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MIT To Release Next-Generation OS "Cesium"
snowphoton writes: "Slant-Six magazine has an article about Cesium, a fascinating (and soon public) operating system from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. A virtual machine, an object-oriented database-driven filesystem, and a 3D GUI mean that this isn't your father's operating system." This article doesn't address licensing, except to say that it "is due to be released by the end of the year for free," so it will be interesting to see just what "free" means here. Update: Yep, it's a hoax. Fun! Tricks are neat!
I bet the system clock is always off
Cesium...get it....cesium...as in the atomic clock..
You are right that was not funny.
1. Release Next-Generation OS
2. ???
3. Profit!
Also noteworthy is that running "finger dunkirk@mit.edu" turns up nothing (you can look up a person's info by fingering their last name at mit.edu). MIT's finger database is usually very reliable and thorough.
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this page lists the half life of cesium isotopes. Apparently they need a new entry for the half life of Cesium OS when slashdotted...
This is by far my favorite part of this troll: while most people would consider, say, NetHack a noble effort for game porting on a unreleased-brand-spanking-new OS, we're going to release it with QUAKE.
Where did you get that?
I got this:
finger hdunkirk@mit.edu
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What I really hate is when I'm writing some software, and working with something I've never used before, and the error message I get is "contact the software developer."
I'm left sitting there staring at the screen at 3 AM blankly thinking, "Heck, I *am* the software developer, and I have absolutely no idea what to do myself, much less if some helpless user contacted me..."
Oh well, at least I can't be in much closer contact with the developer...we're sitting in the same chair...:)
NOTE - im posting this under my user name in the full awerness that someone brave and wise (enter sarcasm mode)will likely mark me down for being offtopic etc etc - but as this topic is a load of bull how can anything be off topic ?
I'm really tired of people talking about how they are taking a stand and will get moderated down by some coward. You aren't opposing the Slashdot majority view at all. People have wished for the editors to do basic journalism since Slashdot was created, and it's never happened. Your post is fairly redundant.
If I had mod points right now, though, I wouldn't moderate you down for being redundant. I rarely actually mod people down for that, though I tend to vote "unfair" in metamod when Insightful/Interesting/Informative are given to posts which state common views without adding anything new or relating very closely to the story (for example, most RIAA-related posts).
I would, however, moderate you down as "Troll" solely because of that damn moderation comment.. Get over your crusader dreams.
How about a *four* dimensional GUI! That way, when you perform a search, you don't just get measly 2-D directory information, you get "file found: /root/etc/west 10 feet/last Tuesday"