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Five Reasons Not to Use Linux
UltimaGuy writes "Linux-watch has a humorous article about the top 5 reasons for not using Linux. It does provoke some thought aside from bringing a smile to our lips :)"
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Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular technology website Slashdot. They are a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. Slashdot trolling is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others. On Slashdot, many of these phenomena have become the object of parody.
Slashdot trolls can generally be divided into four categories: disruptive, offensive, deceptive, and idiosyncratic. Disruptive trolls are those which intend to disrupt the normal flow of things on Slashdot, either by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio or by causing the pages to render incorrectly. Offensive trolls exist for the sole purpose of offending as many people as possible. The purpose of deceptive trolls is to trick people into either following a link or reading a comment which seems legitimate but is actually a troll. Idiosyncratic trolls are those which are specific to Slashdot and have elements of Slashdot culture and history in them creating, in effect, an inside joke.
Contents
* 1 Disruptive trolls
o 1.1 Crapflooding
o 1.2 Page widening/lengthening
* 2 Offensive trolls
o 2.1 Homosexuality and racism
o 2.2 Anti-semitism
o 2.3 Nationalistic insults
* 3 Deceptive trolls
o 3.1 Karma Whores
o 3.2 Comment Plagiarism
o 3.3 Article text alteration trolls
o 3.4 Web vendor referral trolls
o 3.5 Signature trolls
o 3.6 Movie spoiler
o 3.7 300 Dead in Sri Lanka Tsunami
* 4 Idiosyncratic trolls
o 4.1 First post
o 4.2 Netcraft confirms it
o 4.3 Stephen King is dead
o 4.4 First Obituary
o 4.5 Hot grits/Natalie Portman
o 4.6 Reigniting flamewars
* 5 Minor trolls
* 6 See also
Disruptive trolls
The purpose of disruptive trolls is to cause the pages of Slashdot to display in an undesirable way or to otherwise bring attention to themselves. The two major categories of disruptive trolls are crapflooding and page-widening.
Crapflooding
Crapflooding is the posting of many nonsensical or gratuitously offensive messages in order to disrupt the normal functioning of Slashdot and annoy its users and editors.
Later versions of the software behind the Slashdot website had an updated lameness filter to prevent posting of the same message more than once. However, crapflooders began avoiding this restriction by varying the content of the message after each post. Crapfloods can be performed manually with a dedicated user repeatedly clicking through the posting options each time, or automated by a piece of software. Automated crapfloods are -- not surprisingly -- larger, more effective and more frequent. The subject of crapflooded messages varies. Some examples include:
* Offtopic stories
* Pornographic/Homoerotic sex scenes with the names replaced with those of the slashdot editors or open source celebrities.
* Incoherent nonsense that contains the correct letter frequencies so the lameness filter recognises it as vaguely English.
* Offensive Base64 encoded images or text.
The original page widening posts were simple messages consisting of one long stream of characters with no spaces. This caused browsers to render a very wide page with horizontal scroll bars, making it nearly impossible to read the comments page. Slashdot began inserting spaces into any long run of characters to prevent this and so began the evolutionary battle between Slashcode and the page widening trolls. Newer and more inventive ways of causing page widening were dis
Slashdotting!
Even with a quad proc dual core server and sixteen gigs of memory with gig-e you still can't resist the sheer might of the Slashdot effect. Linux wilts, Apache dies, the hard drive melts. I'm not sure if an IBM mainframe could withstand it.
I guess I will have to rtfa later...
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
If *bSD is to
your blog sucks
Well, it sucks that the submission was rejected, but I for one am glad to know about the free licence :)
Thank you.
Touched By His Noodley Appendage.
suso webhosting [suso.com]. no disk space quotas and personal support.
This is snake oil. You mean to tell me, I can simply "cat /dev/random > foo" for months, and you won't tell me I'm using up too much disk space? That I can host every Linux ISO under the sun, and you won't kick me off your service?
The truth is, you do have a quota, you just either haven't decided wha it is yet, or you don't want people to know what it is. There's no such thing as no quota.
first post
Is reading their EULA.
When you install Windows, you are presented with their EULA and asked to accept it. But their is a problem. Most people can't, completely anyway, because it is encrypted with legalese.
So, I wondered, why would such an important, legal-binding license agreement that's intended to be read, understood, accepted or rejected by John Q. Public be written so only a lawyer could understand it? I mean not all of Microsoft's customers are lawyers are they? I know I'm not. In fact I don't think most people even know a lawyer whom they could ask to come over and decrypt the ELUA for them while they wait to install the OS. It's not very user friendly to the consumer - Microsoft's customers.
I have read unencrypted software EULAs before so I know it can be done. In fact, legalese encryption is a good measure, IMHO, of whether or not someone is trying to hide something which can't really be a good thing for a consumer product which is arguably becoming a commodity these days under any circumstances.
I don't know about this "suso" but I've been using uklinux for years and know that I've downloaded over 20gig some months without a whisper of complaint from them. Maybe I could abuse it to the point where they would object but I think I'd have to be really outrageous. As far as I'm concerned I have unlimited download.
I've been to that site. It doesn't say anything. It looks like a blog. I couldn't tell, really, because it's ugly. And it doesn't say anything.
I don't have a sig.
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