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Hump Day Quickies
Some useful stuff:
An anonymous reader noted that AltaVista has opened
Raging.Com which is a super fast minimal search engine without all that bloated portal crap.
gi_wrighty noted that the winneers of the 5k HTML Contest have Been announced. Impressive minimalism.
Soeren Staun-Pedersen
noted that a new
The Gimp User Group has come along.
j1mmy pointed us to pictures of the new Lara Croft Model from E3.
Yaruar sent us a story about Lego Filmsets that come with cameras for you do-it-yourselfers. If you don't want to make your own films, how about your own Mars Polar Lander Site? (Thanks Biff Studly).
antiwesley sent us interesting insight into a typical geek cube.
Speaking of things found in geek Cubes,
BenTheDewpendent sent us a page that tracks tons of info on Mountain Dew and
bob_jordan found pictures of upcoming Futurama Bender Action Figures (Not as cool as Nate's Picolo tho)
Baloo Ursidae sent us a story about electricity generating shoes.
Gorphrim sent us some
Duron Parodies
Finally some Slashdot references: DrFun (one of the original net comics)
mentioned us in a recent strip,
Someone noted that Geek Culture is selling First Post T-Shirts.
QuasEye noted that someone registered hotgrits.org and ironically enough, is running Slashcode. And the WashPost
ran an article on us which is mostly accurate.
And to wrap things up,
maxxon showed us the way to Crank Dot Net, which has stuff on all sorts of conspiracy theories and urban myths and other crazy stuffs on the net. Stuff like UFOs, the face on mars, Creationism, Scientology, antigravity, and perpetual motion and more.
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I went looking for the Lara Croft model, but all I found were rendered stills. They show impressive skill with textures, but the lighting is at best amateur. Check out the specular highlights on the breasts, sheesh.
So anyone know where that model is? I do hope it's made of splines. Polygonal meshes are so frumpy.
I think this part of the Washington Post article says it all:
WTF? Yeah, whenever I think of Slashdot, I think of its robust yeastiness. Heh.
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. I'm all out of bubblegum." MSE USC APX AIA CSI CASp
Searching for my name in both Raging and Google, I get more hits from Raging - including an obscure note that I was a contributor to an mtrek FAQ some time ago.
I was a google convert for some time, but perhaps I'll switch back to Raging for a while...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
No, you're right, it's not nearly as good. Google had a booth at the Harvard Square May Fair this past Sunday (in sunny Cambridge MA) and I stopped to chat with them. They asked me what I liked best about their engine, and I replied that whatever I was looking for was usually in the top 4 or 5 results returned. I've done a few searches with Raging, and it doesn't come close to Google's accuracy.
Sure is blindinly fast, though.
The washington post says /. is full of robust yeastiness. I had a g/f with that problem ... I'm not sure of the connection to /., but I'm sure it must mean something ;)
Huh? Do we really still live in a society where eye colour make so much difference?
It is the greatest site on all the internet. Slashdot will now sucombe to the power of the Troll. Natalie will triumph (petrified by grits of course).
If searching for your name in Altavista brought up garbage, then you didn't perform the search properly. Altavista supports phrases so you can search for "first_name last_name", and it will bring up all pages with that phrase. Try doing THAT with google. Alternatively you can search for "first_name near last_name" (without quotes) and it will bring up instances where they are close. Again, try that on google.
Google is good for people new to the inernet, and for people who want to be trendy and fashionable, but for seasoned internet users doing serious searching, Altavista is by far the best on a technical basis, because it lets you do what it wants and doesn't have stupid AI in the background. Google is only good for doing the simplest most general searches, but for anything serious it is worthless. Of course, this is to be expected since DEC built Altavista.
Alta Vista used to be the last serious search engine that didn't throw a bunch of extraneous crap at you. Then they joined the portal bandwagon.
Thankfully google came along and likely stole a lot of Alta's disillusioned followers. Now they want us back with a 'minimal' search engine that is not as feature rich or effective as google.
I'll stick with the folks from Stanford.
Here's a 360 degree view of a cube I used to work in, with six halogen lamps all lit up.
It's actually pretty spartan compared to my current office, but some of the more interesting things (some of them a bit fuzzy, sorry!) are:
Tick figure & Tick Steel Box.
Stuffed Duke.
Various Wallace & Grommit stuffed animals.
Oracle beanie - "Propel yourself onto the Internet!"
IR headphones to listen without cords (actually I hate headsets, IR or not) .
Mandatory Dogbert.
Roomarang for improving hand-eye coordination.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
http://hotgrits.org //not set up yet... //not set up yet...
http://slashdot.com
http://slashdork.org
http://smashdot.org
http://crashdot.org
http://splashdot.org
http://trashdot.org
http://slapdash.org
http://slashnot.org
http://slashrot.org
http://slashpot.org
http://slashbot.org
(all of them run on BSD or Linux btw. Linux is just slightly more common than BSD)
Instead of making shoes that generate electricity, why not somehow integrate this technology into a car tire. I am just courious as to how much electricity 4 tires running at 65mph down the interstate would generate if 3-4 watts could be generated by walking. What about an 18 wheeler?
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Mayhaps my odd sense of humor is ill-appreciated.. or someone started moderating without reading..
Guh.
air and light and time and space
I thought it was good article. At least it put Katz in the right light. "It's a throwback kind of thing." Yea, a throwback to the campfires of old, where 100,000 hackers and hangers on from around the world, would sit back, relax, and bullshit about the hunt^H^H^H^Hworld. ;-)
They try and downplay the whole phenom at the end, but that's cause they still don't get it. Heck, they wouldn't even let me contribute my own content. Don't they know that Rob and Jeff got those millions two cents at a time.
Anyway, there's two more. Congrats guys, the new servers rock......although I have seen a couple things today that kinda scare me....G27.org got the hack
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Well, I don't know for a fact, but I'm sure that every girl of age 16 can get breast-implants if the parents agree and the the doctor sees no risk for the girls health.
;-)
Of course, every girl of pretty much any age has a right to *breast-reduction* if she has health-problems due to the weight of her jugs, but I guess that's not the case here, hmm?
I certainly support girls getting implants if it makes them happy...
-Jan
-- "Tradition is the illusion of permanence."
A bit? Hmm...ask a the poster in sid=moderation whose karma went from 52 to -9 overnight, had his default post level changed to -1, and had all his previous posts changed to -1. Pretty darn unfair if you ask me. CmdrTaco should make this public if he's doing it.
Her name is Lucy Clarkson
She's from England
Her measurements are 32DD, 25, 36
Her boyfriend is an avid Tomb Raider player, and is more excited about this than she is.
You forgot to mention... she is 16 years old.
No really, she is.
out of A4 card stock? :-]
And please, tell me the "interface" for the Lego moviemaking kit is FireWire!
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
More quickies! Keep 'em coming, they rock!
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Star Trek vs Star Wars.
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Star Trek vs Star Wars. Take a look. You may like it.
still going to on and on about Natalie Portman, or are we going to start seeing posts like "i 4M 4 L00cy C14arK W00mb r4id3r"? Only time will tell.
Sadly some of us get overriden because our wimpy coworkers absolutely MUST have flourescent lights, and complain to our bosses about it. (I've got two perfectly good halogens right here, but there's no point in using them as long as the damn f.l. is on)
;)
(Worst Quickies Ever
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Personally I LIKE it when people don't like the chicks that aren't ultra-skinny... it just leaves more for me!! ;-)
I like AltaVista's new Raging Search, but it still uses their same old algorithm. I still made an additional javascript bookmarklet in Navigator 4.73 for javascript query entries to raging.com, but I'll continue to use Google, as their results are always much better than anything else I've tried. I'll use raging search for those unique times when I'm searching for something along the lines of "feet to meter conversion" and Google filters out the 'to', though ;)
This article in the fluffy technology section of the Sydney Morning Herald discusses Intel's future in moving away from the Wintel alliance.
... The prototype, codenamed EON ("edge of network" device), runs the free Linux operating system and the Web browser Mozilla, which in turn is based on Netscape's Navigator rather than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
They say: Intel's first foray into box-building is something totally out of the box - a low-cost Internet access device
and illustrate it with a piccie of said device showing a slashdot page.
Sadly the web version of the article is missing the illustration.
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
The second place site in the 5k contest is my favorite. My only fear, however, is that we may be seeing the newest version of Microsoft Paint.
Oh, and regarding that geek cube - to my mind fluoros are okay as long as you've got natural light, but no geek cube is complete without a Bang & Olufsen phone. Block mobile interferance too.
What page and section was it in? I have relatives in the DC area, and I want to have them read it.
Thanks.
"The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm; usually because they could not walk" Nietzsche
Nice freudian slip:)
there's a version of slashcode available in php.
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
woxy.com - Bam! The Future of Rock and Roll
Alrightly then - my desk list, in no particular order (but kinda left to right); 2 digital cameras (Ricoh & Kodak), external CD drive for toshiba portable, a bunch of NiMH rechargable batteries, a pile of business cards (ick, paper), Jet direct drivers for NT (outdated), little plasic fan to keep my Ultralight cool, Sony speakers, Bang & Olufsen phone, Sharp Actius 150 Ultralight, Meoweth, USB hub, NiMH charger, mirror to use my TRGpro at different angles when IR-connected to Ultralight, TRGpro (with 128MB CF card!), carry bag for ultralight (won't go into contents), spare cables, spare monitor, assorted hardware and software packaging in various states of being opened, brand spanking new HP Netserver E60, shelves filled with crap (manuals, dead phones, more paper - ick). Pinned to cube walls; Space calendar, a couple of Dilbert cartoons ("The timeline is on this mobius strip"), more assorted crap (including a bochure with a CD-single sized CD). Wasn't that fun...
I know that Mountain Dew may be the drink of choice for many of you out there...but I find it a bit lackluster myself. I prefer the cool, sharp effervescence of Vernor's brand Ginger Ale. Vernor's is as close an approximation to piss yellow Listerine as humanly possible, but with the wonderful addition of bubbles.
Admittedly, it has no caffeine. Certainly you can't hold that against it.
The new Lara model is definitely hot, but I couldn't help notice the gun boo-boos here...image 1 and image 3 show Lara with her finger on the trigger. You always, always, always keep the finger off of a trigger unless it's pointed at something you want to shoot.
:)
Actually, I wasn't paying attention to that part of the picture...
OK, OK, I know, I'm being nitpicky. But fess up, how many of you nitpicked Hackerswhile you were watching it?
Following the same logic, not when Angelina Jolie was on the screen I didn't...
the AltER Vista project is a similar hack made by myself, (not sopnsored by altaviata) and still has some important interface improvements...
There is also an AltER Vista Advanced Search interface and a Babelfish Traduction intereface...
nice to see they were paying attantion ;-)
finally, a company who realizes that there are people who want to do something, and do not want to be blasted with a million banner ads and portal bullshit e.commerce weblog buy button whatnot...
adrien cater
boring.ch
Point and Grunt
lots of secret messages encoded inside!!
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Here's the dead giveaway that he's not a geek: flourescent lighting. Every geek I know who works in an office has poked out the lighting above their cubes (light.. pain.. bad!), myself included. Real Geeks use lava lamps, candlelight, or even the Glow Of the Blessed CRT Monitor.. but flourescent? Man.. no way.
You use Raging.com because it's a hell of a lot shorted to type than http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text. Better looking, too. That's no. No other reason.
The Good Reverend
Hmmm, tastes like google.
Q.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Anyway, I wonder how many people are trying to find slashdot.com right about now...?
As long as CmdrTaco is running the show, I don't have any doubt that /. will remain the "success" it is. Now if he loses editorial control... it's all downhill.
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How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
... but if you look at Lara Crofts "Vital Statistics" it says she is a 32 DD....and if you look at her pics.... well....thats a lie...unless thats like 32 pixels.... oh well, just thought id share...
djsw
Lookit the simpering fatass, slumped over and sweating pure bacon grease.
How could NASA seriously expect a space probe made out of paper to get all the way to Mars and work? They could have at least used cardboard or foamcore or something a bit sturdier.
Next up, Venus Origami Probe...
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...First Post shirt cause I'm sure there wouldn't be much demand for a shirt displaying someone pouring hot grits down their pants...
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
Mea culpa
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
woxy.com - Bam! The Future of Rock and Roll
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The shareholder is always right.
Goodbye... no one will miss you.
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
Make my own Mars Polar Lander Site? You mean I can have my very own smoking hole in the ground? Instructions:
- Take a plain block of styrofoam.
- Paint it rusty red.
- Set your blowtorch on "crater" and apply to the center of the red landscape. Kids -- get an adult's help!
Optional: add flakes of almuminum and gold foil.--Jim
The moment I laid eyes on this, it *screamed* Google.
... "Be a beacon?"
The logo looks like it belongs on a soft drink bottle. (Sunkist, anyone? Ooh, wait... Orangina! That's it!)
Apart from that, though, if I can get Altavista's thorough results without the bloat, count me in!
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"Give him head?"
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft Ad
Raging: Text-only Page
We're sorry. Raging.com does not support text-only browsers. For a superior text-only search, please visit AltaVista.
Why do they need an extra text version for a lightweight search engine, which is ideal for text browsers as it stands, anyway? And besides, this appears only in lynx, it works fine in links and w3m (in case you don't know, cool lynx-like text browsers that can do tables, look them up at freshmeat).
Someone needs to teach that woman how to put a finger on a trigger.
Use the pad of the finger, not the 2nd joint. Much better control.
It doesn't say, although the chances are the camera will be a standard video capture card which willprobably have Linux and BeOS drivers.
It works fine in the w3m text browser, which can do tables properly. I use w3m in an rxvt terminal when I don't have the ram to spare to run the Nutscrape browser, or when I am sharing files with gnapster and want to save bandwidth.
Will I retire or break 10K?
The boys [/. authors] do have some adult supervision: Robin Miller, managing editor of all Andover sites, makes sure that Slashdot's articles are grammatical and libel-free, and not spelled with the numeric-letter mixture ("D00D!!! LET'S RIP SOME WAREZZZ!") that characterizes much geek typing.
It's nice to hear that w/o Andover, /. would fast become a warez trading site if Rob had his way ;)
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"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on Slashdot the code with writing on many files and sealed with tar and gzip. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and execute the code?" .... Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See HotGrits.com of the tribe of Trolls, the scourge of Slashdot has triumphed. They have run the code and its many files.
Well, get yourself an abuse account and mark yourself up.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Gee, this doesn't rip off Google at aaaaaallllllll.
TheGeek
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Kill the monkey
It "helpfully" filters common words out of your searches, making it a real bitch to look for some phrases. You can get around this by adding a + to the common words... but if you use one in front of a non-common word, it strips them all out. This alone has got me searching for a new engine: I think I may have found it. I can live with no caches and non-intelligent searches.
Every week Futurama has a tongue-in-cheek caption in their title sequence. The best one ever came a few weeks ago (I don't remember what episode it was preceded) It read:
Coming soon to illegal DVD
I fell off the sofa laughing when I saw this, assuming it was an allusion to the DeCSS lawsuits, (especially funny since Fox, as a member of the MPAA, is involved in the persecution.
I can't seem to locate a framegrab of it on the net on the moment so if anyone knows where to find one please post a link.
the photos are lame cuz my crack addict neighbors have scarier weapons that that. get some real props.
2medium.jpg -- okay, never, ever pose her with her legs cocked like that again.
with better props, and IF she has a a good mixture of script, director and attitude, she can make it. in other words, this will be a failure.
Treatment, not tyranny. End the drug war and free our American POWs.
See my user info for links.
The boys do have some adult supervision: Robin Miller, managing editor of all Andover sites, makes sure that Slashdot's articles are grammatical and libel-free, and not spelled with the numeric-letter mixture ("D00D!!! LET'S RIP SOME WAREZZZ!") that characterizes much geek typing.
This is idiotic! The numeric-letter mix that this article refers to is exclusively the use of nitwit Hacker-wannabes.
Also, what's the deal with Slashdot having 'adult supervision'. Que? Malda and Bates are both 23, not pre-teens. 23 is middle-aged if not nearing retirement in the Internet-Economy.
This article is obviously written by an artifact of the old media. It's kinda funny, if you think about it, a relic from the old media writing a semi-accurate article about the new media... A question, is the condescending tone part of an unconcious defense mechanism?
Not all that nice,
but huge tits.
Honesty. Loyalty. Kindness. Laughter. Generosity. Magic!
Hmmm... let's see what I've got here:
Does any of that count?
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So where does it say she has implants? 32DD just means she's a slim girl with big boobs. And she does say that she walked off one shoot becase she was told she needed to lose weight. She prefers lingerie and swimwear modelling to fashion as that way she can eat more than 4 vitamin pills a day FFS!
Heh,
That guy is a spitting image of a guy I know. Same body-shape, same hair colour, same mess, same Anime stuff on the wall.
Only difference is, my friends machine is an Amiga 4000/040!
Heh... bet he doesn't have that in his little cube!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
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Moore Action Collectibles got the year wrong. They say Fry is thawed out in 2099. I guess Fry isn't the only one who can't do math.
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What? WHAT?!! Oh.
No, the Washington Post generally gives a lot of in-depth attention to foreign affairs and keeps articles about the Friends cast in the Style section (w/gossip, reviews, and comics) I came to /. yesterday, after reading the article; and spent most of the afternoon reading the stuff here. I'm a way old guy (...if 23 is close to retirement age in the Internet economy, what does 40 qualify me for?) but found the discussions amazing. Even sent an email to Hemos about the writings on his web page.
I just got thru reading the article.KUDOS!The article give a decent description of Slashdot. As a 42 year old geek that got canned for independant thinking in the robotic Eastern Ky. Job Market,(The powers that be cannot stand to realize that someone else has a better idea.) I usually check /. on a daily basis.Any new items are (if time permits) checked and commented on,if I have anything to add. Keep it up.Make the bastards sweat!(and very nervious)
Geek Hillbilly
IIRC, wasn't Spielberg's last CD-ROM project (Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair) a Windows app? Will this Lego project be a go for Un*x?
MSIE: The world's most standards-complaint web browser.
She does NOT look like a DD. More like a C at best. If she was a DD, she'd resemble the CGI Lara Croft, who probably has CGI back problems.
But here is the progression. I first read a Rolling Stone article about /. then a Washington Post article. I can't wait to eventually read the Wall Street Journals story. OOG THE CAVEMAN SAYS SELL NOW! GREENSPAN WEARS BOXER SHORTS.
OK, Rob. This is obviously not a troll -- it's a statement of fact. hotgrits.org does use PHP. Will this unfortunate moderator get bloganed? Or is Mr. Palczewski not "elite" enough to get that kind of respect from the "elders" of Slashdot?
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
..!!in an intastella burst i am back to save the universe!!
Raging.Com doesn't support text-only browsers, and I don't support GUI browsers. I guess that's the way the cooky crumbles :(
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
...wow.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of walk-powered, satellite linked PDAs....
For all you Quake Addicts out there, you'd be in hog heaven!
Someone had to say it.
In space, no one can hear you moo.
The new Lara model is definitely hot, but I couldn't help notice the gun boo-boos here...image 1 and image 3 show Lara with her finger on the trigger. You always, always, always keep the finger off of a trigger unless it's pointed at something you want to shoot. (Fortunately the gun she's holding is a 1911 with the hammer down; 1911s are single-actions and can't possibly fire unless the hammer is in the cocked position. So we can presume we're ok here). Image 4 has Lara blowing smoke out of the barrel...also very dangerous, from the look of it she could blow her nose off. Never point a gun at something you're not willing to destroy and always assume it's loaded. And image 5 has her pointing the gun right at us....I sure hope the photographer wasn't standing in front of that barrel. I'm all for people experiencing new things, but being shot is not one of them!
OK, OK, I know, I'm being nitpicky. But fess up, how many of you nitpicked Hackerswhile you were watching it? :)
The Second Amendment Sisters
Finding God in a Dog
While you're making plugs, here, I'd like to mention a site.
:/
KFSS Studios is playing out some of Nobuo Uematsu's best works.. I happen to think they sound incredible... only problem is that the CD won't be released until they can get some more funding...
So, I'm trying to get a little publicity for it so it'll come out sonner =)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's not what it is, it's something else.
I think I'll make a list of everyone's name who visits this site and sue!
tcd004
Because it's a prototype?
...phil
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
this girl is only 16, so why was she allowed to have the implants? don't you have to be an adult?
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
On, under and around my desk at home:
:-)
K6-2 450, 128MB, Linux and Win95, G400. K6-2 333, 64MB, Linux and Win95, G200. 14in monitor, 15in monitor on the desk. Two elderly Macs used as a footrest. They do work - I got them for free, but without keyboards, mice or monitors so I can't use them. A huge pile of tangled cables and power supplies. Not to be confused with the tangled cables at the back of the computers... An Atari ST with green composite monitor used as a dumb terminal and Lemmings machine on the floor - not enough space on my desk. Boxes full of ancient computer junk - from a dead Spectrum to a fully operational NEC laptop thing with a massive 16KB memory, and a Microsoft operating system. A very early, dismembered Philips cassette player. Horrendously over-engineered, with levers, pulleys and linkages all over the mechanism. Lots of empty beer bottles, of slightly unusual beers. ('Beer' as in 'ale', BTW.) A pretty good Russian microscope, complete with slides, lenses and wooden carrying case. And a dissection kit (don't ask - I'm a physics student.) A huge stack of New Scientist and Scientific American magazines. The result of subscriptions since 1994. A chunk of satellite (carbon fibre and aluminium foil honeycomb) and a satellite solar cell. A sheep skull. Again, don't ask. A 386-16, complete with monitor. Still works, but is pretty much useless compared with the ST. Several hundred floppy disks, mostly 720kB. NASA and ESA posters from the mid to late 1980s. Where can I get some newer ones? All this done without linebreaks to simulate the clutter.
And that's just some of the more interesting stuff - I'm still accumulating it all, and I'm only 20...
Ford Prefect
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
..just isn't complete without at least one mention of the legendary cubicle prank.
I didn't submit this in time to be included in this week's quickies, and it looks like it doesn't warrant being an article by itself:
I've been monitoring Slashdot's main page download time for about a week now--it just so happens that they went thru a major server move/upgrade during the monitoring period.
Check out the results here.
Does this chart represent your user experience with Slashdot before/after the upgrade?
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"This kind of news-by-discussion has emerged before. But never before with the robust yeastiness of Slashdot."
Robust yeastiness?!? You guys might want to see a doctor about that.
What a life a mess can be.
She's 5'11", 140 lbs, and a 32DD?! Not without considerably more silicone than any three of my computers.
She is considerably underweight for her height, there's no way she'd be able to keep her chest like that without "enhancement".
-- "God, Root, what is difference?" - Pitr, "User Friendly"
A superfast, minimalist search engine? Sounds perfect for Lynx, but no:
I've already expressed my disappointment to webmaster@raging.com.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to be 18 to get into E3? If so, how does she get in? I think that's totally a double standard for chicks who are 32DD with a 26" waist. What about the rest of us?
They got the definition of Kharma wrong in the article. Oh well... You get kharma by whoring for it.
Eh...
Regarding the Dr. Fun cartoon, I can't resist pointing out that they already seem to be doing what Commander Taco would do
I know, -1: Troll...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
If you've never heard of the radio (which works pretty well actually, probably better than the shoes ever will!), or the new flashlight, here's a trivial description, or there are several news items around, such as this one.
You should be able to track one down if you're interested - look out for the iMac-alike version. If desparate maybe start with this UK stockist.
cheers
alex
Someone noted that Geek Culture is selling First Post T-Shirts.
I really don't know if I want one or not... This is almost too scary to pass up. (However, imagine how high my Geek Score on campus will rise if I'm the first Geek to get a First Post t-shirt. Think I might be in running for Alpha?)
-- Count Spatula: The Culinary Vampire "...because my cooking sucks."
How about here?
I found it very amusing because, being in the UK, I watch Futurama in (somewhat illegal) MPEG form. Some people use the MPEGs for producing Video-CDs for playing in their DVD players, long before the show has been broadcast in their native country. And no, I'm not saying where to get said MPEGs - people can work it out for themselves.
Ford Prefect
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
How did they manage to make these images so big? 640 x 999 pixels, > 500 kb?!
Is it an American thing ? (I'm from New Zealand). I had an ex-girlfriend (half American) who continually confused me by talking about Hump Day. I kept thinking it had something to do with sex :-)
Btw, isn't hump day Wednesday, the middle of the working week. I note these Quickies are dated Thursday May 11, @11:59AM.
tangent - art and creation are a higher purpose
postmoderncore - art and creation are a higher purpose
Didn't Lara have Desert Eagles in the game?
My
> Again, please do not down-moderate the posts of Rob Malda's special friend Signal 11.
I'll moderate any way I like. That's the point. Most of signal11's posts are on-topic, but a good number of them are redundant.
You can't have a working moderation system that makes the moderators scared to moderate one way or the other.
If something bad does happen my karma I'll get rid of this account and start anouther. Karma is only a secondary effect of moderation. The main one is to cleen up the discusion boards and highlight good posts so I'm not going to cry if my Karma goes down a bit.
why bother using raging.com when altavista have had a text only search available at http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query? text since like the beginning of time?
and it's not a new search engine, it's just a new interface as far as I can see. I just did a search on altavista.com and on raging.com, exact same results.
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off topic, but i have to say it:
this dumba$$ leech at my high
school made it to MIT, yet today
on the AP statistics test, the
question asked him to draw an
ellipse and he drew a parabola!
(no, he wasn't doing that for
fun, he honestly did not know
what an ellipse was!) WTF? how
does a dumba$$ like that get
into MIT and also get the regent
scholarship from Berkeley while
I get rejected by both schools?
$$#$!#%%$@%%
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Zetetic
Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.
Elench
A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
Hot damn! Hook me up with some of that!
Compare it to the current ultra caffiene beverage, Bawls, which has 80mg per 10oz. Afri-Cola has 100mg in 12 oz, which equates to roughly 83mg of caffeine per 10oz.!
Yeah, 3mg of caffeine probably doesn't do that much, but it's the bragging rights (er... right, that's it)!
-SaintAlex
Observe, reason, and experiment.
Observe, reason, and experiment.
(if you're too dumb, just pray)
and not a single nude picture on that site!
64.28.67.48 != slashdot.org, at least not here. And since every link seems to want to point to slashdot.org/whatever, its somewhat a problem... Anyway, is this search engine better then google or not? It came up with more results for "maruchan ramen", but about the same for "Chad Okere".
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
walking through the metal-detectors... *BEEP* *BEEP*
"Oh, those are electrical generators in my shoes. HONEST!"
"Sir, come with us..."
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
I love how you "alternative religion" types love to knock Christianiaty and Judeasim by lumping creationism in a "lunatic fringe" pot. I'm sorry, but us "creationists" out number you "crawled out of ooze, my uncle is a baboon" types by 5 to 1. Do we lump you evolutionists into a "lunatic fringe" group? I never see a post on any site that says " check out these evolutionism wackos" granted there are radical members of every group, but it's these radical members that give every group their bad name and tarnish the objectives of a group.
Next time, try not lumping things as "fringe" we dont want to offend the necrophialliacs, beastiality, and NAMBLA members. Or the schitzophrinics that are sure they have been impregnated by aliens on a levitating table near a poppy field. Or how about the group to legalize Crack,PCP, and all those other good drugs that help you escape reality.....
Oh man, I'm ranting again... and on that fringe... Where's my medication...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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The shareholder is always right.
"This kind of news-by-discussion has emerged before online. But never before with the robust yeastiness of Slashdot."
Slashdot: Now with robust yeastiness!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Ripping off Google with Raging is a silly, rudderless move typical of CMGI companies.
too bad she has brown eyes, blue or green would have been better.
damn, i hope she gets naked soon.
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I sent a message to the webmaster, and I got this reply:
Thanks for your feedback. You are not the only person who has requested that we support Lynx and other text-only browsers at Raging Search. We are currently working on this, and we expect to have text-only support for Raging Search coming very soon. Please keep using the site.
Thanks again for your support,
Josh Hornik, Product Manager, Raging Search.
Well, I think we should give them some time. Joshua answered a friend of mine in the same way: "Our thinking was to send text-only users to AltaVista, which has a search that is meant specifically for text-only browsers." "We are currently working on text-browser-enabling Raging Search. The work (optimizing pages for text-only browsers and making sure no functionality gets lost) should be done soon." Even better!
Raging seems to be heavily influenced by Google. I wonder if there was a deal between the two that fell through, or if AltaVista simply wanted some of the "all we want is a search engine" market....
Either way, google is just want I need, and all I have on my home page.
Assorted odds and ends which might be of interest...
:-)
Yet more Futurama stuff including a clockwork Bender. I want one.
icebox.com which has various Flash cartoons, some of which are created (and voiced by) people behind The Simpsons and Futurama. They seem pretty good - and somewhat politically incorrect.
The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, a blatant plug to my utterly crap web site. Do not expect useful content.
Ford Prefect
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
hotgrits only looks like its running slashdode. but unless something major has changed slashcode is perl and hotgrits is php.
It has been statistically shown that helmets increase the risk of head injury.
Are there any pages out there that focus on the Lego product itself, and not just Steven Spielberg's endorcement of it? I'd like to know how the movies are made with Lego actors since Lego minifigs tend to be... well... inanimate. Pictures of still Lego toys would make for a boring movie.
Some sort of CGI movie making kit would be cool (like a cross between the Lego shape set for POVray and the fictional OOP product in Microserfs), but since the article says the kit comes with a real camera that must not be the case.
Forgot that Slashdot knows about time zones.
tangent - art and creation are a higher purpose
postmoderncore - art and creation are a higher purpose
Let me preface this post by clarifying that yes, I did help with the hotgrits.org project.
Please note that hotgrits DOES NOT run Slashcode, nor does it run PhpSlash. The wheel was reinvented, simply because it's funner that way.
Finally, please be gentle. The box is only a K6/233 with 64MB of RAM. It's just an old junker we had laying around and thought "Wouldn't it be funny if..." - And the rest is history!
why the ??&@*@* is Bender's head red?
That don't make no sense.
The picture on the site isnt' red.
I made a wallpaper with the signs a while back (800x600) when some of the images weren't bigger.
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Ok, I am an avid reader of the Post but I am afraid that they are acting like typical media by finding some pundit who will automatically take the other side of the story.
/. will last as a type of new media because it will stop being rebellious when its readership grows too large.
/. is read because it is rebellious? I sure don't read it for that reason. Personally, I would be very happy if other news media would do their own work and stop trying to copy /.'s stories. The only thing that is going to ruin things like /. and free software is the propensity of the world to make everything have its 15 minutes of fame to be a "sensational" story.
If you have not read the article, essentially the writer found some guy to say that he does not think
HELLO?!!!
This sounds like the exact same argument being thrown out about why free software will not succeed (i.e., that developers will stop supporting it because it will stop being revolutionary). If the media would stop attaching a label to things, taking it upon themselves to define a purpose for other people, then maybe there would not be all this incessant talk.
Who ever said
Well, that link to the Dew information was cool, but it seems they didn't take into account that Jolt Cola is out there, with roughly 100mg of caffeine per 12oz bottle.
:)
Any other Jolt drinkers in the crowd?
I like those power shoes. I might be in better shape if I had to run in order to get refreshes on slashdot.
Signal11 would be a fucking anorexic.
-konstant
Yes! We are all individuals! I'm not!
-konstant
Yes! We are all individuals! I'm not!
This detailed scale model is a construction project which is probably not appropriate for people younger than about ten years of age or engineers who have ethics, depending on skill and motivation. Children should have adult supervision to assemble the model. Assembly will require at least 10 years of time and faked test records for certain components. Once you assemble the model, we do not guarantee that the retro rockets will function properly in such a cold climate. In fact, we have proof that they do not, but we launched it anyway. After you complete the model, grasp it firmly by the bottom and launch it directly into the cold, hard floor, then you'll know the landed configuration of the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft very well indeed!
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gotta admit - thats a cool troll icon...
It _is_ Wednesday in America, even though it's Thursday here.
They'll never catch up with us.
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
I am astounded that someone has registered the Hotgrits site !!! That is so awesome. I've always wanted to leave my mark and in a sad, demented way, I guess I have ! Well, this calls for a celebration. I'm going to pour a bowl of hot grits down my pants !!!
* Two pieces of particle board
* Halogen lamp
* Cheap K-Mart chair for guests (makes 'em leave quicker)
* Cheesy desk fan
* Battery operated analog clock movement (just hands, no face)
* SANS poster
* Three whiteboards
* Homemade air-current spinny thing (1)
* Flower made from telephone hookup wire (1)
* Cactus terarium, with one dead cactus and plastic lizard
* Spool of 100' of Cat-3
* A ton of RS/6000 and SunExpert Magazines
* One big ass peace lily plant
* Leonardo Da Vinci calendar
Notes:
1 - These two items are taped onto my monitor.
Of course, this is in my office - not my cubicle (though I actually miss my cube)...
Maybe I am just messy, and not geeky...hmm...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
... should be to make the best accessible page in under 5K.
First place: total blank without JavaScript.
Second place: total blank without JavaScript.
Third place: requires JavaScript to do anything. All it can say without it is, "Get a better browser, luser!"
Check out http://www.scene.org/ (and ftp.scene.org) for some really impressive minimalism. It's called 4kb intro's. 4096 bytes of pure assembly code producing excellent graphical effects and impressive music and sfx. Check it out.
:)
Demoscene rules
I guess the fact that the under 5k HTML site is getting slashdotted and running dog ass slow just goes to show that HTML size is not the only thing that makes a site slow.
Is Hotgrits.org really a real forum, or is it just cleverly designed to look like one?
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
This kind of news-by-discussion has emerged before online. But never before with the robust yeastiness of Slashdot.
mmmm, robust yeastiness. Hey, I smell beer, have some of you been drinking?
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if you take the ~30seconds it takes to rtfm, you'll see how to get around raging.com's bullshit.
And as far as i know, any other text editor will work fine.
^Z
You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
Personally, Google is good enough for me, but if I can't seem to find it, I check out Altavista. I guess now I can use Raging.com as my second choice now.
"... message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an excercise in computer science masturbation."
I just followed the 5K page link and it took ages to load, 30 secs for the last one I just clicked and I am on a reasonable cable.
5K pages slashdotted, scary
Maybe you live in interesting times