dude, the kernel doesn't bug me as much as how all the GNU shit is ruining the unixes i came to love.
emacs, auto*, info you're practically forced into that garbage.
but linux is a poor kernel as evidenced by how often it is redesigned.
and the GNU system drives me nuts because of it's restrictive licencing.
GNU was the worst thing to ever happen to UNIX programmers, with the exception of gcc and gdb.
oh, and i suppose this is blatant flamebait to anyone who believes that gnu/linux is the best system to ever exist. after all having a different opinion is the basis of all flame-bait, no?
there are some stats around here somewhere, can't find them now, but the highest ranking browser was windows netscape, followed by lunix netscape, followed by ie. about 30% was linux.
I can't show you the emperors clothes, you are right. I am saddened to see linux as the free system of choice, when the obvious candidates are freebsd and openbsd. Oh well, businesses have to ride the hype to improve thier own image, and since most people will run whatever they heard the best is. At the moment the hype is linux, and companies have to play that for all it is worth, after all, linux isn't THAT much worse than BSD.
a ping is like looking to see if your house is even there, it won't report any potential vulnerabilities.
a portscan is a thorough examination.
the house and system security metaphor is way overused and simply not relevant though. Computers and houses have an entirely different mode of operation and set of security problems.
automatically assuming this is FUD isn't that rational of a decision. Is it such a radical idea to think that kids who can easily get music for free aren't buying less CDs?
no dude, the worst happened at columbine, that's where children were massacured. the reactionary measures were just a pain in the ass for some people, not a mass murder.
but doesn't Washington DC have one of the highest murder rates in the United States? I don't know where I heard that, but it certainly may be wrong, does anyone have some statistics?
Nice to see/. talking about censorship so soon after implementing the lameness filter, which is an automatic sensoring tool. does this seem hypocritical to anyone else?
I strongly disagree with having a lameness filter. The notion of pre-judging a comment based on the ratio of capital to lower-case letters is just an excess restriction we don't need. A moderation system is in place, and although it is biased because it is based upon input of humans(the moderators on $3 crack don't help either) it at least isn't the total knee-jerk reaction of machine moderation. If any of the last few stories is any indication of the result on the amount of trolls, I would have to say it is increasing the troll posts, not decreasing. this is as offtopic as it gets, but i know it is blocking the poster who i find gives the most insightful commentaries in/. threads, OOG_THE_CAVEMAN, and since this system has made him uncapable of speaking up for himself without changing the very nature of his posts. please, cast your vote for OOG and mail rob about getting this bug fixed.
i don't see why people are so concerned about napster as a company, more important are the concepts that make it work. GNUtella for instance is an open distributed file sharing protocol. the only way to shut down something as decentralized as it is to try to hunt down all the users individually. it doesn't matter whether information wants to be free or not, it is to immoral(by some standards) people.
reminds me of a project that generated random numbers based upon webcams looking at lava lamps. a really close to random number based on the near randomness of normal things in life, a neat way of approaching randomness, i think.
what really bothers me about icq is how easy it makes it to track people. unless you want to appear anti-social and set yourself invisible, anyone can tell your computer habits.
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eh? how can you not agree with the BSD licence?
dude, the kernel doesn't bug me as much as how all the GNU shit is ruining the unixes i came to love.
emacs, auto*, info you're practically forced into that garbage.
but linux is a poor kernel as evidenced by how often it is redesigned.
and the GNU system drives me nuts because of it's restrictive licencing.
GNU was the worst thing to ever happen to UNIX programmers, with the exception of gcc and gdb.
oh, and i suppose this is blatant flamebait to anyone who believes that gnu/linux is the best system to ever exist. after all having a different opinion is the basis of all flame-bait, no?
there are some stats around here somewhere, can't find them now, but the highest ranking browser was windows netscape, followed by lunix netscape, followed by ie. about 30% was linux.
I can't show you the emperors clothes, you are right. I am saddened to see linux as the free system of choice, when the obvious candidates are freebsd and openbsd. Oh well, businesses have to ride the hype to improve thier own image, and since most people will run whatever they heard the best is. At the moment the hype is linux, and companies have to play that for all it is worth, after all, linux isn't THAT much worse than BSD.
one 100Mbit and one gigabit. the gigabit adapter can do 10x the theoretical maximum transfer rate of the 100Mbit controller.
how can caffeine be your favorite drug with so many other wonderful drugs out there. all caffeine is is my most used drug.
a ping is like looking to see if your house is even there, it won't report any potential vulnerabilities.
a portscan is a thorough examination.
the house and system security metaphor is way overused and simply not relevant though.
Computers and houses have an entirely different mode of operation and set of security problems.
perl isn't meant to be fast, it's a scripting language.
i really doubt the maturity level of slashdot will ever decline far enough for you to balance it from immaturity towards maturity.
it's supposed to look like some of the anti-russian propaganda from the cold war.
poetry teachers do it all the time ;)
i'm guessing he had some issues with the package selection portions, since he mentioned them in his post.
"advanced users who dual boot into LINUX regularily"
oh, so that's what passes for an advanced user now. go home you windows lamer.
do you recognize how that's not the right solution either? most trolls have accounts anyway.
automatically assuming this is FUD isn't that rational of a decision. Is it such a radical idea to think that kids who can easily get music for free aren't buying less CDs?
he's nowhere near as good as meept or OOG.
DON'T MODERATE OOG!!
"The worst atrocities happend not at columbine"
no dude, the worst happened at columbine, that's where children were massacured. the reactionary measures were just a pain in the ass for some people, not a mass murder.
and yet slashdot censors oog. who the hell am i supposed to stick up for here?
but doesn't Washington DC have one of the highest murder rates in the United States? I don't know where I heard that, but it certainly may be wrong, does anyone have some statistics?
Nice to see /. talking about censorship so soon after implementing the lameness filter, which is an automatic sensoring tool. does this seem hypocritical to anyone else?
I strongly disagree with having a lameness filter. The notion of pre-judging a comment based on the ratio of capital to lower-case letters is just an excess restriction we don't need. A moderation system is in place, and although it is biased because it is based upon input of humans(the moderators on $3 crack don't help either) it at least isn't the total knee-jerk reaction of machine moderation. If any of the last few stories is any indication of the result on the amount of trolls, I would have to say it is increasing the troll posts, not decreasing. this is as offtopic as it gets, but i know it is blocking the poster who i find gives the most insightful commentaries in /. threads, OOG_THE_CAVEMAN, and since this system has made him uncapable of speaking up for himself without changing the very nature of his posts. please, cast your vote for OOG and mail rob about getting this bug fixed.
i don't see why people are so concerned about napster as a company, more important are the concepts that make it work. GNUtella for instance is an open distributed file sharing protocol. the only way to shut down something as decentralized as it is to try to hunt down all the users individually. it doesn't matter whether information wants to be free or not, it is to immoral(by some standards) people.
reminds me of a project that generated random numbers based upon webcams looking at lava lamps. a really close to random number based on the near randomness of normal things in life, a neat way of approaching randomness, i think.
what really bothers me about icq is how easy it makes it to track people. unless you want to appear anti-social and set yourself invisible, anyone can tell your computer habits.
the right compiler is sold by compaq(/digital)