Slashback: Crusher, Satellites, Silence

Slashback with more on Wesley Crusher; overclocking new Athlons the kindler, gentler way; building silent PCs for the more ambitious; software that stinks; and more -- just read on for the details.

That fetid odor continues to rise. cconnell writes "In September, Slashdot and Developer.com were kind enough to publish an article I wrote titled Most Software Stinks!. The article generated 748 comments on slashdot, making it one of the most active stories in recent months. Here is a follow up piece I wrote which responds to some of the comments."

Silence, fool! The Panther! writes "Here's an article I wrote that shows step by step how to achieve some measure of silence in my home office. It's different from most in that it approaches damping existing hardware rather than buying new. Some ideas were suggestions of Slashdot readers from a previous article. Lots of photos for the reading-impaired." Hemos may have been going for a rather normal-looking but quiet PC, but The Panther sure isn't.

Step 39: With your dremel strapped to the hamster, gently nudge the billiard ball ... Now that the famous pencil trick isn't an option for would-be AMD overclockers, more complicated means have been found to unlock and reclock. Carlos writes: "I saw that you have a scoopage on the unlocking of the Athlon XP by Tom's Hardware and there is a better and more reversible way by VR-Zone."

200 years is a long time even for a Congressman. Michael H. writes "Woohoo! Congress has given a $30 million shot in the arm to the Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, previously feared canceled. CNN story here. There's still no guarantee that it won't be canceled later, but at least Congress is listening to the fact that it would take ~200 years for the next window if we missed this one."

Hey, that guy's too old to be a kernel maintainer -- we'll make him an actor. bahamat wrote yesterday: "I'm hanging out in Wil Wheaton's chat room (#rfb on undernet) and he's just announced that he's going to be making a cameo as Wesley Crusher in the new Star Trek X." Apparently, the news hit quite a few readers, too -- and for those who haven't, check out our interview with Wil. Maybe he'll get to be on The Tick, too.

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Wil Wheaton is a bit of a sexist oaf.

[Anton Anatopopov]

Wil Wheaton does not seem like a very nice guy if the interview I read at the site I hate is anything to go by.

I wasn't sure if they faked it, or if Wil is really like that. Either way, the so-called 'adequacy' site sucks, so I won't be going back there in a hurry.

Re:Wil Wheaton is a bit of a sexist oaf.

[Anton Anatopopov]

I agree with you about adequacy, but are you really trying to tell me that Wil Wheaton, Hollywood Actor, spends his time reading websites like slashdot ? Come on, are you sure you haven't been trolled ? After all, anybody could easily pretend to be Wil Wheaton. In fact, here goes. I am Wil Wheaton. Posting to slashdot.

Come on. Get real.

Re:Wil Wheaton is a bit of a sexist oaf.

[Anton Anatopopov]

Did it ever occur to you that he was using sarcasm to illustrate his points??

You're new here, aren't you ? Don't worry, stick around and you will get the hang of it. This site is frequented by people known as 'slashbots'. They are around 14 years old, and they just LOVE Linux. (Not enough to use it, mind you over 70% of slashdot's readership uses Internet Explorer)

These slashbots or bots for short, are arrogant teenagers who think that the 'libertarian party' present a valid form of government, and that the answer to every software problem is 'open source'.

Its fair to say that sarcasm is wasted on these people. In between downloading porn and MP3s and playing Quake III Arena, these people have little time to actually write code, but the irony of their pro-open-source position (like sarcasm) is wasted on them.

The site which has been referred to as 'worse than goatse.cx' is in fact a discussion site which has a very different approach to debate.

Slashdot's moderation system amounts to a form of censorship whereby the groupthink of posters is rewarded with 'karma' and any controversial opinion is immediately labelled as 'troll' regardless of the merits of the arguement.

On the other hand, the clever people at the site which is worse than goatse.cx have taken a different approach.

Instead of pretending to be against censorship, whilst covertly practicing it, the editors at adequacy simply banned trolling. Anyone posting a troll is likely to have their post deleted. Apparently this hardcore approach has caused people to stop and think before posting, and the signal to noise ratio is very good over there.

Adequacy tends to steer clear of the tech/nerd stories, so it is not exactly a drop-in replacement for slashdot, but it shows how the slashdot moderation system could be improved upon.

Anyway, I think adequacy shows slashdot the way forward in terms of controlling the excesses of the 'first posters' and 'penis birds' and 'goatse.cx' and 'hot grits' etc etc. They just delete them. And the debate is better for that. Censorship is not always a bad thing.

Why Crusher is an idiot.

[rice_burners_suck]

I always thought Westley Crusher was an idiot. I didn't like him in TNG, and I especially didn't like that his mother always tried to protect him. I mean geez, the kid's old enough to take care of himself, but he won't because his mother tries to shield him too much from the world.

Especially in that episode where he fell into the glass planter on some planet where there is no crime because whenever someone commits ANY crime, no matter how small, they are put to death. Well, they should have put him to death, I don't care what his stupid mother has to say. If you are in a place where they put people to death for committing crimes, and you don't want to be put to death, then DON'T COMMIT A CRIME! Is it that hard to understand? And furthermore, if you're a mother like that and you don't want your kid to get put to death, then tell your kid not to commit any crimes or don't let him go there if you want to be a micromanaging mother like that. Anyway, I just thought I'd tell you why Crusher is an idiot.

They should have done this last time.

[rice_burners_suck]

200 years is a long time even for a Congressman.

Yeah, 200 years is a long time. I wonder why Congress didn't take advantage of this when our country was just beginning about 200 years ago. If they had, imagine how much smarter we'd be today.

Re:What in God's name...

[Jerf]

Netscape 4 doesn't qualify as a browser. Or if you insist that it does, it's a braindead browser.

I've jettisoned designing for Netscape 4. Considering that my pages work in every other goddamn browser ever created, I consider it an adequate tradeoff.

Flush N4 down the toilet. (And yes, I run a Pentium 133. I tend to just use lynx.)

Re:Warning! Adequacy link!

[Anton Anatopopov]

Hey, adequacy is not like goatse.cx

Goatse.cx is a picture of a hugely distended anus, adequacy seems to be the home of intelligent debate on the Internet. Kind of like slashdot about 3 or 4 years ago.

Anyway, lets appeal to the moderators. Must ensure the collective groupthink holds sway!.

Moron.