Then there is that simply AWFUL movie that had about 10 minutes of Bruce Lee footage that they pasted in to a movie they were making when he died! They had ACTUAL FOOTAGE from his FUNERAL in the movie! The rest of the scenes were Bruce Li, wearing sunglasses. He would look down, take them off, look up, and POOF! There was Bruce Lee! The funeral footage probably makes this the most TACKY movie of all times! I think it was the one where he fought Kareem Abdul Jabar, if I'm not mistaken.
My favorite trick in death match in that level with the cyber demon behind the barons of hell (Tricks and Traps) was to follow the other guy into the room from behind. He would open the door, survey the situation, let it close, and then open it again. Then, just as he would enter, I would rush in and grab BOTH of the invulnerabilities, and run out of the room as the door locks! He'd be stuck in the room with no invulernabilities, and would die quickly, surrounded by 20 barons and a cyber demon! I wouldn't get the credit for the frag, but it was sure fun to hear him cuss!
The South Korean media has a lot more freedom than it had under Chun Do Hwan.
When Roh Tae Woo became president, he loosened up the restrictions on the media, and the very next day, they had one variety show where all of the voice impressionists they could find came out and did voice impressions of Roh and Chun! That was unheard of before.
However, the government still does use the media to exercise its campaigns (keep our forests clean, don't honk obnoxiously at other drivers, let your kids get SOME sleep and not make them study all the time, etc). They often use drama and comedy shows to make their points.
Right after we pressured them into buying our meat (back in the 80's when the trade deficit was really bad), a week later on a little kids' show, the adult characters were explaining to the kid characters on the show that the meat tasted so bad because it came from America, and it was all spoiled and full of hormones!
The media is South Korea is still heavily censored and used by the government to make their points.
I know what you mean! I was called up for Jury Duty in St. Louis one time, and I thought I would spend my time reading and studying instead of just sitting around. Well, the folks who set up the jury pool room had different ideas! They put a television in ALL FOUR CORNERS of the room, each one blaring a different daytime talk show! Oprah in one corner, Montel in another, and two others I had never heard of, going at the same time (IIRC). The volumes were up so load, it didn't matter where you went. You couldn't escape them! And the topic on each one was just stupid enough to produce a horrid fascination in a person to distract their attention from what they were doing!
I hate the ubiquity of television! That's why it stays off almost all the time in my house. I occasionally watch the news, and we watch Korean videos (a few hours a week), so my kids and i can work on our second-language skills, and for some entertainment for my wife, who's a long way from her native home. Thankfully, my wife has also started buying some Korean books, and started making my kids read those, too. As part of our homeschooling, our kids read a bare minimum of one hour and fifteen minutes a day (usually more). But as their primary teacher, and full-time software engineer, I don't get to read as much as I would like to. Most of my reading is done out loud to them, which is better than nothing.
That is moronic, and yet oddly it is used by school districts all the time to put a Windows monoculture in place. Think about it: what system could possibly be used that isn't totally outdated by the time kids graduate in 5 years?
Oh, I dunno. XP won't be outdated, because Longhorn won't be out by then!
The first O/S I tried installing on a Sparc Ultra 10 (besides Solaris 8) was Suse 7.1. It was a piece of cake! I hardly had to do anything at all, and all of the hardware was recognized.
I was really happy when 7.3 came out! It was even easier, and was a lot nicer in all respects. I eventually upgraded KDE to 3.0 on SuSE 7.3, and it was my primary computer for awhile! There was some talk on the support boards of 8.0 or 8.1 coming out for Sparc, but apparently, SuSE just let the Sparc port die.
Then I started using Debian Woody and unstable on it. I got pretty good at the installation, having done it so many times!
I tried Gentoo, but the compiles always seemed to croak! I got Gentoo to install all the way once, but I could never get X11 and KDE to work right.
My kids are really into Legos and Bionicles! We spend a hefty amount of money on them!
My son says his goal someday is to work for Lego (or perhaps, Pixar). He'd absolutely LOVE to have this job! When he told me he wanted to work at Lego, I told him, "Well, you know, at Lego, they don't pay you to play with Legos all day long!"
It might be a little hard for Americans to understand this concept, since the Canadians don't have a 1 million man army sitting on the border, and SCUDs with chemical weapons on them, waiting for a chance to invade.
The Canadians don't send spies down to pick off our citizens and stir up our students into riots, etc.
The Canadians have not sent assassins to kill our president, submarines to drop off commandos to do who-knows-what, thugs to ax-murder people chopping down a tree, and they haven't bombed any of our airliners using 20 year old girls and 70 year old men.
Democracy, although we'd like to think so, doesn't export as well as Hollywood movies or blue jeans. Democracy is a pretty foreign concept to most parts of the world, and it takes time to build a solid, true democracy in any place that doesn't have the same foundation and culture that we have.
I've tried several version of Linux, including various versions of Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, and SuSE. No matter which version I use, there is always ONE thing that doesn't work right.
If I get SOUND to work, I can't get 3D video to work (poorly supported card). If I get 3D to work, the CD burner doesn't work. If I get the printer to work, sound doesn't work. The hardware auto-detection usually misses one thing that I have to fiddle with.
That's why I turned to Mac. I got to the point where I wanted to spend more time using my computer than fiddling with it.
.... and I liked the look of it, the features (or the future features... didn't test all the buttons yet), and the spam filtering...
The one thing I don't like about it and Mozilla Mail is that you get one "From" address for each account. In Mail.app, I separate mail addresses with commas, and I get a drop-down to choose from.
If anyone knows how to do this in Mozilla and/or Thunderbird, please let me know. I like Mail.app, but Mozilla Mail seemed faster, and Thunderbird seemed even better.
Yikes!!!! $155 for a network card for a IIgs? The machine itself is probably worth around $25!
But now, I know what to look for on eBay... who knows, maybe I'll stumble across one. I have a IIgs, and a bunch of Basic games I wrote in HS that I'd like to get moved over to PC so that I can run them under an emulator.
Ahhh! Now I get it! That's why they always sit there and say nothing! You can hear the other telemarketers in the background yapping away...
Next time I get one of these, I'll sit quiet, too, to see how long they'll wait!
Actually, SBC has a service for $3.00 a month that intercepts the call if it's out of area or anonymous, and tells them that they have to record their name for you. It then rings you up and asks you if you want to take it. You can press buttons to take it, send it to your answering machine, or tell them to remove you from their list and never call again!
This service is really cool, and it worked wonders, especially for out-of-area calls that no one would talk at all. I never figured out what they were.
There was one tiny problem... my in-laws in Korea! They didn't speak enough English to figure out the menus. Even when we explained it to them, they were annoyed at having to wait a total of two minutes to get through sometimes. I finally turned it off (temporarily) when the Missouri state No Call list came out. We still get a few calls, but not very many. And my in-laws like me again.
A few months ago, i compiled and ran a program called "SMBDie" on my linux computer, to see if it would reboot my Windows XP machine remotely. It worked. When I tried it on a Debian Linux Server running Samba, SMBDie cursed at me, and said the target machine wasn't vulnerable.
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Caught it from a message up above... but thanks for the tip!
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Great! Then we're safe for another 20 million years or so!
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Sin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085935/
One Down, Two to Go: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086051/
After the Fall of New York: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085125/ (I could only stomach about 10 minutes of this one!)
Then there is that simply AWFUL movie that had about 10 minutes of Bruce Lee footage that they pasted in to a movie they were making when he died! They had ACTUAL FOOTAGE from his FUNERAL in the movie! The rest of the scenes were Bruce Li, wearing sunglasses. He would look down, take them off, look up, and POOF! There was Bruce Lee! The funeral footage probably makes this the most TACKY movie of all times! I think it was the one where he fought Kareem Abdul Jabar, if I'm not mistaken.
My favorite trick in death match in that level with the cyber demon behind the barons of hell (Tricks and Traps) was to follow the other guy into the room from behind. He would open the door, survey the situation, let it close, and then open it again. Then, just as he would enter, I would rush in and grab BOTH of the invulnerabilities, and run out of the room as the door locks! He'd be stuck in the room with no invulernabilities, and would die quickly, surrounded by 20 barons and a cyber demon! I wouldn't get the credit for the frag, but it was sure fun to hear him cuss!
dochood
It's called Mac OS X's Keychain.
I think it's Yongbyon, where they have 200,000 political prisoners, including family members who did nothing at all.
Go ahead and move there. I hear they have some really nice CAMPS there, for your RELAXATION pleasure!
The South Korean media has a lot more freedom than it had under Chun Do Hwan.
When Roh Tae Woo became president, he loosened up the restrictions on the media, and the very next day, they had one variety show where all of the voice impressionists they could find came out and did voice impressions of Roh and Chun! That was unheard of before.
However, the government still does use the media to exercise its campaigns (keep our forests clean, don't honk obnoxiously at other drivers, let your kids get SOME sleep and not make them study all the time, etc). They often use drama and comedy shows to make their points.
Right after we pressured them into buying our meat (back in the 80's when the trade deficit was really bad), a week later on a little kids' show, the adult characters were explaining to the kid characters on the show that the meat tasted so bad because it came from America, and it was all spoiled and full of hormones!
The media is South Korea is still heavily censored and used by the government to make their points.
I know what you mean! I was called up for Jury Duty in St. Louis one time, and I thought I would spend my time reading and studying instead of just sitting around. Well, the folks who set up the jury pool room had different ideas! They put a television in ALL FOUR CORNERS of the room, each one blaring a different daytime talk show! Oprah in one corner, Montel in another, and two others I had never heard of, going at the same time (IIRC). The volumes were up so load, it didn't matter where you went. You couldn't escape them! And the topic on each one was just stupid enough to produce a horrid fascination in a person to distract their attention from what they were doing!
I hate the ubiquity of television! That's why it stays off almost all the time in my house. I occasionally watch the news, and we watch Korean videos (a few hours a week), so my kids and i can work on our second-language skills, and for some entertainment for my wife, who's a long way from her native home. Thankfully, my wife has also started buying some Korean books, and started making my kids read those, too. As part of our homeschooling, our kids read a bare minimum of one hour and fifteen minutes a day (usually more). But as their primary teacher, and full-time software engineer, I don't get to read as much as I would like to. Most of my reading is done out loud to them, which is better than nothing.
dochood
That is moronic, and yet oddly it is used by school districts all the time to put a Windows monoculture in place. Think about it: what system could possibly be used that isn't totally outdated by the time kids graduate in 5 years?
Oh, I dunno. XP won't be outdated, because Longhorn won't be out by then!
dochood
The first O/S I tried installing on a Sparc Ultra 10 (besides Solaris 8) was Suse 7.1. It was a piece of cake! I hardly had to do anything at all, and all of the hardware was recognized.
I was really happy when 7.3 came out! It was even easier, and was a lot nicer in all respects. I eventually upgraded KDE to 3.0 on SuSE 7.3, and it was my primary computer for awhile! There was some talk on the support boards of 8.0 or 8.1 coming out for Sparc, but apparently, SuSE just let the Sparc port die.
Then I started using Debian Woody and unstable on it. I got pretty good at the installation, having done it so many times!
I tried Gentoo, but the compiles always seemed to croak! I got Gentoo to install all the way once, but I could never get X11 and KDE to work right.
One time, I was talking to my brother-in-law, a preacher, about my home-office (I'm a software engineer).
I told him my goal was for my home computers to become totally free of Microsoft software.
He blinked at me and asked, "You can do that?"
I responded, "Well, you can, but you don't want to get caught, you could get into BIG TROUBLE!"
He has since become more educated on computers (after several rounds with some nasty viruses), and is developing an anti-Microsoft sentiment, too!
dochood
Oh, yeah!
My kids are really into Legos and Bionicles! We spend a hefty amount of money on them!
My son says his goal someday is to work for Lego (or perhaps, Pixar). He'd absolutely LOVE to have this job! When he told me he wanted to work at Lego, I told him, "Well, you know, at Lego, they don't pay you to play with Legos all day long!"
I guess I was wrong!
It might be a little hard for Americans to understand this concept, since the Canadians don't have a 1 million man army sitting on the border, and SCUDs with chemical weapons on them, waiting for a chance to invade.
The Canadians don't send spies down to pick off our citizens and stir up our students into riots, etc.
The Canadians have not sent assassins to kill our president, submarines to drop off commandos to do who-knows-what, thugs to ax-murder people chopping down a tree, and they haven't bombed any of our airliners using 20 year old girls and 70 year old men.
Democracy, although we'd like to think so, doesn't export as well as Hollywood movies or blue jeans. Democracy is a pretty foreign concept to most parts of the world, and it takes time to build a solid, true democracy in any place that doesn't have the same foundation and culture that we have.
dochood
Fortunately for me, my wife blew the circuit breaker with her hair dryer 10 days ago, blowing a 42 day uptime.
So, I went ahead and patched. I have to reboot to put in an UPS in a few days, anyway.
dochood
Blood-sucking vampires have no blood, hence, no pulse.
I've tried several version of Linux, including various versions of Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, and SuSE. No matter which version I use, there is always ONE thing that doesn't work right.
If I get SOUND to work, I can't get 3D video to work (poorly supported card). If I get 3D to work, the CD burner doesn't work. If I get the printer to work, sound doesn't work. The hardware auto-detection usually misses one thing that I have to fiddle with.
That's why I turned to Mac. I got to the point where I wanted to spend more time using my computer than fiddling with it.
dochood
The Courts in the U.S. don't care about the Ten Commandments anymore...
10 Commandments Ruling
dochood
.... and I liked the look of it, the features (or the future features... didn't test all the buttons yet), and the spam filtering...
The one thing I don't like about it and Mozilla Mail is that you get one "From" address for each account. In Mail.app, I separate mail addresses with commas, and I get a drop-down to choose from.
If anyone knows how to do this in Mozilla and/or Thunderbird, please let me know. I like Mail.app, but Mozilla Mail seemed faster, and Thunderbird seemed even better.
dochood
Yikes!!!! $155 for a network card for a IIgs? The machine itself is probably worth around $25!
But now, I know what to look for on eBay... who knows, maybe I'll stumble across one. I have a IIgs, and a bunch of Basic games I wrote in HS that I'd like to get moved over to PC so that I can run them under an emulator.
dochood
Somebody mod this guy down, please!
His post is WAY TOO LONG!!!
(Okay, I'm just kidding! I actually agree with what he says.)
dochood
Hack proof?
All someone has to do is hack an Israeli news site with a phony article slamming Islam, and then...
POOF!
The war starts all over.
So much for being hack-proof.
dochood
Hmmm.....
Windows gets the brunt of viruses, because there are more Windows boxes than Linux or Mac OS X.
By the same logic, could we say that Linux Web Servers get hacked more often because there are more of them?
dochood
Ahhh! Now I get it! That's why they always sit there and say nothing! You can hear the other telemarketers in the background yapping away...
Next time I get one of these, I'll sit quiet, too, to see how long they'll wait!
Actually, SBC has a service for $3.00 a month that intercepts the call if it's out of area or anonymous, and tells them that they have to record their name for you. It then rings you up and asks you if you want to take it. You can press buttons to take it, send it to your answering machine, or tell them to remove you from their list and never call again!
This service is really cool, and it worked wonders, especially for out-of-area calls that no one would talk at all. I never figured out what they were.
There was one tiny problem... my in-laws in Korea! They didn't speak enough English to figure out the menus. Even when we explained it to them, they were annoyed at having to wait a total of two minutes to get through sometimes. I finally turned it off (temporarily) when the Missouri state No Call list came out. We still get a few calls, but not very many. And my in-laws like me again.
dochood
A few months ago, i compiled and ran a program called "SMBDie" on my linux computer, to see if it would reboot my Windows XP machine remotely. It worked. When I tried it on a Debian Linux Server running Samba, SMBDie cursed at me, and said the target machine wasn't vulnerable.
dochood
Caught it from a message up above... but thanks for the tip!