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4 Digit UID here with the same sentiment. I've been here for 15 years and boy have things changed. Some for the good but god I miss the days when Rob would post about a WindowMaker app that he wrote and you could download the source and compile it. It was pure geek stuff and the subject of monetization no where to be seen. The geek purity made it great.

This is the stuff that we used to talk about. http://cmdrtaco.net/linux/

I read Rob's blog because he talked about stuff that I was into. Linux, X, AfterStep, the Internet, programming and I have a feeling that Rob really wanted to keep it that way but as site ownership slipped away, he no longer had control and the direction changed.

Maybe it's time to look for a new "Slashdot". This one has been infected by the Profit virus which has no known cures.

Have a look at this post and the comments if you can
https://plus.google.com/105030465637303791249/posts/LwSvCv4saQV
Taco, Jamie, Pudge and a few others about this topic and some of things they had planned for the mod system
and some more here
http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/11/google-patent-mentions-my-prior-art/

I came late to the party ... a link to http://cmdrtaco.net/ was posted in the article and the site is already back up.

No comment. Just a title.
Sorry not to write something deeper, but I'm too new here to imply that I may maintain any particular relationship with Slashdot..
At least, I mean it (the title).

Btw, cmdrtaco.net is slashdotted...

It USED to be Taco's site. He sold it to Andover.net which became OSDN, and it's now owned by GeekNet, Inc. This is Taco's site.

The other half of my education was hypothetical stuff. The theory of computers. This killed me. I'm no math wizard: I'm a pretty practical programmer. But hey, I graduated. Hazah!

Yeah, who needs that boring theory crap anyway? (sarcasm)

Didn't slashdot used to be for tech folks or am I confusing it with some other site?

Thanks for pointing this out.
In fact, it was the publisher who provided the misleading title and description instead of quoting or paraphrasing the original submission (or, god forbid, the original article, since that submission was a bit terse). At least the original submission was provided as "You may also like to read" at the top of this page, enabling me to discover the above...

So does this mean that Cowboy Neal is screwed?

Cowboy Neal will never be screwed...

> Y'know, there's a lot more to movies than Star Wars:

Yeah, and if the charter of this site weren't ``Linux, Open Source Software, Legos, Games, Star Wars, Science, Technology and pretty much anything else that falls into the "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" umbrella'' they might have been mentioned. For example, if this were a site run by dance fans, the headline might have been "Saturday Night Fever Added To National Film Registry."

http://cmdrtaco.net/rw/

CmdrTaco has a page outlining his building of a MAME cabinet. If you want an arcade-style joystick with new components (up to and including Golden Tee-style trackballs with licensed technology from Atari), his page is a good place to start.

Seriously, you guys:

Listen to CMDR TACO: http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/

However, you don't have to build an entire cabinet-

According to Slagcoin.com: "What matters most is the gaming experience. You should be open to using parts and settings that may be different from the familiar standard."

Now-

I have the Interact Dreamcast Alloy Arcade Stick. It's not as popular as other normal Street Fighter Sticks, but I'm a Soulcalibur guy. I preferred 8-way action to 4, and the Interact stick never let me down. Whooped many an ass with this bad boy: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=IRo&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=interact+dreamcast+alloy+arcade+stick&aq=f&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Point being, people are divided on what stick is best for them. The only thing I find consistent in arcade sticks is that basically everyone loves a real arcade stick to an aftermarket. Accordingly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_controller
http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/attributes_brands.html
Sanwa: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanwa-d.co.jp%2F&sl=auto&tl=en
http://www.happcontrols.com/
MAKEZINE! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Ut8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=happ+site%3Amakezine.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

No matter everyone else's opinion, find what controller works for you. 4Way, 8Way, find what you like best. Maybe you can buy an old console arcade stick and convert it. Maybe make one from arcade parts. Put in the effort and you will not be disappointed.

What about fat people having sex? Probably just as detrimental.

http://cmdrtaco.net/photos/MainSt/MainSt-Images/1.jpg

CowboyNeal?

Damn the layout of Idle sucks...

GWB called. If you don't leave his cat alone, remember you're not too big to fail.

CowboyNeal, however, is too big to fit through the door.

Imagine what Commander Taco means? :)

ahh Taco's just still mad over java invaders.

search for java

I found Slashdot BECAUSE OF Enlightenment. I found CmdrTaco.net trying to get ePlus (side bar thing): http://cmdrtaco.net/linux/e.shtml .

Here

Man, I had to google that before I got it.

This is what I remember most about CnD:

http://cmdrtaco.net/hamster/

A question for you: What is it about OS X that makes it good for audio/video/graphic work? That's your assertion, so I assume you have at least of some reason to believe it.

If you're confused as to why some choose OS X then I would suggest doing some research into the features that made NEXTSTEP a compelling Unix Desktop and workstation in the 90s. For instance:

• Why Tim Berners-Lee chose NEXTSTEP as the platform on which to develop the world's first Web Browser and Web Server.
• Why id Software chose NEXTSTEP to develop their landmark Doom and Quake games for the PC.
• What's compelling about NEXTSTEP/Cocoa APIs, Interface Builder, and what influence did Objective-C have on Java?
• Why were Linux users so enthusiastic about NEXTSTEP-derived window managers, such as WindowMaker and AfterStep? What lead to the development of GNUStep?

That's NEXTSTEP.

Now, say you chose NEXTSTEP as the basis for your perfect operating system and desktop environment. You get to keep all of the good design decisions, throw away or refactor all of the bad design decisions, and do it without any backward compatibility restrictions. What you end up with is OS X.

But why an Apple laptop? Here's why: I can open up a bunch of SSH and X11 sessions to a remote server over wi-fi, close the lid and throw it in my back-pack, go eat lunch, come back and open the lid, and all of my remote X11 apps and sessions are still alive. OS X just works damn well on Apple's laptop hardware.

hirez proof. Is it a wonder he can't get laid? Half of slashdot looks like him. Put down the cheez poofs and try a crystal meth diet you fucking piece of shit.

Rob built his own too: http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/

I will not comment on the politics of the story, but to all of those people out there who quite rightly state that it's a simple matter to fake SMTP headers and build an authentic-looking email trail that never took place and therefore call into doubt the authenticity of the captured correspondence, I say look to your spam filters.

Creating a Markov chain (or a set of di- and trigram frequencies, or a naive Bayesian comparison function, or a latent semantic indexing matrix, or a list of commonly used words and phrases - hell, even gzip works (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0108530) for simple analyses) from a known corpus of messages (say, for example, those messages written by the people in question and saved on official email servers) and comparing the computed probabilities against the text in question is a doddle - a few lines of code and a few seconds of CPU time - and can provide hard numbers about the probability of the messages in question being fake or not.

By the way, anonymously posting text of any significant length is a useless exercise if there is any known corpus of your work to check against - say, a list of Slashdot comments, or a weblog. Welcome to thirty years ago.

The real question here is, let's say the messages check out as having very similar probabilities - what then is the likelihood that they were created by someone using a technique of writing out messages and then running them through a language model to massage them into text statistically similar to that of the person being impersonated (cf. our own beloved CmdrTaco's entry in this space: http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi)?

Interesting times.

If that's Rob, what does Big Rob look like?

Looks pretty soft actually.

http://cmdrtaco.net/

Dude's got a real website, he wants to post stupid crap he can do it there. Not that I'm complaining about this story particularly, but stuff like "It's XYZ's birthday" is a pure waste of bandwidth.

Hamster Havoc will not make you "phat bank."

Does he have a personnal website? :) What could be the url? oups, I just accidently google is name, and cut-paste is url in this reply http://cmdrtaco.net/

Happy Birthday Cmdr. I didn't get you anything, but if you want you can go watch duckpins.

especially, when, ya know, it's HIS website...

I could be in a minority, but I almost never look at author links.

And I never look at miserable failure links. That's miserable failure links. The links that say miserable failure. I skip right over them.

I hate to respond to my own post, but if you look at Hamster Havoc you will find that cmdTaco made a silly video in the summer of 96. I know that a hamster is different from a mouse, but their genetic structure is very, very similar.

Disgusting

Is it? I wouldn't know, since I haven't listened to the radio since I got my first iPod three years ago.

I agree! I hate advertising. That's why my Apple iPod is great! I find it especially useful when I use it with Apple iTunes to download all that great music by Kanye West.

I listen to my iPod all the time. Even on the can.

Is it? I wouldn't know, since I haven't listened to the radio since I got my first iPod three years ago.

I agree! I hate advertising. That's why my Apple iPod is great! I find it especially useful when I use it with Apple iTunes to download all that great music by Kanye West.

I listen to my iPod all the time. Even on the can.

PICTURE HERE

What would happen if I took all the interesting comments off Slashdot, the ones that are opinionated enough to be motivational without being inflammatory, and compiled them on my own website? Or better yet, printed a book, a technology toilet reader?

One thing I know is that it is totally doable. One step beyond comprehension, editing is the process of reading for other people. Editing is fun because most of it is deletion. All you need is a few gems and you have a product. The second thing I know is that with a dozen stories a day averaging 300 comments each, it would take all day, every day to keep up with the flow.

The final thing, is that unlike the garbage-strewn service offered by Slob Malda, mine would offer intelligent commentary by thoughtful people. Since my service would have *gasp* actual content, I could actually charge money for it. You're not the first person to point out that IPO=AFK, but with most of the country trying to get rich and famous playing Texas Hold'em, there's probably a lot of people who could use a refresher course on betting money.

Well it's not like Taco is so svelt himself.....

Kathleen Fent, that is, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's wife, is most definitely not human - she is a cow. If you would like evidence of this fact, look no further than Taco's Own Webpage. Check out the Photos section and have a peek at his wedding pictures. I don't think it takes a genius to deduce from this picture and this picture that Kathleen was most definitely wearing a plus size wedding gown. Look at all the chins! More than likely this is the reason she is not wearing a wedding veil during the ceremony; it would be difficult to pack the hundreds of chins underneath a layer of material that thin and make them look right. This is the same principal used in determining that Kathleen would most likely look revolting in a swimsuit; tiny bits of clothing look just stupid next to massive amounts of flesh. This is the reason why her wedding dress covers the vast majority of her body. Actually, in this photo, something bulges out of her a little below the waist. Maybe it's a penis! Maybe she's a bull!

I think it's safe to say that Rob and Kathleen should be divorced immediately; Shamu^H^H^H^H^HKathleen most definitely should be married to (or at least dating) CowboiKneel, as their weights are complementary. Just think of the fun they could have! The could hang around at Kentucky Fried Chicken and count each other's chins whilst dining on fried chicken skin covered in that brown gravy stuff. Kathleen might even win! But, surely enough, no; everyone knows that no one is as fat as Cowboi.

Moving back to the issue at hand, though - you can find more evidence of her species being that of the bovine type at Kathleen's rather dull website, sarcasta.net. Notice her obsession with "haybles?" These are frequently found in fields with, you guessed it, cows. Coincidence? I don't think so. The nail in the coffin proving her non-human status is the section of her website devoted to drawings of cows. Who, other than a cow, could draw bovine so accurately? No one, that's who.

In closing, I'd like to say that the fact that Kathleen is a cow just can't be argued. There is simply just too much evidence leading to the conclusion that Kathleen is of the bovine persuasion to be ignored. One thing's for certain, though - Taco will never run out of milk for his Wheaties in the morning, will he? Moreover, if Taco's alone with his wife and starving, he could simply take a chunk out of her and fry it up, creating a tasty treat.

Kathleen Fent, that is, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's wife, is most definitely not human - she is a cow. If you would like evidence of this fact, look no further than Taco's Own Webpage. Check out the Photos section and have a peek at his wedding pictures. I don't think it takes a genius to deduce from this picture and this picture that Kathleen was most definitely wearing a plus size wedding gown. Look at all the chins! More than likely this is the reason she is not wearing a wedding veil during the ceremony; it would be difficult to pack the hundreds of chins underneath a layer of material that thin and make them look right. This is the same principal used in determining that Kathleen would most likely look revolting in a swimsuit; tiny bits of clothing look just stupid next to massive amounts of flesh. This is the reason why her wedding dress covers the vast majority of her body. Actually, in this photo, something bulges out of her a little below the waist. Maybe it's a penis! Maybe she's a bull!

I think it's safe to say that Rob and Kathleen should be divorced immediately; Shamu^H^H^H^H^HKathleen most definitely should be married to (or at least dating) CowboiKneel, as their weights are complementary. Just think of the fun they could have! The could hang around at Kentucky Fried Chicken and count each other's chins whilst dining on fried chicken skin covered in that brown gravy stuff. Kathleen might even win! But, surely enough, no; everyone knows that no one is as fat as Cowboi.

Moving back to the issue at hand, though - you can find more evidence of her species being that of the bovine type at Kathleen's rather dull website, sarcasta.net. Notice her obsession with "haybles?" These are frequently found in fields with, you guessed it, cows. Coincidence? I don't think so. The nail in the coffin proving her non-human status is the section of her website devoted to drawings of cows. Who, other than a cow, could draw bovine so accurately? No one, that's who.

In closing, I'd like to say that the fact that Kathleen is a cow just can't be argued. There is simply just too much evidence leading to the conclusion that Kathleen is of the bovine persuasion to be ignored. One thing's for certain, though - Taco will never run out of milk for his Wheaties in the morning, will he? Moreover, if Taco's alone with his wife and starving, he could simply take a chunk out of her and fry it up, creating a tasty treat.

Kathleen Fent, that is, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's wife, is most definitely not human - she is a cow. If you would like evidence of this fact, look no further than Taco's Own Webpage. Check out the Photos section and have a peek at his wedding pictures. I don't think it takes a genius to deduce from this picture and this picture that Kathleen was most definitely wearing a plus size wedding gown. Look at all the chins! More than likely this is the reason she is not wearing a wedding veil during the ceremony; it would be difficult to pack the hundreds of chins underneath a layer of material that thin and make them look right. This is the same principal used in determining that Kathleen would most likely look revolting in a swimsuit; tiny bits of clothing look just stupid next to massive amounts of flesh. This is the reason why her wedding dress covers the vast majority of her body. Actually, in this photo, something bulges out of her a little below the waist. Maybe it's a penis! Maybe she's a bull!

I think it's safe to say that Rob and Kathleen should be divorced immediately; Shamu^H^H^H^H^HKathleen most definitely should be married to (or at least dating) CowboiKneel, as their weights are complementary. Just think of the fun they could have! The could hang around at Kentucky Fried Chicken and count each other's chins whilst dining on fried chicken skin covered in that brown gravy stuff. Kathleen might even win! But, surely enough, no; everyone knows that no one is as fat as Cowboi.

Moving back to the issue at hand, though - you can find more evidence of her species being that of the bovine type at Kathleen's rather dull website, sarcasta.net. Notice her obsession with "haybles?" These are frequently found in fields with, you guessed it, cows. Coincidence? I don't think so. The nail in the coffin proving her non-human status is the section of her website devoted to drawings of cows. Who, other than a cow, could draw bovine so accurately? No one, that's who.

In closing, I'd like to say that the fact that Kathleen is a cow just can't be argued. There is simply just too much evidence leading to the conclusion that Kathleen is of the bovine persuasion to be ignored. One thing's for certain, though - Taco will never run out of milk for his Wheaties in the morning, will he? Moreover, if Taco's alone with his wife and starving, he could simply take a chunk out of her and fry it up, creating a tasty treat.

Kathleen Fent, that is, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's wife, is most definitely not human - she is a cow. If you would like evidence of this fact, look no further than Taco's Own Webpage. Check out the Photos section and have a peek at his wedding pictures. I don't think it takes a genius to deduce from this picture and this picture that Kathleen was most definitely wearing a plus size wedding gown. Look at all the chins! More than likely this is the reason she is not wearing a wedding veil during the ceremony; it would be difficult to pack the hundreds of chins underneath a layer of material that thin and make them look right. This is the same principal used in determining that Kathleen would most likely look revolting in a swimsuit; tiny bits of clothing look just stupid next to massive amounts of flesh. This is the reason why her wedding dress covers the vast majority of her body. Actually, in this photo, something bulges out of her a little below the waist. Maybe it's a penis! Maybe she's a bull!

I think it's safe to say that Rob and Kathleen should be divorced immediately; Shamu^H^H^H^H^HKathleen most definitely should be married to (or at least dating) CowboiKneel, as their weights are complementary. Just think of the fun they could have! The could hang around at Kentucky Fried Chicken and count each other's chins whilst dining on fried chicken skin covered in that brown gravy stuff. Kathleen might even win! But, surely enough, no; everyone knows that no one is as fat as Cowboi.

Moving back to the issue at hand, though - you can find more evidence of her species being that of the bovine type at Kathleen's rather dull website, sarcasta.net. Notice her obsession with "haybles?" These are frequently found in fields with, you guessed it, cows. Coincidence? I don't think so. The nail in the coffin proving her non-human status is the section of her website devoted to drawings of cows. Who, other than a cow, could draw bovine so accurately? No one, that's who.

In closing, I'd like to say that the fact that Kathleen is a cow just can't be argued. There is simply just too much evidence leading to the conclusion that Kathleen is of the bovine persuasion to be ignored. One thing's for certain, though - Taco will never run out of milk for his Wheaties in the morning, will he? Moreover, if Taco's alone with his wife and starving, he could simply take a chunk out of her and fry it up, creating a tasty treat.

Kathleen Fent, that is, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's wife, is most definitely not human - she is a cow. If you would like evidence of this fact, look no further than Taco's Own Webpage. Check out the Photos section and have a peek at his wedding pictures. I don't think it takes a genius to deduce from this picture and this picture that Kathleen was most definitely wearing a plus size wedding gown. Look at all the chins! More than likely this is the reason she is not wearing a wedding veil during the ceremony; it would be difficult to pack the hundreds of chins underneath a layer of material that thin and make them look right. This is the same principal used in determining that Kathleen would most likely look revolting in a swimsuit; tiny bits of clothing look just stupid next to massive amounts of flesh. This is the reason why her wedding dress covers the vast majority of her body. Actually, in this photo, something bulges out of her a little below the waist. Maybe it's a penis! Maybe she's a bull!

I think it's safe to say that Rob and Kathleen should be divorced immediately; Shamu^H^H^H^H^HKathleen most definitely should be married to (or at least dating) CowboiKneel, as their weights are complementary. Just think of the fun they could have! The could hang around at Kentucky Fried Chicken and count each other's chins whilst dining on fried chicken skin covered in that brown gravy stuff. Kathleen might even win! But, surely enough, no; everyone knows that no one is as fat as Cowboi.

Moving back to the issue at hand, though - you can find more evidence of her species being that of the bovine type at Kathleen's rather dull website, sarcasta.net. Notice her obsession with "haybles?" These are frequently found in fields with, you guessed it, cows. Coincidence? I don't think so. The nail in the coffin proving her non-human status is the section of her website devoted to drawings of cows. Who, other than a cow, could draw bovine so accurately? No one, that's who.

In closing, I'd like to say that the fact that Kathleen is a cow just can't be argued. There is simply just too much evidence leading to the conclusion that Kathleen is of the bovine persuasion to be ignored. One thing's for certain, though - Taco will never run out of milk for his Wheaties in the morning, will he? Moreover, if Taco's alone with his wife and starving, he could simply take a chunk out of her and fry it up, creating a tasty treat.

http://cmdrtaco.net/

and it sucks

Nice, but I think the link is broken...

okay so i'm not the alpha nerd. i do have a better cabinet than anyone who home built theirs though, ESPECIALLY better than those dorks that put a computer monitor in their cabinet.

Made me smile.

I think you were looking for "Ask A Slashdot Editor"
-> http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/