Also found a story about duck racing in vermont...
July 27, 2002 - Barre VT FF
Duckie Race Fundraiser
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered as Barre firefighters try to raise the money they'll need to fully restore a 130-year-old fire wagon - an 1872 Torrent - so that it can eventually be displayed in the city's new public safety building.
The Barre race will be held in conjunction with this year's Homecoming Days celebration. Following the parade planned for July 27, numbered rubber ducks will be dumped into the Winooski River. If the duck you purchased with a $5 donation is the first to down a short stretch of the river you'll win the $1,000 grand prize.!!!!!!! WOOWOO
Seems this is in our blood, to race ducks, up here in new england.... lLOL
not quite the same as old england though....
and the cold.
Heheheh
We've been racing rubber duckies here in Rubber Ducky Regatta's for a while now! Hahahhaha Love seeing something like this fluffy story applied to science! Rocking....
lemme try and link ya'll, though I am having a bit of a difficulty with my curent transmission....
((/me adjusts his set, even though they said not to in the Outer Limits warning))
here http://www.newhampshire.com/explore-nh/nh-101.aspx #95 on the list
Nice!
What perfect timing.. This quite corresponds to the other article the other day about getting the oldskool players put in the graveyard by the ipod... I think someone even predicted this..:)
Kismet strikes again...
If anyone cares.... Can't get to technical cause I am quite drunk n' I wasn't payin full up close attention to the verbosity of the reboot after the installation... But I ended up getting a second reboot... On both my machines I have updated so far... This has got to be the most updates in a year ever with Apple, to my best recollection... Is it cause the user base is getting bigger, or the nIx flavoured underpinnings allow for so much more fine tuning, tweaking, n' progging finesse, or is it just that more employees @ Apple == more updates/visibilities into holes??';!$I think I found something of a lil bit of interest... A story about someone elses blogging, linkin, on macobserver, about sec fixes and apporximately how long it takes apple to fix them.. According to the research that Brian Krebs did into Apples security fixin's... He foudn that the average company took 91 days to fix n' meanwhile apple took around 50 for most.. He discovered this from Bud Tribble, VP of software technology over at Apple.. He was then quoted to say, " "[A Mac user] simply expects things to work with single button click, and that means we have to take time to do that correctly,""... I dunno why but that makes me gigg.le... Heres a direct link to the article... http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/05/02.10.s html Here...
So if anyone would like, I can post the reboot logs from the install, to allow people to know what exactrly happened rat eboot... Hope I taint oo f thopic...
Peace n Grease.:
TeH Daem.On.
Seems to me we may be approaching a time when we can record e'every waking moment, maybe even in REM, so recording the entirety of ones exsistence is just that much close.r'
Anyone flashing back to Williams' , Robins' in "The Final Cut?'
The possibility of abuse is deafening....
J.M.b A J.v.v.J D.j.
P.s. sO Silence.
-- -
ok, so I threw blame out to someone who might NOT have deserved that little chunk.../me coughs, uh oh, here comes another piece of last nights chuck... Moof!
funny, I was just reminiscing with someone last night about old 300 baud modems and BBS's and such... Also bantered about A/UX. Can't we just do the una Una (bomber) and go back to the good old days when primal rage roared of many ma bells guts?
Can someone help me find the tape, I think I need to seal this orafice shut...
Man, try to make an oldschool ascii seperator and mama machine tells me they're junk. but oh how i love to combo the Katakana & the Cyrillic
((pre coventry)) And know the ph is usually sysnonymous with some sort of scammage, a scheme, and what not. How did we go so far away form the originally usage?? [assuming that no one was "phishing" before phish formed} I hope this isn't toooo oftopic??;) Also rather nice to see the continued usage of the power of the people, democratic methodology, rather like when those things are put to use.... Thanks all the dev's out there ((slashdot included 3 )) who keep that set of values rolling... And hopefully progressing...
TAGS!!! EGOR!!! TAGS!!!!
Seriously, give the man a break.. This man brought me to the great religion of discordianism brought me to the fold, and reminded me of.. of... dammit, lost my train of coffee... But folks, he really is a great thinker, worth the few pennys, cents, tuppance, whatever, you can toss him. A lot fo his fans (read, me) can't afford to, seeing as we aren't even online as far as finances are concerned....
{they're tracking me, you know}
Now, here's another game we ran, and I can't remember it. It was some sorta "hacking" game based on either nueromancer or at least something like it. Anyone???
first off, why anyone would enter their social into google. Also, isn't there a way to get an update on what is being searched in google at all times? I know this isn't quite the same thing as being identified with a number, but really, if people are entering their socials into aol search, most likely they are with google as well, and if my memory serves me right, there is some way to get an up to the minute/second listing of what the world is searching using google?
Here is a few links to some BBS lists... USBBS, Telnet BBS Guide. You should be able to come up with even more using the search engine of your choice.:) Man, I miss the old days sometimes. And how about the old VAX days too??
Man, this takes me back. Thought I would key in with one of my earliest BBS experiences. I remember back at my highschool, in our computer lab, my programming teacher allowed me to set up my own BBS, at my school. I remember setting that up, think we had 3 or 4 lines, and just watching the rest of the geeks form my school pour in. We had quite a few games we would play, turn based stuff, the one that really comes to mind was this space trading game, can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it was great. Would still play it if it was around. Man, i miss those days....
thanks for the link. Like this site. gives me a another excuse to gie to my employer as to why i spend so much time reading all the postings in slashdot.
Sorry that this was thought of as an offtopic comment, but if you read the article, Brin speaks about how they were having trouble loading the operating system for the commodore, and how his son really loved loading from tapes, which caused the reminiscing.
As I was reading this article i was reminded of a novel here & here , that Bruce Sterling wrote back in 2004. The story is set right after 9/11, and stars Derek "Van" Vandeveer, an aging dot bomber who does internet security. He is hired by the government to create new computing power for the government. What popped into my mind though was something that I think the government really needs to learn, and was told to Vandeveer by his cranky, crackpot grandfather who also did work for the government, on the SR71 Blackbird, as well as other black budget projects. The grandpa says to act fast, and work in small groups; the effectiveness of this method is seen in this story, and could be seen as a possibility for future government projects.
I think that the government would be well off to invest more time and money into smaller, more off the wall brainstorming sessions with the thinkers that are far outside the normal trains of thought. We just might find ourselves a bit safer.
Now, I may not know enough about this technology, but my understanding of UWB (Ultra Wide Band) is that it does not reach very far, and is better suited for WPAN's... Heres is the definition straight form googles mouth.
Ultra-wideband (also UWB, and ultra-wide-band, ultra-wide band, etc.) usually refers to a radio communications technique based on transmitting very-short-duration pulses, often of duration of only nanoseconds or less, whereby the occupied bandwidth goes to very large values. Ultra-wide-band may also be used to refer to anything with a very large bandwidth (e.g.: a type of sampling rate in the Speex speech codec). This article discusses the meaning in radio communications.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrawideband
anyone care to explain this better to me?
Slashdot Mirror
Also found a story about duck racing in vermont... July 27, 2002 - Barre VT FF Duckie Race Fundraiser A $1,000 grand prize is being offered as Barre firefighters try to raise the money they'll need to fully restore a 130-year-old fire wagon - an 1872 Torrent - so that it can eventually be displayed in the city's new public safety building. The Barre race will be held in conjunction with this year's Homecoming Days celebration. Following the parade planned for July 27, numbered rubber ducks will be dumped into the Winooski River. If the duck you purchased with a $5 donation is the first to down a short stretch of the river you'll win the $1,000 grand prize.!!!!!!! WOOWOO Seems this is in our blood, to race ducks, up here in new england.... lLOL not quite the same as old england though.... and the cold. Heheheh
We've been racing rubber duckies here in Rubber Ducky Regatta's for a while now! Hahahhaha Love seeing something like this fluffy story applied to science! Rocking.... lemme try and link ya'll, though I am having a bit of a difficulty with my curent transmission.... ((/me adjusts his set, even though they said not to in the Outer Limits warning)) here http://www.newhampshire.com/explore-nh/nh-101.aspx #95 on the list
Nice!
So does that mean the camp this summer is also an illegal thing? WTF>?
What perfect timing.. This quite corresponds to the other article the other day about getting the oldskool players put in the graveyard by the ipod... I think someone even predicted this.. :)
Kismet strikes again...
If anyone cares.... Can't get to technical cause I am quite drunk n' I wasn't payin full up close attention to the verbosity of the reboot after the installation... But I ended up getting a second reboot... On both my machines I have updated so far... This has got to be the most updates in a year ever with Apple, to my best recollection... Is it cause the user base is getting bigger, or the nIx flavoured underpinnings allow for so much more fine tuning, tweaking, n' progging finesse, or is it just that more employees @ Apple == more updates/visibilities into holes??';!$I think I found something of a lil bit of interest... A story about someone elses blogging, linkin, on macobserver, about sec fixes and apporximately how long it takes apple to fix them.. According to the research that Brian Krebs did into Apples security fixin's... He foudn that the average company took 91 days to fix n' meanwhile apple took around 50 for most.. He discovered this from Bud Tribble, VP of software technology over at Apple.. He was then quoted to say, " "[A Mac user] simply expects things to work with single button click, and that means we have to take time to do that correctly,""... I dunno why but that makes me gigg.le... Heres a direct link to the article... http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/05/02.10.s html Here...
So if anyone would like, I can post the reboot logs from the install, to allow people to know what exactrly happened rat eboot... Hope I taint oo f thopic...
Peace n Grease.:
TeH Daem.On.
Seems to me we may be approaching a time when we can record e'every waking moment, maybe even in REM, so recording the entirety of ones exsistence is just that much close.r' Anyone flashing back to Williams' , Robins' in "The Final Cut?' The possibility of abuse is deafening.... J.M.b A J.v.v.J D.j. P.s. sO Silence. -- -
ok, so I threw blame out to someone who might NOT have deserved that little chunk... /me coughs, uh oh, here comes another piece of last nights chuck... Moof!
funny, I was just reminiscing with someone last night about old 300 baud modems and BBS's and such... Also bantered about A/UX. Can't we just do the una Una (bomber) and go back to the good old days when primal rage roared of many ma bells guts?
Can someone help me find the tape, I think I need to seal this orafice shut... Man, try to make an oldschool ascii seperator and mama machine tells me they're junk. but oh how i love to combo the Katakana & the Cyrillic
ah... was this a first born the media trying to spice up or otherwise make their drek palatable?
((pre coventry)) And know the ph is usually sysnonymous with some sort of scammage, a scheme, and what not. How did we go so far away form the originally usage?? [assuming that no one was "phishing" before phish formed} I hope this isn't toooo oftopic?? ;) Also rather nice to see the continued usage of the power of the people, democratic methodology, rather like when those things are put to use.... Thanks all the dev's out there ((slashdot included 3 )) who keep that set of values rolling... And hopefully progressing...
TAGS!!! EGOR!!! TAGS!!!!
Seriously, give the man a break.. This man brought me to the great religion of discordianism brought me to the fold, and reminded me of.. of... dammit, lost my train of coffee... But folks, he really is a great thinker, worth the few pennys, cents, tuppance, whatever, you can toss him. A lot fo his fans (read, me) can't afford to, seeing as we aren't even online as far as finances are concerned.... {they're tracking me, you know}
Now, here's another game we ran, and I can't remember it. It was some sorta "hacking" game based on either nueromancer or at least something like it. Anyone???
first off, why anyone would enter their social into google. Also, isn't there a way to get an update on what is being searched in google at all times? I know this isn't quite the same thing as being identified with a number, but really, if people are entering their socials into aol search, most likely they are with google as well, and if my memory serves me right, there is some way to get an up to the minute/second listing of what the world is searching using google?
Here is a few links to some BBS lists... USBBS, Telnet BBS Guide. You should be able to come up with even more using the search engine of your choice. :) Man, I miss the old days sometimes. And how about the old VAX days too??
oh, and here is a link.
yes! I did a search, and you nailed it right! Thanks for the info!
Man, this takes me back. Thought I would key in with one of my earliest BBS experiences. I remember back at my highschool, in our computer lab, my programming teacher allowed me to set up my own BBS, at my school. I remember setting that up, think we had 3 or 4 lines, and just watching the rest of the geeks form my school pour in. We had quite a few games we would play, turn based stuff, the one that really comes to mind was this space trading game, can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it was great. Would still play it if it was around. Man, i miss those days....
thanks for the link. Like this site. gives me a another excuse to gie to my employer as to why i spend so much time reading all the postings in slashdot.
Sorry that this was thought of as an offtopic comment, but if you read the article, Brin speaks about how they were having trouble loading the operating system for the commodore, and how his son really loved loading from tapes, which caused the reminiscing.
I really do miss loading from tapes.. So archaic, but was sooooooo cool back then, still is now...
As I was reading this article i was reminded of a novel here & here , that Bruce Sterling wrote back in 2004. The story is set right after 9/11, and stars Derek "Van" Vandeveer, an aging dot bomber who does internet security. He is hired by the government to create new computing power for the government. What popped into my mind though was something that I think the government really needs to learn, and was told to Vandeveer by his cranky, crackpot grandfather who also did work for the government, on the SR71 Blackbird, as well as other black budget projects. The grandpa says to act fast, and work in small groups; the effectiveness of this method is seen in this story, and could be seen as a possibility for future government projects.
I think that the government would be well off to invest more time and money into smaller, more off the wall brainstorming sessions with the thinkers that are far outside the normal trains of thought. We just might find ourselves a bit safer.
Now, I may not know enough about this technology, but my understanding of UWB (Ultra Wide Band) is that it does not reach very far, and is better suited for WPAN's... Heres is the definition straight form googles mouth.
Ultra-wideband (also UWB, and ultra-wide-band, ultra-wide band, etc.) usually refers to a radio communications technique based on transmitting very-short-duration pulses, often of duration of only nanoseconds or less, whereby the occupied bandwidth goes to very large values. Ultra-wide-band may also be used to refer to anything with a very large bandwidth (e.g.: a type of sampling rate in the Speex speech codec). This article discusses the meaning in radio communications. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrawideband
anyone care to explain this better to me?
heres a quick one on EDGE as well, just for those of all ya'll out there that haven't heard. EDGE.