Posted by CaptBean on
Monday December 13, @03:05PM
from the jihad!-jihad! dept.
RabidZelot was one of a bunch to
report:
"In Richmond, California, this afternoon, this dude said
something bad about
Linux at the Hilltop Mall near the
fountains right after the first showing of Phantom Menace
let out. He was last seen heading towards Sears and has a
'Where Do You Want to Go Today?' T-shirt and brown hair.
Let us know when you spot him."
If you haven't read it before, check out
Confessions of an Arch-Wizard. Imagine "BOFH" meets online RPG's. It'll bring a smile to your face.
One of the more popular MUDs,
AberMUD, was written by Linux's own Alan Cox!
One player of the Essex MUD was Alan Cox, also known as Anarchy. He
wrote (with a bit of help) AberMUD, named after the University of
Aberystwyth, Wales, which he attended at the time. It was originally
implemented on a Honeywell mainframe running GCOS but was soon ported
to UNIX.
There's a bug that affects me when I'm logged in, where the full number of comments that should display does not display, and the totals of how many comments are at each score level are wrong.
So, since I normally read only score-5 comments, it can say "12 of 500 comments", I click thru to the 12, and only 5 get listed.
So I have to erase my cookie, go to the story without being logged in, and I'll see that in fact there were 17 or 20 score-5'ed, and then it will list them all. (And I'm not lowering any scores in my preferences.)
This makes reading/. a complicated process, as I have to log in to see all the stories I want, pop them in new windows, then log out to grab the full set of comments.
I reported this into the bugtracking system quite some time ago, and CmdrTaco closed the ticket saying it was a known issue, part of a larger problem that was being worked on.
Ah, no, the documentation to QBasic was not lacking, it was just WSH/etc that I was grousing about not coming with documentation. wscript.exe is 118K, they could at lest throw in 50K of documentation. Hell, they use 76K just to document infrared!
No, idiot. [s]he obviously wants to try out FreeBSD to see if it's worth switching to, without making the commitment of formatting their already-running system. But, you got your score5-funny. Enjoy.
Outlook 2002 SP2 (10.4219.4219) doesn't have this option that I can find... what version of Outlook are you running?
Shattered World still up
on
Saving MUDs?
·
· Score: 1
The best mud I've ever played, Shattered World is still up and running no problem, after over ten years. And I'd surmise it really isn't breaking the bank of the guy who runs it either.
Absolutely hilarious. Daley describes a fairly distant future in which I wouldn't mind living, complete with aliens, ray-guns, Galactic gypsies, flying bicycles, starships, automatic taxidermy machines, villains, heroes, and True Love. The main characters are a mousy little bureaucrat from isolationist Earth and a chaotic and flamboyant ABS (Able-Bodied Starman). Just good fun; very hard to put down. One of my absolute favourites when I want a laugh.
The author, Brian Daley, wrote the novelization of Tron, several Han Solo novels, and several Robotech novels as one of the two men behind the pseudonym 'Jack McKinney'
Re:Wait, what does MS innovate???
(Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward
on 02:58 PM April 25th, 2003
(#5811597)
"MS has multi-tasking. OS/2 had it before MS did, and many OS's did/do it better even after MS finally got around to it."
So I guess the IBM mainframes out there running the world, with their Time-Sharing Option (TSO), were all single-threaded super-computers? Your lack of education in IT is alarming.
"Windows NT was really IBM's OS/2 technology for the most part."
Total horse puckey. Do better research before you fell wild comments.
"MS has Excel. Anyone heard of Lotus 1-2-3? Or VisiCalc?"
Yes, most of us have heard of VisiCalc. One thing that Excel was first at was the threaded spreadsheet. No one had it before Wes Cherry and his team put it into Excel.
"DOS was purchased, and was, in any case, basically CP/M."
Another one of your clumsy statements. Yes it was purchased, but it was not basically CP/M.
I am not an MS apologist - I hate MS. But I also hate inept uneducated remarks.
If you really want enlightenment, step out of your trailer and go to a library and borrow a few books and LEARN something on your own before you publish ridiculous remarks like these again.
This is probably Microsoft's last chance to turn the tide and take mindset and market share from FOSS.
please. they have $30 billion in cash. i think they'll be able to buy some other chances.
MICHIGAN -- Linux Information Minister, Commander Saeed al-Timothy, announced that the Free and Open Source Software projects were only mere weeks from toppling the IT hegemony of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT). The new Windows 2003 Server was described as "irrelevant" and "lacking any far-reaching or fundamental changes". He further sad that all Linux users were "now one front" against what he called "those aggressors."
If I recall correctly (and it's mentioned in his recent Onion-AV-club interview), one of the major factors that made Berke Breathed retire was that comic strips were being shrunk to unreadable sizes. (This is currently really annoying me with Boondocks, even ONLINE fer Goodness sake!).
I always wondered, though, what if Berke had followed the path blazed by Dr. Fun , who from day 1 was publishing a 640x480 color image for each panel? Keep each daily strip 480 pixels high, and stipulate that it not be shrunk... end of problem!
The real reason is that the GUI version of PGP (along with other graphical encryption software, like the GNU Privacy Guard) aren't even in the same market.
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We are starting to get the distinct impression that FMC is fucking with us on the peroxide supply situation. We keep doing the things they say (spending thousands of dollars), and they keep coming up with some other reason we still can't buy peroxide (or just not return calls for weeks). They have strung us along for a long time now, and convinced us to stop talking to Degussa, but we still don't have peroxide.
There was some talk about this a while ago, but I was a lot more hopeful about FMC, so I didn't pursue it -- maybe it is time to set up a new company on the scale of X-L Space Systems.
I don't want to be in the chemical processing business, but I would probably be willing to be an anchor customer. I want to buy $100,000 worth of peroxide this year.
One of Michael Carden's customers has one of his concentrators, and is willing to do some peroxide production for us, but I would really prefer to work with a company, even a small one, that is devoted to peroxide, and really cares about all the details, not just someone that can feed a machine.
Would any ERPS people be interested in actually running a business to do this? I would be happiest working with a proven production system (one of Michael's), but I could entertain notions of paying for more development work on the ERPS concentrators.
This is sort of a trial balloon here -- if FMC turns around and ships us peroxide, that is still my preferred solution.
In the BSD world, we believe in making available trap-less software
which anyone can use for any purpose. Even if they wanted to put our
operating system into baby mulching machines or cruise missiles. We
expose no ethic except our own of transitive freedom in sharing. We
make no demands except credit.
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: 2002-11-26 9:15:45
> Would you go BUY a $7000 single CPU Sun because it ran OpenBSD?
I intend to replace cvs.openbsd.org with just such a machine when the
time comes, precisely because sparc64 is the highest performance
architecture supporting per-page X bit protection.
And when you guys think this through, and realize what I mean by that,
you'll want one too.
Looks like you can go buy Wordperfect 10 for Windows in a family pack for $49 - $20 holiday discount from corel, then go Here to buy a legal $40 copy of the Wordperfect 5.1 floppies that you are then entitled to use.
Gentoo has produced a self-booting UT2003 demo disk that supposedly takes care of everything. If you could figure out how they managed to whip this up, maybe this would be the solution to your problem.
To clarify, yes, this is what I am suggesting, that the poster look at producing a LiveCD.
You might want to take a look at how Gentoo Linux puts together their "LiveCD" for installation purposes...
Since you don't want these people to be able to change any configurations, just have a web browser and word processor, getting them to where their setup boots off of a read-only CD that has the tools they need may be the solution.
Of course, this is a large amount of work, but perhaps the time you save putting it together will outweigh the time you might loose if they mess with and break their configurations.;)
Slashdot Mirror
This sounded interesting, so I dug around to find the url, I found it here.
There's a bug that affects me when I'm logged in, where the full number of comments that should display does not display, and the totals of how many comments are at each score level are wrong.
/. a complicated process, as I have to log in to see all the stories I want, pop them in new windows, then log out to grab the full set of comments.
So, since I normally read only score-5 comments, it can say "12 of 500 comments", I click thru to the 12, and only 5 get listed.
So I have to erase my cookie, go to the story without being logged in, and I'll see that in fact there were 17 or 20 score-5'ed, and then it will list them all. (And I'm not lowering any scores in my preferences.)
This makes reading
I reported this into the bugtracking system quite some time ago, and CmdrTaco closed the ticket saying it was a known issue, part of a larger problem that was being worked on.
What's up with it?
Ah, no, the documentation to QBasic was not lacking, it was just WSH/etc that I was grousing about not coming with documentation. wscript.exe is 118K, they could at lest throw in 50K of documentation. Hell, they use 76K just to document infrared!
And Windows 95 had QBasic on the CD.
The problem is - where to find the documentation to get started. Windows built in help is useless...
It seems there's a bit of documentation on Microsoft's web site under http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/...
No, idiot. [s]he obviously wants to try out FreeBSD to see if it's worth switching to, without making the commitment of formatting their already-running system. But, you got your score5-funny. Enjoy.
Okay, that's Outlook Express, not regular Outlook. So, the tip is still useful, but not to Outlook users, only Outlook Express.
Outlook 2002 SP2 (10.4219.4219) doesn't have this option that I can find... what version of Outlook are you running?
The best mud I've ever played, Shattered World is still up and running no problem, after over ten years. And I'd surmise it really isn't breaking the bank of the guy who runs it either.
If I recall correctly (and it's mentioned in his recent Onion-AV-club interview), one of the major factors that made Berke Breathed retire was that comic strips were being shrunk to unreadable sizes. (This is currently really annoying me with Boondocks, even ONLINE fer Goodness sake!).
I always wondered, though, what if Berke had followed the path blazed by Dr. Fun , who from day 1 was publishing a 640x480 color image for each panel? Keep each daily strip 480 pixels high, and stipulate that it not be shrunk ... end of problem!
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We are starting to get the distinct impression that FMC is fucking with us on the peroxide supply situation. We keep doing the things they say (spending thousands of dollars), and they keep coming up with some other reason we still can't buy peroxide (or just not return calls for weeks). They have strung us along for a long time now, and convinced us to stop talking to Degussa, but we still don't have peroxide.
There was some talk about this a while ago, but I was a lot more hopeful about FMC, so I didn't pursue it -- maybe it is time to set up a new company on the scale of X-L Space Systems.
I don't want to be in the chemical processing business, but I would probably be willing to be an anchor customer. I want to buy $100,000 worth of peroxide this year.
One of Michael Carden's customers has one of his concentrators, and is willing to do some peroxide production for us, but I would really prefer to work with a company, even a small one, that is devoted to peroxide, and really cares about all the details, not just someone that can feed a machine.
Would any ERPS people be interested in actually running a business to do this? I would be happiest working with a proven production system (one of Michael's), but I could entertain notions of paying for more development work on the ERPS concentrators.
This is sort of a trial balloon here -- if FMC turns around and ships us peroxide, that is still my preferred solution.
John Carmack
Over a remote modem connection, I've found using Terminal Services to run Outlook to be faster than trying any of the other arrangements.
Doesn't help them get mail when offline, though.
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The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
...and the OpenBSD folks:Looks like you can go buy Wordperfect 10 for Windows in a family pack for $49 - $20 holiday discount from corel, then go Here to buy a legal $40 copy of the Wordperfect 5.1 floppies that you are then entitled to use.
;)
Many Wordperfect DOS tips here.
This Ask Slashdot answer provided to you by Google, like most of them.
To clarify, yes, this is what I am suggesting, that the poster look at producing a LiveCD.
You might want to take a look at how Gentoo Linux puts together their "LiveCD" for installation purposes...
Since you don't want these people to be able to change any configurations, just have a web browser and word processor, getting them to where their setup boots off of a read-only CD that has the tools they need may be the solution.
Of course, this is a large amount of work, but perhaps the time you save putting it together will outweigh the time you might loose if they mess with and break their configurations. ;)