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Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
bignosebird.com
I've been using this site's vast collection of scripts, tips,
tutorials, and more for years, and it just keeps getting better.
Advanced Webfolk might not NEED this site, but it's a great place to
help you save time and get refreshed on everything from how to start a
website all the way to Apache server tricks. If you've never been
there take a look--you'll probably end up bookmarking the site...(Geek.com)
11:39:01 PM 
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Sex and the Universe!
Astronomers announced today that there are 70 sextillion stars in the visible universe, or some 70 thousand million million million. That's a 7 followed by 22 zeros.
From: Space.com
11:03:42 PM
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End-User Computing: Linux Outlook 2003-07
We estimate that corporate Linux deployment for general-purpose end-user platforms will grow from less than 0.1% today to 2% at best by YE05.
Where we see Linux in our client base, it tends to be deployed primarily as a religious principle or as “under the radar” projects rather than being based on a systematic application, architecture, risk, and cost analysis.
Full story here
10:35:40 PM
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If Linux was a car...Sense of Humor required!
If you've never used Linux this will leave you scratching your head!
If you do use Linux you probably are scratching your head!
From: Fred Langa (The LangaList)
9:24:24 PM
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Porno For Dummies. Spammers and amateur pornographers can afford all their ill-used bandwidth largely because they've never had to pay for it. Why?... [frontstack]
Everyone get off your butt's and go check Grandma's computer now!
3:58:59 PM
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Patriot Act. I recently received an email from a fellow librarian, encouraging support for an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations Bill of 2004, which would cut off Justice Department funding for searches of bookstore and library records under... [Zogby Blog]
As for the freedom to read, I feel no threat from John Ashcroft against my ability to read. And I don't really give a shit who sees what I'm reading. If you're willing to check books out of the library, where any library employee can see what you have out, why would you care if the government can see the same information? If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. If you are doing something wrong, then might I suggest that you not purchase or check out materials that support your crime. Libraries are, after all, a place to read.
3:15:44 PM
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AOL Loses One Million Subscribers In Past Quarter. America Online's subscriber base plunged in the second quarter, as nearly one million customers fled the service for cheaper or faster Internet connections. The service currently has fewer than 26 million U.S. subscribers. Washington Post [Elgan.com]
What took these people so long?
3:05:39 PM
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MIT Technology Review: Don't Break E-Mail To Save It. Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist for Cloudmark. My perspective on design of spam filtration solutions is centered around exploitation of the various constraints of the spammer. One thing we don't talk about enough is the fact that spammers have rather serious constraints. [Tomalak's Realm]
2:44:39 PM
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CRITICS LOSE ONE . July 23, 2003 -- SOMETIME yesterday, you heard that Saddam Hussein's two sons were killed by U.S. forces. The question is: Upon hearing the news, were you thrilled? Did you consider this a great and positive development as we... [Zogby Blog]
2:41:44 PM
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A recent report by Embedded Market Forecasters concluded that Embedded Linux development was more costly than Windows CE.NET .
This caused an immediate firestorm of breathless rhetoric from the Linux Weenies. By the way ... when I use the name 'Linux Weenies' I am referring to those people who probably don't use Linux in a business setting but have an intense misguided hatred for anything Microsoft. Linux Weenies are people who roam the net looking for anything written about Windows vs Linux so they can spew their hatred in the comments section. They impress me, and I'm sure others as very immature and childish. People who actually work with Windows and Linux for a living can be spotted readily by their more reasoned assessments of the pros and cons of each.
That said ... the following is an example of a comments post to the above article. This person was/is turned off as much as I am by the Linux Weenies.
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hmm (2:41pm EST Thu Jul 17 2003)
So in some people's opinion, anything positive said about Windows is sponsored by Microsoft. Wow. It's unbelievable how narrow mided people can be. Like any other OS, Windows has it's flaws. There's no OS without flaws. Not even 40 year old UNIX. If Windows beats Linux even in one thing, well, "it's wrong or MS sponsored", some people conclude right away. The truth is that people who speak so irresponsibly are Technologically challenged. They do not know what an Operating System is, or what it means. They neither know how windows or linux works. Probably (I'm speculating here) these people think that GUI is all there is to an OS, and have no idea of how even that GUI is created, or what makes it look the way it does. I was a big Linux embracer in the early days. Having a profound respect for UNIX (and little for windows) when the first Red Hat came out i installed it and thought it was great. Though I didn't use the GUI as much i still thought it was owesome. I said to myself: The unleashed power of UNIX on my dekstop. I mean OMG, I'll never have to reboot again. But as I started to navigate the Open Source sites and groups, I realized that most people were preoccupied with slamming windows and Microsoft, rather than looking at Linux as it's own entity, something new that should grow at an amazing speed. Any kind of discussion turned into Windwos bashing, and MS was now M$. I knew these people were not the few "real" developers, instead they were the "Dumb" who could not write a line of code, therefore had plenty of time to start OS wars. If you even mentioned an MS product you were labelled as a MS troll, and so much s--t was thrown at you, you had to leave. So it was a crime to be a VB developer, or VC++ developer. They forgot that MS was there before Linux. It took a year for them to make me hate Linux users, so I unistalled the OS I so much loved. The last I saw of Linux was: Mandrake 8.0. I still like the OS, but I hate the users, with a passion. They truly are the freaks we've gotten to know. There are a few repsectable Linux developers, and even fewer users. How can an OS grow then? Many smart people (Linus himself) has asked for people to concentrate on Linux, not on Windows bashing, but it's too late. It's been said over and over again: you cannot get people to love something by trying to instill in them hate for something else. Some people have been using MS products for over 20 years. Who are you to tell them they are worth nothing, and they should switch to something they never heard about? I feel bad bashing Linux as an OS, but it's users push me. So I will continue to do so. I won't let windows get away that easy either. I have been talking about it's weaknesses for ever, but they have been more productive discussions than nerve-wrecking. If you turned a fight into a productive discussion, most of you will find out you'll sleep better at night, but then I guess most of you suffer from some mental disorder, so it won't make a difference anyway. KEEP FIGHTING - by WD
9:36:48 AM
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Bertrand Russell. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." [Quotes of the Day]
3:23:37 AM
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Blogger is dead. Some whining from the Webmaster.
About three weeks ago I decided I wanted to try my hand at building another web site after a several year hiatus. I don't do it because I have anything to say or even care if anyone looks at it. I do it because I love to keep up with all the changes in the world of the Internet. It's a hobby for me and hopefully something that keeps my brain from slipping into senility a little longer. The alternative is watching Television and I don't like having to run to the bathroom to hurl all the time.
I signed on with Blogger and realized almost immediately that to do more than just type a few words I was going to have to upgrade. Seems that Blogger got bought out by Google and things are not happening at a fast pace there. I have been checking the upgrade page every day for three weeks and the same message about checking back next week is always there. Not good for me. I'm very impatient when I get into a new activity and want to soak it all in as fast as possible.
So ... I started looking at alternatives. I narrowed the search down to Movable Type and Radio Userland. As you can see I ended up in the Userland.
When I first downloaded the program I thought 'What have I got myself into?' After several weeks of digging over all the documentation I could get my hands on, I decided to set a deadline for Blogger to come back to life so I could upgrade. Well .... the deadline passed today and here I am. Of course now that I have made the move Blogger will spring back to life with all the renewed energy infusion from the Google buyout and I will be sorry I didn't hang around a little longer to try it out. Such is life.
I will write more about the Userland experience, (what a bumpy ride) but for now I'm glad to just have the move completed.
I will say that the move was painless involving nothing more than a little cut and paste. I don't like the idea of having to use the funky number url assigned but I can live with that for awhile till I move to my permanent home at icdsoft. That's another project but I want to try all the features in Radio Userland first.
To those of you who were checking the old Blogger page, (all 2 of you) I'm sorry for the inconvenience of all the hopping around but I had no way of knowing the Blogger situation was going to develop just at the time I started there.
Stay tuned .... film at eleven!
1:56:22 AM
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Who's liable for Linux?
From: ZDNet
COMMENTARY--It's the next big Linux controversy: Who should be liable if customers wind up using software that was created from misappropriated intellectual property?
1:03:31 AM
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Very interesting stuff ........
From: Space.com
101 Amazing Earth Facts
From the highest, lowest, driest and hottest places to the deadliest volcanoes and earthquakes, learn all about Earth's extremes!
Read More
1:03:06 AM
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In Rememberance of .......
Today we mourn the passing of an old friend, Common Sense. Common Sense lived a long life, but died in the United States from heart failure early in the new millennium. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were lost long ago in bureaucratic red tape. He selflessly devoted his life to service in schools, hospitals, homes and factories, helping folks get jobs done without fanfare and foolishness.
For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense. He was credited with cultivating such valued lessons as to know when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, and life isn't always fair.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adults are in charge, not the kids) and the realization it's okay to come in second. A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression and the Technological Revolution, Common Sense survived cultural and educational trends including body piercing, whole language and "new math." But his health declined when he became infected with the "if-it-only-helps-one-person-it's-worth-it" virus.
In recent decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of well-intentioned but overbearing regulations. He watched in pain as good people became ruled by self-seeking lawyers. His health rapidly deteriorated when schools implemented zero tolerance policies. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, a teen suspended for taking a swig of mouthwash after lunch, a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student only worsened his condition.
It declined even further when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student, but could not inform the parent when a female student was pregnant or wanted an abortion. Common Sense lost his will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, criminals received better treatment than victims, and federal judges stuck their noses in everything from the Boy Scouts to professional sports. When an individual, too stupid to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, was awarded a huge settlement, Common Sense threw in the towel.
As the end neared, Common Sense drifted in and out of logic, but was kept informed of developments regarding questionable regulations such as those for low flow toilets, rocking chairs, stepladders and auto emissions.
Common Sense finally succumbed when, while the United States was fighting a war on terrorism, a federal judge declared the Pledge of Allegiance to be unconstitutional.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by two step-siblings: My Rights and Ima Whiner.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
..... Source Unknown
1:02:35 AM
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The Party of Sabotage
From: FrontPageMagazine.com
From September to March, the Democratic Party played the classic role of appeasers, seeking every excuse possible not to call Saddam Hussein's bluff or call him to account for his defiance of international agreements. This was no different from the role Neville Chamberlain carved out in the 1930's as Hitler defied one international arms control agreement after another on his march to war. Their appeasement threatened to undermine the international security order, and would have done so if George Bush had buckled to their pressures.
Read full article here
1:01:56 AM
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9 Things I Hate About.......Everyone
From: JadeBuddha.com
1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know
where my watch is pal, where the ***** is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for
the tv remote because they refuse to walk to the tv and change the channel
manually.
3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn
right! What good is a cake if you can't eat it?
4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is.
Why the ***** would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their ass!
5. When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the ***** floor.
6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?
7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.
8. When people say "life is short". What the *****?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever ***** does!!
What can you do that's longer?
9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?
1:01:22 AM
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You gotta see this!
From: little green footballs
Heres a photograph taken by members of the 3rd Infantry Division near the Baghdad Airport, that you haven't seen published by our quagmire-obsessed, relentlessly negative media. It doesn't prove a connection between Saddam Hussein and the September 11 atrocities, of course; but clearly, he wanted someone to think the connection existed, whether it did or not. (Hat tip: Susan K.)
1:00:38 AM
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Big Rock Hounds - Very BIG!
From: Space.com
Search for Large Asteroids Nears Completion, Experts Ponder Gaps in Program
SYDNEY, Australia -- A stated goal of finding 90 percent of all large Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) by 2008 is more or less on target, leading experts said last week at the General Assembly of the International Astronomy Union (IAU) in Sydney, Australia.
The goal, originally outlined by NASA and mandated by the U.S. Congress, is designed to insure that space rocks in the vicinity of Earth's orbit, and larger than 1 kilometer (0.62 miles), are found and tracked. An object of this size could cause global destruction if one were to hit Earth.
1:00:07 AM
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Have You Googled Yourself Lately?
From: From the Third Floor
Googling yourself might be a good idea. See how much stuff you are leaving behind on the web and what people may find out if they Google your name. To Google yourself just type various forms of your name, usually inside of quotes, and hit the Google Search button--and see what interesting information about you there is on the web.
Happy Googling!!
Take some time and Google for long-lost friend. You might be surprised at the results.
12:59:27 AM
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RIAA: Ready, Set, Sue
Still trading music on P2P networks? Fine, be that way. The recording industry is still coming after you.
12:58:59 AM
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Where is Gray Davis when we need him?
Power outage here for the last 5 hours and we can't even blame it on Davis. Davis is the governer right? Or was that the last guy? I can't remember ... anyway Pacific Gas and Extortion says its an equipment failure and may be off for a long time. This happens once every summer on our one muggy day of the year. Thats right.... for one day every summer thanks to the monsoon season in Arizona we get high humidity on the hottest day of the year and the power always goes out. I thought it was one of those rolling blackouts that only lasts 2 hours but I got fooled. The house actually held the air conditioned coolness for about 4 hours but now is creeping upward. Thank God for the generator I bought a couple years ago when we had the great so called "Power Crisis" in California. They made it sound as if we would be without power all summer. That summer we were without power for a whole 2 hours. Of course several million people like myself bought generators and made a lot of people rich. Its sitting outside my window just humming along so I can't complain. I am charging the laptop batteries as I type this. Hope this is not one of those "Your substation blew up and it will be a week to get it back up" type things. Wish us luck.
12:58:31 AM
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New MAC Ad
Go here fast. You must see this before Apple makes him take it down!
12:56:34 AM
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YOU GO BILL!
Sliced and Diced form W2Knews.
MS Financials: Steady As She Goes
The MS ‘mammoth oil tanker’ continues to move along just fine.
Redmond in its fourth quarter (ending June 30) reported a net income of $1.92 billion, or 18 cents a share, on revenues of $8.07 billion.
It’s interesting to look at the server platforms. The revenues in Q4 grew 17% year-over-year to $1.93 billion. There was a 24% increase in Windows Server shipments, a whopping 34% growth in SQL Server revenues and a pretty healthy 20% increase in Exchange revenues. As an aside, just because it’s cool, their Xbox sales reached a total of 9.4 million units since the intro. MS said they think their server platform will grow about 8%-12% for the full year.
12:56:02 AM
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Soldiers and Peter Jennings
Five fingered from Zogby Blog: Right Wing and in the Swing
Peter Jennings interviewed a soliders this week in Iraq that had just been told that his tour would be extended. Peter's guy-in-the-field asked, "Well, soldier, what do you think about staying on in Iraq?"
"What this soldier said was that he wanted to go home, that he could no longer trust the word of the military, that he wasn't sure the whole operation wasn't a bad idea, that he had no good feelings left for the Iraqis, given how badly they were reacting to the G.I.s."
In a comment on this from William F. Buckey Jr. today on NRO, he ends speculating what this soliders commanding officer might say to him. It is quick a nice little speech.
" Perhaps they will be taken to one side and spoken to, by their company commander, or, who knows, maybe even the general. He might begin by saying to them: Have you got any idea of something called pride? Pride is what kept the Mayflower people from giving up and sailing back to England. It's what gave the early Americans the steel to face their own Iraqs — Indians and freezing weather and hunger and pain and loneliness. There was something there that made them stick it out. And they hoped, those who wrote home and sang songs and wrote poetry, that in doing so they would endow a tradition, served by American soldiers for three centuries, in jungles and swamps and deserts (yes, deserts), where many of them lived and died not for four months but sometimes for years.
"And they," the company commander might conclude, "were draftees. We are volunteers. We said we'd do the work, go where we were told to go, fight who we were told to fight, accept the orders we got, and do this without griping to Peter Jennings.
"Any questions?"
Questions would be unlikely."
Amen.
12:55:22 AM
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City's so pee-tiful, we're raising a stink
Discovered at Zogby Blog: Right Wing and in the Swing
The story is about how the streets of Philadelphia stink of homeless people's urine They do, I know, I live here. As to homelessness, there's no such thing, it's the Left's myth. There's a problem of the mentally ill, drug addicts, and alcoholcs prefering to live on the street than enter treatment. The solution is to shut down all the soup kitchens and do-gooder programs, for citizens refusing to give them money, ans strict police enforcement of quality of life laws. If they can't loiter for money to buy drugs and can't get a free meal and then bed down on the public square, they'll have to get treatment or die. And, that isn't the choice they face now. No, they're cushioned from the consequences of that choice by the collective do-gooders and the nanny state.
12:54:48 AM
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The RIAA is over the edge.
RIAA nails 1,000 music-lovers in 'new Prohibition' jihad. The Recording Industry Association of America's attack on US culture has escalated at an alarming pace this week.
12:53:50 AM
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Uncle Don:
"The US must hold high-level talks with North Korea, or these people will go nuclear". If you have any interest in the North Korea situation you should read this.
12:52:40 AM
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Anti-Spyware tools: Ad-Aware 6 vs SpyBot Search & Destroy
You know, I just have to laugh when people start a flame war over which free anti-spyware program is deemed the best of the best. It harkens back to the old PC vs. Mac debate... Truth is, they both perform as advertised.
Honestly, try them both (for gosh sakes, they're FREE) and use the one that works best for you. But if you don't trust me, then check out the head-to-head tests and user reviews at PC Magazine.
Or maybe just install and use them both. Either way, it won't hurt your system and you'll be living in a far less spyware world.
Shamelessly Ripped from Lockergnome
Blogged by Kevin Christley
12:52:09 AM
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superWIMPs may make up 25% of Universe
I've known about these particles for a long time .... they're called the French and Canadians!
UC Irvine research has found new cosmic particles that may constitute 25% of the invisible "dark matter" in the Universe. The particles have been named "superweakly interacting massive particles, or superWIMPs." Dark matter is one of the most puzzling problems for astrophysicists, because while it may be the "celestial glue" that holds galaxies together, almost nothing is known of what it is made. What interests me about this is that after all the breakthroughs in technology and science, we still don't know what makes up about 80% of the mass of the Universe. It is invisible to every tech tool we have. The idea of superWIMPs helps explain part of that invisible mass, but not all of it -- Yet!
12:51:04 AM
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"What about all the people who need to run software that doesn't run on Linux?"
This is exactly the question that popped into my mind when I heard about the idiots in Munich.
The city of Munich is replacing Windows with Linux on 14,000 desktop computers. For a secretary who has to do email and type simple documents, that will probably be fine.
Here's my question. What about all the people who need to run software that doesn't run on Linux? The article said Munich uses 175 custom Windows applications, all of which would need to be ported. And what about major commercial applications for which there's no equivalent? I guarantee you that somewhere out of those 14,000 desktops there's someone using Quark to publish an important report. Even if there were an equivalent for Linux, which there isn't, it wouldn't be the format that the printers are used to receiving. There are probably a lot of people with custom Access databases. How do they access their data?
Read the whole article here.
12:50:22 AM
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Heres your Sign
The following was brazenly stolen from The LangaList
On the way to Nags Head, North Carolina from Virginia there is a sign for a seafood restaurant that says, "I get my crabs from Dirty Dicks."
On a hospital door to the colonoscopy unit: "To expedite your visit, please back in."
On a plumber's truck: "We repair what your husband fixed."
On the trucks of a plumbing company: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber."
Pizza shop slogan: "7 days without pizza makes one weak."
Sign over a gynecologist's office: "Dr. Jones, at your cervix."
Another pizza shop slogan: "Buy our pizza. We knead the dough."
At a tire shop: "Invite us to your next blowout."
Door of a plastic surgeon's office: "Hello. Can we pick your nose?"
At a towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."
On a taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff."
In a podiatrist's office: "Time wounds all heels."
At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet -- miss a car payment."
At the electric company: "We would be de-lighted if you pay your bill. However, if you don't, you will be."
In a restaurant window: "Don't stand there and be hungry. Come on in and get fed up."
In the front yard of a funeral home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait."
At a propane filling station: "Tank heaven for little grills."
And don't forget the sign at a radiator shop: "Best place in town to take a leak."
12:42:20 AM
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Bastard - On Religion and the 1st Amendment
I love this guy. He says a lot of the thing I would like to say but I'm too lazy (old and tired) to type more than a few lines. So I sit here thinking all this great stuff and thinking that I should put it on the page then I decide it's too much work and forget about it. So now that I have discovered Bastard's site I will just send you there when he has good stuff.
Heres a good start........
12:41:42 AM
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Tim O'Reilly: Software licenses don't work
Looks like the entire foundation of Open Source (Linux) is built on thin ice and its melting fast!
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Tim O'Reilly: I think there's a paradigm shift going on right now, and it's really around both open source and the Internet, and it's not entirely clear which one is the driver and which one is the passenger, but at least they are fellow travellers.
Let me give you an example of what I would consider a paradigm failure that happens all the time in the open source community. The critic of open source says, "Open source is just not very good at building easy-to-use software." And the open source defender says, "Oh, you haven't seen the latest version of Gnome (GNU Object Model Environment). It's really getting pretty good."
Nobody is pointing out something that I think is way more significant: all of the killer apps of the Internet era: Amazon, Google, and Maps.yahoo.com. They run on Linux or FreeBSD, but they're not apps in the way that people have traditionally thought of applications, so they just don't get considered. Amazon is built with Perl on top of Linux. It's basically a bunch of open source hackers, but they're working for a company that's as fiercely proprietary as any proprietary software company.
What's wrong with this picture? Well, one thing is that one of the fundamental premises of open source is that the licenses are all conditioned on the act of software distribution, and once you're no longer distributing an application, none of the licenses mean squat.
12:41:02 AM
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Daily Global Warming Rant:
What you see below is all the monthly record highs and lows from our local reporting station since time began. Notice that the last time a record high was set was back in October of 1996. The next most recent record breaking high was in 1984. Global Warming? You can check this same information for your local area at The Weather Channel.
Jan 54°F 36°F 45°F 1.66 in. 76°F (1981) 15°F (1963)
Feb 61°F 39°F 50°F 1.60 in. 86°F (1930) 22°F (1953)
Mar 67°F 43°F 55°F 1.76 in. 89°F (1960) 25°F (1953)
Apr 74°F 47°F 61°F 0.63 in. 98°F (1951) 31°F (1975)
May 83°F 53°F 68°F 0.26 in. 107°F (1984) 34°F (1938)
Jun 91°F 59°F 75°F 0.08 in. 111°F (1964) 39°F (1955)
Jul 96°F 63°F 80°F 0.01 in. 116°F (1933) 47°F (1975)
Aug 95°F 62°F 78°F 0.01 in. 115°F (1933) 45°F (1939)
Sep 89°F 57°F 73°F 0.25 in. 110°F (1955) 35°F (1948)
Oct 80°F 49°F 64°F 0.44 in. 101°F (1996) 28°F (1971)
Nov 65°F 40°F 52°F 0.82 in. 92°F (1949) 18°F (1938)
Dec 54°F 34°F 44°F 1.06 in. 77°F (1979) 15°F (1990)
12:40:12 AM
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Boooo Hooooo! I want to go home to MOMMY!
I joined the military voluntarily and now they want me to do my job. Can you imagine that? Build an Army with Gen-Xers and this is what you get!
"It was the end of the world," said one officer Thursday. "It went all the way up to President Bush and back down again on top of us. At least six of us here will lose our careers." GOOD!
12:39:24 AM
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Who CAIRs
CAIR gave the White House high marks for reaching out to American Islam in the days immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks, the report says. That was back when the White House was calling the terrorists "hijackers of a peaceful religion" – something we aren't hearing so much anymore. CAIR complains that, "since that initial period of support, a number of government policies have singled out Muslim individuals and organizations." Gee, I wonder why? Could it be the fact that all of the terrorists are Muslims?
12:38:43 AM
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A little humor to help us forget the whining liberal rhetoric for a few moments
Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
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The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
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Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians -- the quick and the dead.
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Life is sexually transmitted.
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An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
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If quitters never win, and winners never quit, then who is the fool who said, "Quit while you're ahead?"
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Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
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Get the last word in: Apologize.
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Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
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Some people are like Slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
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Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they use to?
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
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AND THE # 1 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You read about all these terrorists -- most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10 -15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. Let's put Blockbuster in charge of immigration.
12:30:28 AM
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Few customers switching from Windows
It has been a year, and the masses aren't switching to Macs. Apple's market share is declining steadily,'' said Jeanne Hayes, president of QED. ``Dell is definitely the leader now both in installed base and in share, because they've moved into the server business as well.''
12:29:37 AM
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Into Self Abuse?
Now that I have your attention -- Isn't it funny -- the Linux Weenies can't stand Windows or even the mention of the word, but when it comes to making money they have no hesitation changing one letter in the word so the gullible and uninformed will think they are getting another version of Windows.
If you really must torture yourself and find out what its all about this is one way to go. I use KNOPPIX which is gathering dust on my desk. I stick it in the CD drive once in a while for a good laugh or when someone I know just has to see what all the hype is about.
12:29:08 AM
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THE BATTLE OVER GUN-CONTROL HAS ENTERED THE ROLLBACK PHASE:
From Instapundit.com:
The D.C. Personal Protection Act, introduced Tuesday by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), would repeal the District's ban on handguns, end strict registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms, and lift prohibitions on the possession or carrying of weapons at homes and workplaces. . . .
"It is time to restore the rights of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and to defend their families against murderous predators," said Hatch, whose bill has 18 co-sponsors. "Try to imagine the horror that [a] victim felt when he faced a gun-toting criminal and could not legally reach for a firearm to protect himself."
According to U.S. Justice Department statistics, the District's per-capita murder rate hovered between third- and seventh-highest from 1994 to 2001 among cities with more than 100,000 residents. Calling the District the "murder capital of the United States," Hatch said the gun prohibition is "as ineffective and deplorable as it is unconstitutional."
12:28:32 AM
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Hand wringing 'WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE TOMORROW IF YOU DON'T QUIT DRIVING YOUR SUV' news section:
I'm one of the most skeptical persons you will ever encounter when it comes to what is spoon fed to the masses through the major broadcast and newsprint media in this country or anywhere in the world for that matter. Thanks to Al Gore and the Internet, I now have the same sources available to me as the major news media. I like to digest what I find over a period of time and make my own decisions about what is really going on instead of taking their word for what I should be thinking from a half hour broadcast in the evening. I find that I reach a lot of different conclusions about what is really happening than what the media seems to want us to think. My biggest area of disagreement is in the area of Global Warming. Being raised on a farm in North Dakota made a student of weather out of me. I formed a lot of opinions about long term climate changes just by personal observations over many years. I don't subscribe to the modern theory that just because we have a few hot days in the middle of July it has to be the result of Global Warming and we are all going to fry if we don't stop driving SUVs tomorrow. I like to look at the broad pictures of what is and what has happened to the climate over a long period of time. Thanks to the Internet I can now look back anytime and see that big picture at the touch of a few keys. One of my favorite long term climate data areas of interest is the record high temperatures. One quick and easy source (there are many) to check this for your area is go to The Weather Channel web site and type in the name of your town. Go about half way down the page and directly above the forecast highs and lows for the next ten days you will see an 'Averages and Records' button to click on. All the high and low records for your area since records were kept is at your finger tips. You will probably find as I have that a large number of those record highs were set many years ago. Half of all the record highs in this area were set in the 1930's. I don't believe there were many SUVs in the 30's. There are many other sources of good long term climate info like this one on the net to help you make up your own mind about the pabulum we are fed 24 hours a day by the liberal alarmist media. Some climate experts are predicting that the earth is due for another ice age in the next few thousand years and what small effect we humans could have on the large climate change picture is totally insignificant. I personnely don't like SUVs, but spent 20 years of my life in the US Navy defending everyone's right to own what they please. It galls me to see this country and the rest of the world for that matter, running their lives according to the wishes of a few rich, bored, misinformed, guilt ridden movie stars.
12:27:10 AM
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Does your car have a 'black box' recorder?
An estimated 25 million automobiles in the United States--almost every newer GM car--now have so-called event data recorders, a scaled-down version of the devices that monitor cockpit activity in airplanes. What the devices record increasingly finds its way into courtrooms, leading some privacy advocates to question how the recorders came to be installed so widely with so little public notice. Found at ERNIE'S
12:26:13 AM
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Soldiers Learn They’ll Be in Baghdad Longer Than Expected
I'll bet the remaining WWII vets are shaking their heads at this one. They would have been happy to just come home in two years much less 10 months. Instead of being able to communicate with their loved ones instantaneously on a daily basis via the Internet, they had snail mail that took months. I bet they didn't run looking for a Pinko ABC reporter with a camera when they didn't get their way. What a bunch of Gen X Cry Baby's.
12:25:42 AM
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"How Dare They Interrupt Our Public Meeting!"
Cambridge, Massachusetts is perhaps the most left-wing city on the East Coast. There are those who might make a case for the Upper West Side of New York, but we're talking about an entire city here.
Indeed, Cambridge is affectionately known as "The Peoples' Republic of Cambridge".
One example of this is that in 1982, the City of Cambridge established a Peace Commission. This municipal department works to promote non-violence in schools and in the community at large, but also address violence in the international arena.
Sounds fairly harmless. Right?
Stolen from:America's Voices
12:25:01 AM
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Quotes I like.....
"One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure -- and in some cases I have -- that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy." from Jeff Cooper. Stolen from Kim du Toit.
12:24:23 AM
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Reflections on Reparations
When I first heard blacks talking about reparations, I have to admit I started to laugh. Let's face it, it sounded exactly like the sort of get-rich-quick schemes that the Kingfish used to conjure up on "Amos 'n' Andy." And, funny as he was, he wasn't half as wacky as Al Sharpton.
12:06:26 AM
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The uranium flap
Let the Liberal Babies whine. They think they have the Smoking Gun they wanted so badly. The more they whine the more they look like little children.
12:04:59 AM
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Beware the TCO of open source software
What happened to the battle cry 'LINUX IS FREE, LINUX IS FREE'? If I've heard it once I've heard it a thousand times that Linux is free so you should hate Bill Gates because he wants all your money and we don't. What happened? Did the Linux Weenies suddenly wake up and decide that maybe old Uncle Bill was on to something? I think asking up to six times more than Uncle Bill for a service call is pushing it a little. Calm down people. I know you have a lot of catching up to do now that you have discovered making a money is not so bad. If your product is as good as you say it is people will throw money at you without trying to extort it from them.
12:04:09 AM
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Linux Weenies start to get a clue!
After all these wasted years of shouting 'We're better cause we're not Microsoft' it looks like the weenies are starting to get a clue when it comes to trying to impress the CEO's to switch. Listen guys ... if you will put aside your MS hatred for a minute and try to think like Bill Gates, you might begin to understand what compitition in the market place is all about. The big boys want to hear how your product can make money for them and not about your anti-MS religious beliefs. At least by reading this article it appears that some of you are finally starting to get it.
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