To a certain extent I think that's what GNOME's heading for (the more-intuitive interface). Well not specifically at the window manager level, but by proposing to replace the huge, bloated, ugly Gnome Midnight Commander with something else...
lol, alright, enough with the stories...
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AFAIK two stories have been removed from the main page which were the top story, and now this one takes its place. Come on darnit, enough of the CENSORSHIP here!;-)
What the hell? Score -5, Informative !? I got curious when I saw "1 reply below your threshold" when I read at -1... (so I changed the 1 reply below link to -5 instead of -1, and found THIS)
Somehow I have this cynical humor that says "YES!!!!!! OHHHHHH HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE YES MAKE A COLUMBINE LEVEL PLEASE!@#@#!#!@@#!" I even thought of an idea of reenacting the Columbine videos in Quake 2 using text dialog, record'ing it like a demo (it'd take 3 players, obviously). So this is right along my lines. All I have to say is: SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A CHS MAP! Quake 2 as well if it's even possible... since my system resources don't dictate Quake 3-ish gameplay yet:)
Does anybody know of the status of the Arachne browser? Arachne was excellent in DOS. A graphical browser that could run on a 286 with 1MB of RAM. I did it, with a (small-as-I-could-find) PPP packet driver. It used to crash quite often back then, but that was in its alpha stages. They were going to make one for Linux, although I read one time a suggestion to use Arachne in DOSEMU with dosnet. I never got that to work, though. I tried Arachne on a 486 with 8MB RAM that I acquired one time, and was almost shaking at how efficient it was on that old machine. Graphical browsing on a 286 just isn't comfortable, let me tell you:)
Please don't forget that Slashdot is where many of us first hear about such things. 5000 Slashdot posts might not sway government decisions, but the lack thereof may ruin the opportunity to sway them.
Well actually, nevermind, it's Mandrake. Not sure what version of Mandrake was based off RH 5.1. But there are some linuxone RPMs, namely linuxone-release which just creates/etc/linuxone-release that says "LinuxOne release 1.2", and linuxone_desk or something that creates some icons, including some Mandrake icons for KFM I believe.
ftp://140.174.127.95/pub/LinuxOne/... LinuxOne_OS and LinuxOne_Lite. in/pub/LinuxOne/LinuxOne_OS/doc/rescue.txt you see: This document describes how rescue mode works in Red Hat Linux 5.1. Oh yeah, and they use package-name.i586.rpm files too, 'stead of.i386. What a crock.
I understand that many people believe vulgarity is automatic game for moderation, but I'd just like to add that I disagree. We're all humans, and expressing ourselves using vulgarity in a forum like this seems perfectly acceptable to me. I believe this because Slashdot discussions are more rough and truthful than they are professional and polite. On this basis, I agree that vulgarity is indeed acceptable if it's an effective way to get the point across. I think this was a good use of vulgarity. It surely struck a patriotic chord in my nerves:)
I think that the world as a whole was extremely well prepared for Y2K. All this hype was indeed enough to prepare the world for what could have been a disaster. I think the hype was warranted because Y2K could not have only been a disaster, but one we could have averted. The key thing is that we DID AVERT IT. I am very grateful for everyone who has made Y2K a smooth ride. The human race couldn't let itself fall down that quickly...
This "cyber-squatting" crap needs to end. A general mentality of "oh, that's another domain, check the spelling" needs to be instated, since pressing legal violation over domain names is outrageous. I really believe someone has to pass this message over to the corporations, and AFAIK the only directly effective method is through the government.
I agree. Lynx has become a little too big these days though, I'm just wondering if they'll ever *attempt* to redo the codebase. But yeah, I hear you, from my Lynx session running inside an rxvt with a kool cyan/black pixmap background, and Window Maker set up without a titlebar or resizebars for the window. Ohh how I love my lynx in X:-)
Yeah, that sounds like S.A.D. alright. At any rate, perhaps Vitamin D is the ingredient whose deficiency causes S.A.D.? Because I understand sunrays invoke Vitamin D production in the skin or something...
More like, the United Parcel Service that will keep the Internet live by toting around punch cards containing individual IP packets in case the electricity fails.;-)
Hehe... perhaps Slashdot should post the IP addresses of Anonymous Coward posters from now on? Sure, that won't help with imposters who create accounts, but I can imagine the IP address posting rules can change over time to accomodate adaptative patterns in our fellow Portman/Berrymore fetished freaks.
Some of us may seem cheap for not wanting to pay for software, or pirating it, or whatever. Some of the people who use free software could just as easily use commercial software, and pay for it. However, some of us can't. Some of us have always been in a low-budget family or on a low budget ourselves and would be insane to pay mass amounts of money on software. For some of us, computer hardware itself is received second-hand. What makes people think that we can pay for commercial software!? Those of us who simply CAN NOT feasibly pay for commercial software find ourselves in a paradise with free software. Free for download, at least. The freedoms that Open Source licenses give us are a nice addition. But the money factor is a bigger one. Some people might say that people without much money shouldn't be using computers due to their high cost. Well, the Internet has certainly changed that. Computers can be a way to get out of debt, as eBay has taught us. Collapsing the cost factor for ownership of computers is what people on low budgets need most for surviving in the Information Age. The ideals of Richard Stallman on anti-proprietary software are like the sermons of priests to some of us. Bear this in mind before you complain about software developers not being paid. There still are good souls out there willing to help more and more people become part of the Information Age.
Rifting the Internet. I ask myself the same question, why hasn't anyone done it yet? I considered the idea of my own personal DNS'ing when I first learned how to work BIND, but dropped the idea out of boredom. Making an alternate DNS network might be harmful, though. Especially if businesses get the bright idea. People will be complaining about being part of "IBM's Internet" or "Microsoft's Internet" and such. This might be a good thing in the long run, for it will prove that the DNS system needs order, but on the other hand, it might as well destabilize the Internet and make it exactly what has been speculated by some: a "fad".
A friend of mine told me that Segfault.org had a problem with sick twisted perverts like this one posting crap about females and such, and it got to the point that Segfault stopped allowing user comments or something. Not being a Segfault reader myself, I can't personally attest to this. But if these are the same sick people who caused the Segfault user comment demise as I heard it, may Slashdot PLEASE do something about them.
Now I know this could turn into a heated "should-not-have-ever-been-idealized" idea, but could it be possible for Slashdot admins to take away articles/threads after they've been posted? Like keep them in the archives, but not let anybody see them any more... Because sometimes when you speak too soon, it'd be nice if you had some way of recovering from the matter. Although... maybe this isn't such a good idea.
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I had a math teacher back in High School who used to call his students "nerds" whenever they made a dumb mistake on a math problem. From there I got the impression that a "nerd" was one of those socially-challenged people who really didn't know what they were talking about, and that geeks were just odd/eccentric people who DID know what they were talking about. Oh the memories of Mr. Rihard's geometry class... "What are you, a freshman? Now look at that, another one of those Freshman Nerds. Geez."
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Hahaha, yeah right, Yahoo being up-to-date? Like that's ever going to happen. Their news aren't half as up-to-date as CNN's is.
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To a certain extent I think that's what GNOME's heading for (the more-intuitive interface). Well not specifically at the window manager level, but by proposing to replace the huge, bloated, ugly Gnome Midnight Commander with something else...
AFAIK two stories have been removed from the main page which were the top story, and now this one takes its place. Come on darnit, enough of the CENSORSHIP here! ;-)
What the hell? Score -5, Informative !? I got curious when I saw "1 reply below your threshold" when I read at -1... (so I changed the 1 reply below link to -5 instead of -1, and found THIS)
Somehow I have this cynical humor that says "YES!!!!!! OHHHHHH HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE YES MAKE A COLUMBINE LEVEL PLEASE!@#@#!#!@@#!" I even thought of an idea of reenacting the Columbine videos in Quake 2 using text dialog, record'ing it like a demo (it'd take 3 players, obviously). So this is right along my lines. All I have to say is: SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A CHS MAP! Quake 2 as well if it's even possible... since my system resources don't dictate Quake 3-ish gameplay yet :)
Does anybody know of the status of the Arachne browser? Arachne was excellent in DOS. A graphical browser that could run on a 286 with 1MB of RAM. I did it, with a (small-as-I-could-find) PPP packet driver. It used to crash quite often back then, but that was in its alpha stages. They were going to make one for Linux, although I read one time a suggestion to use Arachne in DOSEMU with dosnet. I never got that to work, though. I tried Arachne on a 486 with 8MB RAM that I acquired one time, and was almost shaking at how efficient it was on that old machine. Graphical browsing on a 286 just isn't comfortable, let me tell you :)
Please don't forget that Slashdot is where many of us first hear about such things. 5000 Slashdot posts might not sway government decisions, but the lack thereof may ruin the opportunity to sway them.
Well actually, nevermind, it's Mandrake. Not sure what version of Mandrake was based off RH 5.1. But there are some linuxone RPMs, namely linuxone-release which just creates /etc/linuxone-release that says "LinuxOne release 1.2", and linuxone_desk or something that creates some icons, including some Mandrake icons for KFM I believe.
ftp://140.174.127.95/pub/LinuxOne/ ... /pub/LinuxOne/LinuxOne_OS/doc/rescue.txt you see: .i386. What a crock.
LinuxOne_OS and LinuxOne_Lite. in
This document describes how rescue mode works in Red Hat Linux 5.1.
Oh yeah, and they use package-name.i586.rpm files too, 'stead of
I understand that many people believe vulgarity is automatic game for moderation, but I'd just like to add that I disagree. We're all humans, and expressing ourselves using vulgarity in a forum like this seems perfectly acceptable to me. I believe this because Slashdot discussions are more rough and truthful than they are professional and polite. On this basis, I agree that vulgarity is indeed acceptable if it's an effective way to get the point across. I think this was a good use of vulgarity. It surely struck a patriotic chord in my nerves :)
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I think that the world as a whole was extremely well prepared for Y2K. All this hype was indeed enough to prepare the world for what could have been a disaster. I think the hype was warranted because Y2K could not have only been a disaster, but one we could have averted. The key thing is that we DID AVERT IT. I am very grateful for everyone who has made Y2K a smooth ride. The human race couldn't let itself fall down that quickly...
This "cyber-squatting" crap needs to end. A general mentality of "oh, that's another domain, check the spelling" needs to be instated, since pressing legal violation over domain names is outrageous. I really believe someone has to pass this message over to the corporations, and AFAIK the only directly effective method is through the government.
I agree. Lynx has become a little too big these days though, I'm just wondering if they'll ever *attempt* to redo the codebase. But yeah, I hear you, from my Lynx session running inside an rxvt with a kool cyan/black pixmap background, and Window Maker set up without a titlebar or resizebars for the window. Ohh how I love my lynx in X :-)
Yeah, that sounds like S.A.D. alright. At any rate, perhaps Vitamin D is the ingredient whose deficiency causes S.A.D.? Because I understand sunrays invoke Vitamin D production in the skin or something...
More like, the United Parcel Service that will keep the Internet live by toting around punch cards containing individual IP packets in case the electricity fails. ;-)
Heh, you mean Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Yeah, it's called http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=
Hehe... perhaps Slashdot should post the IP addresses of Anonymous Coward posters from now on? Sure, that won't help with imposters who create accounts, but I can imagine the IP address posting rules can change over time to accomodate adaptative patterns in our fellow Portman/Berrymore fetished freaks.
Some of us may seem cheap for not wanting to pay for software, or pirating it, or whatever. Some of the people who use free software could just as easily use commercial software, and pay for it. However, some of us can't. Some of us have always been in a low-budget family or on a low budget ourselves and would be insane to pay mass amounts of money on software. For some of us, computer hardware itself is received second-hand. What makes people think that we can pay for commercial software!? Those of us who simply CAN NOT feasibly pay for commercial software find ourselves in a paradise with free software. Free for download, at least. The freedoms that Open Source licenses give us are a nice addition. But the money factor is a bigger one. Some people might say that people without much money shouldn't be using computers due to their high cost. Well, the Internet has certainly changed that. Computers can be a way to get out of debt, as eBay has taught us. Collapsing the cost factor for ownership of computers is what people on low budgets need most for surviving in the Information Age. The ideals of Richard Stallman on anti-proprietary software are like the sermons of priests to some of us. Bear this in mind before you complain about software developers not being paid. There still are good souls out there willing to help more and more people become part of the Information Age.
Rifting the Internet. I ask myself the same question, why hasn't anyone done it yet? I considered the idea of my own personal DNS'ing when I first learned how to work BIND, but dropped the idea out of boredom. Making an alternate DNS network might be harmful, though. Especially if businesses get the bright idea. People will be complaining about being part of "IBM's Internet" or "Microsoft's Internet" and such. This might be a good thing in the long run, for it will prove that the DNS system needs order, but on the other hand, it might as well destabilize the Internet and make it exactly what has been speculated by some: a "fad".
A friend of mine told me that Segfault.org had a problem with sick twisted perverts like this one posting crap about females and such, and it got to the point that Segfault stopped allowing user comments or something. Not being a Segfault reader myself, I can't personally attest to this. But if these are the same sick people who caused the Segfault user comment demise as I heard it, may Slashdot PLEASE do something about them.
LOL. You know, if I was a moderator or was able to be one, I'd mark that one as funny. I think it portrays this situation the best.
Now I know this could turn into a heated "should-not-have-ever-been-idealized" idea, but could it be possible for Slashdot admins to take away articles/threads after they've been posted? Like keep them in the archives, but not let anybody see them any more... Because sometimes when you speak too soon, it'd be nice if you had some way of recovering from the matter. Although... maybe this isn't such a good idea.
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I had a math teacher back in High School who used to call his students "nerds" whenever they made a dumb mistake on a math problem. From there I got the impression that a "nerd" was one of those socially-challenged people who really didn't know what they were talking about, and that geeks were just odd/eccentric people who DID know what they were talking about. Oh the memories of Mr. Rihard's geometry class... "What are you, a freshman? Now look at that, another one of those Freshman Nerds. Geez."
Hahaha, yeah right, Yahoo being up-to-date? Like that's ever going to happen. Their news aren't half as up-to-date as CNN's is.