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  • Hey Kevin!

    Hi Guys,


    All is well on this end, and with no power loss. Thanks for the concern. But I feel for the folks in Florida, man they have been thru "Hell and High Waters"


    I need to cut my grass, so hopefully it dries out soon!


    Kevin


    PS. SXViper how long will you be in the area for school?

  • Speaking of Maureen O'Hara . . .

    Hey Arthur,


    Take your interviewer hat with you and see if she'll do a quick interview for dukewayne.com. ;)


    Kevin



  • Messageboard Problems



    Popol Vuh,


    Your correct, what little ad $ goes to skyecom.net to go towards the month cost of hosting the site. I certainly don't make money on this site, but I do get the satisfaction, and pleasure (as anyone would out of a hobby) in maintaining this site. ;)

  • The Internet At 35: Still Evolving

    This is unrelated to JW or westerns but if not for the internet we wouldn't have dukewayne.com! B)



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    NEW YORK (AP) -- Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way to exchange data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress.


    University researchers are experimenting with ways to increase its capacity and speed. Programmers are trying to imbue Web pages with intelligence. And work is underway to re-engineer the network to reduce spam and security troubles.


    All the while threats loom: Critics warn that commercial, legal and political pressures could hinder the types of innovations that made the Internet what it is today.


    Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on September 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other "nodes" joined the fledgling network.


    Then came e-mail a few years later, a core communications protocol called TCP/IP in the late 1970s, the domain name system in the 1980s and the World Wide Web -- now the second most popular application behind e-mail -- in 1990. The Internet expanded beyond its initial military and educational domain into businesses and homes around the world.


    Today, Crocker continues work on the Internet, designing better tools for collaboration. And as security chairman for the Internet's key oversight body, he is trying to defend the core addressing system from outside threats, including an attempt last year by a private search engine to grab Web surfers who mistype addresses.


    He acknowledges the Internet he helped build is far from finished, and changes are in store to meet growing demands for multimedia. Network providers now make only "best efforts" at delivering data packets, and Crocker said better guarantees are needed to prevent the skips and stutters now common with video.


    Cerf, now at MCI Inc., said he wished he could have designed the Internet with security built-in. Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc., among others, are currently trying to retrofit the network so e-mail senders can be authenticated -- a way to cut down on junk messages sent using spoofed addresses.


    Among Cerf's other projects: a next-generation numbering system called IPv6 to accommodate the ever-growing armies of Internet-ready wireless devices, game consoles, even dog collars. Working with NASA, Cerf is also trying to extend the network into outer space to better communicate with spacecraft.


    But many features being developed today wouldn't have been possible at birth given the slower computing speeds and narrower Internet pipes, or bandwidth, Cerf said.


    "With the tools we had then, we did as much as we could reasonably have done," he said.


    While engineers tinker with the Internet's core framework, some university researchers looking for more speed are developing separate systems that parallel the Internet. That way, data-intensive applications like video conferencing, brain imaging and global climate research won't have to compete with e-mail and e-commerce.


    Think information highway with an express lane.


    Some applications are so data-intensive, they are "simply impractical to do on the current Internet," said Tracy Futhey, chairwoman of the National LambdaRail. The project offers for its members dedicated high-speed lines so data can "get from point A to point B and not have to contend with the other traffic."


    LambdaRail recently completed its first optical connection from San Diego, California, to Seattle, Washington, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Jacksonville, Florida. Work on additional links is planned for next year.


    Undersea explorer Robert Ballard has used another network, Internet2, to host live, interactive presentations with students and aquarium visitors from the wreck of the Titanic, which he found in 1985.


    The Internet's bandwidth can carry only "lousy" video and "can't compete with looking out the window," Ballard said. But with Internet2, "high-definition zoom cameras can show them the eyelids."


    Internet2, with speeds 100 times the typical broadband service at home, is now limited to selected universities, companies and institutions, but researchers expect any breakthroughs to ultimately migrate to the main Internet.


    While Internet2 and LambdaRail seek to move data faster and faster, researchers with the World Wide Web Consortium are trying to make information smarter and smarter. Semantic Web is a next-generation Web designed to make more kinds of data easier for computers to locate and process.


    Consider the separate teams of scientists who study genes, proteins and chemical pathways. With the Semantic Web, tags are added to information in databases describing gene and protein sequences. One group may use one scheme and another team something else; the Semantic Web could help link the two. Ultimately, software could be written to process the data and make inferences that previously required human intervention.


    With the same principles, searching to buy an automobile in Massachusetts will also incorporate listings for cars in Boston.


    Change doesn't come easily, however. For instance, the IPv6 numbering system was deemed an Internet standard about five years ago, but the vast majority of software and hardware today still runs on the older IPv4, which is rapidly running out of room.


    And the Internet faces general resistance from old-world forces that want to preserve their current ways of doing things: Companies that value profit over greater good. Copyright holders who want to protect their music and movies. Governments that seek to censor information or spy on its citizens.


    In early August, the Federal Communications Commission declared that Internet-based phone calls should be subject to the same type of law enforcement surveillance as cell and landline phones. That means Internet service providers would have to design their systems to permit police wiretaps.


    Jonathan Zittrain, a professor with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, fears a slippery slope. As these outside pressures meddle with the Net's open architecture, he said, there's less opportunity for experimentation and for innovations like the World Wide Web, born out of an unauthorized project at a Swiss nuclear research lab.


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  • Messageboard Problems

    Hi Robbie,


    I can't say that this couldn't happen again, but I did move the database to another server. Prior to this problem, I had the dukewayne database on a non-production server, now it's on the server I use for commercial clients. The non-production server had a hardware failure which caused the loss of data here.


    Plus, the site back up has been changed from weekly, to nightly, so I should have access to a back up of this site that is no more that 24 hours old.


    When I found out what happened I was sick :dead: . In fact I turned off my PC and went straight to bed.

  • Red Adair, 89, Oil Well Firefighter, Dies

    Famed Oil Well Firefighter Red Adair Dies at 89



    Sun Aug 8, 3:10 PM ET


    By Jeff Franks


    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Legendary oil field firefighter Red Adair, a fearless Texan who put out massive oil well fires around the globe, died on Saturday at the age of 89, his family said on Sunday.


    Adair had been in ill health for several years and died of natural causes at a Houston hospital.


    The stocky, homespun Adair got his start in the oil fields of southern Texas during the Great Depression and went on to extinguish nearly 3,000 oil well fires in more than 50 years of firefighting.


    Among them were 119 fires in Kuwaiti oil fields at the end of the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), the infamous "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" in Algeria in 1962 whose 800-foot flames were seen from space by astronaut John Glenn, the 1979 blowout of Mexico's Ixtoc-1 well in the Bay of Campeche and the 1988 Piper Alpha platform disaster in the North Sea that killed 167 men.


    Because of his death-defying exploits, the world tended to glorify Adair's work -- John Wayne made a 1968 movie about him called "The Hellfighters" - but he never did.


    "What it boils down to is dirty and hard work. It is nasty and dangerous," the red-headed Adair once told Reuters in an interview.


    "We look at all these blow-outs as bad. The day you get to where you say one job is worse than another is the day you get careless -- and that is something we can't afford," he said.


    Adair, whose real name was Paul, began fighting oil well fires by chance in 1938 when one day, working as an itinerant worker, he delivered equipment to an oil field near the town of Alice in south Texas.


    STAR FIREFIGHTER


    An oil well blew out while he was in the area and Myron Kinley, the leading oil well firefighter of that era, needed help.


    "He said, Boy, do you want to work and make some money?"' Adair recalled.


    Adair, who had grown accustomed to fire when as a boy he worked alongside his blacksmith father, quickly accepted the job and emerged as a star firefighter unafraid of walking up to the most ferocious oil well.


    Adair bought McKinley's company for $125 in 1959 and formed Red Adair Co., which became known for having all-red equipment.


    Adair drummed up business by sending his workers out in bright red Cadillacs or Lincolns that were easily spotted throughout the oil patch.


    When a well blew out, oil field hands would look for the signature red cars and flag them down.


    Finding workers was never easy for Adair because he needed men with his same rare combination of humility, level-headedness and courage.


    "In this business, you don't want someone who thinks he can walk on water like some of them do," Adair said.


    "If a guy's afraid, you sure as hell don't want him because if a man is afraid, he can't think. You have to react quickly out there and you can never let them coveralls run away."

  • Maureen O'Hara Book- 'Tis Herself'

    Maureen O'Hara Pens New Autobiography


    LOS ANGELES - In 1939, an Irish miss of 18 landed in Hollywood not knowing what to expect. Her education came swiftly as she was thrust into stardom with her first movie and became a pawn in the big-studio system.


    With customary frankness, Maureen O'Hara recounts her life story in "'Tis Herself," written with John Nicoletti. She tells it all: her love-hate relationship with mentor John Ford ; her devotion — strictly platonic — to co-star John Wayne; the misbehavior of Errol Flynn; the rudeness of Rex Harrison; two failed marriages and a happy marriage that ended in tragedy; a phony scandal that helped put Confidential magazine out of business.


    Read more at JWayne.com >>



  • Maureen O'Hara Book- 'Tis Herself'

    Maureen O'Hara Pens New Autobiography


    LOS ANGELES - In 1939, an Irish miss of 18 landed in Hollywood not knowing what to expect. Her education came swiftly as she was thrust into stardom with her first movie and became a pawn in the big-studio system.


    With customary frankness, Maureen O'Hara recounts her life story in "'Tis Herself," written with John Nicoletti. She tells it all: her love-hate relationship with mentor John Ford ; her devotion — strictly platonic — to co-star John Wayne; the misbehavior of Errol Flynn; the rudeness of Rex Harrison; two failed marriages and a happy marriage that ended in tragedy; a phony scandal that helped put Confidential magazine out of business.


    Read more at JWayne.com >>



  • Open Range

    O Please save me from Kevin Costner.....Someone please!! :dead:



    Just thought I would post my dis-taste for the the guy. B)


    Not sure how I'll be able to watch Open range. I'll keep looking for a Kevin Costner blocker to put on my DVD player. hehehe

  • World's Longest Dog

    Hi SXViper,


    No, I was born and raised in Atlanta GA. A radio personality on a local radio station (WGST) mentioned it on his program Friday. I thought that this was amazing to see. ;)

  • Ethan Waynes Acting Career


    Oops...It was Aissa I was thinking about.
    :dead: