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Slashback: SmoothWall, Gopher, Be
But can you backtrack through a google cache? pointym5 writes "Checked out the ZeoSync web site lately? Remember all those PhDs on the scientific staff? Well, like I'm sure others did, I sent e-mail to a few of them expressing interest in more technical details. All that I contacted responded with absolute disclaimers of any relationship whatsoever with ZeoSync. This morning I note that most names are gone from the 'org chart' and the scientific team list. There are only five left, including Dr. Piotr Blass, 'developer of one of the world's first web sites.' Wow!"
How smooth is smooth? juct writes: "I appreciate it, that Slashdot gave the SmoothWall Team an opportunity to answer to the concerns in my review of their firewall. But it is full of errors and might leave a wrong feeling of security. So I invite everybody to my Tour on SmoothWall where you can judge for yourself."
Whispered words of wisdom, 'Let it be.' Sander van Dragt writes: "Many BeOS news lately. Not all so good for the BeOS community though. BeUnited, the organization which tried to license BeOS from Palm, has received today a final answer from Palm: '...we have made a firm decision NOT to license any part of this technology other than that which we incorporate into the Palm OS.' It is already known that the new 32-bit PalmOS will feature some elements of the Be technology, but that OS is built for PDAs, not for the desktop."
You can read that letter and the rest of the article on OS news.
And take this as you will -- An Anonymous Coward writes: "osnews.com is reporting that there is a new version of BeOS on the way... A German company called 'yellowTab' is said to be ready to ship a new version of BeOS (Just when everyone thought it was dead, and the final shovel full of dirt laid on top), get the full article here ... Hrm, I sure liked BeOS, I hope this one works out."
Dig, my brethren -- the Gopher Palace is almost complete! SuperguyA1 writes "Lwn is reporting that the gopher team has done it again with a 3.0 release marking Gopher's 10th anniversary. Happy birthday gopher. Thanks for helping me find all the muds I wasted so much time in college on:)"
"Bad connection, say again, you invented WHAT?" mi writes: "Yahoo! reports a potential problem, the Segway Scooter may have in Japan -- a Japanese robotics professor seems to have a patent on something very very similar since 1996. On the other hand, the USPTO knew about, when granting the patent to Segway's Dean Kamen, but still found Mr. Kamen's invention worthy of a patent in 1999. My favorite is the Kazuo Yamafuji's words: 'I would hand over my patent for one dollar if Mr. Kamen admitted that we were first.' Indeed, he just sat on the invention for 15 years."
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Props to all dead Office Clippyz. w00t!
reading harry potter is like masturbating...everybody does it, but no one will admit it.
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Have you seen Kamen on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno? That guy is a complete asshole/fag (take your choice).
He kept following Russel Crowe and Jay's other guests around when they were on the Segway. Kamen must like gripping and groping as many other men as he can. Kamen did this so the people on the Segway would not fall.
And guess what? No one fell so Kamen's asshole/fag behavior was not needed.
Do not buy the Segway!
Do not support an asshole/fag!
Yes, if it's appropriate in context. I wouldn't use it speaking to gradeschoolers, non-native anglophones or shouting at buddies over the blaring music in a bar but in an extended conversation with reasonably literate folks of whom I can expect a broad vocabularly I've used "extant" with some regularity.
I expect it's usage (along with any other English words not in the core 3,000 or so) is heavily dependant on the types of conversations you hold and the backgrounds of those involved.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
BeOS is the greatest *O*P*E*R*A*T*I*N*G* *S*Y*S*T*E*M* of all time!!! It takes almost no time to install, has graphics more beautiful than MacOS X or Windows XP, runs on any model computer, supports every piece hardware in the world, runs any software ever written, makes the processor do things it can't (such as twice as many computations per second than the processor is physically capable of), and can run hundreds of thousands of tasks at the same time. (Multiple users can log in at the same time and can each simultaneously read AND write two floppies (even if you have no floppy drives), read and write as many hard drives as you have, burn several DVDs, play 1000 movies (even if you don't have a video card), mix and play 40 tracks of 64 bit audio (even if you don't have a sound card), print hi resolution photographs to 8 printers (at photo quality, even on dot matrix printers), surf the web, AND serve 5000 FTP users (even if you don't have a network connection or modem)... all that and MORE, at the same time, when running on a Z80 with only 4 bytes of RAM and no hard disk or other storage media. In fact, forget the Z80... BeOS can run on a single transistor! Just put a transistor near a BeOS installation DVD and within moments, you'll be serving up 100,000,000,000,000 simultaneous users running 100,000,000,000,000 processes each! BeOS can do it all!