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If you're going to troll, may I suggest The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth? It's one of my personal favorites. :)

This post is from the Slashdot Troll Archive.

Here's the link to this particular post: Lex Talionis is a morally bankrupt code

If you're going to troll, may I suggest The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth? It's one of my personal favorites. :)

More karma whoring

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Bart's Guide Mirror.

Be Gentle

There are some exceptions. For example, DynDNS.org, which started as a non-profit/hobby service. It has slowly become a commercial entity over the past 2 years. But they're not going to give up their .org tld - it's been their URL for 5 years. Changing it now would just confuse the customers.

The latest several versions of NesterDC do not suffer this problem. It plays games flawlessly as far as I can tell (I'm sure it's not falwless, but nearly so). It also supports state saving and other goodies (turbo controller emulation, game genie, etc.). My NesterDC disc is by far my favorite dreamcast game; it is a fantastic emulator.

See DCEmulation for more emulators for DC.

Well done. You have the skills of a master troll.

If anyone else is looking for a funny/informative/insightful article that outlines tested techniques for slashdot trolling I recommned this article

That's how I extracted stuff 2 years ago, but it's far more complicated than necessary today; Get the MFSStream module for TiVoWeb, you click on a show and your browser downloads the tystream.

This is a repost of a classic troll from over two years ago. On Slashdot, trolls provoke moderation wars and many replies. Those signs are both present in this confirmed troll. Whoever is inclined to agree with this bunk ought to rethink his position.

See also Newtons around the world.

comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: Franoculator
[1] Is Redhat Passing Subliminal Messages for Micros~1?
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Date: Thu Jan 23 23:01:17 EST 2003

I installed the redhat-artwork ebuild for gentoo, allowing me to use Red Hat's Bluecurve them with KDE. After a while, I got sick of it and changed it, only keeping the default Bluecurve font.

Then, I noticed this: http://powell.dyndns.org:8080/img/ms-redhat.png

Direct your attention to the "x", in Greg Cox's name. Is it just me, or does it look somewhat like the logo for a certain M$ product?

Or maybe Greg did that. He did say that some of his SETI units were completed on M$ Winders... hmm...

Here is a company which started in the founder's basement and solicited donations from its users. After a year or two of doing that, the volunteers who ran the organization realized it could actually be profitable.. and it is! Great to be making money on a purely internet service after the dot-com bust. (Disclaimer: I've been both a volunteer and a paid employee in the past - but I'm currently concentrating on finishing my degree.)

I dunno, sometimes .com's can succeed wildly - where else could you find a company that went from hobby to millions of dollars in revenue in less than 4 years? (Yeah, I volunteered, then worked for them.. point's still valid).

I'm curious how you handle DNS issues with a dynamic IP. My first instinct here would be a problem propogating changes when your ISP gives you a new IP. Is there a service for people who need domain name to dynamic IP resolution I haven't heard of? Links...

There are *many* services that do this. Let me list the two that I've used:

1. The first one is free and doesn't require you to buy your own domain. Simply create your own name in one of a bunch of available names, download one of the automatic update clients, and off you go.
2. The second one is free if you register your domain with them. You can either register a new domain with them, or transfer your domain to them. Doing so means paying at least some amount of money in order to create/transfer your registration with them for a minimum of (I think) one year. But the cost is no more than the standard registrars are getting... so it's sorta free. In any case, they also provide dynamic dns service.

Dude, I can't do a damn thing about what your ISP allows on the net. If someone doesn't like it, they won't accept traffic. What I'm saying is that an ISP should be able to let you run your server and block port 25 from everyone who isn't so we can all stop getting spam delivered from personal firewall software.

What I hear you saying is that you want an ISP that you don't have a relationship with to impose some rule on me, one of their paying customers, by filtering outbound port 25. I'm saying that you're external to the realtionship between me and my ISP. You don't, and shouldn't, have any say in that relationship. That should be between me, their paying customer, and them. And all of this talk about filtering port 25 comes down to someone else defining the rules between the ISP and their customers. Someone else imposing their will on something to which they have no relationship.

I hate spam as much as the next guy. Really I do. But I'm not willing to live in a filtered internet to get rid of it. That just seems too much like censorship to me. And as long as I'm the paying customer, and there's sufficient ISP competition, I'll be the one defining the terms of the relationship.

• ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gnuwin/
• http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gnuwin/
• http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/gnuwin.epfl.ch/iso/
• http://www.pctip.ch/downloads/dl/22197.asp
• http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnuwin2/iso/
• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnuwin2/iso/
• ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/GnuWin/
• http://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/windows/gnuwin/
• http://khazad.dyndns.org/pub/win32/
• http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/iso/

We would appreciate new mirrors, especially outside Europe. Thanks to several European Mirrors the load of our server has drastically dropped, but is still very impressive. Have a look at the stats: http://mapc77.epfl.ch/gnu-generation/statistics/gn uwin/

So if you have 650MB spare on a fast server we would be happy if you could mirror the ISO image.

Link to us if you find GNUWin II useful. Also talk about it to your friends, famlily and of course on the internet.

Here's some info on that:

Cellular Phone Based Surveillance Bug

Supporting it for her is easier as well--"Hi mom, turned SSH on for me? Great--remember that green piece of paper with instructions on how to give me your IP?"

Why not just get her a hostname?

As far as turning SSH on/off, I get the feeling that you want to provide your mother a rock-solid impenetrable stand-alone workstation, which is admirable, but wouldn't it be easier to make sure that SSH/OpenSSL are up-to-date and leave them running? (If you're paranoid, set up iptables to only allow your IP to ssh in, or to look for some bizarre TCP flag, or something.) Less hassle for her, you can do regular maintainence when she's not home, and in that singular random case that her X server crashes and she has important stuff she hasn't saved yet, you can be the heroine of the day.

All you geek households need to go set up Squid and set it up to distribute the load. The Slashdot Effect can be eliminated within our lifetimes.

In the Ralsky article, he said the threatening calls he received were right in line with Rule 1 and Rule 3.

What are they?

1. Spammers lie
2. If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule #1.
3. Spammers are stupid

Also, see http://drebbelstraat20.dyndns.org/~mvdwege/misc/sp amrules.html

Good old caffeine perhaps ? Lets hope they don't go back testing Speed on the soldiers like in WWII.
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RedHat 7.3 apt repository

I've had it for two years and have had good service, aside from the flaky Fujitsu Speedport modems (yeah, I know they're not technically modems). The tech support guys are friendly and go out of their way to return calls, send people out, and fix problems.


The service is pretty cheap, too. I got in when it was 32.95/month + fees. Now I think it's $39.95 which is still a good deal for 768/384 up/down kbps, dynamic ip. Dynamic IP hasn't been a problem since I use dyndns for a free domain name.

http://identd.sourceforge.net/
http://freeware.teledanmark.no/identd/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winidentd/
http://identd.dyndns.org/identd/

But on the other hand, here are some reasons why your question is valid...

My friend hosts my site. He runs the whole kit and cabootle from his desktop for free, using DYNDNS to give him a textual URL. All he has to do is pay for the Broadband line.
But his site is relativly low-traffic. It's at http://scanman.mine.nu . Except for a few times where he did something to it, his site has been running almost non-stop, and still does high-process operations. But again, I said his site is relativly low traffic, and may not be for you. He runs an Athelon 750 MHz.

You can get a free name that follows your dynamic IP from http://dyndns.org/, drop the static block and save $15 per month.

(If you're in Las Vegas and considering something similar, the residential-grade service from Cox (the one that uses the cheap cable modems you find in stores) most likely won't work. If Cox issued you a Com21 cable modem (which costs a bit under $300 if you want to buy one), you're getting their business-grade service and can pretty much do what you want (though you'll need a static IP to run an SMTP server). The strange part is that the last time I checked, there's no difference in cost between the two types of service.)

We do something similar with the cable-modem connection at work. For a low-to-medium-traffic site, there's no reason to not use your existing broadband connection. Having your servers onsite makes keeping an eye on them much easier.

Running Debian Linux 2.4.19 on a Shuttle SS40g. There are a couple of pages with instructions on how to set up Linux on these machines (here and here). The biggest prob on this machine regarding Linux seems to be the SIS 740 chip. You have to specify 'pci=bios,biosirq' as a kernel parameter even if the PCI bus seems to initialize fine without. You'll have probs with the modules otherwise. You also need a custom graphic driver from Thomas Winischhofers page and you have to configure X-Windows by hand.

I have graphics, USB, sound, network and firewire running fine for me. Note though that I did not even try to get 3D accel (DRI? DRM?) support configured.

As for Linux performance I have to confess and to display my ignorance towards performance freaks in public by saying: Yes, the performance is fine. For me. ;-D

regards,

-rolf

No need for big backup tape drives or burners, and no hassle once you have it up and running. (Of course, the usual "test your backups" mantra still applies - no sense backing things up if you're not doing it right).

You can also use a dynamic DNS service and client apps so you don't have to constantly updating IP addresses when the ISPs change them.

Bunker.mpg (mi6hq.com) flight Unsuccessful.mpg (mi6hq.com) My second try for posting mirrors of mpg files. now with html tages (Because it's so hard to copy and paste or highlight and middle click)

I'm 100% with you on that one. If anybody wants to take a peek at the optional web interface for it, I've got it here.

This is a mirror, please be gentle.

I believe its /.ed right now. Here is a mirror of the files themselves.

zip file

Executable (windows)

I believe its /.ed right now. Here is a mirror of the files themselves.

zip file

Executable (windows)

Wait...speakers are bad to have next to monitors? Might that cause an effect like this (the horizontal bands) ? This has been bothering me for a while.

What about GSMP ???

And why not mention their funnier moments in PR as well.

I was there at the commerce committee roundtable hearing on 7/17 with Berman's Committee. Check the transcript. Although some of the comments were left out, all of the comments from NYFairUse, NYLXS, LXNY, Information Producers Initiative were left out, one of the leeches in favor of drm restrictions actually said that P2P users sitting at home can use P2P to upload military secrets. He compared (towards the end of the meeting when everyone was tired, getting ready to go home, and paying less attention) a kid sitting a home trading songs to Wen Ho Lee, Robert Hanssen, and Jonathan Pollard. His first or last name was Myron.(Content Guard I think?)

It should be noted that NYFairUse and NYLXS tactics at the 7/17 meeting (and our unreported by Slashdot YRO attempts to get on the invite list prior to the meeting) were severely criticized by some in a slashdot story prior to all the facts getting out. Now that time has passed, and we have seen direct results of our actions, perhaps it is time to reconsider whether those actions should have been taken or not. Especially in light of this and this, which never would have happened if we had just sat there quietly like some have suggested, and news that the drm bills (all of them, Holling, Leahy, Biden, others) are dead for the year.

> OpenGL: Everything works with it--just keep refining it
As much as I love OpenGL, let me know when it runs at an acceptable rate on the PS2, because it will NEVER be fully accelerated on the PS2 due to lacking hardware features, such as Stencil support. (Yes you can fake it with clever Alpha tricks, but the point is, there is no common graphics API that runs on everything from PDAs through consoles up through PCs.)

> Are programmers so limited in skill that they can't develop without DirectX?
What a naive and arrogant statement. Us programmers don't feel like re-developing the wheel over and over again. Why waste time re-writing (and debugging) drivers when it (DX) already works? I only addressed the technological issue, but there is also a business/politcal issue. (See below.)

A standard API is a good thing, yes. But there are very few high performance cross-platform APIs (RenderWare and NetImmerse middleware come to mind, but what others?) Add in the issue of cost (to develop & maintain) and very few developers/publishers are willing/able to afford it.

> Or are there plenty of politics that derail the idea of "code once, frags for all"?
Flexibility comes at the cost of performance. Engines are designed to do a few things well, the rest ok or even poorly -- only so man hours can be applied to the "problem" of writing efficient & flexible code. The level of algorithmic optimization you can apply depends on the problem. As hardware converges to common feature sets, I agree, this gets easier.

It's not just a political issue, but a business one - i..e maximium profits. Why spend a ton of money writing PC games for less then 2% of the market (Linux+Mac), when you make your most profits from the other 98% (windows)? Of course cross-platform code has it's benefits (find more hidden bugs), but it's seen as "too expensive", with very little returns, by most game developers / publishers, unfortunately.

Cheers

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Maybe there is a reason why the cliché "Turn off the TV, turn on your life" is true:
Television: Opiate of the masses

Everything including the movies is being mirroed here. Should have everything in a little bit.

Back in the late 80's, SimCity (original PC version) shipped with this dark red paper that was impossible to photocopy and just as bloody difficult to read except if you held it at the wierdest angles. All you would get is a full page of black from the copier.

A friend of mine got the bright idea of running it thru the fax machine. He ran each succesive copy thru the fax a few times, and voila! It was clear enough to read!!

Of course I just kracked the game later (gotta luv the one byte "patch" ;-), but I learnt way back then, that if you can view it, so can a machine, and hence make a copy.

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Maybe there is a reason why the cliché "Turn off the TV, turn on your life" is true:
Television: Opiate of the masses

Sure... why not?

The difficult part about taking hi-res images is getting them back to earth. Using the best radio communication technology we have, we can receive only a handful of KB/sec from a remote probe in the inner solar system. In the outer solar system we are limited to more like a couple hundred bytes a second. And then there are overheads, like control commands and non-image science data. If the probe is on a planet then we can only receive when Earth is abobe its horizon. (unless we use a relay satellite...)

I believe modern missions use light compression on the images before transmitting them back, but scientists are naturally reluctant to use any fancy compression algorithms for fear of skewing the data.

Our best hope for the future is optical-wavelength communication, which could theoretically push data rates into megabytes per second.

BTW you want eye candy? Check out my Mars Rover video =).

No shit! I am 100% in agreement.

Everyone who asks me, "Which computer should I buy?" I ask one question: "Are you going to play 3-D games?"

If yes--> Most expensive, fastest machine you can afford.

If no--> Pick up the cheapest, lousiest, ratty looking new model you can find (such as a Wal-Mart $300), as it is 10x too powerful for your tasks.

And my server is even slower than yours, but works like an enslaved genie to do my bidding. Here's my specs:

Silent server

-h

Truly superb troll. My hat is off to you - and so are my pants.

Support TRAFFIC CONE SEX. It's the new Slashdot meme and it's ever-so-wholesome!

I wanna see a guy with a traffic cone up his ass. I need masturbatory material!

Sci-Fi cancells Farscape (MLP)
By yanisa
Sat Sep 7th, 2002 at 05:46:41 AM CST

Sci-Fi network shocks viewers: Farscape, its flagship series, has been cancelled.

Fanbase reacts; join them!

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In a surprise chat yesterday night, David Kemper, Richard Manning and Ben Browder announced Sci-Fi network's decision to cancel Farscape, critically acclaimed and much beloved SF series, now in its fourth season.

Although Sci-Fi has previously contracted for two more seasons of Farscape, they have now excercised an out-clause. This was made known to the creators and cast only after they have finished filming the last episode of Season 4, which means that they have had no chance of even finishing the story. Farscape will thus end with a cliffhanger and unfinished story threads.

Needles to say, the fanbase is in an uproar and the cast is shocked.

And not suprisingly, Dilbert has seen it coming.

If you like Farscape and would like to see it go on, add your voice to the enraged masses.

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I knew I had seen this piece of text before:

The original link (don't seem to be working though)
http://spiralx.dyndns.org/texts/troll1.html

The Google cache, amen!
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:YFmy6y5PKzMC: spiralx.dyndns.org/texts/troll1.html

From 10-28-92 until it was taken offline sometime in '97. I still have the entire system backed up to CD-Rs and my friends that remember the system want me to put it back online with a telnet/virtual serial port software setup.

The system was a lot of fun in its time, but bringing back old software wouldn't bring back the experience. People called local BBSes because they were the "open source" of the online world. I contributed my time and hardware so people wouldn't have to spend money on an expensive online service to particpate in message boards or download files. I was also a LOT younger at the time and working on the BBS was a great excuse to avoid homework.

At any rate, the first time I got on the actual Internet (through AOL, no less), I was in denial about the whole death of the BBS thing. I actually took the time to create a web page that had a virtual tour of my BBS. For the sake of preserving history, MOST of the site now exists on snotwad.com. Someday I'll get around to restoring the actual backups and put a more complete "virtual museum" of my BBS online.

http://www.schlacter.dyndns.org/public/FreeBSD-STA BLE_and_IPFILTER.html (slashdot filters added a space in STABLE, though it looks as if the actual link is ok)

This guy agrees.

http://snotwad.dyndns.org:8000/slashigh/

MP3 or OGG, you decide. I'll just get high. (Note to mods, check the link if you don't get it.)