because it conincides with my dyslexic friends celebration of "Polar Foils" day. Or was it "Flora Spoil" day? "Frail Loops"? "Sailor Flop"? "Pail Floors"?
-- Error: Erection reset by beer.
Ha ha, April Fools.
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Anonymous Coward
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Thanks a lot Rasterman! We've all been looking forward to E17, with its EFM, EVAs, and the rest of the toys. But now you've made a joke. Shame on you.
Well, let's make the joke on you!
Raster live in Australia, where it is now actuallt April 2nd, which kind of pins the joke on him.
Re:Finally...
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Anonymous Coward
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Enlightenment releasing 0.17 wouldn't even be plausable, let alone a 1.0 release.
Next on Slashdot
Bill & Melinda Gates Fund donates US$1m to GNOME foundation, Mandrake
Home built rocket launches geek into LEO
IPv4 gets an "evil" bit
SladhCode 3.0 goes into proudction, stops dupes, spelling errors
That last one is clearly as believable as this story, come to think of it.
Re:Please
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Anonymous Coward
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Apparently Apache with 2.0.45. From what I understand the whole 2.0.x series is a joke anyways.
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.45.ta r. gz
In CORPORATE AMERICA
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0, Funny
MUSIC promotes MTV
Re:Hey, Its my birthday in Sydney! KICK ASS!
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xanadu-xtroot.com
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· Score: 5, Funny
Everyone wish me a happy birthday
No.
-- I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Hey... this isn't baaaddd....
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eno2001
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Wow! I just grabbed the tarball, and did the autoconf, configure, make jig. I must say I am impressed! First of all, the size of the installation is pretty small compared to all other environments. AND... this really beats the pants off of KDE and GNOME. As usual, there is lots of innovation. All the window widgets can be moved around to suit the needs and tastes of the user rather than forcing them to use one style. They've added the ability to incorporate scents into the themes! (I am using the Evergreen scent right now... Ahhh fresh!) But what's impressed me the most so far is the predictive nature of the interface. There is some mechanism that Raster has worked out to detect the readiness potential in your brain before you actually click on something. This results in menus and objects performing operations just before you actually decide to utilize those menus and objects. Pretty slick! So far it's been dead on every time. as I think, Mozilla is loading up web pages and links in extra tabs behind this page. Kind of interesting to find out what you are going to look at just a fraction of a second before you realize it. The file manager is JUST INCREDIBLE!!! No more of that silly hierarchical jazz... Now we finally have a file manager that works just like we think. For any document you create, the files are offloaded to paper hardcopies. This results in a more tangible object with a limited, but pretty reliable user interface. To re-open and edit the file, You just slam it on the flatbed and E 1.0 will automatically scan and OCR it back into the application of your choice! How cool is that? the best thing is that you no longer have to worry about magnetic media failure with regard to your docs. Ahhh.. I think I'm in love! Enlightenment 1.0, you light up my life!
-- -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Re:Hey... this isn't baaaddd....
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egarland
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> Anybody but Bush in 2004
Oh my god! I want this bumper sticker. Does anyone know who can print up a nice red white and blue version of that?
-- set softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab nocp worlddomination
This year, they aren't even trying and even worse, they're posting dupes!
The slashdot people dont wanna arouse any unnecessary suspicion by NOT posting dupes. --------------------- There are 11 kinds of people - those who know binary and those who dont.
Mirror, incase you get a 404 error
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trcooper
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It looks like the server is slashdotted, because All I get is a 404 error.
Fortunately some friends of E have posted a mirror. here
Re:Just stating the obvious...
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Machine9
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My, I'm fairly sure my children will be quite suprised!
The Hurd was certified gold and was adopted by Microsoft as the replacement kernel for Windows Server 2003.
According to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, "Ricky and I go back a long way. I have always respected his outlook on software intellectual property rights. It turns out he was right all along; companies don't need to make money."
Richard Stallman, head of the GNU organization, the creator of the Hurd, said "GNU is very pleased to be working with our brethren Microsoft on this venture. GNU and the FSF have always had great respect for Microsoft and Bill Gates, and we believe that the combination of their Office suite and the rock-solid (and complete) Hurd kernel will allow the end user to experience a vastly superior Windows."
Asked whether a name change may be on the horizon for the Windows line, Bill Gates thought for a second and replied: "Yes. Yes, I think there might. How does Gnudows sound?"
Microsoft shareholders could not be reached for comment.
Installation Problems ...
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slagdogg
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Anybody else having problems with./configure?
checking for a BSD-compatible install.../usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for kernel32.dll... missing ERROR: kernel32.dll not found, cannot install E1.0
Enlightenment 1.0... puh-lease
either its april fools or hell froze over
Is Duke Nukem Forever next? ;-)
Acquiescence leads to obliteration
I was so excited. Then I looked at the date. BAH!
I have to change my underpants now.
__________________________________________
Take comfort in your ignorance.
Grandmaster Plague
Yeah, enlightenment is still at its .16 release.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
I've been running it under the Berlin windowing system on my GNU/Hurd box for 12 hours, and it r0x...
Its really helped my productivity. I've got an amazing amount of work done today.
[OK, I admit it. That last bit was clearly an April Fool]
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I'd be surprised if Enlightenment ever hits .20.
This is way too cool to wait for patches, besides, I love living on the edge of danger :)
Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold.
Daikatana 2 is on its way.
Microsoft releases security patches for security patches found during internal security testing.
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Is it just me or were the April 1 jokes better in previous years...
Microsoft says that it will contain the Enlightenment 1.0 in its upcoming Windows 2003 Server.
If you believe that, here's the rest of them
Happy Aprils Fools!
because it conincides with my dyslexic friends celebration of "Polar Foils" day. Or was it "Flora Spoil" day? "Frail Loops"? "Sailor Flop"? "Pail Floors"?
Error: Erection reset by beer.
Thanks a lot Rasterman! We've all been looking forward to E17, with its EFM, EVAs, and the rest of the toys. But now you've made a joke. Shame on you.
Well, let's make the joke on you!
Raster live in Australia, where it is now actuallt April 2nd, which kind of pins the joke on him.
But even more fun: Raster lists his Australian mobile phone number on his homepage!
It's about 1AM in Australia now. Why don't you thank him with an SMS to 61 413 451 89.
I hate being pranked! Revenge is so very sweet!
(This is a joke people. Pranking in fun!)
with team fortress 2
Next on Slashdot
That last one is clearly as believable as this story, come to think of it.
Apparently Apache with 2.0.45. From what I understand the whole 2.0.x series is a joke anyways.
a r. gz
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.45.t
MUSIC promotes MTV
Everyone wish me a happy birthday
No.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Wow! I just grabbed the tarball, and did the autoconf, configure, make jig. I must say I am impressed! First of all, the size of the installation is pretty small compared to all other environments. AND... this really beats the pants off of KDE and GNOME. As usual, there is lots of innovation. All the window widgets can be moved around to suit the needs and tastes of the user rather than forcing them to use one style. They've added the ability to incorporate scents into the themes! (I am using the Evergreen scent right now... Ahhh fresh!) But what's impressed me the most so far is the predictive nature of the interface. There is some mechanism that Raster has worked out to detect the readiness potential in your brain before you actually click on something. This results in menus and objects performing operations just before you actually decide to utilize those menus and objects. Pretty slick! So far it's been dead on every time. as I think, Mozilla is loading up web pages and links in extra tabs behind this page. Kind of interesting to find out what you are going to look at just a fraction of a second before you realize it. The file manager is JUST INCREDIBLE!!! No more of that silly hierarchical jazz... Now we finally have a file manager that works just like we think. For any document you create, the files are offloaded to paper hardcopies. This results in a more tangible object with a limited, but pretty reliable user interface. To re-open and edit the file, You just slam it on the flatbed and E 1.0 will automatically scan and OCR it back into the application of your choice! How cool is that? the best thing is that you no longer have to worry about magnetic media failure with regard to your docs. Ahhh.. I think I'm in love! Enlightenment 1.0, you light up my life!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Visit me on #weirdness on the Galaxynet.
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There are 11 kinds of people - those who know binary and those who dont.
It looks like the server is slashdotted, because All I get is a 404 error.
Fortunately some friends of E have posted a mirror. here
dick.
Machine9dotNet
I'll be happily browing the web with Phallus 0.7 on my Enlightenment 1.0 setup any minute now!
According to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, "Ricky and I go back a long way. I have always respected his outlook on software intellectual property rights. It turns out he was right all along; companies don't need to make money."
Richard Stallman, head of the GNU organization, the creator of the Hurd, said "GNU is very pleased to be working with our brethren Microsoft on this venture. GNU and the FSF have always had great respect for Microsoft and Bill Gates, and we believe that the combination of their Office suite and the rock-solid (and complete) Hurd kernel will allow the end user to experience a vastly superior Windows."
Asked whether a name change may be on the horizon for the Windows line, Bill Gates thought for a second and replied: "Yes. Yes, I think there might. How does Gnudows sound?"
Microsoft shareholders could not be reached for comment.
Anybody else having problems with ./configure?
/usr/bin/install -c ... missing
checking for a BSD-compatible install...
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for kernel32.dll
ERROR: kernel32.dll not found, cannot install E1.0
(Score:-1, Wrong)