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SlashNET Forum with Mandrake
drdink wrote to let us know
about a SlashNET forum with Mandrake
of Enlightenment fame.
It will be at 01:30 UTC (9:30pm EDT) today in #forum. Open
discussion about the forum will be held in #forum.d. If you're
new to SlashNET, irc.slashnet.org
will point you at a random server, and us.slashnet.org will point you at
a random US server. Hope to see people there!Update: 06/14 12:50 by H :Get the log here.
I love this:
"So incidentally, the past few days I came up with a way to completely revolutionize the way people use computers. look for more information soon."
In other words: So incidentally I'm awesome, did you know that?
What a joke.I'd rather not..
I was the one to post about the origin of UTC. You are correct about the abbreviation UTC. My faint recollection of French made me realize that UTC was
"strange." No need to feel anal about this.:-) Code either works or it spits out messages like UTC.
Consider this. Would you rather say the acronyms CUT, TUC, or the abbreviation UTC?
Thanks
I heard it was a cost cutting measure to consolidate the experts into a more centralized location. I'm an American but I have a great appreciation for the history of science. The names of Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge), Greenwich, Cambridge, and Oxford (among others) are ones that we should all bow down to. If a Brit sees this he or she will probably comment on my ignorance on this.;-) Bring it on, for you should be proud of this scientific heritage.
To me the ultimate experience would have been to be with Chadwick when he discovered the neutron.
UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time except it is the French version of the term thats gets abbreviated. UTC is equivalent to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Technically, GMT is 12 noon when the sun is at it's highest altitude over the Greenwich, England meridian (0 degrees longitude). For unix systems, utc is the time that the system uses internally.
I remember reading somewhere that the Brits were (had) closing down the Royal Greenwich Observatory. In the past, this was the reference station for time syncronization in the British Empire. Time keeping was important since it served as one of the bases for determining longitude.
I can't seem to find my fire tipped icepick... maybe next time
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[mandrake] heh
[mandrake] you don't know how many times people ask me that
[mandrake] in fact, the day I found out they had chosen my handle was right after linux expo
[mandrake] and they even knew who I was but sent me email saying somehting like "well, we've already sent in the CD to be mastered, sorry"
[mandrake] the only thing that really bothers me is that they trademarked my name.
[mandrake] annoying
[mandrake] but oh well
That answer your question?
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That directory contains gzipped logs of most of our post forums (the really really old ones weren't logged). Feel free to repost unmodified versions on other sites. We should have it on our website pretty soon.
I'd like to note that the SlashNET link on Slashdot pages is wrong. Our new webpage is at http://www.slashnet.org/
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How can it be at 01:30 UTC and 21:30 EDT on the same day? Presumably this is 01:30 UTC *tomorrow* (Monday) -- I hope so or I've missed it :(
I believe that those would fall into the catagory of GoodQuestions(TM) to ask at the forum. -- morph-
Thanks to everyone for taking the time to stop by, and thanks especially to mandrake for putting up with that many questions. ;>
Here's a web-based copy if the ftp server gets slashdotted.
So why does this guy share a name with a Linux distribution that he isn't involved with? Is "Mandrake" such a common name that two Linux-related entities just "happened" to pick the same name?
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i agree completely. it would be nice if the slashnet link off the main page pointed to the correct location. otherwise there's no real point in having that link, ya know?
-herb
your mom!
Mandrakes one the two main enlightenment developers. He has nothing to do with Mandrake Linux as that is kde base. Mandrake is known to get quite upset when asked about the Mandrake dist. Not that I ever do so. That would be wrong ;-)
IANALBIPOOGL (I am not a Lawyer, but I play one on GrokLaw.)
It seems that the link to slashnet off the main slashdot page is really outdated. SlashNET has its own web site http://www.slashnet.org/ but the slashdot link points to http://slashdot.org/slashnet
Please change
Famous Last Words:
answers to your questions, respectively, are:
a) Geoff Harrison, recently hired by VA linux systems, architect of Enlightenment since (iirc) DR 0.9
b) see (a)
c) why not?
d) absolutely not.
No!
We like slashNET the way it is, and don't want to join another network. The small network makes it easy to chat at easy and it's easy to get to know others.
OpenProjects can go their own way, and slashNET can continue kicking OpenProject.net's asses.
It's here : ftp://ftp.slashnet.org/pub/slashnet/forums/mandrak e_06-13-1999.txt.gz
duh. the kernel dox have something on this..check out the kernel dox on the LDP. the kernel allows you to specify which process is started on which processor, although it isnt as finely grained as irix..the hooks are there, but you have to code for it.
who is this guy ? whats he do (besides some work with enlightenment) ? why do we want to ask him questions ? does he have anything to do with the mandrake linux distro ?
Why doesn't SlashNET link with the Open Projects Network? They both seem like the same kind of crowds and it seems silly to have two small networks like these when you can combine the two and make a single one with irc.linux.com's #linuxhelp and irc.slashnet.org's #slashdot.