RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1909

RDT Right Now #1909

From: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:22:35 -0700
Subject: RDT Right Now #1909
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Do not hit reply to unsubscribe. To unsub, send a message to: <rdtrn-request@torithoughts.org> with "unsubscribe" in the subject and body. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 04 : Issue #1909 . o - O - O - O - O - O - O - O - o . o o . o o O "Thoughts right now... O o What will become of me, o o Become of her, become of we?" o . o o . O O O - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - O o . o o o Tori Amos, "Thoughts" In this issue: o-o-o-o-o-o-o Re: Hopefully Tori can put her shows [ fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> ] i'm being published! [ tess@tesserae.org ] with 1.5 Mbps you get egg roll [ Mark Alexander <alexander750@earthl ] online shows [ life in the so-called space age <li ] Thanks [ Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@comcast.net ] a suffusion of yellow [ John Bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.n ] Missed a digest? Pick up a copy at the RDTRN archives: http://www.torithoughts.org/rdtrn/archives -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:05:44 -0400 From: fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Re: Hopefully Tori can put her shows online... one time at band camp, "Dalsh 327" <dalsh327@hotmail.com> said: >I think it would be really cool if the shows from over the years were >available online. Either for free via archive.org or sharingthegroove.com, >or for a small fee via itunes or emusic.com. have you checked out www.toritraders.com lately? while none of the shows we distribute are soundboard recordings (although there are some very good radio and television-sourced shows), there are lots of good to excellent audience recordings from 1992 through 2003 and more are being added every day or so. woj -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:17:58 -0700 (PDT) From: tess@tesserae.org To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: i'm being published! well, a lifelong dream of mine is happening. my book is coming out in a little less than 3 weeks. it's a book about abuse and spirituality, and my path towards god in spite of my abuse. you can see all the stuff at the website: http://www.stumblingtowardfaith.com and i'm also on amazon now, woohoo! (and maybe most people will have no idea who i am, but those who know me, know me!) tesserae -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:55:10 -0500 From: Mark Alexander <alexander750@earthlink.net> To: "that redhead with the piano" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: with 1.5 Mbps you get egg roll First, of course, a big shout out to all those who sent birthday greetings, and who thus made "life, the universe, and everything" a bit easier to bear. Having kicked the hornet's nest of greed out of the way, Brian Cooper wrote in RDTRN 1908 > I've stepped into the realm of broadband internet at home. I figured > I'd > use it more than I was the satellite TV I cancelled and still save > enough > each month for a few DVDs. It was a bit of a struggle to get it going, > which is something I have to blame the installation package from my > ISP on. > I really wasn't happy with it, as it loaded a whole heap of software I > didn't want and didn't give me any say in the matter. It even installed > over newer versions of software I had. Otherwise, it's bliss, when it > works. and > The software package for this also loaded crap I didn't want on my PC. > It > kept wanting to load IE5, when I already had IE6 sp1. I kept saying > no, but > it went and loaded Outlook Express 5 anyway. All I wanted to do was > load > Outlook 2002 and Active Sync. Speaking of OE, even if you don't use it, > download the Microsoft patches for it as they've made this one brown > trouser rated. Last time they did that there was a major worm outbreak > within a couple of weeks. Who's your ISP? Wait...Australia...out in the outback...probably some sort of dish with Rupert Murdoch's name on it :-O I don't (and won't) have cable, but I do have a land line and live somewhere where DSL is available, so that's what I have. Since I'd had EarthLink dial-up for some time and was satisfied with it, when DSL service was offered (free equipment! easy self-install! first 3 months free!) I jumped on it. What I got was a small dark blue box named "Netopia" with some blinking LEDs, a power pack, a phone cord and some mysterious little ivory gizmos, and a Cat 5 Ethernet cable, along with instructions. Apart from the fact that it hooks up to Ethernet rather than a serial port, it acts just like a modem, except (1) it's always on, unless you physically turn it off (and it reconnects as soon as you turn it back on). (2) it's considerably more reliable, though RFI can sometimes screw things up (one of the more intractable problems early on turned out to be a lamp dimmer). (3) did I mention 1.5 Mbps (T1 equivalent!) download bandwidth? As in, fast enough to FTP directly to a CD burner? (4) it can be networked, so up to four computers can use it--simultaneously. No software was needed on either machine; it was simply a matter of configuring some network settings, logging in, and there you go. I did, however, add a firewall to the PC (the Mac already has one--good old GNU ipfw) and learn how to use a HOSTS file on both machines. Of course, experience also helps; I'd learned long ago not to use the "special" software typically included by most ISPs--it's mostly just "customized" (and outdated) versions of Explorer and Outlook, plus a lot of gee-whiz, multimedia show-and-tell shovelware and, of course, ads and even spyware. One of my old ISP disks even has NCSA Mosaic and TurboGopher on it. (Gopher? Finger? Archie? What's that?) I put up with Explorer on the PC, mostly because it's so tightly wound into the OS that ripping it out isn't worth the trouble, and also because I don't use it that much, except for my remote control stuff. Luckily, Microsoft still supports Windows 98 (perhaps because it's the last one that can still run DOS). I don't use Outlook at all; if I need to read mail on the PC (which is seldom) I use web mail. On the Mac there are much better alternatives: Mozilla, Eudora, and Opera for Classic boxes, and Apple's own Mail and Safari for OS X. I use them. I gave a Coke machine the finger and it told me to go fizz myself, Estraven. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:56:57 -0400 From: life in the so-called space age <lifeinthesocalledspaceage@gmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: online shows >>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:50:22 -0700 From: "Dalsh 327" <dalsh327@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Hopefully Tori can put her shows online... I think it would be really cool if the shows from over the years were available online. Either for free via archive.org or sharingthegroove.com, or for a small fee via itunes or emusic.com. << Join Yahoo group: tori-boot for you guessed it, tori boots! -- did you change the world or your point of view? -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:16:18 -0600 From: Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@comcast.net> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Thanks Thanks for all the birthday greetings last Thursday. I had a pretty good birthday. I just finished a 10 day vacation and going back to work is the pits. School is hectic as usual. Just finished a class on Eastern Religions and am now beginning a class on Western Religions. No break this time between Summer and Fall semesters. As soon as this class is done, we go right into Fall classes at the end of August. I'm already registered, but I forget what I'm taking (doesn't that figure). I spent most of my vacation attempting to bring order to my condo, as there was still many unpacked boxes lying around (mostly books), so I got that taken care of, and now I've got an office that I can actually work in. I'm fixing up things a little bit at a time right now, because school and work keep me extremely busy as well as financially strapped most of the time. If anyone has any clue on how to bake a cake at 5200 feet, e-mail me; my scratch cakes are constantly falling, and it's driving me insane. Oh, if you live near a Williams-Sonoma, run out and get yourself a package of their Cherry-Vanilla bread and a jar of cherry butter--both will make you swoon. That's all for now! -- Roxanne Rieske rokzane@comcast.net visit my webjournal: www.xanga.com/RokZane -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:10:17 -0400 From: John Bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.net> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: a suffusion of yellow Brian said: > The result is reverse in men - the more they drink, the lower the > testosterone becomes I guess this is only a general tendency, since a lot of men get more aggressive (to say the least) when drunk. Some become uncontrollably violent, in fact. > I also splashed out on a Pocket PC during the week. I read that this is a good time to buy Palms and Pocket PCs, because the next generation is PDA/cell phone combinations, so plain old PDAs are getting cheaper and cheaper. > While it works marvelously well, for some reason I can't write the number > "4". Maybe it's like the I Ching calculator which can perform any calculation up to the number "4." Bethey said: > I had a wonderful Wildwood N.J. vacation last week. Two nights and two > days with my new boyfriend. Yes, the city hall worker. I'm so glad you ended up with him rather than the alcoholic guy with the guns. That didn't sound like a really good match. As B/4, John o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o *** Subliminal Day Off digest *** To POST messages to this list: <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Can't figure out how to SUB, UNSUB, or CHANGE ADDRESSES? Send a message to <rdtrn-request@torithoughts.org> with "help" as the subject. Digest PROBLEMS or QUESTIONS? Contact: <admin@torithoughts.org> Want your BIRTHDAY announced on RDTRN in 2004? 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