I'm getting something like "1-800-ASK-FISH"... tried to route out to an operator to ask for you, but it just disconnects on me. Please give me a ring here (at a shared office with Zapu.com: 864-859-6764). Thank you!!!
This is NOT my site, please refer to my (numerous) other comments regarding the fact that lots of people now (mistakenly) think I'm a racist. Thank you.
May I also add that I've been awake for a little of two days now trying to finish up a web-based application? A little consideration and inquiry into misunderstandings goes a long way these days. If you would like, I'll email you my phone number. I would greatly appreciate a chance to speak with Chris directly as well.
Incidentally, I'm sorry about all this crap. My mixups have probably offended a bunch of people, and painted me as the diametric opposite of the type of person I actually am. I think I'll call Robert now and clue him in to all this mess. Looking forward to your email.
Alrighty then, time for yet more fun information. Our company President and Chief Network Architect (Robert Meltz) is Jewish himself. His father is the Dean Emeritus of John Marshall Law School, and a dear friend of mine at that (also Jewish). Some of my best memories of the last two years have been evening discussions with Mr. Meltz.
This really bites, hard. Through high school, I actually got in more fights with racist idiots than anyone else, mostly because they insulted Jewish or black friends of mine. I know this is a public forum, but I'll admit that all this disturbs me greatly. I'll be more than happy to openly discuss this with ANYONE to clear up this confusion.
As for business, business can be damned. There are things more important than money in life, such as people not hating each other. I'd hope you could understand this. Please reply to ceo@trilucid.com, or send your phone number, I'll be happy to call you myself.
Yes, you're right that I'm now at the point that I'm even getting my posts confused. My blood pressure has got to be spiking at this point... let's clarify if I can:
My original post was simply stating the person posting the EXTREME anti-Nazi stuff (the parts about bashing heads in with bats and such) really should get a life. Now, this does NOT make me a Nazi-sympathizer in any sense. I actually pretty much DESPISE them (NAZIS, that is), but (related to another of my posts) I feel conflict over this because in my book I'm not supposed to hate ANYBODY, although I happen to hate Nazis (which is wrong under my religious views, just as it would be wrong to hate anyone else I disagree with).
ANYBODY who's still consfused about this (and I know, I added to the confusion by getting mixed up myself), please email me a ceo@trilucid.com. Hell, I'll be happy to call anyone (long distance or not) to discuss this if need be. Thank you.
ARRRGGGHHH!!! I just realized why everybody seems to think I'm a Nazi now. My original comment was directed against an individual who was posted bigoted comments with regard to Nazi's (and rather harshly at that), I assume in response to the fact that the article happens to be in German.
I'll be honest here, I personally despise the Nazi party, and every evil they stand for. I'd love to see them all burn. But you see, I shouldn't think that way, simply because if I do, I'm just as bad as they are. This is where my conflict comes into play (even leaving my religion out of it, which is difficult for me). I (probably stupidly) directed the "harsh one" to go find something useful to do instead of condemning the entire nation of Germany simply because of ONE of their political parties (admittedly, a vile one [Nazi scum], just IMHO).
To anyone who posted that I was a racist due to all this happy fun slander, I'd appreciate an apology, even if it comes posted as AC. Thank you.
AGAIN, LET ME REITERATE: MY ORIGINAL COMMENT WAS *** AGAINST *** THE SICK PIECE OF SCUM THAT POSTED ANTI-SEMITIC CRAP HERE ON SLASHDOT! WHY, OH WHY, CAN'T SOME PEOPLE LEARN TO BROWSE AT -1 IN ORDER TO GET THE FULL STORY!!!
So now, a bunch of people think I'm a Nazi. Which is really funny, given the fact that I've got family that DIED in Europe fighting the Nazi regime in WWII. Don't think for a minute that I will EVER condone bigotry in this country, or any other I set foot in. Some apologies from those who misuderstood would be greatly appreciated right about now. Our corporate site's traffic has actually spiked over this, although I'm pretty sure that's a BAD thing.
WHOA NOW, HOLD UP A MINUTE. Some people here seem to be confused... my comments were AGAINST the anti-semite who posted his (I'm assuming it was male) disgusting pro-Nazi crap here.
This is hysterical to me. I've got people sending me threats now because they think I have hate issues. Wow, I guess I shouldn't have gone to both of my best friends' barmitzfahs, huh? Yep, my best friends happen to be Jewish.
To anyone else out there who's confused about this, let me reiterate the fact that in order to see ALL comments, you have to browse at -1. If you had, you would have seen that I was posting AGAINST some racist asshole who was having some sick fun cluttering up the board with his Nazi propaganda.
Like my father says, I'm only bigoted against bigoted people.
I don't know why this comment got modded down to zero... although it's got a certain hint of sarcasm to it, it rings true to me. Too bad (s)he posted as AC on it.
Karma be damned... thank you, whoever you are for saying what I didn't!!! There's no room for that kind of crap here, although it's also been stated that if we "don't feed the trolls, they may go away."
Like I said, Karma be damned, I'll continue to rebuff that kind of crap.
"Software patents, they suck real bad, da da de dum"... in all seriousness, (and I don't have to say this part around here), this is a BAD THING COMING.
Here's my question: In light of the somewhat unfortunate fact that world economies are growing increasingly intertwined, especially given the rate of advances in digital communications, how great is the chance of my wonderful country (U.S.) eventually just deciding to "take the ball and go home" when it comes to countries that don't play by our current rules regarding software patents?
This strikes to the core of a problem America has always suffered from, namely a nasty elitist attitude regarding all things involving tech and government. While it's true that the U.S. has enjoyed relatively little fallout for this attitude problem historically speaking, how long can that last?
As an American, I suppose what I'm suggesting here is simply that U.S. citizens should probably start taking a closer look at how our internal government policy decisions (especially regarding technology issues) may eventually leave us out in the cold on the world economic scene. It only makes sense when you think about it; we've got the edge in a few areas for the moment, but tables have a way of turning whenever our good friend Murphy steps into the room...
Either (1) you're a typical/. lamer who loves nothing more than inciting people (hey, like me!) to reply to your inane comments, -OR-
(2) You really oughta cool it on the uppers before you give yourself a coronary. Of course, you could always divert your wondrous "energy and fervor" into assisting the community... I hear SourceForge has things called "projects" that involve "source code"; perhaps you'd like to work on something useful...
Gosh darn it, just the other day I got around to starting to serve Q3 Arena games from one of my Linux boxes... and promptly got my ass whipped most takers:).
But wait! There's hope yet for my lamer, non-31337, self-cratering keister. I've come up with a simple plan to elevate myself to a similar level of Q3 God-ness:
1. Ditch my company - Hey, it's fun making cash and all that, but I'll have to start somewhere, eh?
2. Lose the girlfriend - Heck, what's she really good for anyhow? And just think of all the extra time I'll have (oops, that'll be sucked up by gaming).
3. Forsake showers - In cyberspace, no one can smell your stench.
4. Become a Quaker - Ughh... never mind, that's something different I suppose...
Yesiree Bob, I figure if I can just buckle down and stick to my rocket launchers on this one, I'll acheive Quake greatness in a couple of years at the most!
For ease of use and simplicity in getting started, I recommend Red Hat 7.1. While it's true that Red Hat is often called the "Windows 98 of Linux distros", the fact remains that it's a good starter distro.
Also, if you find yourself craving a slightly slicker GUI than the default versions of Gnome and KDE that come with most distros, be sure to check out Ximian Gnome (http://www.ximian.com). In addition to providing a nice interface, they also have a number of nifty "Setup Tools" available [warning: beta versions, but I've found they work pretty well] that are at least as easy to use in admining your box as the Windows equivalents. Plus, there's the Evolution groupware suite on the horizon; be sure to download their beta and check it out!
If they run Windows like the rest of the world, it's only a matter of time before my $550,000 model becomes Owned by Chinese!
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you read this story and you start having flashbacks of laying on your side in the suburbs, in the middle of January, frozen beyond the point of numbness, squinting through a telescope your dad bought you ($age_then = 11).
In all seriousness, it's good to see headlines like this these days. I often find myself sitting around wondering about the lack of enthusiasm for science (more specificially astronomy) I see in a lot of kids these days.
Yeah, I know, it's kinda always been that way, but it just seems to get progressively more so these days. I don't mean to sound like (gasp!!!) my parents or anything, but the focus seems to have shifted *inward* (to topics within society and industry) for most yound nerds these days (in pursuit of computing-related topics mostly), and away from *outbound* (astronomy, physics, chemistry, etc). I played with both chemistry sets AND computers as a kid, but now it seems most kids are playing with a WingMan Extreme and their parents' AOL connection instead.
Now, I'm a computer programmer now myself, but I can recall using DOS BASIC to write galaxy simulators when I was a kid. And before anymore thinks me an old fart dreaming about the Good Old Days, I'm only 20. What's up with this shift, and does it bother others like it bothers me?
"I remember being the coolest kid in the school 'cause my modem could be pushed to 450 baud instead of the usual 300!"
Man, at my high school I just got beat up by football players whenever I mentioned the words "modem", "cpu", or "code"... I did score a few dates tho (I guess they went in for the geeky type). heh heh heh.
I started out programming on a TRS-80, then moved to an AT&T PC 6300 (8086 w/ Wietek match coproc.), and on up the PC line from there. There's just one thing that really bothers me...
Why haven't other, arguably superior, architectures made it to prime time for home users? The PC (and by this I mean x86) has managed to blossom in homes and offices around the globe, but other architectures are still remanded to use in only "high need" or "unique" situations. Yes, I know it's redundant to use Apple as an example, but I just did. Give me a G4 running OSX any time, please. Then, of course, there's others (sun, etc) as well.
What's the deal with this? I know it can't all be due to the cost involved in manufacturing... does this really just boil down to marketing?
Of course, since my bread and butter is pretty much coding for x86 servers and desktop, I'm not complaining all that loudly, mind you. All replies welome!!!
Actually, ughh... no. Let me point out the fun fact that I first learned about the Linux family of OSes from sites like this one./. has garnered a reputation as a place for both newbies and old hats alike to gather and discuss "things geek."
Personally, I happen to check/. at least three or four times a day, so I kinda find it nice to see this here... plus, you know there's always the added bonus of being able to discuss the new features and fixes here before slapping it onto a server.
That's sort of what sites like/. are for. I think you forgot that part.
This is a Good Thing, for a lot of reasons. First, it's a decent-scale commercial deployment of Linux in an industry that isn't typically viewed as "tech" by Joe B. Consumer and Jane D. Executive. Next, it's a good example of making the *right* choice when it comes to stability and security, no matter the industry.
I've been a Windows developer for years (now reformed, 99% linux dev these days), and I used to work for CompUSA corporate. It was interesting standing around with a bunch of MS marketing execs in meetings in Dallas back then. We used to talk about operating systems, and how they couldn't believe any OS would have pose a significant "threat" to the Windows established customer base.
It may come as a surprise to the/. crowd as a whole, but I just now got around to installing Q3 Arena on one of my Red Hat boxes. It's just got a cheap Voodoo Banshee vid card in it, but here's the fun part: even with the most optimized drivers and OpenGL subsystem for Win2K (dual-booted on the same box), it still plays faster and better on Linux:).
Yeah, it may be kinda off-topic I suppose, but my point is this: it's good to see linux games starting to take off.:) x 10
"BTW, fuck privacy - you don't need it if you ain't guilty."
Gosh, I suppose you're definitely one I should lean on for advice in this category... 'course, on the topic on online privacy in general, I suppose you've got the *ultimate* solution:
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I'm getting something like "1-800-ASK-FISH"... tried to route out to an operator to ask for you, but it just disconnects on me. Please give me a ring here (at a shared office with Zapu.com: 864-859-6764). Thank you!!!
This is NOT my site, please refer to my (numerous) other comments regarding the fact that lots of people now (mistakenly) think I'm a racist. Thank you.
May I also add that I've been awake for a little of two days now trying to finish up a web-based application? A little consideration and inquiry into misunderstandings goes a long way these days. If you would like, I'll email you my phone number. I would greatly appreciate a chance to speak with Chris directly as well.
Incidentally, I'm sorry about all this crap. My mixups have probably offended a bunch of people, and painted me as the diametric opposite of the type of person I actually am. I think I'll call Robert now and clue him in to all this mess. Looking forward to your email.
Alrighty then, time for yet more fun information. Our company President and Chief Network Architect (Robert Meltz) is Jewish himself. His father is the Dean Emeritus of John Marshall Law School, and a dear friend of mine at that (also Jewish). Some of my best memories of the last two years have been evening discussions with Mr. Meltz.
This really bites, hard. Through high school, I actually got in more fights with racist idiots than anyone else, mostly because they insulted Jewish or black friends of mine. I know this is a public forum, but I'll admit that all this disturbs me greatly. I'll be more than happy to openly discuss this with ANYONE to clear up this confusion.
As for business, business can be damned. There are things more important than money in life, such as people not hating each other. I'd hope you could understand this. Please reply to ceo@trilucid.com, or send your phone number, I'll be happy to call you myself.
that's real cute.
Yes, you're right that I'm now at the point that I'm even getting my posts confused. My blood pressure has got to be spiking at this point... let's clarify if I can:
My original post was simply stating the person posting the EXTREME anti-Nazi stuff (the parts about bashing heads in with bats and such) really should get a life. Now, this does NOT make me a Nazi-sympathizer in any sense. I actually pretty much DESPISE them (NAZIS, that is), but (related to another of my posts) I feel conflict over this because in my book I'm not supposed to hate ANYBODY, although I happen to hate Nazis (which is wrong under my religious views, just as it would be wrong to hate anyone else I disagree with).
ANYBODY who's still consfused about this (and I know, I added to the confusion by getting mixed up myself), please email me a ceo@trilucid.com. Hell, I'll be happy to call anyone (long distance or not) to discuss this if need be. Thank you.
ARRRGGGHHH!!! I just realized why everybody seems to think I'm a Nazi now. My original comment was directed against an individual who was posted bigoted comments with regard to Nazi's (and rather harshly at that), I assume in response to the fact that the article happens to be in German.
I'll be honest here, I personally despise the Nazi party, and every evil they stand for. I'd love to see them all burn. But you see, I shouldn't think that way, simply because if I do, I'm just as bad as they are. This is where my conflict comes into play (even leaving my religion out of it, which is difficult for me). I (probably stupidly) directed the "harsh one" to go find something useful to do instead of condemning the entire nation of Germany simply because of ONE of their political parties (admittedly, a vile one [Nazi scum], just IMHO).
To anyone who posted that I was a racist due to all this happy fun slander, I'd appreciate an apology, even if it comes posted as AC. Thank you.
AGAIN, LET ME REITERATE: MY ORIGINAL COMMENT WAS *** AGAINST *** THE SICK PIECE OF SCUM THAT POSTED ANTI-SEMITIC CRAP HERE ON SLASHDOT! WHY, OH WHY, CAN'T SOME PEOPLE LEARN TO BROWSE AT -1 IN ORDER TO GET THE FULL STORY!!!
So now, a bunch of people think I'm a Nazi. Which is really funny, given the fact that I've got family that DIED in Europe fighting the Nazi regime in WWII. Don't think for a minute that I will EVER condone bigotry in this country, or any other I set foot in. Some apologies from those who misuderstood would be greatly appreciated right about now. Our corporate site's traffic has actually spiked over this, although I'm pretty sure that's a BAD thing.
WHOA NOW, HOLD UP A MINUTE. Some people here seem to be confused... my comments were AGAINST the anti-semite who posted his (I'm assuming it was male) disgusting pro-Nazi crap here.
This is hysterical to me. I've got people sending me threats now because they think I have hate issues. Wow, I guess I shouldn't have gone to both of my best friends' barmitzfahs, huh? Yep, my best friends happen to be Jewish.
To anyone else out there who's confused about this, let me reiterate the fact that in order to see ALL comments, you have to browse at -1. If you had, you would have seen that I was posting AGAINST some racist asshole who was having some sick fun cluttering up the board with his Nazi propaganda.
Like my father says, I'm only bigoted against bigoted people.
I don't know why this comment got modded down to zero... although it's got a certain hint of sarcasm to it, it rings true to me. Too bad (s)he posted as AC on it.
Karma be damned... thank you, whoever you are for saying what I didn't!!! There's no room for that kind of crap here, although it's also been stated that if we "don't feed the trolls, they may go away."
Like I said, Karma be damned, I'll continue to rebuff that kind of crap.
"Software patents, they suck real bad, da da de dum"... in all seriousness, (and I don't have to say this part around here), this is a BAD THING COMING.
Here's my question: In light of the somewhat unfortunate fact that world economies are growing increasingly intertwined, especially given the rate of advances in digital communications, how great is the chance of my wonderful country (U.S.) eventually just deciding to "take the ball and go home" when it comes to countries that don't play by our current rules regarding software patents?
This strikes to the core of a problem America has always suffered from, namely a nasty elitist attitude regarding all things involving tech and government. While it's true that the U.S. has enjoyed relatively little fallout for this attitude problem historically speaking, how long can that last?
As an American, I suppose what I'm suggesting here is simply that U.S. citizens should probably start taking a closer look at how our internal government policy decisions (especially regarding technology issues) may eventually leave us out in the cold on the world economic scene. It only makes sense when you think about it; we've got the edge in a few areas for the moment, but tables have a way of turning whenever our good friend Murphy steps into the room...
Either (1) you're a typical
(2) You really oughta cool it on the uppers before you give yourself a coronary. Of course, you could always divert your wondrous "energy and fervor" into assisting the community... I hear SourceForge has things called "projects" that involve "source code"; perhaps you'd like to work on something useful...
Gosh darn it, just the other day I got around to starting to serve Q3 Arena games from one of my Linux boxes... and promptly got my ass whipped most takers
But wait! There's hope yet for my lamer, non-31337, self-cratering keister. I've come up with a simple plan to elevate myself to a similar level of Q3 God-ness:
- 1. Ditch my company - Hey, it's fun making cash and all that, but I'll have to start somewhere, eh?
- 2. Lose the girlfriend - Heck, what's she really good for anyhow? And just think of all the extra time I'll have (oops, that'll be sucked up by gaming).
- 3. Forsake showers - In cyberspace, no one can smell your stench.
- 4. Become a Quaker - Ughh... never mind, that's something different I suppose...
Yesiree Bob, I figure if I can just buckle down and stick to my rocket launchers on this one, I'll acheive Quake greatness in a couple of years at the most!Or not.
For ease of use and simplicity in getting started, I recommend Red Hat 7.1. While it's true that Red Hat is often called the "Windows 98 of Linux distros", the fact remains that it's a good starter distro.
Also, if you find yourself craving a slightly slicker GUI than the default versions of Gnome and KDE that come with most distros, be sure to check out Ximian Gnome (http://www.ximian.com). In addition to providing a nice interface, they also have a number of nifty "Setup Tools" available [warning: beta versions, but I've found they work pretty well] that are at least as easy to use in admining your box as the Windows equivalents. Plus, there's the Evolution groupware suite on the horizon; be sure to download their beta and check it out!
Lotsa birthdays coming up! Be sure you don't miss these high-tech celebrations:
How patently obvious
If they run Windows like the rest of the world, it's only a matter of time before my $550,000 model becomes Owned by Chinese!
you read this story and you start having flashbacks of laying on your side in the suburbs, in the middle of January, frozen beyond the point of numbness, squinting through a telescope your dad bought you ($age_then = 11).
In all seriousness, it's good to see headlines like this these days. I often find myself sitting around wondering about the lack of enthusiasm for science (more specificially astronomy) I see in a lot of kids these days.
Yeah, I know, it's kinda always been that way, but it just seems to get progressively more so these days. I don't mean to sound like (gasp!!!) my parents or anything, but the focus seems to have shifted *inward* (to topics within society and industry) for most yound nerds these days (in pursuit of computing-related topics mostly), and away from *outbound* (astronomy, physics, chemistry, etc). I played with both chemistry sets AND computers as a kid, but now it seems most kids are playing with a WingMan Extreme and their parents' AOL connection instead.
Now, I'm a computer programmer now myself, but I can recall using DOS BASIC to write galaxy simulators when I was a kid. And before anymore thinks me an old fart dreaming about the Good Old Days, I'm only 20. What's up with this shift, and does it bother others like it bothers me?
"I remember being the coolest kid in the school 'cause my modem could be pushed to 450 baud instead of the usual 300!"
Man, at my high school I just got beat up by football players whenever I mentioned the words "modem", "cpu", or "code"... I did score a few dates tho (I guess they went in for the geeky type). heh heh heh.
I started out programming on a TRS-80, then moved to an AT&T PC 6300 (8086 w/ Wietek match coproc.), and on up the PC line from there. There's just one thing that really bothers me...
Why haven't other, arguably superior, architectures made it to prime time for home users? The PC (and by this I mean x86) has managed to blossom in homes and offices around the globe, but other architectures are still remanded to use in only "high need" or "unique" situations. Yes, I know it's redundant to use Apple as an example, but I just did. Give me a G4 running OSX any time, please. Then, of course, there's others (sun, etc) as well.
What's the deal with this? I know it can't all be due to the cost involved in manufacturing... does this really just boil down to marketing?
Of course, since my bread and butter is pretty much coding for x86 servers and desktop, I'm not complaining all that loudly, mind you. All replies welome!!!
Actually, ughh... no. Let me point out the fun fact that I first learned about the Linux family of OSes from sites like this one.
Personally, I happen to check
That's sort of what sites like
This is a Good Thing, for a lot of reasons. First, it's a decent-scale commercial deployment of Linux in an industry that isn't typically viewed as "tech" by Joe B. Consumer and Jane D. Executive. Next, it's a good example of making the *right* choice when it comes to stability and security, no matter the industry.
I've been a Windows developer for years (now reformed, 99% linux dev these days), and I used to work for CompUSA corporate. It was interesting standing around with a bunch of MS marketing execs in meetings in Dallas back then. We used to talk about operating systems, and how they couldn't believe any OS would have pose a significant "threat" to the Windows established customer base.
Piece by piece, proving 'em wrong
It may come as a surprise to the
Yeah, it may be kinda off-topic I suppose, but my point is this: it's good to see linux games starting to take off.
"BTW, fuck privacy - you don't need it if you ain't guilty."
Gosh, I suppose you're definitely one I should lean on for advice in this category... 'course, on the topic on online privacy in general, I suppose you've got the *ultimate* solution:
Your website's a dead link bucko.
Now that's security.