I have a free PC, but the one I signed my mother up for never got to being shipped. Now that I have this one in the clear, I'd love to give it to her, but I'm wondering if there's another place out there that'll do what Free-PC was doing... I'll put up with the ads (hey, I did with this one!). I saw freecomputer.com, but they're still working on it.
As I remember it, the water tanks were for both propulsion and water supply once they got to Mars. Can't remember if they had planned that contingency for the flare or not. Also, they had a farm on board that they weren't able to get shielded, so all the animals on board died.
Sounds good in principle, but say this happens (which my e-mail account is flooded with daily):
You get an e-mail from someone using a bulk mailer that goes and kills the headers in the e-mail, so you can't see the IP it came from. I also get ones that have a spoofed IP, so it looks like it came from Hotmail, but actually didn't.
I also get e-mails that are of the variety "80323", with no @ or server address. Then, I get plenty of e-mails that legitimately show the unsubscribe address, but when I send an e-mail to the address, or website, either the e-mail account is full, or it doesn't exist, or the website isn't there.
So, this ain't even gonna touch the majority of SPAM e-mail.
(Also, their jurisdiction is only e-mails from inside Colorado to e-mails inside Colorado. What do they do about international e-mails?)
As shown by the Red Hat IPO. Remember how E-Trade locked people who were invited into the Red Hat IPO out, because they "didn't have sufficient stock holdings in other companies" or "not sufficient trading experience". Then again, most of the people who would have wanted to get Red Hat are people whose professions are primarily computer work, and usually don't have the time for stock trading.
(Hackernews Server is/.'ed, so I can't see the article).
Question: Would it be legal if someone were to download the ASF file they put up and to convert it into MPG or Real Audio or Quicktime and put it up somewhere, while stating all the credit goes to Stanford?
(Cause if so, I'll do it! I got a T1 and the tools, and could do it fairly quickly, if some one asks.)
Actually, I just took a trip through that area (from Connecticut down to Nashville, to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Up through Vegas, to Reno, using I-40 for the most part) at Christmas, and found that the speed limit for these states is either 65 or 70 (found a few states that had a limit of 75!) and the cops are fine if you don't go more than about 5-7 miles over the limit. Watch out at night though, that's when they love to come out and sit along those roads. And yes, the small towns, which just are about a few hundred feet long, drop the speed limit to 35 so fast you don't have a chance. Watch them.
Radar Detectors are legal for all states along my way EXCEPT VIRGINIA. Virginia is very strict on their speeds, which is 65.
As for cell towers: I kept a watch for cell towers on my way, and from Oklahoma to Vegas, I saw very few. Didn't have a cell phone with me at the time, but I doubt coverage was good. Analog at best. I wouldn't reccomend a laptop hooked to a cell phone. If you can hold it, try to stop within local dialing distance of a bigger city, and use one of the free Internet companies (some include netzero, altavista, bluelight, etc). Make sure you get a motel that gives you free, unlimited local calls ( I found a few that charged 25 cents for a local call, and some that limited calls to 5 minutes.
But there is a buy.com!!! Just look at the DoS attacks of yesterday, and their IPO (also of yesterday). They've been up for a while now!
But I agree, something of a common name, like those mentioned, would be auctionable to the highest bidder. Now, if you were to try to sell of something like MickeyDees.com, or nikeshoes.com, then you'd run into problems.
I was just about to say that... but thought I'd scroll through first.
Agreed... what if these computers the Army has decide they want to try to take the place of the Army guy's buddies? Would they make the guys turn against each other, or launch nukes, etc?
Why not constantly send up parts to this station, and have the constuction done up there? The biggest problem we have here is getting the BIG things up there. Why not keep it small, and up there make it big?
Actually, I have to agree with both of you... both the US and Russia are F**ked up (and it's two stars, not three!), along with the rest of us on this little planet. We should have really been up there a while back, probably had at least a few hundred thousand up there, plus started making moon colonies by now, with a manned mission to Mars already under our belts.
But, thanks to short sighted bearaucrats, and others, budgets are slashed, pointless wars are fought, etc. We need to get our sights set straight...
This planet is only going to last so long, and you think that solving problems with wars is going to solve it? No... might solve some, but ultimately not all.
How about telling factories to cut pollution? They'll still do it, and what's to stop other countries around the world from doing it. Granted it'll help, but not solve the problem.
And what are we doing with our money?
The FSB, in Russia, is requiring ISP's to implement black boxes, so they can watch every little bit of Internet traffic. (see today's Slashdot)
China is firewalling the whole country, and monitoring all transmissions in and out. (public knowledge)
US is, well, screwed up in general (and this from a citizen!). We have a country that cheers a president on who bops whatever girl in a skirt walks by (over 50% of the country wanted him to stay, and be a role model for our children, even after he did Monica). (Let's count: Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, etc... all these women that say he was with them, and he denies it on all but one, the one who had overwhelming proof. Who else thinks that it wasn't just this one he was with?)
Congress chucks all of NASA's funding, except for a small portion... where do you think most of it is going? I tend to think these rich Senators and congressmen didn't do as much work as the rest of us would for that kind of money. Then, there's the occasional "Let's tax the entire Internet, even if they're not in our country, for doing just about anything" bill proposal.
Maybe I'm thinking the wrong way, but the whole world has its priorities mixed up. Think outward, not inward.
You set up a user name and password with MP3.com Download Beam-It, put in each CD, and have it recognize it. Then, you can access the links to all of your CD's MP3's, via a web interface, with your username and password... which is like any other place where you can change your password.
Why is it they're playing Doom and Quake on the Crusoe and the Trillian debuts? If they're wanting to show the oomph of the processor, I'd think they would be playing more modern, say, Unreal Tournament, or maybe Half Life. (unless of course ID is paying them for the advertisement, in which case, they better have one helluva good game in the works... and I don't mean Quake 3!!!)
Darwin and Crusoe - Island buddies
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Anybody notice that the real life Darwin was also famous for his work on the Galapagos Islands (in the Pacific), and that Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a desert island (since I didn't read the book, I don't know where it was, but there's a chance it was in the Pacific).
Only makes since that their silicon counterparts are somewhat related as well.
AOL has had so much of a track record of problems that they're overdue for this one. However, this sounds more like something Microsoft would do than them. Maybe the two Steve's (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, and Steve Case, AOL) got together and discussed it? Nah...
Well, if we go that way, with 0 being neither even or odd (which is argued all through the math community... I had one teacher one year say it was even, then the next say it wasn't either), then there has NEVER been an even date, if we go digit by digit. Any month 01-09 is neither even or odd, according to that, and months 11 and 12 never were even, then.... and I've never heard of a month 2x.
Ranger Toc? Legal? I think I'd rather see Dessloch, from UT, or better yet, Barrett from FF7. Yep, Barrett would convince the judge, all right, with his gun-arm.
What happened to this article? For some reason, the colors are all in gray, and the word wrap is turned off. Each paragraph scrolls all the way across the screen, instead of having all line feeds.
It's not my settings, because all other articles are appearing normally.
Got a similar problem happening here. Our 2 DNS servers, both running FreeBSD, just crashed within a week of each other. They were Compaq Deskpro 4000's running WD Caviar 4GB IDE drives. One was clunk of death, other just had a head crash. However, I'm not sure which to blame the failure on... these machines have each eaten through 3 hard drives in the past year... I think they were all WD. We'll try Seagate 8.4GB now.
Got a similar problem happening here. Our 2 DNS servers, both running FreeBSD, just crashed within a week of each other. They were Compaq Deskpro 4000's running WD Caviar 4GB IDE drives. However, I'm not sure which to blame the failure on... these machines have each eaten through 3 hard drives in the past year... I think they were all WD. We'll try Seagate 8.4GB now.
"with a warning that major East Coast cities face the threat of snow and severe cold late this week"
Ummmm.... I think it's a little late for that. The cold already arrived, and has been here the past few days (Is 0 degrees in Connecticut severe enough, yet? With a bad wind chill, nonetheless!)
I could've forecast that!
On the other hand, this new computer sounds pretty good. Forecasts over a week in advance? Great!
(Now, what they need to do is make a distributed client, Weather Channel@home, ala SetiAtHome or Distributed.net, to push it to a month in advance.)
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Tap into the bodies bio-electric power source to save having to change that pesky battery every couple of years?)
Isn't this what the machines did in the Matrix to enslave humanity?
And it's about the right time for it... the Matrix world was set in 1999, we're in 2000... close enough!!
Nice!!! I can finally cure the disease that's taken over the world! No more MS!
No more monopolies!
Bye Bye, Bill!
I have a free PC, but the one I signed my mother up for never got to being shipped. Now that I have this one in the clear, I'd love to give it to her, but I'm wondering if there's another place out there that'll do what Free-PC was doing... I'll put up with the ads (hey, I did with this one!). I saw freecomputer.com, but they're still working on it.
Any sites? Let me know.
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
As I remember it, the water tanks were for both propulsion and water supply once they got to Mars. Can't remember if they had planned that contingency for the flare or not. Also, they had a farm on board that they weren't able to get shielded, so all the animals on board died.
Sounds good in principle, but say this happens (which my e-mail account is flooded with daily):
You get an e-mail from someone using a bulk mailer that goes and kills the headers in the e-mail, so you can't see the IP it came from. I also get ones that have a spoofed IP, so it looks like it came from Hotmail, but actually didn't.
I also get e-mails that are of the variety "80323", with no @ or server address. Then, I get plenty of e-mails that legitimately show the unsubscribe address, but when I send an e-mail to the address, or website, either the e-mail account is full, or it doesn't exist, or the website isn't there.
So, this ain't even gonna touch the majority of SPAM e-mail.
(Also, their jurisdiction is only e-mails from inside Colorado to e-mails inside Colorado. What do they do about international e-mails?)
As shown by the Red Hat IPO. Remember how E-Trade locked people who were invited into the Red Hat IPO out, because they "didn't have sufficient stock holdings in other companies" or "not sufficient trading experience". Then again, most of the people who would have wanted to get Red Hat are people whose professions are primarily computer work, and usually don't have the time for stock trading.
/.'ed, so I can't see the article).
(Hackernews Server is
Which just goes to show.... what morons the MPAA is!!
Question: Would it be legal if someone were to download the ASF file they put up and to convert it into MPG or Real Audio or Quicktime and put it up somewhere, while stating all the credit goes to Stanford?
(Cause if so, I'll do it! I got a T1 and the tools, and could do it fairly quickly, if some one asks.)
errrr... let me add on to that:
For a while along my trip, it ran fairly close to Rte 66. So, most of the stuff I noticed is true for Rte 66 as well.
Actually, I just took a trip through that area (from Connecticut down to Nashville, to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Up through Vegas, to Reno, using I-40 for the most part) at Christmas, and found that the speed limit for these states is either 65 or 70 (found a few states that had a limit of 75!) and the cops are fine if you don't go more than about 5-7 miles over the limit. Watch out at night though, that's when they love to come out and sit along those roads. And yes, the small towns, which just are about a few hundred feet long, drop the speed limit to 35 so fast you don't have a chance. Watch them.
Radar Detectors are legal for all states along my way EXCEPT VIRGINIA. Virginia is very strict on their speeds, which is 65.
As for cell towers: I kept a watch for cell towers on my way, and from Oklahoma to Vegas, I saw very few. Didn't have a cell phone with me at the time, but I doubt coverage was good. Analog at best. I wouldn't reccomend a laptop hooked to a cell phone. If you can hold it, try to stop within local dialing distance of a bigger city, and use one of the free Internet companies (some include netzero, altavista, bluelight, etc). Make sure you get a motel that gives you free, unlimited local calls ( I found a few that charged 25 cents for a local call, and some that limited calls to 5 minutes.
But there is a buy.com!!! Just look at the DoS attacks of yesterday, and their IPO (also of yesterday). They've been up for a while now!
But I agree, something of a common name, like those mentioned, would be auctionable to the highest bidder. Now, if you were to try to sell of something like MickeyDees.com, or nikeshoes.com, then you'd run into problems.
I was just about to say that... but thought I'd scroll through first.
Agreed... what if these computers the Army has decide they want to try to take the place of the Army guy's buddies? Would they make the guys turn against each other, or launch nukes, etc?
Why not constantly send up parts to this station, and have the constuction done up there? The biggest problem we have here is getting the BIG things up there. Why not keep it small, and up there make it big?
Actually, I have to agree with both of you... both the US and Russia are F**ked up (and it's two stars, not three!), along with the rest of us on this little planet. We should have really been up there a while back, probably had at least a few hundred thousand up there, plus started making moon colonies by now, with a manned mission to Mars already under our belts.
But, thanks to short sighted bearaucrats, and others, budgets are slashed, pointless wars are fought, etc. We need to get our sights set straight...
This planet is only going to last so long, and you think that solving problems with wars is going to solve it? No... might solve some, but ultimately not all.
How about telling factories to cut pollution? They'll still do it, and what's to stop other countries around the world from doing it. Granted it'll help, but not solve the problem.
And what are we doing with our money?
The FSB, in Russia, is requiring ISP's to implement black boxes, so they can watch every little bit of Internet traffic. (see today's Slashdot)
China is firewalling the whole country, and monitoring all transmissions in and out. (public knowledge)
US is, well, screwed up in general (and this from a citizen!). We have a country that cheers a president on who bops whatever girl in a skirt walks by (over 50% of the country wanted him to stay, and be a role model for our children, even after he did Monica). (Let's count: Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, etc... all these women that say he was with them, and he denies it on all but one, the one who had overwhelming proof. Who else thinks that it wasn't just this one he was with?)
Congress chucks all of NASA's funding, except for a small portion... where do you think most of it is going? I tend to think these rich Senators and congressmen didn't do as much work as the rest of us would for that kind of money. Then, there's the occasional "Let's tax the entire Internet, even if they're not in our country, for doing just about anything" bill proposal.
Maybe I'm thinking the wrong way, but the whole world has its priorities mixed up. Think outward, not inward.
I believe it goes this way:
You set up a user name and password with MP3.com
Download Beam-It, put in each CD, and have it recognize it.
Then, you can access the links to all of your CD's MP3's, via a web interface, with your username and password... which is like any other place where you can change your password.
And what's wrong with calling the next processor "Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple breasted whore."?
Why is it they're playing Doom and Quake on the Crusoe and the Trillian debuts? If they're wanting to show the oomph of the processor, I'd think they would be playing more modern, say, Unreal Tournament, or maybe Half Life. (unless of course ID is paying them for the advertisement, in which case, they better have one helluva good game in the works... and I don't mean Quake 3!!!)
Anybody notice that the real life Darwin was also famous for his work on the Galapagos Islands (in the Pacific), and that Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a desert island (since I didn't read the book, I don't know where it was, but there's a chance it was in the Pacific).
Only makes since that their silicon counterparts are somewhat related as well.
AOL has had so much of a track record of problems that they're overdue for this one. However, this sounds more like something Microsoft would do than them. Maybe the two Steve's (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, and Steve Case, AOL) got together and discussed it? Nah...
Well, if we go that way, with 0 being neither even or odd (which is argued all through the math community... I had one teacher one year say it was even, then the next say it wasn't either), then there has NEVER been an even date, if we go digit by digit. Any month 01-09 is neither even or odd, according to that, and months 11 and 12 never were even, then.... and I've never heard of a month 2x.
Ranger Toc? Legal? I think I'd rather see Dessloch, from UT, or better yet, Barrett from FF7. Yep, Barrett would convince the judge, all right, with his gun-arm.
What happened to this article? For some reason, the colors are all in gray, and the word wrap is turned off. Each paragraph scrolls all the way across the screen, instead of having all line feeds.
It's not my settings, because all other articles are appearing normally.
Got a similar problem happening here. Our 2 DNS servers, both running FreeBSD, just crashed within a week of each other. They were Compaq Deskpro 4000's running WD Caviar 4GB IDE drives. One was clunk of death, other just had a head crash. However, I'm not sure which to blame the failure on... these machines have each eaten through 3 hard drives in the past year... I think they were all WD. We'll try Seagate 8.4GB now.
Got a similar problem happening here. Our 2 DNS servers, both running FreeBSD, just crashed within a week of each other. They were Compaq Deskpro 4000's running WD Caviar 4GB IDE drives. However, I'm not sure which to blame the failure on... these machines have each eaten through 3 hard drives in the past year... I think they were all WD. We'll try Seagate 8.4GB now.
"with a warning that major East Coast cities face the threat of snow and severe cold late this week"
Ummmm.... I think it's a little late for that. The cold already arrived, and has been here the past few days (Is 0 degrees in Connecticut severe enough, yet? With a bad wind chill, nonetheless!)
I could've forecast that!
On the other hand, this new computer sounds pretty good. Forecasts over a week in advance? Great!
(Now, what they need to do is make a distributed client, Weather Channel@home, ala SetiAtHome or Distributed.net, to push it to a month in advance.)