Linux will not loose because of something Microsoft does. It will loose because the most popular distribution of Linux - RedHat - does not follow Best Common Practices any more than MS does.
Do you know how many trees have died because of the Ramen worm? Why on earth would default RedHat 7 installations need LPRng running by default?
Insecurely configured Linux distributions are poisoning the free software movement. It's just a shame that OpenBSD will never have the momentum behind it that RedHat does.
Something that I have been noticing is the lack of *real* geeks in the tech industry as of late. Working with computers != geek. That's something the popular media has forgotten.
I think the current breed of tech worker wants to make money. Years ago, this was the type of person that would have become a doctor or lawyer. Now they become CCIEs. We have all met doctors and lawyers who became what they are not for the money, but for the love of the work. If you love something, you excel at it.
That's why I became a tech. Now, just to say that there are more dudes than chicks in the tech industry is not to say that there are more male than female geeks. I'm sure there are, but I'd just like to point out the distinction. Traditionally males have flocked to the higher paying professions. I think if you look at the ratios of female geeks to male geeks, and the ratio of female tech workers to male tech workers, you would see a discrepency.
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It's good to see the message boards up. *sniff* the nostalgia is overcoming...must use...2400 baud...modem..to surf...web site... must...solve...Small Hole...
Don't know how many others around here used to be on Nirvananet (TM), but I'm sure there's quite a few.
*sigh*
It's just not the same, but go here to read the boards.
Some years back, I did a bit of IRCing. Being female, I would get quite a few... inappropriate.. requests.
So, to handle these "advances," I wrote a little bit o' code that would intercept and handle these requests. Completely silent to me of course.
The great joy was logging the bot's conversations to my web page. This provided many an hour of chuckling at the expense of other people. I hate to think what the spiders did with it...
I was walking through a local Computer City some time ago, checking out the mice and various controllers. I hit the joystick section, and was trying a few of them out. When I got to the end of the row, I saw this one. It was a Thrustmaster. Understand, this was the first time I had heard/seen the brand name. Even aside from the name, this was the most phallic toy I had ever seen. It was ribbed, and had this swivelling tip. And the sleek styling...
I laughed so hard, I had to go get my friend from another section and point it out. He lost it. To this day, no one can say the word "Thrustmaster" around me without a giggle.
Maybe I'm immature, but it's more fun this way.
Aside from all that, it wouldn't be the first time phallic symbols have been used in advertising. Just look at a cigarette ad sometime. It's not your imagination. Very common technique. It's subtle, and can slide in under most people's radar. I wouldn't even be surprised if product designers take it into account.
It's not just me, either. I have a second opinion. Yeah, you *know* what it looks like. Do the letters ESS mean anything to you? (Johnny Dangerously, not sound card company). Now, the way they seem to have designed this joystick is that the base is a rounded T-shape, with the controls on the long end and the stick at the cross of the T. How they chose to take the picture for this ad is a different story entirely.
My former employer, Very Small Company[1] decided to get prepared for an IPO (ya, right). It's a network solutions provider (designs, installs networks). They decided to get on the.net bandwagon, and name themselves VSC.net. They even have a little globe holding the place of the ".".
What's wrong with PicoBSD? Isn't that what this is based on anyway?
Had to do a little searching to find out where it was, I had lost track. Was considering it for a while. I used FreeBSD on an old 486 w/small hard drive for a while (dial-on-demand Ethernet/PPP router, firewall, NAT). Now I've switched to OpenBSD for security reasons.
Looks like the only benefits to this Gnat Box thing are added menus and easy-config stuff. Do you really want someone who needs menus and such admining your firewall??? Eep!
"On October 5, 1982, Dr. Brain T. Clifford of the Pentagon announced at a press conference ("The Star", New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact between U.S. citizens and extra-terrestrials or their vehicles is strictly illegal."
I saw this link on memepool a little earlier. Notice the reference here: The Star. That tabloid newspaper you try not to look like you're reading when you're in the checkout line at the supermarket? Any article that uses that rag as a "source" is worthess.
You know, if you'd just assume that that attractive woman that's batting her eyes at you and snuggling up to you under the huge dome at the Palace of Fine Arts (with that nice, romantic music playing in the background...and that beautiful sunset over the lake) is actually flirting, you'd probably get a date in no time.
No, I'm not kidding. This happened to me.
I'd scoot closer to him on the bench, he'd scoot away to give me more room. I rested my head against his shoulder, he shifted positions uncomfortably, so I moved my head.
After that evening, I was pretty sure he wasn't interested in me "in that way". So, two years, and an emotionally draining relationship with a different guy later, I find out that he was actually interested! He just wasn't sure how I felt, so he didn't do/say anything. When I had put my head on his shoulder, and he shifted, he was actually moving a little so he could raise his arm to put it around me. When I moved my head, he backed off. AAARGH!
Anyway, we've been going out for a little less than a year, and it's probably the most emotionally healty relationship either of us has ever been in.
So, if there's a girl who you'd kinda like to go out with, ASK HER!!! Save her from emotionally nasty relationships with other guys that she might get into. You're doing HER a favor!!!
"With true geek lust for the latest and greatest technology, many people quickly migrated to Windows NT, not knowing that Doom or some other DOS-based games simply wouldn't work in NT."
Geek lust for latest and greatest technology??? Oh, come on! My main machine is a Pentium, and my router is a 486SuX. I've got a Commodore 64 in here, as well as a 286 and a couple of IBM RTs (1986 vintage). Latest and greatest they are not!
The only lust involved there is lust for power and money. These guys trying to get all us users of old tech to "upgrade" to Windows NT from our old DOS systems. God, I miss net surfing with my 286 and Telix...
I was on vacation to Tahoe a few months ago, and we were flipping channels on the TV in a friend's room. There was one channel that had crashed! We just sat there watching the blue screen for a while. I'm not sure they even got it rebooted before morning. That was probably the strangest place I've ever seen one!
Sadly, I did not view this film where it was intended to be viewed. I saw it in a major movie house, with state of the art *everything*. As such, most of the crowd was 15-year-olds on summer vacation. The entire front section of the theater (after all, we have to sit close, don't we...the special effects will be more exciting!) was chuckling at various intervals that were supposed to build suspense. There was a crowd of adolescent boys MST3King it. This is *NOT* proper theater behaviour, and it honestly spoiled it for me.
After the film, as we were exiting, a young man spoke to the group I was with, asking why it sucked so bad. After all, we never even see that witch chick. Or did we? He had actually arrived late.
And while I'm ranting, loose ends??? I didn't notice any. The Blair Witch had the guy standing in a corner, which meant (from earlier dialogue) that s/he was going to kill the other one, and then the guy facing the corner. Fairly straightforward to me. Years later, the footage is found...end of story, no loose ends.
I'm tryin' to download 1.1 here!!!! I knew when the KDE mirrors were so slow, there had to be something new on Slashdot =) I do like the mascot, I think a dragon is very appropriate. I agree with some of the other posters though, it does need smaller hands and a bigger belly. On that first shot, I couldn't tell whether that was a hand, or a bizarre form of hammer attachment. Speaking of tools, maybe he could be carrying a wrench...
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Linux will not loose because of something Microsoft does. It will loose because the most popular distribution of Linux - RedHat - does not follow Best Common Practices any more than MS does.
Do you know how many trees have died because of the Ramen worm? Why on earth would default RedHat 7 installations need LPRng running by default?
Insecurely configured Linux distributions are poisoning the free software movement. It's just a shame that OpenBSD will never have the momentum behind it that RedHat does.
I think the current breed of tech worker wants to make money. Years ago, this was the type of person that would have become a doctor or lawyer. Now they become CCIEs. We have all met doctors and lawyers who became what they are not for the money, but for the love of the work. If you love something, you excel at it.
That's why I became a tech. Now, just to say that there are more dudes than chicks in the tech industry is not to say that there are more male than female geeks. I'm sure there are, but I'd just like to point out the distinction. Traditionally males have flocked to the higher paying professions. I think if you look at the ratios of female geeks to male geeks, and the ratio of female tech workers to male tech workers, you would see a discrepency.
It's good to see the message boards up. *sniff* the nostalgia is overcoming...must use...2400 baud...modem..to surf...web site... must...solve...Small Hole...
Don't know how many others around here used to be on Nirvananet (TM), but I'm sure there's quite a few.
*sigh*
It's just not the same, but go here to read the boards.
Geez, that went down quick. Anyone get a chance to mirror it?
Some years back, I did a bit of IRCing. Being female, I would get quite a few... inappropriate.. requests.
So, to handle these "advances," I wrote a little bit o' code that would intercept and handle these requests. Completely silent to me of course.
The great joy was logging the bot's conversations to my web page. This provided many an hour of chuckling at the expense of other people. I hate to think what the spiders did with it...
But can he dissipate into a fragrant potporri when you're done with him?
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I was walking through a local Computer City some time ago, checking out the mice and various controllers. I hit the joystick section, and was trying a few of them out. When I got to the end of the row, I saw this one. It was a Thrustmaster. Understand, this was the first time I had heard/seen the brand name. Even aside from the name, this was the most phallic toy I had ever seen. It was ribbed, and had this swivelling tip. And the sleek styling...
I laughed so hard, I had to go get my friend from another section and point it out. He lost it. To this day, no one can say the word "Thrustmaster" around me without a giggle.
Maybe I'm immature, but it's more fun this way.
Aside from all that, it wouldn't be the first time phallic symbols have been used in advertising. Just look at a cigarette ad sometime. It's not your imagination. Very common technique. It's subtle, and can slide in under most people's radar. I wouldn't even be surprised if product designers take it into account.
Witness this:
http://www.logitech.com/ cf/products/productoverview.cfm/20
It's not just me, either. I have a second opinion. Yeah, you *know* what it looks like. Do the letters ESS mean anything to you? (Johnny Dangerously, not sound card company). Now, the way they seem to have designed this joystick is that the base is a rounded T-shape, with the controls on the long end and the stick at the cross of the T. How they chose to take the picture for this ad is a different story entirely.
My former employer, Very Small Company[1] decided to get prepared for an IPO (ya, right). It's a network solutions provider (designs, installs networks). They decided to get on the .net bandwagon, and name themselves VSC.net. They even have a little globe holding the place of the ".".
Eeew. That was about the time I quit.
[1] Not its real name
What's wrong with PicoBSD? Isn't that what this is based on anyway?
/~picobsd/picobsd/doc_router/README.en
Had to do a little searching to find out where it was, I had lost track. Was considering it for a while. I used FreeBSD on an old 486 w/small hard drive for a while (dial-on-demand Ethernet/PPP router, firewall, NAT). Now I've switched to OpenBSD for security reasons.
Here's that link to PicoBSD for those interested:
http://www.freebsd.org
Looks like the only benefits to this Gnat Box thing are added menus and easy-config stuff. Do you really want someone who needs menus and such admining your firewall??? Eep!
From the article:
"On October 5, 1982, Dr. Brain T. Clifford of the Pentagon announced at a press conference ("The Star", New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact between U.S. citizens and extra-terrestrials or their vehicles is strictly illegal."
I saw this link on memepool a little earlier. Notice the reference here: The Star. That tabloid newspaper you try not to look like you're reading when you're in the checkout line at the supermarket? Any article that uses that rag as a "source" is worthess.
You know, if you'd just assume that that attractive woman that's batting her eyes at you and snuggling up to you under the huge dome at the Palace of Fine Arts (with that nice, romantic music playing in the background...and that beautiful sunset over the lake) is actually flirting, you'd probably get a date in no time.
No, I'm not kidding. This happened to me.
I'd scoot closer to him on the bench, he'd scoot away to give me more room. I rested my head against his shoulder, he shifted positions uncomfortably, so I moved my head.
After that evening, I was pretty sure he wasn't interested in me "in that way". So, two years, and an emotionally draining relationship with a different guy later, I find out that he was actually interested! He just wasn't sure how I felt, so he didn't do/say anything. When I had put my head on his shoulder, and he shifted, he was actually moving a little so he could raise his arm to put it around me. When I moved my head, he backed off. AAARGH!
Anyway, we've been going out for a little less than a year, and it's probably the most emotionally healty relationship either of us has ever been in.
So, if there's a girl who you'd kinda like to go out with, ASK HER!!! Save her from emotionally nasty relationships with other guys that she might get into. You're doing HER a favor!!!
Under Number 8: Using older applications
"With true geek lust for the latest and greatest technology, many people quickly migrated to Windows NT, not knowing that Doom or some other DOS-based games simply wouldn't work in NT."
Geek lust for latest and greatest technology??? Oh, come on! My main machine is a Pentium, and my router is a 486SuX. I've got a Commodore 64 in here, as well as a 286 and a couple of IBM RTs (1986 vintage). Latest and greatest they are not!
The only lust involved there is lust for power and money. These guys trying to get all us users of old tech to "upgrade" to Windows NT from our old DOS systems. God, I miss net surfing with my 286 and Telix...
I was on vacation to Tahoe a few months ago, and we were flipping channels on the TV in a friend's room. There was one channel that had crashed! We just sat there watching the blue screen for a while. I'm not sure they even got it rebooted before morning. That was probably the strangest place I've ever seen one!
Sadly, I did not view this film where it was intended to be viewed. I saw it in a major movie house, with state of the art *everything*. As such, most of the crowd was 15-year-olds on summer vacation. The entire front section of the theater (after all, we have to sit close, don't we...the special effects will be more exciting!) was chuckling at various intervals that were supposed to build suspense. There was a crowd of adolescent boys MST3King it. This is *NOT* proper theater behaviour, and it honestly spoiled it for me.
After the film, as we were exiting, a young man spoke to the group I was with, asking why it sucked so bad. After all, we never even see that witch chick. Or did we? He had actually arrived late.
And while I'm ranting, loose ends??? I didn't notice any. The Blair Witch had the guy standing in a corner, which meant (from earlier dialogue) that s/he was going to kill the other one, and then the guy facing the corner. Fairly straightforward to me. Years later, the footage is found...end of story, no loose ends.
I'm tryin' to download 1.1 here!!!! I knew when the KDE mirrors were so slow, there had to be something new on Slashdot =) I do like the mascot, I think a dragon is very appropriate. I agree with some of the other posters though, it does need smaller hands and a bigger belly. On that first shot, I couldn't tell whether that was a hand, or a bizarre form of hammer attachment. Speaking of tools, maybe he could be carrying a wrench...