One way to absolutely guarantee that Slashdot effect won't overload your server is to set up a Slashdot-like setup.
We've been given some sketchy details on the current setup. It would be interesting if there was a page with all of the specs, software, and tunings, including config files, etc.
Slashdot can take quite a load. If the setup was documented, a lot of us who have projects on the horizon will have something to base them on and can avoid mistakes, etc.
I can see where telnet would be useful for a game.
Debugging.
A programmer could telnet into the machine and look at or change variables, do step execution, etc.
Anyone who has done any embedded development can see the logic in this. Game consoles are, in fact, embedded applications. I used to work with ZWorld controllers that allowed me to monitor the execution of the software through the serial port. It was a godsend. IIRC, Sony's AIBO was debugged by telnetting into it.
These journalists have come a long way since the "UNIX has no GUI" days. The article was entirely positive, written to give credit where it was due (I'm a Linux guy, btw).
The article wasn't posted to start a flame war, but that's going to happen anyway. It's already started.
It's like Ford vs. GM vs. whoever. Strong points, weak points, there are always reasons behind one's choice, and they're always valid.
The noise has only been getting worse, and it's extremely redundant.
It's in the SECurity diskset of SuSE. If it's installed, it'll start up on boot, no user intervention required.
I haven't been portscanned in over a month, I don't get portscanned very often. The last time I was portscanned, the little fscker tried to ADMmountd me.
He failed, of course. I also reported him to his ISP (cable provider in Georgia). I couldn't find their AUP, but my provider (RoadRunner in Newfoundland) responds to that stuff with a termination of service, as I told his ISP. I'm guessing (based on much experience) that he's using daddy's computer and cable modem. Daddys don't appreciate their punk kids getting their service terminated (lost email address).
Usually they give up after the ADMmountd fails, because anything else requires you to actually learn something.
As for portscans themselves, they're not as dangerous as people might think. The article where scanlogd was first posted explains all that (I forget where I read it, though). Just because someone portscans doesn't mean they're a script-kiddy. Nmap is a great tool to find out if a certain port that should be open is, in fact open. I used it to find out what ports are filtered by RoadRunner (web, ftp, X (I have to use VNC instead), SMTP (damn)). It can also be used by an ISP as an impromptu way of finding out what percentages of their users are running what OS.
Slackware's install is all shell. I like the shell installers myself, dialog rocks. It also allows customised installs. In my old lab I put up an NFS server with slack 4 on it which everyone installed off. It was a 100MBit LAN so it was incredibly speedy.
Not sure how Red Hat installs though, I was never a fan.
I think that happens when an article gets archived.
I think the comments are moved out of the main comment database to keep the size of it down. The articles we can post to have "comments.pl" in the name. An article which has been archived cannot be posted to and is not served via comments.pl. Check this out: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/25/046231.shtml. It looks static to me, note how comments are displayed flat and display settings cannot be changed.
Looking at the user info page for Hemos I can see that one of his posts was moderated down as a troll (an inappropriate moderation IMO, the post he responded to was about something he wrote in the article).
Hmmm, I wonder if anybody has the balls to moderate down Rob's posts. Those "test" posts were waaay offtopic.:-)*
Some electives like introductory science, history and foreign languages (some that needs much more emphasis in the US due the increasingly global nature of society) are worth dabbling in, too. But computer programming is strictly a vocational topic, much like nursing, accounting, etc. and has no real place in a basic college prep high school program.
Sorry, I disagree. When I was in high school most students had no "roadmap." They figured that they'd cross that bridge when they got to it, at the end of 1st year university.
There were people who were simply lazy, and took "easy" electives like environmental science (shudder) or earth science.
There were also the so-called "prodigies," who always got excellent marks but only through memory rather than understanding.
Neither of those people *knew* what they would be doing for the rest of their lives.
I knew what I would be doing. I took a combination of courses suited for electronics/computing. Physics, Chemistry, Advanced microcomputers (electronics/programming/interfacing) and design technology (CAD, problem solving/design). I learned a hell of a lot in all of those courses.
I was able to test the waters before I wasted money on post-secondary education I may have hated and dropped out of. That wastes money and time.
"Introductory" science courses tended to teach very little. History is important but not the way it is commonly taught (events are important, dates and complete lists of leaders (a la US, we weren't subjected to that in Canada) are *not*).
Foreign languages are useful, but mainly if you want to work in the service industry. In Canada, I think other languages are taught way too early. I had a gf who did French immersion, which had two effects: 1) she was arrogant, because everybody labelled her as "prodigal" at an early age and 2) she could understand neither as well as she should have. I sometimes had to define words and rephrase sentences (she was *18*!). So here's a link to programming: you may know the syntax, but you may not be able to communicate well using it.
With spoken languages, it's hard to teach the theory of communicating thoughts and ideas before a language is known. With programming, it can be done to an extent.
Just don't delude new programmers with a dozen languages or they may miss the basic concepts of programming. Using a single language the concepts are better taught. Throw other languages at them after they actually know the first one. I think a good indicator of that is when a programmer prefers a reference manual over a tutorial book (like those godawful "learn x in y days" books). The fact that tutorial books heavily outweigh reference books can indicate a lot of things here...
Kudos to those who are pushing for this. Maybe we will get a similar project here in Canada.
Maybe a good way to teach programming is to generate an itch that a student wants to scratch. That way they think about it and ask more questions. Actually, that's how most of the programmers I know got into it on their own.
Ooops, I appear to have gone a bit long in my rant. I apologise, but it's something I've thought long and hard about for many years.
My thoughts exactly. I am a musician in a band. We play in clubs and give recorded copies of our music away (Though when it's on tape, the very rich musicians are the ones that profit, but that's another issue).
There is one swear word.
Even if there was none, and I lived in the America (aka Brazil, the movie I mean) we would have to go out of our way to provide a rating. That tends to cost money, doesn't it? We don't have money to spend on crap like that and do not have our sights set on massive publication or any of those other "rock star" dreamer fantasies (they tend to be the worst musicians). Same with amateur filmmaking, animation, etc.
Fortunately, I live in Canada. I just bought a JVC television from a local company. The fact that it had a vchip was advertised.
Out of curiosity, I checked out that vchip button. Interestingly enough, every single program I receive, even from the US channels, happens to be "unrated."
Great, the way I like it. My government isn't telling me what I should or shouldn't watch. We do have age ratings in the corner at the beginning of shows though (Duckman gets an 18).
However, I like to think that my vchip doesn't work because our government believes that it is unnecessary. That parents should watch shows with their kids, which is my own belief, and mainly so that concepts that children don't understand can be explained to them.
I only worry about decreased content from the south. Yes, most of it is crap, but there are those gems that come out fairly often. However, Michael Moore proved that people who are stifled in the US can come to Canada to freely make their content.
What possessed you to post this comment? I'm serious. I don't understand the logic. The US has ignorant crypto regulations hurting important secure projects. This is an idea that might (IANAL, nor am I familiar with the exact wording of the laws) be a loophole around the problem.
To the 'mericun's defense, they didn't post "We're not all freakin Canadian!!" posts on the Canet3 story.
You're doing to Canada what all those flame-happy Linux zealots are doing to Linux. Stop it. Please.
If there are laptop size terminals out there, I'd bet you'll pay through the nose for one.
So a cheap laptop should do. I bought a refurbished Toshiba (Don't buy a used one from private sale. Warranties are extremely important for laptops, where you can't simply replace a flaky component.). Refurb is the way to go. I'm happy with mine (though I desperately need a RAM upgrade).
Actually, all things should have their prices shown. I'm sometimes shopping for PLCs, compact PCs (sometimes that Linux box has to fit in a shoebox on the end of a crane boom), or ordinary PCs. I always have to consider the price range.
Man, that's painful. Basically, they all want you to call them so that they can lay their salesmen on you. They know that you probably aren't going to call *every* maker of similar products and that you will probably choose one of those you call.
Then again, when you call they sometimes send samples. Unfortunately SBC makers don't do that. Microchip does, however. Hmmm, I should hit them up for some of those new flash PICs. They look quite interesting.
...I'm disappointed that MTV didn't contact members of our community to get a real portrait of what a geek / hacker is before posting this sensationalistic garbage to appeal to the "hip" segment of society.
They have a reason. Quite frankly, we are not, as a whole, hip.
I'm sure MTV was trying to fit the "hip" aspect before the "actually knows something" aspect.
It's the same reason why movies like "Independance Day" insult many of us. When Jeff Goldblum hauled out that monstorosity and placed it on top of his car, I almost puked. What took the cake was the "virus" they let loose on the aliens network. I like how Dave Barry explained it:
"The reason they were able to do that was because the aliens, like everyone else in the universe, had no choice but to run the "Windows 95" operating system. This was why the aliens attacked in the first place. They were trying to destroy Microsoft."
This type of thing will never end, except in some special cases, such as the movie "Sneakers" and any book by either Asimov or Clarke.
Hey, submit this guy as a goof on the imdb. That would be amusing...
I know what you mean, however. My high school contained a number of punk hacker wannabes.
They made me sick. We never bothered each other at first, but then they started asking me questions.
"Hey, you know how to program?"
"yeah."
"What language?"
"Well, C is my main one."
"I'm going to learn C++, it's way better."
"Rrrreally." I wanted to ask if he thought it was better because of the "++." But, I'm not usually one to stir up shit, unless it's *really* deserved.
Another time, when I was learning x86 assembly, a friend of mine who was a very proficient coder (he was severely into crypto) told me that I'd see some really great tight asm examples in virii. He gave me a bunch and I found some more. Learned a hell of a lot. The morons somehow found out that I had quite a collection and asked me if I could give them some.
"No."
"Why?"
"Because you'll probably try to run them on the school computers or some of your little bbs enemies computers. Then when you get in trouble, you'll tell them I gave them to you. You obviously have no interest learning tight asm, so the answer is no."
They didn't like me very much after that. It wasn't like they were hard to find or anything. This was a time when pirate sites,etc went up for a loooong time and few incoming directories were protected or even checked. It wasn't hard to find them. Sometimes an archie search would reveal one and it would still be there when you got to it.
If they couldn't figure that out....
Re:What's the uptime of WordPerfect and Afterstep?
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The article says nothing about GNOME. Just Afterstep.
Yes, GNOME would be a *really* bad idea in such an environment. Every time I use GNOME it locks up at some point or another. It makes me feel like I'm walking on eggshells.
Afterstep, OTOH, I've never had trouble with. I used it for a long time without any trouble whatsoever right up until I started using WindowMaker, then KDE (I'm now waiting for KDE's performance under WindowMaker to improve, It's slow on my machine...).
If you're running GNOME under Afterstep and it locks up, it's probably GNOME.
Plus, if X locks up, and you're using kdm/xdm, it'll come right up again in record time.
Try it. Port Linux to a PIC. I dare you. I have a 16F84 here on my desk with a whopping 1024 words of program memory. It currently plays a popular Beatles song through a piezo buzzer. Incidentally, it almost got me arrested in the airport in Vancouver:
"What is this, tattoo equipment?"
"No, that's a soldering iron. Tattoo artists generally have many tattoos themselves."
"You could hijack the plane with this!"
"Um.. It plays `Hey Jude.'"
"I'm going to have to bring the police in."
"What!?!?"
"...Um, or you could check that with your luggage."
"Some of that stuff is really expensive and owned by the company I work for, I don't want it to go through the Play-Doh fun factory of luggage."
"We'll just put a fragile sticker on it."
"Ah, the `beat this up` flag..."
I got away eventually. Phew. No trouble in St. John's, no trouble in Halifax, no trouble in Ottawa. Just Vancouver.
I hear you. KFM kicks. It's fast, and doesn't drop out on me nearly as much. The memory/performance savings make me feel much better as well, especially when multiple people are using my machine.
There are a couple of things that bug me though. I *have* to drag-n-drop to save a link. I prefer the right-click-save-as myself. Having to continually move around windows to facilitate dnd has always drove me.
There are also those very rare times I need JavaScript. Even in Netscape I turn it off unless I need it. Great for avoiding those annoying popups certain sites force on you, specifically the free homepage sites.
Right-click-back is missing also. I hate having to go to that widget everytime I go back a page. Actually, I like having everything in Netscape's right-click menu, especially "open link in new window."
Pointer doesn't change over links. A small annoyance. I think I can live without that.
No SSL. I do a fair bit of online shopping. It was the reason I went out and got a VISA.
If it weren't for those things, I'd be using KFM right now.
I did try KDE 2 a little while back. Konqueror is *really* promising, although fairly unstable... Hmm, I think I'll try it again tonight.
Re:Open Source Journalism w/compensation
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Better yet, imagine if they paid for posts that rated a 5. You think the site is full of score whores now, wait till you get posts like "Psst... Hey buddy, moderate this up and I'll cut you in for 10%"
Fortunately, that won't happen. A poster cannot know who moderated up their post.
"I did it."
"No, it was me."
Posts like that will end up getting moderated down by those of us who actually care about keeping Slashdot a good place.
Moderator points have gotten quite rare these days for individual users. I doubt two people would have something "on the go" where one would post and the other would moderate. The other guy would have to get those rare points for that to work, and they couldn't stop someone from moderating it down.
Ah, yet another attempt to take money from the poor musicians and give it to the rich ones. Hmm, there's something fundamentally wrong with this, I just can't put my finger on it...:-)*
Reminds me of Tom Green's "Scuba Hood" segment. Stealing money from the poor and giving it to the rich. He went into a mall with scuba gear and stuffed money from the fountain into a bag and brought it into a bank and just gave it to them. He got banned from that mall.
"Turn off that camera!"
"Ok, it's off."
Actually, I have a friend who knows someone at ATI. Apparently they're really pissed off about this because they use a lot of CDR media. They intend to fight. This is a "guilty whether your proven innocent or not" thing.
Well, as long as there are rich people/entities actually fighting for us. That doesn't happen often.
Slashdot Mirror
One way to absolutely guarantee that Slashdot effect won't overload your server is to set up a Slashdot-like setup.
We've been given some sketchy details on the current setup. It would be interesting if there was a page with all of the specs, software, and tunings, including config files, etc.
Slashdot can take quite a load. If the setup was documented, a lot of us who have projects on the horizon will have something to base them on and can avoid mistakes, etc.
I can see where telnet would be useful for a game.
Debugging.
A programmer could telnet into the machine and look at or change variables, do step execution, etc.
Anyone who has done any embedded development can see the logic in this. Game consoles are, in fact, embedded applications. I used to work with ZWorld controllers that allowed me to monitor the execution of the software through the serial port. It was a godsend. IIRC, Sony's AIBO was debugged by telnetting into it.
Why is that?
I read the article, and liked it.
These journalists have come a long way since the "UNIX has no GUI" days. The article was entirely positive, written to give credit where it was due (I'm a Linux guy, btw).
The article wasn't posted to start a flame war, but that's going to happen anyway. It's already started.
It's like Ford vs. GM vs. whoever. Strong points, weak points, there are always reasons behind one's choice, and they're always valid.
The noise has only been getting worse, and it's extremely redundant.
These articles are *good*. Please accept that.
It's in the SECurity diskset of SuSE. If it's installed, it'll start up on boot, no user intervention required.
I haven't been portscanned in over a month, I don't get portscanned very often. The last time I was portscanned, the little fscker tried to ADMmountd me.
He failed, of course. I also reported him to his ISP (cable provider in Georgia). I couldn't find their AUP, but my provider (RoadRunner in Newfoundland) responds to that stuff with a termination of service, as I told his ISP. I'm guessing (based on much experience) that he's using daddy's computer and cable modem. Daddys don't appreciate their punk kids getting their service terminated (lost email address).
Usually they give up after the ADMmountd fails, because anything else requires you to actually learn something.
As for portscans themselves, they're not as dangerous as people might think. The article where scanlogd was first posted explains all that (I forget where I read it, though). Just because someone portscans doesn't mean they're a script-kiddy. Nmap is a great tool to find out if a certain port that should be open is, in fact open. I used it to find out what ports are filtered by RoadRunner (web, ftp, X (I have to use VNC instead), SMTP (damn)). It can also be used by an ISP as an impromptu way of finding out what percentages of their users are running what OS.
Slackware's install is all shell. I like the shell installers myself, dialog rocks. It also allows customised installs. In my old lab I put up an NFS server with slack 4 on it which everyone installed off. It was a 100MBit LAN so it was incredibly speedy.
Not sure how Red Hat installs though, I was never a fan.
I think that happens when an article gets archived.
/25/046231.shtml. It looks static to me, note how comments are displayed flat and display settings cannot be changed.
I think the comments are moved out of the main comment database to keep the size of it down. The articles we can post to have "comments.pl" in the name. An article which has been archived cannot be posted to and is not served via comments.pl. Check this out: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08
Looking at the user info page for Hemos I can see that one of his posts was moderated down as a troll (an inappropriate moderation IMO, the post he responded to was about something he wrote in the article).
:-)*
Hmmm, I wonder if anybody has the balls to moderate down Rob's posts. Those "test" posts were waaay offtopic.
Your post was moderated up.
You're well on your way to competing with the best in the SlashDome.
I sense much power in you, young one.
Some electives like introductory science, history and foreign languages (some that needs much more emphasis in the US due the increasingly global nature of society) are worth dabbling in, too. But computer programming is strictly a vocational topic, much like nursing, accounting, etc. and has no real place in a basic college prep high school program.
Sorry, I disagree. When I was in high school most students had no "roadmap." They figured that they'd cross that bridge when they got to it, at the end of 1st year university.
There were people who were simply lazy, and took "easy" electives like environmental science (shudder) or earth science.
There were also the so-called "prodigies," who always got excellent marks but only through memory rather than understanding.
Neither of those people *knew* what they would be doing for the rest of their lives.
I knew what I would be doing. I took a combination of courses suited for electronics/computing. Physics, Chemistry, Advanced microcomputers (electronics/programming/interfacing) and design technology (CAD, problem solving/design). I learned a hell of a lot in all of those courses.
I was able to test the waters before I wasted money on post-secondary education I may have hated and dropped out of. That wastes money and time.
"Introductory" science courses tended to teach very little. History is important but not the way it is commonly taught (events are important, dates and complete lists of leaders (a la US, we weren't subjected to that in Canada) are *not*).
Foreign languages are useful, but mainly if you want to work in the service industry. In Canada, I think other languages are taught way too early. I had a gf who did French immersion, which had two effects: 1) she was arrogant, because everybody labelled her as "prodigal" at an early age and 2) she could understand neither as well as she should have. I sometimes had to define words and rephrase sentences (she was *18*!). So here's a link to programming: you may know the syntax, but you may not be able to communicate well using it.
With spoken languages, it's hard to teach the theory of communicating thoughts and ideas before a language is known. With programming, it can be done to an extent.
Just don't delude new programmers with a dozen languages or they may miss the basic concepts of programming. Using a single language the concepts are better taught. Throw other languages at them after they actually know the first one. I think a good indicator of that is when a programmer prefers a reference manual over a tutorial book (like those godawful "learn x in y days" books). The fact that tutorial books heavily outweigh reference books can indicate a lot of things here...
Kudos to those who are pushing for this. Maybe we will get a similar project here in Canada.
Maybe a good way to teach programming is to generate an itch that a student wants to scratch. That way they think about it and ask more questions. Actually, that's how most of the programmers I know got into it on their own.
Ooops, I appear to have gone a bit long in my rant. I apologise, but it's something I've thought long and hard about for many years.
My thoughts exactly. I am a musician in a band. We play in clubs and give recorded copies of our music away (Though when it's on tape, the very rich musicians are the ones that profit, but that's another issue).
There is one swear word.
Even if there was none, and I lived in the America (aka Brazil, the movie I mean) we would have to go out of our way to provide a rating. That tends to cost money, doesn't it? We don't have money to spend on crap like that and do not have our sights set on massive publication or any of those other "rock star" dreamer fantasies (they tend to be the worst musicians). Same with amateur filmmaking, animation, etc.
Fortunately, I live in Canada. I just bought a JVC television from a local company. The fact that it had a vchip was advertised.
Out of curiosity, I checked out that vchip button. Interestingly enough, every single program I receive, even from the US channels, happens to be "unrated."
Great, the way I like it. My government isn't telling me what I should or shouldn't watch. We do have age ratings in the corner at the beginning of shows though (Duckman gets an 18).
However, I like to think that my vchip doesn't work because our government believes that it is unnecessary. That parents should watch shows with their kids, which is my own belief, and mainly so that concepts that children don't understand can be explained to them.
I only worry about decreased content from the south. Yes, most of it is crap, but there are those gems that come out fairly often. However, Michael Moore proved that people who are stifled in the US can come to Canada to freely make their content.
I'm Canadian, so you can't call me ignorant :-)*
:-)*
What possessed you to post this comment? I'm serious. I don't understand the logic. The US has ignorant crypto regulations hurting important secure projects. This is an idea that might (IANAL, nor am I familiar with the exact wording of the laws) be a loophole around the problem.
To the 'mericun's defense, they didn't post "We're not all freakin Canadian!!" posts on the Canet3 story.
You're doing to Canada what all those flame-happy Linux zealots are doing to Linux. Stop it. Please.
Aren't we Canadians supposed to be polite?
If there are laptop size terminals out there, I'd bet you'll pay through the nose for one.
a /wa/goto?page=encore
So a cheap laptop should do. I bought a refurbished Toshiba (Don't buy a used one from private sale. Warranties are extremely important for laptops, where you can't simply replace a flaky component.). Refurb is the way to go. I'm happy with mine (though I desperately need a RAM upgrade).
Check out this link:
http:// www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Toshiba.wo
I share your sentiments. I wonder if it's just an animation that makes the computer look like it's actually doing something.
They did that originally for Windows. I seriously doubt they've improved their morality since then.
Actually, all things should have their prices shown. I'm sometimes shopping for PLCs, compact PCs (sometimes that Linux box has to fit in a shoebox on the end of a crane boom), or ordinary PCs. I always have to consider the price range.
Man, that's painful. Basically, they all want you to call them so that they can lay their salesmen on you. They know that you probably aren't going to call *every* maker of similar products and that you will probably choose one of those you call.
Then again, when you call they sometimes send samples. Unfortunately SBC makers don't do that. Microchip does, however. Hmmm, I should hit them up for some of those new flash PICs. They look quite interesting.
If *I* were stranded on a desert island, I'd probably die from exposure.
(With apologies to the Kids in the Hall)
Actually, subscription can work.
Note that Microsoft does subscriptions for large companies.
...I'm disappointed that MTV didn't contact members of our community to get a real portrait of what a geek / hacker is before posting this sensationalistic garbage to appeal to the "hip" segment of society.
They have a reason. Quite frankly, we are not, as a whole, hip.
I'm sure MTV was trying to fit the "hip" aspect before the "actually knows something" aspect.
It's the same reason why movies like "Independance Day" insult many of us. When Jeff Goldblum hauled out that monstorosity and placed it on top of his car, I almost puked. What took the cake was the "virus" they let loose on the aliens network. I like how Dave Barry explained it:
"The reason they were able to do that was because the aliens, like everyone else in the universe, had no choice but to run the "Windows 95" operating system. This was why the aliens attacked in the first place. They were trying to destroy Microsoft."
This type of thing will never end, except in some special cases, such as the movie "Sneakers" and any book by either Asimov or Clarke.
Hey, submit this guy as a goof on the imdb. That would be amusing...
I don't drink tea though.
I know what you mean, however. My high school contained a number of punk hacker wannabes.
They made me sick. We never bothered each other at first, but then they started asking me questions.
"Hey, you know how to program?"
"yeah."
"What language?"
"Well, C is my main one."
"I'm going to learn C++, it's way better."
"Rrrreally." I wanted to ask if he thought it was better because of the "++." But, I'm not usually one to stir up shit, unless it's *really* deserved.
Another time, when I was learning x86 assembly, a friend of mine who was a very proficient coder (he was severely into crypto) told me that I'd see some really great tight asm examples in virii. He gave me a bunch and I found some more. Learned a hell of a lot. The morons somehow found out that I had quite a collection and asked me if I could give them some.
"No."
"Why?"
"Because you'll probably try to run them on the school computers or some of your little bbs enemies computers. Then when you get in trouble, you'll tell them I gave them to you. You obviously have no interest learning tight asm, so the answer is no."
They didn't like me very much after that. It wasn't like they were hard to find or anything. This was a time when pirate sites,etc went up for a loooong time and few incoming directories were protected or even checked. It wasn't hard to find them. Sometimes an archie search would reveal one and it would still be there when you got to it.
If they couldn't figure that out....
The article says nothing about GNOME. Just Afterstep.
Yes, GNOME would be a *really* bad idea in such an environment. Every time I use GNOME it locks up at some point or another. It makes me feel like I'm walking on eggshells.
Afterstep, OTOH, I've never had trouble with. I used it for a long time without any trouble whatsoever right up until I started using WindowMaker, then KDE (I'm now waiting for KDE's performance under WindowMaker to improve, It's slow on my machine...).
If you're running GNOME under Afterstep and it locks up, it's probably GNOME.
Plus, if X locks up, and you're using kdm/xdm, it'll come right up again in record time.
Try it. Port Linux to a PIC. I dare you. I have a 16F84 here on my desk with a whopping 1024 words of program memory. It currently plays a popular Beatles song through a piezo buzzer. Incidentally, it almost got me arrested in the airport in Vancouver:
"What is this, tattoo equipment?"
"No, that's a soldering iron. Tattoo artists generally have many tattoos themselves."
"You could hijack the plane with this!"
"Um.. It plays `Hey Jude.'"
"I'm going to have to bring the police in."
"What!?!?"
"...Um, or you could check that with your luggage."
"Some of that stuff is really expensive and owned by the company I work for, I don't want it to go through the Play-Doh fun factory of luggage."
"We'll just put a fragile sticker on it."
"Ah, the `beat this up` flag..."
I got away eventually. Phew. No trouble in St. John's, no trouble in Halifax, no trouble in Ottawa. Just Vancouver.
Wow, that got off topic....
Actually, I've done realtime on a Z180 before.
I hear you. KFM kicks. It's fast, and doesn't drop out on me nearly as much. The memory/performance savings make me feel much better as well, especially when multiple people are using my machine.
There are a couple of things that bug me though. I *have* to drag-n-drop to save a link. I prefer the right-click-save-as myself. Having to continually move around windows to facilitate dnd has always drove me.
There are also those very rare times I need JavaScript. Even in Netscape I turn it off unless I need it. Great for avoiding those annoying popups certain sites force on you, specifically the free homepage sites.
Right-click-back is missing also. I hate having to go to that widget everytime I go back a page. Actually, I like having everything in Netscape's right-click menu, especially "open link in new window."
Pointer doesn't change over links. A small annoyance. I think I can live without that.
No SSL. I do a fair bit of online shopping. It was the reason I went out and got a VISA.
If it weren't for those things, I'd be using KFM right now.
I did try KDE 2 a little while back. Konqueror is *really* promising, although fairly unstable... Hmm, I think I'll try it again tonight.
Better yet, imagine if they paid for posts that rated a 5. You think the site is full of score whores now, wait till you get posts like "Psst... Hey buddy, moderate this up and I'll cut you in for 10%"
Fortunately, that won't happen. A poster cannot know who moderated up their post.
"I did it."
"No, it was me."
Posts like that will end up getting moderated down by those of us who actually care about keeping Slashdot a good place.
Moderator points have gotten quite rare these days for individual users. I doubt two people would have something "on the go" where one would post and the other would moderate. The other guy would have to get those rare points for that to work, and they couldn't stop someone from moderating it down.
Ah, yet another attempt to take money from the poor musicians and give it to the rich ones. Hmm, there's something fundamentally wrong with this, I just can't put my finger on it... :-)*
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Reminds me of Tom Green's "Scuba Hood" segment. Stealing money from the poor and giving it to the rich. He went into a mall with scuba gear and stuffed money from the fountain into a bag and brought it into a bank and just gave it to them. He got banned from that mall.
"Turn off that camera!"
"Ok, it's off
Actually, I have a friend who knows someone at ATI. Apparently they're really pissed off about this because they use a lot of CDR media. They intend to fight. This is a "guilty whether your proven innocent or not" thing.
Well, as long as there are rich people/entities actually fighting for us. That doesn't happen often.
I was flipping through channels a while ago and the Littlest Hobo was on....
You wouldn't believe who was on that episode. A very young Mike Myers playing a kid in a special olympics.
My eyes opened fairly wide.
OpenBIOS will have network support. This is to easily allow network booting without using a PROM on the NIC.
It could be easily added in when we have something workable. Unfortunately, that won't be for a while yet.