But it is important to understand that one can't just pick up the "Bat Phone" and have Linus or Andrew on the other end. Those days are gone. - sbergman27, [http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/]
These PaX "security experts" whine and complain like script kiddies. No wonder.
I think the real point is made that distro volunteers and employees are more likely to implement a patchset for security reasons. Also, this is in the best intrests of the community, by limiting the amount of direct communication forced upon our Overlord and Savior, and also because most of us are using a distro. If a distro has a security patchset and the vanilla kernel is left with holes, surely someone will take notice and go through the proper channels, doing all that hard contacting work for you.
If that first NWN was any indication of their committment to providing for Linux gamers, then I'm going to refrain from any further BioWare purchases.
The whole !@#$ reason i bought NWN and both expansion packs was to play on my gentoolinux box. I mangaed about 60 hours of gametime before giving up on the lack of offical builder tools, history of saying "well just use WINE and don't bother us," also the tone that us Linux consumers should praise god anyone would go out of their way to port the game for a platform other than Win32.
This is not to mention the lack of cooperation between ATI (i have an r250 radeon 9000 pro graphics card) and BioWare. Graphics quality was a joke at its best, and unplayable at worst.
I had a similar experience in practice when I purchased Savage (RTS/FPS hybrid game). The differnece there is Linux was a supported platform, and the company made an enthused effort to harass ATI for better drivers and information. Savage never turned out to be playable, and though not a total waste of money (i got it to sort of work exactly five times), probably not the 35 dollars i'd hoped it'd be worth when i paid for it.
So, the US Army can create a game (America's Army) that works flawlessly under *nix. ID games can pump titles out all supported on *nix. Unreal Tourny 2003 works like a dream on *nix
First, the site hosts many closed-source projects, one (the "seven level button" monitor) where the author proclaims he'll (paraphrase) "kick yer arse if yu tri 2 get a copee."
Okay onto the subject at hand: - Spatial Nautilus? they didn't go far ENOUGH i say! Why revert? useless. use gnome1/kde and have a nice day.
- playing well with kde/motif/etc. not within the scope of the gnome2 project.
- the name of the project GoneME !@#$'ing windows whore. die.
- button order if you ask me, it never makes sense no matter what you do with it. gnome2 is going to be customizable in this respect, just not yet in 2.6 so keep your pants on
- gconf a.k.a. windows registry die. die. die. gconf isn't all that amazing, but for what it does it is suprisingly efficient. user-split registries of information (try THAT in some wincrap system).
- should have... essential stuff only when you don't have a lot of money for advertising, and do the work for free, then you make a "family" style group of products like gnome2 is doing. i see nothing wrong with this. if you want a more naked framework, go chase natalie portman around naked and petrified with a bowl of hot grits and GNUstep.
- dumbifying people down moron.
- DIG DEEPER shut up already and open a gnome-terminal
- removing scrollkeeper and docbook moron x2.
- Asthetics i personally hate the way ohsex looks, so there's no way for me to add to this. the gnome2 interface (gtk+2.4x) is fine for me, but very few programs have jumped on the GNOME2 HIG boat.
- touching everything wash your hands
- mozilla as a gnome toy hello!? can we say 'Epiphany' ?
summary: pointless rant by another moron who doesn't like what he's been crap-fed for years, yet doesn't want to move on and use something even remotely different.
another note, this should never have made it through to./ headlines
Mod me down, i had to say it, there's nothing but troll-chalking on this story
...microsoft would just like, open up one of their old operating systems and tell people it's unsupported blah blah NDA tie my left shoe...
and move on with it?
hordes of medicare applications are out there being used in critical ways, and they are written for Win16. making these apps work with Win XP alone is enough of a challenge.
why not split and have some compatibility OS, or as a module or product they sell on top of the new (incompatible) OSes?
byte means different things depending on what system you're working with. the notion that a nibble is two bits, word two nibbles, byte two words... mostly intel x86 convention.
i have seen assembler code that assumes a byte to be four bits.
i had a similar memory with the nintendo version. my sister and i tried for about 3 hours and never figured out how to get in the house. then the game fried. renting videogames, what a relief;)
The price of freedom for information is protecting it all. i never saw what the big deal was about alleged "child pornography" except to facillitate witch hunts. it's so evil. omg rofl lol evil evil. lolz.
Notice my emphasis on sarcasm here
I'm with the parent post on the point that the abuse is done. what i disagree with is the little factoid and his idea of children being "rescued" (comparing apples and oranges). children aren't being rescued, there's merely less reported cases of fatal situations. my guess is that at some point the "missing persons" programs which did not effectively track young persons in the eighties, is simply more effective. people go missing, and that is that.
The following things are scary ideas, but i'm going to suggest them as alternatives:
- ISPs start accountability for their users. track users' traffic and what websites they go to. employ statistics against the habits of known criminal types to flag thier users as suspect. - Continue siding with the war on terror and the witch hunt for child pornography. This lets you be friends with the big bad Bush administration, which likes to go ape shit and abuse indiscriminately, and it involves a grand ruckus of flag-waving. - Enforce penalties for actual crimes. I'm not talking about crime as in "sasser" or such, but it is well documented that "computer criminals" serve longer and tougher sentences than child molesters, serial rapists, and some other pretty wacky baddies that disrupt a workable society. Maybe there should be a forced sentence related to the difference in age of the defendant and the accused? This won't cover a (US education) 4th-grader picking up daddy's.22 and blowing away some classmates. It shouldn't, either. What it might cover is joe, the nice guy age 35 white male sales rep next door, abducting your kid for some sexual abuse purposes. Oh, and thanks to the lovely marvel of digital cameras, he takes pictures and posts on a usenet forum. If you ask me that's not "child pornography" it's just plain abuse. Like the abuse US soldiers displayed with similar digital photos - you might remember that in recent news? - yes. But! here is the draw, the asshole who borrowed your kid to feed some imbalanced sociopathic need, gets a maximum maximum of 5 years if i'm not mistaken and rarely any of those sentences are fully carried out. figure 3 mos - 2 years sentence. less if the prisons become over-crowded and room is needed to house the computer criminals, theifs, and situational murderers.
And some fucking telecom wants to censor your internet access!?!?!
Okay okay we should then censor all church related material. yes. down with god. after all, it has been widely rumored and accepted that the church is facillitating the abuse of children by its members. wait... no child pornography there.
Hmm, alright! i've got it. we'll jail all the people in the telecom who decide what to block. they MUST have seen some evil child pornography. burn them! make them pay for looking at such evil.
I'm convinced that some bullshit idea like "child pornography" is pretty much a symptom of societies full of marginally stupid people. hate crime, abductor/abusers, rapists, murderers, we see photos of this kind of deviation *all the time*
It's like this wartime situation in the US, you have the (bush) administration justifying it and proclaiming its evilness at the same time. soldiers, thinking they were god justified, and abusing prisoners. isn't that awful? lol lol lol omfg rofl gmwas!
We should jail anyone who visits tubgirl.com, goatse.cx, rotten.com, consumptionjunction.com, put them in jail for looking at such evil dot-matrix representations of the colours green red and blue... we should replace green with white because green is unpatriotic (as the United States manages to make everything a "global" issue).
It's not even criminal behavior, though... you could argue with me on whether that's a real problem of society, i'd b
I guess i'm not the only one who saw that flash applet?
Overall the guy comes off like a technophobe, getting the business ideas right but the terminology all wrong.
Linux is not what fails miserably to test against high standards of "Windows" (whatever the hell that means, we all know what high standards microsoft has for its products). The point is that he didn't drop any names. He mentions Microsoft Windows, but not Redhat RedHatAdvancedServer. He mentions Microsoft Windows, but not Mandrakesoft MandrakeLinux.
what the fuck?
I expect that Redhat's product if it costs say $180usd to be a product that is worth $180usd.
it's no fault of the Linux kernel or GNU project, not even the BSD software authors etc. etc.
the use of G and an 'o' for each page of search results ending with the 'gle'
this may be a legitimate claim, but it is made completely weak by the circumstances (google's IPO namely) and to my knowledge the term "googol" is in most unabridged dictionaries defining a number of value one with one hundred zeros.
after 12 or 13 sides, regular polygons are named by their prefix and the 'gon' suffix. my favorite one? googolgon. transform!
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But it is important to understand that one can't just pick up the "Bat Phone" and have Linus or Andrew on the other end. Those days are gone.
- sbergman27, [http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/]
These PaX "security experts" whine and complain like script kiddies. No wonder.
I think the real point is made that distro volunteers and employees are more likely to implement a patchset for security reasons. Also, this is in the best intrests of the community, by limiting the amount of direct communication forced upon our Overlord and Savior, and also because most of us are using a distro. If a distro has a security patchset and the vanilla kernel is left with holes, surely someone will take notice and go through the proper channels, doing all that hard contacting work for you.
If that first NWN was any indication of their committment to providing for Linux gamers, then I'm going to refrain from any further BioWare purchases.
The whole !@#$ reason i bought NWN and both expansion packs was to play on my gentoolinux box. I mangaed about 60 hours of gametime before giving up on the lack of offical builder tools, history of saying "well just use WINE and don't bother us," also the tone that us Linux consumers should praise god anyone would go out of their way to port the game for a platform other than Win32.
This is not to mention the lack of cooperation between ATI (i have an r250 radeon 9000 pro graphics card) and BioWare. Graphics quality was a joke at its best, and unplayable at worst.
I had a similar experience in practice when I purchased Savage (RTS/FPS hybrid game). The differnece there is Linux was a supported platform, and the company made an enthused effort to harass ATI for better drivers and information. Savage never turned out to be playable, and though not a total waste of money (i got it to sort of work exactly five times), probably not the 35 dollars i'd hoped it'd be worth when i paid for it.
So, the US Army can create a game (America's Army) that works flawlessly under *nix. ID games can pump titles out all supported on *nix. Unreal Tourny 2003 works like a dream on *nix
What in the hell does Atari want from me?
How does this even get posted on /. ?
... essential stuff only
./ headlines
First, the site hosts many closed-source projects, one (the "seven level button" monitor) where the author proclaims he'll (paraphrase) "kick yer arse if yu tri 2 get a copee."
Okay onto the subject at hand:
- Spatial Nautilus?
they didn't go far ENOUGH i say! Why revert? useless. use gnome1/kde and have a nice day.
- playing well with kde/motif/etc.
not within the scope of the gnome2 project.
- the name of the project GoneME
!@#$'ing windows whore. die.
- button order
if you ask me, it never makes sense no matter what you do with it. gnome2 is going to be customizable in this respect, just not yet in 2.6 so keep your pants on
- gconf a.k.a. windows registry
die. die. die. gconf isn't all that amazing, but for what it does it is suprisingly efficient. user-split registries of information (try THAT in some wincrap system).
- should have
when you don't have a lot of money for advertising, and do the work for free, then you make a "family" style group of products like gnome2 is doing. i see nothing wrong with this. if you want a more naked framework, go chase natalie portman around naked and petrified with a bowl of hot grits and GNUstep.
- dumbifying people down
moron.
- DIG DEEPER
shut up already and open a gnome-terminal
- removing scrollkeeper and docbook
moron x2.
- Asthetics
i personally hate the way ohsex looks, so there's no way for me to add to this. the gnome2 interface (gtk+2.4x) is fine for me, but very few programs have jumped on the GNOME2 HIG boat.
- touching everything
wash your hands
- mozilla as a gnome toy
hello!? can we say 'Epiphany' ?
summary: pointless rant by another moron who doesn't like what he's been crap-fed for years, yet doesn't want to move on and use something even remotely different.
another note, this should never have made it through to
Mod me down, i had to say it, there's nothing but troll-chalking on this story
...what's the Mozilla Foundation's corporate song? o/~
i find this funny.
powerdvd rep contacting debian list asking for who to talk to.
A) the guy obviously doesn't follow what debian is all about
B) see point A
...if this was a good thing (get rid of software patents we don't want them) or a bad thing (yay software patents let's go crazy).
/. post.
i did not rtfa i'm just commenting on the
...microsoft would just like, open up one of their old operating systems and tell people it's unsupported blah blah NDA tie my left shoe...
and move on with it?
hordes of medicare applications are out there being used in critical ways, and they are written for Win16. making these apps work with Win XP alone is enough of a challenge.
why not split and have some compatibility OS, or as a module or product they sell on top of the new (incompatible) OSes?
that'd be technically valid.
byte means different things depending on what system you're working with. the notion that a nibble is two bits, word two nibbles, byte two words... mostly intel x86 convention.
i have seen assembler code that assumes a byte to be four bits.
not withstanding the point that ALL firewire drives are really ATA/IDE drives using adapters.
zealot.
if you've ever taken apart a drive using the 133794 interface you'd know that.
"...because if you let the smoke out, it stops working."
- my friend, when he's asked what's inside a transistor.
i had a similar memory with the nintendo version. my sister and i tried for about 3 hours and never figured out how to get in the house. then the game fried. renting videogames, what a relief ;)
The price of freedom for information is protecting it all. i never saw what the big deal was about alleged "child pornography" except to facillitate witch hunts. it's so evil. omg rofl lol evil evil. lolz.
.22 and blowing away some classmates. It shouldn't, either. What it might cover is joe, the nice guy age 35 white male sales rep next door, abducting your kid for some sexual abuse purposes. Oh, and thanks to the lovely marvel of digital cameras, he takes pictures and posts on a usenet forum. If you ask me that's not "child pornography" it's just plain abuse. Like the abuse US soldiers displayed with similar digital photos - you might remember that in recent news? - yes. But! here is the draw, the asshole who borrowed your kid to feed some imbalanced sociopathic need, gets a maximum maximum of 5 years if i'm not mistaken and rarely any of those sentences are fully carried out. figure 3 mos - 2 years sentence. less if the prisons become over-crowded and room is needed to house the computer criminals, theifs, and situational murderers.
Notice my emphasis on sarcasm here
I'm with the parent post on the point that the abuse is done. what i disagree with is the little factoid and his idea of children being "rescued" (comparing apples and oranges). children aren't being rescued, there's merely less reported cases of fatal situations. my guess is that at some point the "missing persons" programs which did not effectively track young persons in the eighties, is simply more effective. people go missing, and that is that.
The following things are scary ideas, but i'm going to suggest them as alternatives:
- ISPs start accountability for their users. track users' traffic and what websites they go to. employ statistics against the habits of known criminal types to flag thier users as suspect.
- Continue siding with the war on terror and the witch hunt for child pornography. This lets you be friends with the big bad Bush administration, which likes to go ape shit and abuse indiscriminately, and it involves a grand ruckus of flag-waving.
- Enforce penalties for actual crimes. I'm not talking about crime as in "sasser" or such, but it is well documented that "computer criminals" serve longer and tougher sentences than child molesters, serial rapists, and some other pretty wacky baddies that disrupt a workable society. Maybe there should be a forced sentence related to the difference in age of the defendant and the accused? This won't cover a (US education) 4th-grader picking up daddy's
And some fucking telecom wants to censor your internet access!?!?!
Okay okay we should then censor all church related material. yes. down with god. after all, it has been widely rumored and accepted that the church is facillitating the abuse of children by its members. wait... no child pornography there.
Hmm, alright! i've got it. we'll jail all the people in the telecom who decide what to block. they MUST have seen some evil child pornography. burn them! make them pay for looking at such evil.
I'm convinced that some bullshit idea like "child pornography" is pretty much a symptom of societies full of marginally stupid people. hate crime, abductor/abusers, rapists, murderers, we see photos of this kind of deviation *all the time*
It's like this wartime situation in the US, you have the (bush) administration justifying it and proclaiming its evilness at the same time. soldiers, thinking they were god justified, and abusing prisoners. isn't that awful? lol lol lol omfg rofl gmwas!
We should jail anyone who visits tubgirl.com, goatse.cx, rotten.com, consumptionjunction.com, put them in jail for looking at such evil dot-matrix representations of the colours green red and blue... we should replace green with white because green is unpatriotic (as the United States manages to make everything a "global" issue).
It's not even criminal behavior, though... you could argue with me on whether that's a real problem of society, i'd b
piracy
eliminate capslock key
bash at least makes this difficult
mkdir Chum
touch chumbun
then you start to type 'cd chum' and hit tab
it leaves it at 'chum'
correct behavior would change that to 'Chum'
needs work.
dr. demento anyone?
i do remember a "movie review" with the flinstones and jurassic park in the same song. possibly volcanoes.
parent post was no troll. grr.. it says comment so i commented.
I guess i'm not the only one who saw that flash applet?
Overall the guy comes off like a technophobe, getting the business ideas right but the terminology all wrong.
Linux is not what fails miserably to test against high standards of "Windows" (whatever the hell that means, we all know what high standards microsoft has for its products). The point is that he didn't drop any names. He mentions Microsoft Windows, but not Redhat RedHatAdvancedServer. He mentions Microsoft Windows, but not Mandrakesoft MandrakeLinux.
what the fuck?
I expect that Redhat's product if it costs say $180usd to be a product that is worth $180usd.
it's no fault of the Linux kernel or GNU project, not even the BSD software authors etc. etc.
I attempted to read the article, but was distracted by chirping bird noises
and a trojan chickenhead rolling through the security gates of troy.
..though IANAL...
the use of G and an 'o' for each page of search results ending with the 'gle'
this may be a legitimate claim, but it is made completely weak by the circumstances (google's IPO namely) and to my knowledge the term "googol" is in most unabridged dictionaries defining a number of value one with one hundred zeros.
after 12 or 13 sides, regular polygons are named by their prefix and the 'gon' suffix. my favorite one? googolgon. transform!
i'd appreciate it if you capped your mouth with a horse hoove.
that is all, my fellow cross-compilerless slashdotian.
" a super virus thats difficult if not impossible to stop..."
like HIV?
i'll bite
ebola would be contained because by nature it kills within a few days. nasty visible skin lesions.
you dig?
class="blink"
with drives so fast, you might miss the burn process if you blink
oh my god, the air! how could a computer survive that?!?
if you're so inclined, you can buy one for about $300usd
it sure is sexy even without the Jesus of Sweeden with Lipstick