Archives of January 2005
Internet legends come true
MemoryBlog has a piece about a rather interesting document - although I am not completely sure of it's genuinity - according to which, the US Air Force has been planning, or at least thought of planning, to develop quite bizarre chemical weapons. These include chemicals which would aggravate irritating animals such as insects, but the funniest passage is as follows:
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Categories: Web
Posted by Matias at 08.01.2005 14:49 (8 years ago) | 85 comments | 0 trackbacks
First images from Titan
I sent a probe to Titan, too, and it transmitted the first batch of images and data. Incredibly, it seems that this satellite of Saturn consists of blurry mountains and rocks.
However, I had to reduce the quality of the images to make them look as authentic as the images of the other "probe" that was "sent" to "Titan".
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Categories: Photography
Posted by Matias at 16.01.2005 20:06 (8 years ago) | 147 comments | 0 trackbacks
Printing to HP PSC Series Windows share from Linux
Here's a quick reminder for myself, since I have a feeling I have to do this again (and again), since after a month or two of usage, when trying to access the scanner, Windows heroically gets jammed and does not unjam until everything (drivers, registry keys, local setting folders) with "HP" is removed from the system. At least I did not found a less painful way.
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Categories: Computers
Posted by Matias at 17.01.2005 18:11 (8 years ago) | 25 comments | 0 trackbacks
The Lecture
I was going to attend a lecture, which was held at the top floor of a very tall building, but I was running late. Normally, I wouldn't have cared that much about being late, but the bad thing was that God was giving the lecture.
I entered the building, and encountered a lobby that could have been a lobby of any unimaginative corporate building, which was felt quite weird, since I suspected God sort of avoids the non-radical, non-unhappy, non-discriminating, non-nothing business culture and it's visual manifestations. This impression may have come across me from the tale in the Old Testament, in which He sent several bears to mutilate children who mocked a bald man. Would any corporation which tells of their candidness by showing people of different races in their brocures, hire a fellow with such a fame? (Without the publicity it'd be ok, I guess.) Although you have to admit that action really was - despite being shotgun approach of a worst kind - thinking outside the box.
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