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VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name
Several folks noted that VA is changing its name to "VA Software" to reflect the fact that they aren't a Linux company anymore. VA of course owns OSDN which runs various Linux and Open Source web sites including amusingly enough Linux.com. Can't say it matters much to me what they call the thing as long as they let us keep running Slashdot, but it really is sad knowing that most of the cool open source hackers no longer work there. My bad. Anyone have a link to the press release that doesn't require a login?
first post!@~%$£#
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1 to three post is me and i rule all va should still be "va research"
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Going to act on the mislabelling of the "Linux"
operating system? Linux is just the kernel.
Linux should be changed to GNU/Linux.
I see large lawsuits in the future.
Thank you and have an Afghan opium-filled day.
How on earth does this qualify as a "newsable" event? This should be good news to all developer's who value meaningful identifier names... :^)
of sh$t.
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Steve Ballmer, ditto
(score: -1, Troll), indeed!
God, I hate moderators who do this. Someone clearly labels their off-topic post as such, and are suddenly modded down for it. You were given fair warning, why mod down?
<sigh>
I had a good ASCII graphic of ESR too. Fucking lameness filter!
Of all the great comments that are posted on /.
this one needed to get the magic 2.5 mil number...
Who modded this up? Did you read the nickname? This guy is CLEARLY trolling!
Ya - mod this back up - I think it is actually interesting.
;-)
Especially considering that most of us here are guys - and generally believe that a nipple is the ONLY intuitive thing about women
Derek
Why don't you argue with the parent post on its own merits, rather than because of the author's handle?
If you read his user bio you would see that he is more decidedly not a troll. Note the +2 bonus. He has posted many insightful comments in his tenure at slashdot and is most likely tremendously offended by your accusations.
I arrived in Moscow, Idaho (Home of Idaho University one block from Best Western) and went to dinner at Best Western. About 85-100 people were in the Restaurant. I'm at a table for about 5 minutes when this "Group" comes in (20 people). They have Anti-War Picket Signs with them. It appears that two of these demonstrators are Professors.
They all sit at a large round table behind me and begin to talk very loudly about US atrocities in Afghanistan. One of the "Professors" stands up and gives a brief talk about how the "US is famous for atrocities" and Afghanistan will be no different. One of the students asked a question about Viet Nam POW's. The "Professor" makes a comment about how that was only US propaganda about poor treatment of POW's.
OK - I'm really mad now and I jump up and go over to their table. (In retrospect - Over the entrance to the Restaurant is a huge American Flag. On each table is an American Flag and a small hand painted sign "United We Stand"). I excuse myself and ask the Professor if I can ask him a question. He says yes. I said that he appears to be of age to have served in Viet Nam, and asked him if he had served. His answer was, "NO - I defended this Campus and told the truth to the students. I then asked if he remembered what he was doing on February 16, 1969. When he answered, "Of course not - that was too long ago," I responded, "Really, I remember what I was doing. That was the second day of my capture and I had been standing in a bamboo cage for 24 hours with water up to my chest". I then said "Sir, your comments about how POW's in Nam were treated are a lie and I personally say to you, you are a ******* liar, as you never were there. I was a POW and they did not treat our POWs humanly. The only other person I have ever heard make the statements like you have is Jane Fonda. Is she telling the truth and not me?" He stood up and after about 10 seconds said, "Jane is a great patriot and I cannot visualize her lying." With that, I reached over and grabbed the small American Flag and United We Stand sign and said, "I'm taking this back to my table where it can be appreciated".
No one said a word to me as I started to walk back. However after a few seconds, people started standing up and applauding all around the restaurant. Two men got up from a table across the room and walked over to me. The first identified himself as former US Marine Lieutenant Flynn and the other man was former Gunnery Sergeant Graboski. In a loud voice after introducing themselves, Lt. Flynn said they were former Marine Guards at a US Embassy. He then said, "We are over at this table to defend the US Flag from all foes, both foreign and domestic." They then sat down and asked their Waitress to bring their meals over to my table. A few more minutes went by with loud comments from the "Anti-War" table. All of a sudden, "Gunny" Sergeant Graboski stood up and in a loud voice said "All of you heard what the President said the other night. You are either with the United States or you are with the terrorists." He then
said, "Please stand and join me in God Bless America."
As he started singing, people all around the restaurant stood up and joined in. Several of the students at the "Anti-War" table also stood up half way through the song and joined in. Both Professors and the majority of the students remained seated and refused to sing. At the end there was a great ovation.
The Manager came up to my table. (He and his staff came out from the kitchen and sang). He thanked me for what I started and then went over to the Anti-War table and asked them to leave. "I will pay for what you have had so far but I cannot in good conscience serve you - get out now!!
One of the Professors then made a remark "Well, we are not going to pay one dime for how shabbily we have been treated." As they were leaving, one customer stood up and said, "Manager, here is $5 towards their bill, anyone else willing to chip in to get this scum out of here?" All over the restaurant, people stood up reaching for their wallet and saying, "I'll chip in" The Manager, in tears said, "My family is from Poland, I am now a citizen and am so proud of what I see tonight." He started crying and a couple of the waitresses
helped him into the kitchen.
The two Marines and I were there for about another 20 minutes and finished our meal. The Hostess came up and showed us more than $100 dollars that all the other tables had told their Waitresses to give towards our bill. I thanked her but said I could not take the money. Lt Flynn suggested donating it in the Restaurant's name to the New York Relief Fund, so I guess that's what will happen. I just can't believe how Americans are coming together now.
Just thought you would like to hear how the rest of the country is reacting to what happened!!!
Is that you, *BSD is dying guy?
Slow down, cowboy!
6000 dead civilians is trivial in a real war. This applies equally well to the US as it does to Afghanistan.And if one of those 6000 was someone close to you, or you yourself, would you still feel that way? I think not.
Get it? VACANT. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Happy fucking troll tuesday.
You sucking fuck.
And if one of those 6000 was someone close to you
I suppose i could be a dick and mention another war that the US has declared - The War on Drugs (tm). An actual bodycount is probably out of the question, but consider that every time a swat team hits the wrong address and shoots some random person dead, that's one more casualty. Whenever some gangs have a turf war, those are more casualties (if politicians had the freedom to actually address the problem instead of doing what keeps them from being recalled, there would be fewer drug turf wars). Oh, and there's the small matter of the corruption of our government in the name of fighting drugs. Tell me again why I don't have the right to walk down the street with $20,000 cash?
Reboot macht Frei.
Stefan ,Stefan .. przestan pierdzielic jak pomylony i zaimij sie zonka.
You're right: it was granted by Bill's mama.
Because the IRA doesn't claim that Jesus wants them to kill British civilians. They are a blatantly nationalist organization. The fact that they are Catholic is more or less incidental. Al Qaeda on the other hand talks about killing the Jews (the "Little Satan", Israel) and the evil supporters of Zionism, the US (the "Big Satan"). Given that everything is couched in terms of religious extremism, it's fairly natural to characterize them as _muslim_ extremists. The IRA are Irish nationalist extremists, first and foremost. David Koresh was a Christian extremist - a religious nutcase who killed people and hoarded arms on the basis of an extreme interpretation of the Bible.
Actualy to put it more acurately your involved in a war with extremist starving oppressed people in a country no one has pretended to give a fuck about in 10 years.
Extremist - the most extreme thing most of the people in afghanistan did today was try to find food.
The US are a bunch of fucking morons and if you think you can win a 'war' (and thats another bullshit word as well) by bombing people who have nothing then youre even more fucked up than the world thinks.
You would think that after 2 land wars in asia the US might have learned something by now.
Oh and im not american and i dont support one thing your country is doing at the moment - you are acting like a bully in a schoolyard by picking on those weaker than you - where was the US when argentina was murdering thousands, and Chile, and Bolivia etc etc
The world is only evil when someone threatens YOU people DIRECTLY - everyone else can get fucked - so i say this - the whole rotten american system can get fucked - we dont want your war and your bullshit
Umm... I don't see any "Good idea, VA!" posts being modded up, actually. It's funny - people are so eager to avoid being stooges, that any baseless troll post accusing Slashdot of being biased gets modded to high heaven. Karma whoring 101.
I'm so glad he'll "still carry his own bags"!
You know, despite the gleeful tone, the above post is completely true and backed up by evidence. Is that how the truth gets treated around here?
What's this *we* shit, kemosabe? Not everyone who reads (or cares about) slashdot is a jingo american. And some of us do resent having our privacy ass-fucked by megacorps. Jerk.
Har, Har and double Har.
TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR NETWORK APPLIANCE IS BASED ON LINUX
10) Console sometimes says "Filesystems have gone too long without fsck".
9) Randomly connects to slashdot and posts insipid comments under
anonymous-coward@yourdomain.com.
8) Supposed to be a web cache, but somehow turned into warez cache.
7) Whitepaper is 10,000 pages long, 1 page of info and 9,999 pages of
source code.
6) Manual only comes in two languages, Finnish and elisp.
5) Case made out of space age synthetic alloy of duct tape and dental
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4) Not really sure what it does, but weenie administrator said purchasing
it would be good for "the community".
3) You get a mail from some dork named CmdrTaco wanting you to do an
interview about it.
2) You attach a line printer and it starts alternating between printing
banners of "FREE KEVIN" and something called DeCSS.
1) All your other network appliances complain about it getting drunk
and blasting the free software song at 3am.
GPL considered harmful.... Yes, the explicit purpose of the GPL is to hurt programmers' livelihoods. See Richard Stallman's essay, "The GNU Manifesto," for a frank statement that this is the case. Mr. Stallman does not care whether the programmers harmed by the GPL are working for Microsoft or trying to eke out an honest living despite Microsoft; he wishes to put all of them out of business. Trouble is, it's much easier to hurt the little guy than it is to hurt Microsoft, so guess who suffers?
It is, in fact, ironic just how much the FSF's strategies resemble those of Microsoft.
Microsoft seeks to put other companies such as Netscape out of business by giving away free equivalents of every product they make. The Free Software Foundation seeks to put other companies out of business by giving away free equivalents of every products they make.
Bill Gates has all the money he wants but is motivated by a lust for power and control. Richard Stallman has all of the money he wants but is motivated by a lust for power and control.
Microsoft has a vast hoard of software whose development and licensing it controls. The FSF has an even larger hoard of software whose development and licensing it controls.
Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss.
We're involved in a WAR with extremist muslims
Gee, I thought it was a war against terrorism.
Holy cow dude, you got a +3, Interesting!
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Bought Red Hat at the peak, didn't you?
What in fucking hell actually qualifies the shrub to be fucking el presidente anyway? What the fuck has he ever done right? He's an idiot and it's all he can do to get up in front of the cameras and get the fucking words that they write for him to come out of his mouth in something resembling the proper order! He isn't running a damn thing! He does what his advisors and constituents (by this I mean the corps that fund his sorry ass) tell him to do. There must be several million people more qualified than he is to be president. Unfortunately they aren't a former president's son, nor do they have strong ties to oil interests and other powerful lobbies, nor do they have the distinct lack of ethics and conscience that seems to be a requirement for the upper levels of our government. FUCK BUSH. HE ISN'T THE BEST FOR ANY JOB! (with the possible exception of human minesweeper)
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
vaginal and anal?
Rasism on Slashdot - weee. Not. You're at war with terrorists - no matter their religion. They also consider themselves at war with you, so keep on going
it's in my head
I happen to be an American and I don't support a single damn thing we've done lately either!
I don't think it's happened to me yet, but I've seen other comments in the past few weeks that looked as though they belonged in a different current story, so I guess it's a "feature" of the latest Slashdot code update.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
(biting the troll) Your perspective is not mine. I don't live in the USA and I don't feel involved in any "WAR" at all. Your comment comes up in all Slashdot stories and I do *not* find it funny. I don't have any respect for terrorists, but I don't have respect for your war either. I think it's kind of pointless to bomb a country and then gather money to rescue those innocent inhabitants. Why does everyone have to think like Yankees? Go troll somewhere else and let me live my own life.
Sigh. Surely off-topic, but I felt I had to write this..
How's the fagging, faggot?
I just poured hot grits down my pants. ahhhh
Hey, underpaidISPtech here.
I have only 3 years experience with computers, use Linux, FreeBSD, amd am pretty familiar with
all versions of Windows. I run a small website that implements a streaming audio service, and my server is the host for this company.
I have *no* A+, Network+, MCSE (though I'm studying the win2k course) CCNA, Novell, or any certs at all. I have the opportunity to take this course (I was told by the Program Head that I am overqualified), but money is tight (I make CDN$12/hr).
I am stuck doing lousy helldesk in this shit economy, work the graveyard shift at a stupid company, and cannot afford to pay the ~$15,000 CDN to get certs at the colleges here (www.ubc.ca, www.bcit.ca, www.cdic.ca). And to top it all off, no one will touch me without certs. Some courses are full-time and I would qualify for a student loan, but most are part-time and I would not qualify for a loan.
So what the hell is a guy supposed to do? I'm 26 yrs old, how the hell am I supposed to get a challenging, well-paid job when the most overrated and useless cert (MSCE) is the first thing that employers check for?
You seem to have been around for a while, what do you suggest? Bite the bullet and swim in debt? What cert would you recommend above all else?
That's no troll. It's merely an observation. Quite an accurate one too.
Still, it defies the Great Linux Hive-Mind and so is modded down.
If only I had mod points, I'd mod it back up...
"Information wants to be paid"
Ai yah, it called a METAPHOR, nimrod.
...and my personal data will be thrown into the wind...
/.?
What personal data? The number and frequency of your posts on
>Are you that stupid?
Now the post is +5 insightful.
Who's stupid now?
or are we basketball jocks?