I don't quite agree with the spam part but I would not mind some sort of rsync service for sites to mirror from with possibly a round robin dns of master sites that update more often? Anyone want to join in?
"I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky and the moon turns red over One Tree Hill" - U2 'One Tree Hill'
That's probably an even more ominous, religiously overtoned and appropriate verse/song. Definatly one of the best U2 songs ever;) And the Mortal cover of it kicks more ass.
DAMN! bout time I found this. I was wondering what ever happened to replay. I went to the site one day and sure enough I got the replay tv thing. It really pissed me off too;) Thanks for this link.
ACtually for me it will be really helpful. I host opensource projects for people and something like the sourceforge code would help me ramp up my services. I plan on spending a few hours Sunday and pouring over it and seeing some of the admin portion.
This has to be the scariest thing I have ever read. They want to be the "largest and most respected comapny in the world"? I think feared is probably a better word.
You know I've been a big fan of nvidia for a long time and had pretty much relegated to buying only nvidia hardware (I've never been a 3dfx fan especially after the only card I've ever bought was a lame ass banshee), but after watching matrox make contribution after contribution to Xfree in the form of open specs and financial funding, I have a feeling I should reward them with my business since they have obviouly had a clue for quite sometime. Can someone who has been a long time user of the G series and maybe even someone who has a G400 give me some details on how it compares to a tnt2? I know there are benchmarks and what not out there but I honestly prefere the personal opinion to the official one;)
Specifically in games like q3 and what not. How well do they handle OpenGL?
It strikes me that a man who says, "Theft is theft, my children must starve," is despicably evil.
I was not saying in this situation that I would not steal to feed my family. I would personally rather beg myself a peice of bread and stay an upright man than take a chance on bringing more grief to my family by being imprisioned while the courts sorted out wether I should have stolen or not. Of course if it were a matter of being morally upright, chances are karma or the fates or God (whatever you percieve Him to be) would provide in those times as recompense for not submitting to the desire.
Now I have another quandry: What if I inadvertantly killed someone in the process of stealing the bread. Say perhaps I carried a gun to intimidate the owner into giving me the bread with no intention of firing and the gun went off?
Not trying to beat a dead horse (or maybe I am), I've just now gotten in the mood to have a good solid apologetics discussion;)
After posting I decided I should have gone with another physical object or even better my original idea of murdering a family member. The only thing that kept me from using murder as an example is I thought back to everyone being guaranteed life and liberty (according to our government). Murder defeats the life aspect a bit. Maybe stealing a loaf of bread from a store to feed my starving example would have been a better example. This creates more of a conundrum in that some people consider this a grey area. For instance the store owner is not loosing anything immediatly measurable other than a $1.50 for the loaf of bread and I am doing this out of need. Theft is theft none the less.
I for one believe that you kinda gotta take the good with the bad (*Raise Flame shields*), and let the spammers post their crap in the name of protecting the ability to post any and every idea, trivial or not.
Have you READ the UDP page? The case for a UDP is not with dissenting opinions. It's about SPAM. The same spam that comes into inbox's on a daily basis. Unauthorized usage of a third party's resources, EXPECIALLY in the case of USENET, is an issue of money. Have you ever run a full scale newsserver? Not running leafnode to pull a few groups. I attempted to handle a newsfeed from UUNET for our company by subscribing to 10 comp.* groups relating to the business and had to stop all together because the server jsut could NOT keep up. The diskspace was the biggest issue (even after setting messages to expire after 2 days.) Now admittedly this was an exchange server and so the hardware cost/spec was already through the roof considering the kind of groupware stuff we do via exchange, but still the newsfeed was just too damn much.
This isn't a flame for dills at all. More of an observation really.
I believe that the government should not interfere with the rights of anybody, so long as that individual's "rights" don't impugn upon another individual's rights. Basically, I'm for absolute freedom (as long as you don't screw up other people).
Who is to say what impugnes on another person's rights? If, as everyone wants to believe, that morality is up to the individual, who is to say what is not moral for you IS moral for me? I quite honestly cannot grasp this argument. Let me throw out an example:
I steal your car. (I wouldn't do this but Devil's advocate dictates otherwise.) You are probably a tad bit upset over this. I go to court. Now,in line with the the thought that "everything is okay as long as it doesn't step on someone else's right, my legal argument says that it was not morally wrong for me to steal that car. I needed one. You argue that I violated you by stealing that car and it goes against your morals to steal from someone else. Who's morals win out? Who is to say that your morals are better or worse than mine? Don't hand me that crap about society saying that theft is wrong. If society were made up of theives, social conscience would be in my favor. People are naturally biased and thus an UNBIASED outside force has to lay down rules for right and wrong. Maybe I'm having a seminary morality apolegetics flashback but to this day the argument that "it's ok as long as it doesn't step on my morals" doesn't hold water with me.
In the course of writing about the microsoft trial, i read up on anti-trust but I sitll have a question which someone with legal experience could possibly comment on:
Currently in modern society, the internet and media are two unique and separate entities. We are slowly moving towards a (media buzzword of yesteryear) convergance of these two markets. Now let's move on to the real question:
If and when society recoginizes media and internet as inseperable, would a merger like this be allowed as to where currently this would be coming under government scrutiny? Take, for instance, Microsoft (please! =) ). If at somepoint in the future, the broswer becomes the OS should Microsoft be allowed to merge an internet division and operating systems division to form one company? (This is all under the assumption that the DOJ were to break MS into an applications division and an OS division.)
If I company HAD to merge to survive ( let's call it evolution of business in this case), what right would the government have to stop them from evolving to stay in business? Also if innovation, as MS puts it, leans towards a trend of converging technologies, who is the government to say no?
Most of you know that I am firmly for the breaking up of microsoft as current technology does not dictate the browser as the OS, but in thinking about the time-warner/AOL merger it brought these questions to light.
Maybe my wording was off. I'm refering to tracking information. I don't mind storing a cookie for something like slashdot or nytimes or even cdnow that stores my login information so that I don't have to reenter it because there is no information on those sites that I consider overly important. I don't EVER let sites store my credit card information on thier sites and choose to enter it myself when I make a purchase. I will however enable cookies for a site temporarily if I need to make a purchase and then block the site again when I am done making my purchase. I would suggest reading developer.netscape.com after searching for cookies. I wish browsers had a function built in to specify sites to accept cookies from and deny others the same way I can with junkbuster.
Here are some examples of sites I allow cookies from:
yahoo.com lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com .hotmail.msn.com www.springmail.com aolmail.aol.com - You can guess those easily enough.
developer.redhat.com slashdot.org nytimes.com classmates.com www.maxim-magazine.co.uk www.informit.com www.highschoolalumni.com - Those are for logins to sites that I visit on a regular basis.
copyleft.net cdnow.com fatbrain.com - sites I buy from that require per session cookies to use shopping carts
etrade.com etrade.bridge.com - Etrade's cookies are NOT persistant and I always logout after I leave the site.
This is the type of things cookies should be used for. I don't want to have some random site storing a tracking cookie via a lame ass banner ad or using a cookie to track me from site to site. If I don't know what the site is using the cookie for, I sure as hell am not going to allow it.
All sites should have a fallback if a browser doesn't accept cookies. ESPECIALLY if you require cookies to even laod the damn thing.
And yet I can't even browse this site without having cookies enabled. I understand that several prepackaged web apps drop in cookies for session id's to cache browsing but I still hold firm to the fact that a site that requires cookies to even view it, are abusing cookies and do not deserve my business. If i then decide to do business with a company, I will enable cookies. uggggggg.
I am so happy they released a new version to match 3.3.5. I had to stop using the nvidia 3.3.3 Xserver when I got my Wacom tablet because thier server didn't support the loadable module properly. I think I might just upgrade my tnt2 to a Geforce after all.
Are you a professional crackrock smoker or do you just play one on TV? #1 - linux doens't HAVE gui designers. There are however people who write windowmanagers for the X windowing system which is completely independant of linux. Hell X is run on every *nix out there.
#2 - secondly there are undoubtedly going to be some people that will write a windowmanager to mimic the look and feel of OS X if they so deem it usable.
#3 - thirdly OS X is the next progression of NeXT, if I'm not mistaken and there happen to be several windowmangers that can be configured to handle just like the NeXT/Openstep. Although I could be wrong about the progression part.
#4 - I shouldn't feed the trolls. It makes for a bad day.
The coolest thing sez Steve is the Dock at the bottom of the screen, always centered. When you minimize a window it goes to the Dock. This is a feature similar to one in Windows, but looks much better. (Well, what do you expect from the Apple designers, after all?)
Obviously the guy who wrote this had never seen a next at any point. The only difference I can tell is that it lies horizontal instead of vertical. Of course leave it up to Jobs to play the marketing spin doctor part that he does so well.
(this isn't a flame against apple by the way. I can't wait to play around with OS X myself.)
I'm going to shoot myself later for refering to a tv show here but f' it. There was an episode of law and order last season where a gun manufacturer was brought to court because the gun they manufactured made it easy to file down a blot and make it an automatic weapon. Thus the guns were in high demand by criminals. The case against the company was weather they had a resposibility to make sure it was as difficult as possible to modify the gun for that purpose. Is there any REAL legal reality to this type of corporate responsibility?
It wasn't a story, it was an ask slashdot. Obviously someone in the slashdot community wanted to discuss it and that's a part of slashdot....open discussion.
It's times like these I wish I spoke more than php and perl =/. Anyone got any good suggestions for getting started on linux programming or hell any good suggestions for starting? I actually thought about taking some courses at night.
She said the code was originally written by a WebTV employee as a means of tracking people who visited the site but has since turned into a tool for ne'er-do-wells
The whole things started as a way to track users. Maybe this will wake people up to the importance of privacy.
I'm really torn on this issue. I worked in a styrofoam manufacturing plant for two years ago before I got into IT. Now most people in the computing industry have never had to deal with OSHA or material safety data sheets and what not. Legally your company is required to have MSDS's on hand for something as simple as your printer toner. When you work in an environment like I used too OSHA is your friend. They aren't like a union in the negative sense of the word.
Now that the backgorund is out of the way, let's look at this for what it is..an attempt at funding. I personally don't want my employer to have any say so in what is in my home. I consider it that sacred. Telecommuting is currently a choice, not a requirement in most places. OSHA needs the funding desperatly in this age of clean tech industry but I don't think this kind of thing is the way to go about it. Maybe when I am REQUIRED to work at home, then I'll give some leeway but for now this seems like a dangerous (liberty wise) road to head down. Just as with the speed tracking post earlier, give the government an inch and it'll take your wife and kids.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't quite agree with the spam part but I would not mind some sort of rsync service for sites to mirror from with possibly a round robin dns of master sites that update more often? Anyone want to join in?
I'll see you all "under a blood red sky"--U2."
;) And the Mortal cover of it kicks more ass.
Actually this line is better:
"I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky and the moon turns red over One Tree Hill" - U2 'One Tree Hill'
That's probably an even more ominous, religiously overtoned and appropriate verse/song. Definatly one of the best U2 songs ever
Raging paranoia about kids throwing themselves off buildings because they thought they could fly ;)
Remeber that fine peice of media frenzy bullshit?
DAMN! bout time I found this. I was wondering what ever happened to replay. I went to the site one day and sure enough I got the replay tv thing. It really pissed me off too ;) Thanks for this link.
ACtually for me it will be really helpful. I host opensource projects for people and something like the sourceforge code would help me ramp up my services. I plan on spending a few hours Sunday and pouring over it and seeing some of the admin portion.
This has to be the scariest thing I have ever read. They want to be the "largest and most respected comapny in the world"? I think feared is probably a better word.
You know I've been a big fan of nvidia for a long time and had pretty much relegated to buying only nvidia hardware (I've never been a 3dfx fan especially after the only card I've ever bought was a lame ass banshee), but after watching matrox make contribution after contribution to Xfree in the form of open specs and financial funding, I have a feeling I should reward them with my business since they have obviouly had a clue for quite sometime. ;)
Can someone who has been a long time user of the G series and maybe even someone who has a G400 give me some details on how it compares to a tnt2? I know there are benchmarks and what not out there but I honestly prefere the personal opinion to the official one
Specifically in games like q3 and what not. How well do they handle OpenGL?
It strikes me that a man who says, "Theft is theft, my children must starve," is despicably evil.
;)
I was not saying in this situation that I would not steal to feed my family. I would personally rather beg myself a peice of bread and stay an upright man than take a chance on bringing more grief to my family by being imprisioned while the courts sorted out wether I should have stolen or not. Of course if it were a matter of being morally upright, chances are karma or the fates or God (whatever you percieve Him to be) would provide in those times as recompense for not submitting to the desire.
Now I have another quandry: What if I inadvertantly killed someone in the process of stealing the bread. Say perhaps I carried a gun to intimidate the owner into giving me the bread with no intention of firing and the gun went off?
Not trying to beat a dead horse (or maybe I am), I've just now gotten in the mood to have a good solid apologetics discussion
After posting I decided I should have gone with another physical object or even better my original idea of murdering a family member. The only thing that kept me from using murder as an example is I thought back to everyone being guaranteed life and liberty (according to our government). Murder defeats the life aspect a bit.
Maybe stealing a loaf of bread from a store to feed my starving example would have been a better example. This creates more of a conundrum in that some people consider this a grey area. For instance the store owner is not loosing anything immediatly measurable other than a $1.50 for the loaf of bread and I am doing this out of need. Theft is theft none the less.
I for one believe that you kinda gotta take the good with the bad (*Raise Flame shields*), and let the spammers post their crap in the name of protecting the ability to post any and every idea, trivial or not.
Have you READ the UDP page? The case for a UDP is not with dissenting opinions. It's about SPAM. The same spam that comes into inbox's on a daily basis. Unauthorized usage of a third party's resources, EXPECIALLY in the case of USENET, is an issue of money. Have you ever run a full scale newsserver? Not running leafnode to pull a few groups.
I attempted to handle a newsfeed from UUNET for our company by subscribing to 10 comp.* groups relating to the business and had to stop all together because the server jsut could NOT keep up. The diskspace was the biggest issue (even after setting messages to expire after 2 days.) Now admittedly this was an exchange server and so the hardware cost/spec was already through the roof considering the kind of groupware stuff we do via exchange, but still the newsfeed was just too damn much.
This isn't a flame for dills at all. More of an observation really.
,in line with the the thought that "everything is okay as long as it doesn't step on someone else's right, my legal argument says that it was not morally wrong for me to steal that car. I needed one. You argue that I violated you by stealing that car and it goes against your morals to steal from someone else. Who's morals win out? Who is to say that your morals are better or worse than mine? Don't hand me that crap about society saying that theft is wrong. If society were made up of theives, social conscience would be in my favor. People are naturally biased and thus an UNBIASED outside force has to lay down rules for right and wrong.
I believe that the government should not interfere with the rights of anybody, so long as that individual's "rights" don't impugn upon another individual's rights. Basically, I'm for absolute freedom (as long as you don't screw up other people).
Who is to say what impugnes on another person's rights? If, as everyone wants to believe, that morality is up to the individual, who is to say what is not moral for you IS moral for me? I quite honestly cannot grasp this argument. Let me throw out an example:
I steal your car. (I wouldn't do this but Devil's advocate dictates otherwise.)
You are probably a tad bit upset over this. I go to court. Now
Maybe I'm having a seminary morality apolegetics flashback but to this day the argument that "it's ok as long as it doesn't step on my morals" doesn't hold water with me.
In the course of writing about the microsoft trial, i read up on anti-trust but I sitll have a question which someone with legal experience could possibly comment on:
Currently in modern society, the internet and media are two unique and separate entities. We are slowly moving towards a (media buzzword of yesteryear) convergance of these two markets. Now let's move on to the real question:
If and when society recoginizes media and internet as inseperable, would a merger like this be allowed as to where currently this would be coming under government scrutiny? Take, for instance, Microsoft (please! =) ). If at somepoint in the future, the broswer becomes the OS should Microsoft be allowed to merge an internet division and operating systems division to form one company? (This is all under the assumption that the DOJ were to break MS into an applications division and an OS division.)
If I company HAD to merge to survive ( let's call it evolution of business in this case), what right would the government have to stop them from evolving to stay in business? Also if innovation, as MS puts it, leans towards a trend of converging technologies, who is the government to say no?
Most of you know that I am firmly for the breaking up of microsoft as current technology does not dictate the browser as the OS, but in thinking about the time-warner/AOL merger it brought these questions to light.
Any clues?
Maybe my wording was off. I'm refering to tracking information. I don't mind storing a cookie for something like slashdot or nytimes or even cdnow that stores my login information so that I don't have to reenter it because there is no information on those sites that I consider overly important. I don't EVER let sites store my credit card information on thier sites and choose to enter it myself when I make a purchase. I will however enable cookies for a site temporarily if I need to make a purchase and then block the site again when I am done making my purchase. I would suggest reading developer.netscape.com after searching for cookies. I wish browsers had a function built in to specify sites to accept cookies from and deny others the same way I can with junkbuster.
Here are some examples of sites I allow cookies from:
yahoo.com
lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com
.hotmail.msn.com
www.springmail.com
aolmail.aol.com
- You can guess those easily enough.
developer.redhat.com
slashdot.org
nytimes.com
classmates.com
www.maxim-magazine.co.uk
www.informit.com
www.highschoolalumni.com
- Those are for logins to sites that I visit on a regular basis.
copyleft.net
cdnow.com
fatbrain.com
- sites I buy from that require per session cookies to use shopping carts
etrade.com
etrade.bridge.com
- Etrade's cookies are NOT persistant and I always logout after I leave the site.
This is the type of things cookies should be used for. I don't want to have some random site storing a tracking cookie via a lame ass banner ad or using a cookie to track me from site to site. If I don't know what the site is using the cookie for, I sure as hell am not going to allow it.
All sites should have a fallback if a browser doesn't accept cookies. ESPECIALLY if you require cookies to even laod the damn thing.
And yet I can't even browse this site without having cookies enabled. I understand that several prepackaged web apps drop in cookies for session id's to cache browsing but I still hold firm to the fact that a site that requires cookies to even view it, are abusing cookies and do not deserve my business. If i then decide to do business with a company, I will enable cookies. uggggggg.
I am so happy they released a new version to match 3.3.5. I had to stop using the nvidia 3.3.3 Xserver when I got my Wacom tablet because thier server didn't support the loadable module properly. I think I might just upgrade my tnt2 to a Geforce after all.
holy SHIT!
/wallops They're in the walls!
I blew fucking coke all over the place when I first read:
Agent_Smith sets mode +m ne0
That was the most hilarious thing. Well that and the:
This is some funny funny shit. Whoever did it OBVIOUSLY got the caps from a screener but still. I'm still laffin hard as hell.
Way to go!
It's quite possibly that the TONE of your first post dictated flamebait. I dunno though cause I didn't moderate it.
As long as they dont use motif for chrissakes I don't care about the interface. ;)
your GUI designers are brain damaged.
Are you a professional crackrock smoker or do you just play one on TV?
#1 - linux doens't HAVE gui designers. There are however people who write windowmanagers for the X windowing system which is completely independant of linux. Hell X is run on every *nix out there.
#2 - secondly there are undoubtedly going to be some people that will write a windowmanager to mimic the look and feel of OS X if they so deem it usable.
#3 - thirdly OS X is the next progression of NeXT, if I'm not mistaken and there happen to be several windowmangers that can be configured to handle just like the NeXT/Openstep. Although I could be wrong about the progression part.
#4 - I shouldn't feed the trolls. It makes for a bad day.
I found this quote kind of funny:
The coolest thing
sez Steve is the Dock at the bottom of the screen, always centered. When you minimize
a window it goes to the Dock. This is a feature similar to one in Windows, but looks
much better. (Well, what do you expect from the Apple designers, after all?)
Obviously the guy who wrote this had never seen a next at any point. The only difference I can tell is that it lies horizontal instead of vertical. Of course leave it up to Jobs to play the marketing spin doctor part that he does so well.
(this isn't a flame against apple by the way. I can't wait to play around with OS X myself.)
I'm going to shoot myself later for refering to a tv show here but f' it.
There was an episode of law and order last season where a gun manufacturer was brought to court because the gun they manufactured made it easy to file down a blot and make it an automatic weapon. Thus the guns were in high demand by criminals. The case against the company was weather they had a resposibility to make sure it was as difficult as possible to modify the gun for that purpose. Is there any REAL legal reality to this type of corporate responsibility?
It wasn't a story, it was an ask slashdot. Obviously someone in the slashdot community wanted to discuss it and that's a part of slashdot....open discussion.
It's times like these I wish I spoke more than php and perl =/.
Anyone got any good suggestions for getting started on linux programming or hell any good suggestions for starting? I actually thought about taking some courses at night.
She said the code was originally written by a WebTV employee as a means of tracking people who visited the site but has since turned into a tool for ne'er-do-wells
The whole things started as a way to track users. Maybe this will wake people up to the importance of privacy.
I'm really torn on this issue.
I worked in a styrofoam manufacturing plant for two years ago before I got into IT. Now most people in the computing industry have never had to deal with OSHA or material safety data sheets and what not. Legally your company is required to have MSDS's on hand for something as simple as your printer toner.
When you work in an environment like I used too OSHA is your friend. They aren't like a union in the negative sense of the word.
Now that the backgorund is out of the way, let's look at this for what it is..an attempt at funding. I personally don't want my employer to have any say so in what is in my home. I consider it that sacred. Telecommuting is currently a choice, not a requirement in most places. OSHA needs the funding desperatly in this age of clean tech industry but I don't think this kind of thing is the way to go about it. Maybe when I am REQUIRED to work at home, then I'll give some leeway but for now this seems like a dangerous (liberty wise) road to head down. Just as with the speed tracking post earlier, give the government an inch and it'll take your wife and kids.