Okay, I just read through 200-some posts, nearly all of which followed the standard "Did you hear what MS did? This means that they could [insert worst-case-scenario-du-jour here] Slashdot vein. Here's an idea for y'all: Don't use Windows Media Player! I, for one have never used it (on my machine, anyway - used it once while setting up my sister's ME box; wasn't impresed), and have never seen a need to. For music,.mp3,.wav,.au,.ogg, and many others, I use Winamp. If I want to view a video clip, I use either the Divx player or the ATI software that came with my video card. And as soon as Nullsoft releases Winamp3, I'll probably end up using it as my default video player, as well. Winamp is free, has wonderful features, is available for Linux, and is very easy to use. Ooh, and upon checking out winamp.com, I see that there's a winamp3 release candidate! /me goes to download!
yeah, replying to my own post, but it's worth it. Scenario: Submitter submits story yesterday afternoon, and it does not make its way to the front page until this morning, just as Submitter is arriving at work, carrying, of course, his trusty I-Paq *in* *his* *pocket*. Interior, office, a cubicle. Cube-dweller looks up in alarm, hearing blood-curdling shrieks emanating from the cube next door. "Oh my God! Your pants are on fire! What happened?!" "I Slashdotted myself!! AAARRGGHHH!!!!"
He did *not* just post a link to a wireless httpd on a freaking *I-PAQ*, did he??? Good lord, he's running the risk of immediate cancer just from the amount of RF energy being channelled through that poor little machine. "You're either incredibly brave, or incredibly stupid." Naah, it really is pretty cool. Nice work.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Tabs are the best thing ever invented, in my opinion. I use them every day, and I usually have 8-10 open simultaneously. Imagine trying to manage that many browser windows? In the windows taskbar, each window has the same icon, and the window title gets chopped off at like 5 characters. Wih tabs, I get the favicon on each tab, I can tell at a glance which tab I want. Okay, except when I'm working in bugzilla, and I've got 20 bugs open in different tabs *all* with the same favicon.:) If anyone wants a more-configurable version of tabs for mozilla, check out multizilla.mozdev.org. I'm not going to link to it because mozdev is already pretty well slashdotted, but check it out after the rush subsides. To sum up: Tabs ROCK!
And, another thing to keep in mind - Netscape, the commercial browser built on Mozilla - Last I checked, it's full download was 25Mb. And I seem to recall the full IE6 download being close to 19Mb. Another thing - you can download indivdual components yourself. In the windows-xpi folder are installable.xpi files for each component. Of course, you need an existing installation for xpi to work, but still.:)
Mackie (sound reinforcement and processing) is another company who puts some humor in their manuals - the manual for their 1604VLZ mixer, for example is full of material that, while not being laugh-out-loud funny, is also not man-this-is-so-boring-I-want-to-die. The effect of this is that I have actually read the whole thing, cover to cover, and learned a whole lot more about the product than I would have if they had just gone with the standard technical writing standard.
Hey, I enjoyed Snake, it was fun. Actually, I'm sure it still is, I just need to find my old Nokia to play it. Now "Brick Attack", the "breakout" clone that came with my Kyocera - blecchh. Not nearly as good. Ah, well.
Am I the only one who finds that phrase funny? To me, a 'machine' is something that, at minimum, has moving parts. My desktop PC here is a machine, it's got fans, hard drives, eject buttons... I just don't think that a completely solid-state device qualifies as a machine. Buttons don't count as moving parts!!
Well, I have mod points, and I was gonna use 'em on this discusion, but then I read the link....AAARGGHHH!!!! I now want to beat the living hell out of George Lucas, even if the rumors are false. If they're true?? If I, one day, should be watching Star Wars (ep IV, blah, blah, blah) and see JAR JAR FUCKING BINKS on my TV screen, then my journey to the dark side will be complete. Darth Mu. That's me. What a jackass.
Ack! Our party has been Slashdotted!! Anyway, for any folks who want to party, in addition to the 800,000 or so who have signed up in the past 2 hours, the gig is at Remote Lounge, in the East Village. Our web site is (graciously!) hosted at mozdev.org. The date is currently scheduled for Friday, the 7th, but it might move to the 12th, to coincide with the bash at DNA Lounge. Party on!
So the only characters that still had any integrity left, and they killed 'em off. Actually, I guess a better way to look at it would be the 'rats fleeing a sinking ship' thing. Get out while you still can!!!! Adieu, Byers, Langley, and Frohike.
Go NASA geeks!!!
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It's things like this that really make me proud of our space program. Sure, it's a little tiny thing, we now have one less dead satellite, but that was a beautiful solution, and it's good to know that these folks are still there thinking stuff up.
"I'm hoping that the final round of episodes can wash the taste out of my mouth from this season." Well spoken, sir. I could not have said it better myself. And no spelling errors!:)
I thought of this also. I'm not sure if they can configure their firewalling setup like this, but all they need to do is block any transfers containing the string "peekabooty.zip"(or whatever), and presto-chango, Peek-A-Booty never gets a foothold in those environments where it's most needed. Even changing the filename to get around this restriction will have very limited success, because for this project to actually succeed, it has to be VERY easy for people to get, install, and use. Censorship sucks.
Fine, till there's a knock on my door...
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...because someone decided to use peek-a-booty to try to crack whitehouse.gov, and the luck of the draw gives him *my* machine to use as a proxy, so when the Secret Service traces the attack back, they find just lil old me. This has happened to me in the past (not through a proxy, I got back orificed)stupid windows user!!)), and my ISP shut down my account for 2 days until I managed to convince them that I'm not a cracker. But as long as that can't happen, then I'm all for this project!
Gus, I've worked with organized labor for 5 years now, and....you are absolutely right. Those are the bad points of union employment. The $$$ and bennies are the good points. Fortunately, the more intelligent members know how to get the good without exposing themselves to too much of the bad.
Oh, and you forgot the way-too-common mob mentality whenever management doesn't approve that 35% pay raise.
My favorite part about unions is that you do less work, get paid more, get more benefits, and can never be fired
Yeah, that's mostly true, but you have to balance it against the seniority system, which promotes people just cause they've been there a long time, and not necessarily due to any competence or reliability, and often restrictive unofficial policies regarding what employment members can take on outside the union.
Damn, that was a long sentence. Here's some punctuation, use it yourself..,,.:;!?..,""
not to spiel or anything, but that's one of my favorite things about unions - they protect those of us who love our jobs from ourselves. Yeah, I can work all night and all day if I choose, but at least now I'm well-compensated for it.
(no, i'm not in IT)
After reading the article, I did a quick google search for info on directed-energy technology use in the military, and came across this document.
It gives some good background on how the Navy is using LASERs, MASERS, and RF devices.
(my first slashdot post! woo-hoo!)
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Piers Anthony is the best author ever. And that's all I have to say about that.
Okay, I just read through 200-some posts, nearly all of which followed the standard "Did you hear what MS did? This means that they could [insert worst-case-scenario-du-jour here] Slashdot vein. Here's an idea for y'all: Don't use Windows Media Player! I, for one have never used it (on my machine, anyway - used it once while setting up my sister's ME box; wasn't impresed), and have never seen a need to. For music, .mp3, .wav, .au, .ogg, and many others, I use Winamp. If I want to view a video clip, I use either the Divx player or the ATI software that came with my video card. And as soon as Nullsoft releases Winamp3, I'll probably end up using it as my default video player, as well.
Winamp is free, has wonderful features, is available for Linux, and is very easy to use. Ooh, and upon checking out winamp.com, I see that there's a winamp3 release candidate!
/me goes to download!
yeah, replying to my own post, but it's worth it.
Scenario: Submitter submits story yesterday afternoon, and it does not make its way to the front page until this morning, just as Submitter is arriving at work, carrying, of course, his trusty I-Paq *in* *his* *pocket*.
Interior, office, a cubicle. Cube-dweller looks up in alarm, hearing blood-curdling shrieks emanating from the cube next door.
"Oh my God! Your pants are on fire! What happened?!"
"I Slashdotted myself!! AAARRGGHHH!!!!"
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.muppas.net."
Well DUH. Like I didn't see *that* coming.
He did *not* just post a link to a wireless httpd on a freaking *I-PAQ*, did he??? Good lord, he's running the risk of immediate cancer just from the amount of RF energy being channelled through that poor little machine.
"You're either incredibly brave, or incredibly stupid."
Naah, it really is pretty cool. Nice work.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Tabs are the best thing ever invented, in my opinion. I use them every day, and I usually have 8-10 open simultaneously. Imagine trying to manage that many browser windows? In the windows taskbar, each window has the same icon, and the window title gets chopped off at like 5 characters. Wih tabs, I get the favicon on each tab, I can tell at a glance which tab I want. :)
Okay, except when I'm working in bugzilla, and I've got 20 bugs open in different tabs *all* with the same favicon.
If anyone wants a more-configurable version of tabs for mozilla, check out multizilla.mozdev.org. I'm not going to link to it because mozdev is already pretty well slashdotted, but check it out after the rush subsides.
To sum up: Tabs ROCK!
And, another thing to keep in mind - Netscape, the commercial browser built on Mozilla - Last I checked, it's full download was 25Mb. And I seem to recall the full IE6 download being close to 19Mb. .xpi files for each component. Of course, you need an existing installation for xpi to work, but still. :)
Another thing - you can download indivdual components yourself. In the windows-xpi folder are installable
Well, with 390+ comments posted already, this one probably won't even be seen, but there's something I need to say.
WOOOO-HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Thank you, mozilla.org and everyone else who contributed to this project! Now - let's party like it's 9.9.9!!!
lol. good one. :)
(he whom you replied to, posting anonymously so as not to lose even more karma)
Mackie (sound reinforcement and processing) is another company who puts some humor in their manuals - the manual for their 1604VLZ mixer, for example is full of material that, while not being laugh-out-loud funny, is also not man-this-is-so-boring-I-want-to-die. The effect of this is that I have actually read the whole thing, cover to cover, and learned a whole lot more about the product than I would have if they had just gone with the standard technical writing standard.
Hey, I enjoyed Snake, it was fun. Actually, I'm sure it still is, I just need to find my old Nokia to play it. Now "Brick Attack", the "breakout" clone that came with my Kyocera - blecchh. Not nearly as good. Ah, well.
Am I the only one who finds that phrase funny? To me, a 'machine' is something that, at minimum, has moving parts. My desktop PC here is a machine, it's got fans, hard drives, eject buttons... I just don't think that a completely solid-state device qualifies as a machine. Buttons don't count as moving parts!!
Thank you, Graspee_Leemoor, you just made me almost spit coffee all over my keyboard.
Dammit, and I used up my last mod point yesterday.
+1, Funny!
Well, I have mod points, and I was gonna use 'em on this discusion, but then I read the link....AAARGGHHH!!!! I now want to beat the living hell out of George Lucas, even if the rumors are false. If they're true?? If I, one day, should be watching Star Wars (ep IV, blah, blah, blah) and see JAR JAR FUCKING BINKS on my TV screen, then my journey to the dark side will be complete. Darth Mu. That's me.
What a jackass.
Ack! Our party has been Slashdotted!! Anyway, for any folks who want to party, in addition to the 800,000 or so who have signed up in the past 2 hours, the gig is at Remote Lounge, in the East Village. Our web site is (graciously!) hosted at mozdev.org.
The date is currently scheduled for Friday, the 7th, but it might move to the 12th, to coincide with the bash at DNA Lounge.
Party on!
So the only characters that still had any integrity left, and they killed 'em off.
Actually, I guess a better way to look at it would be the 'rats fleeing a sinking ship' thing. Get out while you still can!!!!
Adieu, Byers, Langley, and Frohike.
It's things like this that really make me proud of our space program. Sure, it's a little tiny thing, we now have one less dead satellite, but that was a beautiful solution, and it's good to know that these folks are still there thinking stuff up.
"I'm hoping that the final round of episodes can wash the taste out of my mouth from this season." :)
Well spoken, sir. I could not have said it better myself. And no spelling errors!
I thought of this also. I'm not sure if they can configure their firewalling setup like this, but all they need to do is block any transfers containing the string "peekabooty.zip"(or whatever), and presto-chango, Peek-A-Booty never gets a foothold in those environments where it's most needed. Even changing the filename to get around this restriction will have very limited success, because for this project to actually succeed, it has to be VERY easy for people to get, install, and use.
Censorship sucks.
...because someone decided to use peek-a-booty to try to crack whitehouse.gov, and the luck of the draw gives him *my* machine to use as a proxy, so when the Secret Service traces the attack back, they find just lil old me. This has happened to me in the past (not through a proxy, I got back orificed)stupid windows user!!)), and my ISP shut down my account for 2 days until I managed to convince them that I'm not a cracker.
But as long as that can't happen, then I'm all for this project!
Sorry for the brutality, but Bullshit.
Gus, I've worked with organized labor for 5 years now, and....you are absolutely right. Those are the bad points of union employment. The $$$ and bennies are the good points. Fortunately, the more intelligent members know how to get the good without exposing themselves to too much of the bad.
Oh, and you forgot the way-too-common mob mentality whenever management doesn't approve that 35% pay raise.
My favorite part about unions is that you do less work, get paid more, get more benefits, and can never be fired
.,,.:;!?..,""
Yeah, that's mostly true, but you have to balance it against the seniority system, which promotes people just cause they've been there a long time, and not necessarily due to any competence or reliability, and often restrictive unofficial policies regarding what employment members can take on outside the union.
Damn, that was a long sentence. Here's some punctuation, use it yourself.
not to spiel or anything, but that's one of my favorite things about unions - they protect those of us who love our jobs from ourselves. Yeah, I can work all night and all day if I choose, but at least now I'm well-compensated for it. (no, i'm not in IT)
After reading the article, I did a quick google search for info on directed-energy technology use in the military, and came across this document. It gives some good background on how the Navy is using LASERs, MASERS, and RF devices. (my first slashdot post! woo-hoo!)