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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8081289,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe US Air Force is set to test the steering and control technique first used \nduring the Wright brothers' famous flight in 1903\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-3,8251865,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nA subconsciously perceptible pattern explains the mysterious appeal of a famous \nold Japanese garden, say researchers\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8045341,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nGory hieroglyphs found on a Guatemalan pyramid support the idea of a superpower \nstruggle at the civilisation's peak\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/#85443744\nDate: Not supplied\n\nI just finished reading an article about Mozilla[1] for Salon.com[2]. This \nexcerpt was rather amusing.\n\n_It is a good question, because in almost every way, Mozilla is a better \nbrowser than Navigator. For example, Netscape's best new feature, tabbed \nbrowsing -- which lets you have several Web pages open in the same browser \nwindow, and allows you to bookmark all the pages under one name -- was in \nMozilla many months ago, and the Mozilla project that created it (called \nMultiZilla) already has an improved version available. When asked about this, \nYecies, of Netscape, said, \"That's true, but the engineer who's working on it \n[for Mozilla] is a Netscape employee. It was always done with the intention of \nfostering general browsing usability for Netscape.\" \n_\nYes, ok, I suppose that's true if by \"Netscape employee\" you really meant \n\"Apple employee.\" and by \"always done with the intention of fostering general \nbrowsing usability for Netscape\" you meant \"was done in a weekend for Mozilla \nbecause I thought MultiZilla was cool.\" \n\nHere's how the whole tabbed browsing thing happened. One night I finally \ndownloaded an extension called MultiZilla (go check it out on mozdev.org[3]. I \nwas particularly impressed with a feature contained in MultiZilla called tabbed \nbrowsing. I started doing research and discovered NetCaptor[4], a tabbed \nbrowser that embedded WinIE. \n\nMultiZilla was cool but at the time suffered from two fundamental flaws that \nprevented the code from being incorporated into the Mozilla tree. The first was \na UI flaw, namely that at the time it had ripped off NetCaptor down to the last \ncontext menu item. The GUI was similar enough that there would have been \ndefinite concerns about so obviously copying some of NetCaptor's more obscure \ncapabilities (like sticky names and tab locking). The second concern was that \nthe tab behavior wasn't encapsulated cleanly into a widget. \n\nI produced a simplified version of tabbed browsing on my own time (did it in a \nweekend) that removed some of the geekier NetCaptor features and that \nencapsulated the tab behavior so that the changes to other Navigator files \nwould be minimal. Once I established that it didn't degrade performance in the \nsingle tab case, I checked it in as an experiment.\n\nThe response was overwhelming, as were the bugs that started being filed. So \nmuch so that at first I wanted to back tabbed browsing out of the tree. I was \noverruled by Mozilla, which turned out to be a good thing for all I think. :) \nEven with all the excitement and hoopla surrounding the advent of tabbed \nbrowsing on the engineering side (and in the Mozilla community), Netscape still \ndidn't get it. Netscape marketing prioritized all sorts of useless work that \nnobody had even started above tabbed browsing in their marketing document. They \ncontinued to do so for months, simply not getting it. It was this odd curiosity \nthat one of their engineers had checked in, and they didn't know what to make \nof it.\n\nOnly after the press raved about it did Netscape really jump on board. I'm sure \nNetscape is doing the same thing now with popup blocking. Can't you just see it \nnow? We'll have a Popup Manager, and a Manager to manage the Popup Manager, and \ntwenty-seven preferences for fine-grained control of all aspects of popups. \n\nCan you believe how disfunctional Netscape is? When their engineers say \"you \nshould do this\" or \"you should do that\", they get completely ignored (or blown \noff), but when CNet says \"We didn't like this, or we didn't like that.\", \nNetscape scurries to meet their demands. That is simply pathetic.\n\n[1] http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/10/browser_wars/\n[2] http://www.salon.com\n[3] http://www.mozdev.org\n[4] http://www.netcaptor.com\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000191.html\nDate: 2002-09-25T22:31:04-08:00\n\nI've added a new blog category: Yahoo. Why? Because occasionally I post stuff \nabout work, so I might as well categorize. Plus, some private e-mail has \nconvinced me that it might be a good idea. (You know who you are....\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000194.html\nDate: 2002-09-25T22:56:08-08:00\n\nMatt describes something I've been experiencing a lot recently: You know you \nread too many primary sources when you read an article on slashdot and think, \n\"I read that yesterday.\" Yeah, ever since I got into weblogs. I don't rely...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8272607,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-26T11:26:11+01:00\n\n(NY Daily News)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "http://www.ouchytheclown.com/welcome.html\n\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8279860,215/\nDate: 2002-09-26T15:44:55+01:00\n\n*The Northerner:* Subscribe to our free email round-up of the best of the \nnorthern English press.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8264811,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-26T05:19:10+01:00\n\n(whatever-dude)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8294463,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-27T00:42:17+01:00\n\n(Some albino rhino)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8288879,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-26T20:37:17+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/aicn.gif ([AintItCoolNews])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8304314,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-27T08:51:28+01:00\n\n(orlando sentinel)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:35:59-08:00\n\nYou are not still using sourceforge, are you? If you have any hopes that they \nare anything but yet another business giving away a free service, then see \nthis: Selling Microsoft VisualStudio on the \"open source development platform\". \nNice touch. Click on the image for the original screenshot....\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8298180,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-27T03:46:29+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/xent.gif ([X-Entertainment])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | ">peter fwded:\n>>Finally, Constable Evans hurled a thong at the animal, hitting it on the\n>>head.\n>\n>I know this isn't *quite* as funny to Australians as it is to\n>everyone else. Honestly.\n>\n>Rachel\n>not that walloping it with a flip-flop isn't hilarious too...\n>--\n\nwell unless you used the thong like a sling shot.....\n-- \n\n\nFel\nhttp://www.frogstone.net\nWeird Page: http://my.athenet.net/~felinda/WeirdPage.html\n\n[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357893,215/\nDate: 2002-09-29T00:40:02+01:00\n\nIt wasn't just the lack of wellies that made this protest different - it was \nthe mix of the marchers, writes *Euan Ferguson*.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357899,215/\nDate: 2002-09-29T00:39:55+01:00\n\n*Media*: It only took one column in a newspaper by Rod Liddle, editor of \nradio's flagship new show, to put the BBC under pressure. Jamie Doward and \nVanessa Thorpe report on unease within the corporation's top brass - and how \nthe affair could shape its future\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T17:08:46-08:00\n\nThe Oracle of Google can answer multiple choice questions amazingly well ... \nWho is the author of Perl?, What family lives next door to the Simpsons?. As \nthe author points out on the about page; this thing would be really useful in a \n\"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire\" type contest. =)...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8341698,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nUsing one species to develop the eggs of another could in future help \nendangered species and even women\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:31:20-08:00\n\nThis Monkey Switch Ad is too funny. Huge smile on my face. :-) It was the \nwinner of a competition MacRumors had set up. (Via Nathan)...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8355996,215/\nDate: 2002-09-28T23:38:59+01:00\n\n*Dan Rookwood* and *Lawrence Booth* on how Europe and the United States ended \nall-square to set up a tense final day.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85505995\nDate: Not supplied\n\nI've been in Austin all weekend. On Friday, I spoke at the University of Texas \nabout EFF issues. Jon Lebkowsky was there -- hell, he organized it -- and he \nblogged the hell out of the talk: \n\n Entertainment industry has tradition of attacking technology: the piano \n roll, the radio (sued by vaudeville), television (would destroy cinema!), \n \"the Betamax affair\"... the latter being the first consumer VCR. In Betamax \n case, argued that the ability to make a full copy of a broadcast work would \n not be a fair use (in terms of copyright). It was illegal enough that the \n VCR should be kept off the market, they argued. The Supreme Court got the \n case, and the thing that shook out of it was the Betamax principle: a \n technology is legal so long as it has substantial non-infringeing uses. \n This principle is under attack. \n\n Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998. Illegal to defeat a copyright \n measure. Regionalization system for DVDs. This is a control that limits \n distribution. John Johansen in Norway figured out how to break the content \n scrambling system and allows you to move from one region to another, \n override copy protection. It was called DeCSS - Johansen is facing trial \n for creating a piece of code. \n\nLink[1] (Wes blogged it, too[2]) Discuss[3]\n\n[1] http://www.weblogsky.com/2002_09_01_blarchive.html#85500802\n[2] http://wmf.editthispage.com/2002/09/27\n[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/4rEePy7RSm38x\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381145,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:04:58+01:00\n\n*Arts:* Fourth art raid on philanthropist's home once targeted by the IRA and \nDublin gangster Martin Cahill.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381143,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:05:00+01:00\n\n*Business:* City and Wall Street are sceptical of plan to prevent more \ncountries slipping into Argentina-style crisis\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:35:59-08:00\n\nYou are not still using sourceforge, are you? If you have any hopes that they \nare anything but yet another business giving away a free service, then see \nthis: Selling Microsoft VisualStudio on the \"open source development platform\". \nNice touch. Click on the image for the original screenshot....\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381146,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:04:57+01:00\n\n*Internet news:* Can Freeserve hold on to its position as the ISP that most \nBritons dial up to, asks Kate Bulkley.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T04:04:00-08:00\n\nIt seems like ATTWS will offer a service that'll tell you where your friends \n(or children or spouse or whatever) are ... I haven't seen it announced, but \nfrom their \"Explanation of Rates and Charges. \"Find Friends service will only \nlocate a compatible mobile device with mMode service that (1) has granted you \npermission, (2) is turned on, (3) is registered on the AT&T Wireless GSM/GPRS \nnetwork, and (4) has not activated Be Invisible. Location services only provide \nthe location...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T17:08:46-08:00\n\nThe Oracle of Google can answer multiple choice questions amazingly well ... \nWho is the author of Perl?, What family lives next door to the Simpsons?. As \nthe author points out on the about page; this thing would be really useful in a \n\"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire\" type contest. =)...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2220132.stm\n\nTuesday, 27 August, 2002, 21:35 GMT 22:35 UK\nCambodia temple ruins yield treasure\n\nWorkers clearing dense jungle near the ruins of an ancient pagoda in\nnorthern Cambodia have unearthed 31 Buddha statues - 27 of them solid gold.\nThe statues - which are 10 centimetres (4 inches) tall - are in good\ncondition and believed to be hundreds of years old.\nThey were found on Saturday as workers were rebuilding the Po Pich temple\nabout 100 km (65miles) north of the capital, Phnom Penh.\nThe pagoda, in the Batay district of Kampong Thom province, was torn down\nduring the reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and the area became\novergrown.\nCommunity care\nDeputy police chief of Kampong Thom province, Hang Sithim, said the statues\n- three of which were silver and one bronze - were buried in about one metre\n(3.4ft) of earth and each weigh around 500 grams (1lb).\n''I think that these Buddha statues had been buried hundreds of years ago,\nwhen the last temple was fully operating,\" Mr Hang Sithim said.\nProvincial authorities initially planned to take the statues to a nearby\ntown for safekeeping, but opted to allow the Buddhist community at the\ntemple to take care of them.\n''We believe they are safe there,'' said Som Somphat, deputy governor of\nKampong Thom province.\n''The people of Po Pich pledged to treat them with respect and honour.''\nReign of terror\nA police guard has been placed around the site to protect it from looters.\nThe Khmer Rouge waged civil war in Cambodia between 1970 and 1998 and\ncontrolled the country between 1975 and 1979.\nThe regime outlawed religion and destroyed many objects regarded as decadent\nor culturally impure.\nAbout two million people died in the Khmer Rouge's drive to turn Cambodia\ninto a farmers' utopia.\n \n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506950\nDate: Not supplied\n\nDan Gillmor interviewed Jack Valenti[1] last week in his column and did the \nimpartial thing, representing Valenti's beliefs as fairly as possible. This \nweek, Dan takes Valenti's arguments apart, looking at what Hollywood's agenda \nreally entails: \n\n So the movie and music companies are going back to Congress for another \n helping. They are asking for laws that would force technology innovators to \n restrict the capabilities of devices -- cripple PCs and other machines that \n communicate so they can't make copies the copyright holders don't \n explicitly allow. Amazingly, the entertainment industry also wants \n permission to hack into networks and machines they believe are being used \n to violate copyrights. \n\n Here is what it all means. To protect a business model and thwart even the \n possibility of infringement, the cartel wants technology companies to ask \n permission before they can innovate. The media giants want to keep \n information flow centralized, to control the new medium as if it's nothing \n but a jazzed-up television. Instead of accepting, as they do today, that a \n certain amount of penny-ante infringement will occur and then going after \n the major-league pirates, they call every act of infringement -- and some \n things that aren't infringement at all -- an act of piracy or stealing. \n Saying it doesn't make it so. \n\nLink[2] Discuss[3]\n\n[1] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/4132447.htm\n[2] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4175607.htm\n[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/WDUVXyKf9qUj\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8410271,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T22:21:10+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/nandotimes.gif ([NandoTimes])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "Apols if this has been posted before:\n\nhttp://www.pinkpaperclips.net/subs/quiz2.html\n\nRob\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/mG3HAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8397801,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe antiviral drug significantly reduces the spread of the incurable infection \nthrough sex\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8423194,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T08:34:11+01:00\n\n(St. Petersburg Times)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8398676,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T16:15:15+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/iol.gif ([IOL])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8413685,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T00:26:14+01:00\n\n(Some depraved farkette)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8402896,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T18:17:08+01:00\n\n(charlotte.com)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000619\nDate: 2002-09-30T00:33:14-06:00\n\nAnyone have a copy of Bell Centennial I can borrow? I wonder if I'll ever have \n$100 to spend on fonts. (Matthew Carter, I'd be happy to pay you the two cents \nin royalties you probably get for selling $100 worth of fonts.) \n\n*Update:* Kevin Marks[1], who is stupendously incredible for far more things \nthan I can list here points out that Gill Sans (which I was asking for earlier) \nis _included with OS X_. I knew Mac OS X included a lot of great fonts[2], but \nI don't know how I overlooked this. _Awesome!_ \n\nTufte notes: Terrie Miller[3]. \n\nFirst ammendement beer bash. \n\niSync Beta[4] (guess they learned a lesson from iCal) is out.\n\n\n\n[1] http://epeus.blogspot.com\n[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/font.html\n[3] http://www.oreillynet.com/~terrie/tufte/\n[4] http://www.apple.com/isync/\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418829,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:55+01:00\n\n*Arts:* The long-running dispute between the widow of Kurt Cobain and the \nremaining two members of his band Nirvana has been settled, paving the way for \na new CD.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8421992,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T07:33:14+01:00\n\n(abc.net.au)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8424916,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T09:35:15+01:00\n\n(Local Library)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418828,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:56+01:00\n\n*Media:* The race is on for the most coveted job in BBC News after Rod Liddle \nsays he is stepping down as editor of the Today programme.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418827,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:57+01:00\n\n*World latest:* Dalai Lama's envoy hails first contact in 20 years.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html\nDate: 2002-09-30T17:22:34-08:00\n\nThis is an issue that comes up all the time at work. It is an issue for roughly \nfour reasons: Yahoo is a FreeBSD shop Someone has heard that MySQL runs better \non Linux Someone knows that we run some...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506723\nDate: Not supplied\n\nDisney has named a new president of Walt Disney Parks, replacing Paul Pressler, \nthe exec who did his damnedest to ruin Disneyland, slashing spending (at the \nexpense of safety and employee satisfaction), building the craptastical \nCalifornia Adventure, reducing the number of SKUs available for sale in the \nPark stores, and so on. The new president, James Rasulo, used to be head of \nEuro Disney. Link[1] Discuss[2]\n\n[1] http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=1510778\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/rw7cDXT3W44C\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | ">>From todays Sun:\nhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2002392050,00.html\n\nYour vote on Crop Idol \nBy OLIVER HARVEY\n\nWELCOME to Crop Idol – your chance to choose Britain's most out-of-this-wor=\nld corn circle. \n\n\nThe intricate patterns, which some say are the work of aliens, are big news=\n again thanks to the spooky new Mel Gibson film Signs.\n\n\nNine of the best are shown on the right. You can vote for your favourite by=\n clicking on the image and dialling the number shown beneath.\n\nCalls cost only 10p, or 12 cents from the Republic of Ireland (though it ma=\ny be a bit more if you contact us from other planets).\n\nLines close at 6pm today. We will reveal the\nwinner tomorrow.\n\n\nAliens ... or hoaxers?\nTHE debate continues to rage over the origin of crop circles.\n\nMany believe they are simply the work of human hoaxers — while others are c=\nonvinced they are made by aliens trying to communicate with us.\n\nCrop circle enthusiasts insist that some of the designs appear so quickly a=\nnd on such a vast scale that it is impossible for humans to have made them. =\n\n\nWitnesses even claim to have seen balls of light moving through the fields =\non the nights that circles appear.\n\nResearchers have found connections between some patterns and symbols from a=\nncient religions, mathematics and even music. \n\nCrop circles were first spotted in Britain in the early 1970s and now appea=\nr throughout the world. The weird outlines are still most common in the sout=\nh of England.\n\nTheories about their cause include whirlwinds — known to circle experts as =\nplasma vortexes — earth energies from ley lines or even forces from the huma=\nn mind.\n\nIn the past the circles have also been blamed on mating roe deer, hedgehogs=\n, helicopters and holes in the ozone layer.\n\nRaymond Cox, Chairman of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies, said last nigh=\nt: \"It's a great unsolved mystery.\n\n\"We know not all crop circles are created by humans but we cannot say for s=\nure what is making them.\"\n\nPlus lots of photos\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8415795,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nNight-clubbers who swapped their glasses for contact lenses report big \nincreases in physical contact with the opposite sex\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000204.html\nDate: 2002-09-30T20:42:06-08:00\n\nAn article titled Mac poses as much of challenge to Linux as to Windows is both \ninsightful and missing the point. The general thrust of the article, is \ndead-on. It's just the sort of stuff I've been saying to folks...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "\n> Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, our maddest of mad mullahs and a cartoon bogeyman\n> to scare the kiddies, spent a quiet and contemplative bank holiday playing\n> with his own children in Victoria Park, Hackney.\n\nFor an alternative, and rather more factually based, rundown on Hamza's \ncareer, including his belief that all non Muslims in Yemen should be murdered \noutright:\n\nhttp://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA7201\n\nMartin\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8388720,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T10:08:10+01:00\n\n(Some Game Boy)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418825,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:59+01:00\n\n*UK latest:* Potters Bar claimants' group investigates reason for accident as \nit dismisses Railtrack's compensation offer.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8423196,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T08:34:09+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/ncbuy.gif ([NCBuy])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#there_are_four_lights\nDate: 2002-10-01T12:53:57-05:00\n\nOne year ago today, my (now former) manager told me to shut down my weblog and \nremove all traces of it from my server. He tried to convince me that the \nInternet was too small to mix the professional[1] and the personal[2]. \n\nOne year ago today, I gave him my answer[3], and the rest is history[4]. \n\nToday, to celebrate this anniversary, I would like everyone to read my resume\n[5], admire this full-screen picture of my cat[6], and link to this post[7]. \n\nThere are four lights.\n\n\n\n[1] http://diveintopython.org/\n Dive Into Python\n[2] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2001/09/22.html#addiction_is\n dive into mark 9/22/2001: \n[3] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2001/10/01.html#write\n dive into mark 10/1/2001: \n[4] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2001/10/\n dive into mark October 2001 archives\n[5] http://diveintomark.org/resume/resume.html\n my resume in HTML format\n[6] http://diveintomark.org/images/j.jpg\n J, 1024 x 768\n[7] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#there_are_four_lights\n permanent link to this post\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8430044,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T12:41:57+01:00\n\n*Live online:* The Observer's *Tracy McVeigh* and experts *Tim Brighouse* and *\nAnn Hodgson* will be here on Thursday at 3pm to discuss the government's \nrecord. Post your questions now.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8443954,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nHundreds of US transfusion patients are set to receive red blood cells cleaned \nwith compounds that inactivate viruses and bacteria\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8443955,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nA new internet worm marks a worrying crossover between virus writing and \nhacking, say experts\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | ">JUST as the pyramids of Egypt were built in honour of great kings, it was\n>fitting that sandy replicas were created on Weymouth beach in memory of the\n>king of the castle. Fred Darrington, who became the world's most famous\nsand\n>sculptor, died last week aged 91. His grandson, Mark Anderson, who has\ntaken\n>over his Dorset seafront pitch, is determined that his grandfather's name\nwill\n>not be forgotten, despite the impermanence of his creations.\n\nCan someone please tell me what a \"pitch\" constitutes? I have an idea \nit is somewhat like the spots street musicians claim, but this sounds \nmore formal.\n------------------\nJust an area of the beach by the prom where he's allowed to make his\nsculptures.\nWeymouth is where I spent my teenage years. My mum and one sister still live\nthere.\nSo I'm pretty familiar with the sculptures; pretty impressive, and very big.\n(I think he uses some sort of armature for some bits - it's not just sand)\nThey usually get vandalised, though; after a lot of drinks, it obviously is\na good idea to break into the enclosure and kick all the sculptures to bits.\nThen again, Weymouth is pretty run down, and attracts holiday makers of the\nworst sort.\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-3,8456083,215/\nDate: 2002-10-02T03:57:02+01:00\n\nTime to transform post-war 'one size fits all' public services, urges PM.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000209.html\nDate: 2002-10-01T13:29:57-08:00\n\nI had to leave the conference after the first half of the day so that I can get \nsome stuff done at work and some work on the book. David Pogue's keynote was \nexcellent. He knows the Mac, Apple history,...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "Can someone explain what type of operating system Solaris is... as ive never\nseen or used it i dont know wheather to get a server from Sun or from DELL i\nwould prefer a linux based server and Sun seems to be the one for that but\nim not sure if Solaris is a distro of linux or a completely different\noperating system? can someone explain...\n\nKiall Mac Innes\n\n\n-- \nIrish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie\nhttp://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information.\nList maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/02.html#smitten\nDate: 2002-10-02T09:49:49-05:00\n\n_Heather Hamilton_: Hypochondriac[1]. “It is because of my dog that I \nhave been smitten with an Ovarian Cyst®; it is because of my dog that my \nhusband can't breathe with phlegm-free lungs. I can safely blame the dog for \neverything.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.dooce.com/mtarchives/10_01_2002.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8494551,159/\nDate: 2002-10-03T05:50:07+01:00\n\nRendering polygons is not as easy as it used to be, the reason being the vast \namount of different rendering techniques, methods and algorithms available. Not \nonly is choosing the right ones a problem, even worse, all that are selected \nneed to work together. There are some algorithms which simply do not work \ntogether, and in that case, only one may be used whilt the other one needs to \nbe replaced witha more compatible method. This feature explores how Factor 5 \napproached the problem when developing Rogue Leader for Gamecube.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | ">>>>> \"M\" == Mike Masnick <mike@techdirt.com> writes:\n\n M> In which world are we talking about? That may be true for the\n M> first sale, but once something is out in the world, the\n M> \"creator\" loses control... If I buy a chair you built, and then\n M> decide to give it away to my neighbor, by you're definition, he\n M> just stole from you.\n\nI don't endorse the whole RIAA thing, but to be accurate, you would\nhave to duplicate the chair so that both you and your neighbour could\ncontinue to sit down, and yes, I suppose that would be more serious.\n\nThey can sit on /your/ copy, but if you start churning out exact dups\nof a name-brand artifact, people with law degrees start to smell\nmoney. For example, I could copy a Gibson Guitar /exactly/ so long as\n(a) I don't put Orville's name on the headstock and (b) I license the\npatented bracing methods. If I instead try to sell a homebuilt guitar\non eBay with \"Gibson\" written in crayon on the headstock, and then\nclaim it is a true Les Paul limited edition, I expect people would get\nupset.\n\n M> Why is it that people don't understand that giving stuff away\n M> is a perfectly acceptable tactic in capitalist businesses? \n\nTo play the Devil's Advocate here, it's not about giving /stuff/ away,\nit is about granting endless and cascading duplication/distribution\nrights. Even if _I_ only make the copy I give to you, that doesn't\nstop you from making 10000 copies to sell.\n\n M> Access to free stuff often helps to sell other stuff. \n\nThis is the difficult question: How will they draw the distinction?\nThe \"other stuff\" is just as easy to duplicate as the free stuff.\nThis is why MS is hunting people with illegal Windows; it's no harder\nto dup than a Linux CD, only what is there that actually prevents\npeople from doing it?\n\nPersonally, I don't think the issue should have anything to do with\nsales or units. The issue is that basic phallacy that says a suit\nshould be able to \"own\" someone else's intellectual property. Sarah\nMcLaughlin isn't suing you, it's her label's legal dept because it's\nthe label who stands to lose; Sarah's already fat beyond her wildest\ndreams, so a few bucks here or there, or even if the well dried up\ntomorrow, it's not going to really traumatize her (unless she's been\nblazingly stupid with her money)\n\nBut the label ... like Disney and Mickey, they need the cash cow so\nthey can keep all sorts of uncreative hangers-on in limos and coke.\nIf you thought only Elvis or Brian Jones or Dennis Wilson had problems\nwith beautiful-people deadbeat leech \"friends\" draining their riches,\nthink again.\n\nThe problem is really very simple because it is semantic, and until we\nmake the semantic flip, it's unsolvable, but like trisecting an angle,\nall it takes is looking at the same situation in a different\nway. Here's the revelation: Elvis never ever made a hit record.\n\nElvis didn't make the hits, his /fans/ made the hits. His fans did\nthe work cleaning toilets, manning the convenience stores, driving\nmilk trucks, sitting at endless office desks, they did the /real/\nlabour that paid for every last one of Elvis Presley's pills. All\nElvis did was sing into a microphone every so often, and pen or\ncollect the odd song that all those /people/ liked and wanted as\nsomething of their own. But it's not _Elvis_ who made them universal\nstatements, it is the universe of fans who slurped the songs into\ntheir own lives, it was pull-technology, not push.\n\nTherefore the question becomes: how many times must these fans pay\nbefore they own what they themselves have created? They pay royalties\nfor listening to the radio, for blank tapes, for concert tickets, for\na beer in a bar with a cover band ... they pay over and over and over\nagain for the /right/ to make some hack writer's song /their/\nfavourite song???? That's where the whole system has been seriously\nwarped by the record companies and ad companies reframing it into your\nthinking that it is the Elvis who makes the Elvis. It's not. It's\nthe people who make them; the songs are already theirs.\n\n-- \nGary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc\n Business Advantage through Community Software : http://www.teledyn.com\n\"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.\"(Pablo Picasso)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85515860\nDate: Not supplied\n\nRob \"Pringles Can\" Flickenger and others at the O'Reilly OS X con have tracked \ndown the cause of the annoying flakiness in the wireless network here -- every \n20 or 30 seconds, you start getting \"connection refused\" messages from your \nbrowser and other net-utilities. \n\nIt turns out that running the great network-spy app Etherpeg[1] (or other \n\"promiscuous\" network sniffers) and the built-in firewall in OS X at the same \ntime causes your computer to begin intercepting every packet sent out on your \nsegment of the wireless network and respond to it with a \"rejected\" message. \n\nSo today, Rob (and everyone else who knows about this) is going to run around \nand tell people running Etherpeg to _turn off the firewall_ (and vice-versa). \nAh, fickle networking, you are such a stern mistress! Link[2] Don't do the \nbrown WiFi, the brown WiFi is BAD (_Thanks, Rob!_)\n\n[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1414\n[2] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2086\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/02.html#rdf_redux\nDate: 2002-10-02T09:42:39-05:00\n\nI think I'm going to become one of _those_ people. You know, one of those \npeople who has a “Semantic Web” category on their weblog. This will \nbe a Geek Purity Test question someday. Onward: \n\n- _Phil Ringnalda_: Fun with RDF[1]. “RDF can actually be fun, as long as \nyou don't foolishly invest too much ego in trying to store RSS 1.0, or wander \noff into flame wars.” From which we find: \n- _Shelley Powers_: The RDF Query-O-Matic[2], and The RDF Query-O-Matic \nexplained[3]. “The Query-o-Matic accepts the name of an RDF file (any \nvalid RDF file), and an RDFQL (RDF Query Language) query, and will print out a \ntest value found as a result of that query.” \n- _Marcus Campbell_: “My FOAF autocreation script is moving along nicely\n[4]. It's now looping through my OPML blogroll file, checking the first load of \nbites in people's pages for head linked FOAF files, grabbing certain elements \nfrom these files (if they have one) and spitting them out into a brand new FOAF \nfile for me.” \n- _Joe Gregorio_: The Well-Formed Web[5]. “After spending some time \nbadgering poor Bill Kearney for a concrete benefit of having RDF in RSS 1.0 and \nnot getting a really satisfactory answer I went back and read Paul Ford's essay \nagain. I wanted to get that old religious feeling back again. It didn't work. \nThe magic was gone.” \n\n\n\n\n\n[1] http://philringnalda.com/archives/002336.php\n[2] http://weblob.burningbird.net/services/query.htm\n[3] http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000564.php\n[4] http://www.ninjakitten.net/digiboy/2002_09.php#post000545\n[5] http://bitworking.org/wellformed.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-3,8483155,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nAirlines are facing fresh calls to fit fuel tank inerting systems, following \nwarnings from Boeing about potentially faulty fuel pumps\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85516395\nDate: Not supplied\n\n>>From Ed Felten's \"Freedom to Tinker\" site, regarding the TinkleToonz Musical \nPotty.: \n\n This handy toilet training aid offers a \"magical, musical land of potty \n training,\" by playing a tune whenever liquid is deposited in it. Since it \n plays digital audio, it qualifies for regulation as a \"digital media \n device\" under the Hollings CBDTPA. If the CBDTPA passes, any newly \n manufactured TinkleToonz Musical Potties will have to incorporate \n government-approved copy protection technology. \n\nLink[1] Discuss[2]\n\n[1] http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/cat_fritzs_hit_list.html\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/16/H/CnsZyygHAwp\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000212.html\nDate: 2002-10-02T09:34:00-08:00\n\nTalking about his mainframe background and roots in computing. He played a lot \non the big iron and sorta \"missed\" the PC revolution. He wasn't terribly \ninterested in PCs for quite a while. Then he got to play with one...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-3,8473772,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nAnd so many North Sea harbour seals have been killed that a repeat outbreak in \nthe 2003 breeding season is highly unlikely\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20021002.html\nDate: Not supplied\n\nI've been snowed under for the last four weeks, working on the FogBUGZ 3.0 \nSetup program. \n\nFor various reasons none of the commercial setup toolkits (Wise, InstallShield, \nWindows Installer) could do even 25% of what our setup program needed to do, so \nI ended up writing it from scratch. VC++ and MFC all the way. It took longer \nthan I expected because I had this weird conviction that the entire setup \nprocess should be completely reversable, and as you go backwards through the \nwizard it should automatically and silently undo any changes it had already \nmade. So even if you're looking at the last screen, if you decide you want to \nchange where to extract the files, you can just back up and change it and \neverything moves and all the old files you overwrote are put back and all the \nWindows accounts you created are uncreated and all the permissions we granted \nare ungranted and the SQL database you made is unmade and so on. The end result \nis a great setup program, but it may be a tad overkill. If I have time I'll \nwrite more about what I learned. \n\n \n\nOne benefit of writing a setup program from scratch is that I don't have to \nhave someone else's stupid cartoon-of-a-computer-and-floppy-disks in the upper \nright hand corner. I used a photograph of the London Skyline, currently \ninfested with cranes. I took the picture from the cafe at the Tate Modern. \n\n \n\n[IMG: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/pictures/fbsetup.jpg (FogBUGZ 3.0 Setup)]\n\n\n \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85517490\nDate: Not supplied\n\nMark and I were two of many wonderful contributors to a new book from TechTV, \ncalled \"The Catalog of Tomorrow.\" It's like a Whole Earth Catalog for \nfuturistic technologies, with great illustrated spreads throughout -- you can \nget a peek inside at Amazon[1], and buy from Powell's or your other favorite \nindie store. Link[2] Discuss[3] (_Thanks, Andrew!_)\n\n[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789728109/ref=lib_dp_TFCV/104-0366981-9801540?v=glance&vi=reader#reader-link\n[2] http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0789728109-0\n[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/Fh8aUanpPCe\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/02.html#switcher\nDate: 2002-10-02T09:32:48-05:00\n\n_Phil Ringnalda_, in an unrelated discussion about RSS namespaces[1]: \n“Looks like [yet another person] decided to switch to NetNewsWire Lite. \nDoes it come with crack, or what?”\n\n\n\n[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSS2-Support/message/110\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/215,11,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T12:41:57+01:00\n\n*Live online:* The Observer's *Tracy McVeigh* and experts *Tim Brighouse* and *\nAnn Hodgson* will be here on Thursday at 3pm to discuss the government's \nrecord. Post your questions now.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/03.html#catching_up\nDate: 2002-10-03T22:03:04-05:00\n\n- _Phil Ringnalda_: Hey Radio, this PRE's for you[1]. “You did update \nRadio.root after yesterday's fix for the double-decoding bug in the aggregator, \ndidn't you?” \n- _Brad Choate_: Sanitize Plugin[2]. “Sanitize is a Movable Type plugin \nthat allows you to clean HTML and other markup that might exist in an comment \nentry.” \n- _Scott Ambler_: The Process of Database Refactoring[3] [via John Beimler[4]] \n“A database refactoring is a simple change to a database schema that \nimproves its design while retaining both its behavioral and informational \nsemantics.” \n- _Mac OS X Hints_: Convert Windows Outlook mail to Mail.app[5]. \n“Converting the corporate Windows user who has all their old email in \n.pst files for years back? Help them on their way by getting their mail out of \nthe proprietary .pst format and into standards based mbox format.” \n- _Shelley Powers_: RDF Query-o-matic Light[6] and RDF Query-o-matic Light \nexplained[7]. “I slaved away this afternoon, persevering in my work in \nspite of numerous obstacles (sunshine, cat on lap, languor) to bring you RDF \nQuery-o-Matic Light.” \n- _Bill Kearney_: RDF.root[8]. “This is a tool for Radio Userland. Using \nit will allow your Radio8 install to produce RSS-1.0 XML feeds.” \n- _Paul Ford_: Borrowing a car[9]. “Give me a turkey sandwich.” \n\n\n\n\n\n[1] http://philringnalda.com/archives/002337.php\n[2] http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mtsanitize.php\n[3] http://www.agiledata.org/essays/databaseRefactoring.html\n[4] http://john.beimler.org/archives/000058.html\n[5] http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2002100306134721\n[6] http://weblog.burningbird.net/class_rdql/query.htm\n[7] http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000568.php\n[8] http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/misc/radio/radio8/rdf/current/\n[9] http://ftrain.com/second_toothpaste.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8535461,215/\nDate: 2002-10-04T02:39:04+01:00\n\nExecutive pay has once again outpaced average earnings, climbing an average of \n17% last year.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85519806\nDate: Not supplied\n\nA San Francisco cabbie -- generally a well-educated and firm-opinion-holding \nclass of person -- has an essay about a subject near and dear to my \n(non-car-owning) heart: Why is it so damned hard to get a cab in San Francisco? \n\n\n In fact, no cab company ever tells a driver to pick up anyone. When you \n phone a cab firm in San Francisco, your call is treated not as an order, \n not as a binding oral contract, but simply as a request... \n\n So, why don't cab companies ensure that we pick you up on time-or at all? \n In a nutshell, labor law states that if a cab company actually commands a \n driver to carry out a specific action, that constitutes an \n employer-employee relationship. But if a company farms its work out to \n independent contractors, it can rid itself of costly expenses such as \n disability and social security taxes. It also means that the contractor \n drivers can't unionize. \n\nLink[1] Discuss[2] (_via CamWorld[3]_)\n\n[1] http://www.bradnewsham.com/articles/why_so_hard.shtml\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/eXFeCJHgnP4\n[3] http://www.bradnewsham.com/articles/why_so_hard.shtml\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000222.html\nDate: 2002-10-03T22:15:49-08:00\n\nThe defective yeti isn't fond of Culture Jam. I read it a year or so ago and \njoined Adbusters as a result. I liked the book, but more importantly, I liked \nthe message. It resonated with me. A lot. Yes,...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85515860\nDate: Not supplied\n\nRob \"Pringles Can\" Flickenger and others Cliff Skolnik at the O'Reilly OS X con \nhas tracked down the cause of the annoying flakiness in the wireless network \nhere -- every 20 or 30 seconds, you start getting \"connection refused\" messages \nfrom your browser and other net-utilities. Rob \"Pringles Can\" Flickenger wrote \nit up. \n\nIt turns out that running the great network-spy app Etherpeg[1] (or other \n\"promiscuous\" network sniffers) and the built-in firewall in OS X at the same \ntime causes your computer to begin intercepting every packet sent out on your \nsegment of the wireless network and respond to it with a \"rejected\" message. \n\nSo today, Rob (and everyone else who knows about this) is going to run around \nand tell people running Etherpeg to _turn off the firewall_ (and vice-versa). \nAh, fickle networking, you are such a stern mistress! Link[2] Discuss[3] (_\nThanks, Rob!_)\n\n[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1414\n[2] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2086\n[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/bfYib9hETQSA\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8535470,215/\nDate: 2002-10-04T02:38:55+01:00\n\n*Education:* 'Small' A-level problem to be dealt with but no change on student \ngrants or charitable status of public schools.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8512678,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nDrugs designed to prevent the complications of diabetes may work by slowing \naccelerated ageing - future versions may delay symptoms of ageing in everyone\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85524777\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe WSJ has published a round-up of phone companies, wired and wireless, \nranking them based on performance and price. They don't mention Nextel, whose \nhullking milspec i700 handset I've been carrying for years now, with incredible \nreception all over the US and Canada. Their front-line customer service sucks, \nbut the prices and network can't be beat. \n\n T-Mobile is in the midst of a massive makeover. In recent months, the \n company changed its name and launched an ad campaign featuring Ms. Zeta \n Jones. \n\n The company has a history worth hiding. T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Deutsche \n Telekom, is known for having a weak national network, and the FCC received \n 1,466 complaints about the company in the past year, giving it one of the \n worst complaint rates in the industry. T-Mobile says their complaint rate \n has tapered off and that they have made substantial network improvements. \n\n But T-Mobile is the cheapest wireless provider, available, with an average \n cost of just 8.2 cents per minute. (Verizon, by contrast, costs 14.3 cents \n per minute.) \n\nLink[1] Discuss[2] (_via Camworld[3]_)\n\n[1] http://www.msnbc.com/news/816517.asp\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/VKy7KfS2A7jUZ\n[3] http://www.camworld.com\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8572788,215/\nDate: 2002-10-05T03:05:32+01:00\n\n*Society:* Law lords to hear challenge to bill giving big money an even bigger \nsay.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8553539,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nA detector from an asteroid-chasing NASA probe will soon be helping detectives \nto solve gun crimes and murder cases\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8560348,215/\nDate: 2002-10-04T17:55:51+01:00\n\n*Brussels dispatch:* Calls for an inquiry into Belgium's complicated wartime \npast are gathering pace, writes *Andrew Osborn*.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8572777,215/\nDate: 2002-10-05T03:05:37+01:00\n\nHumiliating rebuff for Blair initiative comes only days after plan was \nannounced at the Labour conference.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85524557\nDate: Not supplied\n\nSixDegress is a $99 OS X app that data-mines your own hard-drive and tries to \nbuild links between people, files and folders. Laura Carpenter at the OS X con \nwas talking it up yesterday and it looks way cool -- I've just downloaded the \ndemo to play with. \n\n * Locate files with similar names or file revisions, anywhere on your \n system.\n\n * Show all email threads related to any file or person on your desktop.\n\n * View all the files a person has sent you, regardless of where those files \n are stored on your computer.\n\n * Create dynamic, self-updating projects.\n\n * Find misfiles or attachments quickly without searching desktop folders.\n\n * Navigate and open any message, file or person on your desktop in one \n click. \n\nLink[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Laura!_)\n\n[1] http://www.creo.com/sixdegrees/\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/VRMgpHLfGxpZ\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8572783,215/\nDate: 2002-10-05T03:05:36+01:00\n\n*Business:* Billionaire brothers add store to empire for £750m.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8597655,215/\nDate: 2002-10-06T02:28:00+01:00\n\n*Politics:* Disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer is set to make £1m from his Belmarsh \ndiaries. But the coup could cost him another year inside, reports *Kamal Ahmed*\n.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8582593,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe popularity of garage or car-boot sales could be behind a recent worldwide \nresurgence of the nuisance bugs, says a UK scientist\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8597651,215/\nDate: 2002-10-06T02:28:04+01:00\n\nWill the last person to leave the Tory party please turn out the light? *Rachel \nCooke* scours the land looking for Conservative voters. Quizzes[1] | Crossword\n[2] | Interactive guides[3] | Steve Bell[4] | Weblog[5] *Other news and comment\n**Met launches new 'sus' patrols*[6]\n\n[1] http://www.newsisfree.com/quiz/0,7476,349695,00.html\n[2] http://www.newsisfree.com/crossword/0,4406,180778,00.html\n[3] http://www.newsisfree.com/interactive/0,2759,192055,00.html\n[4] http://www.newsisfree.com/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html\n[5] http://www.newsisfree.com/weblog/0,6798,517233,00.html\n[6] http://www.newsisfree.com/Observer/crimedebate/story/0,12079,805631,00.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | " From the local paper this morning.\n\"Canadians eat about seven times as many doughnuts per capita\"... (as \nAmericans) . D'oh!\n\nOwen\n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85528777\nDate: Not supplied\n\nModern Living is a series of about 100 tiny Flash animations that use \nrecursions, gloomy music and simple interactivity to make inarticulate yet \ncompelling existentialist morality plays. This stuff is like Philip K Dick \nrendered as a series of five-second interactive animations. I've just killed an \nentire hour on this thing, and now I want to go watch a Pinter play. Link[1] \nDiscuss[2] (_Thanks, Rich[3]!_)\n\n[1] http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/ml.html\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/RCCGA7ixhETnc\n[3] http://www.imparte.com\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/06.html#business_card_design\nDate: 2002-10-06T23:28:00-05:00\n\n_Michael Barrish_: Poem[1]. “Here are the 15 most popular Oblivio search \nstrings since October 1. I consider it a poem.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://oblivio.com/road/02100601.shtml\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8616191,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe killer T cells of HIV patients who stay healthy for years replicate \nunusually rapidly, researchers discover - better treatments may result\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8622122,215/\nDate: 2002-10-07T03:52:54+01:00\n\n*Arts:* Medieval religious images salvaged from the destruction wrought during \nthe reign of Henry VIII reign and the civil war go on show in Leeds.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8613674,159/\nDate: 2002-10-06T18:12:46+01:00\n\nBack when 64KB was more memory than any computer would ever need, there was a \ntime when memory managers didn’t exist. But gradually, new computer systems \ncame out with larger amounts of memory and designers discovered ways to eat up \nRAM faster than any system could dish it out. This discussion is based on \nTiburon's experiences in writing and rewriting the memory manager for Madden \nNFL 97 to Madden NFL 2002.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8613665,159/\nDate: 2002-10-06T18:12:55+01:00\n\nIn the first of a two-part series of interviews from the GDC Europe, we talk \nwith Mark Cerny about game preproduction, Jonty Barnes about camera control, \nand Jason Kingsley about ratings and censorship.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85531557\nDate: Not supplied\n\nDisney's themepark business is in deep trouble in the post-9/11 world. A war \nwith Iraq could really kill 'em: \n\n While aggressively adding attractions, Disney boosted its profit by \n steadily raising admission prices. The strategy worked, helping deliver \n record profit for Disney year after year. \n\n \"The strategy was build, build, build. Every year there was something new,\" \n said David Koenig, a Disney historian and author. \"It was an astounding \n growth period.... Now they're overexposed.\"... \n\n Theme park operating income for Disney this year is expected to fall 27% to \n $1.16 billion, said Prudential Securities analyst Katherine Styponias. By \n 2003, she said, the business could climb to $1.49 billion, depending on \n whether the U.S. goes to war with Iraq. \n\nLink[1] Discuss[2]\n\n[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney6oct06,0,1287712.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness%2Dmanual\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/iewxPJy39cF7\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8613661,159/\nDate: 2002-10-06T18:12:59+01:00\n\nRendering polygons is not as easy as it used to be, the reason being the vast \namount of different rendering techniques, methods and algorithms available. Not \nonly is choosing the right ones a problem, even worse, all that are selected \nneed to work together. There are some algorithms which simply do not work \ntogether, and in that case, only one may be used whilt the other one needs to \nbe replaced witha more compatible method. This feature explores how Factor 5 \napproached the problem when developing Rogue Leader for Gamecube.\n\n\n" |