I know we like to whinge and complain that the proposed (now confirmed) TLDs are stupid, and they miss out ones that are obviously needed - how about we have a poll of about 50 TLDs and just get a yes/no on each one - then we get a % support for them..
Of course it won't make a shit of difference to ICANN:(
For the record:
.info and.name are good (although I would have preferred.home as a "personal" domain, many people would think home=homepage)
.biz - another.com clone
.web - isn't that what the www. at the start is for?
.pro - is for professionals I believe, but will the porn industry make use of it?;)
.museum,.aero - there are thousands of industries with more need for their own domain name than these two.. can't museums, libraries, schools go into.edu?
Ones that WOULD have been good:
*maybe*.air for wireless networks (aero reminded me of that one)
.kids and.xxx of course
.med for hospitals, doctors, possibly? Or perhaps a whole TLD for "industry" (.ind) with.aero.ind,.med.ind,.food.ind, etc underneath it?
Additional Idea #1: Scrap it and go with the newsgroup heirachy
Additional Idea #2: Make people use the correct TLD (com = company, org = organisation etc)
All of Tasmania? That'd be nice.. but the place is 400km's from one corner to the other. At the moment it is focused on the biggest cities Hobart (mainly western shore) and Launceston.
And seeing as our site is so non-existant - please email the list at wireless@taslug.org.au, or look in IRC at irc.slashnet.org #vortex (and msg acb and call him a whore)
I'm not sure if the question refers to something similar to a stereo with MP3, DVD and ethernet, or if it refers to basically a computer that plugs into your TV and stereo:)
If the latter, then that is something I'm working on now... And I'm hoping a bog standard P166 with a Realmagic Hollywood Plus, DVD drive, big HD and ethernet should be all thats required!
I'll need to get a surround sound speaker set for the full effect, and I'm not sure about the audio side of the PC - does the HW+ handle it? But it looks like a fun, geeky and (considering I already have most of the H/w) relatively cheap experiment!
There was a/. article a while back about someone whose laptop had distributed.net running on it.. the laptop got stolen... the theif logged on the net with that laptop... the blocks were uploaded... and with a bit of help from the d.net guys they found the IP address, ISP and identity of the bad dude!:)
There's a site in Australia called Emailcash that is doing that, has been for about a year now. I haven't seen many emails from them as yet (maybe one a month at the most) but a few people I know have received $5, $10 or $20 cheques from them.
I'm surprised no-one's replied to this yet - the poster probably meant Telus as in a Telstra/Optus duopoly. Same as you see people talking about Wintel (Windows/Intel) machines etc.
It was a month or so ago, when I received this SMS message on my mobile:
TELSTRA, OPTUS AND VODAFONE NOW SUPPORT INTER-NETWORK SMS MESSAGES. FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO 15 PEOPLE AND YOU WILL GET $20 CREDIT ON YOUR NEXT BILL.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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heard on a news report.... (maybe)
"Astrology gained a huge amount of support by the scientific community today when one twelfth of the worlds population got hit by a truck"
Astrology started when the Egyptians noticed that as soon as a certain constellation rose over the horizon, the Nile would floor four days later (or something similar). In short, using the sky as a calendar and using that to work out the seasons. It makes as much sense as looking at a calendar and predicting that it will be five days until Christmas, and calling that "astrology".
And FWIW, I don't know what my sign is. My birthday is May 21 - next time you read a horoscope, check for me. It varies!
Very true. I recently got my old box (pentium 200) up and going and want to try to learn as many free OS's as possible with it. I already have Redhat 6.0, FreeBSD 3.3 and Corel Linux CD's. Why not SuSE as well? I love Q3 so heres a great opportunity to grab them both at once!:)
Well, that 25mb must have been one of the first ones! Since then they've added two more maps, (and added more textures to all the maps), all the bot stuff, about 12 new models and/or skins, re-done the whole lot, basically:P
Good one troll. It's a no physical media distribution (CD-ROMs, Zip disks, floppies) policy. In theory this means ftp/http mirrors, copying across LANs, are fine, whereas all other forms are out. In practice I doubt whether id will care if you download the demo and take it to a friend on a zip disk, or if you both download the demo. I believe it is intended to stop distribution of the tests on magazine CDs.
if you read the whole thread you'd see I already said that they disabled wget and lynx. But never to fear, itp mentioned in another post that he has set up ftp and http mirrors! Thanks itp:)
For those of us with only dialup access, this is really annoying. If anyone sets up an FTP mirror post it here, so I can get it to my shell account at my ISP at least:)
AFAIK At the moment (with Q1 and I'm not sure about existance of a Mac Q2) there are separate Windows and Mac versions on the shelves. Linux executables can be used with the Windows data files and are a free download.
The original AC posting about the republic might have been referring to Australia, not England, as Australia will be having a referendum on November 6th on this very topic...
In Aus's case it makes sense, as currently our head-of-state (Queen) actually has no relevance to Australia at all.. doesn't even LIVE in our country... etc etc... I say vote YES:) (sorry a little off-topic)
One thing that many of you non-Australian type people wouldn't know is that Tasmania is the ass-end of the ass-end of the world. Its main distunguishing feature is that it is full of people who restrict development and advancement in any form, not only science. We dont want this dam, we dont want this pulp mill, we dont want to legalise homosexuality, etc etc. No wonder its the government of another state (NSW) handling this whole cloning deal.
(This might sound like flame-bait, but its sadly all true - I've lived here for 20+ years)
Out of interest (sorta OT) anyone here from New Brunswick, Canada? Our latest government *claims* to be attempting to model Tasmania on that area.
"but uncle owen, I was going to go to Tashe Station to pick up some power converters!"
Yeah.. he's annoying and whingy... doesn't it make you hate the guy? (Luke, not Mark Hamill)
Thats just it. Mark is an actor - his job is portraying characters in a convincing manner. The fact that you hate Luke for being whingy means that he has done his job perfectly!
..and to answer the second part of your question, what does this have to do with being able to be a server? I would presume that it is because the auto-shutdown function of ATX power supplies/motherboards results in the machine being in the 'switched-off' state after a power failure, for example.. and of course a server has to remain 'up' all the time:)
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A friend of mine has details on Intel CPU prices going back as far as 1994 in some cases - check out the details on his site.
.museum???
:(
.name are good (although I would have preferred .home as a "personal" domain, many people would think home=homepage)
.com clone
;)
.aero - there are thousands of industries with more need for their own domain name than these two.. can't museums, libraries, schools go into .edu?
.air for wireless networks (aero reminded me of that one)
.xxx of course
.aero.ind, .med.ind, .food.ind, etc underneath it?
of all the TLDs...
I know we like to whinge and complain that the proposed (now confirmed) TLDs are stupid, and they miss out ones that are obviously needed - how about we have a poll of about 50 TLDs and just get a yes/no on each one - then we get a % support for them..
Of course it won't make a shit of difference to ICANN
For the record:
.info and
.biz - another
.web - isn't that what the www. at the start is for?
.pro - is for professionals I believe, but will the porn industry make use of it?
.museum,
Ones that WOULD have been good:
*maybe*
.kids and
.med for hospitals, doctors, possibly? Or perhaps a whole TLD for "industry" (.ind) with
Additional Idea #1: Scrap it and go with the newsgroup heirachy
Additional Idea #2: Make people use the correct TLD (com = company, org = organisation etc)
Well, thats my ramblings for the day...
And info.au .. (www.quitnow.info.au)
heheh - on http://www.tas.air.net.au:
"website coming back again soon..."
oh well...
All of Tasmania? That'd be nice.. but the place is 400km's from one corner to the other. At the moment it is focused on the biggest cities Hobart (mainly western shore) and Launceston.
And seeing as our site is so non-existant - please email the list at wireless@taslug.org.au, or look in IRC at irc.slashnet.org #vortex (and msg acb and call him a whore)
I'm not sure if the question refers to something similar to a stereo with MP3, DVD and ethernet, or if it refers to basically a computer that plugs into your TV and stereo :)
If the latter, then that is something I'm working on now... And I'm hoping a bog standard P166 with a Realmagic Hollywood Plus, DVD drive, big HD and ethernet should be all thats required!
I'll need to get a surround sound speaker set for the full effect, and I'm not sure about the audio side of the PC - does the HW+ handle it? But it looks like a fun, geeky and (considering I already have most of the H/w) relatively cheap experiment!
There was a /. article a while back about someone whose laptop had distributed.net running on it.. the laptop got stolen... the theif logged on the net with that laptop... the blocks were uploaded... and with a bit of help from the d.net guys they found the IP address, ISP and identity of the bad dude! :)
There's a site in Australia called Emailcash that is doing that, has been for about a year now. I haven't seen many emails from them as yet (maybe one a month at the most) but a few people I know have received $5, $10 or $20 cheques from them.
I'm surprised no-one's replied to this yet - the poster probably meant Telus as in a Telstra/Optus duopoly. Same as you see people talking about Wintel (Windows/Intel) machines etc.
How sure can you be that Microsoft won't sue over that name? :P
It was a month or so ago, when I received this SMS message on my mobile:
TELSTRA, OPTUS AND VODAFONE NOW SUPPORT INTER-NETWORK SMS MESSAGES. FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO 15 PEOPLE AND YOU WILL GET $20 CREDIT ON YOUR NEXT BILL.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
heard on a news report.... (maybe)
"Astrology gained a huge amount of support by the scientific community today when one twelfth of the worlds population got hit by a truck"
Astrology started when the Egyptians noticed that as soon as a certain constellation rose over the horizon, the Nile would floor four days later (or something similar). In short, using the sky as a calendar and using that to work out the seasons. It makes as much sense as looking at a calendar and predicting that it will be five days until Christmas, and calling that "astrology".
And FWIW, I don't know what my sign is. My birthday is May 21 - next time you read a horoscope, check for me. It varies!
Very true. I recently got my old box (pentium 200) up and going and want to try to learn as many free OS's as possible with it. I already have Redhat 6.0, FreeBSD 3.3 and Corel Linux CD's. Why not SuSE as well? I love Q3 so heres a great opportunity to grab them both at once! :)
Well, that 25mb must have been one of the first ones! Since then they've added two more maps, (and added more textures to all the maps), all the bot stuff, about 12 new models and/or skins, re-done the whole lot, basically :P
Good one troll. It's a no physical media distribution (CD-ROMs, Zip disks, floppies) policy.
In theory this means ftp/http mirrors, copying across LANs, are fine, whereas all other forms are out.
In practice I doubt whether id will care if you download the demo and take it to a friend on a zip disk, or if you both download the demo. I believe it is intended to stop distribution of the tests on magazine CDs.
if you read the whole thread you'd see I already said that they disabled wget and lynx. But never to fear, itp mentioned in another post that he has set up ftp and http mirrors! Thanks itp :)
Nah, they've disabled most commands including those two :( I'll hassle them about it!
For those of us with only dialup access, this is really annoying. If anyone sets up an FTP mirror post it here, so I can get it to my shell account at my ISP at least :)
AFAIK At the moment (with Q1 and I'm not sure about existance of a Mac Q2) there are separate Windows and Mac versions on the shelves. Linux executables can be used with the Windows data files and are a free download.
In that case, you might find this amusing :)
:)
Microsoft Cheque.
Just a cashback special that they had on Encarta, just before they released Encarta 2000
Nice name btw, ch-chuck :)
:) (sorry a little off-topic)
The original AC posting about the republic might have been referring to Australia, not England, as Australia will be having a referendum on November 6th on this very topic...
In Aus's case it makes sense, as currently our head-of-state (Queen) actually has no relevance to Australia at all.. doesn't even LIVE in our country... etc etc... I say vote YES
One thing that many of you non-Australian type people wouldn't know is that Tasmania is the ass-end of the ass-end of the world. Its main distunguishing feature is that it is full of people who restrict development and advancement in any form, not only science. We dont want this dam, we dont want this pulp mill, we dont want to legalise homosexuality, etc etc. No wonder its the government of another state (NSW) handling this whole cloning deal.
(This might sound like flame-bait, but its sadly all true - I've lived here for 20+ years)
Out of interest (sorta OT) anyone here from New Brunswick, Canada? Our latest government *claims* to be attempting to model Tasmania on that area.
Linux isn't a religion. Redhat, Slackware, etc are, but AFAIK, there is no "Linux Church" ...(until now :-P ) Sorry, sad comparision :P
"but uncle owen, I was going to go to Tashe Station to pick up some power converters!"
Yeah.. he's annoying and whingy... doesn't it make you hate the guy? (Luke, not Mark Hamill)
Thats just it. Mark is an actor - his job is portraying characters in a convincing manner. The fact that you hate Luke for being whingy means that he has done his job perfectly!
Thats right, It may have been 1989 and 1990.. but very close though. "they weren't much to speak of" ?? They are classics!!
http://www.bttf.com
..and to answer the second part of your question, what does this have to do with being able to be a server? I would presume that it is because the auto-shutdown function of ATX power supplies/motherboards results in the machine being in the 'switched-off' state after a power failure, for example.. and of course a server has to remain 'up' all the time :)