I managed to snag a combo box of Aviator 2.1GHz wireless pcmcia cards (complete with 2 pcmcia->isa adaptors, shweet) at *spit*Fry's*spit* for $150.
I use them to surf on my laptop while downstairs and away from my DSL connected upstairs bedroom computer. They still worked when I took my laptop out to my car (about 150') to test range (and to start planning to do pretty much what you have in mind, a car mp3 player with connectivity so I don't have to remove the laptop to refresh the music).
They even came with a 2 user licence for wingate, which my be helpfull if your linux box (like mine) doesn't have any free isa slots but your winblows gamer box does.
I hereby propose payCmdrTaco.com to help Rob offset the burdens of having more money now that I will make in my entire life of flipping burgers for the Man/Clown. You, too, can help Rob for just 80 cents a day, or about $24 a month. --
Hell no it's NOT. We're using existing law to bitchslap a spammer. Not making new ones. This existing law doesn't harm our privacy, doesn't give any wiggle room that some of the state's laws give, ie the "well, what if I decide to sue somebody I do know for sending me (and only me) a single e-mail I didn't want (instead of bulk mailing something I didn't want)" winge.
There is no opt-out. There is no invasion of privacy (those spammers obviously wanted to be contacted, or they wouldn't be sending out communications) There is no new legistation (fraud, forgery and misrepresentation are already on the books).
In short, this could be just the ticket to stop spam. If forging headers is found illegal, then the spammers will have to use their real address. Then we can do a quick whois, hunt them down and kill them. Slowly. Uh- I mean, get their accounts cancelled.
New Sheistman Homes now come with phone jacks in almost 4 full rooms! Also, as a welcome gift, we supply you lucky home buyers with a "10 Free Hours" AOL cd! Now how much would you pay? BUT WAIT! There's more!
Along with the AOL cd comes a FREE top of the line, state of the art, and other assorted buzzwords, WinModem! <font face="flyspeck 3 lawyerese">(a $1.50 value. Installation and phone cords extra)</font>
All this and more, in your new Sheistman Home! Operators are standing by. --
>even putting destructive software one single, >stand-alone box that does not belong to you is a >crime, because you are damaging somebody's >property.
Oh boy, the OEMs gonna be in trouble when somebody finds out they've been installing Windows all these years!
Ten bucks says this is exactly what Micro$oft had in mind when they built this "feature" into lookOut. After they start charging the poor sheeple month-to-month to use their `OS' (giggle snort), they'll start the force feeding of advertisments.
They'll probably claim it's to help offset the cost of all the `innovating' they do. Sigh. Time to d/l the latest Debian. --
Man, I'm really bummed that I can't read the KKK's web site in Jive anymore- that was a blast.
But I really can't see how this is that big of a problem, considering the T'inator and that Jesus filter thing that do more or less the same thing as dialectizer.
With the popularity of the dialectizer soon to be severly diminished (how many times can you read the same ONE website in Redneck) why don't we just propagate the idea to all of our servers? Like DeCSS, but with higher load:) I'll happily run it on my 11-hits-a-month site!
...this thing has better emulation than the backwards-compatability of the PS2? I've worked on a PSX game (not as a coder tho), and the developers avoided Sony's buggy libs whenever possible. Might put in dent in the PS2 juggernaught-to-be and keep Sega kicking for a little while longer.
This was in a quicky about a year ago. Still pretty cool. I like to torture mine by holding him (Du-lou is his name, I think) upside down. He makes the most pathetic crys and shouts "Down! Down! Oh nooooo!".
This means I can finally pay cell phone charges to listen to radio quality music over the cell phone, instead of that free radio signal that I listen to over the radio.
how useful all these extra tld's would be if people would use them properly in the first place. Feh. More tlds == More $ for the registrars, as every company known to man fights to register their trademarks under all tlds available.
D'ya suppose this will have any effect on those auction search engine companies that e-Bay (sued|is suing)? Sure e-Bay owns the actual database of auctions, but they offer up the pages- if the free and open pages are then cataloged and deep-linked to, then e-Bay can go piss up a rope, no? --
Ah, fondly do I remember picking up and deciding on a Linksys PCMCIA eth' card specifically because it said "Linux" right on the box. Then I was pissed because the install directions were "Linux will automatically detect and configure the card."
A kernel patch and a PCMCIA update later, it did, in fact get automatically detected and configured, but still.
Regardless, now that that particular card is showing signs of dead-ness, methinks I'll be purchacing from Linksys again, because I can't afford a WaveLAN.:( --
Forgive me if I sound like a hopeless math luser, but how did you come to this number? 99.999% uptime tells me nothing. 99.999% of *what*? A year? A day? A nano-second? --
Something that may get overlooked is that many of these pages won't come anywhere near validation. Who's going to waste precious space on DTD statements and alt=""? We shouldn't assume that small pages are valid simply because they probably don't use a ton of tags. We definately shouldn't convey that attitude to the children. Won't somebody please think about the children?
Show me a page under 5k that validates, and I'll be impressed. Of course, I won't make any outward indication that I'm impressed, probably a contemptious "but it's supposed to validate ANYWAY" snort, but that's the way I am. --
What, so the VBC's with VB$'s can hire pro-baseball players while the little guy still has to content with the accounting department's weekend softball team? Sounds fair.
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I use them to surf on my laptop while downstairs and away from my DSL connected upstairs bedroom computer. They still worked when I took my laptop out to my car (about 150') to test range (and to start planning to do pretty much what you have in mind, a car mp3 player with connectivity so I don't have to remove the laptop to refresh the music).
They even came with a 2 user licence for wingate, which my be helpfull if your linux box (like mine) doesn't have any free isa slots but your winblows gamer box does.
Email me if you need more info.
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I hereby propose payCmdrTaco.com to help Rob offset the burdens of having more money now that I will make in my entire life of flipping burgers for the Man/Clown. You, too, can help Rob for just 80 cents a day, or about $24 a month.
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There is no opt-out.
There is no invasion of privacy (those spammers obviously wanted to be contacted, or they wouldn't be sending out communications)
There is no new legistation (fraud, forgery and misrepresentation are already on the books).
In short, this could be just the ticket to stop spam. If forging headers is found illegal, then the spammers will have to use their real address. Then we can do a quick whois, hunt them down and kill them. Slowly. Uh- I mean, get their accounts cancelled.
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Who wouldn't listen to a group like that?
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Or uh... so I've heard.
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New! Improved! Internet Ready Homes!
New Sheistman Homes now come with phone jacks in almost 4 full rooms! Also, as a welcome gift, we supply you lucky home buyers with a "10 Free Hours" AOL cd! Now how much would you pay? BUT WAIT! There's more!
Along with the AOL cd comes a FREE top of the line, state of the art, and other assorted buzzwords, WinModem! <font face="flyspeck 3 lawyerese">(a $1.50 value. Installation and phone cords extra)</font>
All this and more, in your new Sheistman Home!
Operators are standing by.
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>even putting destructive software one single,
>stand-alone box that does not belong to you is a
>crime, because you are damaging somebody's
>property.
Oh boy, the OEMs gonna be in trouble when somebody finds out they've been installing Windows all these years!
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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They'll probably claim it's to help offset the cost of all the `innovating' they do. Sigh. Time to d/l the latest Debian.
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Man, I'm really bummed that I can't read the KKK's web site in Jive anymore- that was a blast.
:) I'll happily run it on my 11-hits-a-month site!
But I really can't see how this is that big of a problem, considering the T'inator and that Jesus filter thing that do more or less the same thing as dialectizer.
With the popularity of the dialectizer soon to be severly diminished (how many times can you read the same ONE website in Redneck) why don't we just propagate the idea to all of our servers? Like DeCSS, but with higher load
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I tried to go to this "slashdot.org" place that all these news sites mention this morning, but it's totally slashdoted. Does anybody have a mirror?
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...this thing has better emulation than the backwards-compatability of the PS2? I've worked on a PSX game (not as a coder tho), and the developers avoided Sony's buggy libs whenever possible. Might put in dent in the PS2 juggernaught-to-be and keep Sega kicking for a little while longer.
/me looks dejectedly at old Sega Saturn
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Hell, my 8-track has USB.
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This was in a quicky about a year ago. Still pretty cool. I like to torture mine by holding him (Du-lou is his name, I think) upside down. He makes the most pathetic crys and shouts "Down! Down! Oh nooooo!".
Yes, I am easily amused.
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This means I can finally pay cell phone charges to listen to radio quality music over the cell phone, instead of that free radio signal that I listen to over the radio.
Hey... wait a minute...
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Around the same time as when it becomes impractical/impossible for a Congressman/woman/critter to be bought.
Suffice to say, not soon.
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how useful all these extra tld's would be if people would use them properly in the first place. Feh. More tlds == More $ for the registrars, as every company known to man fights to register their trademarks under all tlds available.
Feh I say, Feh.
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Only if he were asking for a reference to the Dewey decimal system.
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D'ya suppose this will have any effect on those auction search engine companies that e-Bay (sued|is suing)? Sure e-Bay owns the actual database of auctions, but they offer up the pages- if the free and open pages are then cataloged and deep-linked to, then e-Bay can go piss up a rope, no?
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HTH. HAND.
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A kernel patch and a PCMCIA update later, it did, in fact get automatically detected and configured, but still.
Regardless, now that that particular card is showing signs of dead-ness, methinks I'll be purchacing from Linksys again, because I can't afford a WaveLAN. :(
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Forgive me if I sound like a hopeless math luser, but how did you come to this number? 99.999% uptime tells me nothing. 99.999% of *what*? A year? A day? A nano-second?
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Please join me in singing "Blame Canada", the Fart Joke's Solidarity Front's theme song.
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Show me a page under 5k that validates, and I'll be impressed. Of course, I won't make any outward indication that I'm impressed, probably a contemptious "but it's supposed to validate ANYWAY" snort, but that's the way I am.
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When oh when will they go out and hire some real experts?
Simple. When the experts are willing to say what the gubmint wants to hear.
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What, so the VBC's with VB$'s can hire pro-baseball players while the little guy still has to content with the accounting department's weekend softball team? Sounds fair.
Feh.
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