I prefer to own my own domain name that I can move to any hosting service, and download my messages to my own system for organization and storage.
I use my own domain name, and simply host the mail at Yahoo. It's a pay service, but I already use Yahoo/SBC for DSL. I don't own a laptop, and this works well for me.
I haven't been hosting email at home because the costs are prohibitive-- I need an extra machine, increased electricity bills, etc. Although, I just bought a $200 server from Gateway, and am looking at hosting email from home again.
The original Freeplay radio contained no batteries. It just contained a windup clockwork mechanism which powered a generator. This was back in 1996 or so.
If I remember right, the radios were manufactured in South Africa as part of a joint commercial/NGO economic development product. The foundation manufactured commercial radios for the American & European commercial markets, and used the money to fund more economic development projects in Africa.
(Unless something interesting will be broadcast on those frequencies after that point.)
I think the FCC intends on auctioning off the old TV frequencies, and most of the frequencies will be used by private companies for digital transmissions.
It's doubtful that your analog radio will work with any of the old TV frequencies anymore.
Look around for otherreviews of the Eton FR300 (Formally Grundig). While many people like the features, this radio is NOT as reliable as the legendary Grundig FR200. Go find one and play with it-- many pieces feel like they will snap off after a couple uses.
It's a cheap gizmo for the beach or a day outing, not a sturdy radio for emergencies. Of course, an iPod charger isn't exactly an "Emergency Device" either.
What I'm really looking looking for:
Power: Radio Hand-crank power, Solar power, DC or AC input, LED light, replacable batteries
Receives most available radio frequencies: AM, FM, audio for VHF TV (Channels 2-6) & VHF TV (Channels 7-13), audio for UHF TV, NOAA Weather Band and Shortwave.
There are several radios which use which have some of this feature set, but it seems like there is a market for a radio which has all of these features.
If a US Law Enforcement agency asks Yahoo for your account information, Yahoo will probably provide it. And this isn't unusual-- most business will comply with a warrant.
Good or evil, one thing is clear -- if you don't obey the law of the land, you aren't allowed to do business in that land.
If you don't agree to the terms then don't go there.
Or better yet, start your own event, institute your own rules, and see how things work out. Maybe Burning Man can learn from your experience.
Burning Man is supposed to spawn other events-- Burning Man isn't supposed to be the only event.
The large music companies are dinosaurs
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You can clearly see that BigChampagne is only looking from a mainstream perspective. From their limited point of view, Chumbawamba is a "one-time punk band".
Reality is far different-- Chumbawamba is one of the most successful punk bands in existance. They've been around for 25 years, released 20 albums & EPs, individual members released another 20 or more and have one of the largest followings of any non-mainstream bands. Their styles range from English Rebel Songs from 1381 to their modern pop-punk hits.
BigChampagne makes the same mistake as the big record companies-- they only look at the most popular bands, and are completely ignorant about the success of smaller bands and smaller labels.
The small band segment of the music industry is growing, and the mainstream music industry seems to be shrinking -- they keep complaining about reduced sales every year.
so I'm just taking their "No Late Fees" policy to the extreme
Blockbuster is also taking the "No Late Fees" policy to the Extreme. Their "No Late Fees" policy is a scam. Read the Policy. After reading this, am I supposed to feel sorry for them when someone rips the DVD for personal use?
If you don't return the movie within 8 days, your "Rental" automatically becomes a "Purchase". You then have 30 days to return the movie and get a refund for the "Purchase", but you still pay a $1.25-or greater Stocking Fee. Remember -- it's not a "Late Fee", it's a "Stocking Fee".
And that "FUSF Recovery Charge" on your DSL bill is not a "Fee", it's a "Charge" and is governed by different regulation.
You do have some options-- you can block cookies with IE or Firefox; or you can just tell Firefox to expire all cookies from Google and the end of your browser session.
However, if you want to use any of Yahoo or Google's personalized features-- such as my.yahoo.com or www.google.com/ig , you'll need to allow some persistant cookies.
Click on that link, right click on one of the URLs and paste it somewhere. You'll get a big long URL like: "http://rds.yahoo.com/S=123123123/K=boingboing/v=2 /SID=w/TID=F563_75/l=WS1/R=1/IPC=us/SHE=0/H=1/;_yl t=asdasd/SIG=asdasd/EXP=1124821741/*-http%3A//boin gboing.net/#90761546">
I remember playing with these rewritten links in 2001 for some SEO projects. Back in 1999, many of the links in Google appeared in the status bar as "http://www.google.com/url?url=http%3A//boingboing .net", so it was pretty obvious what they were doing.
This is how the big search engines determine which links are most popular.
The Holy Grail of Direct Marketing is to personalize advertisements efficiently. This is Google's whole business model.
To do this they collect information from the visitors, deposit the information in a huge database, analyze the data and then programatically determine which advertisements will be most effective based on the target audience.
I think you are confusing articles. Buying a house in San Francisco requires an incoming of over $160K (Or some other insane amount of money). This issue is a State-wide issues.
And remember-- San Francisco has many, many multi-millionaires. There are also many poor people, and 60% of the residents rent.
If I read the articles correctly, the local taxpayers asked the school district to sell the Laptops for cheap, since the local taxpayers already paid for the laptops.
The real problem is that none of the organizers never thought of cancelling the sale-- when you look out the gate and see 5000+ people, maybe the thing has gotten out of hand and it's time to cancel the sale.
And put strings in the conduit. When you want to install new wire, just tie the string to the wire, and use the strong to pull the wire through the conduit. I've known people to lay multiple strings in the conduit, so you can pull new wires in, old wires out, etc.
Shoving wire through a conduit will drive you crazy.
I usually use a file to smooth out any jagged metal on the ends of any freshly-cut pipes. If you don't do that, the wire may get damaged as you pull/push the wire through the pipe.
Some baby powder can help make the wires slide easier.
Re:THIS lwce was the geeks vs suits tipping point?
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LinuxWorld Highlights
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It was a strange segregation of the two sides of Linux-- big commercial vendors downstairs, OSS projects upstairs, tucked away in the corner.
This might be a common theme at the new Moscone annex-- I attended a big coin show at the same building few weeks back and they did the same thing: Downstairs was reserved for commercial booths, upstairs was reserved for nonprofits and government organizations (US Mint, Canadian Mint, etc). All the interesting stuff was upstairs-- downstairs was full of coin sharks wanting to rip you off.
This could be a blessing in disguise-- upstairs was sort of a mini-expo within the Big Expo.
At least this way the OSS projects did not need to speak over IBM/Sun/Novell/RedHat/HP all giving their LOUD demonstrations at the same time, each booth trying to be louder then the other booths. You could not hear the poor guys at the O'Reilly or any of the smaller downstairs booths at all.
I spent 1 hour downstairs, where I was promptly ignored by most of the salespeople (However, Novell & Sun were exceptionally nice) and 3 hours upstairs, where I spoke to all the dotOrg projects. The people upstairs were all very talkative & informative, even at 3:00PM on Day 3:)
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I'm of the same mind. I go to movies for fun, not for the gore.
The movie is PG-13, so hopefully that still counts for something.
These are classic geek genres, and Wallace & Gromit is something I can watch with the kids!
This project is trying to be modular.
Lightning is a Thunderbird extension to tightly integrate Calendaring functionality into Thunderbird -- this includes some GUI enhancements.
They would remain separate products, but you can integrate them with the Lightning extension.
I prefer to own my own domain name that I can move to any hosting service, and download my messages to my own system for organization and storage.
I use my own domain name, and simply host the mail at Yahoo. It's a pay service, but I already use Yahoo/SBC for DSL. I don't own a laptop, and this works well for me.
I haven't been hosting email at home because the costs are prohibitive-- I need an extra machine, increased electricity bills, etc. Although, I just bought a $200 server from Gateway, and am looking at hosting email from home again.
A big advantage of webmail is that you have access to the same exact thing no matter where you are.
It's hard to achieve that with POP, and even IMAP has a number of it's own issues.
Actually, I think the FCC indends to auction off the entire analog TV spectrum. But they've run into a couple bumps:
g ital-tv-usat_x.htmn alog_switch-off0 .html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2005-07-12-di
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television#A
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68091,0
Wow! Cool, thanks for the info. I think that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Now, if it had a light and a way to charge my cellphone, I'd be even happier. But hey, this is pretty cool already.
The original Freeplay radio contained no batteries. It just contained a windup clockwork mechanism which powered a generator. This was back in 1996 or so.
If I remember right, the radios were manufactured in South Africa as part of a joint commercial/NGO economic development product. The foundation manufactured commercial radios for the American & European commercial markets, and used the money to fund more economic development projects in Africa.
Read their history for more information.
The more recent consumer models do contain a battery pack, and are manufactured in China.
There are a ton of crystal-radio projects here:
http://www.midnightscience.com/
I remember listening to alot of static. I couldn't get many frequencies in my area.
audio for VHF TV (Channels 2-6) & VHF TV (Channels 7-13), audio for UHF TV,
Strike that... someone else pointed out that the analog TV broadcasts for these frequencies is being shut down.
I guess I just want a radio with AM/FM/SW1/SW2 and NOAA weather band.
(Unless something interesting will be broadcast on those frequencies after that point.)
I think the FCC intends on auctioning off the old TV frequencies, and most of the frequencies will be used by private companies for digital transmissions.
It's doubtful that your analog radio will work with any of the old TV frequencies anymore.
Freeplay still makes an AM/FM/SW1/SW2 windup & solar powered (no battery) radio, but it's mostly intended for rural African communities. But you can buy one and donate a second radio for the Freeplay Foundation.
It's the size of a loaf of bread, and it's ugly, but it's not really aimed for American gageteers.
It's a cheap gizmo for the beach or a day outing, not a sturdy radio for emergencies. Of course, an iPod charger isn't exactly an "Emergency Device" either.
What I'm really looking looking for:
There are several radios which use which have some of this feature set, but it seems like there is a market for a radio which has all of these features.
To be truthful, I want a pony.
If a US Law Enforcement agency asks Yahoo for your account information, Yahoo will probably provide it. And this isn't unusual-- most business will comply with a warrant.
Good or evil, one thing is clear -- if you don't obey the law of the land, you aren't allowed to do business in that land.
If you don't agree to the terms then don't go there.
Or better yet, start your own event, institute your own rules, and see how things work out. Maybe Burning Man can learn from your experience.
Burning Man is supposed to spawn other events-- Burning Man isn't supposed to be the only event.
You can clearly see that BigChampagne is only looking from a mainstream perspective. From their limited point of view, Chumbawamba is a "one-time punk band".
Reality is far different-- Chumbawamba is one of the most successful punk bands in existance. They've been around for 25 years, released 20 albums & EPs, individual members released another 20 or more and have one of the largest followings of any non-mainstream bands. Their styles range from English Rebel Songs from 1381 to their modern pop-punk hits.
BigChampagne makes the same mistake as the big record companies-- they only look at the most popular bands, and are completely ignorant about the success of smaller bands and smaller labels.
The small band segment of the music industry is growing, and the mainstream music industry seems to be shrinking -- they keep complaining about reduced sales every year.
They are a dinosaur.
so I'm just taking their "No Late Fees" policy to the extreme
Blockbuster is also taking the "No Late Fees" policy to the Extreme. Their "No Late Fees" policy is a scam. Read the Policy. After reading this, am I supposed to feel sorry for them when someone rips the DVD for personal use?
If you don't return the movie within 8 days, your "Rental" automatically becomes a "Purchase". You then have 30 days to return the movie and get a refund for the "Purchase", but you still pay a $1.25-or greater Stocking Fee. Remember -- it's not a "Late Fee", it's a "Stocking Fee".
And that "FUSF Recovery Charge" on your DSL bill is not a "Fee", it's a "Charge" and is governed by different regulation.
You do have some options-- you can block cookies with IE or Firefox; or you can just tell Firefox to expire all cookies from Google and the end of your browser session.
However, if you want to use any of Yahoo or Google's personalized features-- such as my.yahoo.com or www.google.com/ig , you'll need to allow some persistant cookies.
and Yahoo does it also
2 /SID=w/TID=F563_75/l=WS1/R=1/IPC=us/SHE=0/H=1/;_yl t=asdasd/SIG=asdasd/EXP=1124821741/*-http%3A//boin gboing.net/#90761546">
Click on that link, right click on one of the URLs and paste it somewhere. You'll get a big long URL like: "http://rds.yahoo.com/S=123123123/K=boingboing/v=
It wasn't too long ago that links on google.com went straight to the link... not back through the google servers...
g .net", so it was pretty obvious what they were doing.
This isn't new, and Yahoo does it also.
I remember playing with these rewritten links in 2001 for some SEO projects. Back in 1999, many of the links in Google appeared in the status bar as "http://www.google.com/url?url=http%3A//boingboin
This is how the big search engines determine which links are most popular.
The Holy Grail of Direct Marketing is to personalize advertisements efficiently. This is Google's whole business model.
To do this they collect information from the visitors, deposit the information in a huge database, analyze the data and then programatically determine which advertisements will be most effective based on the target audience.
I think you are confusing articles. Buying a house in San Francisco requires an incoming of over $160K (Or some other insane amount of money). This issue is a State-wide issues.
And remember-- San Francisco has many, many multi-millionaires. There are also many poor people, and 60% of the residents rent.
sold at a price well below their true value.
If I read the articles correctly, the local taxpayers asked the school district to sell the Laptops for cheap, since the local taxpayers already paid for the laptops.
The real problem is that none of the organizers never thought of cancelling the sale-- when you look out the gate and see 5000+ people, maybe the thing has gotten out of hand and it's time to cancel the sale.
And put strings in the conduit. When you want to install new wire, just tie the string to the wire, and use the strong to pull the wire through the conduit. I've known people to lay multiple strings in the conduit, so you can pull new wires in, old wires out, etc.
Shoving wire through a conduit will drive you crazy.
I usually use a file to smooth out any jagged metal on the ends of any freshly-cut pipes. If you don't do that, the wire may get damaged as you pull/push the wire through the pipe.
Some baby powder can help make the wires slide easier.
It was a strange segregation of the two sides of Linux-- big commercial vendors downstairs, OSS projects upstairs, tucked away in the corner.
:)
This might be a common theme at the new Moscone annex-- I attended a big coin show at the same building few weeks back and they did the same thing: Downstairs was reserved for commercial booths, upstairs was reserved for nonprofits and government organizations (US Mint, Canadian Mint, etc). All the interesting stuff was upstairs-- downstairs was full of coin sharks wanting to rip you off.
This could be a blessing in disguise-- upstairs was sort of a mini-expo within the Big Expo.
At least this way the OSS projects did not need to speak over IBM/Sun/Novell/RedHat/HP all giving their LOUD demonstrations at the same time, each booth trying to be louder then the other booths. You could not hear the poor guys at the O'Reilly or any of the smaller downstairs booths at all.
I spent 1 hour downstairs, where I was promptly ignored by most of the salespeople (However, Novell & Sun were exceptionally nice) and 3 hours upstairs, where I spoke to all the dotOrg projects. The people upstairs were all very talkative & informative, even at 3:00PM on Day 3
Is OSER still active? The last release was 18 months ago, and the SF forums haven't had any signifigant activity since 2003.
It seems like the developers might be focusing on OpenChange for the time-being?