The collected works of hamei - Page 12

Plus it's free ! Can't beat that ... <aol mode> me, too !</aol mode>

Hate to say this 'cuz AJ did such a nice job but ... this one is very Irixxy. It'd be cute ... Maybe swap out to the nekochan "n" tho, similar to the banner topside ?

In China, OpenDNS is pretty popular. It's currently maybe 30% faster than Google plus it's not google, if you know what I mean

I believe the official stance of nekochan on p2p is you two can have sex all you want but not in this house, please.

it's easier to avoid trouble upfront rather than fight it later. Mr Neko justifiably would rather not have to spend time hassling with the smarmy legal system.

Can I cross-link this to the "you guys are so mean and rude to the glorious Linux Community" thread ?

"Don't know anything else" wouldn't be so bad. It's the don't know and don't care part that is somewhat annoying. Monoculture monoculture monoculture, crap

That's just a hop, skip, and a short ride in a Mitsubishi away from me ! Why don't you zoom on over for a visit ?

Yes. I am surprised at how fast Piranha runs.

I'd be happy with a double-sized iTouch - that'd be just enough for basic communication when I'm in the middle of nowhere - but I doubt that they want to do that.

Are you sure the memcontrol is bad ? I had a bank get disabled during some fiasco a while back (death of a power supply iirc) And an < enableall > brought them back.

Would hate to screw up your uptime rating tho

I dunno, neko .... the colors on the front page seem to be a bit off now. Maybe you need to adjust the gamma on that Atom ?

Did someone on here say the magic word "Tibet" or something ? I can get the ip but can't even run a traceroute to nekochan thru china telecom. Nekochan blocked ? Those idiots

China needs google more than google needs China. This ought to get interesting.

And it ought to be a (another) warning to all foreign companies that the long-term goal of China is to take the foreigners' money then kick them out. Having a large business here is kind of stupid.

Btw, just in case we hear the "google can't compete, they don't localize, don't understand the market" Wall Street Journal garbage, google is far better than Baidu. China Telecom is like AT&T used to be, a monopoly. Except the government owns China Telecom and they have absolutely no scruples. We have no laws here, just regulations. So China Telecom will poison the dns, redirect people who want to go to google to Baidu, make using Google a miserable experience (in Steve Ballmer's immortal words.)

Recently if I do a google images search for "crescent wrench" 80% of the returns are blocked. Politically sensitive my ass. Either the people at the Great Firewall are morons (quite possible) or they are purposely making google a miserable experience.

It's not political, you can forget "human rights" and Ribbet and failing gongs and all that garbage. Has nothing to do with that and the do-gooders wailing about the evil commies are merely useful idiots. It's money, pure and simple. They make Mickeysoft look like sophomores.

No, was that way for three days. Got the stonewall act from China Telecom, suddenly tonight it works again. World power, ya know ? Acting like a bunch of six year olds.

Don't mess up anything for me. I have to use that laptop about twice a year, no big deal and definitely not worth inconveniencing anyone else.

Google is leaving China. Closing their office, giving everyone six months salary and closing the doors.

It's not about "human rights" and censorship, either.

Edit : there's a strong rumour that the actual cause of the google departure is that they were compromised by three individuals. One of their employees here in Shanghai accessed source code he had no reason to be looking at then disappeared. Rumors are swirling about the National Security Ministry, million rmb payouts, and other interesting stuff.

Let's see what happens next

Hey buddy ... you be dissin' my fave program ? hunh ? watchoo say about pro/e ?

Just saw Star Wreck : In the Pirkinning ... graphics were good, wonder what they used ?

Blocked in China. These people have gone insane. They think they are going to be a world power - yeah right. With six year olds running the country.

It is neat, but it also makes me a little uncomfortable. For years we've been assaulted with the megaherz mania : if your computer had a lowly 2 ghz cpu you might as well go live under the bridge. SGI failed in part because their cpu's couldn't keep up.

Now we're all excited about running servers on an Atom ? I agree, it is cool, but why did SGI have to go tits-up then ?

Blocked. "Connection reset by peer." Great Firewall. Idiots.

I hate Cisco.

Oh sure. But they were a hell of a lot closer than they were by going Itanic. In fact I remember Alex Cousein going on at great length about power and heat efficiency. We were all being force-fed "gotta upgrade to 2 ghz ! 3 ghz ! 4 ghz !" when what people actually needed was small, cool, quiet, low power. And that's where MIPS was a winner.

I can't help but think that more foresight on management's part would have found this niche years ago. Intel didn't want to do this - they like selling the big $$ products. This is something driven by real demand, just like the netbooks. We're back to the dead horse but this move to Atoms ? It's neat. And it's exactly what Alex Cousein was pushing in 1998. This could have been MIPS.

Anyone know what heppened to him, btw ? Pretty nice guy.

Don't be cheating the cow, we've got another three weeks left !

Found this today :

I might just ditch Skencil since it never worked very well anyhow, crashed all the time and hasn't been updated for several years ... it was a nice idea tho.

Rip, you've been doin' the Time Warp again This is what's up now (even spiffier) :

Oh no ! Stale CSS ... I'm so ashamed

I kinda liked the double vision effect, actually. Reminded me of free concerts in the park

Updated glib, fontconfig, cairo, pixman and pango about two days ago. So far no ill effects.

One incongruency : just noticed that glib is labelled as 2.22.4 but shows up in < versions > as 2.22.2

Should have been easy but looks like it will take someone with at least a bit of knowledge ? There appears to be a problem involving


causes this ?


I did learn about František Rint because of this, tho. Wow. Frapazoid, you've gotta take a trip !

Thanks ! But okay, the -l adds the library to the linker but where do you get the "m" as an argument ?

By the way, it works pretty neat.

There's a new HP-48 emulator version in /beta -- seems to work fine. Just tried some simple math with it but installs fine, runs fine, doesn't crash. (Izzat you, canavan ? Thanks ! Even if it's not canavan, thanks )

Is there an HP-41 emulator of equal quality ?

none of the other upgrades I tried have caused any obvious problems, either. Been a couple weeks now ?

Yeah, they are happy to change the janitors about as often as they change underwear. But the dumbasses are perfectly happy to build essential business processes around a crappy closed-source Microsoft product.

The janitors are looking smarter every day, Sky

He has a point, Sky. Or did you guys tar and feather Rush Lamebrain when I wasn't looking ?


Oh damn. Now look what you made me do ! Google hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, you know.

Look at the photos ... I could have sworn it was China.

http://www.taringa.net/posts/salud-bien ... rana_.html

Do you understand yet why costs in third world countries are cheaper ? Does it make sense to contribute to this shit ? When are the managers going to figure out that the swill we've been fed for the past thirty years by managers was just some lunatic Viagra-overdose fantasy ?

By the way, why did a search for "garbage" come up with this ? Any idea ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

Has it been unusually warm there, tho ? Usually at Spring Festival I have to wear three layers and mittens to go outside, this year I might wear a sweater. Or less. And the ice sculptures are all melting at the Ice Festival in Harbin. It's usually about -10* C there this time of year.

Ever since Enron took California for a long walk off a short pier, electricity has been abnormally expensive there.

What was it I didn't understand about business again, bri3d ?

Heh heh. How many do you want ?