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Money Talks, Open Source Walks
Sandman wrote in to tell us that this morning
Salon has released an article that talks about several
Interesting
Developments in the Open Source World resulting from the increase in money
available to the movement. The most interesting comment
is the bit about the colaberative effort between
VA, Red Hat and LinuxCare on the new "LinuxSoft" company.
Is there a Pink Floyd concert going on outside my window?
I thought we already had one of those available daily. It's called ZDNet.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/
Anyone not already seen this one? You'll love it.
I think it would be hilarious if www.stockmaster.com, www.schwab.com, and www.pcquote.com cooridinated to bring the DJIA down a thousand points an hour. Why do you guys think?
Well it would be hilarious, but I think that the SEC would view it as illegal activity...fraud most likely, and besides you would probably have more suicides on your conscience in an hour then Kevorkian had in his whole carrier. :>>--
Seems like there is no stopping it , and it is only 8, so we still have 16 hours to go....we may even live through it. :>>--
14 hours and 25 minutes more of this ...
Its set as a default option on my browser (lynx if you care to know) and i only noticed it because normally theres no cookies at all
(Some people like to know where/what information is being passed around)
No, he'd probably scream "IT'S GNU/WINDOWS/NT, DAMMIT! YOU HAVE TO PRONOUNCE BOTH SLASHES!"
This made Bugtraq this morning. It's actually a good idea...
Looks like /. has gone down the "corporate b'stard" route, and is now using advanced techniques to scan your computer for information :)
How dare you Rob!
Or maybe he's just sending stupid named cookies because of the date
How dare you Rob!
Gee whiz, he's going to be busy, running a Silicon Valley startup and working over in the ruins of the Soviet Union. Make today stop.
"MONICA LEWINSKY HIRED BY MICROSOFT AS QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER!"
"'We know our products suck, so we needed an expert!', Gates says"
That part cracked me up. Suddenly I had a mental image of RMS at a microsoft press conference, his hands wrapped around a reporter's neck, screaming "IT'S WINDOWS/NT! YOU HAVE TO PRONOUNCE THE SLASH!"
Or maybe it was just something funny in the muffins this morning.
-D
dcross@cryogen.com
In which case, my I _respectfully_ you need to review your list of friends? :)
Having said that, some of this stuff is tiresome -- especially the really obvious stuff. What I'd quite like is to actually be taken in by something for a bit..
Ah April Fools day. The only true Internet holiday, no matter what race, creed, colour or cpu. Bring 'em on Rob, I'm still laughing!
Now I have Spinal Tap going through my head. Every time I hear that construct I hear Bobbi Fleckman's voice, and imagine that look of confusion on Ian's face.
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
I thought it was pretty funny. Open Bourse! Oh, well, a slow day here, so bring 'em on!!!!!!
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
? Didn't that happen last year? He made it incredibly wide and the next day unveiled the version that scaled properly? (I hated it when everything was 600 or so pixels wide, if I wanted that I'd go to news.com or something)
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
With MS's awesome legal power he would probably stick it to the fledgling LinusSoft and insist that it be called Stallman/LinusSoft!
-Derek
P.S. Actually, I do appreciate RMS and all he does. Just having a little fun.
Has been missed by everybody. Try
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http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153
It says that Windows 2000 will be out in October.
I don't know if I'm going to love today or hate it with a passion- the pranks this year seem to be taking on a ludicrous edge to them or an unduly aggressive edge to them.
Today's not going to be a useful day, information-wise, in any case...
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
Wouldn't be the same again- wouldn't be remotely believable for the regulars that have been reading /. since it's beginnings...
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
Since Rob has been messing around with the interface, he should have picked this day to reveal "Slashdot's New Look", which would have included a hideous display and an almost unusable interface. Oh, and all the banner ads would have been changed to Microsoft advertisements.
Btw, is any article posted today going to be remotely true, or is it going to be bad April Fools jokes all day long?
-Eric
Probably had better sound than when I saw 'em in 94. For some reason, where I was in the stadium caused the sound to be really muddy. :( It was very depressing!
-- haaz, who didn't have that problem Ministry shows for some reason..
-- haaz.
This is getting a wee bit out of hand...
I'm almost frightened to check any other websites for fear of spotting a herd of Spafford's USENET Dancing Elephants with diarrhea.
Ho hum. Oh, look, another phony story up on Slashdot.
The April fools stuff is fine, the problem that I'm seeing is that the real news is looking like April Fools jokes and not being taken seriously.
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
I believed it for about 5 seconds then realized what day today is.
I keep seeing two reactions here.
:)
:)
1) Laughter
2) This just isn't funny, stop it. You are destroying my day.
The second one is pretty sad. Just have fun, relax and enjoy the cheese. If you can't handle the humor, take a day long break from slashdot/userfriendly/segfault/etc.
I'm sure everything will return to normal (which isn't that far from this anyway
As for me, it's a rainy day outside and I'm stuck at work for 8 hours, then I have a calc test. I'll take all the humor I can get
I don't think I've ever tired of April 1st so quickly as I have this year. I guess it's inevitable that a news site like Slashdot will tend to concentrate the effect, but I think I've seen more fake news today than the real stuff. Most of it hasn't been very convincing, either - or maybe it's just that after the 15th fake story of the day, they become easier to spot. Limpest so far is the monitor cover one on ZDNet, where I didn't even need to read the damn thing to figure out it was fake. Then again, it's on ZDNet, so that's no great surprise.
I must say that while the other 4/1 jokes were perfectly good jokes, this was the only one that really was funny. The Linus one was too serious to laugh at, although rather obviously not true. I'm still scared that UF/segfault/Bedope aren't jokes. The riot was obvious just from the title, and wasn't that great. This one actually made me laugh, as it did a good job of poking fun at the characters we see in every day linux life. I really hope that UserFriendly is a joke, though!
-Cheetah
You have got to be kidding.... shouldn't this be on segfault.org? Up to the point where RMS accepts a position at M$ you may fool people... RMS work for M$ that's a hoot!
Only 'flamers' flame!
I'm gonna hope for the April Fools emails..... Otherwise, I don't like the sound of it.
Get a life, not a lifestyle. - Hikem Bey
You know, it doesn't evem pay to get out of bed on this day.
Many years ago on comp.os.linux.announce Matt Welsh made a post about Linux being ported to the Mac, (back when linux only ran on 386/486) nad that was truly one of the best Linxu related ones I ever read. It was just believable enough to start a flame war between mac haters and Linux lovers.
-Rich
What in God's name would possess you to check something like that?
The funny thing is, just a couple weeks ago, I was thinking about this. If OSS really takes off, will we see companies releasing K-rad applications with advertisements plastered all over the source code, under some GPL-styled free-software license restricted only in that the ad space may not be removed?
I mean, just think-- source code-- already you've got a very technically literate demographic there. It's the ultimate focused-marketing scheme!
(P.S.: No, I don't actually think this has any chance of working in the real world }:-)
iSKUNK!
So far we have yet to see any legit news today.
I would think that one April Fools day joke would be plenty.
I would buy one.hahahahah..
I ate my tag line.
-=Ellis (D)25=-
Sorry, that one's not even funny, just stupid. As if someone released a news story saying "President Clinton announced today that he was divorcing Hilary to marry Monica" HA! HA! HA!
That's my opinion anyway.
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What would have made this a better joke, would be if Salon had contacted CmdrTaco and had him actually set up a fake /.investment page. :-) but now that I've mentioned it....
at least the idea of Linus moving to Russia and working on a zippy new chip is plausible... this article was just ridiculous.
It is nice to see some friendly ribbing from more mainstream media, though. Now all we need is for Billy boy to announce that all the bugs in windows NT have been fixed, and it will be a complete April 1st.
That's the first sign. The "John Katz stock tip of the day" was the clincher.
Peace.
Is there a Pink Floyd concert going on outside my window?
Hey, I once had a Pink Floyd concert going on outside my window. No, really. Dammit, I'm not joking!
I was planning on putting out an April Fool's story saying that a free operating system developed by volunteers on the Internet was threatening Microsoft Windows.
But I figured nobody would believe it.
..... that claimed Microsoft was releasing MS-Linux. Shame I lost the reference to it. *sigh*
"If it's a bad idea, trash it. If it's a good idea, steal it and release the source code."
--
"This isn't the post you're looking for. Move along."
When I told my penguin the started waddling around and flapping thier wings... Then one started pecking at my wall... ;-)
This April fools sh*t is getting out of hand. I had several friends of mine call last night to tell me about all of this cr*p. I had to slowly explain to them that it was April Fools day. I am getting sick of having to explain to the fools that it's just a joke. We should be careful here, some people just won't "get" it. Someone might actually fly off the "hook" on this stuff.
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
-- neil