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MST3K "Manos" Arrives on DVD
malicioususer writes "According to this page the legendary MST3K episode "Manos: Hands of Fate" appears on DVD November 20th. If you can bring yourself to endure only one MST3K, this is the one." A great present for anyone you want to punish this christmas ;)
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This might be a *little* offtopic, but are there any plans to post a Geek's Wishlist for this year? There have been some great submissions in years' past, and I think we'd all love to see them.
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is this the film that brought young Mr.Goatse to the forefront of popular culture?
Think about it... If your grandmother (assuming she is like mine and knows nothing about computers) wants to have a computer and be ABSOLUTELY certain that she is never infected with a virus, or hacked what would you tell her? If you didn't want to be over house ALL the time, or set her up with a firwall and CONSTANTLY have to update it, I think that 99% of us would say: "Don't connect it to the internet" Judging from the posts, I think everyone will agree, that the government probably has just as little capability of keeping all of their employees [insert government worker joke here] from corrupting the network. A separate network won't fix everything, but it just makes GREAT sense. (especially since I've heard reports that there is a lot of fiber layed accross the us that isn't connected).
As well as this!
Melissa Stark Confirms: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*Melissa Stark* is So HOT!!!
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It has anti-troll defenses, unlike Slashdot.
Offtopic?!?!
Watch some MST3k, then moderate.
:-)
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin