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Yep. There are a lot of them out there, actually.

MESS actually does all three, but it's still a bit of a hassle getting it all to work.

DOSEmu runs some DOS stuff, (doesn't run Second Reality right, I can't get sound, freezes up or runs slow in places) whereas VMWare should run most/all of it (but you still have to pay for the real version, of course)...

Frodo and VICE are C64 emulators, I use VICE, it's sweet. (It ran the C64 version of Second Reality flawlessly, too)

I haven't messed with Amiga emulators for a while, but I think UAE is pretty good.
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Microsoft: "Adoptar, Extender, Extinguir"

Sounds catchy, I like it. Kinda like "veni vidi vici".

Beats the hell out of "Hasta dónde quiere llegar hoy?", anyhow...

Maybe I'll just try posting stories from one site to the other for a while... Wait for the "Biotech companies giving Universities money for evil patents" story, I guess... :)
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Oh man, that's fun to read in babelfish.

"You have not entered like user. You can enter or Create an account. If stuffed your name and your password in addition to the fields Subject and Commentary, you can send your commentary without using a galletita (cookie). If you do not enter, your commentary will be put to name of Asshole Without Name"

Yep, that sounds about right. ;)
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That's completely braindead, but why am I not surprised?

Microsoft shows its commitment to embracing and extending open standards once again. Let's see what new and wonderful ideas they don't share with the people working on LDAP, Directory Protocols, etc., etc.

My only reassuring thought is that Microsoft couldn't secure a paper bag, so their implementation of Kerberos should be humorous, at least. :)
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Yes, but my post was not a real post. It was humor. Darn, I forgot to put "HUMOR" in the subject line again...

Besides, if they call themselves the "Inquirer", there will be that negative association. Why don't they change their name? Maybe web filters will eventually block all "suspicious-lookin g Inquirer sites too. Check out the link, their journalism isn't that serious. Anything that's written at a sixth-grade level for the below-average american can't be.

So what do you think? Inquiring minds want to know... :)
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Summary: Studies have shown that the fabric of the web is made of random noise. Evidence for this is consistent with the S/N ratio proven greater than 90%.

Analysis:
Proof for entropy is given by the growth of noise and signal decay recently associated with online forums such as slashdot, and the disappearance of content, such as New Scientist articles.

Growth of noise as a number instead of a percentage or ratio is given by the number of Java, Flash, Image-intensive and framed sites now, which consume more bandwidth and consistently crash more web browsers every day.

Alternatives: use gopher and get news from USENET.

Disadvantages: You won't be K-K00L anymore.

Conclusion: You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.
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First, why is Slashdot linking to the Inquirer? I know it's gotten bad here, but... Oh well, there's always the Weekly World News, right?

Second, what web filter would look for "Beaver" as a word to block? What about all the legitimate "Beaver" sites out there about little furry creatures who like to "get wood" and chew on it?

Feel free to change the name of your college; it's a dumb name. However, think about your reasons.

What could be stupider than letting a word-matching computer with the brains of a spell-checker on prozac decide what content you allow yourself and others to see?

That's about as smart as reading all your text files with 'grep -v [blahblahblah]'!
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Heh, I was going to say the same thing...

"Can't you just write in Scheme or Prolog?" :)

But yes, the response looks good. I was going to mention muPad, but someone already did.

I'd want more of a MathCad clone though, because its interface is far superior to maple's crappy interface...
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Excellent. I was going to say this, but you already have. :)

mp3's are all well and good for popular music, but they take up 10x the space of a (great!) mod. I'd love to see a program that analyzes and mp3 and breaks it up into redundant frequency spectrums, and generates a sequence from that to make the file. (or a mod that could use mp3's for the sample data, which would be similar, just not as automated or cool)

What player are you using? (I tend to use mikmod, but I'm still waiting for OpenCP (was Cubic) to get ported to Linux...)
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What *does* that say, and what's the foreign word for it?

Babelfish translates "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän" to Danube steam navigation society captain, which is an interesting guess, but... well, I figured out the "captain" part, but that's all I'm sure of...

"Hacker" is a pretty decent word to pick, it's just a little overloaded in English.
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Excellent. I usually offer links to "The Bible" (if you only had one book to read on the subject, this one would be a good choice) where appropriate, but obviously I haven't been reloading slashdot enough lately.

It looks like this sort of (lame) occurence happens at least every decade or so, let's try to stop it this time!
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Yeah, it's pretty boring here.

Anyone got any news? Um. Withers, the Computer Science building here at NCSU, had an explosion today. It's also used for chemistry labs, and apparently someone did something careless with sulfuric acid and some potassium compound, and it went *boom*... So I got to miss my File Org class, but still had to turn in my project...

And besides, who trolls the trolls? I miss MEEPT!
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Being able to control who has root for what jobs is a very hairy task under Unix. Although having user accounts devoted to specific tasks in certain groups works for some things, ultimately it's all just a nasty hack on top of a "good enough" system...

A good design for this would have to designate certain capabilities for a given user or task, and I imagine that it would get very complicated. That's one of the good things about groups under Unix: it does most of this, while still being pretty simple.

That having been said, it's still a lot better than a system where there's *only* a root account, or a system that is only designed to be used by one user, and needs ugly hacks to add to that... :)
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"You are greedy!"

"Hey, that was mine!"

"[USB] is good!"

Really, why read Slashdot when you could be playing Gauntlet:Legends? Isn't life just an analogy for Gauntlet:Legends? Isn't it a shame that the arcade isn't open yet...

I could care less about USB devices yet, I'll wait until some better ones appear on the market. (like I need that much bandwidth for a keyboard...) However, I would like to see some new, cool 3D games for Linux. After that, I'll think about getting a USB GamePad instead of my trusty analog one. ...maybe. :)
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Yep. This has been mentioned on slashdot before, but it took me a while to find the link again.

All I can say is, I'll never look at Disney in the same way. It's an empire rotting to the core, but built on the ideas of a real visionary.

It's like if no one listened to Hari Seldon's plans, but used them to start something like the Tessier-Ashpool empire instead.

(if you don't catch the references... well, read more Science Fiction, especially Asimov and Gibson! :)
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Well, with the "car" argument as with the "CD" argument, they both break down somewhere.

A good point someone else raised before was most CD's only end up costing a fair ("market value") price, if you shop at used CD stores. The same is true for cars. And in both cases, the first person to buy it gets ripped off, horribly.

Because there is some kind of strange "status" attached to owning a new car or CD first, once it's used (however slightly) it immediately drops in value by a large amount (or percentage)...

If I had to buy a car, it'd probably be a really cheap, pretty decent station wagon / tank. Not like those plastic disposable cars they have today. (The Aspire: It aspires to be a car!)

...and I didn't really get the rest of your argument. Could you use some carriage returns in there, next time?
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That's right. But there *are* laws against monopolies, price fixing collusion, etc., etc. And CDs are most definitely above market value because there's no source of fair competition.

Think gas prices are a little high lately? Well, that's because not enough oil was produced. I wonder why anyone would want to control production like that, since we're all using roughly the same fixed amount...

Of course, no matter how evil OPEC is, it's still *their* oil, so they can shaft^H^H^H^H^Hcharge whatever they like for it and whatnot... :P

Basically, what I'm saying is that people have a right to any good or service at a fair, market value price. And that price isn't $20 for CDs, and it isn't $1.60 for gas (in the US).

Only paying what you're willing to pay and the other party is willing to accept is what this is based on. Well, the other party obviously isn't listening. Let's take a look at a typical bargaining session between me and the record industry.

Me:Wow, that CD has two songs I like on it. I'm willing to pay $3 for it.

Record Industry:How about $20? We worked really hard to make this CD, and you might pirate it.

Me:Well, I don't know how hard you had to work. Don't you make tons of those? How about $5.

Record Industry:Sorry, it costs $20.

Me:Okay. $8. But I don't want to go much higher than that, for just two songs! That's $4/song!

Record Indsustry:$12 more and we might even sell you a CD!

Me:Aaaarrgh!!!!

See the problem yet?
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Very cool. Also, it's a registrar that ends in a register, (x86, that is...) and that's what counts. :)
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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Country codes are here.

...sounds like a "Carbon Copy" domain to me. :)
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Although I think it's pure evil, you can always get domains in tonga (.to) or niue (.nu).

It's the internet equivalent of a "1-888" number, except that in this case, it's the little countries that sold out. However, maybe your name won't be taken...
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Well... then you know your pages are cached!

One time Ultima 7 pissed me off (seeked to the disk too much) and I had too much RAM (32MB back then) so I loaded into a ~17MB compressed RAM drive, and then I didn't have to listen to it access the disk anymore. RAM drives are cool. :)
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Neat, thanks!

So that's that the "Embedix Browser" looks like...

It scares me that this machine is more powerful than my old P133. Man, did it suck before X had decent Mach64 support, and I could only run it in 320x200. I guess that's something like this PDA will be, except without a real keyboard...

It entertains me that Microsoft had to make an entire new OS to do this, whereas Linux had an ARM port, and can be stripped down sufficiently without creating a new API. :)
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That looks really cool, with the web browser and the integrated video. It also apparently does e-mail and plays mp3s and whatnot, but I'd still want an xterm mode. :)

Anyhow, here's the picture with the specs. It's got a 200Mhz ARM chip (probably for low power consumption) and 32MB RAM. Anyone have more info on this?
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Good call. There used to be big flamewars back when people knew or cared about the licensing. (but now that issues is even stranger, but people are satisfied regardless...)

I'll be very interested to see what the next releases of GNOME and KDE look like, they both sound very cool.

But I probably won't use them, because I still don't know why a "Desktop Environment / Application Suite / Thingy" could possibly be better than an xterm, or why I'd want a window manager other than my particularly boring fvwm2 configuration. :)
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Ah, gotcha.

Tab completion is still easier, actually, you can use Tab more than once...

(so Q might get you "Queen - ", while F might get you the rest... ("Fat Bottomed Girls" or something))

And yes, file managers are easier sometimes too, which is why people write ncurses interfaces to mp3 players! ;)

Incidentally, my favorite audio player of any sort was Cubic, now OpenCP. I'm still waiting for the "Cubic Team" (or whoever is working on it now) to port it to Linux, because it's just that cool.

The text filemanager would detect what kind of songs the different files were, (it played mods mostly, but they added support for MIDI, WAV, MP3...) and it had graphical display modes for playing the music... It was NEET. :)
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SGI is so great that they're ditching IRIX in favor of Linux.

Look at the facts first please (providing links is nice too).

SGI has really changed their direction lately.
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SGI has just gotten cooler and cooler. They *really* donate code to the cause, as opposed to Sun, which just claims to do so... (but with strings attached)

And failover is really handy. You never know when you're going to have hardware die on you. Of course, it's much more important when you're working with a bunch of NT boxes, but... ;)

Established vendors with real operating systems switching to Linux instead for production-level systems, and improving it, and giving back to the community. Does it get any better?
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Sure you can do it through the command line. I've thought about messing with it, but I'm happy using a "misc" directory, playing random songs, and skipping the ones I don't like.

Some more complex approaches would involve categorizing the songs. Either you could make "playlists" for them (flat text files with the song names in them) and choose songs out of that (easy), or you could make directories for the categories, and symlink back to the songs, (easy, this time in the filesystem instead) or you could make a "database" with fortune or whatever, or...

Basically, there's no limit to the number and variety of command-line solutions you could use, if you but tried it. It's just as easy as making a playlist any other way.

Simple Playlist Example:

ls * > playlist
(put file names in playlist)

pico playlist

(delete whatever lines you don't like, it consists of ^K and some UP/DOWN arrow key movement... or use your favorite editor, whatever.)

mpg123 -z `cat playlist`

(play playlist)

Queen Example:

mpg123 -z Queen*

No, you can't "click". Boo hoo. Can you type? Why is typing so "jarring"? Don't you like text-based file managers?

Anyhow, there are enough graphical mp3 players out there, (mostly based around mpg123 if they're any good ;) so feel free to play your songs however you like. Just don't bash$ the command line. :)
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Uh oh, it's that time again. Night time, when the trolls lurk.

So I load up slashdot, and it said it was generated by a "Group of Stealth Ninjas" just for me. Well, that scared the hell out of me, so I reloaded it. Then it was generated by a "Cadre of Psycho Ninjas". Oh man.

So I went to this story, where it's safe, right? No! More ninjas! They're everywhere!

...and now I feel like some pancakes. Mmm.

So what's the moral of the story? Ninja thread here, if you like them. I think they should be tagged "Ninja Troll", and get points for that (bottom out at -1 for normal people, but...).

Then we can "Sort By Lowest Score", and have the scale be from -5..1, with the best trolls at the top! (Ninja Troll, Hot Grits Troll, Portman Troll, Open Source Troll, etc., etc.)

Anything higher would of course be "Above your current threshold". :)

Therefore, moderate the parent down! I suggest a (Score:-3, Ninja Troll, Portman Troll, Patent Troll)
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Actually, Deep Thought would detect that you were 30 links away from a porn site, and kill your browser. :)
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I never said I'd want people bound to one API. I'd just want to support the five or so common ones. I was suggesting the second approach, of the "doomed to failure from the start" variety.

Actually, I'd want the different bindings/APIs on top, and a generic graphics layer below that knows how to make widgets, and rely on the "themes" (just data for the graphics layer) to get the look and feel right. Of course, I'm not qualified to do this, but the design *idea* seems simple enough. You'd just need to know way too much about X programming and widgets to start on it.
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Here's what *you* want (AFAICT):

A standard widget set used across applications on Linux.

You're never going to get that.

But it is a problem, so here's the way I've always said it could be implemented:

Make a library that has the requisite function calls (call them widget bindings or whatever) for each widget set. It then uses them to draw the application. It draws the application by checking to see what "theme" you have set up, and using those widgets to draw it. Common themes would of course be "Motif", "Xaw3d", "GTK", "Qt", "W1ND0WZ", or whatever your little heart desires.

Think of this as a widget API thunking layer. This project would of course be a lot of work, but the payoffs would be just as great.

And you'd want to build everything on your system with this, and have it dynamically linked. (You'd want them static either until it becomes standard, or if you're building a stand-alone app and don't trust library versions)

Then everything would look the same, (or different, if you gave different apps different themes--use X resources or something for that) there would still be many APIs to call, (pick your favorite, the user won't know the difference... mixing and matching might be bad, though) but you wouldn't have to include the whole GUI in your app (unless you're paranoid). Oh, and I'm talking about visual appearances. Standardizing layouts for users would be nice too, but let's ponder that some other time, ok? :)

Questions? Comments? Please?
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Oh wow, that's awesome! I used Calmira under Win 3.1 for a long time, and I really liked it. (when I had to use Windows, that is :) I've tried to run it under wine before, but it's never worked until now!

Here's a screenshot for you, with all my old icons, running "Slide Show" (my screensaver at the time) in the background, and showing the nasty Wine errors in an xterm...

I must admit, the icons on the desktop and management that Calmira provided at the time were sweet. It clashes with my windowmanager, though.
(I'd have to not bind the mouse buttons, at least, to use Calmira's menus, unless anyone knows a way around this?)
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Oh wow, that's awesome! I used Calmira under Win 3.1 for a long time, and I really liked it. (when I had to use Windows, that is :) I've tried to run it under wine before, but it's never worked until now!

Here's a screenshot for you, with all my old icons, running "Slide Show" (my screensaver at the time) in the background, and showing the nasty Wine errors in an xterm...

I must admit, the icons on the desktop and management that Calmira provided at the time were sweet. It clashes with my windowmanager, though.
(I'd have to not bind the mouse buttons, at least, to use Calmira's menus, unless anyone knows a way around this?)
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Oh, I agree with you, JWZ is cool in my book, too. It's just that the Troll you were replying to wasn't Trolling, just Ranting. :)

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Um, no, I see his point, and when he said something about JWZ being a karma whore on a higher plane, I don't think he was talking about posting to slashdot.

Regardless, JWZ does too have a slashdot account, and he does post occasionally, when something interests him. I think we all understand if he doesn't post much now. :)
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Sure, you guys don't think this is news, but you're forgetting something.

In nanotech, it's the little differences that count. ;)
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First, let me point out that his page looks just fine in w3m, and it doesn't load the images, either.

Second, JWZ wrote his web page so it would have a certain consistent look in the current web browsers being used today. Some people don't even do that much. And this is just a splash page. Everything after that is mostly text and tables.

Third, once you realize his goals, you complain that he's going about it all wrong. So please, explain to me how in HTML you'd fix this. How do I get the cool big blinking green terminal font instead of using images?

Don't complain about JWZ, complain about the W3C instead. JWZ has tried to implement what they and Netscape want, and he ultimately left out of disgust. Also, I'm sure he could write better code for anything from terminals to X-terminals than we could unless we had a lot of practice. If he strikes you as arrogant, fine, but *I* sure couldn't write a VCR labeler in raw PostScript. But he's definitely not clueless.

Also, turning text into images is interesting, just like turning images into text is interesting. And annoying splash pages are pretty funny, as long as you take them at face value, and link to the content instead...
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Thanks, that fact escaped me, too! (I just submitted my question there)

I guess this begs the question: why do we even put Announcements on here as stories, with comments?

It looks like these announcements contain useful information, so I don't want to filter them, but the comments will probably be necessarily duller. (Even taking into account the current sorry state of slashdot...)
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Excellent.

It's about time we saw a *sane* legal ruling about the internet and their domains.

(If I see *one* more "illegal to link to my content" website, I'm gonna scream, and then make a page that <A HREF="">'s all of the popular sites on the internet...)
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Ah yes, there is a Perl for Windows, and many other platforms... But did you catch the numerological significance of my post?

Oh well, nevermind guys. Here's a hint: I was going for "Funny" rather than "Flamebait", and I didn't mean to post at 2 anyhow, (was using Lynx, somehow missed that checkbox though) but I guess I'll start putting "HUMOR:" back into the subject line. That usually helps.

For some real opinion, I think Slashdot should use something fast instead of Perl. However, I'm impressed that they manage to make so much stuff static, and make the rest of the code pretty fast regardless, so maybe they can handle it.

And I've seen Slashdot unusable under load, and not from network bandwidth. Ping times are very fast, response times from the web server are very slow. Go figure.
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Actually, there's a reason for that. Did you read the comment contained within? He's got a point, as usual...

<!-- Greetings, Lynx users. There is a reason this page doesn't use ALT tags
on the images. The reason is that the bozos responsible for both MSIE
and Netscape Confusicator 4.0 decided that they would display the ALT
tags of images every time you move the mouse over them -- even if the
images are loaded, and even if they are not links. The ALT attribute
to the IMG tag is supposed to be used *instead of* the image, not *in
addition to* the image.

This looks absolutely terrible, so I don't use ALT tags any more in
self-defense.

If they wanted to implemented tooltips, they should have used the TITLE
attribute to the A tag. That's in the HTML 1.2 spec and everything.

I had to decide between making this page look good for the vast majority
of viewers, or making it be readable by the miniscule minority of you
stuck in the 70s. Those of you in the retro contingent lost. Sorry.
-->
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What's your favorite hack, and which of your hacks are you the most proud of?

Everyone knows about xdaliclock ("morphing before morphing was cool"), and lately xscreensaver has gotten pretty decent too... (surpassing xlock in the number of supported nifty screensavers) One of my favorites is probably dadadodo, ("the Katz generator", for me... :) but it could use some work. (maybe I'll work on it someday)

Also, how's the nightclub stuff going? A welcome break from the fast-paced world of netscape development and net.stardom?
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Actually, I think it was the other way around.

Isn't XEmacs derived from Lucid Emacs, which is the version that JWZ worked on?

It all sounded like a big misunderstanding to me.

(Hence, "Why cooperation with RMS is impossible" :)
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Actually, "upgrading" from Solaris 2.51 to 2.6 broke a lot of stuff here. Proprietary software, free software, you name it, it's not happy.

For whatever reason, building on later machines as well is a good idea, because some people have problems. Some distributions don't have the glibc2.0 support. (and I've seen commercial software with A.OUT / "Z-MAGIC" Linux binaries, still in use, so...)

Eventually these huge companies will have to run builds on some newer machines, so why not bite the bullet? I think they can handle it. If something breaks, they'll have to fix it eventually, anyhow.
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Actually, looking at his posting history, I have a feeling that Scooby's *default score* might be -2 by now.

That's actually really cool. We need a "Use -1 Bonus" for that feature, though, guys. ;)

And the *original* post in this thread was *really* funny. Especially that "W2K" bit. ROFL! Why is it only at (Score:4, Funny)? Moderate it up to 6!

(I don't care if it's the press release, that's all The Onion ever does, and that's really funny too. Why? Because it's well done!)

Also, moderate the entire story down to (Score 0: Redundant). Like many other people, I'll believe the "MS-Office for Linux" hype when I see it. ...And I have a feeling that Corel/The Wine Project will do it before Microsoft does, since Microsoft uses crappy proprietary porting tools (which they also own now, woo-boo-hoo.) like MainWin or whatever.
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Yeah, it does, I checked it against bc a while back. It's pretty impressive, actually.

...but my favorite 'pi' program would have to be the Obfuscated C Contest entry that had a function that looked like a circle, and it said "To get a better approximation for Pi, write a bigger program." And it ran that function to mostly calculate Pi. I won't spoil the rest of it for you. :)
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Oh man, that is incredibly stupid. Either he has no idea what he's getting himself into, or he's even stupider than he's letting on. :)

I suppose it's his right to decide who he wants to distribute to, and even if someone got the source code with that disclaimer on it, and considered themselves bound by it, they could still (a) Not Ask, and (b) Distribute the "GPL"ed work to someone else.

It doesn't look like that person would be bound by the original (bogus) agreement, but Slade would still be obligated to give them the source, and that person could give the original party the source.

...and the constitution is a lousy example, considering those "laws" aren't absolutes, but rather manipulated by legal precedent. (is it okay to yell "W1ND0WZ RULEZ" in a crowded Linux forum? ;)
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Eventually I'll have to learn Perl. But I might wait for release 6.6.666, so that it runs on Windows properly. ;)

Seriously, though, I think this is news, because Perl hasn't changed version numbers in a while. I guess this'll be cooler when it's a stable version, but...

Remember, Linux, Apache and Perl are always news here, because Slashdot runs on all three. And if Slashdot ever tackles that "slow under load" problem, that'll really be news! :)
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When do we get to play with these?

All this does is make me more impatient. *And* I'll have to decide between this and an Athlon. Aww man!

(If Tom's Hardwre manages to get a multiprocessor Crusoe system up and running, I might be stupid enough to try it too, for better price / performance. Otherwise, I guess we'll just have to build that Beowulf cluster instead, eh, guys? ;)
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