... Vince Patton tried to show viewers how easy the technology is, but when he pointed his finger at the computer in expectation, nothing happened--except for us nearly wetting ourselves.
My only caveat is the use of the hack rather then crack - but that's a semantics thing.
Face it Hemos, cracker is a *stupid* word and therefore not likely to be adopted. And no, I don't see any problem with a double meaning for hacker.
After all, when a newspaper runs a headline "police seize drugs" you don't see drug store owners writing angry letters to the editor explaining that this sort of thing gives them a bad name and that the journalist should have used "substances of an illicit nature".
People are perfectly capable of determining the meaning of the word "drugs" from the context, and there's no reason why they can't do the same with "hacking". So stop moaning, please!
Read the third paragraph, the stuff about "community reinforcement and propagation", meaning only boring, party-line comments seem to float to the top these days. Shit tends to do that. The comment rambles on for a bit after that, but the author has a very good point.
These days I also tend to get increasingly annoyed at seeing yet another generic "why this is good for Open Source" (always with capital O&S, nice'n'proper) empty comment rated into the ionosphere. There's usually an AC reply below it, something along the lines of "suck on it, you karma whore". I don't consider it useful to add to the noise with comments like that, but I'm glad to see there are other people who are sick of highly rated feel-good commentaries.
Actually, the only thing I don't agree with in the above is the weird excuse for posting AC. If you feel so strongly about it, why not use your handle? But perhaps that's me. I'm not a regular poster and don't give a rat's ass about my karma level, or whatever it's called. Wish there were more people like that, though.
The bit about posts "Containing Instructions on How to Bypass the End User License Agreement and Extract the Specification" really cracks me up.
How about instructions on how to read the damn license?!
I downloaded that EXE thing and wondered on how to get it "installed" while running Linux. I went about it in the usual Unix way. First I ran "file" on it, which told me it was a windows executable (saw that coming somehow, not a complete dummy me) as well as a "RAR archive".
That's an animal I hadn't heard of, but a quick inspection showed that there was something called "unrar" on my SuSE distro. I ran that and was presented with some sort of.doc file, which I knew StarOffice could probably handle.
I never did get to see that license. Too bad, because I was kind of curious about the wording.
Last week Kent Tassman posted on the wxWindows user list that he had developed a wxWindows port. I compiled it from source, using the current wxWindows cvs version as library and it worked fine. It's unfortunate that the wxWindows is currently in a beta cycle for 2.1, so the API changes somewhat from time to time.
If you compile hewx from source (shouldn't take too long) you'll probably get it to work with a binary wxWindows rpm.
I think it's worth it if you are into these games. I only gave it a short try, but the parser felt much more sophisticated than the infocom one.
Finally, partly it's my fault. My debug wxWindows lib found a couple of small details that need to be fixed, but all last week I didn't find the time to send the author a bug report, let alone a fix.
As an offtopic note (and shameless plug for wxWindows); touting the wxWindows port as a Linux port is a little beside the truth. wxWindows has bindings for gtk+, but gtk+ is hardly linux-only. It also supports Motif, Win32/16, with Mac and BeOS ports in progress.
Slashdot getting hit by people running M5?
on
Mozilla M5 Released
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· Score: 1
Maybe CmdrTaco could grep through the logs tonight to see how many people downloaded and ran this M5 release and then pointed it at slashdot (renders okay here, and not noticably slower than in Nav451 -- not bad for a debug build). That might be interesting you're into useless statistics like me.
P.S. What's the deal with the subliminal messages that float past in the animated mozilla logo? Stuff like 'all for you' and 'good' seem to pop up (but too quickly for me to read properly). Am I being brainwashed?
My faith has been waivering, but it's strengthed by the fact that the pope (used by a large percentage of./'ers to hit the space bar with --- heretics) runs no Microsoft server software at all.
I've just played with the threshold level for a bit and I *really* like it. I had sort of given up on reading slashdot comments (esp. subjects like microsoft and unix desktop warzones), but this system might make things readable again.
Having said that, I also agree with the above poster that the default should be that all articles are shown (threshold 0), with the logical result that no article will have a negative threshold.
It's a much friendlier system (and not necessarily less useful) if it's mainly about promoting articles, not degrading.
I also disagree with the standard that signed posts start off with one point more than AC's. All should begin at zero.
Obviously, this scheme has the result that both mediocre and useless/obscene/loonie/whatever posts end up in the same basement... but is that such a bad idea?
Personally, I might even prefer a healthy dose of mindless profanity over yet another "linux is better than NT because it doesn't crash" comment.
I realize that this is probably a mediocre post too, and deserves to be in the Hell of Unread Comments (threshold 0) which it endorses. But I figured if I didn't vent my views now, I'd have no rights complaining about the evil moderators later:-)
"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on Linux," Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still recommend its AIX Unix-based server... [blah blah blah]"
Come on, that can't be true! I know for a fact I alone have been responsible for at least 100,000 hits on Slashdot today! (This having been an otherwise slow day)
Slashdot Mirror
and more hilarious stuff.
Face it Hemos, cracker is a *stupid* word and therefore not likely to be adopted. And no, I don't see any problem with a double meaning for hacker.
After all, when a newspaper runs a headline "police seize drugs" you don't see drug store owners writing angry letters to the editor explaining that this sort of thing gives them a bad name and that the journalist should have used "substances of an illicit nature".
People are perfectly capable of determining the meaning of the word "drugs" from the context, and there's no reason why they can't do the same with "hacking". So stop moaning, please!
Would you pay $4.95 a month to use Napster?
No, but thanks for asking.
Unless it's a prank, he can't spell worth a damn and also manages to get his home phone number on the net.
Read the third paragraph, the stuff about "community reinforcement and propagation", meaning only boring, party-line comments seem to float to the top these days. Shit tends to do that. The comment rambles on for a bit after that, but the author has a very good point.
These days I also tend to get increasingly annoyed at seeing yet another generic "why this is good for Open Source" (always with capital O&S, nice'n'proper) empty comment rated into the ionosphere. There's usually an AC reply below it, something along the lines of "suck on it, you karma whore". I don't consider it useful to add to the noise with comments like that, but I'm glad to see there are other people who are sick of highly rated feel-good commentaries.
Actually, the only thing I don't agree with in the above is the weird excuse for posting AC. If you feel so strongly about it, why not use your handle? But perhaps that's me. I'm not a regular poster and don't give a rat's ass about my karma level, or whatever it's called. Wish there were more people like that, though.
The bit about posts "Containing Instructions on How to Bypass the End User License Agreement and Extract the Specification" really cracks me up.
.doc file, which I knew StarOffice could probably handle.
How about instructions on how to read the damn license?!
I downloaded that EXE thing and wondered on how to get it "installed" while running Linux. I went about it in the usual Unix way. First I ran "file" on it, which told me it was a windows executable (saw that coming somehow, not a complete dummy me) as well as a "RAR archive".
That's an animal I hadn't heard of, but a quick inspection showed that there was something called "unrar" on my SuSE distro. I ran that and was presented with some sort of
I never did get to see that license. Too bad, because I was kind of curious about the wording.
Slashdot-powers-that-be, please add this '(GPL) releases' category.
Last week Kent Tassman posted on the wxWindows user list that he had developed a wxWindows port. I compiled it from source, using the current wxWindows cvs version as library and it worked fine. It's unfortunate that the wxWindows is currently in a beta cycle for 2.1, so the API changes somewhat from time to time.
If you compile hewx from source (shouldn't take too long) you'll probably get it to work with a binary wxWindows rpm.
I think it's worth it if you are into these games. I only gave it a short try, but the parser felt much more sophisticated than the infocom one.
Finally, partly it's my fault. My debug wxWindows lib found a couple of small details that need to be fixed, but all last week I didn't find the time to send the author a bug report, let alone a
fix.
As an offtopic note (and shameless plug for wxWindows); touting the wxWindows port as a Linux port is a little beside the truth. wxWindows has bindings for gtk+, but gtk+ is hardly linux-only. It also supports Motif, Win32/16, with Mac and BeOS ports in progress.
Maybe CmdrTaco could grep through the logs tonight to see how many people downloaded and ran this M5 release and then pointed it at slashdot (renders okay here, and not noticably slower than in Nav451 -- not bad for a debug build). That might be interesting you're into useless statistics like me.
P.S. What's the deal with the subliminal messages that float past in the animated mozilla logo? Stuff like 'all for you' and 'good' seem to pop up (but too quickly for me to read properly). Am I being brainwashed?
My faith has been waivering, but it's strengthed by the fact that the pope (used by a large percentage of ./'ers to hit the space bar with --- heretics) runs no Microsoft server software at all.
.va, Vatican City)
(See breakdown for
I've just played with the threshold level for a bit and I *really* like it. I had sort of given up on reading slashdot comments (esp. subjects like microsoft and unix desktop warzones), but this system might make things readable again.
:-)
Having said that, I also agree with the above poster that the default should be that all articles are shown (threshold 0), with the logical result that no article will have a negative threshold.
It's a much friendlier system (and not necessarily less useful) if it's mainly about promoting articles, not degrading.
I also disagree with the standard that signed posts start off with one point more than AC's. All should begin at zero.
Obviously, this scheme has the result that both mediocre and useless/obscene/loonie/whatever posts end up in the same basement... but is that such a bad idea?
Personally, I might even prefer a healthy dose of mindless profanity over yet another "linux is better than NT because it doesn't crash" comment.
I realize that this is probably a mediocre post too, and deserves to be in the Hell of Unread Comments (threshold 0) which it endorses. But I figured if I didn't vent my views now, I'd have no rights complaining about the evil moderators later
Regards,
Harm
Here's a quote from the infoworld article:
... [blah blah blah]"
"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on
Linux," Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still
recommend its AIX Unix-based server
Come on, that can't be true! I know for a fact I alone have
been responsible for at least 100,000 hits on Slashdot today!
(This having been an otherwise slow day)