<sarc>Whoa, this new Mozilla is so much faster (in crashing) than the previous point release! (I got a segfault 3 seconds after typing "./mozilla")</sarc>
If you read the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), you would have noticed the line in the beginning which states that "This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General
Public License."
Is this (http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/spam.html)
GPL'd disclaimer that an individual will not tolerate spam email really admissible in court? Could I change the amount from $10 per spam email to, say, $1000 per smam email, then send it to Spammer #1282733, and then take them to court if they send me another spam email and win $1000?
Probably because simply pasting a link into a comment with no description isn't good form. But, nonetheless, I think modding it all the way down to -1 (where it's at as I type) is a bit harsh.
I would estimate that close to 90% of all Open Source advocates are also advocates of private file-sharing (which Napster facilitates).
So, to answer your question, find the biggest name in the GNU world and they will probably gladly present their ideas to you and your fellow members.
But, as I know from being the Chairman of my university's ACM Chapter, you must have everything planned out perfectly for them to visit. They will generally tell you exactly what they expect (transportation, meals, hotel, etc.) however, so that's as good as it gets. <whisper> Eric S. Raymond is very picky, and can be downright rude <whisper>
I think you should warn modem users (or other low-bandwidth surfers) that this page, with its long story and probably 200-300 comments by tonight, is one that they should stay away from!
Anyone else find it amusing that a guy who devotes an entire article to how terrible spam email is places his email address in all its glory at the very top of the article for all human- and machine-grabbing spam companies to exploit/b>?
There's a great site with tons of links and info on Lisp right here.
Cheap Space Flight For All? I Won't Hold My Breath
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Tito In Space
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I hope he's savoring this trip for $20 million worth of memories. Don't forget, there is a cheaper version of space tourism on the horizon, too.
When it comes to space exploration, I think of Russia (USSR) and the United States as the countries that have actually done anything fairly significant outside of our atmostphere. The idea that Japanese companies are going to form some group to take untrained humans into space for 3 days and $26000 seems quite far-fetched.
Damn, I mean...I use Linux exclusively, and thought that folks like myself were the only ones who enjoyed ripping on M$FT. It's nice to see that now EVERYONE can enjoy watching Microsoft's "sky" fall down.
Well, that's the only downside of a distro that really pushes the envelope like the 'Drake folks -- stuff does go foobar 2% of the time. I mean, Red Hat gets the updates in their official releases many months after they're standards in Mandrake.
So, if you're running a really important server, Mandrake isn't the Linux distro you should use (you should use BSD over Linux anyway, but that's another conversation). If you're using a workstation, Mandrake is still the best choice out there, and that cannot be argued.
I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2, and it's wonderful! I really am
impressed, especially with Gnome 1.4. I've always been a KDE guy, but from
the looks of Gnome now I could go either way. It's really polished. Other
than that, Mandrake has improved in every way. A few things I couldn't get
working right before were put right by the upgrade, which is a good sign.
I haven't really gotten into working with 8.0 yet, but so far everything
looks great. One thing that's confusing, I have DrakConf as well as a
couple of other configuration utilities, which seems redundant. But these
utilities get better every time, so I'm not complaining. My only complaint
with the new version is that Gnome is too slow.
---
Mandrake 7.1 was only better than 7 in that it provided a few great tools.
7.2 was a big jump with KDE2 and now 8, which I've been using with great
success during the betas since a few months ago has the 2.4 kernel, better
graphics card support, KDE2.1 which now has the option of antialiased fonts,
and major improvements to many tools. 7.1 was uneventful but we ran it
anyway, this one is about 500% better. I had to do a lot of workarounds in
7.1 to make it work right. The differences are much to great to list here!
The ftp sites are all clogged with traffic as the word got out and even my
friends who never considered running Linux are asking me to burn them copies
of 8.0. Also Red Hat and others all released new distros and are usually on
the same ftp sites. It'll be a few days!
---
Those are just a few of the majority of great reviews Mandrake's new relase has gotten. I personally had a problem with Live Update in that it broke X, and the only complaints you will hear are of slight issues when trying to upgrade (I'm on the Mandrake Experts mailing list). Other than that, it's truly amazing how quickly the 'Drake folks get new updates in their software and the quality of their distro.
True, there's no such thing as "clock limiting circuitry" per se, but there are ways that manufacturers can prevent over-clocking of their products so that they don't reach a temperature that makes their operation unstable; if you catch the tone of the commenter's argument, you can clearly understand that this is what he implied.
Also, your last paragraph is pure crap. You try to use reason to make an unintelligent and ridiculous argument. The phrase "the chip derives its clock" was enough bullshit for me to respond to your comment, a comment whose original intent was to ridicule another Slashdotter.
Keep your intellectual burps to yourself if you don't know what you're talking about.
Faster Suicides For Those Asian Businessmen
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First Arcology?
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News release -- "Come visit the new tallest building in the world. After jumping off the 2726362727th floor, the average TTD (time till death) is 0.73 seconds. This is more than half that of the Sears Towers in Chicago!"
allows you to connect to Oscar (rather than TOC), which means that you get the ability to read AWAY messages, a feature that does not work on the TOC servers.
TBone: we are talking about getting better redundancy with Internet connections, not better redundancy with Slashdot posts (#6#7).
I'm not sure if you hit "Submit" twice, or if you were trying to be witty by posting a comment twice that pertains to redundancy. Well, either way, I'm amused!
Slashdot Mirror
It's that good.
<sarc>Whoa, this new Mozilla is so much faster (in crashing) than the previous point release! (I got a segfault 3 seconds after typing "./mozilla")</sarc>
[eric@ekrout mozilla]$ ./mozilla ./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla:/ho me/eric/mozillatest/mozilla/plugins
/ eric/mozillatest/mozilla/components
/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 72: 11084
LIBRARY_PATH=/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla:/home
SHLIB_PATH=/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla
LIBPATH=/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla
ADDON_PATH=/home/eric/mozillatest/mozilla
MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
MOZ_TOOLKIT=
moz_debug=0
moz_debugger=
Segmentation fault (core dumped) $prog ${1+"$@"}
[eric@ekrout mozilla]$
If you read the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), you would have noticed the line in the beginning which states that "This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License."
I'm not money hungry, but I do detest spam.
Probably because simply pasting a link into a comment with no description isn't good form. But, nonetheless, I think modding it all the way down to -1 (where it's at as I type) is a bit harsh.
Here's a history of his Pro-Napster views.
I would estimate that close to 90% of all Open Source advocates are also advocates of private file-sharing (which Napster facilitates).
So, to answer your question, find the biggest name in the GNU world and they will probably gladly present their ideas to you and your fellow members.
But, as I know from being the Chairman of my university's ACM Chapter, you must have everything planned out perfectly for them to visit. They will generally tell you exactly what they expect (transportation, meals, hotel, etc.) however, so that's as good as it gets. <whisper> Eric S. Raymond is very picky, and can be downright rude <whisper>
Of course I was joking. The folks above didn't seem to catch on ; )
I think you should warn modem users (or other low-bandwidth surfers) that this page, with its long story and probably 200-300 comments by tonight, is one that they should stay away from!
Anyone else find it amusing that a guy who devotes an entire article to how terrible spam email is places his email address in all its glory at the very top of the article for all human- and machine-grabbing spam companies to exploit/b>?
Everyone who keeps calling their computer the "hard drive"
What do you mean by hard drive? Are you talkin' about the CPU? ; )
There's a great site with tons of links and info on Lisp right here.
I hope he's savoring this trip for $20 million worth of memories. Don't forget, there is a cheaper version of space tourism on the horizon, too.
When it comes to space exploration, I think of Russia (USSR) and the United States as the countries that have actually done anything fairly significant outside of our atmostphere. The idea that Japanese companies are going to form some group to take untrained humans into space for 3 days and $26000 seems quite far-fetched.
(Jamaican accent) if dey hat cooled Cuh-leo, dey wuda got dee dop ah dee line support, mahn!
All this...from a MAC USERS GROUP!?!?
Damn, I mean...I use Linux exclusively, and thought that folks like myself were the only ones who enjoyed ripping on M$FT. It's nice to see that now EVERYONE can enjoy watching Microsoft's "sky" fall down.
And the difference between CmdrTaco and a clone of his without a brain is...?
Would you *really* want someone as weak and lazy as yourself to mow your lawn. Why not just get a clone of Arnold Schwarzenegger to do it?
Well, that's the only downside of a distro that really pushes the envelope like the 'Drake folks -- stuff does go foobar 2% of the time. I mean, Red Hat gets the updates in their official releases many months after they're standards in Mandrake. So, if you're running a really important server, Mandrake isn't the Linux distro you should use (you should use BSD over Linux anyway, but that's another conversation). If you're using a workstation, Mandrake is still the best choice out there, and that cannot be argued.
I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2, and it's wonderful! I really am
impressed, especially with Gnome 1.4. I've always been a KDE guy, but from
the looks of Gnome now I could go either way. It's really polished. Other
than that, Mandrake has improved in every way. A few things I couldn't get
working right before were put right by the upgrade, which is a good sign.
I haven't really gotten into working with 8.0 yet, but so far everything
looks great. One thing that's confusing, I have DrakConf as well as a
couple of other configuration utilities, which seems redundant. But these
utilities get better every time, so I'm not complaining. My only complaint
with the new version is that Gnome is too slow.
---
Mandrake 7.1 was only better than 7 in that it provided a few great tools.
7.2 was a big jump with KDE2 and now 8, which I've been using with great
success during the betas since a few months ago has the 2.4 kernel, better
graphics card support, KDE2.1 which now has the option of antialiased fonts,
and major improvements to many tools. 7.1 was uneventful but we ran it
anyway, this one is about 500% better. I had to do a lot of workarounds in
7.1 to make it work right. The differences are much to great to list here!
The ftp sites are all clogged with traffic as the word got out and even my
friends who never considered running Linux are asking me to burn them copies
of 8.0. Also Red Hat and others all released new distros and are usually on
the same ftp sites. It'll be a few days!
---
Those are just a few of the majority of great reviews Mandrake's new relase has gotten. I personally had a problem with Live Update in that it broke X, and the only complaints you will hear are of slight issues when trying to upgrade (I'm on the Mandrake Experts mailing list). Other than that, it's truly amazing how quickly the 'Drake folks get new updates in their software and the quality of their distro.
Great stuff!
Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
True, there's no such thing as "clock limiting circuitry" per se, but there are ways that manufacturers can prevent over-clocking of their products so that they don't reach a temperature that makes their operation unstable; if you catch the tone of the commenter's argument, you can clearly understand that this is what he implied.
Also, your last paragraph is pure crap. You try to use reason to make an unintelligent and ridiculous argument. The phrase "the chip derives its clock" was enough bullshit for me to respond to your comment, a comment whose original intent was to ridicule another Slashdotter.
Keep your intellectual burps to yourself if you don't know what you're talking about.
News release -- "Come visit the new tallest building in the world. After jumping off the 2726362727th floor, the average TTD (time till death) is 0.73 seconds. This is more than half that of the Sears Towers in Chicago!"
allows you to connect to Oscar (rather than TOC), which means that you get the ability to read AWAY messages, a feature that does not work on the TOC servers.
Eric Krout @ alphard{42}% date Mon Apr 23 09:10:49 EDT 2001
Unless my date's wrong, it's not April 1st. So why is there an April Fool's joke?
Why not sue spammers?
I was hoping for +1, Funny on the "parent" of this post, but oh well. "You can't...always get...what ya wa-ant!"
TBone: we are talking about getting better redundancy with Internet connections, not better redundancy with Slashdot posts (#6 #7).
I'm not sure if you hit "Submit" twice, or if you were trying to be witty by posting a comment twice that pertains to redundancy. Well, either way, I'm amused!