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What a mind-boggling waste of bandwidth. Several guys sitting around bullshitting about nothing in particular? Could somebody explain to me exactly what is the point?
Much like a bad movie (I don't mean a good bad movie, either), I kept saying to myself "I'm gonna turn this thing off." But I kept waiting for those one or two nuggets that might have made my investment in time to that point not totally wasted. The /. piece? I'm little more clued after that minor mention than I was before. The double-click piece? Hell, I already knew that. Anybody not hiding under a freakin rock knew that.
The participants in this thing spent more time discussing scatological issues and the kind of personal body parts best left unmentioned in polite company than anything truly useful.
Sheesh. I won't do that again.
At least I now have a much better understanding of why /. is the way it is.
So those of you who, like myself, wasted a bunch of time on the "episode" and reading these threads will not have completely wasted your time, here's something you may find at least marginally useful: double-click is perhaps not the only operation about which you need be concerned. For example: check out references to "Akamai Technologies." I first found out about them in the firewall-wizards mailing list.
It's amazing what you'll find if you just snoop or tcpdump your ppp interface for DNS traffic while browsing.
Insiders pronounce the x in TeX as a Greek Chi, not as an 'x' so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It's the 'ch' sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it's a Spanish 'j' and a Russian 'kh'. When you say it correctly to your computer, the teminal my become slightly moist.
we call it "Evercrack". I fight almost broke out when Evercrack player A was attached to his computer for something like 48 hours straight. He moved a microwave down under his desk so he could zap food. Someone, trying to look out for his soul, almost unplugged his machine from the LAN. Luckily I used to be a bouncer and stepped in to avert the situation...
Just so no to MMOLRPG's...
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
yeah, I stood corrected when they prounced Donald Knuth's name. (They said it as "Nooth", I had just assumed it was prounced "Nuth")
'Tis an ill wind that blows no good, I guess.
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Dude, you guys gotta play Asheron's Call.. yeah, yeah.. it's published by Microsoft, and you gotta use the MSN Gaming Zone, but Turbine (the software company that programs Asheron's Call) is really great. I could go into reasons why it's better, (Don't lose everything when you die/FAR less camping/no nerfing/etc)
Anyway, if you guys want to play, I'm "Porom" on Harvestgain, and I could get you to lvl 4 in a weekend, easily..
Oh, good. I was wondering why /. behavior had changed recently. Thanks for letting us know. [I'm not going to mention it and decrease your number of listeners...]
Pronounciation. I'm finally figuring out how all this stuff is pronounced!
procmail = [prok-mail]
Loki = [low-key]
Slashdot admins = [sur-fur doods]