Two tin cans, a thin piece of wet string, a couple of acoustic-coupled modems (BGP routing, see), a cisco 3600 (used as doorstop), two 486 DX/50s running RedHat 3.1, and a Mead 250-page spiral "database".
I strongly object to the tone of your write-up suggesting a causal link between the negative Downs tests and the pregnancies being carried to term. There is no suggestion of this in the article.
The suggestion is in the writeup on slashdot. I basically got a whiff of genocide from timothy's writeup; I don't know about you.
In one of his rare moments of creative lucidity, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda aranged for the karma for this individual to vary (at random) between a cap value and zero, with the cap value reducing at a rate that would bring it to zero at the moment the ebay auction closed.
You mean 'arranged for', meaning 'ask one of my friends who actually KNOWS perl and SQL to do this cool[1] thing to this guy's karma'?
Yeah, but it's only really been 64-bit since Solaris 7, which was 1998 I think. All the v9 (64-bit) stuff happened then, and even then, you couldn't run it properly on early Ultra 1s.
The discorse on domain names needs to change. Yes, I would arge, this is wrong. Domain names is how users identify websites/ftp/etc. It is not for you to brag to your friends that you regestered www.ourteacherisfat.com.
And why not? What if I want to use it for email? What if I just don't like typing my IP address when I ping my machine? What if I don't wish to provide any service (ftp, telnet, gopher, archie, whatever) to the rest of the Internet? Who are you to tell me how I should use something I've purchased? Are you really that arrogant?
As for people who think they're going to see Bush when they type "www.whitehouse.com": why don't we just legislate common sense and solve all these unimportant problems?
Vanity domain names do not fall into either category you've laid out. For example, I own "bitey.net". Now, honestly, with what you're proposing, my website ought to be about biting things, otherwise it's deceptive and I have no right to my domain.
Who are you to tell me I can't own bitey.net?
And who are you to tell me I must run a website on every domain I purchase? Believe it or not, there are plenty of domains that exist but do not have websites! Is there something inherently wrong with this? I think not. I hope nobody thinks so.
...which drivers support playing more than one goddamned sound at once? IRIX can do it. Hell, even Solaris 8 can do it. And, you know, Windows has been able to do it since Win95. It's been 10 years; where are my concurrent Linux sound drivers?
Does anyone know if they exist and what card I should be purchasing?
(Please do not mention ESD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon. This is not a good solution. ESD built into the kernel would be.)
...assuming you ever reboot. I've got machines that have been up for 300 days, and I've seen machines that have been up for 700. What good does a minutes' worth of saved booting time get me when I do it less than once a year?
...if all you've seen is Mononoke, you'd do well to see Miyazaki's other films as well. I call them films because to call them simply anime or (even worse) "cartoons" is like spitting on a Picasso by calling it a "drawing".
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Two tin cans, a thin piece of wet string, a couple of acoustic-coupled modems (BGP routing, see), a cisco 3600 (used as doorstop), two 486 DX/50s running RedHat 3.1, and a Mead 250-page spiral "database".
- A.P.
I strongly object to the tone of your write-up suggesting a causal link between the negative Downs tests and the pregnancies being carried to term. There is no suggestion of this in the article.
The suggestion is in the writeup on slashdot. I basically got a whiff of genocide from timothy's writeup; I don't know about you.
- A.P.
you're one of the worst trolls ever.
- A.P.
well, YOU, sir, can SUCK IT.
In one of his rare moments of creative lucidity, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda aranged for the karma for this individual to vary (at random) between a cap value and zero, with the cap value reducing at a rate that would bring it to zero at the moment the ebay auction closed.
You mean 'arranged for', meaning 'ask one of my friends who actually KNOWS perl and SQL to do this cool[1] thing to this guy's karma'?
- A.P.
[1] and rather disingenuous
...this one will be built of 60% duct tape and 40% bailing wire, instead of the 40/60 split Mir was made of.
- A.P.
If you want to get rid of those, you'll have to firewall them.
You don't firewall anyway?
- A.P.
... but that headline is simply hitting way below the belt. There's plenty of security holes in every stock Linux distro too, you know.
- A.P.
Okay, then, for a better analogy:
It's like expecting product support from Yugo.
I hear Ford no longer supports the Model T, either.
- A.P.
Because, hell, all I use the Internet for is streaming video. Really! I never download a single thing.
Morons.
- A.P.
Yeah, but it's only really been 64-bit since Solaris 7, which was 1998 I think. All the v9 (64-bit) stuff happened then, and even then, you couldn't run it properly on early Ultra 1s.
- A.P.
I'll run it on my nonexistant IA64 machine!
that was actually a poorly-disguised double-entendre.
The discorse on domain names needs to change. Yes, I would arge, this is wrong. Domain names is how users identify websites/ftp/etc. It is not for you to brag to your friends that you regestered www.ourteacherisfat.com.
And why not? What if I want to use it for email? What if I just don't like typing my IP address when I ping my machine? What if I don't wish to provide any service (ftp, telnet, gopher, archie, whatever) to the rest of the Internet? Who are you to tell me how I should use something I've purchased? Are you really that arrogant?
As for people who think they're going to see Bush when they type "www.whitehouse.com": why don't we just legislate common sense and solve all these unimportant problems?
Nice troll, btw.
- A.P.
Vanity domain names do not fall into either category you've laid out. For example, I own "bitey.net". Now, honestly, with what you're proposing, my website ought to be about biting things, otherwise it's deceptive and I have no right to my domain.
Who are you to tell me I can't own bitey.net?
And who are you to tell me I must run a website on every domain I purchase? Believe it or not, there are plenty of domains that exist but do not have websites! Is there something inherently wrong with this? I think not. I hope nobody thinks so.
- A.P.
Dude, you rock.
I just picked up one of the $25 cards (on backorder) and, with any luck, my problem is solved.
Who says Ask Slashdot doesn't work?!
- A.P.
we all figured on this happening, right? now, if he's *convicted*, that'll suck.
- A.P.
The fact that you use that as your sig makes you a pretentious twit.
- A.P.
...which drivers support playing more than one goddamned sound at once? IRIX can do it. Hell, even Solaris 8 can do it. And, you know, Windows has been able to do it since Win95. It's been 10 years; where are my concurrent Linux sound drivers?
Does anyone know if they exist and what card I should be purchasing?
(Please do not mention ESD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon. This is not a good solution. ESD built into the kernel would be.)
- A.P.
I'm glad I don't either. You seem to be super-paranoid and prone to wasting time with needless security issues.
When in my previous post did I say these machines were Internet-accessible, or even mission-critical?
- A.P.
...assuming you ever reboot. I've got machines that have been up for 300 days, and I've seen machines that have been up for 700. What good does a minutes' worth of saved booting time get me when I do it less than once a year?
- A.P.
let's hope slashdot doesn't cut off this URL...
If you've got a Samba server in your house (and who doesn'?) this thing looks like a really kickass box.
Dell and Gateway have both sold ethernet-enabled MP3 players for about a year now. They're component-based, designed to plug right into your stereo.
Search around on their sites for them.
- A.P.
...if all you've seen is Mononoke, you'd do well to see Miyazaki's other films as well. I call them films because to call them simply anime or (even worse) "cartoons" is like spitting on a Picasso by calling it a "drawing".
- A.P.