Gotta say it: that department tagline has convinced me to block Mr. Lord's posts.
Geekiness? Fine! Don't like MS? That's your opinion! Lame attempt at humor by submitter/timothy in the vein of serial killers and violence against women? Now we have a problem.
I realize that an overwhelming majority of Slashdot readers are Republican "stop being so PC"/Libertarian "South Park did it, so it's okay" apologists. Come on, though. This site doesn't need to skew so heavily to the misogynistic hurfdurfer angle as that.
I remember back in my high school physics class, there was a simulator for the Sol system. It ran on a (Mac) PowerPC, it was slow, it was ugly, but it rendered a 2D scaled simulation of the all the planets, some comets, some asteroids in a belt-type formation somewhere past Mars, and you could bring up historic events (such as planetary alignment around 0 BC). It was the same thing.
I suppose that for the most part, this doesn't matter because this NEW! IMPROVED! version is 2.5-D (unless it's got a voxel display). Bah.
I wonder if that old one is still available or if it has an Xlib version... intriguing... that make an interesting project for someone.
As previously suggested, MS might have provided the documentation on their site, but that certainly doesn't mean it's open. I poked around their site quite thoroughly when all of this Kerberos Extension Cr*p began, looking for their specs, but found nothing, and that was just a few months ago. It certainly doesn't look like that date is valid in pertaining to that site at all.
However, the point can be furnished that it WAS available... within the Microsoft internal network. Perhaps that document carries that date based NOT on the time that it was released, but at the time of its original internal publication. It seems a very Microsofty thing to do (using the tired old suspicious airs that we/.ers are known for).
Of course, this is all conjecture, and is completely un-needed, but it does offer some explaination to those curious enough.
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Gotta say it: that department tagline has convinced me to block Mr. Lord's posts.
Geekiness? Fine! Don't like MS? That's your opinion! Lame attempt at humor by submitter/timothy in the vein of serial killers and violence against women? Now we have a problem.
I realize that an overwhelming majority of Slashdot readers are Republican "stop being so PC"/Libertarian "South Park did it, so it's okay" apologists. Come on, though. This site doesn't need to skew so heavily to the misogynistic hurfdurfer angle as that.
I remember back in my high school physics class, there was a simulator for the Sol system. It ran on a (Mac) PowerPC, it was slow, it was ugly, but it rendered a 2D scaled simulation of the all the planets, some comets, some asteroids in a belt-type formation somewhere past Mars, and you could bring up historic events (such as planetary alignment around 0 BC). It was the same thing.
I suppose that for the most part, this doesn't matter because this NEW! IMPROVED! version is 2.5-D (unless it's got a voxel display). Bah.
I wonder if that old one is still available or if it has an Xlib version... intriguing... that make an interesting project for someone.
As previously suggested, MS might have provided the documentation on their site, but that certainly doesn't mean it's open. I poked around their site quite thoroughly when all of this Kerberos Extension Cr*p began, looking for their specs, but found nothing, and that was just a few months ago. It certainly doesn't look like that date is valid in pertaining to that site at all.
However, the point can be furnished that it WAS available... within the Microsoft internal network. Perhaps that document carries that date based NOT on the time that it was released, but at the time of its original internal publication. It seems a very Microsofty thing to do (using the tired old suspicious airs that we /.ers are known for).
Of course, this is all conjecture, and is completely un-needed, but it does offer some explaination to those curious enough.
-wulf-