The name Linux was not coined by Linus himself, strange though that may seem to people familiar with his self-esteem. It was coined by Ari Lemmke, the administrator at ftp.funet.fi who first made Linux available for FTP. Ari had to coin a name since Linus had failed to give a proper one, so Ari invented one and it stuck.
The same thing seems to happen (or used to happen) at IMDB, they have Star Wars as no. 9 from their Top 250 movies, it used to be higher (competing with Shawshank Redemption for No. 1) if that's not the power of so many computer geeks who know the site who gave it a good rating, whereas non-geeks wouldn't even know what a database is (imagine the time before everything had www.YOURCOMPANYNAMEHERE.com). But IMDB is probably mainstream and that sort of thing doesn't happen that much anymore.
The "Ask Slashdot" Questioner should inform the librarians about this, probably on their own net-forums and chatrooms, which Michael Moore hypothized to exist.
Maybe they're trying to one-up MS's Tablet PC(TM)? If the display uses less energy and gives their tablet PC(No-TM) longer battery life, that would be sweet.
What is this trend of fan-whoring by offering links to naked chicks?!? Not that I mind, like someone said, "Slashdot, your one stop shop for procrastination."
That's a feature for which I too have been wishing! It wouldn't be so hard to implement, but it sure will annoy and confuse new users..
My idea was, when you do a copy/move function and the computer finds filenames in the target directory which are the same to filenames you're processing, record these names and then display them in a dialog box list, which should look like this:
| Original Name | Conflicts with target | Rename original as | Rename target as | foo.jpg foo.jpg foo.jpg foo2.jpg : : with buttons to auto-generate names for the original or for the target (but not for both), and the ability to click the rename columns to choose a name you want.
Like I said, I don't think it would be too intuitive, and in the end you won't remember what the files were called.
EPoX EP-7KTA+. One tough motherboard. I run Windows 2000, and I never shut the thing down, just put it in suspend-to-RAM mode, where everything shuts down except for 5 Volts that keeps the RAM charged. Anyway, I got a new network card. Being too lazy to shut down and being confident Windows would survive when it wakes up finding a new card, I tried putting in the card in a PCI slot.
"Hmm, that doesn't fit right, maybe there's something jamming it inside the slot. I'll just take this slot cover (the thing that covers the unused slots at the back of the case) and see if I can dislodge whatever it is.". So it went into the PCI slot, until the (metal!!!) slot cover connected a +5V with ground (my guess), and there you go, sparks!
Front power button didn't work. Switched the PSU to off, and on again. Pressed the power button, it boots. And still works. Pheew...
That's really a pretty ignorant point of view, probably based on Code Red's "hacked by Chinese!!!" callsign.
I don't think anybody knows anymore where the virus/worm first originated. When Melissa (a worm written in scripting language, imagine that) burnt the net, they hunted the guy who wrote it and tracked him down to New Jersey. Same deal with ILOVEYOU. But now there's a handful of these worms running loose and eating up resources on the net, and no one is getting chased or prosecuted, including Microsoft. Fucked up, huh?
The only thing you can blame the Chinese (and a lot of sysadmins in Asia) is their ignorance in setting up and maintaining a secure system that would survive the worm attacks (the latest MySQL worm hit Korea hard), being Asian myself I know a lot of people don't even read the manual (which is in English) and just click-click-click-"it runs okay let's forget about it".. heh actually that's not just Asians, most of the world does that.
Freedom of speech? Oh wait, Congress is reviewing that freedom at the moment, and it looks like it will suffer the fate of some other freedoms, in that they will all gradually be removed from your beloved US Constitution.
Well, yeah, as their Fix-It-Guy maybe, but no more. Unless they're pretending their gadgets are broken so that they can check your ass while you're under their desk to see if the printer's plugged in right, etc..
My solution to that would be: use Proxomitron!. It acts as a proxy, and it can rewrite outgoing/incoming headers and HTTP content (to remove ad banners, mostly). One hack allows you to change your browser ID to what you want. Unfortunately it only runs on Windows, but I'm sure it runs fine under Wine. So all that needs to be done is get it running on your NAT firewall box, and let it modify all HTTP-browser-id headers, and while you're there, make it remove the ads, as well!
Interesting point, which makes me remember, that.de domain names are usually just that, plain.de . For example earlier today we had this, ther's also this site. The same thing goes for.ch - for example the URL this famous site - and probably a few more countries.
Wonder what the regulations really are.
The DNS system is pretty much full of inconsistencies anyway (.tv,.cx, hmm what else?). I once had an idea how they can be arranged to be more logical, but change would just confuse oh-the-so-numerous websurfing grandmothers of the world.
Strange... I've seen the capacitors on my Epox EP-7KTA+ , and their tops look like those on the picture as well, but my motherboard still works okay. Anyone know if that's possible, or are my capacitors only half-dead, or are they just fine? I got the board in October 2000, and from the article, it doesn't look like the problem had existed back then..
Not talking about the disaster here, but I can't imagine how they use up a budget of fifteen billion dollars, every year! That's $ 41.1 Million every day (well a bit less for 2004 because it has an extra day).. geez, that's 47.5 cents every millisecond.
A critic already claims the shuttle is too old and too expensive, but the management likes it that way because a cheaper shuttle means less money for the contractors.
"It looks like you are about to urinate. Would you like any assistance?"
and when you're "The application "Toilet" has an error at 0x0124FB0. The septic tank can not be "written". This Program will now terminate."
Re:I'll have to see the bandwidth tests first.
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What about DirectFB? They have their patched version of GTK+ that will allow it to work with their framebuffer library.. looks neat, I wonder if Gnome can run on it. Someone care to explain to me how they all (Gnome, GTK+, the "screen-device") work together? AFAIK Gnome talks to GTK, and GTK talks to X, or in this case DirectFB. I guess it would be neat, only 58 days before my exams are behind me and I can get to play with these.:)
Clark's blunt staements on the to the need to avoid erosion of privacy rights is rumored to have rubbed the administration the wrong way, prompting his exit. Anyone know how Schmitt will view the relative security of closed versus open source?"
I guess you think it would be pretty cool to get your name on the frontpage (maybe you can show it to your prospective mates) as the first to submit a story, but is he called Clarke, or Clark? Schmitt or Schmidt? And what does "on the to the" mean?
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(MS)NBC? Figures, they probably stole the animation from Microsoft Explorapedia.. :)
The same thing seems to happen (or used to happen) at IMDB, they have Star Wars as no. 9 from their Top 250 movies, it used to be higher (competing with Shawshank Redemption for No. 1) if that's not the power of so many computer geeks who know the site who gave it a good rating, whereas non-geeks wouldn't even know what a database is (imagine the time before everything had www.YOURCOMPANYNAMEHERE.com). But IMDB is probably mainstream and that sort of thing doesn't happen that much anymore.
The "Ask Slashdot" Questioner should inform the librarians about this, probably on their own net-forums and chatrooms, which Michael Moore hypothized to exist.
Heh I only clicked the link afterwards, only then realizing that there are no girls.
Maybe they're trying to one-up MS's Tablet PC(TM)? If the display uses less energy and gives their tablet PC(No-TM) longer battery life, that would be sweet.
What is this trend of fan-whoring by offering links to naked chicks?!? Not that I mind, like someone said, "Slashdot, your one stop shop for procrastination."
oh do I have a case of penis^H^H^H^H^Hgui envy..
That's a feature for which I too have been wishing! It wouldn't be so hard to implement, but it sure will annoy and confuse new users..
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My idea was, when you do a copy/move function and the computer finds filenames in the target directory which are the same to filenames you're processing, record these names and then display them in a dialog box list, which should look like this:
| Original Name | Conflicts with target | Rename original as | Rename target as |
foo.jpg foo.jpg foo.jpg foo2.jpg
with buttons to auto-generate names for the original or for the target (but not for both), and the ability to click the rename columns to choose a name you want.
Like I said, I don't think it would be too intuitive, and in the end you won't remember what the files were called.
EPoX EP-7KTA+. One tough motherboard. I run Windows 2000, and I never shut the thing down, just put it in suspend-to-RAM mode, where everything shuts down except for 5 Volts that keeps the RAM charged. Anyway, I got a new network card. Being too lazy to shut down and being confident Windows would survive when it wakes up finding a new card, I tried putting in the card in a PCI slot.
"Hmm, that doesn't fit right, maybe there's something jamming it inside the slot. I'll just take this slot cover (the thing that covers the unused slots at the back of the case) and see if I can dislodge whatever it is.". So it went into the PCI slot, until the (metal!!!) slot cover connected a +5V with ground (my guess), and there you go, sparks!
Front power button didn't work. Switched the PSU to off, and on again. Pressed the power button, it boots. And still works. Pheew...
The PCI slot works fine as well.
That's really a pretty ignorant point of view, probably based on Code Red's "hacked by Chinese!!!" callsign.
I don't think anybody knows anymore where the virus/worm first originated. When Melissa (a worm written in scripting language, imagine that) burnt the net, they hunted the guy who wrote it and tracked him down to New Jersey. Same deal with ILOVEYOU. But now there's a handful of these worms running loose and eating up resources on the net, and no one is getting chased or prosecuted, including Microsoft. Fucked up, huh?
The only thing you can blame the Chinese (and a lot of sysadmins in Asia) is their ignorance in setting up and maintaining a secure system that would survive the worm attacks (the latest MySQL worm hit Korea hard), being Asian myself I know a lot of people don't even read the manual (which is in English) and just click-click-click-"it runs okay let's forget about it".. heh actually that's not just Asians, most of the world does that.
Well here's a pic of her, hmm I think CEOs can find better people to hug than her.
Funny that one of her books is called "Betrayal of Trust".
Freedom of speech? Oh wait, Congress is reviewing that freedom at the moment, and it looks like it will suffer the fate of some other freedoms, in that they will all gradually be removed from your beloved US Constitution.
>cat niemoeller_speech
First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
And I did not speak out
- Because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
- Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me
- And there was no-one left
To speak out for me.
>echo "We need a Regime Change in USA! People of USA, revolt against your tyrannical government!"
Well, yeah, as their Fix-It-Guy maybe, but no more. Unless they're pretending their gadgets are broken so that they can check your ass while you're under their desk to see if the printer's plugged in right, etc..
Interestingly, in some racing games they sometimes use "DNF" when a racer "Did Not Finish". :)
My solution to that would be: use Proxomitron!. It acts as a proxy, and it can rewrite outgoing/incoming headers and HTTP content (to remove ad banners, mostly). One hack allows you to change your browser ID to what you want. Unfortunately it only runs on Windows, but I'm sure it runs fine under Wine. So all that needs to be done is get it running on your NAT firewall box, and let it modify all HTTP-browser-id headers, and while you're there, make it remove the ads, as well!
Who cares! Who needs to play videogames when you can get 14 minute orgasms! ;-)
Interesting point, which makes me remember, that .de domain names are usually just that, plain .de . For example earlier today we had this, ther's also this site. The same thing goes for .ch - for example the URL this famous site - and probably a few more countries.
.cx, hmm what else?). I once had an idea how they can be arranged to be more logical, but change would just confuse oh-the-so-numerous websurfing grandmothers of the world.
Wonder what the regulations really are.
The DNS system is pretty much full of inconsistencies anyway (.tv,
6 - ... :P
7 - Profit!!!
Strange... I've seen the capacitors on my Epox EP-7KTA+ , and their tops look like those on the picture as well, but my motherboard still works okay. Anyone know if that's possible, or are my capacitors only half-dead, or are they just fine? I got the board in October 2000, and from the article, it doesn't look like the problem had existed back then..
Not talking about the disaster here, but I can't imagine how they use up a budget of fifteen billion dollars, every year! That's $ 41.1 Million every day (well a bit less for 2004 because it has an extra day).. geez, that's 47.5 cents every millisecond.
A critic already claims the shuttle is too old and too expensive, but the management likes it that way because a cheaper shuttle means less money for the contractors.
Oh no, not another backdoor exploit!
"It looks like you are about to urinate. Would you like any assistance?"
and when you're
"The application "Toilet" has an error at 0x0124FB0. The septic tank can not be "written". This Program will now terminate."
What about DirectFB? They have their patched version of GTK+ that will allow it to work with their framebuffer library.. looks neat, I wonder if Gnome can run on it. Someone care to explain to me how they all (Gnome, GTK+, the "screen-device") work together? AFAIK Gnome talks to GTK, and GTK talks to X, or in this case DirectFB. I guess it would be neat, only 58 days before my exams are behind me and I can get to play with these. :)
Clark's blunt staements on the to the need to avoid erosion of privacy rights is rumored to have rubbed the administration the wrong way, prompting his exit. Anyone know how Schmitt will view the relative security of closed versus open source?"
I guess you think it would be pretty cool to get your name on the frontpage (maybe you can show it to your prospective mates) as the first to submit a story, but is he called Clarke, or Clark? Schmitt or Schmidt? And what does "on the to the" mean?