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Mad Dog Goes Underground
Thanks to John Mark Walker for sending over a great spoof video performed by Jon "mad dog" Hall -and given the recent "myth debunking by Microsoft, the linux4u project seems timely. The project is intended to educate the corporate setting about the benefits of Linux. Grab the Mad Dog videos (high bandwidth) here and (low bandwith) here and see what I mean about mad dog going underground. RealPlayer is required.
Wow - this has to be the least insightful piece I've ever seen on posted on /. It's nothing that hasn't been said 10,000,000 times here before. It's just wrapped up in an unfunny, high-bandwidth package. I love Linux, but this is just silly...
(I'm sure that some Linux program for this exist, just too lazy to look for them now because I'm at work
Get it atl es/info.html?fcode=000T36&b= .ram file and open it with a text editor to reveal the pnm location.
ht tp://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfi
Download the
But the server is already starting to get slashdotted.
Check out the fragments of code flying around in the background. Kernel source? Crypto code?
Now, if only Hemos would fix the post to read correctly. The video is of Jon 'Maddog' Hall, for those who haven't seen him speak (bouncing and handwaving included)
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Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Was this video supposed to be funny? It was just some old guy with a beard telling us how Linux is stable and easy to administer. Duh. This is non-news.
/. input to re-write their article. And he says that that was a BAD idea. There's something to talk about.
On the other hand, check out the latest Cringley column which talks about the bogus Israeli claim of the 12 ms 512 bit RSA crack. Also talks about how Jane's used
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Why is that? They don't seem to be asking for money - just names and email addresses. If I register, will I get spammed? Will I get billed later?
Banner ads are bad enough - more spam is a nightmare.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
For those newbies who don't know who John "Maddog" Hall is....
He's the Executive Director of Linux International, and a well known Linux advocate and developer. (to give you an idea how well known, a Google search for "John Maddog Hall" turned up 1030 entries. Not many of us can claim to be that well known). According to the www.opensource.org website, he is also one of the creaters of the phrase "opensource".
Here's his bio from the Linux International web site...
Jon "maddog" Hall
Address: 80 Amherst St., Amherst N.H. 03031-3032, U.S.A.
E-Mail: maddog@valinux.com
Employer: VA Linux Systems
Description: Jon has been in the computer industry for over a quarter century, 17 years of that with UNIX. He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Before accepting a job at VA Linux Systems working full time for Linux International, Jon was employed by Compaq Computer Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group and Bell Laboratories. Before that he was Department Head of Computer Science at Hartford State Technical College, where his students lovingly (he hopes) gave him the nickname maddog. Maddog as he perfers to be called, has an MS in Computer Science from RPI (1977) and a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973).
What I hate about this stuff is that there is no option to just freaking download the damn video!
.RA file, so that we can just download it.
Look, I live in the country. I have about as much chance of getting broadband access this millenium (i.e. before 2001 because that is the millenium dammit) as Bill Gates using Linux for his house. (less, actually). All I want to do is start a download at the paultry 28.8 kbps I get, and walk away. I'll watch the video when it is finished, whenever that is.
Some things they stream to keep you from saving a copy, but something by maddog? Where's the "open source" in that? There ought to be an FTP site with the actual
This is one of the many areas that Geeks In Space gets right: I can just download the file, and listen when I get it!
www.eFax.com are spammers
How many other names have you been here done that with that you can put a face to? Or hear 'em talk and move and advocate? I've got high bandwidth. Include movies with EVERY story. Let's make /. even more freakin' amazing. Get yourself a G4, digival video camera, and start making content. Signal not noise. Maybe in a year or two you can be a milly-on-air like our Taco friend, whatever, just quit bitching.
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