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They have a shitload of code in there that they didn't write, but if anyone were to ask them to release the code for IE (that should be a part of the ruling against them IMHO) they would beat you over the head with IP propaganda. I really like the last paragraph, we stole all of this but if you try to we'll sue your ass. Frigin M$.
I personally like the fact that fecalsoft has slightly changed the shade of blue on the BSOD in W2K. I wonder how many hours marketing people sat around arguing about that color, after all it is the most viewed screen in the OS.
I'm looking on fatbrain right now and it looks like there might be a new edition of the book coming out, but fb says that it's not until 2002. I wonder if I should wait or if it's worth the 61$ now (ouch, PTR/PH is spendy).
The 7th guest did make in on the runners up list, but I really think it should have made the top 15. The first CD-ROM game I owned, my 1x drive took so much tweaking to get that game to play smoothly. I spent at least as much time screwing around with EMM386 and CDR drivers as I did playing the game. But once I got into the game I was completely immersed, awesome story line, killer graphics, wonderful sound, and the puzzles were awesome. The cans, the cans, I hated the cans.
A couple of others that definately made my list are:
Sopwith Camel
5.25 bootable spyhunter
Castle (40 column graphics game, my first pirated game:)
This move by M$ is similar to the way that a parasite invades a host (no pun). The parasite sees an opening, the smallest chink in the armor and moves in slowly at first, ie HIV. Invading only a few cells at a time converting those cells into factories manufacturing the needed resources to wage battle on the host, eventually overwhelming it.
Spagetti code is the same way, invading a *nix box in as a small insignificant application. Once a small ground has been gained it uses a small library to begin creating it's ultimate weapon, the DLL. Once one DLL has been created the end is nigh, for we have no cure for the DLL. After some time all DLL's begin to work on the ultimate DLL, kernel32.dll. If kernel32.dll gets created, all is lost, on the next reboot you will see the dreaded Windows splash screen and the little welcome to Windows box that doesn't have the clear check box on the first load. My friends you have reached the end of the road, ext2 no longer exists on your system.
To quote Capt. Picard "The line must be drawn here...." Fight the DLL plague.
I have to say that I completely agree with this point. Who gives a damn who is using Linux, I use Linux because I like it, I know how a computer is supposed to behave, and the power that it actually posseses. One of the reasons that windows/mac is crap in my opinion is that the designers have tried to hide everything that is the least bit "scary" from the user. It's kind of like buying a car with the hood welded shut. That is also a thing that I am scared of happening to Linux, all of these people who hear that Linux is a great thing, but are unwilling to learn a command line or how to write a shell script are going to turn it into another windows/mac look alike (kde). I personally do not want this, yeah sure I'm an eletist, damn straight I am, and I dont want my operating system studpidified because some moron is unwilling to spend the time that it takes to learn something new. I enjoy the freedom that Linux allows me right now, if we have to loose that freedom in order to widen the user base so certain IPO's can make more money I think we have a serious problem. IMHO we need to adopt a sort of "Cisco" mentality, yeah the shit is hard to use but it's the best and if you want the best you'd better learn how to use it.
I agree with you that the RIAA will try, but I dont think that they can have a problem with the playing of MP3's, only the distribution of them. Now if this thing had a DSL modem, and embedded Napster then it would be something for the RIAA to go after, and something that I would want really bad
Wow, now all I need to make my self smarter is shitloads of olive oil, a syringe, and a hole in my head so that I can inject it directly into my brain!
A bunch of penguins programmed to create the perfect OS find the damaged NOMAD and attempt to repair the programming of it. They redesign it to look for the perfect operating system and steralize all those that are not perfect.
When NOMAD finds the imperfect OS'es Win9x and Win2K as well as MacOS and steralizes them. Captain Gatesvolds of the USS Blue Screen is sent to find out why his creations were destroyed. He uploads NOMAD onto the Blue Screen and NOMAD mistakes him for the creator. SpJobs, Gatesvolds first officer does a mind meld with NOMAD and finds out that the creator was Torvalds. NOMAD then erases the memory of SAM and kills unit Registry because it sees that they are not perfect. Gatesvolds tells NOMAD that he is the creator and that he is not perfect so NOMAD should destroy itself but NOMAD is too smart for Gatesvolds and kills him too because he wears unstylish glasses and is obviously not perfect. NOMAD then destroys the USS Blue Screen and goes in search of his perfect creator Torvalds and his first officer Cox on board the USS-Kernel Panic. NOMAD becomes a little more human when Torvalds tells him that Linux is not perfect but sharing is a lot more fun than hoarding.
Kill all of the babies that have disabilities.:) Of course this means that I would have been killed as soon as I emerged from the womb, but I'm willing to sacrafice myself for the greater good.
Sorry, I take it for granted that I've had it for almost 4 months now. I should have been more general though you are right. The OEM could ship out a pc with either a DSL modem, Cable Modem, ATM NIC or some other fast "Internet" connection pre-configured. I guess if someone was a sadist they could opt for a 56K modem though. Thats pretty funny what you say about F&P sharing, man the little goodies a port scan of my subnet reveals:)
It would be pretty cool if they shipped these things with a DSL modem, and a floppy that boots up configures the NIC, launches a little menu that lets you select a Linux distro and packages and then ftp's the whole thing to you in a couple of hours and configures it for you. Then you would not have to waste your money on an os, and have a completely customized pc in three hours. Apps and everything. I'm pretty sure Joe Snuffy would think thats cool. Make the menus pretty and they will come.
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Just did my part. BTW:
CNN.com for us lazy bastards who dont like to type ( =
FoxNews (mailto)
MSNBC.com World News (mailto)
MSNBC.com Technology News (mailto)
USA Today Technology Feedback
Just to name a few
Oops
:) Fifth line of kernel32.dll: #include <linux/smb.h>
:) Fifth line of kernel32.dll: #include
Based on NCSA Mosaic.
NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Contains security software licensed from RSA Data Security Inc.
Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
Contains SOCKS client software licensed from Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
Contains ASN.1 software licensed from Open Systems Solutions, Inc.
Multimedia software components, including Indeo(R); video, Indeo(R) audio, and Web Design Effects are provided by Intel Corp.
Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Mainsoft is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation.
Warning: This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.
They have a shitload of code in there that they didn't write, but if anyone were to ask them to release the code for IE (that should be a part of the ruling against them IMHO) they would beat you over the head with IP propaganda. I really like the last paragraph, we stole all of this but if you try to we'll sue your ass. Frigin M$.
I personally like the fact that fecalsoft has slightly changed the shade of blue on the BSOD in W2K. I wonder how many hours marketing people sat around arguing about that color, after all it is the most viewed screen in the OS.
I think I just ate some of his atoms in my cheeseburger.
I'm looking on fatbrain right now and it looks like there might be a new edition of the book coming out, but fb says that it's not until 2002. I wonder if I should wait or if it's worth the 61$ now (ouch, PTR/PH is spendy).
Since when is XSL a "Microsoft Only" technology?
A couple of others that definately made my list are:
Wow, brings back the memories.
The hot chick with the pink LS is Alice from Last of the Mohicans. She's not in EP2 is she? -- My .02
Doood those sites rule :)
This move by M$ is similar to the way that a parasite invades a host (no pun). The parasite sees an opening, the smallest chink in the armor and moves in slowly at first, ie HIV. Invading only a few cells at a time converting those cells into factories manufacturing the needed resources to wage battle on the host, eventually overwhelming it.
Spagetti code is the same way, invading a *nix box in as a small insignificant application. Once a small ground has been gained it uses a small library to begin creating it's ultimate weapon, the DLL. Once one DLL has been created the end is nigh, for we have no cure for the DLL. After some time all DLL's begin to work on the ultimate DLL, kernel32.dll. If kernel32.dll gets created, all is lost, on the next reboot you will see the dreaded Windows splash screen and the little welcome to Windows box that doesn't have the clear check box on the first load. My friends you have reached the end of the road, ext2 no longer exists on your system.
To quote Capt. Picard "The line must be drawn here...." Fight the DLL plague.
I have to say that I completely agree with this point. Who gives a damn who is using Linux, I use Linux because I like it, I know how a computer is supposed to behave, and the power that it actually posseses. One of the reasons that windows/mac is crap in my opinion is that the designers have tried to hide everything that is the least bit "scary" from the user. It's kind of like buying a car with the hood welded shut. That is also a thing that I am scared of happening to Linux, all of these people who hear that Linux is a great thing, but are unwilling to learn a command line or how to write a shell script are going to turn it into another windows/mac look alike (kde). I personally do not want this, yeah sure I'm an eletist, damn straight I am, and I dont want my operating system studpidified because some moron is unwilling to spend the time that it takes to learn something new. I enjoy the freedom that Linux allows me right now, if we have to loose that freedom in order to widen the user base so certain IPO's can make more money I think we have a serious problem. IMHO we need to adopt a sort of "Cisco" mentality, yeah the shit is hard to use but it's the best and if you want the best you'd better learn how to use it.
I agree with you that the RIAA will try, but I dont think that they can have a problem with the playing of MP3's, only the distribution of them. Now if this thing had a DSL modem, and embedded Napster then it would be something for the RIAA to go after, and something that I would want really bad
Wow, now all I need to make my self smarter is shitloads of olive oil, a syringe, and a hole in my head so that I can inject it directly into my brain!
I think the Athlon storms are faster, heat up the earth more, and are brigther. 8-O
Sorry, sorry, I know, I know...
A bunch of penguins programmed to create the perfect OS find the damaged NOMAD and attempt to repair the programming of it. They redesign it to look for the perfect operating system and steralize all those that are not perfect.
When NOMAD finds the imperfect OS'es Win9x and Win2K as well as MacOS and steralizes them. Captain Gatesvolds of the USS Blue Screen is sent to find out why his creations were destroyed. He uploads NOMAD onto the Blue Screen and NOMAD mistakes him for the creator. SpJobs, Gatesvolds first officer does a mind meld with NOMAD and finds out that the creator was Torvalds. NOMAD then erases the memory of SAM and kills unit Registry because it sees that they are not perfect. Gatesvolds tells NOMAD that he is the creator and that he is not perfect so NOMAD should destroy itself but NOMAD is too smart for Gatesvolds and kills him too because he wears unstylish glasses and is obviously not perfect. NOMAD then destroys the USS Blue Screen and goes in search of his perfect creator Torvalds and his first officer Cox on board the USS-Kernel Panic. NOMAD becomes a little more human when Torvalds tells him that Linux is not perfect but sharing is a lot more fun than hoarding.
The End...
FOR NOW...BUM BUM BUM...
Computers would come up with when posed with the question of evolution?
Kill all of the babies that have disabilities. :) Of course this means that I would have been killed as soon as I emerged from the womb, but I'm willing to sacrafice myself for the greater good.
Nevermind, I am sofa king wee tod id. And our T1 is running really slow.
Is it just me, or do chartruese and light yellow look really really bad on a white background?
I was going to submit Sunil, but that sounds like an Arab penguin. Maybe Sdlavrot though.
Yet another compelling reason to push for DSL everywhere, or better yet Fiber to the curb and ATM everywhere. :)
Sorry, I take it for granted that I've had it for almost 4 months now. I should have been more general though you are right. The OEM could ship out a pc with either a DSL modem, Cable Modem, ATM NIC or some other fast "Internet" connection pre-configured. I guess if someone was a sadist they could opt for a 56K modem though. Thats pretty funny what you say about F&P sharing, man the little goodies a port scan of my subnet reveals :)
It would be pretty cool if they shipped these things with a DSL modem, and a floppy that boots up configures the NIC, launches a little menu that lets you select a Linux distro and packages and then ftp's the whole thing to you in a couple of hours and configures it for you. Then you would not have to waste your money on an os, and have a completely customized pc in three hours. Apps and everything. I'm pretty sure Joe Snuffy would think thats cool. Make the menus pretty and they will come.