Here in Holland things are getting even stranger.
Mobile companies are advertising with SMS-Dating, SMS-gaming, SMS-chat (together with tv/teletext), SMS-info (like flightinfo), and a hell of a lot more stuff. Just goes to show that the big corp's are also cashing in on the SMS-hype.
It is incredible howmuch SMS has become a part in everyday life here. It's ideal for sending messages but not bothering people when they are busy, plus it's a lot cheaper than calling someone (0.50$ for 1 min. of talking...)
It's weird to see ppl depend on sms in europe, whereas ppl in the US don't even use it.
Silly American's;o)
The gadgetshop is a kewl place to look for neat stuff. Not geek-only stuff, but they have their supply of talking fish.
Last time i was in downtown London i bought one of those gigabot's. A geek-tamagotchi, i got sick of it within the hour, it'll drive you completly mad. It does look kewl with a joint stuck in its mouth |o)
It doesn't have "i 0wn u" t-shirts, but it's better than nothin...
So all the work done on the alpha, sun etc versions of linux are in vain? You just run the magic lill' program and it'll make even windoze work on a Ultrasparc.
God must forbid it! This is all a conspiricy of BillyBoy, don't say i ain't told you so!
Come on people, this is BS. it's a bloody IPO, they're just out there for the publicity...
Wonder how this prog works (if it does at all, as you will probably need more than DSL, if you would want a nice game of UT)
Has anyone actually tried this stuff out? It would be kewl to stream the whole app onto a CD for 5 bucks, beats the hell out of leeching a bogged FTP;o)
Nah, this won't work out (well)
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AOL would 0wn it, it would get nearly as bad as windoze XP.
Plus, not a lot of PS2's would be equiped with a HD, so you would only be able to use the stuff on the cd/dvd. Want to change your background? no go, after a reboot your RAM's clean, and you would have to download everything again.
Yeah sure, it *could* be kewl, but it would be new, frightening, different, and it wouldn't have fscking OE. The only people who would be interested are geeks, the main-stream would play it safe. Always has been. Just think about it. A lot of people have started with dos or Windoze 3.1. Then 95. then 98. then 2000. And it has always been enough, for them. Why try something else?
We can only hope that Micro$hit fscks up with XP, only allowing their own progs on it. Then, two things could happen:
1. Everyone sees the true 3vi1 of M$, and Linux is as good as ever to replace it on their PC's.
2. Everyone thinks it will be good, because the always have had windows on their pc. Why not pay for Windoze every year? You can still do the stuff you want, without a lot of hassel...
Mandrake, come one people. Get a real distro, kids...
But, seriously, this is not the best of times to think about IPO's. it may sound k3wl to them, but they need solid backing, that meens cash, that means support from banks & firms.
the community is great, and i would probably buy a few shares myself, but Mandrake needs more than a few enthusiastic *nix users to make this worthwhile
Linux on the desktop hasn't even hatched yet!
Look at Redhat 7.x, i mean, even an absolute newbie can install the bugger. Now all we have to do is wait for serious apps, and to be honest, i think we will see a lot of growth in this area, where the stuff in Winblows just stays dull&boring...
I use Debian everywhere, server, desktop, laptop, i just luv it! Spread the word, there are masses of people out there who can help us, people who are now locked in by their closed-source OS. Let's free them!
Umm... by the way, i'm not missing a single app all my Winblows-friends have. do you?
When (not if anymore:o) such an elevator is build, the first will probably be a joint-venture between a number of country's, like what's happening with the ISS. A single nation wouldn't be able to do it all by itself, the costs are way to high, and the monopoly-position would alert anyone with a grain of common-sence. Maybe the UN should start it all up in 50 years, but all you american's first need to pay those UN-bill's before we can start with Eiffel#2:o)
Yeah right, every few day's our government comes up with something fancy and speaks outloud. After the public outrage they carefully back off, and start thinking about some other stupid plan.
Why do we still pay taxes in this little mud-hole we call a country?
Maybe, just maybe, this whole EU-thing isn't the right thing for our nations. Unity? Yes, it sounds nice, but we lose our power over the people who should be our representatives, we lose our culture and we lose our freedom!
My opinion is that they have gone far enough. Now let's have a bit of openness in here! Let the people speak!
But then again, who seriously uses Netware? Who seriously believes Novell has a fighting chance against, well, everyone?
Not me:o)
I recon Novell heared Java and thought it would be kewl to use it, but Java still sucks, no matter how many Novell's use it. Java still sucks, repeat after me...
think about it, is we could get the moon to crash into the earth, we could get earth a lot closer to the sun and start using solarpower for once! Burn baby Burn!
Oh, april 1st, very funny, come on everyone, laugh:o)
Mod this guy up! It may be a bit anti-linus at times, but this is a way kewl&satirical! Could we get billyboy to rap this in? Maybe we could offer him a copy of Redhat in return!:o)
They can't seriously mean this. What makes GNU/Linux so great is that distro's are freely avalible, if not the whole distro, then only the non-commercial part of it. The right to download free software is one of the pilars of our community, to in any way make money of it should not be the way. I would pay for a distro, but only if i would want to support the development of further versions.
People should be given the choice to freely download a distro without extra commercial software and services or buy the whole lot. In any way changing this seems to me like properatary-ing freely-avalible software.
> Yes, it's incredibly difficult to generate random numbers. Isn't it impossible?
Indeed, it isn't impossible:o)
A while ago there was a thread here on/. about Quantum Computers and qubits. Seemed that these could generate truely random 0's and 1's. Can't remeber much of the details, though.
That is, truley random for us now. Who knows, it may be explainable in a few hundred years:o) But finally a truely random xbill, i can hardly wait;o)
Come on, even fscking NASA uses MySQL. There may still be a few problems with connectivity between MySQL and commercial BS, but there aren't any problems with DB size. My bet is that MySQL would run a lot smoother than Oracle on huge systems you mention.
And if i can imagine NASA running MySQL, yeah, i can imagine Visa or Mastercard running it too. The sky ain't the limit:o)
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They are afraid all those 1.2 billion Chinese people will buy all the p0rn from the market, leaving none left for them.
problem is that you do more reading than typing, and i think i've looped all the 15 000 fortunes for the third time now ;o)
Laugh people, you grumpy /.-ers :o)
isn't this what apt-get is for? Yup, apt-get 0wns u!
and make the damm server faster. Then we could all enjoy the results! (/.-ed like hell)
It is incredible howmuch SMS has become a part in everyday life here. It's ideal for sending messages but not bothering people when they are busy, plus it's a lot cheaper than calling someone (0.50$ for 1 min. of talking...)
It's weird to see ppl depend on sms in europe, whereas ppl in the US don't even use it. Silly American's ;o)
Last time i was in downtown London i bought one of those gigabot's. A geek-tamagotchi, i got sick of it within the hour, it'll drive you completly mad. It does look kewl with a joint stuck in its mouth |o)
It doesn't have "i 0wn u" t-shirts, but it's better than nothin...
God must forbid it! This is all a conspiricy of BillyBoy, don't say i ain't told you so!
Come on people, this is BS. it's a bloody IPO, they're just out there for the publicity...
Has anyone actually tried this stuff out? It would be kewl to stream the whole app onto a CD for 5 bucks, beats the hell out of leeching a bogged FTP ;o)
Plus, not a lot of PS2's would be equiped with a HD, so you would only be able to use the stuff on the cd/dvd. Want to change your background? no go, after a reboot your RAM's clean, and you would have to download everything again.
Yeah sure, it *could* be kewl, but it would be new, frightening, different, and it wouldn't have fscking OE. The only people who would be interested are geeks, the main-stream would play it safe. Always has been. Just think about it. A lot of people have started with dos or Windoze 3.1. Then 95. then 98. then 2000. And it has always been enough, for them. Why try something else?
We can only hope that Micro$hit fscks up with XP, only allowing their own progs on it. Then, two things could happen:
1. Everyone sees the true 3vi1 of M$, and Linux is as good as ever to replace it on their PC's.
2. Everyone thinks it will be good, because the always have had windows on their pc. Why not pay for Windoze every year? You can still do the stuff you want, without a lot of hassel...
Let's pray M$ fscks up good...
But, seriously, this is not the best of times to think about IPO's. it may sound k3wl to them, but they need solid backing, that meens cash, that means support from banks & firms.
the community is great, and i would probably buy a few shares myself, but Mandrake needs more than a few enthusiastic *nix users to make this worthwhile
Probably cost a whole lot, maybe some kind of peer-2-peer network, a la gnutella?
Hey. i think i'm on to something. a distributed massive multiplayer opensource online roleplaying game. who's up for the challenge? :o)
DMMOORPG, wohooo, another acronym! ;o)
Linux on the desktop hasn't even hatched yet! Look at Redhat 7.x, i mean, even an absolute newbie can install the bugger. Now all we have to do is wait for serious apps, and to be honest, i think we will see a lot of growth in this area, where the stuff in Winblows just stays dull&boring... I use Debian everywhere, server, desktop, laptop, i just luv it! Spread the word, there are masses of people out there who can help us, people who are now locked in by their closed-source OS. Let's free them! Umm... by the way, i'm not missing a single app all my Winblows-friends have. do you?
When (not if anymore :o) such an elevator is build, the first will probably be a joint-venture between a number of country's, like what's happening with the ISS. A single nation wouldn't be able to do it all by itself, the costs are way to high, and the monopoly-position would alert anyone with a grain of common-sence. Maybe the UN should start it all up in 50 years, but all you american's first need to pay those UN-bill's before we can start with Eiffel#2 :o)
i always knew my laptop was hot :o)
Why do we still pay taxes in this little mud-hole we call a country?
Maybe, just maybe, this whole EU-thing isn't the right thing for our nations. Unity? Yes, it sounds nice, but we lose our power over the people who should be our representatives, we lose our culture and we lose our freedom!
My opinion is that they have gone far enough. Now let's have a bit of openness in here! Let the people speak!
But then again, who seriously uses Netware? Who seriously believes Novell has a fighting chance against, well, everyone?
Not me :o)
I recon Novell heared Java and thought it would be kewl to use it, but Java still sucks, no matter how many Novell's use it. Java still sucks, repeat after me...
Oh, april 1st, very funny, come on everyone, laugh :o)
Let's hope it stays a april 1st joke, but as it's 2 april in europe, we couldn't laugh :o)
I mean, at least it won't crash :o)
People should be given the choice to freely download a distro without extra commercial software and services or buy the whole lot. In any way changing this seems to me like properatary-ing freely-avalible software.
Just my 2c.
Indeed, it isn't impossible :o) /. about Quantum Computers and qubits. Seemed that these could generate truely random 0's and 1's. Can't remeber much of the details, though.
:o) ;o)
A while ago there was a thread here on
That is, truley random for us now. Who knows, it may be explainable in a few hundred years
But finally a truely random xbill, i can hardly wait
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Damm dat linewrap...
And if i can imagine NASA running MySQL, yeah, i can imagine Visa or Mastercard running it too. The sky ain't the limit :o)
Hear Hear!
mod this guy up!