I wonder how well the suspended server holds up during an earthquake. *grin*
I guess it'd bang around a fair bit, and the hard disk thumping against the wall would probably be bad, but it occurred to me that something suspended from the ceiling may be subject to less of the shaking than something sitting on the ground.
And the VAX Bar looks damn cool. I feel inspired.
Andrew.
-- The Yautja "It was all so different before everything changed."
Interestingly enough, the newspaper report I saw here in Western Australia didn't say anything about the gunmen being "geeks", blaming the Internet, or blaming violent computer games. Instead, it seemed that what the press was worried about was that the gunmen were Goths...
The front-page report states that Eric Harris "started wearing black [a year ago] and became obsessed about anything German from World War II", while Dylan Klebold "had an interest in guns" and "adopted a Gothic appearince in the past year, wearing black clothing and growing his hair long".
The only mention of the Internet anywhere in any of the articles was a passing reference to a website where Gothic poetry was "symbolised" by trench coats. The article claims that the Trench Coat Mafia were inspired by fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons...
The following quoted excerpts are from my copy of the paper. It isn't clear whether they wrote this article themselves or 'borrowed' it from another source - it's uncredited.
Trench coats cloaked Gothic cult
They called themselves the Trench Coat Mafia - a dozen outcast students who opposed blacks, Hispanics and athletes.
They dressed in long black coats and spent their adolescence in the morose subculture of Gothic fantasy. They constantly talked about death.
They played World War II games, bragged about their guns and ribbed fellow students about kowtowing to the elite students at Columbine High School.
...
Tuesday was Hitler's birthday, an occasion for protests, mock funerals and other macabre commemorations by parts of the Gothic scene.
I suppose this indicates that the Australian press (even if it is mostly owned by Rupert Murdoch) doesn't hold the same 'fear' of the Internet that the American media seems to. This is a good thing, I guess, for the Internet community at least!
There was also a very heart-warming article in the newspaper about how President Clinton was showing his support for the families of those affected by the tragedy. However I much preferred this article about Clinton over on this week's edition of The Onion.:) Go read it and take your mind off this unpleasant subject...
NB: The above quotes are from The West Australian newspaper, April 22 1999 issue. No on-line version for me to link to, sorry.
Andrew.
-- The Yautja "It was all so different before everything changed."
I thought the Dilbert Hole was unfit for a toilet wall, let alone a website linked to from Slashdot. (Indeed I have a great respect for toilet walls.)
Although the main page of the Dilbert Hole has indeed changed to have the scanned in letter from the lawyers, the 17 comic strips themselves are still there. If anyone hasn't read them yet but, for some reason, wants to, start here:
As far as I'm concerned the comics haven't been "removed from the Internet" so hopefully the lawyers will get medaevil on this guy's ass. Freedom of speech is all very well but the copyright holder has rights, too.
If people try to tell me that this qualifies as a parody one more time I'll have no choice but to reach for my bucket and be violently sick.
Andrew. (Who remembers when all the Internet's crap was just on USENET, and the web was nice and clean and new.)
-- The Yautja "It was all so different before everything changed."
I'm not too sure why the "author" of the Dilbert Hole is really bothering to do this. I don't find it particularly amusing at all.
Quoting from the main page, this comment has just appeared:
Dilbert Hole is an acquired taste, reserved for the true connoisseur! Please be excusing me. I, a subversive counter culture type, have someone's nuts here to shave, and I've been ordered to be gentle. Gurgle.
Definitely an acquired taste. #17 brought a smile to my face, but only briefly.
However, apart from simply using three characters' pictures from the Dilbert comics, there are no real references to the actual characters themselves - so I don't think this qualifies as a parody, or even any type of humour really.
The "Mr T vs..." page was a much worthier Quickie posting I think. I'm looking forward to the time when my computer knows that I won't find certain things funny and so can filter them from slashdot.:)
Andrew.
-- The Yautja "It was all so different before everything changed."
-- The Yautja "It was all so different before everything changed."
Incorrect caching of Slashdot main page
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Slashdot Updates
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· Score: 1
Rob,
Whenever I go to Slashdot now, I don't get _my_ page, I get the customised page of some other person at my ISP.
I assume that this is because http://slashdot.org/ is being cached by my ISP's proxy server, which it _shouldn't_ because it is dynamically generated.
I remember this happening before (sometime last year) and it was fixed somehow. I don't know what's actually involved so can someone please do something about it?
Maybe you need a "Pragma: no-cache" or similar in the headers. Apache's mod_expires might do the trick.
Good work with all these new enhancements.
Andrew.
-- The Yautja "It was all so different before everything changed."
Slashdot Mirror
Don't know why people bother getting other people to take down web sites, really.
w ww.yourvote.com/pci/
http://web.archive.org/web/20011025014320/http://
I guess it'd bang around a fair bit, and the hard disk thumping against the wall would probably be bad, but it occurred to me that something suspended from the ceiling may be subject to less of the shaking than something sitting on the ground.
And the VAX Bar looks damn cool. I feel inspired.
Andrew.
--
The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."
Interestingly enough, the newspaper report I saw here in Western Australia didn't say anything about the gunmen being "geeks", blaming the Internet, or blaming violent computer games. Instead, it seemed that what the press was worried about was that the gunmen were Goths ...
The front-page report states that Eric Harris "started wearing black [a year ago] and became obsessed about anything German from World War II", while Dylan Klebold "had an interest in guns" and "adopted a Gothic appearince in the past year, wearing black clothing and growing his hair long".
The only mention of the Internet anywhere in any of the articles was a passing reference to a website where Gothic poetry was "symbolised" by trench coats. The article claims that the Trench Coat Mafia were inspired by fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons ...
The following quoted excerpts are from my copy of the paper. It isn't clear whether they wrote this article themselves or 'borrowed' it from another source - it's uncredited.
I suppose this indicates that the Australian press (even if it is mostly owned by Rupert Murdoch) doesn't hold the same 'fear' of the Internet that the American media seems to. This is a good thing, I guess, for the Internet community at least!
There was also a very heart-warming article in the newspaper about how President Clinton was showing his support for the families of those affected by the tragedy. However I much preferred this article about Clinton over on this week's edition of The Onion. :) Go read it and take your mind off this unpleasant subject ...
NB: The above quotes are from The West Australian newspaper, April 22 1999 issue. No on-line version for me to link to, sorry.
Andrew.
--
The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."
Although the main page of the Dilbert Hole has indeed changed to have the scanned in letter from the lawyers, the 17 comic strips themselves are still there. If anyone hasn't read them yet but, for some reason, wants to, start here:
and work your way through to here:As far as I'm concerned the comics haven't been "removed from the Internet" so hopefully the lawyers will get medaevil on this guy's ass. Freedom of speech is all very well but the copyright holder has rights, too.
If people try to tell me that this qualifies as a parody one more time I'll have no choice but to reach for my bucket and be violently sick.
Andrew.
(Who remembers when all the Internet's crap was just on USENET, and the web was nice and clean and new.)
--
The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."
I'm not too sure why the "author" of the Dilbert Hole is really bothering to do this. I don't find it particularly amusing at all.
Quoting from the main page, this comment has just appeared:
Definitely an acquired taste. #17 brought a smile to my face, but only briefly.
However, apart from simply using three characters' pictures from the Dilbert comics, there are no real references to the actual characters themselves - so I don't think this qualifies as a parody, or even any type of humour really.
The "Mr T vs ..." page was a much worthier Quickie posting I think. I'm looking forward to the time when my computer knows that I won't find certain things funny and so can filter them from slashdot. :)
Andrew.
--
The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."
Have fun Rob!
Andrew.
--
The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."
Rob,
Whenever I go to Slashdot now, I don't get _my_ page, I get the customised page of some other person at my ISP.
I assume that this is because http://slashdot.org/ is being cached by my ISP's proxy server, which it _shouldn't_ because it is dynamically generated.
I remember this happening before (sometime last year) and it was fixed somehow. I don't know what's actually involved so can someone please do something about it?
Maybe you need a "Pragma: no-cache" or similar in the headers. Apache's mod_expires might do the trick.
Good work with all these new enhancements.
Andrew.
--
The Yautja
"It was all so different before everything changed."