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What do you do with older parts? Well you build a mame cabinet of course!!! You can see CmdrTaco's here or find any other number of example on the internet...why let old hardware get wasted...use it for pointless (but fun) games :)

I to was once at a loss when it came to handling email. I didn't know what to do with the tool.

Since then I have discovered that email is a wonderful tool for getting in trouble while drunk. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of ways to get in trouble operating a computer while drunk. I currently have a Compaq Proliant 6500 sitting in my bedroom due to a drunken visit to ebay. But email is much more effective. In my time, I've managed to let a heavily armed coworker know that I wished to knot and couple like frogs in a cistern. This, of course got me fired. I also managed to challenge ESR to a duel and notify our beloved Malda that his girlfriend is a beast.

After enough of these episodes, I've come to realize that this is the real purpose of email. To let you say those things you only say while drunk to anyone at any time.

Truly a marvelous invention Mr. Katz, I wonder that you did not touch on this aspect.

Your friend,
--Shoeboy

Maybe CmdrTaco can learn a few pointers from this guy ;)

Science: The Delights of Chemistry
Posted by Hemos on Thursday August 30, @03:15PM
from the ka-RASH dept.
Dan Ormsby writes: "No news on this site, just great photos of chemical phenomena along with instructions on how to bring a website to a grinding halt. Don't try this at home!"

What does CmdrTaco think about small penises??Read all about it at http://cmdrtaco.net/rants/penis.shtml!!!

AC

It looks like they have worked out some kind of AI Unit to manipulate the ball.
It looks pretty promising.

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Then why did you link to it in your post? Silly taco.
Heh. ./ slashdotted itself.
BTW, I had been wondering what this was for.

Blame Cisco

Times have changed,
Our Slashdot's getting worse,
There's no more "stuff that matters,"
Just a hit on VA's purse!

Should we blame the government?
Or blame our ISP?
Or should we blame the h4x0rs at DirecTV?

No!
Blame Cisco! Blame Cisco!
With their blinking LEDs,
And inflated techsupport fees,
Blame Cisco! Blame Cisco!
We need to form a full assault!
It's Cisco's fault!

Don't blame me for old JonKatz,
He lost his damn connection,
Now he's shooting at little brats!
And poor Roblimo once had
pictures of Heidi Wall,
But now, when I see him,
He tells me to suck his balls!

Well,
Blame Cisco! Blame Cisco!
It seems like everything's gone down
Since Cisco came to town.
Blame Cisco! Blame Cisco!
They're not even a real company, anyway.

Slashdot could've been the place to get our fix of daily news,
Instead we just get jpegs of the results of anal screws!

Should we blame the Editors?
Should we blame the Trolls?
Or the moderators who let them take their toll?

Heck, no!
Blame Cisco! Blame Cisco!
With all their worthless stock options,
And that bitch Anne Tomlinson,
Blame Cisco! Shame on Cisco, for...

The crap that we flood,
The news that's a dud,
The MPAA,
Your Rights gone away:
We must blame Cisco! Shout and cuss -
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

For instance, Shane Nay and I implemented old-style Linux a.out shared libraries because of significant overhead in MIPS PIC code. There's no dynamic linking, but boy does it run faster. Some people are playing with dynamic-linking applications into a common base executable. And so on. Maybe these things seem silly on a desktop box, but this kind of embedded environment is clearly not a desktop box....

http://cmdrtaco.net/cabinet/

Rob Malda has a few of his own and has built a mame machine, and also built the cabinet himself.

It looks very nice and he has it kind of well documented with links to the places to get any plans and other stuff you may need. have fun
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Kenny Sabarese
Left Ear Music
AIM: kfs27
irc.openprojects.net #windowmaker

Bush bolts GOP to join Democrats, fires entire Whitehouse staff

Linus Torvalds to join Microsoft as OfficeXP advocate

NASA on Moonshots, "Ok, ok, they were all actually faked on a soundstage in Toledo, Ohio and the ISS is really in a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey"

Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison to give fortune to charity, dumps japanese kimonos for Dockers and GAP T-shirts

RIAA to drop all charges against Napster, "All a big fsck-up, we'll all get rich together"

Taiwan throws in towel, joins PRC, turning over massive US military and intelligence assets

Rob Malda signed by Disney, epic picture planned, based upon this short. Sez Malda, "Anime's not mainstream enough anyway."

--
All your .sig are belong to us!

My opinion is that to many people want cheese with their whine.

That should be too not "to". Heaven forbid if CmdTaco ever moved to a true printed medium and had to deal with editors!

I agree with CmdrTaco's comments on the original article. People are going to cheat anyway. I tend to play online games against people I know. I used to spend up to eight hours a day (hey, I work for a university!) playing Rise of Rome online. It seemed that for every "good" game, you'd have to put up with about four "bad" games (people whining about options, then dropping, immature kids, etc). It just wasn't worth it. I'd rather play against people I know and I don't have to worry about them cheating.

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. MMOG (Massivly Multiplayer Online Games) can NOT exist soley with people you know.

The "exclamation point" shown on http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia /asom/artifact_html/slide.asp?image=18 is clearly not "!" but "/." Someone on the surface obviously created a giant palm robot running on parrot and driven by a mutant hamster

Probably the Techno Talking Babes or Neil & Bob

Ok, I'll start the troll:
The only distro that's best suited to your needs is Linux From Scratch, just because you have to choose the packages yourself.

Err, maybe LFS does not really qualify as a distro...

ie. is it goatsex that is leading the way?
Or is it plain Jane erotica?
Or do people simply not care as long as it's free?

That's the kind of metrics I care about. Maybe we could loosen the religious right's hold on America if we could show that, indeed, most people in this country are depraved lunatics. After all we are a D E M O C R A C Y right?

Steven

Serious Security flaw in US Anti-Missle Defence System
by Hemos

Will the War Delay Kernel Release?
by CmdrTaco

War is Targetted at Geeks Like Me and You by JohnKatz

Take a look at Animation Master's Site This is a very good low priced animation package that rivals the big boys. It was used to create Alien Song and the unforgettable animations by our own Rob Malda

It is a good example of what your average Joe can come up with.

Homosexual? Me?!

Homosexual? Me?!

All generalizations are false.

go to IRC because it's somewhere that magically makes their penis extend two or three whole inches
Why do that when there's an even easier way!

Part of the solution is to make people use their real names. This really helps make the WELL much more personal and intimate.
People usually use their nicks to hide behind - either because they don't want the world to know what a vulnerable, sensitive guy they really are or because they need to project a powerful, dynamic image to compensate for personal shortcomings. That's why some of the best posters on slashdot use their real names.
Using your real name gives your communications a sense of directness that is essential for understanding. It also reminds people that they are dealing with a real person which helps make them more respectful.
Real names are the essence of community.
--Peter David Johnson

try The Linus Torvalds Documentation Project

Speaking of which, check out CmdrTaco's Hamster Havoc with just what you describe.

As Slashdot is not a primary source, I hesitate to say it must be held to any sort of journalistic "standard".

OTOH, I observe two things: first, Slashdot should make a little more effort to verify a submission's claims. Take for example the story about Compaq violating the GPL. Once somebody bothered to read the licence agreement for the package in question, it was observed that Compaq wrote it and that it was under no obligation to GPL it, and so what?

Second, Slashdot does update a story with a correction/retraction once it understands that one is necessary. Just over six hours after the above story broke, an update appeared:

Update: 09/13 05:16 PM by CT: we screwed this one up. The link is somewhat misleading since it says its a link to Linux Source, but its not actually the linux source, its just some code that runs on linux. Stop flaming please. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Also to its credit, unlike some places, Slashdot keeps the updated story out there, warts, corrections and all.

Ultimately, the marketplace will determine Slashdot's viability as a place to do something more than shoot the shit. its journalistic integrity, not its journalistic ethics, is what makes us decide whether the "News for Nerds" is news at all. If every third story is incorrect, then Slashdot is just another messaging board where owners and posters alike are spouting random nonsense of random validity.

Perhaps we need a kuro5hin-style submission queue, where stories get voted onto the main page by a team of moderators/bullshit detectors. If enough submission moderators decide a story has enough karma, it gets published. That way, we can have a cabal! Whee!

--

...another comment from Michael Tandy.

But when you can only watch karma go down, that gives the impression that you are no longer actually doing anything useful. (Plus it's possible to actually lose karma on a score 4 post!) It takes away the measure of how well you've been contributing.

(To lose karma on a score 4 post, get modded up to 5, then modded down. The +3/4 (depending on the starting score) will be dropped, but that last -1 will strike you!)

Keep in mind that without the karma cap, I tried to actually be meaningful because I could get feedback via moderation. Now the only feedback I get is from watching each post and reading and responding to replies. This is more work, and it means that in order to guage how well I'm doing on Slashdot, I have to go through my user history list and check on all my comments: not fun.

Besides, all karma really does is turn Slashdot into a game. In some Geeks in Space episode, CmdrTaco (I think) was talking about the (then) new experience point/level system in Everything2, and how it turned it basically into a game. Same thing with karma. Cap the max score, and then it becomes pointless to try and be useful. The bottom line is the karma cap has at best pissed a lot of the karma whores off. It has at worst turned some people into trolls .

So yeah, whenever I have something useful to say, I'll say it, but I won't try and be as nice. If you look through my recent comments, I'm starting to become more of a troll simply due to boredom. (And, probably, due to the fact I really don't have anything to say.)

I really don't think the karma gap has done anything useful. What Rob should really do is consider how to make moderating actually worth while for a moderator. The novelty wares off quickly. Honestly, it really isn't worth the hour it would take me to be a Good Moderator. So maybe that's why moderators seem to suck - they really don't have the time to go over every little thing and figure out how best to moderate. That's how things like the DAEHTIHS protocol get moderated up as "insightful" until someone suggests reading DAEHTIHS backwards.

People, please don't get upset at CmdrTaco and Hemos as it is obviously not them that is posting the same stories over and over (and over) again. It is the evil hackers who cracked their security and installed a bot that takes an earlier story and reposts it. It's nothing but an elaborate version of the many trollbots.

kc.

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Build a soundcard that doesn't suck, and

Oppose Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC, in every way, shape, and form.

Sony already has a pair of these, called the PC Glasstron. It sells for a whopping $2599.00 and offers a virtual 30" display and built-in earbuds. However, the resolution is low (832x624) and it is not for all users: "Note: This product should not be used by children age 15 or younger. Individuals with eye or heart disease or injury or high blood pressure should consult a doctor prior to use." Uh oh, that looks like all computer users over 40 and under 15. Once again, Sony caters to the super-rich.

If I wanted fake news, I would go to Segfault.org and get it there. I come to Slashdot to get quick, reliable, updates.

Furthermore, how could CmdrTaco even possibly believe this story is true? Why would a company give you their stock to stop pirating their games? Isn't that like paying you to stop? Why not just prosecute you if they have actually found out who you are and what you are doing?

"If I had a stock option for every game I pirated..."

( Read More... | 768 comments | Your Rights Online )

Miniskirt-clad girls save universe
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @08:25AM
from the roketto-ga-sugoi dept.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com is reporting that earlier this morning in Tokyo, five girls in color-coded blouses and miniskirts transformed into scantily-clad superheroes. The five girls then screamed, hurled glowing balls of energy, and screamed some more at a thirty-tentacled monster. Still no word on whether this is connected to the large humanoid robots spotted battling last week in Osaka.

( Read More... | 168 comments )

Slashback: Frisson, Sesquipedalianity, Responsitivitiness
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 08, @10:45AM
from the beware-the-froomious-bandersnatch dept.
It was a dark and stormy night. In a salutiferous octastyle basement, an ultracrepidarian man was hermtically hunched over a piperaceous desk beneath a ornate mazarine, typing furiously away on an obumbrate keyboard. Meanwhile, in a meandrine corner of the world, several setose seeds were being entrenched in the muculent minds of the hoi polloi.

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Traffic Cops' "Justice" and Napster
Posted by JonKatz on Friday August 18, @11:30AM
from the post-hellmouth-world dept.
Just as Shadowrun predicted, The Corporate Republic took another step in assailing geeks today by handing Shawn Fanning a $L00 speeding ticket. This narcissism is harmful because it shrinks the creative universe of media workers and disconnects them from the new global conversation taking place online. Hubcaps have sparked a cultural and economic revolution that is just beginning to be understood. Will we see an increase in the number of Chickdrivers receiving "closed" traffic tickets as well, or will the Edge power a paradigm shift to "open" community-based traffic laws?

( Read More... | 598235 bytes in body | 657 flames | Features )

Ask Slashdot: Are Corporations Trying To Make Money?
Posted by Cliff on Friday August 18, @1:25PM
from the yet-another-article-from-the-something-to-think-ab out dept.
www.sorehands.com writes: "Today I visited Yahoo and was shocked to see a banner advertisement - I thought I'd managed to block every form of advertisement possible with Junkbusters. After thinking about it some, I realized Yahoo was probably running advertisement in a crass, commercialized attempt to make money off of my web-surfing habits! Could there be any other corporations out there engaged in similarly devious practices?" An interesting question here: Are some companies attempting to turn a profit, and, if so, what can we do to prevent it?

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Autospy of a Furby
Posted by michael on Friday August 18, @3:43PM
from the deja-vu dept.

Vladinator writes "Ever wonder what it's like to take apart a Furby? I don't, because I saw this on Slashdot two years ago, but I needed some karma so I submitted it anyway. Fawking trolls!" Those of who you started reading Slashdot this week may not have seen this page yet, so I'm re-running this classic for you three newbies.

( Read More... | 1 FIRST POST! )

Interstate Highway Boycott Planned
Posted by emmett on Friday August 18, @6:25PM
from the fight-the-power dept.
Bowie J. Poag writes: "You guys are idiots and VA sucks, but being the nice guy that I am [Update: 08/18 11:11 AM by CT: Further investigation reveals that he isn't ] I thought I'd let you know that know Wired is reporting that a boycott is being proposed against the interstate highway system for its treatment of Shawn Fanning. The interstate highway sucks almost as much as anime! PROPAGANDA RULES!!!!!" It's good to see that some people are taking the battle for free (as in Willy) highways into their own hands.

( Read More... | 218 comments )

Holland Convenience Store Switches To Linux
Posted by Hemos on Friday August 18, @9:33PM
from the key-victory-for-open-source dept.
Today while visiting my local 7-11 in Holland, MI, I noticed that their inventory computer was running Linux! Best of all, a representative from the store assured me, due to complaints from Bruce Perens, that the store may consider GPLing its inventory "sometime in the future." Looks like another business has finally "got it" and adopted the tenets of the free software movement.

( Read More... | 164 comments )

Napster? Napster Napster
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @11:25PM
from the napster dept.
Napster Napster Napster. Napster, Napster Napster Napster! Napster Napster (Napster) Napster Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster. "Napster Napster Napster," Napster Napster. Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster.

( Read More... | 304 comments | Napster!! )

( Read More... | 768 comments | Your Rights Online )

Miniskirt-clad girls save universe
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @08:25AM
from the roketto-ga-sugoi dept.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com is reporting that earlier this morning in Tokyo, five girls in color-coded blouses and miniskirts transformed into scantily-clad superheroes. The five girls then screamed, hurled glowing balls of energy, and screamed some more at a thirty-tentacled monster. Still no word on whether this is connected to the large humanoid robots spotted battling last week in Osaka.

( Read More... | 168 comments )

Slashback: Frisson, Sesquipedalianity, Responsitivitiness
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 08, @10:45AM
from the beware-the-froomious-bandersnatch dept.
It was a dark and stormy night. In a salutiferous octastyle basement, an ultracrepidarian man was hermtically hunched over a piperaceous desk beneath a ornate mazarine, typing furiously away on an obumbrate keyboard. Meanwhile, in a meandrine corner of the world, several setose seeds were being entrenched in the muculent minds of the hoi polloi.

( Read More... | 9235 bytes in body | 214 comments )

Traffic Cops' "Justice" and Napster
Posted by JonKatz on Friday August 18, @11:30AM
from the post-hellmouth-world dept.
Just as Shadowrun predicted, The Corporate Republic took another step in assailing geeks today by handing Shawn Fanning a $L00 speeding ticket. This narcissism is harmful because it shrinks the creative universe of media workers and disconnects them from the new global conversation taking place online. Hubcaps have sparked a cultural and economic revolution that is just beginning to be understood. Will we see an increase in the number of Chickdrivers receiving "closed" traffic tickets as well, or will the Edge power a paradigm shift to "open" community-based traffic laws?

( Read More... | 598235 bytes in body | 657 flames | Features )

Ask Slashdot: Are Corporations Trying To Make Money?
Posted by Cliff on Friday August 18, @1:25PM
from the yet-another-article-from-the-something-to-think-ab out dept.
www.sorehands.com writes: "Today I visited Yahoo and was shocked to see a banner advertisement - I thought I'd managed to block every form of advertisement possible with Junkbusters. After thinking about it some, I realized Yahoo was probably running advertisement in a crass, commercialized attempt to make money off of my web-surfing habits! Could there be any other corporations out there engaged in similarly devious practices?" An interesting question here: Are some companies attempting to turn a profit, and, if so, what can we do to prevent it?

( Read More... | 3082 bytes in body | 345 comments )

Autospy of a Furby
Posted by michael on Friday August 18, @3:43PM
from the deja-vu dept.

Vladinator writes "Ever wonder what it's like to take apart a Furby? I don't, because I saw this on Slashdot two years ago, but I needed some karma so I submitted it anyway. Fawking trolls!" Those of who you started reading Slashdot this week may not have seen this page yet, so I'm re-running this classic for you three newbies.

( Read More... | 1 FIRST POST! )

Interstate Highway Boycott Planned
Posted by emmett on Friday August 18, @6:25PM
from the fight-the-power dept.
Bowie J. Poag writes: "You guys are idiots and VA sucks, but being the nice guy that I am [Update: 08/18 11:11 AM by CT: Further investigation reveals that he isn't ] I thought I'd let you know that know Wired is reporting that a boycott is being proposed against the interstate highway system for its treatment of Shawn Fanning. The interstate highway sucks almost as much as anime! PROPAGANDA RULES!!!!!" It's good to see that some people are taking the battle for free (as in Willy) highways into their own hands.

( Read More... | 218 comments )

Holland Convenience Store Switches To Linux
Posted by Hemos on Friday August 18, @9:33PM
from the key-victory-for-open-source dept.
Today while visiting my local 7-11 in Holland, MI, I noticed that their inventory computer was running Linux! Best of all, a representative from the store assured me, due to complaints from Bruce Perens, that the store may consider GPLing its inventory "sometime in the future." Looks like another business has finally "got it" and adopted the tenets of the free software movement.

( Read More... | 164 comments )

Napster? Napster Napster
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @11:25PM
from the napster dept.
Napster Napster Napster. Napster, Napster Napster Napster! Napster Napster (Napster) Napster Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster. "Napster Napster Napster," Napster Napster. Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster.

( Read More... | 304 comments | Napster!! )

( Read More... | 768 comments | Your Rights Online )

Miniskirt-clad girls save universe
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @08:25AM
from the roketto-ga-sugoi dept.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com is reporting that earlier this morning in Tokyo, five girls in color-coded blouses and miniskirts transformed into scantily-clad superheroes. The five girls then screamed, hurled glowing balls of energy, and screamed some more at a thirty-tentacled monster. Still no word on whether this is connected to the large humanoid robots spotted battling last week in Osaka.

( Read More... | 168 comments )

Slashback: Frisson, Sesquipedalianity, Responsitivitiness
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 08, @10:45AM
from the beware-the-froomious-bandersnatch dept.
It was a dark and stormy night. In a salutiferous octastyle basement, an ultracrepidarian man was hermtically hunched over a piperaceous desk beneath a ornate mazarine, typing furiously away on an obumbrate keyboard. Meanwhile, in a meandrine corner of the world, several setose seeds were being entrenched in the muculent minds of the hoi polloi.

( Read More... | 9235 bytes in body | 214 comments )

Traffic Cops' "Justice" and Napster
Posted by JonKatz on Friday August 18, @11:30AM
from the post-hellmouth-world dept.
Just as Shadowrun predicted, The Corporate Republic took another step in assailing geeks today by handing Shawn Fanning a $L00 speeding ticket. This narcissism is harmful because it shrinks the creative universe of media workers and disconnects them from the new global conversation taking place online. Hubcaps have sparked a cultural and economic revolution that is just beginning to be understood. Will we see an increase in the number of Chickdrivers receiving "closed" traffic tickets as well, or will the Edge power a paradigm shift to "open" community-based traffic laws?

( Read More... | 598235 bytes in body | 657 flames | Features )

Ask Slashdot: Are Corporations Trying To Make Money?
Posted by Cliff on Friday August 18, @1:25PM
from the yet-another-article-from-the-something-to-think-ab out dept.
www.sorehands.com writes: "Today I visited Yahoo and was shocked to see a banner advertisement - I thought I'd managed to block every form of advertisement possible with Junkbusters. After thinking about it some, I realized Yahoo was probably running advertisement in a crass, commercialized attempt to make money off of my web-surfing habits! Could there be any other corporations out there engaged in similarly devious practices?" An interesting question here: Are some companies attempting to turn a profit, and, if so, what can we do to prevent it?

( Read More... | 3082 bytes in body | 345 comments )

Autospy of a Furby
Posted by michael on Friday August 18, @3:43PM
from the deja-vu dept.

Vladinator writes "Ever wonder what it's like to take apart a Furby? I don't, because I saw this on Slashdot two years ago, but I needed some karma so I submitted it anyway. Fawking trolls!" Those of who you started reading Slashdot this week may not have seen this page yet, so I'm re-running this classic for you three newbies.

( Read More... | 1 FIRST POST! )

Interstate Highway Boycott Planned
Posted by emmett on Friday August 18, @6:25PM
from the fight-the-power dept.
Bowie J. Poag writes: "You guys are idiots and VA sucks, but being the nice guy that I am [Update: 08/18 11:11 AM by CT: Further investigation reveals that he isn't ] I thought I'd let you know that know Wired is reporting that a boycott is being proposed against the interstate highway system for its treatment of Shawn Fanning. The interstate highway sucks almost as much as anime! PROPAGANDA RULES!!!!!" It's good to see that some people are taking the battle for free (as in Willy) highways into their own hands.

( Read More... | 218 comments )

Holland Convenience Store Switches To Linux
Posted by Hemos on Friday August 18, @9:33PM
from the key-victory-for-open-source dept.
Today while visiting my local 7-11 in Holland, MI, I noticed that their inventory computer was running Linux! Best of all, a representative from the store assured me, due to complaints from Bruce Perens, that the store may consider GPLing its inventory "sometime in the future." Looks like another business has finally "got it" and adopted the tenets of the free software movement.

( Read More... | 164 comments )

Napster? Napster Napster
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @11:25PM
from the napster dept.
Napster Napster Napster. Napster, Napster Napster Napster! Napster Napster (Napster) Napster Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster. "Napster Napster Napster," Napster Napster. Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster.

( Read More... | 304 comments | Napster!! )

Rob Malda is my personal savior. He can be yours too.

And I didn't mean that OpenWindows looks "worse" than FVWM; I meant that it's the only thing I've seen that has FVWM beat in the default config's sparseness.

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All generalizations are false.

Maybe if you and the others who posted to that story didn't bother to read Cmdr Taco's intro to the story:

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 20, @08:15AM
from the but-think-of-the-alternatives dept.
alessio writes: "On the front page of Linux Weekly News there is a report from the Ottawa Linux Symposium where the adorable Miguel de Icaza supposedly states that Unix has been built wrong from the ground up." It's actually a pretty cool interview, and as always, Miguel makes his point without any candy coating! The major point is the lack of reusable code between major applications (a major problem that both KDE and GNOME have been striving to fix for some time now).

Seems to me like he explained pretty well what it was about plus "Unix Sucks" was what Miguel's seminar was entitled. So what is your problem?


PS: About the the fact that slashdot publishes links to opinions on webboards...isn't that what people read slashdot for? Major Linux and Perl were made and are made not with press releases but via discussions on USENET and webboards.

PPS: Slashdot posts stories submitted by readers. The headlines are not picked by slashdot authors but instead are the ones that the readers submitted the stories with (I know because 5 or 6 of my submissions have been posted). If you want to blame someone for the sensationalistic headlines, blame the readers who spice up the headlines so that there is a greater chance their stories are read by the editors and submitted.

3) Find the phrase "It's funny. Laugh." in the list of TOPICS .

X It's funny. Laugh. place an X here

4) Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find a button that says savehome and click on it.

Your /. experience will now be as informative and interesting as before but without those dreadfully trollish rantings from the tiresome and clueless "king of everything taco".
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CmdrTaco could finally have his wish granted.
If this is implemented, he will know just what sites to avoid.

3) Find the name Jon Katz in the list of AUTHORS (try not to wince in discust while reading his name):

X JonKatz place an X here

4) Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find a button that says savehome and click on it.

Your /. experience will now be as informative and interesting as before but without those dreadfully trollish rantings from the tiresome and clueless yonny cats.
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CmdrTaco on 1:47 AM -- Tuesday June 4 2000
from the say it isn't so dept.
CmdrTaco writes I've decided to change over to a Microsoft solution and deploy Win2k on all the web servers here. This is a very large investment, but I believe that this will lead to better security, better speed, and a better user experience for /.ers. In a related story, hell froze over and monkeys actually flew from RMSs ass.
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Where's the link?

If I'm walking down the street and tell you that you can get a great philly cheese steak in town, am I to blame when the local delli gets overwhelmed with requests?
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I signed up Lars, Jon Katz, Miss Portman, AL Gore and CmdrTaco. (this is a joke, I did not sign up these people)

But you have a good point, ANYONE ANYWHERE could signup on this "legally binding document" and there is really no way to tell who really behind IP 209.272.218.128, they should atleast require a pgp signature (even though this would still have problems) or even better yet, print it out, sign it and have 2 witnesses sign it, and fax it in with 2 forms of photo ID.

I remeber like 2-3 years ago, the Internet has just one big ass "Hoax" no one took anything serious on the Internet, it was more of a "play toy" for geeks and porn haven for preverts and that was it, now we are passing around credit card numbers and "legally binding documents" on the web and just expect it to work on in the real world. I view the real world and the Internet a whole lot differant. These world are just that, too differant and unrelated worlds.

This is one of the times where people would need to be tracked on the Internet, to tell how the really are, but at the same time certain things we do or don't do on the Internet should remain private.

Would pgp keys work in this sisuation? I think the Internet should remain %100 anonymous, unless the user wants to be known (and can also prove that they say who they really are), but when a user does want to prove that they are really who they say there are, there needs to be a sure %100 method of doing this. Maybe goverment issused PGP or simlair? (Sorry I don't know much about pgp, so this probably sounds really fsck stupid)

CmdrTaco has written a small bit of fiction in this page in his personal webspace.

Oops! Flaunt is really here.

And, of course, I meant increment the story link a few times in binary

Regards,
Ed Fisher