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Kris Kersey wrote in to mention that
CompHardware.Com and running the Linux Hardware Database.
Roast Beef wrote in to comment that AntiOnline's new AntiCode looks Strangely Familiar.
Richard Finney sent us a nice picture of IO Transitioning Jupiter that has officially met Rob's First Law of Art (all art is better once it becomes my background image).
Next up, a trio of Star Wars related stories:
PhoneMonkey wrote in with proof that everyone has Star Wars fever over at The Onion.
Danse writes wrote in to send us The Phantom Menace Revealed from the Brunching Shuttlecocks.
Lars Westergren sent us Mr Cranky's top 10 reasons why you should be worried about the new "Star Wars" movie.
[null] created the terribly flawed Slashdot Quota (he gives more points to quickee submittors than feature & book review writers, plus
failed to give a million bonus points to anyone named CmdrTaco).
An anonymous reader linked us to a suspended Linux server.
Link wrote in to send us a little web slideshow that I can't explain, but its so odd that I had to share it.
The Dude wrote in to tell us about the ideal use for that VAX 11/780 that you lying around.
And finally for the paranoid, Cabby sent us a website which (I kid you not) is Everything Women need to know about Y2k. Sit in slack jawed amazement.
If Bill Gates' only interaction with Slashdot is that "because of the Slashdot Effect, your hardware or your ISP/host's hardware had to be physically reset or power-cycled" (and what are the chances of that, with NT on their systems? guffaw.), then his score is actually positive infinity. ( -500 - (2 x -500)/0 = +infinity
Interesting.
5169.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399 37510
Can you guess-o who I am-o????
God if Ewoks get more than 2 seconds of time in the new Star Wars flick, I'm going to shoot myself right there in the theatre.
Ha Ha HA.
I *knew* that was a Western Digital hard drive the instant I heard it!
-Josh
Haha, we beat you nerds in chess two years ago. Yeah.
-- Chantilly High School Alumnus
I mean, they're porting it to IBM mainframes, why not the ol' 780?
Uh... I don't get it. What is supposed to be so sinister about the Phantom Menace movie? Somebody tell me please!
Thanks
So what about Y2K for gays and lesbians? I'm a gay male and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to get ready for Y2K. Looks like I'll need to stock up on condoms for when the rioters come-a-knockin.
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Or has the story about Linux vs. NT using Oracle disappeared?
Moderation is one thing, but stories should not be removed.
Most of the current Y2K Web sites are written by men and (IMHO) tend to be focused on how to try and "fix" the problem -- they tend to be more analytical and emphasize the "big picture."
Goshdarnit, you're right! Those dang men are always doing stuff like that, aren't they? Looking at the big picture -- sheesh, my hair would go flat if I spent too much time trying to do that.
She is now working full time to help women to become aware of the Y2K problem, how to prepare for the consequences of Y2K, and how to cope with it emotionally.
Oh Karen, I need your help! As a woman, I fear that I will have lots of trouble coping emotionally with Y2K. I think I may need to start seeing a shrink...could you please recommend yours?
Her expertise in communication has helped her to be able to quickly zero in on how couples, in particular, can communicate more effectively about Y2K.
I don't think that one needs any additional comment. The humor just flows...
Just another author trying to make quick cash off of a lame Y2K book. We all know Y2K will be a problem, but it won't be the end of the world unless these freaks decide to riot Jan 1 2000 when they think Y2K "hits."
( -500 - (2 x -500)/0 = +infinity
I think all of the mathematicians in the room are wincing right now.
I'm a mathematician in the making (yeah!) and it's possible to add the inverse of zero to your ring. But then 0=1=2=500=...
Not that this has any relevance to anything being said here nor reading this will make you one with the almighty space chicken...
"Are you talking to me or am I hearing voices again"
Ever read "The Postman" by David Brin...
Is Rob trying a bit of one-upmanship here?
I had a look at the image dimensions of that JPEG and it came in at 3000 x 2400. On my 19-inch monitor, a resolution of 1600 x 1200 is the best I can hope for. If Rob really is using the full size image as a background, I can only conclude that his monitor is roughly twice the size of mine.
Now, 38-inch monitors might indeed be quite common in the USA, but on this side of the pond a 24-inch monitor is regarded as above average...
And regardles of where you live, you can have a subscription delivered to your mailbox. At $50 a year it isn't bad, and you don't have to go out of your way to grab one.
X X X X X
HUNTER S THOMPSON PREPARES FOR MILLENNIUM
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson is getting ready for the next millennium.
"I am hoarding bullets," says Thompson, "many thousands of them."
"Bullets will always be valuable, especially when your lights go out and your
neighbors start running out of food.
"After the year 2000, the only people who'll be safe to have as friends will be
dead people."
X X X X X
That web page should be named "Y2K for Liberal Arts Majors." I work with a lot of them, male and female, and collectively they are the dumbest box of rocks to be found. It's just that high school guidance counselors, being predominantly female and holding a soft major, steer female students to what they know. Mostly, they don't know anything about the technology around them, and fear of the unknown governs their lives.
There are probs, but they aren't these. Mostly, I'd like to know what the nuclear power industry is going to do July 1. The Peachbottom plant is not encouraging. I'd hate to see 20% of power generation taken off line at the height of the air conditioning season. The American people are very spoiled and react poorly to hardship.
Well, a DOE study showed that 10 percent of households under the poverty line own computers..
Look what I found in today's paper. It's stuff like this that makes everyone head for the hills. I'm sure it isn't as bad as the reporter makes it out to be - well, it better not be.
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Houston Uncovers Lies About Hospitals' Y2K Status
Houston Chronicle
April 22, 1999 Joe Stinebaker
The Harris County Hospital District board Thursday approved spending another $500,000 to help alleviate the "gross
incompetence" that may leave some of its computer systems unready for 2000.
The district has already spent millions trying to prepare its computers for Jan. 1, 2000, or Y2K, when experts fear some
computers could begin falsely reading the new year as 1900.
Board members were clearly miffed that most experts now say the computer systems may not be ready despite assurances
and reassurances from members of the previous administration.
"It's been nothing but a bunch of lies," said chairman Larry Finder. "I think the board was misled over the last two years, not
just on Y2K, but on all our information systems. It's going to cost us a lot of money we shouldn't have to spend to accomplish
something we should have accomplished a long time ago."
District officials began to realize last year that they would likely have problems, and attempted to remedy them by hiring
additional personnel and spending more on consultants.
However, the matter worsened in February, when it was revealed that chief information officer Charles Cortez, in charge of
the computer systems, was under investigation for allegedly accepting thousands of dollars in kickbacks for awarding
lucrative computer contracts.
Cortez was fired, and the investigation of those allegations has been expanded.
After computer consultant Tim Tindle outlined the bad news Thursday, the board approved spending $499,000 to hire Keane
Inc. to ensure that district computers are ready for the date change.
Finder said he is no longer sure exactly how much the district has spent trying to upgrade its computers and prepare for the
year 2000.
But he blamed Cortez, retiring district president Lois Jean Moore and HBO & Co., the district's chief computer contractor,
saying they knew of the problems but failed to keep the board fully informed.
"We have been misled by the administration, whether through misfeasance or malfeasance, or probably both," Finder said.
"It's another example of the board finding out too little too late."
Yeah, I kinda had a beef with that, too...but then again, we do owe that page a little respect...it _IS_ good for hours of laughter. Soccer moms have never been so entertaining. Here's a few of my favorites:
If a number of people were suddenly cut off from public assistance, and the grocery shelves in their area are empty, they might come to your neighborhood looking for these things.
I tell ya...those poor people...don't you just hate how their pathetic existence bothers our perfect lives? How dare they!
I learned about guns, what the laws were, under what circumstances one can use a gun and I actually shot a gun! The very first time I shot the gun I think I pointed it at the target, shut my eyes, squeezed the trigger and screamed!
Yeah, she's gonna be a great one to have around during chaos! Brace yourselves, fellas...there's gonna be plenty of people buying guns that will close their eyes and scream as they shoot you. It's a bad time to be a Jehovah's Witness.
And when it comes to my home, I could make Martha Stewart look uncouth. For example, I refused to mount the fire extinguisher on the wall because it would ruin the décor of the kitchen (my color scheme isn't fire engine red!).
No comment.
Why is that sick? A large chunk of my Home Network is my OpenVMS cluster. Of course I also have a RSX-11M system on my home network :^)
BTW you can get licenses OpenVMS and 103 layered products for free if you're a member of DECUS (which is also free). These licenses are good for VAX or Alpha. Personally I prefer a Alpha with about 128Mb's of RAM, it ROCKS!
Don't you know? ESR is the phantom menace. Run for your lives before he attacks us with essays!
Back in the days when the phones were owned by the phone company and it was bad news if you messed with the insides (still had to use acoustic couplers in 1974), my college roommates and I rented our first apartment and got our first phone of our own. We then proceeded to dismantle the thing completely. We traced the wires out, then mounted all the hardware on a board and rewired it. (Wall art.) It worked, but for one problem: the hook buttons on an original model 500 phone operated switch contacts via a lever mechanism that was pressed and released by the buttons, and the "wall phone" didn't have the levers. So, we got ahold of an obnoxiously large power supply and a multi-contact relay, and wired the relay into the circuitry. To answer the phone, we had to turn on the power supply. (And for those times of power failure, we had a toothpick on stand-by to jamb into the relay to make it pick up the phone.) When the lease was up and we had to give the phone back to the telco, we put the thing back together with pop-rivets and the phone clerks never knew the difference.
That was tough. Motherboards today are just a handful of ribbon cables. (And we had to walk uphill both ways!)
...phil
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
Posted by LazarusLong:
A friend of mine actually still runs his VAX for home automation (just get X-10...). But if anyone has one of these they want to get rid of, he could really use the parts and I could use it as a large but cool addition to my monster-sized dorm room for next year...
Posted by bodhidogma:
There is actually a cool site with many photos like this:
Astronomy picture of the day
Posted by pennacook:
I was looking for the Y2k guide for dogs/cats really. This one says "if your owner goes in a mad panic, just sit back and laff!"
evidently the media has hyped up another hairbrained idea that you have to complete this list of over 500 items! yeah i have 200 bibles that should last me 6 months right? heh... I also made sure to pack enough condoms for 20 years too -- oops they expire in a year or two. give me a break...
100 points if Slashdot is the home page for your browser
It is, but I actually start with a blank page.
500 points if you check Slashdot 11 or more times a day
250 per non-Anonymous Coward comment you wrote that reached a score of 3
Once, I think.
100 per non-Anonymous Coward comment you wrote that reached a score of 2
Three times, I think.
subtract 100 if you had a comment demoted from its original score
Twice, I think.
My score, FWIW... 950
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That story made me long to log into a VAX again. Someday, when I have the room, I must get one.
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Get your fresh, hot kernels right here!
But I'd want to run VMS on the thing. I know...sick, but what can I tell ya?
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Get your fresh, hot kernels right here!
Damn, someone should've done a remake for this year. They could have a line like "Keep your hands of my T1 you damn dirty mutants!"
Regards, Jochen
Regards, Geewiz
Yet another fear-mongerer. And insulting too, especially to a female geek. As if I'm this clueless.
"Computers are all interconnected on a worldwide network." *All*? This computer is only connected when I choose it to be. My computer at work isn't connectable at all.
"The grocery store may not have the diapers or formula your baby needs." I have two things to say to this. Cloth diapers, and breastfeed.
Putting the soapbox away now...
Les the Book
It sounds unhealthy. It's almost as if it were grinding away. I wonder what the server's uptime will be before it crashes to the floor.
What a nutcase. I wonder if she really believes all the crap she's spewing, or if she's just trying to cash in (looking, no doubt, to capture the same audience as those Intel commercials that tell you getting a Pentium III will speed up the Internet).
What will future sociologists make of this book? Incidentally, have any of you ever seen some of the hysteria surrounding the last fin de siecle? I bet this looks just as hilarious to our grandkids.
Retro 1990s style Q
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Uhm . . . MEEPT?
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Leveraging my middleware assets,
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Cheers, and have fun in the line!
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
So, by 'suspended server' does one mean that the system hangs or does it mean that the organization supplying the IP address has shut him down?
I think in this case, it must mean both.
I can get you an ETA 10 supercomputer (as fast as they came in 1989). Now that would make a great bar, big enough for a casino.
It's at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. We won it years ago, but it hasn't worked since my freshman year (I graduated last year). It's a bit big (it's got its own room), so if you want it you'll have to move it yourself...
Most of the current Y2K Web sites are written by men and (IMHO) tend to be focused on how to try and "fix" the problem -- they tend to be more analytical and emphasize the "big picture." Y2KWomen doesn't deal with the technical side of the Y2K problem; my goal is to focus on the practical side of the problem -- where the rubber meets the road -- and how this will impact our families and us.
A generalization, thus stereotyping all men into the roll analytical engine, of a thinking robot which can only solve problems, rather than appreciating that something which is both ethereal and physical about each special problem (and about why it somehow meets the road, squishy like rubber).
One of the questions I keep hearing over and over is, Where do I start?
Oh. You want me to buy your book because you know What Every Woman Needs to Know and How to Keep Herself and Her Family Safe. Well, even though I'm not a woman, I feel that special comfort of wallet safety knowing, [you'll] also try and let [me] know when [I am] getting a really good price or when a higher price may be worth it because it will save [me] so much time.
You go girl! But please don't put your business in jeopardy. You need to make money too! ":-)"
I know that when there is a crisis, women are the first to help and encourage one another.
It's really nice to feel that golden warmth of good after a group affirmation followed by a hug. Especially when you don't have any power. And your bank account shows a negative balance (if it doesn't normally already ^cough!^ ). And then all the robot people rise up to overthrow humanity (just because their clocks got confused). I tell ya, we're in for the shit.
We need to pray and ask for God's strength to handle whatever happens together.
Amen to that!
Of course you could always learn some COBOL if you wanted to help stem the onslaught. Y2K is going to be one hairy ass ride. Kinda like Ken Kesey's "Furthur" bus, only with a mix of Stephen King gloom and a Charles Darwin-esq ride to extinction-ville, and the only thing that just might save us would be a groundswell of sympathetic and talented women COBOL PROGRAMMERS out there to protect us from Y2K anarchy. GO FOR IT!
As a man I ask you with all the humble acceptance of one who just cannot bring himself to the task, that we need your help. SAVE US KAREN ANDERSEN!!!!!!!!! You ARE the one! Yeah! ^clap!^ ^clap!^ ^clap^
Okay okay, I'm revising it. I was halfway insane when I wrote it. I had to play it safe though because I didn't want to run into recursion (we all know someone would file a bug report on it and try to exploit the buffer overflow), or worse, CmdrTaco and his million points plus everything else goes over the unsigned long double or whatever (I'm not a programmer) and segfaults/coredumps and kills him. Oh, and thanks for the Slashdot effect. It a) proved Linux and Apache is a good system to my host/employer and b) got me out of my depression. I'm going to do some revision and maybe I'll write my first-ever from scratch Perl program for finding your /.Q. I'll submit it here when I get done.
And please, send your suggestions in. I got like four e-mails. Is that the best you can do?
Thanks again.
James T. Lilithfair.org owner/admin/all-around wacky guy.
The VaxTap 2000 Pro instrument-monitoring hardware is connected through a serial port to our Web server--an Intel/Windows NT machine running IIS (Internet Information Server). We developed a Visual C++ program that listens to the serial port on the Web server. If an event occurs, such as the opening or closing of the tap, then the program logs an event description, along with the time of the event. No way, I don't want my keg running Windows NT... who knows what a Blue Screen of Death would cause...File BeerTap.vxd corrupted. Oh my... WINDOWS CRASHED MY BEER!
We've got the guy who chilled his computer down to -50C, and we've got the VaxBar and VaxTap. Why doesn't someone get a huge case, put a refrigeration system in it, stick their system in there, stick a keg in there, and have a custom setup that monitors beer level, temperature, etc. And why not create a servo mechanism to operate the tap and create a /dev/tap or /dev/beer. Heck, wire up more than one keg and create a dispense program. dispense -s -d . Hm. Symlink the taps to what is in the keg. [bartender@virtualbrew /bar]$ dispense --yard -d /dev/guiness. Let's revive the Unix to Unix Beer Protocal and network these babies. Yeah, that's it right there! Somedays I have really dumb ideas. Somedays I have really good ideas. What kind of idea day is this? JT | LilithFair.org
Anybody else dislike the part about halfway down the page on "How Y2K Affects Women" about how, even if all computers you rely on directly or indirectly are fine, you should still worry because poor people on welfare will riot and attack you? "They've rioted over less, such as court decisions."
Good God.
As far as I can tell it had. Though they tried to /. Slashdot it seems. I tried to access the page and ended up at Slashdot again. I tried Lynx, Netscape et cetera.
Apparently since Slashdot was dragging them down they did a redirect to Slashdot. It actually seemed to make Slashdot sluggish as well.
Maybe they should be mentioned in the "script kiddy HOWTO". I'd add them to one other HOWTO, but I don't think there's a "Ripping off cool websites to provide lame content" HOWTO yet.
Nothing worth doing is worth doing today.
I work at a book printing company, and had the opportunity to browse through this book. Indeed, this basically states that we're all going to die, unless we prepare. And it's the woman's job to do so.
On another note, the book does give some excellent pointers on food preservation, how to store water & food without it spoiling, and some other good stuff. But the book in itself is frightening.
Yeah, right.
Apart from the Y2K FUD, I just love the assumption that all women have families, and only women care for their families. I'm particularly pleased with the assumption that "for women" is the same as "for technical ignoramuses".
*vomit*
love from the wench
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
You missed the relevent part of her web page:
One of the questions I keep hearing over and over is, "Where do I start?" So I decided to put together a list of resources that I've checked out personally and feel comfortable recommending so you can understand the Y2K problem and the implications for us as women -- whether we're single women, wives, grandmothers, sisters or whatever role we happen to be in. (These include my own products as well, including my new book Y2K for Women: How to Protect Your Home and Family in the Coming Crisis.)
Taken next to a picture of her book. Now you know what the web page is about.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Richard von Weizs
I really wasn't going to comment on it - everyone else has done a fine job slashing it [uninteded pun?] to ribbons. But ...
I found this to be a bit too much.
D
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I just realized this while reading the Y2K for Women site. We're all gonna die. Y2K is gonna kill us all. Not because our computers crash, not because the Nuclear Reactors blow up, not because the Russian Defense System declares war and blows us all to kingdom come...
We're all gonna die because when it's all said and done, all of the idiots and fear-mongers like this one will be out of jobs, and rampaging in the streets. With the armed, and terrified maniacs that this woman is trying to create running around the streets, nobody will be safe. Did anybody else find that FAQ disturbing, and just a bit paranoid? (My Grandmother will tell you it's all the Postal Service's doing, that they're sneaking subliminal recordings into the author's radio and making her crazy. Of course, that's also why my Grandmother says she's compelled to put coconut in everything she cooks, even though she's severely allergic to it, so I'm not sure I'd trust that line of reasoning...)
I guess it'd bang around a fair bit, and the hard disk thumping against the wall would probably be bad, but it occurred to me that something suspended from the ceiling may be subject to less of the shaking than something sitting on the ground.
And the VAX Bar looks damn cool. I feel inspired.
Andrew.
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The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."
Sincerely,
The Yautja.
Thanks for the pointer to the VAX Bar. My first exposure to the VAX 11/780 was in the (Very) early '70s, when I was an observer at a benchmark conducted by DEC in their Marlboro Mass. facility. While the technical folks tried their programmes, DEC had set up to capture one of the local FM Radio stations, and also invited me to play theit "Lunar Lander Game on a nice 24" (monochrome in those days) terminal.
About an hour in, things were going well with the benchmark, but I got bored with the game, so I took the lander about 100 miles up and turned it around and drove it full tilt into the moon.
Crassh!! Yep that's right, I killed the whole VAX. Apparently there wasn't quite enough memory to fit the lander in, and the most violent crash of the lander ate the O/S for lunch.
Despite all this being explained to the customer, and DEC's insistance that we now do the benchmark with me properly annointing the official observe chair, we did not buy a VAX for that requirement.
Have fun.
--jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.
OTOH, I'm not sure if I really were slashdotted, as I was running Apache for OS/2 at the time which is not exactly a reference work on software that can handle high loads.
Cheers, as always,
Joshua.
--jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.
Put this in your .xinitrc:
xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen -border black /tmp/astro.jpg -display localhost:0
And run this daily in a cron, and you'll get the The Astronomy Picture of the Day everyday as your background automatically.
Fun with perl!
-=Julian=-
send all spam to theotherwhitemeat@ropine.com
According to the Slashdot Quotient, if my site gets slashdotted and crashes, I get the same amount of points as gettting slashdotted and surviving? How do you play a game if everyone gets the same score?
Yeah, I guess I did leave that part of it out. I got so involved in the link of Frequently Asked Questions that I forgot about that part. It's kinda scary how much money they want you to spend on these books, reports, etc., when so much of the info is online. And, when you read the book, you're only getting one person's opinion (and a wrong one, in my opinion).
Well, that was certainly painful to read. Alot of the tips in there were things that are just good tips for life in general, and not Y2k specific. For instance, she said that if the power goes out, the kids can't play N64, so you should have some books and board games around. With all the recent talk on /. about people needing to be good parents, don't you think it makes sense that a good parent would have books and board games around for the kids anyway? There's nothing wrong with playing video games, of course.
Many of the tips were useful in *ANY* disaster situation. Some of them were even totally irrelevant to Y2k. Some computers decide they can't understand what year it is, and so suddenly you need a hammer and screwdriver? What the heck?!
What really bothered me is all the examples about "if there was an earthquake", or "if there was a flood". Yeah, ok, that involves actual physical things happening, like machines and buildings being destroyed, and nothing CAN work, even if it knows the correct year. People writing these things need to look at reality, do some research, and instead of pointing out all the worst things that could ever happen, look at *why* these things might happen, and what would happen as a result of them. Clueless FUDmeisters have this idea that the whole world will just stop at the stroke of midnight. The truth is that many Y2k problems have already been happening, with things like credit card expiration dates, and many things will not go wrong until well after January 1. But I us slashdotters already know all of this stuff.
So, what's my point here. Well, I'm sick of the media blowing this stuff out of proportion. They all talk about stocking up on everything so you can survive the week or two when things might not work (if even that long). They claim everything in the stores will magically disappear. They may be right, but it won't be because of the y2k problem. It will be because of them telling everybody that everything will be gone. So the media is causing the very problem they are predicting.
Well, I'm babbling now. Time to shut up.
Well, my quota came in at about 3000. Unfortunately, I can't tell for sure, because I can't check all my old postings to see their scores (the user profile page only lists the last 20), and I can't tell which ones were moderated to that score, and which started at a higher score (I was defaulting to 2 for a while).
Oh well.
This could be a very long thread...
My co-ed fraternity had a discussion of this site on its mailing list. This is, to put it politely, a stereotype-friendly web site.
I'm looking forward to seeing "Y2K for transexuals," "Y2K for infants," and especially "Y2K for iguanas."
Come on now, it's almost within 8 months. There has to be some way of hyping this that hasn't been done yet.
Yeah, the site is really a Y2K for people who react emotionally and are easily sucked into panic when things are hyped.
I've finally realized what Y2K hysteria is all about. It's about superstition. It's not considered intelligent to be superstitious in this modern era of science, but the numerological implications of moving on to the last year of the millennium (or the first year of the third millennium, if you're a victim of the true millennium bug) is overwhelming people who are even slightly inclined to be superstitious. The Y2K bug gives these people a technologically-acceptable way of labeling their superstition.
If I recall correctly, the woman who runs that site wrote a book and sells audio versions of her reading the book for $80! And she has no qualifications, in either psych* or computer*
Yeah, all I have to say about that is f_ckingweird.jpg
But the f_ckingmonkeyislandendingsucks.jpg too.
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My user account here at school is on a VAX!
:-)
But you could probably tell from the VMS in my mail address...
No, I'm not giving you my password either.
One question: Can you get the model name from the commad line, and if so, how?
Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
If it isn't already there, has somebody formally proposed to add a Slashdot code to the Geek Code?
My Heart Is A Flower
Then, just to add insult to injury, the data from a computer that's OK ("2000-compliant") can essentially get "infected" by the data from a computer that's got date problems (non-compliant). This means that if my business has its computers all brand new and 2000-compliant, and my computer "talks" to another computer by modem, my computer is at risk for getting major problems.
Gosh, sounds pretty bad. I am, however, relieved to know that sleeping bags now come in attractive, bright colors.
"Yet, because the Y2K situation is so unusual, I think it requires looking at self-defense (and
guns in particular) a little differently and more personally."
Oh no! bad computer! *BANG*
Where can I buy one Vax Bar ?
Are those for sale yet ?
The show was funny, but check out the names of the images... what the ****?!
I guess that it predates this custom made objet d'art...
-- Under/Overrated is meta-moderation, and therefore is Redundant.
Not only is it a suspended server, is it also a Linux mobile server? (OK, he did not show if the support allows movement around the room...)
The VAXbar needs to get together with the VAXTap 2000 Pro. It would be the perfect companion!
john vranesovic (sp?) WISHES his sites were as cool as /. or freshmeat.
-- your knees hurt, don't they?
Well here is a link to a website of a woman that really knows:
http://www.sandismith.com/y2kindex.html
BTW, the suspended linux server was cool. I've done something similar but it was fastened to the underside of my loft... and I've always *wanted* to make a bar out of a VAX. :-)
Thad
The Bolachek Journals
True, though it is nice having free copies of it available all over the city. Useful for those times when you are waiting to meet a friend at a bar and they are late showing up. It is usually available right next to the Shepherd Express, another free (but more serious) newspaper. Great publications, especially compared the *major* paper in the area... which you have to pay for even though it sucks more than a whitehouse intern.
Thad
The Bolachek Journals
( -500 - (2 x -500)/0 = +infinity
I think all of the mathematicians in the room are wincing right now.
And it's not because a parenthesis is missing. ;-)
Did anyone else look at that crap checklist on how to get prepaired for y2k? Come on, Y2K doesn't mean there is going to be a panty shortage and the food list looked like you should be feeding an army.
Anyone who gets into this end of the world when the computers come a crashing deserves to be left in the dark ages.
"Magic is a Dual Pentium Pro running Linux (...) with 128MB RAM, 3.4GB of disk space and a shared T1 to the internet. (...) Originally was used as a small network computer in some big company, hen was sold for a song to Halted Specialties Co. where it was sold without hard drive and RAM for $99 to James Neal."
Is anyone keeping copies of all the y2k culture
for museums? This will go down in history as
the y2k year.
It would be great if someone would collect all
this stuff and make it available on a web site.
This goes also for memorabilia for Dan Quayle's
vice-presidential candidature. Where can I get the
words for the "Indiana" parody now? Someone should
keep all this stuff.
Cheers.....
Um. All I can really say is that I am insulted by this website. I am female and an IT professional, but that is not the point. Any person of reasonable intelligence is capable of understanding the Y2K implications. They do not need to be talked down to or their inteligence insulted. This is in effect the same as cutting someone food up into peices and chewing it for them.
I think that this website does a great disservice to women by perpetuating the stereotype of the helpless female. There is enough sexism still within our society without someone adding to it. I can understand if this site was done as a joke by someone making light of these kidns of issues, but the fact that it was created by a woman for women is insulting to say the least.
This is exactly the kind of think I would have expected were I alive in the fifties. First off, a page like this should NOT exist and second off, women who want equal worth for equal pay should not expect to be treated like this.
Isn't this kind of things why we burned our bras in the first place?
-Kit
The word you want is "transit", dude. "Transition" are these eyeglass lenses that go from light to dark depending on whether you're inside or outside. Operators are standing by.
ObJupiter: I picked up a copy of "2001: A Space Odyssey" on DVD today. Time to kick back with a few beers and watch Kubrick's meisterwerk.
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
'Nuff said. :-)
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
"What about fighting back and using weapons to defend your house and family?"
I know that as soon as Y2K hits and all the computers blow up, I'm going to want a gun for fighting off the evil rioters and looters in this rural town. But then, I'm just a little old house wife who is supposed to be scared and concerned enough to buy a bad book.
THIS IS PRE-ALPHA PRIVATE RELEASE CODE!!!
DO NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU ARE A DEVELOPER.
ALL IT DOES IS CRAS
You can also pick up the Onion in Boulder, CO. Anyone a fan of Herbert Kornfeld?
I have one of those. I've been tempted to take it a part, but it's box is pretty nice looking. (a box in a very traditional sense- the top is on a hinge, the receiver and buttons are inside).
Anyway, at my last job, one of the hardware technicians had a dual-boot intel machine which had parts on the wall, and parts on the underside of the shelf that was above the motherboard (the disk drive here, the cd-rom drive there, etc....) also a bunch of spare cpu fans happily whirring away, and the audio system taken apart, souped up, and distributed around the room.
I told a friend of mine I wanted one. She looked at me like I was nuts.
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Visit the chat and try to reason with them... they only want to hear about all the lights going out.....
This thing reads like an uniformed fluff magazine article. I will say one thing. As a switchgear technician, I can tell you that the mechanisms that control the flow of electricity are unaffected by the Y2K problem. The hardware in most cases is not computerized and in many cases was built over 40 years ago. I should know, I retrofit (upgrade) them for a living.
This site is all FUD and crud.
Romanes eunt domus? People called Romanes, they go the 'ouse? It says Romans go home. No it doesn't. What's Latin fo
When you go to the page, be sure to look at the source code. The meta keywords tag contains such gems as "The Martha Stewart of Y2K".
I've seen some talk about vaxlinux, but
NetBSD already has VAX support and it
supports about a dozen
other platforms as well!
And remember, NetBSD is *the* multiplatform OS!