I have to say I'd still consider myself a newbie when it comes to linux, well not quite but definetly not an expert. I love slackware because it's what you make of it. It isn't bloated like many other distros (Mandrake SuSE, etc...). It comes with a good assortment of apps and doesn't take 2 gigs of your drive installing things which A) aren't documented, B) aren't referenced and C) you have no clue they're there till you go digging and find out they are just peices of crap. It's simple, and it is configured exactly how you want it. People say it's dying because it doesn't cater to the brand spanking newbie like windows does or mandrake is trying to do. I did not start out on slack and would like to thank mandrake for giving me that start in linux life, but at some point you have to take off the training wheels, and move to that 10 speed.
So what if one developer is stopping work on some tools? It's opensource right? Isn't part of the point that if they are needed and people want them someone will pick it up and finish them? 2 tools don't make a distro, and 2 tools stopping development by their primary guy doesn't kill a distro. GO SLACKWARE!
Even better is the amazingly great single player mod "They Hunger" for half-life. It's a dark monster movie type mod set in the fifties, including the obligatory insane asylum, mad doctor, twisted sherif and hordes of zombies. There are many points in the game where something comes right out of nowhere after you, or a door slams closed, after you have been wandering around in the dark for a half hour. In the end you feel like you are running for your life. It's really the only game that has actually scared me. Can't say enough good about it.
When the whole universe collapses because of the reversal of the big bang energy by gravity, then you may care.
One of the biggest debates IMHO, is whether the gravitational pull of the universe can overcome the expanding motion of the universe. This expansion caused by the big bang was theorized to be decreasing and gravity would eventually overcome it, thus pulling the entire universe back together in the same manner of pre-big bang time. It could also be said that this would cause the universe to be a periodic function of explode, expand, contract, explode... The problem with this is that there is not anywhere near enough matter in the universe to create a gravitational pull strong enough to overcome the big bang energy. There is also not enough visible matter to explain many gravitational effects scientists perceive. Thus, dark matter was theorized to explain these phenomenons. However, it could never be measured. This could go a long way to supporting various theories about the universe and it's workings.
But people are already complaining about it being slashdotted. So here's the excite AP story.
NEW YORK (AP) - Patriotism is about to get easier online.
The Commerce Department selected NeuStar Inc. on Monday to run
domain names ending in ".us." With the announcement comes the
ability to get non-geographic addresses such as
"clothingstore.us," rather than the more cumbersome
"clothingstore.los-angeles.ca.us."
The new rules, expected to take effect early next year, are
designed to get more use out of ".us." Country code suffixes such as ".fr" for France have been sources of national pride
worldwide, but in the United States it is the forgotten stepchild compared with ".com."
NeuStar officials are hoping to change that attitude and said
recent terrorism events may give ".us" even more of a boost.
"The fact is right now,... American identification is of
increased importance," said Jeff Ganek, NeuStar's chairman and
chief executive.
Also Monday, the department announced a five-year agreement with
Educause, a nonprofit consortium, to run the ".edu" suffix.
Community colleges will be able to claim ".edu" names
beginning Nov. 12. In the past, ".edu" was limited primarily to four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
The ".us" domain name will be restricted to U.S. residents and
companies or organizations that operate in the United States,
though the system will rely partly on self-certification and isn't
foolproof.
Many details also remain unresolved.
Public-interest groups worry that ".us" - historically the
domain of state or local governments, nonprofit organizations and schools - will become yet another frontier dominated by commercial
interests.
"A lot of people are very supportive of opening `.us' for more
commercial, small business and individual use," said Alan Davidson, associate director for the Center for Democracy and
Technology. "What's tricky is how you make sure the policies...
are fair and equitable."
NeuStar officials said existing ".us" users will get to keep
their names, and local entities that now assign geographically oriented names like "anyname.los-angeles.ca.us" can continue
doing so.
In addition, a number of names have been set aside, including
"kids.us" as a possible children's channel and "parks.us" as a
central resource for parks in the United States.
The company will establish a policy advisory council to address
usage issues, said James Casey, NeuStar's director of policy and
business development. The council's composition and other details
are still pending.
In the past, ".us" policy was handled by the University of
Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, which delegated assignments of specific names to some 800 individuals and
organizations.
To accommodate the distributed assignments, names became long
and cumbersome. It was also difficult to figure out where to go to
get them. Though businesses were allowed to claim ".us" names,
few did.
The change in ".us" is separate from last year's decision by
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to create
seven Internet suffixes to relieve overcrowding in ".com."
A NeuStar subsidiary, NeuLevel Inc., is the operator of
".biz," one of the new suffixes. NeuStar's ".us" database will
share some of the security and technical developments being used in
".biz."
NeuStar, based in Washington, D.C., also runs databases of area
codes and telephone prefixes for the nation's phone system.
The Commerce contract with NeuStar will run four years, with
options for two one-year extensions
This is better, this time the engineer fathers
will actually be the ones who can take credit
for their creations. No little son to get in the
way of all that glory.
It's in the EULA. Anyone who has ever used a micro$oft product has to care about any new release. Else all those records that micro$oft keeps will be released to our employers/family/public. Think of all that pr0n!
Emacs does have more "features" than Vi, isn't that the point? Although many of us deem said features to be useless, and term them "bloat". Many people also see these things as great and actually can get more work done faster becasue of them. Just use what works for you, and we all can be happy.
The right version
on
GNU Emacs 21
·
· Score: 3, Funny
Why are we hiding from the police daddy?
Because we use vi son, they use emacs.
~Thinkgeek.com T-Shirt
the disadvantage (possibly) is that it does not leave the room for northbridge improvement..
Nonsense, the integrated northbridge allows for the transfer of functionality to an external northbirdge if someone would implement one. The only thing is how can you beat a northbridge running at the full cpu clock?
It's time to get a new keyboard when half your keys work half of the time. It's also time to goto bed when you're sloppy enough to click submit instead of preview. (either that or get some caffeine!)
For the time being, the left hand seems to be operating without regard to the right; but who knows how long this will keep up? The conflict of interest is way too obvious and way too intentional.
Remember when the merger was first discussed? Many people didn't think it would work out since the merger between Time & Warner was so fscked up that there was no coherency (sp?) between the differen't parts of the company. Now throw in a third part and it's even more messed up.
Standardized API? Could this be OpenGL? Every platform supports it although DirectX has input/networking/audio integrated. The MacOS equivilent is OpenGL btw. I think the industry should standardize on OpenGL as the API of choice. All there needs to be is a standard with input and sound (OpenAL anyone?) Just my $0.02 USD
The question I ask is why we don't see 10k ATA drives? We've had 7200 drives for a while, and SCSI now has 15k drives, so why don't we see 10k ATA drives? IMHO, but the *only* difference between SCSI and ATA drives is the interface component, isn't the actual mechanics of the drive the same?
I'm forced to use AOL as my ISP because my family actually likes it. I used to have an ISP for me to use just for linux, but since we moved away, those days are over. And being a college student (commuter) I can't afford to get one of my own. I use the internet whenever my computer is on, so I can't really use linux with out it, or I go into a horrible withdrawl. For now I'm dammed to AOHell and windows. I love linux and use it almost every day in school, and before now I used it most of the time on this comp. So maybe this will finally get me back into linux for my primary OS.::crosses fingers::
Slashdot Mirror
It's Cisco, the load balanceing king. Nobody had better see any slashdot effect on this story or we're all doomed.
I have to say I'd still consider myself a newbie when it comes to linux, well not quite but definetly not an expert. I love slackware because it's what you make of it. It isn't bloated like many other distros (Mandrake SuSE, etc...). It comes with a good assortment of apps and doesn't take 2 gigs of your drive installing things which A) aren't documented, B) aren't referenced and C) you have no clue they're there till you go digging and find out they are just peices of crap. It's simple, and it is configured exactly how you want it. People say it's dying because it doesn't cater to the brand spanking newbie like windows does or mandrake is trying to do. I did not start out on slack and would like to thank mandrake for giving me that start in linux life, but at some point you have to take off the training wheels, and move to that 10 speed.
So what if one developer is stopping work on some tools? It's opensource right? Isn't part of the point that if they are needed and people want them someone will pick it up and finish them? 2 tools don't make a distro, and 2 tools stopping development by their primary guy doesn't kill a distro. GO SLACKWARE!
Even better is the amazingly great single player mod "They Hunger" for half-life. It's a dark monster movie type mod set in the fifties, including the obligatory insane asylum, mad doctor, twisted sherif and hordes of zombies. There are many points in the game where something comes right out of nowhere after you, or a door slams closed, after you have been wandering around in the dark for a half hour. In the end you feel like you are running for your life. It's really the only game that has actually scared me. Can't say enough good about it.
Take a look
Always liked you unitron...
When the whole universe collapses because of the reversal of the big bang energy by gravity, then you may care.
One of the biggest debates IMHO, is whether the gravitational pull of the universe can overcome the expanding motion of the universe. This expansion caused by the big bang was theorized to be decreasing and gravity would eventually overcome it, thus pulling the entire universe back together in the same manner of pre-big bang time. It could also be said that this would cause the universe to be a periodic function of explode, expand, contract, explode... The problem with this is that there is not anywhere near enough matter in the universe to create a gravitational pull strong enough to overcome the big bang energy. There is also not enough visible matter to explain many gravitational effects scientists perceive. Thus, dark matter was theorized to explain these phenomenons. However, it could never be measured. This could go a long way to supporting various theories about the universe and it's workings.
But people are already complaining about it being slashdotted. So here's the excite AP story.
... American identification is of
...
NEW YORK (AP) - Patriotism is about to get easier online.
The Commerce Department selected NeuStar Inc. on Monday to run
domain names ending in ".us." With the announcement comes the
ability to get non-geographic addresses such as
"clothingstore.us," rather than the more cumbersome
"clothingstore.los-angeles.ca.us."
The new rules, expected to take effect early next year, are
designed to get more use out of ".us." Country code suffixes such as ".fr" for France have been sources of national pride
worldwide, but in the United States it is the forgotten stepchild compared with ".com."
NeuStar officials are hoping to change that attitude and said
recent terrorism events may give ".us" even more of a boost.
"The fact is right now,
increased importance," said Jeff Ganek, NeuStar's chairman and
chief executive.
Also Monday, the department announced a five-year agreement with
Educause, a nonprofit consortium, to run the ".edu" suffix.
Community colleges will be able to claim ".edu" names
beginning Nov. 12. In the past, ".edu" was limited primarily to four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
The ".us" domain name will be restricted to U.S. residents and
companies or organizations that operate in the United States,
though the system will rely partly on self-certification and isn't
foolproof.
Many details also remain unresolved.
Public-interest groups worry that ".us" - historically the
domain of state or local governments, nonprofit organizations and schools - will become yet another frontier dominated by commercial
interests.
"A lot of people are very supportive of opening `.us' for more
commercial, small business and individual use," said Alan Davidson, associate director for the Center for Democracy and
Technology. "What's tricky is how you make sure the policies
are fair and equitable."
NeuStar officials said existing ".us" users will get to keep
their names, and local entities that now assign geographically oriented names like "anyname.los-angeles.ca.us" can continue
doing so.
In addition, a number of names have been set aside, including
"kids.us" as a possible children's channel and "parks.us" as a
central resource for parks in the United States.
The company will establish a policy advisory council to address
usage issues, said James Casey, NeuStar's director of policy and
business development. The council's composition and other details
are still pending.
In the past, ".us" policy was handled by the University of
Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, which delegated assignments of specific names to some 800 individuals and
organizations.
To accommodate the distributed assignments, names became long
and cumbersome. It was also difficult to figure out where to go to
get them. Though businesses were allowed to claim ".us" names,
few did.
The change in ".us" is separate from last year's decision by
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to create
seven Internet suffixes to relieve overcrowding in ".com."
A NeuStar subsidiary, NeuLevel Inc., is the operator of
".biz," one of the new suffixes. NeuStar's ".us" database will
share some of the security and technical developments being used in
".biz."
NeuStar, based in Washington, D.C., also runs databases of area
codes and telephone prefixes for the nation's phone system.
The Commerce contract with NeuStar will run four years, with
options for two one-year extensions
Where are all these smart geeky women who can hold up in debates who like geeky guys AND are attractive?
Moving start eh? Maybe we just found another use
for my trebuchet I'm building for college...
This is better, this time the engineer fathers
will actually be the ones who can take credit
for their creations. No little son to get in the
way of all that glory.
Not only would this be the fastest car to cross the finish line, it would be the fastest car to melt into a puddle at the end too!
It's in the EULA. Anyone who has ever used a micro$oft product has to care about any new release. Else all those records that micro$oft keeps will be released to our employers/family/public. Think of all that pr0n!
Come on, this is slashback. The whole point of this is to revisit previous articles and point out any new developments about the topics.
Emacs does have more "features" than Vi, isn't that the point? Although many of us deem said features to be useless, and term them "bloat". Many people also see these things as great and actually can get more work done faster becasue of them. Just use what works for you, and we all can be happy.
Why are we hiding from the police daddy?
Because we use vi son, they use emacs.
~Thinkgeek.com T-Shirt
Let the war continue...
the disadvantage (possibly) is that it does not leave the room for northbridge improvement..
Nonsense, the integrated northbridge allows for the transfer of functionality to an external northbirdge if someone would implement one. The only thing is how can you beat a northbridge running at the full cpu clock?
It's From Men in Black.
Link
It's time to get a new keyboard when half your keys work half of the time. It's also time to goto bed when you're sloppy enough to click submit instead of preview. (either that or get some caffeine!)
What's the difference between this story and the a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/17/ 1844217&mode=nested">one on the same page?
For the time being, the left hand seems to be operating without regard to the right; but who knows how long this will keep up? The conflict of interest is way too obvious and way too intentional.
Remember when the merger was first discussed? Many people didn't think it would work out since the merger between Time & Warner was so fscked up that there was no coherency (sp?) between the differen't parts of the company. Now throw in a third part and it's even more messed up.
I've been disapointed about my story not being posted before, but at least when I post a comment to that effect, I use my name. Get some balls kid.
Lies,
Damn Lies,
Statistics.
Standardized API? Could this be OpenGL? Every platform supports it although DirectX has input/networking/audio integrated. The MacOS equivilent is OpenGL btw. I think the industry should standardize on OpenGL as the API of choice. All there needs to be is a standard with input and sound (OpenAL anyone?) Just my $0.02 USD
The question I ask is why we don't see 10k ATA drives? We've had 7200 drives for a while, and SCSI now has 15k drives, so why don't we see 10k ATA drives? IMHO, but the *only* difference between SCSI and ATA drives is the interface component, isn't the actual mechanics of the drive the same?
The question is, if it gets turned on for a legitamite reason, does it turn back off for normal use afterward if your preference is for it to be off?
I'm forced to use AOL as my ISP because my family actually likes it. I used to have an ISP for me to use just for linux, but since we moved away, those days are over. And being a college student (commuter) I can't afford to get one of my own. I use the internet whenever my computer is on, so I can't really use linux with out it, or I go into a horrible withdrawl. For now I'm dammed to AOHell and windows. I love linux and use it almost every day in school, and before now I used it most of the time on this comp. So maybe this will finally get me back into linux for my primary OS. ::crosses fingers::