That makes two of us. The game was wonderful, and challenging, with lots of options. Vectored thrust made it hard for anyone who didn't understand physics to play.
I have not been able to find a copy of it in any arcade game systems.
This is supposed to be Canada's version of the Electronic Freedom Foundation...but their website has disappeared...it used to be at www.efc.ca, but I can't even ping the place.
This is the group that should be at the forefront of attacking this piece of stupid legislation! Where the Fsck are they?!?!
ttyl
Farrell McGovern
Who still wonders what happened to my EFC membership...
Data formats are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of storage of data...and an upcomming catatrophy of data that is useless because we don't have either backwards compatiblity with data reading formats or documentation on how to read old formats...Imagine how much data is sitting out there, in some cases litterly rotting, that might be of use to someone, somewhere, but no one really knows how to read it anymore.
Another problem I have is the fact that we are digitally recording music these days, and I am sorry, 16 bit 44.1 KHz is just way to small a sampling size/rate to properly perserve our classic music today. And I am talking about all Music, stuff that hundreds of years from now will be considered "classical" music...even if we call it "rock", "punk" "easylistening", etc.
When will the stupid Fcks in the US Government realize there are hundreds of thousands of people who would pay just about anything to get into space, even if only for a few minutes! I admit, I am one...and I personally know hundreds of others.
So, we have the Russians taking advantage of this,and NASA choosing bad shuttle replacement technology, then scrapping the program...and a huge market just waiting to be opened up! Ask an around about how much something that has been in space is worth. Every shuttle crew that goes up has a personal allowence for each member, and many times they take up stuff to re-sell for thousands of dollars stuff that only cost tens of dollars.
Then we get NASA and the US Government refusing to allow private launches so that people have to go off-shore to launch to try to claim the X Prize!!! ARRGGHHH!!!
Well, I did start back in the kernel v0.12 days, when there was just a boot and a root disk...and when we got hard drive support, manually installing things...SLS was nice, but then I switched to Slackware (for religious reasons), I haven't changed yet. I've tried lots of different distros, and try and have a Red Hat version running just to keep up with that distro, since it is popular...but besides Slackware, the only other distro I use regularly is Tom's Ultimate Boot/Root disk...it's a lifesaver when you are a consultant...being able to walk in in and just boot it, and fix whatever people have screwed up.
Slackware and Toms, both keeping the heart of the Linux movement alive.
I guess it only affects Windows users who have to use their ISP's smtp host to send mail...
That is, if you have an email account that is not the one in their domain, and you want your replies to go to it, you can't do it now...only if you are using windows. Unless they have a filtering firewall that is between their customers and the net...but I don't think they are *that*stupid.
Reading all the articles and letters, it seems that Verisign is loosing a great deal of business, and is seeking a way to attack their competitors by hoodwinking ICANN with a blatant misrepresentation of the situation.
Basically, most people have their ISPs manage their domains for them, and when the ISP moves from Verisign to someone else, Verisign drags their feet so much that the ISP has to attempt a second time to move the domain...and then if they can drag it out long enough, Verisign trys and forces the domain owner to pay for another years
worth of registration before they will allow the ISP to move it off Verisign!
So, Tucows called them out on it, and the letter that prompted this discussion was Verisigns response. Pretty lame.
It's nice to see a company with integrety these days...in the article, they are quoted as saying that they will not compromise their editorial integrety, and thus paid ads appear as separate links, clearly ads, and not in the returned listings. Way to go Google!
I've worked with IBM software in various different projects that I have been involved with over the years...from Bluebox Novell Netware, AN/ICLAS, to OS/2 and AVC(Audio Visual Connect, aka UltimediaBuilder/2), and I have been very pleased with the level of support IBM has given me...but that support has always been with IBM branded software, for example, Novell. Although it was a third party (outside of IBM), IBM did a good job of making sure that on IBM hardware, all options were supported, and all IBM current hardware was supported. If there was a problem with drivers or such for IBM hardware, then IBM provided the fix...unless Novell already had one.
My question is this...will we see a "Blue Box" version of Linux...ie, a repackaged version of some Distro, and IBM making sure that all of it's hardware is supported...or is IBM going to try and do what is has been doing for Windows, and thus transfering the "blame" when things don't work to the software vender? Or alternately, is IBM just going to support the Linux Kernel for IBM devices, and leave it up to the Distros to support higher level fuctions, except for specific IBM projects like ViaVoice, etc.?
O.K, with the.Net system, and with Windows/Office XP, MS will be able to charge you for it every year or 6months that you are using it. To me, that sounds like taxes...so we need to put a campain together to fight the new Microsoft Tax! Let's hijack a shipment of Windows XP and dump it in Boston Harbor! No New Taxes!!!!
> A great example is in Oklahoma we have the 1
> Black Republican JC Watts. How was he elected
> you wonder. He played Quarterback for the
> Oklahoma Sooners college football team,
> therefore he must be qualified.
Add to that he played a number of years of Professional Football up here in Canada, for the Ottawa Rough Riders, where I met him once. Can't remember anything about him, but he was a reasonable Quarterback. As to if that makes him qualified to help run your country down there? I would take a quarterback over an actor!
There used to be a config file for bash to turn it into "Adventure Shell". I have't had to compile Bash for a long time, so I don't know if they still include it in the source.
Before that there was a real adventure shell, I remember one incident that was described by a friend about his boss using it...this person was trying to print something, and so he fed his document to the Print Daemon...it simply ate it...it turns out that you have to throw it at the Print Daemon to get it to print it!
And for those of us who remember it...(check out my User# here), I remember back when we only had a "Make config", and had to answer *EVERY* question about configuring the kernel...but then again, it was smaller then...then again, I remember doing kernel compiles overnight on my 486 system....My first kernel was v0.11, but I really only started to use it with v0.12.
The reason that many computer geeks have an arm larger than the other is that they were early adoptors of "Portables" like the Osbourn and the Kaypro, which ran CP/M, and weighed in the 15 to 20 pound range!
I like it. All SF can't be the cream of the crop, but good journeyman quality stuff is imporant, and this show fits that bill. There is some good SF here, some cheeze, and some comedy...and it beets most sitcoms and drams on the TV today.
And as for Majel, she is a wonderful person. I met her at a convention in Montreal a few years ago, and she really cares about what the fans think of the shows created by her late husband, Gene, and of Science Fiction in General. Back when there was a lot of conflict between Babylon 5 fans and STrek fans, she agreed with JMS do a part in a B5 show to demonstrate that B5 was an O.K. show to like, and both STrek fans and B5 fans show learn to appreachiate each other's shows.
I'm a fan of The Old Series, and of the follow ons, I am also a B5 fan. And I like Andromeda. I am just tired of people who dis things just to make themselves look important, like the Rolling Stone used to do with album reviews.
What I think the real message is here is the number of people who are saying "What/Who is Zero Knowledge, and what is their product". I know about it, but I am in that community that goes to conferences like "Computers, Freedom and Privacy".
ZKS is taking it on the chin for cancelling their Linux client, but in reality, I think it might have been their marketing people who screwed things up by not doing more to get the word out in Linux Land.
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Wow, what a beautiful piece of poetry, one of the best tributes I've seen to Poul Anderson's Passing.
ttyl
That makes two of us. The game was wonderful, and challenging, with lots of options. Vectored thrust made it hard for anyone who didn't understand physics to play.
I have not been able to find a copy of it in any arcade game systems.
ttyl
Farrell
This is supposed to be Canada's version of the Electronic Freedom Foundation...but their website has disappeared...it used to be at www.efc.ca, but I can't even ping the place.
This is the group that should be at the forefront of attacking this piece of stupid legislation! Where the Fsck are they?!?!
ttyl
Farrell McGovern
Who still wonders what happened to my EFC membership...
Data formats are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of storage of data...and an upcomming catatrophy of data that is useless because we don't have either backwards compatiblity with data reading formats or documentation on how to read old formats...Imagine how much data is sitting out there, in some cases litterly rotting, that might be of use to someone, somewhere, but no one really knows how to read it anymore.
Another problem I have is the fact that we are digitally recording music these days, and I am sorry, 16 bit 44.1 KHz is just way to small a sampling size/rate to properly perserve our classic music today. And I am talking about all Music, stuff that hundreds of years from now will be considered "classical" music...even if we call it "rock", "punk" "easylistening", etc.
ttyl
Farrell
Naw, they just painted them red!
ttyl
Farrell
When will the stupid Fcks in the US Government realize there are hundreds of thousands of people who would pay just about anything to get into space, even if only for a few minutes! I admit, I am one...and I personally know hundreds of others.
So, we have the Russians taking advantage of this,and NASA choosing bad shuttle replacement technology, then scrapping the program...and a huge market just waiting to be opened up! Ask an around about how much something that has been in space is worth. Every shuttle crew that goes up has a personal allowence for each member, and many times they take up stuff to re-sell for thousands of dollars stuff that only cost tens of dollars.
Then we get NASA and the US Government refusing to allow private launches so that people have to go off-shore to launch to try to claim the X Prize!!! ARRGGHHH!!!
ttyl
Farrell
Back in the old days, we had to deal with *HOURLY* kernel releases! I mean, you had *DAYS* to savour the system before recompiling!
ttyl
Farrell
Well, I did start back in the kernel v0.12 days, when there was just a boot and a root disk...and when we got hard drive support, manually installing things...SLS was nice, but then I switched to Slackware (for religious reasons), I haven't changed yet. I've tried lots of different distros, and try and have a Red Hat version running just to keep up with that distro, since it is popular...but besides Slackware, the only other distro I use regularly is Tom's Ultimate Boot/Root disk...it's a lifesaver when you are a consultant...being able to walk in in and just boot it, and fix whatever people have screwed up.
Slackware and Toms, both keeping the heart of the Linux movement alive.
ttyl
Farrell
(what? I'm sentimental?)
I guess it only affects Windows users who have to use their ISP's smtp host to send mail...
That is, if you have an email account that is not the one in their domain, and you want your replies to go to it, you can't do it now...only if you are using windows. Unless they have a filtering firewall that is between their customers and the net...but I don't think they are *that*stupid.
ttyl
Farrell
Reading all the articles and letters, it seems that Verisign is loosing a great deal of business, and is seeking a way to attack their competitors by hoodwinking ICANN with a blatant misrepresentation of the situation.
Basically, most people have their ISPs manage their domains for them, and when the ISP moves from Verisign to someone else, Verisign drags their feet so much that the ISP has to attempt a second time to move the domain...and then if they can drag it out long enough, Verisign trys and forces the domain owner to pay for another years
worth of registration before they will allow the ISP to move it off Verisign!
So, Tucows called them out on it, and the letter that prompted this discussion was Verisigns response. Pretty lame.
ttyl
Farrell
We can make this a self-fufilling prophecy...
ttyl
Farrell
It's nice to see a company with integrety these days...in the article, they are quoted as saying that they will not compromise their editorial integrety, and thus paid ads appear as separate links, clearly ads, and not in the returned listings. Way to go Google!
ttyl
Farrell
Greetings:
I've worked with IBM software in various different projects that I have been involved with over the years...from Bluebox Novell Netware, AN/ICLAS, to OS/2 and AVC(Audio Visual Connect, aka UltimediaBuilder/2), and I have been very pleased with the level of support IBM has given me...but that support has always been with IBM branded software, for example, Novell. Although it was a third party (outside of IBM), IBM did a good job of making sure that on IBM hardware, all options were supported, and all IBM current hardware was supported. If there was a problem with drivers or such for IBM hardware, then IBM provided the fix...unless Novell already had one.
My question is this...will we see a "Blue Box" version of Linux...ie, a repackaged version of some Distro, and IBM making sure that all of it's hardware is supported...or is IBM going to try and do what is has been doing for Windows, and thus transfering the "blame" when things don't work to the software vender? Or alternately, is IBM just going to support the Linux Kernel for IBM devices, and leave it up to the Distros to support higher level fuctions, except for specific IBM projects like ViaVoice, etc.?
ttyl
Farrell J. McGovern
O.K, with the .Net system, and with Windows/Office XP, MS will be able to charge you for it every year or 6months that you are using it. To me, that sounds like taxes...so we need to put a campain together to fight the new Microsoft Tax! Let's hijack a shipment of Windows XP and dump it in Boston Harbor! No New Taxes!!!!
ttyl
Farrell
> A great example is in Oklahoma we have the 1
> Black Republican JC Watts. How was he elected
> you wonder. He played Quarterback for the
> Oklahoma Sooners college football team,
> therefore he must be qualified.
Add to that he played a number of years of Professional Football up here in Canada, for the Ottawa Rough Riders, where I met him once. Can't remember anything about him, but he was a reasonable Quarterback. As to if that makes him qualified to help run your country down there? I would take a quarterback over an actor!
ttyl
Farrell
JUST DON'T LET HER SING!!!!!
ttyl
Farrell
>Aha! Your comment proves that you didn't read the
>entire NYT article, did you?
Of course not. I read a story on the CBC Newsworld site.
ttyl
Farrell
Well, there goes "Dark Matter"!
It's nice to see something interesting done in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, previously only know for a Giant Canadian Nickle.
ttyl
Farrell
For us HHGG fans, and the memory of Douglas Adams!
ttyl
Farrell
There used to be a config file for bash to turn it into "Adventure Shell". I have't had to compile Bash for a long time, so I don't know if they still include it in the source.
Before that there was a real adventure shell, I remember one incident that was described by a friend about his boss using it...this person was trying to print something, and so he fed his document to the Print Daemon...it simply ate it...it turns out that you have to throw it at the Print Daemon to get it to print it!
And for those of us who remember it...(check out my User# here), I remember back when we only had a "Make config", and had to answer *EVERY* question about configuring the kernel...but then again, it was smaller then...then again, I remember doing kernel compiles overnight on my 486 system....My first kernel was v0.11, but I really only started to use it with v0.12.
ttyl
Farrell
The reason that many computer geeks have an arm larger than the other is that they were early adoptors of "Portables" like the Osbourn and the Kaypro, which ran CP/M, and weighed in the 15 to 20 pound range!
ttyl
Farrell
I like it. All SF can't be the cream of the crop, but good journeyman quality stuff is imporant, and this show fits that bill. There is some good SF here, some cheeze, and some comedy...and it beets most sitcoms and drams on the TV today.
And as for Majel, she is a wonderful person. I met her at a convention in Montreal a few years ago, and she really cares about what the fans think of the shows created by her late husband, Gene, and of Science Fiction in General. Back when there was a lot of conflict between Babylon 5 fans and STrek fans, she agreed with JMS do a part in a B5 show to demonstrate that B5 was an O.K. show to like, and both STrek fans and B5 fans show learn to appreachiate each other's shows.
I'm a fan of The Old Series, and of the follow ons, I am also a B5 fan. And I like Andromeda. I am just tired of people who dis things just to make themselves look important, like the Rolling Stone used to do with album reviews.
ttyl
Farrell
Hey, that's my line!
Kallisti!
Farrell
And remember, don't look at your hands.
Signed
Your Fiends in Bavaria & Shadowvision
ttyl
Farrell, Erisian
What I think the real message is here is the number of people who are saying "What/Who is Zero Knowledge, and what is their product". I know about it, but I am in that community that goes to conferences like "Computers, Freedom and Privacy".
ZKS is taking it on the chin for cancelling their Linux client, but in reality, I think it might have been their marketing people who screwed things up by not doing more to get the word out in Linux Land.
ttyl
Farrell