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If you had to pay $1 every time you linked to goatse.cx, would you link to it as much?

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According to the owner of the site refered to in the article:

As I have said many times in many places. NO, Desqview/X is NOT Free. As far as where the submitter got the idea that it was free, I have no idea.

The story is spurious. Misleading. False. Symantec haven't released the binaries as public domain.

Come on Slashdot, you can do better than that. At least an offical acknowledgement that you've run a misleading story is in order...

Since the Palm VII also uses Mobitex as the wireless network, I would think that you could either add your next i705 to your existing account, or create a new account and have them waive the activation fee.

Has anyone actually confirmed that this is true?

I've been unable to access the site http://disvr.cjb.net/freedv referenced in the article. If this is an offical Symantec decision, why aren't the binaries available from http://www.symantec.com? I just searched their site for the word "DesqView" and found no mention of this supposed release.

The alternative http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html posted here contains binaries but I can't see any mention of any official announcement by Symantec about the binaries now being in Public Domain.

The site http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X/, also mentioned in postings here on Slashdot, (and last updated Wed Apr 11 2001) says the following:

I built this page as soon as I heard that DesqView/X is available. As soon as I confirm the legality of the download, I will load the binaries up on this site. For right now, you can download DesqView/X from Amos Vryhof's page at: http://disvr.cjb.net/freedv/. There are also many useful links there

It seems to me that this rumour has been around for a few months now.

Finally, if this is true, why isn't there any announcements about it on comp.os.msdos.desqview?. And why did Amos Vryhof, presumably the owner of http://disvr.cjb.net/freedv recently start his own OpenDVX project on Sourceforge?

I'd love for it to be true, but until I see some official announcement from Symantec, I can't say that I believe it.

Has anyone actually confirmed that this is true?

I've been unable to access the site http://disvr.cjb.net/freedv referenced in the article. If this is an offical Symantec decision, why aren't the binaries available from http://www.symantec.com? I just searched their site for the word "DesqView" and found no mention of this supposed release.

The alternative http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html posted here contains binaries but I can't see any mention of any official announcement by Symantec about the binaries now being in Public Domain.

The site http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X/, also mentioned in postings here on Slashdot, (and last updated Wed Apr 11 2001) says the following:

I built this page as soon as I heard that DesqView/X is available. As soon as I confirm the legality of the download, I will load the binaries up on this site. For right now, you can download DesqView/X from Amos Vryhof's page at: http://disvr.cjb.net/freedv/. There are also many useful links there

It seems to me that this rumour has been around for a few months now.

Finally, if this is true, why isn't there any announcements about it on comp.os.msdos.desqview?. And why did Amos Vryhof, presumably the owner of http://disvr.cjb.net/freedv recently start his own OpenDVX project on Sourceforge?

I'd love for it to be true, but until I see some official announcement from Symantec, I can't say that I believe it.

ChessLine

Care to lose in a game of chess? Why talk about it, how about a challenge? This goes to any other Chess Player on this site.

Talk is cheap, So lets play and find out who the best Player on Slashdot really is shall we?

http://151.17.13.5/chessline/homepage.asp
ChessLine Go there to experience what chess is all about.

Maybe we can take this to the chessboards instead of bragging about our abilities on this forum.

The company responsible for this can be found here: http://leafrd2.cjb.net/ Click the LDE(X) at the top of the page to go to that section.

I find this program to hold vast potential, plus it's a ton of fun to set up and I find my productivity increases a lot when I use this shell. The sad part is that due to less and less interest and demand the company is finding it difficult to support further development. If any one is interested, download away, install, and get on the yahoo message forum and yack away. The support is excellent and the guys at Leaf really care and try to help!

This is even better!

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THIS IS A REAL SITE!

http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net

Here's the mirror:

http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net

It's slashdotted, but I've mirrored it here:

http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net/

Currently, I don't have a floppy drive at all in my PC. I was thinking exactly like you are when I built it without a floppy. But, I need to go get one anyway.

I didn't think I'd need a floppy because today's standard is CD. If I need to send someone files on physical media, I've got a CD-RW for that. If I get new software or new hardware with driver media, it'll be on CD. Great.

But just a few years ago things were still being put on floppies. And that's my problem. See, I went to install the latest drivers for a used P II system I bought for a family member, and they were only available as disk images. Okay, there are tools which can decompress them, like WinImage. That's fine for getting the drivers out of the image. Annoying that it just isn't zipped like normal people would do, but workable.

However, software disk images are another matter if they're in some weird self-floppy-writing format, which does sometimes happen. I have a lot of older software, mostly games, ("abandonware" sites mostly--call it piracy if you want, but I think we should preserve our gaming heritage, and if something is no longer retailed at all, I find no harm in archiving and occasionally playing it) on disk images in a dozen different formats. It's a big pain in the ass to deal with when you have to get around writing them to floppy, whereas you could write them on a floppy in no time if you actually had a floppy drive.

That problem is increased since I'm using VMWare and a trial copy of VirtualPC for Windows. I wanted to run a free (legally, too) copy of DR-DOS I got, but it's in a disk image format, and as far as I can tell--I'm not *completely* familiar with the programs, so maybe one or both have this function and I haven't found it--both VMWare and VirtualPC need to install an OS from media (unless you buy one of their retail "packs") and you can't just copy the DOS files from your HD into the virtual PC's HD.

So, it would be much easier if I just broke down and bought a floppy drive. Which I did, actually, but being a geek I thought it would be cool to get one of those old combo 3 1/2 inch and 5 1/14 inch drives that a couple of companies used to make, if I had to hook up a floppy. I bought one on eBay since they don't make 'em any more--but it arrived DOA, dammit. That of course is just a side rant. :-)

But anyway, I'll probably end up buying a shiny new 3 1/2 inch floppy drive just to deal with disk images. Dammit.

As a side note, I use and love Daemon Tools. Whenever I buy a new game with CD-check protection and can't find a simple way or crack to disable it, or if a new game I buy has CDA sound tracks, I can just make an image of the CD and a batch file to mount it in Daemon Tools before running the game. Very handy--no CD swapping, ever, which will be especially useful when I get around to building an ultimate arcade PC and an arcade cab around it. Daemon Tools is basically a free implementation of a Virtual CD program. I just wish there were a Virtual Floppy program that worked the same way, so that software and driver disk images could be easily and seamlessly written to a virtual floppy drive and then just as easily copied back onto the HD and zipped up in a standard archive if desired. That would be PERFECT for what I currently need a floppy for, and for all such "legacy" uses of floppy drives.

It's times like this when I wish I could code anything other than HTML. ;-)

Could someone try streaming from my ogg icecast and post what happens?

http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net/ogg/

More info can be found here: http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net/

This site Chess Line totally screws up now in the newest mozilla

Micheal Sims stinks!

OH NO!!!

OH NO!!!

Check CJB, which also has a great archive of old usenet posts. They even go into some of the old bitnet stuff!!!

CJB has a list of all the original 'firsts' on slashdot, as well as who posted them.

CJB also has a great archive of old usenet posts. They even go into some of the old bitnet stuff!!!

Benchmarks for the new Intel DDR chipsets can be found here: http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net/

A mirror for the Abiword letter has been put up here: http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net/

More information on Crusoe laptops can be found here, praise God! http://comp-u-geek.cjb.net/

Hell, I can still run the old Commander Keen games just fine (no sound card sound, but that's simply because I'm lazy and it's nostalgic for me to use the PC speaker for those games).

According to Jakob, It appears that both fashion sense and the Internet interface reached its peak in the 1970's :-)

> Perhaps this would be a good time to ask... does
&gt anyone know of a proxy that allows you to
&gt rewrite packets on the fly? I think the web's got
&gt to the point where I want to start overriding
&gt some HTML arbitrarily. I know regular
&gt expressions, so some sort of regex interpreter
&gt would be quite handy.

This might be what you're looking for, if you don't mind the windows-only-ness of it.

I owned the linksys BEFW11S4 for about a week , after which I traded it in for the SMC Barricade 7004AWBR . The SMC is a far nicer product.

Issues with the linksys hub were (in no particular order):

• http interface did not work correctly under Netscape or other non-IE browsers.
• 802.3 and SNAP headers?? Sorry, I don't own any HP equipment....
• Big honkin security hole in the web interface that exposes the router and ISP passwords in cleartext should anyone wish to drive by with an access point....

In addition to having none of the above problems, the SMC also provides a parallel port with an lpr print server (which works fine for my environment of IRIX, Linux, and MacOSX boxen). Upgrades to the SMC work fine via ftp and http from any of the above operating systems and have added additional features (restricting access to specific MAC addresses, supporting appletalk from wire to wireless, etc).

In short, I found the SMC superior to linksys and the Apple AP, and I'm not alone. After sending a note about my experiences to the author of this review...well, just read the Final update at the end of the page. Several other sysadmins at my site have also purchased the SMC and have similar praise for the unit.

I'll give you one reason: I'm a software developer, and one of those nasty hidden programs fucked up my system at work so bad that certain tools I have to use would not even start anymore.

It cost me 2 days to find that it was caused by something called newnet2_*.dll (IIRC), which appeared to do something with alternative TLD's. I was damned lucky to find it at that point because by chance I noticed this funny dll-name in the \winnt directory. It came with either Getright or Gozilla, programs that allowed me to resume a rather large download. More info on newnet at counterexploitation.

I did not know about ad-aware at that time. I now run it often, and I use Proxomitron as well. I found proxomitron here, 'official' site is here. Oh, and don't forget to get new definition files for Ad-Aware regularly!

It's precisley these people that the wantonly open trading of music helps most.

Damn right! As anyone who bothers to go out and support their local music scene knows, 99% of "garage bands" just want to play music, and the more people that hear their music the better. I was just talking to my friend this morning about how he had run into the guitar players for one of the hardcore bands around here over the weekend. The guitar player had been really nice and insisted that he take one of their demos (the only merchandise they have) for free so he would know the lyrics next time my friend saw them play.

The more I hear about these major labels and their bands whine about money, the more it makes me glad that I'm a part of the local independent music scene. There's a lot of absolutely incredible bands that I cannot believe how good they are and yet no one outside of the maybe 200 people who show up every weekend to go to shows knows about them. Come on people: if you're so sick of these major labels raping artists, and the artists bitching that their new CD is only selling a few million copies and that you owe them something, go out and support your scene! There are plenty of incredible bands in your area that would be more than happy for you to just come and hear them play.

And if you're in the NC area be sure to check out NCMusic.com for show listings or NCPunk.net for punk/emo/indie rock show listings and resources. And you must get off your lazy ass and see Beloved, Aria, Hopesfall, One Six Conspiracy, One Amazin' Kid, and Near the Never.

you think thats bad? i was caught off gaurd oneday, thank god no one else was around when someone sent me this anyway... if this site is still up i strongly encourage everyone NOT to go to it

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Can be found HERE

Sorry, I must be drain bamaged :) Here's the fixed link, in case you wanted to check it out. It's like slashdot, but oriented to hardware more.

Some installers have trouble with litestep, which is running on Windows, having the drives mapped is a pretty small issue. Does wine emulate the explorer shell api? Can installers running under wine get through their copy-"protection"?

I'm think I read that it does here- it's linked to from the main page, I'm too lazy to check what the exact URL is :\ They have some other news about software and OS developments for the x86 platform, if you're into that sort of thing.

i prefer to use the macs because the UI is much nicer than windows

The UI is a very superficial part of the OS. I use Windows with LiteStep. Add something like WindowBlinds and the default UI is pretty much gone.

So why Windows? It's easier to set up and more compatible than Linux/BSDs (now our server runs Linux, soon to run OpenBSD). It runs on cheaper hardware and is more compatible than MacOS. Most importantly, momentum. 'Course it was also free... (*cough* really!)

You might have some trouble with Mandrake, if you're running it on an Intel-compatible..

Quicktime for Linux has some serious problems, at least when it's running on an 80x86 computer.

Ford's been having some serious economic trouble lately, but I think they're justified.

Another funny lego movie is Legos are not Enough. [umich.edu] I saw this at a film festival, and it beat out all the other 'serious' films, even though it was made by a bunch of engineering students whereas its competition was made by people who wore a lot of black clothing.

Holy crap! That's me! That's us!

This certainly explains all the sudden congestion on our cable modem line. Everyone is trying to download our movie at once. I literally just ran up the stairs to tell my roommates (whom I made the movie with) that we were being Slashdotted. Wow.

I had thought about submiting our site (and movie) to Slashdot before. After all, the editors seem to be suckers for "LEGOmation" stories. I thought better of it, though. So, thank you for posting Mr. Anonymous Coward, sir. (Who are you, btw?)

For the record, though, we aren't all engineers. Two of us are studying Computer Engineering. One is studying Architecture, and the other is studying History. Also, let me just quickly mention that we won awards at that film festival for "Best of Show" and "Most Original."

Check out our website. It's actually http://4guys1brain.cjb.net/, but I had to move it when our port 80 got blocked due to Code Red.

OK, I'm all over the road at this point. I apologize for this rambling, slightly offtopic post, but I think I'm going to hit submit anyway...

While there is probably less incentive to do it, as there are less Macintosh applications around, it will probably be an easier project than wine.

• Carbon is probably a simpler API than win32, it was simplified to make the port to OS X possible.
• Carbon is very similar to the classical macintosh API. There is already an open-source project to support this API: Mace
• While the Carbon API is not well documented, it's ancestor classic was very well documented.

It must be noted that on Mac OS X, carbon calls are not mapped on cocoa calls. Both API access some private low-level API. There has been a lot of discussion about what API is more native, and it seems the answer is: none.

For those of you (like me) who still use Windows, you can download The Proxomitron at this site. The Proxomitron uses your local machine as a proxy, and allows you to delete banner ads, filter cookies,etc... It is very customizable.... For example, I allow cookies, but send fake ones back to the sites (except for slashdot and Enigmous of course). I also have animation disabled and javascript severely limited. You can disable the javascript that makes those nasty popup windows AFTER you exit the site...plus all your normal ones work, because it "restores popup windows after page loads".

I also have my user info as "Opera on Mandrake Linux 8.0" since I'll be switching when I get my new machine this winter....my user ID is my wish list :)

Anyway, it's a great program....... By the way, I am in not associated with the creator of the program in any way.....i just like it.

I have a mutli-level armored approach to browsing:

1. I installed Bugnosis which is designed specifically to deal with single pixels images that might be web bugs.
2. I use Proxomitron to do Javascript filtering. It cuts out the worst examples of Javascript annoyances (popups, leaving the page triggers, etc.) The filters are editable, so you can customize them yourself to filter out things like this spy script.
3. I route everything through Junkbuster, which gets rid of the ads that Proxomitron misses.

All of the above besides Junkbuster are Windows-only. The first one is specific to IE, but I end up using that anyhow, since it's the most stable Windows browser.

I can browse most sites that don't do stupid shit like refuse to serve pages to me if they cannot detect my browser (in which case, they are probably crap, anyhow). For shopping sites, I can just add the site to Junkbuster, or bypass the protection through Proxomitron. I am pop-up ad free, and I give out minimal information about myself. The other better way of browsing I could see would be to use an anonymous proxy, which would protect my IP addess.

Of course, this would bet better implemented via the browser. I was using Konqueror a lot at home under Linux, but it began crashing too much for my tastes. There, I've just stuck to using Mozilla with Junkbuster. Javascripts still sometimes get through, though.

hot pictures and gnomes at http://www.gnomeliberation.cjb.net/

... then check this out.