Yes, the laws were relaxed or repealed and you can now brew traditional recipes without hops now. I won't turn down a pint or five of heather ale either. Definitely not a girlie drink. The folk that do Heather Ale also make brews with Pine needles, gooseberries etc. Damn good stuff and some are quite powerful too.
Yes, the laws were relaxed or repealed and you can now brew traditional recipes without hops now. I won't turn down a pint or five of heather ale either. Definitely not a girlie drink. The folk that do Heather Ale also make brews with Pine needles, gooseberries etc. Damn good stuff and some are quite powerful too.
Here is the frontpage (flash intro) <URL:http://www.heatherale.co.uk/><br> Here is the homepage <URL:http://www.fraoch.com/><br> And here is the range of ales! <URL:http://www.fraoch.com/historicales.htm><br>
You raised a very interesting point there. Ales in Scotland were traditionally brewed with bittering agents other than hops, (Heather, thyme, myrltle, pine needles etc). Hops generally does not grow in Scotland and so has to be imported. After Scotland lost its indepedance folowing the act of union, it was decreed that all ales must be brewed with hops.
Scottish brewers had no choice but to import hops, mostly from Kent. A tax was payable on the purchase of hops, putting Scottish brewers at a disadvantage. The solution was to brew with less hops but more malt. So a pint of Scottish heavy would have had less bitterness, (less hops), but a more full bodied flavour than its English equivalent.
When I was at school, we had wall urinals. I soon realised that if I changed my aim and adjusted the flow I could piss over the top of the wall and out the window.
One day I walked outside and saw the assistant headteacher looking studeously at an empty metal cage waste bin on the other side of the toilet window. I guess he was trying to figure out why there was liquid flowing from the bin but no empty drinks containers!!!
SuSE Linux was my full time replacement for MS Windows. I was wary of Red Hat which seemed to be biased towards Gnome. I tried Gnome but it turned me right off. It seemed to be resource hungry and too much like Windows for my taste. Once, the Bonobo Activation Client was accidentally activated by a misplaced mouse click. This caused continual spawning of Galeon. A fleet of Galeons, (pun intended), brought my PC to its knees. Due to lack of available system resources it was almost impossible to kill the processes. Eventually I logged on with a different desktop environment and removed Gnome.
The tendency for various packages to have inconvenient cross interdependencies was annoying.
I still prefer SuSE to Red Hat but perhaps they are both trying to satisfy as many diverse needs as possible. The trouble with standardisation is that someone is always going to be unhappy with the vendors choice of packages.
IMHO SuSE have done a great service to the Linux community but I'm always wary of take overs. Meanwhile I'm trying out OpenBSD when time permits
Don't worry. You can volunteer for your very own RFID implant. Just call verisign for details. Alternatively just wait until the required bills go through congress and it becomes compulsory. OTOH I could be wildly wrong...
I just had to go search for more info on RFID implants because sooner or later bills will be proposed by somebody that they be introduced, initially on a voluntary basis....
Back in July silicon.com reported the following:
"Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged. Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that specialises in subcutaneous RFID tags for humans and pets. To help promote the concepts behind the technology, Thompson himself will get an RFID tag implanted under his skin."
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,391505 25,00.htm/
October 2004 - FDA approves computer chip for humans - nice pic of an implant next to George Washington...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/
This article was followed up in November 2004
http://slate.msn.com/id/2109477/
Verisign thoughtfully provide a method to save you getting your child swapped in the hospital. "The number of total switching incidents is as high as 20,000 per year in the U.S." But don't worry. In this case the tag is not implanted...
http://www.verichipcorp.com/
The Mexican Government - "Mexico's Attorney General required the Mark of the Beast in a 160 people. Thousands more are now planned..." http://www.tldm.org/News4/MarkoftheBeast.htm
"Freeing ones self from the grid is like a Borg entity trying to be free. "Prepare for assimilation, resistance is futile."
Indeed there are obstacles for many of us wanting to free ourselves from the grid. Local planning policies, building regulation and propery costs certainly don't help. Forcing people to accept the staus quo will only set us back several decades.
From a survival point of view, it only makes sense to have localised alternatives to being at the mercy of a centralised power policy with a unified grid distribution. For many businesses and households, their only energy supply is grid electricity.
Rather than favour one power generation technology over another, a sensible course of action is to figure out how we can use them all to best effect. This includes taking action to reduce energy losses in distribution and use.
A great deal of power is lost in transmission lines.
1. It is radiated as heat. Birds flock to a power line where an insulator has started to fail and presents itself as a resistive path to earth through the support pylon.
2. It is radiated as electromagnetic energy at the production frequency of 50Hz or 60Hz, depending on where you live, and at the harmonic frequencies. People have been prosecuted for stealing energy from overhead power lines using induction circuits. Various demonstrations of iluuminating a fluorescent tube by holding it under a power line have been televised.
Alternating Current was proposed as a solution to power loss over long distances. AC is also convenient for transforming voltages. Direct Current can be more efficient when it is produced where it is required but it needs to be transformed in to AC for grid distribution or used to do work, whether chemical or kinetic, for storage.
Nuclear is essentially an always on technology and large existing hydo schemes are extremely important in some countries, (e.g., Scotland and USA). Nuclear and Hydo generated electricity should be distributed by a grid or used to do work. Nuclear is used off peak for pumping water back up to the header source in a pumped storage hydo electric sheme.
Localised wind, solar, mini hydro and geothermal energies should be utilised at or very close to their source.
If I had my own property with sufficient space and regulations,local planners and busybodies didn't interfere, I'd like to do what I could to reduce or remove my needs to use the country wide grid. Meanwhile, I'll just keep using energy efficient light bulbs and only use what heat I need in winter.
Protect yourself from breathing household poisons: http://www.calpoison.org/public/breath.html
TOP "10" HAZARDOUS HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS: http://consumerlawpage.com/article/household-chemi cals.shtml Also at http://www.ghchealth.com/top-10-hazardous-househol d-chemicals.html
Air Friendly Household Products: www.lung.ca/cando/content/FS-HOUSE.pdf
Solid fuels seem to be a primary contibutor to fatalities. This pdf lists other health affecting materials: ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/Publications/Chapt%20 18%20IAP%20from%20Soid%20Fuels.pdf
A useful sheet on exposure points out that as we know, different people have different sensitivity to differnt exposure levels and methods of differnt substances:
I didn't find basic particularly rewarding. Fortran didn't do it for me either.
I found that once I got in to Turbo Pascal I could get it to do useful things. I built a circuit board to connect to the parallel port on a 486 PC and had a go at writing code which would maniupulate the I/O . You could watch LEDs change state according to the I/O port states.
That was a nice way to learn some simple structured programming. Even simple stuff to make things happen on the VDU was rewarding.
Caveat - I don't program, though I am interested in learning more about Turbo Pascal, C, OPL and Python.
As for ".net" and "VB", they seem completely useless to me but then I'm not an MS Window's fan.
I made a chilli omlette once. Now if you can get a toaster to do that I might be impressed.
1. Invent toaster that can fry. 2. Put a PC in it. 3. Get it to play MP3's. 4. Network it. 5. Get root. 6. All your breakfasts are belong to script kiddie...
I can belive that. Many server administrators have been used to setting up servers on Windows NT/2000 or Sun boxes. I suspect that the accountants think that seting up one *nix box is the same as another and that further training would be a waste of money...
As a geek wouldn't you appreciate a realdoll that actually moves like a woman. (Speaking personally I prefer the female realdoll, though I haven't used one - almost as expensive to run as the real thing).
Just think how cool that would be. Er actually it would be one big synthetic skin heat sink.
I use online port scanning tools to check my home network. I don't know about your Linskys device but but some router/modem's allow you to configure a DMZ and to specify a private IP address you don't actually use. Basically, inbound portscans might see the DMZ but nothing else. Since the DMZ doesn't lead anywhere, your ports are stealthed and the scanner gets bored and tries elsewhere. This may not work on some Linskys router modems due to a software bug...
Make sure that you disable inbound http and ftp. After all, why would you want to remotely configure your router/modem from outside your home network? ICMP echo requests should also be prohibited. If the hardware manual is not helpful, try searching for info on the web.
http://www.grc.com "Shields up" http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.htm l
You may find this article of interest: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai n/Linksys_routers_and_DDoS.html
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Yes, the laws were relaxed or repealed and you can now brew traditional recipes without hops now. I won't turn down a pint or five of heather ale either. Definitely not a girlie drink. The folk that do Heather Ale also make brews with Pine needles, gooseberries etc. Damn good stuff and some are quite powerful too.
Here is the frontpage (flash intro) http://www.heatherale.co.uk/
Here is the homepage http://www.fraoch.com/
And here is the range of ales! http://www.fraoch.com/historicales.htm
-- My hyperlinks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Yes, the laws were relaxed or repealed and you can now brew traditional recipes without hops now. I won't turn down a pint or five of heather ale either. Definitely not a girlie drink. The folk that do Heather Ale also make brews with Pine needles, gooseberries etc. Damn good stuff and some are quite powerful too.
Here is the frontpage (flash intro) <URL:http://www.heatherale.co.uk/><br>
Here is the homepage <URL:http://www.fraoch.com/><br>
And here is the range of ales! <URL:http://www.fraoch.com/historicales.htm><br>
You raised a very interesting point there. Ales in Scotland were traditionally brewed with bittering agents other than hops, (Heather, thyme, myrltle, pine needles etc). Hops generally does not grow in Scotland and so has to be imported. After Scotland lost its indepedance folowing the act of union, it was decreed that all ales must be brewed with hops.
Scottish brewers had no choice but to import hops, mostly from Kent. A tax was payable on the purchase of hops, putting Scottish brewers at a disadvantage. The solution was to brew with less hops but more malt. So a pint of Scottish heavy would have had less bitterness, (less hops), but a more full bodied flavour than its English equivalent.
When I was at school, we had wall urinals. I soon realised that if I changed my aim and adjusted the flow I could piss over the top of the wall and out the window.
One day I walked outside and saw the assistant headteacher looking studeously at an empty metal cage waste bin on the other side of the toilet window. I guess he was trying to figure out why there was liquid flowing from the bin but no empty drinks containers!!!
Self cleaning underpants.
Probably not a good idea to chew them though...
is because its generally simplistic.
But then I don't generally choose to listen to pop.
What proportion of pop music sales are due to the televised video?
Repetitive moronic pap sells because there are sexy women performing courtship rituals on the video not because of the music itself.
Yes, I am an old heavy metal fan.
SuSE Linux was my full time replacement for MS Windows. I was wary of Red Hat which seemed to be biased towards Gnome. I tried Gnome but it turned me right off. It seemed to be resource hungry and too much like Windows for my taste. Once, the Bonobo Activation Client was accidentally activated by a misplaced mouse click. This caused continual spawning of Galeon. A fleet of Galeons, (pun intended), brought my PC to its knees. Due to lack of available system resources it was almost impossible to kill the processes. Eventually I logged on with a different desktop environment and removed Gnome.
The tendency for various packages to have inconvenient cross interdependencies was annoying.
I still prefer SuSE to Red Hat but perhaps they are both trying to satisfy as many diverse needs as possible. The trouble with standardisation is that someone is always going to be unhappy with the vendors choice of packages.
IMHO SuSE have done a great service to the Linux community but I'm always wary of take overs. Meanwhile I'm trying out OpenBSD when time permits
That's impressive!
Don't worry. You can volunteer for your very own RFID implant. Just call verisign for details. Alternatively just wait until the required bills go through congress and it becomes compulsory. OTOH I could be wildly wrong...
I just had to go search for more info on RFID implants because sooner or later bills will be proposed by somebody that they be introduced, initially on a voluntary basis....
...unlike the VeriKid service provided by the Mexican distributors of verisign technology:
http://www.solusat.com.mx/index1.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60771, 00.html
...they seem to be popular with body piercing fans:
Amal Graafstra Gets an RFID Implant
http://www.bmezine.com/news/presenttense/20050330. html
Back in July silicon.com reported the following: "Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged. Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that specialises in subcutaneous RFID tags for humans and pets. To help promote the concepts behind the technology, Thompson himself will get an RFID tag implanted under his skin." http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,391505 25,00.htm/
December 2003 - Subdermal RFID chip provokes furore http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/04/subdermal_ rfid_chip_provokes_furore/
October 2004 - FDA approves computer chip for humans - nice pic of an implant next to George Washington... http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/
This article was followed up in November 2004 http://slate.msn.com/id/2109477/
Verisign thoughtfully provide a method to save you getting your child swapped in the hospital. "The number of total switching incidents is as high as 20,000 per year in the U.S." But don't worry. In this case the tag is not implanted... http://www.verichipcorp.com/
Although RFID implants have their detractors...
http://www.spychips.com/
http://www.notags.co.uk/page26.html
http://www.rfidconcerns.com/
http://www.shire.net/big.brother/digitalangel.htm
http://whiterose.samizdata.net/archives/cat_identi ty_cards.html
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/impl anting_chip.html
And the odd geek or two: http://www.x11.net/wiki/index.php/My_RFID_Implant He has mp4 video footage of the implanting procedure. It doesn't sound like he will want to remove this implant anytime soon - OUCH!
The Mexican Government - "Mexico's Attorney General required the Mark of the Beast in a 160 people. Thousands more are now planned..." http://www.tldm.org/News4/MarkoftheBeast.htm
And the European Parliament! "Brussels: 'Implants to track people are OK'". http://management.silicon.com/government/0,3902467 7,39128836,00.htm/
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" Lord Acton (1834-1902)
"In the US, about 8% of the generated power is lost in the distribution system (lines, transformers, everything). Is that 'a great deal'?"
Ok. By a "great deal of" I meant a large proportion of. Given the vast amount of power used in the US, yes that is one hell of a loss.
I've been using SuSe Linux for a few years but I've also taken an interest in OpenBSD for a while. Recently I decided to give it a go. The online documentation is very well thought out. To suppliment online documentation I opted for an excellent book which should help new and experienced *nix users alike in getting the best from OpenBSD for their requirements. Absolute OpenBSD by Michael W. Lucas ISBN 1-886411-99-9 http://www.nostarch.com/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-fo rm/103-8285097-8052630/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/188641199 9/qid%3D1129994895/026-1045610-3018009/
I like the way OpenBSD has been produced and the way in which it encourages good practice.
"Freeing ones self from the grid is like a Borg entity trying to be free. "Prepare for assimilation, resistance is futile."
Indeed there are obstacles for many of us wanting to free ourselves from the grid. Local planning policies, building regulation and propery costs certainly don't help. Forcing people to accept the staus quo will only set us back several decades.
From a survival point of view, it only makes sense to have localised alternatives to being at the mercy of a centralised power policy with a unified grid distribution. For many businesses and households, their only energy supply is grid electricity.
Rather than favour one power generation technology over another, a sensible course of action is to figure out how we can use them all to best effect. This includes taking action to reduce energy losses in distribution and use.
A great deal of power is lost in transmission lines.
1. It is radiated as heat. Birds flock to a power line where an insulator has started to fail and presents itself as a resistive path to earth through the support pylon.
2. It is radiated as electromagnetic energy at the production frequency of 50Hz or 60Hz, depending on where you live, and at the harmonic frequencies. People have been prosecuted for stealing energy from overhead power lines using induction circuits. Various demonstrations of iluuminating a fluorescent tube by holding it under a power line have been televised.
Alternating Current was proposed as a solution to power loss over long distances. AC is also convenient for transforming voltages. Direct Current can be more efficient when it is produced where it is required but it needs to be transformed in to AC for grid distribution or used to do work, whether chemical or kinetic, for storage.
Nuclear is essentially an always on technology and large existing hydo schemes are extremely important in some countries, (e.g., Scotland and USA). Nuclear and Hydo generated electricity should be distributed by a grid or used to do work.
Nuclear is used off peak for pumping water back up to the header source in a pumped storage hydo electric sheme.
Localised wind, solar, mini hydro and geothermal energies should be utilised at or very close to their source.
If I had my own property with sufficient space and regulations,local planners and busybodies didn't interfere, I'd like to do what I could to reduce or remove my needs to use the country wide grid. Meanwhile, I'll just keep using energy efficient light bulbs and only use what heat I need in winter.
Er
That would be Real Sheep:
BAHahah BUF..FER..ING
I'm so sorry but it had to be done...
Protect yourself from breathing household poisons:
i cals.shtmll d-chemicals.html
0 18%20IAP%20from%20Soid%20Fuels.pdf
s ure.htm
http://www.calpoison.org/public/breath.html
TOP "10" HAZARDOUS HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS: http://consumerlawpage.com/article/household-chem
Also at http://www.ghchealth.com/top-10-hazardous-househo
Air Friendly Household Products:
www.lung.ca/cando/content/FS-HOUSE.pdf
Solid fuels seem to be a primary contibutor to fatalities. This pdf lists other health affecting materials:
ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/Publications/Chapt%2
A useful sheet on exposure points out that as we know, different people have different sensitivity to differnt exposure levels and methods of differnt substances:
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/environ/expo
Oh, I guess thats enough exposure to URL's in this posting.
I didn't find basic particularly rewarding.
Fortran didn't do it for me either.
I found that once I got in to Turbo Pascal I could get it to do useful things. I built a circuit board to connect to the parallel port on a 486 PC and had a go at writing code which would maniupulate the I/O . You could watch LEDs change state according to the I/O port states.
That was a nice way to learn some simple structured programming. Even simple stuff to make things happen on the VDU was rewarding.
Caveat - I don't program, though I am interested in learning more about Turbo Pascal, C, OPL and Python.
As for ".net" and "VB", they seem completely useless to me but then I'm not an MS Window's fan.
So you can put eggs in right?
That would be an ITX omlette...
I made a chilli omlette once. Now if you can get a toaster to do that I might be impressed.
1. Invent toaster that can fry.
2. Put a PC in it.
3. Get it to play MP3's.
4. Network it.
5. Get root.
6. All your breakfasts are belong to script kiddie...
I can belive that. Many server administrators have been used to setting up servers on Windows NT/2000 or Sun boxes. I suspect that the accountants think that seting up one *nix box is the same as another and that further training would be a waste of money...
How did a traffic warden manage to slap a parking violation on a shuttle?
It just isn't fair. DEC were great pioneers.Then they were bought, asset stripped and killed off.
From what I understand the ONLY disadvantage of the Alpha is its power consumption.
From what I understand the disadvantages of the Itanium include power consumption and architecture.
I nearly bought an Alpha EV6 from E-Bay.
DEC engineers always impressed me.
Very funny.....
As a geek wouldn't you appreciate a realdoll that actually moves like a woman. (Speaking personally I prefer the female realdoll, though I haven't used one - almost as expensive to run as the real thing).
Just think how cool that would be. Er actually it would be one big synthetic skin heat sink.
How many bogomips would that need?
uh..come again?
I use online port scanning tools to check my home network. I don't know about your Linskys device but but some router/modem's allow you to configure a DMZ and to specify a private IP address you don't actually use. Basically, inbound portscans might see the DMZ but nothing else. Since the DMZ doesn't lead anywhere, your ports are stealthed and the scanner gets bored and tries elsewhere. This may not work on some Linskys router modems due to a software bug...
m l
i n/Linksys_routers_and_DDoS.html
Make sure that you disable inbound http and ftp. After all, why would you want to remotely configure your router/modem from outside your home network? ICMP echo requests should also be prohibited. If the hardware manual is not helpful, try searching for info on the web.
http://www.grc.com "Shields up"
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.ht
You may find this article of interest: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/ma
That about sums it up, unfortunately.
"Does history record any case in which the majority was right?"
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away"
The notebooks of Lazarus Long - Robert A Heinlein.