I must agree that joker.com is the best registrar I've used, by far. Register.com is more than double the price, and, while it provides dns services free, the service is poor. Changes to your records take 12-24 hours, and I've never seen one take less than 6. That's more than unacceptable, for many of us.
But here's what I've taken to doing... check out ultradns.
They're currently in beta, but you can get both a primary and secondary nameserver space from them, with a very nice, clean, secure interface, for free. (as long as it is a personal/non-commercial domain name)
You can have up to four of these, and the interface is both easy and powerful, so the advanced DNS hackers will be able to modify anything they need.
I've also found that changes go through ultradns in between 15 and 60 minutes, usually on the lower end. That's very nice, especially if you have a semi-dynamic IP.
I just registered a domain through joker.com, with dns from ultradns, and it's wonderful. My first domain was registered at register.com, and I just recently switched that domain to ultradns as well.
That, of course, brings up another problem with register.com: they don't allow zone transfers. I lost all my zone information, and had to rebuild it all. It was very icky, but it worked, and I definitely don't regret it. 95% reduction in response time is worth it for a 10 minute hassle.
Just my two cents, although it seems more like two dollars...
Well, if you get 00000004 or so you start seeing Rob's test posts, presumably from some of the earliest strings of comments. As you get higher, you see rare authors, including "The Slashdot Authors", and some others.
It's all just fun, of course.
You're looking for screenshots of Slashdot? But chips and dips was so much more *fun*.
You can't get much earlier than "Chips and Dips", and you can also get some insight into Taco, the Man, instead of Taco, the Commander...
So here are some screenshots for your enjoyment:
Taco's first e theme, Flaunt. It was designed for 1600x1200, and DR11. And boy, if you don't see "Chips and Dips" right there on his screen. Talk about a little self-promotion!
And what else do we have? We have his DR12 theme, Obsidian! Obsidian features a few irc chats here and there, and we get to see taco lurking (as an op no less) in #linuxwarez. Woo!
We also find out that, originally, his themes were hosted at mandrake.net, in the "TacoWare" directory on the ftp. Hmmmmmm. TacoWare. I think we have a competitor for the Dilberito!
Congrats guys, it's good to see all the progress that's been made.
Oh, and for all those of you looking for early slashdot articles, check these:
Nov 19, 1998 -- Taco announces kernel 2.1.129 on slashdot. Amazingly, no one trolls!
March 23, 1998 -- Java news! The most interesting thing about this one, is the link address, and the lack of any and all comments. Hmm. (For a hidden surprise, try incrementing the link a few times!)
Well, that's enough time wasting for me for today (har har, I just got q3a for linux)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:36:07 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Malda Subject: Re: Kit Cosper, +4, no reason. In-reply-to: To: Ed Fisher MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-recipient: rfc822;efisher@macalester.edu Content-Length: 457 Lines: 11
I don't know how that happened: he had his default points set to 4. Thanks for the heads up. He must have talked someone with DB access into giving him the bonus points. I'll look into it and make sure it doesn't happen again.
-- | Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda | Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no | malda(@)slashdot.org | match for a good blaster at your side, kid. | http://slashdot.org/ | --Han Solo, Star Wars
Not just your browser. Also check Kit's user info. He's posted 5 comments or so in the past few weeks, and all of them started, and ended (so far) with +4, with no moderation attached.
It's a bit suspicious. I dunno. Paranoia paranoia paranoia.
To the comments that +6 is a bug, it's not, per se. There have been other +6 comments in the past (only 1 that I can remember) and the user preferences page specifically mentions the possibility of -2 (or lower) posts. So -5s are also quite plausible (Lots of people just keep moderating down the same post).
But....what about this one? +4, with no reason?
It seems unlikely. The other ones were the result of extreme moderation on each end, this one seems to have absolutely no explanation behind it.
I know it's quite easy to set this up (it's a single modification in a mysql table), since I've given myself an automatic +51 on my own slashsite before. So someone explain it to me. Does he have access to the slashdot mysql tables? It's not modifiable through backslash (at least not in the distributed slash code), and as far as I can tell, it really does require access to the MySQL server.
Is Kit Cosper a l33t haX0R?!
Or was he given access to the tables? Or did Rob&Crew just give him 4 by default?
Somehow I doubt a VA employee would be exploiting a bug, if one even exists.
And you know what's sad? The Windows skinners & themers port over the X themes, but vice versa is almost NEVER done. Go look for Win3000 for KDE. Go look for Elegant for Enlightenment. If you can find them, lemme know, cause I want to use them. Hopefully if these themes are indeed found, I can avoid the frustration of accidentally closing a program when all I wanted to do was minimize it.:)
What is it that makes the windows interface better, exactly? I was always frustrated because the maximize button was right next to the close button. My friend (who loves the windows gui) says that that's wonderful, but I always had troubles when I would go to maximize and, bam, that window is closed.
I'm currently running blueHeart for e, and I'm quite in love with it. Each titlebar has two buttons, at max. The default title bar has these buttons on opposite sides, which is equally wonderful. On the left, we've got the iconify button, which does just that. On the right, we've got the close button, which does just that. I would, in fact, have to be a complete klod to mistakenly close a window I was trying to minimize.
So, really, not everything has to be reminiscent of windows. blueHeart reminds me not at all of windows, and I enjoy using it far more. No longer will I have to look carefully when I maximize a window; now I can just double click on the title bar. Middle click to windowshade. Right click to bring up a list of options that just...is impressive.
But! For all those of you who *love* the MS interface! You can set all your windows to "side border" which will put the iconify and close buttons adjacent to each other! But why would you ever? I find it prettier (the side border pattern is very sexy), so I use it for windows I'm not likely to close. My iconbox, pager, and gaim are permanently on side border, and I love it. Every other window is either borderless or using the default, simple, format.
And, of course, if you have trouble with closing windows when you try to minimize them, why not use a different window manager? e, windowmaker, and countless others are perfectly compatible with KDE (if you're stuck on kde), and will solve this problem for you.
So really, it all comes down to, if there's a problem, why don't you fix it yourself? Themes are fairly simple to make, especially for KDE and wmaker...why not just fix one up? Or make a "Win3000" theme for e, and use that? Change the gnome panel buttons so they look like a start menu, and use the Redmond 95 GTK+ theme. It'll be all better, don't worry.
I do appreciate the effort put into the themes by the artists. But please, it IS possible to be good looking and user friendly at the same time.
In fact, I believe, that's my point. I don't find the windows gui particularly attractive, or user friendly. I think, and I'm probably just stealing this opinion from many others, that the only reason people like the windows gui is not that it's intuitive, but that they've adjusted themselves to it. They understand the quirks and inconsistencies in the Explorer shell, and think that, because they've been trained to use such a system, it must actually be a good system.
How wrong they are. Go look at the UI hall of shame, go try and teach a new windows user (one who has never used a mouse before) what the difference is between double clicking and single clicking. Explain that the picture of the floppy disk means you're going to save the file, even if you're not saving it to floppy. And, once you've done those, show them how to delete something from their start menu. I dare you. Cmon, try it.
I'm spouting off here, as you can tell, but I think that too much time is spent by themers for X working on making X look like win, or macos. I guess some are doing it because they think the gui is superior, but... well.. no. MacOS might be superior, actually, although Aqua looks like it has some severe design flaws (using color coded buttons, the positioning of said buttons, the latest quicktime release).
So really, I think, what X themers need to do is to stop trying to imitate a GUI they believe to be superior (because they've been trained that way, most likely) and to start creating a new interface that actually *is* superior.
Weeeeellll... since VA and Andover are both publicly held, their administration can't do anything that doesn't benefit the stockholders financially. If they *do* do that, they'll get their pants sued off, and lose their jobs.
That would be no good. I don't have any personal opinion on the merger, except that VA now owns both sourceforge and server51, so the only non-VA free development platform-type-site that I know of is openprojects.net. But that's a different point altogether.
Oh, and themes.org and Slashdot are now owned by the same people...isn't that exciting? But, of course, the Andover/VA Linux staff has no say in what gets posted and what doesn't.
Oh wait, roblimo is an editor of AndoverNews. Hrm. He's also been with them for a long time, I do believe.
So are we really to believe that Andover (through roblimo) doesn't have any say in what gets posted on slashdot?
And...what about the guy who posted to the original merger (VA-Andover) thread, from valinux.com, who got an automatic +4(!), without any moderation. Hmm.
Some of it seems a bit suspicious. But that's the way I am sometimes, eh?
Even ignoring the sarcastic suggestion of bribing everyone in the world in order to live in peace, the amount of money it would take for all college students who want to use the internet to find an apartment and get DSL would be so much larger than the amount of money it takes to simply give them full access to a campus network makes this a silly suggestion. Either everyone pays X to get ethernet, or.1% of people who can afford it pay 100X to get a private connection while everyone else gets nothing. Which of these sounds more fair to you?
You socialist bastard! I am, of course, just kidding. Besides, it strikes me that we do live in a very capitalist country, and I'm sure you're not a stranger to students getting cheaper pizza, cheaper bus fares, etc. If all of a sudden there was a massive desire from college students to get private internet links, believe me, companies would be jumping all over it. You'd see reduced rates for students, free installation, the first few months free, you name it. Especially if there are cable modems *and* DSL readily available in the area--the two will be competing for your money allllll day.
Of course, the argument about apartment costs is mostly valid, except for the fact that students living in apartments don't have to pay for room and board, and can save oodles of money that way. Cmon, ramen for $0.10 a package, that's 3 meals a day! For 30 cents! How much does a meal at your caf cost? Ours, per meal, is $6.50 or something. But that's if you buy individually...blah blah blah, it's still a bundle.
Are you an utter moron? It's not difficult to tell that he means "you'd think you were the only one on a cable modem high on crack".
This supports his main argument, which is that most colleges have bandwidth to spare. And I suppose he's true for very large universities, on Internet2, but boy, he's not correct when it comes to small liberal arts colleges. Lots of them have single T1s, with bad routing and worse uplinks. (Mine for example). Blah.
Slash uses a web-based front end for all that jazz, it's located at http://yoursite.tld/admin.pl
Password protected, and users have access levels, so some can do everything (100000 access level or something) while others can do almost nothing (any access level >1 IIRC).
The 100000 level allows them to add sections, links, stories, modify posted stories, etc. It all uses mysql, through the DBI perl module.
I tried to get it working decently, but to no avail. The code is messy, but it works. I, too, am waiting for a 0.4 release, just to play around.
PHPSlash is not bad at all, but it's very alpha (beta?) and isn't really very functional. There are other, similar web-based alternatives, but most don't have the versatility of slash.
Sure, I'm just one more guy in a long list of people disagreeing with you...but hear us out. I'll agree that the medication may be overpriced (my 50mg zoloft is $2 a pill, I think), but overpriced is very relative.
That $2 a day has helped me survive my first semester of college. For all of high school, I would have breakdowns, complete, utter, intense breakdowns, every few weeks. Stress would build up, and tiny thing after tiny thing would start to set me off. I'd cry in the middle of class for no reason, I'd cry at home for no reason. I struck out at family, friends, loved ones, when they were trying to help me. You've clearly never experienced true depression, and for that, you're extremely lucky.
It's not fun. Yes, taking walks, seeing movies, exercizing, and whatnot all help...but they don't help enough.
I had a breakdown a couple months ago, my first at college. It was right on schedule, too. And you know what? I barely made it to class that week or two. I barely left my room, I barely spoke to anyone. I sat it out, and wasn't functional for two days. It was not cool.
So over thanksgiving I went to my doctor, and we talked about my breakdowns. My family on both sides has clinical depression in the gene pool, and I was lucky enough to receive some bad blood. I'm not the only one in my extended family on antidepressants, and both my parents have been on them. They aren't a panacaea, and they aren't, despite what you may believe, "happy pills".
I like to think of them as "not sad" pills. I'm unbelievably stressed right now. I have a 10 page paper due in 3 hours, and a final exam just after that. My weekend has been hell, and I've had almost no time to myself. And you know what? I can handle it. I don't like it, and I feel the weight, but taking those walks, and doing those things you suggested help a LOT--but only when I can bring myself to do them.
Depression is nasty. It shuts you down while it takes control, and it's hard to predict. I have a chemical imbalance in my body, and my zoloft helps correct it. It's not like I don't get sad, or I don't have emotions anymore--I do. They just don't shut me down completely.
So please, realize that you're lucky--realize that we aren't all as lucky as you. Some people in this thread were genuinely hurt by your statements, and that shouldn't be something anyone aims for, and I'm sure you didn't. Nonetheless, we're no different from you.
On a final note, for a little while I thought the same things that you think...until I realized that four years of trying to work it out on my own didn't help. So now I'm seeing a counselor, and I'm on my not-sad pills. And you know what? I'm doing okay.
I'm not doing great, but antidepressants don't make you do great. They make you *you*. I felt like a different person when I was depressed...now I feel like me all the time, and I think that that is the most important thing anyone, or any pill, can give you.
That's rather unfair. It's quite possible to generate that error under linux/apache, IIRC. I've done it myself a few times. Just mistype a server-side include and awaaaay you go.
Why is everything MS bashing on slashdot nowadays? It used to be linux advocacy, which I didn't mind, and geek news, which I love. Now it's linux news, which I don't mind, linux zealotry, which I do mind deeply, MS bashing, and very little pure geek news. Sigh. I know, I know, taco doesn't want us to bash slashdot as a whole, so let it be known that I'm grumbling about the slashdot community, and the articles selected. Today's have been good, in general, though. Just don't read the comments.
So, really, why must everything be a war? Post relevant stuff, or don't post. Post insightful or informative stuff, or interesting stuff, or don't post. Funny is ok in funny stories, but why the heck does it show up everywhere nowadays? Ugh. I could browse at +4, but I'm an optimist. Sigh.
Yep, this is offtopic, but if anyone is looking for the reference, it's:
1 Kings 7:23
7:23 Then Huram cast a large round tank, 15 feet across from rim to rim; it was called the Sea. It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
Not sure which version this is from, since I've never seen it in feet before. (The "New Living Translation") But here's YAT (KJV this time)
7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
and one more, this time NIV...
He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
So there you have it...3 translations, two different units, pi=3.
Sounds wonderful, eh? Like it's working perfectly, right? Oops, it isn't.
I have a friend who bought a copy of Half-Life. Loved the single-player gameplay. So he wanted to play multiplayer. Oops.
So he tried to play a multiplayer game, and bang! his key is in use. Yep. Someone else grabbed his key using a keygen, and it's floating around randomly. He can't play multiplayer at all.
Is there a way to fix this? It strikes me that there's a problem when someone paid $$ for a program, and wasn't able to use all the features promised. He could return it and get his money back, theoretically...but that might not fly with every retailer. I can't imagine Valve would give him much support.
So whose fault is this? It's the evil person who used his key, right? Of course, sure, yeah. No. Sure, they're wrong on the face of it for not buying their own copy, for depriving someone else the right to use theirs.
But then we hit the problem of the software company. Deep down, it's really their fault. Sure, they have a right to get paid for every copy that is played, but not at the expense of paid users. That is, if they run into a situation where users who PAID for the program are not getting full functionality, well, they need to fix it. And they aren't. There's no way, as far as I know, to get a replacement key for Half-Life. You're screwed, if you don't just buy another copy.
Software costs companies next to nothing to produce, only to develop. ROI is always high for popular software, and Half-Life is not an easily pirated game, even without a cd-key problem. Almost no one pirates a game they'll play often. Honestly. It's true. Pirated games (i'm talking #warez950 pirated games, not full-scale pirating) are downloaded, played so the d00d can say "Oh ya, I played UnLife Tournament Action 3 last nite. It was 3133+!" and then deleted. If the game is good enough, it'll usually get purchased. I can't imagine the figure to be as high as 10% for sierra, that seems excessive.
This isn't really a critique of you, it's of all the people who believe software pirates are at fault for anything and everything. There will always be pirates, it's just a matter of what lengths the software companies will go to to keep a buck or two in their greasy palms.
It's not always the pirates to blame.. flip the coin.
Hush, matt. Although you're right about it being lih-nucks. Everyone knows that. The easiest way to verify is to listen to Linus talk about it some time.. he pronounces it Lih-nucks. And I'm inclined to trust the man.
Attrition recently changed the way its mirror information is sent out. Formerly, emails were sent to defacement-l when the index was updated. Now, emails get sent out by the bot that archives the hacked page. I got the slackware.com news today, as well. Had I checked it immediately upon receipt, I would have seen the IIS page at slackware.com.
Attrition knows what they're doing, and odds are this is a legit hack.
Shamrock got a lot of flak on HNN if i remember correctly.. I wonder if he saw that, or if his friends started giving him trouble for it, as well. There's no one the underground community dislikes more than a bragging cracker.
Slashdot Mirror
I must agree that joker.com is the best registrar I've used, by far. Register.com is more than double the price, and, while it provides dns services free, the service is poor. Changes to your records take 12-24 hours, and I've never seen one take less than 6. That's more than unacceptable, for many of us.
But here's what I've taken to doing... check out ultradns.
They're currently in beta, but you can get both a primary and secondary nameserver space from them, with a very nice, clean, secure interface, for free. (as long as it is a personal/non-commercial domain name)
You can have up to four of these, and the interface is both easy and powerful, so the advanced DNS hackers will be able to modify anything they need.
I've also found that changes go through ultradns in between 15 and 60 minutes, usually on the lower end. That's very nice, especially if you have a semi-dynamic IP.
I just registered a domain through joker.com, with dns from ultradns, and it's wonderful. My first domain was registered at register.com, and I just recently switched that domain to ultradns as well.
That, of course, brings up another problem with register.com: they don't allow zone transfers. I lost all my zone information, and had to rebuild it all. It was very icky, but it worked, and I definitely don't regret it. 95% reduction in response time is worth it for a 10 minute hassle.
Just my two cents, although it seems more like two dollars...
-Ed Fisher
Well, if you get 00000004 or so you start seeing Rob's test posts, presumably from some of the earliest strings of comments. As you get higher, you see rare authors, including "The Slashdot Authors", and some others.
It's all just fun, of course.
You're looking for screenshots of Slashdot? But chips and dips was so much more *fun*.
-Ed
One last goodie for all you fans out there!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
Story 1,000!
What a blast from the past... a whopping *four* comments to that story.
Oops! Flaunt is really here.
And, of course, I meant increment the story link a few times in binary
Regards,
Ed Fisher
Oh? It's early slashdot stories you seek?
You can't get much earlier than "Chips and Dips", and you can also get some insight into Taco, the Man, instead of Taco, the Commander...
So here are some screenshots for your enjoyment:
Taco's first e theme, Flaunt. It was designed for 1600x1200, and DR11. And boy, if you don't see "Chips and Dips" right there on his screen. Talk about a little self-promotion!
And what else do we have? We have his DR12 theme, Obsidian! Obsidian features a few irc chats here and there, and we get to see taco lurking (as an op no less) in #linuxwarez. Woo!
We also find out that, originally, his themes were hosted at mandrake.net, in the "TacoWare" directory on the ftp. Hmmmmmm. TacoWare. I think we have a competitor for the Dilberito!
Congrats guys, it's good to see all the progress that's been made.
Oh, and for all those of you looking for early slashdot articles, check these:
Nov 19, 1998 -- Taco announces kernel 2.1.129 on slashdot. Amazingly, no one trolls!
March 23, 1998 -- Java news! The most interesting thing about this one, is the link address, and the lack of any and all comments. Hmm. (For a hidden surprise, try incrementing the link a few times!)
Well, that's enough time wasting for me for today (har har, I just got q3a for linux)
Regards,
Ed Fisher
Neato-cheeto.
-ed fisher...
Not just your browser. Also check Kit's user info. He's posted 5 comments or so in the past few weeks, and all of them started, and ended (so far) with +4, with no moderation attached.
It's a bit suspicious. I dunno. Paranoia paranoia paranoia.
To the comments that +6 is a bug, it's not, per se. There have been other +6 comments in the past (only 1 that I can remember) and the user preferences page specifically mentions the possibility of -2 (or lower) posts. So -5s are also quite plausible (Lots of people just keep moderating down the same post).
But....what about this one? +4, with no reason?
It seems unlikely. The other ones were the result of extreme moderation on each end, this one seems to have absolutely no explanation behind it.
I know it's quite easy to set this up (it's a single modification in a mysql table), since I've given myself an automatic +51 on my own slashsite before. So someone explain it to me. Does he have access to the slashdot mysql tables? It's not modifiable through backslash (at least not in the distributed slash code), and as far as I can tell, it really does require access to the MySQL server.
Is Kit Cosper a l33t haX0R?!
Or was he given access to the tables? Or did Rob&Crew just give him 4 by default?
Somehow I doubt a VA employee would be exploiting a bug, if one even exists.
Just my thoughts...
-Ed Fisher
This is the second time, at least, that I've seen this user get a default score of +4.
What gives, rob, the crew? Is this a bug, or a "feature" for Kit Cosper?
Just curious...
-ed fisher.
What is it that makes the windows interface better, exactly? I was always frustrated because the maximize button was right next to the close button. My friend (who loves the windows gui) says that that's wonderful, but I always had troubles when I would go to maximize and, bam, that window is closed.
I'm currently running blueHeart for e, and I'm quite in love with it. Each titlebar has two buttons, at max. The default title bar has these buttons on opposite sides, which is equally wonderful. On the left, we've got the iconify button, which does just that. On the right, we've got the close button, which does just that. I would, in fact, have to be a complete klod to mistakenly close a window I was trying to minimize.
So, really, not everything has to be reminiscent of windows. blueHeart reminds me not at all of windows, and I enjoy using it far more. No longer will I have to look carefully when I maximize a window; now I can just double click on the title bar. Middle click to windowshade. Right click to bring up a list of options that just...is impressive.
But! For all those of you who *love* the MS interface! You can set all your windows to "side border" which will put the iconify and close buttons adjacent to each other! But why would you ever? I find it prettier (the side border pattern is very sexy), so I use it for windows I'm not likely to close. My iconbox, pager, and gaim are permanently on side border, and I love it. Every other window is either borderless or using the default, simple, format.
And, of course, if you have trouble with closing windows when you try to minimize them, why not use a different window manager? e, windowmaker, and countless others are perfectly compatible with KDE (if you're stuck on kde), and will solve this problem for you.
So really, it all comes down to, if there's a problem, why don't you fix it yourself? Themes are fairly simple to make, especially for KDE and wmaker...why not just fix one up? Or make a "Win3000" theme for e, and use that? Change the gnome panel buttons so they look like a start menu, and use the Redmond 95 GTK+ theme. It'll be all better, don't worry.
I do appreciate the effort put into the themes by the artists. But please, it IS possible to be good looking and user friendly at the same time.
In fact, I believe, that's my point. I don't find the windows gui particularly attractive, or user friendly. I think, and I'm probably just stealing this opinion from many others, that the only reason people like the windows gui is not that it's intuitive, but that they've adjusted themselves to it. They understand the quirks and inconsistencies in the Explorer shell, and think that, because they've been trained to use such a system, it must actually be a good system.
How wrong they are. Go look at the UI hall of shame, go try and teach a new windows user (one who has never used a mouse before) what the difference is between double clicking and single clicking. Explain that the picture of the floppy disk means you're going to save the file, even if you're not saving it to floppy. And, once you've done those, show them how to delete something from their start menu. I dare you. Cmon, try it.
I'm spouting off here, as you can tell, but I think that too much time is spent by themers for X working on making X look like win, or macos. I guess some are doing it because they think the gui is superior, but... well.. no. MacOS might be superior, actually, although Aqua looks like it has some severe design flaws (using color coded buttons, the positioning of said buttons, the latest quicktime release).
So really, I think, what X themers need to do is to stop trying to imitate a GUI they believe to be superior (because they've been trained that way, most likely) and to start creating a new interface that actually *is* superior.
Rant mode: off. regards, ed fisher.
Weeeeellll... since VA and Andover are both publicly held, their administration can't do anything that doesn't benefit the stockholders financially. If they *do* do that, they'll get their pants sued off, and lose their jobs.
That would be no good. I don't have any personal opinion on the merger, except that VA now owns both sourceforge and server51, so the only non-VA free development platform-type-site that I know of is openprojects.net. But that's a different point altogether.
Oh, and themes.org and Slashdot are now owned by the same people...isn't that exciting? But, of course, the Andover/VA Linux staff has no say in what gets posted and what doesn't.
Oh wait, roblimo is an editor of AndoverNews. Hrm. He's also been with them for a long time, I do believe.
So are we really to believe that Andover (through roblimo) doesn't have any say in what gets posted on slashdot?
And...what about the guy who posted to the original merger (VA-Andover) thread, from valinux.com, who got an automatic +4(!), without any moderation. Hmm.
Some of it seems a bit suspicious. But that's the way I am sometimes, eh?
-ed fisher.
Even ignoring the sarcastic suggestion of bribing everyone in the world in order to live in peace, the amount of money it would .1% of people who can afford it pay 100X to get a private connection while everyone else gets nothing. Which
take for all college students who want to use the internet to find an apartment and get DSL would be so much larger than the
amount of money it takes to simply give them full access to a campus network makes this a silly suggestion. Either everyone pays
X to get ethernet, or
of these sounds more fair to you?
You socialist bastard! I am, of course, just kidding. Besides, it strikes me that we do live in a very capitalist country, and I'm sure you're not a stranger to students getting cheaper pizza, cheaper bus fares, etc. If all of a sudden there was a massive desire from college students to get private internet links, believe me, companies would be jumping all over it. You'd see reduced rates for students, free installation, the first few months free, you name it. Especially if there are cable modems *and* DSL readily available in the area--the two will be competing for your money allllll day.
Of course, the argument about apartment costs is mostly valid, except for the fact that students living in apartments don't have to pay for room and board, and can save oodles of money that way. Cmon, ramen for $0.10 a package, that's 3 meals a day! For 30 cents! How much does a meal at your caf cost? Ours, per meal, is $6.50 or something. But that's if you buy individually...blah blah blah, it's still a bundle.
Go away, troll!
-ed
Are you an utter moron? It's not difficult to tell that he means "you'd think you were the only one on a cable modem high on crack".
This supports his main argument, which is that most colleges have bandwidth to spare. And I suppose he's true for very large universities, on Internet2, but boy, he's not correct when it comes to small liberal arts colleges. Lots of them have single T1s, with bad routing and worse uplinks. (Mine for example). Blah.
-ed
Err...
try this
Why go to the obnoxious name? why not just go to slashdot.org/tacohell/ ? (/tacohell doesn't work)
-ed fisher
Slash uses a web-based front end for all that jazz, it's located at http://yoursite.tld/admin.pl
Password protected, and users have access levels, so some can do everything (100000 access level or something) while others can do almost nothing (any access level >1 IIRC).
The 100000 level allows them to add sections, links, stories, modify posted stories, etc. It all uses mysql, through the DBI perl module.
I tried to get it working decently, but to no avail. The code is messy, but it works. I, too, am waiting for a 0.4 release, just to play around.
PHPSlash is not bad at all, but it's very alpha (beta?) and isn't really very functional. There are other, similar web-based alternatives, but most don't have the versatility of slash.
slash code
-ed fisher
The original poster of this comment, who is about 5 feet from me, says "it's still there".
He said more, to be honest, but he won't let me type it in.
You could also just make a little perl script! But we all hate perl here on slashdot, right?
Yeah.
-ed
hah! how did you get moderated up?
:)
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, regards,regards,regards,regards,regards,re gards,regards,
sheesh. that's just wrong
stop replying to my posts! karma whore!
you made me lose a karma point and you got one
maybe I'm a karma whore?
regards,regards,regards,regards,regards,regards
so nyah.
-ed
Sure, I'm just one more guy in a long list of people disagreeing with you...but hear us out. I'll agree that the medication may be overpriced (my 50mg zoloft is $2 a pill, I think), but overpriced is very relative.
That $2 a day has helped me survive my first semester of college. For all of high school, I would have breakdowns, complete, utter, intense breakdowns, every few weeks. Stress would build up, and tiny thing after tiny thing would start to set me off. I'd cry in the middle of class for no reason, I'd cry at home for no reason. I struck out at family, friends, loved ones, when they were trying to help me. You've clearly never experienced true depression, and for that, you're extremely lucky.
It's not fun. Yes, taking walks, seeing movies, exercizing, and whatnot all help...but they don't help enough.
I had a breakdown a couple months ago, my first at college. It was right on schedule, too. And you know what? I barely made it to class that week or two. I barely left my room, I barely spoke to anyone. I sat it out, and wasn't functional for two days. It was not cool.
So over thanksgiving I went to my doctor, and we talked about my breakdowns. My family on both sides has clinical depression in the gene pool, and I was lucky enough to receive some bad blood. I'm not the only one in my extended family on antidepressants, and both my parents have been on them. They aren't a panacaea, and they aren't, despite what you may believe, "happy pills".
I like to think of them as "not sad" pills. I'm unbelievably stressed right now. I have a 10 page paper due in 3 hours, and a final exam just after that. My weekend has been hell, and I've had almost no time to myself. And you know what? I can handle it. I don't like it, and I feel the weight, but taking those walks, and doing those things you suggested help a LOT--but only when I can bring myself to do them.
Depression is nasty. It shuts you down while it takes control, and it's hard to predict. I have a chemical imbalance in my body, and my zoloft helps correct it. It's not like I don't get sad, or I don't have emotions anymore--I do. They just don't shut me down completely.
So please, realize that you're lucky--realize that we aren't all as lucky as you. Some people in this thread were genuinely hurt by your statements, and that shouldn't be something anyone aims for, and I'm sure you didn't. Nonetheless, we're no different from you.
On a final note, for a little while I thought the same things that you think...until I realized that four years of trying to work it out on my own didn't help. So now I'm seeing a counselor, and I'm on my not-sad pills. And you know what? I'm doing okay.
I'm not doing great, but antidepressants don't make you do great. They make you *you*. I felt like a different person when I was depressed...now I feel like me all the time, and I think that that is the most important thing anyone, or any pill, can give you.
Warmest regards,
Wow, I think he's a little off his rocker.
*grin*
regards,
That's rather unfair. It's quite possible to generate that error under linux/apache, IIRC. I've done it myself a few times. Just mistype a server-side include and awaaaay you go.
Why is everything MS bashing on slashdot nowadays? It used to be linux advocacy, which I didn't mind, and geek news, which I love. Now it's linux news, which I don't mind, linux zealotry, which I do mind deeply, MS bashing, and very little pure geek news. Sigh. I know, I know, taco doesn't want us to bash slashdot as a whole, so let it be known that I'm grumbling about the slashdot community, and the articles selected. Today's have been good, in general, though. Just don't read the comments.
So, really, why must everything be a war? Post relevant stuff, or don't post. Post insightful or informative stuff, or interesting stuff, or don't post. Funny is ok in funny stories, but why the heck does it show up everywhere nowadays? Ugh. I could browse at +4, but I'm an optimist. Sigh.
Rant rant rant, rant rant rant.
Sorry you had to be on the receiving end.
regards,
-efisher
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Yep, this is offtopic, but if anyone is looking for the reference, it's:
1 Kings 7:23
7:23 Then Huram cast a large round tank, 15 feet across from rim to rim; it was called the Sea. It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
Not sure which version this is from, since I've never seen it in feet before. (The "New Living Translation") But here's YAT (KJV this time)
7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
and one more, this time NIV...
He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
So there you have it...3 translations, two different units, pi=3.
Have fun with this one, literalists.
regards,
-efisher
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Sounds wonderful, eh? Like it's working perfectly, right? Oops, it isn't.
I have a friend who bought a copy of Half-Life. Loved the single-player gameplay. So he wanted to play multiplayer. Oops.
So he tried to play a multiplayer game, and bang! his key is in use. Yep. Someone else grabbed his key using a keygen, and it's floating around randomly. He can't play multiplayer at all.
Is there a way to fix this? It strikes me that there's a problem when someone paid $$ for a program, and wasn't able to use all the features promised. He could return it and get his money back, theoretically...but that might not fly with every retailer. I can't imagine Valve would give him much support.
So whose fault is this? It's the evil person who used his key, right? Of course, sure, yeah. No. Sure, they're wrong on the face of it for not buying their own copy, for depriving someone else the right to use theirs.
But then we hit the problem of the software company. Deep down, it's really their fault. Sure, they have a right to get paid for every copy that is played, but not at the expense of paid users. That is, if they run into a situation where users who PAID for the program are not getting full functionality, well, they need to fix it. And they aren't. There's no way, as far as I know, to get a replacement key for Half-Life. You're screwed, if you don't just buy another copy.
Software costs companies next to nothing to produce, only to develop. ROI is always high for popular software, and Half-Life is not an easily pirated game, even without a cd-key problem. Almost no one pirates a game they'll play often. Honestly. It's true. Pirated games (i'm talking #warez950 pirated games, not full-scale pirating) are downloaded, played so the d00d can say "Oh ya, I played UnLife Tournament Action 3 last nite. It was 3133+!" and then deleted. If the game is good enough, it'll usually get purchased. I can't imagine the figure to be as high as 10% for sierra, that seems excessive.
This isn't really a critique of you, it's of all the people who believe software pirates are at fault for anything and everything. There will always be pirates, it's just a matter of what lengths the software companies will go to to keep a buck or two in their greasy palms.
It's not always the pirates to blame.. flip the coin.
Regards,
-efisher
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Hush, matt. Although you're right about it being lih-nucks. Everyone knows that. The easiest way to verify is to listen to Linus talk about it some time.. he pronounces it Lih-nucks. And I'm inclined to trust the man.
what about u? r u inclined 2 trust linus?
(whee.)
regards,
-efisher
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Neither, I think. It's moderated down, but it really is rather funny. Satire is a wonderful thing, research it.
He does manage to capture the advokiddie essence quite well, and I commend him for his efforts.
:)
Regards,
-efisher
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This is off topic, blah blah blah.
Attrition recently changed the way its mirror information is sent out. Formerly, emails were sent to defacement-l when the index was updated. Now, emails get sent out by the bot that archives the hacked page. I got the slackware.com news today, as well. Had I checked it immediately upon receipt, I would have seen the IIS page at slackware.com.
Attrition knows what they're doing, and odds are this is a legit hack.
Regards,
-efisher
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Shamrock got a lot of flak on HNN if i remember correctly.. I wonder if he saw that, or if his friends started giving him trouble for it, as well. There's no one the underground community dislikes more than a bragging cracker.
Regards,
-efisher
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