I wonder how it compares to Win 9x for performance. In particular Office, Quicken and games. Also I wonder how good the Direct X (6.1?) support is. I imagine a lot of people only use Windows for games, finance and Office. I know there are alternatives on Linux for Office and finance, but IMHO they're not as good. If someone has installed this thing, please post info on running games.
Right, I think we understand that he wants everyone in the world chanting "GNU/Linux" whenever he enters the room. Question: how many divisions has he got?
This shouldn't really be a server-side job. I think this is a job for XML/XSL. Then we could select in our browsers the view(s) we want, and all the server would do is deliver the static content, which we know can be done very nicely by the current Slashdot hardware.
Alas, we don't yet have any decent&stable browsers with XML query support. Maybe next year...
Meanwhile, we can filte the content at the client end using tools like Perl. It may not be as neat as XML, but it'll still be kind to Slashdot.
Peoples, you don't need to learn Javascript. if you know C you should be able to translate it. I'll admit to being a Basic/Pascal loser (haven't had time/paitence/desire to learn C or Java) and I can pick out the basics, a simple brute force routine should suffice. It even gives you the lengths (16 Login 4 Pass) and the acceptable chars!:)
To be honest, it has been so long that I have had to configure a modem....
But then again, I reconfigured my quasi-router ( POS !!@#!@#$@# ) webramp today, NAT decided to die. I know linux will do that. But this was cheap and it has worked for 2 years without a flaw. Plus the multiple modem support is nice. I guess that makes me 31337!
Well you have to think of one thing. The media does read this page once in a while. I was watching CNN the other day and saw slashdot on there. I forgot what it was over but it was not linux related. So maybe some PHB figured out that if they pissed of a bunch of "Hackers" the 18 and under group would buy their backpacks and think they are cool. So they get free advertising. It does seem like the webpage targets that age group.
Unlikely. Flight depends on a lot of other things.
For a start, pigs have solid bones and birds have hollow bones, so you would have to change the pigs bone structure first.
Pigs use fat for insulation ( which makes them heavy ), while birds use feathers. So you would have to engineer the pig to have feathers and a much lower fat content.
Then thers the problem of the nervous system. You would have to re-wire the pigs nervous system and remove the front legs so that those neural pathways could be used for wing control.
So nope, pigs won't fly. By the time you re-engineered the pig so that it could fly, it wouldn't be a pig any more. It would have become a bird and wouldn't look much like a pig at all.
hehe....k33p1n the war3z phr33 for all the l33ts in d4 hauZ!, LOL....i love my freinds at school when they brag about who kicked who of off aol, mabie i should show them a lesson with my 3r33t k-r4d l1nuX bawX
My god, I have finally seen a site that I hope ends up on 2600's Hacked sites list.
This is pathetic.
The scary thing is, I know of many people who believe in the stereotypes of a computer hacker. I almost lost a job once because I used the sentence, "I guess I will need to hack up some code."
How many of you had to explain to a PHB type, why your self taught skills are better than a recent college grad, or you say on an interview that you have been invololed with computers all of your life and they then proceed to ask you what job you gained this experience. My favorite one is...
PHB: I see that you have listed TCPIP as a skill I can not seem to locate it in your resume where did you actually used it?
I usually refer them to my 4 years of Admin experience and then my other 10+ years of computer use. I then explain to them that in order to be a unix admin you have to use and understand tcpip completly. I then mark them in my consulting firms that can go to hell category.
See, I want the hat. Well, I've gotten started on it. The relevent part that's taking me some not insignificant time is the function "decodeURL," which is basically just a bunch of math.
Basically, what it does is takes two static lists of digits (lpd_code_1[] and lpd_code_2[]) and then does things with them and the loginpassword key from expandKey, which is just a a2i (ascii to integer) conversion from what the person wrote.
It's not PGP:), but it's not exactly trivial. Especially considering that this comes at the end of Spring break, not the begniing. It's probably easier to go to one of the stores.
One cannot just substitute a local class (if that's even doable...) for decodeLP(this), which one kinda wants to return true, because it also needs to have a lp_this.href that gives the URL for the new document.
If I get it I'll post it, but only I get the hat. I'll probably quit right around the time I realized that I could be making $100 an hour consulting for companies who make stuff like this, and it's taking me many hours to get a $50 bag:)
I expect that it'll hit me soon after I quit, or I start writing a script to try everything.
PS: I don't think the system is robust enough - at first glance, it appears that it will give false positives, but return a 404. 64 characters max in the URL, also. Possibly 64 characters guarenteed. What do browsers do with trailing dots, spaces, returns or slashdots?
ummm.... the word lame comes to mind when viewing that stupid ass site. THEY NAMED FUCKING BACKPACKS AFTER "HACKER" JARGON. someone please just shoot us all now.
While I can see the point Virtua made about conventional Big Blue Room shopkeepers potentially being disadvantaged by the lack of Internet taxation, they miss one really big point:
Many 'net vendors are 'net-only, with no IRL presence, just a URL one. Competitive advantage? Nil. Merely a stratification of consumer, online v. old-fashioned. There is -no way- (insufficient emphasis) that real-world stores will all fail in any of our lifetimes as a result of the 'net's presence. Too many technophobes out there who cannot or will not shop online, regardless.
The less the government (especially that of the US) gets in the way of the future, the better we all are.
NOTE: If all the politicians and elected officials in this country vanished tomorrow, I'd be the last one to shed a tear. They can all get packed into DOS 4.0 boxen and dumped over Antarctica for all I care, so this is SOP for me to say, "F U, Big Brother."
There is this director who does little films in hollywood. His name is Spielberg, maybe you've heard of him. He sat down with a Mr. George Lucas and watched this new silly star wars film. Apparently after it ended he turned to Lucas and uttered 3 words... "Oh my god." Last I checked this Spielberg person did a lot of amazing movies. I think he may know what he's talking about.
I appreciate both Linux and BeOS because I feel each of these "alternative" operating systems makes computing more useful and fun.
However, if I knew nothing about Linux before reading this thread, I would be sickened by the whole OpenSource concept and the people who support it.
Can someone please justify to me why it is unethical or immoral to produce a product and then sell that product for profit? Maybe it's just my red American blood, but I think Be, Inc. is doing a GoodThing(tm) by bringing a modern, easy to use, easy to maintain OS to the market. In addition, I am happy to pay good money for the BeOS and don't give a rat's ass that I don't have the source.
And another thing, why do/.ers want Be, Inc. to fail so badly? If Linux and OSS is so great, why worry about what the commercial segment is doing? It seems your goal is total world domination at the expense of everyone else in the industry. Perhaps you can find some tips and tricks over at http://www.microsoft.com/.
Normally I have more sense than to reply to a posting where someone wants to argue, but I'll give you the benifit of the doubt.
"The connection that you tried to make between IBM-->Microsuck--> to Be is so far fetched...".
Ok, so I'm middle-aged and cynical. No big deal.
"Let's face it, Be is well know for releasing good, WORKING, software..".
Never said they didn't.
"They did not "halfway" support everypiece of hardware when BeOS was young...".
Excuse me, but were you replying to someone elses posting? This is becoming very confusing.
The whole point of my post was that propriatory systems, no matter how good they may be, inevitably lock you in and decrease your options. I was simply stating the obvious.
Be may be acting in a reasonable way at the moment, but that could change very quickly. If you want to work on the development of software for Be, that's your perogative dude.
Me, I'll stick with totally open source systems. I've been burned before.
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by stodge:
I wonder how it compares to Win 9x for performance. In particular Office, Quicken and games. Also I wonder how good the Direct X (6.1?) support is. I imagine a lot of people only use Windows for games, finance and Office. I know there are alternatives on Linux for Office and finance, but IMHO they're not as good. If someone has installed this thing, please post info on running games.
Posted by Art Pepper:
Personally, I refer to my system as a GNU/Linux because I believe it more accurately describes my operating system.
Posted by Anhydrous Cowboy:
Right, I think we understand that he wants everyone in the world chanting "GNU/Linux" whenever he enters the room. Question: how many divisions has he got?
This shouldn't really be a server-side job. I think this is a job for XML/XSL. Then we could select in our browsers the view(s) we want, and all the server would do is deliver the static content, which we know can be done very nicely by the current Slashdot hardware.
Alas, we don't yet have any decent&stable browsers with XML query support. Maybe next year...
Meanwhile, we can filte the content at the client end using tools like Perl. It may not be as neat as XML, but it'll still be kind to Slashdot.
Bloody hell, this is slow.
Posted by !ErrorBookmarkNotDefined:
>> Perhaps more than Linus Correction: Without a doubt more than Linus. But who's counting?
-----------------------------
Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Posted by Nericus:
:)
Peoples, you don't need to learn Javascript. if you know C you should be able to translate it. I'll admit to being a Basic/Pascal loser (haven't had time/paitence/desire to learn C or Java) and I can pick out the basics, a simple brute force routine should suffice. It even gives you the lengths (16 Login 4 Pass) and the acceptable chars!
Posted by dhickman:
To be honest, it has been so long that I have had to configure a modem....
But then again, I reconfigured my quasi-router ( POS !!@#!@#$@# ) webramp today, NAT decided to die. I know linux will do that. But this was cheap and it has worked for 2 years without a flaw. Plus the multiple modem support is nice. I guess that makes me 31337!
Well you have to think of one thing. The media does read this page once in a while. I was watching CNN the other day and saw slashdot on there. I forgot what it was over but it was not linux related. So maybe some PHB figured out that if they pissed of a bunch of "Hackers" the 18 and under group would buy their backpacks and think they are cool. So they get free advertising. It does seem like the webpage targets that age group.
Laters
Posted by Benign_Cremator:
Forget the game. I wanna take that site down! Who's with me?
Posted by AnnoyingMouseCoward:
Unlikely. Flight depends on a lot of other things.
For a start, pigs have solid bones and birds have hollow bones, so you would have to change the pigs bone structure first.
Pigs use fat for insulation ( which makes them heavy ), while birds use feathers. So you would have to engineer the pig to have feathers and a much lower fat content.
Then thers the problem of the nervous system. You would have to re-wire the pigs nervous system and remove the front legs so that those neural pathways could be used for wing control.
So nope, pigs won't fly. By the time you re-engineered the pig so that it could fly, it wouldn't be a pig any more. It would have become a bird and wouldn't look much like a pig at all.
Just my 2 pork chops worth.
Posted by [GReNDeL]:
Quite a few of the MB manufacturers have released bios upgrades that allow you to choose your primary [boot] video device, be it PCI or AGP.
I know AOpen did for my board. [AX59 Pro]
Posted by GrapefruitJuice:
How about suckers....
Posted by XIKinGIX:
hehe....k33p1n the war3z phr33 for all the l33ts in d4 hauZ!, LOL....i love my freinds at school when they brag about who kicked who of off aol, mabie i should show them a lesson with my 3r33t k-r4d l1nuX bawX
Posted by Stan Krute:
Sales taxes are a particularly
nasty form of theft, due to their
economically-regressive design.
Keep 'em off the net.
Posted by Doctor P:
:-)
It would be called the slashdot effect....it would be a big ass bag full of bricks that keeps knocking things down with it's amazing power
Posted by dhickman:
My god, I have finally seen a site that I hope ends up on 2600's Hacked sites list.
This is pathetic.
The scary thing is, I know of many people who believe in the stereotypes of a computer hacker. I almost lost a job once because I used the sentence, "I guess I will need to hack up some code."
How many of you had to explain to a PHB type, why your self taught skills are better than a recent college grad, or you say on an interview that you have been invololed with computers all of your life and they then proceed to ask you what job you gained this experience. My favorite one is...
PHB: I see that you have listed TCPIP as a skill
I can not seem to locate it in your resume where did you actually used it?
I usually refer them to my 4 years of Admin experience and then my other 10+ years of computer use. I then explain to them that in order to be a unix admin you have to use and understand tcpip completly. I then mark them in my consulting firms that can go to hell category.
-dhh
Posted by DRemark:
:), but it's not exactly trivial. Especially considering that this comes at the end of Spring break, not the begniing. It's probably easier to go to one of the stores.
:)
See, I want the hat. Well, I've gotten started on it. The relevent part that's taking me some not insignificant time is the function "decodeURL," which is basically just a bunch of math.
Basically, what it does is takes two static lists of digits (lpd_code_1[] and lpd_code_2[]) and then does things with them and the loginpassword key from expandKey, which is just a a2i (ascii to
integer) conversion from what the person wrote.
It's not PGP
One cannot just substitute a local class (if that's even doable...) for decodeLP(this), which one kinda wants to return true, because it also needs to have a lp_this.href that gives the URL for the new document.
If I get it I'll post it, but only I get the hat. I'll probably quit right around the time I realized that I could be making $100 an hour consulting for companies who make stuff like this, and it's taking me many hours to get a $50 bag
I expect that it'll hit me soon after I quit, or I start writing a script to try everything.
PS: I don't think the system is robust enough - at first glance, it appears that it will give false positives, but return a 404. 64 characters max in the URL, also. Possibly 64 characters guarenteed. What do browsers do with trailing dots, spaces, returns or slashdots?
Posted by Assmodeus:
ummm.... the word lame comes to mind when viewing that stupid ass site. THEY NAMED FUCKING BACKPACKS AFTER "HACKER" JARGON. someone please just shoot us all now.
Posted by Rafeboi:
While I can see the point Virtua made about conventional Big Blue Room shopkeepers potentially being disadvantaged by the lack of Internet taxation, they miss one really big point:
Many 'net vendors are 'net-only, with no IRL presence, just a URL one. Competitive advantage? Nil. Merely a stratification of consumer, online v. old-fashioned. There is -no way- (insufficient emphasis) that real-world stores will all fail in any of our lifetimes as a result of the 'net's presence. Too many technophobes out there who cannot or will not shop online, regardless.
The less the government (especially that of the US) gets in the way of the future, the better we all are.
NOTE: If all the politicians and elected officials in this country vanished tomorrow, I'd be the last one to shed a tear. They can all get packed into DOS 4.0 boxen and dumped over Antarctica for all I care, so this is SOP for me to say, "F U, Big Brother."
-Subucni
Posted by louie-dog:
There is this director who does little films in hollywood. His name is Spielberg, maybe you've heard of him. He sat down with a Mr. George Lucas and watched this new silly star wars film. Apparently after it ended he turned to Lucas and uttered 3 words... "Oh my god." Last I checked this Spielberg person did a lot of amazing movies. I think he may know what he's talking about.
Posted by stodge:
So this might be why for the past few days whenever I send an email to my parents (they use UK Demon) I get errors:
... while talking to punt-1.mail.demon.net.:
Posted by NJViking:
I see no such odd behavior. Perhaps someone
queried Internic at the wrong time?
NJV
Posted by Wayne Steele:
...when the exact same thing could be said about the number of Linux users.
Hell, there was even a time when Windows was unpopular because the DOS advocates said it would fail.
I guess history does repeat itself.
Posted by Wayne Steele:
/.ers want Be, Inc. to fail so badly? If Linux and OSS is so great, why worry about what the commercial segment is doing? It seems your goal is total world domination at the expense of everyone else in the industry. Perhaps you can find some tips and tricks over at http://www.microsoft.com/.
I appreciate both Linux and BeOS because I feel each of these "alternative" operating systems makes computing more useful and fun.
However, if I knew nothing about Linux before reading this thread, I would be sickened by the whole OpenSource concept and the people who support it.
Can someone please justify to me why it is unethical or immoral to produce a product and then sell that product for profit? Maybe it's just my red American blood, but I think Be, Inc. is doing a GoodThing(tm) by bringing a modern, easy to use, easy to maintain OS to the market. In addition, I am happy to pay good money for the BeOS and don't give a rat's ass that I don't have the source.
And another thing, why do
Posted by AnnoyingMouseCoward:
*Sigh*.
Normally I have more sense than to reply to a posting where someone wants to argue, but I'll give you the benifit of the doubt.
"The connection that you tried to make between IBM-->Microsuck--> to Be is so far fetched...".
Ok, so I'm middle-aged and cynical. No big deal.
"Let's face it, Be is well know for releasing good, WORKING, software..".
Never said they didn't.
"They did not "halfway" support everypiece of hardware when BeOS was young...".
Excuse me, but were you replying to someone elses posting? This is becoming very confusing.
The whole point of my post was that propriatory systems, no matter how good they may be, inevitably lock you in and decrease your options. I was simply stating the obvious.
Be may be acting in a reasonable way at the moment, but that could change very quickly. If you want to work on the development of software for Be, that's your perogative dude.
Me, I'll stick with totally open source systems. I've been burned before.
Just my $3 worth of crack dude.
Posted by Julian Cross:
I agree. And if you think superbad is cool then don't miss jodi.org.