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Kathleen Fent Read This Story
Kathleen, I wanted to do this in this most potentially embarassing way
possible, and I figured doing it here and now, in front of a
quarter of a million strangers
was as good a way as any. I love you more then I can describe within
the limits of this tiny little story. We've been together for many years
now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my
life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me? Update
15 minutes 30 seconds later: Subj: "Yes", message body: "Dork. You made me cry. :)"
Hazah! I'm getting married!
:)
Enough said.
This line should not be necessary.
If you're under 25, Rob, you shouldn't be in such a hurry!
[ insert your own witty .sig here ]
How cool is that! Good thing you didn't attach a link to her, or she would be slashdotted! Oh wait, she probably is!
{And I was just going to send flowers to my GF}
Damn! I wish I had saved a couple of my moderator points. This would be a good thread to use them.
I got first baby!
"Kathleen" looks like a Vietnamese version of RuPaul. Congratulations!
It's a question: Shouldn't this have gone under "Ask Slashdot?" :)
Good luck, Taco...
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently 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 in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin 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.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Now stop stalking me!
shut the fuck up.
Moderation Totals: Redundant=3, Offtopic=3 Total=-1. Actually, total would be 6... score would be -1 But the answer is no anyway... he really is a homo
This story is completly off topic. Go post your wedding crap elsewhere.
-1, overrated. Unbelievable. You, dear moderator without a clue, are asking for trouble...
Celebrate the ruthless slaughter of 14 gangsters! the heart pumps blood and blood is red and red is the color of romance and roses are usually red and the Massacre shed a lot of blood!
GO CAPONE!
Informative? Of course. Insightful? Absolutely. But Troll? Overrated! That's blasphemy! I demand, demand that those moderators have their privliges revoked!
After lurking for many years, I've finally seen a post worthy of making a comment on.
Congratulations.
Many other females might prefer the "traditional" medthod of proposing, but I liked this way best.
Besides, I think it takes more guts to propose in front of all the flamers, don't you?
Offtopic, posting from the UK - was the musical Buffy episode that bad?
I'm just getting into buffy, I've seen 'bout half the first season, some of the "best" episodes, (Hush etc...) and most of the latest season. If you're into the story this season at all, for gods' sake watch the musical episode.
- Dave
LOL...Obviously you do if you spent the time to post a comment on a subject you don't care about???
Am I the only one who thinks this comment is funny? Are you some chick that Cmdr Taco snubbed like years ago and you have been jealously tracking his movements ever since?
Same thing with Katz, if you don't care, don't read it and don't get involved in the topic!
ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
What the hell is this Natalie Portman Hot grits thing? I hear people talk about it, but I don't know what it iz.
The sex on Buffy has been one thing - episode filler. Look at the themes that Suprise/Innocence managed to plumb without wasting 5 minutes an ep with the details. I just get the sense that the Buffy/Spike scenes are there to make the writers life easier, along with the "everyone look moody while a song plays" scene.
Having said that, I loved the musical.
The Musical episode was immensely entertaining and original.
I remember Xena beating them to it.
Thats one of the more hateful things Ive ever read. Prick.
Honesty may be the best policy, but apparently by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
1530TH POST!
Oh puh-lease, This is SO much darker than Angel/Buffy ever were, and being explicit is NECESSARY. (see how my caps convince you!) It only highlights the naughtiness of it all. Filler? Just admit it, it makes you uncomfortable, which is 1/2 of what the writers want you to feel. The other 1/2 is turned-on, cause, hey, they're both sexy-as-all-hell and the sex has been QUITE risque. Angel and Buff wern't twisting sexuality around on it's head, they were playing out a metaphore, girl gives it up, boy turns bad, sex has consequences (a theme admittedly played out a little too often on the show). I don't understand your last sentence.
Well you just ruined that episode for uk readers. Luckily I am up to date with the US because of p2p networks ;)
graspee, UK
I fucking hate you Cmdrtaco.
and, of course, you're going to get an offtopic moderation for daring to post a 'who modded this down?' I gave up on the whole moderation thing when they took away my metamoderation (and presumably moderation) abilities after I modded "The Post" They're a bunch of self-important nancyboys who have no reason to fix a system that encourages their sycophantic followers to maintain their twisted status quo.
only a hundred more...keep this one goin!
We can't let this thread end with 1937 posts. The 1930s were facist years. Let's get the number of posts up in to the 2100's or so, for luck.
Keep it up ! Keep it up !
Only about 74 posts or so and we knock off the Star Faction !
This post is dedicated to the day when the Star Faction story disappears from the Hall of Fame.
What he said.
I doubt we'll pass it though.
That's the problem with crapflooders these days, no dedication.
Yet Another Anti-Star Faction Post
We won't make it though.
So close.
. . . of the HOF ! In order to displace another story also crapflooded. Does that make it all pointless ?
. . . Anti-Star Faction crapflooding post.
Slashcode lets me post about one post per floppy.
DOWN WITH THE STAR FACTION STORY !!!! ERASE IT FROM HISTORY !
Will the stamina and attention span of crapflooders be enough to push it through before the story is archieved ?
Stay tuned !
What are the possibilities for abuse ?
I know you could not submit goatse, because it is not totally automated, and has to pass through human approval. Also no animated gifs, so no putting a gif that morphs to goat after a number of minutes.
But maybe something subtly trolly that would not be recoginized as such by the ad-approver ?
Thought ?
Just randomly letting my mind wander.
Crapflooding at one post every two minutes.
My mind keeps wandering.
But somebody's got to do it !
I'm a looser.
Thanks !
Yet Another Anti-Star Faction Post.
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Yet Another Anti-Star Faction Post.
Yet Another Anti-Star Faction Post.
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
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Yet Another Anti-Star Faction Post
yet Another Anti-Star faction post
Victory is within reach
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YAASFP
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W000000000T!!!!!!!!!
Yet Another Anti-Star Fraction Thread
Yeah, rare. We all know how uncommon .MPEG and .JPEG are... Not to mention .DivX
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Que la pasen de 10!
Maybe. But even if this thread goes to the top of the HOF, Osama bin Laden will still have three stories on that page. If Love is to replace Terrorism on the HOF, then Cowboy Neal and the rest of the crew better get crackin' !
I misspelled "guantanamo" as "guano" on purpose.
Speaking of K & R, have you ever noticed that Kernighan, Ritchie, RMS, and Alan Cox all look alike ?
There is no story in common amoung the top ten most visited and the top ten most posted to.
Top ten most visited is an entirely different genra of story. It is the kind of thing people tell each other about and people who never read slashdot immediately must see.
Where as, the most-posted-to stories are the ones that get the slashdot regulars riled up or excited in some way.
From www.m-w.com:
/-"lA-t&r/ noun /-l&-"tOr-E, -"tor-/ adjective
congratulate
Pronunciation: k&n-'gra-ch&-"lAt, -'gra-j&-
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -lated; -lating
Etymology: Latin congratulatus, past participle of congratulari to wish joy,
from com- + gratulari to wish joy, from gratus pleasing --
Date: 1539
1 archaic: to express sympathetic pleasure at (an event)
2: to express vicarious pleasure to (a person) on the occasion of success or good fortune; also : to feel pleased with
3 obsolete: SALUTE, GREET
- congratulator
- congratulatory
We are getting closer, very close.
A spasm of crapflooding or a flame war could do it now.
Keeping it going !
Attempts to look at the HOF page to confirm how close we are to #3 (Yeah baby ! Love and peace over Osama and terrorism !) just gave a blank page.
Comments ? Even if you have nothing to add, any comment posted here is anti-Terrorism !
. . . as well as those very very few beings that can edit the universe:
The following message found it's way into my inbox. It obviously is not intended for me, because if I knew how to edit the universe or travel in time I'd be doing something besides posting one comment every two minutes in the Kathleen Fent and Love versus Osama and Terrorism crap flood fest -- I'd probably mass post this story straight to the top, and the get one with the task of traveling back in time to visit beautiful women in history. But I digress. Since this message is not intended for me, I can only hope that the time travelers or those very very few beings that can edit the universe will read this story with their thresholds set as low as 2.
(Headers deleted because of censorious lameness filter and to protect the extensive recipient list from even more spam)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:17:48 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Frank Young (webmaster@htz.com) on Wednesday, February 20, 19102 at 05:17:48
(long line of hyphens used to be here, deleted in attempt to get this important message through the lameness filter.)
message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Please be advised that any temporal device
that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as well
as the temporal location.
I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is useless without
a vortex. If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or
where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would also
be helpful.
I am aware of two types of time travel one in physical form and the other in energy form where a snapshot of your brain is taken using either the dimensional warp or an electronic device and then sends your consciousness back through time to part with your younger self. Please explain
how safe and what your method involves.
Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me exactly as mentioned
please send me a (SEPARATE) email to: IneedTimeTravel@aol.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien!
Thanks
(Another long line of -'s deleted, in more attempts to get this through the goddamn annoying but futile lameness filter. Is somebody with commit priviliges to slash listening ?)
Hear hear !
I could not have said it better.
In fact, I can't, so I'll just quote the previous poster (I wouldn't want that beautiful prose being lost to posterity just because Slash doesn't archive AC posts):
" It's quite shocking to me that people are still wading through a 2000+ post story and marking things 'offtopic'. If you've ever had a conversation that didn't vary in topic over the course of an entire week, then you are a depressingly boring person. But that's not surprising if you spend all of your free time on slashdot looking for comments to mod down. In case you haven't noticed, a new topic has emerged. Any comment posted to this story since 3 days ago that *isn't* blatant crapflood filler with the sole purpose of pushing the story up a notch in the Slashdot Hall of Fame is now offtopic. We are on a mission. Whether or not we 'congratulate' rob and kathleen in the course of completing our mission is incidental. Modding us down will not slow our progress, but in doing so you show yourself to be against the mission. As pointed out in an earlier post, to be against the mission is to be in favor of terror and assholes like Osama bin Laden. If you love Osama, then mod me down. Mod me down and burn in hell."
2087 is the number break, if my memory serves me.
If a "User" of slashdot is temporarily disabling HOF in an attempt to stop this, I warn you that you are working in towards the goals of Osama bin Laden regardless of your good intentions. Your time would be much better spent utilizing your User priviledges to quickly post 400 comments in this thread and send it to the top, and then we will all go home.
Thanks.
. . . as well as those very very few beings who can edit the universe.
Do your universe editing skillz include editting Slashdot's mySQL database ? If so, can you go back in time to Sept. 11th and delete a few hundred meaningless posts from those stories that are higher than this one in total number of posts ?
I'd also like editor priviledges and 50 karma points. Also, feel free to make a certain 21 hijackers all have massive, explosive diarhea causing them to have car wrecks on the way to airport.
Then, if you aren't TOO busy, just send an email to IneedTimeTravel@aol.com and await further instructions.
Do not send email to IneedTimeTravel@aol.com if you are an evil alien. He has specifically asked not to be spammed by evil aliens.
But someone has to do it.
I may be a Rude Dude, but when it comes to Love vs. Terrorism, I know what side I'm on.
Posts by another half million slashdot accounts seem surprisingly lacking, however.
I believe that in 7 sweet, sweet posts we will take over #3 in the hall of fame.
But I can't check it because HOF is currently being Michael Simed.
I should get a medal.
Instead I have been banned for "bad posting" and am not allowed to post AC.
Oh well, that just means the moderators will have to waste more points to get me down, as I post logged in.
Slow Down Cowboy!
I jumped the gun there. I've gotten so where my skin crawls at 120 seconds and I know I should hit submit. But it's way way way way past my bedtime and I'm anxious to get this thankless, but necessary, task done.
It's now one point away from a tie.
I think.
The Hall of Fame is still blank.
I'll just have to pop in a few extra posts to make sure.
That's right bitch, how does it feel to be only #4 ?
Ask your friend Junis Kanuni to boot up that C-64 of his, and depending on how many times he has to clean out the 1541 drive with a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol (is that non-islamic ? how do you fuckers disinfect scratches ?) maybe around noon you can see for yourself.
punk.
Just in case some "User" decides to delete one or two posts here and there.
443 left to get this to number one in the HOF. You have six more days - stories are archived after 15. That's only 73 posts a day. Get on it!!