I could easily re-program it to read a txt file to change the address details, so that a flash recompilation would not be necessary everytime the email addr changes....
One (or perhaps two of these) locomotives were moved into a large Quebec town (I forget which town) not long after the great ice storm of 1998, and helped light up the town for 2 or 3 weeks, until Hydro-Quebec managed to restore power.
Breaking news!
Thosands of slashdot users eschew the MS Zunes! Microsoft is terrified, as iPod sales continue to creep up by the hundreds. The haughty/.ers are even sneering at 'Myspace'
Meanwhile, millions of teenyboppers, teenagers and twentysumpins are busy logging into Myspace, including my three kids and ALL their friends.
And, when queried, they ask "Huh? Whats a slashdot?"m as they busy themselves trying to figure how to integrate their new Zunes with Myspace.
As well, millions of them are also asking "Whats an 'eschew'?"...
Of course it's not 'space' that smells, but IMHO there is a slight excess of perhaps cyanide and/or ozone generated from the HV electrical equipment.
I would smell this peculiar aroma when, in my days as a techie, we first unpacked a new CRT monitor and turned it on.
Oddly, whenever this burnt chocolate/almond smell would appear, I'd ask the other techies what this chocolate smell was, but they could never smell it...
I attributed it to some inside packing or electrical insulation doing its burn-in thing. The smell would eventually disappear after a few hours.
Why don't you spring for a 512Mb Flash disk? About $30 or less.
I have dial-up also (and a telephone line that's lying in a swamp (it still pulls 37kbs, but that's another story)
When I need to do a windows update such as SP2, I simply visit a friend a few miles away, within town limits, who has 4mbs hi-speed.
The download for SP2 took about 5 min or so; I think copying it onto my flash disk took longer.
Since then I have installed SP2 onto the XP of several other poor deprived ruralites.
Any download of more than 12 meg is done in this manner.
The USA, and THIRTY-TWO! 'European countries' (are there that many countries in Europe?) as well as Japan were asked.
Once again, no one asked Canada to the dance.
It's just as well- along with Iceland, Japan and Denmark, we would probably also place higher than the US...
But I DO get chagrined when we somehow always seem to get lumped in with the great unwashed south of the 45th/42nd parallel.
Yeah, well I have a Motorola WU830g ALREADY.
And it works FINE with Windows XP.
Windows recognized THE MOMENT it was plugged in.
I just got the latest Dapper Drake, and installed it on the same PC, thank goodness with a dual boot.
I still have to do this Google stuff in Windows. Ubuntu doesn't even KNOW I have an 'unknown' wireless USB port.
And you expect me to try and slough off this Linux s--t on my elderly aunt who wants to "surf that web thingee"?
Good luck Auntie. Buy a Windows machine (or possibly a Mac.)
Sorry, Shuttleworth...you have your work cut out for you, even if Yahoo and EWEEK did give you (HA HA) rave reviews.
Grrrr... Stick it up yr tarball.
Auntie: "Goodness! What's a tarball?"
Once again I must step in here and duly point out that the last few scientific surveys done in the US have concluded that
fully FIFTY PERCENT (50%) of Americans have IQs of below 100!
You might say "There not all they're.."
Name me another nation that has this dismal level of intelligence.
Sad. Very sad.
"In 1791 Ken McGillicuddly, a 37-year-old Scottish distillery worker, climbed over a safety fence at a McSmellie® Malting plant to carry out some maintenance work on a robotic Watts governor. In his haste, he failed to switch the robot off properly. Unable to sense him, the steam engine's powerful hydraulic arm kept on working and accidentally pushed the engineer into a grinding machine. His death made McGillicuddly the first recorded victim to die at the hands of a robot. This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer. But then of course, Isaac Asimov had not yet been born!"
Let's continue...
"In 1437, a 37-year-old Trappist monk climbed over a safety fence at a Benedictine abbey carry out some maintenance work on a robotic Water wheel.... etc etc"
Since all this icky hydrogen is, like, real dangerous and a drag to carry around at high pressure/low temperature, why don't we CENTRALIZE these fuels cells in a few convenient places?
They would be BIG fuel cells and produce lots an lots of lectricity! We then string wires from them along the railroad tracks and have the trains pick up this lectricity from the wires! That way there is no pollution and no dangerous hydrogen being carried around! And we have MANAGED TO USE HYDROGEN ! A CLEAN AND NONPOLLUTING ENERGY SOURCE!
So where do we locate these big fuel cells? That's easy! Near power plants- either coal or hydro. That way we can make lots an lots of hydrogen from the electricity available from these power plants! And the hydrogen will power the fuelcells and produce only CLEAN NON-POLLUTING WATER along with electricity! See? Ain't this a great idea? Ain't this new hydrogen economy wonderfull?
If you see fit, please forward this to your local politician or 'Alternative Energy' committee.
OK, so I only have a 32-bit Windows XP with ALL the updtaes, and a gig of memory, and 440gig of diskspace. But this Macrom.. uhh ADOBE attempt at downloading some shocking thing blew my IE out of the water.
I didn't know shockwave was still being used; I thought my flash payer plugin for IE and Firefox was all I'd ever need!
What happened?
You mean they NEVER found any traces of taxable CDs after they crashed into the Pentagon?
And is it true the remnants of that 1947 crash into the Empire State building survived only because they were vilyl and were travelling at 33 rpm? /. is getting a tad too arcane for my tastes...!
Not to mention all the'se pe'sky apo'strophic punctuation mark's that alway's litter the s'creen!
Just call me: Fish 'n' chip's.
I thought this hydrogen crap had finally run its course.
I'm still waiting for them to drill a Hydrogen well...
Mazda's a bit late at this hype. I suspect most other car companies (GM included- the "There's a sucker born every minute" company) are discreetly trying to bail out of the Hydrogen boondoggle.
A simple point: there is more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline than in a gallon of hydrogen, at STP.
I could go on,but...
This is one of those pet rock things.. I am surprised this silly hydrogen fad is still going around.
Notable e-mail blurb that I got this week: David Suzuki (www.davidsuzuki.org) in their childlike newsletter, this month talked about energy conservation/efficiency with respect to automobiles. Lots of Ethanol, french fry grease and "bio"-diesel stuff (the usual crap), but thank god! NOT ONE WORD about Hydrogen! Finally! Someone is starting to wise up! I could go on but...
Sorry for the late reply to this topic. Remind me to buy a Hyundai, instead of a Ford, heh-heh "Mazda", as my next small car...
Ha!.. GM will soon die, and now you too, Ford! Good riddance, you shucksters!
I'm currently running FF 1.5.0.1 on the latest and greatest WinXP Pro, and wondered why my recently installed vid-capture stuff was stuttering, but only when certain webpages are open in FF tabs.
Right nowI have 3 tabs open- all/. pages and according to the task manager, FF is grabbing a helluva lot of CPU time- jumping between 40% - 80%.
Hah! I just kiled one/. thread I was reading and Firefox dropped to 4% - probably that annoying 'ServerBeach' ad at the top of the/. page...
I have a gig of RAM but only a 1100 MHz Athlon.
If Mozilla (or perhaps someone here) can't tell me how to fix THIS feature, I'm going back to IE...
Slashdot Mirror
I realize not everyone has flash installed, but would the email-id in the following be easy to spam-harvest?
www.tonyking.tk
I could easily re-program it to read a txt file to change the address details, so that a flash recompilation would not be necessary everytime the email addr changes....
One (or perhaps two of these) locomotives were moved into a large Quebec town (I forget which town) not long after the great ice storm of 1998, and helped light up the town for 2 or 3 weeks, until Hydro-Quebec managed to restore power.
I'm willing to bet the spot / power is from gravitational or rotational energy or perhaps even nuclear radioactivity within.
The center of Earth is apparently very hot also and it's unlikely that it's caused by solar radiation.
OK. Now back to more anal retention jokes...
That should be 'RACIST SHITHEADS' but I digress...
When I clicked on the Lynx url, the first thing that popped up was an ad for Firefox.
Now THAT'S confidence!
(of course I was using IE6 at the time...
I'll try looking at the page again with FF...)
Breaking news! /.ers are even sneering at 'Myspace'
Thosands of slashdot users eschew the MS Zunes! Microsoft is
terrified, as iPod sales continue to creep up by the hundreds.
The haughty
Meanwhile, millions of teenyboppers, teenagers and twentysumpins
are busy logging into Myspace, including my three kids and
ALL their friends.
And, when queried, they ask "Huh? Whats a slashdot?"m as they busy
themselves trying to figure how to integrate their new Zunes
with Myspace.
As well, millions of them are also asking "Whats an 'eschew'?"...
Of course it's not 'space' that smells, but IMHO there is a slight excess of perhaps cyanide and/or ozone generated from the HV electrical equipment. /almond smell would appear, I'd ask the other techies what this chocolate smell was, but they could never smell it...
I would smell this peculiar aroma when, in my days as a techie, we first unpacked a new CRT monitor and turned it on.
Oddly, whenever this burnt chocolate
I attributed it to some inside packing or electrical insulation doing its burn-in thing. The smell would eventually disappear after a few hours.
Anyone have suggestions as to what causes it?
Why don't you spring for a 512Mb Flash disk? About $30 or less.
I have dial-up also (and a telephone line that's lying in a swamp (it still pulls 37kbs, but that's another story)
When I need to do a windows update such as SP2, I simply visit a friend a few miles away, within town limits, who has 4mbs hi-speed.
The download for SP2 took about 5 min or so; I think copying it onto my flash disk took longer.
Since then I have installed SP2 onto the XP of several other poor deprived ruralites.
Any download of more than 12 meg is done in this manner.
Read more of my travails:
http://www.plonque.com/aqk/bell.htm
Not much has changed in ten years!
- Tony www.tonyking.tk
The USA, and THIRTY-TWO! 'European countries' (are there that many countries in Europe?) as well as Japan were asked.
Once again, no one asked Canada to the dance.
It's just as well- along with Iceland, Japan and Denmark, we would probably also place higher than the US...
But I DO get chagrined when we somehow always seem to get lumped in with the great unwashed south of the 45th/42nd parallel.
See The usual AQK diatribe
To wit:
Re: Wireless Adapter Suggestion
Yeah, well I have a Motorola WU830g ALREADY.
And it works FINE with Windows XP.
Windows recognized THE MOMENT it was plugged in.
I just got the latest Dapper Drake, and installed it on the same PC, thank goodness with a dual boot.
I still have to do this Google stuff in Windows. Ubuntu doesn't even KNOW I have an 'unknown' wireless USB port.
And you expect me to try and slough off this Linux s--t on my elderly aunt who wants to "surf that web thingee"?
Good luck Auntie. Buy a Windows machine (or possibly a Mac.)
Sorry, Shuttleworth...you have your work cut out for you, even if Yahoo and EWEEK did give you (HA HA) rave reviews.
Grrrr... Stick it up yr tarball.
Auntie: "Goodness! What's a tarball?"
- Tony (aqk) www.tonyking.tk
from the damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-agead dept
.... tonyking.tk
Man! The beaurocracy at NASA is damnable!
They even invent names for some of their more obscure departments!
Let's hope they insulate them with some of that excess foam before the shuttle takes off...
- Tony
Once again I must step in here and duly point out that the last few scientific surveys done in the US have concluded that fully FIFTY PERCENT (50%) of Americans have IQs of below 100!
You might say "There not all they're.."
Name me another nation that has this dismal level of intelligence.
Sad. Very sad.
Tony King
"In 1791 Ken McGillicuddly, a 37-year-old Scottish distillery worker, climbed over a safety fence at a McSmellie® Malting plant to carry out some maintenance work on a robotic Watts governor. In his haste, he failed to switch the robot off properly. Unable to sense him, the steam engine's powerful hydraulic arm kept on working and accidentally pushed the engineer into a grinding machine. His death made McGillicuddly the first recorded victim to die at the hands of a robot. This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer. But then of course, Isaac Asimov had not yet been born!"
Let's continue...
"In 1437, a 37-year-old Trappist monk climbed over a safety fence at a Benedictine abbey carry out some maintenance work on a robotic Water wheel.... etc etc"
Since all this icky hydrogen is, like, real dangerous and a drag to carry around at high pressure /low temperature, why don't we CENTRALIZE these fuels cells in a few convenient places?
They would be BIG fuel cells and produce lots an lots of lectricity! We then string wires from them along the railroad tracks and have the trains pick up this lectricity from the wires! That way there is no pollution and no dangerous hydrogen being carried around!
And we have MANAGED TO USE HYDROGEN ! A CLEAN AND NONPOLLUTING ENERGY SOURCE!
So where do we locate these big fuel cells? That's easy! Near power plants- either coal or hydro.
That way we can make lots an lots of hydrogen from the electricity available from these power plants! And the hydrogen will power the fuelcells and produce only CLEAN NON-POLLUTING WATER along with electricity!
See? Ain't this a great idea? Ain't this new hydrogen economy wonderfull?
If you see fit, please forward this to your local politician or 'Alternative Energy' committee.
Oh, please! Go back and take a high-school physics course. And please PASS it this time.
Let's see YOU build a supertanker that'll hold several million litres of liquid hydrogen.
There's better things we can do with all that wasted energy.
Stop driving your SUV and buy, no, STEAL a bicycvle fer chissakes... f*%$#@ !!
OK, so I only have a 32-bit Windows XP with ALL the updtaes, and a gig of memory, and 440gig of diskspace. But this Macrom.. uhh ADOBE attempt at downloading some shocking thing blew my IE out of the water.
I didn't know shockwave was still being used; I thought my flash payer plugin for IE and Firefox was all I'd ever need!
Brains. Who needs 'em?
IBM has promised us something even greater. They are calling it "Token-Ring".
Start buying your tokens on EBay now. You can never have too many!
.. As well as the wooden club used to smite our enemies.
/. bozos can claim THAT?
How many of you
What happened?
/. is getting a tad too arcane for my tastes...!
You mean they NEVER found any traces of taxable CDs after they crashed into the Pentagon?
And is it true the remnants of that 1947 crash into the Empire State building survived only because they were vilyl and were travelling at 33 rpm?
Not to mention all the'se pe'sky apo'strophic punctuation mark's that alway's litter the s'creen!
Just call me: Fish 'n' chip's.
I thought this hydrogen crap had finally run its course.
I'm still waiting for them to drill a Hydrogen well...
Mazda's a bit late at this hype. I suspect most other car companies (GM included- the "There's a sucker born every minute" company) are discreetly trying to bail out of the Hydrogen boondoggle.
A simple point: there is more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline than in a gallon of hydrogen, at STP.
I could go on,but...
This is one of those pet rock things.. I am surprised this silly hydrogen fad is still going around.
Notable e-mail blurb that I got this week: David Suzuki (www.davidsuzuki.org) in their childlike newsletter, this month talked about energy conservation/efficiency with respect to automobiles. Lots of Ethanol, french fry grease and "bio"-diesel stuff (the usual crap), but thank god! NOT ONE WORD about Hydrogen!
Finally! Someone is starting to wise up!
I could go on but...
Sorry for the late reply to this topic. Remind me to buy a Hyundai, instead of a Ford, heh-heh "Mazda", as my next small car...
Ha!.. GM will soon die, and now you too, Ford! Good riddance, you shucksters!
I'm currently running FF 1.5.0.1 on the latest and greatest WinXP Pro, and wondered why my recently installed vid-capture stuff was stuttering, but only when certain webpages are open in FF tabs. /. pages and according to the task manager, FF is grabbing a helluva lot of CPU time- jumping between 40% - 80%. /. thread I was reading and Firefox dropped to 4% - probably that annoying 'ServerBeach' ad at the top of the /. page...
Right nowI have 3 tabs open- all
Hah! I just kiled one
I have a gig of RAM but only a 1100 MHz Athlon.
If Mozilla (or perhaps someone here) can't tell me how to fix THIS feature, I'm going back to IE...
Perhaps you didn't realize that Stallman has an RFID implanted in his bicep.
The giveaway: those shiny aluminum long-sleeved shirts he always wears.
And I bet that guy's cremated sister had one in HER bicep also!
In spite of all the above ranting (sigh ... only in America!), I still wish you well!
You're a good man, Charlie Darwin!
Well, perhaps it's time you realized that the ponograph was replaced by CDs and DVD readers YEARS ago! ;-)
Why do you ask?
El_benito, Does lego make you sad?