Doesn't KaZaA have a similar virus propagating, that creates dozens of bogus warez files within your Windows directory? With some modification, I'm sure it can be done with EE.;)
2003-07-18 02:55:55 Yet another notorious spammer resorts to a SLAPP (articles,censorship) (rejected)
I wonder if the admins have it in for me, submitted a pile of relevant and maybe even marginally interesting articles that all wound up rejected (had one rejected literally within seconds of submission).
(1) As VMWare is used, it allows the users to have a maximum amount of compatability.
(2) As VMWare is being used under Linux to run Windows, Microsoft has no cause to complain.
(3) As for speed; The majority of the applications I assume are being used, don't require the mammoth memory and CPU overhead (I doubt the government is going to be playing Q3 deathmatch on their systems, or watching a huge amount of pr0n) that the average 'Doze or 'Nuxers need for their computing "experience". If you aren't using it for those, it probably will be quite snappy, because math oriented apps don't need nor care about DirectX, OpenGL, et al.
There's a simple and reasonable reason. They're using what is considered as proven and stable code, just like everyone else does when it comes to incorporating "new" concepts into their OS.
Someone released a direct film to video rip of the movie, complete with Dolby 5.1 sound about a couple of weeks back. It was in DiVX format, but clear enough to approach 1st or 2nd gen VHS.
I have, it's fairly nifty (although I tried it under VMWare, there was enough support within the community to allow it to run quickly enough to enjoy it).
In the simplest terms, it's as hard to work with in the CLI as any mainstream GUI addicted user will find, but as easy to get to the CLI as Windows is (usually run>cmd in the windows environ). However, since it's well designed enough for newbie needing net usage, it takes little to no time for a beginner to track down the documentation needed to operate it.
It does the "Windows cannot find the nessesary program to open this file, please choose it" routine when you double click on an unfamiliar file, and others take a little work to get around.
However, as far as "idiot friendly" Linux distros go, it IS the best. It's friendly, a very familiar environment. It's only true flaw, IMO, is the horrible text inherant in KDE desktops everywhere.
If not for needing an OS that allowed me to run everything (applications, mainstream released games, etc), I would move to Lycoris in a heartbeat.
In that matter, then, the bible should be banned, because 2/3 of the gun nuts, military, and government currently base all their decisions on the bible.
I'll handle this...the only danger in space is if we land on that terrible Planet of the Apes...wait a minute...Statue of Liberty...THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! *sob*
However, it was already common knowlege that an astronaut could easily be replaced with an inanimate carbon rod.
I believe they're putting the right effort into the wrong solutions. This area is in desperate need of a proper transit system, not pie in the sky monorail projects or a commuter rail train that only runs twice in the morning and twice in the evening.
If they were really serious about solving traffic problems, they should instead sell stocks or free ride cards, so that they may develop a true rail transit system (instead of expecting bus service alone to cover everything from Tacoma to Everett).
This area really isn't geologically suited for road commutes. Floating bridges over lakes which have to be closed in stormy weather, hillsides prone to mudslides, and uphill roads that make San Francisco's hills pale in comparison.
One problem too, is the NIMBY factor. To be blunt, if the NIMBYs had been around at the turn of the 20th century, there would have been no real development. These people have no real cause to block it, except for maintaining their class status (they don't want crime or people of the wrong color showing up in their neighborhoods).
And honestly, the one time rail transit worked, was when it was built by corporations and then eventually conglomerated under the local government. The true reason why it worked, was that they said "Screw you, we'll build this bridge/rail/skyscraper, and there's nothing you can do about it.". And it got DONE. And the gov't here needs to do that to develop a proper transit system.
All Washington state does currently, is waste millions upon millions on studied, whose sole results are why more and more millions need to be spent on new studies.
And either obsolete within 2 years, or wasted power for 2 years while developers come up with software that takes full advantage of the hardware, which will THEN make it obsolete. Woot!
But why didn't he just invest in a good positional sensing VR helmet instead? 13 monitors (new) has to have cost him close to $1500, and another $3000-$4000 for the computers. There has to be a helmet that is about the same price.
In the case of open source, IMO the authors should recieve a cut of the profits in the event their software is added to a package intended to be included in a retail product.
Additionally, since SCO will inevitably take the battle to Linux developers, the logical step should be to take away their licensing to use OSS to promote their own product.
SCO Skunkware is a collection of useful and entertaining software for use on SCO platforms. The CD-ROM contains many public domain or freely distributable programs including the GNU C Compiler, GNU utilities, audio drivers, Technical Library Supplements, graphics libraries, games, audio and video tools, graphics utilities, and much much more.
There is a slide presentation on Skunkware, its history, contents, etc which Ronald Joe Record presented at SCO Forum 98.
The current release of SCO Skunkware is intended for use on OpenServer, UnixWare 7 and Open UNIX 8. Previous releases of SCO Skunkware provided tools ported to SCO ODT, SCO UNIX 3.2v4, and even SCO Xenix.
*Hmmm, I think it's time for some OSS authors to yank permission from SCO's usage of their software, since they're *technically* making profits from OSS (sure it's indirectly, but how long til the OSS authors come under legal action from SCO?).
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"And if we can trace that virus back to their offices, they will be wearing stripes soon."
Ummm, they're in the UK, don't they wear their prison uniforms with those stupid looking "This End Up" arrows all over them?
Doesn't KaZaA have a similar virus propagating, that creates dozens of bogus warez files within your Windows directory? With some modification, I'm sure it can be done with EE.;)
2003-07-18 02:55:55 Yet another notorious spammer resorts to a SLAPP (articles,censorship) (rejected)
I wonder if the admins have it in for me, submitted a pile of relevant and maybe even marginally interesting articles that all wound up rejected (had one rejected literally within seconds of submission).
*sigh* Ohwell.
That's nothing, imagine if mom or dad makes a slight interpretational error after a wine cooler bender:
"Spot has driven the car to a remote location.", etc etc etc.
And better still,
"Scott has left the yard. Activate shock collar?"
(1) As VMWare is used, it allows the users to have a maximum amount of compatability.
(2) As VMWare is being used under Linux to run Windows, Microsoft has no cause to complain.
(3) As for speed; The majority of the applications I assume are being used, don't require the mammoth memory and CPU overhead (I doubt the government is going to be playing Q3 deathmatch on their systems, or watching a huge amount of pr0n) that the average 'Doze or 'Nuxers need for their computing "experience". If you aren't using it for those, it probably will be quite snappy, because math oriented apps don't need nor care about DirectX, OpenGL, et al.
When are they going to come up with an annoyingly long French varient for "Spam"?
They'll blame it on file sharing, naturally.
There's a simple and reasonable reason. They're using what is considered as proven and stable code, just like everyone else does when it comes to incorporating "new" concepts into their OS.
Someone released a direct film to video rip of the movie, complete with Dolby 5.1 sound about a couple of weeks back. It was in DiVX format, but clear enough to approach 1st or 2nd gen VHS.
I have, it's fairly nifty (although I tried it under VMWare, there was enough support within the community to allow it to run quickly enough to enjoy it).
In the simplest terms, it's as hard to work with in the CLI as any mainstream GUI addicted user will find, but as easy to get to the CLI as Windows is (usually run>cmd in the windows environ). However, since it's well designed enough for newbie needing net usage, it takes little to no time for a beginner to track down the documentation needed to operate it.
It does the "Windows cannot find the nessesary program to open this file, please choose it" routine when you double click on an unfamiliar file, and others take a little work to get around.
However, as far as "idiot friendly" Linux distros go, it IS the best. It's friendly, a very familiar environment. It's only true flaw, IMO, is the horrible text inherant in KDE desktops everywhere.
If not for needing an OS that allowed me to run everything (applications, mainstream released games, etc), I would move to Lycoris in a heartbeat.
I'm sorry, your government has performed an illegal action and must be shut down. If the problem persists, please contact your beaurocratic vendor.
This one gives both the pros and cons of the new BG miniseries, and has many valid points:
i cl es_interviews/archive/2002/dec02b-plain.html
http://www.battlestargalactica.com/features/art
Whatwhatwhat? You left out Canada!!!
In that matter, then, the bible should be banned, because 2/3 of the gun nuts, military, and government currently base all their decisions on the bible.
Sounds like 3/4 of the current Republican administration, when you think about it.
So does that mean Dubya Bush was inspired by 'Conflict: Desert Storm'(which was created about 2 years before the fact)?
Aaaah! The site's down! IT IS A CONSPIRACY! Circle the wagons! Pull out your fillings! Put on your tin foil hats!!!
Oops, wait, my bad, it was just Slashdotted. Disregard what I said, especially those who already pulled out their teeth.
Farnsworth: Who else has a question for the What If? machine? Scruffy? Katrina? Xanfor?
Fry: Ooo I have one. I'm good at video games and bad at everything else. That's why I wish life were more like a video game.
Farnsworth: Can you put that in the form of a question?
Fry: Uh, What if that thing I said?
[Farnsworth lights a stick of incense.]
Farnsworth: Oh great machine we beseech thee. What if life were more like a video game?
[What If? Scene: A video game ship flies around shoots some asteroids like in the game Asteroids and lands in the Planet Express hangar.]
Oooh ooh ooh AHHH AAAH! EEK!
(Translation: I beg to differ old chap. I graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, attended Julliard, and studied under Steven Hawking.)
Eeek ook ook ook AAH AAH AAH!!!
(Translation: In fact, the only reason I'm not currently president of the United States, is that I was considered as overqualified.)
Eee ook AAH eek!
(Translation: Of course, primate space flight has suffered considerably after we became unionized.)
I'll handle this...the only danger in space is if we land on that terrible Planet of the Apes...wait a minute...Statue of Liberty...THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! *sob*
However, it was already common knowlege that an astronaut could easily be replaced with an inanimate carbon rod.
I believe they're putting the right effort into the wrong solutions. This area is in desperate need of a proper transit system, not pie in the sky monorail projects or a commuter rail train that only runs twice in the morning and twice in the evening.
If they were really serious about solving traffic problems, they should instead sell stocks or free ride cards, so that they may develop a true rail transit system (instead of expecting bus service alone to cover everything from Tacoma to Everett).
This area really isn't geologically suited for road commutes. Floating bridges over lakes which have to be closed in stormy weather, hillsides prone to mudslides, and uphill roads that make San Francisco's hills pale in comparison.
One problem too, is the NIMBY factor. To be blunt, if the NIMBYs had been around at the turn of the 20th century, there would have been no real development. These people have no real cause to block it, except for maintaining their class status (they don't want crime or people of the wrong color showing up in their neighborhoods).
And honestly, the one time rail transit worked, was when it was built by corporations and then eventually conglomerated under the local government. The true reason why it worked, was that they said "Screw you, we'll build this bridge/rail/skyscraper, and there's nothing you can do about it.". And it got DONE. And the gov't here needs to do that to develop a proper transit system.
All Washington state does currently, is waste millions upon millions on studied, whose sole results are why more and more millions need to be spent on new studies.
And either obsolete within 2 years, or wasted power for 2 years while developers come up with software that takes full advantage of the hardware, which will THEN make it obsolete. Woot!
As one of those ol' fuddy duddies who consider Macs and PCs as tools and not ideals, allow me to make the first proper troll:
It's about fucking time.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Steve Jobs adulation and worship.
But why didn't he just invest in a good positional sensing VR helmet instead? 13 monitors (new) has to have cost him close to $1500, and another $3000-$4000 for the computers. There has to be a helmet that is about the same price.
In the case of open source, IMO the authors should recieve a cut of the profits in the event their software is added to a package intended to be included in a retail product.
Additionally, since SCO will inevitably take the battle to Linux developers, the logical step should be to take away their licensing to use OSS to promote their own product.
Quote from http://www.sco.com/skunkware/faq.html
SCO Skunkware is a collection of useful and entertaining software for use on SCO platforms. The CD-ROM contains many public domain or freely distributable programs including the GNU C Compiler, GNU utilities, audio drivers, Technical Library Supplements, graphics libraries, games, audio and video tools, graphics utilities, and much much more.
There is a slide presentation on Skunkware, its history, contents, etc which Ronald Joe Record presented at SCO Forum 98.
The current release of SCO Skunkware is intended for use on OpenServer, UnixWare 7 and Open UNIX 8. Previous releases of SCO Skunkware provided tools ported to SCO ODT, SCO UNIX 3.2v4, and even SCO Xenix.
*Hmmm, I think it's time for some OSS authors to yank permission from SCO's usage of their software, since they're *technically* making profits from OSS (sure it's indirectly, but how long til the OSS authors come under legal action from SCO?).