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Occulis
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 Posted: 12/06/04 - 13:17 Post subject: WAP vs WEP encryption and why your mother is f*****g strange
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Hi
I am setting things up in a wireless fashion @ home. WinXP wireless network config seems quite horrible. I finally settled on WAP with a previously-shared-key ("PSK") for my authentication. WEP, even though the keys and SSID were the same, would never connect.
Anyone have book suggestions? I'm a little tired of reading howto manuals online.
-- John "Mosquito Sting" McVaxius
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Occulis
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 13:53 Post subject:
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Celestra
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 13:58 Post subject:
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566632277/102-2828151-6192155?v=glance
| Quote: | Character: A Novel of Father and Son
by F. Bordewijk, E. M. Prince, Ferdinand Bordewijk
This 1938 bildungsroman by a Dutch author brims with old-fashioned values, presenting the world as clearly if not cleanly ordered. Its slow-and-steady narrative follows Jacob Katadreuffe, illegitimate son of a fiercely principled mother and ruthless debt-collector father, from infancy to his adult attainment of "character." Born into humble surroundings and scantily educated, young Katadreuffe applies himself to surmounting "the awful distance between the ordinary man and the gentleman" and becoming a lawyer. At every turn his father, A. B . Dreverhaven, unwillingly estranged from mother and son, exacerbates his struggles--attempting to declare him bankrupt (and twice succeeding) and, eventually, to block his admission to the bar. Bordewijk captures the mortal battle between father and son with considerable acumen, but an unexpectedly sentimental and abrupt ending mars his accomplishment.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description:
This affecting story is the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Character , named the best foreign film in 1998. |
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Occulis
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 14:03 Post subject:
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holy crap. I think some books are written and read purely for the literary blue ribbon award of being able to say, "Hrm, yes, well, I read through it but I found it awfully contrived. Indeed." Followed by wine drinking.
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Vekril
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 14:09 Post subject:
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The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek, one of the best books I have read in the past 5 years.
| Quote: | A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944--when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program--The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate attention from the public, politicians, and scholars alike. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 were sold. In April of 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this condensation to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best-seller, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States, not including the British edition or the nearly twenty translations into such languages as German, French, Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese, and not to mention the many underground editions produced in Eastern Europe before the fall of the iron curtain.
After thirty-two printings in the United States, The Road to Serfdom has established itself alongside the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and George Orwell for its timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Milton Friedman, commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s.
F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226320618/qid=1102355822/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4625519-1599100?v=glance&s=books
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Occulis
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 14:15 Post subject:
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u no vekril that's nice & all but a book written by salma hayek's dad isn't gonna be SHIT in the long run u stupid a*****e
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Jakanden
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 14:22 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | holy crap. I think some books are written and read purely for the literary blue ribbon award of being able to say, "Hrm, yes, well, I read through it but I found it awfully contrived. Indeed." Followed by wine drinking. |
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Celestra
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 14:28 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | holy crap. I think some books are written and read purely for the literary blue ribbon award of being able to say, "Hrm, yes, well, I read through it but I found it awfully contrived. Indeed." Followed by wine drinking. |
This is a good book.
I didn't recommend it coz it won awards.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 19:36 Post subject:
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My roommate bought "Van Helsing" on DVD and it came with a book. So u should read "Van Helsing: A Novel"
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Gethy
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 19:41 Post subject:
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A Confederacy of Dunces if you've yet to read it. Absolutely awesome book.
Post Office by Bukowski is short, sweet and to the point. Awesome read.
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Psink
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 21:24 Post subject:
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I like the wow manual
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Gethy
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Posted: 12/07/04 - 00:09 Post subject:
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If someone ever names their tauren QuentinTaurentino I will hurt someone.
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Posted: 12/07/04 - 00:14 Post subject:
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I'm not scared of you!
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atarom
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Posted: 12/07/04 - 03:28 Post subject:
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| Gethy wrote: | | If someone ever names their tauren QuentinTaurentino I will hurt someone. |
LOZZLE
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Posted: 12/07/04 - 20:04 Post subject:
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Bleh read all the Akira Books(manga) they are tottaly diff from the movie and a good read.
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lotek
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Posted: 12/08/04 - 12:29 Post subject:
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| Vekril wrote: | The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek, one of the best books I have read in the past 5 years.
| Quote: | A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944--when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program--The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate attention from the public, politicians, and scholars alike. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 were sold. In April of 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this condensation to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best-seller, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States, not including the British edition or the nearly twenty translations into such languages as German, French, Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese, and not to mention the many underground editions produced in Eastern Europe before the fall of the iron curtain.
After thirty-two printings in the United States, The Road to Serfdom has established itself alongside the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and George Orwell for its timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Milton Friedman, commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s.
F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226320618/qid=1102355822/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4625519-1599100?v=glance&s=books
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cool, ill have to read that. Sounds like its right up my ally.
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Vekril
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Posted: 12/08/04 - 12:35 Post subject:
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I can't believe you haven't read it yet Lotek. Hayek is the godfather of libertarianism, and this is his preeminent work.
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