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A Nerd's guide to sex
Casanova's Tips
Sex Tips for Geeks

Oh, and you should probably also get some new clothes.

Hey, but there already are Eric Raymond's "Sex Tips for Geeks". Written by the uber-geek Eric S. Raymond himself... :)

Wow. That was even gayer than Anal Cocks, Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman in a hot bath. And that is _seriously_ gay.

Some faggots are very, very gay, yes. However, there exists a certain breed of faggot that is even gayer than this. So gay infact, that words cannot describe such extreme homosexuality.

BTW, the link to ESR's paper, The Cathedral and the Bazaar is here. Do I get modded up to +5, Informative now?????? Thank you, open-sores Slashbots!

A space suit! Get it? A space suit!
HAHAHAHAHAHA... haha... ha?

Uh... you can go ahead and laugh now, guys.

Guys?

Anybody?

The key to implementing this plan is the proper mumbo-jumbo. Write up a formal proposal and fill it with statistisc relating worker proformance to office moral. Cite the benefits of enhanced work enviornment. Explore the possibility that it may generate free publicity, even if it's just word-of mouth. Free publicity = profits. Perhaps this could be used to make a memorable impression on potential clients. People don't always go with the best or cheapest - they go with what they remember.

I suck at mumbo-jumbo. Maybe you can find a marketriod buddy to dress it up and print out some four-color glossies. Make it buzzword-compliant, real content-free. Impressive pie charts. Cite several studies. Maybe a few overhead transparencies.

The key to implementing this plan is the proper mumbo-jumbo. Write up a formal proposal and fill it with statistisc relating worker proformance to office moral. Cite the benefits of enhanced work enviornment. Explore the possibility that it may generate free publicity, even if it's just word-of mouth. Free publicity = profits. Perhaps this could be used to make a memorable impression on potential clients. People don't always go with the best or cheapest - they go with what they remember.

I suck at mumbo-jumbo. Maybe you can find a marketriod buddy to dress it up and print out some four-color glossies. Make it buzzword-compliant, real content-free. Impressive pie charts. Cite several studies. Maybe a few overhead transparencies.

The key to implementing this plan is the proper mumbo-jumbo. Write up a formal proposal and fill it with statistisc relating worker proformance to office moral. Cite the benefits of enhanced work enviornment. Explore the possibility that it may generate free publicity, even if it's just word-of mouth. Free publicity = profits. Perhaps this could be used to make a memorable impression on potential clients. People don't always go with the best or cheapest - they go with what they remember.

I suck at mumbo-jumbo. Maybe you can find a marketriod buddy to dress it up and print out some four-color glossies. Make it buzzword-compliant, real content-free. Impressive pie charts. Cite several studies. Maybe a few overhead transparencies.

The key to implementing this plan is the proper mumbo-jumbo. Write up a formal proposal and fill it with statistisc relating worker proformance to office moral. Cite the benefits of enhanced work enviornment. Explore the possibility that it may generate free publicity, even if it's just word-of mouth. Free publicity = profits. Perhaps this could be used to make a memorable impression on potential clients. People don't always go with the best or cheapest - they go with what they remember.

I suck at mumbo-jumbo. Maybe you can find a marketriod buddy to dress it up and print out some four-color glossies. Make it buzzword-compliant, real content-free. Impressive pie charts. Cite several studies. Maybe a few overhead transparencies.

To pick a nit, CML2 is the new config language. The new build system is kubild2.5, developed by Keith Owens.

Don't you mean "less like a cathedral and more like a bazaar"?

Jack

if things in Australia are like they are in the US, Blockbuster still charges a premium for DVD rental over VHS rental

Since when did they start doing that? Last time I checked, they charge the same for both. (Then again, I can't remember when I last rented a tape...even before I had something that would play DVDs, I didn't rent tapes much.)

(BTW, whoever modded the parent post as flamebait needs to lay off the crack pipe and look up the definition of flamebait.)

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Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

thiz iz already the 4th account i am roasting karma under.

Please follow the first aol.com link!

YHBT. YHL. HAND.

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Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

But bring your own lube!

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Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

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Good question. In principle, Libertarians (big and small L) do oppose most government regulation.

Maybe a place to start thinking more about this is ESR's essay "Why Libertarians Should Not Love Bill Gates".

I guess where I come down is to argue that if we're going to have a settlement (and since MS has consented to this "Soviet-style technical committee" in lieu of taking its chances at trial), it ought to be a worthwhile one. I would also argue that MS has committed real and serious crimes, including perjury before a federal court, that ought to be illegal regardless of MS's status as a monopoly or not.

FWIW, it seems that most on /. would fail to be satisfied by anything short of the forcible redistribution of Bill Gates' wealth to sweatshop workers in Malaysia and the public execution of Steve Ballmer.

Some hackers, most notably Raymond, believe that antitrust enforcement is fundamentally wrong-headed -- that the government has no right to punish private corporations for monopoly "crimes." That's the job of the market. To open-source pragmatists like Raymond, the open-source software development process results in technically better products than the proprietary mode. Attempts to concoct a government remedy are "old paradigm" statist foolishness.

"The whole premise of antitrust law is wrong," says Raymond. "Governments don't break up monopolies, markets do. Governments create monopolies."

See also here.

but as a frequent recipient of the sharp end of the DoS stick, I sure wish it wasn't an issue.

I think you may be looking at that stick backwards. Slashdotted is in the Jargon file!

So it could never really catch fire? Guess ESR needs to update this entry.

The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to toggle a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up.

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

Geeky OSS Admin: "Oh well that's because [yadda yadda yadda]. It's your fault. Jesus Christ, RTFM!!"

You know you're a geek when you use UNIX abbreviations in speech.

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp.

[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by guru s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. Compare Don't do that then! .
2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness . "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also FM , RTFAQ , RTFB , RTFS , STFW , RTM , all of which mutated from RTFM, and compare UTSL .

-Metrollica

I talk about surveillance issues, you throw murdering tens of millions back. Is there a Chinese equivalent to Godwins Law?

Even Eric S. Raymond agrees with MS on this one :

"It is also worth noting that the manufacturing delusion encourages price structures that are pathologically out of line with the actual breakdown of development costs. If (as is generally accepted) over 75% of a typical software project's life-cycle costs will be in maintenance and debugging and extensions, then the common price policy of charging a high fixed purchase price and relatively low or zero support fees is bound to lead to results that serve all parties poorly.

Consumers lose because, even though software is a service industry, the incentives in the factory model all cut against a vendor's offering competent service. If the vendor's money comes from selling bits, most effort will go to making bits and shoving them out the door; the help desk, not a profit center, will become a dumping ground for the least effective and get only enough resources to avoid actively alienating a critical number of customers." - Eric S. Raymond

This is taken from The Magic Cauldron

I have been using the 2.4 kernel on my home system since the beginning. The early releases were quite stable, but there were issues that required an upgrade.

But then, each new release seemed to deteriorate. System lock ups, broken drivers, you name it. Some kernels even refused to boot. I was lucky I never lost any data.

Around 2.4.13, things had become so bad that I decided to skip a few releases. And after the next crash, I reverted to 2.4.9 (which still had problems, but it was bearable - I was lucky I still had it: I bumped into random errors while compiling a new kernel).

In 2.4.16 and 17, things finally became stable. At last. I hope Marcelo Tosatti keeps stability as the main priority of his job as kernel maintainer.

The 2.4 series has had more than its share of brown-paper-bag bugs. Up to the point that 2 releases didn't even compile properly.

Switching VM implementations in a stable kernel series has been one of Linus' greatest mistakes. I hope people learn from this, and that some kind of QA will be installed.

Troll? That was a high intelligent post.

Which doesn't prevent it from being a troll.

The giveaway is the comparison between /.'s moderation system and government oppression of dissidents. He compared moderators (who express their opinion) to Nazis (who killed people by the millions). That's either trolling, or so dumb as to be indistinguishable.

Godwin's Law as applied to /. would make a "troll", "flamebait", or "clueless" moderation appropriate. Too bad the last doesn't exist.

It's a concept that has been around for quite some
time. A quick search on google reveals around 8000
hits, it's even got an entry in the jargon file.

A friend of mine at university has quite a large collection of postcards people have sent him from around the world for various bits and pieces of code he wrote.

Let's face it. Email etiquette is a niche.

One could make the same argument about any etiquette. And in some cases, like proper pinky placement while tea-sipping, the etiquette really is a niche, because the etiquette goes with something that is itself a niche. But that's not the case with email, which is rapidly becoming universal.

Any reasonable etiquette standard, from editing your email to not using your cellphone during a movie to not slurping your soup, is about consideration for others, about trading a little effort on your part for some benefit to those you deal with. To develop a taste for manners, all you need is the chance to regularly experience both sides of the behavior. A daily shower seems like an unnecessary nuisance until you sit next to somebody who bathes monthly.

Ever since the September that never ended, the Internet has been flooded with relative newbies. Newbies anywhere are notoriously short on manners. But the percentage of new people on the Internet has probably peaked already, so we should soon see some collective progress.

Certainly, I've seen signs of it. I've stopped receiving "send a card to tumorous Timmy" forward hoaxes; all my correspondents have passed that stage. And I've seen progress in the real world, too; during the last three movies I've attended, I haven't had to kill a single person for cellphone use.

And so it will go with quoting. A well-formatted message is more pleasant to read and easier to understand; those who want to communicate well will take the extra time. And those who don't catch on will look like dolts.

Actually, before The X Window System, there was the W Window System. .

A link to shotgun debugging would be nice.

I have to weigh in even though this is probably redundant and going to cost me karma

The current "inclusion convention" for email is just to do whatever my mail program wants, normally "stick my reply over the quoted text". This results in huge messages, often with 10 or 20 quoted messages under them which bear little or no relevance to the current line of discussion.
The end result for me is long, confusing email that eats space on my mail server (I'm an IMAP user).

In most cases I advocate the FIRST quoting style described in the jargon file - it makes the most sense for any email over 10 lines. It makes the most sense when reading over the email and it is the style I myself use. Additionally, I berate people frequently for not trimming off irrelevant stuff from their messages - If something is 6 levels back and hasn't been replied to chances are it wont spark discussion on the 7th mail.

This has been my theraputic rant for the day :)