Yup. Matsushita, as in "Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics", or MKE, which happens to be the company that owns the trademarks "Panasonic" and Technics, doesn't have anything to do with Japan Victor Company (yes, that's JVC).
Now, I can't explain why the mediadroids came up with the story that MKE created VHS. Specially after having seen some JVC marketing stuff (many years ago) claiming that they were the creators of VHS.
Assume the parents are clueless (which they seem to be). Accordingly, they don't have the capability to do that. The only thing left to do then is to close all possible venues of deviant behaviour.
But, who knows; maybe they were trying to do that and the kid found a way to circumvent his parent's watch. Oh well...
They probably will want to sue for the pain and suffering experienced while listening to the MK background music...:op
Now, seriously, this is nuts. A great number of school kids play MK/Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem/Wolfstein 3D with the Barney patch/etc., and visit pr0n sites all too frequently, however they continue living normally. This particular kid just isn't sane. And if his parents want to do something about it, they should've prevented their kid from using the computer/video game in the first place!
It's interesting to see how families expect to blame others for their own mistakes...
Among IBMers, a Red Book is a technical document from the IBM publications department (no, I don't know it's actual name). There are Red Books about almost every kind of product made by IBM. Many of these Red Books are available as INF files (OS/2 help file format).
Now, The File says that the "Guru Meditation" error messages in Amigas were removed early on. Now, I can clearly remember that every so often, my cable TV provider's Prevue Channel (now TV Guide Channel) node would crap out and output said message inside a blinking red box. And this wasn't so long ago either.
Whatever kind of "thin" hardware they develop for said architechture, Linux will certainly run on it. It will turn out to be another scenario where Linux could demonstrate that it is a better server OS than NT. So, they might actually be helping us a bit in the end.
One certainly learns a lot from it. - For example, I always thought VAXen were middle-endian; now I know they are little-endian. - Well, that's what The File says.
IMNSHO, Divx discs are just as good as AOL bisks. They sure would look nice hanging from my car's rear view mirror. And would give a nice look to my Yuenglings.
^D
In case you didn't notice...
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Freshmeat also ran its own AFD joke. The difference? It was more subtle, didn't run for so long, and was thus enjoyable.
Heh, who would've known, someone did actually register freshmeat.de and slashdot.de, and had them running...
BOFHs of the world have known that one for quite a while now. They just made it into an RFC recently and changed the name from "IP over Carrier Pigeon."
Like everything, however, it has its drawbacks in the form of reliability (the lack of it, actually). In particular, the physical medium must always have a surge protector somewhere, lest you don't mind having a high voltage spike fry the physical medium.
Well, it is known where I come from, but just about no one does it, not daring to risk being pummelled to a pulp. You see, sometimes it goes too far off hand (a good example is here on/.).
I know what we could do next...
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Ok, so next time, nobody go to Slashdot, Segfault, UF, BeDope, etc...
So yes, it got me mad. But not the fact that they were just jokes, but because they went on for so long. I wanted real news, dammit!
^D
It's awfully out of place...
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C'mon, Rob, think about it: "Stuff that matters." That's what most people come here for. Sure, one or a couple jokes are OK, but there's something that you're forgetting and yet are plugging into users' arses: moderation. If people want jokes, they can always find other websites to satisfy their humour.
Indeed, there's an option in the kernel config to protect against *certain* kinds of denial-of-service attacks (SYN flooding is the first that comes to mind). Other kinds of DoS attacks don't involve the kernel in particular (e.g., issuing large amounts of connection requests, each causing the server to start a separate daemon to handle the request; continue this until the box runs out of memory).
I cannot but agree with everything exposed in this article. I have myself met a great many people in person that I've met before in the 'net (including my fiancé). It is not much more different than meeting people by any other means. Why people fail to recognise that those cases where someone gets raped by some sex maniac from the 'net are due to the victim having being too naive just escapes me.
I don't know why, but the layout is nauseating. I couldn't go past the first paragraph, since my stomach was starting to turn over upside down. Interestingly, that's what I feel when I see a Microsoft product's manual.
Right now, the thing that I don't quite grasp is that of IPP not specifying the document format that the printer supports (i.e., PostScript, PCL, etc.). This would surely conflict with the claim that IPP would eliminate drivers (that is, you would at least have the IPP driver). Suppose that someone creates a new PostScript killer for some new device: wouldn't you need a different driver to print to that printer?
Methinks what they are trying to circumvent is the proliferation of all those fugly cheap no-brain printers that require a Windoze driver to do their rasterisation work (like most ink-jet printers nowadays).
Not far-fetched (and pretty dry)
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Many things are already out there which can be combined to make these things mainstream:
Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 (they shouldn't have killed this one).
IBM 1-inch hard disk drives.
Your choice: small high-res colour touchscreens, or head-mounted displays.
Cheap RAM.
What I would like now is someone to make 'em en masse.
There's something wrong with your statement: Office is not (and never was) available for OS/2. So if MS is going to use Office to draw users away from Linux in the same way as from OS/2, they would not need to port it to Linux in the first place - that according to your statement.
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Yup. Matsushita, as in "Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics", or MKE, which happens to be the company that owns the trademarks "Panasonic" and Technics, doesn't have anything to do with Japan Victor Company (yes, that's JVC).
Now, I can't explain why the mediadroids came up with the story that MKE created VHS. Specially after having seen some JVC marketing stuff (many years ago) claiming that they were the creators of VHS.
^D
Hold on... wasn't JVC the creator of VHS?
^D
Assume the parents are clueless (which they seem to be). Accordingly, they don't have the capability to do that. The only thing left to do then is to close all possible venues of deviant behaviour.
But, who knows; maybe they were trying to do that and the kid found a way to circumvent his parent's watch. Oh well...
^D
They probably will want to sue for the pain and suffering experienced while listening to the MK background music... :op
Now, seriously, this is nuts. A great number of school kids play MK/Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem/Wolfstein 3D with the Barney patch/etc., and visit pr0n sites all too frequently, however they continue living normally. This particular kid just isn't sane. And if his parents want to do something about it, they should've prevented their kid from using the computer/video game in the first place!
It's interesting to see how families expect to blame others for their own mistakes...
^D
It's Saturday 7pm, and it's still broken. I guess Rob is taking a break away from /.
^D
Among IBMers, a Red Book is a technical document from the IBM publications department (no, I don't know it's actual name). There are Red Books about almost every kind of product made by IBM. Many of these Red Books are available as INF files (OS/2 help file format).
^D
Now, The File says that the "Guru Meditation" error messages in Amigas were removed early on. Now, I can clearly remember that every so often, my cable TV provider's Prevue Channel (now TV Guide Channel) node would crap out and output said message inside a blinking red box. And this wasn't so long ago either.
^D
It gives me a chuckle every time I hear that phrase...
^D
Whatever kind of "thin" hardware they develop for said architechture, Linux will certainly run on it. It will turn out to be another scenario where Linux could demonstrate that it is a better server OS than NT. So, they might actually be helping us a bit in the end.
Go figure...
^D
One certainly learns a lot from it. - For example, I always thought VAXen were middle-endian; now I know they are little-endian. - Well, that's what The File says.
^D
From http://www.e-softinc.com/probe/probe.html
Site being probed: http://www.algore2000.com
Web Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Operating System: Ascend Pipeline Firmware 4.6 (by c.mock@xsoft.co.at)
Page Retrieval Time: 5.19 seconds
Connect time: 0.47
Wait time: 0.92
Data Recv time: 3.80
Other: 0.00
Size of page: 18259 bytes
IMNSHO, Divx discs are just as good as AOL bisks. They sure would look nice hanging from my car's rear view mirror. And would give a nice look to my Yuenglings.
^D
Freshmeat also ran its own AFD joke. The difference? It was more subtle, didn't run for so long, and was thus enjoyable.
Heh, who would've known, someone did actually register freshmeat.de and slashdot.de, and had them running...
^D
BOFHs of the world have known that one for quite a while now. They just made it into an RFC recently and changed the name from "IP over Carrier Pigeon."
Like everything, however, it has its drawbacks in the form of reliability (the lack of it, actually). In particular, the physical medium must always have a surge protector somewhere, lest you don't mind having a high voltage spike fry the physical medium.
^D
AFD's jokes were:
Well, it is known where I come from, but just about no one does it, not daring to risk being pummelled to a pulp. You see, sometimes it goes too far off hand (a good example is here on /.).
Ok, so next time, nobody go to Slashdot, Segfault, UF, BeDope, etc...
So yes, it got me mad. But not the fact that they were just jokes, but because they went on for so long. I wanted real news, dammit!
^D
C'mon, Rob, think about it: "Stuff that matters." That's what most people come here for. Sure, one or a couple jokes are OK, but there's something that you're forgetting and yet are plugging into users' arses: moderation. If people want jokes, they can always find other websites to satisfy their humour.
Indeed, there's an option in the kernel config to protect against *certain* kinds of denial-of-service attacks (SYN flooding is the first that comes to mind). Other kinds of DoS attacks don't involve the kernel in particular (e.g., issuing large amounts of connection requests, each causing the server to start a separate daemon to handle the request; continue this until the box runs out of memory).
^D
I cannot but agree with everything exposed in this article. I have myself met a great many people in person that I've met before in the 'net (including my fiancé). It is not much more different than meeting people by any other means. Why people fail to recognise that those cases where someone gets raped by some sex maniac from the 'net are due to the victim having being too naive just escapes me.
I don't know why, but the layout is nauseating. I couldn't go past the first paragraph, since my stomach was starting to turn over upside down. Interestingly, that's what I feel when I see a Microsoft product's manual.
^D
And how do you support application/vnd.i-farted-this-crap, if anyone ever came up with it? How do you extend the client's capabilities to support it?
^D
Right now, the thing that I don't quite grasp is that of IPP not specifying the document format that the printer supports (i.e., PostScript, PCL, etc.). This would surely conflict with the claim that IPP would eliminate drivers (that is, you would at least have the IPP driver). Suppose that someone creates a new PostScript killer for some new device: wouldn't you need a different driver to print to that printer?
Methinks what they are trying to circumvent is the proliferation of all those fugly cheap no-brain printers that require a Windoze driver to do their rasterisation work (like most ink-jet printers nowadays).
Many things are already out there which can be combined to make these things mainstream:
What I would like now is someone to make 'em en masse.
^D
There's something wrong with your statement: Office is not (and never was) available for OS/2. So if MS is going to use Office to draw users away from Linux in the same way as from OS/2, they would not need to port it to Linux in the first place - that according to your statement.