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http://pudge.net/jesux/

Does anyone else remember Jesux? It didn't claim to talk to God, but <rabbi_voice>it couldn't hurt<rabbi_voice>.

No, you're wrong. This is the only One True OS : http://pudge.net/jesux/

(In other words, the 90's called they want their joke back)

Man, these guys are total fucktards: ...

Before you start throwing incendiary names at people, perhaps you should consider reading the About page ... It makes you out to be the type of person whose only exercise is jumping to conclusions. (I don't know if you really are or not; that's not my business, nor is it any of my concern.)

It is a joke. Relax.

Man, these guys are total fucktards:

Ahem. Perhaps you should calibrate your sarcasm detector.

So mount is bad but what about "dicked" as in, "I got dicked around by that asshole."

Addition of /usr/dict/kjv.words (exhaustive)

http://pudge.net/jesux/

Man, these guys are total fucktards:

- Login screen has full text to Lord's Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, with Christian and American symbols

- qmail replaces sendmail as the standard MTA (sendmail was written by a prominent homosexual)

- No encryption provided; Christians have nothing to hide

The one positive piece of information I could find on the site was this:

This page last updated Wednesday, September 29, 1999, 13:51:07 PDT

http://pudge.net/jesux/

Can we get rid of the brainless AC posts already? They're all shoot-from-the-lip ignoramuses like this asshole.

I'm an Obamatron, but I can't abide the Huffpost. So I learned about this fiasco from Newser, which linked a conservative web site which linked John Ekdahl's blog. John's a Romney volunteer, and his scathing description of Orca is informed by his day job as a web developer. And the there's Pudge, who helped design Slashdot, and who I presume voted for Romney, unless he considers him too liberal.

So obviously there's no absence of IT talent on the right side of the aisle. What is missing is administrative judgment by Romney himself, who obviously bought some IT snakeoil from somebody, and has generally managed to find total clowns to run his campaign.

People keep telling me about this brilliant guy named Mitt Romney who had a brilliant academic career (MBA and JD from Harvard), did well as a management consultant and equity capitalist, and accomplished great things as Governor of MA, even though the other party controlled the legislature. But I just don't see how that can be the same guy!

When a snake oil salesman gets burned by the snake oil he purchased-- there's only one word for that: Karma...

Can we get rid of the brainless AC posts already? They're all shoot-from-the-lip ignoramuses like this asshole.

I'm an Obamatron, but I can't abide the Huffpost. So I learned about this fiasco from Newser, which linked a conservative web site which linked John Ekdahl's blog. John's a Romney volunteer, and his scathing description of Orca is informed by his day job as a web developer. And the there's Pudge, who helped design Slashdot, and who I presume voted for Romney, unless he considers him too liberal.

So obviously there's no absence of IT talent on the right side of the aisle. What is missing is administrative judgment by Romney himself, who obviously bought some IT snakeoil from somebody, and has generally managed to find total clowns to run his campaign.

People keep telling me about this brilliant guy named Mitt Romney who had a brilliant academic career (MBA and JD from Harvard), did well as a management consultant and equity capitalist, and accomplished great things as Governor of MA, even though the other party controlled the legislature. But I just don't see how that can be the same guy!

Billed as the world's first Christian tablet

But does it run Linux?

("Steve Jobs"? Pudge, is that you?)

The author of the article seems to want to fit the band into a mold in which it doesn't belong, but that's the way life is. Here's what an " enlightened" employee of /. had to say about their latest kids album: http://pudge.net/glob/2009/09/tmbg-pushes-atheist-propaganda.html

I think you should check his blog.

I don't make a habit of reading his blog, since it generally has the exact same stuff he posts here in his journal at slashdot - and I have no interest in setting up an account to post replies there.

That said, I checked the relevant post to see if I had mis-read it. On there, he starts by saying:

I am no longer working for Slashdot/Geeknet as of September 30. I am actively seeking new employment.

So apparently he is still working for them in some capacity through the end of next month. He didn't give any other insight into what happened. I also see that he still has the slashdot logo on his profile, I would think they would fix that once his time is up.

I guess we now know why a "how do we see if a terminated employee left logic bombs or gaping backdoors" article made the front page :)

I would think that their overlords would have been wise enough to restrict programmers' access to the most critical servers. But then again, they don't seem to distinguish between "development" and "production", so who knows.

And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.

Which is why I think he may have gotten shitcanned

I could see it as a layoff; slashdot doing some downsizing and trying to figure out WTF they are going to do in attempt to find some degree of relevance on the modern internet. But I rather doubt he was fired outright. Besides, having terms like that for termination sounds more like a layoff, or the firing of a protected union member. And we know which Pudge would prefer to be...

Or, since the election season is heating up, he's going into politics full-time.

I don't know why he wouldn't have done that in the previous cycle when we were electing a new POTUS. Unless he is so dedicated to stopping Obama (from not doing anything) that he wants to invest all his time, effort, and resources into unseating incumbent democrats. But I think he could have accomplished that better by investing more effort into preventing Obama from being elected in the first place.

The original Christian distribution: Jesux!

Ubuntu Christian Edition? What's the matter? Jesux wasn't holier-than-thou enough?

FWIW, Amazon Web Services did host the Seattle Slashdot anniversary party. I'm not suggesting there was any impropriety, however.

Pudge
Pudge's projects

Maybe it's you, who's arrogant.

Your link is about the infamous First Slashdot Troll Post Investigation, not about banning moderators.

But let's discuss that thread anyway. A plurality of the mods were Offtopic mods, and the post indeed had nothing to do with Oracle. So you are suggesting that we should shoot someone for being right? Also, there is no solid evidence that a mod blacklist even exists.

One more thing about your "censored thread." This "injustice" which caused you to start your pathetic little holy war was an investigation into trolling - in other words into posts which lower the signal-to-noise ratio. If you are for such an investigation, then why are you trying to increase exactly what the post was trying to reduce?

I know why - you are a bunch of hypocrites. Trolls. You try to post inflammatory messages just to get attention, whether good or bad. You are hopeless failures in life, and such actions are unsuccessful attempts to give yourselves a sense of power. You will never amount to anything, never reproduce. Your lives are an absolute waste.

Awesome. I went to high school with this dude. Brother of frequent slashdotter pudge. We always expected big things of Mark.

Posted by pudge on Sunday January 04, @08:35AM
...
I played it with my DV camera [...] I want death and maiming in my video games.

1. Read the article
   
2. Tried it out before posting to the homepage
   
3. Expressed an opinion without stating it as fact
   

After Apple reneged on the Nov. 3rd release date I gave them 2-3 weeks. After the 2-3 weeks were up, I asked for the status and they said "December". Meanwhile, users are left exposed and independent rediscovery seemed fairly likely.

B. The MAINTAINER has 5 work days respond. Note that all times of work days are relative to the ORIGINATOR, not the MAINTAINER. Suggestion to the MAINTAINER: sooner is better than later--just because you have 5 days does not mean you need to take them all. The ORIGINATOR is technically free to do whatever they want to do after 5 work days--however, they should be fair and wait if the MAINTAINER shows adequate initiative to fix the ISSUE.

Q. I'm a software maintainer, and I can't possibly fix the problem in 5 days....
A. You don't have to. If you (re)read the above, you have 5 days to establish communication. Provided you cooperate with the researcher and keep them 'in the loop', they should provide you with whatever time necessary to resolve the ISSUE (within fair reason).

Q. I'm a software maintainer, and I want more than 5 days!
A. Well, considering that, in general, you don't have *anything* technically, this document hopes to provide you with at least 5. Be on your best behavior, cooperate with the ORIGINATOR, and you should get more. :)

set theString to do shell script "curl -l -s ftp://username:password@someftp.com/ | grep 'unique identifier string'"

It was a random, inane, and completely useless comment. This, coming from someone with a joke for a website. If VT's website needs beefing up, pudge's website is the cow that died 5 years ago and has since been picked clean.

Seems to me the design for Virginia Tech is just fine. They could stand to get rid of their table-based layout, but it's not a horrible site. Pudge is just being an asshole.

Most Sun Employees Own Macs
Posted by pudge on Wednesday August 06, @12:12PM
from the give-all-apple-users-suns-and-we'll-call-it-even dept.
An anonymous user writes, "Most Sun Microsystems employees use Apple when they're not at work ....

Where is the source of this statement ? Did pudge even verify it before posting it or I am missing something?

Most Sun Employees Own Macs
Posted by pudge on Wednesday August 06, @12:12PM
from the give-all-apple-users-suns-and-we'll-call-it-even dept.
An anonymous user writes, "Most Sun Microsystems employees use Apple when they're not at work ....

Where is the source of this statement ? Did pudge even verify it before posting it or I am missing something?

From pudge's blog:

I keep hearing people say things like "Bush wasn't elected," as if there were some truth to the statement. I hoped it was just bitterness at defeat that would eventually die down. But apparently the bitterness or blindness of some knows no bounds. So let me set the record straight, once and for all.

Bush was elected. There is no sense in which it is correct to say that he was not. We have a system of elections, determined by written law, and that system and law was followed at every step.

Some say Bush didn't win the "national popular" vote, as if the total number of votes means anything. It doesn't. Our law defines an electoral college system, and there is no such thing as a national popular vote.

Some say the Supreme Court of the United States stepped in and handed the election to Bush, as if the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of Constitutionality of election law. It is such, as defined in Article II Section 1 and Amendment 14.

Some say that the decision of the Supreme Court was invalid because it was partisan, that if you look at the 5-4 decision, it is the conservatives voting in favor of Bush, with the liberals in favor of Gore. Actually, the decision that the Florida recount was unconstitutional by breach of due process was 7-2, including all but the two most liberal members of the court; if the vote was partisan by vote makeup as we've been told, then it was the two liberals who were partisan. Of course, even if the decision in Bush's favor were partisan, it wouldn't invalidate the election (despite damaging the integrity of the Supreme Court), but this is just another example of people ignoring the facts of the matter.

So you can disagree with the outcome, but you cannot reasonably say that Bush didn't win the election, unless you believe the election procedures should be determined by something other than the law that defines them, and our system of law that interprets them. To continue to say he wasn't elected is to ignore the factual truth of the matter.

From pudge's blog:

I keep hearing people say things like "Bush wasn't elected," as if there were some truth to the statement. I hoped it was just bitterness at defeat that would eventually die down. But apparently the bitterness or blindness of some knows no bounds. So let me set the record straight, once and for all.

Bush was elected. There is no sense in which it is correct to say that he was not. We have a system of elections, determined by written law, and that system and law was followed at every step.

Some say Bush didn't win the "national popular" vote, as if the total number of votes means anything. It doesn't. Our law defines an electoral college system, and there is no such thing as a national popular vote.

Some say the Supreme Court of the United States stepped in and handed the election to Bush, as if the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of Constitutionality of election law. It is such, as defined in Article II Section 1 and Amendment 14.

Some say that the decision of the Supreme Court was invalid because it was partisan, that if you look at the 5-4 decision, it is the conservatives voting in favor of Bush, with the liberals in favor of Gore. Actually, the decision that the Florida recount was unconstitutional by breach of due process was 7-2, including all but the two most liberal members of the court; if the vote was partisan by vote makeup as we've been told, then it was the two liberals who were partisan. Of course, even if the decision in Bush's favor were partisan, it wouldn't invalidate the election (despite damaging the integrity of the Supreme Court), but this is just another example of people ignoring the facts of the matter.

So you can disagree with the outcome, but you cannot reasonably say that Bush didn't win the election, unless you believe the election procedures should be determined by something other than the law that defines them, and our system of law that interprets them. To continue to say he wasn't elected is to ignore the factual truth of the matter.

Respect to pudge for actually taking the time to run a test to verify the story.

Respectable journalism exercised by Slashdot? Is that a pig flying past my window?

I'm amazed that you interpret a snide remark as "bitching and moaning".

But then, I'm also amazed that a person that gets paid to be an [b]editor[/b] doesn't. It'd be a bit like getting paid to paint houses and not bothering with the spots you can't reach.

It's about pride in your craft. Pudge is an editor. Expecting an editor to produce a single sentence his high school English teacher would approve is not too much to ask.

(You also don't mean "MacOS", which doesn't exist, nor "Mac OS", but "Mac OS X")

Blah blah blah.

You don't mean Linux. At the very least you mean GNU/Linux, but I suspect you actually mean Red Hat Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Linux Mandrake or whatever. Say what you mean! Above all, never refer to any operating system as "Windows". You probably mean something like "Microsoft Windows 2000" or "Microsoft Windows XP".

Don't even get me started on pronunciation. OS X's speech synthesiser says "Mac Oh Ess Ten Ten Point Two Point 3". How would you pronounce Mac OS X 11.6? I would say "Oss Ecks Eleven Point Six", just as I say "Oss Ecks" or (if I need to be more specific) "Oss Ecks Ten Point Two Point Three".

[Posting as AC so I won't be accused of karma whoring.]

Posted by pudge on 01-09-03 21:22
from the software-update-will-tell-us-about-it-anyway-whiii iiine dept.
ufo8mycow writes "QuickTime 6.1 is available for Mac users via Software Update. Enhancements include the following: MPEG-4 video provides more accurate rate control and improved visual quality; AAC includes new encoder controls and new bit rate options; DV includes significant encode and decode performance improvements; QuickTime Pro users will enjoy enhancements in full screen playback, including newly enabled keyboard shortcuts for movie control, faster entry and exit, and improved playback performance."

Have you looked here?

Pudge has a site with lots of Mac+Perl info and projects, including a link to this, a tool to connect Perl to the Apple Event model.

Of course this begs the question why you haven't already looked at AppleScript Studio and AppleScript, which allows you to script the OS and many of it's Apps?

This snippet allows me to start my apps when I get into work:

tell application "ICQ 3.0X"
activate
end tell
tell application "AOL Instant Messenger (SM)"
activate
end tell
tell application "Yahoo! Messenger"
activate
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
activate
end tell

It's not particularly complex nor instructive, but AppleScript is full featured and extensive. I have a cronjob run an AppleScript in the mornings, where the AppleScript opens iTunes, opens a playlist, and then start playing, as my alarm clock!

tell application "iTunes"
play user playlist "Sweet-Sad"
play
end tell

Have you looked here?

Pudge has a site with lots of Mac+Perl info and projects, including a link to this, a tool to connect Perl to the Apple Event model.

Of course this begs the question why you haven't already looked at AppleScript Studio and AppleScript, which allows you to script the OS and many of it's Apps?

This snippet allows me to start my apps when I get into work:

tell application "ICQ 3.0X"
activate
end tell
tell application "AOL Instant Messenger (SM)"
activate
end tell
tell application "Yahoo! Messenger"
activate
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
activate
end tell

It's not particularly complex nor instructive, but AppleScript is full featured and extensive. I have a cronjob run an AppleScript in the mornings, where the AppleScript opens iTunes, opens a playlist, and then start playing, as my alarm clock!

tell application "iTunes"
play user playlist "Sweet-Sad"
play
end tell

Pudge (aka Chris Nandor) wrote the MP3::Info perl module, among other things, and currently maintains MacPerl. Except for his occasional wacky pro-life commentary, he seems like a decent enough guy.

btw, I was *this* close to using my last mod point on you, but I decided to be a nice guy and reply instead. :)

And why can he post stuff to the frontpage?

Pudge is Chris Nandor. Long-standing MacPerl person, and now working for OSDN by the looks of things. The story was posted to the Apple section first, and presumably made it to the front page from there.

-dair

You're welcome. Gerv suggested it and Pudge checked it in

(Consider it my little contribution to Mozilla and to the Semantic Web.)

Oh, two things:
if you read the Apple developer docs you can "extend" Apple's Quicktime and make any damn player design you want. There are Perl-based MP3 players for the Mac, that just hook into the QT runtime.

Uh, huh. This is ture! I have Pudge's source for one of these. It's done in about 270 lines of Perl (including the POD). Quicktime does all the heavy lifting.

Rather than post the code, I'll just link to it.

http://pudge.net/files/macperl /scripts/mp3player.plx

What many people fail to notice, is that Quicktime is more than just a streaming media format. Quicktime in fact, handles all sorts of still image formats, does a variety of image processing/effects, and also CONVERTS between the various supported formats. This is independant of the plethora of compression codecs (which seems to be the major bone of IP contention).

On the Mac, Quicktime is installed as a "System Extension", and is available for use by all applications. One doesn't need Apple's player to play Quicktime movies on the Mac, or even to make use of Quicktime's full feature set.

Forget the player and codecs. What we need for Linux is a complete Quicktime library, a set of APIs and a Quicktime SDK. OpenGL and Quicktime in combination ROCK!

<rant>
As a 16-year Mac veteran with a foot in both camps, I understand Apple's motivation. They make money by selling hardware. The Linux community hasn't shown consistently that they'll BUY Apple hardware. If anything, there's a manifestly anti-Apple sentiment from a community of Intel die-hards. Why should Apple support you?

Dump a few of those Pentium III's, recycle them, ship them to a needy third-world country, and replace them with PowerMacs (preferably new, but buy used if you must (if you do this, be sure to upgrade the OS)). Run a dual-boot system. Being a CUSTOMER of Apple will give you more weight with them.
</rant>

BTW, us Mac folks do a lot of these petitions. It was the only way we got games ported to the Mac during the days when everyone thought the Mac was dead. We're still fighting Corel over WordPerfect.

Apple will listen. They will listen better if you wave money at them. It's the nature of the beast.

We don't have to like it, but we do have to live with it, alas.

--B

You are all losers.

First, put your name behind it or shut up, ladies.

Second, the overwhelming majority of the time when someone is kicked or devoiced it is because they are offtopic, rude, refusing to read documentation, or otherwise being generally disagreeable. The small portion of the time that someone gets kicked for no good reason ... well, we are all human. Get over it. If merlyn had a bad day and kicked you, deal.

Dollars to dipswitches you got kicked for being a KLB [ lyrics | mp3 ] though.

Third, merlyn may not be the best programmer in the world, and he is not perfect, but he is certainly a better programmer and a better person than most of the people who post on /. (though I realize that isn't saying much, unfortunately). And he has few "followers" on #perl. He has what people who know about life apart from computers call "friends."

You are all losers.

First, put your name behind it or shut up, ladies.

Second, the overwhelming majority of the time when someone is kicked or devoiced it is because they are offtopic, rude, refusing to read documentation, or otherwise being generally disagreeable. The small portion of the time that someone gets kicked for no good reason ... well, we are all human. Get over it. If merlyn had a bad day and kicked you, deal.

Dollars to dipswitches you got kicked for being a KLB [ lyrics | mp3 ] though.

Third, merlyn may not be the best programmer in the world, and he is not perfect, but he is certainly a better programmer and a better person than most of the people who post on /. (though I realize that isn't saying much, unfortunately). And he has few "followers" on #perl. He has what people who know about life apart from computers call "friends."

And if you STILL don't get it about being kicked ... check out the KLB song [ lyrics | mp3 ].

And if you STILL don't get it about being kicked ... check out the KLB song [ lyrics | mp3 ].