"Your honour, we asked 6000 of our licensees to provide evidence that they are in full compliance with their licenses, but none of them did. Clearly they are infringing on our IP, so we'd like to expand our case..."
Don't forget to also "emerge nvidia-glx" to get OpenGL accelleration. You need to re-emerge nvidia-kernel whenever you update the kernel, but this is relatively painless. (I don't use TV out, so haven't noticed any problems with the 2.6test kernels.)
I have a KT333A chipset and don't have any problems with my USB Intellimouse Explorer mouse with the IO APIC enabled. I did have to append "pci=usepirqmask pci=noacpi" to get around a couple of other issues, though. 2.6 seems pretty solid - I'm using it daily on my computer at home and at work.
It can double as a portable Firewire/USB2 hard drive.
This is probably the real reason for the iPod's popularity - they can be slipped into purchase orders for Apple hardware as an "external Firewire HDD", and managers won't bat an eyelid!;-)
Honestly, Tux is not a very good logo. Most people don't know what that orange and black rendered penguin is all about
That's because the Tux logo hasn't had a multi-million dollar advertising campaign, apart from some cryptic IBM sidewalk placements.
That's easily rectified though - just attach one of the inexpensive "Powered by Linux" case badges featuring the happy penguin. All of the terminals at my work have one - if our users haven't figured out what the penguin means yet, they need professional help.
RTG - RadioThermal Generator. While this is closer to a regular nuclear reactor design that the RTGs used on some space probes, the name is still valid since it uses radioactive decay to produce heat that drives the steam plant.
The Coca Cola billboard that is (was?) in Melbourne, Australia already ripples in the wind! The logo is made up of an array of red and silver circular metallic foil spinners; whenever there's a breeze, the discs spin around creating rippling effects across the billboard. I always thought it was neat, and it didn't take a gazillion dollars of electronics...
Why not change the DNS for monkeys.com & compunet to a nice NSA or FBI address range
Because the FBI would just jump on the domain owners, not those behind the DDoS. Better to just remove the DNS entries and let Verisign take the heat.:-)
It's a slightly more PC version of the previously used description "of Middle Eastern appearance", which non-Middle Eastern people found offensive, especially those born in Australia. A more accurate description would be "two smug looking guys, each with a server on a trolley."
I noticed the same thing - over half of the copies of SoBig.F I received, and the only bounce message alleging to be from me, came from an IP address somewhere in California. As I don't know anyone in CA and didn't recognise the domain at all, I wonder how they got my email address? Either it was somehow collected by the user, or this machine was deliberately set up as a distribution point (either by the owner or the OwN3r...)
It appears to be even older than that! Have a look at/usr/sys/malloc.c from Sixth Edition Unix ported to the Interdata 7/32 at the University of Wollongong, Australia during 1976-77. The datestamp on the file is 3 June 1979 - at worst the same year that SCO was formed, but more likely before that date.
SCO's intellectual property? I think not...
(Apologies if this is a repeat - I'm getting timeouts connecting to Slashdot.org)
If they tried to hide these, the first thing you'd notice would be a large increase in outages due to lines being cut by backhoes, etc.
It makes for more interesting backhoe incidents, though. Backhoeing a critical transcontinental fibre cable is a non-event; backhoeing a 380kV cable is much more impressive.:-)
That should be "a HTML browser", not "an HTML browser." The "H" of "HTML" is pronounced, therefore you use an "a". "An" is only used with silent H's where the vowel is pronounced instead of "h" i.e. "a horse", "a hospital", "an honour", "an hor's doeuvre".
My pet hate is news readers who say "an horrific accident" - it's "a horrific accident" dammit! (The exception would be if it occurred in East London, in which case it might be "an 'orrific accident"...)
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I for one welcome our new asteroid mining overlords.
(I've no idea what this means, but it seemed the Slashdot thing to do...)
They have until Jan 8th... :)
"Your honour, we asked 6000 of our licensees to provide evidence that they are in full compliance with their licenses, but none of them did. Clearly they are infringing on our IP, so we'd like to expand our case..."
Come back in 365 more days and see how I did.
As 2004 is a leap year with 366 days, I'm guessing Cringely will get this prediction wrong...
Actually, it has been solved. I've talked with some people in the know. It's the real deal this time.
Until it has been peer reviewed and published, isn't that just Poincare Conjecture conjecture?
This is the culmination of a lifelong dream for him ...
Not quite - he wanted to play Gandalf.
Don't forget to also "emerge nvidia-glx" to get OpenGL accelleration. You need to re-emerge nvidia-kernel whenever you update the kernel, but this is relatively painless. (I don't use TV out, so haven't noticed any problems with the 2.6test kernels.)
If the next one is called "Lubed Gerbil", I'm outta here...
I have a KT333A chipset and don't have any problems with my USB Intellimouse Explorer mouse with the IO APIC enabled. I did have to append "pci=usepirqmask pci=noacpi" to get around a couple of other issues, though. 2.6 seems pretty solid - I'm using it daily on my computer at home and at work.
Why go shopping for asteroids when they deliver? Sure, the delivery schedule and drop-off point is unpredictable, but hey - free minerals!
It can double as a portable Firewire/USB2 hard drive.
;-)
This is probably the real reason for the iPod's popularity - they can be slipped into purchase orders for Apple hardware as an "external Firewire HDD", and managers won't bat an eyelid!
(No I don't have an iPod, you insensitive clod!)
Honestly, Tux is not a very good logo. Most people don't know what that orange and black rendered penguin is all about
That's because the Tux logo hasn't had a multi-million dollar advertising campaign, apart from some cryptic IBM sidewalk placements.
That's easily rectified though - just attach one of the inexpensive "Powered by Linux" case badges featuring the happy penguin. All of the terminals at my work have one - if our users haven't figured out what the penguin means yet, they need professional help.
RTG - RadioThermal Generator. While this is closer to a regular nuclear reactor design that the RTGs used on some space probes, the name is still valid since it uses radioactive decay to produce heat that drives the steam plant.
In fact, XP 64 looks like a throwback to Windows past: Its interface mirrors that of Windows 2000 or even Win 98.
YES! For once, one less thing I have to turn off after a Microsoft "upgrade".
The Coca Cola billboard that is (was?) in Melbourne, Australia already ripples in the wind! The logo is made up of an array of red and silver circular metallic foil spinners; whenever there's a breeze, the discs spin around creating rippling effects across the billboard. I always thought it was neat, and it didn't take a gazillion dollars of electronics...
Wasssuuuuuppppp!!!
If they're getting "bluetooth", they should turn down the cooling (10-12 degrees C is a good cellar temperature).
Is there a Guinness expansion pack?
Why not change the DNS for monkeys.com & compunet to a nice NSA or FBI address range
:-)
Because the FBI would just jump on the domain owners, not those behind the DDoS. Better to just remove the DNS entries and let Verisign take the heat.
If anybody wants the code, then post a reply here and I'll set up a web page with it and post the URL. (I won't bother if nobody wants it.)
That would be cool. To avoid your server getting Slashdotted, posting it to appropriate USENET groups is also fine by me.
Thats PC for terrorist isnt it ?
It's a slightly more PC version of the previously used description "of Middle Eastern appearance", which non-Middle Eastern people found offensive, especially those born in Australia. A more accurate description would be "two smug looking guys, each with a server on a trolley."
It'll be quite a sight when someone hacks it and takes command.
"It's the wrong trousers Gromit, and they've gone wrong!" (The villain, Feathers McGraw, looks rather like an evil version of Tux...)
I noticed the same thing - over half of the copies of SoBig.F I received, and the only bounce message alleging to be from me, came from an IP address somewhere in California. As I don't know anyone in CA and didn't recognise the domain at all, I wonder how they got my email address? Either it was somehow collected by the user, or this machine was deliberately set up as a distribution point (either by the owner or the OwN3r...)
Master Builders Association?
Having read Alan's Diary in the past (before it was written in Welsh!), this makes sense given his adventures of buying and renovating a house.
Their example can be traced back to 2.11BSD
/usr/sys/malloc.c from Sixth Edition Unix ported to the Interdata 7/32 at the University of Wollongong, Australia during 1976-77. The datestamp on the file is 3 June 1979 - at worst the same year that SCO was formed, but more likely before that date.
It appears to be even older than that! Have a look at
SCO's intellectual property? I think not...
(Apologies if this is a repeat - I'm getting timeouts connecting to Slashdot.org)
If they tried to hide these, the first thing you'd notice would be a large increase in outages due to lines being cut by backhoes, etc.
:-)
It makes for more interesting backhoe incidents, though. Backhoeing a critical transcontinental fibre cable is a non-event; backhoeing a 380kV cable is much more impressive.
That should be "a HTML browser", not "an HTML browser." The "H" of "HTML" is pronounced, therefore you use an "a". "An" is only used with silent H's where the vowel is pronounced instead of "h" i.e. "a horse", "a hospital", "an honour", "an hor's doeuvre".
My pet hate is news readers who say "an horrific accident" - it's "a horrific accident" dammit! (The exception would be if it occurred in East London, in which case it might be "an 'orrific accident"...)
Microsoft: It barely works.