What would be most appropriate in a case like this? Swift, unrelenting vigilante justice. This is an organization that needs a big-ass DDoS cannon pointed their way and fired. And fired. And fired. And fired. And fired.
Determined to uncover a possibly conspiring set of zaibatsu-zoku, I have performed a simple test of common technologies to potentially see where the cred flux, when applicable, burns brightest.
(web browser)
First result points to NETSCAPE.COM
Second result mentions Netscape 6.1
Third result describes OPERA
Fourth and fifth results are INTERNET EXPLORER and LYNX, respectively
(server operating system)
First result mentions the FREEBSD PROJECT
Second and third results are comparison FAQs
Fourth and fifth mention are direct links to Microsoft, and mention WINDOWS 2000
(desktop operating system)
First result, something called ATHEOS
Second result, CALDERA LINUX
Third result, a desktop operating system comparison guide
Fourth and fifth, links to NETBSD PROJECT and GNU PROJECT
(home user operating system)
ALL FIVE top results are being fed on by various open source efforts, with FREEBSD first, LINUX second, NETBSD third, ATHEOS fourth and LINUX fifth.
(instant messaging)
AOL dominates the top two spots, with direct links to AOL, describing AIM and ICQ respectively
Third spot, some non-relevant Italian site
Fourth result mentions JABBER, an open source instant messaging effort
MSN messagenging falls sixth
(online book store)
First, AMAZON
Second, BARNES AND NOBLE
Third, fourth and fifth are lesser important special interest book stores
Conclusive? No damn way. Illustrative? Somewhat. Perhaps the most promising results of my test are that alternative operating systems vastly outrank Big Man himself. Hyperlink purposely witheld. Draw your own conclusions.
Not a single letter in QWERTYIOP is on the home row on a QWERTY keyboard, whereas there are about four of those letters on the Dvorak keyboard that are on the home row, so the total finger distance travelled ends up being shorter than if typed on the QWERTY.
Not loaded toward Dvorak. The numbers are relative to the home row. Not a single letter in QWERTYIOP is even on the home row. Technically then, the distance is shorter in your example.
You could always remap the copy and paste key combinations on your Dvorak layout such that copy is Control-J and paste is Control-K. That way, your mentally burned-in QWERTY cut and paste keyboard habits aren't disturbed and you maintain those easy-to-reach actions.
There's nothing in your post indicating you're a strict proponent of one layout over the other, but I get the idea you don't buy the idea of a supremely better layout in Dvorak.
There are some studies that refute the benefits of the Dvorak keyboard, sure, but any substantial studies done to date are about as outdated and unscientific as could be. What's there to refute in the fact that less finger travel equals more comfort, equals higher sustainable speeds over longer periods of time, equals higher overall speeds?
It should interest you to know that the highest ever clocked typist was tested on a Dvorak simplified keyboard. Guiness says so.
Being educated on this matter, given that I've probably read every QWERTY versus Dvorak article, including the hotly debated Fable Of the Keys, I shouldn't lose sight of the true purpose of the Dvorak layout -- comfort, not speed. Chances are, speed is a direct result of being comfortable at a keyboard, but then again when we say "superiority," what exactly are we comparing? Being specific in this case is key to being objective.
I was the one that posted the URL at the top of this sub-thread. The numbers that Java applet produce are clear; this is about as close to scientific as a test gets, despite the grey factor of individual human keyboarding potential. One can't help but see this.
For those among you not easily convinced by simple Dvorak testimontials, here's a Java applet that hands out the breakdown for any sentence or paragraph pasted in,
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~jmaxwell/dvorak/keyboard.ht ml
As long as the tool of the profiteering telco antichrists, the cellphone, remains among us, of course the payphone is as good as dead.
Cellphones are fucking nuisance. Granted that some use the things for truly legitimate reasons, the vast majority of people these days don't, and that's what I seethe over. Sally shooting the gossip to Jenny does NOT count for legitimate use. That's called taking things for granted.
This is a blatant spam effort, disguised under the pretext of what you call "administrative email." Now I could understand the need to keep customers updated about their options, but this one brazenly takes that idea further by dumping the spam payload on the the update message. Fuck that.
There would be NO excuse for this crap. Spamming under this kind of pretext nullifies the opt-out agreement this guy originally went with. His case in court couldn't have been stronger.
Three machines. A 486 desktop, a Celeron-400 laptop, a PIII-933 desktop. All Slackware-powered.
I suppose it boils down to my being a Linux purist. I wouldn't simply say I use it for old time's sake. The installer is a very convenient no-frills something and the distribution is straightforward. Period.
There have been many cases where my non-Slackware cronies struggled to get their PPP scripts set up, their X servers configured and debugged and their devices properly symlinked. Having been forced over the years to do all those things by hand, I usually save the day with ten seconds of tinkering each.
Slackware simply rocks the box. That's just about it.
Man, the mere thought of my Slackware dying away at the hands of some indifferent c0rp scares the bits out of me. I've been using this thing since Day One. I suppose I could look forward to using Debian if it does croak, that is if Debian itself hasn't croaked by then.
This is the biggest load of bovine defacation I have ever heard. In Toronto where I am, 2600 meetings are a forum for good-for-nothing, nervous shut-in kids to showcase their carded $5,000 laptops running Windows98.
Once upon a time when I ventured to one of these meetings out of curiosity, I was asked by a punk-ass kid if I knew who he was. When I responded by asking if I had an obligation to, he responded by saying "You don't want to know me," no lead-up conversation beforehand. Laughter.
I'd been to one meeting and there was actually an entertaining speaker who went by the handle FruitLoops. He had some seriously interesting phone phreaking theories, among other things. He claimed to have hung out with Kyrie, the Canadian telco employee lady that got busted here for long distance fraud before making off to the States. There wouldn't have been any reason to doubt him.
The 2600 way is no longer the ideal source of subversive information. They're now a howto manual for dreamer, Mad Magazine-reading adolescents. The name "Acme" springs to mind.
As a naturally cynical person, I have to question the facts presented by both sides of the U.S.-China standoff.
Because the U.S. offers the argument their spyplane was on automatic pilot at the time of the collision, and with there being no way for anyone but the crew of the downed plane to accurately say what happened, why do some of you side unequivocally with one side or the other?
The U.S. government is a government with a history of coverup in the face of ego, screwup and competition. I question whether the nation even successfully landed on the moon.
The Chinese government is a government long accustomed to thought and behaviour policing, silence and extreme control. I question whether the nation is witholding either the truth or some vital piece of information.
Never rule out the idea that these two nations might be engaged in subtle propaganda warfare as we speak, creating facts for public consumption. Warfare is as much about thought control as it is about bombs and missles. Heck, at worst, we may even have another conspiracy on our hands.
Point: The Chinese are convinced the U.S. caused the collision. They then must have the means to determine what happened. Chances are, those means are the second-hand account of the surviving F8 pilot.
Point: The U.S. is convinced the Chinese are at fault for the collision. They claim to have pictures of the Chinese hotdogging in earlier intercepts, its their claim the plane was on automatic control at the time of the collision, and they offer the idea that it's the intercepting pilot's responsibility to avoid the intercepted plane, especially when that plain is larger and less manoeverable.
The truth is that as ordinary civilians, we may never know the real circumstances bringing about this situation. Personally speaking, if I were to determine fault from the information given in the news reports, I'd say the Chinese largely, if not completely at fault. Responsibility as the pilot of a very nimble aircraft should mostly be with that person.
I personally haven't (missed the debut at the Toronto film festival), but apparently this movie is a true story hacking drama based around the exploits of the Computer Chaos Club. A friend who saw the movie explains it's one of the best he's seen in the genre.
This title was created in Germany (home to many of the club's members) and was shown at the local film festival with English subtitles. There is currently no DVD, but there is a non-subtitled or dubbed VHS available from the Dutch version of Amazon Books.
There is a five-meg trailer of 23 available at:
http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-schmitbo/down23.html
Slashdot Mirror
A semi-interesting article written by yet another Debian bigot. Apt-get already has a successor, my friend.
Gentoo Linux. Further up the food chain yet.
"In this column, he talks about what to do when the worst happens."
This one's too easy: switch to Linux
Said the silly woman:
"It's like any other addiction. Either you die, go insane or you quit. My son died."
Said me, the matter-of-fact Slashdot poster:
Quite frankly lady, your son did all three at once. He went insane and had no choice but to quit because he chose to frag himself.
Icephreak One
Toronto, Canada
It's about time some of you made friends with this badboy Rock of Gibraltar.
Ten years later, it's still going strong.
What would be most appropriate in a case like this? Swift, unrelenting vigilante justice. This is an organization that needs a big-ass DDoS cannon pointed their way and fired. And fired. And fired. And fired. And fired.
And fired.
ICEPHREAK
Determined to uncover a possibly conspiring set of zaibatsu-zoku, I have performed a simple test of common technologies to potentially see where the cred flux, when applicable, burns brightest.
The search engine used was Google
(web browser)
First result points to NETSCAPE.COM
Second result mentions Netscape 6.1
Third result describes OPERA
Fourth and fifth results are INTERNET EXPLORER and LYNX, respectively
(server operating system)
First result mentions the FREEBSD PROJECT
Second and third results are comparison FAQs
Fourth and fifth mention are direct links to Microsoft, and mention WINDOWS 2000
(desktop operating system)
First result, something called ATHEOS
Second result, CALDERA LINUX
Third result, a desktop operating system comparison guide
Fourth and fifth, links to NETBSD PROJECT and GNU PROJECT
(home user operating system)
ALL FIVE top results are being fed on by various open source efforts, with FREEBSD first, LINUX second, NETBSD third, ATHEOS fourth and LINUX fifth.
(instant messaging)
AOL dominates the top two spots, with direct links to AOL, describing AIM and ICQ respectively
Third spot, some non-relevant Italian site
Fourth result mentions JABBER, an open source instant messaging effort
MSN messagenging falls sixth
(online book store)
First, AMAZON
Second, BARNES AND NOBLE
Third, fourth and fifth are lesser important special interest book stores
Conclusive? No damn way. Illustrative? Somewhat. Perhaps the most promising results of my test are that alternative operating systems vastly outrank Big Man himself. Hyperlink purposely witheld. Draw your own conclusions.
ICEPHREAK
Better. Stonger. Faster.
Screw the Simpons. Know what series really needs to be fried to DVD? Nikita.
Enough said.
SLACKWARE!
My Vulcan cohort would like to point out that "the next" sequel would equal the third movie in the three-part installment.
Logical?
I should clarify.
Not a single letter in QWERTYIOP is on the home row on a QWERTY keyboard, whereas there are about four of those letters on the Dvorak keyboard that are on the home row, so the total finger distance travelled ends up being shorter than if typed on the QWERTY.
Not loaded toward Dvorak. The numbers are relative to the home row. Not a single letter in QWERTYIOP is even on the home row. Technically then, the distance is shorter in your example.
So there.
You could always remap the copy and paste key combinations on your Dvorak layout such that copy is Control-J and paste is Control-K. That way, your mentally burned-in QWERTY cut and paste keyboard habits aren't disturbed and you maintain those easy-to-reach actions.
There's nothing in your post indicating you're a strict proponent of one layout over the other, but I get the idea you don't buy the idea of a supremely better layout in Dvorak.
There are some studies that refute the benefits of the Dvorak keyboard, sure, but any substantial studies done to date are about as outdated and unscientific as could be. What's there to refute in the fact that less finger travel equals more comfort, equals higher sustainable speeds over longer periods of time, equals higher overall speeds?
It should interest you to know that the highest ever clocked typist was tested on a Dvorak simplified keyboard. Guiness says so.
Being educated on this matter, given that I've probably read every QWERTY versus Dvorak article, including the hotly debated Fable Of the Keys, I shouldn't lose sight of the true purpose of the Dvorak layout -- comfort, not speed. Chances are, speed is a direct result of being comfortable at a keyboard, but then again when we say "superiority," what exactly are we comparing? Being specific in this case is key to being objective.
I was the one that posted the URL at the top of this sub-thread. The numbers that Java applet produce are clear; this is about as close to scientific as a test gets, despite the grey factor of individual human keyboarding potential. One can't help but see this.
For those among you not easily convinced by simple Dvorak testimontials, here's a Java applet that hands out the breakdown for any sentence or paragraph pasted in,
t ml
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~jmaxwell/dvorak/keyboard.h
As long as the tool of the profiteering telco antichrists, the cellphone, remains among us, of course the payphone is as good as dead.
Cellphones are fucking nuisance. Granted that some use the things for truly legitimate reasons, the vast majority of people these days don't, and that's what I seethe over. Sally shooting the gossip to Jenny does NOT count for legitimate use. That's called taking things for granted.
Icephreak
Toronto, Canda
This is a blatant spam effort, disguised under the pretext of what you call "administrative email." Now I could understand the need to keep customers updated about their options, but this one brazenly takes that idea further by dumping the spam payload on the the update message. Fuck that.
There would be NO excuse for this crap. Spamming under this kind of pretext nullifies the opt-out agreement this guy originally went with. His case in court couldn't have been stronger.
ICEPHREAK
I am.
Three machines. A 486 desktop, a Celeron-400 laptop, a PIII-933 desktop. All Slackware-powered.
I suppose it boils down to my being a Linux purist. I wouldn't simply say I use it for old time's sake. The installer is a very convenient no-frills something and the distribution is straightforward. Period.
There have been many cases where my non-Slackware cronies struggled to get their PPP scripts set up, their X servers configured and debugged and their devices properly symlinked. Having been forced over the years to do all those things by hand, I usually save the day with ten seconds of tinkering each.
Slackware simply rocks the box. That's just about it.
ICEPHREAK
Man, the mere thought of my Slackware dying away at the hands of some indifferent c0rp scares the bits out of me. I've been using this thing since Day One. I suppose I could look forward to using Debian if it does croak, that is if Debian itself hasn't croaked by then.
Resist, valiant Slackware!
ICEPHREAK
This is the biggest load of bovine defacation I have ever heard. In Toronto where I am, 2600 meetings are a forum for good-for-nothing, nervous shut-in kids to showcase their carded $5,000 laptops running Windows98.
Once upon a time when I ventured to one of these meetings out of curiosity, I was asked by a punk-ass kid if I knew who he was. When I responded by asking if I had an obligation to, he responded by saying "You don't want to know me," no lead-up conversation beforehand. Laughter.
I'd been to one meeting and there was actually an entertaining speaker who went by the handle FruitLoops. He had some seriously interesting phone phreaking theories, among other things. He claimed to have hung out with Kyrie, the Canadian telco employee lady that got busted here for long distance fraud before making off to the States. There wouldn't have been any reason to doubt him.
The 2600 way is no longer the ideal source of subversive information. They're now a howto manual for dreamer, Mad Magazine-reading adolescents. The name "Acme" springs to mind.
ICEPHREAK
Toronto, Canada
As a naturally cynical person, I have to question the facts presented by both sides of the U.S.-China standoff.
Because the U.S. offers the argument their spyplane was on automatic pilot at the time of the collision, and with there being no way for anyone but the crew of the downed plane to accurately say what happened, why do some of you side unequivocally with one side or the other?
The U.S. government is a government with a history of coverup in the face of ego, screwup and competition. I question whether the nation even successfully landed on the moon.
The Chinese government is a government long accustomed to thought and behaviour policing, silence and extreme control. I question whether the nation is witholding either the truth or some vital piece of information.
Never rule out the idea that these two nations might be engaged in subtle propaganda warfare as we speak, creating facts for public consumption. Warfare is as much about thought control as it is about bombs and missles. Heck, at worst, we may even have another conspiracy on our hands.
Point: The Chinese are convinced the U.S. caused the collision. They then must have the means to determine what happened. Chances are, those means are the second-hand account of the surviving F8 pilot.
Point: The U.S. is convinced the Chinese are at fault for the collision. They claim to have pictures of the Chinese hotdogging in earlier intercepts, its their claim the plane was on automatic control at the time of the collision, and they offer the idea that it's the intercepting pilot's responsibility to avoid the intercepted plane, especially when that plain is larger and less manoeverable.
The truth is that as ordinary civilians, we may never know the real circumstances bringing about this situation. Personally speaking, if I were to determine fault from the information given in the news reports, I'd say the Chinese largely, if not completely at fault. Responsibility as the pilot of a very nimble aircraft should mostly be with that person.
I personally haven't (missed the debut at the Toronto film festival), but apparently this movie is a true story hacking drama based around the exploits of the Computer Chaos Club. A friend who saw the movie explains it's one of the best he's seen in the genre.
This title was created in Germany (home to many of the club's members) and was shown at the local film festival with English subtitles. There is currently no DVD, but there is a non-subtitled or dubbed VHS available from the Dutch version of Amazon Books.
There is a five-meg trailer of 23 available at: http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-schmitbo/down23.html
ICEPHREAK
Raymond's writeup is borderline scientific babble. Need something more practical?
s eduction.html
http://www.pickupguide.com/gallery/miscgoodstuff/
ICEPHREAK