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Illiad has it right by Hi-Tech+Redneck · 1999-07-31 21:02 · Score: 1 · on NSI to be RBL'ed?

Illiad has NSI pegged with this one...
Sunday's User Friendly

Re:Brainwashing!!! by eMBee · 1999-07-28 04:09 · Score: 1 · on ESR says Microsoft is right, for once

userfriendly had it right from the beginning!

Re:Bad idea by Rob+Kaper · 1999-07-20 21:23 · Score: 1 · on Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved

(I assume that billg or some other weirdo with bucks is not a big fan of ancient 10ft tall slimy hairy creatures :)

#include " userfriendly.h"

Yes he is, except that Crud Puppy is not 10ft tall. ;-)

Re:Linus is a fat penguin by SeanNi · 1999-07-12 04:32 · Score: 1 · on Hacker's Diet

The fat I have.

Being turned into a penguin, on the other hand...

Where's Erwin when you need him? ( http://www.userfriendly.org/static/ )
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Iliad and Artur by Imperator · 1999-07-02 01:35 · Score: 2 · on ASCAP Shakes Down Webmasters

Iliad is the cartoonist who draws User Friendly, a wonderful little strip. Artur is a Terminator-like character who has appeared in recent strips to (physically) attack Microsoft.

-Imperator

Seeing the future by Dare · 1999-06-16 15:22 · Score: 1 · on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft

So this is what Illiad was predicting... (see UF here)

It is kind of eerie by David+Gould · 1999-06-16 04:06 · Score: 1 · on ESR Speaking @Microsoft

Especially in light of the past week's sequence on User Friendly, this is kind of scary. Maybe the local LUG should tag along as bodyguards. Or would they just be falling into the trap too?

David Gould

Re:PII PIII by Anonymous Coward · 1999-06-10 04:43 · Score: 0 · on Intel moving on VIA Technologies?

See: A closeup of the Pentium III poduction line

Re:Depends by zoot · 1999-06-07 13:20 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Another Word for "Hacker"?

Why don't we pick up the ball from Pitr and call ourselves Zlotniks?

read this article by geocajun · 1999-05-25 05:33 · Score: 1 · on MS writing Internet Explorer for Linux?

Illiad from userfriendly wrote an article that I think describes what MS is doing very well. Read it here

Calvin & Hobbes & Web by H-Monk · 1999-05-05 05:33 · Score: 1 · on User Friendly book from O'Reilly

A comparison to Calvin & Hobbes brings up an interesting point. One of Watterson's [the cartoonist of Calvin & Hobbes] big problems was restling with those limitations and trying to push the newspapers to break free. UserFriendly, Sluggy Freelance (and Red Meat, et other online comics) are made for the web, and yet they all stick to the traditional formats.

The great thing is that those compendium-type books were given names like 'The Essential Calvin and Hobbes' by their writer since they were clearly anthing but.

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Re:I can see the booksellers now... by Steelehead · 1999-05-05 01:04 · Score: 1 · on User Friendly book from O'Reilly

That's why he's going with ORA... From the Daily Static page: Recently, O'Reilly stepped in and made an offer that was more fitting the User Friendly philosophy (placing the book in the Computer section instead of the General Humor section for example), so we closed the deal with them.

Re: Free Software Security Issues by dmv · 1999-04-29 06:50 · Score: 2 · on Another PIII ID Exploit Found

Just to add/refute abit on the 'obvious part' of your comment. The tactic of hauling in a legal team is different than that taken in free software. However, there is a very split set in the security sector on the appropriate way to find and discuss bugs.

Almost monthly, you'll get flames start up Bugtraq about this. Bugtraq is a full disclosure unix security list - often, raw exploits are posted to it, or tools that someone used to replicate a problem they may have found in software (free or not). Very often, you'll have the author - a vendor, a coder, or a maintainer - or another person bitch about this, because they weren't given prior notice or warnings, etc. Example: The lsof bug of February ( thread starts here).

These threads sometimes, in fact, revolve around people posting for credit or ego/status. While Intel is acting very different, our free movement is not always the clean "thank you" we'd like. However, that's often justified - especially with free software, its better to come bearing patches rather than problems.

Of course, regardless, our bugs get fixed faster.

seeing both sides of the fence... by epoh · 1999-04-26 09:34 · Score: 1 · on Voices From The Hellmouth

i wasn't extremely unpopular in h.s.. but i certainly wasn't a part of the "popular" crowd. i didn't really go to many parties or date the football players. i have been on the internet since i was ten (i'm almost 19 now) and i am a poster child for female geeks. i only had two boyfriends in h.s. and neither relationship lasted long. i wasn't very attractive, and was picked on by the more popular kids. and as a result of such redicule, i can sypathize somewhat w/the killers.. they slowly grew to hate the other kids, and obviously their parents did not care much for them, because they failed to notice that their children were suffering so much. but now i am in college. and i have changed a lot sinch h.s. i have cut my hair, and learned more about make up, and bought new clothes.. i am quite a bit more attractive now then i was then. i have a wonderful boyfriend whom i love and several friends. i go to a huge school (texas a&m) yet i do not feel small and insignificant, as i once did in h.s. i was one in 1200, now i am 1 in 43,000. i really believe that those two boys had some serious issues. and while the internet and t.v. and video games are not entirely responsible for what happened in littleton, i believe that the news industry needs to be more careful just what they broadcast. i'm pretty sure that if the media didn't focus so much attention on school shotings this past year, those two boys would never had thought to kill their classmates like that. and while quake itself does not necissarily promote violence, do you really think that the kids would have known exactly what weapons to purchase to get the effect they wanted? you learn quite a bit about guns and shooting from games like quake, as an old userfriendly comic strip pointed out. i don't think that games like quake should be taken off the market, but i do believe that parents need to talk to their children and be sure that they are stable, and that they understand that what goes on in that quake game needs to stay there. and i feel that the news industry should stop sensationalizing things. it's silly to think that the internet had more to do w/those shootings than nbc and abc...

April 1st is never a good day for news... by BlackWind · 1999-04-01 07:17 · Score: 1 · on Slashdot:Mark 2

How anyone can hold any reasonable expectation of actually getting reliable news on April 1st is beyond me.

Let's remember, APRIL FOOL'S DAY is for playing practical jokes. Our favorite websites are run by people who will never see even a small fraction of the people who's lives they influence on a daily basis. Every one of these people also has a sense of humor, usually as twisted as our own. It is only natural that they indulge in a joke of their own on this day.

If you can honestly state that you would never play a joke on the public, were you in the position to do so (like those at UserFriendly, SegFault, SlashDot, etc...) Then you are either lying through your teeth, or you're someone who should never be allowed to BE in that kind of position.

Peace,

UF is back by _Roadkill · 1999-04-01 06:47 · Score: 1 · on Slashdot:Mark 2

Go to their Static page and read the news blurb they got set up there. Turns out Rob was in on it. Bad Rob, bad! :o)

It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to

I just don't think it's funny by Superdave · 1999-04-01 06:07 · Score: 1 · on Slashdot:Mark 2

As I said, free speech protects all jokes, even really bad ones. All I meant was that this was an elaborate and _UN_funny joke about a matter that we might not be able to make jokes about someday. Chill, I can manage. Enjoy? It would have to be funny first. BTW, now that UF is back up, today's strip is a riot.

bad joke by t0ast · 1999-04-01 05:29 · Score: 1 · on Slashdot:Mark 2

Its really depressing to know that the online linux community would do something as lame as this for the kicks of their webmasters.

I doubt anyone truly found this funny, i certainly didnt.

BOOOOOO to all of you who orchastrated this "joke".

And for anyone who missed it.. check the annoucement at userfriendly.

But i'll keep reading it, cuz im dumb that way.

CG

funny.... by cswiii · 1999-03-31 23:40 · Score: 1 · on Web Sites Shut Down

even the Ufies site (http://ufies.userfriendly.org/) is down too. They covered all the bases ;)

Why the AT&T "Death Star" logo means Microsoft: by CRConrad · 1999-03-27 04:42 · Score: 1 · on theos.com Dispute Ended

Check out the User Friendly Cartoon for Dec 13, 1998 and you'll see the connection...

Opinions are MINE, not my employer's -- Hedengren, in Finland.

my reply: DejaGnu for testing by Lumpish+Scholar · 1999-03-26 09:35 · Score: 1 · on Slate Takes on Linux

On Saturday, March 27, 1999 (gee, Slate really is ahead of its time, it's already got content from tomorrow!-), you write:

>I suspect a schism will eventually divide the happy Linux community ...

For a humorous take on this, see:

>... the ultimate problem with Open Source development: not enough formal engaged testing.

No less so with Open Source (or other free) software than with any other software ... and no more so either. Consider: http://www.gnu.org/manual/ dejagnu/html_mono/dejagnu.html and then look at the gdb source, full of test suites. Cygnus Software has built a bunch of test suites for gcc and egcs, the GNU C/C++ compiler, and they're actively working on Java test suites.

It'll be interesting to see if the Open Source community picks up on Extreme Programming and its testing techniques. --PSRC

P.S.: Yes, I use Windows for e-mail. My first job here was porting some Windows software to Solaris.-)

P.P.S.: I tried using Outlook, but I ran into some problems with my appointments with the year 4500....-)

Slashdotters: The last comes from another article this guy wrote, about a bug he introduced into Outlook 97. He is a Microsoft developer, or once was. No, he's not Andrew Schulman of "Undocumented DOS" and "Unauthorized Windows 95" and "Windows 95 in a Nutshell" fame.