A person named MoooKow claims to know this person has been posting. They have posted 6 coments in this thread, and in no other. The user info page is here MoooKow .
Contents of the post are that the student used a DSL line at home to run an FTP server for his friends, not anonymous, that collected and shared rare acoustic music.
It's kind of hard to judge these comments in a vacuum. I wish that there were some more run of the mill comments on MoooKow's page. Something smells.
I really think Linux is comming. There's some of excitement about it I have not seen since Win3.1. As to specific market share, who knows. There are 250,000,000 people in the US. When a significant fraction of them get on, look out.
Empowerment is knowing what's going on in your machine. It comes from man pages and source code. This is very important. When you need it, you can find it and that's how you managed to edit all of those config files by hand. Nothing is hidden.
On compactness, I suppose it depends on what you want. 650MB is not a lot of hard drive these days. You can install a reasonable X workstation in 500MB if you use Debian. I've got a reasonable Red Hat install on 650MB, and I've got a Debian Terminal install (does telnet, mail, pine, emacs, vi, as a couple other things) on a 100MB. The terminal runs nice and fast with a MGA amber screen and was good enough to log into other machines. Given a $75 4 gig hard disk, you will never feel cramped unless you start to fool with sound or video files. Oh yes, you can fit Word Perfect on the 650MB system. A big fat Red Hat Everything install will fit in under a gig. Strip down what you don't want and it gets smaller. K is kind of fat, and I don't use it. You do know that MSIE has a 500MB footprint by default? Try to get rid of it. My NT machine at work is choking a 3 gig hard drive to death. MS Office exploded the only machine I was dumb enough to put it on at home (damn default did not load equation editor!).
You would enjoy the OpenBSD install. The default takes care of as many network cards as you have. Debian does this too. I hate MS installs. They take forever, make mistakes, and have to be spoon fed all the way through. Linux installs take less than half the time a 98 install does and its so much less painful. Each Linux install I do gets easier, each MS install is more painful. Mandrake has a great install, and I can only imagine that they will continue to get better.
MS has gotten a lot of mileage out of it's little windowing system. My wife made me laugh the other day when she their older version Windows 93. How was it that the nice simple 16MB system became the monster it is today? They could have gotten a lot more out of it if they could tollerate another software company working with them. Think about it, are there any healthy Windows software companies out there? SSI X, Correl X, Lotus X, Netscape X, Borland X, Sybase X. Any company that's ever tried to work with MS has ended up in the toilet. The only thing that I can say for sure is that MS is going to follow.
X has great modularity and open standards. I like being able to export display from other machines to my terminal. It's never crashed on me and I'm told that it won't take my system down if it does.
Let me think of the advantages that convinced me to put Linux on my desktops at home. Stability, yes speeed, compactness, ease of instalation, X, compilers, IP apps, and empowerment. That empowerment is something important MS has forgoten about in it's rush to destroy the companies that made their OS so attractive to begin with. I've learned more faster and been lied to less with Linux, and I can run it on supposedly obsolete hardware as well as faster stuff. Oh yeah, it's free too. Word Perfect had a click through liscence that I happily punched.
Hardware and apps will follow the shift that is comming. You can keep the MS Office.
I can tell you dozens of stories of smoldering resentment from my workplace. NT crawls and crashes. People curse and cry. This is where the next big growth may come from, and they will provide the easy apps.
A company that can offer reasonable support for small companies can make a killing with OSS. I wish them all the best.
I'll be a millionaire before the end of the decade.
No, this is not a troll.
Who can really predict the future of this thing? For all we know, MS Linux could outship everyone (puke!). Do you really think Linux won't have 15% of the desktop market by next year? Mandrake won't take off? Extrapolation is difficult. What do you think the people in charge of these distros think?
I'd recomend sticking to the $3.00 video rental and the $40 used VCR, but that's where these fu^H^H^H^H the MPAA gets most of their money. Want their product, damnit! I'll just keep renting the junk, and seeing an occasional movie from time to time.
Just who would loose if the whole thing bellied up anyway? I'd wager it will be the equipment makers.
Oh yeah, to entertain yourself on an airplane you can:
Read a book.
Sleep.
Insult a US Army General who commands an 850 million dollar budget. Out of uniform, he and his wife wanted to keep their aisle seats, so me and my wife got to sit on either side of them. The wife decided to write letters to me, and we filled them with many cruel and unusual comments about the General and his wife, her pulp novel, his "top secret" stamped high level management language BS. She spied his name and his organization, wich will not be mentioned here except to note that you should view this face saying "We'll keep the aisle seats, thank you". My wife asked me, "If he does not want to sit by his wife, why would anyone else?" Oh well. After looking at his bio I almost felt bad about it, and we decided not to sign him up for porn mail and that kind of thing. Then again, such a petty air heaid in charge of $850 million dollars? Wheh! My wife pegged him for middle management at Applebee's.
Write a "liscence" that says your DVD may only be viewed in Eastern Europe on a full moon. The commercial DVD player is obviously violating your idea of regional viewing and the manner in which you have given permision for your work to be used. What worse form of circumvision can those clever bastards think of, except to pirate it outright and sell it everywhere with glaring adverts pushing it?
The petition is a good idea, but the stories should continue. Each outrage should be recorded as it occurs with all of it's warts fresh. Every comment here, right down to the lowest troll is part of a record that can be researched later, and will mold public opinion now. At best all 250,000 slashdot signatures represent 1% of the US population and that does not mean too much in Washington. This site by it's moderation system can continue to provide inteligent opinion to traditional journalist and others trying to get a clue. What this site can do best is change the oppinions of the other 99% of the world.
MSCEs must be listening and they don't see much that they like so... the one they agree with, regardless of how lame, is moded up. Or, it could be the folks in Redmond have a new office in their public relations department. This has got to be cheap advertising next to all that ZDNet pulp. On the other hand..
If you do it with your left hand, it will feel like someone else.
The tests here warrant attention because complex Adobe PhotoShop 5.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 7.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0, Netscape Navigator 4.6 and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge scripts are run.Content Creation Winstone 2000 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. All of these have 'hot spots', as ZD likes to call them that truly test the system, but the CPU especially. Think of this benchmark as the "Crusher" ZD-equivalent test, which pushes real world programs to their limits (as opposed to Quake II timedemo1) on a system level.
I've bolded the more informative bits for you so that they stand out from the rest of this marketroid trash. More modifiers than content.
All Sharky says that this marvel of testing does is swithch what window is given focus.
I'm happy for your win2k. A whole month, that's not bad for MS stuff. Still, I'm sure that 98 is faster than NT from working with both. If win2k does not do much much beter than 98, I don't even want it for free.
If you have nice equipment, try out Mandrake (pentium and above). Red Hat and Debian have never bombed out on me, even on supposedly obsolete boxes. RH 6.0 runs my cable gateway, a 486, behind a UPS. I take it down once a year or so, and for extended power outages. Watch out for fancy video cards and winmodems. Every version of Linux I've used has been faster and more stable than NT.
The nuber of applications I still run on 98 is directly proportional to how lazy I am. Yep, I still run stuff that comes out of boxes, such as Adaptec's EZ CD creator. Alternatives are out there, but other things seem more important.
That is an interesting stat, but a narrow one. All it measures is the OS's ability to switch between open applications. Here's one instance I'll belive the Elvis fans. I'm going to put my trust in testimonials, trends, and footprints.
Testimonials say 2000 is all around slower.
Trends in MS software are for slower performance. Check your own personal experince and forcast the future.
If 98 was the most complicated (ie bloated) piece of software ever, what's 2000?
2000 may have an improved GUI over NT and 98. Whoooo hooooo! It beter be improved, NT at work is slower than X at home on worse equipment. Molases that freezes from time to time.
C with classes, or C++ was written using a C compiler, so obviously there is nothing you can do with C++ that you can not do with C. Except go home on time?
Ohhhhh I'm up all night again. There's no substitute for brains.
My favorite SF novels all involve young people having fun. How can you go wrong with Tom Wolf's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Mark Twain, John Miller, or Martin Amis? Heck, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? where no one has too much fun is a great read. Who is this Vinge dude, and what does he have to do with the great town of San Francisco?
What do you want to do with it? DOS 3.2 and Word Perfect on a 8088 driven monochrome monitor spell checked and printed my papers from 1988 to 1994. It set me back $1000 at the time. Compiled FORTAN to debug it, then ran it off a vax on campus. That covers arts and sciences. Hell, with a 1200 baud modem, a logitech mouse and some old software AOL sent me gratis, I had email and www. I sadly retired that mobo two years ago when I droped a Cyrix media GX into the box. And I got Borland C rel 1 or so just one year later! Just missed it.
Sounds like Decent=MS.Slave, I mean latest release compatible, Winblow2k or something. It's sad that some people are like that, they will never get anywhere. If they don't have the best around, they won't even try.
Easy entry to Linux world starts at 386 with 8MB ram and 150MB hard drive. This includes most PS2's, though they are hard to support. A fellow grad student sold me the monitor I'm typing this on for $20, iff I removed his dead PS/2 with it. He had Debian running on it, 486 with 32MB ram and two nice little scsi. The video ram was burn and it failed to boot. The case is really nice and modular, and I wold feel bad stripping it, but I will if I ever buy a scsi controler! It might work well work well with my 8MB RAM, 33 MHz 486 that runs Debian and DOS 6.2 off a 210MB hard drive. More space is nice. I use it and my old amber monitor for mail at school.
These things have been thought of before and you can find most of the ansers at the Free Softwar Foundation's web site:
http://www.fsf.org/
Of course, there you can also find the GPL:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Enjoy and share.
None of this will keep you from earning a living, but you might want to reconsider how to do that. The web is a tool that is much better at dissemination of information than the copyright schemes that protect traditional publications. Sharing knowlege is both natural and in the public interest. Preventing others from doing is unnatural.
That was well put. This guy's site is just a derivative and he did give credit to linux.com I don't see much difference between downloading source code, making some trivial changes and then republishing it for others to enjoy and learn from. This site is just an extreem example of content reuse.
The whole point of the web is to be able to link content and this is counter to traditional image and verbage copyright left over from the days of printing presses. Our maligned friend could have linked all of those images to his site so that linux.com's servers would bear the load of his traffic. I don't think he did (Damn ATT@Home for bad DNS). Instead, he elected to make a more permenent copy of the pictures linux.com put onto his computer and serve them himself. If you put something up, you are sharing it. Expect it to be used and rejoice. Every attributed copy is your praise.
Some of the coments around here are just depressing. It's sad to see posts advancing the agenda of people who are working to undo the great tool the internet can be. The issue is control. This line of reasoning can be used to keep you from linking anything. Movie studios are already fighting "deep linking" with some success. Don't give up your rights to use the information on your machine as you see fit.
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Contents of the post are that the student used a DSL line at home to run an FTP server for his friends, not anonymous, that collected and shared rare acoustic music.
It's kind of hard to judge these comments in a vacuum. I wish that there were some more run of the mill comments on MoooKow's page. Something smells.
Empowerment is knowing what's going on in your machine. It comes from man pages and source code. This is very important. When you need it, you can find it and that's how you managed to edit all of those config files by hand. Nothing is hidden.
On compactness, I suppose it depends on what you want. 650MB is not a lot of hard drive these days. You can install a reasonable X workstation in 500MB if you use Debian. I've got a reasonable Red Hat install on 650MB, and I've got a Debian Terminal install (does telnet, mail, pine, emacs, vi, as a couple other things) on a 100MB. The terminal runs nice and fast with a MGA amber screen and was good enough to log into other machines. Given a $75 4 gig hard disk, you will never feel cramped unless you start to fool with sound or video files. Oh yes, you can fit Word Perfect on the 650MB system. A big fat Red Hat Everything install will fit in under a gig. Strip down what you don't want and it gets smaller. K is kind of fat, and I don't use it. You do know that MSIE has a 500MB footprint by default? Try to get rid of it. My NT machine at work is choking a 3 gig hard drive to death. MS Office exploded the only machine I was dumb enough to put it on at home (damn default did not load equation editor!).
You would enjoy the OpenBSD install. The default takes care of as many network cards as you have. Debian does this too. I hate MS installs. They take forever, make mistakes, and have to be spoon fed all the way through. Linux installs take less than half the time a 98 install does and its so much less painful. Each Linux install I do gets easier, each MS install is more painful. Mandrake has a great install, and I can only imagine that they will continue to get better.
MS has gotten a lot of mileage out of it's little windowing system. My wife made me laugh the other day when she their older version Windows 93. How was it that the nice simple 16MB system became the monster it is today? They could have gotten a lot more out of it if they could tollerate another software company working with them. Think about it, are there any healthy Windows software companies out there? SSI X, Correl X, Lotus X, Netscape X, Borland X, Sybase X. Any company that's ever tried to work with MS has ended up in the toilet. The only thing that I can say for sure is that MS is going to follow.
X has great modularity and open standards. I like being able to export display from other machines to my terminal. It's never crashed on me and I'm told that it won't take my system down if it does.
Hardware and apps will follow the shift that is comming. You can keep the MS Office.
I can tell you dozens of stories of smoldering resentment from my workplace. NT crawls and crashes. People curse and cry. This is where the next big growth may come from, and they will provide the easy apps.
A company that can offer reasonable support for small companies can make a killing with OSS. I wish them all the best.
Who knows though? I think it's ready now.
No, this is not a troll.
Who can really predict the future of this thing? For all we know, MS Linux could outship everyone (puke!). Do you really think Linux won't have 15% of the desktop market by next year? Mandrake won't take off? Extrapolation is difficult. What do you think the people in charge of these distros think?
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Open? What did they do, take the case off? Did they forget to turn the key?
"It's my fault boss. I was using pcAnywhere last night, and I fell asleep." Could have happened to a company using MS IIS/2.
You slashdoted western union! What am I supposed to do for fun now?
Just who would loose if the whole thing bellied up anyway? I'd wager it will be the equipment makers.
Oh yeah, to entertain yourself on an airplane you can:
Read a book.
Sleep.
Insult a US Army General who commands an 850 million dollar budget. Out of uniform, he and his wife wanted to keep their aisle seats, so me and my wife got to sit on either side of them. The wife decided to write letters to me, and we filled them with many cruel and unusual comments about the General and his wife, her pulp novel, his "top secret" stamped high level management language BS. She spied his name and his organization, wich will not be mentioned here except to note that you should view this face saying "We'll keep the aisle seats, thank you". My wife asked me, "If he does not want to sit by his wife, why would anyone else?" Oh well. After looking at his bio I almost felt bad about it, and we decided not to sign him up for porn mail and that kind of thing. Then again, such a petty air heaid in charge of $850 million dollars? Wheh! My wife pegged him for middle management at Applebee's.
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Write a "liscence" that says your DVD may only be viewed in Eastern Europe on a full moon. The commercial DVD player is obviously violating your idea of regional viewing and the manner in which you have given permision for your work to be used. What worse form of circumvision can those clever bastards think of, except to pirate it outright and sell it everywhere with glaring adverts pushing it?
But don't worry, Real has nothing that I want.
Isn't a free press wonderful?
MSCEs must be listening and they don't see much that they like so... the one they agree with, regardless of how lame, is moded up. Or, it could be the folks in Redmond have a new office in their public relations department. This has got to be cheap advertising next to all that ZDNet pulp. On the other hand..
If you do it with your left hand, it will feel like someone else.
I've bolded the more informative bits for you so that they stand out from the rest of this marketroid trash. More modifiers than content. All Sharky says that this marvel of testing does is swithch what window is given focus.
I'm happy for your win2k. A whole month, that's not bad for MS stuff. Still, I'm sure that 98 is faster than NT from working with both. If win2k does not do much much beter than 98, I don't even want it for free.
If you have nice equipment, try out Mandrake (pentium and above). Red Hat and Debian have never bombed out on me, even on supposedly obsolete boxes. RH 6.0 runs my cable gateway, a 486, behind a UPS. I take it down once a year or so, and for extended power outages. Watch out for fancy video cards and winmodems. Every version of Linux I've used has been faster and more stable than NT.
The nuber of applications I still run on 98 is directly proportional to how lazy I am. Yep, I still run stuff that comes out of boxes, such as Adaptec's EZ CD creator. Alternatives are out there, but other things seem more important.
Testimonials say 2000 is all around slower.
Trends in MS software are for slower performance. Check your own personal experince and forcast the future.
If 98 was the most complicated (ie bloated) piece of software ever, what's 2000?
2000 may have an improved GUI over NT and 98. Whoooo hooooo! It beter be improved, NT at work is slower than X at home on worse equipment. Molases that freezes from time to time.
Ohhhhh I'm up all night again. There's no substitute for brains.
My favorite SF novels all involve young people having fun. How can you go wrong with Tom Wolf's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Mark Twain, John Miller, or Martin Amis? Heck, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? where no one has too much fun is a great read. Who is this Vinge dude, and what does he have to do with the great town of San Francisco?
Yes, that's a joke. Lighten up.
Do you think I can make the washer or drier hook ups power this beast?
I tried it. My wife turned out the light. Oh well, it was still worth a laugh.
Sounds like Decent=MS.Slave, I mean latest release compatible, Winblow2k or something. It's sad that some people are like that, they will never get anywhere. If they don't have the best around, they won't even try.
Easy entry to Linux world starts at 386 with 8MB ram and 150MB hard drive. This includes most PS2's, though they are hard to support. A fellow grad student sold me the monitor I'm typing this on for $20, iff I removed his dead PS/2 with it. He had Debian running on it, 486 with 32MB ram and two nice little scsi. The video ram was burn and it failed to boot. The case is really nice and modular, and I wold feel bad stripping it, but I will if I ever buy a scsi controler! It might work well work well with my 8MB RAM, 33 MHz 486 that runs Debian and DOS 6.2 off a 210MB hard drive. More space is nice. I use it and my old amber monitor for mail at school.
I'm dreaming of my old Peee Ceee tonight!
Anything running in a nuclar power plant. Meets the 30 year rule too. Rock Solid Mother Fucker! That's why it's still there.
http://www.onion.com/onion3308/realtimetv.html
God, this is hot! I wish I had submittied it as news instead of this post!
They had better ramp up! The specs sound like less than a $400 pc now.
http://www.fsf.org/
Of course, there you can also find the GPL:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Enjoy and share.
None of this will keep you from earning a living, but you might want to reconsider how to do that. The web is a tool that is much better at dissemination of information than the copyright schemes that protect traditional publications. Sharing knowlege is both natural and in the public interest. Preventing others from doing is unnatural.
The whole point of the web is to be able to link content and this is counter to traditional image and verbage copyright left over from the days of printing presses. Our maligned friend could have linked all of those images to his site so that linux.com's servers would bear the load of his traffic. I don't think he did (Damn ATT@Home for bad DNS). Instead, he elected to make a more permenent copy of the pictures linux.com put onto his computer and serve them himself. If you put something up, you are sharing it. Expect it to be used and rejoice. Every attributed copy is your praise.
Some of the coments around here are just depressing. It's sad to see posts advancing the agenda of people who are working to undo the great tool the internet can be. The issue is control. This line of reasoning can be used to keep you from linking anything. Movie studios are already fighting "deep linking" with some success. Don't give up your rights to use the information on your machine as you see fit.
I can see keeping my lap warm in winter. It sucks not to have a heater in my van. Brrr no more.