In other words: Expect Slashdot to go down for 6-8 hours tomorrow without explanation.
Hell, that's been happening anyway, hasn't it? You got to the front page, your cookie doesn't work, and whenever you try and click on anything that stresses the database it just loads the front page?
Do your part, man, and keep the S/N ratio down a bit in here (I'm guilty too, but at least my post has SOME purpose)
The other usual/. response -- let's get meta!
What did I contribute to this conversation? Another pageview for Rob & co., thus meaning a tiny bit more money at the end of the year. I'm sure that's all they care about these days...
Is there any irony that an entry in an adlog on a story on spying is my only real contribution?(Also, most stories have 150 responses or more elucidating 3 or 4 basic responses, which is a waste of time from the get-go. Some people even repeat the same (predictable) joke first told by others hours before. If you're looking for good discussion, methinks you're on the wrong site...)
Adverisers are pissing of people who watch television too. You get used to it (or have you stopped watching television?). It is the price to pay for getting free content.
I think you should have the word free in quotes there:)
Somebody has to pay for the content.
Ever wondered why a box of cornflakes costs as much as it does? How much of that goes towards marketing? Congratulations, you've just paid for your 'free' television programs. (Expand across your shopping budget as required, of course...)
I did something like this for an online art project, used during a live performance (locally only, to 4 machines via a LAN) -- HTML pages calling Javascript that generated new pages and also called a Perl script which collected 'votes' onClick and returned the relevant HTTP header (empty response). All this within about 12 borderless frames... urk.
If I'd been given more time to do it, and the ideas hadn't kept changing, I'm sure that could have been better engineered.:)
Microsoft... a terrorist organization... Steve Balmer
Having seen the "MonkeyBoy" and "Developers".avi's, I think I'd rather be held prisoner by Osama bin Laden -- at least I might have a chance of reasoning with him, unlike Steve:)
Re:Can it run a webserver? No.
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Ah, but if he'd faked the browser headers, those of us who managed to read the article might have been a little suspicious of someone running a web server on an OS that doesn't have any networking support at all....
I hadn't managed to read the article (/.-ed):)
Just pointing out the folly of trusting a web server...
Maybe he just hasn't been able to convince his ISP to run it on their web hosting servers? It's not enough to write an OS entirely in assembly, he also needs to have it hosting the website for the project?
Bear in mind he could easily have spoofed that header to read Apache/Menuet if he'd wanted to, and if he owns the box that the site is hosted on, which I doubt, based on the server line above.
and Erdos was still pulling 19-hour days every day and publishing 50 important papers a year in his late seventies. Though in his case the Benzedrine was undoubtedly an influence.
Drugs or not, Erdos was a *freak* (I read and enjoyed 'The Man Who Loved Only Numbers':)
I guess it comes down to whether or not your mindset is sufficiently different, yet able to translate those concepts well enough that others can understand them -- I can see this being something that you're going to do young if you do at all, but that might atrophy as you mature and become more socialized, depending on the individual.
That's OK... with USB 2.0 we can step up to 480 millibaud. That should solve all our problems!
(mb could be millibits, Mb would be megabits and MB megabytes... the article uses megabits, but then abbreviates as mb. I don't know much about PCWorld, but throwing measurements around like this is never a good sign. They use MBps for Serial ATA earlier in the article... maybe they're just cutting and pasting from press releases?)
He surely can't be American, or he would have an online store selling little goatse.cx action figures, and would have done the talk show circuit a few times already.
Actually I'd buy a goatse.cx pencil sharpener - what a conversation piece!
+1 Funny... -1 Disgusting... must be a difficult choice to make -- glad I don't have mod points ATM:)
Learn to love and cherish variety. It's what make the world go around.
Now I'm all for variety -- but it seems that the world has been spinning on its axis perfectly well with generation after untold generation of hate, murder and other nasty behaviour.
Makes you wonder what would have come had he lived twice as long and had the more powerful technology to play with.
Aren't most 'original' contributions in science and math made by the young? It's a generalization, and you have people like Feynman who will break *any* mold, but ISTR hearing that many mathematicians consider themselves failures if they haven't changed the world by 35 or so... (well, the ones who were aiming that high anyway:)
I just tried reading the first few pages of a friend's copy of the first one. Not for me.
At the moment I'm reading a Joseph Heller book, a history of the Knights Templar and a sociological study of white society in South Africa just prior to the fall of apartheid. Harry can't really compete:)
ISTR reading that the goatse guy is actually from Perth, Western Australia... in a thread about a week ago on/.
Re:Hate to say, sounds like a dot-bomb strategy...
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yes, but isn't nt the next generation of vms?
VMS
WNT
shifted by 1 -- reminds me of the IBM/HAL debacle:) BTW, what does VMS stand for? Virtual Memory System? (sounds like they're describing a subset of the OS's features:)i just now realised the parenthetical meta-comment is longer then the actual comment...
at least it stops that damn compression filter from kicking in...
Okay, be fair. Terry Pratchett is prolific as all hell, but lumping his stuff in with the Star Trek novels just because he's written a lot doesn't really work.
I was lumping it in because numerically he's the second biggest offender.:) I enjoyed reading the first few books, but they got stale very quickly. He's a good writer, but that doesn't disguise the fact that he's not challenging himself or his readers overly in his choice of work.
As someone who works with high school kids, I am glad for Harry Potter for one reason - they are getting kids to read.
I suppose I sound really old, but it seems that with television, video games and others, reading is not as important as it used to be.
I'm in my mid-20s... I grew up with television, video games and computers. Yet I still read a lot as a child. Most of the stuff I read was at least 10-15 years old (i.e. written pre-1970), and usually older -- I wasn't sure why then, but I think it is because it gives some perspective on the quality of work that has, after all, been produced for commercial reasons.
I think that most reading these days is not important -- it's just another arm of marketing for the content companies (Disney et. al.) I go to my local bookshop and I see authors like Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson with maybe 1 book each on the shelf being crowded out by literally hundreds of Star Trek or Terry Pratchett novels.
If bland pap is mostly what's being published, isn't it easier to get that from other sources? After all, television specialises in it...
If reading were more widely valued in society, and better books were more easily available, maybe more kids might read that one book that convinces them of the benefits of the medium, and so starts them reading a lot at a young age. Don't just let them be used by a marketing machine in the way these Harry Potter books have done.
I imagine it's simply that philosophers aren't "exciting" enough for all the ADD-afflicted American audiences. fuck you, i have ADD an i can understand movies and books at the same level as normal people.
That ADD must have stopped you capitalising your words properly, or previewing your post to see that you had misspelled a three-letter word (and).
I haven't read any of them, but have seen them in bookshops... every book seems to be double the size of the last. Is this a woman who had one good idea and is now flogging any possibility of profit out of it?
Oh yeah, the movie is coming out soon as well:/ I think I'll be seeing Fellowship of the Ring instead...
Slashdot Mirror
In other words: Expect Slashdot to go down for 6-8 hours tomorrow without explanation.
Hell, that's been happening anyway, hasn't it? You got to the front page, your cookie doesn't work, and whenever you try and click on anything that stresses the database it just loads the front page?
A few times a week, I'd say...
Do your part, man, and keep the S/N ratio down a bit in here (I'm guilty too, but at least my post has SOME purpose)
/. response -- let's get meta!
The other usual
What did I contribute to this conversation? Another pageview for Rob & co., thus meaning a tiny bit more money at the end of the year. I'm sure that's all they care about these days...
Is there any irony that an entry in an adlog on a story on spying is my only real contribution?(Also, most stories have 150 responses or more elucidating 3 or 4 basic responses, which is a waste of time from the get-go. Some people even repeat the same (predictable) joke first told by others hours before. If you're looking for good discussion, methinks you're on the wrong site...)
Adverisers are pissing of people who watch television too. You get used to it (or have you stopped watching television?). It is the price to pay for getting free content.
:)
I think you should have the word free in quotes there
Somebody has to pay for the content.
Ever wondered why a box of cornflakes costs as much as it does? How much of that goes towards marketing? Congratulations, you've just paid for your 'free' television programs. (Expand across your shopping budget as required, of course...)
I did something like this for an online art project, used during a live performance (locally only, to 4 machines via a LAN) -- HTML pages calling Javascript that generated new pages and also called a Perl script which collected 'votes' onClick and returned the relevant HTTP header (empty response). All this within about 12 borderless frames... urk.
:)
If I'd been given more time to do it, and the ideas hadn't kept changing, I'm sure that could have been better engineered.
Amen! Preach it, Brother!
(OK, OK, I know that this is just a 'me-too', but that rant expresses so many 'truths'...)
After reading Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus!" and subsequent sequels, I don't believe in any one world-dominating conspiracy.
After reading Illuminatus! and sequels, I know that *all* of the conspiracies are true. Remember, truth is stranger than fiction...
:)
Microsoft ... a terrorist organization ... Steve Balmer
.avi's, I think I'd rather be held prisoner by Osama bin Laden -- at least I might have a chance of reasoning with him, unlike Steve :)
Having seen the "MonkeyBoy" and "Developers"
Ah, but if he'd faked the browser headers, those of us who managed to read the article might have been a little suspicious of someone running a web server on an OS that doesn't have any networking support at all....
:)
I hadn't managed to read the article (/.-ed)
Just pointing out the folly of trusting a web server...
$ telnet www.menuetos.org 80
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Connected to web-is-s007.activeisp.com.
...
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Maybe he just hasn't been able to convince his ISP to run it on their web hosting servers? It's not enough to write an OS entirely in assembly, he also needs to have it hosting the website for the project?
Bear in mind he could easily have spoofed that header to read Apache/Menuet if he'd wanted to, and if he owns the box that the site is hosted on, which I doubt, based on the server line above.
I was trained as a COBOL programmer, it's a language that will not die
:)
... despite our best efforts.
In a few hundred years time I expect some zombie Cobol program to have taken over the 'net, 'Matrix'-style.
Now, if we're going to do "Lawyers At Dawn", I officially suggest that we carpet bomb Tokyo with attorneys from B-52's and B-1B's in HUGE WAVES.
Cruel and unusual punishment. After all, isn't dropping one lawyer equivalent to roughly ten Hiroshima explosions?
[Bring on the lawyer jokes!]
and Erdos was still pulling 19-hour days every day and publishing 50 important papers a year in his late seventies. Though in his case the Benzedrine was undoubtedly an influence.
:)
Drugs or not, Erdos was a *freak* (I read and enjoyed 'The Man Who Loved Only Numbers'
I guess it comes down to whether or not your mindset is sufficiently different, yet able to translate those concepts well enough that others can understand them -- I can see this being something that you're going to do young if you do at all, but that might atrophy as you mature and become more socialized, depending on the individual.
That's OK... with USB 2.0 we can step up to 480 millibaud. That should solve all our problems!
(mb could be millibits, Mb would be megabits and MB megabytes... the article uses megabits, but then abbreviates as mb. I don't know much about PCWorld, but throwing measurements around like this is never a good sign. They use MBps for Serial ATA earlier in the article... maybe they're just cutting and pasting from press releases?)
He surely can't be American, or he would have an online store selling little goatse.cx action figures, and would have done the talk show circuit a few times already.
:)
Actually I'd buy a goatse.cx pencil sharpener - what a conversation piece!
+1 Funny... -1 Disgusting... must be a difficult choice to make -- glad I don't have mod points ATM
Just make sure that it's not running an unpatched IIS... or Outlook.
But if the Linux battlebot infected the NT battlebot with a virus, could it be banned for using 'biological' weapons?
:)
Learn to love and cherish variety. It's what make the world go around.
Now I'm all for variety -- but it seems that the world has been spinning on its axis perfectly well with generation after untold generation of hate, murder and other nasty behaviour.
I had no idea he was so young.
:)
Makes you wonder what would have come had he lived twice as long and had the more powerful technology to play with.
Aren't most 'original' contributions in science and math made by the young? It's a generalization, and you have people like Feynman who will break *any* mold, but ISTR hearing that many mathematicians consider themselves failures if they haven't changed the world by 35 or so... (well, the ones who were aiming that high anyway
I just tried reading the first few pages of a friend's copy of the first one. Not for me.
:)
At the moment I'm reading a Joseph Heller book, a history of the Knights Templar and a sociological study of white society in South Africa just prior to the fall of apartheid. Harry can't really compete
ISTR reading that the goatse guy is actually from Perth, Western Australia... in a thread about a week ago on /.
yes, but isn't nt the next generation of vms?
:) BTW, what does VMS stand for? Virtual Memory System? (sounds like they're describing a subset of the OS's features :)i just now realised the parenthetical meta-comment is longer then the actual comment...
VMS
WNT
shifted by 1 -- reminds me of the IBM/HAL debacle
at least it stops that damn compression filter from kicking in...
And if you exclude Compaq, with their non-standard components and horrible support for non-MS OSes.
Is there much of Digital left inside Compaq, or have they been sacked/assimilated?
Okay, be fair. Terry Pratchett is prolific as all hell, but lumping his stuff in with the Star Trek novels just because he's written a lot doesn't really work.
:) I enjoyed reading the first few books, but they got stale very quickly. He's a good writer, but that doesn't disguise the fact that he's not challenging himself or his readers overly in his choice of work.
I was lumping it in because numerically he's the second biggest offender.
As someone who works with high school kids, I am glad for Harry Potter for one reason - they are getting kids to read.
I suppose I sound really old, but it seems that with television, video games and others, reading is not as important as it used to be.
I'm in my mid-20s... I grew up with television, video games and computers. Yet I still read a lot as a child. Most of the stuff I read was at least 10-15 years old (i.e. written pre-1970), and usually older -- I wasn't sure why then, but I think it is because it gives some perspective on the quality of work that has, after all, been produced for commercial reasons.
I think that most reading these days is not important -- it's just another arm of marketing for the content companies (Disney et. al.) I go to my local bookshop and I see authors like Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson with maybe 1 book each on the shelf being crowded out by literally hundreds of Star Trek or Terry Pratchett novels.
If bland pap is mostly what's being published, isn't it easier to get that from other sources? After all, television specialises in it...
If reading were more widely valued in society, and better books were more easily available, maybe more kids might read that one book that convinces them of the benefits of the medium, and so starts them reading a lot at a young age. Don't just let them be used by a marketing machine in the way these Harry Potter books have done.
I imagine it's simply that philosophers aren't "exciting" enough for all the ADD-afflicted American audiences.
fuck you, i have ADD an i can understand movies and books at the same level as normal people.
That ADD must have stopped you capitalising your words properly, or previewing your post to see that you had misspelled a three-letter word (and).
I haven't read any of them, but have seen them in bookshops... every book seems to be double the size of the last. Is this a woman who had one good idea and is now flogging any possibility of profit out of it?
:/ I think I'll be seeing Fellowship of the Ring instead...
Oh yeah, the movie is coming out soon as well