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And you're right. DHCP should work, and I shouldn't have to resort to hacks like this to control it. There is ifplugd, but as far as I can tell, it's not usually included in the default boot process of any major distributions. I may be wrong on that, but I'm talking from the outside looking in - unplugging my network cable during boot time gives me that 60 second wait even in the likes of OpenSUSE.

Today was the first time I ever tried to participate in Digg. I'm not impressed at all. I know that by starting off on such a contentious issue, I've skewed my data, but general consensus in the comments seems to be that people won't "digg" anything that's even slightly critical of Digg.

So I say that the censorship issue is nothing to do with the admins at Digg. It's the users. Here at Slashdot we see views and ideas that are critical of this site all the time, often at +5. This is a very important difference, and I don't think I'll be going back to Digg after this. Either too many users are too narrow-minded to listen to potential criticism, or the balance of the story selection algorithm is off, and is too conducive to groupthink.

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I hope they organise the filters in the same way as GIMP as the featurelist grows (obviously right now there's no need for a Blur submenu with only one blur option, for example). Actually, I'll be annoyed and stop using it if they don't. So far, the emboss submenu seems justified, but it's little touches like calling it "edge detection" instead of "edge detect" that they need to watch out for.

I still say you're crazy for giving a shit about search though. I've been considering this sort of thing a lot myself lately. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to waste code and processor cycles on tags at all. It cost a lot of what would have been easily gained accuracy in 90% of cases, but I found tags too unpredictable compared to titles and article text anyway - they were causing chaos in a minority of searches, simply because Slashdotters can't be trusted.

But that's not my point. My point is that it doesn't matter in the slightest. It's at worst a corruption of a potential future search term on a tech website. The moment of fun we all got out of seeing "gay" come up on each story is worth more than that.

I'm in*, and I too was inspired by his post. Once I read that, I gave this day a real chance to shine, instead of just enjoying it, and it's quite true. If you spend a few hours of April 1st on the internet, it can really cheer you up.

Holy shit, I'm getting popups on Slashdot! Windows-targetted ones too!
Any insight anyone?

here is where I live. I've annotated my location quite clearly on a map of ULTIMATE SEA LEVEL RISE DESTRUCTION!
I'm not worried either. In fact, I'm looking forward to it. You see, I figure I'll have to act out one of those cool disaster-action movies, and I'll probably get a cut through my shirt on my upper arm, and a dirty face. I imagine that even if I have to make some tough decision, like whether or not to go back for the dog, at the end when everyone's ok, the dog will suddenly turn up, and there'll be a barbecue or something and I'll give the dog a burger.

a man standing on the street corner talking to Jesus with no pants on.
You sir, are an inspiration to my inner webcomic artist. You deserve this. May I suggest you print it out and frame it, as it is in your honor?