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You could've given us more details ;)

Gotta have More Power!

Microsoft has been testing around with flight software since XP called MSFlight.. here's the article to prove it..

Peter Jackson beat him to it.

Just apply some bearing grease!

You need to check out today's BBSpot article, then.

As well as silencing your computer fans, you can also silence your hard drive. Guaranteed you won't hear the sound of a whining hard drive ever again, or in fact any noise from your hard drive at all. One step closer to an all-silent computer system.

:-)

I'm still waiting for the fabled Open Source Cross Platform Virus that can be deliever to all mail system. Sure it require the recipient to uncompress and compile the virus, but it can hit ALL platforms.

Another slashdot cliche: "BSD is dying"

Of course, there is always the slashdot random story generator

One guy in our office had his default home page set to slashdot. Someone changed it to this page. It took him 10 minutes before he noticed.

I know the guy responsible for the "MSN Style sheet debacle". I know him well & trust him. The REAL truth? Like any other organisation, they can't test every single browser on the market, you well know there are hundreds. As any decent site does, they did their test matrix, with a defined cut off point, I think it was anything with more than .5% share (don't remember for sure if it was .5%) was in the matrix, if not, it was out. We all have finite test resources. Opera didn't even come close to .5% so it was off the test matrix. The guy who programmed it screwed it up, test didn't find it, it's that simple.

I think it was best said by cmdr taco himself: 'Never attribute to malice what can be more easily attributed to stupidity'

Brian did that one last December already.

It came this far already... :-)

We still have a ways to go before we reach the ultimate goal...

Number of linux distributions surpasses number of users.

Mods, this is satire, btw.

...and you may just win this contest.

coke parody - this is a parody of the MPAA actions in schools. Rather funny, once you read it all.

Dear Slashbots

It's only me, fully hetero Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, main admin 'dude' *high 5!!* at Slashdot.org [slashdort.org] [slashdot.org]: News for Nerds, Stuff that matters. And once more, I'm here to keep you abreast of the work that most of us (excl. Michael) get up to "behind the green curtain" in the backroom of Slashdot. All work to make your browsing experience as hassle free and easy as possible.

Now you may have read recently about radical changes I aim to make to the karma system in my fantastic journal. I said I was thinking of scrapping the whole -1 to +5 karma score system in favour of a vaguely defined alternative. I couldn't give more details then and there, because I was making it up as I go along, but at last I can finally unveil the basics of the new system, the better system to replace karma.

It was while I was recieving a soothing massage from my Shorinji Kempo partner (In case you're interested, it's a type of martial arts that focuses on massage as well as fighting. It's surprisingly good at toning and building muscles - my partner Curt is a particularly muscular and well developed and oiled man.) that I first came up with the idea I'm about to relate.

My aim in all of this would be to take the aggro out of the system. At the moment, people are always whining about this karma loss, or this unfair moderation, or this persons smoking crack, or this person needs more crack that I'm totally sick of the lot of you.

OK, from now on, instead of assigning a bullshit phrase that is poorly understood like "Insightful", Slashdot will let mods say "I don't like this" or "I like this". Simple is good. And so there's no abuse, you will be able to see on each comment who modded you down so you can discuss amicably where or why your post was unlikable.

This is obviously a recipe for good success and cheer! Everyone will be happy to see why they are modded down, and will probably remember next time they post or get mod points who it was who did so. The last thing we want is the status quo, with the vicious backbiting, infighting and stupid cliques.

Anyway, let me know what you think. We really value your feedback. The new system starts next Tuesday though, so make sure your messages are short and to the point. You can feedback in my fantastic journal, as long as you are on my friend list i.e. one of the other admin staff. (Michael, I'll put you back on friend when you put my stapler back. I *bought* that stapler with *my* money.)

Til next Tuesday: Taco out!!

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. (Right click and select "Save Image". Then right click on your desktop, and select "properties". In the "background" tab select "browse", find the file and click OK, then "Tile" in the dialog box, then OK again.)


Addendum:
Owing to unforeseen difficulties, we are forced to withdraw our Open Source Slashdot Google Alternative. Sadly, users looking for pages on aardvark were directed to an all to familiar gaping rectal cavity. Ironically the "Arsehole" term was stuffed with URLs of aardvark pictures. Curse you trolls. Is nothing sacred? AND I AM NOT GAY.

P.P.S. Shorinji Kempo IN ACTION!!!

Dear Slashbots

It's only me, fully hetero Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, main admin 'dude' *high 5!!* at Slashdot.org [slashdort.org] [slashdot.org]: News for Nerds, Stuff that matters. And once more, I'm here to keep you abreast of the work that most of us (excl. Michael) get up to "behind the green curtain" in the backroom of Slashdot. All work to make your browsing experience as hassle free and easy as possible.

Now you may have read recently about radical changes I aim to make to the karma system in my fantastic journal. I said I was thinking of scrapping the whole -1 to +5 karma score system in favour of a vaguely defined alternative. I couldn't give more details then and there, because I was making it up as I go along, but at last I can finally unveil the basics of the new system, the better system to replace karma.

It was while I was recieving a soothing massage from my Shorinji Kempo partner (In case you're interested, it's a type of martial arts that focuses on massage as well as fighting. It's surprisingly good at toning and building muscles - my partner Curt is a particularly muscular and well developed and oiled man.) that I first came up with the idea I'm about to relate.

My aim in all of this would be to take the aggro out of the system. At the moment, people are always whining about this karma loss, or this unfair moderation, or this persons smoking crack, or this person needs more crack that I'm totally sick of the lot of you.

OK, from now on, instead of assigning a bullshit phrase that is poorly understood like "Insightful", Slashdot will let mods say "I don't like this" or "I like this". Simple is good. And so there's no abuse, you will be able to see on each comment who modded you down so you can discuss amicably where or why your post was unlikable.

This is obviously a recipe for good success and cheer! Everyone will be happy to see why they are modded down, and will probably remember next time they post or get mod points who it was who did so. The last thing we want is the status quo, with the vicious backbiting, infighting and stupid cliques.

Anyway, let me know what you think. We really value your feedback. The new system starts next Tuesday though, so make sure your messages are short and to the point. You can feedback in my fantastic journal, as long as you are on my friend list i.e. one of the other admin staff. (Michael, I'll put you back on friend when you put my stapler back. I *bought* that stapler with *my* money.)

Til next Tuesday: Taco out!!

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. (Right click and select "Save Image". Then right click on your desktop, and select "properties". In the "background" tab select "browse", find the file and click OK, then "Tile" in the dialog box, then OK again.)


Addendum:
Owing to unforeseen difficulties, we are forced to withdraw our Open Source Slashdot Google Alternative. Sadly, users looking for pages on aardvark were directed to an all to familiar gaping rectal cavity. Ironically the "Arsehole" term was stuffed with URLs of aardvark pictures. Curse you trolls. Is nothing sacred? AND I AM NOT GAY.

P.P.S. Shorinji Kempo IN ACTION!!!

You've obviously never heard of the Mac for mac Lovers. . .

On today's modern machines, what miniscule percentage of CPU would it actually use to send this outgoing spam? I could easily see one "cpu hour" equating to one "spamming week"...

Makes me wonder, though...

1) Pull 386 from basement and install spamming software (1 CPU hour = 1 hour)
1.5) Optional: ever heard of Underclocking?
2) OUTBOUND HOST MODIFICATOR: tracker.virtualmda.com unchanged; all others routed to all.roads.lead.to.localhost:25
3) Spam spam spam spam spam
4) ???
5) Profit.

Microsoft buys evil from Satan, says it will be an asset in the new economy.

It happened a few years ago: Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming.

Here's a news clipping (albiet a blooper):
Cumming woman dies in Buford Dam Road Accident

The only news on /. I'll believe on April 1 are stories about SCO being scum or Microsoft being evil monopolists.

OK, Here you go!

The only news on /. I'll believe on April 1 are stories about SCO being scum or Microsoft being evil monopolists.

OK, Here you go!

The only news on /. I'll believe on April 1 are stories about SCO being scum or Microsoft being evil monopolists.

OK, Here you go!

That's nothing dude, you should see it in my computer. Last year I bought a Radeon 9500 ASC for enhancing my Nethack games, and it turns out IF Quake also uses the onboard acceleration! When I tell people I'm playing IF Quake at 1,000 FPS I get all sorts of jealous looks. And the "Rottweilers", man they look so realistic and scary.

maybe you can use this card ATI Radeon 9500 ASC,
the article also meantion the Nvidas GeForce 4900 MX-ASCII

Here's a review of BuyMusic.com. Some of the reasons for it's unpopularity are pretty obvious from the review.

We have a treaty with Australia on intellectual property.

It's called the Berne Convention.

So at this point whatever it is one nation does when another nation fails to uphold the Berne Convention should, presumably, kick in.

But, clearly, the Bush administration is still trying to find "the real killers", so they don't have time to get jiggy with Australia.

Stay tuned for further developments.

Darl: "Hey, let's sue the NSA." Same scene, later that day. Random SCO employee: "Umm, Mr. McBride, sir, there are a whole lot of people in ill-fitting suits who want to 'talk' with you ...."

Reminds me of a horoscope I once got from BBspot

"Suing Linux users may have seemed a good idea at the time but now there are 10,000 penguins waiting in the lobby and they look pretty pissed"

Old but still funny.

Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP

Aparently Apple is releasing a new imac, specifically desinged for the ladies. Dont worry guys, there is one for us aswell. Here is the article

Dell have already taken that step.

Dell CEO Replaced by Calcutta Orangutan

Aaaah a plush CEO.

For a second there I was starting to think this was true!

...to India!

It's true! I read it on BBspot earlier today!

I saw this earlier in the day. It's almost propehtic

Sad that I first heard about this story over here...

A Calcutta Orangutang.

Reminds me of this:

Number of linux distros surpasses number of linux users.

5.1 boots faster and has anti-aliased text. It also blows chunks. If I don't figure out how to kick MSN messenger out of the system tray soon I'll be able to post a "Effects of a Fist Impact on an LCD Display" story on Slashdot (though it won't be as funny as a randomly-generated Slashdot story).

Oh! Catan, not Satan.

For some reason I thought that this topic was just a rehash of a past Microsoft acquisition...

How about this guy? He already has a record as a bad apple.

Slashdot Story Generator

Of course, according to this article, the new name is RestartNow

Kind of like this?

Allow me to one up you: clicka

Featured in today's BBlooper

What sort of 3D accelerator do you use to get nethack running right?

Here's the card you want: The Radeon 9500 ASC. 1000 fps -- I can't wait until I can save up enough for that bad boy.

"This version [...] does [not] have a shutoff date"

Talking about companies, if I were the Microsoft website manager I would start thinking about changing domain. What about RestartNow.com