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The premise for the scifi series Odyssey 5 is that the Earth is destroyed by some mysterious force (maybe aliens) and the only surviving humans are the crew members of an orbiting space shuttle called Odyssey. We then follow the adventures of these five people as they are taken back in time by another mysterious alien on a mission to figure out what went wrong. An interesting premise which could have succeeded as a series if only everything else hadn't been so bad. In the first episode of the series we see Earth explode into a cloud of dust and debris, and the space shuttle just gets shaken about a bit (despite being in orbit only a few hundred kms above the ground). While the crew is frantically trying to figure out what the heck is happening around them, in one shot we see a crescent moon behind the shuttle ... even though Earth does not exist anymore as a solid object to partially block the sunlight from hitting the moon. Christopher Gorman (bottom left) who played the ...
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After the week from hell a New Year is just what the doctor ordered. I dont get to spend the Jewish Holidays with my family usually. In fact, I dont think that I have been with them for the last eight...
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I spend some of my online time at a Wiccan chat room (more specifically Moonlight Pagan Palace, using The Palace chat software, (see www.ThePalace.com). The owner and priestess of this particular server teaches various Wicca studies and occasionally I field...
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| 22:50:52 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: The Hearth |
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For what it's worth ... neither can I. But I know why. One of the very common devices in use these days is the broadband router. These boxes allow you to connect one or more computers to your high speed...
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| 22:44:28 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Ask Leo! |
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| 22:30:29 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: RAA |
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I know things have been pretty quiet around here as of late, but it's been busy. School is entering it's second full month here in a couple days, and that combined with work and a few side projects have severely restrained my free time (although it can be argued that...
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Back from the shadows again with a newly-restored T-Book. Over the past few weeks, the Mac has slowed down on reboot, 'til I made the mistake of saying yes to an OS upgrade download. Down is the operative word, as my machine just said no on reboot. Fade to black.... 6 days later and $300 lighter, I have my Big Mac back. I could have slid back to an older Powerbook, or booted an old ThinkPad, but instead I lived on my Blackberry, cell phone, and occasional glances at Scripting News, Doc, Udell, brother Dan, and Scoble. Email newsletter briefs kept me caught up with the trades. The break gave me a good chance to ponder the rhythm of the absent RSS and iSight/iChat feeds. No big surprises -- a road trip or a conference week produces much the same effect. But I did learn some important backup lessons -- my Safari bookmarks and my NetNewsWire OPML list were not protected. One was ignorance -- I still don't know where Safari's bookmarks data is stored. The OPML file doesn't appear to ...
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A few of the people who have e-mailed me about SystemServices have queried me about the existence of runlevels in SystemServices. I should clarify that runlevels are just services, and are only present as a way of providing a bridge between traditional "init" systems and SystemServices. SystemServices will have no inherent concept of runlevels. In the long term it might provide some sort of profile support so you could create a profile called "single_user" or something... but I might even axe that (old sk00l sysadmins may flame me now).
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| 21:03:00 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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A few of the people who have e-mailed me about SystemServices have queried me about the existence of runlevels in SystemServices. I should clarify that runlevels are just services, and are only present as a way of providing a bridge between traditional "init" systems and SystemServices. SystemServices will have no inherent concept of runlevels. In the long term it might provide some sort of profile support so you could create a profile called "single_user" or something... but I might even axe that (old sk00l sysadmins may flame me now).
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| 21:03:00 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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ASFileFinder excels at the frequent task of searching for a file by its name. It is just over 75KB in size, and runs as a standalone executable -- no DLLs, not even an installation routine. When you run it, it asks you to choose a drive, and then does a quick survey of all the files on that drive. The process takes no more than a few seconds, and then it is ready to search. You then start to type in letters, and it displays the file names which match the entry. If you are looking for "The Year of Living Dangerously", type in "liv" and only those file names containing that string are displayed. (If you have used PowerMarks, you know the power of this simple search technique.) Type in a second entry to narrow it further. Type "liv", then a space, then "dan" and it is likely that only the one desired file will display. Double-click on the file name to open it. Very simple, and much faster than Windows' search tool, particularly if you need to do several different searches of a single ...
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成功的秘訣 渤海口有一隻小魚， 他下定決心要一路游到山頂於是他逆向而行， 這隻小魚泳技精湛，一會兒衝過淺灘，一會兒劃過激流 穿過了層層漁網，躲過水鳥的追蹤 好不容易，他游到了山頂，可他還來不及喘口氣呢 剎那間，被凍成了冰 一萬年後，一群登山隊員在山頂上的冰封中發現了他 立刻有人認出了這是產於渤海口的魚 一位年輕人讚道： 真是一隻勇敢的魚啊！ 穿越千川萬水來到一個截然不同的環境，了不起 一位老者卻說： 不！他只有偉大的精神，卻沒有偉大的方向， 所以只換來死亡」 成功，除了「努力」以外，更需要「方向」 很多人會選擇不斷地換跑道、換環境、換工作 或是拼命地勞碌奔波，有時不妨暫時放慢腳步，想一想： 這條路真的是我「想」走的嗎？真的是我「該」走的嗎？ 真的是我「適合」走的嗎？ 如果走錯，甚 至走反了方向，不但到不了目的地 反而會離您的理想與抱負越來越遠！甚至一敗塗地 在這個腳步急促的時代... 期待您我都是一個忙而不「茫」， 忙而不「盲」的現代人...
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Good for Austin! It passed a resolution opposing the USA Patriot Act: via Austin IndyMedia Center...
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罵人看來是件容易的事。但罵人之道，要有修養、有學問。有哲學、有藝 術……罵人要罵得典雅，有風度、有幽默。 如果張開血盆大口，赤裸裸開門見山，什麼祖宗八代、豬狗牛羊、死鬼殺 千刀，如是等而下之亂搞兩性關係，這是潑婦式罵街，不必深談。 再者，如罵人罵得不痛不痒，不即不離，口中喃喃而不知所云，被罵者一 頭霧水。這是黃口小兒念經式，亦謂之不人流也。 故罵人之道，最忌生吞活剝，心浮氣躁，罵得人七竅生煙，斬得人刀痕累 累，雖是痛快，但總談不上藝術。故罵人之道，最似武家功夫，功夫深 淺，可分之以“十段”，試論如下：...
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A short essay by Dave Winer on music piracy: It's not really piracy "As long as the music industry labels all use of music on the Internet as piracy, and as long as publications like the NY Times go along...
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I love to bash microsoft myself, but this time I'll let Philip Greenspun: Let's Bash Microsoft Today...
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Umm, this is probably going to make me sound a bit morbid, but I'll write about it anyway. From time...
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當[女友1.0版] 升級成[妻子1.0版] 之後...... 超級爆笑 ~ ^^ 某使用者詢問： 去年，我把[女友1.0版] 升級成[妻子1.0版] ，我注意到新的程式開始出現意料外的狀況， 如小孩製造過程佔用了相當多的空間和資源，產品手冊當中並未提及這種現象。 此外，[妻子1.0版] 會把自己裝置到其他的應用程式當中，並且當其他系統起用的時候會自行啟動，監視其他系統所進行的所有活動。 諸如[撲克牌之夜1.3] 和[猛灌啤酒2.5] 之類的應用軟體已經無法執行，所有相關系統都被摧毀。...
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ok. ok. OK! enough already! so i haven't blogged in months... been too caught up in watching the second season of 24. DVD is the only way to go for watching this series. so where else does an hour last...
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Hey All...After being frustrated with pre-redsky CFMX, I reverted back to CF 5 about 6 months ago. Well, I'm ready to take the plunge and give it another try. Lots of clients are anxious to get their apps working with MX. Anyway, I have a few issues I need to work through, and maybe you...
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las novelas de milán kundera resisten compendio y síntesis. historias y voces polifónicas se desplazan en un espacio de variaciones, espacio que no puede ser recontado fácilmente, que resiste aproximaciones aún cuando intercala una afinidad impresionante, sentimental e intelectual,...
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| 19:29:08 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: entreacto |
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Irasshai and welcome. After much mulling over a new name for my San Francisco based blog, I have chosen www.kokochi.com. Thanks for the many suggestions. I really liked them, but I also wanted a Japanese title since the Tokyo one...
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| 19:17:06 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Tokyo Tidbits |
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a recent post I saw on comp.databases.oracle.server .... From: Billy Verreynne > Can someone tell me what's fast way to...
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(Today we rolled out an application to production. While not entirely remarkable in itself, it was quite an achievement. What should have been a trivial rollout (it only has one page) turned out to ..)
Today we rolled out an application to production. While not entirely remarkable in itself, it was quite an achievement. What should have been a trivial rollout (it only has one page) turned out to be a day long debugging session. This application was written primarily by our most senior developer (in terms of length of time programming and pay grade) using Microsoft ASP.NET. While the application seems to perform the business functionality required, it does not do it in a robust way. What I mean is that there was not way for us to diagnose any issues once the application was deployed to production. While this may seem obvious to many; it is simply not something most developers I work with even consider. Even someone with as much experience as the individual I am referring to. The solution to this problem is to first educate and/or mentor the programmers to understand that business features are not the only features which need to be built into an application. Then we need to give ...
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Mark: you were right. I did it bit by bit and it turned out one of my NICs was totally fried and caused the system to not start at all. I had unplugged everything else, but never bothered with PCI cards. Computer now chugging away happily :-)
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| 18:39:00 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Added a photos section to my site
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Listening to 80s music today. Started with a sugar-coated dose of A-Ha (accidentally left "Take on me" on repeat for 30 minutes, it will be stuck in my head for millenia to come). Moved right along to an hour of the incredible Ultravox. I want to be a machine. Then somehow my player landed on Queen's 1980 album "The Game". I finally figured out that it was going to be an 80s day and acquiesed. So now I have a playlist for the rest of the day including some old U2, 80s David Bowie, etc. I will end with a stunning indictment of the period: I have noticed that most of the best albums that are strictly speaking "from the 80s" were released either at very the end or in 1980/81. In other news, reshaped SystemServices around the futile, idealistic goal of having daemons contribute the services instead of silly little shell script wrappers in the future. Ever poked through RH's /etc/init.d/ scripts? Its absurd... they do so much stuff in there that should be included in the bloomin' C ...
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| 18:10:00 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Listening to 80s music today. Started with a sugar-coated dose of A-Ha (accidentally left "Take on me" on repeat for 30 minutes, it will be stuck in my head for millenia to come). Moved right along to an hour of the incredible Ultravox. I want to be a machine. Then somehow my player landed on Queen's 1980 album "The Game". I finally figured out that it was going to be an 80s day and acquiesed. So now I have a playlist for the rest of the day including some old U2, 80s David Bowie, etc. I will end with a stunning indictment of the period: I have noticed that most of the best albums that are strictly speaking "from the 80s" were released either at very the end or in 1980/81. In other news, reshaped SystemServices around the futile, idealistic goal of having daemons contribute the services instead of silly little shell script wrappers in the future. Ever poked through RH's /etc/init.d/ scripts? Its absurd... they do so much stuff in there that should be included in the bloomin' C ...
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| 18:10:00 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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when the cat is gone away. Hubbys!!! Aw well, I guess it could have been worse. This past weekend was the passing of an era. From now, nothing will be the same for my younger brother. Why you ask? Because he married his sweetheart and became a father to her...
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Checking in with Nico Lumma of noch'n blogg and a fellow survivor of the Blogtalk conference. A few items: He and his wife have their first baby. Congratulations! Thinking about what blogging's official theme song should be recognize that blogging ring tone stop a blogger on the street to play at awards ceremonies Nominees: Abba, just because they capture the spirit so well Johnny Cash, whose death was widely blogged No fleetwood mac The Greatful Dead, but hard to blog to The new rage in Germany: Karaoke Blogging. The site, Karaokeblogging.de, has been climbing the blogg.de and blogcensus charts in the last month. Building on the richness and immediacy of audioblogging, karaoke blogging is a higher form of social software (unless you don't like karaoke). The first time I heard a fully karaoked blog, I was blown away by the sonified experience. Update: Now in English at Karaokeblogging.com. I'm a fan of 1-click karaoke blogging, great usability. But they should not file for a ...
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Johnny Cash. John Ritter. Robert Palmer. Edward Said. Death is visible these days. And but from it comes something else. Hard to say what. Always different. Different people. Different kinds of death. Literal. Metaphorical. Body. Ego. O my bright and risen many, I disappear tomorrow from my usual context and reside <a href="http://www.lacasademaria.org/">among</a> the ghosts of Jesuits for four days, for Monday is my first day of school, for the seemingly uncountably nth time. Much excitement accompanies this. But I believe I shall leave the box at home. So you shall read nowt from me here for a few days (until Wednesday). Then the flood.
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| 17:02:11 September 27, 2003, Saturday (PDT) |
Source: Bluvox |
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