hey slashdot readers - want a movie that challenges the way you think and feel about your life? Watch "Requiem for a Dream" by director Darren Aranofsky.
There's a very interesting read about the possible division of StarOffice's word processing module, StarOffice Writer, up here at linuxtoday.com.au. It poses an opinion about the possible future of StarOffice now that Sun has GPL'ed the StarOffice source code.
People interested in GNOME Office might also find this interesting.
Back when we had an old LC 640, myself and a friend used to spend many an afternoon playing Marathon. He would use the move keys, and I would shoot, and together, over about a month, we solved the marvellous puzzles, marvelled over the splendour of the visuals, and always shuddered when we walked around the corner in a sph't. (that was an alien, for those non-mac heads).
We were only 14, and already we hated Microsoft. We had a big rivalry - all our friends had PCs, and we had Macs. The school used macs, so we were technically superior when it came to mucking around on the computers at school, but the PC revolution was marching on and the Apple that we knew and loved was going out of fashion.
Now I'm 19, I've moved on, and been forced to buy a PC for university. About a year ago, I discovered Linux, and now I'm a full time user. I even help out for a web site in Australia, www.linuxtoday.com.au. I hate nothing more than the way Microsoft takes over my computer and am looking eagerly towards linux game ports!
What I'm really trying to say, is that I used to idolise Bungie, both for the outstanding games that they develop and their multi-platform attitude. It fills me with grief to find that the company who developed Marathon, the most atmospheric game of all time, and the company who was developing the game that I was looking forward to the most, has now been bought by Microsoft.
Goodbye Cruel World!! The last straw on the camel's back has been broken. I'm deleting my window partition once and for all. Viva Linux!!!!!!!!!
there are some features like that in a character from the "Otherland" series. there is a character who actually has a computer like display which he can call up on his eyeball whenever he wants.
I recommend the Otherland series highly if you're interested in the future of information technology. It develops the basic 3d technology and internet capabilities that we have now into something which is much more pervasive to our everyday life, as well as developing the realistic technology to go along with it. There are also elements of artificial intelligence involved which is quite fascinating if you are interested in that sort of stuff. Tad Williams, currently up to book 3. I would say the only current rival to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
I disagree - I was a console gamer before I became an Apple evangelist...before I fell in love with Linux (BeOS is next), and I can guarantee that the console gaming market is as fanatical about their different brands of consoles (for example the Nintento64) as most./ers are about Linux. I don't think they are as visible about it because most of them don't run PCs and so are not connected to the net.
Most consolers are not going to go for this "all in one system with web access on tv". They're only really interested in games. This is what drives most consolers.
And contrary to what most people think, I think there is a general distrust of anything M$ in the console gamer eye as well as the semi-computer-literate public eye as well. Most people who have used M$ products know why they are notorious for problems...no-one is going to go out and buy a microsoft console box when there is something so much better and more established from Sega, Nintendo, or Sony. Nintendo users in particular are notorious for being fanatical about their systems.
Think about how prejudiced you are against M$ - then apply that to the console market. Most Nintendo users hate Sega and Sony just as much as we hate M$.....M$ releasing a box is not going to make any difference.
I remember back in high school we always used to divide our time between cracking open the Mac systems and playing with the configs, and playing Bolo behind a Word or Clarisworks window.
Does anyone know if there is a version of Bolo out for Linux? It's an old Unix tank game which should have been converted over.....basic graphics, but very powerful net play - and so addictive!
Personally I'm all for Linux in schools but it needs to become more user-friendly for the common folk. Most people don't know or care about the advantages of Linux because they can't see the fallacies of Windows:)
Hey here's a thought....against all odds that someone actually has the bandwidth to post pirated DVDs on the web...could it actually be some goon emailing his favourite pirated DVD's to his friends working at Yahoo?
I've always thought Yahoo! to be one of the great net companies - they had a great idea, and won through with it, while not getting all corporate big wig suit wearing.
You're right, there isn't any real value in attacking it.
I don't know about anyone else, but I think it will be very interesting to find out who's behind all the DDoS's.
No-one has come forward to claim the attacks, and seeing as they haven't so far, I don't actually think it at all likely that anyone will until the DoS police actually catch them. When you think about it, what kind of motive is there for this kind of attack? You don't really stand any sort of chance of making any money unless you're in a very specialised situation, like in direct competition with Yahoo, which I doubt many people are, and you're costing yourself a lot of bother with coordinating the distributed attacks.
It might be the situation where a disenchanted group of teens is trying to gain the world's attention, but that begs the question - can any disenchanted group of teens shut down the world's most powerful and stable web portal whenever they feel like?
Normally hacker's codes of ethics, though unwritten, dictate that simply shutting something down is no fun - much more fun to graffiti when you can, deface, grab secure data. However in this case nothing like that has happened.
I know two things - that there has to be some strange motive, and that whoever it is, I have confidence that/. will find out first:-)
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local Australian coverage can be found here by the way :-)
hey slashdot readers - want a movie that challenges the way you think and feel about your life? Watch "Requiem for a Dream" by director Darren Aranofsky.
Now that's a movie.
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thanks, Renai
There is an excellent status report on Wine chronicled here
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There's a very interesting read about the possible division of StarOffice's word processing module, StarOffice Writer, up here at linuxtoday.com.au. It poses an opinion about the possible future of StarOffice now that Sun has GPL'ed the StarOffice source code.
People interested in GNOME Office might also find this interesting.
Back when we had an old LC 640, myself and a friend used to spend many an afternoon playing Marathon. He would use the move keys, and I would shoot, and together, over about a month, we solved the marvellous puzzles, marvelled over the splendour of the visuals, and always shuddered when we walked around the corner in a sph't. (that was an alien, for those non-mac heads).
We were only 14, and already we hated Microsoft. We had a big rivalry - all our friends had PCs, and we had Macs. The school used macs, so we were technically superior when it came to mucking around on the computers at school, but the PC revolution was marching on and the Apple that we knew and loved was going out of fashion.
Now I'm 19, I've moved on, and been forced to buy a PC for university. About a year ago, I discovered Linux, and now I'm a full time user. I even help out for a web site in Australia, www.linuxtoday.com.au. I hate nothing more than the way Microsoft takes over my computer and am looking eagerly towards linux game ports!
What I'm really trying to say, is that I used to idolise Bungie, both for the outstanding games that they develop and their multi-platform attitude. It fills me with grief to find that the company who developed Marathon, the most atmospheric game of all time, and the company who was developing the game that I was looking forward to the most, has now been bought by Microsoft.
Goodbye Cruel World!! The last straw on the camel's back has been broken. I'm deleting my window partition once and for all. Viva Linux!!!!!!!!!
I recommend the Otherland series highly if you're interested in the future of information technology. It develops the basic 3d technology and internet capabilities that we have now into something which is much more pervasive to our everyday life, as well as developing the realistic technology to go along with it. There are also elements of artificial intelligence involved which is quite fascinating if you are interested in that sort of stuff. Tad Williams, currently up to book 3. I would say the only current rival to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
www.tadwilliams.com
surprise surprise....www.theonering.net where the review of the trailer was posted has been /.ed.
Bummer. Does anyone know how quicktime movies are cached on your HD?
I disagree - I was a console gamer before I became an Apple evangelist...before I fell in love with Linux (BeOS is next), and I can guarantee that the console gaming market is as fanatical about their different brands of consoles (for example the Nintento64) as most ./ers are about Linux. I don't think they are as visible about it because most of them don't run PCs and so are not connected to the net.
Most consolers are not going to go for this "all in one system with web access on tv". They're only really interested in games. This is what drives most consolers.
And contrary to what most people think, I think there is a general distrust of anything M$ in the console gamer eye as well as the semi-computer-literate public eye as well. Most people who have used M$ products know why they are notorious for problems...no-one is going to go out and buy a microsoft console box when there is something so much better and more established from Sega, Nintendo, or Sony. Nintendo users in particular are notorious for being fanatical about their systems.
Think about how prejudiced you are against M$ - then apply that to the console market. Most Nintendo users hate Sega and Sony just as much as we hate M$.....M$ releasing a box is not going to make any difference.
I remember back in high school we always used to divide our time between cracking open the Mac systems and playing with the configs, and playing Bolo behind a Word or Clarisworks window.
:)
Does anyone know if there is a version of Bolo out for Linux? It's an old Unix tank game which should have been converted over.....basic graphics, but very powerful net play - and so addictive!
Personally I'm all for Linux in schools but it needs to become more user-friendly for the common folk. Most people don't know or care about the advantages of Linux because they can't see the fallacies of Windows
A cracker is someone who cracks into a computer system, computer software, or destroys data or services. This is a negative thing.
A hacker is simply someone who writes code. I mean, why else would we refer to a quick bit of code that we've just fixed as a "rough hack"?
Get your terms right ppl!!
The slashdot effect would explain the rest :)
Jon Johanson could have created a monster :-)
Kevin Mitnick doesn't even have access to a tone-dialing phone, let alone a distributed network, you half wit :)
You're right, there isn't any real value in attacking it.
No-one has come forward to claim the attacks, and seeing as they haven't so far, I don't actually think it at all likely that anyone will until the DoS police actually catch them. When you think about it, what kind of motive is there for this kind of attack? You don't really stand any sort of chance of making any money unless you're in a very specialised situation, like in direct competition with Yahoo, which I doubt many people are, and you're costing yourself a lot of bother with coordinating the distributed attacks.
It might be the situation where a disenchanted group of teens is trying to gain the world's attention, but that begs the question - can any disenchanted group of teens shut down the world's most powerful and stable web portal whenever they feel like?
Normally hacker's codes of ethics, though unwritten, dictate that simply shutting something down is no fun - much more fun to graffiti when you can, deface, grab secure data. However in this case nothing like that has happened.
I know two things - that there has to be some strange motive, and that whoever it is, I have confidence that /. will find out first :-)
And I too, ask the question - is /. next?