and furthermore, in the spirit of Open Source, I would just like to say that your contribution to the project sucked and you must be a total lamer, and to complain about the choice of window manager we are using.
You realize of course, we now need to maintain to separate distros of the Lars-O-matic script.
My obviously superior one, because it was first, and your dummied down one for money grubbing suits that can barely use Windows.
Not Rob, more than one of the staff posts stories here.
Ah,well I know what you are really up to Rob!You're going to get these implants,become a Borg,and assimilate us into your cult of personality!I knew it!CmdrTaco is part the world's second biggest conspiracy!(We all know that the largest is the GNUist....oops
Umm, that would immediately prevent more than 50% of the population from being able to "log into something".
Au contraire, ~50% of the population would be able to crack a sperm scanner with ease, as long as they could get to it within a few hours of the deed, and they had non-porous panties.
In 'Between Silk and Cyanide' the writer talks about the 'signature' of a wireless operator - a pattern of the rythem of their keystrokes that was kept on file, to compare suspicious messages.
They call this the fist in Cryptonicon, and use it in a counter intelligence operation to save our heroes.
Plesae excuse my ignorance on the finer distinctions of window managers and environments, but wouldn't the Linux/UNIX community be better served if these apps ran in any X windows environment?
What is I want to use an app while I'm at my Solaris machine, or at an NT machine?
What if I'm enamored with an older windowmanager?
What if I have a hacked i-opener and I don't want to run kde on it?
Actually, there was a very good book a couple years ago (I wish I could remember the title) about how all this "individualism" and "anti-corporatism" was the direct and intended result of corporate campaigns of the 50's and 60's.
You're probably thinking of
"The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism" By Thomas Frank University of Chicago Press, 287 pages
People had plastic surgery to look like corporate icons, corporations ruled everything, people lived in fortresses behind mazelike entrances. And this was in 1956.
From the pictures and schematics I've seen, it looks small, especially if you intend to cram it full of servers, dishes, generators, fuel, supplies and security guards.
Are you going to sink more barges/piles to expand your area?
Okay, this is only slightly off topic, considering the slides are in PostScript format.
What software would a WinHostage use at work in order to view such things. (Unfortunately, I must work in Windows, since my boss requires we use Outlook... even though the Exchange server is dead and in pieces...:)
Anyway, can I view these in Win, or do I have to wait until I get back $HOME to view them?
Ghostscript for Windows should do it, though it's been a few years since I used it.
Any change of getting Adobe Distiller, that works too.
Some young programmers who want it all without working for it decided to DoS my ISP whenever I logged in. Rather than wait for the ISP to handle it, I fixed their security hole (so they couldn't tell when I was logged in) and fixed their firewall so they couldn't be DoSed anymore. The details of this are too complex to get into here (and prior discussion has demonstrated that it's a waste of my time anyway), but my main point is that you have to give the crap, not take it.
Heck, I was getting ddos'ed all the time when I dialed in from my humble abode.
I didn't trust a software solution, so I wired up a hardware firewall using paperclips, resistors, my old TI-994a, and a gerbil in a wheel for the UPS.
I then rappelled into my ISP's mail point of connection, setup my firewall, then hot swapped the fibre to run through the new firewall.
I left a note, "please feed the gerbil", and departed. (I'm leaving a few details out here, the overpowering of the guards, the controlling my body temperature so I didn't show up on the IR security cams, etc, but you get the gist).
If you don't like the place you work, or your business urgently requires a substantial insurance claim to bolster profits, remember that careless use of candles and other naked flames often leads to major conflagrations.
I prefer to curse relentlessly rather than light a single candle.
Then I get ready for the breakdown of society by knocking a middle management type upside the head with an hpiii, butchering them and hanging them in a cool room, and starting a cooking fire with my user docs.
I do look foolish when the power comes back on in 15 minutes and I'm gnawing on the femur of a suit.
How do I order this out of print book from Fatbrain, to keep./ whoring itself?
Save your rant for something more ontopic.
George
I'd give your rant more credence
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but you used Star Trek as an example of earlier science fiction. Star Trek was a television series with a science fiction bent.
You do seem to know some science fiction, but drawing conclusions about old science fiction by citing Star Trek seems as relevant as drawing conclusions about old computers by citing HAL 9000.
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and furthermore, in the spirit of Open Source, I would just like to say that your contribution to the project sucked and you must be a total lamer, and to complain about the choice of window manager we are using.
You realize of course, we now need to maintain to separate distros of the Lars-O-matic script.
My obviously superior one, because it was first, and your dummied down one for money grubbing suits that can barely use Windows.
Oh yeah
s/the record company/the asshole record company/g
George
I'm sure we could all pitch in a do this with a sed script.
I'll start
s/I/I um/g
s/So/So like/g
your turn,
George
Not Rob, more than one of the staff posts stories here.
Ah,well I know what you are really up to Rob!You're going to get these implants,become a Borg,and assimilate us into your cult of personality!I knew it!CmdrTaco is part the world's second biggest conspiracy!(We all know that the largest is the GNUist....oops
George
Umm, that would immediately prevent more than 50% of the population from being able to "log into something".
Au contraire, ~50% of the population would be able to crack a sperm scanner with ease, as long as they could get to it within a few hours of the deed, and they had non-porous panties.
every thread must have one.
In 'Between Silk and Cyanide' the writer talks about the 'signature' of a wireless operator - a pattern of the rythem of their keystrokes that was kept on file, to compare suspicious messages.
They call this the fist in Cryptonicon, and use it in a counter intelligence operation to save our heroes.
I'm not sure if this is true, though.
George
takc swokd
>I don't understand takc
take swokd
> I see no swokd.
lieht lamp
>I don't understand lieht.
George
Name the Canadian Provences.
There's only one Provence, it's in France.
George
tripe is really gross fish, but some people dig it, I guess. go figure, some people even like sushi....
tripe is the stomach lining of a cow, some kind of Italian delicacy.
George
I meant running a kde app in an X for NT window on NT.
George
Plesae excuse my ignorance on the finer distinctions of window managers and environments, but wouldn't the Linux/UNIX community be better served if these apps ran in any X windows environment?
What is I want to use an app while I'm at my Solaris machine, or at an NT machine?
What if I'm enamored with an older windowmanager?
What if I have a hacked i-opener and I don't want to run kde on it?
Thanks,
George
Actually, there was a very good book a couple years ago (I wish I could remember the title) about how all this "individualism" and "anti-corporatism" was the direct and intended result of corporate campaigns of the 50's and 60's.
You're probably thinking of
"The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism"
By Thomas Frank University of Chicago Press, 287 pages
The review is at Salon.
George
Compared to her starving, or working as a prostitute, or as a slave... Hey, more power!
You've got to look at the context of things.
Yeah, what good would one of those foreign 6 year olds do in a school anyhow?
George
Had all sorts of things like this.
People had plastic surgery to look like corporate icons, corporations ruled everything, people lived in fortresses behind mazelike entrances. And this was in 1956.
I think Slashdot wrote something about this, too.
George
You forgot the witty repartee from the agin male lead old enough to be the female sa's grandpa
aml: How do I create a blank file?
fsa: touch
aml: What, I need to create a blank file named myboobs
fsa: easy, touch myboobs
The XXX dialog uses finger
George
as easily as she can use Windows?
I think that is the point Stephenson is making, and I agree with him.
The distros are trying to make it easier, but it's not there yet, and you shouldn't deny it.
George
Here for starters.
/. story on this, with more links.
Check out the last
George
From the pictures and schematics I've seen, it looks small, especially if you intend to cram it full of servers, dishes, generators, fuel, supplies and security guards.
Are you going to sink more barges/piles to expand your area?
George
Okay, this is only slightly off topic, considering the slides are in PostScript format.
:)
What software would a WinHostage use at work in order to view such things. (Unfortunately, I must work in Windows, since my boss requires we use Outlook... even though the Exchange server is dead and in pieces...
Anyway, can I view these in Win, or do I have to wait until I get back $HOME to view them?
Ghostscript for Windows should do it, though it's been a few years since I used it.
Any change of getting Adobe Distiller, that works too.
Or you can just read the source.
George
Some young programmers who want it all without working for it decided to DoS my ISP whenever I logged in. Rather than wait for the ISP to handle it, I fixed their security hole (so they couldn't tell when I was logged in) and fixed their firewall so they couldn't be DoSed anymore. The details of this are too complex to get into here (and prior discussion has demonstrated that it's a waste of my time anyway), but my main point is that you have to give the crap, not take it.
Heck, I was getting ddos'ed all the time when I dialed in from my humble abode.
I didn't trust a software solution, so I wired up a hardware firewall using paperclips, resistors, my old TI-994a, and a gerbil in a wheel for the UPS.
I then rappelled into my ISP's mail point of connection, setup my firewall, then hot swapped the fibre to run through the new firewall.
I left a note, "please feed the gerbil", and departed. (I'm leaving a few details out here, the overpowering of the guards, the controlling my body temperature so I didn't show up on the IR security cams, etc, but you get the gist).
George
Hee-hee
If you don't like the place you work, or your business urgently requires a substantial insurance claim to bolster profits, remember that careless use of candles and other naked flames often leads to major conflagrations.
I prefer to curse relentlessly rather than light a single candle.
Then I get ready for the breakdown of society by knocking a middle management type upside the head with an hpiii, butchering them and hanging them in a cool room, and starting a cooking fire with my user docs.
I do look foolish when the power comes back on in 15 minutes and I'm gnawing on the femur of a suit.
George
"7h3 n@m3z n30!"
Everyone knows who Steven King is, and when he put his book on the web there were innnumerable puff pieces about it, letting everyone know.
Who is going to know about your book, and where to download it?
Publishers still control the physical distribution network, and the means of advertising a work, don't be too hasty to count them out.
George
Agreed, Shockwave Rider is definitely in my top 5 of science fiction books.
/. review, can anyone?
What's it take to write a
George
How do I order this out of print book from Fatbrain, to keep ./ whoring itself?
Save your rant for something more ontopic.
George
but you used Star Trek as an example of earlier science fiction. Star Trek was a television series with a science fiction bent.
You do seem to know some science fiction, but drawing conclusions about old science fiction by citing Star Trek seems as relevant as drawing conclusions about old computers by citing HAL 9000.
George