Slashdot Mirror
Slashback: Apache, DRM, Limbo
Those guys did not ride in with us. Sascha Schumann of the Apache Software Foundation wrote to correct the story presented in Monday's post (".Net for Apache"), writing "this is _not_ a joint Apache Software Foundation/Microsoft stunt. It has not been approved or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation, nor does it require any of those acts -- it is a deal between two private companies, Covalent and Microsoft."
Fly on wall video, anyone? kikensei writes: "DSL Reports has a story summarizing last week's DRM round table that was stacked with corporate panel members. You can read it here. It presents a much more apt framework for discussion than the overly sensitive, passive account from Al3x that defined our discussion last week."
Dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo. Earlier this month, we mentioned Red Hat's new beta, called Limbo. wiredog writes "From eWeek, a review of RedHat 8.0 beta. With gcc 3.1,the latest versions of GNOME, Mozilla and OpenOffice, and Apache 2.0"
The force is strong in these metallic boxes. Verizon Guy writes "CNet is reporting that Industrial Light and Magic, the group responsible for rendering the special effects in the Star Wars films, is moving away from their proprietary SGI/IRIX/RISC based systems and is instead moving to Dells running Linux. This will give them 100% performance at 20% of the cost."
Here's a link to our post with the recent Linux Journal article on same; look for more on this soon.
Wear name tags, please. mpawlo writes "Slashdot meetup day is only a week away. Some 4 500 people have already signed up to meet all over the world on Thursday July 25, 2002, 7 pm. We need more fellow Swedes to meet in Stockholm and I guess the same goes for other cities."
According to the top meetup list, more than 200 meetings are with 5 or less people. I wonder how many of them will actually take place. The 70 meetups with only one member will be really cool... at least there's no risk the other guests are boring.
Teenagers these days don't have as much sex as they want each other to think they do.
Some 4 500 people have already signed up to meet...
4,500 people! I feel sorry for the three girls that are gonna show up. Behave yourselfz, gentlemen! Keep your 1337n335 where it belongs!
In order to learn the secret location of a geek get together in your area, you must submit your email address.
The site promises that I won't be spammed, but I have found repeatedly that many companies don't share my definition of spam. More often than not, when a company promises not to use my email address for spam, what they mean is that they won't sell my address (for now). However, they don't consider sending me a weekly newsletter consisting soley of product ads to be spam.
Anyone who has successfully downloaded the new Mandrake beta want to comment on that?
What? We're no longer permitted to respond in-band? Or can the Mandrake Beta now claim to be /.'s quickest
Slashback topic?
In other words: huh?
I pretty much figure we'll see the first ever recorded Slashdotting of a bowling alley!
The meet FAQ specifically states that nobody "runs" the meets. They are instead pure peer-to-peer gatherings.
If someone were to bring a floppy disk or CD with an MP3 file on it, or even a sheet of music with lyrics, wouldn't that technically violate the DMCA resulting in the RIAA attempting to prosecute the whole meet structure? As an organized peer-to-peer structure, it MUST have no other purpose than to violate copyrights, right?
I've got my good buddy Fritz on the line. Maybe he'll funnel some of that good sweet Disney or RIAA Christmas money my way. I'll wash his campaign limo so it's all legal as payment for a service of course... You peer-to-peer criminals have only one thing in mind, and you're the biggest threat to individual expression and creativity the universe has ever seen!
*wakes up in cold sweat, hits "decline" RSVP link*
Industrial Light and Magic, you're getting a dell!
Please stop signing me up for mailing lists. I am tired of getting your spam.
Sincerely,
Joe Dickless
Society for the Prohibition of Circumcision
dicklessjoe@dick.org
SLASHDOT GET TOGETHER
Please bring the following items:
- Trollbot
- Know-it-all Attitude
- Socialist Mindset
- Secret piggy-bank where you keep that big karma horde
- "I love/hate Linus" Flag
- e-Book version of the Bible, preprocessed to replace "God" and "Lord" with "Richard Stallman" and "Eric Raymond", respectively.
- Outrageously Customized Computer Case (Laboratory Eyeshades optional)
- Anti-Editorial-Censorship SLASH backdoor
- Photoshopped picture of you and a beautiful woman (woman stolen, of course from OMM's coverage of QuakeCon)
- Editors: Your favorite foot (for insertion into your collective mouth)
Come one come all!!!not that the spies had a hard job.
Go to competitors company
wait until some techies get out of there cars
say "There is no way Linux is any good at "
Listen to the 30 minute lecture on why its been good for the company.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
If you don't choose to wear a name tag, then some one will force you to wear a sticker that reads "Anonymous Coward."
PDHoss
======================================
Writers get in shape by pumping irony.
We seattle slashdotters tend not to gather. It makes it easier for that mob on the eastside to hunt us.
Your statistics mean nothing. The ACs are arguing that Americans just aren't interested in the meetup, but that's so subjective that it's not worth arguing, and I don't even think it's true. Anyway, the reason your stats are useless is because they don't take per capita into accont. The population of Seattle is 500,000 people, 500,000/100meetup people, it's about 1 in 5000. The population of Toronto is about 2.5 million people. Does Toronto have 5 times as many people as Seattle on the meetup? Not even close. I in 17,000. So no, Candians aren't taking anything over, they're just bad at math.
I think I can explain some of this. Perth is fairly boring :P