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Interview with Christopher Blizzard
Ur@eus writes "We have just put up an interview with Christopher Blizzard of
Red Hat Labs and Mozilla. The interview gives insights into many things regarding Mozilla, Linux and Blizzard's participation. The interview can be found at Linuxpower." Yes, yes... He's a Slashdot Author, too, but it's a pretty good interview. Check it out.
Red Hat/Cygnus have a development office in Toronto?!?
What's its mailing address?
I'd love to work there if it wasn't too far from public transit.
If you don't care, then why did you post? Why'd you even read the article? There are some people that do care, ya know.
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What's with the /. community these days? There's far too many interviews for everyone's good, especially since not in one case someone interesting (expect for CmdrTaco himself, of course :)) has been interviewed.
Personally, I don't see the point. I'd prefer more questionable articles, in that case.
And finally:
-Denor
my mouth is open. im waiting.
keep the thread going my strong black troll brothas
why does slashdot ignore the real news ? i farted earlier today, and still slashdot has not posted a story ? rob sold out! spread the word about my flatulence! spread your ass and spread your own flatulence! we shall be heard!
*poof*
ahhhhhhhh
Ya'll killed the penguin!   Here's what I get:
Warning: Too many connections in functions.php on line 58
ERROR: db_connect - Unable to connect to SQL server
If you think this is in error, please email bugs@linuxpower.org giving the above error and the what you did to cause it
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-- Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow."
I was supprised to see his answer to this question. I thought Mozilla was meant to be an open source browser for everyone. I realize anyone who wants to can use it, but I didn't think it was targeted at developers. Personally, I plan on using it as my browser just as a matter of principle. I mean, I just like the idea of using Mozilla. Although, depending on how good it is, Netscape 6.0 may change my mind, I'll have to wait and see.
Check out AbiWord.
In the interview Chris talks about the increase of non-Netscape users since Mozilla is now usable day to day for a large number of people. I think this could have a snowball effect even bigger than they might think. IMHO most people are more intimate with their web browser than any other software they use, and people like to be involved in the developement of software with which they are intimate. More people are going to be more intimate with Mozilla than perhaps any other project we've seen.
I think this project is going to pull a lot of people into its developement once people are using it a lot.
And incedentally, is LinuxPower using a Microsoft DB?
Warning: Too many connections in functions.php on line 58
ERROR: db_connect - Unable to connect to SQL server
If you think this is in error, please email bugs@linuxpower.org
giving the above error and the what you did to cause it
© Copyright of all documents belonging to this site by linuxpower.org and linuxpower.com © 1998-2000.
For more legal information please look at our disclaimer page.
i didn't read the article (slashdotted) CRACK WHORES
It sure sucks to be them - owning worthless stock and not being able to sell it....
In this controversial film (currently being protested by the Anti-Troll Defamation League), two trolls whose Slashdot accounts have been temporarily disabled discover a loophole that will enable them to return to the site -- but which will unmake the universe in the process. Can CmdrTaco patch the code before it's too late?
"HOT GRITS CLUB"
In the near future, angry young men turn to pouring hot grits down their pants to escape from their meaningless, materialistic lives. Remember, the first rule about Hot Grits Club is that you don't talk about Hot Grits Club.
"/DEV/NULLINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY"
When the DVDCCA sends cyborgs back in time to kill young Jon Johansen before he can create DeCSS, it's up to Arnold Schwarznegger to save Johansen, stop the DVDCCA, and coin as many cultural catchphrases as possible.
"THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT NATALIE"
A romantic comedy in which two guys chase after every Slashdot reader's dream girl. Features an exciting encounter between Natalie Portman and Medusa.
"THE HOLLAND WITCH PROJECT"
In October of 1994, three Slashdot editors disappeared into the library in Holland, Michigan, while writing a Slashdot exposé. A year later their story was found."
"THE SIXTH POST"
"I see trolls." Bruce Willis plays a psychologist working with a small boy who sees Slashdot posts no one else does. (Watch for the shocking plot twist, in which it is revealed that the boy is reading at -1.)
"MOZILLA 2000"
Feature bloat causes Mozilla to grow beyond its creators' control and escape to wreck havoc on Tokyo's computers. A special effects extravaganza ensues -- but will audiences return after 1998's flop "Geeko vs. Mecha-Go!Zilla"?
"TRANSMETA CRUSOE"
Linus Torvalds is shipwrecked on a distant isle and must survive with only a Rio, the Linux kernel, and an AIBO. An adaption of the classic novel.
"THE X-WINDOWS-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE"
Hemos and CmdrTaco investigate the conspiracies surrounding the development of X-Windows. Based on the hit TV series.
Green Monkey
Just some random thing i noticed that has nothing to do with anything =) Interviews: Interview with... =)
As an oft-cited piece of open source software, Mozilla gets considerable attention from the press, both technological and mainstream. Yet, in most pieces, the word "failure" appears, far more than in works on Linux or Apache.
Is Mozilla then a good representative of the OSS world? The Mozilla team is primarily Netscape engineers rather than the Internet users, as was initially imagined. So do we want to be associated with it? No major OSS project takes such consistent thrashings, and I wonder how well it reflects on the other projects.
-- the obvious AC
Mildly off topic, but Why does Netscape(any version) on Linux(any version) always crash?
Mozilla doesent crash as much, but has no features. How is linux going to take over the world if browser is the future, and the browser sucks? No Java support?
WTFIGO?
What shape are the various X-based Mozilla frontends in? I understand GTK+ is considered the primary Mozilla toolkit, but there are also Qt and Motif frontends as well. Are they obsolete with the XPFE? Additionally, what is the status of the Mozilla Xlib frontend? I understood this was to reduce the dependancies on toolkits by merging some of the basic functionality into a toolkit independant frontend.
Since the site appears to be slashdotted... I wonder:
What does it take for a server not to get slashdotted?
I hope it doesn't require a 12 CPU server cluster with each machine having half a gig of RAM.
Are there any folks out there that have survived being slashdotted with only slowdowns (and serve dynamic pages)?
- Hugh Buchanan
- Userfriendly.com
Will Mozilla read all those web pages that are designed for IE and that Netscape can't read? That is really key for the success of Linux.
This is not a 'slashdot' interview. Just a link to a link on linuxpower.com. At least Thats what I got from reading the blurb. You might be asking a retorical question, but it's not going to get sent to the guy or anything.
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This is not a shlashdot interview. You don't need to ask questions. This story is just a link to an interview at http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id =168. Unfortunetly, the server is being slashdoted right now :(
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some linuxPOWER... maybe next time their server will be able to stay alive. bahaha!
Mike Roberto
- roberto@apk.net
-- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Berto
As Slashdot grows, the problem of Slashdotted sites becomes more important... I agree that we can't just copy the linked page on Slashdot, since this would (rightly) be copyright violation. However, many of the linked pages are not copyrighted (or have a liberal license) and most of the slashdoted sites are small (often OSS sites) which would allow their pages to be copied on Slashdot.
So why not ask some OSS (and other small) sites whether they'd allow their pages to be copied on Slashdot. This would benefit both those sites and Slashdot readers. If something of the like is not done, it would mean that eventually slashdot could only link to major sites, which would restrict a lot (in terms of point of view) the information available to slashdot readers.
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
sorry, this does not really relate to the topic, but I thought that I would merely stick this here since it might just get read. I have a prob. I am very amateur and am trying to learn programming. I know some QBasic. This summer, I am going to one of those summer computer camps for a little while. I want to learn C there, but they want u to have eperience in a 'structured' language. They suggest Pascal. Friends who are good at programing said no Pascal. Since I could find functionaly nothing on the language, I guess it must be sort of obsolete. One guy suggested Perl as a language to learn this term. Another said that that would be to tough and said learn a new language called Python. Which one? a.Perl b.Python c.other
First off, congrats on a great project. I'm in charge of learning about mozilla for a set-top box and I've been digging in to it hardcore for a while now. For a project of it's size it is remarkably clean. I'm very impressed with the overall high quality of things.
Any estimates on a minimal system to run mozilla?
it looks like 32M is possible, 16M looks out of the question. So much of the function is coupled into javascript and XUL that it doesn't look very easy to take things out. (or worth while, since the function will generally need to come from somewhere...)
Thanks for your work, and I'm very impressed with the product and it's evolution.
I say go with Pascal. I think borland/inprise has a compiler available free.
Others may have different views.
I learned to program pascal from some BBS "teach yourself pascal" files (not written by 12-year-old d00dz). I didn't have a compiler, I just read the files and understood them! If you can find something like that (or, gasp, buy a book), that might give you enough of an intro to the structured logic needed to learn C.
Don't try to start with perl, though. Unless you just want to fail.
Actually you can get pascal, I found a link to GNU Pascal here. If you go to any decent sized public library you should be able to find books on Pascal, probably more than perl or python. That site has links for a DOS version of Pascal so if you aren't running Linux it will work for you.
Just because your nuts are covered in shit doesn't mean they're black. They're just covered in some nasty shit.
Hey this is Hemos, I'm lonely since Taco left on his gay orgy pilgrimage. I've just been looking at the highlights and I really wish I could have gone with him. But I have to keep slashdot running. So if you happen to be in Holland tonight stop by and I'll shove my massive cock in your ass hole.
This is absolutely disgusting. I hope you rot in hell. DIE BITCH DIE!!!!
I'M GONNA PUT A BULLET IN YOUR ASS!!!
When your pale white ass is covered in blood, that's when you know the true pleasure of anal sex, Taco style!!!
i've only taken intro C, but i've got a ton of stuff on coding and practice (i've stolen plenty of C/C++ Journals and everything i could lay my hands on). i just never was disciplined enough to apply any knowledge--you see, I sort of don't like discipline--@ all! but, it plays a part...
to me, programmers are what God intended them to be cuz they follow to the same logic as God. modularity and "standard definitions" (even the modularness OF definitions and their interchangeability!). i used to envy them, but now, i really really appreciate that these people are able to move toward a sort of goal (i guess the overall goal is for the realization of Artificial Intelligence, but we as humans are sort of an artificial intelligence because we've been programmed w/ the freedom to do whatever..pure genius move!). i notice programs tend to get more "thorough" and also more useful (even the Windows(tm) platform stuff). programmers take something good, make it better, and try to move it toward a state of it being "the best": perfection. although, in my opinion, we don't have to worry about being perfect because the whole of Creation is Truly perfect, i think programmers are the point at which the old world turns over into the new world; they allow for proper reasoning (you can't use crap logic in a module w/o it f*n up somewhere--fatal loop or something) to occur and that totally crushes the faulty logic and rationale that people abide by and adhere to in these "modern" times. as Huxley predicted, Religion would disappear in a puff of logic simply because people would eventually be able to think beyond it (if it does disappear though, we may slip in to total social chaos, he suggests). we would break out of the model of uninformed ignorance and into the unknown future of rationale structuring.
programmers/coders have great senses of humour; beautiful minds that know and CAN indeed process parallel(ly?-yuck)--that's the whole key: modelling. we can model a "better" tomorrow before we make our mistakes!! we don't have to ever search out blindly and guess @ things now--we have a good knowledge base (which is what Microsoft doesn't give it's consumers and makes difficult and costly for its Developers--if they don't work for a company that can get the SDKs and stuff for 'em). that's the beauty of *nix--you get TOO DAMN MUCH knowledge in the man pages (reading a man page is like reading a manual that gives you all the answers and the hope of all possibilities that are realizable!! how many options/flags are there for the kill command alone?!!). Freedom. the programmer is freeing all of us right along with themselves.
these people are touching God in such a way that it's "causing" them to make things better (healing) and i love them for it. i could speak on this forever...
now, if we can keep the governments from corrupting this "good" thing..hmm...why the hell do we need a government anyway?
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you can care so much sometimes that you become destructive to that which just is.
when people say they don't care, it eases the pressure of actually having to care.
i myself, don't want to care in the egotistical way ("why IS it THAT important?").
example: Hitler CARED enough about the Germans that he decided to handle their problem for them: to kill all Jews. now that's compassion--you care enough for your "brethren" that you alleviate their problems in life--by causing more "problems."
maybe he shouldn't have cared so much.
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I knew a girl whose ass was like the Universe--BIG. i dig what you typed :-)
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it is split like an upsiide down 'V'
monkey
All you guys do is masturbate and throw your feces all day.
Java is ALL pointers!
There is just a garbage collector that takes care of you.
EC
EverCode
Ada is basically the highest level language that is out there. It is used by the goverment and military a lot.
http://www.adapower.com/ gives you more information.
It is what I have learned with, and is a good choice.
EC
EverCode
I was talking to one of their admins tonight, and the site should be getting a hardware upgrade soon.
-Michael [Remove two parts of address to mail me]
your signature ends "slaves of the poo"
if you mean that, you're cool.
if its a mistake you are a fool. probably you are a foo
:-P~ ~~C====8
I was searching on google the other day... and one of the handier features that I noticed when I was trying to extract some information from a dead site was the fact that they store a cache for most of the sites that they list, and they make that available to the searchers.
Now I noticed that they said that they remove cached pages for people who request, but I get the general feeling that they didn't (and probably couldn't have) asked for permission before posting on their webpage from the cache. So if they can do that without violating copyright laws (which for all I know, they may very well be) why can't slashdot? I don't really see the distinction.
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Point?   None.   Cob!
By default everything is copyrighted unless it is explicitly placed in the "public domain", so I seriously doubt that the above statement is true.
However, my "marry a Russian amputee mail-order bride" site also tends to take a massive hit
That's the "Dr. Adder" (KW Jeter) crowd.
Cool book, btw.
Well, my experience was atypical. My server was more than powerful enough, being a dual Celeron 400 with 256M, but the pipe in was a measly 128k upload DSL. This caused major problems. Even when I turned off the httpd, the bandwidth of denying incoming requests (at 1.5Mbps) was enough to saturate my uplink. The Linux network implementation isn't happy about this kind of asymmetry. I had to /etc/rc.d/init.d network restart twice.
Oh yes, and the page being served was dynamically generated from an XML database. Even so, at the peak of the slashdotting, load never went over 1. That is what happens when the web server is in C rather than some hoggish scripting language.
LILO boot: linux init=/usr/bin/emacs
This statement caught my attention:
This interests me, not because I give a shit about micros~1, but because D?COM is one of things standing in the way of full compatibility between IIS and the like and real webservers. If there was COM on other platforms, then all those IIS applications could be picked up and moved, whole hog, to other systems. This is interesting to me. Plus, I feel that a cross-platform version of almost anything is preferable to a single-platform stranglehold, even if I personally will never use it.
Cthulhu for President!
(darren)
When does Diablo 2 come out??
Ah crap! Ignore my previous post. Looks like I need new glasses.........