User: VAXGeek

Re:What am I missing?

On: Dave Barry Does Windows

I got my laptop "upgraded" from Win96 (OSR 2, I think) to Win98 SE, and it sucks much worse than it did before

gotta love that Win96!

BSD IS FUN

On: ACLU Examines Face-Recognition System

|.- - - -- - - -.| | | |&nbsp *BSD IS | | DYING | | _ _ _ _ __ _ | ' - -- . . - - - ' | _|/ | ." ". | /(o)-(o)\ /_)| / | |_)| '- | \_)\ '.___.' / |\/|_ | \ \_/ / _| '/ |_\ \.___./ \ ) / \ \_/\__/\__ ==| \ \ /\ /\ `\ | \ \\// \ | `\ /\ / | ; | \____/ | | |

whee

On: Gibson Guitars and Ethernet

you may have Ethernet on your Gibson, but I have NetBSD on my Fender.

this year is cool

On: Geek Gift Ideas 2001

this year, i'd like to be surprised by wealth.

Re:Curious...

On: Transmeta's Demise Predicted

you turd. OpenVMS on Alpha. Solaris on UltraSparc. FREEKING LINUX on Alpha. Are you trying to say Linux doesn't exist?

how much longer until delisting?

On: VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name

and now: ASCII man with a very important notice:
|.- - - -- - - -.| | | |&nbspSTOCK QUOTE:| | LNUX = $1.29| | _ _ _ _ __ _ | ' - -- . . - - - ' | _|/ | ." ". | /(o)-(o)\ /_)| / | |_)| '- | \_)\ '.___.' / |\/|_ | \ \_/ / _| '/ |_\ \.___./ \ ) / \ \_/\__/\__ ==| \ \ /\ /\ `\ | \ \\// \ | `\ /\ / | ; | \____/ | | |

OUCH, down from more than $200! way to burn money, guys. next time, try selling something people can't get for free.
VA Linux (oops, VA Software) is going down NeXT style. First, cut the hardware (VA Linux servers). Secondly, sell some kind of sloppy software solution (SourceForge). Here's the NeXTSTEP: (hehe) try and come across as some sort of consulting company, which I see VA slowly drifting towards. Sadly, even the genius of Steve Jobs could not save a flailing company, and I don't think whoever is driving down at VA Whatever can either. /. guys: you better start sending out job applications pretty soon. Helpful hint: getting an MCSE is a good way to raise your marketability!

As a quick aside, notice how all the ads we see on /. are OSDN sites? No wonder they are in the can! All of their revenue is inter-departmental. I guarantee when /. gets those new half-page popups everyone is talking about, they'll be ThinkGeek ads.

Re:Don't Charge

On: Loki's Draeker On WineX, Transgaming And More

fuck you, frank

an important message

On: OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down

|.- - - -- - - -.| | | |&nbsp *BSD IS | | DYING | | _ _ _ _ __ _ | ' - -- . . - - - ' | _|/ | ." ". | /(o)-(o)\ /_)| / | |_)| '- | \_)\ '.___.' / |\/|_ | \ \_/ / _| '/ |_\ \.___./ \ ) / \ \_/\__/\__ ==| \ \ /\ /\ `\ | \ \\// \ | `\ /\ / | ; | \____/ | | |

A baby quiz!

On: Magnetic Fluids

Babies are:

A) Tasty!
B) Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside.
C) An affordable way to feed your whole family.
D) Part of a balanced breakfast.

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An important survey

On: Nautilus 1.0.5 Release

A good place to keep babies:

A) In the oven
B) In the broiler
C) In the microwave
D) In the crock pot

Try and guess which is the correct answer!

bahaha

On: FreeCiv 1.12.0 Released

Let's see, Civilization (Sid Meyers) release date: 1991

Open Source version: 2001

So, I should see an Open Source clone of Black & White by around 2034.

interesting

On: KDE 2.2 Tagged

KDE now follows the "tag-team" style of development.

GNU FOR LIFE!

ultimate irony!

On: Help Test Exciting All-New Slashdot "Banjo"

what if the site gets slashdotted?

Re:perl actually is easy

On: Larry Wall's State of the Onion

bullshit.pl: SYNTAX OK
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Re:hippie anarchists

On: Business Wants a New, Profitable Internet

Yes, because F-16s are in wide use as pavers.
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Re:perl actually is easy

On: Larry Wall's State of the Onion

not you. what if that code had a system 'rm -rf /' in it, or in your case 'deltree c:\'?
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YES

On: Larry Wall's State of the Onion

In A.D. 2001
Perl Conference was beginning

Outside: An explosion occurs.

In conference:
Larry Wall: "What happen ?"
Heidi Wall: "Somebody set up us 55 second time limit."

Close-Up of Audience
Operator: "We get new perl version."
p5p: "What !"

On Stage
Larry Wall: "Slide show screen turn on."
(Boring lecture appears)
Larry: "It's perl 6 !!"

Close up of Perl 6 internals
Perl6: "How are you gentlemen !!"
Perl6: "All your backwards compatibilty are belong to us."
Perl6: "You are on the way to rewriting perl modules."

Close up of Larry & Perl6
Captain: "What you say !!"
Perl6: "You have no chance to survive make your ports."

Screen:
Perl6: "Ha ha ha ha ...."

Close up of Forlorn Larry
Heidi: "Daddy !!"

Stage (slides on monitor)
Larry: "Take off every 'patch pumpkin'!!"

Shows perl code
Larry: "I know what I doing."

Shows a p5p member beginning to code
Larry: "Move 'modules out of core'."

Perl6 source on monitors, Conference Explodes
Captain: "For great Laziness, Impatience, Hubris."

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perl actually is easy

On: Larry Wall's State of the Onion

Perl is actually a very logical language to use to teach beginners. Start out gradual, like:

$a = "hello world\n";
print "$a";

From there, even the casual beginner can progress to (code excerpt taken from slashcode):

($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&&
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print

As you can see, the syntax is non-threatning even to the most novice of programmers and is very intuitive.

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Re:just a thought?

On: Tracking A Thief Via The Sircam Virus?

F word?
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Re:Do some homework

On: The Joys of HDTV

You should pick up a copy of 'The Perfict Speller'.
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in AD 2001: droid was beginning

On: NASA Developing Space Droids

Astronaut: Open the pod bay doors.
'Thinking' space droid: I can't do that, Dave.
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Re:Hmm...

On: PalmOS Emulation On PocketPC

Windows market ended? Not on the planet I'm from. DOS market, yes. Windows market, no. Last time I checked MacOS was waaaay behind marketshare compared to Win32.
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SSH sucks

On: SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0 Remote Hole

Yet another SSH hole. This is why all of the security minded admins stick to telnet.
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Re:Legal challenge to ad blocking

On: MS XP Drops Java Support

TERMS OF SERVICE FOR THE WEBSITE?

obviously, you are a moron. when was the last time slashdot popped up with a license agreement when you opened it?

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the death of internet appliances

On: Death of a Rebel

Don't worry, they couldn't get it right either. Getting delisted is fun. Also, I like focus shifts.
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