Groundhog day is when the elders of a town surround the hybernating area of a groundhog and see if it comes out. If it does come out, that symbolises the end of spring and a good summer harvest, if it stays in then the winter would drag on and on.. and on.. (in other words it's a weather man (um.. groundhog))
I see no reason as to why your post should be moderated down as flamebait. I really enjoyed the Heinlein quote. Quite possibly the moderator was not aware who that was.
My wine can run among other things winamp, IE, realplayer G2, sonique and seveal games. Mirc is one of the easiest and smoother things to run on it. Did you try the -managed option btw? It's very cool. Also run the 32 mirc and get the lastest wine. --
Due to the generious coding of Greg and Co at Visor Linux USB project, anyone who owns A handspring visor would be able to sync with the USB cradle without having to buy a serial cradle.
I believe Dixie was a true construct, but it was Read Only. And yes it used to be a person. The dump uses RAM from the Deck it is interfaced with, if the Deck is removed the construct is returned to the state it was in when it was first accessed. It can learn new things, but that is retained only in RAM. Dixie used to be Chases mentor before he flatlined. A flatline is exectly what it sounds (when the heart monitor goes flat, ie. dead). --
The theory of uploading brains into data holders was first put forward into popular culture by William Gibson (the guy who coined the term "cyberspace" in the same novel).
In Neuromancer a "Construct" is a bit to bit copy of a person's mind. When the construct is hooked to a "Deck" using "dermatrodes" strapped across the forhead, a virtual representaion of the dead individual contained in the construct is attained.
Much of Neuromancer is about interaction between Case and his dead guru "Dixie" interfaced as a construct in the cyberspace Matrix.
As you know modern movies have heavly borrowed (shamelessly from Gibson's book), I hope this helps attain Nivana for the few who are not englightened by Gibson's extreemly A+ work (to be made into a movie soon). --
Here is the official Press relese from NASA giving details into the MSNBC article. But dont put too much hope into it..
"If in fact the signal were from Polar Lander, two failures would have had to occur. First, the lander's X-band radio that it would use to transmit directly to Earth would have to be broken. Second, there would have to be a problem somewhere in the relay with Mars Global Surveyor that prevented the signal from being picked up and relayed by the orbiter. It is unlikely that a broken transmitter on the lander could be fixed, and unclear whether a problem with the relay could be resolved"
Still... it would..
"Even if the signal were coming from the lander, there is little hope that any science could be returned. However, it would give the team a few more clues in trying to eliminate possible failure modes. "
Scroll down a bit on the cryptome.org link and you shall see..
This was the most hilarious piece of (Please quote me) quoting I've ever seen any laywer use.
But my favourt of all time is the Anonymous Coward quote :
" There is an incorrect perception that copyright and patent and RE [reverse engineering] laws are universal. They are not. If someone in say, Taiwan, or some other non-Berne non-WIPO country REs the code and posts it to the usenet, how is this illegal? Now I suppose it's illegal for Jo[e] US Citizen to download and use this code, but the genie will be out of the bottle so to say, and it will then be impossible to suppres [sic] the knowledge anymore. (by anonymous coward) (emphasis added). "
With the [sic] and emphasis added. A truly masterpiece, glorifying the Anonymous Coward of Slashdot fame.
In this regard I would give Bruce Perenes a hearty A+ for PR. Not only was a story posted about him that was taking place somewhere else.. but he actually took part in the/. conversation that took place immediatly before his IRC interview.
The hackers at Linux USB Visor has managed to get Visor to sync over USB in Linux 2.3.40. They managed to do this with a few extra patches (Which you can get from that site) and help from a freebsd dude. Freebsd dudes hop over there to find out how they did it as well..
200 Mhz K6-2's arnt in the market anymoe.. a query on pricewatch for K6-2 300mhz's turned up chips for 27 dollars.. He had 11 processors.. that's well under 300 dollars..
I will use 100 processors, --- which would be 2700 bucks.
Chasis -- 32 * 100 -- 3200 Fiber net cards == 150 * 100 - 15000 RAM - 64 (say 64 mb is 64 bucks) * 100 - 6400 HD/mb& misc - (need not be fast and need not be that much) 100 * 100 = 10000
Total == USD $37300 (37% of what he quoted). And this is with 100 300mhz k6-2's instead of 11 200mhz k6-2's.
All prices quoted from pricewatch's listings (specially CPU & NIC). --
ALSA - Most Improved kernel module (:)) Rob Levin - Unsung Hero #debian team on OPN - Best Newbie Helpers SPI - Most deserving opensource charity
bb using aalib - Best Unix Eyecandy alsaplayer - Best Unix Earcandy perl/tk - Best Perl Module php - Best Apache Module vi - Best Text Editor Broadcast 2000 - Deserving a $2000 award sawmill - Best Graphical Interface epic4-axur - Best Text Interface
AC - Best Dressed:) Amazon - Big Dumb Patent Bully eToys.com - Big Dumb Domain Bully Hemos the Hamster - The Hemos Award.
The stuff I left out was not applicable in my view.
The scary bit is that AOL now owns power over CNN. When it was just Time Warner, they didnt do much to impose their own style and name on the news service, but now that AOL (with it's ego centric view has taken the reigns), I fear that it would soon be AOL CNN rather than just CNN. --
I believe the USB thingy on the Visor is a fully usable USB port.. Exepct the pins on both ends which are there to facilate with Hotsynincg.. Have you seen the new foldable keyboard that uses this USB port? The cradle has no special USB stuff in it.. it's just an interface to the Visor USB port... --
I'm waiting for the springboard based mp3 module for my Visor to become cheaper.. Cant really afford anything more than 99 bucks for a mp3 springboard..
Then again, I'd love to own a GPS, Wireless or bluetooth module:) --
Actually it was NetSol's incompetence that it let domain names be registered without making sure those names complied to specifications. I read this story on news.com 2 days ago regarding this..
Network Solutions' (NSI) registry accepted about 800 domain names containing a hyphen at the end or the beginning of an address. But such names have long been prohibited and therefore should be recaptured, said Michael Roberts, president of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
"It was a mistake," Roberts said today. "The software was not rejecting the names, but that was fixed earlier this week."
The first such name was registered Nov. 4, leaving some consumers wondering why it took so long to discover the problem.
Roberts explained that the system is automated and does not involve people who would have been able to detect the problem sooner.
In an agreement with ICANN, NSI, which operates the single registry system, and about 23 other approved registrars that feed into that system prohibit the trailing hyphens. The agreement also gives power to the companies to revoke domains that have been mistakenly sold, Roberts said.
Only a few of the approved registrars failed to put a filtering device in their systems, which allowed the unauthorized domains to sneak through, said Don Telage, NSI's registry policy spokesman.
San Francisco-based Internet Domain Registrars was one of the companies that failed to implement the filter, and as a result, it unknowingly registered about 400 bad addresses, said Paul Lum, the company's general manager.
Lum said he was relying on NSI's security system to catch any characters not allowed in a domain, such as an exclamation point, dollar sign and a trailing or leading hyphen.
Early Monday, he learned it was Internet Domain's responsibility to program its own filter. Now the company is left with the unpleasant task of reimbursing a total of $25,000 to those who registered the new domains.
The fiasco will not likely cause a customer-relations problem for Internet Domain, Lum said. Instead he views the situation as evidence that clever Net addresses are highly sought after.
"There is too much pent-up demand for good domain names," he said. "Even though the hyphen isn't very attractive, short names are still preferred."
A lawyer for one unhappy consumer who registered more than 100 of these new domains said the governing bodies could have a difficult time proving the recent glitch was a mistake, as it took them three months to discover the error.
The rest of this story could be read here. Please don't jump to conclusion without getting the full story.
Lilo is an incredble person. No other person on OPN could match him. He made a network which a lot of people call home and a lot of projects call home. (offical #debian, #linpeople and the new kids from linux.com).
Slashdot Mirror
Here is a URL that might be helpful and might tell you a bit more about the groundhog day.
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Groundhog day is when the elders of a town surround the hybernating area of a groundhog and see if it comes out. If it does come out, that symbolises the end of spring and a good summer harvest, if it stays in then the winter would drag on and on.. and on.. (in other words it's a weather man (um.. groundhog))
Cheers.
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True,
I see no reason as to why your post should be moderated down as flamebait. I really enjoyed the Heinlein quote. Quite possibly the moderator was not aware who that was.
Enjoy.
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My wine can run among other things winamp, IE, realplayer G2, sonique and seveal games. Mirc is one of the easiest and smoother things to run on it. Did you try the -managed option btw? It's very cool. Also run the 32 mirc and get the lastest wine.
--
Due to the generious coding of Greg and Co at Visor Linux USB project, anyone who owns A handspring visor would be able to sync with the USB cradle without having to buy a serial cradle.
Enjoy.
--
I believe Dixie was a true construct, but it was Read Only. And yes it used to be a person. The dump uses RAM from the Deck it is interfaced with, if the Deck is removed the construct is returned to the state it was in when it was first accessed. It can learn new things, but that is retained only in RAM. Dixie used to be Chases mentor before he flatlined. A flatline is exectly what it sounds (when the heart monitor goes flat, ie. dead).
--
The theory of uploading brains into data holders was first put forward into popular culture by William Gibson (the guy who coined the term "cyberspace" in the same novel).
In Neuromancer a "Construct" is a bit to bit copy of a person's mind. When the construct is hooked to a "Deck" using "dermatrodes" strapped across the forhead, a virtual representaion of the dead individual contained in the construct is attained.
Much of Neuromancer is about interaction between Case and his dead guru "Dixie" interfaced as a construct in the cyberspace Matrix.
As you know modern movies have heavly borrowed (shamelessly from Gibson's book), I hope this helps attain Nivana for the few who are not englightened by Gibson's extreemly A+ work (to be made into a movie soon).
--
Here is the official Press relese from NASA giving details into the MSNBC article. But dont put too much hope into it..
"If in fact the signal were from Polar Lander, two failures would have had to occur. First, the lander's X-band radio that it would use to transmit
directly to Earth would have to be broken. Second, there would have to be a problem somewhere in the relay with Mars Global Surveyor that
prevented the signal from being picked up and relayed by the orbiter. It is unlikely that a broken transmitter on the lander could be fixed, and
unclear whether a problem with the relay could be resolved"
Still... it would..
"Even if the signal were coming from the lander, there is little hope that any science could be returned. However, it would give the team a few more
clues in trying to eliminate possible failure modes.
"
enjoy.
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Scroll down a bit on the cryptome.org link and you shall see..
This was the most hilarious piece of (Please quote me) quoting I've ever seen any laywer use.
But my favourt of all time is the Anonymous Coward quote :
"
There is an incorrect perception that copyright and patent and RE [reverse engineering] laws are universal. They are not. If someone in say, Taiwan,
or some other non-Berne non-WIPO country REs the code and posts it to the usenet, how is this illegal? Now I suppose it's illegal for Jo[e] US
Citizen to download and use this code, but the genie will be out of the bottle so to say, and it will then be impossible to suppres [sic] the knowledge
anymore. (by anonymous coward) (emphasis added). "
With the [sic] and emphasis added. A truly masterpiece, glorifying the Anonymous Coward of Slashdot fame.
Good job AC.
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In this regard I would give Bruce Perenes a hearty A+ for PR. Not only was a story posted about him that was taking place somewhere else.. but he actually took part in the /. conversation that took place immediatly before his IRC interview.
Rgds.
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Hello Dudes,
The hackers at Linux USB Visor has managed to get Visor to sync over USB in Linux 2.3.40. They managed to do this with a few extra patches (Which you can get from that site) and help from a freebsd dude. Freebsd dudes hop over there to find out how they did it as well..
Enjoy syncing the Visor on USB!
Long live the kernel!
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>400 * 150 == 60,000.
>And if you can get a MB + case + hd for $100, I >have a bridge to sell you. At best:
How about a hub? Gadzoox and 3com have them out.
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Chassis count was equal to CPU count. the 32 is price of chassis.
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200 Mhz K6-2's arnt in the market anymoe.. a query on pricewatch for K6-2 300mhz's turned up chips for 27 dollars.. He had 11 processors.. that's well under 300 dollars..
I will use 100 processors,
--- which would be 2700 bucks.
Chasis -- 32 * 100 -- 3200
Fiber net cards == 150 * 100 - 15000
RAM - 64 (say 64 mb is 64 bucks) * 100 - 6400
HD/mb& misc - (need not be fast and need not be that much) 100 * 100 = 10000
Total == USD $37300 (37% of what he quoted). And this is with 100 300mhz k6-2's instead of 11 200mhz k6-2's.
All prices quoted from pricewatch's listings (specially CPU & NIC).
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My version of an ideal emBallmer walking past the pearly gates of heaven.
:)
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How do you like my version
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ALSA - Most Improved Project
ALSA - Most Improved kernel module (:))
Rob Levin - Unsung Hero
#debian team on OPN - Best Newbie Helpers
SPI - Most deserving opensource charity
bb using aalib - Best Unix Eyecandy
alsaplayer - Best Unix Earcandy
perl/tk - Best Perl Module
php - Best Apache Module
vi - Best Text Editor
Broadcast 2000 - Deserving a $2000 award
sawmill - Best Graphical Interface
epic4-axur - Best Text Interface
AC - Best Dressed
Amazon - Big Dumb Patent Bully
eToys.com - Big Dumb Domain Bully
Hemos the Hamster - The Hemos Award.
The stuff I left out was not applicable in my view.
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The scary bit is that AOL now owns power over CNN. When it was just Time Warner, they didnt do much to impose their own style and name on the news service, but now that AOL (with it's ego centric view has taken the reigns), I fear that it would soon be AOL CNN rather than just CNN.
--
I believe the USB thingy on the Visor is a fully usable USB port.. Exepct the pins on both ends which are there to facilate with Hotsynincg.. Have you seen the new foldable keyboard that uses this USB port? The cradle has no special USB stuff in it.. it's just an interface to the Visor USB port...
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Maybe it is time for a springboard HUB module? eh.. :) Like the USB hubs.. or the Y cables.. Maybe it's time someone made a palm driven LEGO set..
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I'm waiting for the springboard based mp3 module for my Visor to become cheaper.. Cant really afford anything more than 99 bucks for a mp3 springboard..
:)
Then again, I'd love to own a GPS, Wireless or bluetooth module
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Or.. in star trek talk..
non-baryonic == anti-matter.
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Actually it was NetSol's incompetence that it let domain names be registered without making sure those names complied to specifications. I read this story on news.com 2 days ago regarding this..
Network Solutions' (NSI) registry accepted about 800 domain names containing a hyphen at the end or the beginning of an address. But such names have long been prohibited and therefore should be recaptured, said Michael Roberts, president of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
"It was a mistake," Roberts said today. "The software was not rejecting the names, but that was fixed earlier this week."
The first such name was registered Nov. 4, leaving some consumers wondering why it took so long to discover the problem.
Roberts explained that the system is automated and does not involve people who would have been able to detect the problem sooner.
In an agreement with ICANN, NSI, which operates the single registry system, and about 23 other approved registrars that feed into that system prohibit the trailing hyphens. The agreement also gives power to the companies to revoke domains that have been mistakenly sold, Roberts said.
Only a few of the approved registrars failed to put a filtering device in their systems, which allowed the unauthorized domains to sneak through, said Don Telage, NSI's registry policy spokesman.
San Francisco-based Internet Domain Registrars was one of the companies that failed to implement the filter, and as a result, it unknowingly registered about 400 bad addresses, said Paul Lum, the company's general manager.
Lum said he was relying on NSI's security system to catch any characters not allowed in a domain, such as an exclamation point, dollar sign and a trailing or leading hyphen.
Early Monday, he learned it was Internet Domain's responsibility to program its own filter. Now the company is left with the unpleasant task of reimbursing a total of $25,000 to those who registered the new domains.
The fiasco will not likely cause a customer-relations problem for Internet Domain, Lum said. Instead he views the situation as evidence that clever Net addresses are highly sought after.
"There is too much pent-up demand for good domain names," he said. "Even though the hyphen isn't very attractive, short names are still preferred."
A lawyer for one unhappy consumer who registered more than 100 of these new domains said the governing bodies could have a difficult time proving the recent glitch was a mistake, as it took them three months to discover the error.
The rest of this story could be read here. Please don't jump to conclusion without getting the full story.
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Clinton wears Timex :)
:(
Just yesterday my Casio G-shock died after being bashed against the wall
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I second that nomination.
Lilo is an incredble person. No other person on OPN could match him. He made a network which a lot of people call home and a lot of projects call home. (offical #debian, #linpeople and the new kids from linux.com).
Thank you Lilo.
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