Well, I was thinking that I signed up around late 1999-early 2000...but after glancing through some of this particular thread, it looks like I'd be right around mid-late summer 1998. That was the year I first got dial-up internet (on my dad's work laptop), graduated high school, wasted most of the summer on our ISP's local IRC server (I later worked at the ISP doing tech support), met my wife (on IRC), got my first job, started college (subsequently deciding to enter the tech field), got my first personal computer with Windows, installed ZipSlack on my personal computer, and apparently, created a Slashdot account. Busy year, I guess. I must've learned about Slashdot on IRC, because I didn't know any other people in the Engineering department until 1999.
Hey, no problem. Stick with FireFox if you can. Here are a couple other extensions I have installed (I'm not going to try to hunt down each link...just go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/):
Forecastfox - no need for Weatherbug or the like, if you keep your browser open all the time like I do.
AniDisable - stops annoying GIF animations...get it from http://www.siliconmethod.com/firefox/anidisable/ - the original developer quit updating the extension to allow installation on 1.5+.
Image Zoom - hold the right mouse button, then use the scroll wheel to zoom in on the image.
ShowIP - resolves the IP address of the site you are visiting.
Live HTTP Headers - allows you to see the headers being requested for any page.
SessionSaver - my favorite...if the browser crashes, it restores all of your tabs and their back lists. However, I guess FireFox 2 does this.
Add N Edit Cookies - sometimes it's nice to see exactly what your cookies have in them, and you can change them.
Web Developer - another favorite...allows you to change/display/validate anything in the DOM or CSS.
SubmitToTab - FireFox doesn't normally allow you to open a form submission into a new tab, but this will enable that.
Greasemonkey - inject JavaScript into any page...plus, there's a community out there dedicated to writing GM scripts.
User Agent Switcher - switch your UserAgent header to get around restrictions on some sites.
Plain Text to Link (PTTL) - allows you to select a text-only URL, and open it immediately in a new window/tab, rather than having to go through the old Select/Ctrl-C/New Tab/Ctrl-V/Enter.
Resize Search Box - change the size of the tiny search box in the upper right corner.
That's about all I have installed on this computer.
What's nice about FlashBlock is that it still draws the place where the Flash applet is placed, and then you can click on it if you want to see it. Actually, since I've installed it, I haven't really needed AdBlock too much. (Banner ads don't bother me that much, though.) No annoying audio, unless you want it. No Flash-originating popups. It's actually sort of interesting just to see the "hidden" Flash on some pages that are obviously used for some sort of tracking. There are a few times where the Flash applet is specified to cover part of the page, so that you have to click on it to activate it, then click on it to close/hide it, but that's pretty rare. In fact, the only place I can remember it being a problem is SI.com, which is probably not a site most Slashdotters visit very often.
...that I may have built "systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes" and perhaps even worse. Not intentionally, mind you, but I have (more in the past than now) built and repaired computers for people who I barely knew. I have no clue, after the fact what those folks ever do with those computers. That old widower that I helped with computer problems last week could be a murderer or kiddie-porn freak, but I may never know. However, it's not something that I did maliciously or subversively, just helping someone out with something I know pretty well--computers--and perhaps getting paid fairly well as a younger person. Cohen may not abhorr piracy and the like, but that doesn't mean he condones it.
Actually, you'll find that you're reading "6000" as "GOOD." I used to think the same thing (I'm from Ohio) when I was young and just starting to read (I'm not insulting your intelligence--it's just that I've been around a lot more Kentuckians than you, so I realized the mistake earlier in my life). Sorta like reading 1337 5p33k before it was cool. There is no "Good County"; the 6000 refers to the weight the vehicle is allowed to tow (including the weight of the vehicle, IIRC). You'll notice that it is generally on trucks...in fact, they may have done away with that type of license plate marking in recent years, with the coming of vanity and more graphical plates.
...had (have?) Christmas content. The one I remember the most was Christmas of '99, in Sonic Adventure, where the main town square was snow-covered, with a Christmas tree in the middle, IIRC. I'm not sure if they are still doing this, but I'd imagine the GC re-release of Sonic Adventure DX would have it, too.
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I was wondering how long it would take someone to post this easy, karma-whoring bullshit. Inevitably, someone will make some remark about the geek not being able to get a girlfriend, and then get modded up (usually to a 5). Mod me down as a troll if you wish, but I happen to have a good fiancee' and, while we have certainly had some problems, these past 5 years have been great. She's into computers and video games, so maybe I'm just lucky, but I think it's sad that some Slasdot denizens believe it is too hard to find "the right one" or whatever. Get out every once in a while and quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Maybe I'm strange, but I couldn't help but read this article's title as "Using Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing." Is there something wrong with that?
At the risk of sounding like a jerk (READ: Total Dune Geek), I think you mean Leto and Ghanima (or Ghani as they called her). Also, IIRC, Ghanima means "Spoils of war" to the Fremen.
Leto's "sacrifice" was to accept his Godhood in the way Paul could not accept the Golden Path. Basically, the Golden Path was meant to scatter human life away from the empire; to stir the pot for a while (roughly 3000 years), keeping our humanity.
3000 years after Children of Dune, God Emperor was deeply philosophical, and dealt with Leto's loss of humanity. The little action included a new, very unique ghola Duncan Idaho; a rebellious descendant of the Atreides, Siona; and Leto's "perfect woman" companion, Hwi Noree.
Fast forward another 1500 years (I think), to Heretics, an action packed book (as well as Chapterhouse), which deals with the conflict between the Bene Gesserit and the dangerous Honored Matres. One of Herbert's most interesting characters, Miles Teg, appears in this book.
Anyway, Chapterhouse continues this excellent story line to a final confrontation between the B.G. and the H.M. on Chapterhouse. I would highly recommend slugging through God Emporer to get to Heretics and Chapterhouse, which are both great books. The old couple at the end? I'm not really sure, but the way I originally read it was that it was some sort of "Horton Hears a Who" philosophy. (And then I read the book jacket and realized that it was most likely a tribute to Herbert's late wife, Bev, and was meant to show that life will go on in the universe.)
Didn't Carmack say in his interview specifically that once all his first person shooting days are over, he'd like to do a Snow Crash world based on the Quake 3 engine? With the power of video cards today, it could easily be done in an Ultima Online (only in today's world) format.
...your (fill-in-annoying-person-in-your-life {for me, it's "brother"}) can't scratch your MP3's like CD's by leaving them lying around your computer desk...
I read on cnet a long time ago that there would soon be a dedicated book reader, but this is a nice alternative.......now if i just had a one of these babies......
Yes, stupdid, you're right...Man I'm glad I'm not stup-did...Listen, if you're gonna start some flamebait by saying something like that, at least spell it correctly...
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Well, I was thinking that I signed up around late 1999-early 2000...but after glancing through some of this particular thread, it looks like I'd be right around mid-late summer 1998. That was the year I first got dial-up internet (on my dad's work laptop), graduated high school, wasted most of the summer on our ISP's local IRC server (I later worked at the ISP doing tech support), met my wife (on IRC), got my first job, started college (subsequently deciding to enter the tech field), got my first personal computer with Windows, installed ZipSlack on my personal computer, and apparently, created a Slashdot account. Busy year, I guess. I must've learned about Slashdot on IRC, because I didn't know any other people in the Engineering department until 1999.
Yep, even made a tag about it...too many TLAs around.
Hey, no problem. Stick with FireFox if you can. Here are a couple other extensions I have installed (I'm not going to try to hunt down each link...just go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/):
Forecastfox - no need for Weatherbug or the like, if you keep your browser open all the time like I do.
AniDisable - stops annoying GIF animations...get it from http://www.siliconmethod.com/firefox/anidisable/ - the original developer quit updating the extension to allow installation on 1.5+.
Image Zoom - hold the right mouse button, then use the scroll wheel to zoom in on the image.
ShowIP - resolves the IP address of the site you are visiting.
Live HTTP Headers - allows you to see the headers being requested for any page.
SessionSaver - my favorite...if the browser crashes, it restores all of your tabs and their back lists. However, I guess FireFox 2 does this.
Add N Edit Cookies - sometimes it's nice to see exactly what your cookies have in them, and you can change them.
Web Developer - another favorite...allows you to change/display/validate anything in the DOM or CSS.
SubmitToTab - FireFox doesn't normally allow you to open a form submission into a new tab, but this will enable that.
Greasemonkey - inject JavaScript into any page...plus, there's a community out there dedicated to writing GM scripts.
User Agent Switcher - switch your UserAgent header to get around restrictions on some sites.
Plain Text to Link (PTTL) - allows you to select a text-only URL, and open it immediately in a new window/tab, rather than having to go through the old Select/Ctrl-C/New Tab/Ctrl-V/Enter.
Resize Search Box - change the size of the tiny search box in the upper right corner.
That's about all I have installed on this computer.
FlashBlock?
What's nice about FlashBlock is that it still draws the place where the Flash applet is placed, and then you can click on it if you want to see it. Actually, since I've installed it, I haven't really needed AdBlock too much. (Banner ads don't bother me that much, though.) No annoying audio, unless you want it. No Flash-originating popups. It's actually sort of interesting just to see the "hidden" Flash on some pages that are obviously used for some sort of tracking. There are a few times where the Flash applet is specified to cover part of the page, so that you have to click on it to activate it, then click on it to close/hide it, but that's pretty rare. In fact, the only place I can remember it being a problem is SI.com, which is probably not a site most Slashdotters visit very often.
...that I may have built "systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes" and perhaps even worse. Not intentionally, mind you, but I have (more in the past than now) built and repaired computers for people who I barely knew. I have no clue, after the fact what those folks ever do with those computers. That old widower that I helped with computer problems last week could be a murderer or kiddie-porn freak, but I may never know. However, it's not something that I did maliciously or subversively, just helping someone out with something I know pretty well--computers--and perhaps getting paid fairly well as a younger person. Cohen may not abhorr piracy and the like, but that doesn't mean he condones it.
Actually, you'll find that you're reading "6000" as "GOOD." I used to think the same thing (I'm from Ohio) when I was young and just starting to read (I'm not insulting your intelligence--it's just that I've been around a lot more Kentuckians than you, so I realized the mistake earlier in my life). Sorta like reading 1337 5p33k before it was cool. There is no "Good County"; the 6000 refers to the weight the vehicle is allowed to tow (including the weight of the vehicle, IIRC). You'll notice that it is generally on trucks...in fact, they may have done away with that type of license plate marking in recent years, with the coming of vanity and more graphical plates.
Trivia: in German, instead of e.g., they use z.B. which stands for "zum Beispiel".
Trivia: in Soviet Russia, example gives you! .
P.S. God, I hate myself for that...
...had (have?) Christmas content. The one I remember the most was Christmas of '99, in Sonic Adventure, where the main town square was snow-covered, with a Christmas tree in the middle, IIRC. I'm not sure if they are still doing this, but I'd imagine the GC re-release of Sonic Adventure DX would have it, too.
I was wondering how long it would take someone to post this easy, karma-whoring bullshit. Inevitably, someone will make some remark about the geek not being able to get a girlfriend, and then get modded up (usually to a 5). Mod me down as a troll if you wish, but I happen to have a good fiancee' and, while we have certainly had some problems, these past 5 years have been great. She's into computers and video games, so maybe I'm just lucky, but I think it's sad that some Slasdot denizens believe it is too hard to find "the right one" or whatever. Get out every once in a while and quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Thank you for listening...
Maybe I'm strange, but I couldn't help but read this article's title as "Using Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing." Is there something wrong with that?
At the risk of sounding like a jerk (READ: Total Dune Geek), I think you mean Leto and Ghanima (or Ghani as they called her). Also, IIRC, Ghanima means "Spoils of war" to the Fremen.
Leto's "sacrifice" was to accept his Godhood in the way Paul could not accept the Golden Path. Basically, the Golden Path was meant to scatter human life away from the empire; to stir the pot for a while (roughly 3000 years), keeping our humanity.
3000 years after Children of Dune, God Emperor was deeply philosophical, and dealt with Leto's loss of humanity. The little action included a new, very unique ghola Duncan Idaho; a rebellious descendant of the Atreides, Siona; and Leto's "perfect woman" companion, Hwi Noree.
Fast forward another 1500 years (I think), to Heretics, an action packed book (as well as Chapterhouse), which deals with the conflict between the Bene Gesserit and the dangerous Honored Matres. One of Herbert's most interesting characters, Miles Teg, appears in this book.
Anyway, Chapterhouse continues this excellent story line to a final confrontation between the B.G. and the H.M. on Chapterhouse. I would highly recommend slugging through God Emporer to get to Heretics and Chapterhouse, which are both great books. The old couple at the end? I'm not really sure, but the way I originally read it was that it was some sort of "Horton Hears a Who" philosophy. (And then I read the book jacket and realized that it was most likely a tribute to Herbert's late wife, Bev, and was meant to show that life will go on in the universe.)
Didn't Carmack say in his interview specifically that once all his first person shooting days are over, he'd like to do a Snow Crash world based on the Quake 3 engine? With the power of video cards today, it could easily be done in an Ultima Online (only in today's world) format.
...your (fill-in-annoying-person-in-your-life {for me, it's "brother"}) can't scratch your MP3's like CD's by leaving them lying around your computer desk...
I read on cnet a long time ago that there would soon be a dedicated book reader, but this is a nice alternative.......now if i just had a one of these babies......
Yes, stupdid, you're right...Man I'm glad I'm not stup-did...Listen, if you're gonna start some flamebait by saying something like that, at least spell it correctly...
That would be 270,000,000 correct? I think our country has more that a few hundred thousand people, hehe.
;)