What I would like to know is where can I *buy* a complete system. I have built dozens of PCs in my life, and quite frankly have neither the time nor the inclination to build another.
Now at sea they called over on bridge-to-bridge,requesting to pass us close up on our port side.
Is anyone else surprised - given the current DEFCON (Defense Readiness Condition) - that the captain of the USS Winston Churchill is permitted to allow a foreign warhip to spontaneously do this?
Apache running on mindstorm would work better
on
When Lego Meet Rubik
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· Score: 2, Funny
If only their webserver were built from Lego:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.
/inventions/invention.asp, line 64
Anyone have a link to a cache or mirror? Sounds very cool.
Acording to this article the Hindenberg Disaster was caused by "the extreme easy flammability of the covering material brought about by discharges of an electrostatic nature" and not by Hydrogen.
From gopher://gopher.ptloma.edu/0/gopher/wbgopher
(of course)
IMPORTANT: Using a web browser to access gopher space
updated 23 August 2000
The majority of you are probably using a web browser to explore Gopherspace.
Happily, most web browsers will still understand Gopher, but they are at
best suboptimal. No major web browser understands Gopher+, for one thing.
Also, Internet Explorer should NOT be used at ALL! (I'll explain presently).
Still, they're the easiest way to access Gopherspace, so here's some help with
using them and deficiencies you need to be aware of.
Lynx is probably the best browser for surfing both the Web and Gopherspace.
It seamlessly shifts between the two, is fast and respectful to servers,
and is the only web browser that recognises GET gopher selectors as web
pages and automatically maps them into URLs. This is more exciting than
it sounds, trust me.:-) It also supports the gamut of Gopher features,
including search servers. The only thing it lacks is Gopher+.
Netscape is acceptable if not spectacular as a gopher client. It doesn't
know how to understand Gopher+ but it's fairly tolerant, and also, like
Lynx, supports the gamut of Gopher features. It isn't that smart with
web URLs masked as Gopher selectors, and it isn't as seamless as Lynx,
but it gets the job done.
Internet Explorer is miserable as a Gopher client, however. It does not
handle the i itemtype correctly, which is used for displaying informational
text; it does not allow access to gopher ports other than 70, which is a
VERY crippling limitation; and worst of all, you can CRASH Internet Explorer
completely, or even Microsoft Web Proxy, by going to any gopher selector
that has a question mark '?' in it. This seems to have been repaired, finally,
in some versions of 5.0 but I still observe this bug from time to time.
There are also some reported problems with using itemtype 7 search servers,
such as Veronica-2, where IExplorer hangs. These deficiencies make Internet
Explorer completely unsuitable for Gopherspace. I have attempted to report
these bugs to Microsoft several times but have been defeated by their tech
support page. The irony is that Internet Information Server still supports
Gopher as one of its protocols. Do NOT use Internet Explorer for any kind
of serious Gopherspace exploration.
The bottom line is that if you intend to do serious exploration of the
world of Gopher, you need a Gopher+ client (some are available here).
But if you're just casually browsing, we recommend Lynx or Netscape.
Send your questions and your suggestions (particularly about other
browsers: how do webTV and Opera fare?) to
A friend of mine who works at IBM sent me a screenshot. Looks great:
<IMG src="22inch.png">
<DISPLAY WARNING> If you can read this message your monitor is not high enough resolution to view this picture.
</DISPLAY WARNING>
</IMG>
By this do you mean "Goodbye $10K in prize money?"
I'll bet that's not the way he see's it. In fact I'll bet he is thinking more along the lines of: "Hello $250K of free advertising for my book. Yipee! Yippee!
Including the well-written apology, Dialpad delivered not one but *two* unsolicited emails and yet still managed to get the recipient to tell a bunch of slashdot users how really swell they are. Not bad. I want to hire this Linda Crockett person!
I wouldn't begin to suggest that Dialpad set this up from the beginning, but the post did remind me a little of a story I heard recently:
The other day my friend and his wife noticed that their brand new barbeque was missing from their backyard. The went to bed angry after deciding not to bother calling the police.
A couple days later they were surprised to see it back in its usual place. On closer inspection they found a note:
Our son thought it funny to steal your BBQ. We deeply apologize for the incovenience and hope you will accept the enclosed tickets to the opening night of the symphony.
With their faith in humanity restored, the happy couple went off to the symphony and returned later only to find all the contents of their house gone. Everything. The theives even stole the light fixures and the fireplace mantel.
Even if your arithmetic were correct (it isn't) your assumptions aren't. Web traffic doesn't arrive in a linear distribution over time.
On the other hand, my experience is that Linux/Apache is many times more stable than IIS/NT, takes a lot less time and money to develop for, and comes with much better support. I'd fire a CIO that picked IIS/NT without a very good reason.
The other day we got offered a lot of money for the domain name Deliver.com and the toll free number 1-877-DELIVER. We declined the offer because we are considering using the brand to build the world's first completely "Open" company.
Taking the concepts of transparency and freedom that the open source movement now enjoys, our vision of an Open company is one where the business practices and procedures of the firm are freely accessible to anyone to review and 'hack'.
The stakeholders of Deliver.com Inc. - its shareholders, customers, and employees - would all have the ability to suggest, debate, and vote on changes to every aspect of the company - from top-level strategy to tax structuring to privacy procedures - all via the web.
All company data and information - except personal customer and employee files - would be freely available to all.
Has anyone seen any good writings that explore this type of approach?
Not necessarily. There is no reason why a pseudo-anonymous nym user (using zks's freedom for example) can't also rise up the ranks in terms of trust/quality/consistancy etc.
I first learned Pascal in a very cool syntax-directed programming environment called "Alice: The Personal Pascal.", written by Brad Templeton (of ClariNet, EFF etc., fame). What a program. I loved the fact that it was impossible to make a syntax error - the skeleton of your code constucts were written for you as templates. Automagically. As brad explains on his Web Page:
...For example when you type for in to the "Statement" placeholder, you immediately see:
forvariable:= starttofinishdo beginStatementend; [ but nicely indented.]
And all you do is fill in the blanks. But at each blank you can get help, get a menu of what you can type and more...."
...They were protesting against US duties on French cheeses. The proceedings began in a carnival atmosphere as thousands of anti-globalisation protesters... Correct me if I am wrong, but don't high tariffs tend to reduce globalisation by making imported goods more expensive? Why are the "anti-globalisation protesters" protesting against US Duties instead of encouraging a US-French trade war.:-)
Open BIOS eliminates last bit of untrusted code!
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Linux BIOS
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· Score: 1
A major benefit to an Open Source BIOS (for the ultra paranoid, at least) is that it is finally possible to run only trusted code right from system boot time.
One can imagine several security exploits that would be possible if the NSA, for example, had influence with Award, AMI, Phoenix, etc. and placed their own routines to run in BIOS.
Dave
P.S. Now if we can only get Intel and motherboard vendors to allow us to audit their microcode and manufacturing processes....
Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.
The decision to charge anything at all for the developers' kit suggests that the new Amiga folk either:
1) know something we don't know about the demand for their platform, 2) think the kit is the only product they'll ever sell, or 3) are making a colossal mistake.
I suspect the latter.
They should be bending over to get developers and so should be giving the kit away.
Indeed,in the case of crypto, using *both* open and closed source is probably desirable.
If a shared closed-source private algorithm is applied to an otherwise secure piece of cryptotext that was already encrypted via an established open source method, the doubly encrypted message is - at the very least - guaranteed to be no less secure than the singly-encrypted version. If the private algorithm is chosen correctly, the security is most likely enhanced.
Slashdot Mirror
What I would like to know is where can I *buy* a complete system. I have built dozens of PCs in my life, and quite frankly have neither the time nor the inclination to build another.
Is there a vendor who builds quiet PCs?
Beautiful story, but....
Now at sea they called over on bridge-to-bridge,requesting to pass us close up on our port side.
Is anyone else surprised - given the current DEFCON (Defense Readiness Condition) - that the captain of the USS Winston Churchill is permitted to allow a foreign warhip to spontaneously do this?
If only their webserver were built from Lego:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.
/inventions/invention.asp, line 64
Anyone have a link to a cache or mirror? Sounds very cool.
Oops. Mod me down offtopic. This should have gone under the Lego section. My bad.
If only their webserver were built from Lego:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.
/inventions/invention.asp, line 64
Try searching for "speling lessons".
Hanna died when an anvil dropped on his head.
Acording to this article the Hindenberg Disaster was caused by "the extreme easy flammability of the covering material brought about by discharges of an electrostatic nature" and not by Hydrogen.
http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg? msg%5fid=000bIw&topic%5fid=1257&topic=aD%20Fans%3a %20Boston%2c%20MA
From gopher://gopher.ptloma.edu/0/gopher/wbgopher
:-) It also supports the gamut of Gopher features,
(of course)
IMPORTANT: Using a web browser to access gopher space
updated 23 August 2000
The majority of you are probably using a web browser to explore Gopherspace.
Happily, most web browsers will still understand Gopher, but they are at
best suboptimal. No major web browser understands Gopher+, for one thing.
Also, Internet Explorer should NOT be used at ALL! (I'll explain presently).
Still, they're the easiest way to access Gopherspace, so here's some help with
using them and deficiencies you need to be aware of.
Lynx is probably the best browser for surfing both the Web and Gopherspace.
It seamlessly shifts between the two, is fast and respectful to servers,
and is the only web browser that recognises GET gopher selectors as web
pages and automatically maps them into URLs. This is more exciting than
it sounds, trust me.
including search servers. The only thing it lacks is Gopher+.
Netscape is acceptable if not spectacular as a gopher client. It doesn't
know how to understand Gopher+ but it's fairly tolerant, and also, like
Lynx, supports the gamut of Gopher features. It isn't that smart with
web URLs masked as Gopher selectors, and it isn't as seamless as Lynx,
but it gets the job done.
Internet Explorer is miserable as a Gopher client, however. It does not
handle the i itemtype correctly, which is used for displaying informational
text; it does not allow access to gopher ports other than 70, which is a
VERY crippling limitation; and worst of all, you can CRASH Internet Explorer
completely, or even Microsoft Web Proxy, by going to any gopher selector
that has a question mark '?' in it. This seems to have been repaired, finally,
in some versions of 5.0 but I still observe this bug from time to time.
There are also some reported problems with using itemtype 7 search servers,
such as Veronica-2, where IExplorer hangs. These deficiencies make Internet
Explorer completely unsuitable for Gopherspace. I have attempted to report
these bugs to Microsoft several times but have been defeated by their tech
support page. The irony is that Internet Information Server still supports
Gopher as one of its protocols. Do NOT use Internet Explorer for any kind
of serious Gopherspace exploration.
The bottom line is that if you intend to do serious exploration of the
world of Gopher, you need a Gopher+ client (some are available here).
But if you're just casually browsing, we recommend Lynx or Netscape.
Send your questions and your suggestions (particularly about other
browsers: how do webTV and Opera fare?) to
gopher@stockholm.ptloma.edu
A friend of mine who works at IBM sent me a screenshot. Looks great:
<IMG src="22inch.png">
<DISPLAY WARNING> If you can read this message your monitor is not high enough resolution to view this picture.
</DISPLAY WARNING>
</IMG>
Hmmmm... one might even say, "Good Buy, Simon Singh!"
You wrote: "Goodbye Simon Singh"
By this do you mean "Goodbye $10K in prize money?"
I'll bet that's not the way he see's it. In fact I'll bet he is thinking more along the lines of:
"Hello $250K of free advertising for my book. Yipee! Yippee!
Including the well-written apology, Dialpad delivered not one but *two* unsolicited emails and yet still managed to get the recipient to tell a bunch of slashdot users how really swell they are. Not bad. I want to hire this Linda Crockett person!
I wouldn't begin to suggest that Dialpad set this up from the beginning, but the post did remind me a little of a story I heard recently:
The other day my friend and his wife noticed that their brand new barbeque was missing from their backyard. The went to bed angry after deciding not to bother calling the police.
A couple days later they were surprised to see it back in its usual place. On closer inspection they found a note:
Our son thought it funny to steal your BBQ. We deeply apologize for the incovenience and hope you will accept the enclosed tickets to the opening night of the symphony.
With their faith in humanity restored, the happy couple went off to the symphony and returned later only to find all the contents of their house gone. Everything. The theives even stole the light fixures and the fireplace mantel.
Even if your arithmetic were correct (it isn't) your assumptions aren't. Web traffic doesn't arrive in a linear distribution over time.
On the other hand, my experience is that Linux/Apache is many times more stable than IIS/NT, takes a lot less time and money to develop for, and comes with much better support. I'd fire a CIO that picked IIS/NT without a very good reason.
The other day we got offered a lot of money for the domain name Deliver.com and the toll free number 1-877-DELIVER. We declined the offer because we are considering using the brand to build the world's first completely "Open" company.
Taking the concepts of transparency and freedom that the open source movement now enjoys, our vision of an Open company is one where the business practices and procedures of the firm are freely accessible to anyone to review and 'hack'.
The stakeholders of Deliver.com Inc. - its shareholders, customers, and employees - would all have the ability to suggest, debate, and vote on changes to every aspect of the company - from top-level strategy to tax structuring to privacy procedures - all via the web.
All company data and information - except personal customer and employee files - would be freely available to all.
Has anyone seen any good writings that explore this type of approach?
Is this just a crazy idea, or might it work?
Or should we just auction domain name off?
Sorry, Amazon.com already has a patent pending on their anti-antipatent technology which will, of course defeat this otherwise brilliant idea.
Not necessarily. There is no reason why a pseudo-anonymous nym user (using zks's freedom for example) can't also rise up the ranks in terms of trust/quality/consistancy etc.
I loved the fact that it was impossible to make a syntax error - the skeleton of your code constucts were written for you as templates. Automagically. As brad explains on his Web Page
for variable := start to finish do begin Statement end;
[ but nicely indented.]
And all you do is fill in the blanks. But at each blank you can get help, get a menu of what you can type and more...."
Brad has released the Source Code ready to compile on Linux. Someone please please make an RPM out of this!
This wouldn't be newsworthy here in Canada; I self-installed my Sympatico High Speed Edition ADSL two years ago!
but I do agree that this will speed up DSL adoption. Now the question is, will the backbones keep up?
...They were protesting against US duties on French cheeses. The proceedings began in a carnival atmosphere as thousands of anti-globalisation protesters... :-)
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't high tariffs tend to reduce globalisation by making imported goods more expensive? Why are the "anti-globalisation protesters" protesting against US Duties instead of encouraging a US-French trade war.
A major benefit to an Open Source BIOS (for the ultra paranoid, at least) is that it is finally possible to run only trusted code right from system boot time.
One can imagine several security exploits that would be possible if the NSA, for example, had influence with Award, AMI, Phoenix, etc. and placed their own routines to run in BIOS.
Dave
P.S. Now if we can only get Intel and motherboard vendors to allow us to audit their microcode and manufacturing processes....
[ From the official Nautilus home page ]
Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.
The decision to charge anything at all for the developers' kit suggests that the new Amiga folk either:
1) know something we don't know about the demand for their platform,
2) think the kit is the only product they'll ever sell, or
3) are making a colossal mistake.
I suspect the latter.
They should be bending over to get developers and so should be giving the kit away.
Indeed,in the case of crypto, using *both* open and closed source is probably desirable.
If a shared closed-source private algorithm is applied to an otherwise secure piece of cryptotext that was already encrypted via an established open source method, the doubly encrypted message is - at the very least - guaranteed to be no less secure than the singly-encrypted version. If the private algorithm is chosen correctly, the security is most likely enhanced.