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Hope you all had a great 04, here's to an even better 05!

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Are you all hibernating for the rest of '04? Or maybe just holed up with games received for Christmas...
In case I don't see you to say in person, Happy New Year everyone!

There is a dos command I've used before that list what apps are using what ports and for the life of me I can't recall what it is. I think Brian would know (you out there old roomy?) but does anyone reading this recall what that command is?

Thanks!

Edit: I remember now! It's netstat... lol.

I'm working on a project where I'm looking for all the different languages expressing the sound of a rooster crow. It is the year of the rooster for 2005 so a graphic design firm are doing a holiday card. Please forward any information either here as a post (can be link to helpful sites), or to my email address. Remember to mention the language it is in and to spell correctly. Thank you so much in advance and there is a free dinner for all in it. I owe all you guys anyway...

It has been pretended by some, (and in England especially,) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.

- Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson
13 Aug. 1813Writings 13:333--34

But really long.......

(and probably only for Jeff)

http://www.versaphile.com/download/firefly.html

Lookee, lookee! In four parts. The first part is basically where they took the bloopers from the DVD from, but even that has more to it.

Enjoy, boys! (And Jua!)

The photo is actually a hoax. Before being modified, the photo was originally of the control room in a nuke sub trainer.

If you want to see it, go to the link.

This comic from Penny Arcade describes my weekend. Just remove the "III" in the title.

Jeff turned 21 again on Thursday, and we went to TGIF on Saturday. Would have told y’all earlier but I was busy Sunday. Now that it is Monday, I have time at work to make a quick post. I hope someone else posts something here by tomarrow or Wednesday.