I can see your life is as empty as Jon Katz's. I like it that I can upset you so much with a simple misspelling. I will now laugh out loud everytime I make you waste another post with corrections.
In fact I will make som more of them for you to corret so taht I can watch you waste even more of your live being mentaly constrained.
Its like watching OCD victims walk theu a messy room.
What strikes again is a human who cant adapt to a simple misspelling. If you are so tightly wound you cant read thru a simple typo, then maybe you should seek reeducation.
Mizpellrs f teh wirld untie
I hope evolution breeds out that sort of rigidity from the species.
Here we are , another week older and yet still another airball piece richer by Jon Katz.
Whats Jon's Cause de jour?
The Net Haves And Have Nots -----------------------------
Have you looked in the librarys around the country and seen the computers there for use by ANYONE? Have you looked at the shelters and clubs for kids where computers are now part of the standard drill? Do you even acknowledge the fact that with in 20 years of thier creation more people than EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE are using computers and the net?
Does the fact that in the few decades computers have been in place MORE poepl are using them then were able to read a century ago? That by going to a library or school, or a $500 home computer and a $9 a month net account if you are a "privalaged few", you can tap into more information that was available to most professors and high thinks 50 years ago?
Did you stop to think this was an evolving situation and that in the 20 some odd years of home computers, and the bearly 10 years of commercial net acces, we as a society en masse are light years ahead of most science fiction works of the 60's?
No, you went for the standard arguement starting flamebait. Short sighted weak tea and stale cookies Jon, and its getting obvious your not up to regular commentary of worth.
Yes folks, Mr Katz was probably strapped for text this week so he went back to Raving Rant Tract number 23 and replaced the word Money with The Internet.
What he does is another boring old tired rant on how there is disparity of users and non users, how we using the Net should be ashamed because there are those who cant.
Jon, even for you this rant was weak. I liked it better when you at least tried to but some creative umph in the verbage, but this was like you listened to some NYU student on a drunken rant in some hip village bar as they spent thier parents money on drinks for every one from the SDS.
Your main thrust is that of some vague shame I should be feeling for being where I am in my life. Well I feel no shame in it at all. I am where I am for a reason. Im a kid from the Bronx who loves computers.
NO shame from me, only pride that I am part of something that is gorwing to make the globe a place of knowing and maybe help the people of the world read stuff like yours and think "what primative mind made this noise?"
I can only vebture to guese what Jons next article will be about...maybe Slavery in the Digital Age or A Declaration of Netizens.....buzz buzzz buzzzword man making all a buzzz word can.
It amazes me the level of unthought that goes into some of JK's media knee jerk articles. Big Biz is always the Bad Guy, Money is the Wages OF Sin, Winning=Loosing....
With amazon I think the jk trend is once again clearly shown. Let something grow big enough, then smash it down with an 3l3tist underdog punchout.
Now lets set aside the rhetoric of the "opressed masses being down trodden by the evil captialist" and look to see what is being said here.
JK loved amazon, had lurid dreams of mass market geeky splendor over the IDEA of buying books over the net. It is a great idea to be sure, but as with all blowhards and windbags for hire JK was predestined to turn on that which he loved so well.
JK i think would be quick to throw his verbal support behind most anything that Looks like a geek and Talks like a Geek and , thanks to the current mass market mangling of the word, is as far from Geek as Starbucks is from JD's Corner Cafe and Cigar Emporium
He is not alone in this. How many things do you support that have the out apperance of this thing called "geek" but are in fact simple old trype in new terms?
Amazon is out to make a bigger growing bizness. Wow..what an evil thought. Im sure JK would continue to bow at thier feet ifthey had at least kept thier "small net industry" image another year or two, even though as has been pointed out here Amazon is one of the forces in destroying something called Local Booksellers.
Now some may say this destruction is bad, some may say it is merely the consolidation of forces under one marketable net image (insert SF ad created logo and qt file here). Some would argue that it is the diversity of an indusrty that keeps it growing,not in the every grwoing unisource approach.
For myself, I spend my money (which is how consumers VOTE for a thing to stay in existence) at a local book sellers named Powells Tech. In Portland Powells is the biggest little bookseller:)- Also in Portland there are great little local SF shops, Record stores and specialty shops.
It is a city, in short, whos economy supports the idea of capitalistic diversity in the face of mass market monarchy.
Think Global, act local is a phrase often used but rarely understood.
I would suggest JK look beyond the press releases and obvious children of the so called geek movement and judge on a value system, rather than a system of rhetoric.
--No animals were harmed in this adventure in misspelling--
Amazon is pooopy when compared to Powells. POwells Tech Annex even has a cafe, again, attached aso you can sit with the newest Oriely book and chug a Chai.
Makes Web Brower book buying just that much less attractive.
(you know your a powells addict, when you color code your home library like powells)
Its sad to see people actulay wanting ports of otherwise worthless Apps over to a good OS.
Brainpower should win out over bloatpower. Lotus office products are by and far the dog doodoo on the bottom of the office apps shoes. Notes is the Mekong Delta (VietName era) of groupware.
Rather we should petition GOOD CODE BUILDERS to make office apps that are more in working with a good OS, not settle for the same old some old
(I can say this with some sure mindedness because I use thee products on a dialy basis, as well as other "office apps". It would be sad to see *nix simply port this stuff over like lap dogs in a commercial sense)
It doesnt have the typical I HATE MS rants that garner approval, it doesnt mention Linux or name drop people working in the field, and you dont mention once that you are a Penguin Paladin.
If i hadnt already posted to the thread I would have moded it up...but i already opened my big trap on this one.
Thinking for yourself is a scary thing for the jhaders, it means they wold have to have an origanl though, not some ready built one.
If you want to truly disarm MS you dont stand and ball like a child whose pop rocks supply has been cut off....You learn thier tactics and make sure there is no hope of them using them on your own stuff or stuff you care about.
To wit, read a little more about Active State perl and its particulars before you start the hand wringing and appocylpictical chantings.
As the plastice bristly hair miltary man once said, after I pulled his cord, "knowing is half the battle"..(the other half is a good sucker punch but they didnt put that on his recorded sayings.)
Learn and grow....Bellyache and get milk of magnesia
So your saying that people ("non geeks" in your terms) using perl are the problem?
No clearer statement of 3/_3+3/5+ slime need be said, that says it all.
Hey knucklehead, get off your jihad crusade stallion and realize the you me and all inbetween are PEOPLE, and that we not only make up soylent green, we make up the world you live in.
Its got to be a sorry little kingdom where in you are besiege 24/7by the hounds of the PEOPLE, stelaing your music, your lifestyle, YOUR SCRIPTING LANGUAGES..
How do you survive brave warrior of the Chosen? Tell us your holy secrets.
[and this my fellow readers is what the core of many problems stem. learn from it to avoid it]
In a time when you are forced to watch your heros go corporate(linux, Redhat, the whole "geek" lifestyle in general) what you do and how you respond speaks volumes to the true nature of your intents.
Mostly what we have here are the wailing of spoiled 3/_33+/5+5 and "LIfe style in a box" sellouts who think becuase they call themselves "GEEKS" they are any less vapid then yuppies, buppies, hippes and republicrats.
Each and every time something comes along , fact or fictional, that rocks the tree house the wail goes up. The lattest round is Perl. Hey, guese what, theres been perl on MS machines for a while now. Do you feel threatened by that? Dose your moral ineptitude fall apart in the face of that fact?
Perl on windows means more people are expoused to perl....which if you follow the IDEAS behind the life style most of you have bought from your local mall, is a GOOD THING. The more people turned on to these ideas the better.
Purists, jihaders and thier little cousins the 3/_3+3 will of course see this as a BAD THING, because it erodes the power base they can call thier own. Tin tyrants with smiles and "You are evil becuase..." rehotric do more harm to the idea of a Free Flowing Open Exchange of Ideas than all thier little nightmare monsters and spindoctored fears.
"MS is the enemey!!!" "No Redhat is the enemy!!!" "Look now IBM is getting too big again, they are the enemy!!" "This chesee sandwich im eating is the enemy!!"
Fear, as the little green muppet said, leads to the Dark Side. And folks,as the skinny heroin junky once sang. Welcome to the jungle.
If this had been MS there would be the usual full on screaming that MS is the worst company in the world.
If this had been Linux or Unix there would be a patch for it already and all the arguement would have been over how to fix it
Buts its Apple, so what we get instead is excuses, the same old jihad bait as ever, and pointing fingers all around.
More telling than it should be, less filling then it ought...once again proving that if you cant fix your rig your the hapless crackwhore to the forces that be.
So next time your offering prayers to your fave OS heed the words of Frank Zappa;
"Remeber, theres not much differnce between kneeling down and bending over"
I have been seeing more and more of this with the flood of underexperienced sysadmins ("well i ran a linux box at home for a month, so I can run your company's servers")
Simple is often not the best method, and in thwarting the attacks of the scriptkiddies and lameroids Simplicity itself is often a weapon used against the secure seeking admin.
Byzantine methodolgoies in and of themself are not what is needed, but rather robust plans whos unravelings would require machinations and permutations of actions that only the sharper and more attentive of webwhacking minds would want to do the tango of attack with.
[ed note. this one rambles a bit, but stick with me, it has a payoff]
The simple fact is this...Much of the value systems found in folk who care about the net is absent from the mainstream masses who are now the majority of the net.
But who the hell wants to be mainstream? If your looking at being a pseudo geek, some modern day wanabe who wears the right clothes, speaks the right speak and uses all the Hip Appz the you are doomed to loose. You will always be exposed for the utter lamer you are.
Things were a bit different when the implemntation of advancement was in the hands( wether by procalim,dictate, or by stealing them) of the people doing the grunt work of building the code. Back then you could be a vlaue to the growth or a bystander to it or a particpant in its day in day out evolution in one of a million ways.
Now its suits, roots for hire, and loots. Money talk and jihads are nice PR. People feel that by using the right appz they are "netSavy" or tht by being seen reading the right mags they will be "in". Dont worry that you cant understand, or even try to , 3/4 of the Linux Journal you walk around the office with. Dont worry that if push came to shove you wouldnt be able to get your rig back up and running without a whinny call to Tech Support.
Which lead us to the point, that being about Winamp being snatched up by AOL.
SO WHAT.
If you are on/. and are the salve of one particular brand name, you are doomed to loose. If you are so weak as to let other people force you to use softs and apps not of your liking, and let yourself be trapped in a closed system hell, then you are doomed to loose.
When winamp came up it was heralded as the great saviour of the music distro sceen, and it was. It had its glory and is now moving to another phase. I say fucking great, congrats to the AZ boys and gals and I hope you save a little of the cash for your golden years.
To those that need to be on the bleedig edge of NonCorporate living its time to get a new mp3 player. BIG FUCKING DEAL. There are a whole slew of em and more comming out.
The folks at Nullsoft did thier thing, they got in the dirt and built something that was of use to the nets growth and use. Nothing can take that away from them. They did it, and if your gooing to belittle that fact, ask yourself...what have you done to make the net a better place?
Mirror time folks. The Nullsofties and folks like them deserve to take their creations and do what they want with them. Nothing is stopping the folks at Kjofol or Sonique or Icecast from taking up the ball. Nothing at all.
Its the net, and its a big old tumble of fun. If you cant stand the chaos, go get an AOL disk and enjoy the massmarket version of it; beacuse honey, its gonna be a bumpy ride and I dont want to be dealing with your getting sick everytime we hit some turbulence.
Look back on these comments, and look at the Voice article...
Take any phrase that starts or relys on the phrase "all:every[implied or not] white males"
Replace "white males" with "african-americans" "jews" "muslims" "gays"
Reread it in its new state.
Send a small note off to the author... "Good morning sunshine, your a racist"
The Village Voice of course, and its minions of the "cause" would then launch into the whole "I cant be a racists because the white male power structure holds all the cards and with out an opressive force you cant be racist"..and of course you can just sit there and smile and say "good morning sunchine, your a racist".
Then they might come back at you with some Rage Against My Cherios sounding rhetoric about "the criss cross power structa come down and holding us down by thier horse ridding badges and lilly white chosen" to which you can smile happily and hum to them, to the tune of "mmmmm bop" "goodmorning sunshine, your a racist"
The power to be washed over by the mass cry to be the power
Well lets look at the problem this way, why is it that the "community" (an over used word on this medium) is in dire threat of the anon voice?
Is the resolve or the voice of the community so frail as to make it possible for others to sack it whole?
For me what anon posts is held to the same scrutiny as what a named user posts, that is the "Content" is the judge, not the name. A name is a handle, it is not the message.
Anon allows expressions for some who are tied to the old Name/Content dilema. It can be used for bad as well as for good. those that are willing to throw the content out with the name are the same ones who should be first up against the wall when the shithouse blows its lid.
Of course human nature what it is, this sort of mentality will live on in each batch of podlings that are hatched on the sceen.
"dont judge a book by its cover cause by night im one hell of a lover" Dr Frank N Futer
I guese its time for another episode of "Name that fuzzy warm feeling"
Watching as the users of the net name, rename, invent, reinvent, rereinvent and then rename the reinvention is almost, almost mind you, fun to watch.
I understand the need to name things, people spend years of thier life in school to learn the names of things, to learn the nature of the names meanings, and maybe sometimes even interact with the things they name.
You name something, you make an attachment to it. It becomes something not otherly, but something of you. You can lay an easy hand on the worn handles.
The country was there before Lewis and Clark took to yelling out names from a cannoe ("Hey Lewis, what do you want to call this wet stuff we are drowning in?""What about ITSFUCKINGCOLD River?" "I doubt if Mr Jefferson is gonna go for that." "OK call it the Columbia for all I care.")Once named the country was not the great unkown, it was the North West passage, it was Oregon and Washington.
Knowing this we can clearly see the zeitgiest of the web clawing at any chance for worth, and in this attempt to name a thing that is.
Remeber back to the begining of the web, when the content was sparse but everyone had to put up a page. These pages were often personal insites scattered with lists of links (remeber well lynx and its grandfather gopher, links of links with the content under it all). One of the critism of early web sites were that they were too personal, that no one would want to read someones list of interests, likes/dislikes (think playboy centerfold material) and quipy witisms .
But some of those sites flourished. Blues News and Daves Classics to name but two. Very much the creation and mindset of a person and in some cases a group of people.
Weblogs is a horrible name. There is already something called a web log. This is another ding in paint of the web users creativity, not only are they renaming something that has pretty much always been on the web, but they are renaming it to something that already names a thing.
Instead of WebLog I can thnk of a few more usefull and vastly more enjoyable names.
PageWithLinks ContentKiosks Soapboxes Curiosity Cabinets Steamertrunks Of Ripe Underwear RatPackers Things That Make Your Modem Go Hmmmmmmmm
A rose by any other name etc etc (or to update the steinesque wordage "a lamer in any other syntax would still be as/_@/\/\3"
So here we are, another name for what already is. Its not that I dont dig the meme and procedures for creation of great sites spreading to wider minds, but can we please rework the Gee Wizz Press Blurbs stage of its evolution more often? Please, for me?
The so called linux "community" will turn on various parts of itself with the same vengence they play OS jihad amongst other os's.
This is to be expected from teh narrow minded personalities that take on OS's as sacred religious duty.
In so doing the fantics will feed the press and make the 'community' the court jester to other OS makers.
This may cause several courses of action, one of which may be that Linux users,relegated to second class status linux users will mirgrate to BSD, Solairs, BeOs, and anyother os that will not carry the stigma of court jesterdom.
This shouldnt be allowed to happen. Fight stupidity, kill a jihader today.
Real is probably my least fave company at the moment, outside of the RIAA. Real is playing lackey to the RIAA and its plans to close up the sources for content on the net.
Talk about a company aspiring to be MSesque this is it.
Thier buying Xing will be interesting. Can they incorporate mp3 into thier way fo thinking, will crappy sounding RA files bcome MP3s with another extension?
Gore through word sounds like hes the Nerd Canidate of choice...But anyone with two halfs a brain will then read his words and track record..
--support of tipper gores PMRC crusade
--vocal and legislative support of Crypto Controls
--vocal and legislative support of Internet Controls
--vocal and legislative support of Censorship in the school and in the general media
His stance on the environment have provento be more sham than not. In his time as both legislator and VP he has done way more harm than good, has viilated most of the statements of purpose he laid out in his book, and proves himself to talk out of all three orifces at once.
Think of his actions...and his baggage...and who is going to vote for him?
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Hi mr spell nazi;
I can see your life is as empty as Jon Katz's.
I like it that I can upset you so much with a simple misspelling. I will now laugh out loud everytime I make you waste another post with corrections.
In fact I will make som more of them for you to corret so taht I can watch you waste even more of your live being mentaly constrained.
Its like watching OCD victims walk theu a messy room.
Mizpelrs Ov teh whirled Untie
What strikes again is a human who cant adapt to a simple misspelling. If you are so tightly wound you cant read thru a simple typo, then maybe you should seek reeducation.
Mizpellrs f teh wirld untie
I hope evolution breeds out that sort of rigidity from the species.
Here we are , another week older and yet still another airball piece richer by Jon Katz.
Whats Jon's Cause de jour?
The Net Haves And Have Nots
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Have you looked in the librarys around the country and seen the computers there for use by ANYONE? Have you looked at the shelters and clubs for kids where computers are now part of the standard drill? Do you even acknowledge the fact that with in 20 years of thier creation more people than EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE are using computers and the net?
Does the fact that in the few decades computers have been in place MORE poepl are using them then were able to read a century ago? That by going to a library or school, or a $500 home computer and a $9 a month net account if you are a "privalaged few", you can tap into more information that was available to most professors and high thinks 50 years ago?
Did you stop to think this was an evolving situation and that in the 20 some odd years of home computers, and the bearly 10 years of commercial net acces, we as a society en masse are light years ahead of most science fiction works of the 60's?
No, you went for the standard arguement starting flamebait. Short sighted weak tea and stale cookies Jon, and its getting obvious your not up to regular commentary of worth.
Yes folks, Mr Katz was probably strapped for text this week so he went back to Raving Rant Tract number 23 and replaced the word Money with The Internet.
What he does is another boring old tired rant on how there is disparity of users and non users, how we using the Net should be ashamed because there are those who cant.
Jon, even for you this rant was weak. I liked it better when you at least tried to but some creative umph in the verbage, but this was like you listened to some NYU student on a drunken rant in some hip village bar as they spent thier parents money on drinks for every one from the SDS.
Your main thrust is that of some vague shame I should be feeling for being where I am in my life. Well I feel no shame in it at all. I am where I am for a reason. Im a kid from the Bronx who loves computers.
NO shame from me, only pride that I am part of something that is gorwing to make the globe a place of knowing and maybe help the people of the world read stuff like yours and think "what primative mind made this noise?"
I can only vebture to guese what Jons next article will be about...maybe Slavery in the Digital Age or A Declaration of Netizens.....buzz buzzz buzzzword man making all a buzzz word can.
It amazes me the level of unthought that goes into some of JK's media knee jerk articles.
Big Biz is always the Bad Guy, Money is the Wages OF Sin, Winning=Loosing....
With amazon I think the jk trend is once again clearly shown. Let something grow big enough, then smash it down with an 3l3tist underdog punchout.
Now lets set aside the rhetoric of the "opressed masses being down trodden by the evil captialist" and look to see what is being said here.
JK loved amazon, had lurid dreams of mass market geeky splendor over the IDEA of buying books over the net. It is a great idea to be sure, but as with all blowhards and windbags for hire JK was predestined to turn on that which he loved so well.
JK i think would be quick to throw his verbal support behind most anything that Looks like a geek and Talks like a Geek and , thanks to the current mass market mangling of the word, is as far from Geek as Starbucks is from JD's Corner Cafe and Cigar Emporium
He is not alone in this. How many things do you support that have the out apperance of this thing called "geek" but are in fact simple old trype in new terms?
Amazon is out to make a bigger growing bizness. Wow..what an evil thought. Im sure JK would continue to bow at thier feet ifthey had at least kept thier "small net industry" image another year or two, even though as has been pointed out here Amazon is one of the forces in destroying something called Local Booksellers.
Now some may say this destruction is bad, some may say it is merely the consolidation of forces under one marketable net image (insert SF ad created logo and qt file here). Some would argue that it is the diversity of an indusrty that keeps it growing,not in the every grwoing unisource approach.
For myself, I spend my money (which is how consumers VOTE for a thing to stay in existence) at a local book sellers named Powells Tech. In Portland Powells is the biggest little bookseller:)- Also in Portland there are great little local SF shops, Record stores and specialty shops.
It is a city, in short, whos economy supports the idea of capitalistic diversity in the face of mass market monarchy.
Think Global, act local is a phrase often used but rarely understood.
I would suggest JK look beyond the press releases and obvious children of the so called geek movement and judge on a value system, rather than a system of rhetoric.
--No animals were harmed in this adventure in misspelling--
As a fellow Portlandier I have to agree 100%
Amazon is pooopy when compared to Powells. POwells Tech Annex even has a cafe, again, attached aso you can sit with the newest Oriely book and chug a Chai.
Makes Web Brower book buying just that much less attractive.
(you know your a powells addict, when you color code your home library like powells)
Its sad to see people actulay wanting ports of otherwise worthless Apps over to a good OS.
Brainpower should win out over bloatpower. Lotus office products are by and far the dog doodoo on the bottom of the office apps shoes. Notes is the Mekong Delta (VietName era) of groupware.
Rather we should petition GOOD CODE BUILDERS to make office apps that are more in working with a good OS, not settle for the same old some old
(I can say this with some sure mindedness because I use thee products on a dialy basis, as well as other "office apps". It would be sad to see *nix simply port this stuff over like lap dogs in a commercial sense)
tad jumpy there, aint ya?
so rather than post a cry for help, why dont you try to get to the meat of the matter...or is it simply that its all reaction and no action..
Like i said before, the real tell of a persons worth is in thier actions.
whomp
Great post.
It doesnt have the typical I HATE MS rants that garner approval, it doesnt mention Linux or name drop people working in the field, and you dont mention once that you are a Penguin Paladin.
If i hadnt already posted to the thread I would have moded it up...but i already opened my big trap on this one.
Thinking for yourself is a scary thing for the jhaders, it means they wold have to have an origanl though, not some ready built one.
If you want to truly disarm MS you dont stand and ball like a child whose pop rocks supply has been cut off....You learn thier tactics and make sure there is no hope of them using them on your own stuff or stuff you care about.
To wit, read a little more about Active State perl and its particulars before you start the hand wringing and appocylpictical chantings.
As the plastice bristly hair miltary man once said, after I pulled his cord, "knowing is half the battle"..(the other half is a good sucker punch but they didnt put that on his recorded sayings.)
Learn and grow....Bellyache and get milk of magnesia
So your saying that people ("non geeks" in your terms) using perl are the problem?
No clearer statement of 3/_3+3/5+ slime need be said, that says it all.
Hey knucklehead, get off your jihad crusade stallion and realize the you me and all inbetween are PEOPLE, and that we not only make up soylent green, we make up the world you live in.
Its got to be a sorry little kingdom where in you are besiege 24/7by the hounds of the PEOPLE, stelaing your music, your lifestyle, YOUR SCRIPTING LANGUAGES..
How do you survive brave warrior of the Chosen? Tell us your holy secrets.
[and this my fellow readers is what the core of many problems stem. learn from it to avoid it]
Wake Up Sheeple
In a time when you are forced to watch your heros go corporate(linux, Redhat, the whole "geek" lifestyle in general) what you do and how you respond speaks volumes to the true nature of your intents.
Mostly what we have here are the wailing of spoiled 3/_33+/5+5 and "LIfe style in a box" sellouts who think becuase they call themselves "GEEKS" they are any less vapid then yuppies, buppies, hippes and republicrats.
Each and every time something comes along , fact or fictional, that rocks the tree house the wail goes up. The lattest round is Perl. Hey, guese what, theres been perl on MS machines for a while now. Do you feel threatened by that? Dose your moral ineptitude fall apart in the face of that fact?
Perl on windows means more people are expoused to perl....which if you follow the IDEAS behind the life style most of you have bought from your local mall, is a GOOD THING. The more people turned on to these ideas the better.
Purists, jihaders and thier little cousins the 3/_3+3 will of course see this as a BAD THING, because it erodes the power base they can call thier own. Tin tyrants with smiles and "You are evil becuase..." rehotric do more harm to the idea of a Free Flowing Open Exchange of Ideas than all thier little nightmare monsters and spindoctored fears.
"MS is the enemey!!!"
"No Redhat is the enemy!!!"
"Look now IBM is getting too big again, they are the enemy!!"
"This chesee sandwich im eating is the enemy!!"
Fear, as the little green muppet said, leads to
the Dark Side. And folks,as the skinny heroin junky once sang. Welcome to the jungle.
If this had been MS there would be the usual full on screaming that MS is the worst company in the world.
If this had been Linux or Unix there would be a patch for it already and all the arguement would have been over how to fix it
Buts its Apple, so what we get instead is excuses, the same old jihad bait as ever, and pointing fingers all around.
More telling than it should be, less filling then it ought...once again proving that if you cant fix your rig your the hapless crackwhore to the forces that be.
So next time your offering prayers to your fave OS heed the words of Frank Zappa;
"Remeber, theres not much differnce between kneeling down and bending over"
Sometimes KISS means "keep it stupid simpleton"
I have been seeing more and more of this with the flood of underexperienced sysadmins ("well i ran a linux box at home for a month, so I can run your company's servers")
Simple is often not the best method, and in thwarting the attacks of the scriptkiddies and lameroids Simplicity itself is often a weapon used against the secure seeking admin.
Byzantine methodolgoies in and of themself are not what is needed, but rather robust plans whos unravelings would require machinations and permutations of actions that only the sharper and more attentive of webwhacking minds would want to do the tango of attack with.
KISS=Keep It Secure Smartly
Anything else is just plain S
[ed note. this one rambles a bit, but stick with me, it has a payoff]
/. and are the salve of one particular brand name, you are doomed to loose. If you are so weak as to let other people force you to use softs and apps not of your liking, and let yourself be trapped in a closed system hell, then you are doomed to loose.
...what have you done to make the net a better place?
The simple fact is this...Much of the value systems found in folk who care about the net is absent from the mainstream masses who are now the majority of the net.
But who the hell wants to be mainstream? If your looking at being a pseudo geek, some modern day wanabe who wears the right clothes, speaks the right speak and uses all the Hip Appz the you are doomed to loose. You will always be exposed for the utter lamer you are.
Things were a bit different when the implemntation of advancement was in the hands( wether by procalim,dictate, or by stealing them) of the people doing the grunt work of building the code. Back then you could be a vlaue to the growth or a bystander to it or a particpant in its day in day out evolution in one of a million ways.
Now its suits, roots for hire, and loots. Money talk and jihads are nice PR. People feel that by using the right appz they are "netSavy" or tht by being seen reading the right mags they will be "in". Dont worry that you cant understand, or even try to , 3/4 of the Linux Journal you walk around the office with. Dont worry that if push came to shove you wouldnt be able to get your rig back up and running without a whinny call to Tech Support.
Which lead us to the point, that being about Winamp being snatched up by AOL.
SO WHAT.
If you are on
When winamp came up it was heralded as the great saviour of the music distro sceen, and it was. It had its glory and is now moving to another phase. I say fucking great, congrats to the AZ boys and gals and I hope you save a little of the cash for your golden years.
To those that need to be on the bleedig edge of NonCorporate living its time to get a new mp3 player. BIG FUCKING DEAL. There are a whole slew of em and more comming out.
The folks at Nullsoft did thier thing, they got in the dirt and built something that was of use to the nets growth and use. Nothing can take that away from them. They did it, and if your gooing to belittle that fact, ask yourself
Mirror time folks. The Nullsofties and folks like them deserve to take their creations and do what they want with them. Nothing is stopping the folks at Kjofol or Sonique or Icecast from taking up the ball. Nothing at all.
Its the net, and its a big old tumble of fun. If you cant stand the chaos, go get an AOL disk and enjoy the massmarket version of it; beacuse honey, its gonna be a bumpy ride and I dont want to be dealing with your getting sick everytime we hit some turbulence.
Onward folks and keep your eyes on the prize
Look back on these comments, and look at the Voice article...
Take any phrase that starts or relys on the phrase "all:every[implied or not] white males"
Replace "white males" with "african-americans" "jews" "muslims" "gays"
Reread it in its new state.
Send a small note off to the author...
"Good morning sunshine, your a racist"
The Village Voice of course, and its minions of the "cause" would then launch into the whole "I cant be a racists because the white male power structure holds all the cards and with out an opressive force you cant be racist"..and of course you can just sit there and smile and say "good morning sunchine, your a racist".
Then they might come back at you with some Rage Against My Cherios sounding rhetoric about "the criss cross power structa come down and holding us down by thier horse ridding badges and lilly white chosen" to which you can smile happily and hum to them, to the tune of "mmmmm bop" "goodmorning sunshine, your a racist"
The power to be
washed over by the mass cry
to be the power
All well and good...But how is this differnt from the way a PLETHORA of sites have been run for years?
Giving it a hypeflash name does nothing to make it New or Noteworthy
And to be one Slashdot??? Come on, its like newbie fodder bait.
What the trendheads and fashion stylist call WEBLOGS have been around for years. Its a great idea that does not need a new buzzword attached to it.
On the destructive force of anon
Well lets look at the problem this way, why is it that the "community" (an over used word on this medium) is in dire threat of the anon voice?
Is the resolve or the voice of the community so frail as to make it possible for others to sack it whole?
For me what anon posts is held to the same scrutiny as what a named user posts, that is the "Content" is the judge, not the name. A name is a handle, it is not the message.
Anon allows expressions for some who are tied to the old Name/Content dilema. It can be used for bad as well as for good. those that are willing to throw the content out with the name are the same ones who should be first up against the wall when the shithouse blows its lid.
Of course human nature what it is, this sort of mentality will live on in each batch of podlings that are hatched on the sceen.
"dont judge a book by its cover
cause by night im one hell of a lover" Dr Frank N Futer
Yep, but how would a journalist looking to stay "relevant" ever hope to keep themselve in a steady job?
"how do you afford your internet life style" paraphrased from Cake
Portals, weblogs, top50 sites.....
/_@/\/\3"
I guese its time for another episode of "Name that fuzzy warm feeling"
Watching as the users of the net name, rename, invent, reinvent, rereinvent and then rename the reinvention is almost, almost mind you, fun to watch.
I understand the need to name things, people spend years of thier life in school to learn the names of things, to learn the nature of the names meanings, and maybe sometimes even interact with the things they name.
You name something, you make an attachment to it. It becomes something not otherly, but something of you. You can lay an easy hand on the worn handles.
The country was there before Lewis and Clark took to yelling out names from a cannoe ("Hey Lewis, what do you want to call this wet stuff we are drowning in?""What about ITSFUCKINGCOLD River?" "I doubt if Mr Jefferson is gonna go for that." "OK call it the Columbia for all I care.")Once named the country was not the great unkown, it was the North West passage, it was Oregon and Washington.
Look also to the old Mark Twain tale of the name game in Extracts from Adam's Diary
Knowing this we can clearly see the zeitgiest of the web clawing at any chance for worth, and in this attempt to name a thing that is.
Remeber back to the begining of the web, when the content was sparse but everyone had to put up a page. These pages were often personal insites scattered with lists of links (remeber well lynx and its grandfather gopher, links of links with the content under it all). One of the critism of early web sites were that they were too personal, that no one would want to read someones list of interests, likes/dislikes (think playboy centerfold material) and quipy witisms .
But some of those sites flourished. Blues News and Daves Classics to name but two. Very much the creation and mindset of a person and in some cases a group of people.
Weblogs is a horrible name. There is already something called a web log. This is another ding in paint of the web users creativity, not only are they renaming something that has pretty much always been on the web, but they are renaming it to something that already names a thing.
Instead of WebLog I can thnk of a few more usefull and vastly more enjoyable names.
PageWithLinks
ContentKiosks
Soapboxes
Curiosity Cabinets
Steamertrunks Of Ripe Underwear
RatPackers
Things That Make Your Modem Go Hmmmmmmmm
A rose by any other name etc etc (or to update the steinesque wordage "a lamer in any other syntax would still be as
So here we are, another name for what already is. Its not that I dont dig the meme and procedures for creation of great sites spreading to wider minds, but can we please rework the Gee Wizz Press Blurbs stage of its evolution more often? Please, for me?
Call me Ishmiel. better yet, Call me a taxi.
The so called linux "community" will turn on various parts of itself with the same vengence they play OS jihad amongst other os's.
This is to be expected from teh narrow minded personalities that take on OS's as sacred religious duty.
In so doing the fantics will feed the press and make the 'community' the court jester to other OS makers.
This may cause several courses of action, one of which may be that Linux users,relegated to second class status linux users will mirgrate to BSD, Solairs, BeOs, and anyother os that will not carry the stigma of court jesterdom.
This shouldnt be allowed to happen. Fight stupidity, kill a jihader today.
When does the UNix Clock run out?
And when is the end of the Mayan calander?
It would be interesting to see if the intersect with this rock.
Soem one call up Bruce willis and that Liv Tyler babe, they ned to make a sequal..
Once you start measuring linux by the raw numbers of users it has is the day linux becomes Just Another MS Wanabe.
Linux shouldnt be about raw users, it should be about qaulity of apps, stability of services, and the ninja skills to use em.
You folksplaying the numbers games are simply sheeple for the jihad.
baaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
Real is probably my least fave company at the moment, outside of the RIAA. Real is playing lackey to the RIAA and its plans to close up the sources for content on the net.
Talk about a company aspiring to be MSesque this is it.
Thier buying Xing will be interesting. Can they incorporate mp3 into thier way fo thinking, will crappy sounding RA files bcome MP3s with another extension?
Everything I have ever seen about gore is sad.
Even more so, that people ever considered him worthy of election for anything.
History, if we dont learn from it, we live thru it again and again and again.
Gore through word sounds like hes the Nerd Canidate of choice...But anyone with two halfs a brain will then read his words and track record..
...and his baggage...and who is going to vote for him?
--support of tipper gores PMRC crusade
--vocal and legislative support of Crypto Controls
--vocal and legislative support of Internet Controls
--vocal and legislative support of Censorship in the school and in the general media
His stance on the environment have provento be more sham than not. In his time as both legislator and VP he has done way more harm than good, has viilated most of the statements of purpose he laid out in his book, and proves himself to talk out of all three orifces at once.
Think of his actions