who the fsck cares? I'm not losing any sleep at night because I gave ZDNet a couple banner views.
Jesus christ people, grow up. If you are so concerned about it, use the time you spend here bitching about it to go get some adblocking software. I'm sick of seeing 30% of the posts in any ZDNet story titled "WE JUST GAVE THEM #@*)&!#@)(*!@ BANNER VIEWS OH NO THE SKY IS FALLING."
Slashdot refused to post my submission for the news item below, but I think it's vital that this information gets released. I don't know why Slashdot refused the submission yesterday, but I suppose they have their reasons. Please forward the following information everywhere you can that you think it may generate interest, and my karma and I apologize for going offtopic in this thread.
NYLUG, NOVALUG, & DCLUG to Protest the DMCA in Washington DC on May 2, 2000
On May 2nd, NYLUG.org teams up with The Washington DC Linux Users Group and The Northern Virginia Linux Users Group to stage a peaceful protest on the steps of the US Capitol Building. Updates of our plans will be posted to the nylug.org mailing lists. If you want to demonstrate, please send email to jim@valinux.com. Please include the phrase "I WANT TO DEMONSTRATE IN DC" in the subject line.
More information can be found at: http://www.nylug.org/ BilldaCat - http://www.frungy.com
However, Slashdot posted about the OTHER protest like maybe 48 hours before it happened. One of the reasons for the extremely low turnout is no one knew - tons of comments were like "I would have gone if I had known earlier..".. which is why I went offtopic and posted it in the first thread I saw this morning instead of waiting for the next DMCA story, whenever that would be.
So..:\ You would think Slashdot would post this one, and post it as early as possible, to get the word out and allow people to make arrangements to get down to DC.
to convince them that there isn't a market, and make it unprofitable for them. Protest, create controversy, do whatever it takes to stir up criticism, make people question their system, get articles in newspapers about it, etc. The only thing that will make them leave this area of business and make others wary of entering it is if there is little/no profit and high risk/controversy.
Glad to see U.S. style justice is spreading throughout the world.. blame/sue whoever has the most money, or is an easy target, and throw all rationalization out the window.
I just tried to D/L securecrt (www.vandyke.com).. all it ends up doing is downloading what looks like the HTML template file which it thinks is the EXE.. other versions of NS and IE handled this download fine.. anyone else experiencing troubles downloading self-extracting files?
Clicking on the back button doesn't bring up a list of pages.
Like it has been said, bookmark management has gotten worse. Hope that changes.
Looks like composer still can't handle frames, but maybe that's a good thing.:)
Mail appears to be able to handle multiple pop3 boxes finally. I would test this, but when I'm flipping through help searching for information on some new features, it takes over my current browser window in which I'm writing my Slashdot post.
I HATE THAT. Help should be built into the application, it should not require visiting a web page - and if it does, let it spawn a NEW window, not take over my current one, which I couldn't go back to by hitting the back button for some reason. Macromedia is guilty of this as well.. first place I saw do it.:\
It IS fast, though, even on my horribly crippled machine here.:) And I do dig the look of it..
20 minutes without a crash so far, which is more than I can say for 4.7 on my machine.
This is horrible, for reasons explained many times before, don't need to go into that again.
But what can we do about it? We're a pretty decent-sized, intelligent community.. we should come up for a good way of getting our voice heard and protest this program.. I'm out of high school, but I surely don't want my kids when I have them going to schools that have programs like this in place. It's enough to make me want to move out of the U.S.. (on a tangent, which countries give the most freedom to individuals (not the best way to phrase that, but I think you know what I mean))..
Has something happened in the past month or so? I most recently looked for a job in December.. after about a month, I found a job I was thrilled to do, and jumped at it.
All quiet for a month and a half.. then suddenly I'm getting 3-4 voice mails a -day- from recruiters. It's still continuing.. what's going on? My resume is hardly that stacked either.. It's not like I'm an MCSE or have -any- certifications.. couple years doing support, 1 year webmaster/sysadmin.. so there's plenty of people out there more desireable/more marketable than me, yet the recruiters are beating down my door. So if you're having trouble finding work, come to DC. Just don't drive. Our roads are filled enough as is.
I'm not going to leave where I am, even for more $. There's something to be said for a job where you actually don't mind going to work in the morning, and even sometimes enjoy it, and the people. Learning quite a few sysadmin skills at a small company that I likely wouldn't get the chance to learn somewhere larger.. things like this are worth more than $ in some cases. To me at least, YMMV.
Oh, and if you do come to DC, please stay to the right on the metro escalators if you aren't walking. Thanks.
So, in the spirit on the NCAA tournament, let's take bets on how long it will be until Katz writes an article about these pagers. I'm putting the line at 3 days..
Bonus points if you can guess the number of words, and just like the Price is Right, closest without going over.:)
Seriously though.. I don't think these will catch on. Those who wear these in the US will be ridiculed, ostracized, etc.. it's just not an acceptable means of meeting people here in the states, and I don't think it will be for some time. In a way I wish it was.. I'm a pretty shy type, and am not one to engage random people in conversation.. but I'd rather have to work on my personal skills and such rather than have a device do half my work for me.
I certainly remember.. I had some sort of BMX racing game on my C64.. required you pressing the 'M' key and the space bar repeatedly to pedal.. which meant banging on these 2 keys as hard and as fast as you could to win..:)
Of course, this broke my space bar right quickly. So whenever I wanted to use a space when I was writing my little sprite parade programs, those funky brackets ([ ]'s) showed up.:)
Not everyone stays connected to the web 24/7, Katz. I didn't know the results of the primary till I woke up this morning, because when I go home from work, I enjoy spending my free time doin g some things non-net related.. playing hockey, going out with friends, eating, games, etc. And no, I'm not some 50 year old guy, I'm a 21 year old sysadmin, and I'm sure there are -plenty- of people who either a) don't access the web or b) don't access the web away from work.
Plus, it makes the metro ride way less boring in the morning.
of ergo keyboards.. I have a pretty bizarre typing style, so the split just screws my wpm up badly. I haven't had a problem with my wrists ever though, and I've been sitting behind a terminal since I was 14 or so.. at what age/after how much use do you start to show wear?
Personally, I like the old school IBM loud-clicky keyboards. Those are the best.:)
One of my old domains had old contact info for me, old address, old e-mail address at an ISP I no longer had an account at.. yet I was able to change my info with no verification whatsoever. While it was nice to be able to do so, it was also seriously disturbing that no sort of check was in place.:\
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who the fsck cares? I'm not losing any sleep at night because I gave ZDNet a couple banner views.
Jesus christ people, grow up. If you are so concerned about it, use the time you spend here bitching about it to go get some adblocking software. I'm sick of seeing 30% of the posts in any ZDNet story titled "WE JUST GAVE THEM #@*)&!#@)(*!@ BANNER VIEWS OH NO THE SKY IS FALLING."
*sigh*
Hell, we re-elected Marion Barry here in D.C. :(
Bitch set me up!
Offtopic post (yes, again).
Slashdot refused to post my submission for the news item below, but I think it's vital that this information gets released. I don't know why Slashdot refused the submission yesterday, but I suppose they have their reasons. Please forward the following information everywhere you can that you think it may generate interest, and my karma and I apologize for going offtopic in this thread.
NYLUG, NOVALUG, & DCLUG to Protest the DMCA in Washington DC on May 2, 2000
On May 2nd, NYLUG.org teams up with The Washington DC Linux Users Group and The Northern Virginia Linux Users Group to stage a peaceful protest on the steps of the US Capitol Building. Updates of our plans will be posted to the nylug.org mailing lists. If you want to demonstrate, please send email to jim@valinux.com. Please include the phrase "I WANT TO DEMONSTRATE IN DC" in the subject line.
More information can be found at: http://www.nylug.org/
BilldaCat - http://www.frungy.com
However, Slashdot posted about the OTHER protest like maybe 48 hours before it happened. One of the reasons for the extremely low turnout is no one knew - tons of comments were like "I would have gone if I had known earlier..".. which is why I went offtopic and posted it in the first thread I saw this morning instead of waiting for the next DMCA story, whenever that would be.
:\ You would think Slashdot would post this one, and post it as early as possible, to get the word out and allow people to make arrangements to get down to DC.
So..
C'est la vie.
Soldier1: That's it.. Jim's dead. Never had a chance.
Soldier2: What happened? What was the cause of death?
Soldier1: Blue Screen.
to convince them that there isn't a market, and make it unprofitable for them. Protest, create controversy, do whatever it takes to stir up criticism, make people question their system, get articles in newspapers about it, etc. The only thing that will make them leave this area of business and make others wary of entering it is if there is little/no profit and high risk/controversy.
Glad to see U.S. style justice is spreading throughout the world.. blame/sue whoever has the most money, or is an easy target, and throw all rationalization out the window.
(sarcasm mode now off)
(begins praying his ex-girlfriends never get on the internet)
Replying to my own post here, sorry.
I just tried to D/L securecrt (www.vandyke.com).. all it ends up doing is downloading what looks like the HTML template file which it thinks is the EXE.. other versions of NS and IE handled this download fine.. anyone else experiencing troubles downloading self-extracting files?
Clicking on the back button doesn't bring up a list of pages.
:)
:\
:) And I do dig the look of it..
Like it has been said, bookmark management has gotten worse. Hope that changes.
Looks like composer still can't handle frames, but maybe that's a good thing.
Mail appears to be able to handle multiple pop3 boxes finally. I would test this, but when I'm flipping through help searching for information on some new features, it takes over my current browser window in which I'm writing my Slashdot post.
I HATE THAT. Help should be built into the application, it should not require visiting a web page - and if it does, let it spawn a NEW window, not take over my current one, which I couldn't go back to by hitting the back button for some reason. Macromedia is guilty of this as well.. first place I saw do it.
It IS fast, though, even on my horribly crippled machine here.
20 minutes without a crash so far, which is more than I can say for 4.7 on my machine.
This is horrible, for reasons explained many times before, don't need to go into that again.
But what can we do about it? We're a pretty decent-sized, intelligent community.. we should come up for a good way of getting our voice heard and protest this program.. I'm out of high school, but I surely don't want my kids when I have them going to schools that have programs like this in place. It's enough to make me want to move out of the U.S.. (on a tangent, which countries give the most freedom to individuals (not the best way to phrase that, but I think you know what I mean))..
Any ideas anyone?
> Maybe this helps explain why The Matrix is so >popular, however it still is a mystery why >American Beauty got off the ground.
:)
Mena Suvari breasts.
Need I go on?
Thought not.
Has something happened in the past month or so? I most recently looked for a job in December.. after about a month, I found a job I was thrilled to do, and jumped at it.
All quiet for a month and a half.. then suddenly I'm getting 3-4 voice mails a -day- from recruiters. It's still continuing.. what's going on? My resume is hardly that stacked either.. It's not like I'm an MCSE or have -any- certifications.. couple years doing support, 1 year webmaster/sysadmin.. so there's plenty of people out there more desireable/more marketable than me, yet the recruiters are beating down my door. So if you're having trouble finding work, come to DC. Just don't drive. Our roads are filled enough as is.
I'm not going to leave where I am, even for more $. There's something to be said for a job where you actually don't mind going to work in the morning, and even sometimes enjoy it, and the people. Learning quite a few sysadmin skills at a small company that I likely wouldn't get the chance to learn somewhere larger.. things like this are worth more than $ in some cases. To me at least, YMMV.
Oh, and if you do come to DC, please stay to the right on the metro escalators if you aren't walking. Thanks.
China is .CN. You can find the country code list here.
So, in the spirit on the NCAA tournament, let's take bets on how long it will be until Katz writes an article about these pagers. I'm putting the line at 3 days..
:)
Bonus points if you can guess the number of words, and just like the Price is Right, closest without going over.
Seriously though.. I don't think these will catch on. Those who wear these in the US will be ridiculed, ostracized, etc.. it's just not an acceptable means of meeting people here in the states, and I don't think it will be for some time. In a way I wish it was.. I'm a pretty shy type, and am not one to engage random people in conversation.. but I'd rather have to work on my personal skills and such rather than have a device do half my work for me.
I certainly remember.. I had some sort of BMX racing game on my C64.. required you pressing the 'M' key and the space bar repeatedly to pedal.. which meant banging on these 2 keys as hard and as fast as you could to win.. :)
Of course, this broke my space bar right quickly. So whenever I wanted to use a space when I was writing my little sprite parade programs, those funky brackets ([ ]'s) showed up. :)
The general public has a fear of overclocking.. pretty simple.
.. is any article by one Jon Katz. :)
Dogma is excellent. Anything with that much blood, guns, and Salma Hayek stripping is definetly quality filmmaking in my book.
What was horrible was when they were in the game, cut back to the group watching, and one of them goes
"LEVEL 2!@*#!)(@*# NO ONE HAS EVER BEATEN LEVEL ****2****!@(*#!)(@*#)!(@ THEY WILL DIE(*#)(!@*_(#@!"
That was when I got disgusted and just had to leave the room.
I mean.. c'mon? How hard can level *2* be?
>Please die. (Score:1, Insightful) by Anonymous >Coward on Monday February 28, @10:08AM EST (#14)
>Please die Jon Katz.
Wow.. I knew the hatred of Jon Katz was bad, but when moderators start marking these trolls up as insightful? Jesus..
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Not everyone stays connected to the web 24/7, Katz. I didn't know the results of the primary till I woke up this morning, because when I go home from work, I enjoy spending my free time doin g some things non-net related.. playing hockey, going out with friends, eating, games, etc. And no, I'm not some 50 year old guy, I'm a 21 year old sysadmin, and I'm sure there are -plenty- of people who either a) don't access the web or b) don't access the web away from work.
Plus, it makes the metro ride way less boring in the morning.
of ergo keyboards.. I have a pretty bizarre typing style, so the split just screws my wpm up badly. I haven't had a problem with my wrists ever though, and I've been sitting behind a terminal since I was 14 or so.. at what age/after how much use do you start to show wear?
:)
Personally, I like the old school IBM loud-clicky keyboards. Those are the best.
One of my old domains had old contact info for me, old address, old e-mail address at an ISP I no longer had an account at.. yet I was able to change my info with no verification whatsoever. While it was nice to be able to do so, it was also seriously disturbing that no sort of check was in place. :\