And at a size of 1.1 MB?!?!?! How am I supposed to download that on my dialup connection?
Shortly after I got my first modem (2400 bps), I found Nethack in a BBS. I was enthused about it, because I had read about it in a magazine. So after some thinking and planning, I decided to use one hour to download it. The file was 1 MB.
Those were the days (and you had to pay the phone company for each minute spent online).
Well, many want him to speak in their conference or similar and he's travelling quite a lot. I think it's just fair that he wants good sleep and proper food. See esr's travelling rules. Calendar is also available.
Its a virus - it hides behind a legitimate program, performs some sort of check, then delivers a payload. If thats not a virus, then i don't know what is.
From the first linked article: In the early 80's Xerox tried to market a system called "The Star Office System" This was a very capable machine, except the list price was $17,000. No-one was going to pay that when IBM PC's were far cheaper. After the failure of this system, Xerox decided to just stick to the photocopying business.
I didn't know Star Office was that old...
Cultural vs. economical globalization
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You confuse at least two types of "globalism":
You have a good point. I hope moderators notice it.
More definitions: I sometimes make the distinction between cultural and economical globalization. First type of globalization means globalizing culture, "the world village" of Internet, people's possibility to travel around the world and increased information/knowledge about things on the other side of the globe. Economical globalization means multinational companies, increased power of big companies, and free trade. Unfortunately, economical globalization has the side effect to kill small local businesses. (Replacing small cafés with McDonald's, as somebody put it.)
With economical globalization I see much more problems than with cultural globalization. But of course those are connected with each other.
I really don't blame microsoft for blocking mozilla actually.
I do. Visitors should choose if they browse the site with their "incompatible" browser, not the site. If the browser really can't render the site, then, well, I guess the user goes away.
This is just very ugly move from MS(N) against it's (free software?) competitors.
Konqueror 2.2.1 works great (more or less, for a MS site), if you change the user agent setting to something with "Internet Explorer" in it.
And what's nice is that you can configure it so that it pretends to be IE only when you go to msn.com. Some people have suggested that if a site blocks you because of your browser, the site perhaps isn't worth visiting. There's some truth to that.
For me, Konqueror seems to be using totally wrong font so the text is quite unreadable.
They didn't. The icons are quite similar, though. Perhaps "My Computer" icon seems the same, but if you compare it with the Windows icon, you'll see the difference.
It turned out that I actually couldn't even download it. The file I had downloaded with "Save Link As" (in Konqueror) seems to be just a HTML file. No wonder I couldn't unzip.
The site just gives a download page with link to the file, but clicking that does practically nothing. After some tries I finally got a page telling that file does not exist.
There's an older homepage (version 2.1) still in the web. The source is there, but I couldn't unzip it. Can somebody else? Also, what is the licence? On the site I cannot find any information about that.
And, in the interview, the developer mentioned you can ask for the source code. Concerned about GPL violations? Ask for the code and check it.
I have seen many of you write your memories of the BBS time. Please submit them to the history archive at www.textfiles.com also! These memories are worth saving.
My history in brief (from the Finnish BBS scene):
I got my C64 around ~1990, no disk drive, no modem, no nothing. 1992 I got a Hyundai 386SX/20Mhz/2MB/80MB. Soon I got a 2400 bps modem and started my own BBS, which would be open only at night time (our family had only one phone line). I started with Waffle (?), then moved to SuperBBS, later to RemoteAccess.
What are you taking about?
The Java security model works pretty flawless.
Oops, sorry. I guess you're right. I was typing before thinking. I usually turn off Java but now as I think, it's not because of security but to make things load faster. And Java thingies never work for me anyway (with Konqueror). Is there something wrong with a) Konqueror, b) external modules/libraries/something or c) applets?
My guess would be that most users would turn it off when they go into the Prefs to change the default download location
Yeah, just like "most users" turn off Java and JavaScript in their browsers? Or turn off macros in their Word and avoid macro viruses?
Not true. "Most users" are dumb. They have no clue what is the difference between "document" and "program". They can't or don't want to change settings. They just click the icon when asked and execute the virus or trojan.
Well, there will always be dumb users. They are not a problem, braindead defaults are. Without all these be-user-friendly-execute-it-all defaults, we would have less viruses and worms going around. Software developers should take their responsibility seriously.
City of Turku in Finland considers switching to GNU/Linux systems because of Microsoft's new licencing policy. According to a newspaper article (in Finnish), this would mean 3000 users.
I would like to see the next version of the GPL including a clause granting FSF the right to sue on behalf of the copyrightholder(s.)
I wouldn't. Copyright holder(s) must have the right to decide whether to sue or not, so I wouldn't want to have clauses like this. But of course FSF can represent copyright holder if he/she agrees. Whether FSF wants to do this is a different question.
Suppose I rush off my own sequel to Harry Potter. Who owns my derived work? J K Rowlings.
I don't believe it's that way. J.K. Rowling might own the trademark and perhaps can say something about distribution of your sequel but for sure she doesn't own the text you wrote!
For Linux kernel, different people hold copyrights for different parts. For example, init/main.c mentions six different persons. Together they hold the copyright for that file.
Did you know, you can walk into almost any store and buy a knife WITHOUT ANY BACKGROUND CHECK?
It seems you can walk into almost any plane carrying knife with you. Have they thought about banning armed plane passengers and/or planes instead of crypto? (Would be good for the environment also. Planes emit a lot of greenhouse gases.)
Slashdot Mirror
Just copy-paste the screen to a text file and start sed'ing.
To move left:
$ sed s/\.@/@\./ nethack.txt
To move right:
$ sed s/@\./.@/ nethack.txt
To get yourself in trouble:
$ sed s/\.\.\.\.@/\.\.\.D@/ nethack.txt
Wizard mode included.
Shortly after I got my first modem (2400 bps), I found Nethack in a BBS. I was enthused about it, because I had read about it in a magazine. So after some thinking and planning, I decided to use one hour to download it. The file was 1 MB.
Those were the days (and you had to pay the phone company for each minute spent online).
Results are actually here.
Well, many want him to speak in their conference or similar and he's travelling quite a lot. I think it's just fair that he wants good sleep and proper food. See esr's travelling rules. Calendar is also available.
It's not a virus. You mean Trojan horse. Viruses replicate.
It seems that my attempt to be humoristic failed.
I didn't know Star Office was that old...
You have a good point. I hope moderators notice it.
More definitions: I sometimes make the distinction between cultural and economical globalization. First type of globalization means globalizing culture, "the world village" of Internet, people's possibility to travel around the world and increased information/knowledge about things on the other side of the globe. Economical globalization means multinational companies, increased power of big companies, and free trade. Unfortunately, economical globalization has the side effect to kill small local businesses. (Replacing small cafés with McDonald's, as somebody put it.)
With economical globalization I see much more problems than with cultural globalization. But of course those are connected with each other.
I do. Visitors should choose if they browse the site with their "incompatible" browser, not the site. If the browser really can't render the site, then, well, I guess the user goes away.
This is just very ugly move from MS(N) against it's (free software?) competitors.
And what's nice is that you can configure it so that it pretends to be IE only when you go to msn.com. Some people have suggested that if a site blocks you because of your browser, the site perhaps isn't worth visiting. There's some truth to that.
For me, Konqueror seems to be using totally wrong font so the text is quite unreadable.
They didn't. The icons are quite similar, though. Perhaps "My Computer" icon seems the same, but if you compare it with the Windows icon, you'll see the difference.
Ok, forget it.
It turned out that I actually couldn't even download it. The file I had downloaded with "Save Link As" (in Konqueror) seems to be just a HTML file. No wonder I couldn't unzip.
The site just gives a download page with link to the file, but clicking that does practically nothing. After some tries I finally got a page telling that file does not exist.
And, in the interview, the developer mentioned you can ask for the source code. Concerned about GPL violations? Ask for the code and check it.
Fellow slashdotters,
I have seen many of you write your memories of the BBS time. Please submit them to the history archive at www.textfiles.com also! These memories are worth saving.
My history in brief (from the Finnish BBS scene):
I got my C64 around ~1990, no disk drive, no modem, no nothing. 1992 I got a Hyundai 386SX/20Mhz/2MB/80MB. Soon I got a 2400 bps modem and started my own BBS, which would be open only at night time (our family had only one phone line). I started with Waffle (?), then moved to SuperBBS, later to RemoteAccess.
I quit BBSing finally somewhere in 1995-1996.
Those were the times...
According to recent news from a Finnish TV channel, 20-30 other cities may follow Turku if it chooses GNU/Linux.
If this happens, it's great, but I think nothing compared to, say, China.
Oops, sorry. I guess you're right. I was typing before thinking. I usually turn off Java but now as I think, it's not because of security but to make things load faster. And Java thingies never work for me anyway (with Konqueror). Is there something wrong with a) Konqueror, b) external modules/libraries/something or c) applets?
Yeah, just like "most users" turn off Java and JavaScript in their browsers? Or turn off macros in their Word and avoid macro viruses?
Not true. "Most users" are dumb. They have no clue what is the difference between "document" and "program". They can't or don't want to change settings. They just click the icon when asked and execute the virus or trojan.
Well, there will always be dumb users. They are not a problem, braindead defaults are. Without all these be-user-friendly-execute-it-all defaults, we would have less viruses and worms going around. Software developers should take their responsibility seriously.
City of Turku in Finland considers switching to GNU/Linux systems because of Microsoft's new licencing policy. According to a newspaper article (in Finnish), this would mean 3000 users.
I'm just waiting for her First Posts.
"First Post! (Daddy, mod me up!)"
I wouldn't. Copyright holder(s) must have the right to decide whether to sue or not, so I wouldn't want to have clauses like this. But of course FSF can represent copyright holder if he/she agrees. Whether FSF wants to do this is a different question.
Suppose I rush off my own sequel to Harry Potter. Who owns my derived work? J K Rowlings.
I don't believe it's that way. J.K. Rowling might own the trademark and perhaps can say something about distribution of your sequel but for sure she doesn't own the text you wrote!
For Linux kernel, different people hold copyrights for different parts. For example, init/main.c mentions six different persons. Together they hold the copyright for that file.
I vote for this.
Or perhaps we should have generic icon for all fantasy stuff? (Well, the icon could be Tolkienish anyway.)
It seems you can walk into almost any plane carrying knife with you. Have they thought about banning armed plane passengers and/or planes instead of crypto? (Would be good for the environment also. Planes emit a lot of greenhouse gases.)