Iambic pentameter that ain't. I don't remember enough about scansion to know what it is, tho'...
By the way, this is a parody of a T.S. Elliot poem from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats--a good read (which was turned into a really sucky musical).
I knew a guy (also from IU's IT organization) who was very creative:
dev
null
coredump
et cetera, et cetera... but my very favorite was
quit
So when you were doing an interactive nslookup and typed "quit", you would get its record.;) (For you nslookup tyros out there, "quit" is not a valid command; you have to use "exit" or Control-D.)
I had a really scary experience the other day: I was helping one of marketing guys set up Windows (yep, everyone else but them uses Linux;) ), and I went to download Netscape so he could use it for mail. Internet Explorer wouldn't let me do it! Even though I could see the rest of the 'Net, I couldn't get through to ftp.netscape.com, or even go to the browser-version form with the Download button on Netscape's main page. I had to get the Windows version myself, move it to a Samba-re- exported NFS share, and grab it from there! Can anyone else confirm this? It sure gave me the willies.
Yes, the KDE developers have consistently chosen the most practical route when faced with tough design decisions. This goes for GUI design especially, at least in my opinion. KDE apps work, and they're easy to use.
Anyway, I'm wondering what GNOME's extensive use of CORBA and KDE's general eschewing of CORBA will mean for full integration of the environments. In particular, I wonder when, if ever, kpanel will communicate with E. I love E, but not being able to use the taskbar in kpanel is too much of a loss to let me switch over (from kwm, natch). For those of you who are wondering about kpanel and E playing together, the launchers and swallowed apps work fine if you invoke kpanel --no-KDE-compliant-window-manager, but the dern taskbar (the only good thing Microsoft ever invented, except maybe Joliet) doesn't work. D'oh!
Regarding what Rob might or might not be doing with our cookies, I want to reiterate one of the fundamental principles of computer security: Choose whom you trust. Encryption isn't magic, nor are other computer security mechanisms. Sooner or later, yuo have to trust somebody. If I make an HTTPS connection to your machine, I either have to trust you (if your certificate is not signed by one of the big companies like Thawte) or trust one of those big companies. If I ssh to a friend's machine, not only is that friend placing trust in me not to run local exploits, but I am trusting that friend to protect her private key so that it cannot be used by IP-spoofing bad guys during our session. In fact, I'm also trusting her not to hack sshd to decrypt everything and send it to my enemies. If I give Rob a cookie in exchange for the niceties of a customized Slashdot interface, I must trust him not to track me with that cookie and sell the information to Spew merchants.
I trust Rob. I repeat: Sooner or later, everyone must trust someone. Otherwise, you end up living in a fortress of your own making, with no friends. As with affairs of the heart, so with computers: You must make yourself vulnerable to reach true intimacy. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Oh, please. Do you really think people fuck more because they have less to do? Face it, all the world's population between 16 and 65 (at least) is constantly getting it on. If you don't believe me, you just don't know enough people intimately enough to know about their sex lives. I, for one, have never been to tired from work to get freaky at least once a day... and that's all it takes to conceive (or all it would take, if I weren't assiduously using protection). Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
What about the Vaios? I find them to be pretty stylish, too. If you haven't checked one out, you owe it to yourself to do so. Unfortunately, they have touchpad pointing devices, but they run X nicely at 16 bpp and 800x600 (and maybe even higher resolution--I can't recall).
By the way, the reason so few companies use the stubby-eraser thingy is that IBM has a patent on it. They don't want to pay the licensing fees.:(
Yes, I definitely appreciate the value of platonic relationships. Most of my friends are women (I'm not sure why), and the fact is that I will never end up in bed with 95% of them. Luckily, my brain has enough control over my gonads that I can sort of set aside the physical attraction and appreciate all the great things a friendhsip has to offer.
Still, when I walk down the street, I look... it's just part of my nature. I once had a girlfriend who was really upset by this behavior, so I stopped it for the last six months we were together. It almost killed me... I could do it with great effort, but I knew I was just denying my nature. This is not to say that I wasn't immensely attracted to her, or that I wasn't deeply in love with her. I was both. Nor is it to say that I actually wanted to do anything with any of those women I used to look at--being unfaithful to my lover was the last thing I would ever do. Nonetheless, I felt the urge to look.
During this time, I talked to a lot of my male friends about this tendency. I was starting to get worried that maybe I had some kind of obsession, since giving up looking was so hard. The universal response was, "No, that's just the way you're wired. I'm exactly the same!" The fact is that I automatically respond to the attractiveness of any woman I meet, even any woman who walks into my field of vision, and I can no more change my appreciation of the female form than I could change my esthetic preferences from modern to Raphaelite art!
So there you have it. Call me a shameless lecher if you like. I don't attach any value judgment to the way I am.
I sincerely hope it wasn't your intention, but you came across in this article as a selfish and sexist jerk. Here's what I gleaned from it: Your ideal woman is some wallflower you picked up at a bar because no one else was interested and she wouldn't assert herself, who stands in awe of your great genius as a technician. Because she is so overwhelmed by your intellect (which she either does not possess or does not give herself credit for possessing), she meekly tolerates your late-night hacking sessions, rubs your poor, beleagured genius shoulders, and runs your bathwater for you.
What kind of sexist dominance fantasy is this? I can only hope that's you're exaggerating to make a humorous point. I hope you don't expect such unquestioning self-abdication from your real-life wife; if you do, I feel very sorry for her.
For my part, I will continue to choose women with real spirit, women who will treat me as an equal in a relationship and expect the same, and who have the intellectual caliber to do so, if not as coders then as chemists or teachers or artists or lawyers. Maybe it's because I grew up in the 80s and 90s, but I have no desire for the kind of 50s sitcom life you describe. I want a soulmate, not a nursemaid. I have had the great pleasure of finding several such women, though for various reasons things didn't work out in the end--so I know this is not a pipe dream. These strong, smart women exist--het geek guys, don't settle for less! Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
I can't speak for the man, but I bet he doesn't give a shit about the latest bee in Marc's bonnet. He's a hacker and an open-source advocate--he's one of us. I can't see him liking this idea any better than we do.
Don't worry. It's all bullshit. How far has Sun gone with the network computer? These "innovators" fail to take into account the massive impetus of the open- source movement. Why would you lease your applications when you can run tons of them on even the oldest computers, on Linux, for next to nothing? Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Not only that, but, as chronicled in Steven Levy's Hackers, Gates's anal-retentive licensing pissed off everyone in the personal computing scene of the time. He tried to stomp out the practice of improving his binary code and redistributing it--on paper tape!
*You know that platonic female friend of yours? Maybe you met her via IRC? Or maybe she's your next door neighbor or the daughter of one of you mom's friends? Yeah, her. Talk to her. Really-- try and pick her brain. Consider it a reverse-engineering project to figure out what stimuli can achieve the desired effect.
Dude, are you nuts? Do you seriously expect me not ot view every attractive woman in site as a potential mate, watch her with appreciation, and fantasize about her? I thought all men did this all the time.
Then again, maybe I'm just a member of the geek subcategory known as horny geeks. It's just that I've never met any other kind... Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
O.K., I agree with most of what you have to say, though I still don't like the idea of people eavesdropping on my private conversations. I know enough about human nature, and about government employee nature in particular, to know that some people will abuse the ability to snoop on your mail, and either single you out for spying because of an old personal grudge or look for racy content and read your love letters, or do similarly unauthorized and nasty things. I also know that the government spies on activists-- look at Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anyway, I want to take issue with your portrayal of the Black Panthers. They are a nationally co-ordinated community action group that happens to advocate carrying guns for self-defense--nothing more. They certainly don't belong in the same category as "militarized religious organizations that dream of dropping acid into the water supply someday". I don't doubt that the government spies on them still, and we all know how the police basically assassinated Huey with no provocation. But they are not fanatics, no matter some reactionaries might want you to believe. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Slashdot Mirror
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By the way, this is a parody of a T.S. Elliot poem from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats--a good read (which was turned into a really sucky musical).
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
- dev
- null
- coredump
et cetera, et cetera... but my very favorite was- quit
So when you were doing an interactive nslookup and typed "quit", you would get its record.Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
- Herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (still in service; hosts our FTP mirror and Web pages)
- Bud.ucs.indiana.edu
et al.Desktop machines, for a while, were named after Jimi Hendrix songs (until the Jimi fan moved to Colorado-- Brett, if you're out there, greets!)
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They never seem to run out. (But if they do I'll branch out into Chinese foods. ;) )
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
My plan is nearly to fruition... Bwahahahahaaaaa!
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Anyway, I'm wondering what GNOME's extensive use of CORBA and KDE's general eschewing of CORBA will mean for full integration of the environments. In particular, I wonder when, if ever, kpanel will communicate with E. I love E, but not being able to use the taskbar in kpanel is too much of a loss to let me switch over (from kwm, natch). For those of you who are wondering about kpanel and E playing together, the launchers and swallowed apps work fine if you invoke kpanel --no-KDE-compliant-window-manager, but the dern taskbar (the only good thing Microsoft ever invented, except maybe Joliet) doesn't work. D'oh!
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
I trust Rob. I repeat: Sooner or later, everyone must trust someone. Otherwise, you end up living in a fortress of your own making, with no friends. As with affairs of the heart, so with computers: You must make yourself vulnerable to reach true intimacy.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Oh, please. Do you really think people fuck more because they have less to do? Face it, all the world's population between 16 and 65 (at least) is constantly getting it on. If you don't believe me, you just don't know enough people intimately enough to know about their sex lives. I, for one, have never been to tired from work to get freaky at least once a day... and that's all it takes to conceive (or all it would take, if I weren't assiduously using protection).
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
By the way, the reason so few companies use the stubby-eraser thingy is that IBM has a patent on it. They don't want to pay the licensing fees. :(
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Still, when I walk down the street, I look... it's just part of my nature. I once had a girlfriend who was really upset by this behavior, so I stopped it for the last six months we were together. It almost killed me... I could do it with great effort, but I knew I was just denying my nature. This is not to say that I wasn't immensely attracted to her, or that I wasn't deeply in love with her. I was both. Nor is it to say that I actually wanted to do anything with any of those women I used to look at--being unfaithful to my lover was the last thing I would ever do. Nonetheless, I felt the urge to look.
During this time, I talked to a lot of my male friends about this tendency. I was starting to get worried that maybe I had some kind of obsession, since giving up looking was so hard. The universal response was, "No, that's just the way you're wired. I'm exactly the same!" The fact is that I automatically respond to the attractiveness of any woman I meet, even any woman who walks into my field of vision, and I can no more change my appreciation of the female form than I could change my esthetic preferences from modern to Raphaelite art!
So there you have it. Call me a shameless lecher if you like. I don't attach any value judgment to the way I am.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
What kind of sexist dominance fantasy is this? I can only hope that's you're exaggerating to make a humorous point. I hope you don't expect such unquestioning self-abdication from your real-life wife; if you do, I feel very sorry for her.
For my part, I will continue to choose women with real spirit, women who will treat me as an equal in a relationship and expect the same, and who have the intellectual caliber to do so, if not as coders then as chemists or teachers or artists or lawyers. Maybe it's because I grew up in the 80s and 90s, but I have no desire for the kind of 50s sitcom life you describe. I want a soulmate, not a nursemaid. I have had the great pleasure of finding several such women, though for various reasons things didn't work out in the end--so I know this is not a pipe dream. These strong, smart women exist--het geek guys, don't settle for less!
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Don't worry. It's all bullshit. How far has Sun gone with the network computer? These "innovators" fail to take into account the massive impetus of the open- source movement. Why would you lease your applications when you can run tons of them on even the oldest computers, on Linux, for next to nothing?
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Ain't much changed.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Dude, are you nuts? Do you seriously expect me not ot view every attractive woman in site as a potential mate, watch her with appreciation, and fantasize about her? I thought all men did this all the time.
Then again, maybe I'm just a member of the geek subcategory known as horny geeks. It's just that I've never met any other kind...
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
To give emacs more spooky words, edit the file /usr/share/emacs/version/etc/spook.lines.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Anyway, I want to take issue with your portrayal of the Black Panthers. They are a nationally co-ordinated community action group that happens to advocate carrying guns for self-defense--nothing more. They certainly don't belong in the same category as "militarized religious organizations that dream of dropping acid into the water supply someday". I don't doubt that the government spies on them still, and we all know how the police basically assassinated Huey with no provocation. But they are not fanatics, no matter some reactionaries might want you to believe.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product