoning would have been prompt and spreaded throughout the central Calif area, and persisted, with multiple radiation burns & residuals. That didn't happen. I lost a good local schoolmate in the explosion. Ensign Charles Riley - an Albany boy about 6 months or so older than me, and who lived on Albany Terrace - a 1 block long street off of the 1000 block of Neilson St. - a block & 1/2 East of Mom's house. He was on duty on the dock helping supervise the all black enlisted crew doing the loading. They never found him. Another much larger ammunition ship blew up during the war while at anchor in the South Pacific port - in '43 or '44 - as I recall at Ulithi harbor . It vaporized the ship and sank or blew up 5 or 6 other vessels anchored nearby. There were probably a hundred or more vessel in the huge harbor including fighting naval ships as well as supply ships. This was fairly near (by south pacific distances) to where my brother , Ed, was stationed in the Admiralty Islands. The black enlisted men in the navy at Port Chicago did get a raw deal there with their court martial. Blatant segregation - Navy was infamous for this - and they got all the dirty , dangerous, physical work of loading. They also got little or no consideration for the shock and stress and emotional harm done them by the explosion and subsequent events. Signs of the times. Also, Navy probably wanted to set an example against any type of actions that could lead to other areas experiencing mutinies or low morale of troops, or or giving any welcome news to the enemy. These were strange times.
Most of the posts I see for fav games are for Mario Bros 99999 & Shooting Guy in 3-D: the Extreme Bloody version.
I remember truly addicting games like Tetris (how many of you had nightmares about this?), Neuromancer for the C64 and Herzog Zwei for Sega Genesis (the best two person wargame EVER on 16-bit)
If you want you kids to learn how to use any OS and/or PC hardware, here is what you do:
1) Show them the latest and greatest games, apps or chat-programs, etc.
2) Let them use it for few days.
3) Erase the OS and dismantle the computer in front of their teary eyes.
4) Tell them if they can't use it until they put it back together and re-install the OS.*Tough Love*
Nowadays used PC parts are so cheap who cares if the hard drive falls down the stairs or a if mouse is destroyed.
people always ask me how i know so much about computers and OS's. My answer is simple, GAMES. How else would I have ever figured out TCP, IPX, OPEN GL, video card secrets and what the heck DMA is for.
+ Born on March 6, 1946 in Cambridge.
+ Replaced guitarist, Syd Barrett, in Pink Floyd.
+ He also enjoys flying his planes and owns the Intrepid Aviation Company.
+ Had a few solo albums and also worked with Kate Bush.
+ Close friend of the late Douglas Adams.
+ Hates Roger Waters.
I guess Corporate America now has a good reason to fire half of the IT department.
IT Guy: Hi this is trevor in IT, do you need any help?
worker_bee_2762366: nope.
IT Guy: i can come to your desk and clean you mouse balls.
worker_bee_2762366: stay away from me or I will call HR.
IT Guy: maybe you need some new AV updates.
worker_bee_2762366: after we switched to redhat, i dont get viruses anymore.
*silence*
IT Guy: *sigh*
This reminds me of that group of people who wanted to start an offshore, man-made, floating country and call it Oceania. In theory it sounds kind of interesting but it wouldn't take long for all the whacked-out drugs users to pull the cork on this Utopian farce.
For those of you who aren't aware, this is Cypress Creek.
The 'Deadbeat bidders' article interested me the most. I do a fair share of eBay selling and I keep track of all my auctions in a spreadsheet. I would say 10% of my 300+ auctions had deadbeat bidders and 30% of the winning bidders never leave feedback. At first I was pissed after waiting 2-3 weeks before giving up on the bidder. Now I just look at the bidding history of my 'deadbeat' auction and contact the next highest bidder(s). Usually the 2nd and 3rd highest bids are only a few bucks shy of the highest bidder's price so I don't lose money on eBay's fees and I haven't had to re-list and item and pay double listing/auction fees. I have also had people with 20-50+ feedbacks just bail on eBay auctions altogether so the honesty system of pos/neg feedback has some flaws in it.
As if things are bad enough under the surface, eBay just finished its business absorption of PayPal. PayPal has it's own fraudulent problems, especially with credit card fraud. Check out PayPal warning. The stories on this website scare me because I use PayPal regularly but now I tend to withdraw all but $1.35 from my account just to be safe.
Oh great. I only needed one more reason to go to RS.
I think it was on C64 and I think it was a game mod for the Color 64 BBS.
was it hummarabi? or something to that spelling.
A simple circuit using a window/door burglar alarm magnetic switch which Radio Shack still sells could be used. Create a simple buzzer or light actuated alarm circuit with one of the magnet switches attached to her hand. Maybe even add a delay of 5-10 seconds to avoid false alarms, just in case the hand passes by the switch on accident.
Or replace the magnetic portion of this circuit with a light sensor and when the beam of light is broken. *BING*
I ust picked up a Rio MP3 Reciever. It has a built-in ethernet jack and a nice dial and buttons so you can scroll through your latest exploits to perform on compromised networks.