this brings back memories of when my friend Nat (Friedman) called the UN attempting to start a country called Linux. his defense to the "already having land" tenet was that because of its purely abstract state (pun intended), Linux would be impossible to invade by conventional means.
kept the guy on the phone for about two hours, too.
"online communities" have existed in varying degrees since "online" existed: ARPANet as a whole was an "online community" at one point. then there were BBSes, some of which made it onto the Internet. there are the 'homesteading' sites like GeoCities, in which "online community" translated to "free web space".
this proposes an online semblance of a community, but with more of the political crap that drives geeks into cyberspace in the first place. if the future is going to be comprised of democratically-minced constitutions and algorithmically-selected patriotic music without the consolation prize of human contact, then i think it's time for me to find a nice cave somewhere in the Ozark Mountains.
it seems like UN*X programmers consider things like this too frivolous to spend time on. Linux users are lucky in this respect; there are heaps more cool little toys for Linux than any other UN*X on or off the market.
the fact that Linux is accumulating little things like telephony is a large step in having it be a truly competitive Average-Joe desktop OS. it's sad that programmers overlook this sort of thing too much, but with this and larger projects like GNOME (read: things for the quiche-eating populace) it looks like things are heading in the right direction.
...but this seems like it could turn into a move in MICROS~1's game of defying, overrunning, and closing standards. there is nothing wrong with MS adding to Perl; this is somewhat admirable of them. but i see this going in the same direction as Browser Wars did; "HTML" and "Java" became very subjective terms and one could not count on certain features ALWAYS being there.
and couldn't this be construed as MS "embracing" free software? i can't even imagine the spin they might like to put on that.
This is just one more step toward the government trying to control the internet.
i don't agree. i think this is the government trying to squelch the hordes of 3133+ script kiddies, but not trying to control the Internet. That's the job of the large ISP corporations (AOL and the family-values-havin' like) and the no-sighted crypto restrictions.
When will they realize that when you mess with internet lifeforms, they will bite back and defend their 'offspring'?
i'm not sure i grab you here. i think this is a case of the h@x0r d00dz defending their turf, not a solidarity among net users. no one likes to see their contemporaries raided as a result of acts they too have committed. it makes people scared. this is those people's way of making the Man just a little bit more afraid. i don't think it will work.
a wonderful thing is that boring jobs and free software go very well together. when there's nothing else to do, free software projects give the chance for intellectual stimulation (while getting paid and looking like you're doing something job-pertinent).
When we expand the site in the coming months, content from source code volunteers from around the nation will be posted according to its geographic origin. For instance, if you are from Iowa or New Hampshire or California and you want to volunteer by writing content (in the programming language or on the platform of your choice) for those parts of the site, we urge you to do so.
i am sending a disk-erasing utility written in 6502 machine code.
sheesh. if you're going to complain about something, complain about the fact that the error in "grammer" is not grammar-related at all, and is merely a speling error.
..because i have looked at porn and enjoyed it, and i do not count myself any worse off for it. if one teaches his/her kids to think, there should not be a problem.
wow. i don't do drugs and never have; i guess i'm one of those "high on life" dorks about which you're all speaking. but i really gotta laugh at the self-righteous athletic scumfucks who can't get over the fact that they've got the Straight Edge and some people don't.
i just figured you should know i'm thinking of you in Spandex shorts and a tight t-shirt, leaned over a Nautilus in your basement. and i'm laughing. and you're not.
i have a Mac IIcx running NetBSD 1.3.2, and used it when my PC (running NetBSD as well) crapped out. it ran Emacs almost as fast as my Pentium 100. it was a perfectly usable and respectable machine, and even if it pales in comparison to the K6-2/350 that now sits on the rack, i have to respect that a Mac almost ten years past its prime was still useful.
the new Stata building will consist of two towers, one to house the MIT AI Lab and the other to house LCS. the LCS tower will be named after Gates.
it's not a huge problem; everyone here calls buildings by their numbers anyway. now LCS and the AI Lab will just be in 32 and not NE43. putting your name on a building here is a waste of money.:)
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with any luck, someone'll port Dramamine soon. :)
-krog
in no particular order, the following are important:
- high-speed network, blah, blah, blah
- availability of cheap Asian food
- availability of reasonably good sushi
- availability of cute nerds of an appropriate gender
- good music stores
- good clubs and bars
most of these are guaranteed if you've got a geek school nearby. i live in Boston, and i like it here.you haven't released any security advisories lately. where do you get your nitrous? can i have some?
this brings back memories of when my friend Nat (Friedman) called the UN attempting to start a country called Linux. his defense to the "already having land" tenet was that because of its purely abstract state (pun intended), Linux would be impossible to invade by conventional means.
kept the guy on the phone for about two hours, too.
if this is the future, then count me out.
"online communities" have existed in varying degrees since "online" existed: ARPANet as a whole was an "online community" at one point. then there were BBSes, some of which made it onto the Internet. there are the 'homesteading' sites like GeoCities, in which "online community" translated to "free web space".
this proposes an online semblance of a community, but with more of the political crap that drives geeks into cyberspace in the first place. if the future is going to be comprised of democratically-minced constitutions and algorithmically-selected patriotic music without the consolation prize of human contact, then i think it's time for me to find a nice cave somewhere in the Ozark Mountains.
you won't notice this scaring me, though.
it seems like UN*X programmers consider things like this too frivolous to spend time on. Linux users are lucky in this respect; there are heaps more cool little toys for Linux than any other UN*X on or off the market.
the fact that Linux is accumulating little things like telephony is a large step in having it be a truly competitive Average-Joe desktop OS. it's sad that programmers overlook this sort of thing too much, but with this and larger projects like GNOME (read: things for the quiche-eating populace) it looks like things are heading in the right direction.
...until US and Europe and Russia can all bicker "oh, yeah, we discovered it first" and try to name it after an American/European/Russian scientist.
personally, i think Feynman has a good chance of having an element named after him this time around.
-krog
...but this seems like it could turn into a move in MICROS~1's game of defying, overrunning, and closing standards. there is nothing wrong with MS adding to Perl; this is somewhat admirable of them. but i see this going in the same direction as Browser Wars did; "HTML" and "Java" became very subjective terms and one could not count on certain features ALWAYS being there.
and couldn't this be construed as MS "embracing" free software? i can't even imagine the spin they might like to put on that.
This is just one more step toward the government trying to control the internet.
i don't agree. i think this is the government trying to squelch the hordes of 3133+ script kiddies, but not trying to control the Internet. That's the job of the large ISP corporations (AOL and the family-values-havin' like) and the no-sighted crypto restrictions.
When will they realize that when you mess with internet lifeforms, they will bite back and defend their 'offspring'?
i'm not sure i grab you here. i think this is a case of the h@x0r d00dz defending their turf, not a solidarity among net users. no one likes to see their contemporaries raided as a result of acts they too have committed. it makes people scared. this is those people's way of making the Man just a little bit more afraid. i don't think it will work.
-krog
a wonderful thing is that boring jobs and free software go very well together. when there's nothing else to do, free software projects give the chance for intellectual stimulation (while getting paid and looking like you're doing something job-pertinent).
does that mean Toshiba computers will get neat little metallic penguin "Designed for Linux" stickers on the front?
especially considering /. was just down for a little while. is the irate Chinese script kids at it?
damn. that's some shit.
i am sending a disk-erasing utility written in 6502 machine code.
-krog
sheesh. if you're going to complain about something, complain about the fact that the error in "grammer" is not grammar-related at all, and is merely a speling error.
-krog
..because i have looked at porn and enjoyed it, and i do not count myself any worse off for it. if one teaches his/her kids to think, there should not be a problem.
wow. i don't do drugs and never have; i guess i'm one of those "high on life" dorks about which you're all speaking. but i really gotta laugh at the self-righteous athletic scumfucks who can't get over the fact that they've got the Straight Edge and some people don't.
i just figured you should know i'm thinking of you in Spandex shorts and a tight t-shirt, leaned over a Nautilus in your basement. and i'm laughing. and you're not.
i have a Mac IIcx running NetBSD 1.3.2, and used it when my PC (running NetBSD as well) crapped out. it ran Emacs almost as fast as my Pentium 100. it was a perfectly usable and respectable machine, and even if it pales in comparison to the K6-2/350 that now sits on the rack, i have to respect that a Mac almost ten years past its prime was still useful.
PC hardware just can't do that.
Amateur bands have been around for years and years... i'm just surprised that Swatch is the first company to try to exploit it.
i wear a Swatch. i like their watches. but between this and Internet Time, fuck them.
-krog, KB1DDN
the new Stata building will consist of two towers, one to house the MIT AI Lab and the other to house LCS. the LCS tower will be named after Gates.
:)
it's not a huge problem; everyone here calls buildings by their numbers anyway. now LCS and the AI Lab will just be in 32 and not NE43. putting your name on a building here is a waste of money.
-krog
Pie, anyone?
-krog
a bit homely, kinda cryptic to deal with, but quite efficient at its task.
on the cover should appear a hacker.
-krog
I have discovered a truly remarkable music-compression algorithm, far superior to mp3, which this margin is too small to contain.
1. main()
2. {
3. }
-krog
wait.... Richard Stallman wrote Linux, didn't he? or was that Al too...
Gorix?
-krog