Wait a minute...
by
metalligoth
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· Score: 4, Funny
...since BSD is dying, this is one motorcycle I'd neverwant to ride!
Mods: Have a sense of humor here. Seriously. I run a server with BSD at my company.
Watching a live slashdotting
by
Twid
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· Score: 5, Funny
Heh, I've never watched a friend get slashdotted live. Ben's trying to move the gallery links off to a static page right now!:)
18:27 <@toast> ben: your machine can't hold up:( 18:27 <@ben> go to slashdot 18:27 <@toast> oh wait, it's on/. front page 18:27 < twid> toast: nope 18:27 <@toast> omfg you got mentioned on slashdot you are so cool! 18:27 <@ben> yes. 18:27 <@ben> its the top hit 18:27 <@ben> on the front page 18:27 < twid> OMG BEN 18:27 <@toast> ben: CAN I BE YOUR FRIEND?!?! 18:27 < twid> omg the site is down already 18:27 <@toast> ben: your server lasted for like 3 seconds, GOOD JOB:) 18:27 < twid> hahahahah 18:27 <@ben> last pid: 47359; load averages: 28.51, 20.60, 9.57 up 11+00:33:58 18:23:52
-- - "When you want something with all your heart, the entire
universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
Re:Watching a live slashdotting
by
Toast
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· Score: 4, Informative
FWIW the reason the box died so quickly was due to gallery and uberperformanceful PHP. Once he got the images on a static page apache happily served up 40mbps. We have a NetScreen firewall in front of the box and it hasn't even blinked yet. 3% CPU usage and less than 1% of the sessions used. Is this the best slashdot has to offer?:(
What happens if the computer is on while he starts his bike? When a car starts, the radio goes silent while the engine cranks over. What happens to the powersupoply to the computeR?
Re:Deceptive Headline
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endx7
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· Score: 3, Funny
I understand that it's knit-picky, but sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly.
So you think this isn't powered by FreeBSD, or at least that to say so would be balderdash. But do you remember how back in the day at the bottom of websites there were all those Powered by Apache/BSD/(whatever) logos?
By the logic you're using, those websites weren't powered by Apache, they were powered by the Generel Electric coal power plant a few miles away. So nit-pick this, buddy. Parenthetically, I'd consider laying off the thesaurus... Balderdash... who says that.
BTW, someone link a Fahrenheit 9/11.torrent please.
FreeBSD - Born to be Wild
by
bXTr
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· Score: 5, Funny
Getcha kernel runnin Head out on the highway
Hackin for adventure and whatever comes our way
BORN TO BE WILD!
-- It's a very dark ride.
That's a shame...
by
Nimrangul
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· Score: 5, Funny
You know it's a shame they used a Motorcycle. You see, it's official now; Motortrend confirms it, Motorcycles are dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered cyclist community when Kawasaki Motors Corp confirmed the motorcycle marketshare has dropped yet again, now down to less than 18 percent of Americans owning a motorcycle. Coming on the heels of a recent Motortrend survey which plainly states that motorcycles have lost marketshare, this news serves to confirm what we've known all along. Cycling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent frontal impact test.
You don't need to be David Hasselhoff to talk about motocycling's future. The piss is on the snow: cycling faces a dark future. There won't infact be any future at all for cyclists because the industry is dying. Things are looking very bad for cycling. As many of us are already aware, motorcycles continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a moon cycle.
Harley-Davidson is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of the Easy Rider generation. The sudden and unpleasent departures of long time
Harley users Ricky L. Phillips and Gerald Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Motorcycling is dying.
... Ok, I'll stop now.
-- I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
-- Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
I wouldn't post those videos if I were him
by
Yonder+Way
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· Score: 4, Insightful
This guy epitomizes an inconsiderate motorcycle rider. He's cutting people off, running red lights, passing people on the inside during a turn. Riders like this make it that much harder for responsible riders to get along with the cars on the road.
Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him
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Polo
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· Score: 3, Informative
Now you got me curious, and I watched all the videos.
I just didn't see it the way you did. He didn't seem to be speeding, he didn't run any red lights (although I might have seen a pause on red), and as for passing people -- "lane sharing" is legal in california. It's pretty much accepted that motorcyles pass cars on the freeway and pull up to the front of intersections. I expect to someone from another state it would be something to get used to.
Re:Posting this on the web shows...
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lp-habu
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Flame me if you've ridden for 20 years accident free.
Anyone who has done anything for 20 years accident free has had a mortifyingly dull existence.
a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike)
by
caveat
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· Score: 4, Informative
"lane splitting" is legal in quite a few states (no, i'm not going to check...i do know it's ok in NY, it'd be insanity to ride the LIE otherwise). it's usually pretty safe to split two cars side by side, since the drivers won't go swerving at each other; trying to zigzag through a passing situation is much stupider, i knew a kid who got pasted on the LIE when the guy in the left lane cut right (in front of the other car) a little earlier than he was expecting...i guess the fall didn't hurt him that badly, but the bumper-to-bumper traffic going 45, well, that was a different story...
--
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
So it's ethanol based then?
by
SuperKendall
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· Score: 3, Funny
After all, it's powered by kernels...
-- "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
There's a name for guys like this...
by
tokabola
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· Score: 3, Insightful
When I was a Military Police we had a name for guys who rode like this. We called them STATISTICS.
As in "87% of all motorcycle fatalities are caused by reckless riding" or " So far this year we've scraped 14 motorcyclists off a bumper"
-- Open Source for Open Minds
DARPA Challenge
by
Performaman
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· Score: 3, Funny
As I remember, one of the contestants for the DARPA challenge was/is a motorcycle/dirt bike with a dual Athalon-64 driving it.
All this guy needs now is Kismet and a wireless card.
Slashdot Mirror
Does this mean you have to have the daemon on your back and be a hells screen prompt?
Well, at least you won't be getting a blue screen of DEATH!
...to host his web site. No comments and it has already crashed. Literally.
A blog like any other.
...since BSD is dying, this is one motorcycle I'd never want to ride!
Mods: Have a sense of humor here. Seriously. I run a server with BSD at my company.
Heh, I've never watched a friend get slashdotted live. Ben's trying to move the gallery links off to a static page right now! :)
:( /. front page :)
18:27 <@toast> ben: your machine can't hold up
18:27 <@ben> go to slashdot
18:27 <@toast> oh wait, it's on
18:27 < twid> toast: nope
18:27 <@toast> omfg you got mentioned on slashdot you are so cool!
18:27 <@ben> yes.
18:27 <@ben> its the top hit
18:27 <@ben> on the front page
18:27 < twid> OMG BEN
18:27 <@toast> ben: CAN I BE YOUR FRIEND?!?!
18:27 < twid> omg the site is down already
18:27 <@toast> ben: your server lasted for like 3 seconds, GOOD JOB
18:27 < twid> hahahahah
18:27 <@ben> last pid: 47359; load averages:
28.51, 20.60, 9.57 up 11+00:33:58 18:23:52
- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
How long before the FreeBSD Hell's Angels start a war with the Linux Banditos?
What happens if the computer is on while he starts his bike? When a car starts, the radio goes silent while the engine cranks over. What happens to the powersupoply to the computeR?
I understand that it's knit-picky, but sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly.
nitpicky.Does this mean FreeBSD beat NetBSD to a motorcycle port? "Of course it runs NetBSD...except if it's a motorcycle"?
Unfortunately whenever they'd start the motorcycle it would bounce uncontrollably.
guess you have to be a member of the wheel group to mount it.
By the logic you're using, those websites weren't powered by Apache, they were powered by the Generel Electric coal power plant a few miles away. So nit-pick this, buddy. Parenthetically, I'd consider laying off the thesaurus... Balderdash... who says that.
BTW, someone link a Fahrenheit 9/11
Getcha kernel runnin
Head out on the highway
Hackin for adventure
and whatever comes our way
BORN TO BE WILD!
It's a very dark ride.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered cyclist community when Kawasaki Motors Corp confirmed the motorcycle marketshare has dropped yet again, now down to less than 18 percent of Americans owning a motorcycle. Coming on the heels of a recent Motortrend survey which plainly states that motorcycles have lost marketshare, this news serves to confirm what we've known all along. Cycling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent frontal impact test.
You don't need to be David Hasselhoff to talk about motocycling's future. The piss is on the snow: cycling faces a dark future. There won't infact be any future at all for cyclists because the industry is dying. Things are looking very bad for cycling. As many of us are already aware, motorcycles continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a moon cycle.
Harley-Davidson is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of the Easy Rider generation. The sudden and unpleasent departures of long time Harley users Ricky L. Phillips and Gerald Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Motorcycling is dying.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
But what color is the bikeshed?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
This guy epitomizes an inconsiderate motorcycle rider. He's cutting people off, running red lights, passing people on the inside during a turn. Riders like this make it that much harder for responsible riders to get along with the cars on the road.
"lane splitting" is legal in quite a few states (no, i'm not going to check...i do know it's ok in NY, it'd be insanity to ride the LIE otherwise). it's usually pretty safe to split two cars side by side, since the drivers won't go swerving at each other; trying to zigzag through a passing situation is much stupider, i knew a kid who got pasted on the LIE when the guy in the left lane cut right (in front of the other car) a little earlier than he was expecting...i guess the fall didn't hurt him that badly, but the bumper-to-bumper traffic going 45, well, that was a different story...
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
After all, it's powered by kernels...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When I was a Military Police we had a name for guys who rode like this. We called them STATISTICS.
As in "87% of all motorcycle fatalities are caused by reckless riding" or " So far this year we've scraped 14 motorcyclists off a bumper"
Open Source for Open Minds
As I remember, one of the contestants for the DARPA challenge was/is a motorcycle/dirt bike with a dual Athalon-64 driving it.
All this guy needs now is Kismet and a wireless card.
I have gas, but my car uses petrol.