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Main Entry: BYO
Function: abbreviation
bring your own

If only you'd BYO dictionary.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

"Bring Your Own" Battlebot? Shouldn't this read D.I.Y. or something, instead of inventing an acronym?

"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Companies like RedHat/Mandrake/Debian, for example seem to survive without charging a visible amount for their software, yet Caldera seem to think they need to charge a per-seat license.

And they probably do. The big difference between RedHat, and Caldera is that I actually know people who use RedHat (no, really I do).

This just seems to me to be the last grasp at some Linux-distro $$$ by a company on it's way down the toilet.
After all, plenty of other companies have survived long enough by seemingly giving Linux distros away. But they have a strong user-base.

What's so special about Caldera then, that they think we'll pay per-seat to use it?

Nothing... and I wonder whether they're going to find that out the hard way?


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Microsoft are petrified... totally.

The thing that has them scared the most, is that they've got no way of measuring exactly 'how' scared they should be.

Open Source is a juggernaut that has built up and started moving at an incredible speed over many years. It has it's roots in the origins of computing itself (ie. academia).
The problem for Microsoft is, how do you judge the threat from free software? You can't simply look at the financial performance of it to judge whether it's a threat like you can any other company.

It's the fact it's an intangible threat that's got Microsoft so scared and paranoid they'll resort to shit like this.
The Open Source juggernaut has changed the rules of the game.

Monopoly is a bit harder for the traditionalists to play when you can win by sitting on 'Free Parking' the whole game! ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I work for a private (years 7-12) College (as tech support, not a teacher). There's a lot of work to do, but noone minds if I don't work overtime to get it done. Generally I'm not expected to do any more than the hours I'm payed for, and there have been times when I've told them I'm not coming to work on a Saturday. It pays poorly compared to other jobs. But the upside is this:

I'm forced to take 6 weeks holiday a year (4 weeks annual leave and 10 rostered days off). I'd like to move on and get payed more, but you have no idea how hard it is to leave those lovely holidays behind! :)

I also just HAVE to say this. One of the most under apreciated people are those who support their oranisation well in IT, and put up with school kids every day too! ;)

L8r.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

All your drywalled drywalled servers are belong to Novell.

4 years is a long time to go unnoticed. What was the server doing? Whatever it was it can't have been much.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Hi,

Some of you seem to under the impression that the LZIP story is a joke.

I am the original designer of the program and would like to state that it is very very real!

LZIP works by compressing the files and, depending on the users choice of compression ratio, removing material from the lzip archive that may be considered offensive, non-PC, or suspicious in any way.
This makes it brilliant for compressing your MP3 collection down to a ner-zero byte file size, as all the nasty stuff the RIAA don't want you to have is discarded!

For anyone interested, you can download the latest version of LZIp from here:

http://users.bigpond.com/XDouglas/lzip.lzip

Of course, you will notice that the filesize of the download is extremely small, due to the fact that it has been compressed with very high compression, and hence some parts have been discarded. ;)



"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Everybody talks about how IP protects the artist, and how we should be glad to pay and blah blah capitalist blah blah blah...

How many artists do you really hear complaining huh? - Maybe 0.000000009%?
All this anti-Napster is to protect record companies, and of them just the ones that are part of the RIAA!

They may have copied some songs. But sending the Police to their houses to arrest them is nothing other than corporations bullying individuals.
In fact, it makes you wonder who is the lowest here. The Belgian government for allowing it to happen, or the RIAA for applying the pressure?


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Is publishing software. If you use DTP, you can't use Linux.



"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I'd like to propose a study into the social habits of cellphone users themselves. Maybe looking at the subconscious need to have one without real consideration for the actual need.

Mind you, I'm not by any means saying that the phones are in anyway evil. I don't have one myself, but there will come a day when I'll get one. Patricularly if I can get good PDA functions built in for a decent price (I badly need little electronic devices to think for me).

Mind you, I do hold something against them in the effect they've had on HDD prices by using up supplies of capacitors.

BYRS (Bourgeois Yuppie Resentment Syndrome) - Really? Do you still think that cellphones are a yuppie item? Because they're about as common and cheap as an imitation Rolex these days.

The thing that bothers me on both a logical and sociological level is the desire to be immediately contactable everywhere.

Here's a replay of what I heard coming from one of the stalls in a public mens toilet:


"Ring Ring"

Hello?

Yeah Greg here.

Where am I?

Well... actually I'm taking a dump in the McDonalds toilets at the moment...

*laughs*

Yeah, you can call me back. I'll let you know how it went.

Bye.


Okay... So what is it exactly that makes that situation desirable to anyone?



"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

A local retailer pointed me to this fixed webcam the other day:

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_2120/index.htm

It's motion sensitive, and has it's own webserver built in, and attaches to the network instead of a PC, either that or it can dial up a modem for you! :)
And the best bit is it runs on Linux! :)
Check out the live demo too..... seems to work pretty well in poor light conditions!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Isn't this a bit tabloid?

Hope it's not indicative of the future of Slashdot!:

NEWSFLASH: Linus Torvalds has been killed in a fatal accident in a tunnel near Helsinki.
Rumour has it that he was being pursued by individuals on motorbikes who call themselves CmdrTaco and Hemos.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I hope this isn't the first "real" release, because it still refuses to use an authenticating proxy properly... and that doesn't look like being fixed any time soon either!

That, and the fact that NS6 (windows) has a nasty, nasty habit of coming to the front every time a page loads. Talk about intrusive.... I may as well not have multitasking at all.

It's sad really. I like the NS4 style of browser much better than IE, it's just technically so poor.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I patented an OS that, much like Windows, is engineered to function poorly.
However, it responds to swearing, and acts of violence directed at it, and then works perfectly

.... for about 10 minutes! ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I've always wondered how people were stupid enough to keep forwarding on all those ICQ rumours (you know, the ones about ICQ starting to charge people unless you forward the message on).

I used to make fun of people that sent them on, but now I wonder if I was being too harsh!? ;)

Slashdot are going to start charging a fee of 10 cents for every 'first post', unless you forward this on to everyone in your email address book.

Ahem... ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

If a boss/sysadmin is going to be prepared to sit down and go through masses of text looking for that one naughty personal email, you have to ask yourself who is wasting the most time?

Or. If your company has such an epidemic of personal email use that you are forced to take such measures, maybe you should be asking yourselves why your employees care so little about the work they are supposed to be doing!

If people felt like their job was worth doing, they would be doing it!

P.S. I am posting from work. Nobody here cares, because they like to see their employees thinking, learning, and contributing to the community!



"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

This is not simply stupid, or careless, it's just plain WRONG!

This is just another case of people assuming that MP3's themselves are bad!

***NEWSFLASH - MP3 is just a FILE FORMAT***

Regardless of how people use it, MP3's and all their associated gadgets have done nothing wrong, they are a part of technology as much as anything else!

I say "go Creative", because it's about time that someone, or some company had the guts to take a stand!
In fact, we should all take a stand, because I've had about enough of this. I like to be able to listen to all my songs without changing CD's. I also like to be able to have a backup of them all on one CD and on my HDD!
It's time we showed some support for this move and all Boycott CeBit too, and instead use the time and money to go out and buy a Nomad!

Power to the People!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Persistence is futile! - You will be Mozillinated! ;)



"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Wow.... that's really fabless news! ;)

Ack!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

As I wrote this I could see someone with very little else to say pointing out what I thought everyone else would have understood anyway.

The MPAA are just a body made up of all the real bastards you mentioned. So the comment still stands.
Just that "their products" refers to that of their members:

Walt Disney Company.
Sony Pictures Entertainment. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Universal Studios.
Warner Bros.

The MPAA ARE the real bastards. They are the best target for your anger because they are all the bastards in one place!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Ugh... this is ridiculous!... When does it stop?

It seems to me that the MPAA, and related bodies have got far too many lawyers with far too little to do!

One thing that has come out of the recent spate of lawsuits, and stories like this invloving the MPAA/RIAA etc. is the total disregard for the people purchasing their products.
I'd say that if you are using a BROADCAST (that's the key word here) medium you have to accept that it's going to be broadcast all around the place. You should also accept the possibility that because it's a one-to-many medium that you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Hence, you might be prepared to think that some of those 'many' may not be quite happy with what you broadcast, and when. So, maybe they'd like to be able to make some of their own arrangements!

But can they do that? No! That might require a concience, and I think we're all aware that lawyers don't have one!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

The thing is... you don't get those to yourselves. The .US domain has a place on the net now more than ever, as the .net .org .com .edu's are being used globally rather than just by the US!

You're right about the US not settling for a .US domain, but it seems that some non-US sites are also not settling!

For example:

http://telstra.com/ & http://www.telstra.net/ - An Australian Telco

http://apcmag.com/ - An Australian PC Mag.

http://www.freedom2surf.net/ & http://www.f2s.com/ - An English ISP.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Just to back up all the talk about hydrogen powered vehicles, here's a group in Canada who are selling a kit to part-power your car with hydrogen!:

http://www.makisoft.net/quantronix


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Aah... it's been a strange life for Amiga hasn't it?

I miss my Amiga. It still comes out of the cupboard for a good old thrashing every now and again, and I run UAE, and play a few games on that too.

Everybody (except you Trolls) seems to be very positive about the return of the Amiga name if nothing else recognisable.

This maybe partly linked to the current trend of retro gaming, but it may be something else too.
I can see a definite need in the IT community to break away from the corporatisation of computers in general. Linux is part of that, because of it's non-commercial angle. I think the Amiga is another example of that need. The Amiga was a 'fun' computer. It wasn't just the fact that it was pushing back the barriers of 'Multimedia' (ironically, a word that was used only in later years referring to PCs), it was the whole vibe of the Amiga people.
I think that now in the days of the dotcom, and the techno-yuppie, real old nerds long for the days when we and our mates could sit down with a few beers and play Kick Off, or Lotus, or F1GP until our eyes bled, and love every minute of it!

I think now, we need more than ever for Amiga to survive, and to produce something solid, while at the same time preserve the Amiga spirit.

I just hope it's for real, and not another Walker.

Anyways... enough of this before I start to cry! ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

...Oh dear,

I can see one of these manning the door of my local nightclub right now.
Even worse I can see it shooting me because I didn't have the correct ID, or because it doesn't like my shoes! ;)

..."Hasta la vista, groupie!"



"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

You have to feel some sympathy for Novell.

They produced a quality product for years, and the experience really showed. Then they got virtually bundled out of the market (partly at least) by a network OS virtually still in it's embryonic stage.

As one of the long line of people who are forced t o work with NT on a daily basis, and had worked with Netware previously I really can't express enough how much I hope that IBM can get Novell, and help reclaim some of the server market from NT/2k (a NOS that thinks it's a workstation).

I just hope it's not too late.

Someone pass IBM the defibrillator.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Ford should be shunned!

It's too damned easy for me to go and pull out vital parts of my Ford without letting anyone know!

Unless all parts are welded to the chassis then I'm sorry but it's just too easy for mechanics to make undocumented changed to the car!!! ;)

L8r!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

IMHO

AMD have spend many years following Intel. They've made a living, by making Intel compatible architecture.
Even though the apprentice may have now grown up to challenge the master, AMD still feel it's not yet time to go out on a limb.

X86 is old, and it is time for it to die the death it should've died long ago. However, what AMD are offering, as far as I can see, is a chance to go to 64bit architecture sooner, without having to create a whole new processor. Even given the increased support for AMD these days, I don't think many would be prepared to follow them that far.
So, what we've got is a happy medium from AMD, while they and we wait for Intel to define the new standard.

AMD may well be playing catch-up again in a million years time when Itanium actually becomes a reality. But on the other hand, if support for Sledgehammer is good, we might see some new architecture from AMD soon!

Oh, BTW. Itanium == Crap Name. Sledgehammer == Very Cool Name!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

You'll all notice that there is now an "sea" dir on the FTP, which seems to hold a huge setup file, which should save everybody downloading the damn thing X times.

Lin
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR2 /unix/linux22/sea /netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz

Win
ft p://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR2/w indows/win32/sea/N6Setup.exe

Mac
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR2 /mac/macos8.5/sea/MacNS6Ful lInstaller.sea.bin


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

This story has me so annoyed. As does most of the whole Napster thing. But I will try and contain my disgust long enough to write this.

There are several aspects of this that are just plain wrong. The whole thing just seems to be one misunderstanding after another.

We've all aready been over the fact that Napster does little more than provide an infrastructure for trading of MP3 files, much like any file-oriented protocol, FTP for example.
But this doesn't seem to have sunk in.

Here is the headline:
"Injunction bars service from trading music online pending federal trial"

Napster doesn't trade music. Period. People are trading the music.
Why not go after the users you ask? Well, because that makes you look evil. It's better to go after a company, with no real identity than be seen as a company going after helpless users.

The second thing about thise whole trial, that offends me personally, and must offend other people who have MP3s is the assumption that seems to have been made that "MP3's are bad mmmkay".
For the RIAA, or Metallica or whoever to be so keen to stop the trading of MP3's they must be assuming that it as a filetype is generally bad. Because they are not seeking just to stop the trade of copyrighted music, they are seeking to stop the trade of a filetype, regardless of the content.

It's a sad day when technological growth can be stunted by these greedy, suited corporate halfwits. In fact it's not just a sad day for technology, it's a sad day for society in general.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Okay, firstly it's Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I'm pedantic, so sue me! ;)

It's interesting that there's an emphasis on 'streaming', because after all in terms of data transfer, the streaming is no more a broadcast than any other form of data on the net is it?
That may be nitpicking, but I really can't see a similarity between a TV/Radio broadcast and an ordered download of a video file!
It's really a one-to-one file tranfer that's initiated by the user, and stoppable by the user. It's also only part of the medium.

I suppose it just depends where you draw the line on a broadcast. What I am trying to convey is that it's less intrusive than traidional broadcast media. For now at least.

If it'll stop the net turning into a big TV at the expense of bandwidth, it probably a good thing though!

"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

This is wonderful news!

The government is not trying to "legislate Digital Music". It's warning the traditional record industry that there will be penalties (ironic ones, yes) for them if they continue to use their corporate lawyers to beat down the "e-music" industry!
This is brilliant for the online music people, as it might give them some hope that the old-school music fraternity will stop suing them every time they try to do something new.
It's also brilliant for the artists that rely on the distribution power of online music. As soon as they're free to use the net to get their music out there, without the fear of some contrived lawsuit the better for all of us!

"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

This is getting out of hand!

The common mentality of people offering anything on the net seems to be to support it with advertising! It's almost as if advertising is the fallback multipurpose revenue generator.
How much more of this do we have to put up with?
We already have websites plastered so thick with ads that you can barely read them!

I'll be brave. I'd like to actually question the wisdom to all this advertising.
If advertising actually works, there would have to be a lot of people clicking on the banner ads, right?
Yet I talk to people I know and they say that they barely ever bother with them. So for it to average out, there must be one helluva lot of people just clicking on every ad that comes up in front of them!
Actually, a while back (can't remember where) I saw statistics that pointed toward the fact that IE users click on far more ads than Netscape users!
So, taking the liberty of assuming that there are more Netscape users downloading MP3's. I wonder if the same applies to MP3's? I wonder if the MP3 using community fits into the same profile, and would reject the whole idea?

Food for thought!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Ahhh... I can see it now!

Screechdot: News for Birds, seed that scatters.

Running Nestscape Navigator for Mynahsoft CageDoor 2000 of course... ;)

I wonder whether they thought to teach the birds how to restart Windows... Otherwise the screeching after a crash could become unbearable!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

There are a lot of people on here that seem to think that a new standard for transmission over the POTS is a waste of time because of the availability of DSL/Cable/Whatever.

This is, as usual, a very narrow minded and selfish approach.
Of course internet over POTS is going to survive.

I live in Australia, here we are just beginning trials of DSL, and even when it comes in it'll only be available in metropolitan areas.
Considering we are a country that has some of the most remote internet users (many hundreds of kilometres from the nearest city), I can't see broadband or services with similar speeds for a similar price getting out into the rural areas for a long time! Hence net over POTS lives on!

Then you have to take into consideration all the other third world countries where the internet is only available to a select few. These people aren't going to be getting DSL to their houses like the rich fat americans any time soon!

Next to consider is the average household user. The person who just wants to get/send emails and maybe do a bit of surfing sometimes. Why would they bother with anything other than a V.92 modem?

There's also the people using satellite .net connections to think about. A lot of those use a modem as their uplink. I'm sure they'd welcome an extra 15Kbps upstream!

With all that, without even mentioning the cost difference between analogue and digital services, I think the humble modem will live a while longer. Even if only half what I've said is valid!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I'd have to say that this is the exception rather than the rule!

Only earlier this year, our very own LUG down here in Australias smallest state was invited to run a stall at a local computer show. We gave away a stack of CD's of various distributions.
It was that popular that after a while we had to start taking peoples names and telling them to come back in ten minutes after we'd finished burning the CD!

Also, and slightly more impressively. Last year I attended this expo in Melbourne, where they had allocated quite a large section of the place to Linux, which impressed me.
But what impressed me more was that the LUG for that state were invited to have a stall at the event... all expenses paid!
They not only got the floor space donated, but most of the equipment as well... including a nice SGI box!

Maybe this is the way to go at IT expos. Support your local LUG!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Maybe we should send him up with a satellite. I mean, *if* he actually makes it up there he may as well do something useful.

I've always wanted to send up a satellite that performs but one task...
Which is transmitting the old Amiga Workbench 1.3 picture of the hand holding the disk.

I can see it now....The AmigaImmortal Project! ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Even though this is just some big names preinstalling RedHat in most cases, it'll go a damn long way toward helping the reputation of Linux in general.

I notice particularly, that they mention shipping Web/Proxy boxes to Lexus/Toyota.
This relates to something that I have been trying to push for in my LUG.
I wanted us to present Linux as a viable option to K-12 schools, who in a lot of cases are beginning to think seriously about doing things properly with regard to the internet, but the cost is too much! Using a free OS can help offset that a bit!

Only problem is, that when you tell most people about it, you mention RedHat, or other distros and various other names that they've never heard of, and you get nothing other than a blank look!
But now you can mention Dell, or particularly Big Blue, and they'll immediately have more confidence!

Sad, but true!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I hope the people involved in developing the "wired home" and associated technologies take note of this.

I can imagine it. The Saturday Night Fever Virus. It triggers at about 11:00pm on a Saturday. All your lights start flashing on and off, your stereo starts playing a BeeGees track and your toaster burns some toast (for that authentic nightclub-smoke atmosphere).

Or even better... the ILoveYou@Home virus. Your bed starts vibrating, the lights dim, the stereo starts playing some romantic music, then it rings your neighbor and starts the same thing at their house! ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

In my experience, ATA/66 drives are rarely much faster than ATA/33, and benchmarks I've done and seen reflect that.
ATA/66 seems to only be able to achieve the 66Mb/sec about 10% of the time, the rest of the time it runs closer to 33!

It makes you wonder exactly how much trust to put in the "100" in ATA/100 given its track record. Much like CDROM drives in the past, hard drives seem to tout a maximum speed which is achieved very rarely.

However, I hope I'm wrong. Most aspects of computers have been getting faster and faster over recent years, except harddrives.
Given the huge size of some of the newest OSes (*coughwin2kcough*) we are going to need all the speed we can get, otherwise it's going to be back to the old C64-loading-off-tape days where you had to anticipate wanting to use your computer so you could boot it up while you did something else! ;)


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Begin rant;

I'm usually not this harsh, but this time I think I can make an exception.

I hated Doom. The FPS genre wasn't really worth playing until somewhere about the release of Duke3d.
Doom was much like all of ID's games. Too dark, and completely without any sort of personality.
Duke3d was a brilliant game, because it was fun to play. Your character had a personality.

At the time of Dooms original release I was still using my Amiga, and for the life of me I really couldn't see what all the fuss was about. You walked around with a gun in this poorly lit environment, unable to jump, taking hits from chunky looking baddies using a character with all the charisma of Sly Stallone.
Coming from a platform where fluid movement, and fun to control characters were the norm, I found doom one of the most boring experiences ever.

Doom II was no better. Then there was Quake, a game that had less different textures than I have fingers to count them on. That's if you could see them at all, it was so dark.
QuakeII, however, even though it looked a bit samey throughout was a good engine, and not a bad game.
Then came QuakeIII. A brilliant engine which was sadly lacking the game.

I can only hope that Duke Forever materialises to remind everyone what a truly fun game is like. But, in the same way Billy Corgan said it was hard to compete with the Britney Spears' of the world, it's really hard to compete with the Doom rehashes of the world!

End rant.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Now all we need to do is design a computer that can hold your underpants! :)

"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Firstly, the whole Napster thing has gotten totally out of hand. Napster does not == piracy. Napster doesn't pirate songs, people pirate songs!

Secondly. I think I've just about heard enough from Mr. Stallman.
I really can't understand the worship that people in particularly the Linux community have for him.
Don't get me wrong, GNU is good. But does it justify the hero worship?

I'm sorry, but writing a few lines about this isn't going to make it go away.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

The study, like all that have previously sought to put a figure on sales lost to the piracy of anything, make one very stupid assumption.

They assume that obtaining a pirate copy of something means that you would have otherwise bought it.
Says who? I ask all those people out there with thousands of MP3's... Would you have bought all those CD's? Could you even afford it?

As I see it, the resulting figures mean nothing!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

I really can't understand what the DOJ or the court think this is going to achieve.

Splitting MS up seems to me, to be a good idea, but splitting them into two/three companies that deal in different areas seems pointless.
Wont this simply create three companies with monopolies in those areas (OS, Applications, and Web Browser for example)?

Weren't the Baby Bells all different companies trying to service the same areas?
Isn't the whole point of splitting a company, intended to create several different companies which compete against each other, hence giving the consumer better value and more choice?

It seems to me like a punishment rather than an effort to give consumers a better deal.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Nope.

It was acknowledging the three years, two months, one week and 3 days it takes to fire up the damn thing!
I am of course talking about Netscape 4.x Messenger here. I can't comment on the Mozilla version.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Heh,

That guy is a spitting image of a guy I know. Same body-shape, same hair colour, same mess, same Anime stuff on the wall.

Only difference is, my friends machine is an Amiga 4000/040!
Heh... bet he doesn't have that in his little cube!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Geez,

I wouldn't want to be in Bleems shoes right about now.
Sony, even though they've already been through the courts once, must be going to try it again, even if just to slow things down.
It's a bit like someone working out the formula for Coke and handing it to Pepsi!


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

The Backend (used by scripts to get the Slashdot Headlines) doesn't appear to be working!

I'm just getting the latest headline and no others.

Anyone else with the same prob?

"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

Linux Users Unscathed By ILOVEYOU???

This is probably more proof that Linux makes a good news headline these days.
Why not 'Mac Users Unscathed...'? Because it's not as newsworthy as Linux.
Not that there's a problem with people becoming more penguin-aware, but you do have to wonder.

Also, Windows Eudora, Pegasus, Netscape (ack) etc. users would also have been unaffected, because they have the sense not to use one of the most godawful mail clients ever.

Probably the scariest thing to come out of this is the amount of people/organisations out there using Outlook!


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