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  1. The Chtorr are here :( by Danathar · · Score: 1 · on Alien Rain Over India

    Oh well....I guess we're bound to end up chirping like birds and growing fur all over.

    http://www.chtorr.com/

  2. Gerrold was right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Alien Rain Over India

    The chtorr are invading!

  3. Re:Finally. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Behind the Fight to Control the Internet

    Sorry for the AC post (pub terminal), but my username Capt. James McCarthy come from the Chtorr War Series written by David Gerrold (Free plug David, now finish the series!!). Check it hear http://www.chtorr.com/books-chtorr1/chtorr1.htm

  4. Re:Skip chapter 14 by snuf23 · · Score: 1 · on Exultant
    Well if it's fucking yourself in sci-fi that you are concerned with, the classic novel is of course:

    The Man Who Folded Himself

    More self fucking than you can shake a, ahem, stick at.

  5. Re:Linux? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Lockheed Replaces 10,000 Solaris Seats with Linux
    All those Certified Microsoft Tecnicians wouldn't need to run around updating antivirus software anymore.
    Maybe.
    Wildly oversimplifying, I'll float the statement that MS traded security for market share throughout the '90s, and the worm has turned sufficiently chtorran to be a problem.
    I've been experiencing 'interesting' times with XP, the firewall, and the multi-function printer driver. Suddenly, the ambiguous administrator/plebian account model, the graphical interface (how counter-intuitively can we arrange the dialog boxes separating you and the 'system' tree view), and the hardware drivers becomes a total bore. I don't scan often, and it's easier to become the administrator and do that, than try to grasp WTF is going on with the configuration.
    Back on thread, there will be plenty of work for these Microsoft Certified Types, running about, keeping the emperor's new clothes tucked in.
    But my theory of the market is that there is a standard normal distribution of users, and no bulldozer exists that can push the lump over into the right tail, where they can bask in the glow of emacs.
    Gates knows this, and sleeps comfortably most nights. The real question then, is, how to market security without wiping out the usability. Mixed with the right new features, it shakes loose the upgraders...
  6. Books I read until I had a splitting headache... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1 · on A Good Summer Read?

    include Gerrold's Chtorr series.
    This is a cool site. Clicking on the 'Books' hotspot, amusingly, says that volume 5 will be out in 2002.
    This site, however, contradicts the first link.
    Gerrold's non-command of calendars has no negative effect on his writing.
    The first four books are full-on page-turners. We're given something of an anti-hero in a situation that continues to worsen throughout the series, depicting an ecological invasion of earth in some truly graphic imagery.
    Rumors to the effect that the Chtorr are merely a WMD project from Iraq that got a little out of hand are categorically denied by Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, as you may not find surprising.