However, in minor objection, this is probably a geek tool, as most "family-oriented" PC's don't use much of telnet, SSH, or rlogin nowadays.
I disagree. Most families these days have at least one young aspiring geek, and these geeklets can only benefit from having high-level tools like PuTTY at their disposal as they become curious about Unix, networking and systems administration in general. Just because something is "family-oriented" doesn't mean it needs to be dumbed down.
It figures that something like this would get moderated down. But I'm seriously considering doing this as an alternative to renewing my/. subscription when it runs out. Just look at what they're doing with the personal info you send them with PayPal? That's really, really slimy, and they aren't getting another cent from me until they explain that. Please, if you have moderator points, mod this entire thread up. This needs to be discussed.
The Chinese government has constantly shown how terribly naïve they are with regards to the Internet.
They want to reap the commercial benefits without accepting the other consequences of a global computer network: namely, the inevitably open society the Internet promotes. Their feeble attempts at firewalling and sheltering their people are eventually going to collapse under the insurmountable weight of the reality that information wants to be free.
They want to use email, but can't accept that people don't want crap to be mass-mailed to them. This is a sure sign that China's only interest in the Internet is monetary, and that it is our duty to block off abusive.cn mail servers to show them that this bullshit doesn't play on the open Internet.
China's always going to be in an awkward situation with regards to the Internet as long as they cling to their obsolete totalitarian, isolationist regime. Write your senators and tell them that all this dicking around with China is a farce, and must be stopped. Don't allow them on the Free Internet until they become a Free State, I say.
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Of course Emacs is becoming a full fledged OS. In fact, Emacs is the *real* GNU OS kernel project. All that HURD stuff is just a ruse to distract all those annoying VI users as Emacs, posing at first as an overly-capable text editor, slowly and cancerously takes over the operating system functions from whatever Linux, BSD, Sun, or HP kernel was once there. This is how GNU's "world domination" plans will be carried out. Beware Emacs "upgrades!"
With the new low-latency and preemption patches being worked into the kernel (mentioned recently on Slashdot), this could be a great leap forward for Linux gaming and multimedia in general. We could soon see Linux games outperforming Windows (especially with all the added bloat^Wfeatures Windows XP adds). If Mandrake and Transgaming do this right, this could finally be Linux's big break into desktop space.
(OT: What the hell is an "Invalid form key"? Is anybody else getting this?)
The original poster makes a good point. Please moderators, don't mod something down just because it isn't all positive! That is the sort of stereotypical behavior that gives Slashdot so much bad press. Moderation was designed to make this site better, so please moderate in order to do so.
</rant> Sorry, it just bugs me to see some of the silly moderations being done these days.
While we aren't Fortune 500 where I work, we gave Athlons a try and, sorry to say, they just didn't make the cut. Too many hardware issues and not enough performance to justify putting up with it. Too bad the moderators will mod you down for telling the truth =(
After all, if IBM didn't include RedHat with every mainframe, people would be tempted to buy their mainframes naked and install a pirated copy of RedHat on it.
Redhat should do the same thing FreeBSD does, and warn people that their x.0 versions are possibly (hell, definitely in Redhat's case) buggy, and not to use them in production environments. FreeBSD does manage to put out rather stable x.0 releases though, Redhat could learn from them.
The future of Slashdot seems intricately bound up to the future of politics. If we can solve these mass-community problems in the comforting realm of Slashdot, we can eventually do it in politics, and make a fair system of government someday. If we - the brightest of our generation - can't do this, then what hope does government by the people have?
Yes, imagine how great it would be to be able to moderate George Bush and Pat Buchanan down as (-1, Flamebait).
CmdrTaco should send these guys a couple of "I HAX0RD SLASHDOT" T-shirts.
I kind of think they blew a great opportunity though; imagine the chaos that would ensue if they inserted a story titled "Linux 2.4 Released!" with a link to goatse.cx cleverly hidden as a link to kernel.org...
Frozen files (*.F) are a compressed file, similar to gzip or compressed (.Z) files. I believe that gzip is capable of uncompressing frozen files, try doing "tar xzvf qnxrtp.tar.F".
Well, I'm afraid nobody can slurp the DeCSS code from your mime-encoded User Info page, since using mimencode probably counts as reverse-engineering and is against the DMCA.
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I disagree. Most families these days have at least one young aspiring geek, and these geeklets can only benefit from having high-level tools like PuTTY at their disposal as they become curious about Unix, networking and systems administration in general. Just because something is "family-oriented" doesn't mean it needs to be dumbed down.
It figures that something like this would get moderated down. But I'm seriously considering doing this as an alternative to renewing my /. subscription when it runs out. Just look at what they're doing with the personal info you send them with PayPal? That's really, really slimy, and they aren't getting another cent from me until they explain that. Please, if you have moderator points, mod this entire thread up. This needs to be discussed.
- They want to reap the commercial benefits without accepting the other consequences of a global computer network: namely, the inevitably open society the Internet promotes. Their feeble attempts at firewalling and sheltering their people are eventually going to collapse under the insurmountable weight of the reality that information wants to be free.
- They want to use email, but can't accept that people don't want crap to be mass-mailed to them. This is a sure sign that China's only interest in the Internet is monetary, and that it is our duty to block off abusive
.cn mail servers to show them that this bullshit doesn't play on the open Internet.
China's always going to be in an awkward situation with regards to the Internet as long as they cling to their obsolete totalitarian, isolationist regime. Write your senators and tell them that all this dicking around with China is a farce, and must be stopped. Don't allow them on the Free Internet until they become a Free State, I say.Of course Emacs is becoming a full fledged OS. In fact, Emacs is the *real* GNU OS kernel project. All that HURD stuff is just a ruse to distract all those annoying VI users as Emacs, posing at first as an overly-capable text editor, slowly and cancerously takes over the operating system functions from whatever Linux, BSD, Sun, or HP kernel was once there. This is how GNU's "world domination" plans will be carried out. Beware Emacs "upgrades!"
(OT: What the hell is an "Invalid form key"? Is anybody else getting this?)
</rant> Sorry, it just bugs me to see some of the silly moderations being done these days.
While we aren't Fortune 500 where I work, we gave Athlons a try and, sorry to say, they just didn't make the cut. Too many hardware issues and not enough performance to justify putting up with it. Too bad the moderators will mod you down for telling the truth =(
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Kuro5hin already has an open submission queue. Go there if you want that.
Wouldn't it be boring if Slashdot and Kuro5hin were exactly the same?
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Yes, imagine how great it would be to be able to moderate George Bush and Pat Buchanan down as (-1, Flamebait).
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Anyway, good luck, wherever you end up..
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Because OCT 31 == DEC 25
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I kind of think they blew a great opportunity though; imagine the chaos that would ensue if they inserted a story titled "Linux 2.4 Released!" with a link to goatse.cx cleverly hidden as a link to kernel.org...
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