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on the topic of Corel's 18+ distro..I thought I'd throw this link out for you all (if you haven't seen it already)..

last sunday's user friendly

Well, that would explain why I saw Tux the last time I was at Source Adult.

I just assumed I was halucinating :-)
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Illiad is giving Corel some deserved grief.

I couldn't find mention of this in any other comment, but.... UserFriendly has responded in a kinda funny manner:

http://www.userfr iendly.org/cartoons/archives/99nov/19991128.html

Well, in context? Sure, a billion people know who Cher is. And a few months ago, a million people knew who Cher was, but noone cared. Then, through the miracle of pop culture, we had our Aging Celebrity Comeback (TM, patent pending, and very similar to the phenomenon of Five-Member-Male-Vocalist-Groups). And millions of records were sold on a person who, of course, quickly lost the limelight and became the subject of Scandalous Tabloid Mockery (TM, patent acquired).

So here we have a person, who basically has contributed very little of real value to society. She entertained ages ago, and now is entertaining again. Yes, this has value. But as much value as the work of a man who is a Large Part of the Open Source movement. A movement that is making quite the impact in the computer/Internet bits of society. True, it's relative and what not, but Bruce/Linus/RMS/ESR/Wall/etc are doing more that makes themselves more important.

And as long as we're talking about people taking the limelight and doing a foot-in-mouth, remember that RMS was and still is quite controversial. His best comments were made in the day when /. wasn't a phenomenon, but he said them all the same. Bruce is more then entitled to his (justified, IMHO) position.

And anyone who wants a humorous take on the Corel 18+ thing, go read todays UFIE.

Now, as James Lawson puts it on the CCl4 web site, the ANSI board is all but dead. Most boards have been surpassed by the Internet and indeed FTP sites and websites as you rightly state; Fido feeds have been surpassed by Usenet; message areas by maillists. It's back to information provision and suchlike.

There has been, for some years now, a Viewdata Revival going on, which puts forward many of the arguments. Unfortunately the website is a bit stale but it does give you a sort-of hail back to the days of CARBBS, XFS+ and EBBS board hosts running on 32k BBC Micros with (if you were lucky) 20Mb Winchester hard disks - none of this 24Gb filespace and 18 CDs online rubbish.

There are several Viewdata bulletin boards now online on the Internet, run from Acorn Archimedes machines using Gareth Babb's excellent VHost software. Mine is called Haven and you can get to it without even a Viewdata emulator, by using the online Java-based client. Alternatively there are bits of software you can use to access them.

Of course, there are still ANSI boards available via telnet - the UserFriendly one immediately springs to mind. But you still won't get back the sort of thing which you had with Viewdata.

Hope this enlightens at least some ;)

Joel.

From UserFriendly.org:

Harkening back to the halcyon days of dial-up Bulletin Boards, the UFie BBS can be reached at http://bbs.ufies.org and telnet://bbs.ufies.org. Tradewars and Lord and other famous BBS door games are available, as are message boards, Fidonet feeds, and more! Thanks go to Moe, the generous chap who set the whole thing up and paid for the license!

Anyone who doesn't know the story should check the BeDope story, the User Friendly story, the segfault story, or one of the stories at /.

Anyone who doesn't know the story should check the BeDope story, the User Friendly story, the segfault story, or one of the stories at /.

I tell you..that guy is getting SO popular! When I first started buying from him, he was just another guy tryin to make a buck. Now look at him...he's got his own occasional spot on UF and now a mention on Slashdot. Wonder what the slashdot effect does to one's sales! sigh...there goes buying from 'the little guys' ;)

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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...

I tell you..that guy is getting SO popular! When I first started buying from him, he was just another guy tryin to make a buck. Now look at him...he's got his own occasional spot on UF and now a mention on Slashdot. Wonder what the slashdot effect does to one's sales! sigh...there goes buying from 'the little guys' ;)

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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...

7) by Otter
One of the most startling things about this trial was how utterly inept Microsoft's defense seemed.

A toolkit for altering the faces of the Nazi's to prominent people. The Brown Shirts could be the 'Stef' (see http://userfriendly.org/static marketing people from the top floor who have actually no clue, while the Bosses could be those people on the board while the eleite guards that ran around in white could be the finance department

Here's a particularly nasty toy you can make with some commonly available goodies, for all you Dr. Evil-in-training types (I wonderink if Mikhail makink these device when leetle boy, da?)

What You'll Need

• A brain. (You'd be amazed at how many people don't get past this point)

• A capacitor. The best types are the big old barrel caps from circa 1960-1970 TV sets... you know, the ones that look and feel about the weight of a relay baton. Polarized or non doesn't matter. Axial (one lead on each side) or radial (both leads on one side) are both fine, but radials take just a bit more work.

• Tin/Aluminum Foil. Not a whole bunch, just raid your mom's kitchen cabinents, or order some chinese food and use the tin from thier plates. As long as it's conductive, can be easily wrapped a cylindrical object, and cheap, it'll do.

• Electrical Tape. You MIGHT be able to substitute duct tape, but apparently some substrates can become conductive under certain circumstances. Best to play safe and get the genuine article (the black rubbery stuff).

• Some wire, soldering iron and solder. Not much solder is needed, nor wire. In fact, if you have an axial (one lead on each end) capacitor with long enough leads, you may not need these at all.

• A continuity meter. The best in the world are made by Fluke Industries. No self-respecting electronic/electrical engineer would be caught dead without one. Of course, deletantes may use whatever cheesy little analogue meters they find in thier gran-pappy's toolkit.

• A power source. The best are ones are bench supplies which can generate a specific voltage, but even a cheap-ass wall-plugged model will do in a pinch. Try to get it as close to the rating of the capacitor as possible. I've found that a couple car batteries in series makes a good 24v or +/-12v supply in a pinch, so long as they're kept charged and outdoors when not in use. Oh, and try not to spill their contents on your Nikes.

1. Read the Fine Print. I absolve myself of all issues that may arise from you assembling and using this little beast. Don't blame me if you use this on the head jock of your school and end up getting a boot up your ass. You're a big boy and/or grrl and you know what you're getting yourself into. CAVEAT ENGINEO.

Discharge the Capacitor. Just bridge the leads of the capacitor with some wire, a screwdriver, or any other ol' peice of metal you got on hand. Better safe than sorry... at least for the time being. >B)

(optional) Extend your Leads. Depending on the size of your capacitor and the length of the leads, you may need to add a little more metal on to the end of 'em. If you have a radial style cap (two leads at the bottom), you'll probably need to extend one lead so that it'll reach up to the top of the cap.

Tape Up the Cap. Lay down a layer of tape across the length of the capacitor. Don't leave any metal exposed except for the leads themselves. If you have a radial cap, run the long lead along the length of your cap and tape down two-thirds of it overtop of the base layer to electrically isolate it until it gets past mid-way up your cap.

Make Your Contacts. Tinfoil time! Cut out 2 strips. Make them wide enough so that they're just a bit less wide than half the length of the capacitor, and long enough so you can wrap it around a few times.

Attach the Contacts to the Cap. Tape the short end of one of your strips to the barrel at one end. Wrap it around once, then put the lead for that end on the foil and continue wrapping (with that lead embedded in the foil) until you run out of strip. Tape down the short end and long ends of the exposed foil, then repeat for the other end. Make sure the foil contacts don't touch in the middle, and only make contact with one capacitor lead each. The intent here is to make two really big foil-based leads to the capacitor.

Test the Contacts. Pull out your continuity tester and put one probe on each of the two contacts. If you did it right, the resistance should start close to 0, then steadily increase to infinity. This is because testers use a little current to see if there's a connection, and you're slightly charging the cap when you test. If the resistance stays at or near zero, you either have a dead cap, or you have a short between the two contacts.

Charge 'er Up. Set your voltage to the rating on the cap (or as close as you can get) and let it sit for a minute. Right now you're sucking billions of fun-filled electrons from one plate and depositing them on another inside the cap. Can't you just feel the tension?

Choose Your Victim Carefully. Young, relatively healthy individuals of whom you know you can run faster are best. People you really dislike are also good. Try to avoid old people, people with pacemakers, epilepsy or similar physiological/neurological disorders, people holding hot drinks (cold drinks can add to the fun ;), sharp or heavy objects. People who own lots of guns are probably not very good targets, but YYOJ. Remember the fine print.

Special Delivery! Hold your device with a glove, or carefully by only ONE contact. Approach your victim, and when about 10 feet away or so, shout "Hey , catch!" and gently toss the thing to 'em. Human nature is such that it makes us believe that small, slow moving objects should be caught in those situations, typically with both hands.

*POP!*

Laugh Your Ass Off and/or Run Like Hell. Self explanatory. Hope you had fun. Besides, you have to run home and build some more, unless your victim forgets about the thing and leaves it on the ground for some other Geek to take home and play with. Ah, the joys of simple electronics. The idea can be scaled down to smaller caps too (for little bitty jolts) if you want. Axials work MUCH better in those situations, as trying to line up the wires on one inch wide caps is a major PITA. For small caps, discard the tinfoil and just wrap the leads around the barrel as long as you can without them touching. Some hot-glue might be useful to hold things down. Make sure they're at least large enough to be easily visible to the naked eye while in the air, as they have to be seen to be caught. Have fun, and play safe!

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Take a look at http://www.userfr iendly.org/cartoons/archives/98jul/19980723.html.

I've been waiting for this book for so long now (anything longer than having it in my hand 3 minutes before I actually first desire something is long, so the year or so since I first head rumors about a book have been AGONY)!

Now I can carry my UF fix with me wherever I go. And I no longer need a computer to be able to suffer from UFPV!

Scuse me while I go lock myself in a closet now. MUAHAHAHA!


Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!

The User Friendly strip where Dust Puppy is being named:

http://www.userfrie ndly.org/cartoons/archives/97dec/19971206.html

hehe.

The User Friendly strip where Dust Puppy is being named:

http://www.userfrie ndly.org/cartoons/archives/97dec/19971206.html

hehe.

I agree. This is a sad day for the technical industry (outside of a few direct Microsoft competitors). Just because California is such a politically important state, and the Silicon Valley a big industry there, doesn't give them the right to send a Government lynch mob after one of America's best companies.

You're so funny. You should get published on User Friendly. Perhaps you are a corporal piece of the crude puppy :-)

Okay, I'm pretty sure that you are joking.

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Looks like they haven't read "Trademark infringement for Dummies."

Either way, it's best summed up as this little piece of art.
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Of course, maybe they were so obviously not an attempt to infringe on the trademark (and were parody besides) that even IDG's ambula^H^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers didn't take an interest...

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I've worked for game design companies, an internet service provider, and other nifty places. I've also had paying jobs as a writer, editor, art director, project manager, game designer and graphic artist. My principle background is in the creative industry, although I have always worked with computers.

(last question in the list).

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As one who rushed out and placed an advance order for the UF book, I was surprised when it arrived. I was expecting (having been conditioned by the various C&H / Bloom County compendiums that populate my bookshelves) for it to be a first-to-Nth collection of the strips chronologically.

The single biggest and most confusing omission was the birth of Dust Puppy, followed by DP's creating Erwin. Such central characters (since they're a bit obtuse for a casual reader) seem to need this germination to be included.

Rafe
V^^^^V

--Ben

Sig Error #666 -- The Devil made me do it.

No, I'm not going to caution everyone about the dangers of microwaving metal objects. Instead, I wish to talk about the much greater risk of Microsoft CDs (insert scary music as needed). You must take heed of my message and make haste to surround your CDs with protective deletium lest these infernal products jump out and smite thee on thy noggin, causing you to lose control of yourseff and install Microsoft Windows 2000 Beta, Microsoft Office 2000, and Internet Explorer 5 (overwriting your Linux partition in the process). The resulting quantum explosion caused by having these three rip^H^H^Hproducts on the same machine at the same time may cause a quantum explosion that will take out much more than your microwave. Beware!

There is too a Q3 test. I downloaded it just the other day. It is much more entertaining than Q2 was.

You can pick up your copy right here. I wonder how A.J. got his hands on it!

Well, you see, thats just the point. It many times does benefit the consumer, because if you have a choice between 10 different brands or product X, there is competiton between the different brands to make the "best" product. The consumers then excercise their power by choosing the product they feel is "best", by what ever defination they choose (ie: quality vs price) If people don't buy your product there is a large incentive to make a better product, because that is in the best intrest of the company.

The real problem comes when one company dominates the market, like MS. There are supposed to be laws against such monopolistic practices, but they don't always work. (like this)

Generally though, people keep their appliances for many years because 1) they are rather large expenses to make every few years, 2) if it ain't broke, don't fix/replace it, and 3) they don't make em like they used to.

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• Titrax (hour tallying program)
• PocketMoney (keep track of my spending habits)
• Strip (secure storage of my passwords)
• Date Mate (make me remember birthdays!)
• DiddleBug (paint package)
• Nag Screen (really useful utility!)

Erwin!

Lets not bother Mr. Raymond with such terrestial matters such as his favorite distribution or his most loved caffine delivery system, lets cut to the important questions.

What is it like to be immortalized , for all time, in the online comic masterpieces such as Illiad's User Friendly?



So what did we learn?
Basically the C keyword auto is useless.

This way, Erwin will have something to choose (:

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Others that I enjoy include:

Userfriendly (http://www.userfriendly.org)

and

Kevin and Kell (http://www.kevinandkell.com)

Enjoy them!

This is not a particularly surprising inclusion. Media companies put all kinds of language in their standard contracts assigning ownership to The Company.

For example, cartoon companies routinely have the creator sign away rights to the characters and style, allowing The Company to continue to publish the strip even if the creator quits. I'm sure some of us remember how bitter Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes was...

Unfortunately, people go ahead and sign these contracts since their only other alternative is to be forever consigned to oblivion. Without a publisher, these artists would never have been noticed.

With the advent of cheap (or even free) web publishing, this is all changing. Anyone can make their art readily available-- witness the popularity (for both consumer and supplier) of mp3.com, User Friendly, and others.

The Internet is starting to force media publishers back into the role of promoters rather than controllers, and they are understandably upset and/or scared. Consumers will still need publishers to help pick out what is good, but they no longer need be restricted to only what the publishers wish to promote, so the publisher will no longer have the same power over the artists they once had.

I like especially the lectures about actual subjects which are held on every LinuxTag. They are splitted into subjects for beginners, users and developers. It's also nice to see your favourite OS running on all that exotic hardware and to meet a lot of more or less well known people.

But the most important thing is to get new t-shirts... ;-)

Oh, and btw: There is no entry fee at all at LinuxTag... :-)

Re: the speech recog and language parsing -- have we forgotten about the cyc project?
I think it could do what they say in the news release, just fine.

it's gonna take a while to build the sensors and work out the locomotion stuff. By the time the ball is ready, the software has had a lot of time to grow up. It would be a much nicer place for erwin to live.

I think it's another reason to colonize space. ;-)

There is a planned UserFriendly book to be published by ORA in Oct of 99, and Illiad's been hinting that it won't be the end of his publishing career.

http://www.userfr iendly.org/cartoons/archives/99aug/19990829.html

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Hmmm... Lets see:

http://www.userfriendly.org/static
http://www.gpf-comics.com
http://www.herdthinners.com
http://www.purrsia.com/freefall
http://www.brunothebandit.com
http://www.geekcult ure.com/geekycomics/aftery2k/aftery2kmain.html

And of course /. and linuxtoday

Thats my breakfast :)


Sorry for the double-posting and for not using tags before :(

The article states: "What we have here is some alien life because it has nothing to do with biochemical life."

If that's true, then Erwin is just a lucky geek reincarnated on Linux ;-)

Others have pointed this out, but I don't think everyone will get the difference even through they are right, so here is my attempt, dumbed down a bit for the less technical.

Imangine for a moment that I capture Rob (cmdTaco ie founder of /.) and tortue him until he gives me the root password on the main /. server. I now have a seceret, and I can get into /., but I do not have enough information to get into User Friendly Even though(if) both run the same version on linux.

Not imangine that I capture an enginerr from Microsoft and torture him until I get a previously unknown security hole in Windows NT. I can now break into any NT server in the world, (assuming the reqrisites for the hole are in place, obviously a system in a locked room not attached to a netwrok is safe)

See the difference? In one area the terriorist got the ability to break into one machine, in the other the terriorist got the ability to break into virtually any machine.

Now It is possibal that some bug exists in Linux that will allow anyone to get into it. With linux, once I discover how someone got into my machine I can fix it, with NT I have to wait for microsoft. So in reality what makes open source better in the face of attack is that I can fix it in a few hours whereas with STO I have to wait for a vender to fix it. If I'm a minor player and nobody else is attacking me, with STO my vender can leave me in the lurch, whereas with open source I can fix it myself.

Bloom County Characters have appeared in UF. Fairly recently too.

The correct URL for today's strip is of course, this.

My question: What is the capital of Burkina Faso, and why does it have so many vowels?