Nice picture! More fun stuff: I went to the front page of ecommercetimes.com and clicked the link for the story. The ad on top of the page:
Online fraud is a serious and growing problem, one that cost merchants an estimated $1 Billion in the past year. Fortunately, you can take steps to significantly limit your risk as an online merchant. Click here to get a copy of the guide "What Every Merchant Should Know About Internet Fraud."
Darl McBride Comments: Only $1 Billion? I'll see you (in court) and raise you $2 Billion. Oh, and I'll take that statue of justice too.
And that's why I've always recommended Slackware, recompiled for HP PA-RISC. It doesn't let me keep my job, but at least several others have to be employed to sort out the mess I've made.
Now, if just everyone else would do equivalently stupid things, we might just get the economy back on track. Remember: if one person can do a job the easy way, many more people can do the same job in a more difficult way. As we approach the impossible, unemployment will be a matter of the past.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and see how my developer team of goldfish is coming along in porting Emacs to the VIC-20.
No, don't get a CMedia 8738 based board. Yes, they're cheap, and the Linux support is quite good, but the sound quality is so-so (I'm speaking from experience with the Soyo K7V-Dragon+ built-in sound board, based on this chip, some cards are probably better), and worst of all: it can't do hardware mixing. This means you need something like esd or artsd to mix sound for you, but these do a lousy job. Of course, the one and only way is to use Jack, but KDE, Gnome, etc., don't take advantage of it yet.
Of course, the right thing to do is to make the sound of a close relative shouting: 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' That usually makes the impression of a loveable company.
Nah, it's perfectly OK. Just remember that you put categories on people, not the other way around. It's not like you're born into a specific category, the category is used to describe your traits or preferred behaviour, and then maybe to predict how you will cope with various situations. Much like an IQ test, but without the pretense of measuring a skill.
but after having RTFA, I don't think this is among their worst plots against humanity. Basically, it's a database and analysis tool for Usenet groups, which lets the user know which groups are dedicated to certain subject, and what kind of traffic the various groups have. Not only name of group and number of posts, but also number of replies in each thread and so on. Sounds like a great way to find newsgroups.
However, Microsoft's earlier attempt at making inroads into Usenet, the newsreader capability of Outlook Express, is one of the worst things that has ever happened since AOL released its hordes upon us. The way OE prefers to quote (below the new message) is infinitely less readable than the way Evereyone Else Does It. Now, if just MS could start following the way EEDI when EE has the Right Idea...
When you ask about dselect, you're really asking about the strenghts of Debian. As you problably know, Debian's greatest achievement is the unproblematic installation and upgrading of binary packages. In order to upgrade a whole system without any snags, you need: 1) a good system 2) a competent admin. dselect, obviously, has nothing to do with 1), but gives you 2) through the concept of natural selection. To use dselect effectively, you have to be extremely intelligent, like we Debian users are. Morons are turned off by having to use dselect when installing Debian, and run off screaming back to Mandrake or whatever.
Debian is great, because its users are great. I know I am great, because I use Debian. And isn't that what life is all about?
SCO filed suit against IBM for.... ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!!
Thanks. I knew this looked like a bad movie, and a parody, but I didn't quite get the joke until you spelled it out in capital letters. I imagine one of the unreleased scenes went like this:
Evil McBride: And then we'll sue for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! Nr. 2: Don't you think we should ask for more? We're losing a million dollar each month because of the crappy IP we bought some years ago. Evil McBride: Really? Nr. 2: Mm-hmh.
And so on. It's not worth watching. The appeal will be even worse, and it all ends up with McBride being Linus Torvald's brother or something.
Well, you've been moderated "funny", although you could be serious. Some of John Zorn's works are definately easy listening-ish (The Gift). Just don't expect Painkiller or Naked City to be. You should listen to John Zorn anyway. Ah, and someessentialrecordings for you.
If you like modern, beats and electronic oriented jazz, you should check out Nils Petter Molvaer.
Re:Linus' stuff?
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Yes, Linus wrote the original scheduler, but the later modifications like O(1) are not his:
/*
* kernel/sched.c
*
* Kernel scheduler and related syscalls
*
* Copyright (C) 1991-2002 Linus Torvalds
*
* 1996-12-23 Modified by Dave Grothe to fix bugs in semaphores and
* make semaphores SMP safe
* 1998-11-19 Implemented schedule_timeout() and related stuff
* by Andrea Arcangeli
* 2002-01-04 New ultra-scalable O(1) scheduler by Ingo Molnar:
* hybrid priority-list and round-robin design with
* an array-switch method of distributing timeslices
* and per-CPU runqueues. Additional code by Davide
* Libenzi, Robert Love, and Rusty Russell.
*/
Mabe this is one of the comments that were identical?
Does this infringe on any code claimed by SCO? How would I know?
You can't. It could be obfuscaped, like some of the infringing code is, according to SCO. Now, I'm an expert crypotgrapher, so I know all there is to know about obfuskation (sp?). The most advanced crypot known to man is rot-13, which is unbreakable, at least for people who can't read or write. I did a crypotanalysis of the Linux kernel, and found nasty elements pretty fast:
To the untrained eye, this means nothing, but using rot-13 on the letters s, c and o shows that s_fpbshift is actually s_scoshift!!! Very clever: it actually shifts code from SCO to FPB (probably a notable figure in the open source community, as only the best get to have three letter words for names). It looks like IBM is doomed, guys.
Intrestingly enough the terms 'hard-core drinker' and 'alcohol addict' (or 'alcoholic', as we usually refer to alcohol addicts) are nearly synonymous.
And in other parts of the world, the term "hard-core drinker" is synonymous with "Irishman". But you'd be out of your mind to say "Irishman" is synonymous with "alcoholic", so your definition is clearly wrong.
I currently use FreeBSD 4.8 on my old laptop, a 133 MHz Pentium Classic with 40 MB RAM. It's mainly a typewriter and ScummVM box, and FreeBSD 4.x is very nice, fast, and lightweight for the hardware (compared to Debian and Slack). But I love features as much as the next geek, so I'd like to know how 5.x compares to 4.x with regards to consumption of my precious RAM and disk space.
And I'd also like to know if there are any special features to drool for. Come on, just convince me to upgrade. I know I want to.:-)
No, just get a couple of free webmail accounts and send your work as an attachment from one account to the other. That way you'll have backups at two different servers, and some mail providers even backup their mail-spools. It works wonders for small-ish files, and it's free. And when your room mate's destillery explodes and burns down the dorm and all your equipment and all your CDs you still have your files.
Re:Why emulate windows?
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Just when I have moderator points, there's nothing interesting or funny to mod up, and nothing trollish enough that hasn't already been modded down. So I'll answer this:
I noticed in the screenshots that there's a taskbar on the bottom. Dare I ask why?
Having a taskbar is nice, because it gives you an overview of which windows you have up. That's nice when windows overlap and cover each other. Also, some apps (like Psi, a jabber-client) will change their name in the taskbar with a "* [x]" before it, telling you how many messages you've received in that chat since you last gave it focus. So a taskbar is nice for overview and notifications. It's not absolutely necessary, and you can hide it or turn it off completely if you want to. Or use WindowMaker instead. Nobody forces you to use Gnome.
They don't even need to win the case, all they need is to convince the judge that a preliminary injunction is in order while the case is sorted out and then they can just stall for time while Linux loses its entire momentum because it can't be legally distributed!
Yes, but consider the damage such an injunction could do to things that are more important than SCO. Like national security. With Linux's huge installed base, not allowing distribution of security fixes could mean a death blow to much more than Linux. And installing SCO or Windows Server 2003 is not an option. I'm sure no judge would be that stupid.
All right, all right, it's a joke! Happy now? Unfortunately, the radar seems to think the distributor of the album is the company that released the album, so even small Norwegian independent labels like Rune Grammofon (I did a test with Supersilent) get tainted by being distributed in the USA by ECM/Universal. 4AD is a British company, and should be quite independent of the Recording Industry Assosiation of America.
This means this RIAA Radar is quite useless for anything released on a non-US label and distributed by a major label, unless you really don't want them to have any of your money. Then I suggest you buy your CDs from amazon.co.uk instead.
Office XP is hardly an operating environment in itself, but Emacs is everything you need to use a computer (well, you need a kernel as well). So, compared to Office XP, Emacs is hardly bloated.
Alas, I was only joking (vim all the way, baby!), and continuing the jokes of the parent posters, but neither you nor the moderators (Informative? Offtopic? Morons!) got that.
But I actually tried the init=/usr/bin/emacs trick once, and it worked. I still prefer X and a bunch of xterms and shit, though. And a real init.
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit
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Yes, that's a good one. Now do the same thing with the Mach kernel, and GNU/Hurd will be finished.
Re:X (and other Window systems) reduce productivit
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Login shells are for pussies! The next time you boot into linux, write the following on the lilo prompt:
linux init=/usr/bin/emacs
Makes you realize Emacs actually is a quite light weight OS. You probably should have a wrapper program around it so you're not running as root all the time, though.
The RIAA should focus their attention on concerts and other activities where they present their artists.
The RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America, and as such, they have nothing to do with artists or concerts. Actually, concerts are competitors to the RIAA, since they take music out of the recording industry's revenue stream.
The power of the recording industry doesn't come from the value of its products, but from the value of its business: lots of people make money from other people's artworks. If all of the industry executives lose their source of income, it'll make an impact on the economy. Maybe a big impact, as the pop music industry is a huge commercial for commercialism.
Anyway, if music became free (or cheaper), it would mean some people (maybe not the artists, but that's not important) would make less money. If some people make less money, they have less money to spend, and that'll weaken the economy, as there'll be fewer investments. It's best for the economy if music is as expensive as the consumers can tolerate.
(And now I've completely forgotten if this was an elaborate troll or just sarcasm. Should I post anonymously or not? Ah, what the heck...)
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What, they're making McBrides that aren't poopy now?
Darl McBride Comments: Only $1 Billion? I'll see you (in court) and raise you $2 Billion. Oh, and I'll take that statue of justice too.
And that's why I've always recommended Slackware, recompiled for HP PA-RISC. It doesn't let me keep my job, but at least several others have to be employed to sort out the mess I've made.
Now, if just everyone else would do equivalently stupid things, we might just get the economy back on track. Remember: if one person can do a job the easy way, many more people can do the same job in a more difficult way. As we approach the impossible, unemployment will be a matter of the past.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and see how my developer team of goldfish is coming along in porting Emacs to the VIC-20.
No, don't get a CMedia 8738 based board. Yes, they're cheap, and the Linux support is quite good, but the sound quality is so-so (I'm speaking from experience with the Soyo K7V-Dragon+ built-in sound board, based on this chip, some cards are probably better), and worst of all: it can't do hardware mixing. This means you need something like esd or artsd to mix sound for you, but these do a lousy job. Of course, the one and only way is to use Jack, but KDE, Gnome, etc., don't take advantage of it yet.
Of course, the right thing to do is to make the sound of a close relative shouting: 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' That usually makes the impression of a loveable company.
Nah, it's perfectly OK. Just remember that you put categories on people, not the other way around. It's not like you're born into a specific category, the category is used to describe your traits or preferred behaviour, and then maybe to predict how you will cope with various situations. Much like an IQ test, but without the pretense of measuring a skill.
I'm not writing to point out your spelling mistake, I just want to present my new
but after having RTFA, I don't think this is among their worst plots against humanity. Basically, it's a database and analysis tool for Usenet groups, which lets the user know which groups are dedicated to certain subject, and what kind of traffic the various groups have. Not only name of group and number of posts, but also number of replies in each thread and so on. Sounds like a great way to find newsgroups.
However, Microsoft's earlier attempt at making inroads into Usenet, the newsreader capability of Outlook Express, is one of the worst things that has ever happened since AOL released its hordes upon us. The way OE prefers to quote (below the new message) is infinitely less readable than the way Evereyone Else Does It. Now, if just MS could start following the way EEDI when EE has the Right Idea...
When you ask about dselect, you're really asking about the strenghts of Debian. As you problably know, Debian's greatest achievement is the unproblematic installation and upgrading of binary packages. In order to upgrade a whole system without any snags, you need: 1) a good system 2) a competent admin. dselect, obviously, has nothing to do with 1), but gives you 2) through the concept of natural selection. To use dselect effectively, you have to be extremely intelligent, like we Debian users are. Morons are turned off by having to use dselect when installing Debian, and run off screaming back to Mandrake or whatever.
Debian is great, because its users are great. I know I am great, because I use Debian. And isn't that what life is all about?
See that, Gentoo/*BSD users? Binary. Yes, Binary.
Thanks. I knew this looked like a bad movie, and a parody, but I didn't quite get the joke until you spelled it out in capital letters. I imagine one of the unreleased scenes went like this:
Evil McBride: And then we'll sue for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
Nr. 2: Don't you think we should ask for more? We're losing a million dollar each month because of the crappy IP we bought some years ago.
Evil McBride: Really?
Nr. 2: Mm-hmh.
And so on. It's not worth watching. The appeal will be even worse, and it all ends up with McBride being Linus Torvald's brother or something.
Well, you've been moderated "funny", although you could be serious. Some of John Zorn's works are definately easy listening-ish (The Gift). Just don't expect Painkiller or Naked City to be. You should listen to John Zorn anyway. Ah, and some essential recordings for you.
If you like modern, beats and electronic oriented jazz, you should check out Nils Petter Molvaer.
You can't. It could be obfuscaped, like some of the infringing code is, according to SCO. Now, I'm an expert crypotgrapher, so I know all there is to know about obfuskation (sp?). The most advanced crypot known to man is rot-13, which is unbreakable, at least for people who can't read or write. I did a crypotanalysis of the Linux kernel, and found nasty elements pretty fast: To the untrained eye, this means nothing, but using rot-13 on the letters s, c and o shows that s_fpbshift is actually s_scoshift!!! Very clever: it actually shifts code from SCO to FPB (probably a notable figure in the open source community, as only the best get to have three letter words for names). It looks like IBM is doomed, guys.
And in other parts of the world, the term "hard-core drinker" is synonymous with "Irishman". But you'd be out of your mind to say "Irishman" is synonymous with "alcoholic", so your definition is clearly wrong.
I currently use FreeBSD 4.8 on my old laptop, a 133 MHz Pentium Classic with 40 MB RAM. It's mainly a typewriter and ScummVM box, and FreeBSD 4.x is very nice, fast, and lightweight for the hardware (compared to Debian and Slack). But I love features as much as the next geek, so I'd like to know how 5.x compares to 4.x with regards to consumption of my precious RAM and disk space.
:-)
And I'd also like to know if there are any special features to drool for. Come on, just convince me to upgrade. I know I want to.
No, just get a couple of free webmail accounts and send your work as an attachment from one account to the other. That way you'll have backups at two different servers, and some mail providers even backup their mail-spools. It works wonders for small-ish files, and it's free. And when your room mate's destillery explodes and burns down the dorm and all your equipment and all your CDs you still have your files.
Having a taskbar is nice, because it gives you an overview of which windows you have up. That's nice when windows overlap and cover each other. Also, some apps (like Psi, a jabber-client) will change their name in the taskbar with a "* [x]" before it, telling you how many messages you've received in that chat since you last gave it focus. So a taskbar is nice for overview and notifications. It's not absolutely necessary, and you can hide it or turn it off completely if you want to. Or use WindowMaker instead. Nobody forces you to use Gnome.
Yes, but consider the damage such an injunction could do to things that are more important than SCO. Like national security. With Linux's huge installed base, not allowing distribution of security fixes could mean a death blow to much more than Linux. And installing SCO or Windows Server 2003 is not an option. I'm sure no judge would be that stupid.
All right, all right, it's a joke! Happy now? Unfortunately, the radar seems to think the distributor of the album is the company that released the album, so even small Norwegian independent labels like Rune Grammofon (I did a test with Supersilent) get tainted by being distributed in the USA by ECM/Universal. 4AD is a British company, and should be quite independent of the Recording Industry Assosiation of America.
This means this RIAA Radar is quite useless for anything released on a non-US label and distributed by a major label, unless you really don't want them to have any of your money. Then I suggest you buy your CDs from amazon.co.uk instead.
Well, at least you can trust Slashdot. Oh, and BTW: First post!
No, it can't, and it doesn't have to be plausible or consistent. Really.
Office XP is hardly an operating environment in itself, but Emacs is everything you need to use a computer (well, you need a kernel as well). So, compared to Office XP, Emacs is hardly bloated.
Alas, I was only joking (vim all the way, baby!), and continuing the jokes of the parent posters, but neither you nor the moderators (Informative? Offtopic? Morons!) got that.
But I actually tried the init=/usr/bin/emacs trick once, and it worked. I still prefer X and a bunch of xterms and shit, though. And a real init.
Yes, that's a good one. Now do the same thing with the Mach kernel, and GNU/Hurd will be finished.
The RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America, and as such, they have nothing to do with artists or concerts. Actually, concerts are competitors to the RIAA, since they take music out of the recording industry's revenue stream.
The power of the recording industry doesn't come from the value of its products, but from the value of its business: lots of people make money from other people's artworks. If all of the industry executives lose their source of income, it'll make an impact on the economy. Maybe a big impact, as the pop music industry is a huge commercial for commercialism.
Anyway, if music became free (or cheaper), it would mean some people (maybe not the artists, but that's not important) would make less money. If some people make less money, they have less money to spend, and that'll weaken the economy, as there'll be fewer investments. It's best for the economy if music is as expensive as the consumers can tolerate.
(And now I've completely forgotten if this was an elaborate troll or just sarcasm. Should I post anonymously or not? Ah, what the heck...)