I've seen a mouse like this before. It's the StupidaMouse, the mouse with no buttons ("so users will stop clicking on things and crashing their computers"). [HTML]
Oh, indeed, we could certainly use some slack. Now, don't get me wrong: I knew he'd be doing this, given that he's done it during previous AFDs. But that's the problem: it was predictable, and thus, not funny. And we had to endure it for a whole day. In other words, it sucked.
On 1 April 2004, Kathleen Malda receives letter from the Holland, Michigan, "divorce court". The letter, however, is completely blank, except for a single line:
April Fools! Get it? GET IT???
On 2 April 2004, Rob Malda receives a letter from the same court. The letter is not blank, however...
Rob, things are funny only up to a certain point. I hope you've been reading the comments.
Do you not remember the AFDs of previous years? This year it'll be almost the same, just with a whole lot more inane articles. By the end of the day, everyone will be begging CmdrTaco for mercy, on their knees, hurting from their stomachs, with a very sad look on their faces.
I must agree, 1 April brings out the worst of Slashdot.
ORBZ did not have the "confirmed op-in" relay tester that you mentioned; you could submit any IP address for testing, and the tester would queue it right away without sending you an e-mail to confirm the request. In that light, it could definitely be abused by kiddiots to cause a DOS on some poor soul's Domino box. The system you described is actually implemented by ORDB, which is independent from ORBZ.
Gah, you're right. I was actually looking at the output of 'ls/' on my machine, and thinking about microkernels and servers and whatnot. So one thing led to the other, and ended up with/mach_server instead of/mach_kernel. I should know better than to post without coffee.
On Old World machines (i.e., those before the original iMac), the Mac Toolbox was contained in a 4 MB ROM on the system board, along with some startup code to load the System suitcase in the System Folder. The Toolbox was then moved to an ELF image on disk, and the ROM code replaced with OpenFirmware. The implication of this is that you cannot run anything older than MacOS 8 on New World Macs, and that Old World Macs are difficult to get running anything other than MacOS (remember BootX).
The ROM-in-RAM thing only applies to classic Mac OS (i.e., vv. 9 and earlier). OS X boots a Mach kernel instead, which is stored in/mach_server and has no resemblance to the old Mac OS ROM whatsoever.
only allows you to run two of the newer XPs in a dual motherboard...
Any K7 processor (Durons included) can be used in an SMP setup. The only difference (IIRC) in the MP is the data prefetch unit, which is modified for better performance in multiprocessor situations. There is nothing newsworthy described in the article, and I'm wondering how in bloody hell did it get on the front page.
There is no doubt that Bill will try to correct this situation in the next election. However, (arguably) we all know that Bill is not so dense so as to go bankrupt while buying off every state. So, what else could he do? That's right:
Bill Gates will run for President of the United States
However, he will join neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties, because those were not invented by Microsoft. Instead, he'll be the candidate from the Business Software Alliance Party. Their flag will consist of Clippy drawn over the Windows logo on a blue background.
What sound does this Gateway computer make in place of the Mac "bong"? Moo? Hopefully it's a properly digitised "moo" they recorded, otherwise it might end up saying "moof" instead.
I wonder if this hack will be enough to give Steve ideas for a new PIM product based on the iPod hardware and software. Given that the technology has been in place for a while (going back as far as the Newton), I believe that the most difficult task will be to come up with an appropriate name.
I rather like many of the funnier acronyms that have been mentioned here so far, but the ones that seem to be most annoying are those that seem to be redundant, useless, and unusually long. As we all know, IBM is known for its knack for coming up with all sorts of TLAs and SFLAs, but they also coined what seems to be the only two-word acronym, which in turn is made up from various smaller acronyms: BICARSA GLAPPR, short for Billing, Inventory Control, Accounts Receivable, Sales Analysis, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Payroll. And that is pretty scary.
I should also note, the old Visualize Linux workstations were optionally offered with the insanely cool fx5 and fx10 video cards, which were equipped with 3 and 6 PA-RISC geometry engines respectively (foggy memory of mine, though; correct me if i'm wrong). These cards are not listed as available options for the new models, though, perhaps because HP had to provide a separate X server and kernel module for those cards.
HP has been selling Linux workstations for a long time now. Their first ones were the Visualize xl and pl, and came with RedHat 6.something preinstalled. Only now they have been replaced with the x**00 series; some more information about them is available here.
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Didn't those disk drives contain their own processors? I recall hearing they were often programmed to format disks very quickly, so I guess they could be used to play those tunes while the C64 works on something else.
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I've seen a mouse like this before. It's the StupidaMouse, the mouse with no buttons ("so users will stop clicking on things and crashing their computers"). [HTML]
Oh, indeed, we could certainly use some slack. Now, don't get me wrong: I knew he'd be doing this, given that he's done it during previous AFDs. But that's the problem: it was predictable, and thus, not funny. And we had to endure it for a whole day. In other words, it sucked.
On 1 April 2004, Kathleen Malda receives letter from the Holland, Michigan, "divorce court". The letter, however, is completely blank, except for a single line:
April Fools! Get it? GET IT???
On 2 April 2004, Rob Malda receives a letter from the same court. The letter is not blank, however...
Rob, things are funny only up to a certain point. I hope you've been reading the comments.
Do you not remember the AFDs of previous years? This year it'll be almost the same, just with a whole lot more inane articles. By the end of the day, everyone will be begging CmdrTaco for mercy, on their knees, hurting from their stomachs, with a very sad look on their faces.
I must agree, 1 April brings out the worst of Slashdot.
No, sir, this is eBayDot. And I'm waiting to see price listings on the front page.
I kid you not, when I saw that, the first and only thing I thought of was Twiki.
I guess you'll also need to write a driver for one of these to get the full KDE luvvin' effect.
If they weren't enough of an invention, they wouldn't be patentable, right? I'd bet there are more than enough contradictions involved in this.
ORBZ did not have the "confirmed op-in" relay tester that you mentioned; you could submit any IP address for testing, and the tester would queue it right away without sending you an e-mail to confirm the request. In that light, it could definitely be abused by kiddiots to cause a DOS on some poor soul's Domino box. The system you described is actually implemented by ORDB, which is independent from ORBZ.
Gah, you're right. I was actually looking at the output of 'ls /' on my machine, and thinking about microkernels and servers and whatnot. So one thing led to the other, and ended up with /mach_server instead of /mach_kernel. I should know better than to post without coffee.
On Old World machines (i.e., those before the original iMac), the Mac Toolbox was contained in a 4 MB ROM on the system board, along with some startup code to load the System suitcase in the System Folder. The Toolbox was then moved to an ELF image on disk, and the ROM code replaced with OpenFirmware. The implication of this is that you cannot run anything older than MacOS 8 on New World Macs, and that Old World Macs are difficult to get running anything other than MacOS (remember BootX).
The ROM-in-RAM thing only applies to classic Mac OS (i.e., vv. 9 and earlier). OS X boots a Mach kernel instead, which is stored in /mach_server and has no resemblance to the old Mac OS ROM whatsoever.
Any K7 processor (Durons included) can be used in an SMP setup. The only difference (IIRC) in the MP is the data prefetch unit, which is modified for better performance in multiprocessor situations. There is nothing newsworthy described in the article, and I'm wondering how in bloody hell did it get on the front page.
There is no doubt that Bill will try to correct this situation in the next election. However, (arguably) we all know that Bill is not so dense so as to go bankrupt while buying off every state. So, what else could he do? That's right:
However, he will join neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties, because those were not invented by Microsoft. Instead, he'll be the candidate from the Business Software Alliance Party. Their flag will consist of Clippy drawn over the Windows logo on a blue background.
I shudder at the thought of all this.
The plane you refer to is called the Vomit Comet a modified KC-135A modified for microgravity experiments. There's an article about it here.
What sound does this Gateway computer make in place of the Mac "bong"? Moo? Hopefully it's a properly digitised "moo" they recorded, otherwise it might end up saying "moof" instead.
I wonder if this hack will be enough to give Steve ideas for a new PIM product based on the iPod hardware and software. Given that the technology has been in place for a while (going back as far as the Newton), I believe that the most difficult task will be to come up with an appropriate name.
My suggestion: iMan (iPIMp is too obvious, IMO).
In India, McDonald's serves lamb burgers.
I rather like many of the funnier acronyms that have been mentioned here so far, but the ones that seem to be most annoying are those that seem to be redundant, useless, and unusually long. As we all know, IBM is known for its knack for coming up with all sorts of TLAs and SFLAs, but they also coined what seems to be the only two-word acronym, which in turn is made up from various smaller acronyms: BICARSA GLAPPR, short for Billing, Inventory Control, Accounts Receivable, Sales Analysis, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Payroll. And that is pretty scary.
I should also note, the old Visualize Linux workstations were optionally offered with the insanely cool fx5 and fx10 video cards, which were equipped with 3 and 6 PA-RISC geometry engines respectively (foggy memory of mine, though; correct me if i'm wrong). These cards are not listed as available options for the new models, though, perhaps because HP had to provide a separate X server and kernel module for those cards.
More info on the cards can be found here.
HP has been selling Linux workstations for a long time now. Their first ones were the Visualize xl and pl, and came with RedHat 6.something preinstalled. Only now they have been replaced with the x**00 series; some more information about them is available here.
You mean, like this?
Didn't those disk drives contain their own processors? I recall hearing they were often programmed to format disks very quickly, so I guess they could be used to play those tunes while the C64 works on something else.
Girls can try even making music come out of their vibr... *cough*...
Yeah, makes them sing... sort of.
Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 9.0)... the hell it does, it's called being concise, if anyone has heard of it.
Every time there's a discussion about which language is the most powerful, flexible, extensible, or whatnot, everybody seems to forget the one single feature that makes A Powerful Language© powerful:
There, I said it. In order to get the most out of a programming language, whichever it is, you've got to put a good programmer behind it. Really, what is a programming language worth if the programmer sucks? A Good Programmer© will choose the language that best fits the task at hand, based on experience/familiarity with the language/bias/etc. And, since no two Good Programmers are entirely alike, chances are they won't always choose the same language, but the results will almost always be the same.
Now I'll be able to send a hojillion volts down the wire to those 5kr1p7 k1dd13 1337 h4x0r5 that keep DDoS'ing me off of Efnet. Well, I hope.