You might get eaten by a Grue...
> Use Brass Lantern
I don't know what "Use" means.
It is dark.
> Turn On Brass Lantern
You are in a cavern.
There is an exit to the north.
> N
You are in a great hall.
It says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
The room is full of passages.
> N
You see a display case in front of you. It says 'hof'.
There are exits to the east, west, and south.
> E
You fall through a trap door.
You are in a deep cavern.
There are trolls lurking about.
> Talk to Trolls
The trolls heckle you.
You are moderated down.
You feel less intelligent.
> E
You step into a pool of slime.
You see an amulet on the ground.
> Take Amulet
You have the Amulet of Karma Whoring +2
> Wear Amulet
You radiate light.
The trolls cower in fear.
You now have secret slashdot knowledge.
> Go Home
Using your new mastery of Slashdot, you go to your homepage, which is 'slashdot.org', because you have no life.
> Shut Up
You feel less intelligent.
> Post to slashdot
You post to the most recent article.
Would you like to hear what the article is about?
--> No
What kind of post would you like?
--> This is not News for Nerds
You are moderated up to +2; you get three replies
> Read replies
Anonymous Coward: j00 suck Karma Whore; I 0wn j00!
> Moderate trolls down
You can't moderate and post in the same account
> Switch to other account
You have no mod points.
Your other account was bitchslapped for abuse.
> Complain to Malda
There is no reply.
> Switch to kuro5hin
Your karma was 253 out of a possible 64,
giving you a rank of Old-school Karma Whore.
# _
Well, I don't like the karma cap, but all that means is that you have to keep score yourself. Also, I think that displaying/not displaying karma on your page to other people should be a user-configurable option, because my Karma is definitely part of my user info.
I think that your other idea is basically sound, but needs some work. Realize that Signal 11, as well as most users that post a lot, get moderated down a fair bit, and not always for valid reasons. Therefore, this shouldn't be a number of downward moderations, but rather a percentage.
I know (because of the karma cap) that I've gotten 37 downward moderations since it was enstated, but since that only counts downward moderations, that includes a (-1, Overrated) moderation on a (+5, Insightful) post. That is, what would normally be at least a +3 gain in karma ends up being a -1 loss. Under your system, I might be posting at 0 for posting insightful comments; that's why a flat number won't work for everybody.
Similar proposals have existed in the past, including "aging" of karma. Personally, I would like a simple all-time chart, though, just to keep score. I still think that a really fair way to do moderation probably looks a lot more like kuro5hin, though, and they don't have karma, hence, no need to want to "keep score". That's probably a good thing. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What, is the new limit 64? I only lose points because my karma is well over the new karma cap that was enstated. I asked Rob about it, and he told me that it doesn't matter because high karma doesn't matter. Well, he's right, but it would have been nice to mention that on the site.
The proper place to go to bitch about moderation is here; that's one thing slashdot *did* get right.
Hey, write a better FAQ, and link to it in your.sig; maybe you'll get it on slashdot as a story. You can only expect so much from CmdrTaco and company, and most of the time it doesn't happen. That's why sites like kuro5hin and half-empty exist, because obviously slashdot wasn't enough for some people.
Personally, I'm still drooling over the skinning support on half-empty. On slashdot, I'd be happy if I could just get a consistent *color scheme*; if Rob implemented a skinning system, I'd probably have a heart attack! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It's good that someone has proof that hyperlinking is really not a new idea. Of course people do it on the web today, and they did it in gopher, but as far as I'm concerned, references and footnotes in a paper do the same conceptual thing, as does the index in the back of a book, or the table of contents in the front. It does the same thing, too; it points you to a number (a link) where you can find the information on the subject (text of link). Then you follow the link (turn to the page) and read the linked information.
Asimov would often work in uses of hyperlinking in his stories; he was a big fan of it, and thought that if you had a machine that could track your eye movements, then if you stared at a word longer than necessary, it could make references pop up in the margins, and explain the subject. And that was a long time ago, and Asimov is dead now.
The only thing new about hyperlinking was the idea that you could somehow automate this process, but that's not new; people always want to automate things. I'm sure people have said for as long as books have been around in their current form: gee, it'd be nice if I already had this information I wanted on the page in front of me...
Yet another obvious implementation of a real world phenomenon that's unique now because it's on the net.
In the future, this will be abbreviated YAOIOARWPTUNBIOTN. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
They'll probably just end up cutting a deal, but RAMBUS has patents on not just DDR-SDRAM, but SDRAM itself! They have some ridiculously broad patents that should never have been approved in the first place; hopefully this will get struck down due to *obvious* prior-art.
I think it's sad that Intel has these losers around to do their dirty work for them. Remember, "When you can't compete on technical merit, sue!" --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Wow; QBASIC had a PALETTE command and a logical and operator? I never knew that, back then!
I could make *my* simple display hack a lot prettier, now! Thank your friend for me, and ask him where he was 10 years ago when I needed him!:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That way, no one else has to know who you are, or what you're saying... wait, if I wanted that, I could just lock myself in the closet... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Please, troll moderators, moderate correctly! The above post is Ontopic. It may be many other things, but Offtopic is not one of them.
Here, let me help you in your tasks.
This story is about KBasic, a RAD tool similar to Visual BASIC on Windows, but being developed for KDE on Linux.
My position is that if it is as similar to "Visual BASIC on Windows" as the rest of the K Desktop Environment is to the Windows Desktop Environment, then this would be a manifestly bad thing.
Well, that's because that sort of thinking tends to crop up more on those GUI, component-based models that imitate the market leader instead of those CLI, component-based models that design for themselves.
Actually, on our system, they're automatically backed up. And it might get root if you're good, but hopefully the sysadmin is better. However, the language *itself* shouldn't require root for its useful features. That's another obvious design flaw that makes everything so much more usable when your system isn't being hosed, apparently.
Here's Microsoft's party line on this stuff. Of course they aren't responsible for designing a system with no security at all; it's those darn 'malicious hackers'. Too bad we don't know how to fix our software to stop them; oh well.
In my opinion, this is a design flaw that should be avoided. That is all. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Oh well; at least it will take a long time to complete...
Please, NO ONE tell them where they can find already completed code or tools to quickly finish this project! Give us time to develop a decent language as a response...
The last thing we need is a custom Macro Virus Language for Linux... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, it needs some work, but I like it in concept.
Boucher said the kind of technology developed by MP3.com and made legal by
his bill would allow music buyers to listen to their stored-up songs in their car
once satellite Internet access is perfected, in their office or from a friend's
computer. The bill would only apply to music that is sent, or "streamed," not
music that is downloaded.
Unfortunately, that's the same thing. If you stream music to me, I'm downloading it, and there's nothing that says I'm not saving it to disk as well...
"Copyright owners lose nothing by virtue of the technology MP3.com is using,"
he said. "It frees the Internet user to obtain the music he already owns over the
Internet."
Well said. We've been saying this for a while: it's all about control. It's good that legislators are starting to notice this as well. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sending non-standard packets to get information; sounds kinda familiar. Like nmap, or queso.
But I suppose when you want to sell something like this for a lot of money, the Marketspeak gets pretty thick. I think it's really funny that this is specifically a Windows hack^H^H^H^Hprobing tool, too.
Ah well, it's not as bad as "Digital DNA"; I spent a good afternoon trying to find out information on that until I realized that it meant nothing, stood for nothing, and is basically a stupid abbreviation for "Motorola Technology". They had PRESS RELEASES full of MARKETDROIDS saying things like "It's DNA of the digital variety". WTF??? Grow me a digital person, marketdroid! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
- Always change your default passwords (that is the easiest way to get hacked, as seen in The Cuckoo's Egg, a la Hagbard)
- Never store your passwords in plaintext. Preferably, just hash them.
- Never trust a good password to a website. I have a throw-away password I use for unencrypted web stuff; slashdot can have it, and I'm gonna keep it. If they hack my kuro5hin account, I'll survive.
- Hope for the best, expect the worst. If someone compromises your system, it doesn't matter how nice they are about it; make sure you check everything, regardless. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, maybe I'll give it another shot, but this used to suck. It was a CDE-looking add-on for fvwm, back in the day, and it was a pain to get it to compile.
However, I like the GNOME compliant stuff, and I don't think they wrote it with gtk widgets before, either, so maybe they totally rewrote the thing.
Also, the pictures are under "Snapshots"; please call them screenshots, people; when I see "Snapshots", I expect to see a tgz file with a date on it.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Wow, I just went on a search for MEEPT!! posts, and I found a whole bunch of them, and now I get a *new* one! This is great!
And, so help me, if anyone mods this down for being "Offtopic" or anything else, I'll hunt you down, hack slashdot myself, change your user page to goatse.cx, and post even more comments.
MEEPT!! is back! The world must know! Let every slash poster rejoice, and make merry! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'm not familiar with Microsoft's Transaction Server; isn't COM sort of like CORBA, except that it's a Microsoft Standard instead?
I'm sure Visual Studio lets you mock up a GUI quickly, but I'd be somewhat suspicious of everything else; besides, even Unix people can find GUI-builders if they want them.
Generally, I just don't like the direction that Microsoft takes with their products; I could go through a laundry list of design stuff I don't like with their products, and many other people can, and have.
I liked Borland's stuff, "back in the day", when Microsoft had more competition in the PC world. Of course, I really like Linux, and Unix in general, and from that perspective Microsoft has worked around a *lot* of design flaws to get to where they are.
But my opinion is that the center will not hold in the Microsoft world, and that eventually everything will have to be redesigned, and they'll end up entirely destroying backwards compatibility. That's happening with Windows 2000, so I hope they get it right this time. However, I won't be suffering through it to find out.
I might get a separate DOS machine though, so I can get sound working correctly on the Future Crew demo, and for stuff like that. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If that's what Microsoft's Freedom to Innovate means, keep me out! I can't stand Clippy!
Projected I.E. 8.0 Interface:
-----------------------------
Clippy:"You look like you're posting to slashdot; would you like some help?"
Me:"Yes."
Clippy:"Would you like your post to be:
- Informative
- Funny
- Insightful
- Troll"
Me:"Insightful"
Clippy:"What is the subject?"
Me:"Would You Pay $1000 For Windows?"
Clippy:"Contacting microsoft.com..."
Clippy:"Microsoft® Windows 2000® Advanced Server
What's New
Built on Windows * Windows 2000 Advanced Server
2000 Server contains all the features and
improvements of Windows 2000
Server, plus...
Enhanced SMP and * Deploy the latest server hardware
memory support with up to 8 processors and
support for up to 8 gigabytes of
Random Access Memory (RAM). Ideal
for running today's most demanding
applications.
Network Load * Quickly and easily scale-out Web,
Balancing VPN, and Terminal Services using
integrated TCP/IP load balancing
technology. NLB distributes
incoming requests across farms of
up to 32 servers, enabling rapid,
incremental scalability while
guarding against both planned and
unplanned server downtime.
Cluster Service * Two-node high-availabilty
clustering for applications such
as databases, messaging
applications, and file & print
services. Ideal for
business-critical applications and
services where data integrity and
availability are the key
requirements. Supports rolling
upgrades from Windows NT Server
4.0 clusters (w/ SP4 or higher).
$3,519.00"
Me:"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Also, there is an ext2 defragmenter, I've used it. I don't think it helps much, though. There's also ext2ed, which is the equivalent to 'Norton Utilities', and of course there's mc. ("Midnight Commander"):)
There are also linux programs for analyzing security holes; I'm not quite sure what Expert does, though. For voice stuff, there's mgetty, but I haven't tried to set it up.
I know that Microsoft licensed some stuff from Symantec and put it in DOS (around 6.0 or so?) and they finally have a defragmenter for Windows 2000. They've incorporated the functionality of a few of those utilities, but apparently not well enough to run Symantec out of business yet. Woo hoo! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Precisely; my understanding is that there are some people and businesses that love their stuff, but they're pretty quiet about it. Lotus sold out, and the "IBM Marketing Machine" (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) quietly buried their reputation.
Of course, IBM never releases all the good stuff; I'm sure they have about 12 platforms worth of software that rules all marked "For IBM Internal Use Only" with great documentation that often says "This Page Intentionally Left Blank", all locked away in a dusty old room. They're their own government there; that's why *they* had a lawsuit filed against them by the DOJ back in the day... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Heh, yeah, someone else mentioned FrameMaker, of course you have Reader as well.
Acrobat Reader is actually an ok port; Photoshop 3.0 for Unix blew chunks on Solaris, at least. I hope future Adobe products work decently; we'll see if they can compete with the standard Unix stuff.
I think it's pretty sick that Adobe had to "embrace-and-extend" their own format, PostScript, to make more cash... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, that's why I mentioned InterLeaf; I'm sure there are other similar applications to Quark on Unix, but I haven't used them, 'cause I've never had to.
However, I figured if people can write whole books with TeX, it probably supports a lot of publishing stuff; remember, the first Unix app was roff.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot Mirror
You might get eaten by a Grue...
> Use Brass Lantern
I don't know what "Use" means.
It is dark.
> Turn On Brass Lantern
You are in a cavern.
There is an exit to the north.
> N
You are in a great hall.
It says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
The room is full of passages.
> N
You see a display case in front of you. It says 'hof'.
There are exits to the east, west, and south.
> E
You fall through a trap door.
You are in a deep cavern.
There are trolls lurking about.
> Talk to Trolls
The trolls heckle you.
You are moderated down.
You feel less intelligent.
> E
You step into a pool of slime.
You see an amulet on the ground.
> Take Amulet
You have the Amulet of Karma Whoring +2
> Wear Amulet
You radiate light.
The trolls cower in fear.
You now have secret slashdot knowledge.
> Go Home
Using your new mastery of Slashdot, you go to your homepage, which is 'slashdot.org', because you have no life.
> Shut Up
You feel less intelligent.
> Post to slashdot
You post to the most recent article.
Would you like to hear what the article is about?
--> No
What kind of post would you like?
--> This is not News for Nerds
You are moderated up to +2; you get three replies
> Read replies
Anonymous Coward: j00 suck Karma Whore; I 0wn j00!
> Moderate trolls down
You can't moderate and post in the same account
> Switch to other account
You have no mod points.
Your other account was bitchslapped for abuse.
> Complain to Malda
There is no reply.
> Switch to kuro5hin
Your karma was 253 out of a possible 64,
giving you a rank of Old-school Karma Whore.
# _
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, I don't like the karma cap, but all that means is that you have to keep score yourself. Also, I think that displaying/not displaying karma on your page to other people should be a user-configurable option, because my Karma is definitely part of my user info.
I think that your other idea is basically sound, but needs some work. Realize that Signal 11, as well as most users that post a lot, get moderated down a fair bit, and not always for valid reasons. Therefore, this shouldn't be a number of downward moderations, but rather a percentage.
I know (because of the karma cap) that I've gotten 37 downward moderations since it was enstated, but since that only counts downward moderations, that includes a (-1, Overrated) moderation on a (+5, Insightful) post. That is, what would normally be at least a +3 gain in karma ends up being a -1 loss. Under your system, I might be posting at 0 for posting insightful comments; that's why a flat number won't work for everybody.
Similar proposals have existed in the past, including "aging" of karma. Personally, I would like a simple all-time chart, though, just to keep score. I still think that a really fair way to do moderation probably looks a lot more like kuro5hin, though, and they don't have karma, hence, no need to want to "keep score". That's probably a good thing.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What, is the new limit 64? I only lose points because my karma is well over the new karma cap that was enstated. I asked Rob about it, and he told me that it doesn't matter because high karma doesn't matter. Well, he's right, but it would have been nice to mention that on the site.
.sig; maybe you'll get it on slashdot as a story. You can only expect so much from CmdrTaco and company, and most of the time it doesn't happen. That's why sites like kuro5hin and half-empty exist, because obviously slashdot wasn't enough for some people.
The proper place to go to bitch about moderation is here; that's one thing slashdot *did* get right.
Hey, write a better FAQ, and link to it in your
Personally, I'm still drooling over the skinning support on half-empty. On slashdot, I'd be happy if I could just get a consistent *color scheme*; if Rob implemented a skinning system, I'd probably have a heart attack!
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It's good that someone has proof that hyperlinking is really not a new idea. Of course people do it on the web today, and they did it in gopher, but as far as I'm concerned, references and footnotes in a paper do the same conceptual thing, as does the index in the back of a book, or the table of contents in the front. It does the same thing, too; it points you to a number (a link) where you can find the information on the subject (text of link). Then you follow the link (turn to the page) and read the linked information.
Asimov would often work in uses of hyperlinking in his stories; he was a big fan of it, and thought that if you had a machine that could track your eye movements, then if you stared at a word longer than necessary, it could make references pop up in the margins, and explain the subject. And that was a long time ago, and Asimov is dead now.
The only thing new about hyperlinking was the idea that you could somehow automate this process, but that's not new; people always want to automate things. I'm sure people have said for as long as books have been around in their current form: gee, it'd be nice if I already had this information I wanted on the page in front of me...
Yet another obvious implementation of a real world phenomenon that's unique now because it's on the net.
In the future, this will be abbreviated YAOIOARWPTUNBIOTN.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
They'll probably just end up cutting a deal, but RAMBUS has patents on not just DDR-SDRAM, but SDRAM itself! They have some ridiculously broad patents that should never have been approved in the first place; hopefully this will get struck down due to *obvious* prior-art.
I think it's sad that Intel has these losers around to do their dirty work for them. Remember, "When you can't compete on technical merit, sue!"
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Wow; QBASIC had a PALETTE command and a logical and operator? I never knew that, back then!
:)
I could make *my* simple display hack a lot prettier, now! Thank your friend for me, and ask him where he was 10 years ago when I needed him!
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Can we make it completely anonymous, too?
That way, no one else has to know who you are, or what you're saying... wait, if I wanted that, I could just lock myself in the closet...
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Please, troll moderators, moderate correctly! The above post is Ontopic. It may be many other things, but Offtopic is not one of them.
Here, let me help you in your tasks.
This story is about KBasic, a RAD tool similar to Visual BASIC on Windows, but being developed for KDE on Linux.
My position is that if it is as similar to "Visual BASIC on Windows" as the rest of the K Desktop Environment is to the Windows Desktop Environment, then this would be a manifestly bad thing.
Got it?
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Thanks! That looks pretty cool when bilinearly filtered and scaled to 640x480 in DOSEMU. :)
Incidentally, those lemmings look sorta like penguins, and they can run on Linux! Coincidence? I think not...
SCREEN 13
FOR I = 0 TO 319
FOR J = 0 TO 199
PSET (I, J), I OR J
NEXT J
NEXT I
REM P.S. Boy, the standard DOS color palette bites!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, that's because that sort of thinking tends to crop up more on those GUI, component-based models that imitate the market leader instead of those CLI, component-based models that design for themselves.
Actually, on our system, they're automatically backed up. And it might get root if you're good, but hopefully the sysadmin is better. However, the language *itself* shouldn't require root for its useful features. That's another obvious design flaw that makes everything so much more usable when your system isn't being hosed, apparently.
Here's Microsoft's party line on this stuff. Of course they aren't responsible for designing a system with no security at all; it's those darn 'malicious hackers'. Too bad we don't know how to fix our software to stop them; oh well.
In my opinion, this is a design flaw that should be avoided. That is all.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Oh well; at least it will take a long time to complete...
Please, NO ONE tell them where they can find already completed code or tools to quickly finish this project! Give us time to develop a decent language as a response...
The last thing we need is a custom Macro Virus Language for Linux...
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
*ROFL*
Recently, there has been some interest in classic Slashdot posts, and that whole "specially hand-crafted packets" idea reminds me of this post.
It's sad to see the actual dumb marketing guys imitating the trolls, though.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Unfortunately, that's the same thing. If you stream music to me, I'm downloading it, and there's nothing that says I'm not saving it to disk as well...
Well said. We've been saying this for a while: it's all about control. It's good that legislators are starting to notice this as well.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sending non-standard packets to get information; sounds kinda familiar. Like nmap, or queso.
But I suppose when you want to sell something like this for a lot of money, the Marketspeak gets pretty thick. I think it's really funny that this is specifically a Windows hack^H^H^H^Hprobing tool, too.
Ah well, it's not as bad as "Digital DNA"; I spent a good afternoon trying to find out information on that until I realized that it meant nothing, stood for nothing, and is basically a stupid abbreviation for "Motorola Technology". They had PRESS RELEASES full of MARKETDROIDS saying things like "It's DNA of the digital variety". WTF??? Grow me a digital person, marketdroid!
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
- Always change your default passwords (that is the easiest way to get hacked, as seen in The Cuckoo's Egg, a la Hagbard)
- Never store your passwords in plaintext. Preferably, just hash them.
- Never trust a good password to a website. I have a throw-away password I use for unencrypted web stuff; slashdot can have it, and I'm gonna keep it. If they hack my kuro5hin account, I'll survive.
- Hope for the best, expect the worst. If someone compromises your system, it doesn't matter how nice they are about it; make sure you check everything, regardless.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, maybe I'll give it another shot, but this used to suck. It was a CDE-looking add-on for fvwm, back in the day, and it was a pain to get it to compile.
:)
However, I like the GNOME compliant stuff, and I don't think they wrote it with gtk widgets before, either, so maybe they totally rewrote the thing.
Also, the pictures are under "Snapshots"; please call them screenshots, people; when I see "Snapshots", I expect to see a tgz file with a date on it.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
MEEPT!!
When did you find your password?
Wow, I just went on a search for MEEPT!! posts, and I found a whole bunch of them, and now I get a *new* one! This is great!
And, so help me, if anyone mods this down for being "Offtopic" or anything else, I'll hunt you down, hack slashdot myself, change your user page to goatse.cx, and post even more comments.
MEEPT!! is back! The world must know! Let every slash poster rejoice, and make merry!
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'm not familiar with Microsoft's Transaction Server; isn't COM sort of like CORBA, except that it's a Microsoft Standard instead?
I'm sure Visual Studio lets you mock up a GUI quickly, but I'd be somewhat suspicious of everything else; besides, even Unix people can find GUI-builders if they want them.
Generally, I just don't like the direction that Microsoft takes with their products; I could go through a laundry list of design stuff I don't like with their products, and many other people can, and have.
I liked Borland's stuff, "back in the day", when Microsoft had more competition in the PC world. Of course, I really like Linux, and Unix in general, and from that perspective Microsoft has worked around a *lot* of design flaws to get to where they are.
But my opinion is that the center will not hold in the Microsoft world, and that eventually everything will have to be redesigned, and they'll end up entirely destroying backwards compatibility. That's happening with Windows 2000, so I hope they get it right this time. However, I won't be suffering through it to find out.
I might get a separate DOS machine though, so I can get sound working correctly on the Future Crew demo, and for stuff like that.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Wait up, man...
Maybe some other sites running the Slash code would like five minutes or so to secure their sites before everyone else in the world knows about it?
Or rather, let's make sure everyone's got the fixes before we go passing around the exploits, ok?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
:) Thanks, that's funny as hell!
If that's what Microsoft's Freedom to Innovate means, keep me out! I can't stand Clippy!
Projected I.E. 8.0 Interface:
-----------------------------
Clippy:"You look like you're posting to slashdot; would you like some help?"
Me:"Yes."
Clippy:"Would you like your post to be:
- Informative
- Funny
- Insightful
- Troll"
Me:"Insightful"
Clippy:"What is the subject?"
Me:"Would You Pay $1000 For Windows?"
Clippy:"Contacting microsoft.com..."
Clippy:"Microsoft® Windows 2000® Advanced Server
What's New
Built on Windows * Windows 2000 Advanced Server
2000 Server contains all the features and
improvements of Windows 2000
Server, plus...
Enhanced SMP and * Deploy the latest server hardware
memory support with up to 8 processors and
support for up to 8 gigabytes of
Random Access Memory (RAM). Ideal
for running today's most demanding
applications.
Network Load * Quickly and easily scale-out Web,
Balancing VPN, and Terminal Services using
integrated TCP/IP load balancing
technology. NLB distributes
incoming requests across farms of
up to 32 servers, enabling rapid,
incremental scalability while
guarding against both planned and
unplanned server downtime.
Cluster Service * Two-node high-availabilty
clustering for applications such
as databases, messaging
applications, and file & print
services. Ideal for
business-critical applications and
services where data integrity and
availability are the key
requirements. Supports rolling
upgrades from Windows NT Server
4.0 clusters (w/ SP4 or higher).
$3,519.00"
Me:"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
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Also, there is an ext2 defragmenter, I've used it. I don't think it helps much, though. There's also ext2ed, which is the equivalent to 'Norton Utilities', and of course there's mc. ("Midnight Commander") :)
There are also linux programs for analyzing security holes; I'm not quite sure what Expert does, though. For voice stuff, there's mgetty, but I haven't tried to set it up.
I know that Microsoft licensed some stuff from Symantec and put it in DOS (around 6.0 or so?) and they finally have a defragmenter for Windows 2000. They've incorporated the functionality of a few of those utilities, but apparently not well enough to run Symantec out of business yet. Woo hoo!
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So tell them to post some News for...
what do you mean they fixed it?
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Precisely; my understanding is that there are some people and businesses that love their stuff, but they're pretty quiet about it. Lotus sold out, and the "IBM Marketing Machine" (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) quietly buried their reputation.
Of course, IBM never releases all the good stuff; I'm sure they have about 12 platforms worth of software that rules all marked "For IBM Internal Use Only" with great documentation that often says "This Page Intentionally Left Blank", all locked away in a dusty old room. They're their own government there; that's why *they* had a lawsuit filed against them by the DOJ back in the day...
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Heh, yeah, someone else mentioned FrameMaker, of course you have Reader as well.
Acrobat Reader is actually an ok port; Photoshop 3.0 for Unix blew chunks on Solaris, at least. I hope future Adobe products work decently; we'll see if they can compete with the standard Unix stuff.
I think it's pretty sick that Adobe had to "embrace-and-extend" their own format, PostScript, to make more cash...
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Well, that's why I mentioned InterLeaf; I'm sure there are other similar applications to Quark on Unix, but I haven't used them, 'cause I've never had to.
:)
However, I figured if people can write whole books with TeX, it probably supports a lot of publishing stuff; remember, the first Unix app was roff.
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