Regardless of what wehavethewayout.com is running, that webserver has probably had a hell of a day. Besides being slashdotted, I would speculate that hundreds of curious slashdotters have portscanned, banner-scanned, and run all sorts of scripts against this server. No wonder it's offline right now.:)
This would be great at a ms demonstration show. Remember what happened when Bill Gates demonstrated windows98 in front of 40,000 people in Chicago and it crashed.:-)
Yeah, it's a shame we weren't able to/. wehavethewayout.com.:P
If they get full support for it I can finally get rid of that windows gaming partition!
Well, perhaps there's an argument for why platform-independent gaming is rather unlikely to occur, given that windows and xbox together represent the largest gaming platforms in the world. Hopefully, this won't be like Java (as in a platform independent idea supported by everyone but microsoft)
I was very excited about the truetype font support that was introduced in this version. However, I can't seem to get it to work at all, even after reading all the docs and combing over the unix.js file with a fine-toothed comb. Anyone out there have any success with this?
My univerity (University of Texas at Austin) offers Microsoft software for dirt-cheap prices [utexas.edu]. For example, Windows XP can be had for $5, and Visual Studio 6 for $15 or $20. (As an aside, the University was once one of the largest purchasers of Apple computers; now the campus is dotted with labs brimming with Dell PCs, some donated by Microsoft.)
Yeah, well, there's no such thing as a free lunch. My University (Rose-Hulman) does the same thing, but it's not because Microsoft is being nice to us in any way. Actually, it's because our school screwed up the licensing agreement (we got in trouble for distributing our own custom copies of windows 98 and gaving them out with freshman laptops). Basically, Microsoft was all pissed off that we were printing our own copies of Windows, so they offered "student copies" (like the ones mentioned in the above post) for cheap prices. Essentially, the school must first pay a boatload of money to Microsoft, then the school is allowed to distribute the cheap copies to the students in bookstores and so forth. You've already really bought a fully-registered copy of windows with your tuition; now you're just paying for the octual CD.
Well, damn it. Looks like the site is effectively slashdotted, and I'm not going to get to see their free preview of "Frankenstein: The College Years". Man, I was really looking forward to seeing that, too. =)
I'm still waiting for someone to offer the President of Benin a large sum of money for the.bj damain extension, which doesn't seem to be used by anyone right now. Just imagine how much you could make being a registrar for that TLD for pr0n sites! =)
I had all sorts of weird problems when using the AGP driver in the linux kernel (like the big, green rectangle in the corner of my monitor. Cute!). I recompiled my kernel, and told X to use NVidia's bulitin AGP driver, and since then, I've had virtually no problems. Q3A has only frozen on me only *once*, which is nothing compared to the hundreds of hours that I have addictively played it. =)
Ok, so maybe it's not exactly a state-of-the-art game, but quadra has always been a favorite timesuck of mine. Many an hour have been sacrificed in pursuit of a global high score. =)
IIRC, Xerox originally came up with the concepts of the personal computer, the graphical user interface, the mouse, and several other substantial breakthroughs in computer science. And, of course, they are also equally notorious for not doing anything with such innovations, while other companies take the ideas and run with them. It'd be interesting to see what Xerox would be like if they'd actually jumped on half of the ideas their engineers came up with.
Clearly, linux must be dominating the desktop market, as is shown by this poorly coded CGI script residing on a webserver somewhere on my campus. I can offer no proof better that this.;)
So, will american porn sites be required to shut down outside of Germany's specified "porn times"? Or just filter all traffic into Germany Communist-China-style?
Recall that the M-16 machine gun (primarily used by ground troops during the Vietnam War) was actually in existence during World War II, though it was classified at the time. The military's technology usually seems to buffer itself from the civilian population by a measure of about a quarter century (give or take a decade). So, if they're telling us that they've developed laser battlefield weapons, God only knows what they've developed that we *don't* know about.
Dammit! I just downloaded 2.4.14 and recompiled not more than a few days ago, and time to do the same thing all again. Seems like the kernels are coming out faster than one can keep up with them. =)
The tabs are by far one of the best features of Mozilla, since 0.9.5. It would be significantly cooler if one could map the middle click button to open to a new tab (rather than a new full-size window, as it currently does). Anyone out there have a hack to make it do this?
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Regardless of what wehavethewayout.com is running, that webserver has probably had a hell of a day. Besides being slashdotted, I would speculate that hundreds of curious slashdotters have portscanned, banner-scanned, and run all sorts of scripts against this server. No wonder it's offline right now. :)
This would be great at a ms demonstration show. Remember what happened when Bill Gates demonstrated windows98 in front of 40,000 people in Chicago and it crashed. :-)
/. wehavethewayout.com. :P
Yeah, it's a shame we weren't able to
Yeah, what about Sun saying they were going to switch some of their internal systems to linux? Kind of a big deal IMHO...
...Also too bad that we /.'ted this webserver. Some things never change I guess.
If they get full support for it I can finally get rid of that windows gaming partition!
Well, perhaps there's an argument for why platform-independent gaming is rather unlikely to occur, given that windows and xbox together represent the largest gaming platforms in the world. Hopefully, this won't be like Java (as in a platform independent idea supported by everyone but microsoft)
I was very excited about the truetype font support that was introduced in this version. However, I can't seem to get it to work at all, even after reading all the docs and combing over the unix.js file with a fine-toothed comb. Anyone out there have any success with this?
My univerity (University of Texas at Austin) offers Microsoft software for dirt-cheap prices [utexas.edu]. For example, Windows XP can be had for $5, and Visual Studio 6 for $15 or $20. (As an aside, the University was once one of the largest purchasers of Apple computers; now the campus is dotted with labs brimming with Dell PCs, some donated by Microsoft.)
Yeah, well, there's no such thing as a free lunch. My University (Rose-Hulman) does the same thing, but it's not because Microsoft is being nice to us in any way. Actually, it's because our school screwed up the licensing agreement (we got in trouble for distributing our own custom copies of windows 98 and gaving them out with freshman laptops). Basically, Microsoft was all pissed off that we were printing our own copies of Windows, so they offered "student copies" (like the ones mentioned in the above post) for cheap prices. Essentially, the school must first pay a boatload of money to Microsoft, then the school is allowed to distribute the cheap copies to the students in bookstores and so forth. You've already really bought a fully-registered copy of windows with your tuition; now you're just paying for the octual CD.
Return of the messiah...(Earliest potential occurence) AD
...assuming you believe in such a person. For all we know, the "messiah" could have been born, raised, and died in a quiet Iowa farm 100 years ago :)
Collapse of the United Nations...(Earliest potential occurence) 1950
Well, no shit, given that it was founded in 1950. Be kind of hard for it to collapse previous to that.
Rise of American dictator...(Earliest potential occurence) 2000
Well, hrm...no comment here
Whole generation unable to effectively read, write, think, and work
Actually, I think this author is already proof this correction may have come true. :)
Orgasm by email...2010
;)
Gee, I get about 10 of these a day for in hotmail account.
Well, damn it. Looks like the site is effectively slashdotted, and I'm not going to get to see their free preview of "Frankenstein: The College Years". Man, I was really looking forward to seeing that, too. =)
I'm still waiting for someone to offer the President of Benin a large sum of money for the .bj damain extension, which doesn't seem to be used by anyone right now. Just imagine how much you could make being a registrar for that TLD for pr0n sites! =)
By the way, nVidia mentioned the same issue exists on Win2K / Athlon boxes.
I had all sorts of weird problems when using the AGP driver in the linux kernel (like the big, green rectangle in the corner of my monitor. Cute!). I recompiled my kernel, and told X to use NVidia's bulitin AGP driver, and since then, I've had virtually no problems. Q3A has only frozen on me only *once*, which is nothing compared to the hundreds of hours that I have addictively played it. =)
Ok, so maybe it's not exactly a state-of-the-art game, but quadra has always been a favorite timesuck of mine. Many an hour have been sacrificed in pursuit of a global high score. =)
IIRC, Xerox originally came up with the concepts of the personal computer, the graphical user interface, the mouse, and several other substantial breakthroughs in computer science. And, of course, they are also equally notorious for not doing anything with such innovations, while other companies take the ideas and run with them. It'd be interesting to see what Xerox would be like if they'd actually jumped on half of the ideas their engineers came up with.
Clearly, linux must be dominating the desktop market, as is shown by this poorly coded CGI script residing on a webserver somewhere on my campus. I can offer no proof better that this. ;)
The question is, when will the FBI confirm the existence of the Green Lantern?
Mutilate Spam Right Fucking Away.
So I guess all the stories I've heard about being able to watch pr0n on public television may not be true. =(
So, will american porn sites be required to shut down outside of Germany's specified "porn times"? Or just filter all traffic into Germany Communist-China-style?
Recall that the M-16 machine gun (primarily used by ground troops during the Vietnam War) was actually in existence during World War II, though it was classified at the time. The military's technology usually seems to buffer itself from the civilian population by a measure of about a quarter century (give or take a decade). So, if they're telling us that they've developed laser battlefield weapons, God only knows what they've developed that we *don't* know about.
Dammit! I just downloaded 2.4.14 and recompiled not more than a few days ago, and time to do the same thing all again. Seems like the kernels are coming out faster than one can keep up with them. =)
The tabs are by far one of the best features of Mozilla, since 0.9.5. It would be significantly cooler if one could map the middle click button to open to a new tab (rather than a new full-size window, as it currently does). Anyone out there have a hack to make it do this?
Netscape 4.x on Solaris 8 works, but not Mozilla 0.9.5 on Linux....How very strange.
No, that would sound too much like "windex", and people might get confused. ;)