Galveston was a pretty cool place, before the dictatorship started (1981).
Never mind that, how many people have been made homeless in New Orleans, and the South in general, and how are the treatment centers going to be able to handle them all?
Great idea! You know, when they rebuilt Atlanta, after the Civil War, they just built over the ruins, instead of clearing them away, and now that city is about 50 feet higher than it originally was.
If they could bring New Orleans up 50 feet, they'd never have to pump again.
Of course, it's a lot like the man who built his house next to the railroad, and then spent all his time complaining about the noise, or the Californian, who built his house on a hillside (on stilts!) and then couldn't afford reasonable insurance.
Or even worse, the city of Austin, TX, which built a series of jogging trails on the local creek bottoms, and then insisted on spending millions "rebuilding" them after each flash flood. It has a lot to do with planning and civil engineering.
I should probably mention common sense as well.
New Orleans should probably be abandoned and moved to higher ground.
It's easier to download them off a crack site, then tailor them to fit your own needs. If these morons had the education to create this stuff themselves, they would be *working* and making too much money to get into mischief.
Like Norton killing VNC on my own private network! They do dig a little deep, don't they?
Of course the Windows version of VNC has a big fat console pop up at login, and an unremovable icon in the system tray. That can be a pain, if you don't want your users messing around with things.
Maybe backorifice isn't spyware, but it _can_ be used that way, I suppose. It hasn't really been an issue for several years, and it's freely downloadable from Sourceforge, so how bad can it be?
Well, yes you could I guess. You had to have the edition for the 286, and 2 MB of memory. There were also special drivers for the CGA monitors. Remember the CGA and 8-bit games like Radio Shacks "Robot"?
My old AST Premium had a whopping 3584 KB via two plugin cards, 2048 extended + 1536 expanded. Conventional memory was subtracted from the total, because simms weren't around at that time.
These cards had to be stuffed by hand and each had 56 chips. If one went bad and you didn't have the diagnostic software, it could take a long time and a lot of boots to find the bad chip.
I think Windows 3.1 on a 286 would have been excrutiatingly slow, and kind of fuzzy on a CGA.
And what if your Mindstorm goes haywire, and shoots up the day care center by mistake? Or you? It would be better to outfit it to capture and restrain, than to kill.
I am all for the development of robotics, but remember that however quaint Asimov's Three Laws may seem, they were well thought out.
I was getting the New York Times headline via email, and whenever I clicked on a link, I had to sign in, over and over (both Windows and Linux). When I clicked on the same link displayed on my Google home page, I went right to the story.
nytimes.com support told me that I didn't have my cookies set right - I don't think so, Tim!
I unsubscribed from the email listing, and now just use Google's RSS.
I still have a copy of Windows 2.1 for the 286. It's on 8 5-1/4" floppies, and I don't think they would still install, even if I did have a 286 or a drive to put them in.
That was a joke. You had to increase your environment to 2048 bytes, and just to run notepad took every bit of memory. It was very complicated to set up, and usability certainly did not match the price or fanfare. I installed it, played with it, and went back to msdos 6.22.
Then came 3.0. This was a huge step, and was the first real usable version of Windows. They changed the programming language and the structure with 3.1 and 3.11 (The predecessors of Windows 95 and NT, respectively). Windows 3.x would run on systems with 386/486 processors, a 20 MB hard drive and 4 MB of ram.
Windows 95 was very major. It coincided with public use of the Internet, required at least a 128 MB hard drive, and 32 MB of memory.
Windows 98 is 95 debugged, with a lot of added glitter. It required 333 MB of free space to install and required a minimum of 64 MB or ram. This is when the Gigabyte drive first came into vogue.
Windows ME was 98 with a restore function. Nobody liked it much. It really should have been an upgrade to Windows 98SE. It was the end of the line for the 9.x series.
Windows 2000, IMO, was the most stable and usable (I use it today on my notebook). Then came XP, with all it's new restrictions and requirements, and I never bought a copy.
Now I use Mandrake-10.1 as my main system, and I am very happy with it.
Ugh! A Pavilion. My hands are just too big to work on those things comfortably, and everything's non-standard.
But, I have had success in the past getting data off of a seemingly dead hard drive by freezing it. Of course I put mine in a plastic bag first, the one in the picture looks like a shock hazard.
Of course, as soon as it warms up again, it'll fail, but if you plan ahead, you just might be able to save your data first.
The first thing I do when I go online is to check my inboxes for spam. For the past 6 months or so it's been pretty similar - The same old pitches but now in broken, foreign sounding English. If that's due to CANSPAM, then it must be doing some good.
The thing is, that most of the headers seem to originate in the United States. I mark them as junk and destroy them right away to prevent web-bugs, but when they seem to be persistent I'll run a host and whois, and finally make a complaint to the originating ISP.
Not that it does any good. My own ISP, Earthlink, won't even talk to you unless the spam originated on one of their servers.
At least I'm not getting plastered like I was a few years ago. It seems that my address ended up on a CD or something, because I was getting all this Chinese spam that I couldn't even read (hundreds per day).
Not so bad these days, but it's still a distraction that I don't like.
What does "SoIP mean anyway? I really dislike the way new acronyms are thrown to the public before they are defined - sounds like an advertising ploy of some kind to me.
I have enough on my plate dealing with the protocols that already exist, and I'm much more concerned with science than money, so why should I be concerned about this latest alert in my inbox?
Have a great time with it, I'm busy with other things.
Yes, as long as I'm still using my Lexmark X85 and a couple of cameras that don't jive with Linux, I'll still keep a copy of win2000 on my Dell notebook.
It also comes in handy when people send me proprietary ms office files. I suppose that every company will need to keep at least one Windows machine online just so they can convert files.
Just the same, I only use Windows when it's called for, and not on a regular basis. I hope this 10 day experiment goes well, and he decides to change for good. If for no other reason, he's back in control of things.
Actually, dial-up could be a lot faster than it is - but the FCC has set a limit of 53 kbytes/s. For one thing, they don't want the signal bleeding over into neighboring lines in the same cable (no one wants to hear a teletype machine in the background of their conversations).
For another thing, most of the phone wires are only 24 gauge. This is physically fine for voice communications, but it doesn't have a large enough diameter to even carry music, much less digital signals.
If only we could get them to switch over to about 18 gauge, we might not need DSL.
If I had to go to jail for a cybercrime, I would at least want the other inmates to understand the charge.
15 months really isn't that bad, he'll probably do a third of that with good time (5 months). But he'll have to be on probation for years, and nobody worth working for is going to want to let him do anything more than stuff resistors in circuit boards.
The trouble that comes after prison is often worse than doing the time itself.
I think the Van Allen belt is much farther out than the near Earth orbits we have today.
The moon missions had to worry about cosmic rays, and the colonists on Mars will definately have to worry about them, since the Martian atmosphere is thin and cloudless.
The purpose of government is to collect taxes, build roads, and maintain a standing army. Otherwise, they should not delve into things they aren't good at.
Surely, even dictionary-based fake domain names have to have a real numeric to trace. But sometimes, even the ones that look fake, aren't. Either the host name or the numeric are spoofed.
Example: $ host truthfoundhere.com truthfoundhere.com has address 218.104.136.189 truthfoundhere.com mail is handled by 12300 mail.truthfoundhere.com.
When I do a whois on the numeric, I get: whois 218.104.136.189 connect: Connection refused
And when I do a host on the numeric, I get: host 218.104.136.189 Host 189.136.104.218.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
But when I do a whois on the domain name, I get: $ whois truthfoundhere.com
I guess I might object to being required to use IE, since I don't have a windows computer!
My bank tried the same thing, and refused to cooperate with me at all. When I spoofed Mozilla and Konqueror to report IE6, everything started working fine.
In the past 40 years, we have gone from an industrial nation with a hard currency, to a paper nation of the pseudo-wealthy, and their neccessary servants.
Since the dollar began to float, in 1971, the buying power of that dollar has dropped by approximately 80 per cent. It has dropped 55 per cent since 2000 alone, when the present regime came to power.
Rome existed for 1,000 years, and was finally destroyed by uncontrolled immigration. There just wasn't enough to go around.
We may be past the point of a peaceful resolution to the totalitarianism that is overwhelming us. Historically, only violence has been a successful solution to dictatorship.
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Galveston was a pretty cool place, before the dictatorship started (1981).
Never mind that, how many people have been made homeless in New Orleans, and the South in general, and how are the treatment centers going to be able to handle them all?
Michael
Great idea! You know, when they rebuilt Atlanta, after the Civil War, they just built over the ruins, instead of clearing them away, and now that city is about 50 feet higher than it originally was.
If they could bring New Orleans up 50 feet, they'd never have to pump again.
Of course, it's a lot like the man who built his house next to the railroad, and then spent all his time complaining about the noise, or the Californian, who built his house on a hillside (on stilts!) and then couldn't afford reasonable insurance.
Or even worse, the city of Austin, TX, which built a series of jogging trails on the local creek bottoms, and then insisted on spending millions "rebuilding" them after each flash flood. It has a lot to do with planning and civil engineering.
I should probably mention common sense as well.
New Orleans should probably be abandoned and moved to higher ground.
Michael
"Creating these viruses is easy..."
It's easier to download them off a crack site, then tailor them to fit your own needs. If these morons had the education to create this stuff themselves, they would be *working* and making too much money to get into mischief.
Michael
Like Norton killing VNC on my own private network! They do dig a little deep, don't they?
Of course the Windows version of VNC has a big fat console pop up at login, and an unremovable icon in the system tray. That can be a pain, if you don't want your users messing around with things.
Maybe backorifice isn't spyware, but it _can_ be used that way, I suppose. It hasn't really been an issue for several years, and it's freely downloadable from Sourceforge, so how bad can it be?
Michael
Well, yes you could I guess. You had to have the edition for the 286, and 2 MB of memory. There were also special drivers for the CGA monitors. Remember the CGA and 8-bit games like Radio Shacks "Robot"?
My old AST Premium had a whopping 3584 KB via two plugin cards, 2048 extended + 1536 expanded. Conventional memory was subtracted from the total, because simms weren't around at that time.
These cards had to be stuffed by hand and each had 56 chips. If one went bad and you didn't have the diagnostic software, it could take a long time and a lot of boots to find the bad chip.
I think Windows 3.1 on a 286 would have been excrutiatingly slow, and kind of fuzzy on a CGA.
Michael
And what if your Mindstorm goes haywire, and shoots up the day care center by mistake? Or you? It would be better to outfit it to capture and restrain, than to kill.
I am all for the development of robotics, but remember that however quaint Asimov's Three Laws may seem, they were well thought out.
Michael
I was getting the New York Times headline via email, and whenever I clicked on a link, I had to sign in, over and over (both Windows and Linux). When I clicked on the same link displayed on my Google home page, I went right to the story.
nytimes.com support told me that I didn't have my cookies set right - I don't think so, Tim!
I unsubscribed from the email listing, and now just use Google's RSS.
Michael
Well, I suppose you're right, but it is 12:23 CST, and I am on my lunch hour. What else would I be doing now?
Michael
I still have a copy of Windows 2.1 for the 286. It's on 8 5-1/4" floppies, and I don't think they would still install, even if I did have a 286 or a drive to put them in.
That was a joke. You had to increase your environment to 2048 bytes, and just to run notepad took every bit of memory. It was very complicated to set up, and usability certainly did not match the price or fanfare. I installed it, played with it, and went back to msdos 6.22.
Then came 3.0. This was a huge step, and was the first real usable version of Windows. They changed the programming language and the structure with 3.1 and 3.11 (The predecessors of Windows 95 and NT, respectively). Windows 3.x would run on systems with 386/486 processors, a 20 MB hard drive and 4 MB of ram.
Windows 95 was very major. It coincided with public use of the Internet, required at least a 128 MB hard drive, and 32 MB of memory.
Windows 98 is 95 debugged, with a lot of added glitter. It required 333 MB of free space to install and required a minimum of 64 MB or ram. This is when the Gigabyte drive first came into vogue.
Windows ME was 98 with a restore function. Nobody liked it much. It really should have been an upgrade to Windows 98SE. It was the end of the line for the 9.x series.
Windows 2000, IMO, was the most stable and usable (I use it today on my notebook). Then came XP, with all it's new restrictions and requirements, and I never bought a copy.
Now I use Mandrake-10.1 as my main system, and I am very happy with it.
Ugh! A Pavilion. My hands are just too big to work on those things comfortably, and everything's non-standard.
But, I have had success in the past getting data off of a seemingly dead hard drive by freezing it. Of course I put mine in a plastic bag first, the one in the picture looks like a shock hazard.
Of course, as soon as it warms up again, it'll fail, but if you plan ahead, you just might be able to save your data first.
Michael
The first thing I do when I go online is to check my inboxes for spam. For the past 6 months or so it's been pretty similar - The same old pitches but now in broken, foreign sounding English. If that's due to CANSPAM, then it must be doing some good.
The thing is, that most of the headers seem to originate in the United States. I mark them as junk and destroy them right away to prevent web-bugs, but when they seem to be persistent I'll run a host and whois, and finally make a complaint to the originating ISP.
Not that it does any good. My own ISP, Earthlink, won't even talk to you unless the spam originated on one of their servers.
At least I'm not getting plastered like I was a few years ago. It seems that my address ended up on a CD or something, because I was getting all this Chinese spam that I couldn't even read (hundreds per day).
Not so bad these days, but it's still a distraction that I don't like.
Michael
What does "SoIP mean anyway? I really dislike the way new acronyms are thrown to the public before they are defined - sounds like an advertising ploy of some kind to me.
I have enough on my plate dealing with the protocols that already exist, and I'm much more concerned with science than money, so why should I be concerned about this latest alert in my inbox?
Have a great time with it, I'm busy with other things.
Michael
That really depends on your educational level and the country you live in.
Michael
Yes, as long as I'm still using my Lexmark X85 and a couple of cameras that don't jive with Linux, I'll still keep a copy of win2000 on my Dell notebook.
It also comes in handy when people send me proprietary ms office files. I suppose that every company will need to keep at least one Windows machine online just so they can convert files.
Just the same, I only use Windows when it's called for, and not on a regular basis. I hope this 10 day experiment goes well, and he decides to change for good. If for no other reason, he's back in control of things.
Michael
Actually, dial-up could be a lot faster than it is - but the FCC has set a limit of 53 kbytes /s. For one thing, they don't want the signal bleeding over into neighboring lines in the same cable (no one wants to hear a teletype machine in the background of their conversations).
For another thing, most of the phone wires are only 24 gauge. This is physically fine for voice communications, but it doesn't have a large enough diameter to even carry music, much less digital signals.
If only we could get them to switch over to about 18 gauge, we might not need DSL.
Michael
If I had to go to jail for a cybercrime, I would at least want the other inmates to understand the charge.
15 months really isn't that bad, he'll probably do a third of that with good time (5 months). But he'll have to be on probation for years, and nobody worth working for is going to want to let him do anything more than stuff resistors in circuit boards.
The trouble that comes after prison is often worse than doing the time itself.
Michael
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I think the Van Allen belt is much farther out than the near Earth orbits we have today.
The moon missions had to worry about cosmic rays, and the colonists on Mars will definately have to worry about them, since the Martian atmosphere is thin and cloudless.
Michael
I know how to use postfix and kmail, but how do I coordinate it with Mozilla/Thunderbird and other mail programs?
Michael
The purpose of government is to collect taxes, build roads, and maintain a standing army. Otherwise, they should not delve into things they aren't good at.
Michael
Surely, even dictionary-based fake domain names have to have a real numeric to trace. But sometimes, even the ones that look fake, aren't. Either the host name or the numeric are spoofed.
Example:
$ host truthfoundhere.com
truthfoundhere.com has address 218.104.136.189
truthfoundhere.com mail is handled by 12300 mail.truthfoundhere.com.
When I do a whois on the numeric, I get:
whois 218.104.136.189
connect: Connection refused
And when I do a host on the numeric, I get:
host 218.104.136.189
Host 189.136.104.218.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
But when I do a whois on the domain name, I get:
$ whois truthfoundhere.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain Name: TRUTHFOUNDHERE.COM
Registrar: BEIJING INNOVATIVE LINKAGE TECHNOLOGY LTD. DBA DNS.COM.CN
Whois Server: whois.dns.com.cn
Referral URL: http://www.dns.com.cn/
Name Server: NS1.TRUTHFOUNDHERE.COM
Name Server: NS2.TRUTHFOUNDHERE.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 04-aug-2005
Creation Date: 25-jul-2005
Expiration Date: 25-jul-2006
(very long remainder snipped)
It isn't too hard to find the host ISP, and complain. But what if the host is located in a country with which we have no legal binding?
Any lawyers out there care to comment?
Michael
I guess I might object to being required to use IE, since I don't have a windows computer!
My bank tried the same thing, and refused to cooperate with me at all. When I spoofed Mozilla and Konqueror to report IE6, everything started working fine.
I smell something offensive here.
Michael
In the past 40 years, we have gone from an industrial nation with a hard currency, to a paper nation of the pseudo-wealthy, and their neccessary servants.
Since the dollar began to float, in 1971, the buying power of that dollar has dropped by approximately 80 per cent. It has dropped 55 per cent since 2000 alone, when the present regime came to power.
Rome existed for 1,000 years, and was finally destroyed by uncontrolled immigration. There just wasn't enough to go around.
We may be past the point of a peaceful resolution to the totalitarianism that is overwhelming us. Historically, only violence has been a successful solution to dictatorship.
Are you sure you can't? It works on my Mandrake machine.
http://earth.google.com/
Michael
I think if I started to use the sink for a urinal, I might end up sleeping in the back yard real fast.
Michael