Wow...what a spring this has been. Chilliware, then that Linux game machine company (too lazy to look it up), and now Eazel. Who's next? Can you say OSDN boys and girls?*
You can make a tidy profit in rural areas by simply running a newspaper ad.
How:In the area I just moved to, there is very little DSL/Cable. The only local ISP charges $24.95 per month. I have just signed with a vISP tp provide service here, and I am being charged $8.00 per account. I can charge a paltry $15.00 per month, make a decent profit, undercut the other ISP, and offer the user the SAME phone number the local guy uses, as well as a 10mb website, 2 email addresses and free tech support Amount of work by me?
Run a 16th page ad in the local paper.Setup a website with a signup form.Create a set of FAQs, mainly based off the thousands of available ISP websites and my personal experience in Tech Support.
OK...first, where the hell can you buy a gun in a CONVENIENCE STORE!? Second, maybe if we get rid of all the home computers, there will be no more BSOD, hacked/defaced websites or 'computer errors'.
It's all about responsibility...NOT the tool. Any of these idiot, misguided children could have as easily walked into school with a knife or a chainsaw. These kneejerk reactions are tired and old.
[ Space ] Posted by wh03v3r on Mon April 16, 12:26 AM from the nice, but too bad it isn't mp3 dept. pipeb0mb writes: "This article details how to build your own space shuttle from Radio Shack parts, obtain permission to fly it and get many lucrative endorsements, all for less than $200 USD! There is also an interview with the creator of this masterful plan (sorry, Windows Media). Already, dozens of universities and non-profit organizations have used this technology for fund raising, research and businesses that help further the space program, and thus humanity as a whole. Cool!" Too bad it's not MP3.
Recently, I was in las Vegas (OK, 3 times in 6 months, heh heh), and at the hotel we stay in, there is a sign above the counter, in TINY little letters, that essentially says the following:
"This merchant participates in a program that will make available any of your registration information to local, state and federal authorities. We are trying to make Las vegas safe..."
Again, that is a paraphrase, but think about the implications there; at most hotels of some decent stature, you provide at LEAST the following:
Full name
drivers license number
home address
credit card information
drivers license of other guests in your party
car registration info
sometimes a Social Security number
posibly (probably) phone records in and out...
Now, THAT'S alot of info floating around, and presumably stored in a database somewhere, all in the name of catching a bad guy or two.
Not exactly on topic, but vaguely pertinent and definetly disturbing.
Personally, as the owner of 4 zip disks that 'click', I would have preferred a method whereby you could return the disks for an exchange, and they would rescue data on said disks. To me that's the real problem...I have about a dozen other disks with no problems, but these 4 have some data going back a 5 years or so, that I would *love* to see again. A rebate toward a new drive is utterly useless and contemptous. They could even recycle the old disks if they offered an exchange!
Actually, that's not far from the truth. I installed XP Beta 2 last week, on a k6/400 with 768mb of ram, a new udma 40gb hard drive and a 32mb Stealth video card...it CRAWLED. Within an hour, I got to the point that I trashed it and went back to Win2k. However, beta 1 runs without a hitch on a Toshiba 2250xcds (Cel600/64/6gb), so perhaps theres some debug code left in b2.
And what do you mean 'html shit'? I've never seen a BBS using html...it's ALL text babbbyyyy... Unless, of course, you mean 'the web', or 'the information stuporhighway'. :-)
Wow! That is so... Wait a second...you're pulling our collective legs!
You *almost* got me, then I though, hey...back in the days of 300-2400 baud modems, we were DAMNED lucky to have CDROMS, much less anything that could RECORD CDs. So, I checked good old Google, and lo and behold:
In 1990, part II of the so-called "orange book" published by Philips (who else), specified the characteristics and format of a recordable CD, or CD-R. CD-R is also sometimes called CD-WORM or CD-WO, where WO means "write once" and WORM "write once read many", both reflecting truisms about the medium. (There are other types of drives that are also WORM however.) Initially, CD-R was prohibitively expensive--well over $1,000 for a drive, and $10 or more for each blank disk. As both of these numbers have dropped in half or less, CD-R has become quite popular for several applications, including archiving, software distribution, backup, custom audio, and a host of others. This section takes a look at CD-R in a fair bit of detail, although certainly not exhaustively; there are enough descriptions and aspects related to CD-R to fill a chapter as big as everything I have written about CD-ROMs in general, easily. read more
So, it seems to make sense that you and your leet buddies didn't spend hundreds of dollars on this fancy new 'CD-R' stuff. Likely, you kept it all on 3.5" floppies like the rest of us did. Have a good day.
It occurs to me that I need to start getting more rest. Sigh.
Ouch. I'm sure the poster didn't mean to take one of the most eloquent turns of phrase of the 20th century, "the surly bonds of earth...", and apply it toward the Communists space efforts. That quote, spoken by Ronald Reagan in 1986 (and paraphrased from a WW2 U.S. airman), is a tribute to the lost Challenger crew. Seems almost ironic to use it to describe a Russian cosmonaut.
"We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
Analysts told the Times that the sale of porn may alienate companies that advertise with the company. Yahoo! is expected to report its second consecutive quarterly loss today.
Other major Internet companies, including America Online (AOL) and the Microsoft Network, have stayed away from pornography sales. (AOL Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.com.)
And so it begins. AOL/TW slowly seeds the battlefield of 'they are bad, we are good'. It's fun to watch a monopoly grow from the bottom up...
Did you guys read the review of 'The Matrix'? Did anyone at CNN even SEE the movie? Sigh.
One night Neo encounters a famous hacker online who goes by the name Morpheus. When Neo agrees to meet Morpheus, thinking the pro might clue him in to some new hacking technique, Neo discovers that Morpheus is actually the leader of an underground gang who is fighting for control of this manufactured existence we call reality.
Morpheus and his group recruit Neo to fight an even more menacing threat than federal agents: a malicious software "agent" that can kill using only its mind.
Actually, Rush has provided streams for the past year or so. Thankfully...as here in Los Angeles, there is ONE station that braodcasts Rush.
I'll be glad to pay the fee though.
:-)
I TOTALLY agree.
I had the perfect idea for FOX to follow up temptation island with: Combine Nascar and Survivor by, every week, killing off a different driver!!! Now, you wannna talk about huge ratings...whoohooo! Now, I know what you're thinking... "Yes, but there are only so many dirvers out there to kill off." Well, that's not a problem at all actually. We then combine nascar with Temptation Island, and have waitresses hook up with the living (or semi-comatose) drivers on an island, and watch the procreating wackiness ensue. I'd watch that...
Incidentally, The Sopranos fires back up tonight, and I am going to forsake the Lone Gunmen in their moment of need, because, by God, Sopranos is the best show on tv show right now. sigh. Cya guys!
Ahhh.
RealPlayer 8 is incredibly stable on my VA Linux 420, running Mandrake 7.2. I listen to Limbaugh every day, and can view the latest Foo Fighters, etc. with NO problems.
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Why is this marked as flamebait? This is a valid post. Just because he doesnt embrace the leftist idealogy, he is lambasted? This is the problem with liberals in general; 'FREE SPEECH FOR EVERYONE!(Unless it is against us...)' Mod this back to 'Interesting', have a real moment.
I'd like to thank everyone for their comments...even those of you who critiqued my grammer and punctuation. Sheesh. (g)
Anyway, my original intent with my question was to find an email client, in Linux, that worked with a standard verisign digital id, much like it's handled by outlook in windows. In the 'new world' of Linux, we need a quick and easy way to prove our identities...I don't want to have to lose functionality to gain one advantage (ie, using a console mail app and losing rules/filters/multiple accounts, etc...).
Thanks for your input, and I will keep you up-to-date (thats for the hyphen people below) on my search. thanks again. cya!
Jon, I can't help but notice the vague homosexual references in your posts today. Just curious, are you gay? Not that there's anything wrong with that... Also, I think that this is the first article of yours I have seen to which you actually posted in the threads. What's up with that? Have a good day.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Has anyone considered that Buchanan got so many minority votes because his running mate was a black woman? We know that alot of people vote by emotion...not qualifications, so I think this is a valid thought... Also, I think that if this district is allowed to revote, then we should ALL be able to revote. God bless, what a sensitive mess...things aren't always what they seem.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
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Wow...what a spring this has been.
Chilliware, then that Linux game machine company (too lazy to look it up), and now Eazel. Who's next?
Can you say OSDN boys and girls?*
*I knew you could.
vISP's in AU - Google
Why a vISP?:
No hardware to buy
THOUSANDS of national access numbers
You can make a tidy profit in rural areas by simply running a newspaper ad.
How:In the area I just moved to, there is very little DSL/Cable. The only local ISP charges $24.95 per month. I have just signed with a vISP tp provide service here, and I am being charged $8.00 per account. I can charge a paltry $15.00 per month, make a decent profit, undercut the other ISP, and offer the user the SAME phone number the local guy uses, as well as a 10mb website, 2 email addresses and free tech support
Amount of work by me?
Where:
DialUp USA - My provider
Google vISP Search Results
Google-vISP- UK Results
CNET ISP Pricing Chart-You can still offer lower rates than any of these!
Bottom Line: 500 users x 7.00 profit = $3500 a month. Think about what you could do with a few ads and a few websites in different areas.
OK...first, where the hell can you buy a gun in a CONVENIENCE STORE!?
Second, maybe if we get rid of all the home computers, there will be no more BSOD, hacked/defaced websites or 'computer errors'.
It's all about responsibility...NOT the tool. Any of these idiot, misguided children could have as easily walked into school with a knife or a chainsaw.
These kneejerk reactions are tired and old.
[ Space ] Posted by wh03v3r on Mon April 16, 12:26 AM
from the nice, but too bad it isn't mp3 dept.
pipeb0mb writes: "This article details how to build your own space shuttle from Radio Shack parts, obtain permission to fly it and get many lucrative endorsements, all for less than $200 USD! There is also an interview with the creator of this masterful plan (sorry, Windows Media). Already, dozens of universities and non-profit organizations have used this technology for fund raising, research and businesses that help further the space program, and thus humanity as a whole. Cool!" Too bad it's not MP3.
Again, that is a paraphrase, but think about the implications there; at most hotels of some decent stature, you provide at LEAST the following:
Full name
drivers license number
home address
credit card information
drivers license of other guests in your party
car registration info
sometimes a Social Security number
posibly (probably) phone records in and out...
Now, THAT'S alot of info floating around, and presumably stored in a database somewhere, all in the name of catching a bad guy or two.
Not exactly on topic, but vaguely pertinent and definetly disturbing.
Personally, as the owner of 4 zip disks that 'click', I would have preferred a method whereby you could return the disks for an exchange, and they would rescue data on said disks.
To me that's the real problem...I have about a dozen other disks with no problems, but these 4 have some data going back a 5 years or so, that I would *love* to see again.
A rebate toward a new drive is utterly useless and contemptous. They could even recycle the old disks if they offered an exchange!
Oh yeah! I was going to mention that XP b1 sees the Toshibas Celery 600 as a '4mhz' in the System properties.
:-)
Niiiiice....
Actually, that's not far from the truth. I installed XP Beta 2 last week, on a k6/400 with 768mb of ram, a new udma 40gb hard drive and a 32mb Stealth video card...it CRAWLED. Within an hour, I got to the point that I trashed it and went back to Win2k.
However, beta 1 runs without a hitch on a Toshiba 2250xcds (Cel600/64/6gb), so perhaps theres some debug code left in b2.
And what do you mean 'html shit'? I've never seen a BBS using html...it's ALL text babbbyyyy... Unless, of course, you mean 'the web', or 'the information stuporhighway'.
:-)
Wait a second...you're pulling our collective legs!
You *almost* got me, then I though, hey...back in the days of 300-2400 baud modems, we were DAMNED lucky to have CDROMS, much less anything that could RECORD CDs.
So, I checked good old Google, and lo and behold:
So, it seems to make sense that you and your leet buddies didn't spend hundreds of dollars on this fancy new 'CD-R' stuff. Likely, you kept it all on 3.5" floppies like the rest of us did.
Have a good day.
It occurs to me that I need to start getting more rest. Sigh.
I'm sure the poster didn't mean to take one of the most eloquent turns of phrase of the 20th century, "the surly bonds of earth...", and apply it toward the Communists space efforts.
That quote, spoken by Ronald Reagan in 1986 (and paraphrased from a WW2 U.S. airman), is a tribute to the lost Challenger crew. Seems almost ironic to use it to describe a Russian cosmonaut.
a.> they use active server pages
b.> their own images are 5k plus
c.> their pages are bland and slow
It's fun to watch a monopoly grow from the bottom up...
"Watched the 2nd CD of "Pulp Fiction" and called it a night. "
Hmm... VCDs perhaps? RM format? DivX? We need an investigation NOW!!! I recommend we send Hilary Rosen up there IMMEDIATELY.
Jezum Crow
Actually, Rush has provided streams for the past year or so. Thankfully...as here in Los Angeles, there is ONE station that braodcasts Rush.
:-)
I'll be glad to pay the fee though.
I TOTALLY agree.
I had the perfect idea for FOX to follow up temptation island with:
Combine Nascar and Survivor by, every week, killing off a different driver!!!
Now, you wannna talk about huge ratings...whoohooo!
Now, I know what you're thinking... "Yes, but there are only so many dirvers out there to kill off." Well, that's not a problem at all actually. We then combine nascar with Temptation Island, and have waitresses hook up with the living (or semi-comatose) drivers on an island, and watch the procreating wackiness ensue.
I'd watch that...
Incidentally, The Sopranos fires back up tonight, and I am going to forsake the Lone Gunmen in their moment of need, because, by God, Sopranos is the best show on tv show right now.
sigh.
Cya guys!
Ahhh.
RealPlayer 8 is incredibly stable on my VA Linux 420, running Mandrake 7.2. I listen to Limbaugh every day, and can view the latest Foo Fighters, etc. with NO problems.
Why is this marked as flamebait? This is a valid post. Just because he doesnt embrace the leftist idealogy, he is lambasted?
This is the problem with liberals in general; 'FREE SPEECH FOR EVERYONE!(Unless it is against us...)'
Mod this back to 'Interesting', have a real moment.
I'd like to thank everyone for their comments...even those of you who critiqued my grammer and punctuation. Sheesh. (g)
Anyway, my original intent with my question was to find an email client, in Linux, that worked with a standard verisign digital id, much like it's handled by outlook in windows.
In the 'new world' of Linux, we need a quick and easy way to prove our identities...I don't want to have to lose functionality to gain one advantage (ie, using a console mail app and losing rules/filters/multiple accounts, etc...).
Thanks for your input, and I will keep you up-to-date (thats for the hyphen people below) on my search.
thanks again. cya!
Jon,
I can't help but notice the vague homosexual references in your posts today.
Just curious, are you gay?
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Also, I think that this is the first article of yours I have seen to which you actually posted in the threads. What's up with that?
Have a good day.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Has anyone considered that Buchanan got so many minority votes because his running mate was a black woman?
We know that alot of people vote by emotion...not qualifications, so I think this is a valid thought...
Also, I think that if this district is allowed to revote, then we should ALL be able to revote.
God bless, what a sensitive mess...things aren't always what they seem.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
wp2000 deluxe runs under wine. but they are not strictly windows binaries either. its a rather weird mosh...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I know this is offtopic, but I have to post this:. 1002.thed.ni
http://new s.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2723858.html?tag=st.ne
It's an article about Transmeta that DOES NOT mention Linus Torvalds!
What the hell is going on over at c/net?!?!
heh heh heh
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)