Seperate the User Info page into two seperate pages. One that shows you your recent posts, etc. and one with your karma info.
Here's the catch. If you have karma over 15 or so, it COSTS 1 karma point each time you reload your karma level page. That should help with obsessive karma watching.
You can view your recent posts page as much as you want to see if someone replied to a comment, etc.
I'd use an OS that insured that nobody except the NSA could crack my box. I'd love it. I could sleep at night instead of worrying about script kiddies.
Why do I care if the NSA has some super secret backdoor into my pc? They certainly have backdoors in the phone system, etc. and I use that every day.
What would the NSA want to look at my box for? I'm not doing anything illegal. I don't think the NSA is really going to care if I have deCSS code or MP3's on here. They've got better things to do.
The first time they use evidence collected via a back door someone will find out and then we'll find out. They're not going to risk that over anything I could ever imagine doing on a computer.
Geez. I don't understand the paranoia. If they want to see what's on your box, they'll bust in and physically take it.
Paranoia is for people who have something to hide.
These guys need to learn a little something from an ISP in one of the cities where I work.
They are a local ISP in a moderate sized (250,000) market. Ask anyone around who their ISP is and chances are it's them. They have excellent tech support and an average monthly cost. They get a lot of free exposure for participating in (often non-computer related) community and charity events along with their paid television and billboard spots. They always have a booth set up at the computer user group meetings and home shows. They have free tech days where you can come in and they will teach anything that a newbie would want to know. They give away t-shirts at sporting events and the such.
Unless they are made an offer that they can't refuse by one of the really big guys, I don't see them going away anytime soon.
I've been thinking about providing ISP services to the folks in the apartments around me. Anybody ever hear of this? I've got about 30 families within easy cabling distance that I could resell my cable bandwidth to. Hmmmm...
He tries to reboot, but the Sun application software won't load. Lots of messages on the screen noting data errors. Sergei thinks that it may be the hard drive. He boots up windows to see if the windows partition runs OK--it does. So at least some of the hardware is functional.
I wonder how often someone has to rely on Windows because their Sun OS failed?;)
I have a good feeling it will go open source, which will be a really good thing for the OSS community.
No, waiting around for companies to die so we can get our hands on their code is NOT a Really Good Thing for OSS.
If it happens enough times, companies will see anything non-Microsoft oriented as an impossible market to make money in and will not develop the products that we need so despirately. Sure, the free development may continue in obscurity, but we need the support of great companies by rallying for the cause!
The absolute BEST thing that could happen for OSS would be a company with OSS values who develops some great widget and makes a *fortune* on support and maintenance and is wildly successful.
It helped me. I appreciate/. for carrying the story.
I use a w2k box at my desk. I use w2k because I have to view the Internet world through the eyes of IE like our clients. I keep about 20 SecureCRT sessions open to our Linux servers and IE up all day.
What's the difference between a group of people going to someone's house to play games on their computers and going there to watch a movie or to play cards?
I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, but I don't see it as just doing one thing. Some of my time is spent doing my job (programming), some surfing and gaming, some participating in newsgroups about non-computer related subjects (ie, cooking, music, literature), some irc...
The computer is just the vehicle. Don't confuse yourself. It's better than a mindless group of people staring at a TV on a Saturday night.
Maybe the next big wave for advertisers is to have some of the page content as a part of the ad banner. Block my ads and you lose a chunk of the article along with it. Could be done on the fly really quickly and with small (k) images resulting.
I wouldn't mind paying $30 a year for a slashdot subscription (maybe a $15-$20 student rate for those of you who are still broke;). With a username costing $30, it would certainly cut down a lot on the s/n ratio.
It would make it a much more enjoyable experience for everyone who cared enough to stick around. Those are the people who make it interesting.
I know I get more enjoyment out of/. over the course of a year than I would with the 1.5 DVD's I could buy with that money. I learn so much here, I might even get my employer to pay the bill!
The problem is that we're all spoiled. We expect things to be free (as in beer). That's not the way the world works. It may sound great and idealistic when you're in college or just starting out, but get to be 31 like me (geez, I'm old) and you'll understand.
Now assume that a clerk at a large grocery store noticed someone hanging around the candy isle looking suspicious. The clerk walks over just in time to see the person inject something into a pack of M&M's and throw it back onto the shelf. Knowing that they have been seen, they run out of the store.
The clerk picks up the packet of M&M's and can hardly see the whole created by the needle. It is so small that it would almost certainly go unnoticed. How many other packets had the person messed with before they where noticed? None? Half of them? Which half?
Just assuming that you had caught them in the act on the first and only packet of candy they messed with would be foolish.
It could take a REALLY long time to go through each piece of candy to see if there was some indication of tampering.
Now in this case it might be cheaper to just throw away all potentially tainted candy, but say there is a world candy shortage and each of those packets cost $1000.00US...
You either pay the price of lost candy, or hire VERY competent people that you absolutely trust the ability of to search each piece with a microscope looking for problems.
I don't understand the objection to targeted advertising. Maybe someone can help me out here.
While watching TV I know that I'd much rather see commercials for XYZ, Inc's new fiber widget or the new fall line of ThinkGeek t-shirts rather than something on vaginal dryness. If ThinkGeek knew the 75,021 TV's that might be interested in their products, they could afford a national ad campaign directed at those people.
It works for everybody. Advertisers don't waste money on people who will never buy their product, and I might not use my Tivo to fast forward through all the boring commercials that have nothing to do with me.
Let's say that I'm not writing for a specific platform, but I would like to be able to find out the horizontal viewing area in the browser window so I can set a textarea to a pleasing width without resorting to javascript shananigans.
Would that be so horrible? I think it's a great idea. Make it a standard. No harm done. It's not intruding on my privacy in the least. I don't care if they know I'm running at 1280x1024 and I've got a cable modem.
I'm anxiously awaiting a release of Windows Commander for Linux. Rumor has it that the holdup was the release of Kylix... WC is constantly loaded on my W2k box.
I just don't understand how the explorer type file manager won out of the norton commander 2 paned layout. Drag and drop or no mouse at all, it's the best of both worlds.
But Linux has 0 decent browsers and the media format support is horrid. I know I wouldn't tell any of my friends or family they should scrap Windows and install Linux. I can hear the call now from my brother telling me that he can't play some new piece of porn he just downloaded because there's no available codec for it.
Then there's the call because they couldn't view websites (at least correctly) the way they did last week. It's just not worth it...
Of course, I've got about 38 Linux servers deployed and they're rock solid!;)
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When you're stuck on a space station on mars for a year, porn is good no matter how long it takes to download.;)
Ah, but you're assuming that had the legal right to license it in the first place.
If he had something in writing from his employer stating that he had the right to license it any way he wanted then there would be no question for us to answer.
My boss just told me I could license Windows 2000 under the GPL. Guess I'll do it.
I think your first paragraph pretty much summed it up. I've been asked many times to modify some existing in-house application to perform some new function. After barfing on the horrid spagetti code of "programmers" who came before me, I usually decide that it would take more time to figure out the mess than to start from scratch.
We usually end up with a much tighter application that does a better job than the original did and with the added functionality they wanted. I even spend time doing ---documentation! Each incarnation improves on the previous.
Of course, I wouldn't suggest throwing out a project consisting of a million lines of code (unless absolutely necessary;) But for the size and scope of the apps that you mentioned, sometimes it's for the best.
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Here's a change that I think would be helpfull...
Seperate the User Info page into two seperate pages. One that shows you your recent posts, etc. and one with your karma info.
Here's the catch. If you have karma over 15 or so, it COSTS 1 karma point each time you reload your karma level page. That should help with obsessive karma watching.
You can view your recent posts page as much as you want to see if someone replied to a comment, etc.
What gets me is that the two formats being discussed are named after a particular distribution (DEBian and Redhat).
Indeed choosing one over the other would give substantial credibility of a distribution as being "the standard" distro.
Port is usually too sweet for me. I prefer a nice dry red wine any time.
I'd use an OS that insured that nobody except the NSA could crack my box. I'd love it. I could sleep at night instead of worrying about script kiddies.
Why do I care if the NSA has some super secret backdoor into my pc? They certainly have backdoors in the phone system, etc. and I use that every day.
What would the NSA want to look at my box for? I'm not doing anything illegal. I don't think the NSA is really going to care if I have deCSS code or MP3's on here. They've got better things to do.
The first time they use evidence collected via a back door someone will find out and then we'll find out. They're not going to risk that over anything I could ever imagine doing on a computer.
Geez. I don't understand the paranoia. If they want to see what's on your box, they'll bust in and physically take it.
Paranoia is for people who have something to hide.
These guys need to learn a little something from an ISP in one of the cities where I work.
They are a local ISP in a moderate sized (250,000) market. Ask anyone around who their ISP is and chances are it's them. They have excellent tech support and an average monthly cost. They get a lot of free exposure for participating in (often non-computer related) community and charity events along with their paid television and billboard spots. They always have a booth set up at the computer user group meetings and home shows. They have free tech days where you can come in and they will teach anything that a newbie would want to know. They give away t-shirts at sporting events and the such.
Unless they are made an offer that they can't refuse by one of the really big guys, I don't see them going away anytime soon.
I've been thinking about providing ISP services to the folks in the apartments around me. Anybody ever hear of this? I've got about 30 families within easy cabling distance that I could resell my cable bandwidth to. Hmmmm...
He tries to reboot, but the Sun application software won't load. Lots of messages on the screen noting data errors. Sergei thinks that it may be the hard drive. He boots up windows to see if the windows partition runs OK--it does. So at least some of the hardware is functional.
;)
I wonder how often someone has to rely on Windows because their Sun OS failed?
So did he keep the keyboard and accessories in the slide out drawers visible in the second picture?
That's why you need a Tivo!
I have a good feeling it will go open source, which will be a really good thing for the OSS community.
No, waiting around for companies to die so we can get our hands on their code is NOT a Really Good Thing for OSS.
If it happens enough times, companies will see anything non-Microsoft oriented as an impossible market to make money in and will not develop the products that we need so despirately. Sure, the free development may continue in obscurity, but we need the support of great companies by rallying for the cause!
The absolute BEST thing that could happen for OSS would be a company with OSS values who develops some great widget and makes a *fortune* on support and maintenance and is wildly successful.
It helped me. I appreciate /. for carrying the story.
I use a w2k box at my desk. I use w2k because I have to view the Internet world through the eyes of IE like our clients. I keep about 20 SecureCRT sessions open to our Linux servers and IE up all day.
Thanks for the info!
I never really understood the purpose of desktop icons, or desktop wallpaper for that matter.
After the system is up for 10 seconds, I rarely see the desktop again for a couple of weeks until I reboot for some reason (W2k).
What's the difference between a group of people going to someone's house to play games on their computers and going there to watch a movie or to play cards?
I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, but I don't see it as just doing one thing. Some of my time is spent doing my job (programming), some surfing and gaming, some participating in newsgroups about non-computer related subjects (ie, cooking, music, literature), some irc...
The computer is just the vehicle. Don't confuse yourself. It's better than a mindless group of people staring at a TV on a Saturday night.
The DoD allows telnet? Geez. I'm going to assume that this is a mistake and that you meant ssh.
Maybe the next big wave for advertisers is to have some of the page content as a part of the ad banner. Block my ads and you lose a chunk of the article along with it. Could be done on the fly really quickly and with small (k) images resulting.
I wouldn't mind paying $30 a year for a slashdot subscription (maybe a $15-$20 student rate for those of you who are still broke ;). With a username costing $30, it would certainly cut down a lot on the s/n ratio.
/. over the course of a year than I would with the 1.5 DVD's I could buy with that money. I learn so much here, I might even get my employer to pay the bill!
It would make it a much more enjoyable experience for everyone who cared enough to stick around. Those are the people who make it interesting.
I know I get more enjoyment out of
The problem is that we're all spoiled. We expect things to be free (as in beer). That's not the way the world works. It may sound great and idealistic when you're in college or just starting out, but get to be 31 like me (geez, I'm old) and you'll understand.
--James
Now assume that a clerk at a large grocery store noticed someone hanging around the candy isle looking suspicious. The clerk walks over just in time to see the person inject something into a pack of M&M's and throw it back onto the shelf. Knowing that they have been seen, they run out of the store.
The clerk picks up the packet of M&M's and can hardly see the whole created by the needle. It is so small that it would almost certainly go unnoticed. How many other packets had the person messed with before they where noticed? None? Half of them? Which half?
Just assuming that you had caught them in the act on the first and only packet of candy they messed with would be foolish.
It could take a REALLY long time to go through each piece of candy to see if there was some indication of tampering.
Now in this case it might be cheaper to just throw away all potentially tainted candy, but say there is a world candy shortage and each of those packets cost $1000.00US...
You either pay the price of lost candy, or hire VERY competent people that you absolutely trust the ability of to search each piece with a microscope looking for problems.
Could get very expensive.
I don't understand the objection to targeted advertising. Maybe someone can help me out here.
While watching TV I know that I'd much rather see commercials for XYZ, Inc's new fiber widget or the new fall line of ThinkGeek t-shirts rather than something on vaginal dryness. If ThinkGeek knew the 75,021 TV's that might be interested in their products, they could afford a national ad campaign directed at those people.
It works for everybody. Advertisers don't waste money on people who will never buy their product, and I might not use my Tivo to fast forward through all the boring commercials that have nothing to do with me.
Maybe I'm just not paranoid enough.
Let's say that I'm not writing for a specific platform, but I would like to be able to find out the horizontal viewing area in the browser window so I can set a textarea to a pleasing width without resorting to javascript shananigans.
Would that be so horrible? I think it's a great idea. Make it a standard. No harm done. It's not intruding on my privacy in the least. I don't care if they know I'm running at 1280x1024 and I've got a cable modem.
I believe the "Kiddy" portion more describes the intellectual and social development of the person rather than imposing some sort of age requirement.
I'm anxiously awaiting a release of Windows Commander for Linux. Rumor has it that the holdup was the release of Kylix... WC is constantly loaded on my W2k box.
I just don't understand how the explorer type file manager won out of the norton commander 2 paned layout. Drag and drop or no mouse at all, it's the best of both worlds.
But Linux has 0 decent browsers and the media format support is horrid. I know I wouldn't tell any of my friends or family they should scrap Windows and install Linux. I can hear the call now from my brother telling me that he can't play some new piece of porn he just downloaded because there's no available codec for it.
;)
Then there's the call because they couldn't view websites (at least correctly) the way they did last week. It's just not worth it...
Of course, I've got about 38 Linux servers deployed and they're rock solid!
When you're stuck on a space station on mars for a year, porn is good no matter how long it takes to download. ;)
Ah, but you're assuming that had the legal right to license it in the first place.
If he had something in writing from his employer stating that he had the right to license it any way he wanted then there would be no question for us to answer.
My boss just told me I could license Windows 2000 under the GPL. Guess I'll do it.
I think your first paragraph pretty much summed it up. I've been asked many times to modify some existing in-house application to perform some new function. After barfing on the horrid spagetti code of "programmers" who came before me, I usually decide that it would take more time to figure out the mess than to start from scratch.
;) But for the size and scope of the apps that you mentioned, sometimes it's for the best.
We usually end up with a much tighter application that does a better job than the original did and with the added functionality they wanted. I even spend time doing ---documentation! Each incarnation improves on the previous.
Of course, I wouldn't suggest throwing out a project consisting of a million lines of code (unless absolutely necessary