Posted by
timothy
on from the jamie-has-the-munchies dept.
punkmac writes "It's that time again to do the thing we all love to do, compile your shiny new kernel. This time its 2.4.20. The changelog can be found at the usual places, and please use a mirror for all your downloads"
Some Tasteful n00dz
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Anonymous Coward
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http://www.quicksand.ca/~maxx/
enjoy!!!
Re:Some Tasteful n00dz
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Kipper+the+Llama
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It must be uncomfortable when your mom makes you live in a wrecked Aerostar because she doesn't have a basement.
Kernel 2.4.20 features
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Ketchup- America's favorite condiment, used on nearly every type of food imaginable. Surveys show that nearly 97% of American homes contain some of this wondrous substance. Most ketchup-eaters place it on the occasional hamburger or hotdog, but there have been notable exceptions: Richard Nixon ate cottage cheese with his ketchup; many Japanese eat it with rice; and at one point, an ice cream manufacturer even tried to make ketchup-flavored ice cream! But where did this sweet, vinegary topping originate?
In the 1600s, a salty fish sause known as 'ketsiap' made its entrance into Britain. Brought by British and Dutch tradesmen returning from China, it was closer to a soy sauce than modern ketchup. Other recipes soon emerged, as well as alternate spellings. In 1711, the word 'ketchup' was officially used for the first time in print. The first recipe appeared in The Compleat Housewife, although it was still a far cry from today's modern tomato ketchup. A recipe for that appeared 85 years later, in 1796. It was published in Nova Scotia by James Mease, who stated that his recipe was heavily influenced by the French culinary arts. Recipes appeared sporadically throughout Britain and the United States into the 1830s. American ketchup differed from British ketchup in that British ketchup included mushrooms; kethcup-vendors in America were encouraged to name their concoction "tomato chutney" to distinguish it from British ketchup. In 1837, Jonas Yerkes began to sell ketchup in quart and pint bottles, using tomato skins, cores, green tomatoes, as well as sugar and vinegar. It was not until the 1900s that ketchup began to have a standardized recipe, and even that was due only to regulation by the Pure Food Act. (Today, the FDA has very strict regulations on what constitutes ketchup). However, the different names still remained. Until the Reagen Administration, catsup, catchup, katsup, and many others remained alternate monikers for this delightful condiment. When the Reagen Administration decided to classify ketchup as a vegetable, Del Monte Catsup, a ketchup manufacturer, decided to change its name to use the "official" term ketchup. Although the public eventually stopped the classification of ketchup as a vegetable, the effect of standardizing the name remained: there are hardly any bottles labled with an alternate spelling.
So, what kind of health benefit does ketchup offer consumers? Despite the suger contained within, ketchup contains a mild health benefit. It contains lycopene, an antioxidant associated with decreased cancer risk. However, the benefit gained from eating ketchup is not enough to balence out the ill-effects of its fast-food counterparts!
What of Heinz's claimed 57 varieties? Despite popular belief, the '57 Varieties' slogan refers to the number of sauces manufactured by Heinz (and not purely the ketchups).
So, next time you eat some of America's favorite condiment, stop to think of the long and fascinating history behind it.
Re:how long will it be...
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grimarr
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You sure got that right. I used Windows Update the other day to install WinXP SP1 and it broke Corel WordPerfect 2002 (program crashed hard before it even finished starting up). Fortunately, the SP1 update can be removed easily, and that fixed the problem.
I guess I'll have to skip SP1. I know they'd like me to switch to Word, but they shouldn't try to _force_ the issue:-)
Re:That's all well and good, but is this really ne
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Anonymous Coward
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Tryptophan has got me, apologies in advance for the typos.
Re:Did they fix the new ptrace vulnerability?
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Anonymous Coward
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Juergen, were you at the Linux kernel circle jerk as well? I must have missed you in all the excitement.
Level of Interest
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Anonymous Coward
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Note: Slashdot is currently having problems letting my ISP's registration requests go through, and I feel no need to dig up a proxy address just to change from "Anonymous Coward" to "Jephree (jephree@comcast.net)".
Half of the users above take into account their child hood computing experiences being the average or "norm." Ofcourse, anyone with the interlect of even a seven year old should be able to comprehend "everyone is different." Thirteen year old girls don't know the difference between Mac and Windows in some case, however, they do know how to chat, use the internet and check their E-mail. Is this incompetance? No, not by any means in my opinion. They're using the computer for the sole purpose of communication, or at a lower level to complete task(s). These task(s) vary and so do the skill levels required. To put a one size fits all logo on computing is crazy talk. Regarding three year olds, I'd begin computing with playing with a mouse and programming a custom application with the pictures of friends and relatives as a memory game which teaches "things represented on the screen are real, there's a picture of mommy and aunte wanda!" Once again, that is opinion.
Regarding my childhood: My parents bought me electronic toys... B I G mistake on their wallets part. I constantly threw them acrossed the room smashed them and crushed them... Why? At the age I was too young to manuever a screw driver I already wanted to know how they worked! At around 6-9 I was driving my mother insane with my little useless "inventions." When we finally got our first comptuter in 1997 I was hooked, and from here on is the timeline of no ordinary child, but what I imagine is far from "extraordinary" status.
1997: * Mastered the Windows Operating System
1998: * Trashed 2-5 computers (33mhz x 3, 25mhz x 1, 90mhz x1) to learn the internals of AT/ATX cases
* Learned HTML and started on Perl while creating and working at:: blushes:: fansites for The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon.
1999:
* Mastered HTML, Perl and Visual Basic * First exposure to "unix" style socket programming
2000:
* Furthered knowledge of web design and such, second attempt at C++
* Loaded FreeBSD on a 233mhz built from scratch from donated parts
2001:
* Learned PHP and MySQL * Began coding effecient and advanced code with high levels of understanding * Bought "lots" of and or bulk computer hardware and either bundled or restored it, and made $2,000 on eBay in four months during school with startup money of just $70. * Educated myself in the internals of Cannon and IBM Laptops
2002:
* I now know: HTML, Perl, Visual Basic, PHP, Java*, C*
* Slackware 8.1 + VMWare now serve as my main operating system
* I was a server administrator for three months on my own dedicated server I was renting from serverbeach.com$, which was cruely shutdown due to a billing error when Commerce Bank lost my account for the second time%.
* Not fluent in, I have either read books or putz around in the source but have not yet "wet my feet" or code any productive applications as of yet.
$ They shutdown my server when there was a billing error due to a lost account (see below). When it was straightened out, they blamed the crash on PLESK, so I said "I'd like a free change to ENSIM if this will insure the reliability of my server." They then installed Ensim and it crashed the first day, and they then directed me to a pay per incident Ensim service. For three months of payments in increments of $119 I lost $357 and was unable to continue my low cost hosting service or my eBay operations. As of now I am in school and broke with a Thinkpad who just needs $50 of parts and some TLC.
% Commerce Bank allowed my father to be the custodian on a checking account which bared my name as well. When this account was sent to the FDIC after the checks, check book, and Visa were issued it was flagged, and shut down. Minors in the state of Pennsylvania may not have checking accounts, putting too much faith in the bank and not enough in our insincts of minors holding checking accounts I had to start over with a new account. This new account was then LOST with a balance of $220 for a server payment. This resulted in my server being shutdown, blah blah blah.
I hope this was entertaining, but to say the least if the kid has the will, and a way
[if I didn't make it obvious, I will come right out and say out and say I would be classified as 'lower-middle class" and by no means was given something for nothing by my parents]
it can be done. Starting from grandma's check for $50 dollars, and a savings account hooked up to a Paypal account and verification using Mommy's credit card ***with permision***. They could be doing business on eBay under the supervision / in conjunction with a parent or guardian.
With a library card or an internet connection a child can begin programming. With a $15 dollar obsolete computer you can teach your child about the inner workings and basics of components etc. It all can make more of a difference then you know, however Linux vrs Windows on a three year old? The only thing that may result in a child reaching for the Rubber Tux over the Rubber Ducks.
Take this for what it is, the above is a true story missing so many steps and details it is laughable. I left out the medical issues I had to overcome at a young age, for the sole reason for everyone's problem somebody else has one more severe.
Encourage your child and your self to stay strong and go for your goals in whatever you do!
PARENTS PLEASE REMEMBER THE FOCUS IS 1) SCHOOL, 2) COMPUTER AND THAT IF GRADES ARE MANTAINED NOT TO CLIP A CHILDS WINGS. THE INTERNET IS A DANGEROUS PLACE AND I ADMIT BEING EXPOSED TO THINGS WAY TO EARLY AND MUST STRESS AUTOMATED OR OLD FASHIONED SUPER VISION!!!
I spend 6-12 hours on the computer a day, they call me "screens", this was first punished, frowned upon and is now accepted that it is both a job, for my education and entertainment and an exceptable replacement for just about any device.
Thanks, Jeff "Jephree" Mealo
P.S. If any other child programmers are out their drop me a line at jephree@comcast.net or hit me up on aim at Xx Jeph M xX. If anyone has comments, or questions be my guest.
P.S.S. Complaints or flames can be send to/dev/null.
Re:New beta too, plus obligatory reference
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BitHive
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I assume all of those who use the currently schedule 1 substance in the US known as tetrahydrocannabinol
Actually, it's referred to as weed, pot, grass, green, or ganj' . Try going around asking people where you can score some tetrahydrocannabinol, and see what happens. . .
The 4.20 release
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SurfTheWorld
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Light it up y'all.
Ain't gonna be another 4:20 release for a long time.
-- Do it for da shorties
In Soviet Russia
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richie2000
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Slashdot editors post the dupes first, then the original stories!
Slashdot Mirror
This is another DUPE!
Damn editors... this is a NEW story. Can't even post dupes consistantly! Oh wait...
Hey - isn't this a duplicate of this?
a *non-duplicate* posting! Didn't think I was going to see one of these today :)
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
http://www.quicksand.ca/~maxx/
enjoy!!!
Ketchup- America's favorite condiment, used on nearly every type of food imaginable. Surveys show that nearly 97% of American homes contain some of this wondrous substance. Most ketchup-eaters place it on the occasional hamburger or hotdog, but there have been notable exceptions: Richard Nixon ate cottage cheese with his ketchup; many Japanese eat it with rice; and at one point, an ice cream manufacturer even tried to make ketchup-flavored ice cream! But where did this sweet, vinegary topping originate?
In the 1600s, a salty fish sause known as 'ketsiap' made its entrance into Britain. Brought by British and Dutch tradesmen returning from China, it was closer to a soy sauce than modern ketchup. Other recipes soon emerged, as well as alternate spellings. In 1711, the word 'ketchup' was officially used for the first time in print. The first recipe appeared in The Compleat Housewife, although it was still a far cry from today's modern tomato ketchup. A recipe for that appeared 85 years later, in 1796. It was published in Nova Scotia by James Mease, who stated that his recipe was heavily influenced by the French culinary arts. Recipes appeared sporadically throughout Britain and the United States into the 1830s. American ketchup differed from British ketchup in that British ketchup included mushrooms; kethcup-vendors in America were encouraged to name their concoction "tomato chutney" to distinguish it from British ketchup. In 1837, Jonas Yerkes began to sell ketchup in quart and pint bottles, using tomato skins, cores, green tomatoes, as well as sugar and vinegar. It was not until the 1900s that ketchup began to have a standardized recipe, and even that was due only to regulation by the Pure Food Act. (Today, the FDA has very strict regulations on what constitutes ketchup). However, the different names still remained. Until the Reagen Administration, catsup, catchup, katsup, and many others remained alternate monikers for this delightful condiment. When the Reagen Administration decided to classify ketchup as a vegetable, Del Monte Catsup, a ketchup manufacturer, decided to change its name to use the "official" term ketchup. Although the public eventually stopped the classification of ketchup as a vegetable, the effect of standardizing the name remained: there are hardly any bottles labled with an alternate spelling.
So, what kind of health benefit does ketchup offer consumers? Despite the suger contained within, ketchup contains a mild health benefit. It contains lycopene, an antioxidant associated with decreased cancer risk. However, the benefit gained from eating ketchup is not enough to balence out the ill-effects of its fast-food counterparts!
What of Heinz's claimed 57 varieties? Despite popular belief, the '57 Varieties' slogan refers to the number of sauces manufactured by Heinz (and not purely the ketchups).
So, next time you eat some of America's favorite condiment, stop to think of the long and fascinating history behind it.
Are you a robot?
It's been a long time.
I guess I'll have to skip SP1. I know they'd like me to switch to Word, but they shouldn't try to _force_ the issue :-)
Tryptophan has got me, apologies in advance for the typos.
Juergen, were you at the Linux kernel circle jerk as well? I must have missed you in all the excitement.
Note: Slashdot is currently having problems letting my ISP's registration requests go through, and I feel no need to dig up a proxy address just to change from "Anonymous Coward" to "Jephree (jephree@comcast.net)".
:: blushes :: fansites for The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon.
/dev/null.
Half of the users above take into account their child hood computing experiences being the average or "norm." Ofcourse, anyone with the interlect of even a seven year old should be able to comprehend "everyone is different." Thirteen year old girls don't know the difference between Mac and Windows in some case, however, they do know how to chat, use the internet and check their E-mail. Is this incompetance? No, not by any means in my opinion. They're using the computer for the sole purpose of communication, or at a lower level to complete task(s). These task(s) vary and so do the skill levels required. To put a one size fits all logo on computing is crazy talk. Regarding three year olds, I'd begin computing with playing with a mouse and programming a custom application with the pictures of friends and relatives as a memory game which teaches "things represented on the screen are real, there's a picture of mommy and aunte wanda!" Once again, that is opinion.
Regarding my childhood: My parents bought me electronic toys... B I G mistake on their wallets part. I constantly threw them acrossed the room smashed them and crushed them... Why? At the age I was too young to manuever a screw driver I already wanted to know how they worked! At around 6-9 I was driving my mother insane with my little useless "inventions." When we finally got our first comptuter in 1997 I was hooked, and from here on is the timeline of no ordinary child, but what I imagine is far from "extraordinary" status.
1997:
* Mastered the Windows Operating System
1998:
* Trashed 2-5 computers (33mhz x 3, 25mhz x 1, 90mhz x1) to learn the internals of AT/ATX cases
* Learned HTML and started on Perl while creating and working at
1999:
* Mastered HTML, Perl and Visual Basic
* First exposure to "unix" style socket programming
2000:
* Furthered knowledge of web design and such, second attempt at C++
* Loaded FreeBSD on a 233mhz built from scratch from donated parts
2001:
* Learned PHP and MySQL
* Began coding effecient and advanced code with high levels of understanding
* Bought "lots" of and or bulk computer hardware and either bundled or restored it, and made $2,000 on eBay in four months during school with startup money of just $70.
* Educated myself in the internals of Cannon and IBM Laptops
2002:
* I now know: HTML, Perl, Visual Basic, PHP, Java*, C*
* Slackware 8.1 + VMWare now serve as my main operating system
* I was a server administrator for three months on my own dedicated server I was renting from serverbeach.com$, which was cruely shutdown due to a billing error when Commerce Bank lost my account for the second time%.
* Not fluent in, I have either read books or putz around in the source but have not yet "wet my feet" or code any productive applications as of yet.
$ They shutdown my server when there was a billing error due to a lost account (see below). When it was straightened out, they blamed the crash on PLESK, so I said "I'd like a free change to ENSIM if this will insure the reliability of my server." They then installed Ensim and it crashed the first day, and they then directed me to a pay per incident Ensim service. For three months of payments in increments of $119 I lost $357 and was unable to continue my low cost hosting service or my eBay operations. As of now I am in school and broke with a Thinkpad who just needs $50 of parts and some TLC.
% Commerce Bank allowed my father to be the custodian on a checking account which bared my name as well. When this account was sent to the FDIC after the checks, check book, and Visa were issued it was flagged, and shut down. Minors in the state of Pennsylvania may not have checking accounts, putting too much faith in the bank and not enough in our insincts of minors holding checking accounts I had to start over with a new account. This new account was then LOST with a balance of $220 for a server payment. This resulted in my server being shutdown, blah blah blah.
I hope this was entertaining, but to say the least if the kid has the will, and a way
[if I didn't make it obvious, I will come right out and say out and say I would be classified as 'lower-middle class" and by no means was given something for nothing by my parents]
it can be done. Starting from grandma's check for $50 dollars, and a savings account hooked up to a Paypal account and verification using Mommy's credit card ***with permision***. They could be doing business on eBay under the supervision / in conjunction with a parent or guardian.
With a library card or an internet connection a child can begin programming. With a $15 dollar obsolete computer you can teach your child about the inner workings and basics of components etc. It all can make more of a difference then you know, however Linux vrs Windows on a three year old? The only thing that may result in a child reaching for the Rubber Tux over the Rubber Ducks.
Take this for what it is, the above is a true story missing so many steps and details it is laughable. I left out the medical issues I had to overcome at a young age, for the sole reason for everyone's problem somebody else has one more severe.
Encourage your child and your self to stay strong and go for your goals in whatever you do!
PARENTS PLEASE REMEMBER THE FOCUS IS 1) SCHOOL, 2) COMPUTER AND THAT IF GRADES ARE MANTAINED NOT TO CLIP A CHILDS WINGS. THE INTERNET IS A DANGEROUS PLACE AND I ADMIT BEING EXPOSED TO THINGS WAY TO EARLY AND MUST STRESS AUTOMATED OR OLD FASHIONED SUPER VISION!!!
I spend 6-12 hours on the computer a day, they call me "screens", this was first punished, frowned upon and is now accepted that it is both a job, for my education and entertainment and an exceptable replacement for just about any device.
Thanks,
Jeff "Jephree" Mealo
P.S. If any other child programmers are out their drop me a line at jephree@comcast.net or hit me up on aim at Xx Jeph M xX. If anyone has comments, or questions be my guest.
P.S.S. Complaints or flames can be send to
Light it up y'all.
Ain't gonna be another 4:20 release for a long time.
Do it for da shorties
Slashdot editors post the dupes first, then the original stories!
Money for nothing, pix for free
Seems jokes are easy karma
Care to make it three?
Free Java games for your phone: Tontie, Sokoban
*do a little dance*
Why is everyone looking at me like that?
I'm very proud of my business. I've been consulting full time since April '98. GoingWare was incorporated in March 2000.
Besides, GoingWare has built up a reputation for quality software development.
And lots of links to its page from people grateful for all the articles I have written.
So anwer me this:
Why do all you trolls have it in for me so much? I only try to be helpful, but you post the most vile stuff.
I've only ever posted anonymously here a couple times. I always use my real name. Why don't you?
-- Could you use my software consulting serv
Warning do NOT click above link, contains outrageous and nauseating behaviour
Kernel, kernel fo bernel, fe fi fo fernel...
Previous posting by gonadware has linuxgazette link explaining why.