Well...it's got alot in common with smoking tobacco (or inhaling any burned substance really)...and they tell me that isn't so good for your either. Lungs weren't put there to take in crap...they are there for air. Ask any doctor what they are for....seriously!
I know that - I'm a tobacco smoker as well, and my lungs aren't happy with me. If I could quit, I would. But your liver wasn't designed to handle alcohol, either. And yet drinking is legal. If I want to fuck up my own body, I should have every right to do so. It's my body, not the Government's. --
I wonder if they realise exactly how little their "my freedom is important to me" comments seem when they are giving control over their mind to something else. (save the crap about the expanded soul please, it's still morning here)
Alcohol is legal, is it not? Why should somebody who enjoys using a different mind-altering substance be thrown in jail when you can go down to the bar and get completely cocked? I don't like alcohol - it just doesn't appeal to me. Pot does. Does that mean I'm a menace to society and belong in jail? --
Here's a goof with his little pro-stoner link on his post, talking about Bush being stupid.
You're calling me stupid for smoking pot? Well, I think you're stupid for making assumptions about people whom you obviously know absolutely nothing about. I think you're stupid for falling for government propaganda about pot when alcohol and caffeine are far more dangerous drugs. Go back to your little world where everything is fine and dandy and stop bothering those of us who care about our freedoms enough to do something about it.
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One thing I don't understand is why everybody around here seems to be favoring Gore over Bush. True, I would never in a million years vote for someone as mind-bogglingly stupid as Bush, but I would also never vote for Gore - he is extremely in favor of censorship, and his wife Tipper is even worse. True, she won't have any real power if Gore is elected, but she will have way too much pull. She is a very dangerous woman.
Seriously, though, this is a good thing, if only because it gives me an excuse to buy a laptop. Now I'm going to unabashedly troll and ask for opinions here: Windows laptop or Mac laptop? Windows laptop hardware tends to be kind of crappy, but a Mac laptop is, well, a Mac at the core... But it does have OS X, which I have seen and really looks pretty nice. Suggestions?
My roommate has an older (maybe 2 years) G3 Powerbook - it's 292mhz or something wierd like that. I installed LinuxPPC on it and it kicks ass. With the two included batteries you can get 8-10 hours of constant usage on in, and LinuxPPC is pretty nice. Everything is completely supported - sound, modem, ethernet, video, power management, etc...
If you want to run Linux on a laptop, I suggest a Powerbook. --
I've got an LX164 (600mhz EV56, 512MB of RAM, 8GB SCSI drive) and it's the sweetest machine I've ever had, and one of the fastest ones I've ever used (the only faster one was an Alpha I got the opportunity to play around with at Goddard Space Center, which was a dual 600mhz Alpha with 4GB of RAM:-)
I have to admit, I don't use it as my main machine, mostly because I use 3D Studio and Painter 6 often and don't have NT for Alpha. But it's the workhorse around here - it's our IP Masq box, Samba server, web server, FTP server, SMTP server, and POP/IMAP server, and it used to be the home for Smokedot until our DSL got cut off. When i do hook my 19" monitor up to it and use X, it is FAST. Blindingly fast. I didn't think it was humanly possible for X with Helix Gnome to go so fast, but it's much faster and more responsive than my roommate's Athlon 800 running either Win2k or Linux, and it just blows my P2 350 out of the water.
Conclusion? Any geek who runs Linux would be, IMHO, much happier with an Alpha than x86. I run RedHat, but I know Debian and SuSE both have Alpha distributions, as well as Free- and NetBSD. Every open source program I've tried on it has worked great - some of them give warnings on compile which seem to indicate that they're not 64-bit clean, but they work fine nonetheless. It's also got a ridiculous number of PCI/ISA slots and drive bays - 10 full-height drive bays, 4 ISA, and 6 PCI slots.
The only issue is games - I haven't seen a single commercial game which has a Linux/Alpha port, which kinda sucks. It would make a sick gaming platform, especially now that the SRM compatibility problems with nVidia cards have been fixed.
Not to mention the fact that any CPU with 4MB of L2 cache is good in my book:-) --
I thought Linus just left his alpha in the box and only turned it on so he could say to DEC that he'd switched it
on.
You've got the story right, but you've got your machines mixed up - either IBM or Motorola (I can't remember which) wanted him to port Linux to PPC, but once he had it working on the Alpha he got from Mad Dog, he left the PPC in the box. One day he turned it on just so that he could tell them he turned it on.
Linus has been an Alpha supporter for a long time. --
How easy is it for my employers to see the data I transmit
if it is going through a java applet?
Well, that depends - it's still an IP stream, and the packets are still going through your employer's network so they can sniff the packets. Whether or not they can understand those packets depends on whether the applet does encryption at all. --
I have high hopes for these "UNIX under the hood" operating systems. I always thought Be had things right, and it looks like OS X is
basically duplicating that scheme.
Repeat after me. BeOS is *not* UNIX based. It is POSIX compliant and bash has been ported. But it is not based on a UNIX kernel. --
I was just kidding, I've never worked high. I might try that thing with the acid sometime though.
That would be pretty tough to do with street acid, though, since you don't know the dosage. Take a little too much and you sure as hell won't get anything done:-) --
That's interesting, I've found that acid is the most effective in increasing productivity. I've tried E and pot, but what I really
need to help get me through the day is the hallucinations.
Do you actually take enough to start tripping? I read a study somewhere which showed that taking tiny amounts of acid (about half of what is necessary to trip) will increase your attention span and let you focus on a single task for up to 12 hours (they recommended it for long-haul truck drivers and jobs like that, but of course this was before it was made illegal). --
try dropping E too. you don't get the munchies that you do smoking pot, and it's a lot cleaner too(just pop a pill). i've
done both, i think rolling is alot better than getting stoned.
I don't like E. It just gives me wierd headrushes and shit, and I don't enjoy it. And I figure that if I'm going to do something that's that bad for me, I damn well better enjoy it. Which is why I'd try heroin before I do E again. --
Cool, is Smokedot back up again now? I'll have to go check...
Yeah, finally:-) 100mpbs link, too, so it should be real fast.
being
stoned when some emergency comes up is a total bummer.
I don't agree - if I have something that needs to be done right away, I'll have an easier time doing it stoned. I have an easier time sitting and doing one thing for a long time if I'm stoned (provided I have more weed to smoke). But if I start sobering up a bit I'll want to go do something else instead, but if I keep on puffing, I can keep on coding. --
Smoke pot! Programming while stoned is lots of fun, and it's easier to get things done. When I'm not stoned, my mind tends to wander and I read Kuro5hin and Smokedot all day:-) Smoking pot also does wonders to reduce stress. --
Come on, man. As if the troll problem on Slashdot isn't bad enough without somebody posting something on the main page about tooting their own horn. --
They don't wait because then RedHat 7 wouldn't be out for a long time after those two come out - they can't just download them, throw them onto the CD, and send it to the presses - they have to make sure adding those two doesn't break anything else in the system, and that's a time-consuming thing. If they did just release it quickly, you all would be bitching about how they didn't test it well enough and XFree86 4 doesn't work with XYZ app when you have an ABC video card. --
When I just went to smokedot.org all there was was a banner for "crackaddict.com"? And when I went to crackaddict.com just the same thing. oh well..
Oh good, the DNS has updated. Yeah, change of plans - it's possible that Smokedot will be back up tonight! Woohoo! My friend from high school (who I haven't talked to in 4 years, and just/msg'ed me out of the blue on IRC today) offered to host it, and crackaddict.com is his site. Right now I'm waiting for him to get back from dinner so he can finish installing perl modules and stuff like that and get it working. --
I also saw DJ Shadow (who is from the Bay Area)
last year. He does turntable/mixing/scratching stuff - a great show, and Shadow stayed afterwards to sign stuff
and talk with the fans indefinitely, which is something few artists do.
Wow - DJ Shadow rules. "What Does Your Soul Look Like?" (all parts) is one of my favorite songs. I don't like most drum and bass stuff, though. --
pster these, then if you like them, order the albums online (you'll never find them anywhere)
I would Napster them, but our DSL got cut off (we didn't pay the bill for 4 months and owe our ISP $1200. 1.1 Mbit SDSL is expensive.)
Maybe I'll order a few though - which ones would you suggest most? (I prefer chilled our music [I smoke a lot of pot:-) ], either Pink Floyd/Alice in Chains style or rap like Outkast or Cypress Hill). --
Rap's gotten more intelligent in recent years. Check out Dilated Peoples, the Ghost Dog soundtrack (along with
anything RZA does), maybe the High and Mighty.
Anybody ever heard The Spooks? That's some really nice, chill rap - especially when you're stoned. And there isn't a bad song on the whole CD. --
The standard response is which Pink Floyd are you talking about? The Pink Floyd of Meddle, or that of
Ummagumma, Pulse, and any of a dozen rehashed releases and show tours?
Heh heh... beats me:-) I'm talking about Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. --
I've personally grown rather fond of Eminem. I never thought I'd like rap. Turns out I do. Amazing how tastes
change.
Oh yeah, that's something I forgot to change - I really like Eminem too. He's really innovative and has real talent, unlike most of the new bands these days.
I'm disappointed now though - I bought the new Cypress Hill CD today (turned out to be a 2-CD set, too:-), but I don't like it so much - it's a lot more hard rap, rather than the chilled out stoner rap they used to do - it all sounds like that song "Rock Superstar." It's pretty good, though. --
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Well...it's got alot in common with smoking tobacco (or inhaling any burned substance really)...and they tell me that isn't so good for your either. Lungs weren't put there to take in crap...they are there for air. Ask any doctor what they are for....seriously!
I know that - I'm a tobacco smoker as well, and my lungs aren't happy with me. If I could quit, I would. But your liver wasn't designed to handle alcohol, either. And yet drinking is legal. If I want to fuck up my own body, I should have every right to do so. It's my body, not the Government's.
--
I wonder if they realise exactly how little their "my freedom is important to me" comments seem when they are giving control over their mind to something else. (save the crap about the expanded soul please, it's still morning here)
Alcohol is legal, is it not? Why should somebody who enjoys using a different mind-altering substance be thrown in jail when you can go down to the bar and get completely cocked? I don't like alcohol - it just doesn't appeal to me. Pot does. Does that mean I'm a menace to society and belong in jail?
--
Here's a goof with his little pro-stoner link on his post, talking about Bush being stupid.
You're calling me stupid for smoking pot? Well, I think you're stupid for making assumptions about people whom you obviously know absolutely nothing about. I think you're stupid for falling for government propaganda about pot when alcohol and caffeine are far more dangerous drugs. Go back to your little world where everything is fine and dandy and stop bothering those of us who care about our freedoms enough to do something about it.
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One thing I don't understand is why everybody around here seems to be favoring Gore over Bush. True, I would never in a million years vote for someone as mind-bogglingly stupid as Bush, but I would also never vote for Gore - he is extremely in favor of censorship, and his wife Tipper is even worse. True, she won't have any real power if Gore is elected, but she will have way too much pull. She is a very dangerous woman.
Why is censorship so bad? You tell me.
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Seriously, though, this is a good thing, if only because it gives me an excuse to buy a laptop. Now I'm going to unabashedly troll and ask for opinions here: Windows laptop or Mac laptop? Windows laptop hardware tends to be kind of crappy, but a Mac laptop is, well, a Mac at the core... But it does have OS X, which I have seen and really looks pretty nice. Suggestions?
My roommate has an older (maybe 2 years) G3 Powerbook - it's 292mhz or something wierd like that. I installed LinuxPPC on it and it kicks ass. With the two included batteries you can get 8-10 hours of constant usage on in, and LinuxPPC is pretty nice. Everything is completely supported - sound, modem, ethernet, video, power management, etc...
If you want to run Linux on a laptop, I suggest a Powerbook.
--
I've got an LX164 (600mhz EV56, 512MB of RAM, 8GB SCSI drive) and it's the sweetest machine I've ever had, and one of the fastest ones I've ever used (the only faster one was an Alpha I got the opportunity to play around with at Goddard Space Center, which was a dual 600mhz Alpha with 4GB of RAM :-)
:-)
I have to admit, I don't use it as my main machine, mostly because I use 3D Studio and Painter 6 often and don't have NT for Alpha. But it's the workhorse around here - it's our IP Masq box, Samba server, web server, FTP server, SMTP server, and POP/IMAP server, and it used to be the home for Smokedot until our DSL got cut off. When i do hook my 19" monitor up to it and use X, it is FAST. Blindingly fast. I didn't think it was humanly possible for X with Helix Gnome to go so fast, but it's much faster and more responsive than my roommate's Athlon 800 running either Win2k or Linux, and it just blows my P2 350 out of the water.
Conclusion? Any geek who runs Linux would be, IMHO, much happier with an Alpha than x86. I run RedHat, but I know Debian and SuSE both have Alpha distributions, as well as Free- and NetBSD. Every open source program I've tried on it has worked great - some of them give warnings on compile which seem to indicate that they're not 64-bit clean, but they work fine nonetheless. It's also got a ridiculous number of PCI/ISA slots and drive bays - 10 full-height drive bays, 4 ISA, and 6 PCI slots.
The only issue is games - I haven't seen a single commercial game which has a Linux/Alpha port, which kinda sucks. It would make a sick gaming platform, especially now that the SRM compatibility problems with nVidia cards have been fixed.
Not to mention the fact that any CPU with 4MB of L2 cache is good in my book
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I thought Linus just left his alpha in the box and only turned it on so he could say to DEC that he'd switched it on.
You've got the story right, but you've got your machines mixed up - either IBM or Motorola (I can't remember which) wanted him to port Linux to PPC, but once he had it working on the Alpha he got from Mad Dog, he left the PPC in the box. One day he turned it on just so that he could tell them he turned it on.
Linus has been an Alpha supporter for a long time.
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How easy is it for my employers to see the data I transmit if it is going through a java applet?
Well, that depends - it's still an IP stream, and the packets are still going through your employer's network so they can sniff the packets. Whether or not they can understand those packets depends on whether the applet does encryption at all.
--
I have high hopes for these "UNIX under the hood" operating systems. I always thought Be had things right, and it looks like OS X is basically duplicating that scheme.
Repeat after me. BeOS is *not* UNIX based. It is POSIX compliant and bash has been ported. But it is not based on a UNIX kernel.
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I was just kidding, I've never worked high. I might try that thing with the acid sometime though.
:-)
That would be pretty tough to do with street acid, though, since you don't know the dosage. Take a little too much and you sure as hell won't get anything done
--
That's interesting, I've found that acid is the most effective in increasing productivity. I've tried E and pot, but what I really need to help get me through the day is the hallucinations.
Do you actually take enough to start tripping? I read a study somewhere which showed that taking tiny amounts of acid (about half of what is necessary to trip) will increase your attention span and let you focus on a single task for up to 12 hours (they recommended it for long-haul truck drivers and jobs like that, but of course this was before it was made illegal).
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try dropping E too. you don't get the munchies that you do smoking pot, and it's a lot cleaner too(just pop a pill). i've done both, i think rolling is alot better than getting stoned.
I don't like E. It just gives me wierd headrushes and shit, and I don't enjoy it. And I figure that if I'm going to do something that's that bad for me, I damn well better enjoy it. Which is why I'd try heroin before I do E again.
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Cool, is Smokedot back up again now? I'll have to go check...
:-) 100mpbs link, too, so it should be real fast.
Yeah, finally
being stoned when some emergency comes up is a total bummer.
I don't agree - if I have something that needs to be done right away, I'll have an easier time doing it stoned. I have an easier time sitting and doing one thing for a long time if I'm stoned (provided I have more weed to smoke). But if I start sobering up a bit I'll want to go do something else instead, but if I keep on puffing, I can keep on coding.
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Smoke pot! Programming while stoned is lots of fun, and it's easier to get things done. When I'm not stoned, my mind tends to wander and I read Kuro5hin and Smokedot all day :-) Smoking pot also does wonders to reduce stress.
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Come on, man. As if the troll problem on Slashdot isn't bad enough without somebody posting something on the main page about tooting their own horn.
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They don't wait because then RedHat 7 wouldn't be out for a long time after those two come out - they can't just download them, throw them onto the CD, and send it to the presses - they have to make sure adding those two doesn't break anything else in the system, and that's a time-consuming thing. If they did just release it quickly, you all would be bitching about how they didn't test it well enough and XFree86 4 doesn't work with XYZ app when you have an ABC video card.
--
When I just went to smokedot.org all there was was a banner for "crackaddict.com"? And when I went to crackaddict.com just the same thing. oh well..
/msg'ed me out of the blue on IRC today) offered to host it, and crackaddict.com is his site. Right now I'm waiting for him to get back from dinner so he can finish installing perl modules and stuff like that and get it working.
Oh good, the DNS has updated. Yeah, change of plans - it's possible that Smokedot will be back up tonight! Woohoo! My friend from high school (who I haven't talked to in 4 years, and just
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So when's Smokedot coming back up?
:-)
Heh heh... this whole "k5 coming back up" thing must've reminded people about Smokedot - I've gotten like 15 "when's smokedot coming back?" emails today
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I was reading k5 for a few minutes, and suddenly I couldn't get through anymore - so what do I see when I see Slashdot? "Kuro5hin returns." Bastards.
To quote Inoshiro from IRC about 2 seconds ago: "I will hunt Hemos. And kill him. That is all."
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I also saw DJ Shadow (who is from the Bay Area) last year. He does turntable/mixing/scratching stuff - a great show, and Shadow stayed afterwards to sign stuff and talk with the fans indefinitely, which is something few artists do.
Wow - DJ Shadow rules. "What Does Your Soul Look Like?" (all parts) is one of my favorite songs. I don't like most drum and bass stuff, though.
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pster these, then if you like them, order the albums online (you'll never find them anywhere)
:-) ], either Pink Floyd/Alice in Chains style or rap like Outkast or Cypress Hill).
I would Napster them, but our DSL got cut off (we didn't pay the bill for 4 months and owe our ISP $1200. 1.1 Mbit SDSL is expensive.)
Maybe I'll order a few though - which ones would you suggest most? (I prefer chilled our music [I smoke a lot of pot
--
Rap's gotten more intelligent in recent years. Check out Dilated Peoples, the Ghost Dog soundtrack (along with anything RZA does), maybe the High and Mighty.
Anybody ever heard The Spooks? That's some really nice, chill rap - especially when you're stoned. And there isn't a bad song on the whole CD.
--
The standard response is which Pink Floyd are you talking about? The Pink Floyd of Meddle, or that of Ummagumma, Pulse, and any of a dozen rehashed releases and show tours?
:-) I'm talking about Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall.
Heh heh... beats me
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I've personally grown rather fond of Eminem. I never thought I'd like rap. Turns out I do. Amazing how tastes change.
:-), but I don't like it so much - it's a lot more hard rap, rather than the chilled out stoner rap they used to do - it all sounds like that song "Rock Superstar." It's pretty good, though.
Oh yeah, that's something I forgot to change - I really like Eminem too. He's really innovative and has real talent, unlike most of the new bands these days.
I'm disappointed now though - I bought the new Cypress Hill CD today (turned out to be a 2-CD set, too
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P.S. When's smokedot going to be back up?
:-p
As soon as we get another DSL line... could be awhile, I'm pretty broke at the moment
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