23 years Ago

Columbine Families Sue Randomly

Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics

Windows 98 vs. Windows 2000

Published by marco on in Technology

This is a comparison of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with the GeForce2 GTS (slowest one) and Radeon (both 64MB cards). They tested 8 different games with different engines, including Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 and Serious Sam. Surprise, surprise, Quake and Serious Sam showed 0% change between platforms.
Looks like you can move safely over if you like….

Here’s the main chart:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=12

and the whole review:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=1... [More]

Polls available

Published by marco on in earthli.com

Added the first earthli poll.

DMCA takes over the world

Published by marco on in Technology

A (biased) description of a recent meeting of the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and
Foreign Judgments, discussing globalizing copyright laws.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/15/2138208&mode=nocomment

Mel − The Story of a Real Programmer

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Christmas 2000 Photo Album

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Added Christmas 2000 pictures to the photo album.

Suck takes on the music industry

Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics

A look at what ‘big media’ is trying to get away with these days…
http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/11/

Grizz vs. dur

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Grizz vs. dur quake battle.

Mark III Complete

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Mark III ready for delivery.

Mark II Delivered

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Quake Battle Added

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New Quake battle

New Server

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earthli moves to a dedicated server and gets mail service.

New Logos

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Updated logos for earthli.

SDMI − copyrighted music

Published by marco on in Technology

SDMI is the secure digital music initiative. They issued a challenge last year to any comers to crack their protection. Anyone who agreed to enter the contest was bound to secrecy, though and not allowed to reveal any details of how they cracked it, if indeed they could. Once group from Princeton declined because of this proviso and cracked it anyway. Turns out they can now be prosecuted under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which purports to disallow reverse-engineering of software... [More]

Quake III Battles added

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Battle statistics added to quake site.

Test Engine Build History

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Logicat Test Engine build history transferred to earthli.

The Golf Game

Published by marco on in Fun

Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods are in a bar. Woods turns to Wonder and says, “How’s the singing career going?”

Stevie Wonder replies, ”Not too bad. How’s the golf?”

Woods replies, “Not too bad, I’ve had some problems with my swing, but I think I’ve got that right now.”

Stevie says, “I always find that when my swing goes wrong, I need to stop playing for a while and not think about it. Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right.”

Tiger says, “You play golf?”

Wonder says, “Oh,... [More]

Pop or Soda?

Published by marco on in Miscellaneous

Here’s a web site that lets you see who says pop and who says soda. This is only of interest if you have ever left your hometown and you’ve ordered a ‘soda’ only to get soda water.

You can even participate.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Stupid people deserve bags of money

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Seanbaby takes on the world while defending Jackass (MTV):

http://www.seanbaby.com/news/jackass.htm

Hainan Island (Bush Daily Journal)

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This is George Bush’s daily journal as recorded by SatireWire. The note for April 9, 2001 is really nice:

http://www.satirewire.com/weblog/bushblog.shtml

China/U.S. Standoff

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Mark I shipped

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earthli systems offers the Mark I.

Home of the Blame

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Another Presidential Joke

Published by marco on in Fun

George Bush was invited to a get acquainted tour of the White House.

After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom. He was astonished to see that the
President had a solid gold urinal.

That afternoon, George told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. “Just think,” he said,“ when I am President, I’ll get to have a gold urinal!”

Later, when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told  Hillary how impressed... [More]

More kids kill themselves than other kids

Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics

This is an interesting article focussing child suicide rates and why they are ignored in favor of reporting child murder rates.

Another pick-me-up article:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/2½018208&mode=nocomment

New Look

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A new look for earthli.

Bushonics

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The growing trend of speaking like the president.

Badass Hacker

Published by marco on in Technology

This guy forged identities of most of the richest people on the Forbes 400. He almost got away with it too…

read on…

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/26868.htm

More on Windows XP Product Activation

Published by marco on in Technology

Apparently, the Beta testers are somewhat upset about it already. There’s a good alternative suggestion culled from the newsgroups, and an all-too-real and all-too-expected reason why it probably won’t get done.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17742.html