10.x.x.x was DEC's class A address block in the days before the great renaming.

"Never debug standing up" -- Gerald Weinberg

This new GUI-less server concept - Why didn't we think of this before? Now Linux will once again be playing catch-up with new Windows technology.

From the Amazon page for this cable: "NOTE: this cable don't support signal from VCR, COMPUTER or LAPTOP output."

Is a normal universe now infinitely improbable?

There's many drinks you'll drink, me lads, on every world that's new.
There's Saurian Brandy, Cranapple Schnapps, and a good old Tullamore Don't.
There's Busch and Beck and Bud and Bock and others dark and pale,
But I think you'll find the finest kind is Three-Oh-Seven Ale.

(chorus)
Three-Oh-Seven Ale, me lads, Three-Oh-Seven Ale,
The finest drink that any bar has ever had for sale,
It'll lay your whole damn world to waste, it'll make you fit and hale,
There's nothing that you'll ever taste like Three-Oh-Seven Ale, me lads,
Three-Oh-Seven Ale.

It started out at M.I.T. one lazy summer day,
When a couple of the frat-boy techies started in to play,
They'd caught up on their schedule with a couple hours to kill,
So they fitted up the cyclotron and made themselves a still.

(chorus)

They added choice ingredients to brew a little brew,
But they didn't know the wires were crossed in Chamber Number Two.
A tiny bit of space got folded, things were looking queer --
They turned the spout and then came out the world's first Hyper-Beer.

(chorus)

It bubbled and it burbled and it glowed a fizzly green,
And what it did to test equipment, frankly, was obscene.
It took awhile to find a vial it wouldn't burst to flame,
Then they measured out its potency, and that's how it was named.

(slower)
There's many drinks you'll drink, me lads, but this one beats them all:
One hundred fifty-three and one-half percent alcohol,
A beer, brewed in a tesseract, that'll shoot you through the roof --
And if you don't believe me, I've got lots and lots of proof.

(final chorus)
Three-Oh-Seven Ale, me lads, Three-Oh-Seven Ale,
The finest drink that any bar has ever had for sale,
It'll lay your whole damn world to waste, it'll make you fit and hale,
It sticks to your mouth like library paste,
With a stronger kick than toxic waste,
There's nothing that you'll ever taste
Like Three-Oh-Seven Ale!


(Words and Music: © 1989 by Tom Smith: http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/307_ale.htm)

.. if you're handy with tools and your money: This solution will require you to put your thorium vessel in a vacuum chamber: Cut the end off some old but still functional 4-400A power vacuum tubes (as would be used in a surplus tube amp from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway or an old AN/SQS-23 sonar system), and put a charge stripping plate (of heavy enough copper) biased to pull the charge off the electrons, at the business end. Glass-weld the tube and plate to a flange on the vacuum vessel. Fire up the cathode, put sufficient voltage on the plate, and you're streaming neutrons.

I just can't see non-institutionalized schizophrenics going for a treatment that requires them to 'let the authorities send signals to their brain'. Really.

The size of the sensor is going to have an impact on shutter speed. If you want to pull a little slit past a 200mm sensor, it's gonna take a lot longer than pulling it past an APS-C size sensor.

It's because small sensors have a much worse signal to noise ratio.

Yes, it's been done before. This is an incremental but important improvement.

I developed the drivers and application software for the US Navy's 3D Volumetric Display, at Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego around 1992. The system used acousto-optical devices (bragg cells) to steer a laser's beam at a two-bladed 13 inch diameter helix that rotated at 600 rpm, giving a 20Hz refresh rate. The display was limited to about 4400 voxels per image because of the time the cells required to stop vibrating at one freqency and start vibrating at another.

This new system projects frequently changing fully-formed images at the mirror, so has improved on the simple wire frame images we could render.

A nethack-style game where you conquered the _UNIVERSE_ _ITSELF_!!! (Sorry. I get excited when I think about it :^)

Actually, USPS loses money to UPS and FedEx because first, unlike the others, the USPS is required to go to _everybodys_ house _every_ day; And second, letters are the least cost effective per ounce, but are at the core of our reliance on USPS.

with an acorn in my mouth, at the top of a hill overlooking my ranch. Pray the acorn sprouts a mighty oak, and let it shade my grandchildren.