Open Source Chat Bridge Between Virtual Worlds

wjamesau writes "The Parallel Selves Message Bridge, a new addition to the code forge of OpenSimulator, the 'Apache for virtual worlds,' makes it possible for users within one OpenSim world to send IMs to users currently logged into another Second Life-compatible world. In the future, technology like this could make it possible to keep in contact with friends in other virtual worlds and MMOs without having to log out. Imagine orcs and space commandos existing in alternate realities but still in contact!"

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*BSD is Dying

[Anonymous Coward]

It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

Fact: *BSD is dying

It's written in C#

[Anonymous Coward]

Java and C# share a lot in common.

Java Was Made To Allow Monkeys To Write Code

Java fucking sucks. It fucking sucks horseshit. Fuck, it fucking
sucks.

Okay, surely ... use the right tool for the right job. There's no
reason why you should go around porting the bash scripts in init.d
into C code.

But Java is the right tool for idiot monkeys: nothing else and nobody
else. It's fucking slow; it's not portable and it doesn't increase
productivity. Let's elaborate:

The gay JVM is written in C with a shit ton of assumptions. Wherever
the JVM can run, portable C code can run. Where portable C code can
run, the JVM necessarily cannot. And if it can, it will lag like shit.

Java is fucking slow, and it takes just as long to write Java code as
it takes to write C/C++ code, unless you're an idiot monkey. Java has
a purpose: to allow monkeys to write code.

A good programmer will follow pragmatic rules, but occasionally break
them, whenever there are clear advantages to. As an example: it's
perfectly fine to use uninitialized variables for the purpose of
adding additional entroy to a random pool.

Java is for idiot monkey programmers. It restricts the programmer,
because idiot monkey programmers make dumb decisions all the
time. They forget to deallocate memory; they initialize variables;
derefence null pointers; and overwrite memory past the end of arrays.

These restrictions piss the shit off of experienced programmers,
because they don't allow said programmers to express talent.

Furthermore, idiot monkeys can be payed little money. A good C/C++
programmer worth their salt is an asset. Neglecting that asset will
hurt the company: a good C/C++ programmer can leave in search of a
better environment.

Nobody gives a shit if a monkey walks. In fact this is encouraged. A
new monkey will come along, and will payed even less money, as the new
monkey will start without a raise.

Java is a piece of shit, written by idiot programmers. I don't have a
single Java program on my computer, because Java always lags like a
retard, and eats more memory that an elephant.

Here's a fucking idea. If you want DRM that works, use Java. The
pirates won't touch your app with a 300 foot pole.

If you played a FPS with a Java client, nobody would want you on their
team, because you would be the lagging retard that always got fragged.

Linux sucks.

[Anonymous Coward]

From: Me
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Subject: Linux is the suxx0rz
 
You assholes! Everyone says how Linux is so good but it is the suxx0rz. My friend said I could install a cool game by typing sudo rm -Rf * but I did that and now my computer won't even start up. Linux sucks.

I can only imagine...

[Creepy Crawler]

Lemee see.. Im on ICQ and I want to talk to someone on CS:Source.

ICQ:AIM
AIM:XMPP
XMPP:CS-Source

Ok.. what would that look like again?
Creepy_Crawler!ICQ!AIM!XMPP!CS-Source

Yay. uucp bang path crap again. Or not as bad: non-1-to-1 namespace mapping over multiple protocols.

Re:More Astroturf

[Anonymous Coward]

Second Life sucks and the recession is going to kill it. How about more articles on technology that are useful instead of flogging that POS?

Dude it's 3 AM on a Friday night. No good stories are gonna get posted because nobody gives a rat's rear end about /. right now. Anyone with a life is getting laid at this time. The only people on here are us losers like myself, a 29 y/o ultravirgin (never kissed in addition to never laid). Serious. I really am a 29 y/o ultravirgin. That's why I, like you, am on here posting horse excretions on /. at 4 in the flipping morning on a Fridau night. Because unlike cool people i am not getting laid right now.