Yeah, I remember that too, and I am trying to remember the details. It was 1999 I think (maybe 1998?). I do remember that Slashdot, Freshmeat and Segfault all got together and posted something that coroborated each other, but I am trying to remember what the punchline was:)
I'll agree that this April Fools wasn't as good as that one, or even some since. However, it seems each year as/. gets more poular that there are more humourless cynics that complain about 4/1.
Ah well, beats reading about the wrongs of US foreign policy on pornographic female circumcision in Israel over at kuro5hin;)
Did this get released early? I got the RedHat advisory, but there is no source update at zlib.org, the CVE page at Mitre is empty and there is nothing from CERT yet.
What gives? Does anyone know where a patch is available?
If you look a comment you posted (e.g. In your comment history) and hover over the link to your nick, you'll see something like:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/uid:635
AFAIK that is the only way to see it.
And what do I see when I am over there checking that? A front-page article on how to deal with the supposed deluge of people leaving slashdot. Yeah, riiight.What a bunch of self-important losers.
I just registered for a paypal account, so when I get my next CC statement I can confirm and then/. some money (I don't live in the US). Or they'll implement a direct CC system first and I'll pay using that.
Like many other posters, I am not thrilled about the metered access and the lack of definite "extras" for subscribers. That being said, I am willing to spend $5 to see how the system works and help support/.
the quality of postings/discussions is much higher than at/.
Are you on crack? See my previous rant about K5. The quality of postings over there are just horrible. For example, see the current front-page story about female curcumcision. Technology and culture from the trenches my ass.
I have a 3-digit K5 uid, but I am done with that place. I simply don't have the time to go through the submissions bin and give a -1 to all of the crap that is constantly in there.
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How much did rebel.com pay for the domain name again? And for using the James Dean logo? For hot tub parties? For limos?
Yeah, see this story. I live in Ottawa, and I remember reading it in the local paper. You really have to question a company having parties with strippers frolicking in the swimming pool. Ah, the dot-com boom "good old days":-)
Are these statistics meaningful? Of course not. If you have read Paul's columns you would know he reported this tongue and cheek.
I just read it, and it does not sound very tongue-in-cheek to me at all.
And look at the responses you see here. They're almost comical.
Well sure, some of them are comical. What else is new when you have 800 people posting to a forum. Do you think if WinInformant had a feedback section that we wouldn't see hundreds of Windows fanboys flaming Linux?
Most of the highly-rated posts in here aren't comical. They are pointing out that this guy comes off like an ass comparing apples to oranges. And they would be right.
and I must say that the "hardening" list of things you must do to secure Linux and Windows is pretty much near the same length
Riiight. For example, check out the IIS hardening list here. Then tell me what you have to do to secure Apache out of the box. Which list is longer?
I am sorry, but I work with Windows, Linux and Solaris all of the time. You can do a RedHat 7.x install out of the box that is secure, less one run of up2date to get newer version of some packages. Zero reboots. Now tell me the steps you have to follow to secure your NT install again?
I don't know what you are running in your development environment, but it seems to me that you are talking out your ass.
because there was some interesting commentary along the lines of what we're already seeing here now
Au contraire. The commentary over at K5 on this story is mostly sympathy for the loser that runs (or should I say ran) this website.
That is what I hate about K5. The extreme left has taken over that place - the stuff getting posted to the front page might actually be interesting, but it is all written with a such a "anti-American leftist teenager with an axe to grind" spin on it it makes me sick.
The K5 cabal can laugh at slashdot all they want, but we are getting a much more reasoned look at this story over here than you would ever see on K5.
There is a diference between running on a MIPS CPU and running on a SGI/MIPS system. SGI has different bus architectures, sound, video, ethernet, etc. etc. One of the SGIs I have at home even has a built-in ISDN modem!:)
If I understand what I read (and what I overhear lurking in the Linux/SGI channel on irc.openprojects.net) the tough part of about getting Linux running on an SGI is not the MIPS CPU, but all of the other hardware. That said, I still want to try out Linux on an Indy sometime, just to see it.
That's becuase this is their latest MIPS system, not some x86 box. Despite some progress, Linux does not really run on SGI MIPS boxes. And some of us like IRIX just fine, thank you:-)
Except a lot of times (in NT 4 anyways) when you kill the web service with the 'kill' utility from the reskit, you are unable to restart the service. You go to the Services control panel applet and the "start" button is greyed out.
I'll never understand why 'end process' in the task manager won't work and the 'kill' utility which you have to get from another CD only sorta works. You'd think that the desingers of NT might have thought to include the ability to properly terminate a rogue process.
Indeed. I went to an Ontario high school and gradualted in 1993. By 1993 we had a lot of macs and PCs, but in the earlier grades we used them a lot.
We did elemntary programming using logo and later Pascal using the ICONs. I never remember doing any C with them, but by the time I started learning C it was 1992, so I was on to PCs by then.
This entire thread is filled with text copied and pasted from leftist and pacifist authors and websites. There are no posts in here that provide any kind of orignal thought or statement, just copy-and-paste.
It shows an appaling lack of intelligence to see people reading lies and just beleiving them. Someone says "this movie is US propoganda" and people just beleive them. Try thinking critically for a change.
This movie is based on a book that was written 4 years ago by a journalist, based on his own notes, articles and interviews conducted at he time. Try reading that book, and other sources about the events that occured, and then forming your own opinion. It will serve you much better than coping and pasting text from people who have just as much of agenda to serve as any oil company.
And yet it is what is being practiced in the field.
In your experience. The way design is practiced in my company doesn't bear this out, and the experience of other friends in the industry doesn't either. I guess we must be immune to these mysterious "intrinsic forces".
Just becuase you have bad experiences with designers generating UML diagrams in place of a full-featured specification doesn't mean UML is useless. It means you work with designers who are either incompetent or lazy.
The UML is simply a tool - a way to draw diagrams so everyone can understand them. Go back 15 years, and structured design had a similar set of notations. Heck - look at databases with entity relationship diagrams, which have been around for decades. If your entire database design is an ERD, and this is insufficient, does that mean that ERDs are inherently bad? No - it just means you have an incomplete design.
If you look at the Rational Unified Process, they include textual descriptions as part of a system description, not just UML. But, leaving that aside, who is proposing using UML exclusively here? Any proper specification is going to include textual description as well as diagrams.
I see 2 arguments going on in these threads:
1. You can't replace textual descriptions with UML.
No shit. Nobody sane is advocating this. UML is another tool in your repetoire for communicating a design.
2. I have seen poor UML designs.
Again, I have news for you. A designer who produces poor UML designs is also going to produce a poor design when provided a text editor. UML is a tool - it won't magically transform a poor designer into a good one.
UML diagrams are notoriously bad at factoring in real-world requirements, exceptions, usage patterns, and user scenarios.
Are you telling me that doing UML diagrams for a particular system really has those problems?
There is a big difference between UML and the entire Rational Unified process. I have used UML (class diagrams) to design an OO system and then provided sequence diagrams to show someone how to use my API. How is that any better or worse that providing a textual description, from a point of view of real-world requirements, execptions and user scenarios?
I have news for you. If people can't use UML to do a good description of a system, they can't do it using words or some other technique either. They are simply bad designers.
I had something similar happen to me, several months ago. I wasn't home, so they left a voice mail with a number for me to call with regards to an "important matter" regarding my domain name. I called them back, got put on hold, and then got transferred to a salesdroid who started in...
"Do you realize that you only have xxxxxx.com registered? You should protect your online identity by registering xxxxxx.org and xxxxxx.net. Blah blah blah blah..."
I couldn't beleive that they had suckered me in to returning their call, only to get a sales pitch layed on me. I told them so and hung up.
I still can't believe that they used my phone number, which I am required to provide, to telemarket me. You are right - Verisign can go to hell.
Guess what? The original submitter of the aritcle is Chris Coleman what is the Editor in Chief of daemonnews.org.
So I am pretty sure that the original submitter bothered to read this, and that is why the slashdot staff posted it verbatim. Who looks like they didn't read the @#$#ing article now?
I have never even heard of Amped and Munch's Odysee. I have played Project Gotham Racing and I don't see what the big deal is. It seemed stuck between an arcade racing game and a sim like GT3, with the benefits of neither genre. To each his own I guess.
Like I said, the Gamecube is the clear winner in my eyes becuase it has what I want out of a console gaming system. Nintendo relases games that I can play with a group of friends easily. Like Super Monkey Ball and Smash Brothers Melee. No learning curve, anyone can play, but they have tremendous replay value. Add on to that interesting and very unique titles like the upcoming Zelda and Metroid Prime to play when friends are not around.
It is a matter of personal preference I suppose, but you keep your PC retread titles and I'll keep my Gamecube:)
Xbox has Max Payne, Halo, Simpsons Road Rage, Amped, Project Gotham, SSX Tricky, Abe and Silent Hill 2
And how many of these are out or will be out shortly for the PC?
I don't drop $600+ (cdn) over to Microsoft for the right to play a bunch of PC games. I want games that fit into a console's sweet spot; a combination of excellent 4-person "party" games, and the occasional single player adventure game.
Based on that criteria, the Gamecube is the clear winner. If I want to play Max Payne or Halo I'll go play them on my PC, thanks. That is the right tool for the job.
I'd have to toss my "me too" in there as well. I am 27 and grew up on Atari 2600, then NES in highschool and SNES into university.
I owned a PSX after that, and I am just coming up to buying a new console. Which one am I buying? A Gamecube.
For me (at my age anyways), I use a console for "party" games when my friends are over. An looking at the current/coming titles for the different consoles, it seems to me that the Gamecube will once again have the best games in that category.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I remember that too, and I am trying to remember the details. It was 1999 I think (maybe 1998?). I do remember that Slashdot, Freshmeat and Segfault all got together and posted something that coroborated each other, but I am trying to remember what the punchline was :)
I'll agree that this April Fools wasn't as good as that one, or even some since. However, it seems each year as /. gets more poular that there are more humourless cynics that complain about 4/1.
Ah well, beats reading about the wrongs of US foreign policy on pornographic female circumcision in Israel over at kuro5hin ;)
That is the Java Runtime environment, genius. It installs the JVM that allows you to run Java programs, not the development tools.
It was news for Linux/UNIX earlier this week idiot. Go crawl back under your Microsoft apologist rock please.
Ah, I see that zlib.org just got updated - never mind. When I got the email from RedHat this morning there was nothing else available yet!
Did this get released early? I got the RedHat advisory, but there is no source update at zlib.org, the CVE page at Mitre is empty and there is nothing from CERT yet.
What gives? Does anyone know where a patch is available?
http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/uid:635
AFAIK that is the only way to see it.
And what do I see when I am over there checking that? A front-page article on how to deal with the supposed deluge of people leaving slashdot. Yeah, riiight.What a bunch of self-important losers.
I just registered for a paypal account, so when I get my next CC statement I can confirm and then /. some money (I don't live in the US). Or they'll implement a direct CC system first and I'll pay using that.
Like many other posters, I am not thrilled about the metered access and the lack of definite "extras" for subscribers. That being said, I am willing to spend $5 to see how the system works and help support /.
Are you on crack? See my previous rant about K5. The quality of postings over there are just horrible. For example, see the current front-page story about female curcumcision. Technology and culture from the trenches my ass.
I have a 3-digit K5 uid, but I am done with that place. I simply don't have the time to go through the submissions bin and give a -1 to all of the crap that is constantly in there.
Yeah, see this story. I live in Ottawa, and I remember reading it in the local paper. You really have to question a company having parties with strippers frolicking in the swimming pool. Ah, the dot-com boom "good old days" :-)
I just read it, and it does not sound very tongue-in-cheek to me at all.
And look at the responses you see here. They're almost comical.
Well sure, some of them are comical. What else is new when you have 800 people posting to a forum. Do you think if WinInformant had a feedback section that we wouldn't see hundreds of Windows fanboys flaming Linux?
Most of the highly-rated posts in here aren't comical. They are pointing out that this guy comes off like an ass comparing apples to oranges. And they would be right.
Riiight. For example, check out the IIS hardening list here. Then tell me what you have to do to secure Apache out of the box. Which list is longer?
I am sorry, but I work with Windows, Linux and Solaris all of the time. You can do a RedHat 7.x install out of the box that is secure, less one run of up2date to get newer version of some packages. Zero reboots. Now tell me the steps you have to follow to secure your NT install again?
I don't know what you are running in your development environment, but it seems to me that you are talking out your ass.
Au contraire. The commentary over at K5 on this story is mostly sympathy for the loser that runs (or should I say ran) this website.
That is what I hate about K5. The extreme left has taken over that place - the stuff getting posted to the front page might actually be interesting, but it is all written with a such a "anti-American leftist teenager with an axe to grind" spin on it it makes me sick.
The K5 cabal can laugh at slashdot all they want, but we are getting a much more reasoned look at this story over here than you would ever see on K5.
There is a diference between running on a MIPS CPU and running on a SGI/MIPS system. SGI has different bus architectures, sound, video, ethernet, etc. etc. One of the SGIs I have at home even has a built-in ISDN modem! :)
If I understand what I read (and what I overhear lurking in the Linux/SGI channel on irc.openprojects.net) the tough part of about getting Linux running on an SGI is not the MIPS CPU, but all of the other hardware. That said, I still want to try out Linux on an Indy sometime, just to see it.
I only see IRIX listed
That's becuase this is their latest MIPS system, not some x86 box. Despite some progress, Linux does not really run on SGI MIPS boxes. And some of us like IRIX just fine, thank you :-)
Except a lot of times (in NT 4 anyways) when you kill the web service with the 'kill' utility from the reskit, you are unable to restart the service. You go to the Services control panel applet and the "start" button is greyed out.
I'll never understand why 'end process' in the task manager won't work and the 'kill' utility which you have to get from another CD only sorta works. You'd think that the desingers of NT might have thought to include the ability to properly terminate a rogue process.
Indeed. I went to an Ontario high school and gradualted in 1993. By 1993 we had a lot of macs and PCs, but in the earlier grades we used them a lot.
We did elemntary programming using logo and later Pascal using the ICONs. I never remember doing any C with them, but by the time I started learning C it was 1992, so I was on to PCs by then.
This entire thread is filled with text copied and pasted from leftist and pacifist authors and websites. There are no posts in here that provide any kind of orignal thought or statement, just copy-and-paste.
It shows an appaling lack of intelligence to see people reading lies and just beleiving them. Someone says "this movie is US propoganda" and people just beleive them. Try thinking critically for a change.
This movie is based on a book that was written 4 years ago by a journalist, based on his own notes, articles and interviews conducted at he time. Try reading that book, and other sources about the events that occured, and then forming your own opinion. It will serve you much better than coping and pasting text from people who have just as much of agenda to serve as any oil company.
In your experience. The way design is practiced in my company doesn't bear this out, and the experience of other friends in the industry doesn't either. I guess we must be immune to these mysterious "intrinsic forces".
Just becuase you have bad experiences with designers generating UML diagrams in place of a full-featured specification doesn't mean UML is useless. It means you work with designers who are either incompetent or lazy.
The UML is simply a tool - a way to draw diagrams so everyone can understand them. Go back 15 years, and structured design had a similar set of notations. Heck - look at databases with entity relationship diagrams, which have been around for decades. If your entire database design is an ERD, and this is insufficient, does that mean that ERDs are inherently bad? No - it just means you have an incomplete design.
If you look at the Rational Unified Process, they include textual descriptions as part of a system description, not just UML. But, leaving that aside, who is proposing using UML exclusively here? Any proper specification is going to include textual description as well as diagrams.
I see 2 arguments going on in these threads:
1. You can't replace textual descriptions with UML.
No shit. Nobody sane is advocating this. UML is another tool in your repetoire for communicating a design.
2. I have seen poor UML designs.
Again, I have news for you. A designer who produces poor UML designs is also going to produce a poor design when provided a text editor. UML is a tool - it won't magically transform a poor designer into a good one.
That is generic rubbish.
UML diagrams are notoriously bad at factoring in real-world requirements, exceptions, usage patterns, and user scenarios.
Are you telling me that doing UML diagrams for a particular system really has those problems?
There is a big difference between UML and the entire Rational Unified process. I have used UML (class diagrams) to design an OO system and then provided sequence diagrams to show someone how to use my API. How is that any better or worse that providing a textual description, from a point of view of real-world requirements, execptions and user scenarios?
I have news for you. If people can't use UML to do a good description of a system, they can't do it using words or some other technique either. They are simply bad designers.
I had something similar happen to me, several months ago. I wasn't home, so they left a voice mail with a number for me to call with regards to an "important matter" regarding my domain name. I called them back, got put on hold, and then got transferred to a salesdroid who started in...
"Do you realize that you only have xxxxxx.com registered? You should protect your online identity by registering xxxxxx.org and xxxxxx.net. Blah blah blah blah..."
I couldn't beleive that they had suckered me in to returning their call, only to get a sales pitch layed on me. I told them so and hung up.
I still can't believe that they used my phone number, which I am required to provide, to telemarket me. You are right - Verisign can go to hell.
Guess what? The original submitter of the aritcle is Chris Coleman what is the Editor in Chief of daemonnews.org.
So I am pretty sure that the original submitter bothered to read this, and that is why the slashdot staff posted it verbatim. Who looks like they didn't read the @#$#ing article now?
How your post got modded up to +5 is beyond me.
I have never even heard of Amped and Munch's Odysee. I have played Project Gotham Racing and I don't see what the big deal is. It seemed stuck between an arcade racing game and a sim like GT3, with the benefits of neither genre. To each his own I guess.
Like I said, the Gamecube is the clear winner in my eyes becuase it has what I want out of a console gaming system. Nintendo relases games that I can play with a group of friends easily. Like Super Monkey Ball and Smash Brothers Melee. No learning curve, anyone can play, but they have tremendous replay value. Add on to that interesting and very unique titles like the upcoming Zelda and Metroid Prime to play when friends are not around.
It is a matter of personal preference I suppose, but you keep your PC retread titles and I'll keep my Gamecube :)
And how many of these are out or will be out shortly for the PC?
I don't drop $600+ (cdn) over to Microsoft for the right to play a bunch of PC games. I want games that fit into a console's sweet spot; a combination of excellent 4-person "party" games, and the occasional single player adventure game.
Based on that criteria, the Gamecube is the clear winner. If I want to play Max Payne or Halo I'll go play them on my PC, thanks. That is the right tool for the job.
I'd have to toss my "me too" in there as well. I am 27 and grew up on Atari 2600, then NES in highschool and SNES into university.
I owned a PSX after that, and I am just coming up to buying a new console. Which one am I buying? A Gamecube.
For me (at my age anyways), I use a console for "party" games when my friends are over. An looking at the current/coming titles for the different consoles, it seems to me that the Gamecube will once again have the best games in that category.