Break out the ol' black arm-bands, and print that three-line perl script to encrypt all our data, because the nerds are back...
Maybe eventually we can get rid of "programming patents", since all programming is expressible as a discrete system, and therefore can be formalized as math, and math cannot be patented.
However, any piece of digital information can be expressed as, say, one big number, and that can't be patented either. But tell that to the MPAA/RIAA...
Actually, I'd love to post, say, an mpeg of "The Matrix" in base 10. See if anyone bothers to download it and convert it, *or* tries to sue me.;) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I agree; every version of netscape 4.x has sucked worse than the previous one. I was a big fan of Netscape 2.0 because it didn't know about plug-ins. However, lately I've been using Mozilla. But...
If you have a working windows install, try running IE under Wine. Okay, IE crashes a lot for me as well, but if its more stable for you, then try it out. I've successfully installed and used IE 3.0 for Windows 3.1 under Wine, and I've successfully used IE 4.0 (for '95) under Wine, but couldn't install it fresh, (the network installer breaks under Wine) so only try IE>3.x if you have an existing Windows installation.
And yes, VMWare is slow because it hogs RAM. I know why they do it, but I still don't like it, which is why I prefer DOSEmu and Wine, *and* why neither of those projects are nearly as compatible.:( --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I used optical mice on Sun 3's and Sun 4's, and those are ooold computers. But they aren't exactly desktop machines. And besides, they track too slowly for me. That's one thing I like about a mouse ball, they handle velocity a lot better.
You can tell they aren't desktop machines because they have three buttons, too; Apple should be ready to release *that* new and innovative technology in no less than five years from now, if ever--it's just too dangerous and confusing.;)
I should probably mention here that my girlfriend loves the mouse she has on her PC--it has three regular butttons, two scroll balls, and a thumb button--and she uses them all. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Protest slashdot not putting their new stories on the main page!:)
Yeah, I think they shouldn't allow just anyone to get a.gov site, but he is a *politician*, after all. I mean, he can sign a letter and just send it if he wants to.
Heck, he should buy up slashdot.gov and yahoo.gov while he's at it! Start selling.gov sites to the lowest bidder, this is America! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Even though that was an excellent answer to my question, it raises yet more questions. However, now I'm pretty excited about Linux NOW, so I guess that's a fair trade.
At my University, like so many others, we use AFS and Kerberos to integrate all the machines. It sorta works, but it's messy and annoying, and sometimes it really lags, too. I'd love to see something better, instead of a bunch of symlinks and mount points stuck together with a bunch of duct tape.
Also, I've configured NFS before; we recently needed to share resources between two machines, and that makes things impossible. If one of them goes down, the other one becomes catatonic. I realize NFS on Linux isn't perfect yet; in fact, it's downright bad.
However, my box at home isn't connected, so until something better comes along, I'll run 'make -j' in a corner on my unclustered, uniprocessor box...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Heh; a while back, The Wah (I think it was Wah...) was being downright irrational about the whole mp3 / RIAA / Rosen thing, and trying very hard to get his essay and links posted on slashdot, so I got it posted to kuro5hin instead, and I think he kinda liked the place, too.
...anyhow, the point was, I think that article was linked there too, and in any case it's a great insider's view of the industry.
Oh, and sorry about the Rabid Trolls, dude. That does suck. However, it'll take them a while to recover, since their accounts will probably take a beating from their moderation abuse..... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I stopped buying CDs a long time ago; any CDs I get are gifts / from gift certificates.
That's because I think they're overpriced; therefore, until they get cheaper, I couldn't care less. There's always the radio, and mass distribution of mp3's might serve to bring prices down as well. Someday.
If you use Napster, or a peer-to-peer filesharing method, or whatever to download copyrighted music, there are two people liable: you, and the person at the other end. That's it. That's what peer-to-peer *means*! It is exactly the same as if I called you at your house on my modem, and you said "I've got this cool mp3", and I said "let me download it", and we spent 5 hours using XModem or something.
And there's no way the RIAA is going to sue a significant percentage of their customers for this, especially when they're getting so much good media attention and good sales.
Therefore, mp3's and file sharing are here to stay, and they'll have to deal with it. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If you read the whole thread, you'd see that I mentioned that...
...however, the fact of the matter is, they still only run stories that benefit them, they have content editors and whatnot.
What *I* was referring to was the fact that they are both Microsoft and NBC, or rather the Media arm of a Software Monopoly, which by itself should tell you something. Yeah, I go to Microsoft for all of my unbiased reporting. Especially about macro virii... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Oh, I would *love* to know who's been marking so many *ON-TOPIC* posts as "Off-topic".
At least there are enough real moderators around to fix that, and whoever does this will get absolutely slaughtered in Meta-Moderation...
Hey, moderators: before you waste your points marking this post as "Off-topic", say to yourself: could I use these points to mod someone else up instead? Is this post off-topic, or does it relate somehow to the thread or the discussion forum? Did I read his sig like he asked me to?
And, just to see if you read the whole post... In this Napster article, did that letter to developers sound suspiciously like Bill Gates' "Open Letter to Hobbyists" back in the day? It did to me. Even when they don't mention it, the Microsoft references are still prevalent... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
:) Thanks, that's not a bad early analysis either...
Anyhow, here's a related quote from the article; I love it when MS-NBC pokes fun at Microsoft. They don't put a disclaimer on it because this is taken from the Wall Street Journal, though...
As a condition of using its software, for example, Napster demands that users agree that they won't "decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble" the program, which precludes anyone from trying to figure out how it works. The phrase is a standard one at big commercial-software companies such as Microsoft Corp.
This thing was useless from the start; SETI has had too *many* people processing data for them, to the point that they've complained and sent out false data in the past...
Therefore, a SETI accelerator would be their worst nightmare (unless they could just get one for themselves, and give us all a screensaver that doesn't munch CPU instead...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Shutting down a site until the quality of discussion goes back up...
...what a great idea!
Now all we need to do is get rid of ads, and portal sites, and frames...
Oh yeah, and find a business model for kuro5hin. They probably have the most innovative web-BBS system I've seen, so I'm sure those guys could make something unique and marketable... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
YOU'RE A PATHETIC SACK OF SHIT AND I FOUND YOU OUT! DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD HIDE THE TRUTH FROM US FOR VERY LONG? WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS PATHETIC. GET A FUCKING LIFE, MOTHERFUCKER. IF FLAMING IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU, THEN TRY PLAYING DIABLO II INSTEAD OF RUINING THE COMMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL OF US. I HOPE THAT TACO FUCKING BITCHSLAPS YOU.
Excuse me for yelling, but this so fucking pisses me off that there is no way I can say it gently! SLASHDOT IS FALLING PREY TO A LAMER MAFIA
Let's review the facts:
- The new slashdot site allows logins. The intelligent posts are nowhere to be seen... for a while.
- Around the time of the intelligent post's "return", anonymous cowards start first posting.
- Trolls get accounts to harvest karma.
- Anonymous posts are inexplicably moderated up.
- Intelligent posters give up and start trolling and getting karma, since the trolls have hosed the system.
- Slashdot almost admits how lame it has become.
- Enoch Root and Signal 11 stop caring about the karma and just try to post; but the ACs don't let them.
- Weird conspiracy theory references start popping up.
The truth is quite simple:
At some point, the assholes who were posting anonymously initially got tired of getting moderated down, jealous of anyone with a karma in the viscinity of 35 (Judging by their posts.) Realizing this was stupid, they decided to get karma, either on eBay or by posting intelligently (though I have found no trace of this), or on a hidden sid (perhaps Rob can check it out?)
The victim was Signal 11. Signal 11 is now, in effect, his own Lamer magnet! Also vulnerable is the Enoch Root account, who gets as many flames as the Signal 11 account and gets as jealously moderated down whenever possible.
These pathetic excuses for human beings deserve to be bitchslapped for abusing the system like this. Please, Rob, if you're reading this, BITCHSLAP THE ANONYMOUS COWARD, AND IF POSSIBLE, THE TROLLS WITH LOGINS. Everyone else, please flame stupid posters whenever possible for being such pathetic whiny lamers. Finally, mail Rob to tell him that you are as disgusted by this as I am.
I am not posting this anonymously, because I actually believe content is worth something on here, and I don't want to lose it all to the Anonymous Troll LAMER MAFIA.
In case you didn't know, moderating posts as 'Overrated' doesn't appear in metamoderation, so is used to confuse newbies who don't know how the system works.
And to the Trolls and the ACs, for doing this: fuck you. All of you. You make me want to puke. You might think this is all a game, and I take Slashdot too seriously. Perhaps. But what you did is still pathetic and very, very sad.
A (rightfully so) Slashdot User --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Don't spend all that time enabling ssh and securing your box, and then just give everyone the password, and let them write all over your web pages? Is that tip in there?:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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Actually, I want to know what program they used to *generate* it...:)
I wrote something similar in C (that interfaces with convert; I didn't write any *real* image code if you're wondering:), but my program tends to use two characters/image pixel, just to keep things looking square, and I make sure to use PRE blocks to keep it aligned.
A later version attempted to do sub-pixel anti-aliasing, and optimizing for size by ignoring close colors, but it wasn't incredibly successful. Also, I could probably rewrite the whole thing in Perl now, and it'd be tiny. (and then backport it to C again if I need the speed.;) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Duh. Of course it has a "Bus", that's the interconnection network. I like hypercubes, I draw them sometimes; it's a simple application of set theory, really...
However, my point was, I can see having 11.2 or 44.8 GB/sec, but *not* 716 GB/sec!
So is *that* a typo? (not 71.6; 716!) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Microsoft does nothing original. If it looks original, or even halfway decent, they stole the idea, or bought it from someone else. Look it up. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'd use ssh; get everyone on the same server in a "safe" country. And be paranoid.
...or if you're the kind of person who keeps all your money stuffed in your bed, you could go the other route, and find a seedy bar somewhere, and talk in a dark corner. Better atmosphere.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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Will it run on a Crusoe chip?
Scratch that; a better question would be "WHEN will we see anything that will run on a Crusoe chip?"
Embedded Linux sounds like a great idea for a lot of applications, and so do portable low-power devices with pretty flat screens.
(but I want an Oompa Loompa NOW!)
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Break out the ol' black arm-bands, and print that three-line perl script to encrypt all our data, because the nerds are back...
;)
Maybe eventually we can get rid of "programming patents", since all programming is expressible as a discrete system, and therefore can be formalized as math, and math cannot be patented.
However, any piece of digital information can be expressed as, say, one big number, and that can't be patented either. But tell that to the MPAA/RIAA...
Actually, I'd love to post, say, an mpeg of "The Matrix" in base 10. See if anyone bothers to download it and convert it, *or* tries to sue me.
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I agree; every version of netscape 4.x has sucked worse than the previous one. I was a big fan of Netscape 2.0 because it didn't know about plug-ins. However, lately I've been using Mozilla. But...
:(
If you have a working windows install, try running IE under Wine. Okay, IE crashes a lot for me as well, but if its more stable for you, then try it out. I've successfully installed and used IE 3.0 for Windows 3.1 under Wine, and I've successfully used IE 4.0 (for '95) under Wine, but couldn't install it fresh, (the network installer breaks under Wine) so only try IE>3.x if you have an existing Windows installation.
And yes, VMWare is slow because it hogs RAM. I know why they do it, but I still don't like it, which is why I prefer DOSEmu and Wine, *and* why neither of those projects are nearly as compatible.
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I used optical mice on Sun 3's and Sun 4's, and those are ooold computers. But they aren't exactly desktop machines. And besides, they track too slowly for me. That's one thing I like about a mouse ball, they handle velocity a lot better.
;)
You can tell they aren't desktop machines because they have three buttons, too; Apple should be ready to release *that* new and innovative technology in no less than five years from now, if ever--it's just too dangerous and confusing.
I should probably mention here that my girlfriend loves the mouse she has on her PC--it has three regular butttons, two scroll balls, and a thumb button--and she uses them all.
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Protest slashdot not putting their new stories on the main page! :)
.gov site, but he is a *politician*, after all. I mean, he can sign a letter and just send it if he wants to.
.gov sites to the lowest bidder, this is America!
Yeah, I think they shouldn't allow just anyone to get a
Heck, he should buy up slashdot.gov and yahoo.gov while he's at it! Start selling
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Damn! You took the words right out of my mouth!
Someone mod this up...
...well... I thought it was funny.
Maybe it's the caffeine talking. *sob*
Anyhow, what's so surprising about support / lack thereof? I'm amazed Linux has some I2O support, actually.
And wouldn't this be related to USB support?
Oh well, I'll be getting a new computer soon, so I'll probably get to check it out then...
(I'm more interested in DVD Support, though)
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Even though that was an excellent answer to my question, it raises yet more questions. However, now I'm pretty excited about Linux NOW, so I guess that's a fair trade.
At my University, like so many others, we use AFS and Kerberos to integrate all the machines. It sorta works, but it's messy and annoying, and sometimes it really lags, too. I'd love to see something better, instead of a bunch of symlinks and mount points stuck together with a bunch of duct tape.
Also, I've configured NFS before; we recently needed to share resources between two machines, and that makes things impossible. If one of them goes down, the other one becomes catatonic. I realize NFS on Linux isn't perfect yet; in fact, it's downright bad.
However, my box at home isn't connected, so until something better comes along, I'll run 'make -j' in a corner on my unclustered, uniprocessor box...
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Heh; a while back, The Wah (I think it was Wah...) was being downright irrational about the whole mp3 / RIAA / Rosen thing, and trying very hard to get his essay and links posted on slashdot, so I got it posted to kuro5hin instead, and I think he kinda liked the place, too.
...anyhow, the point was, I think that article was linked there too, and in any case it's a great insider's view of the industry.
Oh, and sorry about the Rabid Trolls, dude. That does suck. However, it'll take them a while to recover, since their accounts will probably take a beating from their moderation abuse.....
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I stopped buying CDs a long time ago; any CDs I get are gifts / from gift certificates.
That's because I think they're overpriced; therefore, until they get cheaper, I couldn't care less. There's always the radio, and mass distribution of mp3's might serve to bring prices down as well. Someday.
If you use Napster, or a peer-to-peer filesharing method, or whatever to download copyrighted music, there are two people liable: you, and the person at the other end. That's it. That's what peer-to-peer *means*! It is exactly the same as if I called you at your house on my modem, and you said "I've got this cool mp3", and I said "let me download it", and we spent 5 hours using XModem or something.
And there's no way the RIAA is going to sue a significant percentage of their customers for this, especially when they're getting so much good media attention and good sales.
Therefore, mp3's and file sharing are here to stay, and they'll have to deal with it.
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If you read the whole thread, you'd see that I mentioned that...
...however, the fact of the matter is, they still only run stories that benefit them, they have content editors and whatnot.
What *I* was referring to was the fact that they are both Microsoft and NBC, or rather the Media arm of a Software Monopoly, which by itself should tell you something. Yeah, I go to Microsoft for all of my unbiased reporting. Especially about macro virii...
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Oh, I would *love* to know who's been marking so many *ON-TOPIC* posts as "Off-topic".
At least there are enough real moderators around to fix that, and whoever does this will get absolutely slaughtered in Meta-Moderation...
Hey, moderators: before you waste your points marking this post as "Off-topic", say to yourself: could I use these points to mod someone else up instead? Is this post off-topic, or does it relate somehow to the thread or the discussion forum? Did I read his sig like he asked me to?
And, just to see if you read the whole post... In this Napster article, did that letter to developers sound suspiciously like Bill Gates' "Open Letter to Hobbyists" back in the day? It did to me. Even when they don't mention it, the Microsoft references are still prevalent...
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Anyhow, here's a related quote from the article; I love it when MS-NBC pokes fun at Microsoft. They don't put a disclaimer on it because this is taken from the Wall Street Journal, though...
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Someone should write an article about the two sides of MS-NBC...
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This thing was useless from the start; SETI has had too *many* people processing data for them, to the point that they've complained and sent out false data in the past...
:)
Therefore, a SETI accelerator would be their worst nightmare (unless they could just get one for themselves, and give us all a screensaver that doesn't munch CPU instead...
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Shutting down a site until the quality of discussion goes back up...
...what a great idea!
Now all we need to do is get rid of ads, and portal sites, and frames...
Oh yeah, and find a business model for kuro5hin. They probably have the most innovative web-BBS system I've seen, so I'm sure those guys could make something unique and marketable...
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YOU'RE A PATHETIC SACK OF SHIT AND I FOUND YOU OUT! DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD HIDE THE TRUTH FROM US FOR VERY LONG? WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS PATHETIC. GET A FUCKING LIFE, MOTHERFUCKER. IF FLAMING IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU, THEN TRY PLAYING DIABLO II INSTEAD OF RUINING THE COMMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL OF US. I HOPE THAT TACO FUCKING BITCHSLAPS YOU.
Excuse me for yelling, but this so fucking pisses me off that there is no way I can say it gently! SLASHDOT IS FALLING PREY TO A LAMER MAFIA
Let's review the facts:
- The new slashdot site allows logins. The intelligent posts are nowhere to be seen... for a while.
- Around the time of the intelligent post's "return", anonymous cowards start first posting.
- Trolls get accounts to harvest karma.
- Anonymous posts are inexplicably moderated up.
- Intelligent posters give up and start trolling and getting karma, since the trolls have hosed the system.
- Slashdot almost admits how lame it has become.
- Enoch Root and Signal 11 stop caring about the karma and just try to post; but the ACs don't let them.
- Weird conspiracy theory references start popping up.
The truth is quite simple:
At some point, the assholes who were posting anonymously initially got tired of getting moderated down, jealous of anyone with a karma in the viscinity of 35 (Judging by their posts.) Realizing this was stupid, they decided to get karma, either on eBay or by posting intelligently (though I have found no trace of this), or on a hidden sid (perhaps Rob can check it out?)
The victim was Signal 11. Signal 11 is now, in effect, his own Lamer magnet! Also vulnerable is the Enoch Root account, who gets as many flames as the Signal 11 account and gets as jealously moderated down whenever possible.
These pathetic excuses for human beings deserve to be bitchslapped for abusing the system like this. Please, Rob, if you're reading this, BITCHSLAP THE ANONYMOUS COWARD, AND IF POSSIBLE, THE TROLLS WITH LOGINS. Everyone else, please flame stupid posters whenever possible for being such pathetic whiny lamers. Finally, mail Rob to tell him that you are as disgusted by this as I am.
I am not posting this anonymously, because I actually believe content is worth something on here, and I don't want to lose it all to the Anonymous Troll LAMER MAFIA.
In case you didn't know, moderating posts as 'Overrated' doesn't appear in metamoderation, so is used to confuse newbies who don't know how the system works.
And to the Trolls and the ACs, for doing this: fuck you. All of you. You make me want to puke. You might think this is all a game, and I take Slashdot too seriously. Perhaps. But what you did is still pathetic and very, very sad.
A (rightfully so) Slashdot User
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Don't spend all that time enabling ssh and securing your box, and then just give everyone the password, and let them write all over your web pages? Is that tip in there? :)
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Actually, I want to know what program they used to *generate* it... :)
:), but my program tends to use two characters/image pixel, just to keep things looking square, and I make sure to use PRE blocks to keep it aligned.
;)
I wrote something similar in C (that interfaces with convert; I didn't write any *real* image code if you're wondering
A later version attempted to do sub-pixel anti-aliasing, and optimizing for size by ignoring close colors, but it wasn't incredibly successful. Also, I could probably rewrite the whole thing in Perl now, and it'd be tiny. (and then backport it to C again if I need the speed.
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Ah!
That was the crucial detail I was missing.
Thank you very much.
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Duh. Of course it has a "Bus", that's the interconnection network. I like hypercubes, I draw them sometimes; it's a simple application of set theory, really...
However, my point was, I can see having 11.2 or 44.8 GB/sec, but *not* 716 GB/sec!
So is *that* a typo? (not 71.6; 716!)
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System Bandwidth
3200: 11.2 Gigabytes/sec
3400: 44.8 GB/sec
3800: 716 GB/sec
...methinks they skipped a decimal point here.
(if not, please explain!)
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Steven King bought your account?
So he could post his book at +2?
Now I'm confused...
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Nothing beats my NES controller. :)
Find an old Sun mouse; it has a laser.
Play Civ, the *original* strategy game.
Microsoft does nothing original. If it looks original, or even halfway decent, they stole the idea, or bought it from someone else. Look it up.
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I'd use ssh; get everyone on the same server in a "safe" country. And be paranoid.
:)
...or if you're the kind of person who keeps all your money stuffed in your bed, you could go the other route, and find a seedy bar somewhere, and talk in a dark corner. Better atmosphere.
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The slashdot crowd will support "The Lone Gunmen", I'm sure.
Even if our kung-fu is better than theirs...
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