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Ok, my bsd box is so dying it's not funny. So, I'd like to take the opportunity to build/buy something: Tiny, silent, cool - webserver that I can samba into. Preferably that I can also run scripts and a small database on. Thoughts? --Vitenka
Thoughts on the eee: The laptop has a screen I'd never use, but the desktop version (ebox) appears to not have a flash-based version. The flash version is costly and has, like, no disk space (no using it to download things overnight) but can run a LAMP stack. No idea if it can run samba, but I presume it does. It is tiny, silent and cool (both meanings). About 200 quid. --Vitenka (Where can I buy it? Tesco has the XP version, which has some advantages for installing stuff, but is a security risk and is, obviously, the hdd version)
Curious. When I looked in Tesco (Cheddars Lane, Cambridge) they only had Linux versions of the laptop Eee. --PT
Oooh, may have to look at that again, then. --Vitenka
Ah, it seems they had only xp of the box, linux of the netbook but are sold out anyway. But staples had them. So tiny! So light! So... slow. What crappy apps you must have, to be so unresponsive. Ah well. Apart from the file browser crashing if you try to connect to map my network drive, it seems to work - and well. It's what the next psion organiser should have been. --Vitenka
Or.. not. It's a VERY thin skin around linux. Anything unexpected happens (Like, say, starting 'add new software whilst the autoupdate is doing its thing) and it pops up incomprehensible messages about locks it was unable to acquire. The file manager crashes a lot, though it being a thin skin around linux is a positive thing here because you can just start a better one instead. The web browser, at least, being firefox, just works. It apears they have realised this, since as many of the services as posisble are based on using it. --Vitenka
In honour of it being shut down in Feb, TabulaRasa? has gone free to play. Might be worth a look to see what LordBritish? did next... use A4 width and letter height - that way it fits on both sane peoples printers and USian ones. Duh. --Vitenka
Why didn't I think of this before? The recording industries shot themselves in their collective foot when they let people say things like "Oh yeah, I bought a copy of that {game/disk/film}". Makes it much harder to demonise illegal copying. --Vitenka
ZeroWing-Zero. Or for the bishier palatte: Zero-WingWing?. Brain hurting. Urge to dust off GameMaker rising... ThouShaltNotKill - even if thou hast toothache.
If I, as a British citizen, were to build a high powered laser (on the ground), and use it to destroy a US sattelite (in the sky) - what laws would I actually be breaking?
Last thing I heard the UN was still working on that one.--King DJ
Check out the [1967 outer space treaty]. US retains ownership of stuff it sends into space just as if it was on Earth; the UK is liable for stuff you do that affects stuff in space; the UK is required to regulate your activities in space. The wording is tied to launching objects into space, though - I'm not sure laser beams fall under it; also, it doesn't give any specifics or have any teeth. --MoonShadow
This is what I suspected - there are international treaties about what an object I launch into space can do - but not an object on the ground. And visible light is in the unregulated spectrum... Now, I'm pretty sure that the US would get miffed at the UK, but the UK hasn't yet passed any laws to stop me? --Vitenka (ThoughtExperiment?, of course)
Such an item would come under many laws concerning the creation of weaponry. Thus making such a laser is fundamentally illegal as it poses a hazard to civilian aircraft. I daresay, however, that if you DID create one and fired it successfully you would be shielded against prosecution to some extent because you'd have just developed sufficient technology to invalidate current nuclear weaponry (i.e. a successful "star wars" weapon). --Jumlian
[Don't joke, it might just happen]. I think project Orion was shut down after international legal issues. Of course what they don't mention is that the same system would be awfully useful in missile defence. And thus is banned by international treaty. I think. --Edith
Slightly delayed, but I used this a SubPlot? in /SeaSlip (Two) - I knew I'd heard of it from somewhere. --Vitenka (I'd think a sattelite would be easier to hit than a missile)
Ye gods. I thought I was quite good at SciFi, but I was mistaken. what else could the term 'planetary piracy' mean other than stealing a planet? --Vitenka (By con-artist in [this case], but force works too. I'm reminded of an old Romana-era DoctorWho)
Music to pet cats by meets... Pirate sea shanties. My brain is hurting. --Vitenka
Further information is not available here. But when I have read a new book, and it strikes me as profound, use references to it sparingly, or else look a fool. I must remember that in future.
First in an OpenEnded? series of one. Thankee kindly for bringing this back to RecentChnages?: PlushyToaster
Alive, dead...can't he be both? Like some sort of comedic Schroedinger's Cat? After all, Tupac returns once a year, like Jesus and the Easter Bunny to release another album. Vitenka: Got one of [these]?
Since this needs to be recorded somewhere. Ubër became uber due to ascii-isation [shouldn't that be Über? --M-A Quite possibly --Vitenka ] - and means 'great as in good'. Then that became ub3r due to idiotic leets. This, by pun, became ub4r - 'even better' since 4 is greater than 3. This, of course, deleets to ubar. And now you know. --Vitenka
An interesting coincidence. My [Tag] whilst playing online games used to be {sic} Pheonix. Which later became Feonics due to people being unable to cope with the misspelling. And here I am. --Vitenka
The guy called Pheonix (sic) on the ShipOfFools isn't you, is it? --Rachael, curious
MORAT.net all gone bye byes. (Except, oddly, irc.morat.net) [StormNews] - I've been posting here. Hope people don't mind me frequently borrowing SiteOfTheMoment and similar. It's a (very slightly) trimmed down list of links I visited during the week with added headlines. (Headlines designed to make sense and/or be punful only after the link has been viewed)
Stormcaller.net updated with a bigass possibly my last link dump for a while.
There was mention and questioning of the existence of silver coloured TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles?. Scarily, these rumours have been confirmed. [The horror, in a synopsis]
There's even more proof for the Japanese-Cats hypothesis, on page 2 :) --Vitenka
Apparently had too much coffee today --PlasmonPerson
I daren't edit it myself (that page is WAY too long) but "I Said No" should be "The Big, Bad, I said NO!" (StoppitAndTidyUp)
Note, people can feel free to edit this page to send me subtle hints, or less subtle messages. That's how it got most of its categories. And, once upon a time, factored. --Vitenka (Also, Office != Offence. Wake up then post.)
I have a portable MP4 player. Guess what MP4 means? It means '(header) then uncompressed rgb565 images, interspersed with an MP3 file which has been cut into 512-byte slices' It's not actually a horrible bitrate, given the screen is only 160x128. And the converter swaps red and blue channels... Still. It was free.
Having a spanner day with technology (further information not available here) - something is up with the headphone socket. Unless I hold it in and twist, I get both very muted sound (which is understandable) and an almost complete loss of the middle frequencies (which isn't). What on earth can cause this? It's kinda fun - you can hear voices mainly by the echo or other effects layered on, which has let me find hidden things in plenty of tracks. (Bob the builder has a character saying, quietly, "Well, maybe" whilst he shouts "Yes we can" which I didn't know, for example :) But what on earth can cause such an effect? --Vitenka
I have no idea, but I have to ask - why were you listening to Bob the Builder? --CH
Firefox bug: "Cannot load page, incompatible compression" blah blah blah, happens if you interrupt a page download sometimes, won't go away when you refresh. Hit ctrl-SHIFT-R to actually force a refresh.
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