Do you find it intimidating working for the man who invented the internet? Do you ever get the feeling that no matter how great the site is, it'll never be "good enough" for Big Al, the orginal net nanny?
Does Al ever pull you aside and offer tips on server configuration or make suggestions regarding the graphic design of the site?
Oh, and does Mr. Gore keep a fifty-meter coil of Cat 5 in his ass, so he can pull some out, plug in, and check on his invention while on the road?
Remarkable insight! Also, notice one other similarity: they're all anyone ever talks about on Slashdot. Give Tux a lightsaber and we'd never need any new content again.
"Yes, Commissioner? I think I've found the source of these malicious DoS attacks... have you ever heard of Rob Malda?"
"Yes, the infamous Commander of Tacos! We know all about him... he and his evil gang, the Slashdotters, have terrorized web-sites throughout the land with their awesome distributed DoS capabilities. A link goes up on the main page -- and boom! The site is impossible to contact within as little as five minutes! Why, with that kind of power, and his evil mutant slave Hemos, he's -"
"Sir?"
"Yes, what is it?"
"Hemos is a human, sir."
"I'll be damned if I'm tricked into believing that again, mister! As I was saying, with that kind of power, (and an evil mutant slave *AHEM*), this Commander of Tacos is unstoppable!"
"Yes, sir, I once thought that myself. But he has a weakness -- his code."
"What?!"
"You heard my correctly sir. That Slash code. It's available freely to all now, right there on Slashdot. You can pass it on to the crack [smoking] analysts at the NSA, and --
"And we'll know just how he does it, and how to stop him! By gar, Drew, you're right! How an I ever pay you back?"
"Just buy CDs from Walnut Creek and support FreeBSD, sir. FreeBSD is the OS of true Americans. Slashdot and its evil ways are the product of the godless socialist Fins and their 'Linux'."
"Damned straight! I'll get right on it! [trailing off] Jensen! Preorder 500 copies of FreeBSD 4.0 from Walnut Creek, stat!"
[drew hangs up] "*Sigh* Yet another mystery solved by the powers of a BSD 4.4 lite OS.
be sure to tune in next week, when Drew has Linus deported for serial buggery!
Very true. I'm proud to say that yes, I use Lynx. Not as my main browser, but I use it. But it's getting harder with all these glitzy fucking websites.
I mentioned this in another discussion today. Here it is again:
Btw, have you seen the VA web site? LOL! Click on "About VA". Not only do they unecessarily put that paragraph in GIF form, but it's twelve separate GIFs. I guess that Linuxers are too l33t to use font and heading tags, huh? Not everyone has bandwidth pouring out of our asses, you know. I'm reading this on a 28.8.
Just wait. The next site revision will just be a collection of PDFs.
This is the company that bought Andover.net. Rob, say the nice ALT tags aren't going away! SAy it ain't so!
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but -- that's not a flute. And the guy that sold it to you, he's probably still walking behind you, isn't he? Now you see the truth... The flute is not magical.
. . . and if I might add a comment, please improve the GUI installer . .
Oh, fuck you. You can't just make the announcement without including a complaint, can you? For God's sake, not everyone is so stuck in their M$ mindset that that can't install an OS without GUI widgets.
We all know that Andover.net was bought by VA a short while ago, so now is Slashdot obligated to start knocking anything that doesn't use the VA kernel?
Btw, have you seen the VA web site? LOL! Click on "About VA". Not only do they unecessarily put that paragraph in GIF form, but it's twelve separate GIFs. I guess that Linuxers are too l33t to use font and heading tags, huh? Not everyone has bandwidth pouring out of our asses, you know. I'm reading this on a 28.8.
Just wait. The next site revision will just be a collection of PDFs.
It's the next version of Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Starting with IRC v2.3, (being released in March), the product will known as Intelligent Internet Relay Chat, or IIRC, due to its next-generation chatroom features. Look for it to be bundled with Windows 2000.
I'm impressed that your subject is "4th post?", and you actually got fourth post. Most of the first posters come in between 10 and 30, and even those with other numbers, like eighth, never seem to guess correctly.
I'm going to have to agree with everyone that this page is hardly consistent with the rest of Apple's site. There are no flashy graphics, and the writing style and HTML are very unprofessional. Missing punctuation and an inconsistent style with absolutley no visual flashy-ness -- very unlike them.
Also, notice the lack of any copyright symbols after the mentions of "UNIX". Shame on Apple, a major corporation, forgetting that "UNIX" is still a copyrighted name. They're really asking for trouble with that.
This looks like it was thrown together in ten minutes by a PHB whose knowledge of Linux goes only as far as what he read in a LWE brochure he found on a techie's desk.
Heh, look at the source. We find this comment in the header:
I thought Apple stopped giving credit to individual programmers, right? Well, we found our PHB, in any case.
PC stands for personal computer, an inexpensive low power system . ..
I disagree. Look at Dell's top-o'-the line "PC", which I'm sure is neither inexpensive nor low-power.
UltraSPARC is automatically not low price or underpowered.
The line between the PC and the UNIX workstation is being continually blurred, and the distinction is being made less often nowadays. My new BSD box mentioned previously would be called a PC by many people, but then some would call it a workstation because of the specs and its uses for me.
I will agree that an UltraSparc is not often found in what is usually considered a "PC", but that's why I used it in my example as the other end of the spectrum from a 386.;-)
Interesting: I learned a few days ago from a former Sun employee, (who was involved in lobbying, not anything technical, in the early-mid nineties), that the average employee at his location used a Sparc machine running SunOS/Solaris, instead of the Wintel boxes common in most of corporate America. He said that CDE was as easy to use for him as Windows, and that he did notice the added stability. Now, this machine would qualify as a "PC" to me (yes, I'm aware of the diff between the Sparc and USparc). Maybe Sun should look into marketing x86 Solaris 8 as an NT replacement?;-)
We seem to agree for the rest of your post... my main point was that Macs are PCs, so you can't really compare "PCs and Macs".
You make note of the Pentium PowerMac. I was talking about *current* model Macs.
And I don't think I ever said they were 100% proprietary... but they're close.
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Not really much news in those quickies. Especially the note about the 4.0 code freeze; Slashdot already did a discussion on that. Where's the real news?:(
I'm preparing to target my home-built ICBM on the next lamer who complains that Macs are more expensive than PC's . . . Compare instead comparable machines from Dell or Compaq.
It's been said before, but I'll say it again. You can't compare PC and Mac hardware. Mac hardware is proprietary and only can company can sell you an 'actual' Mac.
PCs aren't just one thing. Comparing Macs and PCs is like someone trying to compare "Chevy convertables" and "cars". PCs today are everything from 386s running DOS to UltraSparc monsters with Solaris and 2GB of RAM. Macs are just one specific brand of a much larger market. Apple is a *subset of the PC industry* (And don't argue semantics, because a Dell or Compaq isn't an IBM PC either! PCs are not just Wintel x86!)
With a PC, you have unlimited choice. You don't have to go to Dell or Compaq to get an awesome machine, and it's been my experience that you get much better value by rolling your own.
I know that Mac users in general are less technical than PC users, so I know that this is unfortunately not an option for them. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but it's the truth. Yes, I know that some technical people prefer them, but the exceptions prove the rule.
For the non-technical user, Macs are the answer, IMHO. You get nice hardware from a pretty cool company, and the GUI is designed for the non-technical user. The business world would be better off as a whole if PHBs had Macs.
But for the geek, Macs won't cut it. The GUI pisses us off, the hardware is proprietary and expensive, and it's just not right. (Mac knows this. No geek would ever buy a computer with a built in monitor, or just USB connectivity, or, dare I say it, a one-button mouse.)
And the hardware is expensive. Because it's just one company; there's no competition! An iMac isn't expensive as far as "brand-name" PCs go, but when you look at what you're getting, it's murder. I really wish that Mac could open up. I'd love to be able to build my own Mac, no bullshit. If I could cobble together a Mac the way I could a PC, I'd be there, buddy. Running a G4 with a gig of RAM (with OSX, no less!)?? Schweet! But it won't happen. And Macs will remain closed and expensive and designed for non-geeks, and they'll eventually be absorbed by MS, and I won't care.
I've been building PCs for a while. My last, a FreeBSD workstation (BSD; it's not just for servers anymore!:-), has two Celeron 400s, both O/C to 500MHz, running SMP in an Abit BP6 M/B, 128MB RAM, two 13.6GB Ultra ATA/66 hard drives, a couple'a CD-ROMs -- well, you get the idea. And I built it for around a grand. And not only that, but I know exactly what into the machine. I wish I could get that kind of flexibility with a Mac.
This is pretty neat and all, but did it need to be posted in an article by it's self? Maybe it would have been better suited with CmdrTaco's quickies (man I miss those)?
I don't know why this was moderated as "offtopic"; I agree completely. While it's a cool link, is it really deserving of its own story? It really is quickie material.
All were doing is using the standard HTML img tag, nothing else.
Obviously, "dumbass". My reference to Perl comes from the fact that a close reading of the current Slash code might identify the problem. Geeze, you're so fucking quick to pretend you know what you're talking about.
It is not an 'exploit' and if you had half a brain
First of all, that depends on your def of "exploit". Secondly, I NEVER SAID IT WAS AN EXPLOIT. Try reading my post next time. Fucking cracksmoker.
and if you had half a brain, and read the source, (page source)
Wow, you're great. Yes, we can all see the page source. But the page source isn't necessarily what is entered in by the user as a comment. The comments.pl isn't generated directly from the user's input; i.e. when the user selects POT as the input type, comments.pl sends it as HTML. Maybe *you* should read the source, fruitcake.
God.
Sorry, I'm not your god today. Monotheism is much simpler, try it!
Now the next time you try and sound smart, be a good little script kiddie and get a real coder to write your arguments for you. Thanx so much!
Now why the hell was my post moderated to -5? I wasn't one of the offending image posters; in fact, I was condemning it. Some moderators need to pay attention.
While widely used by educational institutions (and small ISPs, I've heard), [FreeBSD] has not been blessed (or cursed, rather) with Linux's recent surge of publicity.
I say "cursed" because it appears that Linux has strayed from the UNIX path and is now being marketed as a "desktop OS" to Windows users. The FreeBSD team concentrates on making a better OS, not convincing Windows users to switch. I am pleased that every non-geek I've talked to that "has heard of Linux" has no idea what FreeBSD is. An elitist attitude? Damn straight.
Now let's see if I can get more flames from Linux users in this discussion than in that one!;-) Get to work, trolls!
Seriously, I agree with this. I'm sorta miffed that Rob even posted this so called "story". News for nerds my ass. Sheesh... he even went to a frockin' Super Bowl Party! And I don't even want to hear that crap about just doing it to see the commercials.
Any real geek would have spent the night playing the One True Sport of Kings... Q3A, fragbitch!;-) Or at least watching something more geek-friendly, like your Matrix DVD or your pirated copy of Episode One.
Please, real geeks, post here and tell everyone what you did *instead* of watching that bullshit. Even installing NT is more exciting than watching sweaty 300 pound men in tight pant run into each other. But hey, whatever floats you boat, d00d. Maybe it seems more interesting after a few beers, eh brah?
Also, someone please let us know when these commercials are available online, preferably in a format not constrained to Microsoft products.
Now I'll have to hear about it at work for the next week too... shite.
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Do you find it intimidating working for the man who invented the internet? Do you ever get the feeling that no matter how great the site is, it'll never be "good enough" for Big Al, the orginal net nanny?
Does Al ever pull you aside and offer tips on server configuration or make suggestions regarding the graphic design of the site?
Oh, and does Mr. Gore keep a fifty-meter coil of Cat 5 in his ass, so he can pull some out, plug in, and check on his invention while on the road?
Thank you.
Anything before that proves you are gay little Lucas lackeys, and, worse than that, hypocrites.
I disagree. Being a gay little Lucas-lackey is much worse than being a hypocrite.
Rest of the post seems fine.
Remarkable insight! Also, notice one other similarity: they're all anyone ever talks about on Slashdot. Give Tux a lightsaber and we'd never need any new content again.
"Yes, Commissioner? I think I've found the source of these malicious DoS attacks... have you ever heard of Rob Malda?"
"Yes, the infamous Commander of Tacos! We know all about him... he and his evil gang, the Slashdotters, have terrorized web-sites throughout the land with their awesome distributed DoS capabilities. A link goes up on the main page -- and boom! The site is impossible to contact within as little as five minutes! Why, with that kind of power, and his evil mutant slave Hemos, he's -"
"Sir?"
"Yes, what is it?"
"Hemos is a human, sir."
"I'll be damned if I'm tricked into believing that again, mister! As I was saying, with that kind of power, (and an evil mutant slave *AHEM*), this Commander of Tacos is unstoppable!"
"Yes, sir, I once thought that myself. But he has a weakness -- his code."
"What?!"
"You heard my correctly sir. That Slash code. It's available freely to all now, right there on Slashdot. You can pass it on to the crack [smoking] analysts at the NSA, and --
"And we'll know just how he does it, and how to stop him! By gar, Drew, you're right! How an I ever pay you back?"
"Just buy CDs from Walnut Creek and support FreeBSD, sir. FreeBSD is the OS of true Americans. Slashdot and its evil ways are the product of the godless socialist Fins and their 'Linux'."
"Damned straight! I'll get right on it! [trailing off] Jensen! Preorder 500 copies of FreeBSD 4.0 from Walnut Creek, stat!"
[drew hangs up] "*Sigh* Yet another mystery solved by the powers of a BSD 4.4 lite OS.
be sure to tune in next week, when Drew has Linus deported for serial buggery!
Very true. I'm proud to say that yes, I use Lynx. Not as my main browser, but I use it. But it's getting harder with all these glitzy fucking websites.
I mentioned this in another discussion today. Here it is again:
This is the company that bought Andover.net. Rob, say the nice ALT tags aren't going away! SAy it ain't so!
I've just put a flute in my ass
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but -- that's not a flute. And the guy that sold it to you, he's probably still walking behind you, isn't he? Now you see the truth... The flute is not magical.
Give it a few minutes.
. . . and if I might add a comment, please improve the GUI installer . .
Oh, fuck you. You can't just make the announcement without including a complaint, can you? For God's sake, not everyone is so stuck in their M$ mindset that that can't install an OS without GUI widgets.
We all know that Andover.net was bought by VA a short while ago, so now is Slashdot obligated to start knocking anything that doesn't use the VA kernel?
Btw, have you seen the VA web site? LOL! Click on "About VA". Not only do they unecessarily put that paragraph in GIF form, but it's twelve separate GIFs. I guess that Linuxers are too l33t to use font and heading tags, huh? Not everyone has bandwidth pouring out of our asses, you know. I'm reading this on a 28.8.
Just wait. The next site revision will just be a collection of PDFs.
It's the next version of Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Starting with IRC v2.3, (being released in March), the product will known as Intelligent Internet Relay Chat, or IIRC, due to its next-generation chatroom features. Look for it to be bundled with Windows 2000.
I'm impressed that your subject is "4th post?", and you actually got fourth post. Most of the first posters come in between 10 and 30, and even those with other numbers, like eighth, never seem to guess correctly.
So congratulations, you must be very proud.
Again, not an Apple page dumbass.
Then what's it doing on Apple's domain? It's ppclinux.APPLE.COM. So it's going to be associated with them no matter what.
Shame on you for being a retard
Indeed.
<!--- Page Maintained by Kevyn Shortell-->
Should've previewed. Oh well.
Also, notice the lack of any copyright symbols after the mentions of "UNIX". Shame on Apple, a major corporation, forgetting that "UNIX" is still a copyrighted name. They're really asking for trouble with that.
This looks like it was thrown together in ten minutes by a PHB whose knowledge of Linux goes only as far as what he read in a LWE brochure he found on a techie's desk.
Heh, look at the source. We find this comment in the header:
I thought Apple stopped giving credit to individual programmers, right? Well, we found our PHB, in any case.
When I read this, it was moderated as "Insightful". Excuse me while I go vomit; something has just made me very ill.
PC stands for personal computer, an inexpensive low power system . . .
I disagree. Look at Dell's top-o'-the line "PC", which I'm sure is neither inexpensive nor low-power.
UltraSPARC is automatically not low price or underpowered.
The line between the PC and the UNIX workstation is being continually blurred, and the distinction is being made less often nowadays. My new BSD box mentioned previously would be called a PC by many people, but then some would call it a workstation because of the specs and its uses for me.
I will agree that an UltraSparc is not often found in what is usually considered a "PC", but that's why I used it in my example as the other end of the spectrum from a 386. ;-)
Interesting: I learned a few days ago from a former Sun employee, (who was involved in lobbying, not anything technical, in the early-mid nineties), that the average employee at his location used a Sparc machine running SunOS/Solaris, instead of the Wintel boxes common in most of corporate America. He said that CDE was as easy to use for him as Windows, and that he did notice the added stability. Now, this machine would qualify as a "PC" to me (yes, I'm aware of the diff between the Sparc and USparc). Maybe Sun should look into marketing x86 Solaris 8 as an NT replacement? ;-)
We seem to agree for the rest of your post... my main point was that Macs are PCs, so you can't really compare "PCs and Macs".
You make note of the Pentium PowerMac. I was talking about *current* model Macs.
And I don't think I ever said they were 100% proprietary... but they're close.
Not really much news in those quickies. Especially the note about the 4.0 code freeze; Slashdot already did a discussion on that. Where's the real news? :(
What are the clusters used for, BTW?
A very good question. And here are the answers:
The Top Ten Uses for Mac Clusters!
Analyzing Apple's business strategy; that one crashed the Crays! (Bada-bing!)
There you have it, folks.
Is it possible to make a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters?
Ah, you wish to go where no man has gone before, my friend? Here, for the first time, is the formula for the Beowulf struct:
Use this knowledge only for good, never for evil.
Is it possible to make a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters?
Ah, you wish to go where no man has gone before, my friend? Here, for the first time, is the formula for the Beowulf struct:
Use this knowledge only for good, never for evil...
I'm preparing to target my home-built ICBM on the next lamer who complains that Macs are more expensive than PC's . . . Compare instead comparable machines from Dell or Compaq.
It's been said before, but I'll say it again. You can't compare PC and Mac hardware. Mac hardware is proprietary and only can company can sell you an 'actual' Mac.
PCs aren't just one thing. Comparing Macs and PCs is like someone trying to compare "Chevy convertables" and "cars". PCs today are everything from 386s running DOS to UltraSparc monsters with Solaris and 2GB of RAM. Macs are just one specific brand of a much larger market. Apple is a *subset of the PC industry* (And don't argue semantics, because a Dell or Compaq isn't an IBM PC either! PCs are not just Wintel x86!)
With a PC, you have unlimited choice. You don't have to go to Dell or Compaq to get an awesome machine, and it's been my experience that you get much better value by rolling your own.
I know that Mac users in general are less technical than PC users, so I know that this is unfortunately not an option for them. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but it's the truth. Yes, I know that some technical people prefer them, but the exceptions prove the rule.
For the non-technical user, Macs are the answer, IMHO. You get nice hardware from a pretty cool company, and the GUI is designed for the non-technical user. The business world would be better off as a whole if PHBs had Macs.
But for the geek, Macs won't cut it. The GUI pisses us off, the hardware is proprietary and expensive, and it's just not right. (Mac knows this. No geek would ever buy a computer with a built in monitor, or just USB connectivity, or, dare I say it, a one-button mouse.)
And the hardware is expensive. Because it's just one company; there's no competition! An iMac isn't expensive as far as "brand-name" PCs go, but when you look at what you're getting, it's murder. I really wish that Mac could open up. I'd love to be able to build my own Mac, no bullshit. If I could cobble together a Mac the way I could a PC, I'd be there, buddy. Running a G4 with a gig of RAM (with OSX, no less!)?? Schweet! But it won't happen. And Macs will remain closed and expensive and designed for non-geeks, and they'll eventually be absorbed by MS, and I won't care.
I've been building PCs for a while. My last, a FreeBSD workstation (BSD; it's not just for servers anymore! :-), has two Celeron 400s, both O/C to 500MHz, running SMP in an Abit BP6 M/B, 128MB RAM, two 13.6GB Ultra ATA/66 hard drives, a couple'a CD-ROMs -- well, you get the idea. And I built it for around a grand. And not only that, but I know exactly what into the machine. I wish I could get that kind of flexibility with a Mac.
Okay, enough ranting for tonight. :-)
This is pretty neat and all, but did it need to be posted in an article by it's self? Maybe it would have been better suited with CmdrTaco's quickies (man I miss those)?
I don't know why this was moderated as "offtopic"; I agree completely. While it's a cool link, is it really deserving of its own story? It really is quickie material.
Now come on, bitches! Moderate me down to "-5!"
Personally, I've always had serious thing for Ryoko. *drool*
I said that; Slashdot fucked up. I'm very proud of my love for Ryoko, and I would never post such a thing AC intentionally.
Ryoko, Ryoko, Ryoko! I'm geekier than Tenchi any day, baby! Get back here!
Obviously, "dumbass". My reference to Perl comes from the fact that a close reading of the current Slash code might identify the problem. Geeze, you're so fucking quick to pretend you know what you're talking about.
It is not an 'exploit' and if you had half a brain
First of all, that depends on your def of "exploit". Secondly, I NEVER SAID IT WAS AN EXPLOIT. Try reading my post next time. Fucking cracksmoker.
and if you had half a brain, and read the source, (page source)
Wow, you're great. Yes, we can all see the page source. But the page source isn't necessarily what is entered in by the user as a comment. The comments.pl isn't generated directly from the user's input; i.e. when the user selects POT as the input type, comments.pl sends it as HTML. Maybe *you* should read the source, fruitcake.
God.
Sorry, I'm not your god today. Monotheism is much simpler, try it!
Now the next time you try and sound smart, be a good little script kiddie and get a real coder to write your arguments for you. Thanx so much!
Now why the hell was my post moderated to -5? I wasn't one of the offending image posters; in fact, I was condemning it. Some moderators need to pay attention.
I quote from a post of mine a few days ago:
While widely used by educational institutions (and small ISPs, I've heard), [FreeBSD] has not been blessed (or cursed, rather) with Linux's recent surge of publicity.
I say "cursed" because it appears that Linux has strayed from the UNIX path and is now being marketed as a "desktop OS" to Windows users. The FreeBSD team concentrates on making a better OS, not convincing Windows users to switch. I am pleased that every non-geek I've talked to that "has heard of Linux" has no idea what FreeBSD is. An elitist attitude? Damn straight.
Now let's see if I can get more flames from Linux users in this discussion than in that one! ;-) Get to work, trolls!
I'm with ya, man. Right-on.
Seriously, I agree with this. I'm sorta miffed that Rob even posted this so called "story". News for nerds my ass. Sheesh... he even went to a frockin' Super Bowl Party! And I don't even want to hear that crap about just doing it to see the commercials.
Any real geek would have spent the night playing the One True Sport of Kings... Q3A, fragbitch! ;-) Or at least watching something more geek-friendly, like your Matrix DVD or your pirated copy of Episode One.
Please, real geeks, post here and tell everyone what you did *instead* of watching that bullshit. Even installing NT is more exciting than watching sweaty 300 pound men in tight pant run into each other. But hey, whatever floats you boat, d00d. Maybe it seems more interesting after a few beers, eh brah?
Also, someone please let us know when these commercials are available online, preferably in a format not constrained to Microsoft products.
Now I'll have to hear about it at work for the next week too... shite.