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Folks, PLEASE by anethema · 2005-09-15 18:03 · Score: 1 · on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed

Use coral cache when submitting!

Even something like..

Nintendo Revolution controller ( Coralized Link )

would be just dandy.

Anyways here is the coralized link..use it!
http://www.1up.com.nyud.net:8090/do/newsStory?cId= 3143782

Folks, PLEASE by anethema · 2005-09-15 18:03 · Score: 1 · on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed

Use coral cache when submitting!

Even something like..

Nintendo Revolution controller ( Coralized Link )

would be just dandy.

Anyways here is the coralized link..use it!
http://www.1up.com.nyud.net:8090/do/newsStory?cId= 3143782

Mod you a Karma Whoring Slut by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-15 05:10 · Score: 0 · on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox

Don't moderate sluts, please.

Mirrordot

Coral Cache

this is (what I can make of) the critisism by nietsch · 2005-09-15 05:04 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Debian Core Consortium Releases First Code

Thanks to the very generous move from slashdot to /. the spoof site, it is not clear why others are critisising DCC.
the spoof site at http://www.dccalliance.biz.nyud.net:8090/faq.html is pretty slow too, here is my analysis (and a copy of their 'faq':

What is the DCC Alliance?

The DCC Alliance is a collection of invdividuals with a link to Debian. It exists in order to counter the idea that the use of the Debian trademark is permissable if it's hidden inside an acronym.

So somebody is upset about basing the name of a separate organisation on 'Debian' and abbreviate that to a 'D'. Well wanker, I tell you something: you cannot trademark a single letter, or we'd only have about 36 possible companies.

What Does "DCC" stand for?

"DCC" is an abbreviation for "Debian common core Cheerleaders and Critics". Since "Debian Common Core" is a trademark of the DCC Alliance, only the abbreviated form is used in referring to the DCC Alliance.

(this seems a rip-off from the 'real' DCC faq entry. see above, no trademarks on single letters.

Will the DCC "fork" Debian?

Yes, the Debian Common Core alliance will fork Debian. As an example, the Debian kernel will be modified. Maintaining a branch of a package that is not identical to the upstream one is a de-facto fork.

Aha, a somewhat real-ish bone to pick. Except that creating a patched kernel is not such a big deal. You can find several in testing, does that mean that testing has been forked with every new kernel release? As long as the new kernel is interoperable with the one it replaces you can hardly call that forking.

is DCC necesary?
Debian has grown into a big organisation, and thus also has it's share of people with 'uncommon personalities'. It is all a volunteer effort (and thus?) some people in debian react a little allergic to commerce baseed on Debian, even though the licence allows it. Commercial Debian-based distro's have a vested interest in Debian, so they seek some influence. It can be vey hard to have to argue with every maintainer whose package they have altered to get him to accept the changes(There are 1000's of developers and and at least ten times more packages in Debian). Even with proper conflict resolution it quickly becomes a nightmare, so a lot of distro makers don't feed their changes upstream/to Debian at all.

That is a problem and something that a separate repository can solve. Yes that is in effect a fork, in the same sense that Ubuntu or Knoppix is a fork (not for the silly reason above). If the Debian derived distromakers have their own repository where they can work together changing Debian to their common goals without getting bogged down in Debian rules/games, then that is just great, IMHO.

It is great for the Debian-derived-distro-makers(DDDM?), as it allows them to cooperate and improve Debian while they are at it. It is great because it avoids conflict and bottlenecks. Commercials distro's (can) have a different interest than induvidual Debain developers. With this construction no single Debain developer can obstruct a DDDM. It is great because It will concentrate all enhancements made by DDDM's into one place, so the Debian developers don't need to track all different DDDMs for changes to their packages. And most of all, it will concentrate efforts into coding and cooperating, and that is good for all.

Re:Mirrordot by jolar · 2005-09-15 05:02 · Score: 1 · on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox

I've been beaten to it. Twice! Mod me redundant :(

Well here's the coral cache link then:

http://www.scottberkun.com.nyud.net:8090/blog/?p=1 15

Try this url instead by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-15 03:51 · Score: 0 · on Debian Core Consortium Releases First Code

http://www.dccalliance.org.nyud.net:8090/

Seems to work when you get the correct URL. Fancy.

Coral Cache by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-15 03:36 · Score: -1, Redundant · on Debian Core Consortium Releases First Code

http://www.dccalliance.biz.nyud.net:8090/

Spoof mirror by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-15 03:28 · Score: 5, Informative · on Debian Core Consortium Releases First Code

Screw the real site, the spoof is what's important: http://www.dccalliance.biz.nyud.net:8090/