I am getting really thirsty when hearing all this nagging about free beer, but finding anyone who gives away beer is hard. Can someone make a freshmeat-like system to keep track of who gives away free beer and categorise on brands, beer-type, bottle-type and what theme and background they use on their label. If anyone knows anywhere they give out free beer, please let us know!
I couldn't see from that site that Dell was actually selling their laptops with Linux pre-installed or that they sold laptops without MS Windows. I am going to buy a laptop soon and I don't want to pay for Windows, and I want it to work right away with Linux (RedHat, Debian, SuSe, etc). Are there anyone out there which sells such laptops, preferrably spiffy ones with enough memory?
OK, now we don't need the COBOL programmers for 8000 years, their glory days are over now.
and Happy Happy Joy Joy! in 2038 it's glory days for C programmers. C programs calculate time as seconds back from 1.1.1970 and the counter is a typedef long int __time_t; which should be fun. A few needed hints to make sure as many C programmers as possible get paid really well:
Never ever use sizeof(), use integer constants directly, esp. with malloc() and timing functions.
Use pointer arithmetics all the time and never ever with sizeof(), use integer constants: foo += 4; is much better than foo += sizeof(int); or even better foo += sizeof(long);
Remember that __time_t is a long which currently tend to be 4 bytes, so just use 4 directly:-)
Make sure that subtle side-effects rule your programs and your programs only work because the size of e.g __time_t is 4. Use electric fence and make sure it never ever finds your small overwrites:-)
Make sure your fellow C programmers get well paid jobs for 2038.. heck it worked very well for the COBOL people:-)
It's should've been end of the world, and I feel fine..:-)
I remember my BBS-days eight or ten years ago, and BBSes were invaluable back then to get in touch with likeminded people, and meet other avid computer users in the local area. At times we had pizza-nights when everyone got together in Real Life and got a shock when we saw how the people you'd been talking to for months actually looked like. It was nice, and it was important as community-building.
The Internet is a much bigger place and isn't as intimate as the old BBSes were. A lot of the people from the old BBS days and newer people seems to miss a more intimate environment. The Net is a pretty big place and people tend to feel all alone. My guess is that such environments will show up again, and they do at times in IRC-channels, MUDs, mailing-lists and news-groups.
My guess is that the Net will eventually be more divided into separate communities where people "belong" and we already see the start of it with the Linux/Free Software-community which have a number of services that cater for them and them alone. We have our freshmeat, our LinuxToday,/., shops, credit cards with penguins, etc. In a way one replaces the old country-borders with communities based on interest. My guess is that we will see this even more frequently with other "interests" and groups where new communities that easily can get more intimate show up. We're just starting out on our way to change society...
Actually there are a couple of other web-browsers out there, and some of them are written in Java. IMHO the best of these is currently the ICEBrowser by ICEsoft at http://www.icesoft.com/. What I like best about it is that it is actually quite fast, despite being written in Java. And as for following standards it is pretty up-to-date and comparable to Netscape, Mozilla and Internet Explorer.
Some not-so-nice things though, it is a commercial product and not a free browser at the moment. The ICEsoft focus is also on making an embeddable browser for other products and as such doesn't have a glossy interface.
It is currently in (downloadable) beta right now and is supposedly going to be released first thing in december which might be a place to stop by then..
But still it is an important browsing-alternative for those keen on Java.
hi, I guess I have outgrown warezing but I remember it from my younger days. Nowadays, I don't fancy warezing that much but there is a soft spot in my heart for kids who trade warez, because it could have been much worse.
Most warezers are probably between 10 and 20 years old and in an age where hormones flow and one has to oppose adult society in one way or another. Some kids find that opposition and rebellion in drugs or violence, while others trade games and expensive office-cd's knowing that the big corporations hate them and that they have the (albeit small) risk of getting busted by dumb cops.
As all rebels they form subsocieties where they have their own "secret" languages and codes. Warezers are not unlike hackers, crackers, addicts, rednecks, etc in this respect. This gives them a place to belong to which is important in that age I guess. But warezing by kids is really mostly harmless compared to alternative ways teenagers have rebeled earlier and a lot healthier. (OK, maybe staying 20 hours a day in front of a monitior is not awfully healthy:-)
Leave the kids alone and go after the corporations and government-offices who pirate programs. Though, BSA, is probably not an organisation that appeals to intellect so expect raids on #warez* channels.
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I am getting really thirsty when hearing all this nagging about free beer, but finding anyone who gives away beer is hard. Can someone make a freshmeat-like system to keep track of who gives away free beer and categorise on brands, beer-type, bottle-type and what theme and background they use on their label. If anyone knows anywhere they give out free beer, please let us know!
I couldn't see from that site that Dell was actually selling their laptops with Linux pre-installed or that they sold laptops without MS Windows. I am going to buy a laptop soon and I don't want to pay for Windows, and I want it to work right away with Linux (RedHat, Debian, SuSe, etc). Are there anyone out there which sells such laptops, preferrably spiffy ones with enough memory?
Thanks in advance
OK, now we don't need the COBOL programmers for 8000 years, their glory days are over now.
and Happy Happy Joy Joy! in 2038 it's glory days for C programmers. C programs calculate time as seconds back from 1.1.1970 and the counter is a typedef long int __time_t; which should be fun. A few needed hints to make sure as many C programmers as possible get paid really well:
Make sure your fellow C programmers get well paid jobs for 2038.. heck it worked very well for the COBOL people :-)
It's should've been end of the world, and I feel fine.. :-)
I remember my BBS-days eight or ten years ago, and BBSes were invaluable back then to get in touch with likeminded people, and meet other avid computer users in the local area. At times we had pizza-nights when everyone got together in Real Life and got a shock when we saw how the people you'd been talking to for months actually looked like. It was nice, and it was important as community-building.
The Internet is a much bigger place and isn't as intimate as the old BBSes were. A lot of the people from the old BBS days and newer people seems to miss a more intimate environment. The Net is a pretty big place and people tend to feel all alone. My guess is that such environments will show up again, and they do at times in IRC-channels, MUDs, mailing-lists and news-groups.
My guess is that the Net will eventually be more divided into separate communities where people "belong" and we already see the start of it with the Linux/Free Software-community which have a number of services that cater for them and them alone. We have our freshmeat, our LinuxToday, /., shops, credit cards with penguins, etc. In a way one replaces the old country-borders with communities based on interest. My guess is that we will see this even more frequently with other "interests" and groups where new communities that easily can get more intimate show up. We're just starting out on our way to change society...
Actually there are a couple of other web-browsers out there, and some of them are written in Java. IMHO the best of these is currently the ICEBrowser by ICEsoft at http://www.icesoft.com/. What I like best about it is that it is actually quite fast, despite being written in Java. And as for following standards it is pretty up-to-date and comparable to Netscape, Mozilla and Internet Explorer.
Some not-so-nice things though, it is a commercial product and not a free browser at the moment. The ICEsoft focus is also on making an embeddable browser for other products and as such doesn't have a glossy interface.
It is currently in (downloadable) beta right now and is supposedly going to be released first thing in december which might be a place to stop by then..
But still it is an important browsing-alternative for those keen on Java.
I guess I have outgrown warezing but I remember it from my younger days. Nowadays, I don't fancy warezing that much but there is a soft spot in my heart for kids who trade warez, because it could have been much worse.
Most warezers are probably between 10 and 20 years old and in an age where hormones flow and one has to oppose adult society in one way or another. Some kids find that opposition and rebellion in drugs or violence, while others trade games and expensive office-cd's knowing that the big corporations hate them and that they have the (albeit small) risk of getting busted by dumb cops.
As all rebels they form subsocieties where they have their own "secret" languages and codes. Warezers are not unlike hackers, crackers, addicts, rednecks, etc in this respect. This gives them a place to belong to which is important in that age I guess. But warezing by kids is really mostly harmless compared to alternative ways teenagers have rebeled earlier and a lot healthier. (OK, maybe staying 20 hours a day in front of a monitior is not awfully healthy :-)
Leave the kids alone and go after the corporations and government-offices who pirate programs. Though, BSA, is probably not an organisation that appeals to intellect so expect raids on #warez* channels.