No, actually, they have not. The message displayed for the last month was roughly the first half of the current message. This new one was implemented in the past 2 days or so.
I'm sure anyone can do this with any Unix distribution. If you have the bandwidth available for something like this, and have a machine you'd like to give away, hell, why not go for it.
What the hell are you talking about? This contest isn't about who can design the best web page.
I don't understand why you are even bringing up this point about the LinuxPPC site for the contest being "sloppy" and not "designed to appeal to anyone in a "commercial" sense". Do you really think anyone trying to crack this machine gives a care what the web page looks like?
The contest here isn't about how good the web page looks, it's about the security of the machine serving the web page.
I find it ironic that you complain about Linux users and "sloppy" work, yet if you look at the two web pages, the Linux one is obviously functioning and is providing content beneficial to the contest, yet the Micros~1 page is a half-assed piece of shit with broken Javascript. Who's being sloppy here?
Many chess players move depending on how the opponent is moving, by recognizing a strategy or classic move sequence. If his opponent is moving completely random, he might not know the best way to counteract it.
Just a thought. I'm no chess champion (or even a frequent player).
Yeah, and how do you gain "root" access on a system that doesn't have a root account? Don't you mean, you can gain "Point-and-click Administrator" access?
Why doesn't SlashNET link with the Open Projects Network? They both seem like the same kind of crowds and it seems silly to have two small networks like these when you can combine the two and make a single one with irc.linux.com's #linuxhelp and irc.slashnet.org's #slashdot.
Yes! Lets make xmms have even more useless shit than emacs, and we'll make a whole xmmsOS with its own kernel and give mp3 decoding a much higher priority.
I agree, I love gtk as a widget set, but x11amp doesn't need it. I liked the old version with the old file open dialog, and the new beta would crash every time I moved the window. I hope x11amp, er, "xmms" doesn't become some bloated program that doesn't work as nicely as the old one.
Simple as that. Don't go to the web site and it won't stay up long. The author says he's looking for support on the LinuxHQ is Back Online page, so if nobody helps, the site cannot continue.
Why does everyone always make the analogy of breaking into a computer and going into someone's house? Your house isn't hooked up to a global network and you don't live in your computer. If you don't want people walking in your house, you lock your damn doors. If you don't want someone in your computer, secure the network.
Wow, I'm glad a RedHat employee finally said what non-RedHat users have been saying for so long: RedHat does not care about the users, they don't care about open source, they only care about corporations and money. Rasterman's leaving the company only illustrates this clearer.
"...I wish [Red Hat] all the best but I do not fit in there. E does not fit in there. They want a windows clone distribution and OS..."
I've been saying this about Red Hat since I first tried it and started X11. What should show up, but a window manager that looks exactly like Windows 95, right down to the "Start" menu and Red Hat's "Control Panel". Some people might say this is to make Windows users feel more comfortable about using Linux, but why should we make our operating system look like theirs? Projects such as Enlightenment are clear examples of the power and capability of Linux, yet Red Hat would rather have its money-paying corporate users run in an environment that looks like Windows 95.
I wish all the best of luck to Carsten in his move away from Red Hat. I hope the Englightenment project continues to prosper and grow into an even better window manager.
I don't think they will. Take for instance, EfNet delinking the AOL IRC server. AOLers still run rampant on EfNet annoying the hell out of us all. When will they learn...
Yeah, this "cutting edge" crap is rediculous. Why release all this new software to all those users when it hasn't had time to be tested for stability/security? This is exactly why slackware stays libc5 and doesn't move to glibc2 since glibc2 isn't as stable or proven to be secure.
If some bug hits one of these packages, think of all the users who are going to have to download a new version since Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. are using "cutting edge" software instead of a stable version.
I'm sure redhat would, seeing as how they gear their distribution towards the windows crowd with all their GUI setup tools and the fvwm95-default window manager. (or so did v5.0)
As I said before, when I need to type something that looks nice, I have vim, netscape and a printer. HTML formats documents nicely (fonts, colors, etc.), which I can write in vim, view it in Netscape, and print it.
Slashdot doesn't use plain ASCII text in its banner ads because those are called graphics, son. You don't make graphics in a word processor, you make them in Gimp and such, so this has no relevance to using a word processor vs. a text editor.
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No, actually, they have not. The message displayed for the last month was roughly the first half of the current message. This new one was implemented in the past 2 days or so.
I'm sure anyone can do this with any Unix distribution. If you have the bandwidth available for something like this, and have a machine you'd like to give away, hell, why not go for it.
What the hell are you talking about? This contest isn't about who can design the best web page.
I don't understand why you are even bringing up this point about the LinuxPPC site for the contest being "sloppy" and not "designed to appeal to anyone in a "commercial" sense". Do you really think anyone trying to crack this machine gives a care what the web page looks like?
The contest here isn't about how good the web page looks, it's about the security of the machine serving the web page.
I find it ironic that you complain about Linux users and "sloppy" work, yet if you look at the two web pages, the Linux one is obviously functioning and is providing content beneficial to the contest, yet the Micros~1 page is a half-assed piece of shit with broken Javascript. Who's being sloppy here?
Get rid of the tacky guitar riffs and other cheesy sound effects (it's beginning to sound like Off The Hook).
They also seem to have disabled telnet access to the whois database.
http://lwn.net/1998/1119/shaper.html
Did Andover takeover^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hacquire Blockstackers or just Slashdot?
If they acquired Blockstackers, do they own Everything too?
*ahem*
I'm looking for a job...
I noticed that URL had "slashdot" in it:
o gy/story/20410.html
/. effect?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/slashdot/technol
Is this something Wired created for slashdot posts to protect itself from the
Many chess players move depending on how the opponent is moving, by recognizing a strategy or classic move sequence. If his opponent is moving completely random, he might not know the best way to counteract it.
Just a thought. I'm no chess champion (or even a frequent player).
Yeah, and how do you gain "root" access on a system that doesn't have a root account? Don't you mean, you can gain "Point-and-click Administrator" access?
Why doesn't SlashNET link with the Open Projects Network? They both seem like the same kind of crowds and it seems silly to have two small networks like these when you can combine the two and make a single one with irc.linux.com's #linuxhelp and irc.slashnet.org's #slashdot.
Yes! Lets make xmms have even more useless shit than emacs, and we'll make a whole xmmsOS with its own kernel and give mp3 decoding a much higher priority.
I agree, I love gtk as a widget set, but x11amp doesn't need it. I liked the old version with the old file open dialog, and the new beta would crash every time I moved the window. I hope x11amp, er, "xmms" doesn't become some bloated program that doesn't work as nicely as the old one.
95% of the population... Oh, you must be the morons of our society. Yes, I remember you. You post lame and pointless messages like the above.
Um, I've heard the story from Jim Pick himself. Read the slashdot article regarding when LinuxHQ first went offline.
Jack ass.
Simple as that. Don't go to the web site and it won't stay up long. The author says he's looking for support on the LinuxHQ is Back Online page, so if nobody helps, the site cannot continue.
How about tigert making icons? He's made some beautiful ones for Gnome and I believe he made the freshmeat icons as well.
Why does everyone always make the analogy of breaking into a computer and going into someone's house? Your house isn't hooked up to a global network and you don't live in your computer. If you don't want people walking in your house, you lock your damn doors. If you don't want someone in your computer, secure the network.
Wow, I'm glad a RedHat employee finally said what non-RedHat users have been saying for so long: RedHat does not care about the users, they don't care about open source, they only care about corporations and money. Rasterman's leaving the company only illustrates this clearer.
"...I wish [Red Hat] all the best but I do not fit in there. E does not fit in there. They want a windows clone distribution and OS..."
I've been saying this about Red Hat since I first tried it and started X11. What should show up, but a window manager that looks exactly like Windows 95, right down to the "Start" menu and Red Hat's "Control Panel". Some people might say this is to make Windows users feel more comfortable about using Linux, but why should we make our operating system look like theirs? Projects such as Enlightenment are clear examples of the power and capability of Linux, yet Red Hat would rather have its money-paying corporate users run in an environment that looks like Windows 95.
I wish all the best of luck to Carsten in his move away from Red Hat. I hope the Englightenment project continues to prosper and grow into an even better window manager.
I don't think they will. Take for instance, EfNet delinking the AOL IRC server. AOLers still run rampant on EfNet annoying the hell out of us all. When will they learn...
Amen brother.
Yeah, this "cutting edge" crap is rediculous. Why release all this new software to all those users when it hasn't had time to be tested for stability/security? This is exactly why slackware stays libc5 and doesn't move to glibc2 since glibc2 isn't as stable or proven to be secure.
If some bug hits one of these packages, think of all the users who are going to have to download a new version since Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. are using "cutting edge" software instead of a stable version.
http://www.slackware.com.
I'm sure redhat would, seeing as how they gear their distribution towards the windows crowd with all their GUI setup tools and the fvwm95-default window manager. (or so did v5.0)
As I said before, when I need to type something that looks nice, I have vim, netscape and a printer. HTML formats documents nicely (fonts, colors, etc.), which I can write in vim, view it in Netscape, and print it.
Slashdot doesn't use plain ASCII text in its banner ads because those are called graphics, son. You don't make graphics in a word processor, you make them in Gimp and such, so this has no relevance to using a word processor vs. a text editor.