What's the point of this. Isn't this why the Linux operating system exists. All this effort for a project which is already going strong (i.e. Linux.)
I've been saying this for a while... Think of how good Linux would be if there wasn't soo many people trying to go in every direction with a distribution based on everything in the world? I wish some people would just be alirght with themselves by just contributing to a project instead of running their own. Don't get me wrong, I think variety is great, but there is a lot of wasted talent on some projects because of things like this. OpoenWindows? Why can't they just contribute majorly to the WINE project? Why can't they run something similar so they can help it out? Oh welps...
I am getting pissed at CmdrTaco's constant complaining "Linux is not supported by this game blah blah blah!" Look,there are TONS of OS out there and he thinks Linux should be number one priority, linux rules, yes it does. How about this, if you want to play a fucking game get Windows, right now Windows IS THE GAMING OS. Not linux, not mac, but Windows!
Instead of making yourself look like a flaming idiot, why don't you organize your post and come up with a smarter way of saying what you want?
I understand Windows is 'the' gaming platform now. What is Linux? Is it the 'office' platform? Is it the 'development' platform? Or is it the 'waste' platform? What is mac's aim? Sound and video? A lot of the Linux developers are aimed at making Linux the 'ultimate' platform. That's normal for advocates. I'm sure there are people who feel the same way for FreeBSD and Atheos (sp?)...
Why should we get Windows if we want to play a game? Why is it soo hard to make a port for multiple platforms instead of one silly unstable platform? It's about time people migrate to a different solution instead of what Microsoft brainwashed is right. I know Taco is hypocritcal when it comes to games. He posts Diablo 2 and how he's purchased it after it's been out for.0005 seconds, yet when it comes to Alpha Centauri he 'wishes' he could participate in.
Please rethink your posts before you smack submit.
Linux, as well as other *nix's are desperately in need of a good gaming API. I know everyone has heard it about a thousand times, but are there any developers actaully working on a project yet? I've searched google and what not, but still don't see much activity in that aspect.
I know it would be a long journey to build something similar to DirectX... Not as bloaty:) Picture a moduleded API, where it only loads part neccesary for the game to run. That would optimize a little better 'eh?
You mean *exactly* like what I quoted above? If you would actually read the announcement, you'd probably be in a more priviledged position to comment on it.
Don't be so quick on the trigger. I just looked at the story posted here and it looks to be backwards.
If I didn't see the posts on Slashdot earlier or chat about the GNOME project on IRC, I'd be in hell trying to figure out what the hell Evolution.03 is. I double checked the story posted, and then I followed the link to the GNOME evolution link. Nothing really states it's use until you click on Evolution on that page.
That's one of the little problems that's keeping many of these projects behind. I mean it doesn't take much effort to find at all, but it does look semi-unprofessional.
I look at all the icky Windows Software warehouses and press releases and there will be atleast a very brief description about the product being offered/used.
Another thing is some of the software names... but that's another topic. Anyways, kudos to the Evolution development team, hopefully we'll have a stable version being released soon
Memories ? The BOFH is still alive and well and on The Register - BOFH 2K: Kit and Caboodle.
More or less it was for the memories of being in High School, running a BBS, and thinking about how awesome it would be to be in charge of a system... Now that I am, I guess it's kind of lost a big appeal like it used to have. It's more or less reminding me of what I'd actaully like to do;)
he will be remembered very well by all of us in the open source community.
Google results 1-10 of about 4,860 for espy joel klecker. Search took 3.91 seconds.
It's neat with todays technology on how we all can be remembered... It's quite sad to run back and see the outline of life through your a search engine in a way, but it's also interesting to see. Espy accomplished very much through his journey...
RIP Espy, I hope Debian will still shine with his light.
I wouldn't bet that even disallowing anonymous postings does stop the automated crap.
If they could automate it via anonymous cowrd, I'm quite sure they could just login first then post the garbage. I bet it's just a small perl script most of these asses are running.:\
There seem to have become more automated crap postings here lately too. With the goatse thing and other lameness.
This can be easily solved by setting your treshhold to +2... but you miss a lot of +1 posts that are still very intresting and well written, but I guess it can be a good tradeoff. When I moderate I keep it down to 0, and sometimes -1.
The only way we can keep this crap off Slashdot is to have enough users intrested in moderating correctly and keeping the higher crop of posts smarter then redundant beer and bird ascii's. Oh welps, that's just my 2 cents, back to contributing.:)
Hey, jagoff, read the fucking story. The DOS is not bandwidth related, per se. It is posting related. Too many bogus posts for them to keep up with/delete. Having a bunch of people visit their site wasn't the problem.
Try clicking on the link before you call 'em a jagoff. Here's a clip from the main page at kuro5.
As most of you know, for the past three days, kuro5hin.org has been subject to a series of automated "spam" type attacks by persons currently unknown. The story queue has been filled with crap, the comments have been filled with crap, and we've been hit with denial of service flood attacks, presumably intended to crash the server. We're tired of this shit.
So they were hit with BOTH spam attacks AND DOS flooding attacks.
Not only is kuro5 going to suffer from these DOS attacks, they're probably also going to suffer from our dearly beloved, dreaded slashdot effect...
But anyways, Last week Cryptome suffered a hard icmp attack becasue of information they had pertaining to a CIA document about Japan.
Can anyone point me to some articles that pertain to the psychology of script kiddies and their thinking of WHY they want to attack and destory other computers with such non-sense? I remember the thread posted here on slashdot a while back, but I browsed through it a few times and didn't find anything I'm looking for...
I haven't seen many Chinese people that are actually worried about the Goverment monitors and restrictions set upon them in their country. I talk to many Chinese in Hong Kong and Beijing frequently and none seem to care very much of their restrictions...
I guess, like Frued, they are a victim of their own enviorment.
I graduated from A vocational school during my high schooling last year and have recieved many awards in the computer field. One of those awards is a $6,000 grant, free books, free tests, all for my MCSE.
I'm in a bind. In a way I know it would be helpful for my future if I were to get this just to brighten my resume, but I'm also afraid it may hurt me considering I'd rather a job administrating Linux/UNIX serves rather then the disgusting NT.
Anyways, the training is free, so I'm in the process of doing it. Just figured I'd rant a tad...
If you already own 100 Playstation games, most likely you already own a PLAYSTATION and can still play your games ANYWAY. Buying a PS2 simply because it's a PS2 and can play your old Playstation games is a dumb reason for buying one
For those of us living in colleges, yes it is a good reason. Why carry all these damned consoles around with us when we barely have any quater space as it is?
Wow, you asked ALL of your friends? Every single one? Well, since we now know of two people who prefer the PS2 over the X-Box, anyone with any knowledge of statistics can tell you that the rest of the market feels the same way.
I was giving a more personal approach. Sorry for posting.
Honestly, I hope the drudge report is wrong... again. I'd hate to see 3 companies merge into each other and kill all other competitions.
I don't beleieve it's good for our economic growth if all the big companies are merging, eliminating a lot of people so they can grow. Our longest period of economic prosperity is going to be drying up. Disney is already big enough... hell, what doesn't disney own?:-)
The most interesting thing about my test results was to see how much of a load Postgres could withstand before giving any errors. In fact, Postgres seemed to scale 3 times higher than MySQL before giving any errors at all. MySQL begins collapsing at about 40-50 concurrent connections, whereas Postgres handily scaled to 120 before balking. My guess is, that Postgres could have gone far past 120 connections with enough memory and CPU.
Ouch... very ouch. 40-5o concurrent connections *ISN'T* very high. MySQL is pooping out on that many connections? How so? Slashdot is running on MySQL, and I'm sure Slashdot is getting more then 40-50 concurrent trolls^H^H^H^H^H^Husers at a clip at times. Postgres has far passed 120 connections... This puts MySQL in the dust. If the connections are important, and you can deal with a data limit of 8k per data row, then postgres if your man I'd say after the article. (postgres is fixing that in 7.1 accordingly...) However, I still believe, and from a little experience, that MySQL runs nice and is more realible in many ways then Postgres was...
I don't know if it's just Religon, but I'd go MySQL......
So let me get this straight. You saw the Anime article, opened it up, read the comments, posted, and announced that you don't want to waste your time with Anime articles?
Slashdot Mirror
I've been saying this for a while... Think of how good Linux would be if there wasn't soo many people trying to go in every direction with a distribution based on everything in the world? I wish some people would just be alirght with themselves by just contributing to a project instead of running their own. Don't get me wrong, I think variety is great, but there is a lot of wasted talent on some projects because of things like this. OpoenWindows? Why can't they just contribute majorly to the WINE project? Why can't they run something similar so they can help it out? Oh welps...
Instead of making yourself look like a flaming idiot, why don't you organize your post and come up with a smarter way of saying what you want?
I understand Windows is 'the' gaming platform now. What is Linux? Is it the 'office' platform? Is it the 'development' platform? Or is it the 'waste' platform? What is mac's aim? Sound and video? A lot of the Linux developers are aimed at making Linux the 'ultimate' platform. That's normal for advocates. I'm sure there are people who feel the same way for FreeBSD and Atheos (sp?)...
Why should we get Windows if we want to play a game? Why is it soo hard to make a port for multiple platforms instead of one silly unstable platform? It's about time people migrate to a different solution instead of what Microsoft brainwashed is right. I know Taco is hypocritcal when it comes to games. He posts Diablo 2 and how he's purchased it after it's been out for .0005 seconds, yet when it comes to Alpha Centauri he 'wishes' he could participate in.
Please rethink your posts before you smack submit.
Porn on this puppy would be.... scary!
I know it would be a long journey to build something similar to DirectX... Not as bloaty :) Picture a moduleded API, where it only loads part neccesary for the game to run. That would optimize a little better 'eh?
Oh welps, maybe I'm just dreaming
Don't be so quick on the trigger. I just looked at the story posted here and it looks to be backwards.
should have been the Evolution link
and
should have been the announced link
Evolution
That's one of the little problems that's keeping many of these projects behind. I mean it doesn't take much effort to find at all, but it does look semi-unprofessional.
I look at all the icky Windows Software warehouses and press releases and there will be atleast a very brief description about the product being offered/used.
Another thing is some of the software names... but that's another topic. Anyways, kudos to the Evolution development team, hopefully we'll have a stable version being released soon
More or less it was for the memories of being in High School, running a BBS, and thinking about how awesome it would be to be in charge of a system... Now that I am, I guess it's kind of lost a big appeal like it used to have. It's more or less reminding me of what I'd actaully like to do ;)
Oh what memories... :~(
Google results 1-10 of about 4,860 for espy joel klecker. Search took 3.91 seconds.
It's neat with todays technology on how we all can be remembered... It's quite sad to run back and see the outline of life through your a search engine in a way, but it's also interesting to see. Espy accomplished very much through his journey...
RIP Espy, I hope Debian will still shine with his light.
If they could automate it via anonymous cowrd, I'm quite sure they could just login first then post the garbage. I bet it's just a small perl script most of these asses are running. :\
This can be easily solved by setting your treshhold to +2... but you miss a lot of +1 posts that are still very intresting and well written, but I guess it can be a good tradeoff. When I moderate I keep it down to 0, and sometimes -1.
The only way we can keep this crap off Slashdot is to have enough users intrested in moderating correctly and keeping the higher crop of posts smarter then redundant beer and bird ascii's. Oh welps, that's just my 2 cents, back to contributing. :)
Try clicking on the link before you call 'em a jagoff. Here's a clip from the main page at kuro5.
As most of you know, for the past three days, kuro5hin.org has been subject to a series of automated "spam" type attacks by persons currently unknown. The story queue has been filled with crap, the comments have been filled with crap, and we've been hit with denial of service flood attacks, presumably intended to crash the server. We're tired of this shit.
So they were hit with BOTH spam attacks AND DOS flooding attacks.
But anyways, Last week Cryptome suffered a hard icmp attack becasue of information they had pertaining to a CIA document about Japan.
Can anyone point me to some articles that pertain to the psychology of script kiddies and their thinking of WHY they want to attack and destory other computers with such non-sense? I remember the thread posted here on slashdot a while back, but I browsed through it a few times and didn't find anything I'm looking for...
I guess, like Frued, they are a victim of their own enviorment.
I'm in a bind. In a way I know it would be helpful for my future if I were to get this just to brighten my resume, but I'm also afraid it may hurt me considering I'd rather a job administrating Linux/UNIX serves rather then the disgusting NT.
Anyways, the training is free, so I'm in the process of doing it. Just figured I'd rant a tad...
Payed off reviews? Mandrake is free? Why bitch and complain if something *IS* free and your not forced to use it, but it is an alterantive...
That may be a non-intellectual way to put it, but that sums it up completely.
*evil laugh*
Now I can write my own GPL'D paper clip and own the world.
I thought the same thing when I saw the story... reread the story... he says he wants to make money also.
You want to help the community...
You want to utilize your programing skills?
You want to help the world...
Why don't you move to Michigan, start a web based bulliten board, and ride the internet out of Idaho^H^H^H^H^HMichigan...
For those of us living in colleges, yes it is a good reason. Why carry all these damned consoles around with us when we barely have any quater space as it is?
I was giving a more personal approach. Sorry for posting.
I don't beleieve it's good for our economic growth if all the big companies are merging, eliminating a lot of people so they can grow. Our longest period of economic prosperity is going to be drying up. Disney is already big enough... hell, what doesn't disney own? :-)
Ouch... very ouch. 40-5o concurrent connections *ISN'T* very high. MySQL is pooping out on that many connections? How so? Slashdot is running on MySQL, and I'm sure Slashdot is getting more then 40-50 concurrent trolls^H^H^H^H^H^Husers at a clip at times. Postgres has far passed 120 connections... This puts MySQL in the dust. If the connections are important, and you can deal with a data limit of 8k per data row, then postgres if your man I'd say after the article. (postgres is fixing that in 7.1 accordingly...) However, I still believe, and from a little experience, that MySQL runs nice and is more realible in many ways then Postgres was...
I don't know if it's just Religon, but I'd go MySQL......
I was rather bored today at work... so sue me.
Very good idea. Extremely good idea. I think it's about time Taco does that... I've seen it posted in a lot of places. This should be +5 :)