That was it. I was about 6 and my dad typed that in. I could easily understand it and soon was typing up all sorts of programs. This was back in the good ole C-64 days.
For the purposes of this site, "free software" is any software that you can legitimately use without a time limit and without an obligation to pay. This rules out shareware and leaves freeware, open source (e.g. licensed under the GNU GPL or BSD license), and some trial/demo software.
It would seem that perhaps trillian doesn't quite fit. However, I'd strongly suggest modifying the rules a bit to include no nag shareware. Trillian is too good a gem to pass up.
And how about a games section. On the very top should be Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Followed by BZflag, and GLTron. (I'm not much of a gamer so the list is short)
Hmm.. I was a long time user of Kali back in the day when it was the ONLY way you could play games online.
I can say this.. Jay Cotton the writer is a decent guy from what I saw and heard of him. Not only was he an avid gamer, but he also listened quite well to the community. When we asked for a linux version, he actually provided a few months later. (unfortunately no one ever used it.)
Apparently the fee is $20 FOR LIFE! I still have my old registration code somewhere I think. I may dig it out and give kali a try once again. (I myself haven't played it in about 6 years.)
I think we are seeing the new Arcade. Kind of a bummer that my generation ended up missing an arcade like experience. But I can't wait till we get one of these and the kid asks for a birthday party there.
that mailbox is my property, and it has a door. it is not the same as an email sitting on server someone else owns.
Actually, as far as I know _ALL_ United states mailboxes are property of the USPS. Even when you go to the hardware store and buy one it is still the governments.
When we were delivering newspapers we could not simply put the newspaper in the mailbox. We had to attach a tube under the mailbox. If not, the postman would have a citation issued.
..using the wire-tapping law seems like trying to fit an oblong peg into a round hole. Close, but no dice.
Why.. what is this coming out of the back of my computer? It's a wire.. hmm.. looks like the same exact one that comes out of my phone!
Hmm.. both have the same wire, both have to dial to connect..
Apples and Oranges! Grrr..
I prefer the former method to the latter. Laws forbidding an ISP from reading your email don't protect your email. They can act as a deterrent, but first you have to find out it occured, and then you have to prosecute. And then your email has already been read.
First I want to know. Why are they reading my email? Obviously if a buisness (ISP) is looking through my personal email. They have one of three things in mind.
A) They are out to cause you personal malicious damage. (I can imagine what would happen if the small ISP in my grandparents town read the email. The lady at the post office would tell everyone in the city who gets what porn.)
B) They are trying to "catch" me doing something illegal. (Isn't that law enforcements job?)
C) They are trying to harvest my personal information for buisness.
Now.. I have a huge problem with A. I think anyone who has ever lived in a small town (pop 0 - 1000) would agree that privacy is very important. Suddenly BOFH takes on a whole new and personal meaning.
B.. well I whole-heartedly agree that an ISP should report illegal activity to the proper authorities. However, I do not think they should go out of their way to "catch" people in this situation. Not only does this create unhealthy paranoia but it's bad for buisness.
C) I'm a spam/telemarketing/advertisement hater. But I'll put up with a very limited (such as google) amount of ads for a free service. As I understand it google scans the emails with a program and displays ads bassed on that. One big point here though, I knew well beforehand what google was doing before I signed on.
The problem here is that without ANY law the potential for abuse is unlimited.
Plain and simple it is spying. It's no different then someone reading your mail out of your mailbox, listening to your phone conversations, or putting their ear against the wall. It's just plain wrong.
Lets see.
Leather walmart $8 billfold. Has lasted around 7 years.
two bill pockets with reciepts.
left side houses 3 pockets, on the bottom tier is a windowed pocket which has my DL, Debit, and a CC
Middle pocket has a Base ID, library card, school id, paintball membership, hastings card, and subway card (almost full!)
top pocket is empty (I should probably sort some stuff out.
Right side has a tag that says "HIPPIE" done on one of those label makers and 4 pockets. 1st pocket has directions to a friends house. 2nd has two buisness cards, 3rd has a guitar pick and buisness card, 4th has a petco card (bastards), another pick, and a movie ticket stub.
there are also pockets behind the right and left pocket. the left has my car insurance, and the right has my social security card.
In addition the outside of the wallet has a sticker which reads "Earth is full, go home."
Well he asked!
Llynix
I've been trying to clean the system from spyware and other mallicious goodies. Finally firefox works with pogo.com so IE is now not in use at all. I managed to find a site that posted ALL of the startup locations for XP. And this has stopped the lurking spyware in the background.
However I'm still looking for a site that can direct me on how to delete the malicious DLL's that are loaded up with IExplore. Anyone have any tips?
I have found though that for me, the download speeds using BitTorrent do not surpass http downloading. An example would be the latest BF Vietnam patch. I tried to download it from Bittorrent but it was going to take about 12 hours to get a 100+ meg file while going to one of the mirrors I was able to download it in about 3 minutes. This was over cable. I had the ports open on my firewall and forwarding enabled as well and I am using BitTornado and throttling back the upload a small amount. I like BitTorrent but I never see the speeds I expect out of it. Only around 40-80k while HTTP I would get 200-400 normally. Any ideas?
I generally see 40-80k as well. And on HTTP ~300k. However it just depends. For example the torrent for this file I had speeds from 40k to 300k!
The way bittorrent works is the more upload speed you have the more download speed you get. For this torrent when I jumped on I was the #17 or so peer. Out of these 17 I apparently had an upload speed in the top 5 (I'm throttled at 40k). Me and 4 others completed the download and became seeds at almost the same time. What made it particular nice is that the person originally seeding the file apparently had fairly high upload, because I was seeing 200k just from that one seed.
So the top uploaders get all the bandwidth, which actually makes a bit of sense. These people are contributing the most amount of upload, so downloading to them first gives the network even more upload bandwidth.
What kinda pissed me off was that out of the 5 people that completed the download first. It seems I was the only one who kept the client opened. I watched the seed count go from 1 to 6 and down to 2, before going back up from other people downloading.
I'll admit I don't neccesarilly share at the 1.0 ratio I should, but I almost always try to keep it open a little while.
Someone has to 'seed' it, but then the other clients will query that client and everyone shares the load so long as a few people stay up after they've downloaded.
From what I've seen of bittorrent, the seeds don't neccesarilly use much bandwidth. Bittorrent seems to prefer downloading from peers then from seeds.
So say you have nasa seeding this file. And two users hook up. Each user will download a seperate piece and then share them with each other.
What this means is theoretically the seed can send out one copy of the file, while multiple copies are being sent between users.
Anyway, you can rest assured that if a torrent pops up on this, I'll be leaving the client open for awhile after it's done.
You'd have to do some hacking to get my source set up. There was some change in gcc with file I/O that makes it hard to compile. Plus a few other various bugs.
However, it looks like a couple of years after I gave the project up someone else took over it. Hippie may point you in the right direction.
By the way, "Hippie" was the name of the bot, the name of the code was always c-alice and while I was working on it we always refered to it as such. "Hippie" very nearly identical to Alice as it used the same AIML set. I never really did create any AIML, rather I spent my time trying to clean up the (then) partially broken XML.
Originaly I had wanted the same thing. However when I looked into the program there was really no easy way to do it. As a result I ended up writing an ugly hack to the java source and while it worked it wasn't pretty.
Then a guy named Jacco ported the Alice code to C, and it being my strongest language I was quite estatic. I ended up collaborating with Jacco alot on his port, and eventually he ended up going onto greater things. This left me in charge as lead developer.
I restructred the Alice code to work as a sort of engine or library which (in theory) anyone could program a front end for. During the high points I had a bot running in IRC (via eggdrop and through it's own IRC code), AOLIM, ICQ, and thanks to Dr. Wallace CGI.
I long since gave up on the project and I don't believe anyone activaly picked it up. It was however an interesting experience. I learned quite alot about C, cross platform portability, GNU makefiles, and BASH scripting (one of the neat things was that I had automated the release process. I ran a simple script which would clean up my developing directory, package the sources in tar.gz and zip format, and copy them to the website, then it would modify the home page to show the new release and also email notifications to the alice mailing lists that a new release was available.)
Most importantly I learned about the politics of an open source program. As a result I humbly respect any and all open source developers. I spent quite a lot of time checking emails, answering stupid questions and slapping around silly programers who didn't quite get it.
Anywho, my reply doesn't really answer your question. And I'll admit I've been far out of the loop to know anything about how Alice is doing now a days (when I worked on it was back around 2000).
Nope, not an option. I'm a very experienced Perl programmer but that's irrelevant. A Web-based application cannot open cash register draws, draw to an LCD, or print receipts...at least, not without a really kludgy server-to-client piece.
I was planning on writing an extension to firefox to control a draw. And there are plenty of programs on the net linking a LCD with a webpage with input. As for printing, css can handle that. The program could even have predefined label sets that work. As an added bonus, I was planning on accepting bar code reader input, and integrating with credit card companies. I did my homework, and from working three years in that dreaded shop I know what a POS needs.
Main reason I wanted to go PHP, was people seem to know how to use a webpage. Also you can easily integrate it with an online site.
I actually started to write a POS system bassed on PHP and MySQL. I used to work at a motorcycle shop that really needed one. The shop ended up closing before I could finish it.
I would not mind at all picking this project back up, and I still have notes and partial code. If anyone is remotely interested drop me an email.
Really what I would appreciate is someone to use the software in a retail enviroment and work out the bugs once it gets polished up a bit. This would require inventorying the entire retail store. Something I wasn't quite looking foward to.
I've been in the same situation. I simply didn't do it if it was illegal or if I thought it could damage our reputation. Either I would talk him out of it. Or be "too busy" to get it done.
I also saved any paperwork I had regarding his illegal activities if he was ever to get raided. And just in case he decided not to pay me (as he often did others), I kept $300 dollors in his paypal account to which I had the passwords and access to.
Overall I think we had a pretty good understanding, he knew if he ever screwed me over he'd get it twice as bad.
Uh, in fact it does... When you install XP (and I think when you first turn it on if it was an OEM install) you are asked to create a new user, which I believe does NOT default to admin equivalent.
It took some looking around, but I think this is how it goes.
In XP Pro, no user accounts are created except for an administrator account.
In XP Home, you are prompted to create a new user accounts. However from what I've read these are also administrator by default. At least that's what the allmighty google tells me.
It's the default because the users want it that way (see previous posting).
I beg to differ. The users we are talking about here don't know what they want. If they knew, they wouldn't be running as admin, or they wouldn't be bitching because of a virus because they ran as admin.
Windows should by default set up a user account and use this for normal use. I don't see how this would have affected many people if this was the default behavior from the begining.
In addition, many programs simply won't work unless they are run as admin.
The problem is two fold. For starters Microsoft should not have left the door wide open by default. Also, programmers should check all conditions while writing their programs. It amazes me how many programs I find that require administrator privilidges for no reason.
Much like the problems many programs are facing with the xp firewall. It causes me to ask, "Didn't they test this?" Surely the thought must have crossed their mind that some people would be running the xp firewall.
Lactose intolerance is genetic. If you're missing a mutation that produces lactase enzyme, no amount of milk drinking can change that.
Nevertheless, I too was diagnosed as a kid with lactose intolerance, and am nevertheless able to withstand more or less milk (though it's kind of hard to say, since I mostly drink milk with coffee and caffeine can lead to same symptoms, especially slight diarrhea), which seems kind of contradictory. Perhaps we build tolerance to the bacteria that actually break up the lactose, or some byproducts of their digestion..
I was never officially diagnosed, it was a trial and error thing. I just did some checking up and it seems that lactose intollerant people don't produce enough of the enzyme. I always assumed that when I drink milk continuously my body just finds a way to ramp up that enzyme production.
I can drink small quantities without problem. A slice of cheese with a sandwich, or the three cups of milk that is cooked with hamburger helper is fine. A bowl of cereal or a glass of milk sends me to the bathroom. A scoop of ice cream and I'm camping there all day.
The Lactose pills do work fairly well for me. Not 100% but the discomfort is greatly dimminished.
On a side note I don't drink or eat caffiene at all. It was suggested that I quit it in response to a problem with insomnia. Stopping caffiene didn't get me a nights sleep, however it did get rid of the persistant migranes I'd get now and then. Also I found drinking caffiene would cause me to be quite 'high' for awhile, especially after quitting and trying to go back. Every now and then when I need a pick me up, I can just go to the conveinence store and get my.99 cents crack in nice liquid form.
I'm lactose intollerant. A glass of milk or bowl of cereal will cause cramps, etc etc.
However, if I drink a glass a day, and stay near the bathroom for the next few days, I eventually build up a tollerance for it. Of course if I don't keep it up it just goes right back. But it's proof in my mind that the body does adapt.
On a side note, allergies used to bother me a lot when I was a kid. A change of climate (moved from New York to Texas) fixed the problem. I very very rarely suffer allergy attacks anymore.
While I've never messed with wireless it occurs to me that you may be able to put the access point on the roof or the side of the building and put the antennas outside.
Slashdot Mirror
Does this work both ways?
Can we put GPS units on police units in a particular city?
Be nice for the criminals, but also might make an aid for coverage etc.
Just something to think about.
10 Print "Hello"
20 GOTO 10
That was it. I was about 6 and my dad typed that in. I could easily understand it and soon was typing up all sorts of programs. This was back in the good ole C-64 days.
From his FAQ:
For the purposes of this site, "free software" is any software that you can legitimately use without a time limit and without an obligation to pay. This rules out shareware and leaves freeware, open source (e.g. licensed under the GNU GPL or BSD license), and some trial/demo software.
It would seem that perhaps trillian doesn't quite fit. However, I'd strongly suggest modifying the rules a bit to include no nag shareware. Trillian is too good a gem to pass up.
And how about a games section. On the very top should be Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Followed by BZflag, and GLTron. (I'm not much of a gamer so the list is short)
Hmm.. I was a long time user of Kali back in the day when it was the ONLY way you could play games online.
I can say this.. Jay Cotton the writer is a decent guy from what I saw and heard of him. Not only was he an avid gamer, but he also listened quite well to the community. When we asked for a linux version, he actually provided a few months later. (unfortunately no one ever used it.)
Apparently the fee is $20 FOR LIFE! I still have my old registration code somewhere I think. I may dig it out and give kali a try once again. (I myself haven't played it in about 6 years.)
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this.
While the advice is great (don't worry about it, experience is more important.) Make sure the small university or College you go to is accredited.
This ensures that most of your credits will transfer over to other universities or colleges.
Anything else may be construed as a Cracker Jack diploma.
I think we are seeing the new Arcade. Kind of a bummer that my generation ended up missing an arcade like experience. But I can't wait till we get one of these and the kid asks for a birthday party there.
that mailbox is my property, and it has a door. it is not the same as an email sitting on server someone else owns.
Actually, as far as I know _ALL_ United states mailboxes are property of the USPS. Even when you go to the hardware store and buy one it is still the governments.
When we were delivering newspapers we could not simply put the newspaper in the mailbox. We had to attach a tube under the mailbox. If not, the postman would have a citation issued.
..using the wire-tapping law seems like trying to fit an oblong peg into a round hole. Close, but no dice.
Why.. what is this coming out of the back of my computer? It's a wire.. hmm.. looks like the same exact one that comes out of my phone!
Hmm.. both have the same wire, both have to dial to connect..
Apples and Oranges! Grrr..
I prefer the former method to the latter. Laws forbidding an ISP from reading your email don't protect your email. They can act as a deterrent, but first you have to find out it occured, and then you have to prosecute. And then your email has already been read.
First I want to know. Why are they reading my email? Obviously if a buisness (ISP) is looking through my personal email. They have one of three things in mind.
A) They are out to cause you personal malicious damage. (I can imagine what would happen if the small ISP in my grandparents town read the email. The lady at the post office would tell everyone in the city who gets what porn.)
B) They are trying to "catch" me doing something illegal. (Isn't that law enforcements job?)
C) They are trying to harvest my personal information for buisness.
Now.. I have a huge problem with A. I think anyone who has ever lived in a small town (pop 0 - 1000) would agree that privacy is very important. Suddenly BOFH takes on a whole new and personal meaning.
B.. well I whole-heartedly agree that an ISP should report illegal activity to the proper authorities. However, I do not think they should go out of their way to "catch" people in this situation. Not only does this create unhealthy paranoia but it's bad for buisness.
C) I'm a spam/telemarketing/advertisement hater. But I'll put up with a very limited (such as google) amount of ads for a free service. As I understand it google scans the emails with a program and displays ads bassed on that. One big point here though, I knew well beforehand what google was doing before I signed on.
The problem here is that without ANY law the potential for abuse is unlimited.
Plain and simple it is spying. It's no different then someone reading your mail out of your mailbox, listening to your phone conversations, or putting their ear against the wall. It's just plain wrong.
Lets see. Leather walmart $8 billfold. Has lasted around 7 years. two bill pockets with reciepts. left side houses 3 pockets, on the bottom tier is a windowed pocket which has my DL, Debit, and a CC Middle pocket has a Base ID, library card, school id, paintball membership, hastings card, and subway card (almost full!) top pocket is empty (I should probably sort some stuff out. Right side has a tag that says "HIPPIE" done on one of those label makers and 4 pockets. 1st pocket has directions to a friends house. 2nd has two buisness cards, 3rd has a guitar pick and buisness card, 4th has a petco card (bastards), another pick, and a movie ticket stub. there are also pockets behind the right and left pocket. the left has my car insurance, and the right has my social security card. In addition the outside of the wallet has a sticker which reads "Earth is full, go home." Well he asked! Llynix
I've been trying to clean the system from spyware and other mallicious goodies. Finally firefox works with pogo.com so IE is now not in use at all. I managed to find a site that posted ALL of the startup locations for XP. And this has stopped the lurking spyware in the background.
However I'm still looking for a site that can direct me on how to delete the malicious DLL's that are loaded up with IExplore. Anyone have any tips?
I have found though that for me, the download speeds using BitTorrent do not surpass http downloading. An example would be the latest BF Vietnam patch. I tried to download it from Bittorrent but it was going to take about 12 hours to get a 100+ meg file while going to one of the mirrors I was able to download it in about 3 minutes. This was over cable. I had the ports open on my firewall and forwarding enabled as well and I am using BitTornado and throttling back the upload a small amount. I like BitTorrent but I never see the speeds I expect out of it. Only around 40-80k while HTTP I would get 200-400 normally. Any ideas?
I generally see 40-80k as well. And on HTTP ~300k. However it just depends. For example the torrent for this file I had speeds from 40k to 300k!
The way bittorrent works is the more upload speed you have the more download speed you get. For this torrent when I jumped on I was the #17 or so peer. Out of these 17 I apparently had an upload speed in the top 5 (I'm throttled at 40k). Me and 4 others completed the download and became seeds at almost the same time. What made it particular nice is that the person originally seeding the file apparently had fairly high upload, because I was seeing 200k just from that one seed.
So the top uploaders get all the bandwidth, which actually makes a bit of sense. These people are contributing the most amount of upload, so downloading to them first gives the network even more upload bandwidth.
What kinda pissed me off was that out of the 5 people that completed the download first. It seems I was the only one who kept the client opened. I watched the seed count go from 1 to 6 and down to 2, before going back up from other people downloading.
I'll admit I don't neccesarilly share at the 1.0 ratio I should, but I almost always try to keep it open a little while.
Someone has to 'seed' it, but then the other clients will query that client and everyone shares the load so long as a few people stay up after they've downloaded.
From what I've seen of bittorrent, the seeds don't neccesarilly use much bandwidth. Bittorrent seems to prefer downloading from peers then from seeds.
So say you have nasa seeding this file. And two users hook up. Each user will download a seperate piece and then share them with each other.
What this means is theoretically the seed can send out one copy of the file, while multiple copies are being sent between users.
Anyway, you can rest assured that if a torrent pops up on this, I'll be leaving the client open for awhile after it's done.
You'd have to do some hacking to get my source set up. There was some change in gcc with file I/O that makes it hard to compile. Plus a few other various bugs.
However, it looks like a couple of years after I gave the project up someone else took over it. Hippie may point you in the right direction.
By the way, "Hippie" was the name of the bot, the name of the code was always c-alice and while I was working on it we always refered to it as such. "Hippie" very nearly identical to Alice as it used the same AIML set. I never really did create any AIML, rather I spent my time trying to clean up the (then) partially broken XML.
Originaly I had wanted the same thing. However when I looked into the program there was really no easy way to do it. As a result I ended up writing an ugly hack to the java source and while it worked it wasn't pretty.
Then a guy named Jacco ported the Alice code to C, and it being my strongest language I was quite estatic. I ended up collaborating with Jacco alot on his port, and eventually he ended up going onto greater things. This left me in charge as lead developer.
I restructred the Alice code to work as a sort of engine or library which (in theory) anyone could program a front end for. During the high points I had a bot running in IRC (via eggdrop and through it's own IRC code), AOLIM, ICQ, and thanks to Dr. Wallace CGI.
I long since gave up on the project and I don't believe anyone activaly picked it up. It was however an interesting experience. I learned quite alot about C, cross platform portability, GNU makefiles, and BASH scripting (one of the neat things was that I had automated the release process. I ran a simple script which would clean up my developing directory, package the sources in tar.gz and zip format, and copy them to the website, then it would modify the home page to show the new release and also email notifications to the alice mailing lists that a new release was available.)
Most importantly I learned about the politics of an open source program. As a result I humbly respect any and all open source developers. I spent quite a lot of time checking emails, answering stupid questions and slapping around silly programers who didn't quite get it.
Anywho, my reply doesn't really answer your question. And I'll admit I've been far out of the loop to know anything about how Alice is doing now a days (when I worked on it was back around 2000).
For some background information you might want to check back to these past articles.
Just email me.
Nope, not an option. I'm a very experienced Perl programmer but that's irrelevant. A Web-based application cannot open cash register draws, draw to an LCD, or print receipts...at least, not without a really kludgy server-to-client piece.
I was planning on writing an extension to firefox to control a draw. And there are plenty of programs on the net linking a LCD with a webpage with input. As for printing, css can handle that. The program could even have predefined label sets that work. As an added bonus, I was planning on accepting bar code reader input, and integrating with credit card companies. I did my homework, and from working three years in that dreaded shop I know what a POS needs.
Main reason I wanted to go PHP, was people seem to know how to use a webpage. Also you can easily integrate it with an online site.
I actually started to write a POS system bassed on PHP and MySQL. I used to work at a motorcycle shop that really needed one. The shop ended up closing before I could finish it.
I would not mind at all picking this project back up, and I still have notes and partial code. If anyone is remotely interested drop me an email.
Really what I would appreciate is someone to use the software in a retail enviroment and work out the bugs once it gets polished up a bit. This would require inventorying the entire retail store. Something I wasn't quite looking foward to.
I've been in the same situation. I simply didn't do it if it was illegal or if I thought it could damage our reputation. Either I would talk him out of it. Or be "too busy" to get it done.
I also saved any paperwork I had regarding his illegal activities if he was ever to get raided. And just in case he decided not to pay me (as he often did others), I kept $300 dollors in his paypal account to which I had the passwords and access to.
Overall I think we had a pretty good understanding, he knew if he ever screwed me over he'd get it twice as bad.
Uh, in fact it does... When you install XP (and I think when you first turn it on if it was an OEM install) you are asked to create a new user, which I believe does NOT default to admin equivalent.
It took some looking around, but I think this is how it goes.
In XP Pro, no user accounts are created except for an administrator account.
In XP Home, you are prompted to create a new user accounts. However from what I've read these are also administrator by default. At least that's what the allmighty google tells me.
It's the default because the users want it that way (see previous posting).
I beg to differ. The users we are talking about here don't know what they want. If they knew, they wouldn't be running as admin, or they wouldn't be bitching because of a virus because they ran as admin.
Windows should by default set up a user account and use this for normal use. I don't see how this would have affected many people if this was the default behavior from the begining.
In addition, many programs simply won't work unless they are run as admin.
The problem is two fold. For starters Microsoft should not have left the door wide open by default. Also, programmers should check all conditions while writing their programs. It amazes me how many programs I find that require administrator privilidges for no reason.
Much like the problems many programs are facing with the xp firewall. It causes me to ask, "Didn't they test this?" Surely the thought must have crossed their mind that some people would be running the xp firewall.
Lactose intolerance is genetic. If you're missing a mutation that produces lactase enzyme, no amount of milk drinking can change that.
.99 cents crack in nice liquid form.
Nevertheless, I too was diagnosed as a kid with lactose intolerance, and am nevertheless able to withstand more or less milk (though it's kind of hard to say, since I mostly drink milk with coffee and caffeine can lead to same symptoms, especially slight diarrhea), which seems kind of contradictory. Perhaps we build tolerance to the bacteria that actually break up the lactose, or some byproducts of their digestion..
I was never officially diagnosed, it was a trial and error thing. I just did some checking up and it seems that lactose intollerant people don't produce enough of the enzyme. I always assumed that when I drink milk continuously my body just finds a way to ramp up that enzyme production.
I can drink small quantities without problem. A slice of cheese with a sandwich, or the three cups of milk that is cooked with hamburger helper is fine. A bowl of cereal or a glass of milk sends me to the bathroom. A scoop of ice cream and I'm camping there all day.
The Lactose pills do work fairly well for me. Not 100% but the discomfort is greatly dimminished.
On a side note I don't drink or eat caffiene at all. It was suggested that I quit it in response to a problem with insomnia. Stopping caffiene didn't get me a nights sleep, however it did get rid of the persistant migranes I'd get now and then. Also I found drinking caffiene would cause me to be quite 'high' for awhile, especially after quitting and trying to go back. Every now and then when I need a pick me up, I can just go to the conveinence store and get my
I'm lactose intollerant. A glass of milk or bowl of cereal will cause cramps, etc etc.
However, if I drink a glass a day, and stay near the bathroom for the next few days, I eventually build up a tollerance for it. Of course if I don't keep it up it just goes right back. But it's proof in my mind that the body does adapt.
On a side note, allergies used to bother me a lot when I was a kid. A change of climate (moved from New York to Texas) fixed the problem. I very very rarely suffer allergy attacks anymore.
While I've never messed with wireless it occurs to me that you may be able to put the access point on the roof or the side of the building and put the antennas outside.
I downloaded liquid war and set up a server. If any other slashdotters want to play it's at 68.201.157.203
It should be in the menu there.
Seems the only other server that was up was password protected. And no one was playing.