Yep - Something is broken... Let me see... Yup, some commented perl code... it looks like: now = new Date(); tail = now.getTime(); document.write("IMG SRC=\"http://209.207.224.245/Slashdot/pc.gif?/inde x.pl,"+ tail + "\" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BR ");
IE don't like that. Make links break. Bad programmer! 'Whack!'
BTW, it seems to me that this article never made it to slashdot's front page. Last night (Australian time), the article on "The World's Smallest PII Motherboard" was at the top of the page, without the current article being there; this morning, the PII motherboard article is at the bottom of the page, and the current article turned up in yesterday's list. Or am I hallucinating?
There is something strange going on with the prefabricated pages. I can't link off to any story on the main page. I have been using the search page with no criteria to link to stories.
The prefabs are way missing stories too.
Something smelly is going on - maybe Taco is going to switch servers tonight or something, and things are starting to break.
Already have one of these...
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Someone finally wised up on PC's become after they have been around a few years. I already have enough footstools and doorstops, why not make the new ones toasters instead?
I'm still waiting for linux drivers for my dxr3 - I know there is some hackers working on it, but dammit, their pc ain't going nowhere without linux DVD Video support.
IE5 is not bad, as long as you stay within certain bounds. If you start playing with it's six zillion COM interfaces you are looking for big trouble though.
Personally on linux I use kfm, which is more like IE than anything else.
For something as important as the WWW, you would think that a descent/stable browser would be a high priority for linux. Give me CSS, DHTML and JS, and I am a happy camper.
After the last/. post, I sent am email to Amazon. Strangely enough, the timing is about right.
Here's the contents: --------------------
Dear Amazon:
I should let you know that this new feature has been posted on Slashdot, an online forum for "geeks", where this is sure to raise some eyebrows about privacy conserns. You are sure to get a lot of knee-jerk reaction about this, so I thought I'd try to present a more balanced statement.
I realize that profiling goes on all the time. The value of profile data is extremely high from a marketing perspective, and I find it interesting that you are releasing this information to the public at large. Amazon.com has always been innovative in my mind, and this seems to continue the to idea that you "buck the trend."
What I think needs to be done in any case is to update your privacy policy to include a clause about what and how you use profiling information. As it reads right now, it could be misread that you are breaking your own policy by offering such a service. Also the clarification would be helpful for many of us with privacy conserns, and perhaps a method for the die-hards to opt out.
I applaud amazon.com for it's openess with profile information, after all, it can be useful to consumers as well - but I think your policies need to be ironed out a little more.
1) There's no real technical support. Well, there's companies out there with support package options for linux - and there's all us online people. By the way, you have access to all the source code, so there no reason that a decent company could not fix any problems themselves.
2)There's no applications/it's not windows. Most ISV's out there run mosting internal/custom packages making this question moot. Just port it - you will be soon anyway. If you are just dieing for your (insert windows program here), then run it in a VM with vmware. If you can't replace your desktops, then you can at least replace your NT server I bet.
3)There's no good games/graphics/sound support. There will be soon if you help us finish it. We need a friend that would help us pay for the DVD licenses too.
SCO sucks. There nothing that Linux does not have that SCO does (expect maybe merge - but vmware is better.)
Unixware is a bear. NT is faster sometimes. The only people who use SCO are those too broke to go AIX or solaris. In the long run however, AIX and solaris are cheaper support and license-wise.
What's with the disclamer thing? It sound like that Hair Club for men commercial: "I'm not only the president, But I'am also a client..."
BTW: you can change the ip address without a reboot - You just have to do it manually.;)
When I was assembling 7000 M10's a little while ago, there was a special program where for a few bucks you could upgrade your machine to 8 way when the new board came out.
My problem with Linux under the Netfinity was that ther serverRAID adapter would not work (I believe that they have release a driver now, but it's not bootable)
I'm kinda curious how 8 processors fit into the new assembly - Are the voltage regulators gone?
I think the real key to any software project is teamwork, not money. If you have 5 or 6 smart people that can work together very closely then you are more likely to succeed than if you are working like a lone ranger. Look at id - You don't just have not just one or two wonderful programmers, you have a whole team that work very well together. Look at slashdot. Look at Linux. Ultimately you need a charimatic leader, but it's unity of the group that makes things happen.
I think more hackers need to learn not to be such loners and learn how to work together better. Open source is a great training ground for this.
This all goes back to my major mantra in life: "Computers are only tools: they are as only as good as what you use them for."
Although computers now adays work at blinding speeds, there is always a point in most processes where humans have to take over, or perform some action. Whenever you involve humans, things naturally slow down to human speeds. Computers can only offer to help us to work smarter, not faster.
For example, think about amazon.com. Although the computers there do most of the order tracking, it still takes time for people to gather the items together and to ship it. Until certain physical barriers are broken down (distance, manipulation)I can't see humans getting much more of a break than in the past.
I submit that the airplane has increased productivity more than computers ever will.
In the beginning I was getting moderation points everyday (I was up to 15 at one point.)
I complained that something must of been broken, but got no response. Then I went away for a long weekend and lost the 15 points. Since then I have never been a moderator since, so I'm starting to think I'm on some internal "shit list".
Just as well I guess - I rather bitch than read other people bitching anyway.;)
Yeah, I had a weird thing for awhile where E would throw up a 10x10 black square on the screen (complete with window decorations.) When I let my mouse hover over the black square, then X session would suddenly die. I later tracked it down to a CDE tooltalk session that was being started at the same time as E was. CDE and E don't mix.
Another question - what X accelerations does E take advantage of, and how does that translate into what X server/video cards we should use for the maximum WM performance?
I've been playing with my 6.1 distribution and I've noticed that they stick the OSS sound drivers in the SuSEd kernel. I've got a Trident 4DWave DX soundcard in my machine right now - which is only supported under ALSA I think.
Is ALSA on the CD's somewhere? Can I patch it in without killing the kernel?
Hang on SuSEy, SuSEy hang on... Whoa too many egg mcmuffins this morning...
Yeah, there was something recent about the death of Pioneer V. The fact that it survived 10 times beyond it's normal lifetime makes me thing the Voyager probes will not drop dead anytime soon.
I find that last link interesting. Why is Hughes sending an broken communications satellite around the moon? Just for the hell of it? To prove it can be done?
Wow, How are they acheving such speeds? Why can't our accelerators do this? Bus speed limitations?
I saw a demo not too long ago, and it was pretty amazing, but I did not see any smoothing effects in the demo- all the triangles were pretty rough looking. Perhaps they are choosing quanity over quality. A good trade off?
I've always been against consoles only because they grow obsolete just as fast as computers do. At least I can still play older games with my PC.
Slashdot Mirror
In the lower left corner IE5 has been quietly giving me an error on the main page:
e x.pl,"+ tail + "\" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BR ");
Line: 26
Char: 76
Error: Expected ']'
Code: 0
URL: http://slashdot.org
Yep - Something is broken... Let me see... Yup, some commented perl code... it looks like:
now = new Date();
tail = now.getTime();
document.write("IMG SRC=\"http://209.207.224.245/Slashdot/pc.gif?/ind
IE don't like that. Make links break. Bad programmer! 'Whack!'
BTW, it seems to me that this article never made it to slashdot's front page. Last night (Australian time), the article on "The World's Smallest PII Motherboard" was at the top of the page, without the current article being there; this morning, the PII motherboard article is at the bottom of the page, and the current article turned up in yesterday's list. Or am I hallucinating?
There is something strange going on with the prefabricated pages. I can't link off to any story on the main page. I have been using the search page with no criteria to link to stories.
The prefabs are way missing stories too.
Something smelly is going on - maybe Taco is going to switch servers tonight or something, and things are starting to break.
Someone finally wised up on PC's become after they have been around a few years. I already have enough footstools and doorstops, why not make the new ones toasters instead?
System Halted
The X should be used for this post, not for the X-Free86 post.
I nominate Mike Myers as David's replacement...
"The X-Files86 Movie Version 2.0"
"The alien that shagged me"
Even MSNBC is reporting that the exploit only around for about only about 8 days, which was "before any damage was done."
The fact that the hotmail story never made in onto their main page (unlike everyone else) speaks volumes as well.
I guess MSNBC gets stories about 40 million email accounts being compromised all the time. Princess Diana death from 2 years ago is more newsworthy.
Please.
I'm still waiting for linux drivers for my dxr3 - I know there is some hackers working on it, but dammit, their pc ain't going nowhere without linux DVD Video support.
Hmm... Sound like this might be a good company perk to add...
"...and we'll do your laundry, give you free lunch, and find you a spouse to nag you..."
It's only a matter of time before the large companies start their own internal dating services.
IE5 is not bad, as long as you stay within certain bounds. If you start playing with it's six zillion COM interfaces you are looking for big trouble though.
Personally on linux I use kfm, which is more like IE than anything else.
For something as important as the WWW, you would think that a descent/stable browser would be a high priority for linux. Give me CSS, DHTML and JS, and I am a happy camper.
After the last /. post, I sent am email to Amazon. Strangely enough, the timing is about right.
Here's the contents:
--------------------
Dear Amazon:
I should let you know that this new feature has been posted on Slashdot, an online forum for "geeks", where this is sure to raise some eyebrows about privacy conserns. You are sure to get a lot of knee-jerk reaction about this, so I thought I'd try to present a more balanced statement.
I realize that profiling goes on all the time. The value of profile data is extremely high from a marketing perspective, and I find it interesting that you are releasing this information to the public at large. Amazon.com has
always been innovative in my mind, and this seems to continue the to idea that you "buck the trend."
What I think needs to be done in any case is to update your privacy policy to include a clause about what and how you use profiling information. As it reads right now, it could be misread that you are breaking your own policy by offering such a service. Also the clarification would be helpful for many of us with privacy conserns, and perhaps a method for the die-hards to opt out.
I applaud amazon.com for it's openess with profile information, after all, it can be useful to consumers as well - but I think your policies need to be ironed out a little more.
Sincerely,
Michael Wilkinson
Amazon.com customer
I can't wait for the AC FUD spreaders, though.
Let's take care of the big ones ahead of time.
1) There's no real technical support.
Well, there's companies out there with support package options for linux - and there's all us online people. By the way, you have access to all the source code, so there no reason that a decent company could not fix any problems themselves.
2)There's no applications/it's not windows.
Most ISV's out there run mosting internal/custom packages making this question moot. Just port it - you will be soon anyway. If you are just dieing for your (insert windows program here), then run it in a VM with vmware. If you can't replace your desktops, then you can at least replace your NT server I bet.
3)There's no good games/graphics/sound support.
There will be soon if you help us finish it. We need a friend that would help us pay for the DVD licenses too.
SCO sucks. There nothing that Linux does not have that SCO does (expect maybe merge - but vmware is better.)
;)
Unixware is a bear. NT is faster sometimes. The only people who use SCO are those too broke to go AIX or solaris. In the long run however, AIX and solaris are cheaper support and license-wise.
What's with the disclamer thing? It sound like that Hair Club for men commercial: "I'm not only the president, But I'am also a client..."
BTW: you can change the ip address without a reboot - You just have to do it manually.
Wow, actually I'm always looking for good books on ATL and COM. If it's good enough for Microsoft, perhaps I should cross them off my list. ;)
You know profiling goes on all the time - at least Amazon.com is being open about it.
When I was assembling 7000 M10's a little while ago, there was a special program where for a few bucks you could upgrade your machine to 8 way when the new board came out.
My problem with Linux under the Netfinity was that ther serverRAID adapter would not work (I believe that they have release a driver now, but it's not bootable)
I'm kinda curious how 8 processors fit into the new assembly - Are the voltage regulators gone?
I think the real key to any software project is teamwork, not money. If you have 5 or 6 smart people that can work together very closely then you are more likely to succeed than if you are working like a lone ranger. Look at id - You don't just have not just one or two wonderful programmers, you have a whole team that work very well together. Look at slashdot. Look at Linux. Ultimately you need a charimatic leader, but it's unity of the group that makes things happen.
I think more hackers need to learn not to be such loners and learn how to work together better. Open source is a great training ground for this.
Thanks it worked! Damn, it getting very hard to complain about driver support these days, no?
This all goes back to my major mantra in life: "Computers are only tools: they are as only as good as what you use them for."
Although computers now adays work at blinding speeds, there is always a point in most processes where humans have to take over, or perform some action. Whenever you involve humans, things naturally slow down to human speeds. Computers can only offer to help us to work smarter, not faster.
For example, think about amazon.com. Although the computers there do most of the order tracking, it still takes time for people to gather the items together and to ship it. Until certain physical barriers are broken down (distance, manipulation)I can't see humans getting much more of a break than in the past.
I submit that the airplane has increased productivity more than computers ever will.
In the beginning I was getting moderation points everyday (I was up to 15 at one point.)
;)
I complained that something must of been broken, but got no response. Then I went away for a long weekend and lost the 15 points. Since then I have never been a moderator since, so I'm starting to think I'm on some internal "shit list".
Just as well I guess - I rather bitch than read other people bitching anyway.
Since Windows is going AD, which is compatable with LDAP, Maybe we should be starting to use LDAP more in linux.
I've used LDAP in the past, but it was pretty lame but promising then.
What about Samba? And news on it's compatibility with Win2000?
Yeah, I had a weird thing for awhile where E would throw up a 10x10 black square on the screen (complete with window decorations.) When I let my mouse hover over the black square, then X session would suddenly die. I later tracked it down to a CDE tooltalk session that was being started at the same time as E was. CDE and E don't mix.
Another question - what X accelerations does E take advantage of, and how does that translate into what X server/video cards we should use for the maximum WM performance?
I've been playing with my 6.1 distribution and I've noticed that they stick the OSS sound drivers in the SuSEd kernel. I've got a Trident 4DWave DX soundcard in my machine right now - which is only supported under ALSA I think.
Is ALSA on the CD's somewhere? Can I patch it in without killing the kernel?
Hang on SuSEy, SuSEy hang on... Whoa too many egg mcmuffins this morning...
Yeah, there was something recent about the death of Pioneer V. The fact that it survived 10 times beyond it's normal lifetime makes me thing the Voyager probes will not drop dead anytime soon.
I find that last link interesting. Why is Hughes sending an broken communications satellite around the moon? Just for the hell of it? To prove it can be done?
>btw don't you love the cheat codes of descent? gabbagabbahey, hilarious!
Make sure you remap the mine key before giving doing the codes, or you might end up with with a nasty surprise!
I just played the D3 demo for the first time rescently. I have to say that the robots have gotten alot smarter...
Wow, How are they acheving such speeds? Why can't our accelerators do this? Bus speed limitations?
I saw a demo not too long ago, and it was pretty amazing, but I did not see any smoothing effects in the demo- all the triangles were pretty rough looking. Perhaps they are choosing quanity over quality. A good trade off?
I've always been against consoles only because they grow obsolete just as fast as computers do. At least I can still play older games with my PC.
They are my favorite developers. Looks like someone over there likes us. It says that they would like to see more software support for Linux.
Maybe if we can get enough support for OpenGL on Linux, we can get Final Fantasy X ported to it.
Need I say more?
Hey, there's a poll question... If you had a choice of game developers which one would you rather work for? I'd choose Square or Cyan.
Slashdot just keeled over for a few minutes. Someone reboot?