Slashdot Mirror

http://web.archive.org/web/19991127200753/http://w ww.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Nov/perl.html

No pics left but archive.org does have a few pages achived from a guy who subsubmerged his Celeron 333 in oil back in 1999. I'm sure even earlier attempts exist...

http://web.archive.org/web/19991122030011/www.accs data.com/drffreeze/FAQ.htm

ADB is 10Kbps. USB1 (low speed) was 1.5Mbps and USB 1.1 was 12Mbps. This comes from Apple's original USB webpage.

Just to satisfy my own curiousity: if you've got a CD collection and access to a computer. . . what's stopping you?

Hundreds of gigs of http://bt.etree.org/browse.php and http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.p hp and others :)

Many of those things appear on Bill's own list, but the number one competitor is, well, read it for yourself, searching in the document for "number one".

I didn't miss it at all.

Vent thermophiles are only one kind of extremophile. Some extremophiles (those living in tube worms around vents, as you mention) are benefitting from being down the chain from geothermal energy, but not all are. Take the extremophiles living in Antarctica Subglacial Lakes, for example, and halophiles speculated to exist elsewhere in the solar system. And if you believe that some hydrocarbons are of primordial origin, extremophiles living off of the chemosynthesis of those hydrocarbons aren't living off of solar energy either.

In any case, to avoid straying too far from the point... there is energy available from primordial chemical sources as well as geothermal, nuclear, and solar sources (I s'pose if someone really wanted to nitpick, they could argue that all of the above are either nuclear or gravitational).

According to the last archived page on archive.org (http://web.archive.org/web/20050401093814/http:// www.the5k.org/)

"As those of you following the saga at home will know, the 5k has been in flux for a long time on account of the people who organize it are too busy and stressed. But that will not be the case for long: the infinite resource known as SIGGRAPH will soon take it over, to the betterment of all."

So who knows...

Wikimedia wouldn't even be a suitable choice. The Internet Archive would be, however.

For those interested in fighting the RIAA by not buying CDs of bands which support them, there are quite a few bands who allow free distribution of their live performances.
I would suggest the archive.org live music collection. There are all kinds of genres represented, and you can get quite a bit of music there, so if it stops you from buying RIAA music, right on!
Archive.org Trade-Friendly Bands

Hollywood and the music industry announced they will, be halting all production and put their money into stocks and bonds. Software companies are expected to follow their example.


Good riddance! I"m so sick and tired of their constant whining and privacy intrusions that I will be glad to see them gone.


There ain't no free ride. If no one wants to pay for it the product goes away, it's called capitalism.


If you're looking for free entertainment start here, if it's software you need go here. You will find the true capitalists barter their wares at places such as those.

No. Here is the first real goatse of 2006.

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype% 3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Aprelinger%20AND%20%2 Fmetadata%2Fsubject%3A%22Atomic-nuclear%3A%20Civil %20Defense%22

It's a GIF from the GIMP website from the days when GIFs were our friends..

http://web.archive.org/web/19980216075725/gimp.org /the_gimp.html

If the Internet Archive can back up the entire internet every few months, I would think the National Archive could handle a few hundred million emails.

uhhh, no?

So, you don't know?

While over-consumption of most natural resources will likely lead to the eventual death of all species who depend on those resources, running out of oil and uranium will not.

Death will result if we don't have clean energy in place before we run out of oil. If people (governments) keep fighting over oil when it really starts to run low, a lot of people will die.

Further, while it is also true that the waste produced by over-consumation is often toxic, the amount of waste produced by uranium and oil used in electricity production is not a significant danger.

Some would disagree. Oil is basically toxic any way you look at it. Nuclear waste is a big issue as well.

Ironically, it is the so-called environmentalists who are forcing electric power companies to use more wasteful technologies to meet a rapidly increasing demand for electric power.

Yeah I'm sure all those environmentalists are out to ruin the environment.

The sad fact is, that we should be building nukes all over the US, and enjoying cheap plentiful electricity throughout the country.

How about you build some of these (http://web.archive.org/web/20050306021056/http:// www.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powertower.htm l) instead - you've already paid taxes developing this technology. You also have the space to put it into action.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050306021056/http://w ww.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powertower.html

uhhh, no?

So, you don't know?

While over-consumption of most natural resources will likely lead to the eventual death of all species who depend on those resources, running out of oil and uranium will not.

Death will result if we don't have clean energy in place before we run out of oil. If people (governments) keep fighting over oil when it really starts to run low, a lot of people will die.

Further, while it is also true that the waste produced by over-consumation is often toxic, the amount of waste produced by uranium and oil used in electricity production is not a significant danger.

Some would disagree. Oil is basically toxic any way you look at it. Nuclear waste is a big issue as well.

Ironically, it is the so-called environmentalists who are forcing electric power companies to use more wasteful technologies to meet a rapidly increasing demand for electric power.

Yeah I'm sure all those environmentalists are out to ruin the environment.

The sad fact is, that we should be building nukes all over the US, and enjoying cheap plentiful electricity throughout the country.

How about you build some of these (http://web.archive.org/web/20050306021056/http:// www.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powertower.htm l) instead - you've already paid taxes developing this technology. You also have the space to put it into action.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050306021056/http://w ww.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powertower.html

Which I've now done, and the location should be obvious to any moderately sentient being. However, please be kind and get your copy from archive.org, because they've got shedloads more bandwidth than I have.

To those people who say 'there's no point' for one reason and another, the point is that if people get used to the idea that the only thing you achieve by taking down something like this is a whole raft of mirrors, we'll see far fewer such takedowns.

What about lzip? I've heard good things about this archiver but it's homepage seems to have gone down. Here's the archive.org link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041010014034/http://l zip.sourceforge.net/index.html

The list is available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20050310010832/http://w ww.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html

From where I've just downloaded it so that I can mirror it (but not until the Slashdot feeding frenzy has died down, I don't want to slaughter my own servers).

As I am not and never have been a party to the 'Bluetooth License Agreement', and since the list is copyright Marcel Holtmann, not the Bluetooth SIG, I think they can go whistle about asking me to take it down.

Why don't you - all of you - do the same? Remember to get all of

• bfusb.html
• bluecard.html
• bpa10x.html
• bt3c.html
• bt950.html
• btuart.html
• devices.html
• dtl1.html
• toshiba.html
• usb.html
• vaio.html

• Digianswer chipset
• Sphinx PICO Plug dongle

Here is the page as it used to look before it was brought down:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050310010832/http://w ww.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html

This happened back in March. it still sucks though.

The list is available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20050310010832/http://w ww.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html

God intends us to make lifeforms of our own. Just finished reading an interesting piece on a person's "Talk with God", here's a link. [Ragged Trousered Philosopher]

Just noticed that the site's bandwidth is out, here's the Internet Archive's Cache:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050312133142/http://w ww.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal

Even if it is fiction, it's an interesting idea nonetheless.

The same thing that happens when you want to leave any other development platform in existence.

Wow. You really don't understand this?

If the platform is based on a standard (rather than just parts of it), then you can leave without much penalty to anyone else who implements the same standard.

I have very little desire or need to be migrating.

Trust me, it happens.

Perfect example. We use a Java servlet container. One day we discover it has a bug. We go to the vendor. The vendor refusese to fix the bug. We switch to another container. Presto. The bug is gone.

Imagine, too, that if there is only one vendor and you are locked into them, they no longer care so much about fixing bugs or keeping you happy at all, because they have a monopoly, and they act like it. And I've had exactly this problem with MS. I catch IIS blowing up? I debug it with MS support, who actually talk to me because the client is fortune 50, and what do they say when we catch them red-handed? "Sorry, we know about that bug. It's marked WONTFIX."

Imagine never having to hear that kind of thing again, because now you have a market instead of a monopoly. That's what standards do. That's what scares MS to death.

accept the miniscule risk that we *may* have to rewrite some code should we choose to migrate.

As you get more experience, you realize this no longer sounds so good when you have 400,000 lines to worry about.

In time, I'd say it's pretty reasonable there will be equal demand sometime in the near future.

Man just listen to yourself. That's a pretty contrived way of admitting that there is greater demand for Java than C#.

And by the way, if you really think C# will equal Java for job demand in the near future, I would take that bet, depending on when you think that is. Within 5 years? 10?

If you are in need of that much performance,

In the enterprise the term is "scalability."

I don't think it would make a significant difference what language you did use -- It would depend on the compiler.

Unfortunately this isn't actually true. The topic has been covered extensively.

You know, I don't actually see a lot of what you like in .NET that isn't also in Java. Form editors for GUI work? Java has them. Attributes? Java. Reflection? Java. ADO? Java's Hibernate is a great persistence mechanism... Remoting? Java has it. In fact I did some Java to .NET remoting the other day with glue. It took about 5 minutes to get going.

I find Java development tools like Intellij Idea significantly superior to anything available for C#/.NET. I would go so far as to say it basically defines the state of the art in development tools. I've never seen code-as-structured-DB, effortless search and refactoring integrated so completely in anything before. You should seriously check it out. (As it happens the Jetbrains guys have ported some of their refactoring tools to C# - I think the product is called Resharper, worth checking out out as well...)

The vastly greater number of people doing Java development, and its many-year lead in the space have resulted in a rich ecosystem of vendors, open source, and free software projects that are totally unmatched in the .NET world. The result is that there is a lot of great code out there to use (even BSD licensed) and a lot of interesting research going on in the space...

It is not on FAS but still backed up by archive.org
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000309002720/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/trombay.htm/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304012844/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000618013500/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/airbase/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000128044315/fas.org/ nuke/guide/india/target/index.html/

It is not on FAS but still backed up by archive.org
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000309002720/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/trombay.htm/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304012844/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000618013500/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/airbase/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000128044315/fas.org/ nuke/guide/india/target/index.html/

It is not on FAS but still backed up by archive.org
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000309002720/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/trombay.htm/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304012844/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000618013500/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/airbase/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000128044315/fas.org/ nuke/guide/india/target/index.html/

It is not on FAS but still backed up by archive.org
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000309002720/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/trombay.htm/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304012844/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000618013500/www.fas. org/nuke/guide/india/facility/airbase/index.html/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000128044315/fas.org/ nuke/guide/india/target/index.html/

Bruce Eckel recently said
"C# 3.0 may be too forward-thinking for Java to catch up to."

Don't believe the hype.

Who is "they"?

Microsoft themselves, in their own developer literature.

"The Microsoft .NET Framework promotes interaction with COM components, COM+ services, external type libraries, and many operating system services..."

link

That's just the first reference I found. I've seen position papers where they go even further to sell the ease of use of their unmanaged interop like a feature... so have you probably.

Old saw indeed. What's so surprising about it? The interop and unmanaged code features get big billing... why do you think that is? So no one will use them?

Again, what is your reason for saying that so categorically?

I'm surprised you would ask considering how thoroughly the "commonness" of the CLR has been debunked on /. (reference)

The fact that Python has been ported to JVM and .NET doesn't really speak to the point I'm trying to make here.

Ah, wondeful pessimism.

So I guess you just ignored the statements afterwards explaining the reasons for this pessimism?

I spent a few years making case mods. The first was all-black with a window and cathode light, very traditional by today's standards. Back in the day when beige was all you could get, this was pretty flashy. I made a Lego computer too, which was all the rage for awhile.

My pride and joy is the Fossil computer. It's wood and brass, nearly silent, and has a fossil "badge" in the front. I'm not sure if that classifies as weird, but it's a thing of beauty.

I spent a few years making case mods. The first was all-black with a window and cathode light, very traditional by today's standards. Back in the day when beige was all you could get, this was pretty flashy. I made a Lego computer too, which was all the rage for awhile.

My pride and joy is the Fossil computer. It's wood and brass, nearly silent, and has a fossil "badge" in the front. I'm not sure if that classifies as weird, but it's a thing of beauty.

But then programs like PowerFPU were available that emulated the 040's FPU at near realtime speeds by doing the math on the PowerPC's FPU.

SoftFPU and PowerFPU are actually still available via the wayback machine (It cached the actual downloads):

http://web.archive.org/web/20020602022733/www.jna. com/softmacos.html

The BBC's dominance is something I noticed, too. Just a little present from me as a licence-fee payer to the rest of the world. I hope you find it useful.

Glad to hear that bbc.com now goes to the BBC, it used to be occupied by some bloke with a small business in Canada, who refused to give it up for many years. In fact the BBC's first foray onto the net back in Oct '96 was via the rather cumbersome bbcnc.org.uk - 'nc' for 'network club', as I recall. Try it. It beats bbc.co.uk by a couple of months.

According to archive.org, http://www.bomis.com/">bomis.com has always been a spamy looking directory site. No more porny than dmoz, but definately a little shady looking, like the kind of site thats setup just to get pagerank to defer to other sites.

Someone should add modern images to the soundtrack of this short, it would be quite scary.

I wouldn't go that far, but I think http://cowboyneal.org/Pater.jpg">Cowboy Neal needs breast reduction surgery ASAP!

I wonder if they ever thought about the Quality of the music they sell??

It's not just the quality of the music, it's the quality of the entire industry. I used to buy 3-4 CDs a month, but I'm so disgusted by the behaviour of the music industry representatives that I now only buy from local bands. I get a lot of good stuff from http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php too - there's more than 29,000 tracks there.

I have to correct myself;

According to
http://web.archive.org/web/19991116130844/archie.t h-darmstadt.de/why.html(german)

Archie was shutdown because the authors of the archie software were trying to earn a living from it without investing additional work in return. The universities felt they were getting cheated and dropped Archie.

I'll try to correct myself on /. if the thread is still open.

Sorry for the red herring/urban myth.

I had carpal tunnel from all the gaming I was doing (specifically Desert Combat.... it was like Desert Combat Syndrom). My wrist and hand were going numb and tingling after a while! Rather than go get surgery or take drugs to kill the pain (which is what most normal doctors would suggest) I went and had this deep muscle massage done called Active Release Therapy. It's very intensive and hurts like a mother fucker BUT after one 30 minute treatment... I was totally pain free. From what my practioner told me, it's just a matter of flattening out all the muscle knots that occur from the wear and tear. So now between coding and gaming, I do some simple hand/wrist stretching excerises and there hasn't been a problem since! The doctor who initially demonstrated these excercises has since retired but I found a snapshop on the internet archives: http://web.archive.org/web/20000304050523/http://w ww.orthohelp.com/exercts.htm Game/Code ON my brothers and sisters!

when it was called The Mushroom.

Archive.org link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010605231349/http://w ww.themushroom.com/index.html

Here's a link to the documentary series hosted at archive.org.

The Power of Nightmares

I'd definitely recommend watching the whole series, I think it's a series of 3 hour-long episodes. Informative and at times amusing.

Not a big deal.

http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php

GNOME, KDE users sign historic peace agreement

It appears that for now, the flamewar between fans of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments for Linux has come to an end, as both President Clinton and Linus Torvalds were on hand for the signing of the historic Madison Accord. The GNOME vs. KDE flamewar has already claimed casualties in the tens of thousands, and at times, threatened to destroy popular geek websites, such as Slashdot, entirely.

"Today is an historic day," Clinton said as he addressed the geek media. "From this time forward, it is my hope that KDE supporters and GNOME supporters can settle their differences in a civil and humane manner. I pray that we can now begin a time of healing and reconciliation in the Linux community."

The accord, which was the culmination of over two months of intense negotiations, was finally signed in the aftermath of some of the bloodiest GNOME-KDE violence seen thus far. At last week's LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, a band of GNOME extremists open-fired on a KDE demonstration booth, killing five and injuring several dozen. And last month, a member of the "Sons of K" terrorist organization suicide-bombed Red Hat's corporate headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. (Red Hat has long been known as a leading sponsor of GNOME development.)

Both KDE and GNOME fans were optimistic that the accord would lead to a lasting peace. "KDE is a lousy desktop with an inconsistent look and feel, and borrows way too much from the Windows interface," said GNOME and Enlightenment enthusiast PiXeld00d. "However, no one is forcing anyone to use it, and as long as major distributions such as Red Hat and Debian refuse to make it their default interface, I see no reason to instigate further violence."

"Let's face it, KDE is the most advanced, user-friendly desktop available for X11," said KDE user N0-f33r. "GNOME is only just out of beta after all this time, looks like crap, and comes nowhere near the number of features that KDE has. I can give my mom a KDE-based desktop and she'd know what to do. She'd be lost with GNOME. But you know what, since GNOME sucks so bad, no one's going to use it anyway, so there's nothing to worry about. I should probably go call of my network of hired assassins now."

Representatives from both KDE and GNOME factions resolved to unite against their common enemy: WindowMaker.

"I have no idea what this is all about," said Linus Torvalds, who uses FVWM. "I came for the free herring." /for more of these see http://web.archive.org/web/20020803000601/www.segf ault.org/stories/

It wasn't always so. Ah, the good old days.

Not buggy? Ya, right.
Why don't you state the real reason: MONOPOLY.

There use to be a website called www.bugtoaster.com. It's purpose was to track bugs in Windows and windows software. It went off line after 6/7/2005 but the last page of the OS bugs is at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040607071525/www.bugt oaster.com/dw15/Reports/OperatingSystems.asp

The owners of that site apparently were under the impression that Microsoft wanted to know about their bugs so they could fix them. Foolish people. What people actually learned when they reviewed the statistics collected by that site from Win95 through WinXP is that contrary to what Microsoft's PR department, their paid shills, astroturfers, journalists and 'consultants' said about how Windows was getting more stable with each version, the truth the data shows is that the stability has not improved at all.

Like victims of the Stockholm syndrome, users of Windows become sympathetic to their source of their torture. And, like a smoker reaching for a new cigarette when they have two already burning in the ash tray, people using Windows become unaware of the number of times their apps or machine crashes and if asked thinks the number is a lot lower than reality. The Bugtoaster data is like the pile of butts in the ash tray. They give a better measure of how many cigarettes the user smoked, and Bugtoaster gives a better measure of the average number of crashes a typical Windows users experiences.

My only question is what pushed Bugtoaster off line?

If you look at what the site used to look like BEFORE they moved everything round it's fairly obvious how he got confused:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041022104134/www.podk eyword.com/blog/
http://web.archive.org/web/20041022224801/www.podk eyword.com/add_keyword.php

From first looks it is just a directory service. Certainly nothing indicates that they will be pushing it to other sites using their redirection URL.

On the other hand it is fairly obviously just a miss-understanding - they removed it as soon as he asked. If they had just been a little more reasonable about putting it back when he found out that it was in common use we would never have to have heard anything about this.

If you look at what the site used to look like BEFORE they moved everything round it's fairly obvious how he got confused:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041022104134/www.podk eyword.com/blog/
http://web.archive.org/web/20041022224801/www.podk eyword.com/add_keyword.php

From first looks it is just a directory service. Certainly nothing indicates that they will be pushing it to other sites using their redirection URL.

On the other hand it is fairly obviously just a miss-understanding - they removed it as soon as he asked. If they had just been a little more reasonable about putting it back when he found out that it was in common use we would never have to have heard anything about this.

Your story is interesting except for the fact that if you check out the wayback machine and load up the history for spider.com you find that since 1997 it's been owned by spider software, and remains that way. No goth porn.

Your story is interesting except for the fact that if you check out the wayback machine and load up the history for spider.com you find that since 1997 it's been owned by spider software, and remains that way. No goth porn.

That, and http://www.dialpad.com/ has also been around since the late 90s. I remember making FREE PC-to-phone calls using Dialpad's Java applet. Then, at the very same time the free ISPs (Altavista, NetZero, etc.) stopped being free, so did Dialpad. And now, Yahoo! recycles their services by acquiring them and adding it to Yahoo! Messenger.

This is not news. Tell me Yahoo! is providing a Vonage-like service that will integrate my Yahoo! account, voicemail, email, and information services into my regular phone, and that will be news.