That's exactly what I thought. Samba is for network shares in a relatively simple environment. Authentication via Windows domain could be accomplished with more stability with Kerbeos / LDAP. It's what we do with our lab machines.
And I would much prefer to use samba to share out my oggs and mp3s without needing a volcano and a goat.
Since I would assume that links / lynx / whatever isn't css compatable, I would bet it's just using the vanilia style. If you want to see what it's working from, do this:
Running firefox, go to "View" -- "Page Style" -- No Style. When you do that, it strips the CSS out, and if you look at it, it looks suspiciously like a circa-1993 webpage, which links renders with great ease.
I can't find a way to both keep the green border-top and make the background image do what I want it to do such as to make a "bubble" type interface.
It's because of the div tags - for multiple stories, it just doesn't work. If you were to enclose every optional story in a DIV tag, set that background image to not only white out the bottom left in a rounded box, but also to white out the top left in a rounded box, it might override the css border. I think even then, you'd need to make some sort of division to get the border to act the way that people are talking about.
I really do wish that firefox had more efficient code and didn't use 150MB of RAM pretty much all the time, but... to be honest, while it's not an ideal solution, a 1GB stick of DDR on pricewatch is about $50 right now. Load up while it's cheap (it usually is in Jan/Feb). Stick 2 or 3GB in your computer and you can probably get rid of the problems.
Admittedly, it's by throwing money at the problem, but unless you're willing to take the source and fix the memory hogging (I'm not), this is a cheap solution.
Someone sent me to a site to watch some movie the other day. I was thinking it was another one of those dumb college humor type sites. Anyway, they didn't have an option for downloading this movie, only embedded. So, whatever, I click. It says "You need to download the Firefox ActiveX Plugin to see this video".
I'm like, there's no way in HELL I'm doing that. But I wonder how many people have?
Again, from what he said, something about floating point accuracy. I don't know, honestly. He came to CS through Mathematics... and that's the same reason he doesn't want to give up his alpha - better floating point precision compared to intel or something.
You guys... I'm sure there's always someone who can out do everyone else, but... I used to live in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. We regularly hit 105F before heat index in the summer, and at 80% humidity.
I agree with your post, and I don't see how this is different from a discussion about anything traditionally patronized by a particular "wing" of the government.
Let's try this: Take this article, and switch "University" with "Military" and "Left" with "Right". It still works.
Traditionally, the left wing of the government is the one that funds social programs including education. The right wing funds the military. Is it any wonder that most professors are left-wingers and most military personel are right-wingers? You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Now, when you add that the military is composed of a good number of kids who never, and couldn't have, gone to college, and that most of these "nut-job" professors have at least one Ph.D. and have been published numerous times... Well, I'm just fine with that.
And this is just plain silly. A faculty member here has been using a Digital / True64 machine for ever, and he finally realized that some campus websites required higher than netscape 4.x. His machine's in the mail, but he asked if we could install something like firefox for him to hold him over until his G5 gets here.
We looked. We couldn't. DEC - Digital - Compaq - HP does supply a version of firefox, but you have to be running True64 5.0A or later - he was running 4G. No dice.
We told him to ssh tunnel an x instance from one of our other machines...
I mean, if you're entire business is a web app which requires CSS and modern javascript... then support what you need to support. I'd personally support firefox 1.0+, netscape 6.0+, IE 5.5+. That will encompas more than 99% of people; after that I think it's really diminishing returns (pre-IE5.5 means pre-windows98).
I can't see supporting netscape 4.7 anymore. It was a good browser, but it was released in what, 1998? It's time to move on, folks - it's been 8 years. It doesn't support CSS and iframes properly and a whole bunch of stuff. Trade in your SparcStations and PackardBells for something modern, please.
From what I can tell as a sysadmin for the CS department at a University:
1.) Better development platform. 2.)... Better development platform.
We get all the windows stuff for free. We have a site license for everything in the entire MSDN Academic Alliance catalog. And we still roll more Linux than Windows.
Programmers want Linux.*
~Will
*And a few faculty members still want Digital/True64 4G for their Fortran compilers, since the GCC-Fortran kludge sucks and Lehey is expensive... but I digress...
I'm running your corporate AV now (site license with virginia tech, my employeer, who's views this post does not reflect either).
I have no problems with the corporate symantec / norton / whatever. It runs well, doesn't suck resources, etc.
Before I was in my current job, I did consulting / onsite tech work. Basically, I went to people's businesses and houses and fixed their infected computers. I've worked with symantec's end-user products extensively. Why aren't they as good as the corporate products?
For starters, most end users only get updates on Tuesdays, versus the Corporate edition gets updates as often as you guys push them. By contrast, Trend Micro users get updates as much as 5 or 6 times a day, even without running corporate. The Corp Norton also has a sleek, minimalist interface, versus the end user AV's interface with is bulky, unstable, and hard to navigate. It's also constantly trying to upsell you. And if you do end up with Norton Internet Security, your computer becomes unusable. It starts like 6 services and 4 background processes, and you can pretty much forget about any file sharing (for example, mapped drives, or SMB stuff). The firewall is over zealous, most people don't even know what it's doing anyway, and just click allow for everything that pops up. It hooks into so many dll's - installing it's own tcp/ip stack or network driver or some such thing... Ugh.
Norton also doesn't catch all the viruses that Trend Micro does. I used TM a lot, not because I was paid to, or because anyone told me to, but because it worked. You could get the virus pattern file from download.trendmicro.com, along with the sysclean scanning engine, even if you weren't a customer, and it was portable. I saw systems with updated norton that were still infected, or had viruses that had been found that couldn't be deleted all the time. I know the plural of anecdote is data, and all that, but I saw this time and time and time again... systems completely hosed when end users thought they were safe because of Norton / Symantec.
The other thing that bothers me about Symantec is the propensity for buying up other companies. They've been on a real merger kick lately, to the detriment of some good software. Of course, they now own PC Anywhere. They also have recently purchased Veritas, and I fully expect them to run it into the ground in the next 2 or 3 years. They own WinFaxPro, ProComm terminal, Partition Magic, and a whole crapload of other stuff they've purchased.
Anyway, whatever. It may be a great place to work, but the end user stuff they turn out is crap annoyware, and their corperate philosophy is merge merge merge and innovation be damned.
Which is why you should pony up the extra $4 a month to DirecTv and get "History International", which shows a much wider and much more interesting schedule. The History Channel is honesly pretty dull; part of that is my general malaise with American history - there's just not very much of it, and a lot of it is boring.
I understand what you're saying, but it serves no purpose in this conversation.
When someone in the UK requests something from a US-based webpage (say, for instance, my employer, Virginia Tech), the data goes from Virginia Tech to Sprint, across the ocean, and to the UK service provider, then to the end user. Or, it might go from Sprint to another carrier in Mae East and then across the ocean. Never through Bell South, though.
This is the entire point of the outrage at this: If your business is almost entirely servicing end users as an ISP (as bellsouth's is), then THE ONLY REASON for data to go across your network is to get to your end users.
See also: BGP and AS Path-length. Any ISP worth a goddamn isn't going to avertise that their network is an excellent place for bandwidth to be put through; likewise, major backbone routers aren't going to route data through un-needed hops.
The outrage is due to the fact that probably almost all the data destined INTO bellsouth's network is destined to be delivered to their end users. That transit has already been paid for by the ISP subscribers. If they were charging for data sent across bell south, i.e. Sprintlink -> BellSouth -> Quest -> The UK, then it would be wierd and unethical, but 1.) they're not a backbone, 2.) they're not a common carrier, and 3.) even if they wanted to charge for that, people would just adjust their routing tables to use a different route via prepending the bellsouth ASN's. The internet would move on - it's designed for these kinds of things. However, bellsouth has a monopoly on internet routing destined for their end users, and is therefore trying to leverage that to charge tolls.
Saying they want to get paid twice for the exact same data going to the exact same places is exactly correct.
The systems administrator in me wants to agree with you.
But the casual user in me finds the idea of 1.) paying for a caddy along with every blank CD I've burned, and 2.) finding space for all of them (I keep spindles full of stuff I've burned) appaling. Not to mention - one of the main attractions of a CD Burner is to be able to burn a CD and play it in your car or stereo. And I remember seeing caddy CD drives (back on an old performa Mac), and thinking at the time that they were odd, because I already knew about (caddyless) music cd players.
Almost all the stuff I work with at my new job is Dell/Xeon. We've got about a half rack of poweredge 1800's with dual xeons running our clusters, and all attaching to the Dell/EMC Fiberchannel SAN.
I don't have a problem with AMD chips. I use them at home, and on non-production servers, etc. And maybe I've bought into the Intel market hype. But, I don't think so - my experience colors my current opinion (or what's experience for?), and it's telling me that the reason I use Intel on production servers is simply this: Intel chipsets.
Yes, the NForce4 or the VIA whatever, or the AMD-brand dual-proc Athlon MP-based chipset offers whiz-bang feature #19145, but for server stability, I'll take Intel chipsets, thankyouverymuch.
Having said that, if we were to replace our 140 lab machines with newer models, and the models we got happened to be AMDs, that'd be fine with me. They're lab machines - they sit there and allow the students to compile whatever Fortran95 program or gd/php image transformer they're churning out this week.
I love it when Casinos talk about their loose slot machines - "Play here!!! Our slots pay back 97% of what you put in!!!".
Um, there's this machine in my office that pays back 100% of what I put in. It gives me 4 quarters for every dollar I put in. Yes, it's a change machine, but technically it has better odds than the slots.
By the way, that's all I needed to hear. Out of 20 submissions, 18 of them were posted by ScuttleMonkey, 2 by other people. If the time that B-B submits coincides with the time that SM works, that's probably all it is.
The problem was that no one was saying that. People were pointing it out, and editors just responded with "oh, it's nothing". All the readers wanted was to know why. Now we know why, and I (at least) am happy with the answer.
It sucks that we had to go and ruin an entire day of work to get the answer, but... here we are.
well your comment is exactly the kind of bullshit conspiracy theory crap that drives me nuts, and what kills me is that nothing I ever say or do will ever stop the fact that some percentage of users will always simply assume that there is evil going on here.
It sure doesn't make me want to get in the middle of it because even if I convince you, tomorrow there's a new guy and a new conspiracy.
If people fundamentally believe that i am doing something evil, telling them I'm not won't help.
That said, i never read your comment. So don't get your ego to high;)
I just wanted everyone to read the email that I just sent rob:
----begin email----
To: Rob's email Subject: I'm Zerocool^, I pissed you off, and I owe you an apology.
Body:
Rob:
First, I want to say that I've always been a fan of you and slashdot and Jeff. I remember listening to Geeks In Space and thinking that it's kind of a little window on the brains behind the machine - I remember in particular you blasting Amazon for 1-click shopping, saing "Someone give me 5 minutes and a secure socket layer credit card processor, and I can write that for you". It made me, an infant slashdotter at the time, feel connected. Which is all just me saying there is no personal vendetta against you, jeff, or slashdot in general.
The **B-B post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=173486&cid=14 433380) was pretty much done because I can count on my Karma and my zoo.pl fans to keep it above the din of the GNAA trolls - whereas most people who bitch about ScuttleMonkey and Beatles-Beatles either can barely speak english, have an average karma of somewhere around -6, or both. It was something that needed to be said, visibly, and I am as good a guy to say it as any.
I want to say now that the posted story on slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/10/14402 40&tid=124) is *Exactly* the response I'd hoped for. I'm not asking for sweeping reforms, all I'm asking is for the Admins to acknowledge that there is a concern from readers. Bitchslapping threads -1/Offtopic only fuels conspiracy theories, and telling readership "you're imagining things" (when, for example, submitted/greenlit stories on BB's profile now say "An anonymous reader writes to tell us..." - there's no imagining that kind of revisioning after the fact) is insulting. Creating a top-level greenlit post about this issue is precisely what needed to be done - because for starters, now no posts are Offtopic.
My point about journalistic integrity boils down to this: sometimes it's appropriate to avoid even the appearance of impropriety in order to make sure your readers are satisfied with the quality of your work. If, for instance, there is nothing between ScuttleMonkey and B-B, why then is every greenlit by B-B posted by ScuttleMonkey? Surely even if B-B spams the submissions bin with 10 stories a day, logically, timothy, Pater, or whoever else would post one or two of them. That is the appearance of impropriety, *even if nothing is actually going on*. The solution is simple: Tell SM to not post B-B links. If the links are good, then other editors will post them. If I saw one B-B post greenlit by someone other than ScuttleMonkey, it would go a LOOOONG way towards killing the rumors.
That's all. Feel free to write me back at XXXX@cs.vt.edu. In fact, if you want to talk to me over the phone, you can hit me up at XXX-XXX-XXXX. I promise to keep an open mind towards any reply you may have. Also, I plan on posting this email in the above mentioned thread. And I apologize for hijacking that story on the wobbly Milky Way; but let's be honest - it was pretty boring.
Thanks for reading.
~Will Dunn
And that's what I believe - I'm thrilled that this story has been posted - It's exactly the response that I've wanted for a while now. It's not Jamie chiming in with "Nuh-uh!!!1", and it's not a bitchslap of comments off-topic (which does fuel conspiracy theories). It's fantastic.
If rob allows, or if the contents aren't private, I'll post any reply email I get from him; but, I will respect his privacy in communication if he does write me back and asks me to do so.
Click on the link to his userpage (the ~/* * Beatles-Beatles link), and click on the links he's submitted.
For starters, they all start with "Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us [insert real news source here] has found a new [treatment for cancer | robot arm | galaxy | fad diet].
They're all posted by ScuttleMonkey.
And they all prominantly link to his webpage, which has nothing to do with him-as-a-person (there's no bio) or technology-in-general.
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And there are many animal strains of similar diseases. For example, in cats, it's FIV. Check wikipedia.
That's exactly what I thought. Samba is for network shares in a relatively simple environment. Authentication via Windows domain could be accomplished with more stability with Kerbeos / LDAP. It's what we do with our lab machines.
And I would much prefer to use samba to share out my oggs and mp3s without needing a volcano and a goat.
~Will
Since I would assume that links / lynx / whatever isn't css compatable, I would bet it's just using the vanilia style. If you want to see what it's working from, do this:
Running firefox, go to "View" -- "Page Style" -- No Style. When you do that, it strips the CSS out, and if you look at it, it looks suspiciously like a circa-1993 webpage, which links renders with great ease.
~W
I can't find a way to both keep the green border-top and make the background image do what I want it to do such as to make a "bubble" type interface.
It's because of the div tags - for multiple stories, it just doesn't work. If you were to enclose every optional story in a DIV tag, set that background image to not only white out the bottom left in a rounded box, but also to white out the top left in a rounded box, it might override the css border. I think even then, you'd need to make some sort of division to get the border to act the way that people are talking about.
I really do wish that firefox had more efficient code and didn't use 150MB of RAM pretty much all the time, but... to be honest, while it's not an ideal solution, a 1GB stick of DDR on pricewatch is about $50 right now. Load up while it's cheap (it usually is in Jan/Feb). Stick 2 or 3GB in your computer and you can probably get rid of the problems.
Admittedly, it's by throwing money at the problem, but unless you're willing to take the source and fix the memory hogging (I'm not), this is a cheap solution.
~W
Someone sent me to a site to watch some movie the other day. I was thinking it was another one of those dumb college humor type sites. Anyway, they didn't have an option for downloading this movie, only embedded. So, whatever, I click. It says "You need to download the Firefox ActiveX Plugin to see this video".
I'm like, there's no way in HELL I'm doing that. But I wonder how many people have?
~W
Again, from what he said, something about floating point accuracy. I don't know, honestly. He came to CS through Mathematics... and that's the same reason he doesn't want to give up his alpha - better floating point precision compared to intel or something.
You guys... I'm sure there's always someone who can out do everyone else, but... I used to live in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. We regularly hit 105F before heat index in the summer, and at 80% humidity.
~Will
I agree with your post, and I don't see how this is different from a discussion about anything traditionally patronized by a particular "wing" of the government.
Let's try this: Take this article, and switch "University" with "Military" and "Left" with "Right". It still works.
Traditionally, the left wing of the government is the one that funds social programs including education. The right wing funds the military. Is it any wonder that most professors are left-wingers and most military personel are right-wingers? You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Now, when you add that the military is composed of a good number of kids who never, and couldn't have, gone to college, and that most of these "nut-job" professors have at least one Ph.D. and have been published numerous times... Well, I'm just fine with that.
It morphs fortran code into C in order to create the binary (or so this prof. said).
I've got one for you, since you mention it.
And this is just plain silly. A faculty member here has been using a Digital / True64 machine for ever, and he finally realized that some campus websites required higher than netscape 4.x. His machine's in the mail, but he asked if we could install something like firefox for him to hold him over until his G5 gets here.
We looked. We couldn't. DEC - Digital - Compaq - HP does supply a version of firefox, but you have to be running True64 5.0A or later - he was running 4G. No dice.
We told him to ssh tunnel an x instance from one of our other machines...
~W
Yeah, what happened to "Degrade Gracefully".
I mean, if you're entire business is a web app which requires CSS and modern javascript... then support what you need to support. I'd personally support firefox 1.0+, netscape 6.0+, IE 5.5+. That will encompas more than 99% of people; after that I think it's really diminishing returns (pre-IE5.5 means pre-windows98).
I can't see supporting netscape 4.7 anymore. It was a good browser, but it was released in what, 1998? It's time to move on, folks - it's been 8 years. It doesn't support CSS and iframes properly and a whole bunch of stuff. Trade in your SparcStations and PackardBells for something modern, please.
Just attempt to make it degrade gracefully.
~Will
From what I can tell as a sysadmin for the CS department at a University:
1.) Better development platform.
2.)
We get all the windows stuff for free. We have a site license for everything in the entire MSDN Academic Alliance catalog. And we still roll more Linux than Windows.
Programmers want Linux.*
~Will
*And a few faculty members still want Digital/True64 4G for their Fortran compilers, since the GCC-Fortran kludge sucks and Lehey is expensive... but I digress...
I'm running your corporate AV now (site license with virginia tech, my employeer, who's views this post does not reflect either).
I have no problems with the corporate symantec / norton / whatever. It runs well, doesn't suck resources, etc.
Before I was in my current job, I did consulting / onsite tech work. Basically, I went to people's businesses and houses and fixed their infected computers. I've worked with symantec's end-user products extensively. Why aren't they as good as the corporate products?
For starters, most end users only get updates on Tuesdays, versus the Corporate edition gets updates as often as you guys push them. By contrast, Trend Micro users get updates as much as 5 or 6 times a day, even without running corporate. The Corp Norton also has a sleek, minimalist interface, versus the end user AV's interface with is bulky, unstable, and hard to navigate. It's also constantly trying to upsell you. And if you do end up with Norton Internet Security, your computer becomes unusable. It starts like 6 services and 4 background processes, and you can pretty much forget about any file sharing (for example, mapped drives, or SMB stuff). The firewall is over zealous, most people don't even know what it's doing anyway, and just click allow for everything that pops up. It hooks into so many dll's - installing it's own tcp/ip stack or network driver or some such thing... Ugh.
Norton also doesn't catch all the viruses that Trend Micro does. I used TM a lot, not because I was paid to, or because anyone told me to, but because it worked. You could get the virus pattern file from download.trendmicro.com, along with the sysclean scanning engine, even if you weren't a customer, and it was portable. I saw systems with updated norton that were still infected, or had viruses that had been found that couldn't be deleted all the time. I know the plural of anecdote is data, and all that, but I saw this time and time and time again... systems completely hosed when end users thought they were safe because of Norton / Symantec.
The other thing that bothers me about Symantec is the propensity for buying up other companies. They've been on a real merger kick lately, to the detriment of some good software. Of course, they now own PC Anywhere. They also have recently purchased Veritas, and I fully expect them to run it into the ground in the next 2 or 3 years. They own WinFaxPro, ProComm terminal, Partition Magic, and a whole crapload of other stuff they've purchased.
Anyway, whatever. It may be a great place to work, but the end user stuff they turn out is crap annoyware, and their corperate philosophy is merge merge merge and innovation be damned.
~Will
Which is why you should pony up the extra $4 a month to DirecTv and get "History International", which shows a much wider and much more interesting schedule. The History Channel is honesly pretty dull; part of that is my general malaise with American history - there's just not very much of it, and a lot of it is boring.
Plus, HI has "Time Team".
~Will
I understand what you're saying, but it serves no purpose in this conversation.
When someone in the UK requests something from a US-based webpage (say, for instance, my employer, Virginia Tech), the data goes from Virginia Tech to Sprint, across the ocean, and to the UK service provider, then to the end user. Or, it might go from Sprint to another carrier in Mae East and then across the ocean. Never through Bell South, though.
This is the entire point of the outrage at this: If your business is almost entirely servicing end users as an ISP (as bellsouth's is), then THE ONLY REASON for data to go across your network is to get to your end users.
See also: BGP and AS Path-length. Any ISP worth a goddamn isn't going to avertise that their network is an excellent place for bandwidth to be put through; likewise, major backbone routers aren't going to route data through un-needed hops.
The outrage is due to the fact that probably almost all the data destined INTO bellsouth's network is destined to be delivered to their end users. That transit has already been paid for by the ISP subscribers. If they were charging for data sent across bell south, i.e. Sprintlink -> BellSouth -> Quest -> The UK, then it would be wierd and unethical, but 1.) they're not a backbone, 2.) they're not a common carrier, and 3.) even if they wanted to charge for that, people would just adjust their routing tables to use a different route via prepending the bellsouth ASN's. The internet would move on - it's designed for these kinds of things. However, bellsouth has a monopoly on internet routing destined for their end users, and is therefore trying to leverage that to charge tolls.
Saying they want to get paid twice for the exact same data going to the exact same places is exactly correct.
~Will
The systems administrator in me wants to agree with you.
But the casual user in me finds the idea of 1.) paying for a caddy along with every blank CD I've burned, and 2.) finding space for all of them (I keep spindles full of stuff I've burned) appaling. Not to mention - one of the main attractions of a CD Burner is to be able to burn a CD and play it in your car or stereo. And I remember seeing caddy CD drives (back on an old performa Mac), and thinking at the time that they were odd, because I already knew about (caddyless) music cd players.
~W
ISO9660
Now that's universal.
I want Xeon.
Almost all the stuff I work with at my new job is Dell/Xeon. We've got about a half rack of poweredge 1800's with dual xeons running our clusters, and all attaching to the Dell/EMC Fiberchannel SAN.
I don't have a problem with AMD chips. I use them at home, and on non-production servers, etc. And maybe I've bought into the Intel market hype. But, I don't think so - my experience colors my current opinion (or what's experience for?), and it's telling me that the reason I use Intel on production servers is simply this: Intel chipsets.
Yes, the NForce4 or the VIA whatever, or the AMD-brand dual-proc Athlon MP-based chipset offers whiz-bang feature #19145, but for server stability, I'll take Intel chipsets, thankyouverymuch.
Having said that, if we were to replace our 140 lab machines with newer models, and the models we got happened to be AMDs, that'd be fine with me. They're lab machines - they sit there and allow the students to compile whatever Fortran95 program or gd/php image transformer they're churning out this week.
~Will
I love it when Casinos talk about their loose slot machines - "Play here!!! Our slots pay back 97% of what you put in!!!".
Um, there's this machine in my office that pays back 100% of what I put in. It gives me 4 quarters for every dollar I put in. Yes, it's a change machine, but technically it has better odds than the slots.
~Will
Repeat after me:
Anti-aliased fonts are harder to read.
Then repeat this:
Rasterize fonts before resizing images.
By the way, that's all I needed to hear. Out of 20 submissions, 18 of them were posted by ScuttleMonkey, 2 by other people. If the time that B-B submits coincides with the time that SM works, that's probably all it is.
The problem was that no one was saying that. People were pointing it out, and editors just responded with "oh, it's nothing". All the readers wanted was to know why. Now we know why, and I (at least) am happy with the answer.
It sucks that we had to go and ruin an entire day of work to get the answer, but
~Will
The email back from Rob:
So, it wasn't me, but he has noticed.
Ah, well. *tear*.
~Will
Specifically, the comment that I posted here.
I just wanted everyone to read the email that I just sent rob:
----begin email----
And that's what I believe - I'm thrilled that this story has been posted - It's exactly the response that I've wanted for a while now. It's not Jamie chiming in with "Nuh-uh!!!1", and it's not a bitchslap of comments off-topic (which does fuel conspiracy theories). It's fantastic.
If rob allows, or if the contents aren't private, I'll post any reply email I get from him; but, I will respect his privacy in communication if he does write me back and asks me to do so.
~Will
Click on the link to his userpage (the ~/* * Beatles-Beatles link), and click on the links he's submitted.
For starters, they all start with "Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us [insert real news source here] has found a new [treatment for cancer | robot arm | galaxy | fad diet].
They're all posted by ScuttleMonkey.
And they all prominantly link to his webpage, which has nothing to do with him-as-a-person (there's no bio) or technology-in-general.
~W