Isn't this guy actually one of these Nigerian scammers? Not a spammer as such... ? Wendy Willcox baits and tries to be a pain in the butt for a Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Fraud Scam. Anwyays, it's a good read and a laugh. You wonder what the Nigerian is thinking throughout this whole affair. Funny stuff...
I would like it if there were some way that you could "bypass" the pointer function of the mouse and the computer would be able to figure out at which link you were looking, and then you press a button on the keyboard to click. This would render the entire mouse obsolete.
There's dopewars for the PalmOS too! It's fast, free and just as much fun! (PDA's are less bulky!)
Re:Power Outages, Generators and UPS, Oh my!
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Ghana's Digital Dilemma
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Dude,
I've been to Ghana (my parents live there) and lived in Kenya for most of my life... UPSs are expensive! So are generators... this is a little inconvenient, and the damage to computers probably is minimal. Hey, if Win95 (that's what they mostly run there, on Pentium 133's) refuses to start up, just reinstall windows... Easy does it.
The owner is pretty lucky to have a generator. Most Internet cafes don't. He will not have the funds to buy UPSses.
I run spamassassin too, and it's very cool. Very pleased with it. I have my threshold at 7 'cause some webmail mailers send a lot of crap in HTML and add some ads at the bottom ('click here for MSN's photo service' or some such bull) which SpamAssassin gives high score. Anyways, I guess I could go through the trouble of setting up a whitelist or changing the scores that it assignes to certain heuristics.
Another gripe I have is that it's still (comparitively) annoying to install. It uses several "non-standard" Perl modules (as in, they weren't installed on my default distro installation). Getting dependencies right for the modules can be a pain in the neck. Of course, then I discovered perl -MCPAN which does a lot of it for you.:-)
I was also wondering if there's anyone who's installed this on a big mailserver, which handles mail, for say 8000 email addresses each getting a couple mails per day. I can imagine the overhead would get significantly large for the machine not be able to handle it (well, I guess you could throw more GHz at it...). Anyone?
Is it gonna be like the scalable icons they have in SGI's IRIX? That's very cool, where you have the "size wheel" on the right, and can just scale icons/text up and down realtime.
Yeah, kinda reminds me of my last compiler construction class. God, that was hell. Anyways, what happened was that we were using basically 4 different languages and compilers to get one thing done:
Write simple code in a language that the course instructors had thought up themselves: SL (Simple Language)
Load an interpreter which was written using the UU_AG attribute grammar system, which in turn is written in Haskell (you first had to load UU_AG in Hugs98 (a Haskell interpreter).
You could then load the SSM code in a SSM java program, where you could see the result of your SL program.
A variation on this didn't produce SSM code, but LaTeX, which you would have to run through the latex 'compiler', and finally be able to view it with xdvi or something like it.
What about heat loss through windows? I believe they are still the greatest factor of heat loss in a building. If they make it more see-through, I guess maybe it'd work.:-)
This is most definately not a problem. Skydivers can choose to fall anywhere between 110 MPH (180 KM/H) and 180 MPH (300 KM/H). It's all about how you shape your body. If you're head down, you've only got wind resistance from your head, you go fast! If you're flat on your belly/back, you go nice and slow. So, definately not an impossible thing.
I recently discovered skydiving, and boy is it a great way to spend more time outdoors and less time behind the CRT.:-) It's not as expensive as most people would think, and it's a lot less scary than most roller coasters.
Anyways, I don't know what it is about skydiving... it's just the best thing that ever happened to me.
Re:Djikstra's Communicating Semaphores
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Deep Algorithms?
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The name's Dijkstra, not Djikstra.:-) The Dutch 'ij' is somewhat equivalent to the english 'y', although we have the 'y' too. The 'ij' is actually one letter "unit" in a word.
In Italy they already have something similar. Whenever you are at some monument or other tourist site of interest, you phone a particular number on your cellphone and you'll get a commentary on the place, delivered right to your ear.:-) I didn't get to try it out, but it should be cool. I can't remember the name of the carrier either. Sorry.
This kinda reminds me of Paul Muad'dib, in Dune. He creates this holy war, but then it goes out of control and lots of people look up to him and depend on him and... well, it just seems somewhat similar.
Bullshit... as a skydiver, I can testify that at 120 MPH (200 km/h) you can still easily breathe. There is absolutely no need for any breathing apparatus.
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Isn't this guy actually one of these Nigerian scammers? Not a spammer as such... ? Wendy Willcox baits and tries to be a pain in the butt for a Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Fraud Scam. Anwyays, it's a good read and a laugh. You wonder what the Nigerian is thinking throughout this whole affair. Funny stuff...
I would like it if there were some way that you could "bypass" the pointer function of the mouse and the computer would be able to figure out at which link you were looking, and then you press a button on the keyboard to click. This would render the entire mouse obsolete.
I always liked the Pirates! game for MacOS. It wasn't free but it was a lot of fun!
There's dopewars for the PalmOS too! It's fast, free and just as much fun! (PDA's are less bulky!)
Dude,
I've been to Ghana (my parents live there) and lived in Kenya for most of my life... UPSs are expensive! So are generators... this is a little inconvenient, and the damage to computers probably is minimal. Hey, if Win95 (that's what they mostly run there, on Pentium 133's) refuses to start up, just reinstall windows... Easy does it.
The owner is pretty lucky to have a generator. Most Internet cafes don't. He will not have the funds to buy UPSses.
Cheers!
I run spamassassin too, and it's very cool. Very pleased with it. I have my threshold at 7 'cause some webmail mailers send a lot of crap in HTML and add some ads at the bottom ('click here for MSN's photo service' or some such bull) which SpamAssassin gives high score. Anyways, I guess I could go through the trouble of setting up a whitelist or changing the scores that it assignes to certain heuristics.
:-)
Another gripe I have is that it's still (comparitively) annoying to install. It uses several "non-standard" Perl modules (as in, they weren't installed on my default distro installation). Getting dependencies right for the modules can be a pain in the neck. Of course, then I discovered perl -MCPAN which does a lot of it for you.
I was also wondering if there's anyone who's installed this on a big mailserver, which handles mail, for say 8000 email addresses each getting a couple mails per day. I can imagine the overhead would get significantly large for the machine not be able to handle it (well, I guess you could throw more GHz at it...). Anyone?
Cheers,
Costyn.
Haskell is EVIL!!! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! :-) Sorry, I get carried away sometimes... it's just my trauma, you know...
Eh... it's still stable with the Java plugin? I can't seem to go to any site with a java applet and not have Mozilla freezing up.... it sucks a lot.
Is it gonna be like the scalable icons they have in SGI's IRIX? That's very cool, where you have the "size wheel" on the right, and can just scale icons/text up and down realtime.
neato!
A variation on this didn't produce SSM code, but LaTeX, which you would have to run through the latex 'compiler', and finally be able to view it with xdvi or something like it.
Ugh!
What about heat loss through windows? I believe they are still the greatest factor of heat loss in a building. If they make it more see-through, I guess maybe it'd work. :-)
This is most definately not a problem. Skydivers can choose to fall anywhere between 110 MPH (180 KM/H) and 180 MPH (300 KM/H). It's all about how you shape your body. If you're head down, you've only got wind resistance from your head, you go fast! If you're flat on your belly/back, you go nice and slow. So, definately not an impossible thing.
I recently discovered skydiving, and boy is it a great way to spend more time outdoors and less time behind the CRT. :-) It's not as expensive as most people would think, and it's a lot less scary than most roller coasters.
Anyways, I don't know what it is about skydiving... it's just the best thing that ever happened to me.
The name's Dijkstra, not Djikstra. :-) The Dutch 'ij' is somewhat equivalent to the english 'y', although we have the 'y' too. The 'ij' is actually one letter "unit" in a word.
And yeah, semaphores are cool!
Cheers!
Resolving dependencies between any number things requires this very useful graph sorting algorithm.
That's why you use WLAN! :-)
Awesome!! I love that movie. Very funny!
Congratulations, CmdrTaco and Kathleen! Have a nice life! :-)
In Italy they already have something similar. Whenever you are at some monument or other tourist site of interest, you phone a particular number on your cellphone and you'll get a commentary on the place, delivered right to your ear. :-) I didn't get to try it out, but it should be cool. I can't remember the name of the carrier either. Sorry.
Yeah, and if you forward it to at least 10 people, you'll get a cool movie! It's really worth it!
Yeah, right...
This is interesting: "Boeing Airbus A300" as mentioned in the CNN article. Since when are Airbusses made by Boeing?
This kinda reminds me of Paul Muad'dib, in Dune. He creates this holy war, but then it goes out of control and lots of people look up to him and depend on him and ... well, it just seems somewhat similar.
Bullshit... as a skydiver, I can testify that at 120 MPH (200 km/h) you can still easily breathe. There is absolutely no need for any breathing apparatus.
I found this article, which seems to somewhat work. It's not perfectly secure like you mentioned, but it works:
a n-security-200009/msg00027.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2000/debi
Hmm... looks like Musiccity is slashdotted too. It doesn't work for me, anyways.