IBM workers start trade union
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- http://www.theregister.co.uk/990817-06.html Rich "All exercise of authority corrupts - All submission to authority degrades." (Bakunin) e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +44 (0) 117 914 6217 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Quickdot invitation from martian bard
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- martian bard would like to establish a Quickdot connection with you. martian has created one end of the connection and is waiting for you to activate your end. Quickdot is an innovative, Web-based communication shortcut. Through your Personal Communication Portal, you keep in touch with friends, family, and co-workers that you communicate with frequently. You get a virtual message board connecting you and each of your buddies. Whatever you type on your dotboard will be posted on your buddy's and vice versa. It's free, it's quick, and it's available wherever you are, through the Internet. martian already has a free Quickdot account. As soon as you sign up for your free account, Quickdot connects the dot between you and martian. To activate your Quickdot connection with martian bard, just go to this URL and follow the brief instructions on the screen: http://quickdot.com/register.asp?Name=martian%20bard[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Quickdot invitation from hondinia motorbike
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- hondinia motorbike would like to establish a Quickdot connection with you. hondinia has created one end of the connection and is waiting for you to activate your end. Quickdot is an innovative, Web-based communication shortcut. Through your Personal Communication Portal, you keep in touch with friends, family, and co-workers that you communicate with frequently. You get a virtual message board connecting you and each of your buddies. Whatever you type on your dotboard will be posted on your buddy's and vice versa. It's free, it's quick, and it's available wherever you are, through the Internet. hondinia already has a free Quickdot account. As soon as you sign up for your free account, Quickdot connects the dot between you and hondinia. To activate your Quickdot connection with hondinia motorbike, just go to this URL and follow the brief instructions on the screen: http://quickdot.com/register.asp?Name=hondinia%20motorbike[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
RE: Quickdot invitation from martian bard
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Or you could use this: http://messenger.msn.com its quite a laugh. Paul Brownsmith - Content Developer - Dell EMEA Online -Original Message- From: Martin Cosgrave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:14 AM To: multiple recipients of Subject: Re: Quickdot invitation from martian bard --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Bah This is rubbish, I was just checking it out. I wouldn't bother with it if I was you. Didn't expect it to do /that/ though... If you want to chat to ppl, IRC or ICQ chat is /far superior/ martian On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, martian bard at Quickdot wrote: --- F R E N D Z of martian --- martian bard would like to establish a Quickdot connection with you. martian has created one end of the connection and is waiting for you to activate your end. Quickdot is an innovative, Web-based communication shortcut. Through your Personal Communication Portal, you keep in touch with friends, family, and co-workers that you communicate with frequently. You get a virtual message board connecting you and each of your buddies. Whatever you type on your dotboard will be posted on your buddy's and vice versa. It's free, it's quick, and it's available wherever you are, through the Internet. martian already has a free Quickdot account. As soon as you sign up for your free account, Quickdot connects the dot between you and martian. To activate your Quickdot connection with martian bard, just go to this URL and follow the brief instructions on the screen: http://quickdot.com/register.asp?Name=martian%20bardRefEmail=martian@marsba rd.com -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fwd: GeeK: spy vs. spy
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hmm, the FBI read MAD magazine then... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: GeeK: spy vs. spy Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:36:43 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:57:41 -0400 From: Frederick Burroughs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cpunks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spy Vs. Spy VERY interesting story on how the FBI contains and compartmentalizes classified investigative information and techniques. One black team, one white team, stolen right out of MAD magazine: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/dirty16.htm --- End of Forwarded Message -- Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
How to make babelfish work better
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- By default, babelfish is annoying, forcing you to see their intermediate form and not allowing an automatic display of the page. (IMHO they should tack an ad on the translated page and allow it.) Anyway, it's possible to spoof it. You need the following variables: urltext: either a URL or a text string. lp: a "language pair" - one of 'en_fr', 'en_de', 'en_it', 'en_pt' or 'en_es' for translation from english to french, german, italian, portuguese or spanish. Alternatively you can go from any of those back to english. I don't think you can do (eg) spanish to french but I haven't tried it yet. doit: should have the value 'done' So to see the Kebele site at marsbard in french, the following should work: http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?urltext=http://marsbard.com/live/kebeleTable.php3lp=en_frdoit=done although that URL will probably wrap... I'm going to use that trick on the W4U site... martian -- Linux. May the source be with you. The World Wide Web Workers' Union - http://w4u.dhs.org/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: Startrek - What if Lt Data ran on Windows 95?
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- This made me laugh Blue -Original Message- From: Woody woody@ To: Blue :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 August 1999 00:53 Subject: Startrek - What if Lt Data ran on Windows 95? What if Lieutenant Data ran on Windows 95? WORF: "Captain, three Romulan 'warbird' class battlecruisers decloaking dead ahead." PICARD: "On screen." [The main viewing screen changes to a pattern of horizontal lines, each only a single pixel wide.] PICARD: "Data, what's wrong here?" DATA: "Captain, the main view-screen does not have sufficient video memory to display an image of this size. May I suggest that you select a lower resolution?" PICARD: "Make it so." [The screen blanks, and then an image appears, with big, blocky square pixels. Three objects appear in the center, which could be Romulan warbirds, but which actually look more like the aliens in Space Invaders.] PICARD: "Data, open a hailing channel to the lead Romulan vessel." DATA:"Aye, sir." [Data picks up an hourglass from the floor beside him, turns it over, and places it on the console in front of him. He punches some buttons on the console and sits motionless for several seconds. A flash of light comes from one of the Romulan ships on the viewscreen.] WORF: "Incoming photon torpedo Captain, we're under attack. Romulan vessels locking weapons !" PICARD: "Shields up!" DATA: "I'm sorry, Captain, but I am still attempting to complete your last instruction. I must ask you to wait until I have finished before you issue your next command." PICARD: "What the hell do you mean?" Data, this is important! I want those f***ing shields up right now. DATA:"I'm sorry, Captain, but I am still attempting to complete your last instruction. I must ask you to wait until I have finished before you issue your next command." LAFORGE: "Allow me, Captain." [to Data] "Control-Alt-Delete, Data." [Data removes the hourglass from the console, and returns it to the floor.] DATA:"The Romulans are not responding to my hails. Press my nose to cancel and return to Windows. Pull my left ear to close this communications channel which is not responding. You will lose any information sent by the Romulans." [LaForge pulls Data's left ear.] PICARD: "Shields... [There is a tremendous explosion. The bridge shakes violently, and all the crew members are thrown to the floor. A shower of sparks erupts from Wesley Crusher's station at the helm, throwing Wesley back away from the console.] PICARD: ... up, Data!" DATA: " Aye, sir." RIKER: "All decks, damage report!" WORF: "Captain, Ensign Crusher is injured. He appears to be unconscious." [Data picks up the hourglass again, places it on his console, and punches some more buttons. He waits a few seconds, then puts the hourglass back on the floor.] DATA:"Shields are now up, Captain." PICARD: "That's right Mr Data, close the barn door after the horse has bolted. Worf, lock all phasers on the lead Romulan ship, standby to fire." WORF: "Aye, sir." [With great joy, he punches buttons on the weapons console, his trigger happy finger just itching to push the tit] PICARD: "Mr. Data, take the helm, and prepare for evasive action." DATA: "I am sorry, sir, but I do not have the proper device driver installed for that console." PICARD: "Well, damn it, install the right one.My God !" DATA:"Please insert Setup Implant #1 in my right nostril." PICARD: "Number One, where do we keep Data's setup implants?" RIKER: "I left them with Geordi." LAFORGE: [in a surprised voice] "What!!? I thought you still had them!" PICARD: "Data, don't you have device drivers stored in your internal memory?" DATA:"Not found, sir. Please insert Setup Implant #1 in my right nostril." PICARD: "Data, I don't *have* Setup Implant #1." DATA:"Not ready reading right nostril. Abort, Retry, Fail?" PICARD: "Abort!" DATA:"Not ready reading right nostril. Abort, Retry, Fail?" PICARD: "Well, fail then!" DATA:"Current nose is no longer valid." [Data walks over to the helm, and presses several buttons. The ship lurches, the images of the Romulan warships suddenly shift to one side of the viewscreen, and a high-pitched whining noise is heard coming from somewhere else in the ship.] LAFORGE: [alarmed] "Data, what the hell are you doing?" PICARD: "Number One quickly, do we have a customer service number for Data?" RIKER: "Yes sir; but last time I tried to call them, I got put on hold for two hours before I was able to talk to anyone. And that person wasn't knowledgeable about androids of Data's model. She specialized in industrial control robots." [Suddenly, the lights all go out, the viewscreen goes blank, and all the usual noise of fans, motors, and so on whines to a halt. After a few seconds, the red emergency lights come on. Data is standing by the console, absolutely motionless.] PICARD: "What's going on?"
