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[www.faqs.org] RFC 1 – Host Software Network Working Group Steve Crocker Request for Comments: 1 UCLA 7 April 1969 Title: Host Software Author: Steve Crocker Installation: UCLA Date: 7 April 1969 Network Working Group Request for Comment: 1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. A Summary of the IMP Software

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…and all the little icedrops are about the size of marrowfat peas, a little smaller than chickpeas/houmous; and they are aggregations of smaller ice-balls, the each whole being shaped like button mushroom or teardrop.

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Friday Night: I bailed out of work after talking telescopes with Glenn for half an hour; he’d just got one for his 15 year service award, and wanted to know what he could see. Dinner was at the Bel And The Dragon in Godalming with Grim & Holly, Steve, Birthday Boy Jon, Nobby, and a

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i’ve written elsewhere about the vandalism of the 7000+ year old rollright-stones circle on april 1st; my friend jane hopkins posted a link to some photos of the damage, taken at the weekend: [wyrdswell.co.uk] i suppose there is some small consolation that the damage will pass/erode eventually, but for the next few thousand years it

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extracted from a pointer at [found.pale.org] Microsoft’s Gates dethroned as world’s richest person by cheap furniture magnate [www.theregister.co.uk] All hail Ingvar Kamprad! The Swedish founder of the IKEA furniture chain has passed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as the world’s richest person, according to reports out of Sweden. Business weekly Veckans Affarer is set to report

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For all your phone-number-to-irritating-mnemonic needs! [phonespell.org]

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[www.macosxapps.com] Detour is an audio router allowing the selection of audio output device and relative volume for individual applications. Detour allows you to send audio to different output devices on an application-specific basis, which means you can… …send music from iTunes to your external speakers and keep the annoying beeps and blips of iChat going

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ThySpy – Tme Movie [www.thyspy.com] “True Confessions of a Gospel Gumshoe” Small New Zealand town revels in The Running of the Sheep [www.mytelus.com] “…like Pamplona, except this time the men chase the sheep, which makes perfect sense in New Zealand”. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – A small New Zealand town reached for some of the

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Useful website I have found is [icalshare.com] which augments [www.apple.com] as a resource of all the major events, bank holidays, and stuff like that. One double click, and I now know that I have both friday and monday, off. I can also get Astronomy calendars, Earth Seacons, IETF meetings…

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I’ve not tried this yet, because i only have two macs, one being a laptop and the other not requiring a high-speed interconnect; but i may give it a go some time. [www.macosxhints.com] Network Machines via FireWire If you need to connect two Macs running Panther, but you don’t have an Ethernet cable handy, don’t

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The Today Programme on Radio 4 had the second of two items regarding slow food, featuring the progress of a piece of Pork slow-cooked in vacuum-pack for 72hrs at The Fat Duck, a restaurant in Bray near Maidenhead owned by Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal. The items include interviews with other slow-food pundits and related suchlike.

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