I quote from corespondance from someone who knows Michael...
"...online again, after the University NOC burned to ashes..." -Michael
C'mon man, we didn't want you to flunk. You could at least have some simpathy towards us teachers for accepting you into our classroom with such low expectations. What did we do to deserve the most harshest words from you. We'll accept you again, please re-apply. We want you back at our University. Hope to hear from you soon, Michael.
Sincerily,
Mr. AP Journalism Teacher (of University burnt to ashes under Michael's feet)
The people in these "example statements" show a pattern...(http://homepage.mac.com/beowulf/farswit ch/Menu31.html)
Some had their picture taken in front of a building...a building with overlapping-slab walls...painted bluish-gray...the same walls...Andi, Bruce, Greg, Jessica, Lola (Jessica2?), and Stewart. Surprisingly, I believe the previous people had their pictures taken in front of the same building! Could they be a family of geeks, Farscape live audience, or possibly the farscape cast's food catering personell? Only more scrutiny could have told. Coincidance? You make your opinion.
A second pattern I noticed was two of the pictures taken were from inside some sort of building...the same building...using the same camera position...Shannon and Steve(Shannon's husband, or brother, maybe). What do these two people have in common? President and vice-president of the farscape cast's food catering group? Coincidance? You make your opinion.
A third pattern emerged...heaven forbid my eyes please... Two pictures were taken in an outdoor setting in appearance with a sculpture, a walkway colored red, with trashcans around the said sculpture...the same sculpture in both picture. The witnesses of these photos present themselves as Dava and Kimberly. Do Dava and Kimberly know they are taking eachother's pictures as evidence of their trial for shoplifting in the "Naughties and Nighties" adult theme-park? Furthy scrutiny may only tell... You make your opinion.
The rest of the pictures, perhaps 40% or less, appear to be unique...to the untrained eye... Evidence shows they all appear to be taken during the same time of the day! Coincidence? You make your opinion.
In my most humble opinion, these Farscrape-fan-fest-pictures are but a poor camera trick to fool people into thinking of watching more Farscape; thus keeping these actor-wannabees from benefiting from the merciless benefits of soap opera acting.
Infrared Port: for beaming data and business cards
So if I get hit by a car while safely walking across a street on a pedestrian green-light, then as I am in the ambulance racing to the hospital with a fractured skull and a hatred for the bussing system, all the lawyers chacing after me can beam their business cards to me.
**NEWS Flash** (+3: Funny)
Finaly, the year is 2002, a hot winter in hell has melted the ice-caps... Intel finaly creates an *initialy* affordable Multi-Processing CPU that allows software developers and users to benefit from true application multi-threading technology. In this day of age, computer systems with two or more Central Processing Units have become quite rare. Many fortune-500 companies have reported that they need people to maintane their Quad Pentium Pro 200MHz servers. Because of the general rareness of the Quad Pentium Pro 200MHz servers, developers flock to intel to purchase the Pentium 4 3.0GHz HyperThreading CPU and be able to simulate a multi-threading software environment on true hardware and in a more logical fassion. On the Fortune-infinity front of the world's favorite dominating company, Microsoft Island has successfully implemented its PallyWulf(TM) Cluster(TM) Intelectual(TM) Advisor(TM) Software on a singl node Intel Pentium 4 HT simulating 100 nodes at 50 watts per node! In short, this CPU sucks a % more power from my wall than normal. Thanks, Intel.
I am not being rude when I say this. As I am writing, imagine me wearing nothing but underwear with little hearts and barbie on them...and I am having a bad day...but none-the-less I am still kind...
I did read the interview. The end-product, I mean to say Retail Advertised Name (such as RedHat 8.0), doesn't reflect the BUILD-type of the software. They don't call it Gnu/RedHat 8.0 on the retail box because RedHat is the retail product name. The BUILD of a kernel, for example, as reported by the uname user-land tool, says operating system is redhat-pc-gnu-linux. uname may even have been compiled and built using Intel's icc, yet it reflects the BUILD of the operating system. GCC is Gnu software that could also be BUILT with a non-GCC compiler; I am speaking of the BUILD. I understand the SurfWriter and Gnu/SurfWriter asshole-ism you may have received. The end-product's name is decided by the developers. RMS is being taken the wrong way, I think, or could I be wrong and he realy is an asshole? Back when Doom was released for DOS, people talked about reverse-engineering the binary to see how ID Software coded it. Many people built software to reverse-compile binaries, all of which only reverse-compiled binaries they were designed for (hence the BUILD). I downloaded a Reverse-compiler that worked upon binaries built using Borland Turbo C++ 3.1 (IIRC) and I was able to reverse-compile my own programs. Many people reverse-compiled Doom, and I didn't do it...no..no.no, I'm innocent, I wouldn't do such a thing to those cool ID Software dudes. And, from what I heard, Doom was compiled using Borland Turbo C++ 3.somthing_i_can't_remember_duhhhhh. Does that mean the BUILD for Doom1 is msdos-pc-borland? I thought it did. The product's name says Doom on the box. Now we just know that the BUILD was performed by borland and not gnu. GCC, I understand, is the Gnu C Compiler (gcc) and Gnu's GCC license, GPL I believe, says you can use whatever license on the software you yourself made and compiled with GCC. GNU/MacOSX, to my understanding, is the BUILD. Why wouldn't the BUILD be Apple/MacOSX, given that Apple's compiler BUILT MacOSX, or did Apple's use one of Gnu's compilers (GCC)? To my understanding, nobody is saying Gnu should or must be STAMPED on the retail box. It's the underlying code generation that contains the signature of the BUILD. People (maybe including Bill Gates) could just as well take GCC and compile and build it within Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and the BUILD of the said GCC binary will say win-pc-microsoft. It's confusing for me too; I've only known about Gnu/Shit for about 4 years and I've only heard the argument for the past year.
Linus gave RMS permission to call anything Gnu/Linux and I agree with RMS' standpoint only on my own non-declared elements of...any Linux-based operating system or user-land software built using Gnu's development tools. Linus never told RMS to stop saying Gnu/Linux; context appeard to have not been defined, it was implied, though it appears Linus and RMS differ. I know RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo use kernels built by Gnu development tools; hence, uname reports DISTRO-pc-linux-gnu in its output or some variation including gnu. Many embedded Linux-based systems are built using development tools other than Gnu; and so unameshould output Intel/Linux, DEC/Linux, or whatever build. User-land tools shouldn't reflect the naming convention because anyone can mount Gnu's compiler tools for a platform over NFS. Is the availability of Gnu development tools specify a Gnu/Linux? I think not. Any software compiled with Gnu, upon a Linux-based OS, defines the software as Gnu/Linux. unametakes it out of context a little, but that's what./configure supposedly assumes regardless of available non-Gnu and Gnu tools to build or cross-compile...confusion. Let's just keep this dirty secret...the software reflects the banner/title/emblem/signature of the development system used to build... AIEEEEEEEEE! Now we'll have GnuIntel/Linux, GNUDEC/Linux, GnuHP/Linux, because some of the development tools were not Gnu. Notice how Gnu is writen BEFORE Intel/DEC/HP...;)
Really, how much of that data is worth saving? How much of that data can't be re-created? If a fire broke out, what would you try to save?
Part of my efforts in backing-up my data on my linux box is to classify data based on its operation: applications, modular application data, technical documentation, emulation and data, custom development, and patches/updates. The reason I have a desire to backup parts of the actual system is due to those applications being difficult to re-download, re-install, and/or patch. Some applications are just a pain in the ass and I agree with myself that applications on Linux suck more than the MS Windows registry when it comes to configuration files in ${HOME} and hunting them out to also be archived on your data recovery medium of choice. I desire for application configuration data be diverteted to a ${HOME}/.applications-config or some similar file structure because too much gets dumped as a.dir in a user's ${HOME}. Maybe it's too late to add such an idea in the LSB. I would like to see a kernel module or server allowing configuration files kept in a database tranparently accessed normally as file structure; I doubt it will happen.
So, to this day, I must hunt and peck at the configuration files I also want to backup. *Big*Yawn*
You are talking about a thin terminal. Start an X Server on your laptop simply by entering init mode 3(no X and no kde/gnome/etc on startup). Login to a virtual terminal, run X by itself with an xterm and simple Tab Window manager via 'X & xterm & twm'. As your laptop starts X and refreshes the LCD screen, the Xterm should appear and you need to type `xhost ipaddress_of_your_desktop_or_other_remote_computer `. Next, telnet to your desktop/remote computer via tcp/ip `telnet ip_of_remote_computer`. While telnet'ed into your desktop computer, type 'export DISPLAY="ip_address_of_laptop:x_server_screen_numb er_of_your_laptop(most likly zero)", and simply run your program on the desktop(install it on your desktop if your didn't). The program should output on your laptop's screen and accept input from your laptop's mouse and keyboard if configured correctly. After your desktop connects, it would be wise to not accept more connections by simply typing `xhost -` in the Xterm. If you have problems, you likly haven't made your "Magic Cookie", so beforehand trying this, you should read the document provided just below...
Document on remote applications with X Window System is available here
...We carried two laptops primarily as backup and to use with the Iridium phone but the main computer was a Capuccino from Think Geek
I can't stop shaking. I just gulped down 2 cups of cold dark coffee. I just sold my 486 dx4 file server on eBay. It isn't the Cappacino computer that has me shaken... It's just...the DEC Alpha 21364 ev8 is the last design of my favorite platform. Why in Christ's holy name can't the Alpha platform go out in a bang integrated in somthing like this "cappacion" computer? why? oh why? i don't want to live. That cappacino computer is all my dreams except a 3dlabs wildcat. Why can't the manufacturers just build one freaking nice system like think geek's cappacino?
Honest opinion you have. I have never seen a Linux Weekly News magazine at where I buy my magazines: Barnes&Noble and Waldenbooks. I all ten Linux magazines every *other* month because there is simply so much good information and bundled software that it keeps me busy with what spare time I have left. Every Linux-centered magazine I have bought is all verry well written and excellently advertised and designed. I have an old stack of 8 magazines at my feet that I still haven't finished. Every month, or every other month, I pay full news-stand prices because I've been too lazy to make subscriptions. Sadly, I noticed in my stack of magazins none based on Linux Weekly News. Why aren't they on the news stands? In my pile, I see:
OpenSource Developer's Journal (five star)
Linux Journal (four star...too much ads)
Linux Magazine (five star)
Maximum Linux (five star)
Linux Format(four star...too much ads)...and each magazine averages about $7.00 news-stand price. I spend about $45.00 each time just for the Linux stuff because I think the articles in each and every one is verry inteligent and awesomly written. How much of the news-stand cash is going to the editors of these magazines? I assume only 50 cents each mag, and that isn't too good. If these magazines were to sell better, then all these magazines should be making deals with Linux distributors to offer 3 months free for the purchase of a 12 month subscription of any of the said magazines. That way people can buy their linux distro, install it, and can easily subscribe to a Linux magazine for their entertainment and educative purposes to compliment their purchase. I think it sounds good. I don't mind paying news-stand, yet I know I should simply subscribe to these magazines, but I don't know where I will be living in 6 months from now.
No more interactive Television.
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Die dodo die set-top boxes and good computer software is supposed to assimilate local-broadcast television, cable, and satellite into one universally programmable networked appliance. Interactive television devices are dead and it was such a sad and annoying experiment that alot of people could agree.
Teddy Ruxbin and Gomer "grubby" Piles. Captain Power Atari 2600
...they have all died. Let it go. I will not have anything to do with Fahreneit. I think it's only playing on the success on Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451 which was superior and would only instill disappointment in anyone who read the book and then tried the interactive television model. I can imagine...
"Hello hero, would you like to:
0) rummage through the destroyed buildings for signs of life? 1) check for electricity to re-charge your power-morpher? 01) knee-jerk everything in sight 10) explore the secret life of apples"
"You pressed, 0. You've been zapped by Dr. Fireman. The End. Thanks for watching."
[rewind]
"Hello hero..." "You pressed 10. You've been zapped by Dr. Fireman. The End. Thanks for watching."
...doesn't anyone remember the mono-lithic conclusion of every interactive television/computer game? Especially those old VCR ones you bought for your kids from Toys'r'us? Ack! No more please!!! At least Galaga went on forever.
Dropping compatibility with the previous x86 architectures may effectivly drop serious issues such as platform-specific virii. And most virii, except maybe 45 proof-of-concept Linux virii, exist only for Microsoft Windows on the x86 arch. I think the situation is similar to the United States of America's problem with Chicken Pox (lol). The disease(or computer virus) that existed and killed hundreds and thousands of years ago will be brought back to life a couple decades after it was eradicated (yes obsoleted). Wouldn't that be somthing to read on slashdot...
Timothy
From the you-wont-believe-what-my-antivirus-said-my-compute r-contracted-department
UberTroll wrights: After a 20 years or so of dormancy, a computer cracker decided to release a new strain of the x86 CowboyNeal_DotEater virus back into the internet. This new radicle virus has been re-engineere to use the.NET platform as a dispersal and deliver its payload to all computers that are compatibl with the old 16bit 286 micro-architecture released in 1982 by Intel Corporation. CowboyNeal_DotEater has apparrently taken down Microsoft so far, and all Apache servers have been experiencing a large slowdown from such a simulated DDOS and luckily are not affected due to the nature of mostly Sun Sparc, HP PA-RISC, older DEC Alpha hardware, and generally all Unix systems running Apach are not based on the x86 platform. The cause for all the problems from CowboyNeal_DotEater is an infected system will immediatly have all user database of Microsoft OpenLook Express eMail address books will be violated with randomly sent copies of CowboyNeal_DotEater, and durring the local hours of Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner on the respective infected server that CowboyNeal_DotEater will remove all occurences of a period or "." within all code on an infected server's local harddrive and SMB, FTP, NFS, and HTTP file shares, and a local user activly editing a document will be unable to place a period or "." due to a little happy face appearing on the screen and consuming the targeted ascii sentance terminator. There has been no known cure and so far all of the affected computers on the internet, nearly 1/10 or 600 billion independant AMD Athlon OptiFloss Microsoft IIS.NET servers. However, the average websurfing consumer will not notice this malicious virus due to the popularity of Microsoft software on Fortune infinity E-commerce websites not being Microsoft customers. However, 9/10 of all desktop computers are Microsoft Windows based and are affected also. We here at Slashdot.org and the Free Software Foundation suggest you install a more stable and immune Operating System such as Gnu Hurd. As always, we will be covering this story randomly and give all affected users an update in 4 months. Thanyou for the privilege...
This is not flaimbait. The following are just my opinions of ideas that have come to be...
I think the Linux Kernel should be re-structured. There are currently 3 splits in Linux Kernel development. If I am not mistaken, each Kernel has features that the next might have, but the pre-compiled software of the distribution compiled on a specific kernel is simply not compatible or may have issues when the kernel is upgraded.
Damnit, Linus. Why can't you simple make the Kernel have better modularity? Monolithic kernels are no more... Pick a kernel tree and just make it modular. Re-design it. Or do somthing. It is starting to look stupid. I see a 2.2, a 2.4, a 2.5, and now a 2.6 kernel in circulation.
Why haven't you looked ahead to see that a kernel should be designed to be modular, portable, and fast. You and Alan keep throwing kernels out into the public and each one is slightly incompatible with eachother. It is annoying.
Why can't a Kernel be designed properly? For example, why was Universal Serial Bus such a big problem to support in 2.0 and 2.2? What makes each of the kernels better than the next and why can't the "ROSETTA STONE OF KERNEL DESIGNS" be implemented to stem 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 to be on the SAME AND COMPATIBLE Linux kernel tree?
Mark me as a flame in your own un-alienable right to do so, but I looked through the pages and saw no reference to Linux and its implementation of Network Address Translation and IP Masquerading. His page references the many other flavors of Unix ie the BSD's, HP-UX, etc. Linux is a flavor of Unix and a heck of a lot more available flavor of Unix for the x86. What's up, people? Just my two-cents worth of a United Stated Federal Reserve bank note...
He compared Windows2000 and no reference was made about WindowsXP *UPGRADE*. Mac OSX is not an upgrade, it is a complete package. Besides, your WindowsXP upgrade can't be used without a previous version of Microsoft Windows; so you realy spent between $150 to $200 including your previous purchases of Microsoft Windows you had upgraded to WindowsXP
Mac OSX is server tecnology marketd at retail consumer prices. $100 is the best deal ever seen for industrial-strength Unix! Windows 2000 is the most insecure and unstable server software in existance; a simple bad ide cdrom driver can bring it down, or a bad network packet from another Windows2000 server, and its lack of stable support for Universal Serial BUS and Firewire is terrible. The future operating system is logical: completly modular in design and every system-level peice of code is portable as well as its applications being portable.
WindowsXP is Microsoft's attempt at mimicking Unix-style account-managment, but with Microsoft's legacy of insecure computing. WindowsXP's performance is low on an equavilantly configured and benchmarked Bsd Unix system. Look at Unix as a whole in its earlier days. The lack of a GUI on servers was typical for the old Unix days because sys-admins and developers honed their skills in developing the most stable server. Now a century later, the Unix platform is realised to be the greatest design...Microsoft tries to out-compete it with WindowsNT, but simply cannot because of Unix's legacy of application portability, system management, security, stability, and highest-yielding performance. Yes, Unix was expensive. Microsoft's only effort was to out-market Unix, but that game-plan has changed from out-marketing Unix to attempting to assimilate Unix by one patent and license at a time. Mac OSX is the greatest development of Unix and the greatest operating system in the history of computing. Mac OSX is fast, efficient, and tailors to both the end-user of business software, entertainment, casual computing, and software development. What are you going to say next other than Microsoft has DirectX?
You just plain suck ass. Apple has the greatest product today and perceived to have the greatest products* for this entire century to come.
I thought electricmonk's words were most worthy of responding to. eltricmonk, you expressed some verry good ideas and I am not blinded by the lies of others. Certainty is never prevailent in today's day and age. In the history of human-kind, there has not once been a country formed where its citisen had absolute freedom and liberty from another.
It is honest to say we also are making the wrong assumptions about individuals and people in a particular country. China's culture is simply not a good comparison to the United States' culture. United States, today, is a blend of cultures which has no dominant interest. In a sense, everyone in the United States besides a special few, are equal: equally burdened by laws that are not equally presumed. It is most wise to compare countries similar in premise of their economy and government. China, being a communist nation where its inhabitants therein are regulated inclusivly by the government, is only comparable in scope to a similar country; Russia, perhaps. The United States would be more accuratly compared to Great Britain, due to the reoccuring presence of British property and interest laws in United States Code of Laws and the particular establishment of eachother's agencies and selective laws by both United States' and Britain's judiciary. Comparing China with the United States is foolish and bothersome. Each is a different kind of engine, as a matter of speaking.
What would be better than all governments that have ever existed? One word, you should all look it up...
Sovereign
Who is qualified to be a Sovereign? Well, that depends on the government you are currently a part of. The best government is the one that doesn't recognize you as PROPERTY or VESTED INTEREST that you are a CONSTRUCTIVE OWNER, of which abhormentioned as a UTILITY REVERSIONED UNTO THE ABSOLUTE PROPERTY OWNER. The best government is the one that doesn't TAKE YOUR RICE PATTY FOR THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS BECAUSE YOU WERE THE ONLY MOTIVATED FARMER THAT HAD THE WORK ETHICS AND MORALITY TO MAKE SOMTHING OF YOURSELF. All governments have one trait in common; they all attempt to decide for your well-being and establish that you are not important yourself, but the country as a whole is more important than any one.
Bringing it into perspective, it realy is dangerous, distastful, and outright immoral to be a part of a [fascist] government that works for the well-being of others and not yourself. Such a government is a legacy of corruption. Whose government are you a part of? I am quite a Christian and have seen the affliction of pseudo-Christians and non-Christians upon the world. Sovereignty is the best declaration unto the world of your own self commitment. Having been touched by God, a particular religion, declares your commitment to your family and those around you. All the governments of the world have none or have lost their soul [corporate sole, maybe?].
I have been born into slavery and have been taken from this prison. I am not a part of any country. In the United States, I am legally regarded as a sovereign, a foreign body within the California Territory, and I am not qualified and not obligated to any and all taxation. The United States is no more a place of freedom as compared to China. For the sake of any liberty, the United Nations is the source of evil; the fascist of fascists, the communist of communists.
I think this is a catalyst for people looking for Microsoft alternatives! Excellent idea, but who do you suppose would do such a thing? VA Linux Solutions deemed the hardware business too competitve and decided to drop their hardware division; thus leaving their remaining semi-profitable export to be strictly tangible.
VA Made a verry poor decision and I consider it to be the work of their god-damn accountants. Cattle farmers don't leave their business just because they are only making a profit of $75 per head of cattle; at the all-time-low average gross sell of $500.00 per unit (half the value compared with sales in 1999).
VA, now is your chance! Get back into the Workstation and Server Markets with an alliance with penguincomputing.com. The entire Linux IT sector should be working in colaboration in aquiring the Alpha Processor patents. The Transmeta Crusoe Processor looks like the future of Linux, I hope they do well because I'm not interested in the Tranmeta-Crusoe-enable Sony Vaio; I want to see a motherboard with Transmeta-Crusoe CPU sold at Fry's Electronics and CompUSA!
Every single Microsoft product...Editors comment.
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Every time a Microsoft product is released, the slashdot editors feel the need to analyze and comment. Every single Microsoft hardware product that arises, they like it. Every single Microsoft software product that arises, they despise it.
What's it going to be, guys? You reviewed the Pro800 Turbo, and you always appear to be more speculative and critical of non-Microsoft products.
I don't like it a bit. For your information, Microsoft is releasing the Palladium soon and like their hardware or not, just redeeming Microsoft for good hardware will only make them more successful.
There is some discussion on a Linux port of World of Warcraft in Blizzard's WoW Forum. Maybe for once you all can support a non-Microsoft product even if they legally shut down a project that cannot be shutdown due to its opensource nature.
However, KDE, Gnome, and Motif came along and made the GUI an absolute mess, split application development resources, and bloated the software; resulting in less portability and compatibility of software being put out, and slower software. To date, ther are 4 different implementation of "Drag & Drop" object libraries and neither has any such abstraction layer or minimal compatibility on GUI's on competing desktop environments. I don't like the dependancies of many applications on such desktop environments. Mozilla, for example, has some verry appauling library requirements for people who especially have a lean Unix system. More toolkits and libraries creates more possibilities for exploits and bugs. When was the last time you ever saw a simple Xlib Ansi C application ride the charts as the best application on Unix? It's about time people re-learned some development ethics. Just because the average person of today owns a 300MHz or higher-rated computer doesn't mean the application should have less attention for optimization and more attention for featureful bloat. The Gimp Toolkit is good, but do we really need to? The XForms Toolkit is good, but do we really need to? The FastAndLight Toolkit is good, but do we really need to?
Many Microsoft Windows applications that use anything more than vanilla MFC and VBruntime libraries often come included WITH the package so the end-user doesn't need to search all of heaven and hell for the application's library dependancies. Linux applications should have such minimal requirements, such that they include a small library of widgets specific to the application, at the same time being able to check for the same available widget compatibility in the system's/usr/lib and etc.
Gnome, KDE...you are all just bloat I don't enjoy looking at. If just one library dependancy was broken or corrupted, the entire GUI and desktop system of each will not operate. Unix's redeeming feature is supposed to be stability, and I see less and less of it everyday in attempt to bring it to a feature set parallel to Microsoft Windows. Hello? Someone said to pick good features of the proprietary, successful, competing operating systems, not all the shitty ones too.
I pondered from the verry beginning that Vivendi/Blizzard went after the FSGS and bnetd projects to paralyze a mass-effort to develop and ALTERNATIVE to Blizzard's battle.net online gaming service. It isn't difficult for Blizzard to cull direct TCP/IP LAN gaming and restrict gaming to the still TCP/IP Battle.net service. The FSGS and bnetd projects ARE attempts to have battle.net gaming abilities without the need of BLIZZARD'S battle.net service.
Legally, the only statement the Vivendi/Blizzard lawyer needed to make to shut-down the FSGS and bnetd projects that there existed the possibility of subjugation of the copyright-protection and theft prevention features of Blizzard's projects whether direct or indirect. Vivendi/Blizzard's lawyers, as well as any and all lawyers can take a glass coca-cola can and break it unto sand at a beach or per-school playground and prove the possibility that corporations are not working towards a safer food-distribution container. This is reality, a legal dispute allows the plaintiff to present an issue that simply provides legal bias to resolve a completly un-related issue effectivly.
Vivendi/Blizzard took down the FSGS and bnetd projects in reason that these two projects both directl and indirectly allowed people an alternative to communication technologies outside of battle.net when in true masqueraded fact they wanted to take down these two projects because they are mature, active, and have immediate attention by many gamers as a real-world challenge to Blizzard's battle.net gaming services. Blizzard itself licenses and provides their own specially made battle.net server technology to other organizations to host a battle.net gaming system...Vivendi/Blizzard doesn't like the freedom of people to play outside the Blizzard-sponsored-provided battle.net gaming service.
How many people play Diablo2? Well, Blizzard collects information on your computer as you use the battle.net service. Check in your Diablo2 installation director for files named D2*****.txt and inside is specs on your system; which Blizzard claims it only collects to choose the best system-optimization for their current and future applications. What other kinds of data does Blizzard can't collect when people use an alternative to their own battle.net service? Shit, they are telling you they only collected your system's processor and OS specs, what are they not telling you and why do they feel obligated to say they didn't collect other information?
Let's all take them to court because of the POSSIBILITY for them to steal data via their own Diablo2 program by means of the battle.net gaming service. Same principle on their reason to break-up the FSGS and bnetd efforts. Do you know why such a lawsuit will not work? Huh? Read Blizzard's End-User-License-Agreement for the product you bought and installed. They have legally covered their tracks for any such lawsuit. The difference between theirs and FSGS or bnetd's defense is one is restricted and once is GPL/FREE/OPENSOURCE.
Congratulations on the purchase of your VERY EXCITING Blizzard product. Press "Install" NOW so we may render you legally bound to a biased and pointless product of evil-consumed proportions using patented technology that neither improves life on earth or self-happiness yet is just here to bound us by adhesion contracts to legally impare and consume the customer convicted and proven guilty of the crime of capitalism within a WalMart, Target, KMart, Sam's Club, Costco, CompUSA, Electronics Boughtique, Radio Sh(ack|aft), Fr(y's|ied) Electronics, Babbages, or Pony Express dog-grooming service+Computer_software. Then they all drive to your house, break open your driveway's gate, march through the courtyard to your castle's bridge, cross your moat, break down your oak door's, storm into your bedroom, and arrest you as you make love to your spouse after reading your children to bed, after an ice-cream desert, after dinner, after a refreshing shower, after you get hom from a hard day of work picking filling jars of mustard.
"Hello Mr. Anderson [...] did you know you over-filled 4 jars of mustard? We're puting you in prison until you have reached spiritual equilibrium of your surrounding tangible debts to our company. And we will be seizing your computer and your Warcraft 3 materials because we have condemning evidence that you have the ability to come in contact and converse with competitors of our mustard-making operating of which you retain the ability to share technical knowledge of our mustard-making process. Thank you for your compliance of our administrative effort to correct you as stated on your employment contract condition you unwaiveringly and unquestionably agreed to; specifically page 2,137, section 14, clause 11, stating: I, the contracted personnel of Blizzard/Vivendi, agree to executive punnishment of any degree without question, whether at home or in a Blizzard-owned building, and this agreement is transferable to any other partner, stock-holder, or family-member of Blizzard/Vivendi..."
When do people plan on combating communism/socialism/fascism or do they give up a little security and freedom for temporary satisfaction?
So their database of links is a pay-per-list of a website. That sounds pretty good actually. Google has to make money somewhere and if people want to be included in their nice search engine for a small fee, then more power to them. Google spiders the internet too and that demands resources. Imagine what would happen if the internet wasn't so free... Your ISP bill would be determined by who you visit and what your webhits would cost. I imagine when that happens it will be just another bait and switch tactic that phone hustlers use to charge you $6.99 per-minute, but instead they'll do it to you on the internet because politicians allow that stuff to be legal.
Just be glad it is free on your end of the search, but always remember that not everything is free.
Although, we can quote our famous developer:
"Software is like sex; the best is for free."
-Linus Torvalds
...and I say let's try our best to keep it that way. The internet is verry much an unnatural resource capable of rejuvinating itself unlike the rest of planet earth.
...Doom III by id Software has won the "Best Of Show" award at the E3...
Actually, if Doom III was attempted on my computer, it wouldn't show at all! Seriously, people, shouldn't "Best Of Show" be awarded to software that is:
Efficient with available resources while providing good playability and an overall simple and outstanding user experience
???
I don't think my system requirements will meet the stated 1024 MegaBytes PC1066 RAM, Athlon SuperXP 3666+ CPU, Tripple-Quad-Differential-pumped FSB, and minimum 3,500 MegaBytes install space. Some of us have an electricity bill to pay and such system requirements hint the need of a computer that soaks my local powerplant to the ground when a 700 watt switching power supply is needed for such a beast. Stop it now!! Stop it now, man!!
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"...online again, after the University NOC burned to ashes..." -Michael
C'mon man, we didn't want you to flunk. You could at least have some simpathy towards us teachers for accepting you into our classroom with such low expectations. What did we do to deserve the most harshest words from you. We'll accept you again, please re-apply. We want you back at our University. Hope to hear from you soon, Michael.
Sincerily,
Mr. AP Journalism Teacher (of University burnt to ashes under Michael's feet)
Some had their picture taken in front of a building...a building with overlapping-slab walls...painted bluish-gray...the same walls...Andi, Bruce, Greg, Jessica, Lola (Jessica2?), and Stewart. Surprisingly, I believe the previous people had their pictures taken in front of the same building! Could they be a family of geeks, Farscape live audience, or possibly the farscape cast's food catering personell? Only more scrutiny could have told. Coincidance? You make your opinion.
A second pattern I noticed was two of the pictures taken were from inside some sort of building...the same building...using the same camera position...Shannon and Steve(Shannon's husband, or brother, maybe). What do these two people have in common? President and vice-president of the farscape cast's food catering group? Coincidance? You make your opinion.
A third pattern emerged...heaven forbid my eyes please... Two pictures were taken in an outdoor setting in appearance with a sculpture, a walkway colored red, with trashcans around the said sculpture...the same sculpture in both picture. The witnesses of these photos present themselves as Dava and Kimberly. Do Dava and Kimberly know they are taking eachother's pictures as evidence of their trial for shoplifting in the "Naughties and Nighties" adult theme-park? Furthy scrutiny may only tell... You make your opinion.
The rest of the pictures, perhaps 40% or less, appear to be unique...to the untrained eye... Evidence shows they all appear to be taken during the same time of the day! Coincidence? You make your opinion.
In my most humble opinion, these Farscrape-fan-fest-pictures are but a poor camera trick to fool people into thinking of watching more Farscape; thus keeping these actor-wannabees from benefiting from the merciless benefits of soap opera acting.
I rest my opinion.
So if I get hit by a car while safely walking across a street on a pedestrian green-light, then as I am in the ambulance racing to the hospital with a fractured skull and a hatred for the bussing system, all the lawyers chacing after me can beam their business cards to me.
OH GOD NO!
**NEWS Flash** (+3: Funny) Finaly, the year is 2002, a hot winter in hell has melted the ice-caps... Intel finaly creates an *initialy* affordable Multi-Processing CPU that allows software developers and users to benefit from true application multi-threading technology. In this day of age, computer systems with two or more Central Processing Units have become quite rare. Many fortune-500 companies have reported that they need people to maintane their Quad Pentium Pro 200MHz servers. Because of the general rareness of the Quad Pentium Pro 200MHz servers, developers flock to intel to purchase the Pentium 4 3.0GHz HyperThreading CPU and be able to simulate a multi-threading software environment on true hardware and in a more logical fassion. On the Fortune-infinity front of the world's favorite dominating company, Microsoft Island has successfully implemented its PallyWulf(TM) Cluster(TM) Intelectual(TM) Advisor(TM) Software on a singl node Intel Pentium 4 HT simulating 100 nodes at 50 watts per node! In short, this CPU sucks a % more power from my wall than normal. Thanks, Intel.
I did read the interview. The end-product, I mean to say Retail Advertised Name (such as RedHat 8.0), doesn't reflect the BUILD-type of the software. They don't call it Gnu/RedHat 8.0 on the retail box because RedHat is the retail product name. The BUILD of a kernel, for example, as reported by the uname user-land tool, says operating system is redhat-pc-gnu-linux. uname may even have been compiled and built using Intel's icc, yet it reflects the BUILD of the operating system. GCC is Gnu software that could also be BUILT with a non-GCC compiler; I am speaking of the BUILD. I understand the SurfWriter and Gnu/SurfWriter asshole-ism you may have received. The end-product's name is decided by the developers. RMS is being taken the wrong way, I think, or could I be wrong and he realy is an asshole? Back when Doom was released for DOS, people talked about reverse-engineering the binary to see how ID Software coded it. Many people built software to reverse-compile binaries, all of which only reverse-compiled binaries they were designed for (hence the BUILD). I downloaded a Reverse-compiler that worked upon binaries built using Borland Turbo C++ 3.1 (IIRC) and I was able to reverse-compile my own programs. Many people reverse-compiled Doom, and I didn't do it...no..no.no, I'm innocent, I wouldn't do such a thing to those cool ID Software dudes. And, from what I heard, Doom was compiled using Borland Turbo C++ 3.somthing_i_can't_remember_duhhhhh. Does that mean the BUILD for Doom1 is msdos-pc-borland? I thought it did. The product's name says Doom on the box. Now we just know that the BUILD was performed by borland and not gnu. GCC, I understand, is the Gnu C Compiler (gcc) and Gnu's GCC license, GPL I believe, says you can use whatever license on the software you yourself made and compiled with GCC. GNU/MacOSX, to my understanding, is the BUILD. Why wouldn't the BUILD be Apple/MacOSX, given that Apple's compiler BUILT MacOSX, or did Apple's use one of Gnu's compilers (GCC)? To my understanding, nobody is saying Gnu should or must be STAMPED on the retail box. It's the underlying code generation that contains the signature of the BUILD. People (maybe including Bill Gates) could just as well take GCC and compile and build it within Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and the BUILD of the said GCC binary will say win-pc-microsoft. It's confusing for me too; I've only known about Gnu/Shit for about 4 years and I've only heard the argument for the past year.
Linus gave RMS permission to call anything Gnu/Linux and I agree with RMS' standpoint only on my own non-declared elements of...any Linux-based operating system or user-land software built using Gnu's development tools. Linus never told RMS to stop saying Gnu/Linux; context appeard to have not been defined, it was implied, though it appears Linus and RMS differ. I know RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo use kernels built by Gnu development tools; hence, uname reports DISTRO-pc-linux-gnu in its output or some variation including gnu. Many embedded Linux-based systems are built using development tools other than Gnu; and so uname should output Intel/Linux, DEC/Linux, or whatever build. User-land tools shouldn't reflect the naming convention because anyone can mount Gnu's compiler tools for a platform over NFS. Is the availability of Gnu development tools specify a Gnu/Linux? I think not. Any software compiled with Gnu, upon a Linux-based OS, defines the software as Gnu/Linux. unametakes it out of context a little, but that's what ./configure supposedly assumes regardless of available non-Gnu and Gnu tools to build or cross-compile...confusion. Let's just keep this dirty secret...the software reflects the banner/title/emblem/signature of the development system used to build... AIEEEEEEEEE! Now we'll have GnuIntel/Linux, GNUDEC/Linux, GnuHP/Linux, because some of the development tools were not Gnu. Notice how Gnu is writen BEFORE Intel/DEC/HP... ;)
Really, how much of that data is worth saving? How much of that data can't be re-created? If a fire broke out, what would you try to save?
Part of my efforts in backing-up my data on my linux box is to classify data based on its operation: applications, modular application data, technical documentation, emulation and data, custom development, and patches/updates. The reason I have a desire to backup parts of the actual system is due to those applications being difficult to re-download, re-install, and/or patch. Some applications are just a pain in the ass and I agree with myself that applications on Linux suck more than the MS Windows registry when it comes to configuration files in ${HOME} and hunting them out to also be archived on your data recovery medium of choice. I desire for application configuration data be diverteted to a ${HOME}/.applications-config or some similar file structure because too much gets dumped as a .dir in a user's ${HOME}. Maybe it's too late to add such an idea in the LSB. I would like to see a kernel module or server allowing configuration files kept in a database tranparently accessed normally as file structure; I doubt it will happen.
So, to this day, I must hunt and peck at the configuration files I also want to backup. *Big*Yawn*
Document on remote applications with X Window System is available here
I can't stop shaking. I just gulped down 2 cups of cold dark coffee. I just sold my 486 dx4 file server on eBay. It isn't the Cappacino computer that has me shaken... It's just...the DEC Alpha 21364 ev8 is the last design of my favorite platform. Why in Christ's holy name can't the Alpha platform go out in a bang integrated in somthing like this "cappacion" computer? why? oh why? i don't want to live. That cappacino computer is all my dreams except a 3dlabs wildcat. Why can't the manufacturers just build one freaking nice system like think geek's cappacino?
i don't want to live.
Nah, she works at jubba's selling Cinamon Rolls off her head.
Hey,
...and each magazine averages about $7.00 news-stand price. I spend about $45.00 each time just for the Linux stuff because I think the articles in each and every one is verry inteligent and awesomly written. How much of the news-stand cash is going to the editors of these magazines? I assume only 50 cents each mag, and that isn't too good. If these magazines were to sell better, then all these magazines should be making deals with Linux distributors to offer 3 months free for the purchase of a 12 month subscription of any of the said magazines. That way people can buy their linux distro, install it, and can easily subscribe to a Linux magazine for their entertainment and educative purposes to compliment their purchase. I think it sounds good. I don't mind paying news-stand, yet I know I should simply subscribe to these magazines, but I don't know where I will be living in 6 months from now.
Honest opinion you have. I have never seen a Linux Weekly News magazine at where I buy my magazines: Barnes&Noble and Waldenbooks. I all ten Linux magazines every *other* month because there is simply so much good information and bundled software that it keeps me busy with what spare time I have left. Every Linux-centered magazine I have bought is all verry well written and excellently advertised and designed. I have an old stack of 8 magazines at my feet that I still haven't finished. Every month, or every other month, I pay full news-stand prices because I've been too lazy to make subscriptions. Sadly, I noticed in my stack of magazins none based on Linux Weekly News. Why aren't they on the news stands? In my pile, I see:
OpenSource Developer's Journal (five star)
Linux Journal (four star...too much ads)
Linux Magazine (five star)
Maximum Linux (five star)
Linux Format(four star...too much ads)
Die dodo die
...they have all died. Let it go. I will not have anything to do with Fahreneit. I think it's only playing on the success on Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451 which was superior and would only instill disappointment in anyone who read the book and then tried the interactive television model. I can imagine...
...doesn't anyone remember the mono-lithic conclusion of every interactive television/computer game? Especially those old VCR ones you bought for your kids from Toys'r'us? Ack! No more please!!! At least Galaga went on forever.
set-top boxes and good computer software is supposed to assimilate local-broadcast television, cable, and satellite into one universally programmable networked appliance. Interactive television devices are dead and it was such a sad and annoying experiment that alot of people could agree.
Teddy Ruxbin and Gomer "grubby" Piles.
Captain Power
Atari 2600
"Hello hero, would you like to:
0) rummage through the destroyed buildings for signs of life?
1) check for electricity to re-charge your power-morpher?
01) knee-jerk everything in sight
10) explore the secret life of apples"
"You pressed, 0. You've been zapped by Dr. Fireman. The End. Thanks for watching."
[rewind]
"Hello hero..."
"You pressed 10. You've been zapped by Dr. Fireman. The End. Thanks for watching."
Dropping compatibility with the previous x86 architectures may effectivly drop serious issues such as platform-specific virii. And most virii, except maybe 45 proof-of-concept Linux virii, exist only for Microsoft Windows on the x86 arch. I think the situation is similar to the United States of America's problem with Chicken Pox (lol). The disease(or computer virus) that existed and killed hundreds and thousands of years ago will be brought back to life a couple decades after it was eradicated (yes obsoleted). Wouldn't that be somthing to read on slashdot...
Timothye r-contracted-department .NET platform as a dispersal and deliver its payload to all computers that are compatibl with the old 16bit 286 micro-architecture released in 1982 by Intel Corporation. CowboyNeal_DotEater has apparrently taken down Microsoft so far, and all Apache servers have been experiencing a large slowdown from such a simulated DDOS and luckily are not affected due to the nature of mostly Sun Sparc, HP PA-RISC, older DEC Alpha hardware, and generally all Unix systems running Apach are not based on the x86 platform. The cause for all the problems from CowboyNeal_DotEater is an infected system will immediatly have all user database of Microsoft OpenLook Express eMail address books will be violated with randomly sent copies of CowboyNeal_DotEater, and durring the local hours of Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner on the respective infected server that CowboyNeal_DotEater will remove all occurences of a period or "." within all code on an infected server's local harddrive and SMB, FTP, NFS, and HTTP file shares, and a local user activly editing a document will be unable to place a period or "." due to a little happy face appearing on the screen and consuming the targeted ascii sentance terminator. There has been no known cure and so far all of the affected computers on the internet, nearly 1/10 or 600 billion independant AMD Athlon OptiFloss Microsoft IIS.NET servers. However, the average websurfing consumer will not notice this malicious virus due to the popularity of Microsoft software on Fortune infinity E-commerce websites not being Microsoft customers. However, 9/10 of all desktop computers are Microsoft Windows based and are affected also. We here at Slashdot.org and the Free Software Foundation suggest you install a more stable and immune Operating System such as Gnu Hurd. As always, we will be covering this story randomly and give all affected users an update in 4 months. Thanyou for the privilege...
From the you-wont-believe-what-my-antivirus-said-my-comput
UberTroll wrights: After a 20 years or so of dormancy, a computer cracker decided to release a new strain of the x86 CowboyNeal_DotEater virus back into the internet. This new radicle virus has been re-engineere to use the
This is not flaimbait. The following are just my opinions of ideas that have come to be...
I think the Linux Kernel should be re-structured.
There are currently 3 splits in Linux Kernel development. If I am not mistaken, each Kernel has features that the next might have, but the pre-compiled software of the distribution compiled on a specific kernel is simply not compatible or may have issues when the kernel is upgraded.
Damnit, Linus. Why can't you simple make the Kernel have better modularity? Monolithic kernels are no more... Pick a kernel tree and just make it modular. Re-design it. Or do somthing. It is starting to look stupid. I see a 2.2, a 2.4, a 2.5, and now a 2.6 kernel in circulation.
Why haven't you looked ahead to see that a kernel should be designed to be modular, portable, and fast. You and Alan keep throwing kernels out into the public and each one is slightly incompatible with eachother. It is annoying.
Why can't a Kernel be designed properly? For example, why was Universal Serial Bus such a big problem to support in 2.0 and 2.2? What makes each of the kernels better than the next and why can't the "ROSETTA STONE OF KERNEL DESIGNS" be implemented to stem 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 to be on the SAME AND COMPATIBLE Linux kernel tree?
Thanks for the replies, friends.
Mark me as a flame in your own un-alienable right to do so, but I looked through the pages and saw no reference to Linux and its implementation of Network Address Translation and IP Masquerading. His page references the many other flavors of Unix ie the BSD's, HP-UX, etc. Linux is a flavor of Unix and a heck of a lot more available flavor of Unix for the x86. What's up, people? Just my two-cents worth of a United Stated Federal Reserve bank note...
Silly man,
He compared Windows2000 and no reference was made about WindowsXP *UPGRADE*. Mac OSX is not an upgrade, it is a complete package. Besides, your WindowsXP upgrade can't be used without a previous version of Microsoft Windows; so you realy spent between $150 to $200 including your previous purchases of Microsoft Windows you had upgraded to WindowsXP
Mac OSX is server tecnology marketd at retail consumer prices. $100 is the best deal ever seen for industrial-strength Unix! Windows 2000 is the most insecure and unstable server software in existance; a simple bad ide cdrom driver can bring it down, or a bad network packet from another Windows2000 server, and its lack of stable support for Universal Serial BUS and Firewire is terrible. The future operating system is logical: completly modular in design and every system-level peice of code is portable as well as its applications being portable.
WindowsXP is Microsoft's attempt at mimicking Unix-style account-managment, but with Microsoft's legacy of insecure computing. WindowsXP's performance is low on an equavilantly configured and benchmarked Bsd Unix system. Look at Unix as a whole in its earlier days. The lack of a GUI on servers was typical for the old Unix days because sys-admins and developers honed their skills in developing the most stable server. Now a century later, the Unix platform is realised to be the greatest design...Microsoft tries to out-compete it with WindowsNT, but simply cannot because of Unix's legacy of application portability, system management, security, stability, and highest-yielding performance. Yes, Unix was expensive. Microsoft's only effort was to out-market Unix, but that game-plan has changed from out-marketing Unix to attempting to assimilate Unix by one patent and license at a time. Mac OSX is the greatest development of Unix and the greatest operating system in the history of computing. Mac OSX is fast, efficient, and tailors to both the end-user of business software, entertainment, casual computing, and software development. What are you going to say next other than Microsoft has DirectX?
You just plain suck ass. Apple has the greatest product today and perceived to have the greatest products* for this entire century to come.
I thought electricmonk's words were most worthy of responding to. eltricmonk, you expressed some verry good ideas and I am not blinded by the lies of others. Certainty is never prevailent in today's day and age. In the history of human-kind, there has not once been a country formed where its citisen had absolute freedom and liberty from another.
It is honest to say we also are making the wrong assumptions about individuals and people in a particular country. China's culture is simply not a good comparison to the United States' culture. United States, today, is a blend of cultures which has no dominant interest. In a sense, everyone in the United States besides a special few, are equal: equally burdened by laws that are not equally presumed. It is most wise to compare countries similar in premise of their economy and government. China, being a communist nation where its inhabitants therein are regulated inclusivly by the government, is only comparable in scope to a similar country; Russia, perhaps. The United States would be more accuratly compared to Great Britain, due to the reoccuring presence of British property and interest laws in United States Code of Laws and the particular establishment of eachother's agencies and selective laws by both United States' and Britain's judiciary. Comparing China with the United States is foolish and bothersome. Each is a different kind of engine, as a matter of speaking.
What would be better than all governments that have ever existed? One word, you should all look it up...
Sovereign
Who is qualified to be a Sovereign? Well, that depends on the government you are currently a part of. The best government is the one that doesn't recognize you as PROPERTY or VESTED INTEREST that you are a CONSTRUCTIVE OWNER, of which abhormentioned as a UTILITY REVERSIONED UNTO THE ABSOLUTE PROPERTY OWNER. The best government is the one that doesn't TAKE YOUR RICE PATTY FOR THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS BECAUSE YOU WERE THE ONLY MOTIVATED FARMER THAT HAD THE WORK ETHICS AND MORALITY TO MAKE SOMTHING OF YOURSELF. All governments have one trait in common; they all attempt to decide for your well-being and establish that you are not important yourself, but the country as a whole is more important than any one.
Bringing it into perspective, it realy is dangerous, distastful, and outright immoral to be a part of a [fascist] government that works for the well-being of others and not yourself. Such a government is a legacy of corruption. Whose government are you a part of? I am quite a Christian and have seen the affliction of pseudo-Christians and non-Christians upon the world. Sovereignty is the best declaration unto the world of your own self commitment. Having been touched by God, a particular religion, declares your commitment to your family and those around you. All the governments of the world have none or have lost their soul [corporate sole, maybe?].
I have been born into slavery and have been taken from this prison. I am not a part of any country. In the United States, I am legally regarded as a sovereign, a foreign body within the California Territory, and I am not qualified and not obligated to any and all taxation. The United States is no more a place of freedom as compared to China. For the sake of any liberty, the United Nations is the source of evil; the fascist of fascists, the communist of communists.
I pray for guidance, Jesus.
On the X86 Platform, the only popular and viable alternative to Microsoft Windows is Linux.
On the Apple G-Series Platforms, the only popular and viable alternative to Apple Mac OSX is Linux.
On the Alpha Platform, the only popular and viable alternative to True64/Digital Unix (defunct) is Linux.
The only viable alternative to both Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX, and True64/Digital Unix is either BeOS or freeBSD.
VA Made a verry poor decision and I consider it to be the work of their god-damn accountants. Cattle farmers don't leave their business just because they are only making a profit of $75 per head of cattle; at the all-time-low average gross sell of $500.00 per unit (half the value compared with sales in 1999).
VA, now is your chance! Get back into the Workstation and Server Markets with an alliance with penguincomputing.com. The entire Linux IT sector should be working in colaboration in aquiring the Alpha Processor patents. The Transmeta Crusoe Processor looks like the future of Linux, I hope they do well because I'm not interested in the Tranmeta-Crusoe-enable Sony Vaio; I want to see a motherboard with Transmeta-Crusoe CPU sold at Fry's Electronics and CompUSA!
What's it going to be, guys? You reviewed the Pro800 Turbo, and you always appear to be more speculative and critical of non-Microsoft products.
I don't like it a bit. For your information, Microsoft is releasing the Palladium soon and like their hardware or not, just redeeming Microsoft for good hardware will only make them more successful.
There is some discussion on a Linux port of World of Warcraft in Blizzard's WoW Forum. Maybe for once you all can support a non-Microsoft product even if they legally shut down a project that cannot be shutdown due to its opensource nature.
However, KDE, Gnome, and Motif came along and made the GUI an absolute mess, split application development resources, and bloated the software; resulting in less portability and compatibility of software being put out, and slower software. To date, ther are 4 different implementation of "Drag & Drop" object libraries and neither has any such abstraction layer or minimal compatibility on GUI's on competing desktop environments. I don't like the dependancies of many applications on such desktop environments. Mozilla, for example, has some verry appauling library requirements for people who especially have a lean Unix system. More toolkits and libraries creates more possibilities for exploits and bugs. When was the last time you ever saw a simple Xlib Ansi C application ride the charts as the best application on Unix? It's about time people re-learned some development ethics. Just because the average person of today owns a 300MHz or higher-rated computer doesn't mean the application should have less attention for optimization and more attention for featureful bloat. The Gimp Toolkit is good, but do we really need to? The XForms Toolkit is good, but do we really need to? The FastAndLight Toolkit is good, but do we really need to?
/usr/lib and etc.
Many Microsoft Windows applications that use anything more than vanilla MFC and VBruntime libraries often come included WITH the package so the end-user doesn't need to search all of heaven and hell for the application's library dependancies. Linux applications should have such minimal requirements, such that they include a small library of widgets specific to the application, at the same time being able to check for the same available widget compatibility in the system's
Gnome, KDE...you are all just bloat I don't enjoy looking at. If just one library dependancy was broken or corrupted, the entire GUI and desktop system of each will not operate. Unix's redeeming feature is supposed to be stability, and I see less and less of it everyday in attempt to bring it to a feature set parallel to Microsoft Windows. Hello? Someone said to pick good features of the proprietary, successful, competing operating systems, not all the shitty ones too.
Legally, the only statement the Vivendi/Blizzard lawyer needed to make to shut-down the FSGS and bnetd projects that there existed the possibility of subjugation of the copyright-protection and theft prevention features of Blizzard's projects whether direct or indirect. Vivendi/Blizzard's lawyers, as well as any and all lawyers can take a glass coca-cola can and break it unto sand at a beach or per-school playground and prove the possibility that corporations are not working towards a safer food-distribution container. This is reality, a legal dispute allows the plaintiff to present an issue that simply provides legal bias to resolve a completly un-related issue effectivly.
Vivendi/Blizzard took down the FSGS and bnetd projects in reason that these two projects both directl and indirectly allowed people an alternative to communication technologies outside of battle.net when in true masqueraded fact they wanted to take down these two projects because they are mature, active, and have immediate attention by many gamers as a real-world challenge to Blizzard's battle.net gaming services. Blizzard itself licenses and provides their own specially made battle.net server technology to other organizations to host a battle.net gaming system...Vivendi/Blizzard doesn't like the freedom of people to play outside the Blizzard-sponsored-provided battle.net gaming service.
How many people play Diablo2? Well, Blizzard collects information on your computer as you use the battle.net service. Check in your Diablo2 installation director for files named D2*****.txt and inside is specs on your system; which Blizzard claims it only collects to choose the best system-optimization for their current and future applications. What other kinds of data does Blizzard can't collect when people use an alternative to their own battle.net service? Shit, they are telling you they only collected your system's processor and OS specs, what are they not telling you and why do they feel obligated to say they didn't collect other information?
Let's all take them to court because of the POSSIBILITY for them to steal data via their own Diablo2 program by means of the battle.net gaming service. Same principle on their reason to break-up the FSGS and bnetd efforts. Do you know why such a lawsuit will not work? Huh? Read Blizzard's End-User-License-Agreement for the product you bought and installed. They have legally covered their tracks for any such lawsuit. The difference between theirs and FSGS or bnetd's defense is one is restricted and once is GPL/FREE/OPENSOURCE.
Congratulations on the purchase of your VERY EXCITING Blizzard product. Press "Install" NOW so we may render you legally bound to a biased and pointless product of evil-consumed proportions using patented technology that neither improves life on earth or self-happiness yet is just here to bound us by adhesion contracts to legally impare and consume the customer convicted and proven guilty of the crime of capitalism within a WalMart, Target, KMart, Sam's Club, Costco, CompUSA, Electronics Boughtique, Radio Sh(ack|aft), Fr(y's|ied) Electronics, Babbages, or Pony Express dog-grooming service+Computer_software. Then they all drive to your house, break open your driveway's gate, march through the courtyard to your castle's bridge, cross your moat, break down your oak door's, storm into your bedroom, and arrest you as you make love to your spouse after reading your children to bed, after an ice-cream desert, after dinner, after a refreshing shower, after you get hom from a hard day of work picking filling jars of mustard.
"Hello Mr. Anderson [...] did you know you over-filled 4 jars of mustard? We're puting you in prison until you have reached spiritual equilibrium of your surrounding tangible debts to our company. And we will be seizing your computer and your Warcraft 3 materials because we have condemning evidence that you have the ability to come in contact and converse with competitors of our mustard-making operating of which you retain the ability to share technical knowledge of our mustard-making process. Thank you for your compliance of our administrative effort to correct you as stated on your employment contract condition you unwaiveringly and unquestionably agreed to; specifically page 2,137, section 14, clause 11, stating: I, the contracted personnel of Blizzard/Vivendi, agree to executive punnishment of any degree without question, whether at home or in a Blizzard-owned building, and this agreement is transferable to any other partner, stock-holder, or family-member of Blizzard/Vivendi..."
When do people plan on combating communism/socialism/fascism or do they give up a little security and freedom for temporary satisfaction?
So their database of links is a pay-per-list of a website. That sounds pretty good actually. Google has to make money somewhere and if people want to be included in their nice search engine for a small fee, then more power to them. Google spiders the internet too and that demands resources. Imagine what would happen if the internet wasn't so free... Your ISP bill would be determined by who you visit and what your webhits would cost. I imagine when that happens it will be just another bait and switch tactic that phone hustlers use to charge you $6.99 per-minute, but instead they'll do it to you on the internet because politicians allow that stuff to be legal.
Just be glad it is free on your end of the search, but always remember that not everything is free.
Although, we can quote our famous developer:
"Software is like sex; the best is for free."
-Linus Torvalds
...and I say let's try our best to keep it that way. The internet is verry much an unnatural resource capable of rejuvinating itself unlike the rest of planet earth.
What hardware have you found to be the most reliable?
Is there anything you can recommend to OEM's on the X86 architecture?
And for my last, in your perspective... Do your medical benefits include a vision plan?
Actually, if Doom III was attempted on my computer, it wouldn't show at all! Seriously, people, shouldn't "Best Of Show" be awarded to software that is:
Efficient with available resources while providing good playability and an overall simple and outstanding user experience
???
I don't think my system requirements will meet the stated 1024 MegaBytes PC1066 RAM, Athlon SuperXP 3666+ CPU, Tripple-Quad-Differential-pumped FSB, and minimum 3,500 MegaBytes install space. Some of us have an electricity bill to pay and such system requirements hint the need of a computer that soaks my local powerplant to the ground when a 700 watt switching power supply is needed for such a beast. Stop it now!! Stop it now, man!!