Make it a karma whore account, and convert one of your +50s to trolling. Wait until America's asleep, so there's not too much moderation, and see how many +2 hot grits posts you can manage before you get slammed into the negative numbers. You could try to set an all time world record for -ve karma, although someone claimed that there was an undercap at -25
IIRC there was also a nasty bug in a kernel released a couple of weeks back (can't remember if it was the 2.4 or 2.2 series) that broke one distribution's installer.
Now this one can corrupt volumes on umount.
I know the philosophy of 'release early, release often' is held sacred, but surely there are limits?
PS. Sorry I didn't look up the details about the other bug, but I suspect there's no point checking if search is working...
PPS. A slap with a bony kipper to the first person to champion Linux because it only took 2 days after his HDD was corrupted for a fix to be released. This is not something to boast about.
This is usually a wonderful solution, and my left hand fingers are practically glued to those keys. However in my post I wasn't talking about the bulk copying of data. You'll notice I talked about cross-referencing the data - I need to be able to see all of the data to do that. Currently my solution is to scrawl things down on paper, but it would be nicer to skip that step.
...any slashdotter who is a Windows developer, and had the idea in the first place. For the rest of us, we need somebody else to do it and then post a link to the download.
If only there were some site that allowed links like this to be posted to the interested geek masses. It'd really be appropriate on a site like that.
ROFL, I clicked on the link to figure out who she was (interesting choice, btw, I don't really see it myself) and was amused to notice the site is nearly slashdotted. Seems strange to mod somebody down as troll when so many people are clearly interested in the post.
Clearly to some extent this is mainly a neat toy rather than a useful tool.
However, I can think of many times when it would be useful, such as when I have many windows open from different apps, and I need to cross reference the data and enter it into a final window (which always seems to be an ssh client - strange) Currently if there are too many windows, it becomes impractical to shrink them all down so I can see them at once. Hopefully this should allow a lot more text to be seen through overlapping windows; whilst overlapping text would get confusing, it could recover a lot of space lost due to excessive window chrome.
But to reiterate my first point, it is just really neat.
They might win a small fortune, because there is a chance that no one in the court room will understand anything (it happens fairly regularly in the UK anyway).
Well, this is sadly true to an extent, but I think that the USA may just beat us Brits to the post for stupid lawsuits getting passed.
Why are they not supplying broadband Internet? Thats easy - <snip>
Shit, you mean my BT supplied ADSL modem is just an empty box? Maybe I'm not really replying to a post, as that would involve Internet access.
Hmm. I seem to be in a sarcy mood today. To be fair, there are still a lot of areas with no broadband access, but I believe that circa 60% of the UK population has access (IIRC - don't take that figure as gospel)
Back on topic, when I saw the headline I though it was some sort of wind up. When I followed the link to the story, I just lost all faith in humanity. BT must really be desperate as you said.
Oh, that's fucking relevant. I was beginning to notice a drop in the number of pointlessly anti-MS posts on/. (only a small drop) and then I see this.
Why did you even bother? This has nothing to do with the article, which I doubt you even read (if you did read it, you obviously were headstrong enough not to let it cloud your judgement with facts or even relevance)
Just to take issue with point 2, I have a P3-500, generally acknowledged to be slower than your spec, also with 256MB.
I don't feel the need to upgrade either, and I run Windows 2000. The only reason I can see for upgrading in the near future is divx compression.
While people with 486s may use the Linux argument, once you get to 500MHz Athlon, Windows isn't the sluggish beast people like to claim (can't comment on XP though)
I can't believe you got a bite out of that one. The I'm a consultant for Fortune 500... Linux troll was pretty good, but this was way too obvious (though I liked the throwaway comment about Perl - if you'd left it at that, it'd have been a great troll)
I was going to suggest you tried something a bit more subtle, but Dave21212 seems to have proven me wrong.
Am I the only one who noticed just how much the file browser (the picture showing how the screen looks if the correct font is installed) looks like X-Tree Pro for DOS?
I mean, I used to love it 10 years ago, but surely we've move on by now.
If you think of it, it is not any worse from the UK where you are not allowed to have high grade crypto without giving a copy of your private key to the Gov.
Firstly, it is utterly different. From a civil rights point of view, such a firewall would block information that the government did not want you to see. This censorship is used (amongst more innocuous tasks) to block access to impartial information. This is far more damaging to a populace than insisting that the government can eavesdrop on otherwise secure transmission.
Sedcondly, in the UK we are allowed to have strong encryption without giving our private key to the government. I assume you are referring to the RIP act - this states that you must give up your private key if served with an appropriate notice from the courts. Now not being much of a conspiracy theorist, I imagine that these powers will be used appropriately (after much evidence has already been mounted against an individual, for example) but even if not, can you imagine what would happen the first time this was used against Joe Public and he refused to hand over his key? According to the act, he is automatically imprisoned for 5 years (IIRC - it may be a different length of time) Lawyers would be queueing up to defend him. I would put money on the conviction being overturned by the European Court of Human Rights (apologies if I have got the name slightly wrong)
Call me naive, but I really don't go for the black-helicopter-and-black-suits stereotype of government.
It depends why you want to be anonymous. If it is because you are terrified that 'they' know you are alive, then tough - 'they' know that anyway.
If it is to stop 'them' tracking your web browsing, then what's the problem?
1: They store your User/pass along with credit card details
2: You sign in, they mask your IP through their proxy.
3: (not really a step but...)They keep no record linking your user/ip to the sites you browse.
The only problem is if you don't trust the company to not store the info. If this is the case, then the anonymising service would be useless even if free.
Oh, and if you're not happy about giving them your CC number, send a cheque.
Hmmm....tricky. I always thought of you as being somewhat older than the usual weenies who hang around/. maybe 27 or so.
But why would anybody old enough to drink ask people to guess his age? That is the trick of a 15yr old. Only one thing to do: (27+15)/2 = 21. I deduce through logic that you must be 21.
BTW, an hour long blowjob would be pointless - I only last 2 minutes, and I hear that Taco is better than average.
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The Xbox is like a hobbled warhorse. You can see how big, how powerful it is, the sleek, black muscles with the power to crush anything else around it. You can feel its energy, its need to break out and use that power.
But the creators, fearing its power <snip> ad nauseum
Enough with the similes! It started to get a bit surreal there. (Americans: A simile is what you would call a metaphor - incorrectly. Please learn the difference and use the appropriate word)
As useless as my gall bladder? Personally I wouldn't like to live without my gall bladder. I'd happily lose my appendix, but I'd have to be pretty ill before I'd want my gall bladder removed - it stores my bile.
Oh, dear lord.
Presumably you leap in to assert that no, in fact, BSD is not dying
Tip: If a post is utterly off-topic, and points out the death or shortcomings of a popular free OS, especially if it points out how Windows is superior in these respects, maybe, just maybe it's not worth a defensive response?
Totally off-topic and I expect to be moderated as such, but please heed my warning:
Do not follow those links. The material is so lame (ph34r my eloquence) that I actually felt any joviality in my soul being absorbed.
I imagine the author of this site as a fragile old man, shaking and close to a nervous breakdown, desperately scraping for comedy material whilst sobbing at his own humourless ineptitude.
For somebody who's grammar and spelling is usually impeccable, that post is pretty fucking bad.
just=>Just
you=>your
mean=>mean:
Capitalisation, punctuation,blah,blah Jon Katz=>Jon Katz'
decrepid=>decrepit
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This is off topic. Feel free to moderate it as such. The parent is on topic, so don't pretend it isn't.
Alternative moderation:
Personally I think 1 is the right level - no need to mod it up, no need to mod it down.
Off-topic is just plain wrong.
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I believe he was trying to imply that the only way you could lose 24GB of data with this bug is to use fdisk in place of fsck.
It would seem to be you, sir, who has the misplaced +1 mod. The previous poster wasn't modded up either, he just posted at 1.
Make it a karma whore account, and convert one of your +50s to trolling. Wait until America's asleep, so there's not too much moderation, and see how many +2 hot grits posts you can manage before you get slammed into the negative numbers. You could try to set an all time world record for -ve karma, although someone claimed that there was an undercap at -25
I haven't seen a troll posting at 2 for ages...
IIRC there was also a nasty bug in a kernel released a couple of weeks back (can't remember if it was the 2.4 or 2.2 series) that broke one distribution's installer.
Now this one can corrupt volumes on umount.
I know the philosophy of 'release early, release often' is held sacred, but surely there are limits?
PS. Sorry I didn't look up the details about the other bug, but I suspect there's no point checking if search is working...
PPS. A slap with a bony kipper to the first person to champion Linux because it only took 2 days after his HDD was corrupted for a fix to be released. This is not something to boast about.
This is usually a wonderful solution, and my left hand fingers are practically glued to those keys. However in my post I wasn't talking about the bulk copying of data. You'll notice I talked about cross-referencing the data - I need to be able to see all of the data to do that. Currently my solution is to scrawl things down on paper, but it would be nicer to skip that step.
...any slashdotter who is a Windows developer, and had the idea in the first place. For the rest of us, we need somebody else to do it and then post a link to the download.
If only there were some site that allowed links like this to be posted to the interested geek masses. It'd really be appropriate on a site like that.
ROFL, I clicked on the link to figure out who she was (interesting choice, btw, I don't really see it myself) and was amused to notice the site is nearly slashdotted. Seems strange to mod somebody down as troll when so many people are clearly interested in the post.
Clearly to some extent this is mainly a neat toy rather than a useful tool.
However, I can think of many times when it would be useful, such as when I have many windows open from different apps, and I need to cross reference the data and enter it into a final window (which always seems to be an ssh client - strange) Currently if there are too many windows, it becomes impractical to shrink them all down so I can see them at once. Hopefully this should allow a lot more text to be seen through overlapping windows; whilst overlapping text would get confusing, it could recover a lot of space lost due to excessive window chrome.
But to reiterate my first point, it is just really neat.
Shit, you mean my BT supplied ADSL modem is just an empty box? Maybe I'm not really replying to a post, as that would involve Internet access.
Hmm. I seem to be in a sarcy mood today. To be fair, there are still a lot of areas with no broadband access, but I believe that circa 60% of the UK population has access (IIRC - don't take that figure as gospel)
Back on topic, when I saw the headline I though it was some sort of wind up. When I followed the link to the story, I just lost all faith in humanity. BT must really be desperate as you said.
Oh, that's fucking relevant. I was beginning to notice a drop in the number of pointlessly anti-MS posts on /. (only a small drop) and then I see this.
Why did you even bother? This has nothing to do with the article, which I doubt you even read (if you did read it, you obviously were headstrong enough not to let it cloud your judgement with facts or even relevance)
Oh, sod it. I'm just farting into a hurricane.
Just to take issue with point 2, I have a P3-500, generally acknowledged to be slower than your spec, also with 256MB.
I don't feel the need to upgrade either, and I run Windows 2000. The only reason I can see for upgrading in the near future is divx compression.
While people with 486s may use the Linux argument, once you get to 500MHz Athlon, Windows isn't the sluggish beast people like to claim (can't comment on XP though)
I can't believe you got a bite out of that one. The I'm a consultant for Fortune 500... Linux troll was pretty good, but this was way too obvious (though I liked the throwaway comment about Perl - if you'd left it at that, it'd have been a great troll)
I was going to suggest you tried something a bit more subtle, but Dave21212 seems to have proven me wrong.
Tip of the hat, sir.
Well...Kinda like you'd make a link anywhere really. So assuming you're not posting as code or extrans, I suggest you buy a book on html.
Am I the only one who noticed just how much the file browser (the picture showing how the screen looks if the correct font is installed) looks like X-Tree Pro for DOS?
I mean, I used to love it 10 years ago, but surely we've move on by now.
Sedcondly, in the UK we are allowed to have strong encryption without giving our private key to the government. I assume you are referring to the RIP act - this states that you must give up your private key if served with an appropriate notice from the courts. Now not being much of a conspiracy theorist, I imagine that these powers will be used appropriately (after much evidence has already been mounted against an individual, for example) but even if not, can you imagine what would happen the first time this was used against Joe Public and he refused to hand over his key? According to the act, he is automatically imprisoned for 5 years (IIRC - it may be a different length of time) Lawyers would be queueing up to defend him. I would put money on the conviction being overturned by the European Court of Human Rights (apologies if I have got the name slightly wrong)
Call me naive, but I really don't go for the black-helicopter-and-black-suits stereotype of government.
We are crack encryption make your time.
It depends why you want to be anonymous. If it is because you are terrified that 'they' know you are alive, then tough - 'they' know that anyway.
If it is to stop 'them' tracking your web browsing, then what's the problem?
1: They store your User/pass along with credit card details
2: You sign in, they mask your IP through their proxy.
3: (not really a step but...)They keep no record linking your user/ip to the sites you browse.
The only problem is if you don't trust the company to not store the info. If this is the case, then the anonymising service would be useless even if free.
Oh, and if you're not happy about giving them your CC number, send a cheque.
Hmmm....tricky. I always thought of you as being somewhat older than the usual weenies who hang around /. maybe 27 or so.
But why would anybody old enough to drink ask people to guess his age? That is the trick of a 15yr old. Only one thing to do: (27+15)/2 = 21. I deduce through logic that you must be 21.
BTW, an hour long blowjob would be pointless - I only last 2 minutes, and I hear that Taco is better than average.
Enough with the similes! It started to get a bit surreal there. (Americans: A simile is what you would call a metaphor - incorrectly. Please learn the difference and use the appropriate word)
As useless as my gall bladder? Personally I wouldn't like to live without my gall bladder. I'd happily lose my appendix, but I'd have to be pretty ill before I'd want my gall bladder removed - it stores my bile.
Otherwise, thanks for your observations.
Oh, dear lord.
Presumably you leap in to assert that no, in fact, BSD is not dying
Tip: If a post is utterly off-topic, and points out the death or shortcomings of a popular free OS, especially if it points out how Windows is superior in these respects, maybe, just maybe it's not worth a defensive response?
Ph34r my joviality
Totally off-topic and I expect to be moderated as such, but please heed my warning:
Do not follow those links. The material is so lame (ph34r my eloquence) that I actually felt any joviality in my soul being absorbed.
I imagine the author of this site as a fragile old man, shaking and close to a nervous breakdown, desperately scraping for comedy material whilst sobbing at his own humourless ineptitude.
Yeah, and those blokes that strapped a jet engine to a car.
And the dog that exploded in the microwave.
Hey, did you know that if you post this message into every thread Microsoft and AOL will give you £1000?
Heading slowly off-topic but:
Would it be dihydrogen monoxide? I always imagined it would be Hydrogen hydroxide...
For somebody who's grammar and spelling is usually impeccable, that post is pretty fucking bad.
just=>Just
you=>your
mean=>mean:
Capitalisation, punctuation,blah,blah
Jon Katz=>Jon Katz'
decrepid=>decrepit