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A rambling mix of things that interest me (In no particuar order): Technology,Science,Art,Commerce (Much more than just the interchange of money. What exactly is money anyway?) Politics,Weight-Loss - Specifically Low-Carb, Spiritual Paths as Oppossed Organized Religion,Music,Celtic Music,Bluegrass,Cowboy Music,The latest book I am reading. (Usually Sci-Fi/Fantasy) The lastest book I am writing. (Same) Grail Lore,My latest travels & tips,WiFI access,Coffee,&Everything else...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/the-new-mozilla-recommended-add-ons-list-the-winners-and-the-losers/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127507-page,1/article.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Exercise-While-Sitting-at-Your-Computer
http://www.starwars.com/kids/activity/crafts/f20041027/index.html
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/pocket-pc/11-killer-freebies-for-your-pocket-pc-209413.php
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2006/10/19/mysql-tools.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6126742.html?tag=nefd.lede
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/10/dilberts_unifie.html
http://www.keepersoflists.org/index.php?lid=6094
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2166069/wikipedia-jumps-offline-onto
Stonehenge? No Problem... ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
Cisco's Triple Threat - data - tv - voip
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=103418
http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/301/Computers and Cat Litter/
http://www.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?guid=A257968B-1247-46B8-8EAE-DF41C02E9D90
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281426.html
http://zedomax.com/blog/category/diy/
http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/10/10/how-to-adobe-photoshop-cs2-on-ubuntu-10-steps/
http://www.physorg.com/news79715127.html
http://programming-designs.com/page/ebooks
http://www.geek24.com/g/the-best-geeky-license-plates
http://www.space.com/news/061007_bush_spacepolicy.html
I was perusing some comments about dubbing tapes to CD and...
I happened on their new site!
DAK Industries 2000 - What Happened to DAK 1?
http://www.dak.com/whathappened.htm
http://www.solutionwatch.com/515/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-2/
Like the guy on Digg said: BE CAREFUL... ;-)
http://www.instructables.com/id/EEA99AAUR3EP28744T/
http://nodalpoint.madfire.net/articles/2006/10/04/skype-for-linux-goes-public
http://www.reed.edu/~tuckers/jokes/foot.html
Someday, people will look back on this time and think, wow, our ancestors wanted to get into space SO BADLY, they strapped a giant BOMB on their rear-ends and rode it!
Were they CRAZY!?!
Here is one of several SANE ways:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10180-huge-launch-ring-to-fling-satellites-into-orbit.html
http://forums.programming-designs.com/viewtopic.php?pid=3354
http://wireless.itworld.com/4984/061003nokiawireless/page_1.html
http://search-desc.ebay.com/the_W0QQcatrefZC3QQfromZR2QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQftsZ2QQsbrsrtZd
http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/html/hawking/A_Brief_History_in_Time.html
http://freecomputerbooks.com/webAjaxBooksIndex.html
http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=234
Expire Date:Sep 6th, 2006
A little boy was in a relative's wedding.
After reading this list, two things come to mind:
1. On recent walks, My oldest friend and I were wondering whether Wal-Mart
was the new GM. Apparently not, but just barely... ;-)
2. Why do we care what most of the UN thinks as opposed to our corporations
who PAY their way in taxes, plus employ the rest of the tax-paying citizens?
BTW, do you suppose the subtracted the corporate incomes from the US GDP?
But here is the real question:
What is wrong with this list?
http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
Answer: At least the corporations actually provide goods and services to
earn their incomes...
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/Cmd.htm
Unix Commands
Acronym | Meaning |
---|---|
adb | Algol or absolute or assembly or advanced debugger (see here) |
ar | archiver |
as | assembler |
atob | ASCII to binary |
awk | Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (names of program authors) |
bash | Bourne again shell |
bc | better or basic calculator (in early Unix versions: B compiler) |
bsh | Bourne shell (name of program author) |
btoa | binary to ASCII |
c89 | 1989 (ANSI/ISO-)C compiler |
cal | calendar |
cat | concatenate |
cb | C beautifier |
cc | C compiler |
chgrp | change group |
chmod | change mode |
chown | change owner |
chsh | change shell |
ci | check in |
cmp | compare |
co | check out |
comm | common |
cp | copy |
cpio | copy (archive files) in and out (of an archive) |
cpp | C pre-processor |
cron | Chronos (greek god) |
csh | C shell (resembles the syntax of the C programming language) |
...d | daemon (e. g. inetd = internet daemon) |
dbx | extended debugger (?) or DBX (=extended decibel, noise reduction system; see here) |
dc | desk calculator |
dd | Optinion 1: Dataset Definition (named after the OS/3x0 JCL DD command who's syntax it also ripped off as a joke; see here) Opinion 2: Copy and convert (called dd because cc is the C compiler; see here) Opinions 3-n: data, device, disk, dump in various combinations |
df | disk free |
diff | difference |
diff3 | differences of three files |
dirname | directory name |
du | disk usage |
ed | editor |
egrep | extended grep |
elm | electronic mail |
emacs | editing macros Sometimes: Eight megabytes and constantly swapping or: Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift or: Emacs makes any computer slow |
eqn | equation |
eval | evaluate |
ex | extended editor (?) |
expr | expression |
fc | fix command |
fgrep | fixed-string grep |
fmt | format |
fsck | file system check |
ftio | fast tape input/output |
ftp | file transfer protocol |
fuser | file user |
g... | GNU |
getty | get tty |
grep | global regular expression print (from the ed subcommand g/RE/p where RE is a regular expression) |
id | identity |
imake | interface to make |
irc | internet relay chat |
jsh | job-control shell |
ksh | Korn shell (from David Korn, program author) |
ld | link editor or loader |
lex | lexical analyser |
lint | not an acronym (removes lint from programs) |
lharc | Lempl-Huffman archiver (algorithm authors) |
ln | link |
logname | log-in name |
lorder | library order |
lpc | line printer control |
lpd | line printer daemon |
lpq | line printer queue |
lpr | line print |
lprm | line printer remove (from queue) |
ls | list |
m4 | macro processor version 4 (successor of M3) |
man | manual |
mkfs | make file system |
mknod | make node |
mv | move |
mvdir | move directory |
mwm | Motif window manager |
nawk | new awk |
nl | number lines |
nm | names |
nn | no news |
nohup | no hang-up |
nroff | new roff |
oclock | O shaped clock (?) |
od | octal dump |
passwd | password |
pax | portable archive exchange |
pcc | portable C compiler |
pg | pager |
pgp | pretty good privacy |
pico | pine composer |
pine | first pine is nearly elm, later pine is no longer elm and finally program for Internet news and e-mail (see here) |
ping | not an acronym (named after the sound that a sonar makes, see here) |
povray | persistence of vision raytracer |
pr | prepare (for printing) |
prs | print revision summary |
prof | profiler |
ps | process status |
pwd | print work directory |
qdaemon | queue daemon |
r... | remote (e. g. rsh = remote shell) |
ranlib | (create) random access library |
rcp | remote copy |
rcs | revision control system |
rlogin | remote login |
rm | remove |
rmdel | remove delta |
rmail | restricted mail (see here) |
rmdir | remove directory |
rmt | remote magnetic tape |
rsh | remote shell or restricted shell (sometimes Rsh) |
roff | run-off (similar program) |
rz | receive Z-modem |
sar | system activity report |
sdb | symbolic debugger |
sed | stream editor |
sh | shell |
shar | shell archive |
stty | set tty |
su | superuser (see here) |
sync | synchronize |
sz | send Z-modem |
tar | tape archive(r) |
tbl | table |
tclsh | Tcl shell |
tcsh | Tenex C shell (see here) |
tee | T pipe fitting (plumbing device) |
telnet | terminal over network |
tex | tau epsilon chi (greek letters) |
tr | translate |
troff | typesetter roff |
tsh | trusted shell |
tsort | topological sort |
ttt | tic tac toe |
ulimit | user's limit |
uname | Unix name (?) |
uniq | unique |
uucp | Unix-to-Unix communication protocol |
vi | visual (from the ex subcommand vi that switches into visual mode) |
vim | vi improved (previously: vi imitation) |
wall | write all |
wc | word count |
wish | windowing shell |
...wm | window manager |
xargs | extended arguments |
xdm | X display manager |
xdpr | X dump print |
xfd | X font display |
xmkmf | X make makefile |
xrdb | X resource database |
xwd | X window dump |
xwud | X window un-dump |
yacc | yet another compiler compiler |
zip | Ziv packer (algorithm author) |