Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.
No, the update doesn't make your drive faster. It makes the new 4x media work in your drive. At 1x in a 2x drive.
There is not a new driver for the printer on HP's site. "HP Deskjet and HP Professional Series Printers - Obtaining and Installing Drivers for Windows 2000 {...) The most current driver is already integrated into Windows 2000 and it is already on every Windows 2000 PC."
So what is this post about really, some sort of smear campaign against HP?
No, it is not. I just picked up a HP DeskJet 5550 and it works great. My ScanJet 4200C works great. However, I was doing a hard drive upgrade/Win2k install/upgrade for a friend, and the last thing I did (after downloading all those fun drivers and updates over a modem) was put the case back on his system and re-plug his ScanJet 4100C (which was acting weird when I installed its driver, but I put that down to Windows). The magic smoke came out and fried a resistor right near the power jack. The power supply brick was making nice "crackling" noises. I happened to look to see about getting a replacement power brick and saw the same model is used for my old DeskJet 660Cse. I just wondered if perhaps his scanner acting weird and then frying and my printer acting weird are related possibly due to failing power supplies. I just did the "replace all the 1500uF caps" thing on an ABIT BE6-II mobo I had sitting around (it booted first shot & has been going for 4 days now) and I wonder if these old HP power bricks are failing sort of in the same vein as the capacitor problem. Maybe it is old age, or defective components, or something. All I know is I have a fried scanner and a wonky printer using the same model power supply and I wonder if the power supply is problematic.
Sounds like you just need to reinstall the driver.
I doubt it's the power supply unless there is no sign of life from the printer at all, or if the printer literally starts on fire or something.
Been there, done that. It still printed gibberish. Reinstalled Win2k. Still gibberish. Tried "normal" and "best" modes instead of "draft" and it still happened. Sometimes it prints out junk text characters, other times it prints out something that looks like unreadable graphical garbage except that if you look at it just right, you see really mangled characters or graphics. And it could be the middle page of a five-page print job, and the other four would print fine! I currently have it plugged into a Linux box under CUPS with the hpijs driver, but I haven't tried to print a large job. However, a new HP printer on the Win2k box my DJ660Cse was currently on exhibits no problems.
After seeing my friend's same model power brick fry his scanner, I still think my power brick must be going weird in its old age.
Assuming you're running stuff that wants less than or equal to 12VDC, you might want to get and modify the "car power adapters" such as RadioShack adaptaplug. Keep an eye out for stuff with wall-warts that convert 120VAC to stuff 9VAC (like those Linksys Cable/DSL router/switches). Sometimes, though, you'll find some equipment that has an AC plug but a DC conversion internally, or stuff that doesn't care if it gets AC or DC. However, you don't want to test this experimentally unless you like releasing magic smoke or blowing things up. It's better to consult someone with electronics knowledge, or the manufacturer, first.
There's already a Pan, and it's a newsreader. So I think the Pan newsreader people ought to go tell MS to rename their Pan or face court. Besides, it'd be fun to use MS's tactics upon MS for a change. Can't you just hear Gates and Ballmer now? "Waaaah, the Linux freaks are stifling our innovation! Wahhhh!"
See, once upon a time, back in the ancient days, before the existance of slashcode.com, there was a group of people who attempted to use the 0.2 and 0.3 releases of Slash.
This was BEFORE the Andover acquisition, before the IPO, before the VAOLinux assimilation.
Someone managed to a) make slash 0.3pre work b) provide a patch to do so, and c) PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION.
A list sprung up for those of us interested. http://projects.is.asu.edu/mailman/listinfo/slash- help. A FAQ was written: http://www.zevils.com/programs/files/slash-faq2.tx t. Patches were given to Mr. Malda, who promptly either ignored or failed to acknowledge them. Pleas were made for Malda to link the list or FAQ to the slashcode page. They went unheeded. People who had spent months unsucccessfully trying to make Slash work discovered the FAQ, mailing list, and patch, and managed to make slash work. And *they* were unhappy that Malda and/. blew us off and refused to point to us as a help source.
I'm really p*ssed off here. OUR work was blown off by Malda and never ever acknowledged on/. and then we got to be insulted later by the appearance of a 0.9 release without any acknowledgement of our effort, followed by the appearance of slashcode.com, and now finally there's a nice book about it posted on/. itself, which kicks money back to/. not to mention the authors of the book whom are likely largely ignorant of the early history of/.
Yeah, I'm real bitter that all this isn't even a footnote in history. I think though that a) there should be credit given where it is due and b) the truth should be made public about what Malda was up to with slash at the time ("slash was made public as a joke as an entry for obfuscated perl contest and we will never support it" IIRC yet he through Andover/VAOLinux did later).
So come on, let's see if we get some acknowledgement from/. and the book authors etc. about these issues. Or perhaps I ought to buy one share of stock and ask at the stockholder's meeting! Yeah, that's it, they gotta answer to the stockholders...
Why don't they just tweak the orbits to sling the satellites at Mars and crash 'em in to the planet? I mean, jeez, NASA could do this, and probably get all those satellites cheap, and that way we're not spending $100M on some damn thing that was supposed to *land* on the planet. With luck, we can make the Martians eat flaming death and get revenge for them waxing so many of our spacecraft! Hell, spare a few for the moon! Maybe if it was done right, you could carve some company's logo into the surface of the moon with them. Hell, lash them to the ISS and reuse whatever parts you can, like the solar panels... come on, burning these things up in the atmosphere is only going to leave more junk in space, so why not fling them away from the earth?
I heard there was a slashdot code mailing list, but alast I can not find it. Also some guy from lilthfair.org claimed to have hacked up.3 enough for an actucally release, but he suddenly disappeared without ever being heard of again, and lilthfair.org is down. I think Rob "The Commandor" Taco broke his knee caps, and rightfully so.
Er. Hi. I essentially gave up when Rob responded to Matthew Sachs with "Every time someone asks me about the source I delay the release another day." Now how's that for being a [CENSORED BY SLASHDOT/ANDOVER]
Oooh, I'm so scared of losing my Karma... I post once in a blue moon, BFD.
Segfault killed all their stuff because of stupid lamers who insisted on first post wars and all sorts of stupid stuff. Probably a lot of other sites are sick of it too.
I get real tired of the few times I actually read the comments being full of flamebait and trolls. I'm sick of Slashdot being a continual form of immaturity battle (and feel free if you need to to point out my participation, then look in the mirror at your own)... maybe it's time to seriously put the smack down on some things so as to get the point through to the idiots...
Or is it true that you moderation dorks (like I said, I don't wanna play God) really love wasting your points on dropping first post and flamebait instead of promoting stuff?
Um, had I ever decided I was willing to moderate, I would drop this dude down so far that the only way anything could read his post would be to dive to the bottom of the ocean and dig into the sea floor.
Proposed new Slashdot policies:
1) Idiots who first post while logged in LOSE THEIR ACCOUNT! And give them a poison cookie and block their IP from posting for a week. 2) Anonymous idiots who first post get a poison cookie and get their IP blocked from posting for a week. And if they post anon and have an account, kill the account too. 3) Other * post idiots get their IP blocked for 24 hours.
Oh yeah, those damned dynamic IPs... block based on their hostname (a la IRC bans) and put up a message to people trying to post ("an idiot from dialup-666.wankertown.foo.luserISP.com decided to first post to the story 'Hemos the Hamster Unplugged' and got you banned in the process. His user account is 'IamA1Am3R' and the given email address is 'LARTmeHARD@luserISP.com' This ban will expire in $TIME_REMAINING. Send comments to/dev/null or a similar bitbucket on your system. Thank you."
How to implement? Put parts into comments.pl which do something like the following:
1) if the post is #1 and there is a match (pick how fuzzy you want it) on "first post"; then boot the lamer following 1 and 2 above.
2) if the post is not #1 but was posted within a certain time frame after the story was posted, and it matches (again pick how you want to do it) "first post" or "second post" etc., either boot the lamer or automatically moderate it down (-2 even?) and leave a moderator move it up as necessary. Also implement 1, 2, and/or 3 as you wish.
3) If someone wants to first post like 2 hours after the article was posted, let them be an idiot.
-- Oh yeah, my URL/email don't work as I got screwed by my former ISP/colo. Let's just say I got tired of them doing things like assigning 192.168.0.1 to the router and blocking all ICMP at the router because somehow the default of no directed broadcast was changed and someone smurfed them, and they got tired of me proving they were stupid. If you want to reach out and LART someone, you can get in touch with me at lilithfair (at) iname _dot_ com (unmangle it) and I'll tell you as soon as I can (after all, I don't recall signing a non-disclosure agreement;)
Bitter?!? Me?!? Maybe I just think people who screw up the 'Net need a good screwing from someone else in order to educate them and unscrew the 'Net for the rest of us.
You know, you really want to screw these patent people over? PATENT THE PATENT ITSELF! Submit a patent proposal for something like "method of maintaining ownership and retaining value of intellectual property (yadda yadda lawyer speak science speak etc.)", submit it, and if it goes through, take it to the press as an example of patents gone haywire. Go on TV and threaten to sue the US Patent and Trademark Office, the World Intelluctal Property Organization (WIPO), etc. and point out all the BS patents that have been obtained on software and other things. Hint to Bill Gates/Microsoft: next time you're in front of a camera, tell the media that the stupidity of the US Govt. and Patent Office are stifling innovation for everyone with this stuff. Call for a judicial review of all patents issued since a certain date. Do something positive with your monopoly.
I'm going to be lynched for bringing up Bill Gates, aren't I? In this case, he is probably the lesser of two evils, though not by much.
Well, um, what about those of us who took the Slashdot code and did something with it, namely fixing the bugs, making it so it runs pretty much out of the tarball, and writing a FAQ on how to use it (http://womensmusicnews.com/null/, plus manning a mailing list (http://projects.is.asu.edu/m ailman/listinfo/slash-help so Rob had to deal with fewer lamers and got some code-level feedback? Don't we get something more out of this? Yeah I'm way biased here, but I'm also totally broke (what savings account? what money?) so I'm looking out for myself too.;)
Of course, Rob's and Andover's response is "no comment" (couldn't think of a way to use C or Perl-type comments in an expression of "no comment").
1) someone moderate this guy +2 for bringing up something I was just thinking about. 2) If you've been to the doctor and had a stress EEG to help diagnose migraine, did they make you close your eyes and put a strobelight over your face? Hmmm... see, I'm a migraine sufferer, my sister is a migraine sufferer, and I know several other migraine sufferers, and most of us believe that flickering lights or lights that are outputting more light in the green-violet spectrum are triggers for migraines. Also, a lot of us absolutely hate prolonged exposure to Blacklights, especially the fluorescent ones, so our theory is that ultraviolet is a trigger (goes with the other fluorescent lights too). Basically, we suggest to other people experiencing bad effects that they go to incandescent or halogen lamps, try to go with natural spectrum bulbs, try to work somewhere with windows (no not the MS kind) so you can have natural light (unless you're a vampire) and definately run the monitor/video card at a setting you can tolerate. Also remember that if you are diagnosed as having migraines and you can document such things as triggers, that according to various legislation (the Americans with Disabilities Act for one) that your employer must attempt to make a reasonable accomodation for you. So they should be able to pay $50 for a decent lamp and bulb, or $250 for that 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 TV:P
When your character dies, instead of "Game Over" the screen is the Blue Screen of Death.
Your VCR will start accepting only Windows-compatable tapes.
Everyone has to get MSNBC to download software updates to the console over the Vertical Blanking Interval. (This of course takes 6 straight hours of watching MSNBC.)
TVs have to meet Windows Hardware Compatability tests and be on the Hardware Compatability List.
All MS game consoles will have more RAM and storage than your current machine, and will have expansion ports for more (and of course the ports are all proprietary).
One word: WebTV.
Records your TV watching preferences and sends them back to Redmond for analysis. Microsoft buys the Nielsens.
Games display ads for MSN, Win2k, etc. either full screen or as subtle references.
MS would make it illegal to use Game Genies and such, and would attempt to harm/kill anyone attempting to modify the system by strobing the picture and causing seizures.
Dramatic increase in sales of TVs and replacement parts as the tubes and projection screens suffer burn-in and wearing out of the blue phosphors from constant Blue Screens of Death.
Apple makes a combination HDTV/VCR/game console/internet access device/satellite receiver/etc. that you only have to connect three cables to at an affordable price, and it comes it various colors to match your interior decor. It sells well in educational, computer novice, and Sega-fan markets, but everyone else blows it off as not being a serious computer.
And of course, once it is available, someone makes an effort to port Linux, *BSD, etc. to it.
I made my attempt at humor. If you're someone famous and you liked it, drop me a note.
Well, I poked through the comments, so maybe someone else figured this out. If I were CheapBytes or LinuxMall or someone who sold the GPL image on CD, I'd be calling my lawyers in to check that my "CheapBytes Red Hat 6.0" is okay or out. Thank you Red Hat... but no thanks. Go get yourselves some more lawyers and a PR firm... meanwhile, my distro preferences are changing... I hear SuSE, Debian, and Mandrake calling, and *BSD is an option too....
Oh yeah, I was down the trademark road over LilithFair.org too, and lemme just note that threats and having someone else do your dirty work is not the way to make friends. Let's see Bob Young and Jeff Bezos explain this one, personally. Just so we know that this comes straight from the top and not from middle-and-bottom-layer grunts and flacks.
[go ahead moderators, flamebait and -1 me. I made sure that to not volunteer as a moderator, so remember that when I don't moderate your stuff.]
If you're going to do a Slashdot parody, do it right, get the less buggy code and the FAQ and actually go through the trouble of making the code work. And I find "buggy code" to be a little harsh on Rob... undocumented and not well written, yes, but it works for the most part. Parodies don't work unless you put some time into them, and this one looks like something that was thought up while on drugs.
And to all you who called LilithFair.org a bad Slashdot ripoff, I'd like to see you get the pre-0.3 release from Slashdot (no, not the -jt releases I made) and make it work without any support. At least my site functions, instead of being a poorly written one-page parody.
I have a few bones to pick with people... don't mind me if you're not one of them.
..."normal" (non-light) Slashdot still crashes Win98 solid with both IE and Netscape (using two different sets of Banshee drivers) and segfaults Netscape on Linux for me whenever I scroll. And I just reinstalled Win98, and it was a lot of praying to be able to login without having to scroll down. Rob, I've said this a thousand times... fix the HTML. Here's some help.
I use Slash too and it doesn't cause my stuff to die. It took me a whopping 2 hours to make my HTML about 90% 4.0 Transitional compliant. Come on, I can't possibly be the only one who has problems due to bad HTML, can I?
Oh well, back to working on Slash FAQ type stuff. *sigh*
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Pigs fly, the Four Horsemen ride out, Satan announces the NHL is back in business and now playing in Hell, and Dubya quits.
Bets that someone will reverse-engineer it in time?
"$GENERIC_TAIWANESE_HARDWARE_CO announces Apple/OS X compatable motherboard!"
Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.
No, the update doesn't make your drive faster. It makes the new 4x media work in your drive. At 1x in a 2x drive.
There is not a new driver for the printer on HP's site. "HP Deskjet and HP Professional Series Printers - Obtaining and Installing Drivers for Windows 2000 {...) The most current driver is already integrated into Windows 2000 and it is already on every Windows 2000 PC."
My friend lives in Indiana. I live in Ohio. I don't think it is the power company.
*looks at UPS* 117V, 60Hz
Was this guy looking for order in chaos? Did it spit out a 216-digit number before the ants infested it? Does he have intense migraine headaches?
Assuming you're running stuff that wants less than or equal to 12VDC, you might want to get and modify the "car power adapters" such as RadioShack adaptaplug. Keep an eye out for stuff with wall-warts that convert 120VAC to stuff 9VAC (like those Linksys Cable/DSL router/switches). Sometimes, though, you'll find some equipment that has an AC plug but a DC conversion internally, or stuff that doesn't care if it gets AC or DC. However, you don't want to test this experimentally unless you like releasing magic smoke or blowing things up. It's better to consult someone with electronics knowledge, or the manufacturer, first.
There's already a Pan, and it's a newsreader. So I think the Pan newsreader people ought to go tell MS to rename their Pan or face court. Besides, it'd be fun to use MS's tactics upon MS for a change. Can't you just hear Gates and Ballmer now? "Waaaah, the Linux freaks are stifling our innovation! Wahhhh!"
Gods, I knew this day would come.
- help. A FAQ was written: http://www.zevils.com/programs/files/slash-faq2.tx t. Patches were given to Mr. Malda, who promptly either ignored or failed to acknowledge them. Pleas were made for Malda to link the list or FAQ to the slashcode page. They went unheeded. People who had spent months unsucccessfully trying to make Slash work discovered the FAQ, mailing list, and patch, and managed to make slash work. And *they* were unhappy that Malda and /. blew us off and refused to point to us as a help source.
/. and then we got to be insulted later by the appearance of a 0.9 release without any acknowledgement of our effort, followed by the appearance of slashcode.com, and now finally there's a nice book about it posted on /. itself, which kicks money back to /. not to mention the authors of the book whom are likely largely ignorant of the early history of /.
/. and the book authors etc. about these issues. Or perhaps I ought to buy one share of stock and ask at the stockholder's meeting! Yeah, that's it, they gotta answer to the stockholders...
See, once upon a time, back in the ancient days, before the existance of slashcode.com, there was a group of people who attempted to use the 0.2 and 0.3 releases of Slash.
This was BEFORE the Andover acquisition, before the IPO, before the VAOLinux assimilation.
Someone managed to a) make slash 0.3pre work b) provide a patch to do so, and c) PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION.
A list sprung up for those of us interested.
http://projects.is.asu.edu/mailman/listinfo/slash
I'm really p*ssed off here. OUR work was blown off by Malda and never ever acknowledged on
Yeah, I'm real bitter that all this isn't even a footnote in history. I think though that a) there should be credit given where it is due and b) the truth should be made public about what Malda was up to with slash at the time ("slash was made public as a joke as an entry for obfuscated perl contest and we will never support it" IIRC yet he through Andover/VAOLinux did later).
So come on, let's see if we get some acknowledgement from
Email: (slash) [at] (underwaterbasketweaving [dot] (com)
Q1: What happens when someone takes a powerful magnet and wiggles it around one of these chips?
Q2: What happens if/when the Earth's magnetic field flips polarity?
Q3: What happens if someone shoves a whopping good bolt of electricity into these chips?
Why don't they just tweak the orbits to sling the satellites at Mars and crash 'em in to the planet? I mean, jeez, NASA could do this, and probably get all those satellites cheap, and that way we're not spending $100M on some damn thing that was supposed to *land* on the planet. With luck, we can make the Martians eat flaming death and get revenge for them waxing so many of our spacecraft! Hell, spare a few for the moon! Maybe if it was done right, you could carve some company's logo into the surface of the moon with them. Hell, lash them to the ISS and reuse whatever parts you can, like the solar panels... come on, burning these things up in the atmosphere is only going to leave more junk in space, so why not fling them away from the earth?
Nothing works on them. Except for that which we dare not try: getting the DOJ after them in an antitrust lawsuit.
Er. Hi. I essentially gave up when Rob responded to Matthew Sachs with "Every time someone asks me about the source I delay the release another day." Now how's that for being a [CENSORED BY SLASHDOT/ANDOVER]
Oooh, I'm so scared of losing my Karma... I post once in a blue moon, BFD.
Segfault killed all their stuff because of stupid lamers who insisted on first post wars and all sorts of stupid stuff. Probably a lot of other sites are sick of it too.
I get real tired of the few times I actually read the comments being full of flamebait and trolls. I'm sick of Slashdot being a continual form of immaturity battle (and feel free if you need to to point out my participation, then look in the mirror at your own)... maybe it's time to seriously put the smack down on some things so as to get the point through to the idiots...
Or is it true that you moderation dorks (like I said, I don't wanna play God) really love wasting your points on dropping first post and flamebait instead of promoting stuff?
Um, had I ever decided I was willing to moderate, I would drop this dude down so far that the only way anything could read his post would be to dive to the bottom of the ocean and dig into the sea floor.
/dev/null or a similar bitbucket on your system. Thank you."
;)
Proposed new Slashdot policies:
1) Idiots who first post while logged in LOSE THEIR ACCOUNT! And give them a poison cookie and block their IP from posting for a week.
2) Anonymous idiots who first post get a poison cookie and get their IP blocked from posting for a week. And if they post anon and have an account, kill the account too.
3) Other * post idiots get their IP blocked for 24 hours.
Oh yeah, those damned dynamic IPs... block based on their hostname (a la IRC bans) and put up a message to people trying to post ("an idiot from dialup-666.wankertown.foo.luserISP.com decided to first post to the story 'Hemos the Hamster Unplugged' and got you banned in the process. His user account is 'IamA1Am3R' and the given email address is 'LARTmeHARD@luserISP.com' This ban will expire in $TIME_REMAINING. Send comments to
How to implement? Put parts into comments.pl which do something like the following:
1) if the post is #1 and there is a match (pick how fuzzy you want it) on "first post"; then boot the lamer following 1 and 2 above.
2) if the post is not #1 but was posted within a certain time frame after the story was posted, and it matches (again pick how you want to do it) "first post" or "second post" etc., either boot the lamer or automatically moderate it down (-2 even?) and leave a moderator move it up as necessary. Also implement 1, 2, and/or 3 as you wish.
3) If someone wants to first post like 2 hours after the article was posted, let them be an idiot.
--
Oh yeah, my URL/email don't work as I got screwed by my former ISP/colo. Let's just say I got tired of them doing things like assigning 192.168.0.1 to the router and blocking all ICMP at the router because somehow the default of no directed broadcast was changed and someone smurfed them, and they got tired of me proving they were stupid. If you want to reach out and LART someone, you can get in touch with me at lilithfair (at) iname _dot_ com (unmangle it) and I'll tell you as soon as I can (after all, I don't recall signing a non-disclosure agreement
Bitter?!? Me?!? Maybe I just think people who screw up the 'Net need a good screwing from someone else in order to educate them and unscrew the 'Net for the rest of us.
You know, you really want to screw these patent people over? PATENT THE PATENT ITSELF! Submit a patent proposal for something like "method of maintaining ownership and retaining value of intellectual property (yadda yadda lawyer speak science speak etc.)", submit it, and if it goes through, take it to the press as an example of patents gone haywire. Go on TV and threaten to sue the US Patent and Trademark Office, the World Intelluctal Property Organization (WIPO), etc. and point out all the BS patents that have been obtained on software and other things. Hint to Bill Gates/Microsoft: next time you're in front of a camera, tell the media that the stupidity of the US Govt. and Patent Office are stifling innovation for everyone with this stuff. Call for a judicial review of all patents issued since a certain date. Do something positive with your monopoly.
I'm going to be lynched for bringing up Bill Gates, aren't I? In this case, he is probably the lesser of two evils, though not by much.
Well, um, what about those of us who took the Slashdot code and did something with it, namely fixing the bugs, making it so it runs pretty much out of the tarball, and writing a FAQ on how to use it (http://womensmusicnews.com/null/, plus manning a mailing list (http://projects.is.asu.edu/m ailman/listinfo/slash-help so Rob had to deal with fewer lamers and got some code-level feedback? Don't we get something more out of this? Yeah I'm way biased here, but I'm also totally broke (what savings account? what money?) so I'm looking out for myself too. ;)
Of course, Rob's and Andover's response is "no comment" (couldn't think of a way to use C or Perl-type comments in an expression of "no comment").
1) someone moderate this guy +2 for bringing up something I was just thinking about. :P
2) If you've been to the doctor and had a stress EEG to help diagnose migraine, did they make you close your eyes and put a strobelight over your face? Hmmm... see, I'm a migraine sufferer, my sister is a migraine sufferer, and I know several other migraine sufferers, and most of us believe that flickering lights or lights that are outputting more light in the green-violet spectrum are triggers for migraines. Also, a lot of us absolutely hate prolonged exposure to Blacklights, especially the fluorescent ones, so our theory is that ultraviolet is a trigger (goes with the other fluorescent lights too). Basically, we suggest to other people experiencing bad effects that they go to incandescent or halogen lamps, try to go with natural spectrum bulbs, try to work somewhere with windows (no not the MS kind) so you can have natural light (unless you're a vampire) and definately run the monitor/video card at a setting you can tolerate. Also remember that if you are diagnosed as having migraines and you can document such things as triggers, that according to various legislation (the Americans with Disabilities Act for one) that your employer must attempt to make a reasonable accomodation for you. So they should be able to pay $50 for a decent lamp and bulb, or $250 for that 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 TV
- When your character dies, instead of "Game Over" the screen is the Blue Screen of Death.
- Your VCR will start accepting only Windows-compatable tapes.
- Everyone has to get MSNBC to download software updates to the console over the Vertical Blanking Interval. (This of course takes 6 straight hours of watching MSNBC.)
- TVs have to meet Windows Hardware Compatability tests and be on the Hardware Compatability List.
- All MS game consoles will have more RAM and storage than your current machine, and will have expansion ports for more (and of course the ports are all proprietary).
- One word: WebTV.
- Records your TV watching preferences and sends them back to Redmond for analysis. Microsoft buys the Nielsens.
- Games display ads for MSN, Win2k, etc. either full screen or as subtle references.
- MS would make it illegal to use Game Genies and such, and would attempt to harm/kill anyone attempting to modify the system by strobing the picture and causing seizures.
- Dramatic increase in sales of TVs and replacement parts as the tubes and projection screens suffer burn-in and wearing out of the blue phosphors from constant Blue Screens of Death.
- Apple makes a combination HDTV/VCR/game console/internet access device/satellite receiver/etc. that you only have to connect three cables to at an affordable price, and it comes it various colors to match your interior decor. It sells well in educational, computer novice, and Sega-fan markets, but everyone else blows it off as not being a serious computer.
- And of course, once it is available, someone makes an effort to port Linux, *BSD, etc. to it.
I made my attempt at humor. If you're someone famous and you liked it, drop me a note.Well, I poked through the comments, so maybe someone else figured this out. If I were CheapBytes or LinuxMall or someone who sold the GPL image on CD, I'd be calling my lawyers in to check that my "CheapBytes Red Hat 6.0" is okay or out. Thank you Red Hat... but no thanks. Go get yourselves some more lawyers and a PR firm... meanwhile, my distro preferences are changing... I hear SuSE, Debian, and Mandrake calling, and *BSD is an option too....
Oh yeah, I was down the trademark road over LilithFair.org too, and lemme just note that threats and having someone else do your dirty work is not the way to make friends. Let's see Bob Young and Jeff Bezos explain this one, personally. Just so we know that this comes straight from the top and not from middle-and-bottom-layer grunts and flacks.
>Post new version of slashdot code
Er... http://projects.is.asu.edu/m ailman/listinfo/slash-help would be a good place to start if you want to even bring up Slash.
[go ahead moderators, flamebait and -1 me. I made sure that to not volunteer as a moderator, so remember that when I don't moderate your stuff.]
If you're going to do a Slashdot parody, do it right, get the less buggy code and the FAQ and actually go through the trouble of making the code work. And I find "buggy code" to be a little harsh on Rob... undocumented and not well written, yes, but it works for the most part. Parodies don't work unless you put some time into them, and this one looks like something that was thought up while on drugs.
And to all you who called LilithFair.org a bad Slashdot ripoff, I'd like to see you get the pre-0.3 release from Slashdot (no, not the -jt releases I made) and make it work without any support. At least my site functions, instead of being a poorly written one-page parody.
I have a few bones to pick with people... don't mind me if you're not one of them.
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James Turinsky
Owner/Admin, LilithFair.org
..."normal" (non-light) Slashdot still crashes Win98 solid with both IE and Netscape (using two different sets of Banshee drivers) and segfaults Netscape on Linux for me whenever I scroll. And I just reinstalled Win98, and it was a lot of praying to be able to login without having to scroll down. Rob, I've said this a thousand times... fix the HTML. Here's some help.
I use Slash too and it doesn't cause my stuff to die. It took me a whopping 2 hours to make my HTML about 90% 4.0 Transitional compliant. Come on, I can't possibly be the only one who has problems due to bad HTML, can I?
Oh well, back to working on Slash FAQ type stuff. *sigh*