SOme people actually managed to get to the winning screen (which then requires you to reenter the password they didn't have). You're basically entered in a chance drawing of 20 people who will get the bags.
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He actually contacted me via e-mail last week about this.
If you have Linux servers you have to offer a decent salary for a sysadmin with a brain.
You can hire an MCSE (Must Consult Someone Experienced) for about $10K-$20K less a year, and gamble that he may not have to pay for support from MS.
This may be true.. But you'll need quite a few MCSEs to run around rebooting all the NT machines, while the Linux sysadmin can do just about anything while sitting at his desk.
"a few things: vmware doesn't run off of your actual windows partition, it makes a "virtual disk drive" (basically a really big file called win95.dsk or something) for you."
I wonder if it's possible to make your own image of your existing hard drive using dd if=/dev/hd? of=/win95.dsk
I'm getting intrigued by the contest that they have posted there. Guess the username and password.
While that in and of itself seems rather dumb, take a look at the sourcecode.
It's all done in javascripting, including the comparison of the username/password.
I have very little experiance in Javascripting, but i'm going to spend some time trying to reverse engineer the thing! make a REAL hacking contest of it.
Hey, I'll buy a slashdot hat for anyone who can either figure out the username/password from the javascripting, or bypass the check completely.
I do support at an Investment company. I'd have to say one of my most interesting calls was this one guy who needed help with his mail.
As soon as i awnsered the phone, someone was on the line, and I also heard hold music. He told me that he was currently waiting to speak to a technician from Netscape.
A lot of the departments use Netscape Messanger for their e-mail, which is why he had contacted them as well. Once the Netscape tech came on the line, the guy started explaining his problem.
He had one of those cell phones with e-mail capabilities, and he wanted to know how to access our imap server with it.
Gah.
Took me a while to explain to him that since our mail servers aren't accessable on the internet, it wouldn't work. The Netscape guy never did figure out what he was doing on the phone with us.
A friend of mine recently opened a computer store, and I'm planning on putting up a display of Linux CDS for sale. I figure I'll pick up a bunch of $1.99 cds from Cheapbytes, and sell them for $4-$5.
I almost bought the cds last week, but I figured I'd wait for Redhat 6.0 and Debian 2.1 (and now BeroLinux)
Hopefully I'll be able to pull up a few new Linux users in Dedham, MA.
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Woah. That's just freaky. I realised my post commented out the second part of my message... Went to double check the webpage... and it's back to the old site.
They never really said how much of a magnification was needed for that. I took it as being enough to make the glass feel rough, but still be able to see through it fine.
As an upside... I guess i would be cool to be able to say "I got into a car accident, and flew through the speaker."
See-through speakers could, in theory, be as large as movie screens and small enough to fit on a business card. Refinements in the technology might even enable a car windshield to double as a stereo speaker.
Sounds nice.... BUT!
Under close magnification, the speaker surface resembles a three-dimensional map of mountainous terrain, with each peak punching the air to help create sound waves.
Imagine getting in a car accident, and having your face smash into the three-dimensional map of a mountainous terrain. It may be small, but it's probably enough to cause some damage.
Wine is hot on your trail.. Or at least that's what the article seems to suggest.
GNOME is not the only project to make a user-friendly interface for Linux. A similar project called Wine coordinated by a Swiss programmer also is in progress. Plug-ins that provide translation between GNOME and programs such as Microsoft Word are on the way.
I personally don't see how they're similar at all. Could just be me though
Now that guy really should have gone a little farther, and mentioned that if everything written in perl is more robust than anything written in c, why then perl itself -- having been written in c -- must suck, and so therefore anything using it (e.g., a perl script) must suck too! Around and around and around and around ..
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SOme people actually managed to get to the winning screen (which then requires you to reenter the password they didn't have). You're basically entered in a chance drawing of 20 people who will get the bags.
He actually contacted me via e-mail last week about this.
:)
He also e-mailed me with the final quote.
So yes, i knew i was being quotes as such
If you have Linux servers you have to offer a decent salary for a sysadmin with a brain.
You can hire an MCSE (Must Consult Someone Experienced) for about $10K-$20K less a year, and gamble that he may not have to pay for support from MS.
This may be true.. But you'll need quite a few MCSEs to run around rebooting all the NT machines, while the Linux sysadmin can do just about anything while sitting at his desk.
Don't forgot "How cool it would be if I built a beowulf cluster of those machines"
Uranus Hertz
Hmm...
We should get a bunch of those bags, and make a bitchin beowulf cluster.
"a few things: vmware doesn't run off of your actual windows partition, it makes a "virtual disk drive" (basically a really big file called win95.dsk or something) for you."
I wonder if it's possible to make your own image of your existing hard drive using dd if=/dev/hd? of=/win95.dsk
A guy can dream, can't he?
The login name is case sensitive (seperate codes for caps and lowercase)
It could be HackerCollection, HACKERCOLLECTION, hackercollection, or even HaCkErCoLlEcTiOn
If I get it I'll post it, but only I get the hat.
Just to clarify, I'm only offering the hat to the FIRST person to get it, and either post on slashdot, or e-mail me directly.
I'm getting intrigued by the contest that they have posted there. Guess the username and password.
While that in and of itself seems rather dumb, take a look at the sourcecode.
It's all done in javascripting, including the comparison of the username/password.
I have very little experiance in Javascripting, but i'm going to spend some time trying to reverse engineer the thing! make a REAL hacking contest of it.
Hey, I'll buy a slashdot hat for anyone who can either figure out the username/password from the javascripting, or bypass the check completely.
That's ok.. because you're Yehat now...
Until i replied...
Now you're an anonymous coward
Don't blame us 'brits' for that monstrosity
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 14, @04:22
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Translation from user to actual terms.
:)
CPU - Actual Computer, case and all
Hard Drive - see above
Screen Saver - Windows Background
There are more, but i'm too tired to think of them
I do support at an Investment company.
I'd have to say one of my most interesting calls was this one guy who needed help with his mail.
As soon as i awnsered the phone, someone was on the line, and I also heard hold music. He told me that he was currently waiting to speak to a technician from Netscape.
A lot of the departments use Netscape Messanger for their e-mail, which is why he had contacted them as well. Once the Netscape tech came on the line, the guy started explaining his problem.
He had one of those cell phones with e-mail capabilities, and he wanted to know how to access our imap server with it.
Gah.
Took me a while to explain to him that since our mail servers aren't accessable on the internet, it wouldn't work. The Netscape guy never did figure out what he was doing on the phone with us.
Enlightenment 15 has been avaible for a rather long time via the Gnome mirrors. I'm pretty sure it's NOT the offical version.
Try http://www.starbridgesystems.com/Pages/technology. html
It's actually information on another supercomputer, but it compares the system to the IBM Blue Pacific.
Under the processors section, it says that the IBM system uses "5,856 Power PC 604 processors"
Deep Blue runs on PowerPC processors. There's a port of Linux for PowerPC processors.
The cluster may be able to outrun big blue... but if you install Linux on Big Blue, that should speed it up quite a bit i believe.
Then again, I seem to recall something about Linux being not quite THAT scalable, although I could be wrong..
Can Linux handle thousands of processors?
A friend of mine recently opened a computer store, and I'm planning on putting up a display of Linux CDS for sale. I figure I'll pick up a bunch of $1.99 cds from Cheapbytes, and sell them for $4-$5.
I almost bought the cds last week, but I figured I'd wait for Redhat 6.0 and Debian 2.1 (and now BeroLinux)
Hopefully I'll be able to pull up a few new Linux users in Dedham, MA.
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Woah.
That's just freaky.
I realised my post commented out the second part of my message...
Went to double check the webpage...
and it's back to the old site.
GAK!
I just checked www.linux.com
It now says "This web page is not here yet. "
Inside the code it says ""
Looks like they're pulling a Transmeta
They never really said how much of a magnification was needed for that. I took it as being enough to make the glass feel rough, but still be able to see through it fine.
As an upside... I guess i would be cool to be able to say "I got into a car accident, and flew through the speaker."
See-through speakers could, in theory, be as large as movie screens and small enough to fit on a business card. Refinements in the technology might even enable a car windshield to double as a stereo speaker.
Sounds nice.... BUT!
Under close magnification, the speaker surface resembles a three-dimensional map of mountainous terrain, with each peak punching the air to help
create sound waves.
Imagine getting in a car accident, and having your face smash into the three-dimensional map of a mountainous terrain. It may be small, but it's probably enough to cause some damage.
Wine is hot on your trail.. Or at least that's what the article seems to suggest.
GNOME is not the only project to make a user-friendly interface for Linux.
A similar project called Wine coordinated by a Swiss programmer also is in progress. Plug-ins that provide translation between GNOME and programs such as Microsoft Word are on the way.
I personally don't see how they're similar at all. Could just be me though
Now that guy really should have gone a little farther, and mentioned that if everything written in perl is more robust than anything written in c, why then perl itself -- having been written in c -- must suck, and so therefore anything using it (e.g., a perl script) must suck too! Around and around and around and around . .
Too bad you can't rewrite perl in perl.
The world's first recursive programming language.
1000 points for putting the image of Snoopy flying around on his doghouse. Nice relief from the monotany of work.