First of all, thanks for coming up with "Eddie's in the space-time continuum". Secondly, would you like to come to my house warming at the start of June? I wouldn't be asking except for the fact that Ben Elton, John Cleese and Tony Blair refused. So if you don't mind the trek to Shoreditch I'll cover your travel expenses. We'll make sure we have a copule of extra towels to go round as well.
Yeah Jon, shut up and grow a brain. As Mr. Molter here obviously has a spare one maybe he should take up your job. Its fscking features like this that will in time drive me away from Slashdot. For fsck's sake think before you post something as neuronically challenged as this again. I bet you thought copying your friends' tapes or CDs wasn't illegal either, huh?
I too am into electronica and so understand the difficulty in obtaining good quality trance/house stuff cheaply among all the MTV crap in most record stores. To say that Napster alleviates this problem is bullshit. Napster seems to me to provide the same proportion of boring music as in any Virgin or HMV record store I've gone into.
Therefore I would contend that the music you are downloading is in fact stuff by bands like Underworld / Orbital / BT and so on. Stuff that is easy to get anywhere and you know it. Stray off the beaten track musically on Napster and your search will reveal 0 hits. It has for me again and again.
So my friend, you are stealing, plain and simple, not "rooting out" undiscovered, hard to find gems. I personally believe that Napster itself is not at fault (how could it be, it is just a mechanism) but the people who place copyrighted MP3s up for grabs and the people who snaffle them. Don't get all bleeding high and mighty or i'm a poor student on me. When I was a student I just went to the record store and stole the damn tape or CD because I didn't have the money. I never turned around and said, "I had to, I was broke!"
I am all for music industry reform and a world in which artist is connected to the audience without mega-corporations taking a huge slice of the monetary transaction but until that fine day I am going to continue to steal.
set RANT 1 While I couldn't agree more in general with your sentiment I find it annoying that you feel you have to bash Windows when it obviously is a commercial grade UI. I run KDE at home and Gnome at work and while they both have their strengths and weaknesses they both pale in comparison to the current version of Windows (2000 pro) that I use! This is really annoying, because I love linux, I love the culture and I admire the ideology and I worship the hackers. In my semi-experienced opinion the Linux kernel, development tools and networking daemons rock but X fundamentally sucks. You can't get around this. I know MS had to hack NT to get to be able to display windows remotely but the reason they had not implemented this in the first place was because 9they knew 9% of people will never use this functionality. It is so obvious a bunch of non-UI savvy hackers wrote the original X that we are stuck with. The X protocol, what a joke. Cut 'n paste sucks on X. Drag 'n drop is non-existant. Gnome, KDE, their respective Panels and the various Window Managers don't talk to eack other. Kfm is rubbish, gmc is not much better. Both compared to MS explorer are pathetic. Netscape Communicator is painful to use after the sweet clean lines of Ie5 and Outlook Express. I know this is not the responsibility of either the KDE or Gnome crews but how on earth is Mozilla going be of any use if it is gtk+ based. It can't be is the short and honest answer. I can't even use ctrl-left arrow and ctrl-right arrow to go forwards and backwards word by word while i type this! Things have improved since I first used Slackware but we have to do something about X. Too closed. I just downloaded XFree86 4.0 which has been in development since 1998 and it didn't even pick up my old settings. How crap is that. I had to run that awful xf86config program which is a complete joke, as is xvidtune. set RANT 0 I could go on but I'm getting too depressed:( Sorry to all the developers I insulted out there but a groovy computing environment not archaic monoliths must prevail.
supports enough RAM to choke a horse. My workmates prolly think I'm crazy laughing out loud like this but you caught me off gaurd:)
I'd like to say a few things on this whole topic while I'm here.
Mandrake for all his greatness should get somebody to proof read his rants *sigh*.
The more somebody slags something I like, be it an OS or my fave teddy bear the more I'm likely to hate their fucking guts!
The copyright link at the bottom of the the Myth page points to a file called cpyright.htm. If that 8.3 hangover isn't enough proof of a OS gone awry I don't know what is.
supports enough RAM to choke a horse. My workmates prolly think I'm crazy laughing out loud like this but you caught me off gaurd:)
I'd like to say a few things on this whole thing while I'm here.
Mandrake for all his greatness should get somebody to proof read his rants *sigh*.
The more somebody slags something I like, be it an OS or my fave teddy bear the more I'm likely to hate their fucking guts!
The copyrtight link at the bottom of the the Myth page points to a file called cpyright.htm. If that 8.3 hangover isn't enough proof of a world gone I don't know what is.
Thanks for the advice, I just tried it, it fell over almost instantly, now it won't even start, I think I'll stick with IE until things change, cheers anyhow but I don't really want to trash my dev machine with flaky betas.
I dunno what to say here, I somehow feel that I should say that you may be covering up your inability to function in harmony with the rest of normal humanity with eloquent mis-information. However, considering it is 1:00am, I have some interesting java code to get through by errrm, Thursday, Slashdot seems like more fun right now than sleep and I took the day off work today because I got up at noon and didn't really feel like going in, I guess I shouldn't. I don't know if they have a label for every human that feels "out of step" but we truly have a problem in our hyper-evolved society when the smallest deviancy from the norm is regarded with suspicion. For my part, and I know this sounds lame, I have gone out of my way to emphasise my non-conformity (esp. of late) so that people take note and don't try to treat me as they would some other moron, with mall-rat conversations and social preconceptions. It is surprising that once people are not given the option to pretend you are normal they have to think when they talk to you. If this all sounds like abstract wank to you (dear reader) then you have never felt panic just waking up in the morning or having to deal with a human to get something done. pass me the beer, i'm done. and no, i'm not bloody previewing this. ok, so i did:)
sheesh, ye mac freaks are such... freaks! i said i liked the hardware, is that not enough for you?! i have a friend who is a TOTAL mac fanatic and works in testing at Apple so i probably know more about COOL MAC STUFF than the average Linux punter and have put up with his ranting for years because i like the guy. i was seriously thinking about buying an imacII and making it dual boot yellow dog linux but with snide remarks like the one from your fawning sub-poster compatriot I may not bother. believe it or not i would not use it for "color correction, proofing, pre-production, graphics arts, and desktop publishing" i would use it for coding and surfing. cheers mac fans, its been swell
Yo weyus, you seem nice but I think you are deluding yourself. You say that you take offence that contractors care only about $$ and then go on to brag about working for huge corporations, you don't even name them, just their status!. I am a full time employee and I went to the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose a month ago maybe. I spent the whole day there and my employers paid for it. So FREEDOM and MONEY. You're happier now because you've got cash is my summation. Oh yeah, btw, my girlfriend of six years is an IT contractor and will happily explain to anyone who will listen that she is in it for the money. At least she buys me cool stuff, ain't I lucky:)
Good idea SEWilco. For myself, I would like to see multiple 'comment viewing modes' and a facility to easily switch between viewing modes. You could have a "moderator mode" (-1, newest first, flat), "weed out the dross mode" (2, highest first, threaded) and more that I can't think of right now:(
That is a great idea! Then all CmdrTaco has to do is offer a free web based e-mail service and give out addresses to devout slashdotters(sp?) Just think, me@slashdot.org:) Mmmm, I'm having wet dreams just thinking about it. You could let registered users hack at an off-line copy of the system in time honoured open source fashion. The tag line could be "Go on Evolve yourself". Then onto a Mozilla/. plugin, on-line collaborative moderated bookmarks, strong crypto discussions, automatic web-form filling, IPO and then then buy Yahoo! with the change.
woohoo! moderated up! i know, i know, pointless comment, moderate me down i dare ya. i'd like to point out however (before you do) that each app gets 2GB and not all apps sharing 2GB in userspace like my previous otherwise wonderful post *cough* seems to imply. somebody else posted somewhere that the PIII has 36bit addressing letting it potentially use 4 terabytes of RAM. who wants to help me write the linux kernel patch for that:)
NT 4GB, giving 2GB each to userspace and OS. Enterprise NT allows memory intensive boxen to be configured 3GB for apps and 1GB for the OS. blah. don't know about geography or any other OS.
First we are cloning slashdot articles.. now slashdot posts. =)
(sorry, couldn't resist it)
<waaaaay off-topic> Oh yeah, a friend sent me this NT vs. Linux link hosted by the boys at Redmond. Makes me feel ill it does:(<waaaaay off-topic>
Nice of you to throw in NT as part of your pricing scheme, there. Take that off and the price is $1198 for a nice smp linux box matey, which is $401 cheaper than the non-smp apple alternative. I still want one though, I'm a sucker for design aesthetics and hype:)
While I that agree our friend here is being overly picky, surely it would be *pretty* simple for the guys at/. to file their postings with associated keywords and then to check any new posting against these. If there is a keyword match then the old postings could be browsed manually for same-ness and the new one could be rejected before it hits the press. I am aware of course that if something like this isn't in place already that it could be a royal pain to retro-fit the posting system.
Slashdot Mirror
What is a multiple then and how could the artistic concept of a multiple be applied to new media?
Evening Douglas,
First of all, thanks for coming up with "Eddie's in the space-time continuum". Secondly, would you like to come to my house warming at the start of June? I wouldn't be asking except for the fact that Ben Elton, John Cleese and Tony Blair refused. So if you don't mind the trek to Shoreditch I'll cover your travel expenses. We'll make sure we have a copule of extra towels to go round as well.
Yeah Jon, shut up and grow a brain. As Mr. Molter here obviously has a spare one maybe he should take up your job. Its fscking features like this that will in time drive me away from Slashdot. For fsck's sake think before you post something as neuronically challenged as this again. I bet you thought copying your friends' tapes or CDs wasn't illegal either, huh?
Your argument is rubbish.
I too am into electronica and so understand the difficulty in obtaining good quality trance/house stuff cheaply among all the MTV crap in most record stores. To say that Napster alleviates this problem is bullshit. Napster seems to me to provide the same proportion of boring music as in any Virgin or HMV record store I've gone into.
Therefore I would contend that the music you are downloading is in fact stuff by bands like Underworld / Orbital / BT and so on. Stuff that is easy to get anywhere and you know it. Stray off the beaten track musically on Napster and your search will reveal 0 hits. It has for me again and again.
So my friend, you are stealing, plain and simple, not "rooting out" undiscovered, hard to find gems. I personally believe that Napster itself is not at fault (how could it be, it is just a mechanism) but the people who place copyrighted MP3s up for grabs and the people who snaffle them. Don't get all bleeding high and mighty or i'm a poor student on me. When I was a student I just went to the record store and stole the damn tape or CD because I didn't have the money. I never turned around and said, "I had to, I was broke!"
I am all for music industry reform and a world in which artist is connected to the audience without mega-corporations taking a huge slice of the monetary transaction but until that fine day I am going to continue to steal.
A quick search of Google's Open Directory revealed a list of bootloaders!
Click here to check it out.
Way to not contribute Mikey :-)
yup. top500
I would hit you with my moderation stick if I had one. Interesting and informed unlike 99% of /. these days.
set RANT 1 :( Sorry to all the developers I insulted out there but a groovy computing environment not archaic monoliths must prevail.
While I couldn't agree more in general with your sentiment I find it annoying that you feel you have to bash Windows when it obviously is a commercial grade UI. I run KDE at home and Gnome at work and while they both have their strengths and weaknesses they both pale in comparison to the current version of Windows (2000 pro) that I use!
This is really annoying, because I love linux, I love the culture and I admire the ideology and I worship the hackers. In my semi-experienced opinion the Linux kernel, development tools and networking daemons rock but X fundamentally sucks. You can't get around this. I know MS had to hack NT to get to be able to display windows remotely but the reason they had not implemented this in the first place was because 9they knew 9% of people will never use this functionality. It is so obvious a bunch of non-UI savvy hackers wrote the original X that we are stuck with.
The X protocol, what a joke. Cut 'n paste sucks on X. Drag 'n drop is non-existant. Gnome, KDE, their respective Panels and the various Window Managers don't talk to eack other. Kfm is rubbish, gmc is not much better. Both compared to MS explorer are pathetic. Netscape Communicator is painful to use after the sweet clean lines of Ie5 and Outlook Express. I know this is not the responsibility of either the KDE or Gnome crews but how on earth is Mozilla going be of any use if it is gtk+ based. It can't be is the short and honest answer. I can't even use ctrl-left arrow and ctrl-right arrow to go forwards and backwards word by word while i type this! Things have improved since I first used Slackware but we have to do something about X. Too closed. I just downloaded XFree86 4.0 which has been in development since 1998 and it didn't even pick up my old settings. How crap is that. I had to run that awful xf86config program which is a complete joke, as is xvidtune.
set RANT 0
I could go on but I'm getting too depressed
i find myself 'clicking through' less often and posting more infrequently over time. i wonder if cmdrtaco could give us stats on:
the number of people who view main page
the % of them who click through to an article
the % of those who post to the article :)
i would say it would make for interesting reading. of course i have no suggestions
I'd like to say a few things on this whole topic while I'm here.
Mandrake for all his greatness should get somebody to proof read his rants *sigh*.
The more somebody slags something I like, be it an OS or my fave teddy bear the more I'm likely to hate their fucking guts!
The copyright link at the bottom of the the Myth page points to a file called cpyright.htm. If that 8.3 hangover isn't enough proof of a OS gone awry I don't know what is.
I'd like to say a few things on this whole thing while I'm here.
Mandrake for all his greatness should get somebody to proof read his rants *sigh*.
The more somebody slags something I like, be it an OS or my fave teddy bear the more I'm likely to hate their fucking guts!
The copyrtight link at the bottom of the the Myth page points to a file called cpyright.htm. If that 8.3 hangover isn't enough proof of a world gone I don't know what is.
Thanks for the advice, I just tried it, it fell over almost instantly, now it won't even start, I think I'll stick with IE until things change, cheers anyhow but I don't really want to trash my dev machine with flaky betas.
I dunno what to say here, I somehow feel that I should say that you may be covering up your inability to function in harmony with the rest of normal humanity with eloquent mis-information. However, considering it is 1:00am, I have some interesting java code to get through by errrm, Thursday, Slashdot seems like more fun right now than sleep and I took the day off work today because I got up at noon and didn't really feel like going in, I guess I shouldn't. I don't know if they have a label for every human that feels "out of step" but we truly have a problem in our hyper-evolved society when the smallest deviancy from the norm is regarded with suspicion. For my part, and I know this sounds lame, I have gone out of my way to emphasise my non-conformity (esp. of late) so that people take note and don't try to treat me as they would some other moron, with mall-rat conversations and social preconceptions. It is surprising that once people are not given the option to pretend you are normal they have to think when they talk to you. If this all sounds like abstract wank to you (dear reader) then you have never felt panic just waking up in the morning or having to deal with a human to get something done. pass me the beer, i'm done. and no, i'm not bloody previewing this. ok, so i did :)
sheesh, ye mac freaks are such... freaks! i said i liked the hardware, is that not enough for you?! i have a friend who is a TOTAL mac fanatic and works in testing at Apple so i probably know more about COOL MAC STUFF than the average Linux punter and have put up with his ranting for years because i like the guy. i was seriously thinking about buying an imacII and making it dual boot yellow dog linux but with snide remarks like the one from your fawning sub-poster compatriot I may not bother. believe it or not i would not use it for "color correction, proofing, pre-production, graphics arts, and desktop publishing" i would use it for coding and surfing. cheers mac fans, its been swell
Yo weyus, you seem nice but I think you are deluding yourself. You say that you take offence that contractors care only about $$ and then go on to brag about working for huge corporations, you don't even name them, just their status!. I am a full time employee and I went to the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose a month ago maybe. I spent the whole day there and my employers paid for it. So FREEDOM and MONEY. You're happier now because you've got cash is my summation. Oh yeah, btw, my girlfriend of six years is an IT contractor and will happily explain to anyone who will listen that she is in it for the money. At least she buys me cool stuff, ain't I lucky :)
Good idea SEWilco. For myself, I would like to see multiple 'comment viewing modes' and a facility to easily switch between viewing modes. You could have a "moderator mode" (-1, newest first, flat), "weed out the dross mode" (2, highest first, threaded) and more that I can't think of right now :(
That is a great idea! Then all CmdrTaco has to do is offer a free web based e-mail service and give out addresses to devout slashdotters(sp?) Just think, me@slashdot.org :) Mmmm, I'm having wet dreams just thinking about it. You could let registered users hack at an off-line copy of the system in time honoured open source fashion. The tag line could be "Go on Evolve yourself". Then onto a Mozilla /. plugin, on-line collaborative moderated bookmarks, strong crypto discussions, automatic web-form filling, IPO and then then buy Yahoo! with the change.
Oops, I think I should reduce my caffiene intake.
woohoo! moderated up! i know, i know, pointless comment, moderate me down i dare ya. i'd like to point out however (before you do) that each app gets 2GB and not all apps sharing 2GB in userspace like my previous otherwise wonderful post *cough* seems to imply. somebody else posted somewhere that the PIII has 36bit addressing letting it potentially use 4 terabytes of RAM. who wants to help me write the linux kernel patch for that :)
no, seems fine to me, what problems are you having?
NT 4GB, giving 2GB each to userspace and OS. Enterprise NT allows memory intensive boxen to be configured 3GB for apps and 1GB for the OS. blah. don't know about geography or any other OS.
First we are cloning slashdot articles.. now slashdot posts. =)
:(<waaaaay off-topic>
(sorry, couldn't resist it)
<waaaaay off-topic> Oh yeah, a friend sent me this NT vs. Linux link hosted by the boys at Redmond. Makes me feel ill it does
you have waaaaay too much time on your hands my friend :)
Nice of you to throw in NT as part of your pricing scheme, there. Take that off and the price is $1198 for a nice smp linux box matey, which is $401 cheaper than the non-smp apple alternative. I still want one though, I'm a sucker for design aesthetics and hype :)
While I that agree our friend here is being overly picky, surely it would be *pretty* simple for the guys at /. to file their postings with associated keywords and then to check any new posting against these. If there is a keyword match then the old postings could be browsed manually for same-ness and the new one could be rejected before it hits the press. I am aware of course that if something like this isn't in place already that it could be a royal pain to retro-fit the posting system.