Live from a Sunspot 20
In this week's episode, we talk about tanning, the Microsoft trial, and many things we probably shouldn't. Many thanks to TheSync for hosting this for us. Also, if everything goes well, we should be broadcasting next week from COMDEX, which should be interesting, to say the least.
BG Noise (Score:1)
I hope I take first post from some luser.
You guys rock! (Score:1)
as requested: spaming /. (Score:1)
Subject: [Fwd: Is this for real?]
Some junk mail with a potential difference!
Circulated by a colleague in ECM. IS THIS FOR REAL? I hope so I am
sending this because the person who sent it to me is a very professional
business person and a good friend and does not send me junk mail.
Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet company and in an effort
make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program,
Microsoft and AOLare running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this
e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a
Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person
that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00, for
every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will
pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be
paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your
address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself,
but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft
contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a check for
$24,800.00.
You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can
afford this Bill Gates is the man. It's all marketing expense to him.
And here is a simple anti chain-letter chain-letter that can be used to stop, go figure, chain-letters:
Subject: This is for real! Do it now!
Send this message to everyone you know and you won't recieve any more chain letters.
favorite spam (Score:1)
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So which is it? (Score:2)
Or is he a Muppet?
Or is he both?
In reguards to alter egos, I think BaronCarlos has enough of them to keep his dysfunctional mind occupied for the rest of the millenium.
Great Show guys, keep it up.
Perhaps in next week's show you could use the background noise in MST3K format and really go.
Hemos: Joel
CmdrTaco: Crow
CowboyNeal: Tom Servo
T'would be great laughs.
*Carlos: Exit Stage Right*
"Geeks, Where would you be without them?"
Boy, all this talk about stock... (Score:1)
favorite spam: "try not to do anything and make lots of money!"
-Monaco
Magical poll results. (Score:1)
First I thought all the Geeks in Space listeners had voted for him as instructed. Then I noticed that the percentages didn't quite look right. After some adding, my conclusion: someone decided CowboyNeal needed a little "help" and donated 8000 extra votes that aren't counted in the total.
Isn't this going a little far to become a muppet? ;-)
Great episode, couple of comments and items (Score:1)
Also, Rob seems to speak louder at some times, as if he leans towards the microphone.
The music is nice.
My favourite spam: Microsofts Y2k email. I don't USE MS products! I don't care.
The others is cheap US interstate call rates. I live in New Zealand, we don't even have states.
I agree with others in previous comments sections, having you read out some comments/emails and commenting on them would be nice, answer the question, or make fun of it *grin*.
Hmm, come to think of it, slashdot the US Postal system, offer to answer a FEW questions sent in via snail mail. That'd work, till the US Postal system gets slashdoted, and then refuses to deliver your mail, and you don't get your CDs you order
Coupon Value (Score:1)
Favorite Spam (Score:1)
I almost thought about buying a degree for the hell of it.
ChiefArcher
Spam (Score:1)
I dunno, the spam from people selling e-mail address lists on CD always get me... :)
Funny as usual... keep it up!
How do you lose an episode? (Score:2)
Re: lost episodes
First, don't take this the wrong way, but I have to wonder, how do you manage to lose episodes? I can see screwing up on any of the various post-processing stages, especially with all the "new-fangled equipment", but I would think that you wouldn't delete the copy from each earlier stage, at least until you've verified the next one. Is the problem that they haven't been getting recorded in the first place? How hard is it to press "Record" at the beginning, whatever "new-fangled equipment" you're using?
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[1] Each time I get this, it has different numeric codes in these places. Maybe these are just attempts to fool spam-filters, but just in case it's some kind of tracking thing, I'm deleting them.
I also started saving spam a while back, and I have two copies of the above. I also have about half a dozen of the "Bullseye Gold Marketing" one on my home machine, which I would have posted but I don't have it here on my 'Book.
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Re: Wolfenstein
A few months ago, a friend and I were bored enough to pull up the old version of Wolfenstein 3D on my G3. Even with the speed governor on, it was just too fast. It was playable, but it felt weird -- it was almost too smooth! As he pointed out, though, the old games are a lot of fun, and not just for nostalgia: Since they didn't have all the extraneous detail of the newer games, it is like "main-lining" pure action. With the speed governor off, of course, it was just insane. Like you said, 150 frames per second. The problem is, I guess it treats each frame as a constant interval of game time, instead of rendering more intermediate states. As a result, the brown guys' pistol sounded like a chaingun, and it was impossible to maneuver, since tapping the turn key made you do at least a full circle and tapping forward bumped you into a wall instantly.
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Re: distributed computing projects
I, too, am sticking with my RC5-64 until it is finished. After that, I was considering SETI@Home, and maybe I'll do it if the problem you mentioned (more processors than data available) changes, but more likely I'll switch to the OGR (Optimal Golomb Ruler) project, since that one is actually doing something useful -- I don't know all the math, but Golomb Rulers have lots of practical applications, and finding optimal ones is incredibly compute-intensive, so this project could actually contribute useful results to various scientific fields.
As for putting your laptop in "suspend", I leave mine on around the clock. But then, maybe yours has one of those overheating Intel chips. I try to put my 'Book on something that'll dissipate heat reasonably well, but as long as I do that, it's cool.
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Re: muppets
I already voted for CowboyNeal the day the poll went up. You wouldn't want me to cheat and vote again (though I'm on a dynamic IP, so I could), would you? Basically, this was one of the few times that I've just had to go with the fake answer, because I just couldn't make myself care enough about the actual question.
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Re: music
What is that?! Please, just stick with the GiS:SR theme from the first fifteen seconds.
David Gould
clever spam (Score:1)
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Message-ID:
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 21:43:12 -0800
From: mona@usa.net
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: sagi@usa.net
Subject: whatz up!
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1143
Lines: 25
hi Sagi!
Howz going honey...I just came from school.I know you must be angry as I
was'nt home when you called...Acually I had to go with my cousin she
just came from london to visit us here.
Don't worry this time I will call you this weekend.I had also an e-mail
from Alex. As I said in our last talk that I will find out from where he
is getting money without doing any thing.First he hasitate then At Last
I found out.May be you also know about it...have you ever heard about
surfing to cash or desktop dollar?.Any way he told me that he has found
a great site from a guy, I forgot his name...any way he told that the
site contains different company names who pays money to everyone just
for surfing the internet on per hour basis. I have'nt check that site so
cant say anything now but I will check it tommorow.If you wanna check
yourself then here is address:
http://members.tripod.com/~online-cash/
Tell me if you find out something. One more thing dont go anywhere on
the comming weekend I will call you around 10pm. Its 3am at the moment
and i have'nt had my lunch yet. So before mom yell at me I have to
go....take care.
bye bye.
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Re:I LIKE TURNING TEENAGE GIRLS TO STONE (Score:1)
Re:I LIKE TURNING TEENAGE GIRLS TO STONE (Score:1)
I almost felt the need to moderate up "Richard Stallman, wearing green lipstick and pantyhose, reclining on you coffee table."
Almost.
Re:I LIKE TURNING TEENAGE GIRLS TO STONE (Score:1)
Obviously, there's an inside joke that I haven't heard yet.
Re:How do you lose an episode? (Score:1)
But if you code in single tasking type style [and many of us still do] you have to keep everything in ram while recording and that eats megs of memory really quickly.
What I've found is the software recording tools you have a choice pick from good programming where stuff gets saved while recording with out screwing everything up or something that makes decent recordings. It seems audiophiles aren't great programmers and visa versa.
So there it is. Someone makes a small mistake and you lose EVERYTHING in ram the program crashes, Linux shuts it down and cleans everything up and you get to start all over.
THAT is at least one way you can lose an eppisode.
I did my own little rant thing on RealAudio for a while and I lost a lot of eppisodes but it didn't matter becouse no one ever lissend.
But when you can get it right it's kinda cool.
Now that they are using profesional equipment instead of what they did before we can hope there are no more lost eppisodes..... wops the dat recorder just GPFed... what do you mean it runs Windows CE?
Geeks in Space from Comdex? (Score:1)
Geeks In Space haunting the office (Score:1)
Someone overheard it and was like "someone is haunting the office?"
So now Slashdot haunts us...
Yeah rah!!!!
Update? (Score:1)
The Poter IPO and
The Krel invasion force..
The Aibos, Lego Mindstorms, Furbes, whatever... Programmed to take over the world...
Hostile takeover of Microsoft...
Rivised vision statments for Poter and Commander Taco as the new year comes.. we have to get those new vision statments in... wow are those like new years resilutions? And theres a race to see who can ignore there visionstatment the fastest
Oh yes amd one last thing......
The fish is in the closet....