Re:Your Linux box offering the same services.
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finding out what is on is not much of a problem if you have an internet connection, you can use this if you are in the states ftp://foobar.resnet.gatech.edu/pub/, this if you are in Germany http://yasd.dhs.org/en and I just wrote one for if you live in Canada, (no web page yet). I think I will either merge mine with the German one, or roll my own UI. I would like it to be similar to the Guide Plus feature of some RCA TVs. This weekend I will have some time to get some code down for the UI, trying to decide whether or not to use GTK or tcl/tk..
that's what preferences are for
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You can customize slashdot so that you never have to see quickies again. If you don't like trolls, surf at a higher theshhold.
note to the RIAA: you want people to quit using thse illicit and illegal mp3's? be careful what you wish for...you just might get it!!!
The RIAA is just against mp3s - although that is the main focus right now - they are more against the illegal mass trading of copyrighted material. The MP3 file format itself is in no way illegal, and I couldn't see it becoming illegal. It is the illegal trade of them that they don't like.
Should we totally alter a foreign planet and bring it away from its natural state? What is it's natural state? a few billion years ago I'm sure Mars looked quite different than what it does now...then some outside force changed it to look like what it does now. How is what we (earthlings) plan to do any different. Sure we are intelligent beings are would be willfully altering Mars, but we can still be regarded as a force in nature. I think that things like this are along our evolutionary path, we are like vermin, we have infested earth, and we are now in search for new places to create small nest from which we will infest whole planets.
Is it right or wrong? I don't know, but eventually it will happen. There will be large protests about it the near future, but after a while people will become more accustomed to the idea, and will see the benifits of it and will accept it. We won't see it in our life time, on a large scale at least.
...they're often better as places to nab software from when you already know what you're looking for... For me at least, I like to hit freshmeat everyday, and see what apps are being started, or being worked on...a lot of times I'll run into things I wasn't looking for, but would be really useful. besides, if a LinuxPPC user wants to play an MPEG file, they will most likely hit freshmeat, not/. [1]
which useful ones are you thinking about? OK, that was a guess on my part...but the thing is that we don't get to see what stories you drop. It would be really nice if there was a "back page" on slashdot..where we could see the stories you drop...not all of them, just the ones that you thought about for second before killing it. We don't have to be able to comment on the stories, just have a link to them. Maybe you guys could create a subset of moderators that would be able to moderate the backpage...and if a story gets moderated up to like 10 or something (a high number) then it gets resubmitted for your approval to get put on the front page. You guys would still totally control what goes on the front page...and the backpage, but we get to see more of what other slashdotters are interested in. There isn't much room for abuse, since you guys still get to say what goes up on the pages. (loads of people will now complain about why StoryX got onto the backpage, and not the front page, but people will always complain) Just an idea.
[1] Granted, alot of current users may have already decided that they cannot play MPEG files, and are not looking...
while your theory is right, it can not be applied to age levels, and all problems. At the post secondary level, what you have said is definetly correct..we should not be bothered with such mundane details as arithmetic..there are much more interesting problems to be solved. But at the elementary, and secondary levels students need to get have strong grasp of arithmetic, and basic mathematical functions. From there you can work up and tackle more complex problems. Look at the way math is generally taught, in calculus you are first taught the First Principle for deriving functions, after you play with that for a while you are taught the short cuts, so you can more easily apply the derivatives to large problems. thats the way pretty much everything is taught in math, you learn the "hardway" of doing things, and the basics of that type of problem, and after you have a good grasp of how and why it works, then you learn the shortcuts so you can apply what you have just learned to more complex problems, without being bogged down by arithmetic and what not.
if we can't keep crypto from being exported, how are we going to keep nanotech secret?
what?why would you want to keep crypto from being exported? For one thing just as good, or better crypto solutions were developed outside your borders. From your website, you appear to be for open source and free software...so I can't understand why you would be against the US allowing the export of crypto.
as a typical American, you assume that nanotech will be developed only in the states, and you must hide scientific discoveries from others. I feel sorry for you. You appear to be a knowledgable fellow, you have embraced Free Software, but have yet to actually understand the ideals behind it. It looks like you are quite a busy guy, and do some good work (running all that stuff listed on your website)...maybe you should take some time off so you can figure out what you are actually dealing with, and hopefully you won't make anymore comments like the one above. Good Luck.
yup. The Revolution IV, and the SR9 they sound half decent. As everyone knows their 2D cards really kicked ass, I'm sure their 3D ones were just as good.
7. Incomptant Admins --> When I did my co-op there, out of the 10 admins there only 2 had a college degree and out of the two, one was an Psychology Degree. Most of the admins are qualified because they took some 'Computer Repair' or 'Acess Design' course at a community college or somewhere
You really can't judge some simpily based on whether or not they went to university..if they have the skills[1] and the experience, then it doesn't matter if they went to University or not.
8. Idiot Workers --> Have you heard of the recent CSIS problems? [CSIS = NSA]. A BRIEFCASE of confidental docuemnts was stolen from a car of a agent while he was at a ball game. I believe it was a woman [insert sexist remark here =P], and she it was outside her Hotel or something.
[1] Obviously they are not competent, since they allow people to use auto-logins, win95, and all the other insecure items you mentioned.
..I want to control my brain with my computer! it would be soo nice to be able to just grep through your memory trying to remember stuff you forget...it would be great for students. Of course, it may become a problem for newbies running BrLinux (Linux ported to the Brain), I mean you really should be running a pretty tight ship in your head...you gotta stay on top of all the latest security patches..it would be quite unfortunate if some script kiddie cracked your brain, and sent you off on a killing rampage through 4 provinces...after your body colapses from exaustion from swinging the axe so much, you would have to find a way to wipe, and reinstall your brain..I believe they are working on a mini-HOWTO for this, but it won't be out for a while...
this would be a great way to eradicate unemployment! Just hire everyone possible to read email! It would also self sustaining..anytime a questionable email was found, the employee would send that email to a supervisor (via email of course), but another employee would have to read that to make sure it was on the up-and-up..that employee would see the questionable material in the original email, and forward it to their supervisor,.... and it would happen forever!! dude. You just solved just about every economic problem that exists today. Congrats.
that was much too long to be a "classic" me too post, also, your post even contained a small tidbit that may be interesting to others..you should be more careful when labeling your posts "classic"...
try out killall program_name..if you don't like that then write yourself a shell script or something to what you want. Not to mention that would not be a kernel thing.
You can't beat Russian space station's reliability and with the MIR they acquired great experience
true. I recently watched a show on TLC about the ISS, and they americans are learning quite a bit from the russians about building a space station. They are heads and shoulders above the americans in that department. But the Americans have the cash. Also Canadians are building the new robotic arm, since that is where we have loads of experience. Americans could do it all by themselves, but it would take a lot longer, and probably wouldn't be near the quality of the ISS.
altavista can search newgroups, just click on discussion groups on the main search page (then you have to switch to searching messages instead of disscussion groups). Looks like it is using remarqs database though. (not that that is bad)
Also, you don't have to wade through all the deja.com crap to search the news groups, just go to www.deja.com/usenet. If you use netscape, just put it on your personal tool bar, so you can get at it easier.
I motion for a permanent, global slashdot ban on people complaining, or at least a way to filter it out just like there is way to filter out Star Wars stuff.
(after looking at the starsight webpage) Starsight looks like crap. Although I like the feature of it popping up Show information without bringing up the whole Guide Menu. It costs money. Sure only 50 bucks a year (extra ifyou have more than 1 TV), but that is still a PITA. If you want to see a crippled version, check out the Guide feature on JVC tvs. (but why would you want to see a crappy version?)
Privacy is something that concerns me with the Guide + feature of some RCA (and JVC) TVs. If you don't know what this feature does read here. Basically it gives you a TV guide on your TV so you can see what's on now, and for the next three days, you can set it up to automatically watch shows at certain times, and set up to watch it weekly, daily, once, etc. After a little bit of setting up, every night it downloads the information for the next three days. What I want to know is if it is uploading as well. I can't find any info about it on their website. I would think that the information it could gather would be quite interesting to the TV networks. It is an amazing feature that I could never live without now, I believe it will be a standard feature in HDTVs...but I'm not sure.
Remeber people, it is called Free Software, not Open Source Software. RMS is going to hate this! (or maybe love it, since he gets to correct everyone.) This, along with several things, is something that RMS feels very strongly about, and with good reason. OSS does not have the same meaning as Free Software. Read this to understand more Free Software
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finding out what is on is not much of a problem if you have an internet connection, you can use this if you are in the states ftp://foobar.resnet.gatech.edu/pub/, this if you are in Germany http://yasd.dhs.org/en
and I just wrote one for if you live in Canada, (no web page yet). I think I will either merge mine with the German one, or roll my own UI. I would like it to be similar to the Guide Plus feature of some RCA TVs. This weekend I will have some time to get some code down for the UI, trying to decide whether or not to use GTK or tcl/tk..
You can customize slashdot so that you never have to see quickies again. If you don't like trolls, surf at a higher theshhold.
note to the RIAA: you want people to quit using thse illicit and illegal mp3's? be careful what you wish for...you just might get it!!!
The RIAA is just against mp3s - although that is the main focus right now - they are more against the illegal mass trading of copyrighted material. The MP3 file format itself is in no way illegal, and I couldn't see it becoming illegal. It is the illegal trade of them that they don't like.
the above post to all stories about software releases, when there is a religious war involved?
seriously. All you would have to do is substitute GNOME/KDE for the titles of the other projects, and you are set! The rest can stay the same!
(Guess you'd have to remove the last line)
Should we totally alter a foreign planet and bring it away from its natural state?
What is it's natural state? a few billion years ago I'm sure Mars looked quite different than what it does now...then some outside force changed it to look like what it does now. How is what we (earthlings) plan to do any different. Sure we are intelligent beings are would be willfully altering Mars, but we can still be regarded as a force in nature.
I think that things like this are along our evolutionary path, we are like vermin, we have infested earth, and we are now in search for new places to create small nest from which we will infest whole planets.
Is it right or wrong? I don't know, but eventually it will happen. There will be large protests about it the near future, but after a while people will become more accustomed to the idea, and will see the benifits of it and will accept it. We won't see it in our life time, on a large scale at least.
...they're often better as places to nab software from when you already know what you're looking for... /. [1]
For me at least, I like to hit freshmeat everyday, and see what apps are being started, or being worked on...a lot of times I'll run into things I wasn't looking for, but would be really useful.
besides, if a LinuxPPC user wants to play an MPEG file, they will most likely hit freshmeat, not
which useful ones are you thinking about?
OK, that was a guess on my part...but the thing is that we don't get to see what stories you drop. It would be really nice if there was a "back page" on slashdot..where we could see the stories you drop...not all of them, just the ones that you thought about for second before killing it. We don't have to be able to comment on the stories, just have a link to them. Maybe you guys could create a subset of moderators that would be able to moderate the backpage...and if a story gets moderated up to like 10 or something (a high number) then it gets resubmitted for your approval to get put on the front page.
You guys would still totally control what goes on the front page...and the backpage, but we get to see more of what other slashdotters are interested in. There isn't much room for abuse, since you guys still get to say what goes up on the pages. (loads of people will now complain about why StoryX got onto the backpage, and not the front page, but people will always complain)
Just an idea.
[1] Granted, alot of current users may have already decided that they cannot play MPEG files, and are not looking...
hmm thought I went to slashdot.org not freshmeat.net...
its kinda funny how stories like this get posted, but useful ones get dropped..
way to go Tim.
while your theory is right, it can not be applied to age levels, and all problems.
At the post secondary level, what you have said is definetly correct..we should not be bothered with such mundane details as arithmetic..there are much more interesting problems to be solved.
But at the elementary, and secondary levels students need to get have strong grasp of arithmetic, and basic mathematical functions. From there you can work up and tackle more complex problems.
Look at the way math is generally taught, in calculus you are first taught the First Principle for deriving functions, after you play with that for a while you are taught the short cuts, so you can more easily apply the derivatives to large problems.
thats the way pretty much everything is taught in math, you learn the "hardway" of doing things, and the basics of that type of problem, and after you have a good grasp of how and why it works, then you learn the shortcuts so you can apply what you have just learned to more complex problems, without being bogged down by arithmetic and what not.
no kidding..VBScript == Virus Bearing Script
if we can't keep crypto from being exported, how are we going to keep nanotech secret?
what?why would you want to keep crypto from being exported? For one thing just as good, or better crypto solutions were developed outside your borders.
From your website, you appear to be for open source and free software...so I can't understand why you would be against the US allowing the export of crypto.
as a typical American, you assume that nanotech will be developed only in the states, and you must hide scientific discoveries from others.
I feel sorry for you. You appear to be a knowledgable fellow, you have embraced Free Software, but have yet to actually understand the ideals behind it.
It looks like you are quite a busy guy, and do some good work (running all that stuff listed on your website)...maybe you should take some time off so you can figure out what you are actually dealing with, and hopefully you won't make anymore comments like the one above.
Good Luck.
yup. The Revolution IV, and the SR9 they sound half decent.
As everyone knows their 2D cards really kicked ass, I'm sure their 3D ones were just as good.
7. Incomptant Admins --> When I did my co-op there, out of the 10 admins there only 2 had a college degree and out of the two, one was an Psychology Degree. Most of the admins are qualified because they took some 'Computer Repair' or 'Acess Design' course at a community college or somewhere
You really can't judge some simpily based on whether or not they went to university..if they have the skills[1] and the experience, then it doesn't matter if they went to University or not.
8. Idiot Workers --> Have you heard of the recent CSIS problems? [CSIS = NSA]. A BRIEFCASE of confidental docuemnts was stolen from a car of a agent while he was at a ball game.
I believe it was a woman [insert sexist remark here =P], and she it was outside her Hotel or something.
[1] Obviously they are not competent, since they allow people to use auto-logins, win95, and all the other insecure items you mentioned.
..I want to control my brain with my computer! it would be soo nice to be able to just grep through your memory trying to remember stuff you forget...it would be great for students.
Of course, it may become a problem for newbies running BrLinux (Linux ported to the Brain), I mean you really should be running a pretty tight ship in your head...you gotta stay on top of all the latest security patches..it would be quite unfortunate if some script kiddie cracked your brain, and sent you off on a killing rampage through 4 provinces...after your body colapses from exaustion from swinging the axe so much, you would have to find a way to wipe, and reinstall your brain..I believe they are working on a mini-HOWTO for this, but it won't be out for a while...
=P
this would be a great way to eradicate unemployment! Just hire everyone possible to read email! It would also self sustaining..anytime a questionable email was found, the employee would send that email to a supervisor (via email of course), but another employee would have to read that to make sure it was on the up-and-up..that employee would see the questionable material in the original email, and forward it to their supervisor, .... and it would happen forever!!
dude. You just solved just about every economic problem that exists today. Congrats.
=P
that was much too long to be a "classic" me too post, also, your post even contained a small tidbit that may be interesting to others..you should be more careful when labeling your posts "classic"...
=P
try out killall program_name..if you don't like that then write yourself a shell script or something to what you want. Not to mention that would not be a kernel thing.
what about .ca, .uk, .it, .pl, etc :)
I've never seen one that will reject a domain of only one character followed by a .net, .org, etc.
why would it? check out x.com and x.org
You can't beat Russian space station's reliability and with the MIR they acquired great experience
true. I recently watched a show on TLC about the ISS, and they americans are learning quite a bit from the russians about building a space station. They are heads and shoulders above the americans in that department. But the Americans have the cash.
Also Canadians are building the new robotic arm, since that is where we have loads of experience. Americans could do it all by themselves, but it would take a lot longer, and probably wouldn't be near the quality of the ISS.
altavista can search newgroups, just click on discussion groups on the main search page (then you have to switch to searching messages instead of disscussion groups). Looks like it is using remarqs database though. (not that that is bad)
Also, you don't have to wade through all the deja.com crap to search the news groups, just go to www.deja.com/usenet. If you use netscape, just put it on your personal tool bar, so you can get at it easier.
I motion for a permanent, global slashdot ban on people complaining, or at least a way to filter it out just like there is way to filter out Star Wars stuff.
(after looking at the starsight webpage)
Starsight looks like crap. Although I like the feature of it popping up Show information without bringing up the whole Guide Menu.
It costs money. Sure only 50 bucks a year (extra ifyou have more than 1 TV), but that is still a PITA.
If you want to see a crippled version, check out the Guide feature on JVC tvs. (but why would you want to see a crappy version?)
Privacy is something that concerns me with the Guide + feature of some RCA (and JVC) TVs. If you don't know what this feature does read here.
Basically it gives you a TV guide on your TV so you can see what's on now, and for the next three days, you can set it up to automatically watch shows at certain times, and set up to watch it weekly, daily, once, etc. After a little bit of setting up, every night it downloads the information for the next three days. What I want to know is if it is uploading as well. I can't find any info about it on their website. I would think that the information it could gather would be quite interesting to the TV networks.
It is an amazing feature that I could never live without now, I believe it will be a standard feature in HDTVs...but I'm not sure.
damn it! all everyone talks about is DVD, or VHS!! I want a beta version!
Remeber people, it is called Free Software, not Open Source Software. RMS is going to hate this! (or maybe love it, since he gets to correct everyone.) This, along with several things, is something that RMS feels very strongly about, and with good reason. OSS does not have the same meaning as Free Software. Read this to understand more Free Software