I live in St. Louis, and I'm a charter customer. I live in a well developed area next to the business district. My internet connection was very bad (I have 5 MB connection, but get all kind of rates, ranging from 50kps to 4.5MB). I even tried to switch ATT Universe (DSL). But looks like, at the heart of St. Louis, the technology is still from 70s. My house is at the center of the street, so it is far away from both ends, where the nodes are located. (1.5 block for f*cks sake !!!!) ATT Universe can't be supported as they still use copper wire as opposed to their advertised fiber). Same reasoning suggested for the bad quality of Charter service. Mind you, Charter is STL based so you would expect it to be the best service. Anyway, I still have to use Charter. My bill for Phone+Internet+TV is around $120+tax. For the last few weeks, my internet connection was surprisingly stable at 5mb, and I think it is related to infrastructure upgrade. Now, instead of giving $140 for all above services, it seems to me the best option at this time is to discard all their services and subscribe for 60MB internet only. I already have Roku, and can connect a linux server with Myth-TV for other options.
I think this decision will not have the same effect as Charter hoped as other customer may join me in this.
Pardus is a linux distribution developed by Turkish National Science Foundation. It uses its own packaging system and recently government gave money to add support for more languages. It is gaining more market in Turkey by the way, as some state offices are migrating to it.
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html
I bought an Asus EEE PC 900A from Bestbuy. At $280, it is a bargain. However, I really hated Xandros on it (disclaimer, all my machines are either Debain or kubuntu). What kind of f*ck head installs an OS on 4GB SSD and leave on 100MB or so for updates. What is more, after my first update attempt the disk became full and update applet stopped in middle of a download. After several reboots, the applet always started automatically and always hanged. Wireless was also similarly not connecting. Add this to the fact that several programs took forever to run, I said f*ck with Xandros, and installed Ubuntu-eee. The difference is like night and day. I suggest EEE PC with ubuntu to everybody. Install once and leave it there. The moral of the story? If a dedicated linux user since 1994 is frustrated with a linux based netbook, why the regular people shouldn't be? The manufacturers MUST use Ubuntu-EEE or similar stable, easy to use and efficient distro.
From the article:
"The audience also saw Leonard Nimoy reprise his role as the older Mr Spock in one of four excerpts from the film..... In his scene, meanwhile, Nimoy's Mr Spock is seen delivering the Star Trek legend: "Live long and prosper."
Lets just hope that this scene refers to what our heros will become and not they are talking to Spock in the future.
2^14 is 16384, so Vista uses 14 bits in its for loop for copy. The question is why? even signed integers are 15 bits in old systems so are they using 1 bit for other purpose?
From the article And since each pixel has a scanner it may as well be a multi-touch screen.
Am I the only one who remembers TV screens that provide the surveillance video back to the big brother?
I watched the show in Turkey when I was a kid. It was fully translated and characters speaking in Turkish. That was a hit in Turkey in those years. Later, I watched the same show in US and it turned out that it was not that good at all. Of course, you may say you were a kid then. But, the Turkish voices were more suitable. Especially, KITT's voice was more adult and authoritative. The producers should look at the foreign markets and find the voices that made the more successful than the original english one.
I admit that I don't use Microsoft Products, so I don't know what the users agree when they turned on their computer the first time after a new windows installation. However, it would be interesting to see if the same is true for Windows. What happens if I buy an OEM windows and install it to my computer? Later, when I sell my computer, do I need to remove windows then (if the ownership is not transferable that is)? What about windows that comes preinstalled with the computers people buy at tech stores? Are we also supposed to remove windows from them when we sell them?
Recent German AIP submarines (U-212/214) have the similar 7-blade screwback propeller. It looks like the secret was out long before this picture was put into the internet.
This is why the religous minded suicide bombers are muslims: So polygyny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status. It therefore increases the likelihood that young men resort to violent means to gain access to mates. By doing so, they have little to lose and much to gain compared with men who already have wives.
According to this logic, the muslim men become suicide bombers to gain mates. Somebody should remind the author that, a mate who would like a suicide bomber after he achieved his goal is called necromaniac.
Perhaps Tom Cruise is right about psychologists after all.
I don't understand the purpose of having $50,000 registration. The banks are officially recognized by their states. Wouldn't it be sufficient to get an approval from the state? I understand this may require little more paperwork but it will protect the small banks from expansive registration.
As the article mentioned this is not a silver bullet. For example, this won't solve DNS hijacking. Recently, I have observed such an attack. The victim told me that the bank site he was looking asked for national ID number even though the bank officially announced that they would never ask that information at their website. He further told me that the webpage looked little different on his computer compared to his friend's powermac. I was skeptical since I thought if you type a name, you should get the correct IP of the bank. Note that I don't use windows but I'm an expert on linux. So for me, DNS hijacking meant that the DNS server the computer talking was giving the wrong IP. Anyway, I checked the ip of the bank in his computer and did a reverse ip lookup on the web. The first red flag was that the IP was mapped to a dynamic name, further more IP was different when I looked at it on powermac. Luckily for him, spyware doctor was on the computer, so with little hope I run it. It gave warnings on some entries in hosts file. Apparently windows also have some kind of/etc/hosts file. The attacker (probably using some windows vulnerability) successfully added 20-30 bank names to hosts files, all of which mapped to his machine. On his machine, he probably have copies of the entrance pages for each bank. Anyway, this kind of attack (which I understand it is very common) will not be solved with TLD.bank.
Article says the global warming will reduce 40,000 deaths because of the flu. However, what about heat related problems. Just a few years ago, thousands died in Europe because of heat waves. Also, the relation between flu and cold weather is not clear. As the temperature increases, we will see more A/C usage which will generate artificial cold. There are some scenerios about why flu spread more in the cold weather. The theories include cold force people to stay inside, creating a good means of transportation in the crowd and the dry weather helps the spread. Either will still be true when people stay inside because of heat and the air will be dry because of air conditioner.
After searching the web for the names of the researchers, I came empty handed. Australia's Intelligent Transport Systems do not have a link to the paper, Elsevier doesn't have the online article yet at ScienceDirect. This leaves the question on what they compared the intelligent systems against. It is possible that intelligent systems behave better (but under what kind of conditions?. It is stated that the cars used Australian driving cycle but what conditions those cycles represent. Was that under heavy traffic or on empty highways?). But the most important question is not answered, how the a hybrid with an intelligent system is going to behave. Since hybrids gain an important portion of their power from breaks, what would happen if an intelligent system reduced the amount of braking? In that case, would an intelligent system that promotes breaking would be more efficient?
As I said I couldn't find the research paper but it seems like these questions are not answered.
Two weeks ago, one of my friends called me. His in-laws were visiting them. Since they are Turkish, they will stay like 6 months with their daughter in US. In order to pass time, they often visit the local library to use internet and read Turkish newspapers.
Now my friend found an old computer from his company (Pentium III, 750 Mhz, 20GB harddisk) that had Windows 2000 and thought that could save his in-laws a trip to the library. He connected it to his brand new cable connection (without any router). I had warned him earlier that he should at least install a firewall before connecting it to the internet. Of course he didn't listen me and it was the next day after the first run that he called me. Guess what, the computer started showing spam messages (I think that was the messanger bug), so he run an old antivirus program all day and couldn't find anything (the program never finished actually).
Now, he was wondering how he can fix the problem. I said either use a free anti virus or let me install linux. Since he wanted to test drive Linux he opted for it. So we made a deal, his in-laws were going to prepare delicious Turkish food, and meanwhile I was going to install Kubuntu 6.10.
At the beginning, the boot started fine. However, as soon as X11 started the screen went dark. I waited 15 minutes or so since that was the first time I was using Kubuntu 6.10 installer and I thought the machine was doing something. But it turned out that I had downloaded live cd (which had the installer). So spent an hour or so trying a few times, and trying install without going to the live system. I should have read little more, since apparently live cd doesn't have the regular installation options I was expecting to see (they had another CD for that). Anyway, after an hour or so, I had my euroka moment when I pressed Cltr-Alt-F1. Wholla, text console was there. Now, at least I knew machine was up but X11 had problems. So I changed X11 configuration on the live system to vesa and X started working. With the main bottleneck solved, I quickly started installation. The installer was kind enough to ask even if I want to create a partition for windows and let it stay there. My friend just said remove everything, so I just go and selected a few options and the machine was ready in 10 minutes or so. However, when it booted the next time from the hard-drive, it was again X11 with problems so I just modified xconfig file to switch it back to vesa driver. Now, I had a working machine with 800x600 resolution. A quick internet search showed me that the Matrox G250 driver that comes with the driver had a bug. So ubuntu forums had a discussion where somebody recompiled bug-free debian driver for matrox. After installing that, I had 1600x1200 resolution without any problem. Next hour spent on eye-candies. I installed firefox, created bookmarks to the Turkish newspapers, created some bookmarks to in-laws mail providers etc, added some weather and add blocking extensions. I also changed to KDE and Firefox themes to noia (to their dismay, since initially they wanted to have familiar XP interface which my heart didn't let me do it. I complained so much that they let me use Noia:)).
Anyway, to make the long story short, the only think they wanted out-of box was Internet Explorer since some sites explicitly required it and Acrobat Reader. It didn't took very long to install IE (thanks to IEs4Linux) and Adobe already had acroread ready. My friend's wife needed an office program, so the obvious choice was OpenOffice. The final step was the installation of Flash. I also showed them how to use Adept so that they can install whatever they want very easily, and just added a button to kill firefox or IE , in case they had problems.
Since then they are very happy with their system. My main concern which was running KDE on Pentium 3 750Mhz machine with 256MB ram was unfounded. The system is very responsive. I was wondering how long it would stay without crashing, and asked them to let the compute
I'm sure most of those 21 will go for the best available, which will be,without a doubt, iPhone. Also, outside US, people are willing to pay more to the cellular phones. It looks like InStat survey covered only US population.
The last year (over the summer to be exact), I bought a 770. The idea was to used it with a bluetooth cellular phone to connect internet. As a linux user, that seemed to be the logical choice. Over the one week period I owned 770, it only once worked more than 10 minutes. Other than that, it crashed frequently, even when booting itself. I tried several firmware, the one shipped with 770, the updated one from nokia website and another one from maemo. Before buying I read the reviews and I found that nearly half of the 770s had similar problems. I guess my geekness factor overweighted my concoisness and I bought one regardless. The turned out that I was one of the unlucky owners. I returned it back to CompUsa, instead bought T-Mobile MDA and I'm happy so far with Windows Mobile especiall to access the internet both over my laptop and phone. The nice thing was, Amazon had a deal that let me bought the phone for $50:)
There are not one but two such displays at Seattle Sci-Fi Museum
http://www.sfhomeworld.org/
One of them uses four projectors to project movie clips on a large sphere. I'm not sure about the second one since there are not projectors around (I suspect there is one inside) but it shows the surfaces of famous sci-fi planets. You can see this one at
http://www.sfhomeworld.org/exhibits/brave_new_worl ds/index.asp
For those who are dumb enough to think that this is such a good idea, first read the article Apocalypse Soon, written by the man who was the person came closest to presssing that button in US history, R obert McNamara AKA Kennedy Administration's Secretary of Defense during the Cuban missile crisis.
I know what you're saying, and I agree. The idea of spending 10 days in someone else's shoes certainly isn't new but do you really think you will ever see Mr. Spurlock record a show depicting a similar situation or setup? You'd fall asleep during the opening credits. Now, it might not be a life or death adventure but at least it's one that I've never heard of or read before and if I could just offer a small taste of how easy or hard the switch would be then so be it. That single reason is why I decided to put my body, mind, time and even lifestyle into harms way by going 100% cold turkey of all Microsoft software for a whole 10 days.
"10 days? Well that hardly sounds hard enough!" Sure, it doesn't sound so hard but take in account that over 500 million of us use a Windows OS at least once, everyday of the week and you too will see that going cold turkey from XP to KDE might be harder or more limiting than first thought. Not surprisingly, millions of people and corporations are making the switch to Linux or another variant of Unix to save costs or maybe cut their chances of having to resort to piracy to continue to operate but from what we hear daily Microsoft and the news is that Linux doesn't seem to be any less expensive than the Windows platform and for some could limit the very things that they used to take for granted.
Although I am a tried and true believer of the Windows platform, I do own a Mac Powerbook and have on occasion used Linux when setting up servers or for 3D modeling but never have I thought about using it as my primary desktop; in fact I even told myself that I would have to go insane before I shut the "windows" and let tux in the door
How much of our lives truly run on Windows?
Well, if you ever leave your chair (sadly, it wouldn't surprise me if some of you shrugged just now) and actually go outside then I'm sure that you've used Windows at some point and time during your outing. For emphasis, let me explain to you my full day's schedule on average: I wake up, take a shower and then groom myself. I then head downstairs and turn my television on which just so happens to have a Windows Media Center PC hooked up to it. I then head over to the kitchen which happens to have a Windows powered laptop which I use to somberly browse the net while I eat Captain Crunch out of the box and throw milk down my throat. I run off and get dressed but not before I synch my Windows CE powered pocket PC and then I drive off to school. On my way I forget I have no money on me and so I must stop by the bank to withdraw some and guess what? The ATM machine happens to run embedded Windows! I could go on and on but I think that I would start to freak some of you out with my weird pre-dinner rituals. Anyways, my point was merely to show that many of us use Windows whether or not we even know it.
Now before I go off and potentially alter the very way I live my life, I thought I should do some research as to what the most popular Linux distribution is and exactly what I'm getting into. I looked at the most used and the most supported of distributions and came to the conclusion that I would go with the Mandriva (formally Mandrake) distro. Now, it was a really close call because there are literally thousands of Linux distributions and over a dozen that are primarily used but I chose Mandriva because it was possibly the most likely distro that newcomers into the Linux realm would choose. It's got 20+ languages in support, supports every processor imaginable, graphical installation and also has buttons that look edible. All of these things are possible "wow" factors that would grab a skeptic in, especially the purdy buttons.
I'm set and I have selected a Linux distro so now I have to lock all of my Windows powered goods into my closet and the next paragraph you read of this will have been written from a Linux box. Be sure to join me and try to keep up as I venture into the land of taboo and exoticism that is open-source!......
If you want to read great sci-fi about human computers, try Sean McMullen's GreatWinter triology. In his books, overlibrarians develop primitive computers called "Calculator" using human power to help them control their world. They even have portable battle calculators, made up of around 50 man and help commanders make decision on the battle ground.
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I live in St. Louis, and I'm a charter customer. I live in a well developed area next to the business district. My internet connection was very bad (I have 5 MB connection, but get all kind of rates, ranging from 50kps to 4.5MB). I even tried to switch ATT Universe (DSL). But looks like, at the heart of St. Louis, the technology is still from 70s. My house is at the center of the street, so it is far away from both ends, where the nodes are located. (1.5 block for f*cks sake !!!!) ATT Universe can't be supported as they still use copper wire as opposed to their advertised fiber). Same reasoning suggested for the bad quality of Charter service. Mind you, Charter is STL based so you would expect it to be the best service. Anyway, I still have to use Charter. My bill for Phone+Internet+TV is around $120+tax. For the last few weeks, my internet connection was surprisingly stable at 5mb, and I think it is related to infrastructure upgrade. Now, instead of giving $140 for all above services, it seems to me the best option at this time is to discard all their services and subscribe for 60MB internet only. I already have Roku, and can connect a linux server with Myth-TV for other options. I think this decision will not have the same effect as Charter hoped as other customer may join me in this.
Pardus is a linux distribution developed by Turkish National Science Foundation. It uses its own packaging system and recently government gave money to add support for more languages. It is gaining more market in Turkey by the way, as some state offices are migrating to it. http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html
That is Amazon 1-click to comment pages patent for you. Wait until Amazon applies for 1-click trolling patent. That is a patent I can live with.
I bought an Asus EEE PC 900A from Bestbuy. At $280, it is a bargain. However, I really hated Xandros on it (disclaimer, all my machines are either Debain or kubuntu). What kind of f*ck head installs an OS on 4GB SSD and leave on 100MB or so for updates. What is more, after my first update attempt the disk became full and update applet stopped in middle of a download. After several reboots, the applet always started automatically and always hanged. Wireless was also similarly not connecting. Add this to the fact that several programs took forever to run, I said f*ck with Xandros, and installed Ubuntu-eee. The difference is like night and day. I suggest EEE PC with ubuntu to everybody. Install once and leave it there. The moral of the story? If a dedicated linux user since 1994 is frustrated with a linux based netbook, why the regular people shouldn't be? The manufacturers MUST use Ubuntu-EEE or similar stable, easy to use and efficient distro.
From the article: "The audience also saw Leonard Nimoy reprise his role as the older Mr Spock in one of four excerpts from the film. .... In his scene, meanwhile, Nimoy's Mr Spock is seen delivering the Star Trek legend: "Live long and prosper."
Lets just hope that this scene refers to what our heros will become and not they are talking to Spock in the future.
2^14 is 16384, so Vista uses 14 bits in its for loop for copy. The question is why? even signed integers are 15 bits in old systems so are they using 1 bit for other purpose?
From the article And since each pixel has a scanner it may as well be a multi-touch screen. Am I the only one who remembers TV screens that provide the surveillance video back to the big brother?
I watched the show in Turkey when I was a kid. It was fully translated and characters speaking in Turkish. That was a hit in Turkey in those years. Later, I watched the same show in US and it turned out that it was not that good at all. Of course, you may say you were a kid then. But, the Turkish voices were more suitable. Especially, KITT's voice was more adult and authoritative. The producers should look at the foreign markets and find the voices that made the more successful than the original english one.
I admit that I don't use Microsoft Products, so I don't know what the users agree when they turned on their computer the first time after a new windows installation. However, it would be interesting to see if the same is true for Windows. What happens if I buy an OEM windows and install it to my computer? Later, when I sell my computer, do I need to remove windows then (if the ownership is not transferable that is)? What about windows that comes preinstalled with the computers people buy at tech stores? Are we also supposed to remove windows from them when we sell them?
Recent German AIP submarines (U-212/214) have the similar 7-blade screwback propeller. It looks like the secret was out long before this picture was put into the internet.
This is why the religous minded suicide bombers are muslims:
So polygyny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status. It therefore increases the likelihood that young men resort to violent means to gain access to mates. By doing so, they have little to lose and much to gain compared with men who already have wives.
According to this logic, the muslim men become suicide bombers to gain mates. Somebody should remind the author that, a mate who would like a suicide bomber after he achieved his goal is called necromaniac. Perhaps Tom Cruise is right about psychologists after all.
I don't understand the purpose of having $50,000 registration. The banks are officially recognized by their states. Wouldn't it be sufficient to get an approval from the state? I understand this may require little more paperwork but it will protect the small banks from expansive registration.
/etc/hosts file. The attacker (probably using some windows vulnerability) successfully added 20-30 bank names to hosts files, all of which mapped to his machine. On his machine, he probably have copies of the entrance pages for each bank. Anyway, this kind of attack (which I understand it is very common) will not be solved with TLD .bank.
As the article mentioned this is not a silver bullet. For example, this won't solve DNS hijacking. Recently, I have observed such an attack. The victim told me that the bank site he was looking asked for national ID number even though the bank officially announced that they would never ask that information at their website. He further told me that the webpage looked little different on his computer compared to his friend's powermac. I was skeptical since I thought if you type a name, you should get the correct IP of the bank. Note that I don't use windows but I'm an expert on linux. So for me, DNS hijacking meant that the DNS server the computer talking was giving the wrong IP. Anyway, I checked the ip of the bank in his computer and did a reverse ip lookup on the web. The first red flag was that the IP was mapped to a dynamic name, further more IP was different when I looked at it on powermac. Luckily for him, spyware doctor was on the computer, so with little hope I run it. It gave warnings on some entries in hosts file. Apparently windows also have some kind of
Article says the global warming will reduce 40,000 deaths because of the flu. However, what about heat related problems. Just a few years ago, thousands died in Europe because of heat waves. Also, the relation between flu and cold weather is not clear. As the temperature increases, we will see more A/C usage which will generate artificial cold. There are some scenerios about why flu spread more in the cold weather. The theories include cold force people to stay inside, creating a good means of transportation in the crowd and the dry weather helps the spread. Either will still be true when people stay inside because of heat and the air will be dry because of air conditioner.
After searching the web for the names of the researchers, I came empty handed. Australia's Intelligent Transport Systems do not have a link to the paper, Elsevier doesn't have the online article yet at ScienceDirect. This leaves the question on what they compared the intelligent systems against. It is possible that intelligent systems behave better (but under what kind of conditions?. It is stated that the cars used Australian driving cycle but what conditions those cycles represent. Was that under heavy traffic or on empty highways?). But the most important question is not answered, how the a hybrid with an intelligent system is going to behave. Since hybrids gain an important portion of their power from breaks, what would happen if an intelligent system reduced the amount of braking? In that case, would an intelligent system that promotes breaking would be more efficient? As I said I couldn't find the research paper but it seems like these questions are not answered.
Two weeks ago, one of my friends called me. His in-laws were visiting them. Since they are Turkish, they will stay like 6 months with their daughter in US. In order to pass time, they often visit the local library to use internet and read Turkish newspapers.
:)).
Now my friend found an old computer from his company (Pentium III, 750 Mhz, 20GB harddisk) that had Windows 2000 and thought that could save his in-laws a trip to the library. He connected it to his brand new cable connection (without any router). I had warned him earlier that he should at least install a firewall before connecting it to the internet. Of course he didn't listen me and it was the next day after the first run that he called me. Guess what, the computer started showing spam messages (I think that was the messanger bug), so he run an old antivirus program all day and couldn't find anything (the program never finished actually).
Now, he was wondering how he can fix the problem. I said either use a free anti virus or let me install linux. Since he wanted to test drive Linux he opted for it. So we made a deal, his in-laws were going to prepare delicious Turkish food, and meanwhile I was going to install Kubuntu 6.10.
At the beginning, the boot started fine. However, as soon as X11 started the screen went dark. I waited 15 minutes or so since that was the first time I was using Kubuntu 6.10 installer and I thought the machine was doing something. But it turned out that I had downloaded live cd (which had the installer). So spent an hour or so trying a few times, and trying install without going to the live system. I should have read little more, since apparently live cd doesn't have the regular installation options I was expecting to see (they had another CD for that). Anyway, after an hour or so, I had my euroka moment when I pressed Cltr-Alt-F1. Wholla, text console was there. Now, at least I knew machine was up but X11 had problems. So I changed X11 configuration on the live system to vesa and X started working. With the main bottleneck solved, I quickly started installation. The installer was kind enough to ask even if I want to create a partition for windows and let it stay there. My friend just said remove everything, so I just go and selected a few options and the machine was ready in 10 minutes or so. However, when it booted the next time from the hard-drive, it was again X11 with problems so I just modified xconfig file to switch it back to vesa driver. Now, I had a working machine with 800x600 resolution. A quick internet search showed me that the Matrox G250 driver that comes with the driver had a bug. So ubuntu forums had a discussion where somebody recompiled bug-free debian driver for matrox. After installing that, I had 1600x1200 resolution without any problem. Next hour spent on eye-candies. I installed firefox, created bookmarks to the Turkish newspapers, created some bookmarks to in-laws mail providers etc, added some weather and add blocking extensions. I also changed to KDE and Firefox themes to noia (to their dismay, since initially they wanted to have familiar XP interface which my heart didn't let me do it. I complained so much that they let me use Noia
Anyway, to make the long story short, the only think they wanted out-of box was Internet Explorer since some sites explicitly required it and Acrobat Reader. It didn't took very long to install IE (thanks to IEs4Linux) and Adobe already had acroread ready. My friend's wife needed an office program, so the obvious choice was OpenOffice. The final step was the installation of Flash. I also showed them how to use Adept so that they can install whatever they want very easily, and just added a button to kill firefox or IE , in case they had problems.
Since then they are very happy with their system. My main concern which was running KDE on Pentium 3 750Mhz machine with 256MB ram was unfounded. The system is very responsive. I was wondering how long it would stay without crashing, and asked them to let the compute
I'm sure most of those 21 will go for the best available, which will be ,without a doubt, iPhone. Also, outside US, people are willing to pay more to the cellular phones. It looks like InStat survey covered only US population.
The last year (over the summer to be exact), I bought a 770. The idea was to used it with a bluetooth cellular phone to connect internet. As a linux user, that seemed to be the logical choice. Over the one week period I owned 770, it only once worked more than 10 minutes. Other than that, it crashed frequently, even when booting itself. I tried several firmware, the one shipped with 770, the updated one from nokia website and another one from maemo. Before buying I read the reviews and I found that nearly half of the 770s had similar problems. I guess my geekness factor overweighted my concoisness and I bought one regardless. The turned out that I was one of the unlucky owners. I returned it back to CompUsa, instead bought T-Mobile MDA and I'm happy so far with Windows Mobile especiall to access the internet both over my laptop and phone. The nice thing was, Amazon had a deal that let me bought the phone for $50 :)
The sad thing is that, it was better than any Star-Trek movie.
There are not one but two such displays at Seattle Sci-Fi Museum http://www.sfhomeworld.org/ One of them uses four projectors to project movie clips on a large sphere. I'm not sure about the second one since there are not projectors around (I suspect there is one inside) but it shows the surfaces of famous sci-fi planets. You can see this one at http://www.sfhomeworld.org/exhibits/brave_new_worl ds/index.asp
I guess you never heard of tripwire. Just identify the files that has been changed and remove that. It is that simple.
when you try to subscribe on a debian machine
We're sorry but the combination of your operating system and Firefox 1.5 is not currently supported.
For those who are dumb enough to think that this is such a good idea, first read the article Apocalypse Soon, written by the man who was the person came closest to presssing that button in US history, R obert McNamara AKA Kennedy Administration's Secretary of Defense during the Cuban missile crisis.
ehemmm, here is the actual link: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:1CvlEjwElaUJ:w ww.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php%3Fid%3D106+& hl=en&start=1&client=firefox
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I know what you're saying, and I agree. The idea of spending 10 days in someone else's shoes certainly isn't new but do you really think you will ever see Mr. Spurlock record a show depicting a similar situation or setup? You'd fall asleep during the opening credits. Now, it might not be a life or death adventure but at least it's one that I've never heard of or read before and if I could just offer a small taste of how easy or hard the switch would be then so be it. That single reason is why I decided to put my body, mind, time and even lifestyle into harms way by going 100% cold turkey of all Microsoft software for a whole 10 days. "10 days? Well that hardly sounds hard enough!" Sure, it doesn't sound so hard but take in account that over 500 million of us use a Windows OS at least once, everyday of the week and you too will see that going cold turkey from XP to KDE might be harder or more limiting than first thought. Not surprisingly, millions of people and corporations are making the switch to Linux or another variant of Unix to save costs or maybe cut their chances of having to resort to piracy to continue to operate but from what we hear daily Microsoft and the news is that Linux doesn't seem to be any less expensive than the Windows platform and for some could limit the very things that they used to take for granted. Although I am a tried and true believer of the Windows platform, I do own a Mac Powerbook and have on occasion used Linux when setting up servers or for 3D modeling but never have I thought about using it as my primary desktop; in fact I even told myself that I would have to go insane before I shut the "windows" and let tux in the door How much of our lives truly run on Windows? Well, if you ever leave your chair (sadly, it wouldn't surprise me if some of you shrugged just now) and actually go outside then I'm sure that you've used Windows at some point and time during your outing. For emphasis, let me explain to you my full day's schedule on average: I wake up, take a shower and then groom myself. I then head downstairs and turn my television on which just so happens to have a Windows Media Center PC hooked up to it. I then head over to the kitchen which happens to have a Windows powered laptop which I use to somberly browse the net while I eat Captain Crunch out of the box and throw milk down my throat. I run off and get dressed but not before I synch my Windows CE powered pocket PC and then I drive off to school. On my way I forget I have no money on me and so I must stop by the bank to withdraw some and guess what? The ATM machine happens to run embedded Windows! I could go on and on but I think that I would start to freak some of you out with my weird pre-dinner rituals. Anyways, my point was merely to show that many of us use Windows whether or not we even know it. Now before I go off and potentially alter the very way I live my life, I thought I should do some research as to what the most popular Linux distribution is and exactly what I'm getting into. I looked at the most used and the most supported of distributions and came to the conclusion that I would go with the Mandriva (formally Mandrake) distro. Now, it was a really close call because there are literally thousands of Linux distributions and over a dozen that are primarily used but I chose Mandriva because it was possibly the most likely distro that newcomers into the Linux realm would choose. It's got 20+ languages in support, supports every processor imaginable, graphical installation and also has buttons that look edible. All of these things are possible "wow" factors that would grab a skeptic in, especially the purdy buttons. I'm set and I have selected a Linux distro so now I have to lock all of my Windows powered goods into my closet and the next paragraph you read of this will have been written from a Linux box. Be sure to join me and try to keep up as I venture into the land of taboo and exoticism that is open-source!
If you want to read great sci-fi about human computers, try Sean McMullen's GreatWinter triology. In his books, overlibrarians develop primitive computers called "Calculator" using human power to help them control their world. They even have portable battle calculators, made up of around 50 man and help commanders make decision on the battle ground.