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Playboy And...Linux?
The article's been up for only a little bit, but a huge number people have e-mailed that Playboy's Gillan has done a column on Linux. It's a typical media piece, explaining Linux but being featured in Playboy, I think, means that we've conquered the media. And I have, of course, no comment on what the sheer number of submissions must mean about our readers. *grin*
What article? Playboy has articles???
I won't be satisfied until we see a Tux centerfold in Playboy magazine.
Finally, I can honestly say I read the articles!
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It's not the Playboy bunny any more, it's the Playboy penguin!
-David Ziegler
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So you guys do read something other than tech manuals...8)
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
And I have, of course, no comment on what the sheer number of submissions must mean about our readers. *grin*
Well? Why wouldn't they "read" a magazine that has featured stories and articles from Asimov, Clarke, and many other famous Sci-Fi writers? Playboy actually IS more than just a porn-mag. In fact, I'd go so far as to call it a socially relevant magazine, and yes, a form of art. Playboy does have an air of respectability around it, compared to others...
And they thought the source code was bad!
Sheepdot: Open Source good, Closed Source baaaaaaad!
So I'm sitting here at work, and I reload Slashdot. Ooh! New article! Playboy article on Linux! I temporarily forget where I am and click through: BLOCKED BY SURFWATCH. I wonder if my supervisor's going to believe me when I say I was just trying to look at an article. :P
1999-12-07 13:36:22 Opensource article in playboy (articles,humor) (rejected)
Sigh. I wish people would let me know why they reject things.
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Is there any other way that I can read the article? Singapore blocks www.playboy.com
So now we just need some penguins in the centerfold, pictured in some skimpy little... hey wait, they're already naked =D
Perhaps Miss January can cuddle with tux for 'warmth'
I personally would like to see the slashdot crew add the playboy bunny icon to the list of news icons, so slashdot readers can be informed more quickly of linux-related playboy news as it breaks.
Man lookit the size of that laptop Torvalds is holding...
What, you mean there's naked wimmin in here too?
Finding God in a Dog
Hmmmm....Beowulf 6 or 7 Playmates together and.....
Once you get into publications that have nothing to do with computers, one must admit that linux is in the mainstream now. We already knew that it was the darling buzzword in finance and of many techies (and related publications), but playboy? This is a surprise, although not a huge one. Linux has been growing a lot in the past year, so I guess it was to be expected... still... playboy? ;)
What's nice is the author saying how easy to install the two distros he tried (Red Hat and Corel) were. I still remember installing Slackware 2.0 a few years ago, distributions have improved greatly in that regard. The two he tried are indeed very easy install-wise. Now, readers of this magazine know a bit more about Linux, which is a good thing.
De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum
I knew Linux was sexy... I just didn't know it was that sexy! :)
I remember when I first got on the net www.playboy.com was just a collection of static pages with some photos of naked women on them. Of course, it was impossible to download the photos because your net connection was too slow, but it makes me nostalgic to think of those simple page layouts that have since been completely obliterated.
-W.W.
"Well it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology...
I was quite surprised to see your article posted here. Having never read Playboy (yes, honestly!) I thought it was all pictures and no words. I was even pleasantly surprised to discover that the article was well researched and well written. (I'll leave out my personal bias towards Debian).
;-)
What did get me thinking is why a magazine full of tits'n'ass would want to waste valuable picture space on a nerdy topic like Linux (I maintain it's "Lie-nucks" though - ask Linus;-)). Then I realised it's all tied in with the telecommuting revolution. Many years ago, no self-respecting programmer would contemplate coding before growing an uneven beard, and donning a cardigan and sandals before mumbling incoherently should any annoying coworkers interrupt. As Time has advanced, we have started working from home. As very few people actually code in COBOL anymore, the requirement for uneven beards and sandals has disappeared, but also this has drawn us towards Playboy.
Coding from home isn't like work anymore, all you need is a cold cup of coffee and sit down at your workstation and get on with it. Usually it's not until the first time the doorbell goes that I realise I'm actually sat naked at my desk - by the time I pull some pants on and answer the door the caller has gone. (This is the telecommuting equivilant of all those annoying co-workers) Obviously someone at Playboy has made the perfectly reasonable assumption that there are an army of naked men sitting naked at their desks doing work nobody seems to understand. After further research, Playboy discovered that the vast majority of these naked men were chanting about some kind of god called "Torvalds" Undeterred by the god-like status of our idol, the enterprising magazine decided to book Linus as their centrefold. Imagine the editors horror when a Scandinavian male software engineer turns up for the shoot. Realising that the average reader of Playboy might be somewhat shocked at the site of a full frontal Linus Torvals on the centre pages, they hastily changed their plan and asked the great Open Source Master what alternative article they could possible post.
That, my friends, is the honest truth on how Playboy come to be writing articles on Linux
When a felon's not engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans, his capacity for innocent enjoyment is just the same as any honest mans - Gilbert and Sullivan
Philosopher (n) - a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
This is what I get when I try to access the article:
IBM's internal systems must be used only for conducting IBM's business, or for purposes authorized by IBM management. Use is subject to audit at any time by IBM management.
YOU HAVE JUST ATTEMPTED TO ACCESS A WEBSITE THAT CONTAINS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL. THIS IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF IBM's INTERNET USE GUIDELINES AND IBM's BUSINESS CONDUCT GUIDELINES.
CONTINUED DISREGARD OF IBM's GUIDELINES WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION UP TO AND INCLUDING SEPARATION.
IBM has the right to monitor its employees' and others' use of IBM's systems and assets including use on the Internet.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
What's next, ``Linux Does Dallas''? (Starring Linus Torvalds, Bob Young, several stuffed penguins, and a box of Red Hat CD's. Follow our studly duo around the state capital on their kinky exploits. Hear young women call out, ``Open Source me, baby!'' as they see the sexy pair.)
P.S. 40th!
(Score: -1, Funny)
What a story to bring out the trolls!
Let's get them out of the way before they get out of hand:
1. Naked and petrified
2. Above-mentioned actress open-source, copyrighted and undistributable.
3. Any combination of obscenities, ALL-CAPS, and repeated 50 times, repeated 50 times, repeated 50 times...
4. MEEPT
5. Llamas (where is that guy?)
6. Karma whore!!
7. FIRST POST, PLAYBOY STYLE!
I hope I did not forget any.
thank you.
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People buying playboy MUST do it for the articles. Face it. There's usually 4 spreads of chicks in there- the centerfold, the spread before the centerfold, the spread feature from the cover, and the black and white celeb shots in the back. Add a few pages in Dec or is it Jan that recap the previous centerfolds. The pictures/non-pictures ratio across all the pages is pretty low. If it's pron ye seeks there are cheaper mags out there PACKED with flesh, hardcore AND non-hardcore, or even topic specific. WHat's the big deal about Playboy?
Ummm, a woman wrote that article, ma'am.
For linux tips: http://www.linuxtipsblog.com
I'm a little less sure than Gillian about the future of Linux on the desktop, but we'll see. I don't think that will happen until Linux has better game support and a better GUI.
As for the impact of the article, now that women with appellations like "Miss April, 1996" are starting to get on the Linux bandwagon, it's bound to get more popular :) I bet Red Hat's stock goes up some more as well.
My bad; should have previewed my post before posting it, I guess :)
My apologies for such a faux pas.
De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum
Who reads playboy? Well.. middle aged males i.e. The Bosses! The people with power! And what are they reading now?* M$-bashing! And combined with naked women. The advertisers dream!
*I assume that they read the articles.
FRA: STFU GTFO
WARNING!! The Surgeon General has determined that using this software may cause maleitis and geekiness in beautiful women.
Keep 'em coming! I mean, sorry if you work at a place that's needlessly preoccupied with your browsing habits, of course. I just wanted to say thanks for sharing that big brother message, it's a classic!
Ok, i get alot of emails about this:
The quote is from a former mtv skit show, "the state". It was a skit with two guys named barry and levan, and their two hundred and forty dollars, worth of pudding. the state was the best skit show ever, in it's short running it captivated my interest every time it was on. I'm changing the "foty" to "forty", because I can no longer remember why I left out the "r".
Is he even allowed to lobby them in Singapore? I don't know.
> on the part of the adult citizens of >Singapore.
The problem is:
Can we trust the mass who are unaccustomed to that form of freedom to behave properly should that freedom be allowed? Can they adjust or just abuse the hell out of it?
IMHO, proxy filtering is there just to pacify parents who are worried about kids surfing pr0n. Or whatever.
Duh. I just wanted to read the article.
now we have a few million more 13 year old kids who are aware about linux. Get ready, #LinuxHelp.
David
I can't believe I put pants on for this.
--Homer Simpson
Linux is based on an open source policy. By its definition, "open source" means that anyone can have free access to the source code of a software program and thus the opportunity to modify and improve it, as long as their changes are then published to the community at large.
I thought you didn't have to distribute anything after making modifications, but you were not allowed to distribute binaries without at least an offer of source code. Since I see this kind of statement a lot, am I wrong or are journalists confused?
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While I see everyone is having a field day with the obvious "reading it for the articles" jokes, I do have a serious comment/question.
"Corel touts its product as a version for the end user and plans to package it with many of its other products, such as PageMaker,CorelDRAW, QuattroPro and Paradox."
I assume this is a mistake, since pagemaker isn't available for Linux, and Corel doesn't distribute it anyways. But what was she talking about? Did she mean FrameMaker? even that isn't out yet (AFAIK) and it still wouldn't be a Corel product.
I don't have a Corel CD, so what's the deal? Is corel going to be distributing FrameMaker/LINUX for/with Adobe, or is this confused or am I confused?...
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
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Don't worry about it man. Usually when a grip of people submit a story, they accept the first submission and reject everyone else who punched the submit button a second too late. Sometimes they'll even reject the first guy who submitted it if they feel like writing up their own story introduction instead of using the one that the story submitter wrote.
Actually it's surprising that it took them this long to do an article on Linux since so much mainstream press already has and Playboy is very up on what is hip in the mainstream. Not that I would ever read such tripe, I get my news from the news and my porn from the internet and don't think that I need such lame publications as this to "define my lifestyle". Many do, however, though if porn is your game, there are far randier and more honest alternatives both in print and on the net.
I bet if there were numbers for how many Slashdot readers were arriving from XXX sites we'd all be smiling guiltily.
Hey, you think your house is cool?
[Make your own joke about Linux in Playboy]
"I know we all go on about only reading the articles, but did you see that [insert unattractive Linux celeb here] centerfold!? Oh my god, check out the [disk array/mouse pad/beowulf cluster] on that one!"
There ya go, now you don't need to read the rest of the posts.
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Taken from a chat with gillian ...
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guest22: What are your favorite websites?
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And yes, I only read it for the articles
couldn't resist :)
Get ready for the 4 penguins of the apocalypse...
Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet. The Internet: Designed for UNIX.
Playboy articles - yeah, I read it too - are generally very good both for content and accuracy. The article said Corel plans to include the apps, just as it said Redhat is "[working on] upcoming desktop applications." I bet Corel will package those apps with their distro - might cost a bit more tho.
This is the first article that I've read which actually touches on the subject that I don't think I ever heard anyone mention before:
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[ Talking about the Windows OS ]
Worse, nobody dares change it. Nobody dares to fix bugs because it's such a mess that fixing one bug might just break a hundred programs that depend on that bug. ... Whoa, that's some serious dissing. But I have to agree; as I work, I can just sense the inefficiency of the Windows OS.
[ Talking about trying out the Linux OS ]
I could just feel the power under the hood of this slick and efficient interface.
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Literally, when I use Win 98 or NT, I can really sense the inefficient, bloated, puddles of fat rippling behind the monitor screen. And I'm not running on ancient hardware - I've got a dual PII with 256 MB RAM and UW SCSI. Still, that's not enough to cover up all that bloated waste of code.
Running Linux "feels" different, and I'm not really talking just about the immediate responsiveness. Right from the beginning, you begin with a fresh start. When you boot Win98, when the splash screen disappears and the initially blank wallpaper pops up, and you sit there waiting for all the icons to show up, as the disk grinds an grinds away, you can't help but wonder what in ghods earth is going on down there. You sit there, cross your fingers, and hope that whatever crap its trying to load will work right, and not BSOD on me. Time and time again I swap some bit of hardware in the system, then boot into Windoze, and be greeted with some unwholly DLL upchucking all over the place, and then leaving me with a mess to clean up.
Cycle the machine, and after LILO load the kernel, I just don't get the same feeling that there's a voodoo ritual going inside the gray box. Everything comes up, nice, lean, and mean. You know exactly what's going on. Everything is highly modular, well organized, and in its place.
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Oh great, did they cover how to use external drives?
Step 1: Mount your removable media.
Step 2: Perform Input/Output... higher speeds are preferred.
Step 3: Unmount when I/O is finished and buffers have been flushed.
Let's not get into issues about how Linux can have many drives mounted at once... especially those "scuzzy" ones. Bleh.
Oh yeah... hopefully they didn't find those kinky man pages included with emacs...
Daltorak
Can they adjust or just abuse the hell out of it?
How exactly would one abuse unrestricted access to the web?
I do. It mean that if they got Natalie Portman to do a nude spread, we might have a few less trolls on Slashdot due to the difficulty of typing with one hand.
Hopefully this would be followed by a hardcore porno with Natalie and Jar-Jar involing the use of spoons. The title? "First Post." end troll.
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I wonder how many ./ers have offered to be her server administrator or to check her "hardware" for Y2K problems.
:-)
What I liked most was Bob Young saying, "Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?" Great stuff.
It's all a mistake. The article read "Open Source", but it was meant to be about "Open intercourse"!
- Peter Brodersen; professional nerd
So I set it up on an older but clean 200mhz Pentium, with a 1GB hard drive and 32MB of RAM. Seamless install, and boatloads of fun to muck around in.
:)
200MHz? 32MB RAM? Shit, even Windows 3.1 will run on that . If you're gonna test it, TEST IT. Load linux onto your power drill or something.
I only read the article, honest (although that cleavage on the left was a little distracting).
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I keep hearing that from everyone who doesn't actually use (GNU/)Linux... blablabla but it lacks software blablabla
If I type in my shell, I get this question: "There are 1852 possibilities. Do you really wish to see them all? (y or n)" That's the number of single _programs_, or ``pieces of software'' that I have installed on a fairly standard desk-top developer machine.
I recently started porting some software to NT, it's been four years since I used that OS last... After installing IE4 (required for VC), Visual C++ 6.0, MS Win32 SDK, (and in order not to lose my mind completely: Cygwin too), I fired up this huge IDE GUI development environment. Especially VC++ is something that Win developers claim Linux lacks. I simply cannot imagine why. Hang on:
In order to do development on NT I depend on the IDE. If the IDE does not offer the combination of commands I wish to apply to my work, I'm shit out of luck. There's just no way to get boring repetitive work done easily, if it happens to not fit exactly into the provided dialog box. The IDE may be very nice, but it is _inherently_ limited because it has no way of executing scripts. It lacks a shell.
On GNU/Linux, I run Emacs. For editing. Then I run bash for CLI. Then I run make to build. I use X with KDE to *integrate* these xterms and editors into one large IDE. In short: NT *has* an IDE, GNU/Linux with the standard tools *IS* an IDE.
X+Emacs+GCC+Make+xterm+bash+... is quite a large program, if you look at all the parts as one. Anyone claiming that GNU/Linux is lacking software is someone who can't see the forest for trees.
Granted, there may be a lack of integrated office suites. They should be just around the corner though. A lot of people won't need them though. Again, they limit you somehow. As an example: Work four people on a report using either Word or LaTeX+CVS. Assuming you actually _know_ a little word or a little LaTeX. LaTeX has no support for workgroups, CVS has no support for typesetting, but they both keep things simple and work on files, there you have your workgroup-aware typesetting tool.
If you have to complain, say something clever. Like lack of huge but clumsy, limited, and hard-to-make-do-repetitive-work-for-you GUI applications.
click to enlarge...
Are these the words of the future of Linux?
- passion
"If I type in my shell"
That should - of course - have read:
"If I type TAB TAB in my shell"
But Slashdot ate my < and >s because they weren't - eh.
Oh pipe down and set your threshold at +5 if you can't take a little humor!
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A - "Yes, but just for the articles."
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
Anyway, I would have NEVER in a million years guessed that his picture would be in Playboy... ever!
I just think that's funny.
I couldn't quite figure out if this article on "online only" or his picture will actually be in the print version. That would be WAY cool :)
RP
It is a free anonymous encrypted proxy with the option of URL encryption.
I had to use it to read the playboy article because JANET ( the sort of academic internet backbone of UK ) even soft porn is illegal.
Anyway, considering that Linux was around for some 9 years, I think the author is a tad over excited about this "new" OS.
that geeks don't think about sex, and hence won't reproduce at sufficient numbers to sustain the geek population?
I say slashdot needs to add porn, to remind geeks that they are, in fact men, encouraging them to do something besides waste their time on slashdot! heh
I'm only kidding...sorta. =)
TO BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY
HOLLAND, MI - Slashdot (www.slashdot.org), a popular web site focusing on IT-related news, has announced it was awarded a patent on "One-click porn" by the United States Patent Office. The technology, which allows world wide web surfers to access porn with a single mouse click was invented by Slashdot founder Rob Malda. Malda said the innovation was inspired by Amazon's one-click shopping technology. "When I saw how easy it was to patent an obvious technique that everyone uses, and then start suing everyone left and right, I couldn't resist," said Malda. "I am going to start by suing every site that links to porn. Soon I will be the king of the porn industry," he said, "I already rule the nerds, the intellect of the world, so this was the next logical step in my quest for World Domination(tm)."
He continued, "And besides, what better way could there be to make SHITLOADS of money than having banner ads for porn sites on a site that millions of horny, teenaged, sex-starved nerds visit EVERY DAY!" Asked if the pro-open-source Slashdot community would accept the idea of Slashdot owning patents, Malda responded "You don't think I've thought of that already? What people really don't know is that RMS is a recovering porn addict. I will soon own him and then I can tell him to tell everyone patents are good. Everyone will listen to RMS. I also plan to form a porn division within Slashdot called 'GNU/pr0n' which RMS will head. That should keep him happy and ensure I have control over him. I'm no fool."
Officials from Andover.net (Nasdaq: ANDN), which recently acquired Slashdot were mum about the technology. When asked how one-click porn fit into their future plans, the company released a statement only saying "our patented one-click porn technology is Linux-based, and as you can tell from the success Linux has had in the past year, it is clearly the Next Big Thing(tm). Therefore, you should all invest in lots and lots of Andover stock."
Slashdot also has patents pending on the technology in 18 other countries.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
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If Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer can make it into a many-page pictoral for Christmas as "Mini-Hef"
...why can't we have "St IGNUcius' Happy Happy hacking run"?
Starring the girls of the mansion as the The Techno-Talking Babes(TM)?
o/~ Join us now and share the software
Ah, he probably just wrote a good review of Linux because somebody gave him a free copy.
/. writes a good review of Playboy, maybe they'll give you a free....
Hey, if
Oh, never mind.
Who's going to be the first to admit they actually read the article.... -Q
Linux appearing in Playboy may give new meaning to the term "Open Source"....
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
people go get out their meat and start beating it. And we don't want people to think that's what geeks do, becuase we Don't... right? So be proud! Find a hot chick using GnomeICU, and then meet her. She'll be just as ugly as you thought she was, and you'll be dissappointed. Conclusion: Get your nose back in the code, it's better there :)
This is a great article, I mean, is getting mentioned in Playboy our generation's version of getting mentioned in time? Will this bring about a new crop of playboy models that are right at home with an xterm, vi, and routing tables? (well, I can hope, (that my gf doesn't read this :).
Did anyone actually read the article though? There is nothing new here, and it has some FUD. Not enough software? Are you kidding me? There's so much software for linux that I've actually been out of the warez scene so long I don't have any contacts anymore! :) Staroffice, Abi, not to mention the tomes at Freshmeat and Gnome.org. Maybe they meant lack of commmercial software.
I don't know what to critque, mainly because I don't know how technical playboy is supposed to be.. The models aren't really photographed in detail enough to be an anatomy lesson, either :).
Excellent publicity. Too bad about that last paragraph though. No mention of the gaming support for linux coming about, and there was no mention of the current achilles heel of linux - getting cutting edge hardware suppored. (USB devices, sound cards, 3D cards, etc.)
All in time though. How about some models in copyleft shirts? :)
kudos!
..don't panic
I submitted this on December 7th, 1999... Methinks that was a large amount of seconds from the January 4th, 2000 ..
:-)
Well, someday I'll get a story submission posted
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Its all in the sig to further cement this bastard dialect the "d" should be droped from the hundred to make hunred so it would be two hunred and foty dollar's worth of puddin'
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9. Beowulf cluster
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(I don't find any of these people funny BTW).
I'm not denying that. I'm just wondering if you don't feel a little strange having to use technological (and possibly illegal) measures to decide for yourself what you can view on >the 'Net Without a doubt - yes. Well at least if I don't like it here, I can move.
Such a degree of control over access to information may seem excessive to some of us in the West who are unfamiliar with your culture and customs. The forum is no way a good place to describe what this place(Singapore) is like. I guess you'll have to live here for a while to understand what its really like. If you like a conformist, stable and relatively riot-free place to live in, I guess this is it. YMMV.
We have some supreme court freedom of speech decisions to thank Hefner for as well. To call him a liberal these days is a disservice. But he helped define old style civil-libertarian liberalism in America.
Breasts, Linux and a boat-load of know-how.
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/ www.playboy.com/digital/gillian/
Here is a direct link to the article:
http://i-security.addr.com/cgi-bin/nph-a.cgi/http
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Well, at least with Playboy on the Linux side there won't be any bloatware on display :)
I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down...
You know you've made it when you're in the 'sticky pages.'
Why do I get the feeling its sandwiched between an ad for penis enlargement and '101 ways to pick up chicks fast!'
8. MODERATE THIS UP!
9. Natalie Portman
10. I know this is offtopic but...
I am that that is, not that that is not, that is.
Whats the big deal, this isn't the first time something with Linux on it is soon gonna have some jizz all over it.
OT: I love this new brand of moderation. Its like Billy Graham at the controls - anything dirty, explicit, or god forgive us: a dissenting opinion, or a criticism about geek culture automaticaly gets knocked down at least one.
Slashdot: where no-thought fundies rule.
Sex should always be Hot and that's what LINUX is. WOW. Something you can have control of. You can design to be on top or below. I may be MAC user and web designer(sometimes using PCs as a consultant)...but being able to have some control and having a sense of contribution to a global project rocks...Even though I haven't been involved I think it's cool.
This may be the first time Playboy has praised something for going down on you *less* often...
Here's one of Tux's cousins playin' around....I guess herring is good for you!
p g
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saying in a meeting "I read that article about Linux in Playboy" ...
Perhaps we could add a kernel level JPEG decompression system to go with our kernel http. So now we can serve and view porn faster than everyone else.
Sigh. I wish people would let me know why they reject things.
To put it bluntly: Get over it.
You submitted a suggestion for a story. The idea is to send ideas to the Slashdot crew, not to boost your ego by putting your email address in a mailto: link on Slashdot's homepage. It isn't like you didn't get your pay check or someone stole your hard drive.
As for why: Maybe Rob saw it and didn't like it, but Jeff did. Maybe there were too many stories that week. Maybe the reviewer was just tired. Of all the things in the world to get worked up over, this has got to be one of the silliest.
As an aside: This gets "+1 Insightful"?
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I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.
Which is to say I'd take a Playboy article like 'Virtually Gillian' as seriously as I would Newt Gingrich doing a column on the evils of divorce.
I only read the article posted at i-security, but she doesn't seem like a total Potemkin airheaded wanna-be-geek babe. Heck, she even mentions USENET, she must have half a clue.
The vitriol I see here against attractive women is dismaying, too many AC's seem to assume that if a woman is attractive, she's ignorant. I do believe there's a classical Greek term for that, the modern translation is sour grapes.
And speaking of porn babes that are clued about Linux, I recall an old Slashdot story about a female porn star who uses Linux, though I can't find the story anymore. I believe it was Asia Carrera.
George
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...if that doesn't work, well, there's always the shiva client
Does this mean that playboy can be a business expense?
good call, i'm always open to good ideas
My wife will never believe me.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
The weird thing is I keep running into old friends via slashdot, Gillian used to be my Co-op at Ringling school of Art and Design about 6 years ago!
Is it just me, or would Debian make a great name for a porn "actress"?
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There's a funny quote in there from Richard Stallman: "If you want people to take out the garbage, you have to pay them. You don't have to do that to get people to program. The excitement of advancing the technology is what drives hackers."
You know, I have the highest respect and admiration for Stallman, but I sure think he's got that dead wrong. I mean, no one pays me to take out the garbage, I do it voluntarily for free. The alternative, after all, is to leave it to pile up and pile up until you can't even force your way in the front door any more. (Every now and then you read about some recluse who does just that, and how does everyone describe such a person? They say, "He's nuts!")
Why would Stallman - Stallman of all people! - make an error like that? Because the ideologists of capitalism has so deliberately and single-mindedly infected our way of thinking that it's practically unimaginable to imagine that people do anything at all without the incentive of a profit. Why, there are many people to whom, for example, the notion of altruism, or even social cooperation, is as alien and inconceivable as the idea of an existing supernatural deity is to an lifelong atheist; they simply can not fit their minds around such an idea.
And yet practically everybody does things without the incentive of a profit every day. I mean, can you imagine feeding your children, or drinking a glass of beer, or listening to music? Of course you can, it's to do things like that that one works and accumulates money; yet where's the financial profit in doing those things?
Yours WDK - WKiernan@concentric.net
if Playgirl comes out with a "men of Open Source" issue this summer, I am gonna run and hide....
Posted by cookieman.k:
I mostly agree with you, but for repetitive work there is allways the MACRO option (thing, whatever) that I once used to do some repetitive boring stuff. Thus a the macro isn't very easy to create if you want some special stuff done. You port to NT, I port to Linux from NT, isn't that cute? Greets:
Posted by cookieman.k:
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Greets:
Hi AC! You have some good points (ex: VC editor) but the debugger crash faster than the NT itself. The wizards are useles I'm not that lazy to write some file on my own. You say that graphics aplication and games are all over the place in Win world but the DirectX scheme of programing 3D (or else) was designed by a masochist. MSDN is good but do not count on the API because half of MSDN is bug recognition/workaround. The DSP file itself is very cute until something scrues some little thing in itt and after that you can say goodby to the project. I will not mention that the space needed for all these API/GUI/whatever is huge. My 8Gb disk is full of this crap. Long life Kdevelop! Happy coding! don't complain about my spelling
"As befits the open source ideology, there are many Linux distributors, all with their own specialized versions. You can find a list of most of the versions on the Linux website."
You can tell this is a newbie article when they refer to linux.com as "the Linux website".
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"Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good, but internally it's just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft and who have had years of experience just don't know how it works internally. Worse, nobody dares change it. Nobody dares to fix bugs because it's such a mess that fixing one bug might just break a
hundred programs that depend on that bug. And Microsoft isn't interested in anyone fixing bugs--they're interested in making money. They don't
have anybody who takes pride in Windows 95 as an operating system."
In the hood we call that a dis...
Nerd of porn
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Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Sorry you AC had to take so much abuse from the response.
So I play devil's advocate and thank you.
Thank you for supporting the real geek women like us who did the time and made the sacrifices.
I am not going to name names, but I have witnessed many "glamourous women" let all the smart people do all the work and all the discovery, and plagiarize their knowledge. She/They call it "delegating" the "research." Then she/they slap a fancy title of themselves and claim to have "led" this.
But don't fool yourselves.
"Glamourous men" also do the same thing. You just don't know about them because they are not as obvious.
I don't have enough knowledge to verify your assessment of g.
I do appreciate you sticking up for real geek women like us.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Well, try textfiles.com. They've got lots of nifty stuff (not just ascii porn). And since this is a story about Playboy, maybe this would be appropriate? (Nifty subliminal message). And does anyone know if someone has tried ascii porn movies? Some friends and I were joking about it at one time...but I wonder if it's ever been attempted.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
(posting this about 5 hours to late to be seen but anyway) I'd recently downloaded an MP3 file (a 1944 new years "swing around the clock" - perfectly legal) and thought that it would be cool to put onto an audio CD for my dad - so how to convert MP3 to the proper wav format for the cd burner? Researching 'doze solutions turns up a $30 module for a popular 'doze program that requires the 'pro' version, which is $400. Yikes!!! So did a little google research on Linux solutions and found a neat simple script to pipe the output of mpg123 to sox and accomplish the job perfectly. Of course it doesn't proactively jump in your face with "What format would you like to convert to?" help wiz's, but the software was all there, mission accomplished. There's a LOT of hidden talent in most Linux distro's, more than most newbies & reviewers realize.
Boojum
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Where do you guys work?
A decent Network is finally here.
What, did you think everyone who said "I read it for the articles" was lying?
Chris Hagar
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
I only read Playboy for the source code listings.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Now what does this tell you about Slashdot readership if "a huge number of people" see this article after it has "been up for only a little bit?"
Now for my second amazing conclusion: Porn and Linux are absolutely perfect together, Linux is open-source and porn is inherently open-source.
Chris Hagar
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
And I have, of course, no comment on what the sheer number of submissions must mean about our readers. *grin*
It means that they read Playboy for the articles!
SuPz.orG
Marvelous answers! When I stop dancing because someone said something helpful I will thank you again, sir. I just have to do an OpenBSD install now.
...Linus poses for a centerfold.
Apologies to OT.
FYI, PHP is a HTML scripting language. Web administrators would be more familiar with it than coders of other specialties.
Not knowing PHP just means web administration is not high on your job priority. (Apologies if I butchered PHP definition.)
Ignorance is rarely fatal. Ability to learn and understand matters a lot more to being a good coder.
The first step to being a good learner is to recognize and admit ignorance.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer