Thanks to both who replied. Apparently the free mail account I used to start the S@H account way back when is filtering their mail. I get enough spam in that inbox, you'd think they don't have any filters at all. Thanks again for the tips.
Six months or so ago, I stupidly lost my account password. Since then, I have been trying to get someone at SAH to respond to a request to send the password to the email address on my account. There's a Web form on the SAH site but as far as I can tell it does nothing. There's another one for general support questions, but again I've never even gotten a courtesy "we received your mail" reply.
There are no email addresses posted for SAH staff--and I can see why, with no responses to their automated system, their inboxes would be full. I even tried postmaster@berkeley.edu, and although I -did- get a response, it was the poor overwhelmed Cal postmaster who said he couldn't do anything about SAH.
Has anyone reading had this experience? Did you ever manage to get your password or did you just give up and start a new account? While not at the impressive Team Slashdot level, I've amassed 418 work units over 19955 computer hours, which seems worth keeping.
Okay, so make a movie from Cryptonomicon. You've got your scientist characters (Turing & co.), plus the WWII action, plus the best depiction of modern hackers (in the non-derogatory sense) as I've seen in print.
Of course the movie would have to be about three weeks long to do it justice...
I use Win2K Pro and get my mail from a POP3 server with Opera's email client. I'm not willing to downgrade to Outhouse, which both cloudmark's SpamNet and Deersoft's SpamAssassin Pro require. Any suggestions for a general POP3 solution for the Win32 platform?
P.S. - In fact, it's possible to count up to 32 using just one hand (think binary), but I've never met anyone who does it intuitively.
How many fingers do you have? With my thumb and four fingers, I can count to 11111b = 31d. Although until I saw your post I'd never thought of doing it...
I had one of those! Sinclair ZX80 Wow, that brings back memories. The thing had 4KB of RAM (not 4MB, 4KB!). My dad was trying to write a backgammon game; got as far as a cool animated dice-rolling routine before he ran out of memory. Wish I knew where it was, I think it was lost in a move several years ago or something.
A composer named Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass.
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There ought to be an exemption for poetry.
Tag was actually crying as he thanked all his friends and supporters before shutting it down. I just don't understand companies that try so hard to persecute their best customers. This is so sad.
it would rely on some extenssions to the Protocol that are not made widely available.
1. How do you keep those extensions out of the hands of the people you're trying to keep out?
2. Isn't nonstandard extensions to standard protocols exactly what people are up in arms about Microsoft doing with things like Java and HTML?
I used a handy set of binoculars and a white pad (at the office) and later a piece of white-painted wood (at home). The binocs produced very clear twin images, once I got them aligned properly.
At 6:15 or so I could clearly see the 75% occlusal.
Good thing my drive home is south/east so I didn't have to avoid looking out the window on the way home!
Cable TV service (like "music" or "software") isn't diminished by use. If you watch a program on cable TV, I can still watch the same program in my home without either of us experiencing any loss of viewing experience.
Pedantically, there is a certain amount of signal loss caused by each connection to the cable line. Too many "unauthorized" e.g. unknown-to-the-cable-company connections, and the signal quality for everyone connected to that line goes too low.
Which is why, when making an "unauthorized" connection, you should use a simple cable amplifier. These also block addressable boxes from "phoning home", by the way.
A whole weekend of "June Bugs" on Cartoon Network and "Daffy's Revenge" on Boomerang: I think I saw that particular cartoon about four times. And "Duck season! Wabbit season!" just about as many times. Ahh, life is good.
I'm not even close to being knowledgeable enough on networking to provide a useable response. I just thought it was funny reading the replies and seeing how they alternated just about one-for-one with "can't be done" and "should be easy, here's how".
Do the people who think it "can't be done" need more knowledge, or are the ones who say "should be easy, here's how" missing a vital point? Or maybe both?
I live in the Bay Area, Northern California, and I have DirecTV. Since they brought a second satellite online earlier this year, I now get every local broadcast station over the satellite receiver, for no more than I was previously paying for just the five network stations (Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS). Now we get WB and UPN and the local independant stations too.
If you have DirecTV or EchoStar and you're -not- getting all your locals, give them a call and see if you can. There was never any "can you receive with a rooftop antenna" question, I believe that regulation went away a few years ago when DirecTV and EchoStar started having local channels available.
I'm happy because I can get ch. 36 (A's games!) and 44 (Enterprise!) on the satellite now instead of trying to get them from the cable modem's split line...
CoS can easily guarantee an easy-to-find result on any Google search for "Scientology" or "Xenu" or any number of keywords. It's all spelled out right here.
Instead, they've decided that not only must Google show their search results on top, no one else's may be shown at all.
Too bad Google didn't stand their ground. I have to admit I've lost a bit of respect for them.
Rather than mirroring it (which I'm not saying is a bad idea, but I don't have time to do it myself right now), I have taken the list posted by OperatingThetan of URLs the CoS had Google remove, and converted them to a links list. I linked the list page innocuously on my own index page where Googlebot will be sure to find it next time it spiders me. The idea came from something I read on/. a while ago (can't recall the story reference, sorry) about how sites keep their older content current in Google by providing a basic list of links. If anyone can find the story I'm talking about, link it here, please, 'cause it explains the idea better than I am.
Uh.
Companies who want their software to be "Microsoft Logo Certified" must have the installation default to [Program Files]\[Company Name]\[Product Name]. There are quite a few other rules as well.
(That'll teach me to use > and <, huh?)
The other thing I hate about software installers is that they always want to install thier software in a folder named for the company rather than the product. Who really remebers that 'WidgetFandagler32' is made by 'OneProductSoftware', and to look it up by that name in their folder list.
Companies who want their software to be "Microsoft Logo Certified" must have the installation default to \\. There are quite a few other rules as well.
Unfortunately, the most commonly used installation package (InstallShield) requires that the end-user be a local administrator. Even if the software being installed does not need administrator-level goodies such as HKLM reg keys or All Users shortcuts, the InstallShield engine itself will not even launch if the user is not a local admin. Whee.
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Thanks to both who replied. Apparently the free mail account I used to start the S@H account way back when is filtering their mail. I get enough spam in that inbox, you'd think they don't have any filters at all. Thanks again for the tips.
Six months or so ago, I stupidly lost my account password. Since then, I have been trying to get someone at SAH to respond to a request to send the password to the email address on my account. There's a Web form on the SAH site but as far as I can tell it does nothing. There's another one for general support questions, but again I've never even gotten a courtesy "we received your mail" reply.
There are no email addresses posted for SAH staff--and I can see why, with no responses to their automated system, their inboxes would be full. I even tried postmaster@berkeley.edu, and although I -did- get a response, it was the poor overwhelmed Cal postmaster who said he couldn't do anything about SAH.
Has anyone reading had this experience? Did you ever manage to get your password or did you just give up and start a new account? While not at the impressive Team Slashdot level, I've amassed 418 work units over 19955 computer hours, which seems worth keeping.
Okay, so make a movie from Cryptonomicon. You've got your scientist characters (Turing & co.), plus the WWII action, plus the best depiction of modern hackers (in the non-derogatory sense) as I've seen in print.
Of course the movie would have to be about three weeks long to do it justice...
I use Win2K Pro and get my mail from a POP3 server with Opera's email client. I'm not willing to downgrade to Outhouse, which both cloudmark's SpamNet and Deersoft's SpamAssassin Pro require. Any suggestions for a general POP3 solution for the Win32 platform?
Putting Manhattan into orbit:Priceless.
So, take the Orion concept and combine with James Blish' Cities in Flight and there goes Manhattan...
Your last update is dated May 7 2002. Has anything new happened since?
I had one of those! Sinclair ZX80 Wow, that brings back memories. The thing had 4KB of RAM (not 4MB, 4KB!). My dad was trying to write a backgammon game; got as far as a cool animated dice-rolling routine before he ran out of memory.
Wish I knew where it was, I think it was lost in a move several years ago or something.
I was hoping to see a Calabi-Yau space, myself. How many 1x3's would that take?
A composer named Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass,
Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass.
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There ought to be an exemption for poetry.
Tag was actually crying as he thanked all his friends and supporters before shutting it down.
I just don't understand companies that try so hard to persecute their best customers. This is so sad.
2. Isn't nonstandard extensions to standard protocols exactly what people are up in arms about Microsoft doing with things like Java and HTML?
I used a handy set of binoculars and a white pad (at the office) and later a piece of white-painted wood (at home). The binocs produced very clear twin images, once I got them aligned properly.
At 6:15 or so I could clearly see the 75% occlusal.
Good thing my drive home is south/east so I didn't have to avoid looking out the window on the way home!
A whole weekend of "June Bugs" on Cartoon Network and "Daffy's Revenge" on Boomerang: I think I saw that particular cartoon about four times. And "Duck season! Wabbit season!" just about as many times. Ahh, life is good.
I'm not even close to being knowledgeable enough on networking to provide a useable response. I just thought it was funny reading the replies and seeing how they alternated just about one-for-one with "can't be done" and "should be easy, here's how".
Do the people who think it "can't be done" need more knowledge, or are the ones who say "should be easy, here's how" missing a vital point? Or maybe both?
Fascinating reading either way.
I sure wish you'd put some spoiler warnings in that post, or perhaps linked to a plot summary somewhere else. I hadn't gotten to Debt of Honor yet.
It was the first thing I thought when I read the story. Somehow *I* managed to avoid posting about it, though... ;)
I live in the Bay Area, Northern California, and I have DirecTV. Since they brought a second satellite online earlier this year, I now get every local broadcast station over the satellite receiver, for no more than I was previously paying for just the five network stations (Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS). Now we get WB and UPN and the local independant stations too.
If you have DirecTV or EchoStar and you're -not- getting all your locals, give them a call and see if you can. There was never any "can you receive with a rooftop antenna" question, I believe that regulation went away a few years ago when DirecTV and EchoStar started having local channels available.
I'm happy because I can get ch. 36 (A's games!) and 44 (Enterprise!) on the satellite now instead of trying to get them from the cable modem's split line...
That ep ("The Devil in the Dark") was on SciFi yesterday, by coincidence.
CoS can easily guarantee an easy-to-find result on any Google search for "Scientology" or "Xenu" or any number of keywords. It's all spelled out right here.
Instead, they've decided that not only must Google show their search results on top, no one else's may be shown at all.
Too bad Google didn't stand their ground. I have to admit I've lost a bit of respect for them.
Rather than mirroring it (which I'm not saying is a bad idea, but I don't have time to do it myself right now), I have taken the list posted by OperatingThetan of URLs the CoS had Google remove, and converted them to a links list. I linked the list page innocuously on my own index page where Googlebot will be sure to find it next time it spiders me. The idea came from something I read on /. a while ago (can't recall the story reference, sorry) about how sites keep their older content current in Google by providing a basic list of links. If anyone can find the story I'm talking about, link it here, please, 'cause it explains the idea better than I am.
Uh. Companies who want their software to be "Microsoft Logo Certified" must have the installation default to [Program Files]\[Company Name]\[Product Name]. There are quite a few other rules as well. (That'll teach me to use > and <, huh?)
Unfortunately, the most commonly used installation package (InstallShield) requires that the end-user be a local administrator. Even if the software being installed does not need administrator-level goodies such as HKLM reg keys or All Users shortcuts, the InstallShield engine itself will not even launch if the user is not a local admin. Whee.