Microsoft already has named some of them. If ZDnet, however, wants to play the FUD game with completely false headlines that they admit as such in the body of the article, then lets see them do a little more informing of the reader beyond obtaining leaked memos.
Better yet, ask ZDnet why their publications have given Win2K such high reviews while trying to convince people how defective it is. Another low point for computer journalism...
Not to mention that the 65,000 number doesn't refer to bugs, but also requested enhancements and optimizations that haven't yet been implemented, even the 28,000 "real bugs" sounds pretty bogus to anyone who's been using Win2K heavily since RC2.
Since there are just sooooo many thousands of bugs, I challange ZDnet and Slashdot to name even 200 of them.
I was wondering whatever happened to the Brill's Content gig. I don't remember seeing any mention from you or Content that you weren't writing for them, but I can't remember seeing anything from you in there lately either. What's up?
Just as an aside, and as a charter BC subscriber, thank God they got rid of Brill, and I can only hope that the new editor does a better job of keeping her (I think it's a her) biases in check.
Oh, man. Sorry, I was actually planning to post a link to a different Star Wars article I read.* Then I started looking at all the completely nonsensical posts in this thread, especially the multitude of ASCII art breasts of all things, and now I've been laughing maniacally for about the last 5 minutes at the thought that VA Linux paid nearly 1 billion dollars for Andover.net. Yeah, I know Andover.net has other sites, but we all know it was Slashdot that VA Linux wanted. And yes, I know all the junk being posted on this thread is juvenile -- I'm not laughing in appreciation of it, just at the thought of VA Linux board members or stockholders coming here and reading it.:)
Anyway, I just had to mention that, but I better go because I'm about to get a hernia and short-circuit my laptop's keyboard from the tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks. (I think lack of sleep is playing into this, too.)
* The Star Wars thing I was going to post was an article that was linked to from the Drudge Report that was pretty funny. It talked about how George Lucas was promising that the next episode of Star Wars would be stereotype-free because of all the criticism that he got for Jar-Jar and the trade barons with the Japanese accents. Part of his plans to make the next episode more "ethnically inclusive" is to add a Native American-like character, who will be very spiritual. His other addition will be an Asian character, who happens to be good in martial arts. Sheesh, I think George is a little unclear on the concept of what a stereotype is...
Seriously, if France were gone from the UN, who would care? Their purpose there these days seems to be barely anything more than to oppose the U.S. It's not as if I'm even saying that all of the U.S.'s policies were right -- in fact, I disagree with a good deal of its international policies. France, though, seems to put no more deliberation into their UN votes than to see which way the U.S. is leaning and then take the opposite tack.
One French official claims that "Frenchelon" intercepts about 2 million messages per month. While on an incredibly smaller scale than Echelon's estimated 3 million messages per minute, they're making themselves out to be major hypocrites here.
Hey, then again, maybe this was the reason for France's stupid effort to force French web sites to use the French language. Much easier to read those intercepted emails that way, eh Jacque?
As someone who's used every RedHat version since 4.2, I'm very aware that you can expect things to be broken from a RedHat upgrade period, even if it wasn't a non-official, beta release.
Here's hoping they fixed that horrible graphical installer in 6.1, though.
Keep telling yourself that. Of course, it's a little less than convincing when every Microsoft-basher like yourself is hoping and praying that governments will deny people the free choice to use Win2K. You folks really must be scared to have turned into such fascists, especially when you consider that NT (Win2K's predecessor) has probably never even cracked 50 percent of the market.
Yahoo gets over a million unique visitors per day. If Macy's had that many people going through its doors, a similiar shut-down would definitely make the news.
Geocities "community leader" volunteers who are riled up by Yahoo's recent actions which seem to portend a possible shutting down of the service. There've been skirmishes in the past between Yahoo and Geocities, with some members of the latter creating a BoycottYahoo site.
People who think that Yahoo is going overboard in tracking users who move through its vast array of web properties. One company has even filed a $4 billion lawsuit against Yahoo and its Broadcast.com subsidiary.
People who think that Yahoo's gotten too big for its britches, going from a simple web index to a site trying to do everything.
Not that I think any of these groups are involved, but there are groups out there with beefs against Yahoo.
Dammit Truffle, two references in five sentences that time.
Okay, so I'm just yanking your chain. I did feel like I got hit with the hammer in your first post, but I can see how it was inadvertent on your part. No harm, no foul, take care..
Hi. What's the status of the Brill's Content gig? I can't remember seeing any of your articles in there lately, but haven't seen anything from you or Content which says that you aren't writing for them anymore. Thanks.
Within ten sentences, you managed to tell us three times that you're bisexual. I'm really not trying to flame here, but do you really think that people care about your own sexual orientation that much that you feel the need to tell us that over and over? I'm not saying that it's true in your case, but most people I know personally who go around reminding everyone of their bisexual orientation are doing it for no other reason than to say, "Hey, look at how hip I am!" Whether or not that fits you, it definitely sounds like you're hung up on your sexuality.
We don't feel right writing a review of the book since we'd be sadly biased, so read this chapter, and make up your own minds about it...
Yeah, 'cause everyone knows how hard Slashdot strives for impartiality. It's what's made Slashdot the beacon of journalism that it is today!
Seriouly, I laughed for minutes when I read that.:) Will have to check out the excerpt later if I have time, it's just too lengthy to read during a break.
Microsoft spinning off Expedia (I don't know if it's happened yet). There's been talk for years of AltaVista being spun off, although I don't think that it has ever happened. Oracle said that they were going to spin off a Linux network computer unit, although I haven't heard anything about it in months.
Canada has practically zero clout in the world, though. I'll take having a large influence in the world, picking up some jealous enemies along the way, over being a non-player any day of the week.
It's like the New York Yankees versus the Montreal Expos. Who hates the Expos? Nobody! Why? Because they have no impact on the game. Who hates the Yankees? Just about everyone but Yankees fans, because success breeds contempt.
Of course, a similar effect is in play in terms of friendly countries. Because of their power, an awful lot of countries want the US to be on their side. Other than the US, who would say the same about Canada? Who would care?
Yes, it is a shame that everyone doesn't play nice with each other. But it's reality, so those of us not living in fantasyland have to deal with it. I'm sorry to break it to you, but unless you're a reincarnated John Lennon, sitting around holding hands and singing "All we are saying is give peace a chance" will get you nowhere in this world.
You seem confused. Did I not make a single reference to what you actually wrote, or did I quote you out of context? Make up your mind.
My original post quoted your entire line. My followup quoted only the part to which I was referring in order to emphasize what was so foolish about your statement. My original (as well as the follow-up) point still applies when your quote is taken in its entirety.
As far as Kuwait goes, I don't know too many people who didn't think that freeing the Kuwaitis was a good thing. If that wasn't most people's primary reason for entering the war (as opposed to oil prices, setting an example for other aggressive dictators, etc.), well who cares? I just find it curious for you to complain about it, since it had the result of freeing Kuwait from Iraq. You sound like someone who'd say, "Yeah, well I know the doctor saved my mother's life, but I think he did it to save himself from a malpractice suit rather than out of any concern for my mother. Selfish bastard."
See, out here in the real world, sometimes people have to be killed -- yes, even people with families back at home. Of course, I guess you think that Adolf Hitler would've stopped invading all those countries if we sent him a nice letter asking him to behave.
Listen, if you'd actually bothered to read my post, you would have seen that nowhere did I advocate giving an advantage to the opponents.
Not in those words, you didn't, it was just your opinion that the US Army should be ashamed for working toward a goal where "all the bleeding is done by the other side." Since you disdain that goal, logic follows that you think the US Army should see that at least some of the bleeding is done by their own side.
As far as Kuwait goes, you're criticizing the US for chasing the Iraqis out of there? Is Saddam Hussein your idol or something, or are you just nostalgic for the days of the Republican Guard crushing those uppity Kuwaitis?
Finally, the last thing you need to be doing is questioning anyone's intelligence if you think that it hasn't been the hope of just about every army ever created that "all the bleeding is done by the other side." Nah, only those evil Americans hope for things like that...
Yeah, let's fight a war where one side never has to see any blood, and all the bleeding's done by the other side. Go, U.S. Army! You guys must be real proud of your achievements.
Yeah, I couldn't wait to enlist in Akaji Monkey's Politically Correct Army (PCA), where we purposely let the enemy kill some of our own troops in the interest of "fairness." If you loved Affirmative Action, well brother, you ain't seen nothin' yet! The next time that a war arises, we're gonna airdrop some of our finest tanks and air fighters, and to really level the playing field (no pun intended!), a random few of those fighters will be equipped with nuclear weapons! If getting ourselves nuked will prevent the enemy from losing their self-esteem and feeling bad about themselves, let me be the first to paint a target on my chest!
Yeesh.
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
"QUITE clear"? Where?
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Below is the story to which you're referring. I certainly don't take his mentioning that he was presenting at the conference to be an indication to the reader that he has a FreeBSD affiliation, especially since entities which aren't affiliated with FreeBSD were also presenting -- Nik mentions speakers from the Apache and Samba projects, as well as from Apple. If I'm missing some hint from his story, please show me.
FreeBSDCon '99 Speaker Schedule Announced Posted by nik on Monday October 11, @11:00AM EDT from the first-post-from-new-author-be-gentle! dept.
Bill Swingle writes "The final speaker schedule for the upcoming FreeBSDCon has been announced. Highlights include, Kirk McKusick's BSD Internals tutorial, and keynotes from both Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Project and Jeremey Allison from the Samba Project. There are all kinds of fun events planned for the conference, including a free (for attendees) beer bash. This should be one killer conference! " Read on for more. CT: This is the first article in our new BSD Section maintained by Nik. Enjoy.
There are also speakers from Apple, talking about FreeBSD's contribution to Darwin, Jonathan Bresler talking about his experiences with spam fighting as the FreeBSD Postmaster, and Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino of the KAME group, talking about IPv6 and IPSec, to name just a few more (modesty forbids me mentioning my own presentation at the conference, obviously).
The terms that clearly shout "Crusoe" are 'heat-dissapation' and 'low-power consumption'
Hello, those terms shout "mobile processing," not "Crusoe." Those are the two things that notebook makers have been struggling with for years. Just on a lark, I searched News.com for that subject, and turned up this article about that very topic. Wow, Intel must have some top-notch industrial spies on their payroll to have stolen Transmeta's plans way back in 1997!!
Transmeta could really have a field day if they ever decided to sue Intel for stealing their completely original idea that "heat-dissipation" and "low-power consumption" are good for notebook CPUs! Just look at this 1994 Byte article, where those thieving bastards at Intel mention the improvments in their (obviously stolen!) 486DX4 CPU design:
"The DX4 chips also introduce other improvements, including 3.3-V operation; pin compatibility with existing 486 sockets and 5-V parts;
lower power consumption and heat dissipation; 0.6-micron process technology; and a 16-KB instruction/data cache, twice as big as a normal Intel 486 cache."
Call the lawyers, call the lawyers, we've got a clear case of trade secret theft on our hands!
Damn, it's truly hilarious watching you naïve Linus Torvalds fanboys making asses of yourselves as you slavishly scramble to heap greater and greater praise upon anything with which he's associated.
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
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I don't consider him a liar, but I do think his affiliation should be made clearer to help the reader make his own judgment about his motivations and credibility -- as a casual Slashdot reader for years, I never realized that "Nik" was Nik Clayton. Actually, my first thought about this story was how all the FreeBSD news was gathered into one "quickie" story. Obviously, it would be in VA Linux's best interests to see FreeBSD get as little publicity as possible around here.
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Microsoft already has named some of them. If ZDnet, however, wants to play the FUD game with completely false headlines that they admit as such in the body of the article, then lets see them do a little more informing of the reader beyond obtaining leaked memos.
Better yet, ask ZDnet why their publications have given Win2K such high reviews while trying to convince people how defective it is. Another low point for computer journalism...
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Not to mention that the 65,000 number doesn't refer to bugs, but also requested enhancements and optimizations that haven't yet been implemented, even the 28,000 "real bugs" sounds pretty bogus to anyone who's been using Win2K heavily since RC2.
Since there are just sooooo many thousands of bugs, I challange ZDnet and Slashdot to name even 200 of them.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I was wondering whatever happened to the Brill's Content gig. I don't remember seeing any mention from you or Content that you weren't writing for them, but I can't remember seeing anything from you in there lately either. What's up?
Just as an aside, and as a charter BC subscriber, thank God they got rid of Brill, and I can only hope that the new editor does a better job of keeping her (I think it's a her) biases in check.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
glwillia@hormel.hotmail.com writes:
Remove the producer of Spam from my email address to email me
Sorry, but I don't think that glwillia@com is a valid email address. :)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Oh, man. Sorry, I was actually planning to post a link to a different Star Wars article I read.* Then I started looking at all the completely nonsensical posts in this thread, especially the multitude of ASCII art breasts of all things, and now I've been laughing maniacally for about the last 5 minutes at the thought that VA Linux paid nearly 1 billion dollars for Andover.net. Yeah, I know Andover.net has other sites, but we all know it was Slashdot that VA Linux wanted. And yes, I know all the junk being posted on this thread is juvenile -- I'm not laughing in appreciation of it, just at the thought of VA Linux board members or stockholders coming here and reading it. :)
Anyway, I just had to mention that, but I better go because I'm about to get a hernia and short-circuit my laptop's keyboard from the tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks. (I think lack of sleep is playing into this, too.)
* The Star Wars thing I was going to post was an article that was linked to from the Drudge Report that was pretty funny. It talked about how George Lucas was promising that the next episode of Star Wars would be stereotype-free because of all the criticism that he got for Jar-Jar and the trade barons with the Japanese accents. Part of his plans to make the next episode more "ethnically inclusive" is to add a Native American-like character, who will be very spiritual. His other addition will be an Asian character, who happens to be good in martial arts. Sheesh, I think George is a little unclear on the concept of what a stereotype is...
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Seriously, if France were gone from the UN, who would care? Their purpose there these days seems to be barely anything more than to oppose the U.S. It's not as if I'm even saying that all of the U.S.'s policies were right -- in fact, I disagree with a good deal of its international policies. France, though, seems to put no more deliberation into their UN votes than to see which way the U.S. is leaning and then take the opposite tack.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
One French official claims that "Frenchelon" intercepts about 2 million messages per month. While on an incredibly smaller scale than Echelon's estimated 3 million messages per minute, they're making themselves out to be major hypocrites here.
Hey, then again, maybe this was the reason for France's stupid effort to force French web sites to use the French language. Much easier to read those intercepted emails that way, eh Jacque?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
As someone who's used every RedHat version since 4.2, I'm very aware that you can expect things to be broken from a RedHat upgrade period, even if it wasn't a non-official, beta release.
Here's hoping they fixed that horrible graphical installer in 6.1, though.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Keep telling yourself that. Of course, it's a little less than convincing when every Microsoft-basher like yourself is hoping and praying that governments will deny people the free choice to use Win2K. You folks really must be scared to have turned into such fascists, especially when you consider that NT (Win2K's predecessor) has probably never even cracked 50 percent of the market.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yahoo gets over a million unique visitors per day. If Macy's had that many people going through its doors, a similiar shut-down would definitely make the news.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Not that I think any of these groups are involved, but there are groups out there with beefs against Yahoo.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Dammit Truffle, two references in five sentences that time.
Okay, so I'm just yanking your chain. I did feel like I got hit with the hammer in your first post, but I can see how it was inadvertent on your part. No harm, no foul, take care..
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Hi. What's the status of the Brill's Content gig? I can't remember seeing any of your articles in there lately, but haven't seen anything from you or Content which says that you aren't writing for them anymore. Thanks.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Within ten sentences, you managed to tell us three times that you're bisexual. I'm really not trying to flame here, but do you really think that people care about your own sexual orientation that much that you feel the need to tell us that over and over? I'm not saying that it's true in your case, but most people I know personally who go around reminding everyone of their bisexual orientation are doing it for no other reason than to say, "Hey, look at how hip I am!" Whether or not that fits you, it definitely sounds like you're hung up on your sexuality.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yeah, 'cause everyone knows how hard Slashdot strives for impartiality. It's what's made Slashdot the beacon of journalism that it is today!
Seriouly, I laughed for minutes when I read that. :) Will have to check out the excerpt later if I have time, it's just too lengthy to read during a break.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Microsoft spinning off Expedia (I don't know if it's happened yet). There's been talk for years of AltaVista being spun off, although I don't think that it has ever happened. Oracle said that they were going to spin off a Linux network computer unit, although I haven't heard anything about it in months.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
We don't have many enemies, either!
Canada has practically zero clout in the world, though. I'll take having a large influence in the world, picking up some jealous enemies along the way, over being a non-player any day of the week.
It's like the New York Yankees versus the Montreal Expos. Who hates the Expos? Nobody! Why? Because they have no impact on the game. Who hates the Yankees? Just about everyone but Yankees fans, because success breeds contempt.
Of course, a similar effect is in play in terms of friendly countries. Because of their power, an awful lot of countries want the US to be on their side. Other than the US, who would say the same about Canada? Who would care?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yes, it is a shame that everyone doesn't play nice with each other. But it's reality, so those of us not living in fantasyland have to deal with it. I'm sorry to break it to you, but unless you're a reincarnated John Lennon, sitting around holding hands and singing "All we are saying is give peace a chance" will get you nowhere in this world.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
You seem confused. Did I not make a single reference to what you actually wrote, or did I quote you out of context? Make up your mind.
My original post quoted your entire line. My followup quoted only the part to which I was referring in order to emphasize what was so foolish about your statement. My original (as well as the follow-up) point still applies when your quote is taken in its entirety.
As far as Kuwait goes, I don't know too many people who didn't think that freeing the Kuwaitis was a good thing. If that wasn't most people's primary reason for entering the war (as opposed to oil prices, setting an example for other aggressive dictators, etc.), well who cares? I just find it curious for you to complain about it, since it had the result of freeing Kuwait from Iraq. You sound like someone who'd say, "Yeah, well I know the doctor saved my mother's life, but I think he did it to save himself from a malpractice suit rather than out of any concern for my mother. Selfish bastard."
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
See, out here in the real world, sometimes people have to be killed -- yes, even people with families back at home. Of course, I guess you think that Adolf Hitler would've stopped invading all those countries if we sent him a nice letter asking him to behave.
Flower power, duuuuude!
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Listen, if you'd actually bothered to read my post, you would have seen that nowhere did I advocate giving an advantage to the opponents.
Not in those words, you didn't, it was just your opinion that the US Army should be ashamed for working toward a goal where "all the bleeding is done by the other side." Since you disdain that goal, logic follows that you think the US Army should see that at least some of the bleeding is done by their own side.
As far as Kuwait goes, you're criticizing the US for chasing the Iraqis out of there? Is Saddam Hussein your idol or something, or are you just nostalgic for the days of the Republican Guard crushing those uppity Kuwaitis?
Finally, the last thing you need to be doing is questioning anyone's intelligence if you think that it hasn't been the hope of just about every army ever created that "all the bleeding is done by the other side." Nah, only those evil Americans hope for things like that...
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yeah, let's fight a war where one side never has to see any blood, and all the bleeding's done by the other side. Go, U.S. Army! You guys must be real proud of your achievements.
Yeah, I couldn't wait to enlist in Akaji Monkey's Politically Correct Army (PCA), where we purposely let the enemy kill some of our own troops in the interest of "fairness." If you loved Affirmative Action, well brother, you ain't seen nothin' yet! The next time that a war arises, we're gonna airdrop some of our finest tanks and air fighters, and to really level the playing field (no pun intended!), a random few of those fighters will be equipped with nuclear weapons! If getting ourselves nuked will prevent the enemy from losing their self-esteem and feeling bad about themselves, let me be the first to paint a target on my chest!
Yeesh.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Below is the story to which you're referring. I certainly don't take his mentioning that he was presenting at the conference to be an indication to the reader that he has a FreeBSD affiliation, especially since entities which aren't affiliated with FreeBSD were also presenting -- Nik mentions speakers from the Apache and Samba projects, as well as from Apple. If I'm missing some hint from his story, please show me.
The terms that clearly shout "Crusoe" are 'heat-dissapation' and 'low-power consumption'
Hello, those terms shout "mobile processing," not "Crusoe." Those are the two things that notebook makers have been struggling with for years. Just on a lark, I searched News.com for that subject, and turned up this article about that very topic. Wow, Intel must have some top-notch industrial spies on their payroll to have stolen Transmeta's plans way back in 1997!!
Transmeta could really have a field day if they ever decided to sue Intel for stealing their completely original idea that "heat-dissipation" and "low-power consumption" are good for notebook CPUs! Just look at this 1994 Byte article, where those thieving bastards at Intel mention the improvments in their (obviously stolen!) 486DX4 CPU design:
Call the lawyers, call the lawyers, we've got a clear case of trade secret theft on our hands!Damn, it's truly hilarious watching you naïve Linus Torvalds fanboys making asses of yourselves as you slavishly scramble to heap greater and greater praise upon anything with which he's associated.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I don't consider him a liar, but I do think his affiliation should be made clearer to help the reader make his own judgment about his motivations and credibility -- as a casual Slashdot reader for years, I never realized that "Nik" was Nik Clayton. Actually, my first thought about this story was how all the FreeBSD news was gathered into one "quickie" story. Obviously, it would be in VA Linux's best interests to see FreeBSD get as little publicity as possible around here.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com