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It's not really their Search algorithm, it's their method of comprehensive PageRanking.

They basically measure Web pages as either 1) portals, or 2) authorities.

Sites like Kuro5hin and *nix have a lot of "Google juice" (i.e. weight in their ranking system) because they have so many links to other sites, while also garnering a slew of links to their main page.

• 5 -- You have to earn back all the karma you lost when the /. janitors wiped your dup account
• 4 -- You'd rather waste away on /. than let your mom make you clean your room
• 3 -- Your Slashdot Friends/Foes are the next best thing to a social life
• 2 -- There's nothing like impressing your IRC cronies with a (slightly fudged) "Karma: Excellent" screenshot
• 1 -- You've got a thing for $$$$$exyGal

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This article got me thinking about the application of emulating a GNU/Linux compiler, like cc, under the windows XP OS. The cigwin project is advanced enough for that I think. It would open a whole world to windows developers who thought about porting to linux. This way you don't need to maintain a complicated GNU/Linux computer.

This is not a troll or flamebait, just suggesting the best tool for the best job.

BSD, Linux, OS X, & Solaris folks should read and blog at *nix.org

5 -- Your outdated computers will go really well with your outdated hairstyle

4 -- Reducing costs by purchasing old stuff is an essential part of the 1, 2, 3, Profit! scheme

3 -- Go back in time and invent the Internet before Al Gore gets around to it

2 -- 1337 + 666 = 2003, which is a sure sign that now is the time to become a retro geek

1 -- Being an R.C.G. is a lot like playing an R.P.G., only without the whole play-3-days-straight-get-up-puke-in-bathroom-die-s oon-thereafter routine

Remember that you can always get free blogging for life at *nix.org

SoInsteadOfJustBuyingSomeStand-alonePDA,IDecidedTo PurchaseOneOfThose Treo300 Gadgets.
It'sAPCSPhone+OrganizerInOne,AndCanDoUnl imitedData Transfer(Web+Email)For10DollarsAMonth.
FreeBloggingForLife

5 -- You think a $3,500 computer with a 17 inch monitor is better than a $2,000 HDTV set with a 35 inch screen

4 -- You wanna take screenshots of Joe Millionaire and set them as your desktop wallpaper

3 -- You're unemployed and have nothing else to do aside from incessant blogging

2 -- Regular TV is _so_ '90s.

1 -- Record Cinemax skin flicks as part of the Masturbate For Peace campaign

Courtesy of The *nix Top 5

During grad school, many of my classmates had to take anti-depressants and other forms of medication in order to continue living a fairly normal day-to-day life.

Their concern over grades led to a very skeptical viewpoint on life, but my how their entire personality was changed simply by taking 1 pill per day.

Don't forget *nix either.

Check out Netscape's Fish Cam!

Works On: Navigator
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How it Works:
1: When browsing the net, hold down Ctrl, Alt, F
2: Watch the fish!

If you don't have Nutscrape:
You can also go to http://wp.netscape.com/fishcam/fishcam.html to see the same thing.

BSD, Linux, OS X, & Solaris folks should read and blog at *nix.org

link

...... at *nix!!!

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5 -- You won't read it anyway

4 -- It comes out of your company's wallet, not yours

3 -- It's the only language left that doesn't try to be "write once, run on any toaster oven"

2 -- You still can't figure out how pointers work

1 -- It's still less crappy than the writing on Slashdot

Another joke courtesy of *nix.org

5 -- Via the traditional finger point, coupled with the ever-popular audible counter increment

4 -- Thermal image detection scan

3 -- Utilize the same finger pointing mentioned in 5, but avoid the audible count as an enhanced privacy measure

2 -- Avoid counting and caring about counting altogether; continue browsing Slashdot

1 -- Call the dude with the NAT box and ask him!

Free tech news & blogging for life -- *nix.org

5 -- Footprint logos are way cooler than green dragons

4 -- Your KDE installation died

3 -- 2.0 is the same version number as your Linux kernel installation

2 -- If Stallman uses it, it's gotta be good

1 -- You'd rather embrace Evolution than Jesus

# Free tech news and blogging for life -- *nix.org

5 -- Easier than getting a real CS degree

4 -- On top of 15 minutes of fame, you may also get 15 years of jailtime at no extra cost if you act now!

3 -- Opportunity to be featured in Jon Katz's new book about "Hacking in America: The Paradigm Shift Toward Increased Justice After 9/11"

2 -- Something to do while you're busy not trying to find a job

1 -- j00 c4n 7yp3 31gh7y w0rd5 4 m1nu7e 1n h4x0r-5p34k

By Eric Krout, Founder of *nix.org

5 -- You tested at a 3rd grade level on the math section of the SATs

4 -- You'd rather be golfing than reporting on the biggest NASA disaster since the Challenger

3 -- You honestly believe that the moon is twenty-five pentillion billion miles away from Earth, and that a rickety old spaceship normally travels about 3 to 4 times the speed of light

2 -- It beats working for a living
... and the number 1 reason to become a television news anchor

1 -- It's the only job where you won't get fired for wearing makeup

Yet another original Top 5 from *nix.org!

5 -- You'd rather trust a large company to run your servers than some flannel dude with a 1987 ThinkPad

4 -- You'd like to spend time debating politics and religion on #debian rather than actually learning about your computer

3 -- You prefer reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues... well, let's just say you're a Mac guy at heart

2 -- It's best to shy away from any operating system that can still be installed using a couple floppies
... and the number 1 reason to avoid Slackware

1 -- You can barely write a Slashdot post without errors, yet alone a 200 line video card configuration file

Check *nix.org out -- free blogging 24/7/365

5 -- At least your mom will think you're 1337

4 -- You need a BFS (Big Fucking pgp Sig) for all those blogs you waste your time on

3 -- To avoid letting the FBI know that Dear Matt, I you thought the last comp sci lab was hard and will probably just wait until Punjab Moltisontorilho hands his in and then we can steal his answers From Peter

2 -- Its geek factor will offset the fact that you still run Windows 95
... and the number 1 reason to use cryptography

1 -- Get that "terrorist feel" without all the violence

Copyright Eric Krout, Editor of *nix.org

Eric Krout's Top 5 is going to be a nightly feature over at *nix.org. The first Top 5 there was the one about Red Hat Certs > http://starnix.org/node.php?id=39

5 -- You just inherited $700 from your great-grandfather that's just waiting to be thrown out the proverbial case window

4 -- A loud smelly watercooling kit is the perfect complement to your neon light tubes

3 -- Why spend $200 for a brand new P4 when you can pay $500 for supplies and crank your P2 up 30 MHz?

2 -- That rock fountain you got for Christmas can be put to a much geekier use

1 -- To impress your classmates at Chubb Institute

Free blogging for geeks at *nix.org

5 -- Footprint logos are way cooler than green dragons

4 -- Your KDE installation died

3 -- 2.0 is the same version number as your Linux kernel installation

2 -- If Stallman uses it, it's gotta be good

1 -- You'd rather embrace Evolution than Jesus

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5 -- Make a hat pattern out of the multiple choice fields

4 -- Copy off the smelly guy with the dandruff-coated black tee shirt

3 -- Bribe the proctor of the exam with a lunch that's "free as in beer"

2 -- emacs &... Edit... Query Replace... "MCSE, Red Hat Certified"

1 -- Insist on using the new open source Test Answer Development (TAD) model championed by Bruce Perens

Don't forget *nix.org either

5 -- Number of companies in the entire world that have actually profitted off of "selling" software at no cost

4 -- Number of companies other than Microsoft that are still buying ads on Slashdot

3 -- Average ratio of troll to non-troll posts for the average Slashdotter

2 -- Number of projects on SourceForge that actually compile

1 -- Number of *BSD projects that are still alive. It's called Mac OS X.

Don't forget *nix either!

Probably Marconi.

He invented damn near everything else, only to have it stolen from him by Thomas Edison, etc.

Kind of like how Microsoft steals from Open Source these days, I guess.

This site is cool, too...

Microsoft Word XP, watch your back!

Don't forget to visit *nix.org.

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The Bastard Operator from Hell

Don't forget

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... is that it's the week of the 17th anniversary of the horrific Challenger disaster.

Coincidence?

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They have a nicely written, in-depth piece on AOL's new head master, Dick Parsons, as he deals with the trials and tribulations of running such a large, well-known company as AOL.

Non-registration, direct link version: Tests Keep Coming for AOL Time Warner's Well-Tested Chief

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A classic's a classic, and there's no denying that.

New millenium this, new millenium that, but to me and many like myself, there'll only ever be one Commodore.

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... for Junis!

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Christ, you've posted every single story that's on the front page right now. You've been incessantly surfing through the queue submissions since 1pm yesterday.

Take a break man -- you deserve it! ;-)

*nix.org -- Latest article: "Tablet PCs As Mobile *nix Workstations"

Best caption: "my name smeedle"

*nix.org -- View, Save, and Print PDF Versions of the Articles

Just in case his little server goes down, here's the Google cache of the site.

Have a great weekend everyone :-)

*nix.org -- No flamewars here -- all Unices welcome ;-)

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... but better writing, reading, and it covers BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, and more.

- link -

The OpenBSD team is a really great group of hard-working coders that don't stop with writing just average code.

This latest security measure goes to show why they're still #1 when it comes to really closing up a machine's holes to prevent abuse and unwanted infiltration into a system.

Unfortunately, they still can't get UltraSparcIII documentation that they need for their project.

I urge you all to contact SUN Microsystems and demand that they hand over the details of the US III series computers.

*nix.org -- Latest article > "Taming OS X"

If you click a comment's unique ID number link, you'll see a box with detailed information on all the moderation that has gone into that comment.

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has always said that he refused to adopt a better moderation system, such as the one used at Kuro5hin, because it "wouldn't scale".

But then they implement this new system, which I'm sure takes up more CPU time than Kuro5hin's simple averaging scheme for comment score calculations.

Anyone else think this seems a bit hypocritical? Just give every member the right to vote on a scale from 1-5 for each comment, and then average the score. It'd make for a lot less -1, Interesting and 5, Troll comments -- that's for sure.

*nix.org -- Who wouldn't want a two or three digit UID?

The engine

*nix.org -- Latest article: "IBM Set to Replace AIX with Linux"

Every radio station in every city that's making any money is probably 9 times out of 10 part of ClearChannel's vast network (dare I say monopoly) of radio stations across the United States.

The same Top 40 songs are heard day in and day out in every city. Nothing changes. Only artists with big media contracts (Sony, Columbia, etc.) can afford to buy air time.

I often wonder why there's been little innovation on the radio. Bands like Radiohead come along, but I've probably only heard one song of theirs on the radio, and that was once or twice even.

Let the little guys get some airtime. Fight this consolidation. I urge you to contact your representatives in government.

*nix.org -- Just when you thought unbiased opinion pieces and news articles no longer existed...

/me sobs

*nix.org - Get It In You

I ordered the new 17" PowerBook G4 a couple days ago and plan to use it for everything -- music, phone calls, movies, drawing, coding, Web browsing, Instant Messaging, email, stock reports, etc.

*nix.org - For all fans of BSD, Linux, OS X, or Solaris...

... as the Amish plan to start producing buggies without wheels by the second quarter of 2004.

*nix.org - You say you want a revolution?

... but, quite frankly, I'm more impressed that his page with 1.22MB of data sent per hit is still loading fine after an old-fashioned Slashdotting!

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... in COBOL nonetheless!

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000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
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000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
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001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
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100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500 DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD." LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600 STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800 EXIT.

*nix.org - Featuring BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, & More!

How to filter out traffic from Microsoft's latest Internet worm:
/sbin/iptables -I FORWARD -p udp --dport 1434 -j DROP :-p

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