it has to do with the fact when he tilts, he is so light, the air pushes him back, thus he gets a pendilum effect with a Minumum of movement. Personally, I can't wiggle right with a mouse... so I got a trackball.
I'm wondering if Dust Puppy plays any mods...
DanteAliegri [ it was dantealiegri@dustpuppy.org....but nooo... rit can't fix dustpuppy.org, so its danteSP@Magnus.net] --Your wit is as sharp as you make it
You seem to think the developers working on the Linux kernel and what not (which have the y2038 problem) are procrastinators on the same level as MS application developers?
They pay people to develop GPL software only so that they can make profit off this software.
Companies survive by making money. It's the way things work, get over it. This doesn't make them bad by any means, this means they're doing business like any sane business would do business.
They have given nothing of real value back to the community.
No? They haven't given back a very newbie friendly distribution of Linux? They haven't aided in the development of various GPL software products that _you_ can download for _free_?
No, they haven't given back at all.
RedHat has donated no hardware,
Whose servers do you think freshmeat.net and gnome.org run on?
Taken from their site: Red Hat provides web, FTP, and other Internet hosting services for open-source community projects, including:
gnome.org freshmeat.net exmh mailing lists Alpha mailing lists ftp.mostang.com (SANE archive) BLINUX mailing lists (a project to enable visually impaired people to use Linux-based operating systems) Linux OS Security mailing lists m68k, sun3, and sun4 development mailing lists PAM mailing list procps mailing list uclinux mailing list video4linux mailing list CVS server for GNOME/GTK+/Gimp (cvs.gnome.org)
You were saying?
Their behaviour grows more and more like Microsoft's every day.
and get an address...That's the HTML format that shows on the page. Notice the space.
BTW, isn't it a closed list anyway (only posts from subscribers are accepted?) That's the only good way of keeping spam off mailing lists.
I'd think that if robots can be taught to remove "NOSPAM" from email@domain.NOSPAM.com, then they certainly already know about dropping "-subscribe" from subscription addresses.
Not that I have anything against ESR, but I sometime feel like what Bruce is doing is more along the "open source" spirit, i.e. do real work in the background that benefits to everybody, than ESR "high visibility" activities. What do you think ?
Also there is license-discuss@ opensource.org, a mailing list where Bruce has been a very active participant. (I hope that doesn't stop!)
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824 The Reuse Rocket: Efficient awareness for software reuse: Free WWW site lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.
Hey Rob, Pete is an awesome songwriter and guitarist - I got to catch the Who live in '89 in St. Louis and can attest to it personally - but give the other three guys their props. Roger Daltrey's voice is freaking incredible, even now. John Entwhistle is bar none the best bass player on the planet (IMHO) and Keith Moon...sigh. Keith, oh how we miss ye! No one, and I mean no one, embodied rock and roll more than Moon the Loon. This is indeed good news that we'll be getting some 'new' music from Pete. I don't quite have everything, but about 15-20 of my CDs are Who / Pete albums. Personally, I don't think Who postings are off-topic...Rock News is also News for Nerds...
Technology has made mass hysteria and idiocy more obvious and annoying than at any other point in the past. Live and in living color on CNN "Talking head morons!" in stereo.
I'm sick of all of this JFK/JFK Jr/RFK/Princess Di Crap!
Crap is exactly what this stuff is. Sure, they might have been great people if you knew them, but NONE OF US DID! There has been this facade of Camelot manufactured by publicists, and the media that is supposed to make us think that the Kennedys are some great American success story. Joe Kennedy made the family fortune by bootlegging booze during prohibition. Joe Kennedy bought the presidential election. He paid mafia figures in Chicago to get dead people to vote, sometimes more than once. The only thing lacking is for Teddy to drink himself to death, and we can finally be done with them.
You had to be in the social/societal 31337 to even get close. JFK died over a decade before I, and many of you, were even born. I don't care. I don't feel chills when I see the footage of his horse drawn casket and see little "John John" saluting. It doesn't do a fscking thing for me.
On a local talk readio show this morning when I was driving in to work some 40-something host was wondering aloud if our generation would regard this "tragedy" they same way that his regarded the assassination of JFK. I say hell no! I'm not going to cry for JFK Jr. He was a spoiled rich kid who grew up and finally got himself in so much trouble that his family couldn't bail him out. This guy was also speculating about JFK Jr being president one day. WHAT?!?!?!?! He was a damned magazine publisher, not a politician! Are we to believe that JFK Jr inherited some grand ability to lead the country from a man who died before he even got to know him? Give me a break.
What is it about middle-aged white people that has them enchanted by "royalty" be it actual, percieved or even bestowed.
I cried when my father died. I cried when my mother died. I cried when my friends died. I cried when my relatives died. I'm not going to cry for some stranger, and I don't understand why anyone else does. Reality check time, YOU NEVER MET THEM. YOU WERE NEVER GOING TO MEET THEM. THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU EVEN EXISTED. THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT YOU!
You're not children, stop the damned crying already.
Looking at the outrage here, I have to admit it's a little surprising. It's been common knowledge that law enforcement hangs out in "questionable" chat rooms and that ISPs have to pony up info when ordered by a court.
The answer is pretty simple: don't say anything online or in e-mail you wouldn't want a police officer to hear in the first place. For most of us, that doesn't put a whole lot of restrictions on our daily conversations. And for those who are dumb enough to say anything otherwise, well, you most likely deserve to be busted anyway.
Of course, in the immortal words of Dennis Miller, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
This is about allowing the police to have an open window into all of our daily dealings. When broadband internet access is available to all do you think that the average idiot is going to know how to control the shares on his windows 9x, or 2k box? Hell no. Your local LEOs will be able to get a list of IPs from your ISP(just by asking), and browse HD's. Some of you may think "If there's nothing illegal then there's nothing to worry about."
I disagree, what if you're dating the cop's ex-wife? What if she left him for you? What if a cop has some other reason to want payback (like you beat him up in HS or whatever)? One picture of a naked kid gets "found" on your computer and you're getting butt-raped in a cold dark cell and the guards don't care because they think that you're a child molester.
This isn't about "early warning" systems. It's about big brother wanting to see everything that we do. I'm again going to borrow from Phil Zimmerman, this would be akin to the police trying to outlaw the use of envelopes on international mail. They want us to use postcards so that each piece of mail can be easily read in transit.
Screw that. I've seen cops lie in court, I've seen cops falsify reports, I've seen cops beat the tar out of an unarmed 15 year old kid. F*CK LEOs, I don't trust them, especially if they don't trust me.
yes, it was my mistake. i initially thought it was telstra, as i'd seen all the australians i know type it that way:) i double-checked the news.com story, and the headline said ``telestra'' (even though the rest of the article doesn't.
Postal Investigators who can persue mail fraug allegations. UPS and FED-EX can't compete with that. I can send the most fraudulent scams every through UPS or FED-EX and at most it's only a state level felony. If I'm in another state it's really hard to find me. To do so using the USPS it's a federal crime and you have to worry about Postal Inspectors and the FBI!
I think it is kinda cool to try cloning it, but I think it may set a precedent for those that hunt without care, that they can hunt all they want without worry because "Oh that's okay, shoot all you want, they can just clone some more" This could be bad. I do think it is cool that they are going to try to clone some extinct species though.
Wireless LAN's were developed long ago, under the auspices of the University of Hawaii. They were the first examples of CSMA networks (can you say, Ethernet...), and predate PC's, ARPA, nearly everything. Including, it seems, most SlashDot members.
Just remember, if it's new and cool, it's probably been done a long time ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by Dante_Aliegri:
it has to do with the fact when he tilts, he is so light, the air pushes him back, thus he gets a pendilum effect with a Minumum of movement.
Personally, I can't wiggle right with a mouse...
so I got a trackball.
I'm wondering if Dust Puppy plays any mods...
DanteAliegri [ it was dantealiegri@dustpuppy.org....but nooo... rit can't fix dustpuppy.org, so its danteSP@Magnus.net]
--Your wit is as sharp as you make it
Posted by Synsthe:
Than don't, and be a sheep like everybody else. "If it doesn't affect my herd, what does it matter to me?".
--
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Posted by Synsthe:
You seem to think the developers working on the Linux kernel and what not (which have the y2038 problem) are procrastinators on the same level as MS application developers?
--
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Posted by Synsthe:
On a side note, since when is somebody required to donate hardware before they're "worthy"?
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Posted by Synsthe:
RedHat isn't a symbiote. They're a parasite.
Here we go again. Atleast this guy has a name.
They pay people to develop GPL software only so that they can make profit off this software.
Companies survive by making money. It's the way things work, get over it. This doesn't make them bad by any means, this means they're doing business like any sane business would do business.
They have given nothing of real value back to the community.
No? They haven't given back a very newbie friendly distribution of Linux? They haven't aided in the development of various GPL software products that _you_ can download for _free_?
No, they haven't given back at all.
RedHat has donated no hardware,
Whose servers do you think freshmeat.net and gnome.org run on?
Taken from their site:
Red Hat provides web, FTP, and other Internet hosting services for open-source community projects, including:
gnome.org
freshmeat.net
exmh mailing lists
Alpha mailing lists
ftp.mostang.com (SANE archive)
BLINUX mailing lists (a project to enable visually impaired people to use Linux-based
operating systems)
Linux OS Security mailing lists
m68k, sun3, and sun4 development mailing lists
PAM mailing list
procps mailing list
uclinux mailing list
video4linux mailing list
CVS server for GNOME/GTK+/Gimp (cvs.gnome.org)
You were saying?
Their behaviour grows more and more like Microsoft's every day.
They are a parasite, period.
Troll.
--
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Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Eric "Curly Brace" Raymond
Richard "Square Bracket" Stallman
Larry "Vertical Bar" Wall
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Put Hemos through English 101!
Posted by Synsthe:
That's more than 38 years away. You seem to be lacking confidence that the problem won't be fixed in almost 4 decades from now?
--
Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)
Good point, I'll remember your advice in the future. But it would have to be a pretty good robot harvester to process
and get an address...That's the HTML format that shows on the page. Notice the space.
BTW, isn't it a closed list anyway (only posts from subscribers are accepted?) That's the only good way of keeping spam off mailing lists.
I'd think that if robots can be taught to remove "NOSPAM" from email@domain.NOSPAM.com, then they certainly already know about dropping "-subscribe" from subscription addresses.
Posted by BigOrno:
Not that I have anything against ESR, but I sometime feel like what Bruce is doing is more along the "open source" spirit, i.e. do real work in the background that benefits to everybody, than ESR "high visibility" activities. What do you think ?
Also there is license-discuss@ opensource.org, a mailing list where Bruce has been a very active participant. (I hope that doesn't stop!)
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824
The Reuse Rocket: Efficient awareness for software reuse: Free WWW site
lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.
Posted by polar_bear:
Hey Rob,
Pete is an awesome songwriter and guitarist - I got to catch the Who live in '89 in St. Louis and can attest to it personally - but give the other three guys their props. Roger Daltrey's voice is freaking incredible, even now. John Entwhistle is bar none the best bass player on the planet (IMHO) and Keith Moon...sigh. Keith, oh how we miss ye! No one, and I mean no one, embodied rock and roll more than Moon the Loon.
This is indeed good news that we'll be getting some 'new' music from Pete. I don't quite have everything, but about 15-20 of my CDs are Who / Pete albums.
Personally, I don't think Who postings are off-topic...Rock News is also News for Nerds...
Posted by Mike@ABC:
What's that saying...? "It's funny because it's true." I'm just glad my editor hasn't told me to write a Red Hat IPO story yet.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
I never thought of it like this before.
You make a good point. It's more nostalgia that anything else which drove JFK Jr's celebrity status.
Either Way, I'm sick of hearing it.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Technology has made mass hysteria and idiocy more obvious and annoying than at any other point in the past. Live and in living color on CNN "Talking head morons!" in stereo.
I'm sick of all of this JFK/JFK Jr/RFK/Princess Di Crap!
Crap is exactly what this stuff is. Sure, they might have been great people if you knew them, but NONE OF US DID! There has been this facade of Camelot manufactured by publicists, and the media that is supposed to make us think that the Kennedys are some great American success story. Joe Kennedy made the family fortune by bootlegging booze during prohibition. Joe Kennedy bought the presidential election. He paid mafia figures in Chicago to get dead people to vote, sometimes more than once. The only thing lacking is for Teddy to drink himself to death, and we can finally be done with them.
You had to be in the social/societal 31337 to even get close. JFK died over a decade before I, and many of you, were even born. I don't care. I don't feel chills when I see the footage of his horse drawn casket and see little "John John" saluting. It doesn't do a fscking thing for me.
On a local talk readio show this morning when I was driving in to work some 40-something host was wondering aloud if our generation would regard this "tragedy" they same way that his regarded the assassination of JFK. I say hell no! I'm not going to cry for JFK Jr. He was a spoiled rich kid who grew up and finally got himself in so much trouble that his family couldn't bail him out. This guy was also speculating about JFK Jr being president one day. WHAT?!?!?!?! He was a damned magazine publisher, not a politician! Are we to believe that JFK Jr inherited some grand ability to lead the country from a man who died before he even got to know him? Give me a break.
What is it about middle-aged white people that has them enchanted by "royalty" be it actual, percieved or even bestowed.
I cried when my father died. I cried when my mother died. I cried when my friends died. I cried when my relatives died. I'm not going to cry for some stranger, and I don't understand why anyone else does. Reality check time, YOU NEVER MET THEM. YOU WERE NEVER GOING TO MEET THEM. THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU EVEN EXISTED. THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT YOU!
You're not children, stop the damned crying already.
LK
Posted by NJViking:
Do you have to run it as root or can you run it as a user? I've noticed the screen blacks out sometimes.
Tom
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Looking at the outrage here, I have to admit it's a little surprising. It's been common knowledge that law enforcement hangs out in "questionable" chat rooms and that ISPs have to pony up info when ordered by a court.
The answer is pretty simple: don't say anything online or in e-mail you wouldn't want a police officer to hear in the first place. For most of us, that doesn't put a whole lot of restrictions on our daily conversations. And for those who are dumb enough to say anything otherwise, well, you most likely deserve to be busted anyway.
Of course, in the immortal words of Dennis Miller, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
>The new bill contains NO restrictions on domestic crypto. It only upholds bone-headed restrictions on export.
Does MS include Crypto in Win9x? No, partly because they couldn't export it if they did.
Products like this are made for global consumption, they are also made to match the lowest common denominator.
When software for export and software for domestic release are linked. If you regulate one the other will necessarily be effected.
Think beyond the here and now.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
This is about allowing the police to have an open window into all of our daily dealings. When broadband internet access is available to all do you think that the average idiot is going to know how to control the shares on his windows 9x, or 2k box? Hell no. Your local LEOs will be able to get a list of IPs from your ISP(just by asking), and browse HD's. Some of you may think "If there's nothing illegal then there's nothing to worry about."
I disagree, what if you're dating the cop's ex-wife? What if she left him for you? What if a cop has some other reason to want payback (like you beat him up in HS or whatever)? One picture of a naked kid gets "found" on your computer and you're getting butt-raped in a cold dark cell and the guards don't care because they think that you're a child molester.
This isn't about "early warning" systems. It's about big brother wanting to see everything that we do. I'm again going to borrow from Phil Zimmerman, this would be akin to the police trying to outlaw the use of envelopes on international mail. They want us to use postcards so that each piece of mail can be easily read in transit.
Screw that. I've seen cops lie in court, I've seen cops falsify reports, I've seen cops beat the tar out of an unarmed 15 year old kid. F*CK LEOs, I don't trust them, especially if they don't trust me.
LK
Posted by Sylvar:
Nope, they haven't fixed it yet. I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one who did a double take.
Posted by Justin:
:) i double-checked the news.com story, and the headline said ``telestra'' (even though the rest of the article doesn't.
yes, it was my mistake. i initially thought it was telstra, as i'd seen all the australians i know type it that way
sorry.
Posted by Synsthe:
Would somebody actually spell it right for once? =) It's Telstra, not Telestra
http://www.telstra.com.au/
--
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangst:
Postal Investigators who can persue mail fraug allegations. UPS and FED-EX can't compete with that. I can send the most fraudulent scams every through UPS or FED-EX and at most it's only a state level felony. If I'm in another state it's really hard to find me. To do so using the USPS it's a federal crime and you have to worry about Postal Inspectors and the FBI!
Just think about that.
LK
Posted by Nr9:
actually, they want durability in exchange of more weight
the ibook is very durable
Posted by Red_Chaos:
I think it is kinda cool to try cloning it, but I think it may set a precedent for those that hunt without care, that they can hunt all they want without worry because "Oh that's okay, shoot all you want, they can just clone some more" This could be bad. I do think it is cool that they are going to try to clone some extinct species though.
Posted by Reitzel:
Wireless LAN's were developed long ago, under the auspices of the University of Hawaii. They were the first examples of CSMA networks (can you say, Ethernet...), and predate PC's, ARPA, nearly everything. Including, it seems, most SlashDot members.
Just remember, if it's new and cool, it's probably been done a long time ago.