Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!
On a side-note, Adams was a devout atheist. It doesn't seem fitting that we should be worried that he's looking down on all of us screaming, "No, you idiots! Don't publish that!"
Not to troll or anything, but if Mr Adam's did indeed choose to reject our savior Jesus Christ, then he is suffering eternal damnation as we speak. God so loved us that he gave each of us a chance to walk away from Him, if we so chose. If Mr Adam's did this, then, as much as it pains me to say this, he is most likely burning in the fires of Hell. I would hope most Slashdot readers are smart enough to see athiesm as a tool of the devil and reject it. Opening up your heart to the love of Jesus Christ is the only way to gain happiness and eternal life. My prayers are with all of you.
Thank you. God bless.
Ron Hubbard published at least a dozen books after dying.
Except L. Ron never died. He simply accended into another level of Thetan existance and continues to write to this day. I'd explain more but Slashdot has irrationally chosen to censor any pro-Scientology viewpoints.:(
Although I love Douglas Adams as much as anyone else, I found his vehement Edward Teller-esque passion of nuclear devices to be a bit troubling. While Mr Adams is an amazing writer (I love the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe as much as anyone) I feel that we need to look at his outspoken pro-nuclear stance, which currently includes sending money from his estate to various pro-nuclear causes.
The whole problem with Mr Adam's nuclear viewpoint is that its fundementally flawed. Nuclear power is an enviromental timebomb, ticking away. The question that Mr Adam's never understood was not "Can a nuclear meltdown happen" but rather "When will a nuclear meltdown occur?" All nuclear power plants, even the so called "safe" pebble bed plants, have the potential to meltdown. When a meltdown occurs the fissile material can no longer be kept safely cool. When this happens, the nuclear material will detonate. A nuclear explosion is what happened at Chernobyl, sending radiation over hundreds of miles.
So I urge all of my fellow anti-nuclear Slashdotters to boycott Douglas Adam's works until his estate agrees to cease donating money to various pro-nuclear causes.
I've got a copy of Windows XP. Unfortunately I didn't really *buy* it per se. Since Slashdot is known for its hatred of Microsoft and its promotion of free (as in love) software, I figured this is the ideal forum to pose my question: Where can I get a crack for Windows XP? Since most Slashdot readers use Windows and only give lip service to Linux, I believe that this question will help out the majority of your readership. Not only that, but it will be a major blow against Microsoft and it will continue the glorification of Communism that many Open Source visionaries have championed.
Ahhhh! Excellent! In exchange for this link, allow me to present you with a gift: One night alone with Jon Katz, who is dressed in a crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit. Use him as you will.
Thanks. I'm pretty sure I found it here at work. I'm going to take it home tomorrow and slap it onto my laptop and see how it goes. I'm not sure if I feel like putting it on my desktop and having to reinstall all my drivers for XP. Ugh its such a pain.
Does anyone know where I could find a crack for Windows XP? That activation requirement is as gay as a football bat. I'd also like to insert a rant how I'm justified in doing this because all software should be free!!
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
Does anyone know where I can get a crack for Windows XP's activation code? That thing is as gay as Jon Katz in the Castro wearing a crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog costume.
Why not just change your sig to "I'll be unable to view properly 95% of the web pages out there." Or you could use, "Konqueror: Because I love spending 80% of my browsing time just getting my fucking browser to render properly."
No, once again I terrorize the Carrier Group that is Slashdot.
Unfortunately Slashdot is little more than a rubber dinghy bobbing along somewhere. Its got numerous holes in it and about to be swamped. I'm going to laugh when the SlashRaft finally goes under. I bet Jon Katz will be the first editor eaten by the others when they wash up on a desert island.
Do you work with Linux because you couldn't get work with a real OS (ie: Windows or OSX). Or is this just a way for you to pick up confused Slashbots for homosexual encounters, much the way that RMS likes to?
As seen on Adequacy.org, News for Grown Ups.
The Linux operating system was born in 1991 and was created by one man, a
Finnish student coincidentally named Linux Torvalds. Since these humble
beginnings, a multi-million dollar
industry has sprung up to exploit the commercial potential of Linux, but
until recently Linux has eluded mainstream acceptance. However, due to the
recent economic downturn together with uncertainty over changes to Microsoft's pricing policy, Linux is
now being touted as a serious contender to Microsoft Windows. While there
are many other alternatives to Windows, including BSD which is based on SUN's (Stanford University Network - correction by bc)
server-grade Solaris operating system,
none have commanded the same level of media attention as Linux.
Linux Mandrake is just the
latest in a long line of quirkily christened versions of Linux. Previous
versions of Linux have been named Red Hat, Slack Ware,
Storm and Coral. In stark contrast to the mundane names such
as 98, ME or NT preferred by Microsoft, the crazy
names of each Linux release hint at its renegade nature.
My foray into the world of Linux began by downloading a "CD image" from
the Linux web site. But don't worry, this isn't software piracy, it's
perfectly legal! Linux is shareware, meaning that it can be freely
redistributed without fear of a visit by the Business Software Alliance. The free
availability of Linux is a major reason for its popularity among
cash-strapped students and self-styled anti-capitalist hackers.
Before installing new software, it is always advisable to read the
documentation. Unfortunately, an unpleasant surprise was in store for me
in the "required configuration" section of the manual.
I was shocked to learn that Linux Mandrake only runs on Pentium
processors, meaning that my hopes of testing the water with my old Gateway 486 were dashed. Furthermore, a
whopping 32 megabytes of memory are required to run Linux! Although the advocates of Linux self-righteously
boast the efficiency of their chosen operating system and deride the
"bloatware" produced by Microsoft, it appears that their claims are
blatantly incorrect. Although my humble 486 will happily run Windows 95,
it seems that Linux requires far more powerful, and more expensive,
computer hardware. Is this really the sign of a lean, mean operating system?
Of course not.
Sadly, not even being able to install Linux is just the first of my many
complaints. A brief perusal of the
features of Linux Mandrake reveals that Linux is sorely lacking many
crucial productivity applications. For example, why isn't the industry
standard web browser, Internet Explorer, included with Linux? Despite the
best efforts of the experts at the Internet
Engineering Task Force to encourage adoption of the Internet Explorer
standard, the creators of Linux seem to think that they know better. By
refusing to adhere to recognised standards, Linux is simply undermining
its own credibility.
Similarly, almost all of the world's most popular and widely used software
is completely incompatible with Linux! It may surprise you to learn that
your copy of Microsoft Office, Outlook Express, or Lotus Notes will not
work under Linux. Those who wish to use their computer for recreational
purposes are also out of luck, for almost all of the most popular games
are unavailable for Linux. Although a wide range of software is freely
available for Linux, these pitiful offerings are mostly unfinished, unreliable and do not
bear comparison to their commercial counterparts.
Computer security is also an area that seems to have been overlooked by
the developers of Linux. In these times when hacking and viruses are
commonplace, it defies belief to learn that no anti-virus software is available for
Linux. To add insult to injury, there is no Linux version of the popular
ZoneAlarm firewall. By using Linux,
you are issuing an open invitation to the hordes of ne'er-do-wells on the
Internet.
The shortcomings of Linux are obvious. Without even installing Linux
Mandrake, I have exposed several fundamental flaws. Surely it is not too
much to expect that, after ten years of development, the creators of Linux
would have addressed these problems? The real question that the
prospective Linux user must ask himself is, "Why bother?" After all,
Microsoft Windows comes free with most PCs and there simply isn't a need
to replace it, particularly not with a product of inferior quality.
Although it is always tempting to support the underdog, Windows XP will
be the deserved victor in the battle ahead. I recommend that those
Adequacy readers who are hoping to upgrade their operating system
patiently wait for the release of Windows XP, rather than foolishly
wasting their time, effort and money on Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
You fucking communist!
Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!
Not to troll or anything, but if Mr Adam's did indeed choose to reject our savior Jesus Christ, then he is suffering eternal damnation as we speak. God so loved us that he gave each of us a chance to walk away from Him, if we so chose. If Mr Adam's did this, then, as much as it pains me to say this, he is most likely burning in the fires of Hell. I would hope most Slashdot readers are smart enough to see athiesm as a tool of the devil and reject it. Opening up your heart to the love of Jesus Christ is the only way to gain happiness and eternal life. My prayers are with all of you. Thank you. God bless.
I know. Curse the Olsen Twins and their evil schemes!!
Except L. Ron never died. He simply accended into another level of Thetan existance and continues to write to this day. I'd explain more but Slashdot has irrationally chosen to censor any pro-Scientology viewpoints.
Don't worry. The contents of your computer have already been published.
Although I love Douglas Adams as much as anyone else, I found his vehement Edward Teller-esque passion of nuclear devices to be a bit troubling. While Mr Adams is an amazing writer (I love the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe as much as anyone) I feel that we need to look at his outspoken pro-nuclear stance, which currently includes sending money from his estate to various pro-nuclear causes.
The whole problem with Mr Adam's nuclear viewpoint is that its fundementally flawed. Nuclear power is an enviromental timebomb, ticking away. The question that Mr Adam's never understood was not "Can a nuclear meltdown happen" but rather "When will a nuclear meltdown occur?" All nuclear power plants, even the so called "safe" pebble bed plants, have the potential to meltdown. When a meltdown occurs the fissile material can no longer be kept safely cool. When this happens, the nuclear material will detonate. A nuclear explosion is what happened at Chernobyl, sending radiation over hundreds of miles.
So I urge all of my fellow anti-nuclear Slashdotters to boycott Douglas Adam's works until his estate agrees to cease donating money to various pro-nuclear causes.
Thank you.
I've got a copy of Windows XP. Unfortunately I didn't really *buy* it per se. Since Slashdot is known for its hatred of Microsoft and its promotion of free (as in love) software, I figured this is the ideal forum to pose my question: Where can I get a crack for Windows XP? Since most Slashdot readers use Windows and only give lip service to Linux, I believe that this question will help out the majority of your readership. Not only that, but it will be a major blow against Microsoft and it will continue the glorification of Communism that many Open Source visionaries have championed.
I just realized this would've been a perfect "Ask Slashdot" question. I'm going to go submit it.
Ahhhh! Excellent! In exchange for this link, allow me to present you with a gift: One night alone with Jon Katz, who is dressed in a crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit. Use him as you will.
Thanks. I'm pretty sure I found it here at work. I'm going to take it home tomorrow and slap it onto my laptop and see how it goes. I'm not sure if I feel like putting it on my desktop and having to reinstall all my drivers for XP. Ugh its such a pain.
Shoulda coulda woulda. Know where I can find it now?
I might have a copy of it here in front of me. Is there a way one can tell if its the corp version by looking at it, or browsing the CD?
Unfortunately Kazaa and its like have been blocked by the firewall we have at work. :( Otherwise that is an excellent suggestion.
Does anyone know where I could find a crack for Windows XP? That activation requirement is as gay as a football bat. I'd also like to insert a rant how I'm justified in doing this because all software should be free!!
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
Anyone know where I can get a crack for Windows XP? That homo activation requirement is fruitier than Carmen Miranda's hat.
Does anyone know where I can get a crack for Windows XP's activation code? That thing is as gay as Jon Katz in the Castro wearing a crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog costume.
Why not just change your sig to "I'll be unable to view properly 95% of the web pages out there." Or you could use, "Konqueror: Because I love spending 80% of my browsing time just getting my fucking browser to render properly."
Like a scortching case of herpes, Adequacy strikes again!
When you can just Ask Slashdot, and have dozen's of know-it-all Slashbots get the answer for you!
Unfortunately Slashdot is little more than a rubber dinghy bobbing along somewhere. Its got numerous holes in it and about to be swamped. I'm going to laugh when the SlashRaft finally goes under. I bet Jon Katz will be the first editor eaten by the others when they wash up on a desert island.
Good to see you back! I was afraid perhaps you were laying on the floor of the ocean somewhere.
Do you work with Linux because you couldn't get work with a real OS (ie: Windows or OSX). Or is this just a way for you to pick up confused Slashbots for homosexual encounters, much the way that RMS likes to?
Linux Mandrake is just the latest in a long line of quirkily christened versions of Linux. Previous versions of Linux have been named Red Hat, Slack Ware, Storm and Coral. In stark contrast to the mundane names such as 98, ME or NT preferred by Microsoft, the crazy names of each Linux release hint at its renegade nature.
My foray into the world of Linux began by downloading a "CD image" from the Linux web site. But don't worry, this isn't software piracy, it's perfectly legal! Linux is shareware, meaning that it can be freely redistributed without fear of a visit by the Business Software Alliance. The free availability of Linux is a major reason for its popularity among cash-strapped students and self-styled anti-capitalist hackers.
Before installing new software, it is always advisable to read the documentation. Unfortunately, an unpleasant surprise was in store for me in the "required configuration" section of the manual. I was shocked to learn that Linux Mandrake only runs on Pentium processors, meaning that my hopes of testing the water with my old Gateway 486 were dashed. Furthermore, a whopping 32 megabytes of memory are required to run Linux! Although the advocates of Linux self-righteously boast the efficiency of their chosen operating system and deride the "bloatware" produced by Microsoft, it appears that their claims are blatantly incorrect. Although my humble 486 will happily run Windows 95, it seems that Linux requires far more powerful, and more expensive, computer hardware. Is this really the sign of a lean, mean operating system? Of course not.
Sadly, not even being able to install Linux is just the first of my many complaints. A brief perusal of the features of Linux Mandrake reveals that Linux is sorely lacking many crucial productivity applications. For example, why isn't the industry standard web browser, Internet Explorer, included with Linux? Despite the best efforts of the experts at the Internet Engineering Task Force to encourage adoption of the Internet Explorer standard, the creators of Linux seem to think that they know better. By refusing to adhere to recognised standards, Linux is simply undermining its own credibility.
Similarly, almost all of the world's most popular and widely used software is completely incompatible with Linux! It may surprise you to learn that your copy of Microsoft Office, Outlook Express, or Lotus Notes will not work under Linux. Those who wish to use their computer for recreational purposes are also out of luck, for almost all of the most popular games are unavailable for Linux. Although a wide range of software is freely available for Linux, these pitiful offerings are mostly unfinished, unreliable and do not bear comparison to their commercial counterparts.
Computer security is also an area that seems to have been overlooked by the developers of Linux. In these times when hacking and viruses are commonplace, it defies belief to learn that no anti-virus software is available for Linux. To add insult to injury, there is no Linux version of the popular ZoneAlarm firewall. By using Linux, you are issuing an open invitation to the hordes of ne'er-do-wells on the Internet.
The shortcomings of Linux are obvious. Without even installing Linux Mandrake, I have exposed several fundamental flaws. Surely it is not too much to expect that, after ten years of development, the creators of Linux would have addressed these problems? The real question that the prospective Linux user must ask himself is, "Why bother?" After all, Microsoft Windows comes free with most PCs and there simply isn't a need to replace it, particularly not with a product of inferior quality.
Although it is always tempting to support the underdog, Windows XP will be the deserved victor in the battle ahead. I recommend that those Adequacy readers who are hoping to upgrade their operating system patiently wait for the release of Windows XP, rather than foolishly wasting their time, effort and money on Linux.