robvasquez writes: "According to this CNET article, excite @home could be pulling the plug on cable modem subscribers. What's your providersback up plan? Could milions of trolls and Nimda spreaders be taken off line?"
I don't know about the other trolls, but so long as clueless people such as yourself post garbage with so many obvious spelling mistakes, I won't be going away.
It looks like KDE 2.2.1 has been ported on Cygwin
It looks like KDE 2.2.1 has been ported to Cygwin, but I am too lame to get it working myself.
More than a year ago I was forced to use WinNT at work
My company suffered when the dot com crash happened. Given that the typical open source business model goes something like:
Release Free Software
???
Profit!!!
the unprofitable linux division was closed. If I wanted a job I had to develop software targeted for the profitable windows market.
and I've been missing the Linux desktop a lot
When I ran KDE 1.2 more than a year ago, it really sucked. I missed it because it puts a fucking K in front of every application
I hope if I will be ever forced to use Windows again I would be able to have more Unix-friendly desktop:).
sadly I did not work well with the windows team as I am an abrasive person. They got sick of my propaganda and fired me. I am still unemployed.
m_ilya writes: "It looks like KDE 2.2.1 has been ported on Cygwin. More than year ago I was forced to use WinNT at work, and I've been missing the Linux desktop a lot. I hope if I will be ever forced to use Windows again I would be able to have more Unix-friendly desktop:). Here's the announcement. Kudos to all the KDE hackers." Check out the posting on the Dot for some more links.
Whenever I read someone saying that they are forced to use windows at work I cringe.
Does this company have a policy against using anything other than windows? If they do, I doubt that the poster will be permitted to run KDE even if it is win32.
The fact of the matter is that this guy uses windows at work to be productive as his line of work is in win32 applications no doubt.
if these drivers were somehow optimised for linux or open source software (say the gimp) my guess is that no one on slashdot would be moaning, but would in fact be embracing ATI as their saviour.
Yes, however when the MAJORITY of people posting as Mr Anon Coward do so in order to post stupid or defamitory comments, FP/SP/TP/Xth Post comments or pictures of stupid ASCII art about goatsex, then things change considerably. Try reading at -1 and see all of the crap that is posted by these Anon Cowards and you'll get my point.
to be perfectly honest and blunt with you, if slashdot had an option to only read posts at scored at -1 I would use it.
slashdot used to be a place where important and interesting topics were discussed and genuinely important and interesting people such as Alan Cox, John Carmack and Bruce Perens would post and discuss.
Today, slashdot is full of karma whoring bitches who post blindingly obvious comments to articles. The only people posting interesting comments to the articles are trolls such as egg troll, Trollman 5000, the sporks, cyborg_monkey et al. Their posts may be crude and unwelcome by most of you, but as a slashdot veteran being surrounded with linux wannabes posting blindingly obvious yet 'insightful' comments it is a breath of fresh air.
I want an option that allows me to browse only the -1 posts. These posts are the only insightful and interesting material being posted on this site.
Slashdot: Open Source, Closed Minds
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Opposing Open Source?
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· Score: 1, Insightful
I dont recall who said that first, but this thread has convinced me of this.
The article asked for points against open source, specifically linux.
Some people have provided valid and reasonable links (myself included) to articles providing points against open source, specifically linux.
in every other article on slashdot, i would expect these posts to be met with troll / flamebait moderation, but NOT THIS ONE WHERE THE GUY ASKED FOR THESE POINTS.
moderators: get a fucking clue, stop the mindless moderation for this article, and let the guy figure out for himself which are the valid points without having to browse at -1 with all the crap flooders and goatse.cx links.
Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, @07:31PM
from the largeness-of-cock dept.
Jeff Probst writes: "I was surfing through goatse.cx when I noticed this new giver. It made me fall off my chair laughing (people at work are wondering what could be so funny). But it's no joke. Apparently it's for the receiver." If this isn't real, why not? Something like this looks like a great idea to me.
I look bad because I spelt masterbation wrong? You look bad, i mean look at those photos you post of yourself on the web, four eyed freak.
I am in fact smarter than you, and I can understand what is being talked about on the list. I have hacked kernel code before. Not that hard. The good thing about trolling slashdot is that you know that the audience is stupid and that they dont actually run linux, they just moan about Microsoft.
You are nothing more than a Linux conformist, arguing about lame linux distros and talking like you can hack, when in fact you use windows.
I had to laugh at your idea of moving your firewall to OpenBSD. If you knew your operating system as well as you think you do then you would realise that OpenBSD buys you nothing unless you are too clueless to set up a secure box and know what the configuration options actually do.
and your lame webpage needs more logos at the bottom.
Time to make bzImage and wreck those glorious uptimes.
adapting a Linus phrase to the current situation: like masterbation, recompiling and installing a new kernel as soon as it is released feels good, but doesn't get any work done.
I had a ppro heatsink slide off, it would have been running for a week without a heatsink. It was originally a 200mhz CPU, but now I have it running at 180mhz and it seems stable in SMP.
Another lame personal experience story, a friend put a 486dx33 CPU in it's socket the wrong way and about 10 seconds from power up we could smell something burning (the dust on the CPU). We turned the machine off and put the CPU in the right way and it went straight away.
a good overview of rotation speed vs data density is available from tom's hardware:
There are basically two ways to increase the performance of hard drives: increase the rotation speed or increase the data density. Increasing the rotation speed definitely enables better sequential performance, but only if you adjust the read/write mechanism accordingly.
I dont want to take away all of tom's message, so read it further for a reasonable overview of the issues involved.
it is not the rotation speed that counts. rotation speed accounts for access time, but nothing more.
cluster density is another kettle of fish, if a drive can pack twice the amount of information in half the space, you should get twice the sustained transfer rate, all things being equal.
speed is access time.
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The alternative is for you to fuck off I guess.
I dont have a boyfriend. He left me for another man.
It looks like KDE 2.2.1 has been ported on Cygwin
It looks like KDE 2.2.1 has been ported to Cygwin, but I am too lame to get it working myself.
More than a year ago I was forced to use WinNT at work
My company suffered when the dot com crash happened. Given that the typical open source business model goes something like:
- Release Free Software
- ???
- Profit!!!
the unprofitable linux division was closed. If I wanted a job I had to develop software targeted for the profitable windows market.and I've been missing the Linux desktop a lot
When I ran KDE 1.2 more than a year ago, it really sucked. I missed it because it puts a fucking K in front of every application
I hope if I will be ever forced to use Windows again I would be able to have more Unix-friendly desktop :).
sadly I did not work well with the windows team as I am an abrasive person. They got sick of my propaganda and fired me. I am still unemployed.
Hope that clears things up!
Does this company have a policy against using anything other than windows? If they do, I doubt that the poster will be permitted to run KDE even if it is win32.
The fact of the matter is that this guy uses windows at work to be productive as his line of work is in win32 applications no doubt.
Please don't kid yourself otherwise.
They are waiting for the next series of Windows and OSX User Interface innovations before they can copy them.
I am wondering if you've ever left a turd in a urinal. Perhaps the kiddie urinal is a good height to accomplish this remarkable challenge.
Let me know how you get on.
as seen on IRC
i guess that would make sense
thats because new zealand does not have the smog blocking the sun like the US has.
take their smog away and they'd have more trouble than they currently do.
Time to come clean Taco: did you purchase this CD from Amazon?
if these drivers were somehow optimised for linux or open source software (say the gimp) my guess is that no one on slashdot would be moaning, but would in fact be embracing ATI as their saviour.
slashdot used to be a place where important and interesting topics were discussed and genuinely important and interesting people such as Alan Cox, John Carmack and Bruce Perens would post and discuss.
Today, slashdot is full of karma whoring bitches who post blindingly obvious comments to articles. The only people posting interesting comments to the articles are trolls such as egg troll, Trollman 5000, the sporks, cyborg_monkey et al. Their posts may be crude and unwelcome by most of you, but as a slashdot veteran being surrounded with linux wannabes posting blindingly obvious yet 'insightful' comments it is a breath of fresh air.
You only need to look at moderation in the slashdot article Ask Slashdot: Opposing Open Source? to see what i mean: the article was all about opposing points to open source software, yet we had blindingly obvious karma whoring posts about microsoft's well known postition on the subject and the not-very-insightful karma whoring posts by a bunch of linux wannabes giving their un-valuable opinions, and yet whenever something new was presented, even in jest, it was moderated troll or flamebait.
I want an option that allows me to browse only the -1 posts. These posts are the only insightful and interesting material being posted on this site.
The article asked for points against open source, specifically linux. Some people have provided valid and reasonable links (myself included) to articles providing points against open source, specifically linux.
in every other article on slashdot, i would expect these posts to be met with troll / flamebait moderation, but NOT THIS ONE WHERE THE GUY ASKED FOR THESE POINTS.
moderators: get a fucking clue, stop the mindless moderation for this article, and let the guy figure out for himself which are the valid points without having to browse at -1 with all the crap flooders and goatse.cx links.
Slashdot: Open Source, Closed Minds.
they dont say what about the switch caused the defensive breakdown, but it could be worth researching this further
Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, @07:31PM
from the largeness-of-cock dept.
Jeff Probst writes: "I was surfing through goatse.cx when I noticed this new giver. It made me fall off my chair laughing (people at work are wondering what could be so funny). But it's no joke. Apparently it's for the receiver." If this isn't real, why not? Something like this looks like a great idea to me.
ha ha ha slashdot got trolled.
nothing like reading the story eh michael?
I am in fact smarter than you, and I can understand what is being talked about on the list. I have hacked kernel code before. Not that hard. The good thing about trolling slashdot is that you know that the audience is stupid and that they dont actually run linux, they just moan about Microsoft.
You are nothing more than a Linux conformist, arguing about lame linux distros and talking like you can hack, when in fact you use windows.
I had to laugh at your idea of moving your firewall to OpenBSD. If you knew your operating system as well as you think you do then you would realise that OpenBSD buys you nothing unless you are too clueless to set up a secure box and know what the configuration options actually do.
and your lame webpage needs more logos at the bottom.
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9906.2/0 906.html
adapting a Linus phrase to the current situation: like masterbation, recompiling and installing a new kernel as soon as it is released feels good, but doesn't get any work done.
Another lame personal experience story, a friend put a 486dx33 CPU in it's socket the wrong way and about 10 seconds from power up we could smell something burning (the dust on the CPU). We turned the machine off and put the CPU in the right way and it went straight away.
They certainly dont make em like they used to...
it is not the rotation speed that counts. rotation speed accounts for access time, but nothing more.
cluster density is another kettle of fish, if a drive can pack twice the amount of information in half the space, you should get twice the sustained transfer rate, all things being equal.
speed is access time.