Actually yes they are a bunch of kids. If you look at the name of the poster, the number right after that is their age. In most cases it was 13. The amazing thing is that some of the questions were more sophisticated then questions we ask here on slashdot. (remember the Shatner interview?)
I agree with everything you said... the only part thats wrong is Sun has nothing to do with Eclipse. Its a great IDE (I use it for all my java projects) but it was created by IBM and then open sourced. Except for being built with Java, it has nothing to do with Sun.
Yeah mine is a 6360 and I picked it up at a surplus store for about $100. However I got 160 mhz IBM PowerPC, 48 megs of ram, 6 gig scsi hd, keyboard, mouse and monitor. Could do a lot worse than $100. Mine has a DEC card in it... I believe a DECChip 21142/43 that uses the tulip driver. Oh I also think this was one of the first models that used pci so you may be out of luck if you have that proprietary apple bus system.
Its tough to say... I was fairly surprised that this card worked. MacOS 8 wouldn't support it without find a driver (whoops, extension)which is nearly impossible considering the age of the machine, where linux picked it right up. Its a nice little machine.
My performa is a 160 mhz IBM PowerPC... one of the first powerpc macs IIRC. I've actually seen it, I opened up the mac and there in big letters was IBM. I just started laughing. It does run 2.4 but its buggy beyond belief.
The net card uses the tulip driver and is pci./proc/pci says its a Digital DECchip 21142/43. Like I said 2.4 is buggy, but works once installed as long as you don't do anything with it;). I used the 2.2 kernel to get the installation to work. So here is one case where the 2.2 kernel is much much nicer.
I have no idea what number it is but it runs my Mac Performa 6360 which is acting as a router. The 2.4 kernel panics anytime it tries to access the cd drive or I look at it funny. Don't get me wrong here, I use 2.4 on everything except in this one case.
The biggest problem, however, is that there is no market for underground houses, because Muggles/Sleepers/Luddites Part of the problem may that you treat people like crap (stop reading Harry Potter and start living a real life) that don't agree with you that living undergound like a goddamned mole person sucks (Mental Note: People like sun light, and no matter how many windows you have in your ceiling it probably isn't enough). the best real-estate appraisal we can get is about $100K I'd say its for more reasons that being listed as a "basement house". No matter how safe it is, people just don't want to live underground. Hence "Market Price". Your analogy of the 3 pigs is kind of off. I may be a little drunk but it seems to me that most houses built of wood don't fall down. Maybe 1 out of a couple of thousand in the US. And of those 75% is from fire which is usually the people living theres fault. If you want to live in a hobbit hole thats fine, but christ, don't bitch because the house isn't worth anything to anyone else. There are reasons people don't live in glorified caves anymore.
What do you say to someone who kept all of the 25 slide powerpoint presentation, that they've been working on for a month and is due to tommow, on a floppy disk that goes bad? It sucks. You want to say: "You're an idiot. Why the hell didn't you back it up? But what really comes out: "I'm very sorry, floppys are so horrible. If you look at them funny they stop woring. Make sure to email files to yourself. Again, I'm sorry".
I work tech support at a state school and I can't even count the number of students who have started crying. Its gone down in recent years because our admins finally decided to backup/autosave all Microsoft Word (which is one ofthe problems to begin with) documents on every public computer at the school (which is quite a lot) on a file server. That way if the student is in a lab for a few hours and gets a "Word has experienced a problem, your file will be lost" message they can come to the help desk and we can recover whatever was saved. Its really a life saver sometimes (students tend to do stupid stuff when they lose their big paper).
Linus is certainly well doing perfectly fine with money. He may not be Bill Gates but I'm sure hes worth more than 99% of people here on slashdot. Remember how much stock was given to him when Linux started taking off. I think he made a killing in VA stock before it dropped (didn't he buy is Z3 with that?). He also has stock in RedHat if IRCC.
I don't know... I've written some good code while piss drunk. I think the key is that while sober you sometimes get bogged down in doing it The Right Way (tm) where a simple ugly block of code would be better. My code may not be readable the next day but it works:).
If you have physical access to a machine you can crack it. This has been demonstrated before. I mean you could pop Knoppix in, mount the windows partition and copy files that way. If you don't want anyone accessing your files make sure you lock the damn machine down (physically and network wise).
and this world has been quite the scary & dangerous place ever since
You have to be kidding me right? The world is no more scarry than it was before the bomb was used. In fact one could argue that its less scarry. Look at the cold war. Heres a situation that very well should of been WW3. It had everything that WWI and WW2 had except for the war. Never underestimate the power of mutal destruction. Currently (and the last 40 years or so) we invade countries that we don't fear (Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, etc), because they have no risk of hurting the homeland. However do you think the US would pick a fight with the Chinese or Russians (or even North Korea, when was the last time we invaded them, no matter how "evil" they are)? No. And why is this? Because they could nuke as as badly as we could nuke them. The atomic bomb as been used more a tool of peace (albiet a threatening peace) then it has as a tool of war.
Kazaa (and Kazaa-lite) have implemented an "Integerity" system where users rate files. Right now the only incentive to rate them is to have slightly better download priveleges (for example if you have a high participation ranking if you and some people are after the same file you get priority). However its a step in the right direction.
NT was not written from scratch. NT was what Microsoft took from the OS/2 collaboration with IBM. IBM went on to future development of OS/2 and Microsoft took what they had rights to and developed NT (new technology).
Second is that NT is not really similiar to Unix. Its similiar to VMS which makes sende since the guys from DEC had done VMS.
Finally I don't think its emulation which does the command-line. IIRC the command-line is also rewritten from scratch but is just an application that mimics an old MS-DOS shell. Try to run any old dos game in the shell, you'll get an error like "This program can only run in MS-DOS" or similiar. If it was infact an emulator then it should have no problem running those programs. As for legacy applications, that probably has more to do with keeping the dlls for older apis around than any sort of emulation. However Cringly definitly needed to do some fact checking with this article (I read it a few days ago on OSNews).
Barnum didn't say that. Basically some guy (can't remember his name, check google) was showing the skeleton of a giant (or something along those lines). Barnum made his own "giant" and started showing it around saying his was the orginal. Eventually people believed him and the other guy was screwed. So it was that guy that said "Theres a sucker born..." in regards to P.T. Barnum. I know my post is rather lacking on details (although the plot of the story is true) but you can do a search on google and have all the details you want.
Yes they are competitors but once Microsoft started leveraging its monopoly through illegal business practices its a whole new ballgame. I'm not too upset about this ruling for that reason. Now if Microsoft had never screwed over sun or anything else for that matter, this ruling would definitly be unfair.
Found here. Although this might not be what you were talking about. Its a speech done by Ken Thompson and it was about theoreticaly trojaning all software by trojaning the compiler. As far as I recall this was never actually used or anything. Now that I think of it though, I think I do recall something about login being trojanned. Nope its in that paper (check google and the 2nd link was to it).
Po-town (as we affectionately call it) is a slum. Yeah it has the civic-center, IBM, the mall (the place for winter jobs for poor college students) and some other cool places but goddamn it if a good chunk of it is just a big getto. Don't get me wrong, I love poughkeepsie been in this area most of my life but its still shitty:). Now if you're comparing it to Newburgh then I could see it being called glamorous...
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Actually yes they are a bunch of kids. If you look at the name of the poster, the number right after that is their age. In most cases it was 13. The amazing thing is that some of the questions were more sophisticated then questions we ask here on slashdot. (remember the Shatner interview?)
I agree with everything you said... the only part thats wrong is Sun has nothing to do with Eclipse. Its a great IDE (I use it for all my java projects) but it was created by IBM and then open sourced. Except for being built with Java, it has nothing to do with Sun.
Yeah mine is a 6360 and I picked it up at a surplus store for about $100. However I got 160 mhz IBM PowerPC, 48 megs of ram, 6 gig scsi hd, keyboard, mouse and monitor. Could do a lot worse than $100. Mine has a DEC card in it... I believe a DECChip 21142/43 that uses the tulip driver. Oh I also think this was one of the first models that used pci so you may be out of luck if you have that proprietary apple bus system.
Its tough to say... I was fairly surprised that this card worked. MacOS 8 wouldn't support it without find a driver (whoops, extension)which is nearly impossible considering the age of the machine, where linux picked it right up. Its a nice little machine.
My performa is a 160 mhz IBM PowerPC... one of the first powerpc macs IIRC. I've actually seen it, I opened up the mac and there in big letters was IBM. I just started laughing. It does run 2.4 but its buggy beyond belief.
The net card uses the tulip driver and is pci. /proc/pci says its a Digital DECchip 21142/43. Like I said 2.4 is buggy, but works once installed as long as you don't do anything with it ;). I used the 2.2 kernel to get the installation to work. So here is one case where the 2.2 kernel is much much nicer.
I have no idea what number it is but it runs my Mac Performa 6360 which is acting as a router. The 2.4 kernel panics anytime it tries to access the cd drive or I look at it funny. Don't get me wrong here, I use 2.4 on everything except in this one case.
Not interesting at all... its been known for probably 2 years.
The parent was funny, this is just stupid.
The biggest problem, however, is that there is no market for underground houses, because Muggles/Sleepers/Luddites
Part of the problem may that you treat people like crap (stop reading Harry Potter and start living a real life) that don't agree with you that living undergound like a goddamned mole person sucks (Mental Note: People like sun light, and no matter how many windows you have in your ceiling it probably isn't enough).
the best real-estate appraisal we can get is about $100K
I'd say its for more reasons that being listed as a "basement house". No matter how safe it is, people just don't want to live underground. Hence "Market Price".
Your analogy of the 3 pigs is kind of off. I may be a little drunk but it seems to me that most houses built of wood don't fall down. Maybe 1 out of a couple of thousand in the US. And of those 75% is from fire which is usually the people living theres fault.
If you want to live in a hobbit hole thats fine, but christ, don't bitch because the house isn't worth anything to anyone else. There are reasons people don't live in glorified caves anymore.
What do you say to someone who kept all of the 25 slide powerpoint presentation, that they've been working on for a month and is due to tommow, on a floppy disk that goes bad? It sucks. You want to say:
"You're an idiot. Why the hell didn't you back it up?
But what really comes out:
"I'm very sorry, floppys are so horrible. If you look at them funny they stop woring. Make sure to email files to yourself. Again, I'm sorry".
I work tech support at a state school and I can't even count the number of students who have started crying. Its gone down in recent years because our admins finally decided to backup/autosave all Microsoft Word (which is one ofthe problems to begin with) documents on every public computer at the school (which is quite a lot) on a file server. That way if the student is in a lab for a few hours and gets a "Word has experienced a problem, your file will be lost" message they can come to the help desk and we can recover whatever was saved. Its really a life saver sometimes (students tend to do stupid stuff when they lose their big paper).
Haha. I could understand this if that coding session accidentally spawned a child process.
Linus is certainly well doing perfectly fine with money. He may not be Bill Gates but I'm sure hes worth more than 99% of people here on slashdot. Remember how much stock was given to him when Linux started taking off. I think he made a killing in VA stock before it dropped (didn't he buy is Z3 with that?). He also has stock in RedHat if IRCC.
I don't know... I've written some good code while piss drunk. I think the key is that while sober you sometimes get bogged down in doing it The Right Way (tm) where a simple ugly block of code would be better. My code may not be readable the next day but it works :).
If you have physical access to a machine you can crack it. This has been demonstrated before. I mean you could pop Knoppix in, mount the windows partition and copy files that way. If you don't want anyone accessing your files make sure you lock the damn machine down (physically and network wise).
and this world has been quite the scary & dangerous place ever since
You have to be kidding me right? The world is no more scarry than it was before the bomb was used. In fact one could argue that its less scarry. Look at the cold war. Heres a situation that very well should of been WW3. It had everything that WWI and WW2 had except for the war. Never underestimate the power of mutal destruction. Currently (and the last 40 years or so) we invade countries that we don't fear (Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, etc), because they have no risk of hurting the homeland. However do you think the US would pick a fight with the Chinese or Russians (or even North Korea, when was the last time we invaded them, no matter how "evil" they are)? No. And why is this? Because they could nuke as as badly as we could nuke them. The atomic bomb as been used more a tool of peace (albiet a threatening peace) then it has as a tool of war.
Kazaa (and Kazaa-lite) have implemented an "Integerity" system where users rate files. Right now the only incentive to rate them is to have slightly better download priveleges (for example if you have a high participation ranking if you and some people are after the same file you get priority). However its a step in the right direction.
So with PS3 and the new Nintendo system scheduled for 2005, can we expect XBOX 2 in 2004?
Close but still somewhat incorrect on two points.
NT was not written from scratch. NT was what Microsoft took from the OS/2 collaboration with IBM. IBM went on to future development of OS/2 and Microsoft took what they had rights to and developed NT (new technology).
Second is that NT is not really similiar to Unix. Its similiar to VMS which makes sende since the guys from DEC had done VMS.
Finally I don't think its emulation which does the command-line. IIRC the command-line is also rewritten from scratch but is just an application that mimics an old MS-DOS shell. Try to run any old dos game in the shell, you'll get an error like "This program can only run in MS-DOS" or similiar. If it was infact an emulator then it should have no problem running those programs. As for legacy applications, that probably has more to do with keeping the dlls for older apis around than any sort of emulation.
However Cringly definitly needed to do some fact checking with this article (I read it a few days ago on OSNews).
Barnum didn't say that. Basically some guy (can't remember his name, check google) was showing the skeleton of a giant (or something along those lines). Barnum made his own "giant" and started showing it around saying his was the orginal. Eventually people believed him and the other guy was screwed. So it was that guy that said "Theres a sucker born..." in regards to P.T. Barnum. I know my post is rather lacking on details (although the plot of the story is true) but you can do a search on google and have all the details you want.
Yes they are competitors but once Microsoft started leveraging its monopoly through illegal business practices its a whole new ballgame. I'm not too upset about this ruling for that reason. Now if Microsoft had never screwed over sun or anything else for that matter, this ruling would definitly be unfair.
Haha, if I tripled in size I wouldn't look like that guy.
Agreed. However, what exactly is a FUCKNUGGET?
Umm... I'd like to order one new identity, supersized. Preferebly one with Bill Gates bank account and Hugh Hefners mansion.
Oh wait... this doesn't serve identities?
Found here. Although this might not be what you were talking about. Its a speech done by Ken Thompson and it was about theoreticaly trojaning all software by trojaning the compiler. As far as I recall this was never actually used or anything. Now that I think of it though, I think I do recall something about login being trojanned. Nope its in that paper (check google and the 2nd link was to it).
Po-town (as we affectionately call it) is a slum. Yeah it has the civic-center, IBM, the mall (the place for winter jobs for poor college students) and some other cool places but goddamn it if a good chunk of it is just a big getto. Don't get me wrong, I love poughkeepsie been in this area most of my life but its still shitty :). Now if you're comparing it to Newburgh then I could see it being called glamorous...
We have no plans to port gecko anytime soon. In fact I'm getting ready to start the much needed update to our khtml engine.
- Shawn