Bah, how silly! Who better to hate MS than their poor, long-suffering customers? I don't hate MS, but then I haven't used any of their products in nearly three years. For all I know, they actually have made improvements since Win95. LOTS of people feel coerced into running WinDOS and hate it. And (to stay vaguely on-topic) Palladium is obviously, at least in part, an attempt by MS to make it harder for people to escape, which in turn will increase the number of MS users who hate MS. Bashing these people is the kind of clueless "I'm so superior" crap I'd expect from IRC-addicted losers. You should either offer to help them escape from MS's control, or (if you're an MS fan) offer intelligent rebuttals. (I'm dubious whether there are any intelligent rebuttals, but, as I mentioned earlier, I don't know what MS has done lately, so I'm not qualified to comment.)
Frankly I'm a little dubious about the scheme. Blender hasn't been successful commercially (when it was free-like-beer), so now, the owners are making a last ditch attempt to scrape up some money. Well, I certainly understand why they want the money, but aren't they still selling their books? (Which was the only way they were making money before.) What if they don't get their money, are they going to bury or destroy the source, and cut off their income from selling the book? Isn't that like cutting off their nose to spite their face? What if they only receive 40k euros? What if I'd sent in 10 euro? Do I get a refund? Or will they just keep whatever money they've received and laugh at us? Frankly, while I hope the scheme succeeds ('cause that'll leave everyone happy), it worries me very much.
On the other hand, the comment about the interface was really clueless. Can you imagine the reaction if Taco had said "perhaps, now that vi is open source, some ambitious soul will bolt on a reasonable interface." The vi fans would be burning him in effigy. The cult of easy-to-learn, who-cares-how-easy-it-is-to-actually-use gets rather annoying sometimes. Where are the usability studies on experts?
They don't? I'll grant that I've never seen an ISP advertise their time server, but I've usually been able to either track one down by browsing their web pages, or, worst case, get the host info by emailing support. Of course, I do tend to use geek-friendly ISPs when I can, but I'd assume that most slashdotters would gravitate towards the geek-friendly ISPs. I'd strongly suggest you ask your ISP before assuming that they don't provide NTP servers. Chances are near 100% that your ISP uses NTP, at least internally.
Your Internet Service Provider may well offer NTP as part of your service. They may not make a big deal of it, but it's probably available if you search their web pages or ask. I found a list of my ISP's NTP servers in their FAQ.
The advantage to using an officially provided host for NTP service is that it's less likely to disappear out from under you. One you hunt down on your own may be a temporary machine, or may be subject to change without notice.
I believe that one of my claims to fame is that I was the first person in the world to break one of the original IBM PC keyboards. I was a contractor working for one of the companies that IBM hired to create the software for the initial release of the PC, working under severe secrecy and harsh NDAs. A few weeks before the actual release of the PC, I managed to knock one of the keyboards of our sample machines off a desk, jarring loose several keycaps, and causing some damage to the internal circuitry.
Ever since then, I've found it ironic when people refer to these keyboards as "indestructible". Although I freely admit that they are great keyboards, possibly the best ever made for any computing equipment anywhere.
They're not crowing about the fact that they can compile for these systems, they're crowing about the fact that they are going to compile for these systems, and support them. Since compiling code into working binaries and supporting those binaries is what Mandrake does, I think they're justified in crowing about this. As a big AMD fan, I applaud Mandrake for this, even though I use and support Debian myself.
Slackware and Redhat and SuSE may or may not support this platform directly, I don't know. It's certainly not guaranteed. There are plenty of platforms they don't support, even though they could. It's probably going to depend on whether they think they can make enough money off of it.
And yes, Debian will almost certainly support the Hammer as soon as we get our hands on some. But then we're insane, and support everything we can. Who else still supports m68k and ARM? Who else is _adding_ support for HPPA and Super8? We do it because it's fun, not because we're trying to make money.
(As for the thing about security advisories, that's a bit off-topic, but I will say that Debian's security list is intended for Debian's users, so that they know when officially supported packages are available, and it's not our fault that bugtraq decided to subscribe to our list. Complain to bugtraq if it bothers you that much.)
I've worked for lots of companies that used OSS, and did quite well by it, e.g. DHL uses Samba and Perl all over the place. To look for companies which make money selling OSS is to miss the point completely. OSS is good for users, which includes (at least potentially) most businesses.
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I'm sure that many government computers are safely isolated from any public nets, but many of them have the sole purpose of serving information to the Internet, and would be pretty useless if they were isolated! Furthermore, it's not just government installations that are at risk. The 9-11 attacks weren't just aimed at the Pentagon. Or perhaps you forgot about the WTC?
The major US backbones of the Internet itself could be considered part of our national infrastructure. I hope you're not going to ask why the backbones are on the Internet!
Nope for me it's the people with ideology who are evil...
Indeed, that's the basis for my ideology. I firmly believe that all those people who firmly believe that certain people should be killed should be killed.
Anyway, #3 on the list (BG) also has an ideology: the pursuit of more money is the highest good.
Never work with a project manager who hasn't been a developer himself.
I've got 20+ years in the biz too, and I have to STRONGLY disagree with this! The WORST project managers I've worked with have all been former (or even current) developers. The best have been about half-and-half. Being a good project manager involves (among other things) social skills, something many techies lack. A good project manager can always get good technical advice from her team (assuming she's got a halfway decent team). A bad manager may well force everyone to write device drivers in COBOL, simply because he has 20 years of experience with COBOL.
Techies often get promoted/moved to management because of their technical skills, and they may or may not prove to have management skills once there. Non-techies in technical management are more likely to have to have to shown other skills -- sometimes including actual management skills -- in order to get that technical management job. Thus, in my experience and opinion, your odds of getting a good manager are slightly higher if your manager is not a techie. Unfortunately, this is only a slight tendency; about as far from a reliable guide as you can find. The world is indeed full of PHB's.
I will say that if I'm going to have bad management, I'd rather have it be technically knowledgeable bad management. That way, it's a little more likely that the project will eventually limp along to something resembling success. But I've seen amazing results from good management, and I'd much rather have that. Unfortunately, good management is all-too rare.
That's "closed-source code", not "closed source-code". I know, you were trying to make a joke, but consider your audience here. If it involves English grammar, it's going to be way over their heads. (Now a joke involving PERL grammar, on the other hand...:)
You just can't find these cases at places like Newegg
That's not necessarily true. You can find nice cases if you look around. The one I'm using now is a one-screw (thumbscrew) case that's very well put together, as nice as anything I've seen from Dell. Bought it from a little shop in San Francisco's SoMa district.
Granted, unless you go in a look at actual cases, and play with them in person, you're probably going to get stuck with one that's awkward or fragile or hacker-hostile. But just because most of the third-party cases are crap, that doesn't mean they all are. It's simply a feature that most people don't pay enough attention to.
Call me crazy, but I find it kind of funny that 4 of the largest RAM players are being accused of anti-competition. Competitive anti-competition?
Yes, it's called "price-fixing", and it may even be the most common sort of anti-competitive behavior. Fortunately, it's also the least stable, as a single defector in an oligarchy can trigger a compensatory price-war. But a monopoly by a small group is no less dangerous in general than a monopoly by a single player.
I have Linux bumper-stickers and t-shirts, and I frequently have people walk up to me who want to know more about Linux. Usually they're frustrated with the instability and constant crashing of their Windows machines, and have heard (somewhere) that Linux is more stable and reliable. Generally, these tend to be small-businessmen or independent contractors (plumbers, carpenters, etc.), but I think it shows that Joe Average is at least interested in and curious about Linux, even if he's still also a little scared and cautious (probably for good reason, and I try to encourage the caution).
Heh, well, yes, far too many real-world projects are started without enough analysis or design. No arguments there.:)
But it sounds like this question was posed by someone who has recently discovered that analysis and design are important, and doesn't understand why programming books don't cover analysis and design in greater detail. Which is, to some extent, a bit like asking why books on carpentry don't teach architectural design.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong places? Introductory books on analysis and design would seem to me a better place to find an introduction to analysis and design than books on programming.
Programming (coding) is how you implement a design. By the time you get around to coding, I would hope that you already have the design worked out.
Speaking as a software developer (both free and corporate/IT), as long as they make their source available, I really don't care if they make the binaries available. The idea behind UntiedLinux seems to be that they're going to be based on the Linux Standard Base. Well, that's great, the LSB is an open standard, so I don't need their binaries to develop my code.
With the source code available, I could build my own binary version, if I cared that much and were willing to dedicate that much time/that many cycles to it. But I don't care.
If I were worried about other people making money off my code, I'd either make it proprietary, or use a semi-free no-commercial-use license. But I'm not.
If this were some whacky, customized system, with all kinds of special oddnesses everywhere, I might find it a little annoying to not have binaries (assuming they want me to support my software on their system). But if it's just a standard Linux system, it's really no big deal to me. I'll take source-with-no-binaries over binaries-with-no-source any day of the week, thank you very much. Especially when their system is already close enough to what I'm running right now.
I've lived in the bay area for nearly 40 years, and in that time, I've never even met someone who has suffered in an earthquake. Loma Prieta in '89, which did a fair amount of damage (for an earthquake) knocked a couple of books off my bookshelf. And I was living less than two miles from the Cypress Freeway in Oakland, which collapsed. There were maybe a dozen earthquakes on the US west coast in the twentieth century that did enough damage to mention. Most of the damage, even in the worst ones, has come from secondary effects like fires.
The funny thing is that even though I live on the west coast, I know more people who have been directly affected by tornadoes! (My family is from the midwest originally.)
Actually, snow is the real killer in the midwest, just as floods are the real killer on the west coast. Earthquakes and tornadoes are more photogenic, but probably really shouldn't be a source of worry to anyone living in "danger zones". Lightning is probably more of a threat whereever you live.:)
Because-- and I thought I made this perfectly clear-- "virii" was used in this context as a serious plural, with no sense of irony implied.
Which is irrelevent because -- and I thought I made this perfectly clear -- "boxen" is usually used as if it were a serious plural, with no obvious sense of irony implied. When I see "boxen" used, it's usually in simple statements, like, "I need to set up a dozen boxen tomorrow". I assume (because I know these are educated, intelligent people) that the people who write this know better, and are in on the joke, but I can't prove it, any more than you or I can prove that people who use "virii" do or don't know better.
As for the fact that "virii" doesn't follow the rules of Latin, so freakin' what? That just means it's a different sort of joke! Personally, I fell off my chair laughing the first time I saw that spelling. But then, I'm not the sort of arrogant pinhead who assumes I'm smarter than everyone else (even though I usually am).
And the fact that it's a made up word is irrelevent. English is full of made up words. And it's full of words (like "television") that don't follow the rules. "Correct" English is defined as what English-speaking people say/type. If enough people use "virii", it becomes correct, whether or not the rules of some long-dead other language justify it or not.
The last earthquake in the Bay Area that did any noticable damage was in 1989, 13 years ago. How long ago did the last major hurricane trash the Eastern Seaboard? How long since the last tornado tore up houses/trailer parks in the midwest? Less than a year in both cases, I'll betcha.
Actually, earthquakes are nothing -- the real killer in California is floods. Every year, several houses get major flood damage, and it's an unusual year when at least one house isn't destroyed by floods. Earthquakes are just a little harmless fun, normally.
So is "viri"/"virii" an old joke! I know that I first encountered it in the sixties, as a little kid. My mom used it -- and she was an English major and professional editor and writer. She was well aware that it was incorrect, but it tickled her sense of humor (as did some other malformed words and phrases, such as "swell foop", which she used more-or-less consistently throughout her lifetime).
And how do you tell if people are using it "tongue-in-cheek"? When people use "boxen", they usually use it as if it were a real word, and don't draw any special attention to it. Pretty much the way they use "viri"/"virii". Unless you have previously unsuspected telepathic powers, you're using guesswork, and have no factual basis for your claim. Since I first encountered Tom C.'s humorless diatribe over a year ago, I have looked in vain for any evidence that anyone at all takes the silly misspelling seriously. I have failed to find any. It's a little more popular than "boxen", but then it seems to have spread through science fiction fandom, which was a little bigger and more widespread than hackerdom back in the sixties when all this silliness started.
As for the ridiculous "it's not proper Latin" argument, well, that's just dumb! This is English we're talking about, not Latin. Hell, the word "television" mixes Latin and Greek roots, and by the measures you're applying, is a REAL abomination. Why don't you start a crusade to stamp out the word "television" instead of wasting your time on a mild (and admittedly not-very-funny) joke.
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Bah, how silly! Who better to hate MS than their poor, long-suffering customers? I don't hate MS, but then I haven't used any of their products in nearly three years. For all I know, they actually have made improvements since Win95. LOTS of people feel coerced into running WinDOS and hate it. And (to stay vaguely on-topic) Palladium is obviously, at least in part, an attempt by MS to make it harder for people to escape, which in turn will increase the number of MS users who hate MS. Bashing these people is the kind of clueless "I'm so superior" crap I'd expect from IRC-addicted losers. You should either offer to help them escape from MS's control, or (if you're an MS fan) offer intelligent rebuttals. (I'm dubious whether there are any intelligent rebuttals, but, as I mentioned earlier, I don't know what MS has done lately, so I'm not qualified to comment.)
It should say, "Blender May Go Open Source".
Frankly I'm a little dubious about the scheme. Blender hasn't been successful commercially (when it was free-like-beer), so now, the owners are making a last ditch attempt to scrape up some money. Well, I certainly understand why they want the money, but aren't they still selling their books? (Which was the only way they were making money before.) What if they don't get their money, are they going to bury or destroy the source, and cut off their income from selling the book? Isn't that like cutting off their nose to spite their face? What if they only receive 40k euros? What if I'd sent in 10 euro? Do I get a refund? Or will they just keep whatever money they've received and laugh at us? Frankly, while I hope the scheme succeeds ('cause that'll leave everyone happy), it worries me very much.
On the other hand, the comment about the interface was really clueless. Can you imagine the reaction if Taco had said "perhaps, now that vi is open source, some ambitious soul will bolt on a reasonable interface." The vi fans would be burning him in effigy. The cult of easy-to-learn, who-cares-how-easy-it-is-to-actually-use gets rather annoying sometimes. Where are the usability studies on experts?
Real men base their clocks on the rotation speed of the galaxy! Not on some obscure backwater planet that nobody cares about!
Except that ISPs rarely provide time servers
They don't? I'll grant that I've never seen an ISP advertise their time server, but I've usually been able to either track one down by browsing their web pages, or, worst case, get the host info by emailing support. Of course, I do tend to use geek-friendly ISPs when I can, but I'd assume that most slashdotters would gravitate towards the geek-friendly ISPs. I'd strongly suggest you ask your ISP before assuming that they don't provide NTP servers. Chances are near 100% that your ISP uses NTP, at least internally.
Your Internet Service Provider may well offer NTP as part of your service. They may not make a big deal of it, but it's probably available if you search their web pages or ask. I found a list of my ISP's NTP servers in their FAQ.
The advantage to using an officially provided host for NTP service is that it's less likely to disappear out from under you. One you hunt down on your own may be a temporary machine, or may be subject to change without notice.
I believe that one of my claims to fame is that I was the first person in the world to break one of the original IBM PC keyboards. I was a contractor working for one of the companies that IBM hired to create the software for the initial release of the PC, working under severe secrecy and harsh NDAs. A few weeks before the actual release of the PC, I managed to knock one of the keyboards of our sample machines off a desk, jarring loose several keycaps, and causing some damage to the internal circuitry.
Ever since then, I've found it ironic when people refer to these keyboards as "indestructible". Although I freely admit that they are great keyboards, possibly the best ever made for any computing equipment anywhere.
They're not crowing about the fact that they can compile for these systems, they're crowing about the fact that they are going to compile for these systems, and support them. Since compiling code into working binaries and supporting those binaries is what Mandrake does, I think they're justified in crowing about this. As a big AMD fan, I applaud Mandrake for this, even though I use and support Debian myself.
Slackware and Redhat and SuSE may or may not support this platform directly, I don't know. It's certainly not guaranteed. There are plenty of platforms they don't support, even though they could. It's probably going to depend on whether they think they can make enough money off of it.
And yes, Debian will almost certainly support the Hammer as soon as we get our hands on some. But then we're insane, and support everything we can. Who else still supports m68k and ARM? Who else is _adding_ support for HPPA and Super8? We do it because it's fun, not because we're trying to make money.
(As for the thing about security advisories, that's a bit off-topic, but I will say that Debian's security list is intended for Debian's users, so that they know when officially supported packages are available, and it's not our fault that bugtraq decided to subscribe to our list. Complain to bugtraq if it bothers you that much.)
I've worked for lots of companies that used OSS, and did quite well by it, e.g. DHL uses Samba and Perl all over the place. To look for companies which make money selling OSS is to miss the point completely. OSS is good for users, which includes (at least potentially) most businesses.
I'm sure that many government computers are safely isolated from any public nets, but many of them have the sole purpose of serving information to the Internet, and would be pretty useless if they were isolated! Furthermore, it's not just government installations that are at risk. The 9-11 attacks weren't just aimed at the Pentagon. Or perhaps you forgot about the WTC?
The major US backbones of the Internet itself could be considered part of our national infrastructure. I hope you're not going to ask why the backbones are on the Internet!
No, no, By "half-and-half" I meant that about half of them (the best) have had a technical background, and about half have not.
From the article: "We're not prepared to strand an installed base of over 2 million iPAQ users."
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Umm... right, that's why my PocketPC 2000 Cassiopiea E115 is now as useful as a doorstop as it has a MIPS chip in it.
Sorry, there were only 1,999,999 users of that specific system, so it was below our threshold.
Nope for me it's the people with ideology who are evil...
Indeed, that's the basis for my ideology. I firmly believe that all those people who firmly believe that certain people should be killed should be killed.
Anyway, #3 on the list (BG) also has an ideology: the pursuit of more money is the highest good.
Never work with a project manager who hasn't been a developer himself.
I've got 20+ years in the biz too, and I have to STRONGLY disagree with this! The WORST project managers I've worked with have all been former (or even current) developers. The best have been about half-and-half. Being a good project manager involves (among other things) social skills, something many techies lack. A good project manager can always get good technical advice from her team (assuming she's got a halfway decent team). A bad manager may well force everyone to write device drivers in COBOL, simply because he has 20 years of experience with COBOL.
Techies often get promoted/moved to management because of their technical skills, and they may or may not prove to have management skills once there. Non-techies in technical management are more likely to have to have to shown other skills -- sometimes including actual management skills -- in order to get that technical management job. Thus, in my experience and opinion, your odds of getting a good manager are slightly higher if your manager is not a techie. Unfortunately, this is only a slight tendency; about as far from a reliable guide as you can find. The world is indeed full of PHB's.
I will say that if I'm going to have bad management, I'd rather have it be technically knowledgeable bad management. That way, it's a little more likely that the project will eventually limp along to something resembling success. But I've seen amazing results from good management, and I'd much rather have that. Unfortunately, good management is all-too rare.
That's "closed-source code", not "closed source-code". I know, you were trying to make a joke, but consider your audience here. If it involves English grammar, it's going to be way over their heads. (Now a joke involving PERL grammar, on the other hand...:)
You just can't find these cases at places like Newegg
That's not necessarily true. You can find nice cases if you look around. The one I'm using now is a one-screw (thumbscrew) case that's very well put together, as nice as anything I've seen from Dell. Bought it from a little shop in San Francisco's SoMa district.
Granted, unless you go in a look at actual cases, and play with them in person, you're probably going to get stuck with one that's awkward or fragile or hacker-hostile. But just because most of the third-party cases are crap, that doesn't mean they all are. It's simply a feature that most people don't pay enough attention to.
Call me crazy, but I find it kind of funny that 4 of the largest RAM players are being accused of anti-competition. Competitive anti-competition?
Yes, it's called "price-fixing", and it may even be the most common sort of anti-competitive behavior. Fortunately, it's also the least stable, as a single defector in an oligarchy can trigger a compensatory price-war. But a monopoly by a small group is no less dangerous in general than a monopoly by a single player.
Show me a Joe Average that wants to run Linux.
I have Linux bumper-stickers and t-shirts, and I frequently have people walk up to me who want to know more about Linux. Usually they're frustrated with the instability and constant crashing of their Windows machines, and have heard (somewhere) that Linux is more stable and reliable. Generally, these tend to be small-businessmen or independent contractors (plumbers, carpenters, etc.), but I think it shows that Joe Average is at least interested in and curious about Linux, even if he's still also a little scared and cautious (probably for good reason, and I try to encourage the caution).
... oh, did you mean with someone else?
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I wonder if the kind of person who would lust after this chair would even be aware that sex can be a multi-participant activity?
Heh, well, yes, far too many real-world projects are started without enough analysis or design. No arguments there. :)
But it sounds like this question was posed by someone who has recently discovered that analysis and design are important, and doesn't understand why programming books don't cover analysis and design in greater detail. Which is, to some extent, a bit like asking why books on carpentry don't teach architectural design.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong places? Introductory books on analysis and design would seem to me a better place to find an introduction to analysis and design than books on programming.
Programming (coding) is how you implement a design. By the time you get around to coding, I would hope that you already have the design worked out.
Or am I missing something here?
Speaking as a software developer (both free and corporate/IT), as long as they make their source available, I really don't care if they make the binaries available. The idea behind UntiedLinux seems to be that they're going to be based on the Linux Standard Base. Well, that's great, the LSB is an open standard, so I don't need their binaries to develop my code.
With the source code available, I could build my own binary version, if I cared that much and were willing to dedicate that much time/that many cycles to it. But I don't care.
If I were worried about other people making money off my code, I'd either make it proprietary, or use a semi-free no-commercial-use license. But I'm not.
If this were some whacky, customized system, with all kinds of special oddnesses everywhere, I might find it a little annoying to not have binaries (assuming they want me to support my software on their system). But if it's just a standard Linux system, it's really no big deal to me. I'll take source-with-no-binaries over binaries-with-no-source any day of the week, thank you very much. Especially when their system is already close enough to what I'm running right now.
I've lived in the bay area for nearly 40 years, and in that time, I've never even met someone who has suffered in an earthquake. Loma Prieta in '89, which did a fair amount of damage (for an earthquake) knocked a couple of books off my bookshelf. And I was living less than two miles from the Cypress Freeway in Oakland, which collapsed. There were maybe a dozen earthquakes on the US west coast in the twentieth century that did enough damage to mention. Most of the damage, even in the worst ones, has come from secondary effects like fires.
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The funny thing is that even though I live on the west coast, I know more people who have been directly affected by tornadoes! (My family is from the midwest originally.)
Actually, snow is the real killer in the midwest, just as floods are the real killer on the west coast. Earthquakes and tornadoes are more photogenic, but probably really shouldn't be a source of worry to anyone living in "danger zones". Lightning is probably more of a threat whereever you live.
Because-- and I thought I made this perfectly clear-- "virii" was used in this context as a serious plural, with no sense of irony implied.
Which is irrelevent because -- and I thought I made this perfectly clear -- "boxen" is usually used as if it were a serious plural, with no obvious sense of irony implied. When I see "boxen" used, it's usually in simple statements, like, "I need to set up a dozen boxen tomorrow". I assume (because I know these are educated, intelligent people) that the people who write this know better, and are in on the joke, but I can't prove it, any more than you or I can prove that people who use "virii" do or don't know better.
As for the fact that "virii" doesn't follow the rules of Latin, so freakin' what? That just means it's a different sort of joke! Personally, I fell off my chair laughing the first time I saw that spelling. But then, I'm not the sort of arrogant pinhead who assumes I'm smarter than everyone else (even though I usually am).
And the fact that it's a made up word is irrelevent. English is full of made up words. And it's full of words (like "television") that don't follow the rules. "Correct" English is defined as what English-speaking people say/type. If enough people use "virii", it becomes correct, whether or not the rules of some long-dead other language justify it or not.
The last earthquake in the Bay Area that did any noticable damage was in 1989, 13 years ago. How long ago did the last major hurricane trash the Eastern Seaboard? How long since the last tornado tore up houses/trailer parks in the midwest? Less than a year in both cases, I'll betcha.
Actually, earthquakes are nothing -- the real killer in California is floods. Every year, several houses get major flood damage, and it's an unusual year when at least one house isn't destroyed by floods. Earthquakes are just a little harmless fun, normally.
So is "viri"/"virii" an old joke! I know that I first encountered it in the sixties, as a little kid. My mom used it -- and she was an English major and professional editor and writer. She was well aware that it was incorrect, but it tickled her sense of humor (as did some other malformed words and phrases, such as "swell foop", which she used more-or-less consistently throughout her lifetime).
And how do you tell if people are using it "tongue-in-cheek"? When people use "boxen", they usually use it as if it were a real word, and don't draw any special attention to it. Pretty much the way they use "viri"/"virii". Unless you have previously unsuspected telepathic powers, you're using guesswork, and have no factual basis for your claim. Since I first encountered Tom C.'s humorless diatribe over a year ago, I have looked in vain for any evidence that anyone at all takes the silly misspelling seriously. I have failed to find any. It's a little more popular than "boxen", but then it seems to have spread through science fiction fandom, which was a little bigger and more widespread than hackerdom back in the sixties when all this silliness started.
As for the ridiculous "it's not proper Latin" argument, well, that's just dumb! This is English we're talking about, not Latin. Hell, the word "television" mixes Latin and Greek roots, and by the measures you're applying, is a REAL abomination. Why don't you start a crusade to stamp out the word "television" instead of wasting your time on a mild (and admittedly not-very-funny) joke.