Jus tpicked up my new Athalon 550 machine last friday. In line with my tradition of getting a new computer with the releases of doom -> quake -> quake2 -> quake3.
And man, I really really love it:)
Not to mention the lack of any sort of unique serial numbers on my cpu.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
We were on call, sure.. but the rules were that you had to return the call within 30 minutes and be available to come in to the office within 8 hours. Our team is the programming team, I guess they had enough failth in us as programmers, in the function testers as testers, in the regression testers in their work and the second function test/regression test that all of the software went through before we were any where near y2k.
In otherwords... Perhaps the gripes should be about a lack of trust in your preparedness procedures.
I had a nice peaceful evening in the OpenVerse as I watched the time switch from everywhere in the world. We drank shots for NZ, OZ/China, All of europe, blah blah.. safely zoinked out of my mind with my parrot, the captain, and my OpenVerse friends.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Since the andover aquisition of Slashdot, How much influence do they have over the comments which are posted to Slashdot....
In comparison to FreshMeat, which seems to be completely impartial to software submissions (they all get a listing) whereas on Slashdot only certain articles are chosen. What process is used to select articles to be posted on Slashdot and how does Andover influence these descisions.
Also, As many others have asked many times (including myself).. When will Slashdot begin to practice what they preach. When will the Slashdot source code become steadily available via CVS or an equiv. type system. Holding back this code, regardless of how sloppy or buggy it is makes Slashdot look like a bunch of hipocrates.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Standards? As in the File/Quit crap many windows compat programmers put out... Now tell me one thing.. SINCE WHEN IS QUIT AN OPTION ON A FILE Too many programs put that file menubar option in where it does not belong.
Some standards are just plain wrong. Just because there well adopted does not mean we Linux Apps should jump off that bridge too.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
A 10 pack of trojans. (You may not be getting any/. geeks.. but some of us are) 5 botles (1.75 litre) Captain Morgan's Rum 10 bottles (2 litre) Dr. Pepper 48 rolls of toilet paper (Mr. Whipple Is a fetishist) 4000 rounds of 44 calibre amunition. (no, i'm not paranoid.. it's for "target practice"!) Thats the important stuff.. Now the other stuff A full tank of gas in the car. A lockpick kit (need to make a master key for my apartment complex for when the looting starts) Several back issues of Linux Journal (for when the toilet paper runs out)
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Why does/. associate itself with someone who is does such a shitty job of reporting on ALMOST ANYTHING.
"In the real world" Any writer who did a movie review and couldn't even get the movie's title correct would be out the door.
Granted, you probably do not have the editorial staff that, say, CNN has but one would expect that something as important as the movie title could be correct in your review.
To reitterate someone else's question.. KATZ?! DID YOU EVEN SEE THIS MOVIE!?
I sure as hell hope you don't pay this loony anything to write for/. As a writer, he is about as worthless as I am.. And I'm pretty damn bad.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
"Anyone who wanted to be president, shouldn't be allowed to be president"
Presidents, Congressmen, All those bunch should be drafted. It's not a very high paying position so the only advantage to being a president is powah. And we all know powah leads to corruption and sinister stories involving cigars and stained blue dresses.
I hearby draft... um... My parrot.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Just a note, Internet is not widely available in communist countries. In Cuba for example, first your average citizen cannot afford a dozen eggs never mind a computer. Second, Name 1 Cuban ISP not owned by the government with access handed out on a person-by-need basis.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
AOL does not belong in my list. AOL was a johnny-come-lately in the Internet exodus. Granted, their user base is impressive but the exodus would have happened without them. Windows 95 also does not completely belong in the list because they are also johnny-come-latelys but it was the first windows version to have an internal TCP/IP stack as part of the operating system's included networking.
The true heros in bringing the Internet to what it is today are the companies which forged the path in bringing users online. The companies who forced the likes of AOL, Prodigy (who I believe beat AOL online) and Microsoft to "get on the bus" As I said in my original post. The Internet is nothing without people who use it.
Reflecting back on the days when USENET was comprised primarily of college studets who (for the most part) had useful discussions on whatnot bears little on why the Intenernet is what it is today. Those kids left school to live life in a world which did not have access to the Internet. Sure they could go back to the school campus and use their computers as alumni but this is not what made the internet popular among the masses.
To say that the Inertnet is not what it once was due to an influx of newbies is really overly stating obvious. The Internet was once a place where only the elite tekkies could possibly ever go to and enjoy themselves where it is now a place where ANYONE can go and enjoy themselves
even if all they have to say is "ME TOO!"
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
I would have to agree, PC access to the internet is what has made it what it is today. There is little use in having an all-powerful, all-expansive network if no one is using it.
Like it or not, The most influential things which made the internet what it is today are (in this order).....
1. Trumpet Winsock. 2. Netscape 3. Internet In A Box 4. Windows 95 5. Al Gore (only kidding)
I hate windows, I never liked it, not ever. I went from DR DOS to Linux but I must admit, windows users are what made the internet what it is today.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Fro9m what I've seen round here, many of the folks here were not born yet or too young to have had to endure this piece of crap:) Consider yourselves lucky!
Also consider yourself lucky that tv now plays comercials every 10 minutes or so, back then we had to endure shitty shows for a good 30 minutes before a comercial came on. Then, we could walk 10 miles in the snow (uphill [both ways]) to use the outhouse and hurry back (in 60 seconds) to resume watching TV. (AND WE LIKED IT!)
The "geeks" are off to NYC to promote open source, free software, and celebrate those who participate? Shame Shame.
You've made it clear that we are a "low priority". Why aren't people screaming? Without us/. is nothing. We give everything to slashdot and they give nothing.
Put up or shut up./. is not an OpenSource/Free Software advocate for any other reason except profit and (false) recognition.
Watch in amazement as all critical posts are moderated into oblivion
I checked out the search engine. I would think that if they are selling a robot that claims to be able to index the entire web every three months they would have an online database to prove it.
try searching on slashdot. You get one link which is at least 2 years old:)
So now I can't even print my own money any more!? Jeese what is this world coming to!
But seriously, Things like this make me really like my epson action printer 5000. It's old, it's loud it's clunky and it's slow but no one is tracing my paper back to it.
It's log, it's log, it's big it's heavy it's wood.
Wow, there is surley enough derogatory comments about the clams in here to send them off into a legal frenzy. Can Slashdot stand up to the Scientologist Effect? Will they remove comments once the legal eagles come swarming in? Will they withstand the personal threats to their home and family!? Will they even notice the private dick who has been watching their every move since the article was published?
I've been a really good boy all year and now is the time to really show me how much being a good boy means to you. I know that 150 thousand dollars is a lot of mney but I'm sure you have an elf or two at cisco right?
I have Applix for linux. It has a couple of bugs but it's still pretty ok. The main thing that I don't like about it is that they charge for upgrades (it's not cheap either!)
If you're writing a book, it's great. It allows you to embed index information right into the text and this is what I found most useful from it. I use it to write technical documentation.
Slashdot Mirror
Jus tpicked up my new Athalon 550 machine last friday. In line with my tradition of getting a new computer with the releases of doom -> quake -> quake2 -> quake3.
:)
And man, I really really love it
Not to mention the lack of any sort of unique serial numbers on my cpu.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
We had it easy in our dept at The Death Star(tm)
We were on call, sure.. but the rules were that you had to return the call within 30 minutes and be available to come in to the office within 8 hours. Our team is the programming team, I guess they had enough failth in us as programmers, in the function testers as testers, in the regression testers in their work and the second function test/regression test that all of the software went through before we were any where near y2k.
In otherwords... Perhaps the gripes should be about a lack of trust in your preparedness procedures.
I had a nice peaceful evening in the OpenVerse as I watched the time switch from everywhere in the world. We drank shots for NZ, OZ/China, All of europe, blah blah.. safely zoinked out of my mind with my parrot, the captain, and my OpenVerse friends.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Since the andover aquisition of Slashdot, How much influence do they have over the comments which are posted to Slashdot....
In comparison to FreshMeat, which seems to be completely impartial to software submissions (they all get a listing) whereas on Slashdot only certain articles are chosen. What process is used to select articles to be posted on Slashdot and how does Andover influence these descisions.
Also, As many others have asked many times (including myself).. When will Slashdot begin to practice what they preach. When will the Slashdot source code become steadily available via CVS or an equiv. type system. Holding back this code, regardless of how sloppy or buggy it is makes Slashdot look like a bunch of hipocrates.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
With no funding, OpenVerse is most deserving of a $2000 award.
http://openverse.org is where you can see info on this project. We could use the money to pay for the web space we are using.
You are a threat to free speech and must be SILENCED!
Chat is dominated by IRC. But let's face it.. It's effective but very dull on the eyes.
Introduce eye-candy and you have OpenVerse Visual Chat http://openverse.org
This is my nomination for best UNIX (or windows, or mac) eye candy OpenSource project.
You are a threat to free speech and must be SILENCED!
You try drinking 10 bottles of DR Pepper mixed with 5 bottles of capt and see how much toilet paper you use :)
:)
As for the condoms.... "10 condoms is enough for anybody"
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Standards? As in the File/Quit crap many windows compat programmers put out... Now tell me one thing.. SINCE WHEN IS QUIT AN OPTION ON A FILE Too many programs put that file menubar option in where it does not belong.
Some standards are just plain wrong. Just because there well adopted does not mean we Linux Apps should jump off that bridge too.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
The Geeks don't know good booze
/. geeks.. but some of us are)
Here is my list!
A 10 pack of trojans. (You may not be getting any
5 botles (1.75 litre) Captain Morgan's Rum
10 bottles (2 litre) Dr. Pepper
48 rolls of toilet paper (Mr. Whipple Is a fetishist)
4000 rounds of 44 calibre amunition. (no, i'm not paranoid.. it's for "target practice"!)
Thats the important stuff.. Now the other stuff
A full tank of gas in the car.
A lockpick kit (need to make a master key for my apartment complex for when the looting starts)
Several back issues of Linux Journal (for when the toilet paper runs out)
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Why does /. associate itself with someone who is does such a shitty job of reporting on ALMOST ANYTHING.
/. As a writer, he is about as worthless as I am.. And I'm pretty damn bad.
"In the real world" Any writer who did a movie review and couldn't even get the movie's title correct would be out the door.
Granted, you probably do not have the editorial staff that, say, CNN has but one would expect that something as important as the movie title could be correct in your review.
To reitterate someone else's question..
KATZ?! DID YOU EVEN SEE THIS MOVIE!?
I sure as hell hope you don't pay this loony anything to write for
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
From HHGTTG
"Anyone who wanted to be president, shouldn't be allowed to be president"
Presidents, Congressmen, All those bunch should be drafted. It's not a very high paying position so the only advantage to being a president is powah. And we all know powah leads to corruption and sinister stories involving cigars and stained blue dresses.
I hearby draft... um... My parrot.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Hehe, I get it.. we're playing AvroMania now!
IANAL
I'm Another Nearly Annoyed Lemming
Play Avro At OpenVerse
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Just a note, Internet is not widely available in communist countries. In Cuba for example, first your average citizen cannot afford a dozen eggs never mind a computer. Second, Name 1 Cuban ISP not owned by the government with access handed out on a person-by-need basis.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
AOL does not belong in my list. AOL was a johnny-come-lately in the Internet exodus. Granted, their user base is impressive but the exodus would have happened without them. Windows 95 also does not completely belong in the list because they are also johnny-come-latelys but it was the first windows version to have an internal TCP/IP stack as part of the operating system's included networking.
The true heros in bringing the Internet to what it is today are the companies which forged the path in bringing users online. The companies who forced the likes of AOL, Prodigy (who I believe beat AOL online) and Microsoft to "get on the bus" As I said in my original post. The Internet is nothing without people who use it.
Reflecting back on the days when USENET was comprised primarily of college studets who (for the most part) had useful discussions on whatnot bears little on why the Intenernet is what it is today. Those kids left school to live life in a world which did not have access to the Internet. Sure they could go back to the school campus and use their computers as alumni but this is not what made the internet popular among the masses.
To say that the Inertnet is not what it once was due to an influx of newbies is really overly stating obvious. The Internet was once a place where only the elite tekkies could possibly ever go to and enjoy themselves where it is now a place where ANYONE can go and enjoy themselves
even if all they have to say is "ME TOO!"
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
I would have to agree, PC access to the internet is what has made it what it is today. There is little use in having an all-powerful, all-expansive network if no one is using it.
.....
Like it or not, The most influential things which made the internet what it is today are (in this order)
1. Trumpet Winsock. 2. Netscape 3. Internet In A Box 4. Windows 95 5. Al Gore (only kidding)
I hate windows, I never liked it, not ever. I went from DR DOS to Linux but I must admit, windows users are what made the internet what it is today.
You are a threat to free speach and must be SILENCED!
Fro9m what I've seen round here, many of the folks here were not born yet or too young to have had to endure this piece of crap :) Consider yourselves lucky!
Also consider yourself lucky that tv now plays comercials every 10 minutes or so, back then we had to endure shitty shows for a good 30 minutes before a comercial came on. Then, we could walk 10 miles in the snow (uphill [both ways]) to use the outhouse and hurry back (in 60 seconds) to resume watching TV. (AND WE LIKED IT!)
AOL Is not going to get a penny. Do you really think that these spammers have that kind of money?
The extra kick is that these spammers call themselves christians! heh
Spamming in the name of GOD
The "geeks" are off to NYC to promote open source, free software, and celebrate those who participate? Shame Shame.
/. is nothing. We give everything to slashdot and they give nothing.
/. is not an OpenSource/Free Software advocate for any other reason except profit and (false) recognition.
You've made it clear that we are a "low priority". Why aren't people screaming? Without us
Put up or shut up.
Watch in amazement as all critical posts are moderated into oblivion
People use them because they like their life interrupted by something other than what they're curently doing.
For the same reason that mom calls instead of writing a letter, they use instant messaging.
For the same reason you don't turn the ringer off on your phone (or do you) They use instant messaging.
Because deep down inside, we like to think we are important enough to be contactable instantly while we are sitting at our terminals.
I checked out the search engine. I would think that if they are selling a robot that claims to be able to index the entire web every three months they would have an online database to prove it.
:)
try searching on slashdot. You get one link which is at least 2 years old
Dazzle them with bullshit.
Shouldn't software announcements be left to Freshmeat?
So now I can't even print my own money any more!? Jeese what is this world coming to!
But seriously, Things like this make me really like my epson action printer 5000. It's old, it's loud it's clunky and it's slow but no one is tracing my paper back to it.
It's log, it's log, it's big it's heavy it's wood.
If I were an shy ET type, this would be the perfect opportunity to make yourself known to the world in a non-threatening sort of way.
The first image comes down and it's... it's.... OH MY GOD! It's Ray Walston!
(for those of you that don't know.. this was the guy in My Favorite Martian)
Wow, there is surley enough derogatory comments about the clams in here to send them off into a legal frenzy. Can Slashdot stand up to the Scientologist Effect? Will they remove comments once the legal eagles come swarming in? Will they withstand the personal threats to their home and family!? Will they even notice the private dick who has been watching their every move since the article was published?
All this and more....
Dear Santa,
I've been a really good boy all year and now is the time to really show me how much being a good boy means to you. I know that 150 thousand dollars is a lot of mney but I'm sure you have an elf or two at cisco right?
I have Applix for linux. It has a couple of bugs but it's still pretty ok. The main thing that I don't like about it is that they charge for upgrades (it's not cheap either!)
If you're writing a book, it's great. It allows you to embed index information right into the text and this is what I found most useful from it. I use it to write technical documentation.